COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY - MIKE IN DA - SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY!

Written by: Mike in DA
Date posted: 9/23/2010

HEY 1560: PLEASE UPDATE YOUR PROGRAMMING LINEUP!

Before he (a) quit or (b) got dumped (choose either one because you'll probably never hear the truth anyway), Ken Hoffman worked for three years at 1560 KGOW hosting a fun mid-day show. In those three years, in the biography section on the 1560 website, it said that Hoffy's bio will appear shortly. I waited for three years and it never showed up.

That leads me to the news that 1560 recently made some programming changes, so I went to the website last week to check out the new program lineup, so that I could mention it here.

I went to the "Programming Line Up" page on the website and did not see the recent changes, which includes the new evening show with Nuno and Raheel, the Tuesday and Thursday evening Oklahoma University coaches shows, the new day and time for the "Orange Slice" show, the new time for the Vince Rachal Review (pictured below with Joe Montana), and any other changes 1560 may have made.

I did my best last week to give all the changes, but couldn't confirm them. I checked again on 9/23 and still didn't see any update yet. It would be nice if 1560 would update the changes. I hope we don't have to wait three more years.

CRIER’S CORNER - DALLAS AT HOUSTON*

In spite of the fact that the 0-2 Dallas Cowboys are averaging almost 400 yards per game on offense, the offense has scored just one TD.  With the Super Bowl scheduled for Dallas (Arlington) in February, you have to know that Jerry Jones (pictured) desperately wants his Cowboys to be the first team ever to play in a Super Bowl in their home stadium. So, if the Cowboys lose at Houston this Sunday (Houston is a 3-point favorite as of 9/23) that will put the Cowboys at 0-3 heading into their BYE week.

No one’s feeling the "pressure" quite like the Cowboys in this game for Texas supremacy. Starting 0-2 always adds a little tension among a team’s players and coaches, but nowhere quite like in Dallas, where every move is magnified and the expectations loom large in the face of an overrated team.

As poorly as the Cowboys have performed in the first two weeks, imagine what will happen if they lose this week and head into their bye at 0-3. Let’s not imagine it, let’s plan on it. Struggling teams rarely re-discover themselves on the road. 

The question now becomes, how real are the Texans? Matt Schaub is once again putting up unreal passing numbers and Arian Foster looks like an above-average running back, to say the least. Will the Texans feel the effects of playing an entire extra overtime period last week in a comeback victory against the Redskins? Come on, it’s early in the season!

It’s hard to watch the Cowboys play and not see symptoms of a team that is not in sync in any facet of the game. Under Wade Phillips, the Cowboys have gone 7-5 SU, 4-8 ATS against AFC teams, a trend that does not bode well against a Houston team that should be able to create pressure on a weakened Dallas offensive line. Tony Romo doesn’t do so well when he’s dancing, and he’s been dancing a lot lately. HOUSTON, 28-14. (Bet with your head, not over it.)

WAY UP NORTH THEY'RE STARTING TO SWEAT LIKE THE COWBOYS!

The Minnesota Vikings are another NFC favorite expected to make it deep into the playoffs along with the Cowboys. The Vikes are also 0-2. Their offense has not looked efficient and their D is not dominant like it was last year. Teams are not scoring much vs. Minny, but they are moving the ball and controlling the ball far more than last year. Minny plays the Lions Sunday at home. This is a Viking must-win with a road game vs. the NY Jets coming up next week.

Looking at the NFL schedule, in Week #6 the Vikings and the Cowboys play in Minny. Both will have had their BYE weeks; both could possibly be 0-4 going into that game. If that is the case, we may be in "The Bizarro World."




FLUB OF THE DAY!

Today's is a pop culture half-flub from the Mighty Gwinn's Wednesday show (9/22) on Sports Talk 790 (daily, 10 AM - Noon). Dylan and his producer somehow got to talking about "Peterman" from the old "Seinfeld" show and mentioned that the actor who played "Peterman", hosts "Family Feud". 

I never watch either show, but I remember reading that Steve Harvey (above right) hosts "Feud". I googled "Family Feud" and saw that "Peterman" (actually John O'Hurley, above left) used to host the show from 2006 until this past January when Harvey took over as host on January 20. So I'll give Mighty/his producer a half-flub for not being up-to-date. 

EXCUSE ME MISS, YOU'RE BLOCKING THE BAND!

"THE DECISION" (CONTINUED)!

If you didn’t get enough of the egotism and arrogance that LeBron James’ July 8th, “The Decision” brought to TV, don’t worry about it. ESPN is going to Florida for full coverage of the Miami Heat’s upcoming training camp. Are you ready to hear LeBron refer to himself in the third person again?

The Heat are so eager to keep their training camp private now that LeBron is on the team that they called in the military. The Heat’s pre-season training camp will be at the U.S. Air Force's Hurlburt Field, home of the 1st Special Operations Wing located in the Florida panhandle, which is not far from Alabama.

ESPN will be sending several reporters to Florida, including Jalen Rose, Rachel Nichols, and Jon Barry (unfortunately, Bill Walton is retired) to cover the Heat for the next several weeks. Coverage will start with next Monday’s (9/27) media day, Tuesday’s (9/28)opening of training camp, and Wednesday’s (9/29) early morning  coverage of Pat Riley jelling up his hair.








BARRY W. GETS PISSED OFF AT MIKE IN DA!

On Tuesday (9/21) night's show on SR610 (7-11 PM, nightly), Barry Warner said that Sunday's Texan-Cowboy game is a "trap" game.

For those not familiar with that term, "Betting  Guide for Dummies" defines a "trap game" as follows: A "Trap Game" is a game that is played before or after a tough or rival opponent. Teams have a tendency to look past an opponent preparing for the following week's game, or have a letdown after beating a tough or rival opponent."

On Wednesday night, I called Barry on-air and challenged him by saying that Sunday's game wasn't a 'trap" game. By definition, last week's Redskin game was a "trap" as the Texans were coming off a tough opponent, the Colts, that some might even consider as a division "rival", so the Texans might have had a possible letdown. Watching the first half of the game, it looked like a letdown, but they woke up in the second half.

You could also think of the Washington game as a trap due to the fact that the next week the Texans were going to play a tough opponent (Cowboys) who some might consider a rival.

Barry thought I was off base and implied that the Cowboys are not a Texan rival and their 0-2 record doesn't qualify them as a tough opponent. His thinking is that the Texans are thinking they should have little trouble beating a bad Dallas team and therein lies the "trap", as the Texans will take them lightly and have a possible letdown.

If the Cowboys are not a "rival", what the f--k was all the Cowboy talk I've heard the last two months or more on local sports talk. I'm sure when the NFL schedule came out in the springtime, the dates of the Colts and Cowboy games were circled on the calendar by both the fans and Texan players.

Barry then got pissed saying that whenever I call in it's to disagree with something he said or to correct some misinformation he may have given. I said, "Yeah". I closed my call and hung up, waiting for Shaun and Barry to rip me or mock me after the call. And they did by mocking my "nit-picking" by asking each other how many flavors of ice cream Ben and Jerry have as well as Baskin-Robbins.

(For their information, Ben and Jerry currently has 95 flavors,  including repeats of flavors sold in a different type of ice cream such as lite/fat free and Baskin-Robbins has 1,035 flavors or combinations thereof, though their logo shows 31 for the number of original flavors they had in 1953 when it was founded by Messrs. Baskin and Robbins, which beat out Howard Johnson's 28 flavors then.)

If you truly agree with Barry that the Texans are taking the Cowboys lightly and thinking that this week's game is a pushover and a "trap", please leave your comments here.  Thank you!

HEY GUYS, PLAY WITH YOUR OWN KIND! 

Q. What do Dominic Antonucci, Ryan McHugh, Eric Lewis, Tyler Hillman, and Ben Kerestan all have in common?

A. They are all members of the Greensburg Central Catholic girls' field hockey team.

There are no rules in Pennsylvania high school athletics to prevent gender crossing in sports, ever since a 1975 Commonwealth Court issued a permanent injunction directing the PIAA (Pennslvania Interscolastic Athletic Association for the acronym-challenged) to permit girls to practice and play interscholastic sports with boys.

But it also works the opposite way. Boys can play any girls sport. For example, a boy could play girls' basketball, even if the school has a boys' basketball team, so in the Keystone State, if your kid isn’t good enough to play on the boys’ team, that’s no problem. He can always play with the girls.


This fall, the five boys named above have joined the Greensburg Central Catholic girls' field hockey team and actually wear skirts in public, which is what field hockey players do. (For the geographically-challenged, Greensburg is a city located in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.) The boys are on the team because the head coach claimed she didn't have enough female players. There are 16 players on the team, but only eleven play at a time. As of 9/21, the team is 3-0, led by one of the boys who has seven goals.

That boy, Dominic Antonucci (#48 above), has no problem competing on a girls' field hockey team, saying, "I understand that this used to be a girls' sport. But over in India, it's a guys' sport. Pretty much in every other country, guys play. So why can't we play over here?"

Yo Dom, you can play, but not with the girls. In this case there has to be a double standard. If enough boys cross over, it would eliminate girls' athletics. Opposing field hockey coaches are concerned about safety issues. And they should be. Head injuries are pretty common in field hockey (right) and the physically superior boys present a danger to the weaker girls.

Please don’t go to the "girls can be just as tough as boys” card. Yes, some girls can hang with the boys, and those are the girls who should play with the boys on the boys’ team. But most girls can’t hang, and they shouldn’t have to worry about being at a physical disadvantage.



The Peanut Gallery is not opposed to guys playing field hockey, but leave the girls alone. Guys, go wear that cute skirt on your own field or wait for the lacrosse season. 

ODDS AND ENDS

1. I am sure you have seen or heard about the Snickers commercial where Betty White is a wide receiver and Abe Vigoda is a QB in a pick-up football game. If any more quarterbacks get hurt, do not be surprised if a team gets in touch with Abe to see what he has planned for the rest of the year.

2. I heard on the news earlier this week that lots of people have been calling for Craig’s List to put an end to its “Adult Services” listings. Earlier this month that section of ads for “services” was discontinued. Activists everywhere must be proud of themselves. So, I wonder now that the activists have been successful in this campaign to shut down these Craig’s List ads, how long before prostitution in the US is eliminated?

3. Since Reggie Bush voluntarily returned the Heisman Trophy, he's entitled to a tax write-off for his donation once the FMV ("fair market value" for the acronym-challenged) is determined. That is, if the IRS doesn't challenge it.

4. Speaking of Bush's Heisman, now that the commotion over Reggie returning the Heisman Trophy seems to have stopped, what if Georgia's AJ Green wins the Heisman this year and decides to sell it to an agent or on e-bay. If he did that, good luck to the Heisman Trust in getting that Trophy back, should AJ ever get caught breaking the rules big time.

5. One of the best lines of "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" is: "You stop telling lies about me and I’ll stop telling the truth about you" - Gordon Gekko








MIKE IN DA


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