Dan Patrick: The Farewell Tour (xvi) — Free at last, Free at last …
Stephen A. Smith will be on in the 1-4pm ET time slot for the entire week.
I give thanks to ESPN.
Thank you for helping me make clean break. I’ve been hanging on — desperately clinging to a relationship that was over — hoping for some tidbit of entertainment to be thrown my way in the weeks since DP left the air. Trying to recapture the magic.
Stephen A. for the whole week?
All rightie, then ….
It’s over.
After the initial shock, I find this strangely liberating. Exhilirating, actually.
The old flames who say “I want us to still be friends” are just looking for a way to make themselves feel better for having dumped you. Well, f*ck ‘em. A clean break is always best.
So now instead of checking in with the radio several times each afternoon to see if there is anyone/anything worth listening to on ESPN I can simply enjoy my New Reality. Yesterday afternoon I went out for lunch and read a not-very-recent New Yorker and an article about the very odd and very interesting Waugh family. Not exactly ESPN-y stuff, but there you have it.
Thank you, ESPN, for setting me free.
Smith is the final nail in the coffin. The final nail in my heart.
Wow, I’m already at the Acceptance Stage.
I turned on the radio at lunchtime, a reflex-action. What a mistake. Stephen A. grating on my eardrums. With Kuselias today. Too bad, I kind of like Kuselias. With Smith going the whole week this makes me wonder if ESPN is seriously trying him out to replace DP. And I know this makes it racial, but to put an African-American radio host on now as the Vick case heats up, is this a way to attract African-American listeners? That would be a cheap ploy but I don’t put it past ESPN to do something like that. If you read the comments section for ESPN.COM stories there are always alot of racially charged comments.
Comment by Karl — 31 July 2007, Tuesday @ 17:55:38
BTW-another good song. Too bad the band didn’t last
Comment by Karl — 31 July 2007, Tuesday @ 17:57:33
DITTO ON STEPHEN A. ESPN RADIO THOUGHT THEY HAD IT TOUGH UP AGAINST WFAN
IN THE AFTERNOON IN N.Y. WITH D.P.? NOW I DON’T EVEN TUNE IN AFTER MIKE
MIKE GO OFF THE AIR.
OH, BY THE BY, IF AND WHEN DON IMUS COMES BACK, WATCH OUT MIKE & MIKE AND
ESPN RADIO.
Comment by JOHN F. IN POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — 31 July 2007, Tuesday @ 21:31:56
DITTO ON STEPHEN A. ESPN RADIO THOUGHT THEY HAD IT TOUGH UP AGAINST WFAN
IN THE AFTERNOON IN N.Y. WITH D.P.? NOW I DON’T EVEN TUNE IN AFTER MIKE &
MIKE GO OFF THE AIR.
OH, BY THE BY, IF AND WHEN DON IMUS COMES BACK, WATCH OUT MIKE & MIKE AND
ESPN RADIO.
Comment by JOHN F. IN POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — 31 July 2007, Tuesday @ 21:35:54
Stephen A. makes it easy to give up on ESPN radio in the afternoons. And this is not racial;I could spend 3 solid hours listening to Wilbon. Mike & Mike audience is completely different from Imus. Seriously–is someone going to bring back Imus?
Comment by Les — 1 August 2007, Wednesday @ 09:34:03