Bucher exiled from Utah?
Sports Media Watch reports:As it turns out, ESPN NBA reporter Ric Bucher will not be reporting from Utah for Rockets/Jazz Game 4 on Saturday. After a press release listed Bucher as the sideline reporter for the Rockets/Jazz game from Energy Solutions Arena on Saturday night, ESPN has apparently had a change of heart. Bucher will now work the sidelines for Celtics/Hawks Game 3, while Heather Cox will be the sideline reporter for Rockets/Jazz Game 4.If you recall, Bucher recently explained ESA's intimidating din thusly:
They are Mormons, and they are in Salt Lake, and there is nothing else there. You know, you gotta smile and be happy all the time. This is the one opportunity for people to get vicious.Apparently, ESPN couldn't find dense enough head phones for Bucher.
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I think if we LAtter-day Saints are as forgiving as we are encouraged and taught to be, then we need to insist that Bucher not only come to Utah, but see all the best the state has to offer. When people offend, let's turn the other cheek and take them to Park City.
Obviously, Bucher and ESPN were informed that the LDS Church had issued a fatwa against him. Be afraid Rick, be very afraid...
Sorry, I meant Ric.
At Jazz games they forget to take their Prozac.
Wow, Holly. That's pretty lame. I'll come right out and say it: You're down right full of shit. When is the city weekly gonna fire your ass, anyway?
By the way, how's Jenny doin? Got rolled on the County Council today. Too bad she doesn't have her campaign warchest to go drown her sorrows at the New Yorker...
It was a joke, anonymous. Honest it was. But printing my name wasn't. What's your name, big brave soul?
A joke? Ah, I forgot. In the world of the Salt Lake City upper-crust politicos, all humor must be aimed at the LDS culture here in Utah.
Really, though, it's fun to have this back and forth with you, puzzled over who would say such things. Let's just say I'm a fed up Mormon who can take a joke, but is sick of shit being thrown on something he holds as special to his heart.
Which is really my point: Even if I'm a piss-poor Mormon, I care deeply about my faith. Much as you do about City Weekly and Jenny. I really don't think the City Weekly should fire you (in fact, I'm a pretty regular reader), and I don't celebrate the failure Jenny had at the Council the other day. I just want you to feel a bit of the sting I do each time someone takes a shot at my faith. It's not that I can't take a joke: It's that, at this point, I've decided to fight fire with fire.
Christlike? No. Effective? In terms of evoking a response, yes. In the end, though, it just pisses people off, and makes us all more unpleasant.
Anon:
This is silly to battle on Warchol's blog,and not right,either. So...if you are willing to talk to me about these issues, which clearly seem to be "issues," why don't you e-mail me at hmullen@slweekly.com or call me at 575-7003. I'll even meet with you and buy you a Coke. Your choice.
Holly-
A kind offer, Holly, to be sure. But I'm not in need of a psychiatrist anymore than you are in need of a job where you get to express your political opinions.
Regards,
Your Bud Anon
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