So let me get this straight. The CRTC and TSN shove the CFL down our throats, basically give ZERO coverage of NCAA football (or hoops for that matter), but when it’s a Canadian sporting achievement I might actually care about? They won’t even give the %$#%^! score.
Today, Brights Grove Ontario’s own Matt Hill, only the SECOND RANKED AMATEUR golfer in the world, played the 1st round of the Buick Open. He made an eagle on the 16th. TSN did show that in their hightlights. Most Canadians seeing this might then have wondered, “Gee an eagle, that’s pretty good. Wonder how he finished up?” TSN then proceeded to show a lot of missed putts by Tiger Woods. Then they went to their leader board. On the left of the graphic they had the leaders, on the right they had “Other Notables”. Listed there were Tiger, Duval, and two other NON CANADIAN golfers.
As for the Canadian, the kid who is coming off of being named the Jack Nicklaus NCAA player of the year, who won 8 times this season in college, who made the cut at Tiger’s AT&T tournament in Washington DC just a month ago, who just two weeks back blew away the field in the Ontario Amateur?
Nothing. Nadda. Do you think maybe, just maybe, people might be interested in where their home country up and coming star finished? Apparently the geniuses at TSN don’t think so. No, they’d rather tell you about two other, non descript, non Canadian golfers, rather than list Matt Hill’s score.
This fucking shit pisses me off so much. Especially because of what they do subject us too. All the CFL crap (not a fan as you see). All the All Canadian NHL matchups ALL the time during the regular season. How many fucking times this year was Crosby playing Carter and Richards. Or Ovechkin playing Lecavalier and Stamkos? How very few of those games did we get to see. Instead we get Leafs/Sens, Leafs/Oilers, Sens/Oilers. Now look I’m a Leaf fan, but fuck seriously, they were (and still are) CRAP. How about showing us some god damned talented and exciting teams.
But when it comes to you know, gee, an actual exciting and young and talented Canadian, what do we get? Fucking zilch.
I could even live with all this homer centric shit if TSN would just also show the other stuff (TSN2…hello anyone?) or better yet if I was actually allowed to watch ESPN. But no, the Communists who run the CRTC have decided that irreparable harm would be done to this poor little country’s coddled home broadcasters (ask TSN or ROGERS how much fucking money they made last year…fuck you TED…may you NOT rest in peace) if this country’s free born citizens were allowed to actually…EXCERCISE FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
And the fuck of it is, they’re wrong. There’d be minimal impact on TSN’s ratings if ESPN was here. How can this be you ask? I’ll tell you how. They don’t fucking cover the same shit! At all. They are mutually exclusive.
TSN – NHL and CFL
ESPN – NFL/NCAA
If you wanted your hockey fix, you’d still goto TSN. Who the fuck is going to listen to Barry Melrose. The guy’s a loser.
If you wanted to actually see oh I don’t know, say spring practice (let alone more than 20 seconds of actual game highlights during the season) and how things are progressing with the Wolverines or the Cornhuskers, well you would have that choice as well.
But what do we get instead of freedom and choice?
Being told what we are allowed to view. Being told what we are supposed to enjoy. Well fuck that.
Oh and Matt Hill, such an insignificant part of the Buick Open that TSN could not deign to give us his final round score today? He finished at -3, behind just 43 other golfers, as an amateur, in a field of 155.
But hey, I hear those Alouettes/Eskimos highlights will be fabulous tonight.