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Re: Yawn -
06-19-2006
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Slow couple of days on the CDP. |
k00k-out like Cimode over in cdt.
Comedy Gold!
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frosty
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I had a friend (I know; hard to believe) in the early 80s who had a cable channel dedicated to the Seattle Supersonics Professional Basketball team. We'd watch every game. And almost every game, the announcer would tell me that they didn't have the official stats yet, but... So I came up with a program that displayed all the pertinent stats for the players currently in the game; totals for both teams; ancillary stats like bench points and %, fastbreak points, attempts and %, timeouts, tech fouls, quarterly score box, etc., and a working time clock. It worked great. I showed it to management. They loved it. We pitched it to the Supersonics; they loved it. Demo'd it a second time for Sonics upper management and they loved it. But we pitched it on (at that time) a state of the art IBM Series/1 at a close to .5MicrosoftUS. They eventually awarded the contract to a guy on a PC. Total payment: 2 season tickets. Would have been perfect for me, but not what the company was looking for. Anyone own a pro basketball team? I've updated the software to use touch-screens and do a lot more. Instead of just listing fouls, it names names. And I'd still settle for season tickets. Mark Brown "Simon Verona" <nomail (AT) nomail (DOT) zzz> wrote in message news:44966957$0$22101$ed2619ec (AT) ptn-nntp-reader01 (DOT) plus.net... Talking about the standards of commentary, there is one "Americanism" that I spot coming into all sporting commentary on television in the UK (particularly Sky Sports!).. This is the focus on "statistics"... It was the one thing I noticed when I was in the US watching American Football ! The focus on how many yards each player had run, how many points scored etc etc.. This seems to have come into our sporting commentary like a virus over the past few years. Whilst I find the stats useful and interesting, it seems to remind me of watching American Football, where I couldn't work out what was going on!!!! Still at least I know that Wayne Rooney can make the ball travel at more than 60mph... Not sure if that necessarily improves my viewing pleasure or not... Simon -- ================================ Simon Verona Dealer Management Service Ltd Stewart House Centurion Business Park Julian Way Sheffield S9 1GD Tel: 0870 080 2300 Fax: 0870 735 0011 "David Morris" <david (AT) 127 (DOT) 0.0.1> wrote in message news:l$M36lEP5alEFwFt (AT) 127 (DOT) 0.0.1... murthi once wrote in <SWTkg.118$ia6.75@trndny09>... Luke: Ah, but you don't *really* watch cricket all the time. That's the beauty. You can take a break, make a few phone calls, go to the restroom, and return with the assurance that, most probably, it's status quo. The appeal of a 5-day Test match is that (at least in India), the host city basically shuts down and listens (in my pre-TV days) or watches. Ah, but the real exponents of broadcast cricket are the radio commentators. Our cricket commentators raise discussion about nothing during periods of rain to an absolute art form. The pictures are surely better on radio. -- David Morris, Sheffield, England |
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