Spinning the world of sports
The Redskins signed DeAngelo Hall yesterday and tossed him into the cornerback pile with Carlos Rogers, Shawn Springs and Fred Smoot.
Who's next, Lester Hayes?
Factor in safety LaRon Landry, and I wonder if there's a better secondary in football.
I was the third wheel for yesterday's Scott Garceau and Anita Marks Show on MASN and 105.7 FM. Jeremy Conn replaced Garceau, who's on vacation, and Marks left at 5 p.m. for her weekly appearance with Spencer Folau at Jimmy's Seafood in Dundalk. MASN went to another program at 5 p.m, leaving Conn and myself to do the radio portion.
I think I got that straight.
Anyway, if you're wagering this weekend - and I don't encourage such behavior - Lee Sterling of paramountsports.com like the Titans (-3) over the Bears and the Texans (pick) over the Ravens. He also likes Iowa (+7) over Penn State in sloppy conditions, though handicapper Brandon Lange takes Penn State.
Sterling also is going with Alabama (-3) over LSU and notes that the Tide is 16-4 against the spread the last two years.
Lange likes the Eagles (-3) over the Giants. I'm undecided on that one, but am leaning toward Philly.
Whichever NFL teams I take in my weekly pool, I'm not making any late changes!
If the playoffs started today, the Ravens would beat out the Patriots in the AFC. Also excluded would be the Colts, Chargers, Saints, Cowboys and Eagles. Crazy.
In Hawaii, Tyler Henson's three-run homer in the seventh inning gave West Oahu a 4-1 victory over North Shore. Henson batted after Adam Loewen was hit by a pitch for the second time in the game.
Henson smacked 11 homers at Single-A Delmarva this year, but hadn't gone deep in Hawaii until last night.
Another Orioles' farmhand, Sean Gleason, tossed two scoreless innings to pick up the win.
Henson and Gleason each committed an error.
There's plenty of excitement in the Jim Hunter household today, and not because the Orioles are making their "special announcement" next week. Daughter Allie's Fallston High field hockey team is looking to defend its 3A state championship today against Atholton High at Washington College in Chestertown.
Allie likes to remind her dad that she has a chance to play on back-to-back state title teams, while Jim lost twice in the state finals in baseball.
If only she could find a way to sign Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett.
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Categories (click for archive)Roch Kubatko |
Don't forget my lock of the year tomorrow. I just love this game.
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I'm waiting... - Roch
3rd Wheel eh? Sometimes a 3rd wheel is a really good idea. A 3-wheeled Can-Am Roadster blew past me and my sensible Toyota on the JFX yesterday.
Now that is a perfect motorcycle for a middle-aged guy who has tired of playing duffer quality golf. Are you listening Santa? http://spyder.brp.com/en-US/
The Garceau/Marks pairing is not working for me. It is painful to listen to Anita reduced to pithy one liners (that is Roch's job anyway.) Maybe they can take turns in the drivers seat, with Anita hosting the first half of the show and Garceau driving the second half. Even Joe Angel and Fred Manfra realize that having two "primary" hosts at the same time makes for really bad radio. As for me and my listening ears - I am keeping my dial tuned to AM1300 and the national ESPN Radio guys. So, bye-bye Anita and Roch and Viv and Bulldog and hello Mike and Mike and Colin Cowherd and Scott Van Pelt.
Good show yesterday. Any chance we'll hear the School of Roch Show starting up any time soon?
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From your lips to MASN's ears... - Roch
I am not sure that AJ would look good in those skirts the field hockey players wear or that Tex would be able to hit a curveball with those bent sticks.
Good old uniformity in talk show programming. I mean, it's a good idea to have all the shows on a clear FM station I can get no matter where I am or how the weather is. But I've never been thrilled with the idea of Anita leaving at 5 to go here, leaving at 5 to go there, etc. Somehow I seem to listen to her less and less lately, I don't know why. In my very humble opinion, the absolute bottom line reason there are all these player shows and other engagements to go to, is so that Anita can have a social life. Slinging jive talk with football players is her strong suit. I know it's too easy to criticize, but that's just my two cents.
When does Hot Stove Baseball start on Friday nights? I was hooked last year.
roch,
love to read your blog, but this is the first time i've commented.
watched hotpicks on thursday with you and amber.
what a class act.
on the other hand i watched you and anita on friday.
is this like talking too much?
anyway i thought that when you go to a football or baseball game, you go to cheer for the home team, not just one player. like the old cliche goes ( there is no i in team ). i thought that the name of our football team was the BALTIMORE RAVENS, not the RAY LEWIS RAVENS or the BALTIMORE RAYFANS. please feel free to correct me if i'm wrong. although being a grown woman, i'm usually not wrong.
the sexual inuendos during the time when anita is present is getting old. do you really think scott garceau would have commented on her blouse, or that she would have even worn it if he was there? there is a time and place for those type of comments and on the air is not the place. who knows when someone's teenage daughter might be watching and seeing and hearing those things. if i was a teenage girl, i would be embarassed. but to be fair, if i was a teenage boy, i'd say GO DAD.
amen to most of what's been posted so far on this. i completely agree with steve, re: "anita marks show for her own personal social life". though i only watch the show periodically when i'm at work (or rather, "place of employment" as the word "work" is rather...misleading this time of year) and find it painful to try and listen to her talk intelligently about baseball. other than her obvious crushes on b-rob and whatever other player she can get on her show. and even then, i don't even hear her talk to them about anything even RELATED to baseball. i will stab myself if i have to listen to her analyze "american idol" with brian again this spring.
i'm so totally down with shane's suggestion of a roch show. you bring the snark and the funny every day. mostly intentionally, even.