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Tuesday, 4/01 --
Hello, April Fools & welcome to opening day redux.
Laurie is off for her birthday-eve. She was out late last night for the Kevin Kline Awards – where her show, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, won the award for Outstanding Director of a Musical. Bobby Miller tied with Michael Hamilton (who directed The Full Monty at Stages St. Louis).
Yesterday, at the ball yard JC & Triple C had a “discussion” about umbrellas. She isn’t a fan. John thinks a good Boy Scout should be able to start a fire in the rain.
Where to get rain slickers: hardware stores, motorcycle shops & opportunistic vendors in well trafficked areas.
Black Rain is from 1989 with Michael Douglas & Andy Garcia. Hard Rain is from 1998 Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid & Minnie Driver.
JC wants to know why the ballpark was 4/5 empty during player introductions. A caller suggested it was due to beer prices.
Sports we don’t understand: Cricket, Rugby & Aussie Rules Football.
We tried to understand the reasons the NHL isn’t on ESPN anymore. (The Blues game is on Vs. tonight at 6:30.)
JC is tired today (& the rest of the week) due to the exhaustiveness of yesterday’s opening day baseball show. So he wanted you, the listener, to come up with some questions for our future guests:
Aaron Eckhart – does he want to have bigger roles in bigger films? What about Heath Ledger & The Dark Knight? How is Catherine Zeta-Jones?
Valerie Bertinelli – Does she have reservations about Wolfgang touring with daddy? Who’s her favorite Van Halen lead singer? Can she meet us in person?
As John reported this morning, Stonyfield Farm is recalling several batches of its blueberry yogurt after consumers complained of finding plastic or glass fragments in the 6-ounce cups. The company said there have been no reports of injury and the do not believe the problem is widespread. The recall applies only to Stonyfield Organic Fat Free Blueberry Yogurt in 6-ounce cups carrying product codes printed on the cup bottoms that start with the following dates: April 13 08, April 14 08, April 15 08, April 25 08 and April 26 08. So beware.
JC was CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) certified 15 years ago. He remembers “A.B.C. – Airways, Breathing & Circulation.”
JC & John are happy when Keith Olbermann takes somebody down & how he does it with their own words.
We had former Major League Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent on the phone with us today.
Vincent was an exceptional athlete as a young man, showing talent in track & field as well as football. Vincent's life changed forever when a near-fatal accident in college crushed one of his legs. He'd been locked inside his dorm room as a prank. Climbing out onto the roof to escape, he slipped off the four–story high ledge. Suffering a crushed spine & paralyzed legs, Vincent spent three months in a form of traction. He overcame his initial diagnosis, which was that he would never walk. But Vincent's leg has never fully recovered and he has been relegated to the use of a cane.
Fay agreed with JC’s assessment that Bud Selig isn’t doing a very good job.
John asked him questions about the designated hitter & Fay thinks that he could have reversed it but he got bounced by the “The Great Lakes Gang” (a group of owners including Bud Selig, president of the Milwaukee Brewers; Jerry Reinsdorf, chairman of the Chicago White Sox; Stanton Cook, head of the Tribune Co., which owned the Chicago Cubs; Carl Pohlad, owner of the Minnesota Twins; & Peter O'Malley, the longtime majority owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers).
Fay’s new book is titled We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved (Baseball Oral History Project).
Does anyone think scalp implants for 2 more inches in height sounds like a good idea?
Someone’s making pizza flavored beer. Look for it yourselves; I’m not helping ya out.
Dave said this is the wettest March on record with 8.4 inches of rain.
Top Signs you’re at a Really Bad Baseball Game:
10. At some point, INS agents storm the field & round up half the infield.
9. The P.A. announcer says, "Ladies & gentlemen, please stand for the seventh-inning reach around."
8. You come back from the bathroom only to find the team's been sold.
7. Half the players are wearing Florida Marlins uniforms.
6. The only "foul balls" that fly in your direction are in the shorts of the "unclean" dude next to you.
5. During the pre-game fly-by, F-14s drop a half dozen cluster bombs.
4. Judging from your last trip to the men's room, the catcher's not the only one spending the entire game on his knees.
3. The concession stand is always open. But unfortunately, so are the sores on the guy making your nachos.
2. The "hot dog" you just bought has a vein in it.
1. The prize in your Cracker Jack is a dismembered finger.
We talked to Dave Greene about the new issue (& one-year anniversary edition) of Saint Louis Sports Magazine.
Here’s that photo from our buddy at UPI Bill Greenblatt: St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols (L) shakes the hands of former St. Louis Cardinals and National Baseball Hall of Fame members (L to R) Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith and Red Schoendienst during Opening Day ceremonies before the Colorado Rockies and the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on March 31, 2008.
We smooshed for Laurie Mac Land tix for the Washington Nationals Series: “The Hammer” & 5,280 feet would be Hank Aaron Miles.
The JoY was Ana Gasteyer, Ratchel Dratch & Alec Baldwin on NPR’s “Delicious Dish” talking about Pete Schwetty’s Weiner. The 3fA featured Steve Winwood with his former bands. The Vault was Paul McCartney’s “Heart of the Country.” Finally, Ali MacGraw & Ryan O'Neal said “Love means never having to say you're sorry” in Love Story.
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