A Dream come true??

It was one of those days when you are online, and you have absolutely no idea as to what to do! You've checked your mails, you've sent away a couple to keep the threads up and alive, you've done your bit of chatting(more than what you are capable of actually!) and you've even gone about managing the fantasy league football team!!!

As a person who does not take to social networking(it somehow seems inherent now, I cant take to it,try as I might! :D), and who does not know what videos to search for in youtube, I was basically in a position to just close down all the browser windows and switch off the system.

And then, a change of heart. I wanted to visit espnstar's website and have a look at all the fantasy games available, now that I have revived my interest at it, thanks to EPL which i hardly follow....

So, I did just that. I went to their website, and checked out what all they'd come up with by now. Super Selector was still on(I guess it'll never fade away.... As long as cricket goes on, so will Super Selector!!!). There were a number of events regarding football, F1,... Anything that anyone could possibly think of!

And then, there it was, popping up in front of me, asking me why it is taking me so long to notice the inevitable....

Now, how many times have I told that I'll give anything to Harsha Bhogle to swap places with him(though I wonder what there is that he'll want of me!). Harsha Bhogle!! Hmmm... The first thing that the name brings to mind these days is the way we exploited it at college(For those who know what i mean, well and good. For the others, don't ask me how... it is quite inexplicable!) Getting back to the point, Harsha Bhogle has always been someone whom I've admired. Be it his simple style at commentating, his quick witted one liners("In the past, cricket in India was organized, but now it is promoted" he said at the recent TED India Conference at Mysore and "I like his optimism. Every time he swings the bat, he looks at the boundary lines. But the ball is in the keeper's hands!" on Ravindra Jadeja are some of his recent ones which have left me gaping with awe), just about everything that he does. If I had been impressed with his cricket commentary, I began to look upon him after he played host during the FIFA World Cup of 2006 for ESPN STAR sports. A commendable job for someone who hardly followed football till then! ( I still can't forget it. Towards the later stages of that World Cup, when he made his first mistake in the show, the expert panel who were sitting along with him at the studio actually appreciated him for the phenomenal, near flawless performance he'd been doing for a first timer!)

Once again, I seem to be deviating quite easily! Where was I? Yeah.... Here it was, popping up on me... An ad for the event "Skype Star Commentator". An event that allows you to post auditions online, and the winner, amongst other things getting to host a show with SportsCenter on ESPN. After being a little skeptic about the whole idea, I decided to go ahead and give it a shot. It took me a week to put the thought into action, and yet another week to post about it and make it public :D

Yes! I did three auditions, two on cricket and one on football, namely,

Cricket - The Legend of the Little Master

Cricket - Looking back at India's eastern son

Football - A devilish bite

Hmmm... I guess it might all boil down to what we call welllllll (well tried that is). But in any case, it was a dream come true, irrespective of what the result is gonna be. After all, its not every day when you do something you've always been craving to do :P