Curious Hair wrote:
That the show airs from 1 to 3 between Saturday and Sunday is precisely why sinicalypse should have won. That timeslot is more Grobber than Grobber.
see i don't think i was the guy that they wanted for this shift.... for some reason the word/phrase milquetoast pops into my head when i hear the dude, and hearing the last ten minutes of show #2 before TUESDAY'S travis rodgers show, like, i honestly felt bad for the dude.... he was trying his ass off and i hope to god he gets better, but it was pretty much amateur hour.
one thing i was thinking of during those last 10 minutes was like, it really felt like someone trying to do a radio show.... and hey let's be fair this guy was kind of plucked out of nowhere and plopped into this.... but it didn't have any sort of polish or perma-laughter (even if you're laughing at your own joke/schtick) --- honestly, they would have been better served to take the top two guys and put them together and hope to get something out of the conversation.... but then again for a dead shift you'd be paying two people, so that wouldn't happen.
see like, what's unfortunate is like, right when he's done after the obvious programming error, you get travis rodgers who is like, damn good at radio..... i look forward to hearing his shit when i pass out late on saturdays now.... this tuesday's show he was going on about the MNF screwjob and kept going on about JerMichael finley and how michael's his name and the "jer" is superfluous, ergo, he's "Superfluous Jer" --- i got a nickname out of the ~30-45 minutes i heard b4 i passed out... that's quality stuff.
but hey, if i'm up and i'm around i'll try to call in cuz with these shows, even les, you can tell when the show's lacking in callers and les enters that mode where he's ready to jump off of a reference you make and regale you with stories about the subject/s you're talking about... that shit's cool. i mean, i used to bullshit with the guy when i was the comptuer guy at a library he came to, and i had no idea from talking to him for up to 30mins outside whilst smoking on break a few times that, example, he called expos games in 2004. that's a fucking thing right there.
and you know like, see, if i can be a bit biased and say that despite my board-persona eccentricities, which flared up pretty horrorshow earlier in the year.... i mean really for the overnight shift you have to be able to bullshit. most importantly NOT just with other people and your producer (IMHO, steven needs his producer to almost be a kind of co-host and he needs to cross the rubicon to not be afraid of veering off of sports for a bit, but in fairness i really didn't listen much to show #2) but WITH YOURSELF.
if you can't bullshit with yourself on a dead overnight shift, then like, your bullshit is bullshit and you're bullshit and not bullshitting..... you know?
ahem. anyways, i can bullshit.... see like, if i got this gig sure i'd have to watch games more and stuff.... but i'm sure i would have mentioned that i started calling this white sox season "the bataan death march" way back in june or july or something.... and that's when i'd go to have the producer/sidekick pull up the wikipedia page on the bataan death march and you'd get the following:
Wikipedia wrote:
The Bataan Death March Tagalog: Martsa ng Kamatayan (Japanese:Batān Shi no Kōshin (バターン死の行進?)) (1942) was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 60,000 Filipino and 15,000 American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. All told, approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 300–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach Camp O'Donnell.[4] Death tolls vary, especially amongst Filipino POWs, because historians cannot determine how many prisoners blended in with the civilian population and escaped.
The 128 km (80 mi) march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the Japanese Army, and was later judged by an Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime.
NOW TELL ME THAT THAT DOESN'T FUCKING SOUND LIKE SECOND HALF OF THE WHITE SOX SEASON. I DARE YOU.see i could go on and on about how like, i knew this was inevitable..... i could even quote the bernstein thing that the tigers have "miguel DAMN cabrera" and justin verlander, possible tangent on the definitions of what makes one worthy of earning the middle name of "DAMN" and like, you know, just keep going and going.
surely this would lead me to talking about white sox baseball and the essence of white sox baseball, likely mentioning it's something equivalent to being at shea in 2008 and smoking with a mets fan who said "so what do you think of the place?" and i'm all "well it's rustic... it's definitely a homely park and you know, it defintely doesn't feel like 100% shopping mall" and the guy rips a slug off of his beer and goes "it's a fucking dump...... BUT IT'S OUR FUCKING DUMP. AND DON'T YOU FUCKING FORGET THAT" and we tapped beers to that, incidentally, empty commemerative aluminum budweiser beer bottles from shea were being re-sold on e-bay for up to like $5-6.... that's so fucking awesome. that's mets baseball.... and much like the mets, the white sox are like that... you know, like, i've been to more games at wrigley and i've had my adventures there, but it wasn't like back circa 07-08 at comiskey when i was doing a bunch of angels/etc games in cheap LF seats and during a cigarette between the concourse and the ramps i started bullshitting with a concessions worker who finished his joint with me, and he told me that season to seek him out cuz he was the dude to buy beer from.... sure enough, when i went to him later i bought a MGD with a $10 and he'd give me change like i dropped a $20 on it, so i'd tip him the balance of the change that left me with $10, and then i started rolling with free beers. i didn't abuse that as much as you'd think, but hye, whenever i went to the ballpark i could get like 3-4 free beers?? fucking shit i'm coming to the ballpark and i mean, what the hell... i'm here let's see some damn baseball.
see like, just my proclivity to sit here and ramble on and on about that shit, that could come in handy at 2:43am after i've given you my tactical analysis of the happenings in chicago sports and the callbanks are dead, you know.... i could do that.
then, of course, you toss out there that i don't smoke weed anymore nor do i endorse that as a lifestyle that i believe is necessary to a beneficial life. and honestly guys, i don't smoke anymore i mean shit.... i don't really need to. i consider myself emeritus-stoned from my aged 16-23 years anyways, and quite honestly if i went that route i'd get some shit and i'd get so blasted it'd be like rebooting my cerebral computer and i'd start redefining reality, and suffice to say, it's 2:46am on WSCR 670 AM the score in chicago and we're not rebooting reality, WE ARE, HOWEVER, REBOOTING THE NORTHWESTERN TEXT SCREEN AND LET'S SEE WHAT'S ON HERE
see, also, i've been on irc for like ~15+ years.... when i was the suburban library comptuer guy even when we had tandy dummy terminals i used to drop out of the pub-axs catalogue app and telnet out to my old unix shell and pop on irc.... and for the last 3 years i've sporadically hung out in the efnet sports channels, so like, i could get prospective internet trolls from new york boston california and all over texting in and maybe even calling up JUST TO FUCK WITH ME. there's some pretty good sports people on there cuz i've gotten to be down with some of the ops and they're usually your hardcore people and etc..... shit if i ever got marc_d to call in that'd be a thing. you can prolly google search marc_d and learn about the legend from woosta. that's right man, when you pop in a channel like emessiah (
emessiah@smoke.dope.org has entered #whatever) eventually people remember the name.
and again, kids, that's
emessiah@smoke.dope.org --- i don't smoke weed. i'm emeritus. honestly. i'll pee in a cup and get the pictures up on the audio roadshow app. it's 2:52 on the score and well, we need to name this show so the best contribution to come up with a name for this show in the next eight minutes names the show..... LIGHT EM UP.
and etc etc..... see at this juncture in time and space i'm in a good confident place and like, holy shit, i was just bullshitting with my brother on the phone and i was pitching sitcom ideas to him (no, i'm not giving to them you au gratis here. i like my idea.... the juxtaposition of the sitcom form against my, well, situation.... dude. it works. i could see it on adult swim and if i had a decent budget / creative team, i'd have fun with it if i could figure out the sitcom tropes well enough) and we were reading the description for colbert's new book and like, hey, if you wanna talk about descriptions.... read that.
and yeah, i could delve off into... ^^^^^ whenever... and like, for a throwaway saturday night 1-3am show i think that's vital.... cuz i could try the str8up stats and analysis quotes, but then again, i could also toss you this quote, which is about to become my new signature, and probably could be the slogan after the show title:
Vin Scully wrote:
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
and blam. idk if my producer would want to say anything, but if he did, call it a hunch we could talk about something that could continue on down at the continental after the show. hell, if i ever got popular or anything, don't toss it out there directly, but hey like, you know, the cool fans of the show come on down to the continental after the show cuz holy shit 3:30am = continental time.
so yeah.... like.... idk. i hope dude gets better if i'm up i'll be a good lil listener/texter/caller something to help in the name of sheer populism.... but again, it all comes back to the word milquetoast and i think that's what der schnorr wanted from this contest, joe chicago, as opposed to the goofy guy in an expos jersey who showed up an hour late and talked more about his uncle and family going to cubs games as opposed to the cubs themselves..... i reckon they just looked at me and said too risky, but hey, risk/reward and well SHOMER SHABBOS everyone!
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