Maybe even take a phone call or two from regular folks out there. I'm gonna get the ball rolling on this.

I don't know if I want to see the Frank McCourt/Dr. Jerry Buss Celebrity Death Match.

Even in the winter?

I need to see the business plan for that enterprise.

Locally, sports teams are now covered by 4 stations, KLAC 570 covers the Lakers and UCLA Basketball and Football. They also have 17 hours of local radio sportstalk during the week. KSPN 710 covers the Clippers, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and USC Basketball and Football. KTLK 1150 (which is affiliated with 570) covers the LA Kings and KFWB 980 has the Dodgers.

KLAC will move UCLA games to 1150 if there is a conflict with Laker broadcasts. KSPN did move some Angel games when it conflicted with USC football.

On the one hand, being part of Sports Radio station would probably mean better coverage, more Dodgertalk, etc. I think KSPN would be better only because the only time they would move a game would be during USC football season, while KLAC would always move it, ironically back to 1150, for Laker games.

What you are left with is the baseball, the NBA, USC and UCLA, and then the national sports scene. Also, LA is not homer town in the sense where no one wants to hear someone talk about who should pitch for the Dodgers in the 7th inning on a daily basis. There is only one Vic the Brick and most times one is too much.

And CBS is showing the Grammys.

And the Police will be the opening act.

Product placement?

You've all been warned.

Get down off the tower. Don Mattingly hasn't come close.

Burks has an adusted EQA of 294, eight points below Bernie. He had one WARP season above 8 because he was hurt so much. Nice player but not in Bernie's class. He is a good match for Jim Rice.
Reggie Smith does match the 302 EQA of Bernie. Did it as a corner outfielder but with great defense. He would get my vote long before Jim Rice would get my vote.
Dwight Evans was a better player then Jim Rice. Not saying any of these are HOF but if I had to put them in order it would be
Bernie
Dwight
Reggie
Burks
Rice

Dodgers:
Gonzalez
Pierre
Ethier

Giants:
Bonds
Roberts
Winn

Discuss

I think Ethier has the only average arm. If Bullethead could play against himself he might run himself into 5 to 10 more doubles.

I'm going to vote for the Dodgers, since a players arm has to be really good or bad to make a difference, and I don't think the Giants have any players like that.

I thought that happened the other night when I "got it" and Andrew didn't understand some The Office moment...

Everybody knows that.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070211/D8N7A0V80.html

Anyway, I find it immensely odd.

1. Some people like to be outrageous and/or offensive and attract attention.

2. Oh: and some people are stupid.

3. Oh: and there's a lot of crossover between 1 and 2

From this headline, I was expecting to read an actual fashion critique.

The most offensive costume I've seen at a party was of a terrorist. Most of the theme parties I have been to were 80s, Toga, and CEOs and Corporate Hoes (my personal favorite).

But some of us live in the right part of the country to see Charlie!

Some guys have all the luck...

Besides, who would be there to complain about being pre-empted by Spring Training games now? Not Michael Jackson, but Bill O'Reilly. The less time that drooling bullhorn is on the radio the better.

Rule 5 violation! Rule 5 violation!

If I was rooting for the Dodgers to go on KFI to displace Rush Limbaugh, you might have a point.

Coming up this week:
Washington State at Washington
L.A. schools at Arizona schools
Oregon schools at Bay Area schools

Plus Washington plays at Pittsburgh Saturday.

Wanna short report, or No Spoilers?

Did they, at the very least, sound decent?

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Only played one song - Roxanne.

Of course that's a great song, and Outlandos is maybe their purest Rock n' Roll album, but their sound did get richer over the course of their albums and I think they'd have done well to play something a little more textured. Really, could the (um, er, generally dull) Grammys really not spare room for a second song?

It was just the three of them on stage -- not especially surpised by that but a lot of these fogeys do add some younger players/soungers in the shadows. Of course, who knows what's going on in the tubes/offstage.

It was good. They extended the song and it definitely rocked; the crowd of fabulous people was loud but not necessarily dancing. Since this was Staples, was there a big "regular people" filling hte arena but off camera?

I don't know what Stewart Copeland has been doing all these years, but it really strikes me as impressive to be able to build back up the kind of skill it takes to drum Police songs after a long hiatus (and 30 years of aging). I mean, what he has to do is just physically light years beyond the jobs of Summers and Sumner. And Sumner of course has been fully active all this time. (Where has Copeland been since Rumblefish and The Ryhthmatist?) He seemed pretty sharp to me, but again real hard to tell and especially on a straightforward Rocker like Roxanne.

In the end, whole episode has happily reminded of how great the Police were. I am sad all my Police tapes/CDs were stolen when house was robbed a while back.

The D.A. worked with the FBI and DOJ.

http://tinyurl.com/2aeds5

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The fact that Sting was every college-educated woman's fantasy husband doesn't help. I hope to God he's too old for Gen-Y.

The Border Patrol's job isn't to keep track of merchandise coming across the border.

Copeland is still a great drummer.

Dixie Chicks currently playing. Is it UnDT to state that I dig the Dixie Chicks? The older I get the more country I get. I guess I'm just preparing myself for retiring to Arkansas.

Andrew I read the same article on irony and thought it was curious but I gave him the benefit of the doubt because I couldn't imagine being wrong with that much certainty. i'll sign on to the letter.

Andrew, buy and listen to all the Hank Williams you can find.

1. Drinking a bottle of wine
2. Eating a box of chocolates
3. Watching our Valentine movies (i.e. "Don Juan de Marco" and "Down With Love")

Note: I'll be engaging in activities 1-3 with my wife

Good Grief.

What, you prefer "Say Anything"?

Dale and the two county animal control workers beat it to death. We saw them grab its tail, then saw their silhouettes raising their various weapons and swinging them down onto the snake.

It was utterly gratuitous, and out of character for the show, in my opinion. My wife and I were both shocked and dismayed. Later, Hank told Bobby that they released "Josh" on a farm. From what I could tell, there was no compelling reason why they couldn't actually have done so instead of beating it to death.

It was weird. I didn't like it.

If Barry White were still alive, he could've saved that snake.