A Good Year for the Outlaw

It’s Thursday night, May 28, 9pm, and I’m driving home. I whip the dial to the sportstalk station in Chicago to hear what might be going on.
Keep in mind, I already know, and I’m wondering which of these topical stories they might be talking about. Could it be…
1. The Blackhawks were just eliminated from [...]

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Boston Celtic Paul Pierce has what some would call an unfortunate resemblence to the late “Beetlejuice” from the Howard Stern Radio Show.

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John Cena from the WWE, Justin Morneau, Minnesota Twins’ slugging first baseman.

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So there was a nice, big, whiny-toned expose in the USA Today this week about how the economy is affecting NAZICAR attendance and TV ratings and sponsorship dollars. As I’ve said before, the economy is a convenient excuse for these guys, who refuse to look in the mirror and see the REAL reasons why NAZICAR [...]

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Continuing my other post (I’ve edited the timestamp on this one to put it below the first one) on what is REALLY wrong with NASCAR.
We’ve already discussed Toyota, right-wing jingoism, and the dreaded “Car of Tomorrow” as reasons NASCAR is down. Here are more:
4. Track duplication. In their continued efforts to break free from Southern-only [...]

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For fans of a real franchise, every time Billy gives you this, I will respond with this:

Explains a lot about the man and the team he cheers for, doesn’t it?

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Eric “Mancow” Muller is being tortured this morning on WLS. They have a marine in the studio to waterboard him. He doesn’t currently think it’s torture, but he’s about to find out otherwise, according to the ex-marine in the studio with him.
Updates to come.
It’s actually pretty compelling radio, and I sit here and wait [...]

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Here we go again. Highest gas prices in the country are in Chicago.
Illinois’ state average are at the top. Weirdest thing?
Folks in the Quad Cities can get gas for $2.11 on one side of the river (in Davenport) and can SEE signs that say “$2.49″ on the other side of the river (the Illinois [...]

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The following defy logic to me:
1. School buses don’t have seat belts. I know, I know, they’ve got all sorts of reasons why they don’t, the so-called experts tell us, but really, they’ve forced seat belt usage down our throats for 20 years…and we still don’t have ‘em on school buses.
2. Helmet-free motorcycle riding. [...]

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I’ve watched the demise of a major part of the American auto industry with equal part sadness and anger these past few months.
Without getting too much into politics, who’s to blame, who’s not to blame, and how to fix it, I just want to add one segment to the list of folks who should [...]

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Last month I said the Chicago Blackhawks would be the next major sports team from Chicago to win a championship. Shaddup, Chicago Fire fans, I said major sport.
I stand by that statement, they WILL be the next Chicago team to win it all in a major sport. Where I might have have wrong, however, [...]

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I know it’s old news by now, but it’s still fun to watch Larry King ask Jesse Ventura about Dick Cheney and hear Cheney called exactly what he is: a coward.
Jesse was also 100% dead nuts correct when he called Norm Coleman a hypocrite (Coleman called for Al Franken to concede and not do [...]

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NOTE: please insert rimshots in your mind where you see this: (!)
- I’ve been reading a lot lately. Clive Cussler and John Grisham novels are my favorites, plus I read a lot of automotive stuff. I’ve turned more pages lately than Congressman Mark Foley. (!)
- A co-manager in our company gave me a great gift [...]

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EXILE [eg-zahyl, ek-sahyl]
–noun 1. expulsion from one’s native land by authoritative decree.
2. the fact or state of such expulsion: to live in exile.
3. a person banished from his or her native land.
4. prolonged separation from one’s country or home, as by force of circumstances: wartime exile.
Since the election, Sean Hannity has repeatedly said [...]

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Manny Ramirez? Juiced? Seriously, who was surprised by this? “It’s Just Manny Being Manny” has a whole new meaning to some today, he’s been on my list the entire time.
He’s just another in the long line of major league supposed “stars” and “heroes” that turns out to be nothing more than a scumbag, lowlife [...]

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Our radio station staff volunteered to help a charity yesterday by standing at busy intersections with plastic pails collecting money. The corner I was at is controlled by 4-way stop signs, which are always interesting, and I knew I was in for fun.
Some observations I made during my two-hour stint:
1. Many drivers don’t know how [...]

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Following an Explorer this morning, one of those with the little outlined fish on the tailgate that is apparently only there to signify “I’m better than you, I’ve got a christian fish”, and I find myself dodging peanut shells, or something like that.
You see, the driver is tossing peanut or sunflower seed shells – or [...]

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