Random Thoughts: Anatomy of a Head Dance
Random thoughts while wondering whatever happened to Chris Tremmie:
- I'm a big fan of the Chicago radio show "Mac, Jurko and Harry." I think it's the best sports talk show in Chicago. And it seems to me, with the announced two week suspension to lead dog Dan McNeil, the suits are getting in the way of a good thing. Look, calling someone a "bitch" on talk radio these days is no big deal. It's not. But when you are a suit, and some angry person you do business with calls you and demands you do something, you order your PD to punish the host. And of course, the PDs react if their boss demands they do something. That is if the PD is even part of the decision making process and gets to sit at the big table with the adults. Radio today is all about the clients. Listeners are merely pawns who show up on an Arbitron print out. It's the clients and broadcast cash flow that are king. So, when Dan McNeil, who has been talked to in the past calls a Comcast employee a "bitch", he's suspended not for using the word or for even expressing an opinion, he's suspended because Comcast made enough noise with his boss. It's all about the Benjamin's, common sense or defending your employee by damned. And the quality of the programming? Who cares as long as we make money.
- How many runs do the White Sox have to score in a game to prevent their bullpen from blowing it up? Eight. But fear not, Sox fans. "Chuck the Knuck" is on the scene. The same two teams tonight in the shadow of Duff Goldman's bakery.
- White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen has a Captain Obvious moment.
- In 1980, Eddie DeBartolo, who owned the San Fransisco 49ers made a bid for the White Sox. MLB turned down his application because of horse racing holdings. How different would Sox history be if DeBartolo bought the Sox instead of, what was referred to back in the day as "Reinhorn." Now, Mark Cuban wants to buy the Cubs and there are some stogy old men who may not want him to. Mark Cuban would be good for baseball and could do what Charlie Finley and Bill Veeck did back in the 70's. But for Bud and the boys, he's a maverick pain in the ass that could sulley baseball's good name. Like Barry Bonds hasn't?
- Florida State athletic director Dave Hart did not have his contract renewed and will be leaving the university. The big question is does the new AD get to say who his football coach is and is that coach Bobby Bowden?
- The tow truck driver involved in the Josh Hancock fatal crash is counter suing the Hancock family because the family refuses to drop what amounts to a frivolous and baseless law suit designed to win a heafty settlement. In briefs filed in court, the lawyer for the tow truck driver claims his client suffered a concussion and PTSS but is still driving a tow truck. The Hancock family really needs to get a grip that their son was drunk and not paying attention and that he is the one accountable for the accident, not the tow truck driver, not the bar and not anyone else.
- Julio Franco has been released by the Mets. AARP will honor him at a ceremony prior to tonight's game and award him a life alert necklace.
- John Thompson's other, less successful son, is leaving his job at Ball State among unreported recruiting violations.
- ESPN has come up with even more new ways to ruin your Sunday and Monday night football viewing.
- It just keeps getting better for the USS McCain as it continues to take on water and slowly sinks to the bottom.
- In Britain, they are seriously considering a tax on candy bars, pastry products or anything that makes you fat as a way of offsetting the cost of obesity. This is like charging a sex tax to fight AIDS.
- A man in Florida is accused of molesting a horse. Turns out it was just Linda Cohn and her husband having a PDA.
- Your parents were tough on you. They made you clean your room. They didn't allow you to use profanity. You had strict curfews. And then, when you got out of lien, there was dad's belt. You grew up to be a responsible, hard working adult who wanted better for your kids. So, you were their friend and not their parent. You let them do what they wanted, bought them what they wanted, gave into their demands and never, ever thought about raising a hand to them. See what you've done?
- Internet radio shuts down on Sunday thanks to the greedy bastards in the music industry.
- Detroit is such a nasty, crime infested city that they don't even have grocery stores.
- A lawmaker in Wisconsin wants to do what Shakespeare suggested, only he wants to do it legally.
- If the oil companies claim to be losing money, how come so many of them are in the top 10 in profitability? Don't give me that "money for exploration" crap, you know damn well where the oil is.
- Today's list: Actors with three names. What? No Jan-Michael Vincent?
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