Saturday, March 24, 2007

1. No comments about India's performance against Sri Lanka. There are many things that I would like to say... But I dont know how

2. I get extremely irritated by some ppl these days. Seems like when I was in college I was not sure of what I wanted and compromising abt a lot of things but now I seem to know what I want and its becoming hard to compromise.

3. South Africa is always out of luck. They were chasing too damn good. Then a throw from the boundary struck the stumps and DeVillers was out. Followed by Smith getting hurt. A team chasing 378 cannot survive such unlucky events. Full credits to the australians though for their discipline. They are truly professionals. close to 80% of their throws hit the stumps.

4. ADS and broadcast. Its Frustrating and by using that word I am being euphemistic. First of all the scorecard never shows "overs". Its a one-day for chrissake. No stats whatsoever, with a very heavy heart (important advertiesment airtime is being wasted in that) they show 6 deliveries. As soon as the last ball of the over leaves the bat you can see SRK singing for santro. It gets on your nerves. And why in the name of god do they advertise for soap operas between cricket matches. If they could squeeze in ads for 2-5 sec I m sure they would use the time when the ball leaves the baller and reaches the batsman. The fun has gone out of cricket. And broadcasting takes most of the credit for that. You would believe that with the advent of technology etc it would improve: But NO. giving the rights to channels like Sab TV or Sony!!!! There are specialized sports channels!!! But then in India cricket is not a sport. Its become a business. Sachin has become as bad as SRK. Performs only against The Bermudas aka Karanjohar matches/movies.
There were times when I actually was thinking of watching live score on cricinfo rather than the live telecast.
And to top it all there's mandira bedi. She is truly the icing on the cake. You talk about Windows selling more than Mac. It truly makes sense. The world is ruled by mediocres. And believe it or not an average human being is far more stupid than we can imagine. I am not being rude. This is the only reaosn I can reason the fact that things detoriate and bad things sell.
And yes one last thing. If I were hitler and I had to choose one sect of human population to be killed, I would choose all the management of all the companies and organizations. They are the ones behind all the mediocricity. Because they are the ones who want things to sell in the market and they target the mediocricity. Technologists on the other hand want to improve everything.
Steve Jobs: "Anyway we have a better OS than yours"
Bill Gates: "You dont understand Steve, That doesnt matter"

2 comments:

Atish said...

u cudnt be more right abt the fun having gone out of watching cricket .. for more reasons than one

anonymous coward said...

itna mat frusta dost ...

i agree with you that saale overs to dikhate nahi hain, something which i have been noticing for quite sometime now. with all the cricket themed ads on all channels, tv dekhne ka to mann hi nahi karta!