Brady Quinn, formerly of the Notre Dame Irish, who, after spending 21 picks crying in the back room of the Radio City Music Hall, is picked at #22 by the Cleveland Browns. ESPN tells us with pictures, that Brady was a Cleveland fan as a kid. Thanks, for the knowledge, guys...
Oh yea, Tim Couch was supposed to be good too.
*****
A Follow-up and anal-lysis:
I think what appalled me about this media-mediated event was the extreme close-ups (XCUs) of Mr. Brady Quinn, who did not get picked for the first 20 picks. They made him a golden boy, predicted his being drafted in the first few picks, then tore him down right before our eyes, as they showed MORE XCUs of him half-tearing up, nervously chatting with his girlfriend, they put her name on the screen, and then finally narrated and showed his departing to a "non-media-accessible" back room, to wait for his being drafted, finally, at pick 21, some 2 hours later. This is what happens when a non-sports event is televised as sports. Maybe the MLB WAS right in not making their draft a big deal. Then again, baseball can't make a big deal picking players out of school when they'll have to navigate the slippery slopes of the minor leagues first, and 1st round picks disappear a few years down the road a lot of the time anyway.
Remember- Ty Griffin, Cubs 1st round pick in 1988? probably not, although he was an Olympic silver medalist with the 88 Seoul USA team. What about Kurt Ainsworth? 98 Olympics to 1999 #1 pick SF Giants (24th overall), to traded to the BAL Orioles (July 31, 2003: Traded by SF with Ryan Hannaman (who?) and Damian Moss (the no-control, crazy-sideburns, dto the Baltimore Orioles for Sidney Ponson). Another wasted talent by the Giants...
Another piece of Baseball "knowledge": Marvin Benard, the least-likely hyped draft pick: 50th Round! by the Giants in '92 (50x26 teams at the time= he was about the 1300th! pick overall, and at a tiny 5'10", he played a total of 8 yrs in the hallowed majors. This is why I can never rag on him, no matter what anyone else says. He stole home once in 1995, and he stands for all of us, who love baseball and always wanted to play, but for lack of talent or size...
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Silver Screen Blues
Going to sleep before my morning shift, I get looney.
Last night's featured idea: Great sequels never made, such as:
Forrest Gump II: Forrest raises little Forrest, and one day decides to run to an island, where he finds it is deserted, and little Forrest has to find him, with the help of dead people that only he can see.
Memorable lines include:
Tom Hanks: "But Lil' Forr'st, I don' see a-ny pee-pole ova he're."
Haley Joel Osment: "But dad, I see them. (whispers) I see dead islanders."
The Natural II: Roy Hobbs son grows up to become a Major Leaguer, under his father's tutelage. He ends up getting shot by ex-sportswriter Max Mercy, who has been blacklisted for selling steroids to ballplayers, because Roy Jr. won't take them. Roy senior ends the film by hitting a used syringe into the ocean.
Memorable lines include:
Robert Duvall: "But kid, what you don't understand is that your pops was juiced. The Whammer was juiced. You don't make the headlines if you don't take the strong stuff."
Roy Jr.: "Sir, my father may have been a philanderer, but he was certainly not a cheater. Now get out of my dugout before I tell Pop Junior."
and also:
Clubhouse Guy: "Nine, ya got me. I think that's permanently taken, but Ninety-nine. Now that's a number!"
I guess its not that funny unless you've seen the first films multiple times...
Stay tuned to Im-Dib TV for more potential screen-breakers, coming soon to a Straight-to-video near you!
Last night's featured idea: Great sequels never made, such as:
Forrest Gump II: Forrest raises little Forrest, and one day decides to run to an island, where he finds it is deserted, and little Forrest has to find him, with the help of dead people that only he can see.
Memorable lines include:
Tom Hanks: "But Lil' Forr'st, I don' see a-ny pee-pole ova he're."
Haley Joel Osment: "But dad, I see them. (whispers) I see dead islanders."
The Natural II: Roy Hobbs son grows up to become a Major Leaguer, under his father's tutelage. He ends up getting shot by ex-sportswriter Max Mercy, who has been blacklisted for selling steroids to ballplayers, because Roy Jr. won't take them. Roy senior ends the film by hitting a used syringe into the ocean.
Memorable lines include:
Robert Duvall: "But kid, what you don't understand is that your pops was juiced. The Whammer was juiced. You don't make the headlines if you don't take the strong stuff."
Roy Jr.: "Sir, my father may have been a philanderer, but he was certainly not a cheater. Now get out of my dugout before I tell Pop Junior."
and also:
Clubhouse Guy: "Nine, ya got me. I think that's permanently taken, but Ninety-nine. Now that's a number!"
I guess its not that funny unless you've seen the first films multiple times...
Stay tuned to Im-Dib TV for more potential screen-breakers, coming soon to a Straight-to-video near you!
ABOUT ME
Saturday, 4/28/2007
San Francisco-
I'm working the morning shift out of KNBR, 1050 AM.
I realize that you haven't heard a peep out of me since my writing explosion last last Wednesday.
So I want to give you the snippets that make working here very, uh, great!
NFL Draft:
After jibbering and jabbering on Fox Sports Radio, who's taking (rival network) ESPN's audio of the NFL commissioner, the Oakland Raiders anti-climactically picked JaMarcus Russell, big-guy QB from Louisianna State. Denny Green exclaimed something about "Crowning" him, in his raspy hoarse-call.
The 49ers picked an LB from Old Miss, which was probably a good pick, because I've never heard of him. We wondered whether Ralph told him "Go Sharks!" on the phone.
The ESPN talking heads were pretty convinced about Notre Dame QB Brady Quinn going top-3. When he didn't, Chris Berman said "this is the first curveball of this draft." I wasn't listening, but I think he said that every time Quinn wasn't drafted, which, at Green Bay's #16 pick, still hasn't happened.
A sad sidenote, GreenBay picked a Defensive Tackle with their first pick. I don't know who he is, and at #16 overall, alot of people don't know him, but they show a crowd shot of little kids boo-ing the pick with their dads.
How can you boo your team's draftpick?! He hasn't played or even put on the team's uniform yet. What has he done, except for not been hyped enough, to get booed before even playing for them. I just remember Donovan McNabb, drafted by Philly, who went on to playoff-runs every year, and a Superbowl appearance, being drafted and getting booed. Who were the Eagles supposed to take instead?! No one remembers because that guy was not worthy of playing in the league.
And the Warriors won -
who knew? I still don't believe they made the playoffs. If i start acknowledging it, then they'll lose. I actually ran the board for the game lastnight, and after crazy playoff-related technical difficulties (what was on the paper, and in the computer, were 2 different things), we had a great! broadcast. Tim Roye is good at making it exciting, but the way the W's were playing, and the crowd was into it, they didn't need much help anyway. The producer calling me on the phone kept getting drowned out by happy-excited crowd noise- that is the best sound on radio that there is...
San Francisco-
I'm working the morning shift out of KNBR, 1050 AM.
I realize that you haven't heard a peep out of me since my writing explosion last last Wednesday.
So I want to give you the snippets that make working here very, uh, great!
NFL Draft:
After jibbering and jabbering on Fox Sports Radio, who's taking (rival network) ESPN's audio of the NFL commissioner, the Oakland Raiders anti-climactically picked JaMarcus Russell, big-guy QB from Louisianna State. Denny Green exclaimed something about "Crowning" him, in his raspy hoarse-call.
The 49ers picked an LB from Old Miss, which was probably a good pick, because I've never heard of him. We wondered whether Ralph told him "Go Sharks!" on the phone.
The ESPN talking heads were pretty convinced about Notre Dame QB Brady Quinn going top-3. When he didn't, Chris Berman said "this is the first curveball of this draft." I wasn't listening, but I think he said that every time Quinn wasn't drafted, which, at Green Bay's #16 pick, still hasn't happened.
A sad sidenote, GreenBay picked a Defensive Tackle with their first pick. I don't know who he is, and at #16 overall, alot of people don't know him, but they show a crowd shot of little kids boo-ing the pick with their dads.
How can you boo your team's draftpick?! He hasn't played or even put on the team's uniform yet. What has he done, except for not been hyped enough, to get booed before even playing for them. I just remember Donovan McNabb, drafted by Philly, who went on to playoff-runs every year, and a Superbowl appearance, being drafted and getting booed. Who were the Eagles supposed to take instead?! No one remembers because that guy was not worthy of playing in the league.
And the Warriors won -
who knew? I still don't believe they made the playoffs. If i start acknowledging it, then they'll lose. I actually ran the board for the game lastnight, and after crazy playoff-related technical difficulties (what was on the paper, and in the computer, were 2 different things), we had a great! broadcast. Tim Roye is good at making it exciting, but the way the W's were playing, and the crowd was into it, they didn't need much help anyway. The producer calling me on the phone kept getting drowned out by happy-excited crowd noise- that is the best sound on radio that there is...
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