Having kids compete on live national TV is child abuse
ESPN is televising the Little League World Series and if televising underage children as they compete in athletic competition isn’t bad enough, they are evidently putting microphones on the coaches so that we, the viewers, can listen in as they talk to their kids. It’s because of this fact that we get to see and hear the following conversation:
COACH: “Hey, we’re going to come up again.”
PITCHER: “Is it okay if I just hit this batter?”
COACH: “What? No. No. Are you kidding me? … Let’s get this guy. Come on. We’re still in this game. One-run game. You wanna stay in?”
PITCHER: “No.”
COACH: “You wanna come out right now?”
PITCHER: “Yes, I do. Can I sit out?”
COACH: “No, you’re going to first base.”
I guess you could say that this kid is showing really bad sportsmanship, but he’s just a kid. He’s not done yet. He should be allowed to grow up first before subjected to the national spotlight.
It’s pretty obviously to see that this kid is having a bad day. Though having a bad day is part of life, having a bad day on national TV is not. That’s why people should think long and hard before agreeing to appear on live TV in either a so-called reality TV show or the ultimate type of reality TV, a sporting event.
It should be obvious to see that 12-year old kids are far too young to be making these decisions. I think it creates too much pressure for the kids involved. ESPN shouldn’t be showing these games and you shouldn’t be watching them.
Chima kicked of ‘Big Brother 11′ by the producers
Looks like there was quite the drama yesterday in the Big Brother 11 house. One of the contestants, Chima Simone, 32, was removed from the show by the producers for constantly breaking the reality show’s rules. Not only was she removed from the Big Brother house, she will not be allowed to participate in the jury or be involved in any other Big Brother events.
Supposedly the events that lead up to what transpired will be addressed in tonight’s episode. If not tonight, then probably Tuesday’s episode.
I can’t help but think this throws a monkey wrench into everything. According to the people that have been watching the live feeds (people can sign up to watch what happens in the house 24/7 over the Internet) Chima was one of the two house guests nominated for eviction this week. Because one of the two nominees is now gone, the producers were forced into having a new Head of House (HoH) competition so that the new HoH could nominate two new people. This meant that Michelle Noonan, the current HoH, really got cheated this week.
I’m not really surprised that Chima was kicked off the show. She always seemed like a total nutcase, more so than the other nutcases on the show. I think you have to be a nutcase just to want to be on Big Brother, but she always stood out from the rest when it came to mental stability.
As in, she didn’t have any.
Last week she got into a huge argument with one of her fellow house guests, Russell Kairouz, 24, supposedly a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. While arguing, Chima called Russell, who I guess is of middle-eastern decent, a “terrorist.” When Russell accused her of using a racial slur against him, she claimed that it had nothing to do with his race, but his actions in the Big Brother house.
It sounded a lot like a racial slur to me.
‘There Goes the Neighborhood’ is the greatest TV show of all time
Sunday night was the premiere of There Goes the Neighborhood, a CBS reality show that puts neighboring families in a metropolitan Atlanta neighborhood against each other in a competition where the winning family earns $250,000. A 20-foot wall was constructed around the eight families competing and they are cut off from the rest of the world. No TV, no electricity, no telephones, and no Internet. They cannot leave until they are kicked out by the other families in the form of a vote.
Families compete in a competition where the winning family becomes “King of the Neighborhood”. Not only do they get a prize for their win, they get to select two families for eviction. The other families then vote on which family to kick out of the game. The losing family then has to leave and go stay in a hotel until the show is over.
If it sounds like the greatest thing to ever appear on television, that’s because it is.
Unlike other reality TV shows that feature people stabbing strangers in the back for the possibility of winning some money, these people are stabbing their own neighbors in the back.
In the first episode, families competed in a contest that featured a fire house that had to be untangled so that it could be used to wash the mud off a loved one to reveal a set of three numbers printed on a t-shirt. Once the mud was off and the numbers exposed, the two family members raced to a box where they used the three numbers to unlock a combination lock. Though they had the three numbers, they did not know in what order they went. In other words, it was total luck who won and who lost.
The first family to be kicked off the show looked like they were devastated. Not only because they would now not be in contention to win the $250,000, but because they had been good friends with the other families, especially the “King of the Neighborhood” family that nominated them for eviction.
It’s one thing to stab complete strangers, people you will never see again, in the back for the sake of reality TV. It’s a whole different thing to screw over the people who live next door to you, people you’ve known for years.
It’s fascinating to watch.
The kind of creepy, massivly talented kid lost on ‘American Idol’
Adam Lambert, the favorite to win this year’s American Idol came up short last night and lost to the other guy, Kris Allen.
Adam Lambert was robbed.
Not that it really matters. Both Adam Lambert and Kris Allen will both get recording contracts. It’s not like the winner of American Idol gets a large amount of money or one of those tricked out homes from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. They don’t even get a trophy or a special sash.
I think people will quickly forget about Kris Allen. Adam Lambert, not so much. I think he has the best voice out of anyone to ever be on American Idol.
Woman pregnant with 18th child
This is a photo of Michelle Duggar and her family. She’s 41-year old and she is currently pregnant with her 18th child.
That’s right. She has given birth to 17 children and that is not enough. She must have at least one more. I read the whole article over on Yahoo, but I didn’t really need to. As soon as I heard there was a woman pregnant with her 18th child, I already assumed certain facts to be true. These facts include:
- She lives in Arkansas.
- She and her husband have named every child with a name starting with the letter “J”. To be honest, I wasn’t certain what the actual letter was, but I knew the names all started with the same letter.
- All of the children are home schooled.
- They are Republicans.
- They plan on continuing to have children as long as “God wills it”.
- They are supporters of former Republican Presidential nominee Mike Huckabee.
To put this into context, I know people who haven’t even had sex 18 times.
I can’t imagine the pain someone must feel that desperately wants to have a child, but for whatever reason, cannot become pregnant. It must be very similar to what someone who is starving to death feels when they have to watch someone at an all-you-can-eat Chinese food buffet go up and get 18 plates of snow crab legs.
And of course they have a reality TV show. I don’t watch reality TV shows that revolve around a single family unless that family includes midgets.
Little People, Big World rocks!
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