COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY
Written by: Mike in DA
Date posted: 1/ 27/2011
PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT IN THREE WEEKS!
Those remarks to Trey Wingo translate to: "Hey look at me!!! I really need some attention here and no one is looking my way. How outrageous do I have to be to get some attention here? Do I have to say that I rooted for the terrorists on September 11 in order to get attention?"
CHAD OCHOCINCO'S LEGAL NAME CHANGE APPLICATION:
TALK IS CHEAP
"KEYS TO THE GAME" BULLSHIT
How about "must establish the running game," "take what they give you", "bend but don't break", etc., bullshit talk. I'm sure our local sports talkers will be using some of that stuff when they do their heavy analysis for the game.
When analysts tell us the team that makes the fewest mistakes will win the game, they're telling us nothing we don't already know. So this is my key to the game: "The side that makes the fewest mistakes has a definite advantage."
But who's to know which team will be better prepared?
NBA FANS CHECKING OUT KIM KARDASHIAN'S LUSCIOUS ASS!
IS BLAKE GRIFFIN ALREADY THE GREATEST LA CLIPPER OF ALL TIME OR IS THAT A BIT PREMATURE?
With just a season behind him, Blake Griffin is in the discussion as the greatest LA Clipper of all time.
Some of the others on the ballot are Elton Brand, Danny Manning, Michael Cage, Marques Johnson, Ron Harper, Eric Piatkowski, and Loy Vaught.
To date, Griffin has 43%, of the votes, more than twice the votes as the second-place finisher Manning (18%). Brand is third with 15%. Granted, the sample was a small slice of fan representation, less than 1,000 votes when I last checked, but it certainly favors the here-and-now and the rapidly increasing buzz of Griffin.
FLUB OF THE DAY
On Sunday morning (1/23), the Lovely Sybil of SR610’s Texas Motor Speedway's Total Access (7-8 AM, Sundays) was talking about a motor car race in Dubai. She said the temperature was 100 degrees or more all year long there. She may be lovely, but she’s also dumb and has never been to the Middle East during the winter months.
BARRY WARNER’S "BEDTIME" STORIES
If you listen to the Evening Show on SR610 with Barry Warner and Shaun Bijani, you may know that there is a segment near the end of the show entitled, “Barry’s 'Bedtime' Stories” in which the guys ask listeners to call in or text sports-related topics for the segment and Barry will pick one and talk about it for several minutes.
Here are some suggestions for Barry:
1. Tell us how you avoided the Vietnam Era draft
2. Tell us about other jobs that you’ve held outside of sports and radio
3. Tell us about what the life of a Fuller Brush Man was like
4. Tell us the story behind your "Apollo XIV" gold pendant and your friendship with astronaut, Alan Shepard.
5. Tell us about your firings from radio and TV stations
6. Tell us some personal Texas Employment Commission related stories
7. Tell us how you got involved with the Asian Southwest Media
8. Tell us how you met George W. and some stories about hanging out with him
9. Tell us about your time as the “Honky in the Hood”
10. Tell us why you were once banned from broadcasting SWC football games for a couple of weeks
(List to be continued when Barry tells us half of the above suggested bedtime stories.)
Earlis left a comment on the 1/23 post: "COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY - MIKE IN DA - JA..." (http://sheltonmedia.blogspot.com/2011/01/comments-from-peanut-gallery-mike-in-da_23.html):
"In general, I don't think much of the Houston sportstalk scene. The market share size is so trivial it's like WTF. In sports crazy Texas, this is ridiculous. It is obvious that the current daily content does not interest the Houston population to any significant degree.
Having said that, I must admit placing Josh Innes in the drive time slot has been quite a significant improvement, everyone has sucked and Josh has handled his transition well, not that he really impressed me with sports swagger, but he is just better than the guys that preceded him in recent times..... Another dumazz is Greg Koch, the former Green Bay Packer who appears on 610 radio segments each week. Perhaps 24 hour sports coverage plays into this lunacy by making up crap to talk about......Jay Cutler and Michael Vick, wow, people just love to hate them. The media exploits this by contriving stories and calling it news, but what it really is hypocrisy. Wake up America." END.
Earlis also left a comment for one of the responders in the 1/18 post, "COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY: IMAGE OF THE BLA..." (http://sheltonmedia.blogspot.com/2011/01/comments-from-peanut-gallery-image-of.html):
“I think you will find that a first year white coach makes more money than a first year black coach...it is a problem in society in general. The trends in the NFL reflect the trends in the overall society. A white female professional earns less than her white male counterpart with the same level of experience; hence, if you think that same dynamic does not exist across racial lines you really have not paid attention to what really is going on in the workplace or society in general. There are more whites coaching in the NFL because they get more opportunities to coach, you cannot have experience if you do not have opportunity; hence, if you don't have a shot at being a coordinator you cannot become a head coach. If you don't get interviews you cannot become a head coach. Hence, the Rooney Rule is to insure that people of color get in the process. You need to get interviews to know how to give a good interview. You need interviews to let people in management know who you are through out the league.” END.
COOLEST SPORTS NICKNAMES: "MEADOWLARK"
Today’s sports nicknames are terrible, such as A-Rod, L.T., and K-Rod. They are nothing more than a combination of a player’s first and last name. But nicknames haven’t always been so bad.
Here is another cool one from the past: “Meadowlark” Lemon.
The longtime clown prince of the Harlem Globetrotters desperately needed a nickname in order to spice up his otherwise forgettable and girlish birth name: Meadow Lemon. Instead of suffering through life with an assemblage of random nouns for a name, Lemon picked up the “Meadowlark” tag, which honored his leaping ability. And, boy, did that nickname take him far.
The Basketball Hall of Famer (inducted in 2003) joined the Globetrotters in 1955 and played for them for 25 years, before leaving to form one of his multiple other Globetrotters imitators, the Bucketeers until 1983, then moved on to play with the Shooting Stars from 1984 to 1987. In 1988, he moved on to his Meadowlark Lemon's Harlem All-Stars team, for which he plays currently. Last year, at age 78, he played in over 60 games with his own touring team. Lemon returned to the Globetrotters, playing 50 games with them in 1994.
MARCH MADNESS ANNOUNCING PAIRINGS ANNOUNCED
Last week, the announcing pairings were announced for the first joint-production of the NCAA Tournament between incumbent CBS and newcomer Turner Broadcasting. It will all be starting on Tuesday, March 15.
Also, the first games will appear on the Turner cable network truTV, formerly CourtTV, which is a huge step up for that channel, as it has come to specialize in staged street fights and cat fights presented to morons in primetime as the real things.
Among the hollerers, CBS will return Gus Johnson and Kevin Harlan. Thoughtful and reserved CBS analysts Len Elmore, Mike Gminski, and Jim Spanarkel, all ACC guys, will also return.
Below is the roster of announcer teams for the second and third rounds:
Play-By-Play/Analyst
Jim Nantz/Clark Kellogg*
Marv Albert/Steve Kerr*
Verne Lundquist/Bill Raftery*
Gus Johnson/Len Elmore*
Spero Dedes/Bob Wenzel
Tim Brando/Mike Gminski
Ian Eagle/Jim Spanarkel
Kevin Harlan/Reggie Miller/Dan Bonner
*Semi-final and Regional Final Announcing Teams
Nantz, Kellogg, and Kerr will be calling the Final Four on CBS.
Reporters during the tournament will be Craig Sager, Tracy Wolfson, Lesley Visser, David Aldridge, Sam Ryan and Marty Snider.
There will be two studio crews, one in Atlanta and one in New York. The Atlanta studio crew will be hosted by Matt Winer with analysts Seth Davis and Steve Smith. The New York crew will be hosted by Greg Gumbel and Ernie Johnson, who will share hosting duties, with analysts Greg Anthony, Kenny Smith, and Sir Charles.
Reggie Miller and Davis will join the studio rotation during the second week of the tournament.
As a matter of fact, I think the NCAA Tournament has become overrated during the last decade because the best players are gone after their first year of school. What made the tourney great in the past was that most of the stars stayed around.
ALBERT'S "THE MAN" IN ST. LOUIS NOW!
Albert Pujols is the best player in baseball at this time. I have no intention of demeaning other outstanding players by that statement, but I think Pujols is the best of the best right now.
Earlier in the baseball off-season, Jayson Werth signed a contract for $18M per year on average and Carl Crawford signed for over $20M per year on average.
ODDS AND ENDS:
2. Who is the least popular sports figure in Chicago these days?
A. Steve Bartman
B. Billy Sianis' Billy Goat
C. Jay Cutler
STEELERS NOW (2000's) AND THEN (1970's):
CRIER’S CORNER
BASKETBALL ACTION
Yesterday’s Record ATS: 5-4
Cumulative Season Record ATS: 282-185
Today’s Action (for reading purposes only):
NBA
HOUSTON (+6.5) over DALLAS*
The Rockets suit up and play hard every single night. Houston is in the Top 5 in the league in scoring and they do it by moving the ball from side to side. Dallas was exposed a bit when Dirk Nowitzki was hurt because it was extremely evident that they had trouble putting it in the hole. The book on Dirk is to put a smaller guy on him and make him work very hard to get to the spots he wants to get to on the floor. Shawn Marion thrives in a run and gun game but can’t get his own weird shot up. HOUSTON, 105 - 101
COLLEGE HOOPS
MISSISSIPPI STATE* (+7) over VANDERBILT
With such volatile “talents” as Renardo Sidney and Dee Bost in harness , HC Rick Stansbury could pull one off here against a Vandy outfit who’ve served us well (including that nifty win against St. Mary’s CA), but may not be up for Sidney’s style of uber-physical play. MISSISSIPPI STATE, 74-73
NEW MEXICO STATE* (-1) over BOISE STATE
Forgive the Aggies for that loss to Utah State that we had. Current ruler of the WAC roost owed NMS for beating ‘em in last season’s conference tourney final. Boise has demonstrated all season that they travel well, but this price figures to be very inviting, with little more than a straight-up win needed to cash the ticket, and with a healthy Troy Gillenwater and the imposing Hamadu Rahman, anticipate home side can achieve comfortable margin. NEW MEXICO STATE, 73-64
SOUTH FLORIDA* (-9.5) over DEPAUL
The Blue Demons are trying hard, but we’re not bullish about the idea of a team as physically overmatched as DePaul going out of their way to press, early and often. You need markedly-better athletes to make that strategy work. The Bulls are marked underachievers, but they figure to be able to capitalize on their size advantage up front. SOUTH FLORIDA, 78-61
NEVADA* (-6.5) over FRESNO STATE
Two sides headed in opposite directions, as acclimation of ex-Dukie Olek Czyz into Nevada’s system has yielded tangibly-improved results for the Wolfpack. Can’t envision Fresno successfully trading buckets in bunches with this foe given their defensive shortcomings. NEVADA, 79-65
MIKE IN DA
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