akxnxjzjJ wrote:
There's basketball on that channel. It was on NBC yesterday too
No, Sparky, it was on NBCSN yesterday. That's the channel I linked to.
akxnxjzjJ wrote:
There's basketball on that channel. It was on NBC yesterday too
No, Sparky, it was on NBCSN yesterday. That's the channel I linked to.
No. It is basketball. They just said the guy is 5 foot 9 and can dunk. Or maybe it's the NFL. I think they just said the guy's uncle coached the Dallas Cowboys.
Suggestion. Get NBC Sports Gold. Yes, costs money. Supports our favorite sport that needs support. Makes watching easy. Rewind, fast forward, if you get started late and backtrack. Many meets and marathons all year long. The price of one good ticket to an event like this, with no airfare or hotel. I am watching now, started late, fast forwarded between events I wanted. If you watch year round it comes in lower $ than a Starbucks per event and a lot more stimulating. And keeps track more alive than constant garbled threads. And you can miss an event and it’s available in replay shortly after the event.
In the meantime, no word on what happened to Puttier?
Make that, "what happened to Purrier," obviously.
a friend in deed wrote:
Make that, "what happened to Purrier," obviously.
Also Murphy scratched.
No flak but you can get Hulu plus live tv for half the price and get all the meets streamed on NBCS and the Olympic Channel and NBC right in your DVR. Plus you get ESPN, Fox Sports, etc. And all your Hulu Favorites. NBC Sports Gold is a scam and it is not worth it.
a friend in deed wrote:
Make that, "what happened to Purrier," obviously.
Probably didn't respond well to altitude. She ran real hard yesterday and didn't look too good. Probably couldn't recover.
kiowavt wrote:
Suggestion. Get NBC Sports Gold. Yes, costs money. Supports our favorite sport that needs support.
It's on life support from being driven into this behind-the-paywall niche. Broadcast it free to lots of people, then advertisers will pay and broadcasters won't worry about hiding everything in absolute secrecy.
Coleman’s start looked pretty weak (for him that is) and he still ran 6.37
He’s gonna run 9.6x this year
Hero level
TryAthlete wrote:
a friend in deed wrote:
Make that, "what happened to Purrier," obviously.
Probably didn't respond well to altitude. She ran real hard yesterday and didn't look too good. Probably couldn't recover.
That'd be odd. She's been training in Flagstaff for the past two months.
She looked dead yesterday...probably caught a bug.
TryAthlete wrote:
No flak but you can get Hulu plus live tv for half the price and get all the meets streamed on NBCS and the Olympic Channel and NBC right in your DVR. Plus you get ESPN, Fox Sports, etc. And all your Hulu Favorites. NBC Sports Gold is a scam and it is not worth it.
Hulu plus live is $55/mo. NBCSG is $8. Stop using MattLondon math
not true wrote:
TryAthlete wrote:
No flak but you can get Hulu plus live tv for half the price and get all the meets streamed on NBCS and the Olympic Channel and NBC right in your DVR. Plus you get ESPN, Fox Sports, etc. And all your Hulu Favorites. NBC Sports Gold is a scam and it is not worth it.
Hulu plus live is $55/mo. NBCSG is $8. Stop using MattLondon math
Because it's the end of the season. Start of outdoor season the price is $89. I know because I wanted it so bad then realized NBC coverage sucks so why should I pay.
TryAthlete wrote:
rojo wrote:
Did Leigh Differy really start counting the clock with 50 meters left in a 2:01.99 race, thinking Wilson might break the AR?
I mean come on. DOn't you need to have some idea as to what is possible at 600? Or at least pick it up based on what your partner is saying?
What a boring 800. Ajee won predcditably but Hannah Green did zero. Ran in last place the whole time.
Honestly, the commentary by these guys have been increasingly worse. Sometimes they have no clue what they're talking about.
Masback knows what he's talking about when it comes to 1500m.
mossback wrote:
TryAthlete wrote:
Honestly, the commentary by these guys have been increasingly worse. Sometimes they have no clue what they're talking about.
Masback knows what he's talking about when it comes to 1500m.
But he doesn't talk about the 1500 when the 1500 is being run. Instead, he's almost always telling some old story from somewhere between 2 and 42 years ago, about his own career or about some runner's grandfather's dog.
The entire NBC broadcast team is absolutely horrible, and has never been worse. Everyone knows what I am talking about so no need to repeat it. All TV networks have always covered T&F in the same way and will never change, so not really worth it to spend much time complaining, either.
But WA talks about streamlining meets for the benefit of TV, when U.S. TV doesn't cover the field events in any meaningful way anyway. When you're replaying a sprint 8 times instead of telling what even one of the other competitors in the wHJ is, when you're telling old stories instead of attempting to describe to the viewers what is happening on the track, when you'd rather play around pretending to interview athletes' babies, why should the sport be reconfigured for you? Why does TV complain about production costs, when they use seven (7) different on-air "talent," when 2 should be adequate?
I have been watching T&F for decades, and not just 2 or 3, and watching T&F on TV for decades as well. As much as I hate to miss a minute, this year I have been relieved when the telecast wraps at the end, so I am put out of my misery and can go online and find out what really happened at the meet that TV ignored.
CC was tired. Terrible balance and angles on the start. His insane pickup saved him. He was not strong on the start. When fresh and strong, he will hit 6.30 outdoors this year so I would have to agree 9.6x is possible given good conditions.
Maybe it was late, maybe he has a cold, maybe he’s just tired. That start was a classic signature of fatigue.
Wow. He’s baaaaaack!! For another outdoor season, that is. Nobody will be even close to him if he stays healthy. Bet on it.
Bad Wigins wrote:
kiowavt wrote:
Suggestion. Get NBC Sports Gold. Yes, costs money. Supports our favorite sport that needs support.
It's on life support from being driven into this behind-the-paywall niche. Broadcast it free to lots of people, then advertisers will pay and broadcasters won't worry about hiding everything in absolute secrecy.
Just because something is broadcast for free doesn't mean people will watch. Advertisers care about how many actual viewers there are not how many people have it available to watch.
The sport has been forced into subscription services because the audience is too small to attract advertisers. If an advertiser has a limited budget and has to choose between buying time on an indoor track meet and a college basketball game (or x-games, or whatever) they will go where the most viewers are.
The truth is that even if all track events were free to watch the audience would probably not be that much larger than it is behind paywalls.