I should probably mention that if I get a reply with the final score, I'll hurt that person. Now I'm boycotting NBC and explained my actions at Facebook today.

Okay now I hate NBC with a passion. I'm watching the bronze medal match in Women's Olympic volleyball thinking it is a taped lead in to the live Gold medal match between Brazil and our great USA team and just found out that NBC is going to tape delay the big match.

The Gold Medal match for Women's Volleyball will actually be played at 1:30 p.m eastern. I can't possibly disconnect myself from the world enough to not already know the results when I see the match. It's Saturday, people are home, why do they need to give us a final screwing of either a constant freezing poor internet connection or watching when we already know the results on a Saturday?

I seldom cures in type but from the bottom of my heart "Fuck You NBC!" I'm going to save some money every week so I can go to Rio in four years to avoid your being able to screw up another Olympics, Outside of "Meet the Press" I'm not going to watch NBC anymore, none of your new season premieres, nothing but that one hour. And I promise even though I like the guy a lot, I'm switching from Brian Williams to Scott Pelley.

I intended to just sit through it all but when I saw that the first hour had nothing to do with Olympics whatsoever i decided I had watched my last NBC commercial. Now I keep switching over but every time I do I just get a commercial.

There is a limit how long I can bear to watch. I see post-emotion everywhere. It doesn't even have to be specific, just the sing-song tone and pre-determined emotions, all the action pre-digested and spoon fed us like pap. I get crazy and leave the room. The competitions are merely grist for NBC's mill to be molded into a form which will create the emotions NBC wants. Ugh.

That being said, you can't bleed all the reality out of sport. Olympics after Olympics, I find "women'"s gymnastics to be quite compelling. Those little girls are so much tougher than I am, mentally and physically. I'm not generally into it, but I watched the women's basketball gold medal game today and was feeling proud how much had changed during my lifetime. I used to watch girls basketball in high school. They couldn't even cross the center line--3 stayed on each side. Every once in a while one of them would just fall flat on her butt. The athleticism of those basketball players today is off the charts. That's pretty cool

Oh yeah, Murray's gold in tennis was awesome. I am a tennis fan, and a fan of Murray. Unlike most, I'm not a Federer fan--I think his nice guy image is fake. I mean, he's okay. Not only were the points incredible in that match, I was so happy for Murray and for England that Murray pulled it off. I was yelling a lot during that match.

I don't if it's treason yet, but I don't give a shit if the US wins more medals than China.

Thanks nemesis, for not leaving me hanging with that reference. That's a classic song of our time. Representative. Think about that for second. It was set in Germany in the 1930's. Wonder where we're going in. Amazing how the crassness seems normal and fun when you're in the middle of it.

I've got a good set-up re culture, although I miss a lot. I don't know most of the names mentioned. Justin Timberlake I know. I give him a break, just a kid. I think he'll grow up good. Anywho, I didn't even know about this world until I was 40, when I met my wife. She follows everything. She's tells me the stuff she knows I would be interested in. I don't pay much attention to the names--the stories are great. So degenerate, for one thing. Which, believe it or not, brings me to my point.

BEST OLYMPIC MOMENT 2012

My wife relays a report from an athlete that they're fucking like rabbits in the village, and not always so private. Imagine those incredibly honed and sculpted bodies, the stamina, the . . . um . . . well. Later she tells me that they bought 150,000 condoms for this Olympics. It was 100,000 in Beijing. I was musing how they distributed them. My wife says, "Do they just put a bowl out on the coffee table?" That was my favorite moment of this Olympics.

The following joke should be properly set up by watching Eddie Pepitone do it, but the punch line is funny standing alone, I hope. He's discussing what the women wear in women's gymnastic, finally saying in an exasperated angry defensive tone, "I come watching women's gymnastics, okay?" That guy is brilliant.

Oh, Eddie, it is much more valuable than I would have ever guessed, following all those lives. I learn a lot about what is going on in the world. Often my wife and I get different sides of the same story, me from this end and her from that. If it's Michelle Obama in a social event, say, my wife knows about it. I was the best educated person in america on the O.J. trial. My wife told me he did it before anyone around me knew, and she explained why. There was absolutely no question from as soon as the evidence was presented. Anyway, I happen to think that case mattered.

I finally saw the Gold Match, NBC abbreviated it and the only thing that comes to mind when I hear "Four More Years" now is women's Olympic volleyball. I sure hope that 35 will not be too old for Logan Tom.

In 2016 Brazil on their own turf.

I love that the ancient Greek game of Ping Pong is played at the Olympics. Who among has not thrilled at Homer's description of the Greek heroes and their Ping Pongian adventures...........sheesh............wake me when the 'games' are over......