1) Not smoking radically decreases the necessity of leaving the relative safety of the editorial bunker & venturing into the post-apocalyptic wasteland; can't remember the last time we left the property. May save so much money we'll be able to have food & groceries delivered. If we can get over the habit of daily advert retrieval from the mail box we may be able to spend looooong periods of time w/o even opening the door.
Embarrassment of Riches
As we type we are flipping between four athletic competitions featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers*, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles Clippers & Los Angeles Lakers. And whenever they said it they were right: Not one of the four is on "free" over-the-air telebision. Exception to the rule: The also-on as we type Anaheim Ducks game is available over the air.*Ha ha ha: Vin Scully on the Dodger game moments ago, after reading copy for tonight's Twitter poll asks what a hashtag is.
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It's sad that no one has the stones to ease Vin Scully into retirement. He was never my favorite, even when I lived out there (I thought the Angels' radio guy at the time, Daron Sutton, rocked), but I thought he was a competent professional. Now, whenever the MLB channel shows a Dodger game, he absolutely ruins it for me. He does teevee as though he thinks he's on radio and is worried sick about dead air time.
Gobsmacked Editor:
Blasphemy! Sacrilege! Both, even? Damn.
Vin is easing into retirement. The last several yrs. he hasn't traveled outside Pacific time ('cept AZ; same time as Cali. during DST).
We suspect he'll be behind the mic until he keels over; we make sure never to miss a game now because he could go at any minute, or at least have a stroke or TIA.
And these days he simulcasts the first three innings, which may explain some of the apparent fear of dead air.
I didn't know that about the simulcasting. So, okay, I'll give him a partial pass.
Still isn't an enjoyable way to watch a Dodgers game on teevee, though.
Media Editor:
We will grant that he'll tell the same "interesting anecdote/background story" (from the media guide, no doubt) about an opposing player more than once during a series.
But not every one listens to the entire series. We're just lucky.
(We s'pose next you'll be against Jackie Robinson.)
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