The Big Tease Big Show
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For the amount of time Dan Patrick spent teasing tomorrow’s “big announcement”, he might as well have been standing on a stage swinging his tie around. Still, he has given out very little concrete details other than:

1. It will change his life, but not necessarily the listeners (the fact that this is fairly impossible for me makes it clear that my life is way too intertwined with The Big Show lately).

2. It affects Keith too, but not as much.

3. It probably is a positive thing from DP’s perspective. He would not be pimping his firing, now would he?

4. He is most likely turning down the Price is Right offer to audition, so he won’t be coming on down. His mother is not pleased.

5. Keith mentioned the Friday Big Show recap here at ERT. Dan asked what the blogs were saying about his big announcement, and KO cited what Gilbert said. And no, I do not own a single tin foil hat. Keith then went on to squash Gilbert’s idea of a Big Show TV time when they are together. Too bad, I would have liked that.

6. More clues on Countdown tonight with Inspector Olbermann.

Does Barry Bonds belong in the All-Star game? KO says no, as he is having a bad year. Furthermore, all the other fan voted-in outfielders are wrong too. Keith says that while the game was “designed as the fans’ game”, the fans need more guidance. Keith actually seems to want the whole All-Star Game thing to go away, or at least the fan voting. Maybe if they gave him a Hall of Fame vote he would leave this one alone?

If KO had to call the Barry Bonds’ home run record breaking moment he would use the base running victory lap to do a sponsorship message for a doctor’s office.

Alex Rodreiguez’s wife has poor choice in ballpark wear. Especially if you are sitting behind her. On the other hand, if you are from Patterson, NJ or Long Island, NY, Keith understands.

Dan wants to know the difference between The NY Post’s front page coverage of Mrs. A-Rod’s shirt vs the Daily News’ non-coverage. KO suggets the size of the Altlantic Ocean.

Dan wonders why the media critics at the Post don’t complain about their own paper like people at ESPN critize the mothership. KO suggests that ESPN’s competion is weak and therefore critisism causes little harm. He likens it to “throwing your gum at the side of a battleship”. He comes at this as quite a gum thrower himself.

Tune in tonight for Coundown, where Keith will provide more hints, show us someone else named Olbermann, and recap the Princess Di concert without actually having seen it (that should be interesting).


How about a new idea.

The last time I heard a “big announcement” on ESPN Radio, it involved Mike & Mike hosting a wedding during their show.

Could Dan be doing some kind of wacky promotion for his show? (With Keith along for the ride.)

Keith is reading us? (Waves)

Oh, yeah, redtoots. Remember the part where he Googles himself daily? (Dude, I would so do that. Just sayin’.)(Um. Hi, Keith.)

I hope so Gilbert. While it would be sort of silly if this whole thing were nothing but a stupid, wacky promotion - of all the possibilities I can think of right now, that one is actually the best since they knocked down your radio show broadcast idea. Well, other than Dan doing something on Countdown, but that hardly seems likely.

At the risk of making a very old joke, I thought when you had a woman at home, you didn’t have to do that anymore.
Google yourself, that is.

“Go Google yourself” will be the inscription on A-Rod’s wife’s next t-shirt. :-)

Getting back to Dan — I can’t believe he told everyone that he hung up on his mom! (That he hung up on her, yes, but not that he revealed it on the air!)

Chicating, that’s not what the latest studies say.

Anyway, after hearing all the possibilities Dan and Keith discarded yesterday, I can arrive at only one conclusion:

Dan is having Keith’s baby.

Yeah, yeah, and I’m sure you thought he didn’t need him to do that anymore, either.