Sportscenter is.... for retarded people

Just a few things for my Tuesday morning. I watched the season finale of Heroes last night, and I was very pleased. People died, there was a nice cliffhanger, and overall, it brought volume 1 of the show to a nice close, and left me wanting the next season to start next week. I tried watching the 1st half hour of the 24 season finale and couldn't get through 10 minutes. That show has become absolutely brutal, and I think they are still planning to do another few years. Ugh. The Rockies lost a close one last night, again. There are 39 days until the Free Agent rush begins in the NHL.
I watched Sportscenter Sunday night for the first time in about 5 months, and I remembered why I don't watch any more. The show has become a complete parody of itself. I was flipping back and forth between Sporstscenter and some other uninteresting program, it was like a car wreck I couldn't avert my eyes. I'm pretty sure Neil Everett was one of the anchors, but I'm not sure who he was working with. Growing up, I watched Sportscenter every night. I loved it, it was fun, I got to see highlights of my favorite athletes, it was perfect. I don't know what happened, was it me that changed? Watching the show the other night, the only emotion I could muster was embarrassment. What happened to the days when people tuned in to the show to catch highlights of their favorite teams and players? I swear to god, I watched a three minute stretch of highlights where every line uttered by the anchors contained some bullshit attempt at a hip catch phrase. It's not about you douchebag! I know Everett has garnered some acclaim recently by getting suspended for calling out an alleged Chris Berman pick up line during a highlight. I didn't see it, I read about it, and honestly, it was stupid. Remember some of those old SNL skits where they parodied Sportscenter? The stuff I saw the other night was even more over the top. Words were being made up and guys names were being pronounced wrong, it was a clusterfuck. Pippity poppity scoopity slopity. That was a throw to first in the dirt. The saddest thing is these guys think it's cool and they are making a social impact. They're only about 10 years too late.