Spew Stew
Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, or this week, "The Marquis", is in the midst of whining and complaining about his listeners' lack of knowledge while trying to give away Super Bowl tickets during the annual trivia contest on WFAN-660. Where does he get off being Alex Trebek one week — condescending toward his own fans because they don't know the answers to questions he made up and is looking at — and the other 51 weeks out of the year he doesn't have the basic current event sports knowledge to be able to host a public access show.
Speaking of Russo, during one discussion a couple weeks back, he was critiquing the NFL All-Pro teams and managed to mispronounce four names in under a minute. I bet you didn't know DeVon Hester, Asante Samuels, Flonzell Adams and Rod Barajas were going to the Pro Bowl. I can understand mixing up Devin with DeVon and adding an "s" to Samuel's last name and even throwing in an "n" for Flozell. But Rod Barajas? Sure it's kinda similar to Rob Bironas, but Doggie, you talk about sports for 5½ hours a day 5 days a week. Can you at least pretend to care about accuracy? Can a free agent catcher not be the Tennessee Titans' Pro Bowl kicker?
Right now ESPN is doing a "Family Feud" segment on SportsCenter about the Orlando Magic with Greg Anthony and Tim Legler as the "families" and talking torso Steve Levy playing the Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Al Borland, J. Peterman role. Anthony "buzzed" in first, by hitting the podium, and "guessed" his answer, which was accompanied by graphics and video that somehow appeared in synch with his "answer". After the "game" was over, I think Dwight Howard came on and thanked us for playing. Has ESPN reached the point where it knows there is no other national sports network to pose a challenge in the ratings so it just does whatever the hell it wants? Is there a bed big enough for all of ESPN and every professional athlete to share at once? If ESPN had the sports equivalent of CBS, NBC and FOX to compete with, the programming would be drastically different. Trust me. It might even be watchable.
On Wednesday, Barry Bonds asked a federal judge to dismiss perjury charges. I was able to get my hands on a transcript:
Bonds: "Judge, can you get me off the hook? For old times' sake?"
Judge: "Can't do it Barry."
*Bonds rides off in car with three members of jury*
Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic are in the Australian Open women's final. I know you know Sharapova, but you may not know Ivanovic. YouTube her, trust me. If the people running the Aussie Open could call Vince McMahon so he could arrange Anna Kournikova as a special guest referee...hold on, I have to go set my TiVo...Is there an empty spot in that bed with ESPN and the pro athletes? If Ana and Maria are there I guess I can ignore Neil Everett and Skip Bayless seeing who can annoy the most people in America at one time.
Where have you gone, Chuck Knoblauch? (Sing it in your head as "where have you gone Chucky Knob-a-lock? Marshals want to subpoena you, ooh ooh ooh...")
The Celtics lost yesterday, but it's hard to get upset about it. It's been a while since the Celtics' losing a game was a news story, instead of the Celtics' winning a game being a news story, or a skit on SportsCenter.
Enough with the Eli stories. No he hasn't arrived. He's been here. He's been in the playoffs three straight years. He's not Peyton. He's not great. He's a good NFL quarterback, like he has been. Did Trent Dilfer arrive in 2000? No. Did Dan Marino never arrive? No. Or yes. Whichever one means he arrived, he just didn't get a ring. Stop it. Please. One quarterback wins a Super Bowl each year. Does that mean 31 quarterbacks suck each year? No. Can we just play the Super Bowl three days after the conference championships? You get your game stories, your follow-up the day after, your preview the day before and then your Super Bowl. It's enough.
Nolan Ryan declined to discuss steroids in baseball. If we just had a few more reporters that declined to write about it and a few more readers who declined to read about it, we'd be headed in the right direction. I understand it's an important issue, but the overkill about Bonds and roids and Mitchell and everything else, I think most people are numb to it. I honestly don't care who did it or when. The biggest issue with steroids in baseball is trying to figure out who was on it and how to adjust your fantasy draft for it. That's basically it. I've stayed away from Miguel Tejada and Jason Giambi for a few years now. That's the interesting part.
Let's just get spring training started. Each steroids story just reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons quotes:
Marge: This is the worst thing you've ever done!
Homer: You say that so often that it lost its meaning.
Just set the fantasy draft up and play ball. Play the Super Bowl first, but then, play ball.
Speaking of Russo, during one discussion a couple weeks back, he was critiquing the NFL All-Pro teams and managed to mispronounce four names in under a minute. I bet you didn't know DeVon Hester, Asante Samuels, Flonzell Adams and Rod Barajas were going to the Pro Bowl. I can understand mixing up Devin with DeVon and adding an "s" to Samuel's last name and even throwing in an "n" for Flozell. But Rod Barajas? Sure it's kinda similar to Rob Bironas, but Doggie, you talk about sports for 5½ hours a day 5 days a week. Can you at least pretend to care about accuracy? Can a free agent catcher not be the Tennessee Titans' Pro Bowl kicker?
Right now ESPN is doing a "Family Feud" segment on SportsCenter about the Orlando Magic with Greg Anthony and Tim Legler as the "families" and talking torso Steve Levy playing the Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Al Borland, J. Peterman role. Anthony "buzzed" in first, by hitting the podium, and "guessed" his answer, which was accompanied by graphics and video that somehow appeared in synch with his "answer". After the "game" was over, I think Dwight Howard came on and thanked us for playing. Has ESPN reached the point where it knows there is no other national sports network to pose a challenge in the ratings so it just does whatever the hell it wants? Is there a bed big enough for all of ESPN and every professional athlete to share at once? If ESPN had the sports equivalent of CBS, NBC and FOX to compete with, the programming would be drastically different. Trust me. It might even be watchable.
On Wednesday, Barry Bonds asked a federal judge to dismiss perjury charges. I was able to get my hands on a transcript:
Bonds: "Judge, can you get me off the hook? For old times' sake?"
Judge: "Can't do it Barry."
*Bonds rides off in car with three members of jury*
Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic are in the Australian Open women's final. I know you know Sharapova, but you may not know Ivanovic. YouTube her, trust me. If the people running the Aussie Open could call Vince McMahon so he could arrange Anna Kournikova as a special guest referee...hold on, I have to go set my TiVo...Is there an empty spot in that bed with ESPN and the pro athletes? If Ana and Maria are there I guess I can ignore Neil Everett and Skip Bayless seeing who can annoy the most people in America at one time.
Where have you gone, Chuck Knoblauch? (Sing it in your head as "where have you gone Chucky Knob-a-lock? Marshals want to subpoena you, ooh ooh ooh...")
The Celtics lost yesterday, but it's hard to get upset about it. It's been a while since the Celtics' losing a game was a news story, instead of the Celtics' winning a game being a news story, or a skit on SportsCenter.
Enough with the Eli stories. No he hasn't arrived. He's been here. He's been in the playoffs three straight years. He's not Peyton. He's not great. He's a good NFL quarterback, like he has been. Did Trent Dilfer arrive in 2000? No. Did Dan Marino never arrive? No. Or yes. Whichever one means he arrived, he just didn't get a ring. Stop it. Please. One quarterback wins a Super Bowl each year. Does that mean 31 quarterbacks suck each year? No. Can we just play the Super Bowl three days after the conference championships? You get your game stories, your follow-up the day after, your preview the day before and then your Super Bowl. It's enough.
Nolan Ryan declined to discuss steroids in baseball. If we just had a few more reporters that declined to write about it and a few more readers who declined to read about it, we'd be headed in the right direction. I understand it's an important issue, but the overkill about Bonds and roids and Mitchell and everything else, I think most people are numb to it. I honestly don't care who did it or when. The biggest issue with steroids in baseball is trying to figure out who was on it and how to adjust your fantasy draft for it. That's basically it. I've stayed away from Miguel Tejada and Jason Giambi for a few years now. That's the interesting part.
Let's just get spring training started. Each steroids story just reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons quotes:
Marge: This is the worst thing you've ever done!
Homer: You say that so often that it lost its meaning.
Just set the fantasy draft up and play ball. Play the Super Bowl first, but then, play ball.
posted by Mike W at
11:25 PM
2 Comments:
This blog took 25 minutes to read, not because I'm having trouble reading your post, but because I took a 20 minute break for youtube
Glad I could point you in the right direction
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