Strike One Against Ashlee
I was one of a select few people who chose not to watch Matt Leinart & Co. beat the hell out of the Sooners on Tuesday night. The reasons are four fold.
1) I don’t particularly like college football
2) If I suddenly did start to like college football, I could catch the highlights on SportsCenter
3) I think the Bowl Championship Series sucks
The fourth reason is that important sporting events like the Orange Bowl are always guaranteed to have some distracting and unnecessary halftime show, usually featuring performers who have nothing to do with sports. Yesterday, I saw what I missed of those festivities and not only am I glad I missed it, but I was also horrified at Ashlee Simpson’s "performance" of her newest single, LaLa.
I only caught the last 25 seconds or so of her set, but I think I got the picture of just how bad it was. Heck, she got booed off the stage by like 80,000 football fans, and some of the booers were probably college-aged guys such as myself. To be fair, I think you’ve got to cut any singer some slack when he or she performs live, because nobody’s as good as they sound on a CD, and nerves definitely play a role. But this … monstrosity crossed the line. She forgot the words to her song, replacing "french maid" with "lemonade", sang horribly off-key throughout, and did some really, really stupid dance moves.
Ashlee hasn’t lost her place as the official fantasy girl of Kevin’s Royals Blog because of that, but another one of those, and she might be out. Catherine Bell’s in the on-deck circle:
By the way, David Haller of Knuckleball Sandwich might be on Baseball Prospectus Radio this Saturday. Those of who’ve read his blog know that Dave knows baseball. For those of you who haven’t read his blog, what in the world are you waiting for? Either way, when I hear what time he could be on the air, I’ll pass that bit of news along because you don’t want to miss it.
1) I don’t particularly like college football
2) If I suddenly did start to like college football, I could catch the highlights on SportsCenter
3) I think the Bowl Championship Series sucks
The fourth reason is that important sporting events like the Orange Bowl are always guaranteed to have some distracting and unnecessary halftime show, usually featuring performers who have nothing to do with sports. Yesterday, I saw what I missed of those festivities and not only am I glad I missed it, but I was also horrified at Ashlee Simpson’s "performance" of her newest single, LaLa.
I only caught the last 25 seconds or so of her set, but I think I got the picture of just how bad it was. Heck, she got booed off the stage by like 80,000 football fans, and some of the booers were probably college-aged guys such as myself. To be fair, I think you’ve got to cut any singer some slack when he or she performs live, because nobody’s as good as they sound on a CD, and nerves definitely play a role. But this … monstrosity crossed the line. She forgot the words to her song, replacing "french maid" with "lemonade", sang horribly off-key throughout, and did some really, really stupid dance moves.
Ashlee hasn’t lost her place as the official fantasy girl of Kevin’s Royals Blog because of that, but another one of those, and she might be out. Catherine Bell’s in the on-deck circle:
By the way, David Haller of Knuckleball Sandwich might be on Baseball Prospectus Radio this Saturday. Those of who’ve read his blog know that Dave knows baseball. For those of you who haven’t read his blog, what in the world are you waiting for? Either way, when I hear what time he could be on the air, I’ll pass that bit of news along because you don’t want to miss it.