Sparky;
You always seem to be feelin' something. Keep your hands outa your pockets and your feeble little brain focused on what's important; Karoke night at The Nail.
Opie isn't going anywhere. He will get a chance to grow up at 'Laer. Give him a couple of recruiting classes then you can rip him or the RPI Admin for not being competitive. They should be in the top five of the league 8 outa 10 years, but the school hasn't cared enough in the past 15 years, until now. Let's see if they give the new guy the tools to compete, then if they don't you can heave pineapples at them. He does need to beat Union soon. Going 4-0-2 ( he is 0-1-1) against a little regional school with no scholarships is hideous. That can't continue.
By the way, how many "student-athletes" have to leave the Union hockey program for various, some undisclosed, reasons before the ECACHL or someone says something.
Speaking of the ECACHL; how about that academic powerhouse - Quinnipiac - they added last year. They are already in the top three in the league and will likely have a 3-5 run at the top before the Ivies get tired of losing to them and call "game".
Stu
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Media Blunders
This is pretty funny.
In Medias Res
Observations about Journalism and other interests from a retired Albany, NY Television News Anchor
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
The Governor's Kotex
"Do the Governor's kotex reach as far as the Assembly?""The dog called police on the taxi radio.""Good Evening, I'm Ernie Tetrault.""Brinkworth pisses across ice to Knightly who shits! And the fuck is cleared into the corner."I said all those things on-air. Every broadcaster has a collection of personal bloopers, I suppose. Some seem funny now but they were nightmarish utterances at the time they were made. And, they all had to be followed by something. You can't just stop. You can't take it back. So tell me, if you begin a newscast by getting your own name wrong, where do you go from there?'Kotex', by the way, was a mangled attempt at 'exit poll coattails'. It was a stupid question anyway. It wasn't scripted. It was my stupid question. I own it. So too, I also own every idiotic observation made on this blog. It seems to me that if a person believes they have something worth saying in public then they owe the public their own identity.I would never be and have never been an anonymous critic.
Posted by Ed Dague at 11:11:00 AM
In Medias Res
Observations about Journalism and other interests from a retired Albany, NY Television News Anchor
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
The Governor's Kotex
"Do the Governor's kotex reach as far as the Assembly?""The dog called police on the taxi radio.""Good Evening, I'm Ernie Tetrault.""Brinkworth pisses across ice to Knightly who shits! And the fuck is cleared into the corner."I said all those things on-air. Every broadcaster has a collection of personal bloopers, I suppose. Some seem funny now but they were nightmarish utterances at the time they were made. And, they all had to be followed by something. You can't just stop. You can't take it back. So tell me, if you begin a newscast by getting your own name wrong, where do you go from there?'Kotex', by the way, was a mangled attempt at 'exit poll coattails'. It was a stupid question anyway. It wasn't scripted. It was my stupid question. I own it. So too, I also own every idiotic observation made on this blog. It seems to me that if a person believes they have something worth saying in public then they owe the public their own identity.I would never be and have never been an anonymous critic.
Posted by Ed Dague at 11:11:00 AM
Feelin' ornery
Yo, Stu
Hey, moron. Where'd you go? The wife yanking on the leash a little too tight?
Nice idea to pull the I-Man to give Pretty Boy Wyland another hour. For years, I've listened to the I-Man for political insight, satire and good, old vile humor. Now, I get another hour of noise. What genius thought that was a good idea? What the hell is wrong with local radio and television anyway? Pretty Boy with another hour? Monotone Moy doing hockey play-by-play? Does anyone in this market have a clue?
I don't know about you, but I'm rooting like hell for Florida to beat Ohio State and leave Boise State, my new favorite team, as the only unbeaten and let the BCS cronies chew on that one for a while. Can't wait to see my man Louis-The-Sooner-Grad and gloat about his team getting beat by a bunch of potato farmers playing playground ball.
And don't you just love to see the Irish get their ass kicked by a bunch of bandits. You know why JaMarcus Russell is going to turn pro? It's better than flunking out of school!
You know you're a redneck when you go to a stock car race and don't need a program. Hey, wait. I CAN DO THAT!!!
Got to go. The meds are wearing off.
Sparky
Hey, moron. Where'd you go? The wife yanking on the leash a little too tight?
Nice idea to pull the I-Man to give Pretty Boy Wyland another hour. For years, I've listened to the I-Man for political insight, satire and good, old vile humor. Now, I get another hour of noise. What genius thought that was a good idea? What the hell is wrong with local radio and television anyway? Pretty Boy with another hour? Monotone Moy doing hockey play-by-play? Does anyone in this market have a clue?
I don't know about you, but I'm rooting like hell for Florida to beat Ohio State and leave Boise State, my new favorite team, as the only unbeaten and let the BCS cronies chew on that one for a while. Can't wait to see my man Louis-The-Sooner-Grad and gloat about his team getting beat by a bunch of potato farmers playing playground ball.
And don't you just love to see the Irish get their ass kicked by a bunch of bandits. You know why JaMarcus Russell is going to turn pro? It's better than flunking out of school!
You know you're a redneck when you go to a stock car race and don't need a program. Hey, wait. I CAN DO THAT!!!
Got to go. The meds are wearing off.
Sparky
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
They ran Fridge out of town for this?
Yo, Stu:
I was going to keep my mouth shut for a while, but after reading Seth Appert's quotes today, I reached my limit.
Twice, he referred to RPI hockey players as student/athletes! Is that the new directive from Queen Shirley? Yo, Mr. Roboto, these are HOCKEY PLAYERS. If they wanted to be student/athletes, they would have gone to Williams or Middlebury. Did you forget that they're getting a free education because of their ability to play hockey, supposedly at a high level?
This guy is really getting on my nerves. RPI ran Dan Fridgen out of town because he wasn't winning enough games, and wasn't keeping RPI in the national mix. So what has Opie Appert done? Taken a veteran team to a 5-7-6 record and the only thing they're leading the nation in is short-handed goals against! Goaltending was supposed to be the strength of this team, they bring in a coach with a goaltending background, and Lange and Alford suddenly can't stop a beachball. I don't get it.
And don't give me any crap about, Let's wait and see what Appert can do with his own recruits. Unless the admissions department is going to close its eyes, not much is going to change. Can't believe they dumped Fridge for this guy.
Hey, putz. I see you picked up a D(esignated)H(eckler). As least someone is reading your drivel.
Got to find my Goody's Headache Powder. Opie is giving me a pain.
Sparky
I was going to keep my mouth shut for a while, but after reading Seth Appert's quotes today, I reached my limit.
Twice, he referred to RPI hockey players as student/athletes! Is that the new directive from Queen Shirley? Yo, Mr. Roboto, these are HOCKEY PLAYERS. If they wanted to be student/athletes, they would have gone to Williams or Middlebury. Did you forget that they're getting a free education because of their ability to play hockey, supposedly at a high level?
This guy is really getting on my nerves. RPI ran Dan Fridgen out of town because he wasn't winning enough games, and wasn't keeping RPI in the national mix. So what has Opie Appert done? Taken a veteran team to a 5-7-6 record and the only thing they're leading the nation in is short-handed goals against! Goaltending was supposed to be the strength of this team, they bring in a coach with a goaltending background, and Lange and Alford suddenly can't stop a beachball. I don't get it.
And don't give me any crap about, Let's wait and see what Appert can do with his own recruits. Unless the admissions department is going to close its eyes, not much is going to change. Can't believe they dumped Fridge for this guy.
Hey, putz. I see you picked up a D(esignated)H(eckler). As least someone is reading your drivel.
Got to find my Goody's Headache Powder. Opie is giving me a pain.
Sparky
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Hair Ball
Come on it's a joke, right? The Jints lose 6 outa 7, then manage to slip by the lowly Redskins and Head Coach Tom Coughlin gets nominated for NFL Coach of the week. That Cough-lin sound you hear is me hackin' up a big ole hair ball swallowed when I read that on Big Blew's web site. http://www.giants.com/
Maybe he should be nominated for firing his offensive coordinator, but not for the job he himself has done at any point this season.I guess the NFC is as bad as everyone says if Ol Beedy Eyes gets a coach of the week nomination.
Stu
Maybe he should be nominated for firing his offensive coordinator, but not for the job he himself has done at any point this season.I guess the NFC is as bad as everyone says if Ol Beedy Eyes gets a coach of the week nomination.
Stu
Spitzer has little time to act
This Joe Mahoney article in the NY Daily News does a good job of showing just how critical it is that Eliot Spitzer acts quickly to get the reform wagon moving lest the hacks in staid old and corrupt Albany make him irrelevant.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/484980p-408333c.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/484980p-408333c.html
Monday, January 1, 2007
Boring
Okay, Albany Eye is really getting boring. Are there really people out there who want to spend hours searching for and talking about local TV people? Come on, these are local TV personalities in what, the #58 or 60 media market in the country. Get a life.
Find something important to talk about.
The Security detail outgoing Governor George Pataki squeezed out of Eliot Spitzer is a better topic. The Pataki's are the bad mistake that just keep on taking. George and his ditz of a wife have been sucking money out of supporters, hanger on, potential state contractors and others for the past eight year. We finally get them outa here, and he gets a State Police security detail to drive him around.What's with that?
Shouldn't those Troopers be in Albany showing Joe Bruno the door?
Find something important to talk about.
The Security detail outgoing Governor George Pataki squeezed out of Eliot Spitzer is a better topic. The Pataki's are the bad mistake that just keep on taking. George and his ditz of a wife have been sucking money out of supporters, hanger on, potential state contractors and others for the past eight year. We finally get them outa here, and he gets a State Police security detail to drive him around.What's with that?
Shouldn't those Troopers be in Albany showing Joe Bruno the door?
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