Sunday, August 20, 2006

How is My Driving?

Did you ever notice the " How is my Driving?" caption and a 1-800 Phone number below it on the back of a Truck/Semi? Well I had some experience with it yesterday.
I went to the Twins Ball game last night and was little dissapointed as twins lost to the Division rivals Whitesox in my first live game at the Metrodome. I was driving back home and here this is truck guy who came into my lane ahead of me, so suddenly and closely that he really scared the hell out of me. I was so pissed that immediately I dialed the number on the back of the truck anticipating some body from the truck company will pick it up so that I can complain them about this guy's driving. But, all I heard was some thing like this

Wat's up from the adorable phone slut!!!!
Great Summer!
Phone Sex Songs!
A gift? From your mistress
Oh, babies...
Strike a Pose Phone Sex
Are you up?
I may be a little naughty.
Taste of the exotic
Well hello there boys........

I was so dumbstruck after that I just laughed out loud and drove safe back home!

Friday, August 11, 2006

An Open Letter to ESPN!

P.S. This is for all sports fans. If you don't watch sports please ignore this post.

Dear ESPN,
Being an ESPN viewer for what 13 years now I am writing you this open letter after getting frustated watching ESPN day by day. I excused you a lot. I excused you when you had Dave O Brien the Monday night Baseball analyst for the Fifa world cup even though he sounds ridiculous reading the players Bios from what he gets from the Production manager. The reason you gave for that sounded even more ridiculous you want to reach everybody via some household name. Common Dave O Brien is not a house hold name. I excused you when you are showing Barry Bonds every home plate appearance when one of great success stories on any sports Roger Federer winning his 4th wimbledon or Rafael Nadal stopping him from the tennis immortality the Grandslam at the French open, will feature in the sport center late night telecast that too may be in the middle of the program. I excused when you have the little league world series as the main headline on ESPN and tennis if it is a Grandslam will feature a small link on some where in the corner. I excuse the fact that if I want to find tennis I need to click on the More button on ESPN.com and scroll it to the bottom.Common More is not for tennis More is for Curling, Cricket( although I am a die hard cricket fan I take that) or may be Bowling.
Yes, I forgave you when you made me wait for eternity for a grandslam semifinal or a final as you need to finish a Paint ball competition. I forgave you for showing tape delay matches as if they are live.Common cut some slack here. Do you think I don't know that in this internet age. And lastly I also excuse the fact when you take a Reuters or AP match report and put it on your website.
But I can't excuse you when I saw Sean McDonough as a play by play analyst for a master series event. Common he is not a tennis guy.He sounds so dumb. Let him call one of those Friday night Base Ball games. We all Know Roger Federer forehand is best in the business. We don't need that we expect more. Please do something here.
I am sure you can do better than that.

Sincerely,

A frustated Sports (especially Tennis) ESPN Viewer.