Voisin can't resist taking a crack at Arco in today's column about Artest. Here she is beating the dead horse:
Arco Arena is still ancient and creaky and full of leaks, but for the first time in a long while, the old building shook and shuddered, often erupting into spontaneous emotion.
Ancient? A bit of an exaggeration for a building built in 1988, no?
You know, I would LOVE to see the Kings get a new stadium built.
ReplyDeleteIn Kansas City.
My '88 Volvo was a piece of shit so I upgraded to a '95 Toyota which is also rounding third base.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they should take that attitude and move into Downtown Plaza. Hollow out Century Theatre, the food court, and Forever 21. They could leave the atrium alone and have the first indoor/outdoor mad max style NBA court. It might buy them another 5-8 years.
I've stopped reading Voison's articles long ago. Now, I browse through them so I can make fun of her contrived writing style and to justify my disregard for her column. She really likes those verbless sentences, short sentences stacked one atop the other and repetition (I'm an engineer, so I don't know how to write good let alone what to call these style techniques). Her column could be used in a college driking game. Have an extra beer when she summarizes her column with a short, single-sentence paragraph thrown in at the end.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed her style creeping into Kreidler's column once in a while too. It's almost as if they help write each other's columns.
She begins every sentence of her second paragraph with "the". There are plenty others:
Yet another standing ovation.
Yet another reason to applaud the trade.
Talking about Artest:
...Swipes the passes. Pokes balls loose. Scores in the post. Scores from the perimeter. Scores points even without the ball.
And,
Something had to change. Someone had to go.
I bet she might have a point in some of her columns that are worthy of contemplation, but how can anyone not be distracted by all her hair, er, I mean flair? (Waves hands sporadically about the face: "Just Jack!")
The place has a pulse.
I agree with OMF. Interestingly enough, I've been to two professional basketball games in my life, both were Kings' games. THe first one was in 1984 at Kemper Arena in KC, and the second was in 2003 at Arco.
ReplyDeleteSacramento needs to have either two professional sports teams, or none. Having only one is dangerous for this town. Kings mania is ridiculous.
We need another sport presence to distract people. I personally like baseball, and Sacramento just seems like it really ought to be a baseball kind of town. But well, it's not for me to make that kind of determination.
I can't stand Kushman, either. To tell you the truth, one of the funniest and well written articles I ever read in the Bee was in the Business section, and it was about the gender-confused (you'll notice that whereas at first it seems "anatomically correct", but upon closer inspection, you realize that you are looking at a bronze rendering of a steer with bizzare, semi-shrunken udders, which is kind of freaky) longhorn steer statue out in front of that bank on 16th street.
I guess it's getting moved or sold. The article ended something to the tune of that it's bizzare
kitsch might be more appropriate somewhere else (and I remember the last line well enough to nearly quote it) "I can think of a midtown grocery store where it might fit in".
Isn't Kushman the TV guy? I think he's all right. He's usually pretty right on about things. And he was always very nice and funny when he would come on Good Day.
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I hate to tell you Chris, but there is more than one professional sports team in Sac. Ever heard of the Monarchs? They play at Arco too. They happened to have won the WNBA championship this year. Oh, the W stands for women, which accounts for why no one gives a shit about them.
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Oh snap!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWell put Miss B,
ReplyDeleteMonarch pride running wide!!!
-natalie
I think most people don't give a shit about the Monarchs because most people aren't impressed by the product. It has nothing to do with the Monarchs being women.
ReplyDeleteWait a minute...who are the Monarchs?
Hey, Chris is let off the hook for not remembering the Monarchs.
ReplyDeleteI mean, jeez, yeah, they're a professional sports team, but it's not like they're the WNBA champio--
Oh, wait; scratch that.
I just watch basketball for the slam dunks, and the WNBA players refuse. I know they can! Once they start dunking, I'll start watchin'!
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Personally I've been a very strong advocate of a reduction in uniform. I think a little less jersey and a little more skin would really be the key to an upsurge in the popularity of women's sports. I mean, that would really bring the respect that women's sports deserves.
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Um, actually, I think you don't hate to mention it, but that's a different story. Alright, my not mentioning the Monarchs was not because they're women, but because of my ignorance in sports. I didn't know they were WNBA, and if I had ever heard that, it wouldn't have even occurred to me that it probably means Women's National Basketball Association (and I'm guessing that's what it means). I sorta just thought they were like the Rivercats.
ReplyDeleteI mean, did you not notice that I said I'd only been to two basketball games in my life, and they were almost 20 years apart, and also consider that I'm not quite 30. Obviously, I don't really care that much about sports.
Whatever the reasons that people by and large don't care about the Monarchs, it's not my fault, and my personal ignorance in that area is that I don't really give a crap about sports in general.
But I do notice how nuts people are about the Kings and how absurd it is to a guy like me, versus when I lived in San Diego where we had the Chargers and the Padres. The Padres sucked, but at least it gave people a choice, or Kansas City where we had the Royals, the Cheifs, and at least for a while, the Kings. But well, then I was too young to care about sports at all, or at least, that is, until the 1985 world series, but that's another story altogether.
As far as the need for more skin in basketball, I only support that if that applies to the NBA, too. I would like to see some shorter shorts and tighter jerseys on the men, and only then do I think the ladies should tighten up, too.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone see what most of the countries uniforms looked like for women's bball in the Olympics? They were spandex body suit thingies. I'm for more skin too, but those were a bit unflattering. Shorter, more fitted shorts, and better fitting tanks with cooler designs, not just girls versions of men's uniforms. I honestly think they get all lost in those giant uniforms and it actually does make the game look less exciting. How can you see all the sweet moves of Peneicheiro when her oversized jersey is in the way?
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