Fair enough. The one event I've tried to watch is gymnastics and as someone upthread noted, if you're going to time shift and split coverage then don't show warm ups and I've seen these parents over and over and was asked to share their suffering. Their daughter, in the meantime, seemed to handle it extremely well.…

For a variety of reasons I've been trying to get through this packed article with lots of links. What resonated today is that I sat through the three hour American Experience biography on Nixon today. Sometimes as tedious as his administration even though I was about ten at the time. But I'm glad I did and it all…

My point is the coverage and announcers act like we're supposed to somehow feel sorry for them.

Synchronised diving sends my gaydar off the roof. There was a lot of SS this week, and their weepy vid showed one who was married with a kid just to prove something. Then, the slim coverage of men's gymnastics caught the US screaming testosterone overload. As if they were trying to prove something. I'm open to lots…

They've been teasing gymnastics for years and cutting it up. Today, it was all about Phelps and the last few days the sweet but creepy girl swimmer. They keep promising you they'll come back to make you stay for late night then you might see it or might not. Or we'll get to see more of Ally Raisman's privileged…

Wait, there's cycling?

I read they put 45 into each athlete's welcome package this year. No pun intended. And while I really don't want to go here, I can't help but judge who on the Final Five is a virgin and who is not.

Replying to myself because they just aired the weepy Phelps bio including his DWI and redemption by being amazing enough to father a child just before the Olympics. Plus plenty of pensive looks and holding up his number one finger.

I remember a lot about the London opening ceremony tribute to national health care with a good dose of Mary Poppins, and the precision and artistry of China in 2008. But I can't brain bleach that weird little kid in the white suit shaking his crotch as hard as the ladies in feathers. That and planting trees is about…

I agree they've cut back on the shitty athlete profiles the way you described. They sure talk about them over and over again though. Because, you know, if you're only going to talk about four of them most of the time. The number of commercials don't bother me too much because they're nowhere nearly as bad as Hulu.…

So the olympics belongs to the 1% and the rest of us pay for it with bad coverage and endless commercials.

Corporate America told you to just go eat a Reeses.

I dislike Phelps more and more every time I see him. It's about him but it's also what happens when you concentrate on 4 athletes only. Well, 9 if you count the gymnasts but I'm fine with them. Except I want to punch Ally Raisman's parents, who've had as much camera time as she. I expected USA centric coverage but…

I still care a bit because I remember watching Nadia as a kid. Yes, I'm old. It also adds to, or distracts from, election year.

The worst was the one who screamed Kerri Walsh Jennings more times than I could count. The next day it was just Walsh Jennings so maybe they listen. I tried to rationalize there are only two on the team so of course there's repetition but damn. I don't give a crap about her anymore.

At least it's on network tv so ordinary slobs like myself can see it. I don't follow Madison college sports in my state because they're barely ever televised. One year I spent an hour trying to find anyone streaming the Rose Bowl. So fuck ESPN.

I started checking into PBS American Experience all week on their presidential biography series during numerous commercial breaks and found myself forgetting about the NBC Olympics at all. Great antidote to the brain drain.

Yeah, I've been taking shit for insisting our guest kitty's parent keep her hydrated. The first thing that happens is they dehydrate. I have been watching gymnastics though. Last night I sat through the late nite edition and didn't see any men's at all.

Sheet it's all about the afterbeat and every sound is tweaked. Edited to add this is really German. I'm German. Can anyone help me know why?

People think we're a big rich rock band. We get per diem.