Does this post appear disconnected and detached from its thread for anyone? This seems to happen in the late evening hours. Is there some lever in the control room behind the curtain to be yanked?
I don't know about the Van tune (I have some years on Doc), but the Dingle cliff in the rainstorm, looking over the raging Atlantic with a Guinness in hand? I think my bucket list has been expanded.
Doc, thought you had an arrangement that would have continued your yearly pilgrimage to Augusta! Hate to hear you are going to miss one of your all time favorite events!
And how is this different than the men’s game tonight…which starts even later (9:20pm) on a school/work night? Pregame for women’s starts at 7 or 7:30…game would startat 8pm. Why is this so difficult?. Seems like you are just trying to find ways to make it not work.
Make it not work? The NCAA and TV people are on cloud 9, thrilled and ecstatic over just how fantastic the coverage momentum is going. I had kinda assumed you were doing this performance art parody of manufactured outrage media paradigm people somehow seem to think is entertaining ...?
The men's final will be tanking down to still circa 9 million numbers for various established reasons as stated in this article vs the women's burgeoning momentum ascending to the 5 million range. Interest still drives any time slot placement more than vice versa
Actually the men's final numbers have lately been in the range of 18 million. I think that's about double what the best semi-final game got. Parallels the 5m for the big women's semi blooming to the 1omil+ the final got
The 9:2o start might be some accommodation for the west coast demo in the national sense, being 6:2o pm gives many live viewers at least a chance of getting home from work in time to catch tipoff (also conviently sliding past normal happy hour cutoffs)? The network pregame may be an hour too and its numbers also would be higher than compared to the women's game itself I would think
Alas, I finally won the Master’s lottery only have it conflict with a pre-planned vacation…sitting on the deck on a beach-front house looking over Brewer’s Beach in Tortola is the only thing not making me sad to miss being in person at the Master’s. Hope my luck holds out and I win the tix again to see the Holy Grail of golf.
Agree with you about the time of the Women’s Final …they would NEVER do that to the Men. Ahem.
When should they play it? The OG sports watching audience is well enough trained to Sunday PM events. Before the men's final might be even more awkward as to TV logistics, I dunno? Tuesday night seems like only true fans and aficianados would find it
You'd want at least some pregame leadup 3o minutes, right? A game that finishes around midnight on a school night? The OGs would be snoring loud enough you'd need to turn up the volume and thats if they only managed to make it to halftime
I’m all for more participants in the big tournament. Why shouldn’t a low 80’s golfer like me get to play in the Masters? For one shining moment I could shock the world. It’s my right, right?
I’ve been to Dingle! Magnificent is the only description. The views are incredible. It reminded me of the Kentucky bluegrass with stone fences and creeks and tidy farms everywhere. Truly a town with a pub or a bar on every corner. On the way to Galway, we saw people training thoroughbreds for racing on a sandy beach course that had a race meet at the same place later in the month. Too bad it rains EVERY day.
As for college hoops, I say play as many as they can. High schools do it. Why not colleges? Just think, at some point we’d probably see a twenty-five seed or whatever beating a one seed. Makes perfect sense. I was a little sad to see the women imitating the men with the trash talk and the hard fouls and their version of dribble drive. The NBA game has ruined college ball in my humble OG opinion. And clearly, the LSU coach missed her calling in WWE.
Re: keeping up with the news. I have minimized my media disenchantment by avoiding cable shows based on political theatre from either side as well as limiting my reading to headlines for the most part while focusing on policy wherever I do engage. It’s not a perfect method but it keeps me from getting sideways when I run into the fringe elements. I don’t think we’re worse than any previous generation, we just have more social media weapons to stir up the you know what.
Finally, Doc, you are the perfect example of a bourbon connoisseur. In the last thirty years or so, traveling around Kentucky to taste whiskey has become a thriving tourist industry that simply didn’t exist previously. For a state that has always been something of a backwater, this growing business is a godsend for communities and people to do better financially. Thank you. We need it.
What about the Jon Carloftis resurrected homage to the visionary Col Taylor's anticipatory living celebration of the Bourbon trail tourism industry, Castle & Key in Millville? I give them a shout out too in the same breath as Buffalo Trace if I'm Doc. Maybe he hasn't been?
This was the mysteriously buried under massive kudzu overgrowth magical ruins compound Pogo & I were alternately drawn to wanting to investigate maybe 1o years ago previously discussed in this space
Is it not possible to go to Augusta as a mere mortal? Wait, just saw the lottery comment. Didn't know about that. Exclusivity has always been the hallmark, huh.
Women's tournament excellent. Scheduling and financial support over all still sucks, but the good to see a growth in viewership. 96 too many.
As a sophomore at Georgia Tech in 1982, my Dad was given two badges to the Sunday round at The Masters. He gave them to my brother and me. His friends wife wouldn't let him go because it fell on Easter. I've been a big fan of the resurrection ever since.
Doc, while 2023 breaks your string of Masters "appearances", it is my first! After years of both my son and me participating in the annual lottery, we finally hit pay dirt. Our tixs to the Wednesday practice day have been guarded in a secure location and are about to be retrieved for our admission onto golf's hallowed ground. This 67 year old is giddy with excitement and blessed that this bucket list item is now at hand. Sounds like the culinary fare may have have boon place for Johnny Thinwallet? $3.00 for those famed pimento cheese sandwiches? Any other suggestions for a first timer (and likely a last timer)?
Paul..because TV is your life, Harry thinks you may enjoy The Night Agent on Netflix. I watched the whole series between Saturday night and Sunday night. Kinda 24-Esque. Check it out. You might enjoy. Have a good week.
More is too much. Who watched the NIT? I watched UC get beat and that was enough for me.
Women's Final was a good one. Caitlain took two tosses to the hardwood the prior game and slammed her right elbow into lots of pain. I'm sure it affected her final game somewhat, but she was still very impressive. It takes a team, as we know.
Memorable golf tear jerker moments for me were the bagpipe tributes to Payne Stewart, especially the one at 4 p.m. the day after his death as a lone bag piper played Going Home on the Monterey Peninsula in a heavy afternoon fog. As if it was yesterday...so sad.
I fall in the camp of more is more. The Madness was perfect at 64. It's imperfect - but great - at 68. Going to 96? All of a sudden it's a month-long commitment. It would effectively kill the NIT. (Admittedly, some folks view that as a plus.) I tend to agree with Hurley - give more mid majors a shot than the 8, 9 and 10 teams from a power conference, but they could put a cap of three teams (or two or five or four) per conference if they wanted to address that issue. (Spoiler alert - they don't.)
Meantime, hooray for Masters week. I've never been, but it's on the bucket list. Looking forward to getting home from Easter brunch with the fam and vegging on the recliner for five or six hours to watch the last day.
Being informed is not the same as being inundated/consumed. Since I started scanning the headlines and not much else, I’ve learned that if it doesn’t effect me or my neighbors, I don’t really care that much. A LOT of the political news is like the pregame show for the final four: hype and filler.
You might have missed the comedy stylings of the Senator from SC channeling Jimmy Swaggart on Faux 'news' air ... just scroll down to the first video if you want to skip the analysis
Nice post today …. Women’s Basketball will get there, next year they will have a better prime time slot …. Even a none golfer enjoys the Masters memories …
What??? Nevermind.
Does this post appear disconnected and detached from its thread for anyone? This seems to happen in the late evening hours. Is there some lever in the control room behind the curtain to be yanked?
I don't know about the Van tune (I have some years on Doc), but the Dingle cliff in the rainstorm, looking over the raging Atlantic with a Guinness in hand? I think my bucket list has been expanded.
Dingle is beautiful. Go in November … fewer tourists.
Doc, thought you had an arrangement that would have continued your yearly pilgrimage to Augusta! Hate to hear you are going to miss one of your all time favorite events!
And how is this different than the men’s game tonight…which starts even later (9:20pm) on a school/work night? Pregame for women’s starts at 7 or 7:30…game would startat 8pm. Why is this so difficult?. Seems like you are just trying to find ways to make it not work.
Make it not work? The NCAA and TV people are on cloud 9, thrilled and ecstatic over just how fantastic the coverage momentum is going. I had kinda assumed you were doing this performance art parody of manufactured outrage media paradigm people somehow seem to think is entertaining ...?
https://www.si.com/college/2023/04/01/espn-reveals-womens-final-four-viewership-numbers
https://www.sportsvideo.org/2023/03/31/espn-ncaa-womens-basketball-final-four-championship-coverage-set-to-deliver/#:~:text=Viewership%20of%20last%20weekend%27s%20Elite,world%20of%20women%27s%20college%20hoops.
The men's final will be tanking down to still circa 9 million numbers for various established reasons as stated in this article vs the women's burgeoning momentum ascending to the 5 million range. Interest still drives any time slot placement more than vice versa
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2023/04/01/final-four-tickets-tv-ratings-march-madness-interest/11557746002/
Actually the men's final numbers have lately been in the range of 18 million. I think that's about double what the best semi-final game got. Parallels the 5m for the big women's semi blooming to the 1omil+ the final got
The 9:2o start might be some accommodation for the west coast demo in the national sense, being 6:2o pm gives many live viewers at least a chance of getting home from work in time to catch tipoff (also conviently sliding past normal happy hour cutoffs)? The network pregame may be an hour too and its numbers also would be higher than compared to the women's game itself I would think
Wow ... the Women's final on Sunday drew a whopping TEN MILLION+ viewers ... peak viewers spiked 12.6m
https://theathletic.com/4378088/2023/04/03/iowa-lsu-womens-national-championship-tv-ratings/
Alas, I finally won the Master’s lottery only have it conflict with a pre-planned vacation…sitting on the deck on a beach-front house looking over Brewer’s Beach in Tortola is the only thing not making me sad to miss being in person at the Master’s. Hope my luck holds out and I win the tix again to see the Holy Grail of golf.
Agree with you about the time of the Women’s Final …they would NEVER do that to the Men. Ahem.
Spent our 25th anniversary in a house on a bluff overlooking the beach on Tortola. Like we were living in a movie.
Same here. It is unbelievable.
When should they play it? The OG sports watching audience is well enough trained to Sunday PM events. Before the men's final might be even more awkward as to TV logistics, I dunno? Tuesday night seems like only true fans and aficianados would find it
Sunday was fine but 3:30???? How about start time between 7pm-8pm…primetime? They would never show men’s final that early in day. And we all know it.
lol even the Almighty NF of L only bleeds over the timeslot for 6o Minutes. I'm asking a serious question here
Ok 8pm start time then.
You'd want at least some pregame leadup 3o minutes, right? A game that finishes around midnight on a school night? The OGs would be snoring loud enough you'd need to turn up the volume and thats if they only managed to make it to halftime
I was entertained by the high volume 97% eFG 3ball gesture LSU delivered ... 33 points from 17 attempts is a shooting flourish
I’m all for more participants in the big tournament. Why shouldn’t a low 80’s golfer like me get to play in the Masters? For one shining moment I could shock the world. It’s my right, right?
I’ve been to Dingle! Magnificent is the only description. The views are incredible. It reminded me of the Kentucky bluegrass with stone fences and creeks and tidy farms everywhere. Truly a town with a pub or a bar on every corner. On the way to Galway, we saw people training thoroughbreds for racing on a sandy beach course that had a race meet at the same place later in the month. Too bad it rains EVERY day.
As for college hoops, I say play as many as they can. High schools do it. Why not colleges? Just think, at some point we’d probably see a twenty-five seed or whatever beating a one seed. Makes perfect sense. I was a little sad to see the women imitating the men with the trash talk and the hard fouls and their version of dribble drive. The NBA game has ruined college ball in my humble OG opinion. And clearly, the LSU coach missed her calling in WWE.
Re: keeping up with the news. I have minimized my media disenchantment by avoiding cable shows based on political theatre from either side as well as limiting my reading to headlines for the most part while focusing on policy wherever I do engage. It’s not a perfect method but it keeps me from getting sideways when I run into the fringe elements. I don’t think we’re worse than any previous generation, we just have more social media weapons to stir up the you know what.
Finally, Doc, you are the perfect example of a bourbon connoisseur. In the last thirty years or so, traveling around Kentucky to taste whiskey has become a thriving tourist industry that simply didn’t exist previously. For a state that has always been something of a backwater, this growing business is a godsend for communities and people to do better financially. Thank you. We need it.
What about the Jon Carloftis resurrected homage to the visionary Col Taylor's anticipatory living celebration of the Bourbon trail tourism industry, Castle & Key in Millville? I give them a shout out too in the same breath as Buffalo Trace if I'm Doc. Maybe he hasn't been?
This was the mysteriously buried under massive kudzu overgrowth magical ruins compound Pogo & I were alternately drawn to wanting to investigate maybe 1o years ago previously discussed in this space
https://www.castleandkey.com/visit-the-distillery/explore-the-grounds
Is it not possible to go to Augusta as a mere mortal? Wait, just saw the lottery comment. Didn't know about that. Exclusivity has always been the hallmark, huh.
Women's tournament excellent. Scheduling and financial support over all still sucks, but the good to see a growth in viewership. 96 too many.
As a sophomore at Georgia Tech in 1982, my Dad was given two badges to the Sunday round at The Masters. He gave them to my brother and me. His friends wife wouldn't let him go because it fell on Easter. I've been a big fan of the resurrection ever since.
Doc, while 2023 breaks your string of Masters "appearances", it is my first! After years of both my son and me participating in the annual lottery, we finally hit pay dirt. Our tixs to the Wednesday practice day have been guarded in a secure location and are about to be retrieved for our admission onto golf's hallowed ground. This 67 year old is giddy with excitement and blessed that this bucket list item is now at hand. Sounds like the culinary fare may have have boon place for Johnny Thinwallet? $3.00 for those famed pimento cheese sandwiches? Any other suggestions for a first timer (and likely a last timer)?
Send me an email pdoc53@gmail.com
If the NCAA increases the field, they will kill the golden goose. How much more BB can we watch? Do you really want to fill out a 96-team bracket?
No lies detected here!
Paul..because TV is your life, Harry thinks you may enjoy The Night Agent on Netflix. I watched the whole series between Saturday night and Sunday night. Kinda 24-Esque. Check it out. You might enjoy. Have a good week.
More is too much. Who watched the NIT? I watched UC get beat and that was enough for me.
Women's Final was a good one. Caitlain took two tosses to the hardwood the prior game and slammed her right elbow into lots of pain. I'm sure it affected her final game somewhat, but she was still very impressive. It takes a team, as we know.
Memorable golf tear jerker moments for me were the bagpipe tributes to Payne Stewart, especially the one at 4 p.m. the day after his death as a lone bag piper played Going Home on the Monterey Peninsula in a heavy afternoon fog. As if it was yesterday...so sad.
I fall in the camp of more is more. The Madness was perfect at 64. It's imperfect - but great - at 68. Going to 96? All of a sudden it's a month-long commitment. It would effectively kill the NIT. (Admittedly, some folks view that as a plus.) I tend to agree with Hurley - give more mid majors a shot than the 8, 9 and 10 teams from a power conference, but they could put a cap of three teams (or two or five or four) per conference if they wanted to address that issue. (Spoiler alert - they don't.)
Meantime, hooray for Masters week. I've never been, but it's on the bucket list. Looking forward to getting home from Easter brunch with the fam and vegging on the recliner for five or six hours to watch the last day.
Being informed is not the same as being inundated/consumed. Since I started scanning the headlines and not much else, I’ve learned that if it doesn’t effect me or my neighbors, I don’t really care that much. A LOT of the political news is like the pregame show for the final four: hype and filler.
You might have missed the comedy stylings of the Senator from SC channeling Jimmy Swaggart on Faux 'news' air ... just scroll down to the first video if you want to skip the analysis
https://www.salon.com/2023/03/31/teary-eyed-lindsey-graham-goes-on-fox-news-to-beg-viewers-to-give-indicted-money/
Nice post today …. Women’s Basketball will get there, next year they will have a better prime time slot …. Even a none golfer enjoys the Masters memories …