Friday, August 06, 2004

Sports Illustrated's Top 10 Most Embarrasing TV/Radio Interview Moments. I thought this one was pretty funny. Anybody happen to see it when it aired?

Jim Rome
continuously prodded Jim Everett about his perceived lack of toughness as an NFL signal-caller on the old ESPN show, Talk2, in 1994.

Jim Rome: You may have even been Jim Everett back there [in 1989] but somewhere along the way Jim, you ceased being Jim and you became Chris.

Jim Everett: Well, let me tell you a little secret ... that, you know, we're sitting here right now, and if you guys want to take a station break, you can. But if you call me Chris Everett to my face one more time ...

JR: I already did it twice

JE: You'd better ... if you call it one more time, we'd better take a station break.

JR: Well, its a five-minute segment, on a five-segment show. We've got a long way to go

JE: We do.

JR: We've got a long way to go. I'll get a couple of segments out of you.

JE: It's good to be here with you though ... because you've been talking like this behind my back for a long time now.

JR: But now I've said it right here, so we've got no problems then.

JE: I think that you probably won't say it again.

JR: I'll bet I do

JE: OK

[short pause]

JR: Chris.

[Everett tosses aside coffee table, pounces on Rome]

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

I have to get up at 6:30 tomorrow. Now, to many of you, that's your normal waking up time. Or for some of the complete crazies out there, it's LATE. But not for me, no sir. 8:00 is much, much more civilized. And even 8:00 is frankly earlier than I'd like to get up.

Oh sure. You're saying, "Just go to bed earlier.. go to bed at 10:00." I'll tell you what will happen if I go to bed at 10:00. I will lie there until at least 11:30. To pass the time, I'll come up with a nice list of things to worry about. Things I don't have time to worry about if I go to bed at midnight like normal and am tired enough to just fall asleep.

If only I had the gold watch. The one that stops time. I wouldn't use it for evil...I'd just use to sleep in.