Okay, be forewarned: if the Senators win this game, this is going to be one hell of a cranky game diary. Yes, Gentle Reader, it’s been that kind of day at stately IPB Manor (read: the fridge is still not working, so we knocked ourselves out with a round of cable cars this afternoon).
We hoped for a pre-game show tonight, but who are we kidding? We instead got Billy Graham. Really, NBC?
Oh, yay! Bill Clement excitedly tells us there was “no way [he] would leave [his] buddies Brett Hull and Ray Ferraro at 30 Rock.” Come on, Bill, at least tell us you tried.
We go into commercial with the promise of a Prongsie/Pierre Maguire interview on the flip side. You know what we love about Pierre Maguire (yes, there is actually something we love about him…)? We love that, while writing game diaries of games on VS can be a lot of work, when he’s doing the NBC games these things write themselves.
Holy crap — NBC actually believes this theory that Americans can’t enjoy a sporting event if they can’t locate the city it’s being played in on a map and gives us, honest to God, a brief glimpse of a map of Canada. Seriously, NBC, no one in the States could tell you where Green Bay is, but no one has a problem watching games from Lambeau.
The promised Pronger/Maguire chat finally arrives, and we both kind of expect Pierre to be wearing one of Chris Simpson’s outfits. We are vastly grateful that he is not.
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