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Who’d a thunk it? In our exchanges, he’d never even cussed. Can’t say the same for myself. I know Fox and Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman long enough to be shocked that he’d speak a slur for homosexuals — the F-word — even when he thought he was off the air, let alone while attached to …
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On YES last Friday, David Cone said it as a brief aside, as if it were a throwaway thought barely worth his breath. In the bottom of the sixth of a scoreless game, Rays catcher Mike Zunino squared to bunt on the first two pitches, both balls. He then flew out on a 2-0 count. …
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This has been a confusing summer. Even my flip-flops keep changing their mind. Clearly, what’s left of this baseball season is being played exclusively for TV revenue. When we last left, 10 months ago, The Game was in a badly diminished state, record-breaking home runs and record-breaking strikeouts, little baseball played in between. That condition …
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With the Mets and Yanks planning to pipe in old crowd noise during their home games — fabricated excitement that should only inspire ridicule — I wonder if players will be called out of the dugout to tip their caps to cardboard cutouts. And how about recorded “Boston Bleeps!” chants? Anyway, these are a few …
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Those self-entitled NBAers, including career misanthrope JR Smith, who have seen fit to share with America their Disney Prep woes — substandard bedding, food that doesn’t meet with their palates — reminds me of an old gag: A man, way down on his luck, enters a monastery where he takes a vow of silence. Every …
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To think that Mike Francesa begged Buddy Holly not to board that flight. What’s going on now — the indiscriminate often reckless and wanton destruction and wishful, cosmetic reconstruction of American history — is nothing new in sports. In 1935 the Heisman Trophy was first awarded. Named for John Heisman and presented to the best …
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Some wrongs are not difficult to right. As my friend Mark Morley says, “It’s not rocket surgery.” Yet, and for no good reasons, we inexorably sink lower, every day, by pathetic design. Meanwhile, the modern marketing and TV content rational has become, “It’s no worse than this” or “It’s no worse than that.” But what …
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Old gag: They call radio a medium because when it’s well done, it’s rare. WFAN is much like ESPN in that all these years later — since 1979 in ESPN’s case, 1987 in FAN’s — both by now should be much better than they are. Seems that every change in hosts turns WFAN flatter, less …
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The Age of Reason, as Thomas Paine penned it, was in the late 1790s. Today, we are immersed in the Age of No Good Reason. Last month ViacomCBS began layoffs of 450 employees from all parts of the company. I know a few of the victims, solid news and sports folks now sweating rent while …
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These days you never know when you’re a goner. You never know if your career and deeds — good deeds, well-intended deeds and honest work — will be hijacked by fringe lunatics or the merely wishful to publicly paint you as what they want you to be, hope you are or read online that you …
Who’d a thunk it? In our exchanges, he’d never even cussed. Can’t say the same for myself. I know Fox and Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman long enough to be shocked that he’d speak a slur for homosexuals — the F-word — even when he thought he was off the air, let alone while attached to …
