Because of the TiVo delay tonight we’re zipping at high speed through the pregame, vowing to stop only for Preissing and Getzlaf interviews. So we opt out of watching Chris Simpson’s report on the motivational dressing room signs and t-shirts the Ducks are deploying.
Doc’s intro to the game proper includes the question, “What bearded warrior will make the difference?” We guess that means it won’t be Getzi, then.
In discussion of the Senators’ performance in Game 1, Eddie earns his paycheck with the hard-hitting analysis that Volchenkov and Fisher were the best two players on the team.
With a vista shot of the pre-game lightshow in the Honda Center, we get a chance to admire our favorite recent development to the pregame pomp and pyrotechnics: the giant pictures projected on the ice. That looks cool.
At the end of the introductory chit-chat, Eddie concludes that this is pretty much a must-win for the Senators (Oh, really?), which means it should be another great game. Well, he predicted that before Game 1, so we can only hope he’s right and we get another match of that caliber.
FIRST PERIOD
Oh! An on-ice interview with Getzi! Yay… oh no. Stop it. Please, cameraman, back off. Hurry! OH IT’S TERRIBLE! THOSE TEETH! Yowza. Getzi’s teeth should never be shown in that kind of lingering, HD closeup.
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You Asked For It… IPB S-P-E-L-L-S!
Posted in Insightful Non-Hockey Commentary on May 31, 2007 | 46 Comments »
Here it is, Gentle Readers, what everyone’s been clamoring for: IPB’s game diary (with a 30-minute TiVo delay, actually. Dinner ran late) of the most anticipated sporting event of the year, the National Spelling Bee. We’re sure you’re wondering what our credentials are to be commentating on this august event. Well, Pookie is still hooked on phonics and received science credit while at NYU for taking etymology, and Schnookie, who wished she could have majored in [Foreign Language] 101 at Rutgers, is the only person on the face of the planet who insists on correct punctuation at all times while IMing. So while we’re not necessarily great spellers, we’re both word nerds and the self-appointed Grammar Police (please don’t take this opportunity to point out how rife with comma errors our blog is). And that’s kind of like being qualified spelling bee commentators, right?
– Sweet! Not only is this in primetime (we used to watch this way back when, back when it was televised during the day), but it’s in HD! With our incredible television, we’re going to be able to feel like we’re taking walking tours of the kids’ mustaches!
– We have no response for ABC’s intro with a handful of dorky little spelling kids reading from an “NHL hockey on VS: It’s Do Or Die” style script. It literally defies description.
– Robin Roberts narrates a recap of what these kids have gone through to get to the Finals; we get to see footage of scads of little nerdlingers lolling around the hotel that’s hosting the event. Pookie declares, “I keep expecting to see Jordan Staal popping up somewhere in here eating pineapple and making awkward small talk with the kids at his table.” Included in this montage is a shot of a past finalist (and, we guess, current favorite?) being eliminated and covering his face with his placard. He was probably then so overcome with emotion that he became physically ill. Chris Chelios.
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