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01-23-2014, 11:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-23-2014, 11:42 AM by
jacketree.)
It is pledge drive month on NPR (they should really announce those increasingly rare moments when it is not a pledge drive), so I bounced between listening to John Feinstein, the local FM sports talk station, and jazz. No one drops a commercial on me. No one.
Lots of Sherman discussion. "Thug" is a code word; "jerk" or "punk" or "brat" are not; stuff like that. No one called McEnroe a thug, and Sherman isn't. No one is really sure what "class" is supposed to mean. (Even Ron Burgundy told everyone that "Stay Classy San Diego" is funny because it has no real meaning.) Feinstein was pretty clear that he thought anyone using Richard Sherman and Muhammad Ali in the same sentence was at the least premature. They went through the Ali-Frazier "Gorilla/Uncle Tom" episodes. I had forgotten that Frazier refused to call Ali anything other than Cassius Clay. Local guys played a clip of an ESPN Desportes interview with Sherman after the game that preceded the Erin Andrews interview. (Not sure if that is in your clip.) So Sherman had a dry Spanish-language run (in English) before for his what's your deal moment on Fox. He told the Desportes guy exactly the same thing he told Andrews, but was even more amped up, which makes sense.
They played a clip of Sherman before the play. 'Gotta feeling they're coming my way. Time to capitalize....'Â (Awesome. Nostradamus.)
They also played a clip of Hauska, Carroll, and Wilson on the sideline right before the game turned on that 4th and 7. Hard to hear over crowd noise, but Carroll wanted the field goal attempt, Hauska told him the spot and wind were all wrong, and Wilson said 'Let's go for it coach, I can get them with a hard count. They are jumping when I go on 1.' Really good stuff.
And on KCMS we had Charlie Parker with "No Noise", and Slim & Slam with "Hit that Jive Jack".
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