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Tonight’s game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees marks the beginning of the 105th World Series. Excuse me but has anyone looked at the calendar? The so-called “October Classic” could potentially spill a few days into November. What a joke! Forecast for tonight’s contest – Rain, 42 degrees. Oh yes, the boys of “summer.” I’m going with my heart over my head in this series. Give me the Phillies in 7.
Count me among those who would love to see the Series’ games played in the afternoon from time to time. That said even if they did play afternoon games, chances are the game would finish in the dark. Clocks roll back an hour on Sunday which by the way is another joke! Wouldn’t you prefer to have daylight extended another hour into the afternoon and not drive home from work in the pitch black? Seems to me they should call it Daylight “Spending” time because I’ve yet to see the alleged daylight savings.
I have to agree with 24x7 blogger Terry Ford who argued in a recent column that the Ravens should have kept Matt Stover. I also agree with site founder Tony Lombardi that the Ravens kept the wrong guy when they selected Steve Hauschka over Graham Gano. With the depth of Gano’s kickoffs and long range potential coupled with the comfort and accuracy of Matt Stover on the bench, that has to be better than Hauschka and some slappy fifth string linebacker running downfield on special teams, right? Look at it this way, if Gano can double Hauschka’s touchbacks wouldn’t that ease the physical burden on the remaining 45 man game day roster? By the way, Hauschka’s kicks are regularly landing between the 5 and 10 EVEN IN THE DOME!
AROUND THE RADIO DIAL…Hey if the Ravens want to correct their defensive woes, they only need to tune into 105.7 The Fan between 10am – 1pm, Monday through Friday. The co-host there apparently invented the game of football and he is even an assistant coach for a local area high school team! That certainly gives him the chalk talk street cred of Bill Belichick right? Of course I jest but it isn’t difficult to envision The Bulldog hob-knobbing with the game’s pioneers. I think he would fit right in with the Leatherheads.
You’ve got to give credit where it’s due…The Bruce Cunningham Show, words that clearly serve as music to the ears of the show’s host who you can almost picture getting warm and tingly every time he says them, really scored a coup bringing in Mike Preston on Mondays and Fridays. Even the many Preston haters who frequent message boards like Ravens24x7.com’s must admit that he’s enjoyable on the air. Brucey better be careful though. Given the struggles of the newspaper biz Preston might have his eye on Cunningham’s chair. If the suits at CBS Radio are listening on Mondays and Fridays they should give it some thought too. If you think that might be a bit much in terms of prep work for Preston, well one only needs to listen to the current host to gauge how much planning goes into that show. Mark Zinno should be atop BC’s Christmas Card List.
Speaking of those CBS suits, you have to wonder if they listen at all. Here they are the Flagship Station of the Baltimore Orioles and they keep jamming Yankees down our collective throat. XM Radio’s Jenn Royal who covers the Yankees for XM has become a regular on the Scott & Anita Show. She comes off as more of an A-Rod groupie than an analyst. Earlier this week listening to Royal’s Yankee cheerleading was so bad that the Mojo Man actually had to tune into Jerry Coleman. Five annoying sound effects later and Mr. M.R. jumped back on with Scott & Anita. The gods must have been shining down upon me during the switchback. Royal pain in the ass was off the air by then and the Yankee slob-knobbing was over.
Count me among those who would love to see the Series’ games played in the afternoon from time to time. That said even if they did play afternoon games, chances are the game would finish in the dark. Clocks roll back an hour on Sunday which by the way is another joke! Wouldn’t you prefer to have daylight extended another hour into the afternoon and not drive home from work in the pitch black? Seems to me they should call it Daylight “Spending” time because I’ve yet to see the alleged daylight savings.
I have to agree with 24x7 blogger Terry Ford who argued in a recent column that the Ravens should have kept Matt Stover. I also agree with site founder Tony Lombardi that the Ravens kept the wrong guy when they selected Steve Hauschka over Graham Gano. With the depth of Gano’s kickoffs and long range potential coupled with the comfort and accuracy of Matt Stover on the bench, that has to be better than Hauschka and some slappy fifth string linebacker running downfield on special teams, right? Look at it this way, if Gano can double Hauschka’s touchbacks wouldn’t that ease the physical burden on the remaining 45 man game day roster? By the way, Hauschka’s kicks are regularly landing between the 5 and 10 EVEN IN THE DOME!
AROUND THE RADIO DIAL…Hey if the Ravens want to correct their defensive woes, they only need to tune into 105.7 The Fan between 10am – 1pm, Monday through Friday. The co-host there apparently invented the game of football and he is even an assistant coach for a local area high school team! That certainly gives him the chalk talk street cred of Bill Belichick right? Of course I jest but it isn’t difficult to envision The Bulldog hob-knobbing with the game’s pioneers. I think he would fit right in with the Leatherheads.
You’ve got to give credit where it’s due…The Bruce Cunningham Show, words that clearly serve as music to the ears of the show’s host who you can almost picture getting warm and tingly every time he says them, really scored a coup bringing in Mike Preston on Mondays and Fridays. Even the many Preston haters who frequent message boards like Ravens24x7.com’s must admit that he’s enjoyable on the air. Brucey better be careful though. Given the struggles of the newspaper biz Preston might have his eye on Cunningham’s chair. If the suits at CBS Radio are listening on Mondays and Fridays they should give it some thought too. If you think that might be a bit much in terms of prep work for Preston, well one only needs to listen to the current host to gauge how much planning goes into that show. Mark Zinno should be atop BC’s Christmas Card List.
Speaking of those CBS suits, you have to wonder if they listen at all. Here they are the Flagship Station of the Baltimore Orioles and they keep jamming Yankees down our collective throat. XM Radio’s Jenn Royal who covers the Yankees for XM has become a regular on the Scott & Anita Show. She comes off as more of an A-Rod groupie than an analyst. Earlier this week listening to Royal’s Yankee cheerleading was so bad that the Mojo Man actually had to tune into Jerry Coleman. Five annoying sound effects later and Mr. M.R. jumped back on with Scott & Anita. The gods must have been shining down upon me during the switchback. Royal pain in the ass was off the air by then and the Yankee slob-knobbing was over.
