Not the post that I planned on.

My last posting, I referenced some other heavy thoughts that I was having, and promised that I would continue later. That post will have to wait, because when I was perusing the current issue of TV Guide (July 10th-16th, 2006, page 11, "You Tell Us") I stumbled across a letter that someone had wrote to them which seemed eerily familiar, until I glanced down further and saw my name credited.

Neat, huh?

This is what was written. They edited down a bit from the full email that I sent to them, but it more or less gets the point across. They made up the title, don't blame that part on me.

"Cup Runneth Over.

I think it's fantastic that ABC is airing two and sometimes three World Cup games a day but all the commercials are absurd! Instead, they could hire a few smart Brits to school us Americans for a few minutes. I still don't understand all the offsides flags. Teach us!"

Then they were nice enough to spell my name right!

Now that I think about it, I guess I'll included the full text from my email, seems only appropriate to include that part (cut and paste is brilliant) .

"I am writing to talk about ABC's World Cup coverage. I think it is fantastic that they are airing 2 and sometimes 3 games each weekend day (the whole rest of the world is watching, some Americans are actually realizing that the rest of the world might be on to something and that soccer is actually a brilliant game to watch), but the commercials are nearly absurd.

I understand that airing each half (a minimum of 45 minutes) uninterrupted is potentially a loss of revenue, but to have halftime packed with commercials (there is supposedly a halftime show, but it is about 3-4 minutes), and 45 to 50 minutes of commercials in between games seems like an extraordinary waste of space. All the games have "presented by" corporate sponsors, doesn't that lower the need for all the intervening commercials? It makes it appear that the network couldn't come up with anything interesting enough, and that they had to just fall back to just shoehorning in a bunch of filler. Surely the USA could benefit from a little remedial soccer education, they could hire a few smart Brits to get up and school us for a few minutes. I still don't understand all the offsides flags. Teach us!"