Bob Costas is really rubbing me the wrong way this year. Maybe it's because he doesn't seem to respect Bela Karolyi. Or maybe it's because NBC made the ridiculous decision to tape-delay live coverage for the West Coast, which means we have to watch from 8-midnight, three hours after everything 'live' actually happened, when they could have done 6-10 or 7-11. And then he has the audacity to offer these words of advice for people suffering from sleep deprivation:
1) stay hydrated
2) tell yourself you only need four hours of sleep
3) wear sunglasses to hide red eyes
4) crank up your ipod and listen to anything michael phelps does
5) skip work (you're never going to see an olympics like this again anyway)
Granted I'm addicted, but to be told this by the company that paid like a billion dollars for these games and then tape-delayed for a third of the country seems obnoxious. What are they going to do when the games are in Vancouver? Will they force Canada to schedule events late at night? Or show them live on the east coast and tape delay for the west coast even though we're in the same timezone?
At least there's no beach volleyball in the winter olympics. And now I really really have to go to bed, since I'm just getting crankier and I can't be cranky tomorrow morning. Goodnight!
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