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Now just where did Smith get off to?
By the way, this quote by the women doing the show illustrates the whole problem in a nutshell:
Actually, there IS a shortage, certainly on the CBC. That's the WHOLE PROBLEM.
I actually don't have a big problem with what these women are doing. They started this up as a joke, did their own video or audio casts and got a cult following, and that's awesome. Longsuffering women who don't give a shit about professional sports but wind up with their television commandeered by their sports fans husbands might just find this really funny - and the funny and subversive part about it is that they're blatantly not giving a shit about this stuff that the guys in their lives take so seriously, and they're mocking it. They're saying that their vapid crap is just as valid as the vapid crap their husbands are watching. Good on them.
My issue isn't with what these women are doing. I might even enjoy listening to their commentary - it's probably pretty funny. My issue is with the CBC holding a white malefest every Saturday night, and the only thing they can think of to even it out is, instead of covering more women's sports in prime time and having more serious female commentators for both male and female leagues, they figure instead they'll just include this, and that will even everything out.
There's Kevin Weekes