Tossing Batting practice…while wondering why no local news producers thought to pair REM’s “It’s the end of the world” with its coverage of today’s “snow storm”

Ok, seriously what the f*#$ is this? It’s March 1st, and I live in Georgia. Like the mob looking for a snitch, snow and cold just seems to find me during softball season.



There doesn't appear to be an Atlanta version of Shelby Scott. The Tv News folks seem to run the gamut from Token Black Guy, to Redneck homosexual, to bubbly blonde woman excited to make snow angels.
When the TV news stations aren't properly prepared for storm coverage, how can regular citizens be adequately ready.

I’m ok with the Stephon Marbury error, I mean era. We needed to do something, and him and Mikki Moore, though if there’s a roster spot available in April, I’d be open to Ainge inquiring about the availability of Maya Moore for the stretch run.
(Ok I promise no more women’s basketball references today).

I’m now resigned to the Celtics ending up as the two seed, and a seemingly more difficult road through the playoffs. I think we’ll look back and see that losing to the Clippers, and blowing that game to the Jazz will be our undoing.
When you give up 100 points to the Pistons, it might be just time to start working toward the playoffs, getting the new guys squared away and such.

I hope to god we don’t play anymore 1 p.m. games on Sundays the rest of the season, clearly the hangover isn’t quite worn off when we play at that time.

Let the Kevin O’Connell era begin!!!!

Matt Cassel, we hardly knew ye, but while I’m a little disappointed we couldn’t get more than a second round pick it’s better than $29 million at one position, and honestly we’ll see how much better Cassel is with Dwayne Bowe, and whoever else he has to throw to. (By the way, the Chiefs wideouts are so nondescript, I had to go to my fantasy football site to look up Bowe’s name. Despite the fact he was my leading receiver this year, and on my roster all season long. Now that’s some real live anonymity).

I am sad to see Mike Vrabel go, he as much as anybody was the heart and soul of a three time Super Bowl champion squad, and the very definition of a Patriot, playing end, and OLB, catching passes on offense, and playing Special Teams.
He’ll have a long career if he wants working tv and radio when he’s done in New England, while shilling for Giant Glass, and Ernie Boch.
I just hope he doesn’t undergo the full frontal lobotomy to remove common sense and decency that’s required currently of our local radio hosts.

Chad Finn’s article about the state of sports radio in Boston, wasn’t exactly groundbreaking news, but what was unique was he was the first person to tell it like it is from a major publication. I’ve been a fan of Chad’s for a long time, and I think much of his point was proven by the Big Show guys who just crapped all over him, and took things out of context to fit their own agenda in the aftermath of the story.

There was an article in SI recently about the Big East, and the author went out of his way to describe Jim Calhoun of being a product of his hard scrabble roots in….(wait for it)

Braintree????

I'm sorry I know I've been gone a couple months, but the home of the South Shore Plaza, and Archbishop Williams is still next to Milton, Holbrook and Weymouth right? It hasn't been moved to area between Dudley and Eggleston squares?
Ok just checking; I’m as big a Calhoun supporter as the next guy (which is to say more so than a Connecticut state legislator) but even though he did have it tough after his father died let’s not go nuts here; I'm pretty sure that had nothing to do with making him a miserable bastard at times.
Though I’m guessing his time spent at AIC (Almost In College) may have contributed to those hard scrabble roots. There is really nothing redeeming about Springfield.


I realize that the Commonwealth of Kentucky may not have Milton’s or a Men’s Warehouse there, but somebody please tell Rick Pitino to find a new tailor. And Ricky, if you’re going to rock with the Colonel Sanders look, you have to go all out, that means monocle and cane, sir.
If you’re KFC you can’t get much better advertising than that on a weekly basis, even I was in the mood for fried chicken and biscuits after the Louisville game today.

Walter McCarty is on staff at Louisville; I don’t really have a joke here, but here’s hoping his 6-9 frame is one day prowling a Division 1 sideline as a head coach. I’m thinking Holy Cross as the perfect fit, just so Tommy Heinsohn can profess his love on a daily basis on local TV and radio.

I miss Tommy Heinsohn, more than you can possibly imagine. The National announcers are just making me sick.

Mike Tirico is a jinx of the worst kind…every time he comments about a stat, the team immediately comes through.

The next two weeks feature trips to rural Tennessee and Mississippi, hopefully they provide as much humor as Georgia has so far.

It’s been 60 days in the south, and I still have yet to visit a Waffle House. Though yesterday I had softball in the morning, and I simply did not function properly without a sausage egg and cheese on a plain bagel from Dunks.