Twenty-Twenty
It was just about 3 p.m., and I was leaving Syosset with sources out of radio contact. WFAN had the Mets; WCBS had the Yankees; WINS, I don't know when they might do sports. So I went to WHN WUKQ WEVD the Worldwide Leader hoping to hear of any free agent signings, and I found some guy yelling about how we don't care who made the MLB All Star teams; let's pick the Not-Star team, 'cause we care about who stinks this year.
Well, no, we don't. But it was an appropriate time to turn that guy off and go back to 66.
It reminded me of a time in late July of 1995. The Mets were dismantling the remnants of the Worst Team Money Could Buy*. David Cone was on the market again. There were other names rumored to be on the block. I was in Boston with the folks, looking at colleges with my brother. Remember, this is pre-laptops, pre-ESPN News, pre-constant-scroll, and all I had was a cheap hotel clock-radio. And what do I find on what passed for sports radio in Boston, days away from the trade deadline?
Some guy yelling about who should make baseball's All-Ugly team. And some guy calling up to yell how Rawn Kahkovice was the ugliest guy he's ever seen. And no news update for an hour.
I've never been more happy to get back to Connecticut. For all of its faults, WFAN was not gonna give you the All-Ugly team two days before the deadline. Or, heaven forbid, if they were, you weren't more than 20 minutes away from an update.
So happy 20th, WFAN. You're surely not on my All-Ugly team.
*-Ah, Alex Ochoa, before we found out his five tools didn't come with a toolbox...
Well, no, we don't. But it was an appropriate time to turn that guy off and go back to 66.
It reminded me of a time in late July of 1995. The Mets were dismantling the remnants of the Worst Team Money Could Buy*. David Cone was on the market again. There were other names rumored to be on the block. I was in Boston with the folks, looking at colleges with my brother. Remember, this is pre-laptops, pre-ESPN News, pre-constant-scroll, and all I had was a cheap hotel clock-radio. And what do I find on what passed for sports radio in Boston, days away from the trade deadline?
Some guy yelling about who should make baseball's All-Ugly team. And some guy calling up to yell how Rawn Kahkovice was the ugliest guy he's ever seen. And no news update for an hour.
I've never been more happy to get back to Connecticut. For all of its faults, WFAN was not gonna give you the All-Ugly team two days before the deadline. Or, heaven forbid, if they were, you weren't more than 20 minutes away from an update.
So happy 20th, WFAN. You're surely not on my All-Ugly team.
*-Ah, Alex Ochoa, before we found out his five tools didn't come with a toolbox...
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