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I listened to 3WE out of Cleveland a lot when I was in HS. Pete Franklin was entertainingly obnoxious to 16 year-old me

How is Miller not an accessory to murder...he provided the weapon. Did he think the guy was going out deer hunting?

I know none of those details...I had it for a month or so...got rid of it because I wasn't watching as much as I thought I would. But with the Wings in the playoff hunt...I'll probably revisit it.

Bally just sent me a "please come back" email. They'll take $5 off a month...since there's no long term commitment, I think I'm back in. It's not like I'm fronting them for a year while they're literally going bankrupt

I've been a fan of pro wrestling since I was a kid (don't judge me). In the pre internet days, WFAN in New York had an hour of wrestling news on at like 2AM Sundays. It was the only source of wrestling news out there that I knew of. I would often tune in on my way home form the bars/girlfriend's house. We were in a collective tizzy when the rumor that Ric Flair was in Toronto for Wrestlemania in 1990...was he leaving WCW for the WWF? Good times....

If he had worked harder at 30...he probably wouldn't look like that today. It seems like he didn't take conditioning and training seriously until he started having health issues

Without looking...I'm going to guess that the pre merger 60 wins seasons involved Wilt and/or Kareem

This amused the hell out of me...

When we first got cable in my part of Wood county in NW Ohio..it was on a small system locally owned in Waterville. The people running it would do some interesting things like running PPV fights on one of the unused channels deep on the box, or running multiple feeds of stations like USA when they had MLB so you could see a lot of out of market games. Then we had lightning strike the system and it blew up our TV's, so we got rid of it.

In the 70's...you had 18 teams prior to the ABA folding. That took the league to 22, but also created an influx of talent. The ABA had a lot of talented forwards and guards...maybe more so than the NBA at that point. As a result, you had a lot of very closely matched teams...a lack of meaningful FA movement prevented teams from building a Super Team. The talent was distributed more evenly and there really wasn't a mechanism in place to allow teams to build other than through the draft and trades. Look at how long it took to build the Bad Boys. The foundation was built in 81-83, but they didn't have all the pieces to actually contend until 86-87 and then it took a couple more years of tinkering to get over the top.

Pre ESPN, the sports final edition from 11:15 PM to 11:30 PM on WJR was the gold standard for sports news

Cossa's partner in Toledo..former Spartan John Lethemon ...has been insanely good at Toledo this year. 14-1-3 record. 2.13 GAA with a .924 save%. He's 26...probably not an NHL prospect at this point, but he's certainly earned a look in the AHL

I don't stray too far north of 50...so I can't say

Perhaps the debate will shift from the feasibility of robot umpires towards the need for robot pitching

Cossa stops 28 for his 2nd straight shutout....has a 2.73 GA and.90 save %. Started slowly at Toledo but has come on lately

I can pick it up in my car in SW Monroe county unti! I cross Jack man heading east...but that's in my car. And I'm out in the sticks. I lose 97.1 somewhere south of the state line.

They aren't on 96.1 out of Archbold any longer?

Steve Carlton's personal catcher...and a pretty decent hitter for catcher

Throwing runners out there goes against the internal nature of the game...there is no defined end time to a game...in theory it could go on infinitely...the foul lines are just that..lines. Not line segments but lines...they extend infinitely...even beyond the stadium. George Carlin did a bit on this decades ago just randomly throwing a runner out there because the game is tied? What's next...trap doors in the outfield that swallow the CF at random intervals?

Damn rich people and their yachts....

Prior to the 1978 season the Tigers traded Ben Oglivie to the Brewers for pitcher Jim Slaton. Slaton won 17 for the Tigers and then signed for the 1979 season and beyond with Milwaukee I think he's a 1C when he has wings that are 1st line quality playing with him. The only way I trade him is if I'm getting a crack at a top 2 or 3 pick this year and more.

Per Beck on twitter...Mize had back surgery as well as TJ. Not counting on anything from him

Re Weaver...the moves he made early on can now be judged a little more clearly. He drafted Killian instead of Haliburton, spent capital to draft Stewart and Bey. Killian has picked it up a bit, but still isn't at the level he needs to be, Stewart looks to be best suited a s aback up at PF and C and Bey was dealt for a project big. For a guy with a rep as a draft genius...that's a pretty poor track record

IIRC...one of the things that drove the WWE towards streaming their content via Peacock instead of the OOT network they built was the cost associated with maintaining the network. Could baseball find a streaming partner that has the capabilities of offering a tiered level of service...National coverage with the ability to buy a season pass for your team? Or would they have to front the $$$ necessary to build it themselves?

Audacy Inc...parent company of 97.1 the Ticket...has been battling bankruptcy speculation for several months. Thanks, Avila....