Red Pill, Blue Pill

Czabe,

Love the show and decided to take full advantage of the free email offer. I often text in, but now I have the added tool of a hilarious email address! I have an investment opportunity in Nigeria for you, but that can wait.

The yahoo merger came out of left field but makes perfect sense. Full access to their top tier talent and a forum for them to display it. Do you see this becoming something that can chip away at the ESPN marketshare and a rally call to F the ESPN and their family of crap, cause I am beating the drum on this. Confirming breaking news? WTF IS THAT?!?!? Love that Shefter, and Mort use "WE" when reporting anything, but they are almost always "CONFIRMING" and following Jay Glazer, with little or no mention of him.

I rarely watch SportsCenter, and along with several friends in the key graphic of 21-35 males, believe they have over-saturated the market, and have in fact Jumped the Shark. I know I have to go to the well to drink MNF, Sunday Night Baseball, and College Football, but from 6a.m.-4p.m is a smelly heap of overused graphics, highlight packages, and the voice of Colin Cowherd that literally makes my skin crawl.

I started listening to you 6 years ago, and much like the Matrix, i was like who are these douche lords to criticize ESPN. Well you sir, offered me the choice of the blue pill or the the red pill, I chose red and I gobbled it down faster then Rex Ryan at the Sizzlers All You Can Eat Rib Night. I have now seen the truth.

Thanks
Brian,... errr I mean CzabesBaldSpot
Hope you dont take offense to the email address playful poke
Oklahoma

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The term red pill and its opposite, blue pill, are pop culture terms that have become a common symbol for the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red).

The terms were popularized in science fiction culture via the 1999 film The Matrix. In the movie, the main character Neo is offered the choice between a red pill and a blue pill, with the red pill leading to his "escape" from the Matrix, a fictional computer-generated world, while the blue pill would allow him to remain in the world with no knowledge that anything is wrong.

Let's Get It On!

So here we go....

It's "Rexy vs. Beck-sy To See Who Starts at FedEx-ie."

Not exactly Billy vs. Sonny in the annals of Redskins quarterback camp duels. But it'll do to pass the time this August en route to a probable 5-11 season.

It's gonna have to do.

It's all we've got, as 'Skins fans.

While I like the succession of low-key moves by the organization in free agency, and the salvaging of draft picks for McNabb and Haynesworth, this team still has no direction under Shanahan until we know if Beck can play.

Grossman, is a dead end.

Which means to me, at least, we've got to pull hard for John Beck to be as good as Shanny says he can be. Because here's the unusual thing about Grossman. If he wins the job in August, then the Redskins will push away from shore with a starting QB who is 31 years old, and making the league minimum ($800k) on a one year contract.

To say that would be unusual, is an understatement.

You can say it was smart of Bruce Allen not to pour much money into Grossman. And yes, it was. But when a team says with it's wallet: "We don't think you are very good" then it's not a good sign that you are forced to start him Week 1 anyway.

If Grossman wins this thing, then this team would be taking a drive down an almost certain dead-end cul-de-sac at the most important position on the team.

As such, I see no upside in Grossman emerging as the victor, even though if I had to put my money on it, I'd go with him anyway.

So sorry, Rexy. I'm for Becks-y.

It might be like trying to figure out who loves cocaine more, Paris Hilton or Linsday Lohan, but it's the only thing we've got this summer.

Let's get it on!

NFL Network Is Killing NFL Films

If you watched the Ed Sabol special and loved every minute of it, as I did, then be warned: this story is going to make you absolutely sick.

Apparently, the NFL Network is sucking the creative life blood out of the once brilliant NFL Films.

Here's a key graph:

"People are afraid to leave because they don't know what they're going to do, but they're also afraid of what's happening right before their eyes," said former Films vice president Phil Tuckett, who spent 36 years with the company before resigning in 2007. 

"They're destroying that company. It's a cold-blooded killing. Bornstein and Katz are just cold-eyed network killers. They don't care about what we represented. With every action spoken and unspoken since they got there, they've said, 'We're in charge now. We don't want to hear this nonsense anymore about the topcoat-maker making home movies of his kid.' 

"Their approach is how much cheap crap can you turn out as quickly as possible so we can stick it on this godawful network that we've created.' "

Great.

In short, the NFL Network, which still does not penetrate every cable outlet in America (Time Warner is a huge hold-out) and whose chief executive commands a staggering $8 million a year, has precipitated an NFL Films workforce reduction of over 80 hard working producers and editors and turned the company from a fine 5-Star Chef into a short order cook.


Excuse me. I need to go punch a wall, or throw up in my mouth.