WYPR announced yesterday that they would replace the Marc Steiner show with Dan Rodricks in the 12-2 slot.  Why did they go for the lame play?

Do they really think Dan Rodricks will bring any more of a statewide focus to the lunch hour than Marc Steiner?

More importantly, do they think anyone will care?

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Just when you love to hate sportswriters (Super Bowl week-- every stupid little special interest story and prognostication), they do something nice, and you have to give them props.

For the 2nd consecutive year, they have snubbed Paul Tagliabue on the Hall of Fame Vote.

Any fan of football in Baltimore should be cheering.  So should any fan of football in Cleveland or the greater Northeast Ohion area.

Why you say?  It's actually quite simple.  When Baltimore was snubbed for an expansion team in the early 90s (I remember the night-- I put a cordless phone through a plaster wall), Paul Tagliabue recommended that Baltimore spend its money building more museums.

Up yours, pal.

Anyway, that left Baltimore only one option:  do unto others as had been done to us.  So we stole a team.  The one in Cleveland.  The one that had watched a new baseball stadium be built.  A new arena be built. The Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame be built.  All while they played in dessicated Metropolitan Stadium.  Yup, we stole them.  With the help of Al Lerner -- who was an executive at the old 1st National Bank of Maryland -- we cajoled Art Modell to bring his team to Baltimore.

But, hey Paul, we still have lots of nice museums.

And you still aren't in the Hall of Fame.

Call it the curse of Johnny U.

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WYPR, Baltimore's venerable public radio station, has fired Marc Steiner, according to the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter.

That's another one.  Liberal radio hosts have beend dropping like flies.  Air America crashed on takeoff, taking a huge debt load with it.  And now long-time host Steiner.   When will it end?

It probably won't.  WYPR claims that one of the reasons is declining ratings.  So what do you think WYPR will do to stem the bleeding?  Maybe bring a conservative voice during the 12-2 slot?  Probably not.  But if you are interested, give me a call. I wouldn't mind doing that.

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Arlen Spector, so-called Republican Senator from the State of Pennsylvania, has decided to inject the government of the United States into the "Spygate" Scandal in the NFL.

Proving that he is nothing more than a pure media whore trying to gain attention during Super Bowl week, Specter said:

"That requires an explanation," [Sen. Arlen] Specter told The Times. "The NFL has a very preferred status in our country with their antitrust exemption. The American people are entitled to be sure about the integrity of the game. It's analogous to the CIA destruction of tapes, or any time you have records destroyed."

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Sure to replace Pictionary Key Parties soon!

People who read me regularly know that I often refer to the The Baltimore Sun as the Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter.  I thought it was about time that I suggested a new masthead more appropriate for the paper:

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What's the difference between the Maryland GOP in the General Assembly and the French Army?

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It makes me want to sign up...

H/T:  Michelle Malkin

Well, except for me, of course.  But I consider myself more of a prognosticator than pundit.

The punditocracy exists for two reasons:  pure entertainment during the writer's strike, and so weak-minded people can watch the TV and congratulate themselves on how smart they are, based on how much they agree with the talking head.

Watching all of the predictions coming out of the television this evening as a result of the election results in South Carolina and Nevada, well, just made we want to throw a shoe through the screen.

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I was a long time Comcast TV customer -- 10 years -- until last Wednesday, when I finally made the switch and had DirecTV installed at my house.

To sum up my experience:  Holy Crap! Why didn't I do this years ago?

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