Everyday Should Be Saturday

June 26, 2007

EDSBS LIVE! THE UNDERRATED EDITION

What: EDSBS LIVE online radio.

Click here to join the show!

Why listen? Because we’re talking about the Big East, indicating a high probability of West Fuckin’ Virginia references in the broadcast. WE DRINK DA BEAST AND FUCK FAT BITCHES IN HAYSTACKS–at least tonight, we do.

Where: At NowLive, where you can chat with each other and the show hosts throughout the broadcast in the online forum (now with added bacon pants). To phone in to the show, just call (310) 984-7600.

Who: Mike from Card Chronicle, and Greg Auman, USF beat writer for the tenacious St. Petersburg Times.

Our four questions… As always, the format for short attention spans for the show, this time focusing on the underrated, which the Big East traditionally has been since time immemorial.

1. Most undervalued team, 2007? BYU. The tradition of making math difficult for the scoreboard operators in the Mountain West continues, but BYU put the irons to Oregon last year in the Las Vegas Bowl as much with their defense as they did with John Beck’s tasteful, politely accurate Mormon passing.

Over on this side of the continental divide…how about Arkansas? Same rushing offense from last year and one more year of experience for Casey Dick to bring him just a hair closer to competent ain’t bad. And their schedule is easier this year than it was last year.

2. Give us one underrated coach and one underrated announcer

Brian Kelly, wacky man that he is, coach of Cincinnati, who put Central Michigan into a bowl game. Again: Brian Kelly, the man who put Central Michigan into a bowl game. Salute, you cretins. Honorable mention: Rich Brooks, the coach so old and salty we got scurvy just typing this.

Underrated announcer: Bill Curry. He’s got a batter-fried voice and makes simple, clear observations about what one team is doing on the field against another. Novel concept, especially from the network that brings you FORCED CONFLICT BETWEEN TWO YELLING INTERLOCUTORS every ten minutes.

3. Advice that you’ve been given that you undervalued and wish you hadn’t.

“You should think about taking business classes, or at least something to back up that English degree.” Oh, tales of woe, you all begin with one simple declaration: “Major, English.”

4. Tell us an undervalued sexual asset (e.g. hand strength, ownership of a quality bed).

Going with strength here. You may like your weakling anime fantasies, but we want some pushin’ back, dammit. It takes two to make a rodeo.

Join us tonight–or we’ll send one-eyed Gators after you.

MALCOLM KELLY, FREESTYLE GENIUS

As a breather from accusing the New York Yankees of being marginal partners in genocide, we bring you Malcolm Kelly, Oklahoma wide receiver, goin’ freestyle after the Sooners’ Big 12 Championship win over Nebraska.

We’d talk some more, but we gotta sip some codeine ’cause we gotta kill a cough. (Purple Drank, lawya. Nothin’ less.) Take the mic, Malcolm.

Let us say that Kelly’s not bad–he’s got that rubber-mouthed Dirty South, UGK thing going for him in the rhymes department. And it’s hard not to like the “‘Coz I’m a playa, from the Himalaya” line, especially because he might be insinuating that his true identity is that of the Yeti, which is VHT, indeed.

Too bad dope rhymez don’t get you past Boise State. BURRRRRRRN SSSSSS!!! He could blame too much purple drank, however; it worked for DJ Screw, after all.

JIM DELANY TO CHARGE FOR SPOKEN USE OF “BIG TEN”

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany, already embroiled in a public spat with Comcast over the fees for shoehorning the Big Ten Network into Comcast’s monolith of programming, hasn’t let the controversy slow down his ambitious plans for expanding the domain of the Big Ten.

Even in the face of Congressional scrutiny, Delany’s plans to forge ahead with the hardball tactics that have made him a lightning rod for controversy in the world of college football. This includes the bold initiative to stuff the Big Ten network with all kinds of Big Ten related programming, including women’s sports, a negotiating point that escalated tensions between Comcast and the Big Ten when Comcast referred to “second and third-tier sports,” language Delany demanded an apology for in a press release. (Comcast refused.)

Most controversial–and potentially humiliating for Delany–is his proposed “Leave a Dollar, Leave a Dollar” campaign designed to exploit “unrealized value” in the Big Ten’s name.

“We realize that as America’s number one sports conference, our name has real value as a brand,” said Delany at a Wednesday morning press conference. “So we’re asking that when you say the words Big Ten in a sentence—you simply drop in a dollar into the conveniently located Big Ten Jars of Excellence around your area.” Delany paused in the middle of the sentence, pulling a dollar out of his billfold and placing it into the jar.


Delany: asking you to leave a dollar, or leave a dollar. Illustrations by House Rock Built.

Delany tried to silence critics of the plan by claiming they were out of step with today’s street culture. “We’ve done the research, (more…)

BIG EAST: OUR DERAILED TRAIN OF THOUGHT EXPLAINED

EDSBS Live! is going to focus on the Big East today, and with good reason: any and all Big East attention we might pay to the Big East has been clouded by our Owen Schmitt worship and the fact that trying to figure out what’s happening in the Big East is very, very difficult at the moment. So we’re going to air the thought process, talk to a few people, and settle the whole thing over cocktails tonight in ninety sloppy internet radio moments.


Owen Schmitt: clouding our thoughts on the Big East with his awesomeness.

But our ramshackle thinking of the moment on the conference goes:

The Big East is full of smallish, very well-run programs, and two biggish, very well-run programs. Consider the picture four years ago for the Big East: a conference with its two prime milkers taken to different pastures (wooo SEC agricultural metaphors!) (more…)

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