Hello,
Where I work I'm about a mile from where the Top Eleven of "America Idol's" Season 10 will perform their first concert on the latest craptastic "American Idol" tour. Is it too much to have Pia Toscano come and hang out with me for a couple of hours?
I honestly have no interest in going to this concert. The way I've heard how the concert format was done in the past is the 10th place singer sings a couple of songs. Then the 9th place singer sings more etc. (This year due to the lame judges save, there are actually 11 Idols on this tour.) If I had tickets to this concert I'd go see Pia Toscano. I then would find something else to do until Haley Reinhart took the stage. I would stay for Lauren Alaina. After which I would leave as fast as I could before I had to hear a note from the one trick pony. When you let tween females decide on "winner", you probably won't get the most talented singer as your "AI" winner. That has been the case for three years now. Bonus points if you can name "AI's" last two winners from memory previous to Scotty McDreery. And what does it say about me that I know those two people?
Back to Pia Toscano, she needs to find much better songs to sing than she did on her short stint of "American Idol". She sang too many slow, languid songs. Her being eliminated so early was good I believe. She was on the show long enough to earn herself some brand name recognition. Yesterday Interscope, home of alleged "AI" mentor Jimmy Iovine, signed Pia Toscano to a contract. Her album will come out later this year and her first single, "This Time" will be released on July 12th. Maybe you can hear that song tonight though. According to ew.com the song is, "an acoustic guitar and beat-driven track by Ester Dean". As of right now the song isn't on youtube.com
If "American Idol" isn't your thing, maybe you might enjoy the Roger Clemons trial. It starts today in Washington. Jury selection, which is expected to last at least 3 days, is the first thing. According to espn.com "Clemens is charged with six felony counts, including perjury, false statements and obstruction of Congress, which carry a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine".
It's been a busy year for the steroid cheaters of MLB this year. Back in mid-April two of MLB's steroid cheats were in the spotlight. Manny Ramirez, following the failure of his test for performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), retired rather than facing a 100 game suspension. Also Barry Bonds was "convicted on one count of obstruction of justice. Meanwhile a mistrial was declared on three counts of lying about steroid use". (Thanks to Time Magazine.) Do you want to have your blood really boil? The cost to prosecute Barry Bonds to this point has cost $6 million so far. Really couldn't a lot of that money gone to something else more appropriate. Now Roger Clemons is on trial for the above alleged crimes.
Most of the steroid cheaters have retired including players such as Bonds, Ramirez, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Rafeal Palmeiro. There are still at least a couple of reformed steroid cheaters playing- Boston's David Ortiz (sigh) and the Yankees Alex Rodriguez.
Thankfully the great thing about sports is there is always next year. When Ramirez and Bonds were going through their fall the MLB season was just starting. Now with Clemons on trial, MLB is headed towards it's All-Star Game. And the Pirates, bouncing back from 18 consecutive losing seasons, are the feel good story right now. Thankfully for the most part, those are the story lines that are most dominating baseball.
One final note combining baseball and "American Idol". Megan Joy will be singing the national anthem at the Triple A All-Star Game in Salt Lake City. Of all the "American Idol" contestants from Salt Lake, she by far is easily the most talented. She also is the most pleasing to the eye.
themusicaddict
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