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...knew I'd fail in my promise to be a full-fledged, art-producing participant at this year's Burning Man festival--the temporary Mad Max-inspired city made up of 30,000 neo-hippies camped out on a lifeless, mud-caked playa in Nevada the week before Labor Day for no better reason than they forgot to get a beach share. And as I feared, I showed up at the desert last week hopelessly unprepared, without so much as an alien costume or a didgeridoo...
...best in this business, but I'm not going to get on TV and act like Bob to try to be good because that is not my personality. In the same way, Bob can't get on NBC and start talking about somebody trying to playa-hate somebody because that's not who he is. I'm just down-to-earth in real life and that is what comes across on-camera...
...give you "Boo-yah!" and "Don't hate the playa, hate the game," but I will also give you more stats and information than anyone else who sits in that "Sportscenter" chair. I guarantee you that. In my mind, if I can continue to do that then I can say whatever is off-the-wall and crazy because I'm backing it up. I think this emphasis on stats and information and doing our own writing is what makes "Sportscenter" better than FOX and CNNSI. You will learn more watching "Sportscenter" than any other highlight show...
...drop Estelle and Javier in Australia and pick up a family just outside of town. Grandfather, mother, daughter. They had been visiting a friend at the hospital and are going where we're going, to Playa Giron, home of the Cuban monument to the heroes of the Bay of Pigs. Our merengue tape, bought at a gas station, tinkles quietly from the speakers. We offer them--we offer everyone--water, cookies, crackers. They decline, and like most riders, this family says nothing unless we speak first; they don't even talk to one another. They watch the countryside pass, content...
...drop off Maela; she giggles thanks, and in comes Belgis, about 40, pregnant, in a white frilly blouse and floral spandex leggings. She was waiting for three hours. She was visiting her family, and is on her way to Playa Yaguardabo to see her in-laws, 10 minutes up the road. We get there, and she's out. Condela stays put and seems perturbed--the back seat is not so big--when we welcome a young couple, Alexander and Yaineris, who bustle in, exhaling with relief. They have a chicken with them. A live chicken. Condela laughs at our surprise...