OFFICIAL BOSTON UPDATE THREAD

I have been asking the same question...

Imagine if other sports were run like running (or some might say as poorly as running).

In no other sport, do organizers kill the drama. The men's and women's race are going to finish within 10 minutes of each other. Imagine if instead of staggering NFL games by 3 hours, they had them finish within 10 minutes of each other.

Imagine if in the NBA finals, they had a split screen and during much of it you had the pleasure of watching the paralympics version of the sport.

I'm sure there are some great wheelchair bball guys. why doesn't David Stern get smart and show them?

I really think Boston should be all women one year, London all men. Imagine that - we could just watch one race unfold instead of having the drama killed by distracted attention and poor tv drama.

I think of the 30 minutes so far of the men's race they showed about 3 minutes of it. From the brief split screen glen randall was caught.

Glenn Randall just got caught by the lead pack on cbs. Right at 10k. It looks like the split was 31:01.

They are now on 2:10:54 pace.

Leaders splits here:

http://awesomescreenshot.com/0c23ll23d

How fast will they let it rip on the 2nd half?

at 10k men are on 2:11 pace

rojo wrote:

Imagine if other sports were run like running (or some might say as poorly as running).

In no other sport, do organizers kill the drama. The men's and women's race are going to finish within 10 minutes of each other. Imagine if instead of staggering NFL games by 3 hours, they had them finish within 10 minutes of each other.

Imagine if in the NBA finals, they had a split screen and during much of it you had the pleasure of watching the paralympics version of the sport.

I'm sure there are some great wheelchair bball guys. why doesn't David Stern get smart and show them?

I really think Boston should be all women one year, London all men. Imagine that - we could just watch one race unfold instead of having the drama killed by distracted attention and poor tv drama.

That was about the dumbest thing I have read in a while. pretty weak to pick on someone in a wheelchair...

This push rim stuff is annoying the hell out of me.

rojo wrote:

Imagine if other sports were run like running (or some might say as poorly as running).

In no other sport, do organizers kill the drama. The men's and women's race are going to finish within 10 minutes of each other. Imagine if instead of staggering NFL games by 3 hours, they had them finish within 10 minutes of each other.

Imagine if in the NBA finals, they had a split screen and during much of it you had the pleasure of watching the paralympics version of the sport.

I'm sure there are some great wheelchair bball guys. why doesn't David Stern get smart and show them?

I really think Boston should be all women one year, London all men. Imagine that - we could just watch one race unfold instead of having the drama killed by distracted attention and poor tv drama.

Great point. And make sure to include the amateurs in there too. It would be like cutting away from the NBA finals to show how much fun a bunch of kids were having playing HORSE in their driveway.

enough with the damn wheelchair coverage already!

I'm sorry, but the fact that someone is in a wheel chair does not entitle them to this much air time during the Boston Marathon. A minute here and there would be ok, but name one other sport that does this? I understand that the guys are beasts, but people are not tuning in to watch them.

J.Q. Adams wrote:

enough with the damn wheelchair coverage already!

i'm not even in a wheelchair but you piss me off so damn much

women on 2:35 pace at 15k

rojo wrote:

Imagine if instead of staggering NFL games by 3 hours, they had them finish within 10 minutes of each other.

I can't even imagine what that would be like. As soon as the game you were watching ended, they'd, like, switch to a different game so that you could watch the last few minutes of the other game. That would be crazy. Luckily this will never happen.

I turned it on 10 or 15 minutes ago and have yet to see a male runner. Ridiculous.

He is right on point though. This coverage is about the sport of running a marathon. I realize they cover the push rim for PC purposes but they go a bit overboard with it. The push rim competition is surviving off the marathon, not the other way around.

I wanna see the guy running it blindfolded. That sounds very exciting and relevant.

So just women and wheelchair athletes today?

That would be fine, because then I could just tune into whichever stream I wanted to watch (like you do in other sports). Here we get to randomly switch between races with no apparent reasoning.

Getting hot out there. 78!!!