Quick Points

Here’s a segment we like to call “Quick Points”. We like to call it that because we’re not that witty and couldn’t think of anything else.

On the College Football’s Bowl Championship System (BCS):

C: Okay here’s the thing about the BCS. It sucks and everyone knows it sucks. But for some reason schools make insane amounts of money when "Blaine", the hair and beauty school, can be a "consensus #1"

P: I agree -- it just doesn't make sense that it's the only sport that they don't have a playoff situation. Imagine if the NFL did this: "yea New England, it turns out that we're going to have beat writers from Slovakia vote on if Charlie Weis is slim enough to win a head coaching gig…

C: I just don't understand what the holdup is: Tostitos is still going to have lime chips AND a fiesta bowl.

P: “Tricky” Dick Vitale would have a field day with this if it was college basketball
Then again, Dick Vitale has a field day choosing between sonic and burger king while on tobacco road.

C: It’s Sonic baby the ice cream is Better!!!! I love their ice cream its awesome babyyyyyyy!!!!

P: Dick Vitale is one of the biggest media whores going: he would endorse an ulcer if given the right payout

C: not unlike the BCS

On Presidential Candidates for 2008

P: The democrats have a real problem: they have lost complete touch with the American public

C: I agree with you but here’s the thing: they never had touch with the American public.

P: I can't understand how the south votes for GW just because he talks with an accent or that he hunts

C: ergo we need someone who is going to appeal to that audience, and we by I mean Democrats: I’ve lost all bias.

P: By that rationale, Howard Dean – out, Sen. Clinton: out. There's no way Hillary can carry the south, even southern women think SHE should be in the kitchen

C: I think Hillary will end up being the choice: the problem is we need someone strong not someone historic.

P: I honestly think Kerry is going to run again, but I don’t think he gets out of the primary. They didn’t like him now, why in four years?

C: I agree; I don’t think Kerry realizes it though.

P: The Republican race is more interesting: You’ve got Giuliani, Gov. George Pataki (NY), Gov. Mitt Romney (MA), Sen. Bill Frist (TN), and possibly Gov. Jeb Bush (FL) although he says he won’t run.

C: I think either Rudy or Pataki won’t go; they will cancel each other out.

P: I agree about the New Yorkers, both won’t run. I initially thought that Romney is too Mormon to win, but maybe that will appeal to the Bible belt.

C: As we are both fans of the Kennedy family, Jeb is an interesting subject: clearly the teddy of the family…but he hasn’t driven a car off a bridge yet

P: I think there has been a lot of patient Republicans waiting their turn, and I can’t see Jeb cutting the line...

C: It really says something when two Democrats find more interest in the Republican race.

P: The sad fact about Senator Ted Kennedy is that history will say he was one of the most effective legislators, championing bills for Medicare, Special Needs Funding, and Social Security.

C: Unlike jeb bush.

P: And george w bush for that matter.

C: but paul, didn’t you see all those great photos of Jeb giving out water during the hurricanes? it was moving.

Top three sports you'd be a pro in if possible

C: this is an interesting one and a topic I feel to be telling about people in general.

P: do you take a solo sport, which illustrates a lack of sharing the glory, or do you take a sport less watched by the general public, or a sport that will not able you to walk by age 35

C: I think it’s tough to say football is appealing to me if for no other reason then to do the “lambeau leap” just once. but then again I have deep seeded needs for acceptance. the sheer electricity of 70,000 fans is not to be overlooked or understated.

P: Especially football fans, who piss themselves in -30 weather to keep warm, unlike baseball fans, who are too busy sleeping to see all of the 4 hours plus of action.

C: I’d have to go 1.surfing 2. Golf 3. Basketball

P: Basketball fans are busy getting a pedicure during the game.

C: Basketball fans are too busy getting BEAT UP during the game.

C: What about hockey fans? Get it, hockey fans!

P: Yeah it’s an oxymoron

C: a good point, like the owners... morons

P: Great idea by the NHL; let's price out our demographic. Somewhere PT Barnum is turning over in his grave.

The Death of Saturday Night Live

C: I am a loyal solider of the SNL army, and have never thought of cancellation before this year. You and I are both students of the show. How did this happen?

P: Last night's show was so painful that I had to see it through to watch the train completely implode. It was so bad that they are repeating unpopular characters;
The cast has really gone downhill. I really feel like the writing is always either the savior or the problem.

C: How is it they haven’t gotten better talent? Going to SNL has to be only slightly below getting your own sitcom for a comic. Now, the better talent is too busy trying to get a role in "pitch black" and a lot of the times it LEADS to a sitcom.

P: i don't know – I just don't get it -- but I DO feel like it's devaluing the franchise.

C: What was the last REALLY innovative thing they did? fake commercials? I’m not pro drugs but I’d pay to put drugs back in 30 Rockefeller if that creativity came back.

P: SNL just had a real sense of camaraderie that washed away with the 80s.

C: Can’t they at least get some red bull up there or something?

C: I wonder how much of the show not being cancelled is because it runs in pretty much the worst time slot in television.

P: That’s interesting, especially because people use to stay home to watch the show. What a dream that must have been.

C: If only it was on at 830...we'd have something.