Do you really HATE Mark May?

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“There are very few things I can think of that I hate. I hate olives and anchovies…but as far as football teams and football players, I don’t hate anybody. I hate to agree with (Holtz), but I think that levels it out because if we both sat there with pompoms on, why would you watch?

“A long time ago Howard Cosell said, ‘If you can get 50 percent of the people to like you and 50 percent of the people to hate you, as long as they’re watching, you’ll always have a job.’ ”

This goes back to the WWF feel when it comes to Holtz and May making predictions. It’s part of the shtick, though May said they won’t always disagree just for the sake of conflict.

“I’m going to give a counterpoint to Coach’s point,” May said. “Obviously, he’s going to favor Notre Dame and I’m going to favor what I think is right or wrong. Sometimes I agree with him, other times I disagree. People always think that if you disagree one time you disagree every time.
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May is good at his craft. He's laughing all the way to the bank. His assigned job is to be the ND hair puller and he plays the role well.

This is entertainment, meant to get you to tune in next time. Hate him or love him, it doesn't matter as long as you tune in. A "60 minutes" segment back in the 70's "Point/Counterpoint" with James J. Kilpatrick "on the right" and Shana Alexander "on the left" pioneered the format on TV. The confrontational dogfight where nobody wins was the basis for "Crossfire" and subsequent political talk shows like "Hannity and Colmes".

About 10 years ago I read an article on the loose "scripting" of these shows. Lots of body blows and an ocassional bloody nose but - Nobody ever wins. The article noted that focus groups found those on the left most always thought the liberal won or did well while those on the right most always thought the conservative won or did well. So they both tuned in to the next show to see their side kick ass. The article pointed out that there was a director in the booth telling each of them when to kick it up a notch or when to let the opponent get in a couple of shots "to even up the score". The shows producers did not want knock out blows because "a winner" would have ended the continuous battle/soap opera.

Howard Cosell was Holtz and May rolled into one. In the pregame show he would describe a QB like Clausen with something like, "I knew little Jimmy Clausen back when he was in swaddling clothes! I saw him take his first awkward step and he hasn't improved his footwork since then. Notre Dame will suffer today as CLAUSEN WILL BE SACKED 8 TIMES!" Four quarters later the QB would sidestep a sack for the first time in the game, find the open receiver streaking down the sideline and hit him for the game winning TD. Cosell would explode with something like, "All that QB training under the tutelage of QB WunderGuru Steve Clarkson showed right there! I said it before the game that Jimmy's nimble feet would carry the Irish to victory. And it happened - just as I predicated."

He was amazing working both sides of the street. More people hated Cosell than May but he made money doing it and the fans tuned in next week to hate him some more.

When it gets down to ND football analysis, May predictions and rationale on ND have been more accurate than most. His interplay with Holtz "is in the script".
 
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BGIF, you should go on Jeopardy. You know all these little bits of info that would make you successful on that show!!

(this is a compliment, btw)
 
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NeuteredDoomer said:
They are next to your car keys and wallet in the refrigerator.
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Bambi: "Jane, you ignorant slut!" his glasses are clearly between the Bourbon and Single Malt Scotch in the wet bar in the den ... through the dining room, first door to your left, just before the living room.
 
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dshans said:
Bambi: "Jane, you ignorant slut!" his glasses are clearly between the Bourbon and Single Malt Scotch in the wet bar in the den ... through the dining room, first door to your left, just before the living room.
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Nice Aykroyd reference.

Contrary to jason's concept that all white males make $250,000 a year and sip Single Malt in their smoking jacket in the den ... I couldn't have left them there. No Scotch drinkers here. Nor Bourbon for that matter.

I feel so deprived.
 
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BGIF said:
Nice Aykroyd reference.

Contrary to jason's concept that all white males make $250,000 a year and sip Single Malt in their smoking jacket in the den ... I couldn't have left them there. No Scotch drinkers here. Nor Bourbon for that matter.

I feel so deprived.
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Nice to see you read my posts. No wonder you think everything is socialist. Wait this is a free site... wtf!!! OBAAMMMAAAAAAAA (waves fist in the air in anger)
 
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BGIF said:
... I couldn't have left them there. No Scotch drinkers here. Nor Bourbon for that matter.
I feel so deprived.
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Point taken. Might the cagey specs be in the pantry (through the living room, the dining room and at the back of the kitchen) on the third shelf from the top, on the left between the Oolong and Earl Grey? Or in the wine cellar (stairs to the right, past the dining room and just before the kitchen) nestled between a bright, perky Chardonnay and a sassy, lusty Burgundy?

Deprivation is underrated.
 
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Yep. You and NDinLA. Next Wabash. Quintastic, may...I ... be ....allowed..... Ahh... heck....
 
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jason_h537 said:
Nice to see you read my posts.
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I usually do no matter how misguided they are.


jason_h537 said:
No wonder you think everything is socialist.
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"everything is socialist" There you go with the hyperbole again.

Where did I make a socialist comment?


jason_h537 said:
Wait this is a free site... wtf!!!
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For the moment. When the TARP money gets here all the Mods will get 1 Million Dollar bonuses under the redistribution of wealth program.


jason_h537 said:
OBAAMMMAAAAAAAA (waves fist in the air in anger)
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What a surprise. I'm shocked.
 
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jason_h537 said:
Its not his dislike of Notre Dame that bothers me because alot of analysts and commentators hate Notre Dame. It's just that he is so damn smug. I remember when he picked Pitt over West Virginia 2 years ago and he just kept bringing it up and had such an arrogance about it. Its his face that bothers me. I want to punch it.
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....and kick it, stomp on it, float an air biscuit on it....the list goes on. i'm in agreeance with ya pal, his arrogance is what really ticks me off.
 
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Tequila, staight up, no salt and no lime. Maybe chilled, with a beer chaser.
 
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BGIF said:
I usually do no matter how misguided they are.
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Then you rip me and give props to someone else for saying the exact same thing


BGIF said:
"everything is socialist" There you go with the hyperbole again.

Where did I make a socialist comment? .
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Its only a hyperbole if its an exaggeration



BGIF said:
For the moment. When the TARP money gets here all the Mods will get 1 Million Dollar bonuses under the redistribution of wealth program..
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Oh no. You can thank the FCC for not wanting to pass a net nuetrality law for that. After all if you van't make money of it, it doesn't help our "free market" economy.



BGIF said:
What a surprise. I'm shocked.
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I love you. I missed this so much
 
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Looked like you. Definitely smelled like you. Why do reindeer smell so bad?
 
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To discourage you from eating us. And it wasn't me. It was someone who looks exactly like me, just different.
 
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