I spent my lunch break flipping around the sports talk radio dial. The Tony Bruno show breaks for commercials like 10 times an hour. He actually sucks more now than he did when he was with The Morning Guys. The show is nothing but nonstop 'tude. "The 49ers need to draft an impact player." "As long as Burrell is batting behind Howard, the Phils have big problems." I like how just because he's loud and forceful, this drivel passes for insightful opinions. Oh, those comments came after an 8-minute discussion on Vegas. Paraphrasing Tony on being at a strip club, “If I drop $5 it’s gotta get me something. Some back for my buck. Ya know what I mean?”
Then I switched to The Herd on 920. It took him exactly .5 seconds to say something awesome. For reasons I couldn’t piece together, he went on this riff about people with “one name.” It went something like this: “No one with one name ever goes into the tank. Ichiro, (other names I forget) all great. Vanilla Ice-Two names-In the tank. Hammer Time-Two names-Went into the tank. Vitale, Corso, Herbstreet-one name-all hits. Name one person who ever went into the tank with one name. You can’t do it. Elvis, score, homerun. Dylan. Huey Lewis? Two names-garbage. The Thompson Twins-three names-trash, etc. etc.” I can’t wait til this show goes up in his archive. You must hear the whole thing. I’m not doing it justice.
Edit: I listened to yesterday's The Herd again. The "one name" riff started because they were talking about some mixed martial arts fighter named Fedor. The last 30 seconds of the rant went like this:
Elvis. One word. Home run. Sting, Bono, Dylan. Yeah, The Thompson Twins? Three words. Junk. Huey Lewis? Whuh whuh whun...Kiss. Still relevant.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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I've never listened to Rome's radio show but I imagine it is unbearable.
You seem to be correct. That station seems to be all angry white men yacking about wives, girlfriends, overpaid athletes, and the glory of 'the old days when dudes were dudes and 'tudes weren't kept in check.'
Though Jody Mac is preferable to Howard Mac.
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