Post by jptheprofessor on Dec 13, 2007 22:05:32 GMT -5
Again, I've been busy of late, and quality blogging time comes few and far between...
Anyway, the prize all this week in the 4:10 PM "Classic Rock Clip" contest is the video compilation DVD from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, called Pride and Joy. Today's correct answer was "Old Man" by Neil Young, guessed correctly first by a caller who would not give his name. The winner was probably calling from work. Hats off to our listeners who risk all to call and win, hoping their boss doesn't catch on that they're playing radio contests on company time!
Today's 5:15 PM "Lost Classic" from the back of the rack was "Weekend Warriors," the title track from Ted Nugent's 1978 album. The Nuge celebrates his 59th birthday today.
Hopefully you made it around okay during today's latest blast of winter weather. Days like today I call "garbage bag" days, because I prepare for them by cutting a garbage bag down the sides lengthwise, and covering my windshield with the stretched-out bag so I don't have to scrape ice and slush from my windshield before heading to work. Works every time, I didn't have to scrape the windshield today! Hey, they don't call me "The Professor" because of my good looks!
Don't sigh relief just yet, the early forecast calls for us to get belted by a snowstorm on Saturday or Sunday...or both!
On a more serious note, drugs impacted the headlines over the past few days. Of course, today was the day that the Mitchell Report was issued, reporting the findings of Senator George Mitchell's 20-month investigation into steroid use in Major League Baseball. Several more major baseball names were fingered in the report, most notably Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Miguel Tejada. Needless to say, the report puts a darker black eye on modern day baseball, putting the integrity of the game over the past few years in doubt. While the report will lead to changes to clean up the game, I think the damage is done and is largely unfixable. Some folks will call for the disqualifications of players, records, and even World Series championships impacted by the steroid era. But my question is: How do we know who all was using 'roids, and when and for how long they were using them? And how can we know for sure what all was impacted by steroid use? I think you let the records and stats stand, but footnote them with the fact that they occurred while steroids and performance-enhancing drugs were running rampant in the sport.
The other drug-related news of the past few days was the revelation that Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow's death several weeks ago was caused by a cocaine overdose...or as the official report put it, an "accidental cocaine overdose." Accidental? What happened, did Kevin mistake the stuff for sugar and "accidentally" sprinkle it on his cornflakes or stir it into his coffee? Granted, it's still a tragic death to be sure; but I think any consenting adult in this day and age who chooses to put the white stuff up his or her nose, does so with the knowledge - even in the back of his/her mind - that a date with the grim reaper might be a possible result of that action. So I tend to disagree that DuBrow's death was an accident if he indeed was using. He becomes another rock-and-roller whose demise comes under the heading "death by misadventure."
And while on the topic of recent passings, Evel Kneivel. I remember watching his stunts on ABC's "Wide World of Sports" when I was a little kid; including some of the imfamous "wipe-outs" that put him in the hospital and broke nearly every bone in his body. I remember the Snake River Canyon jump as well, and all the hype before the big event. It's ironic that Evel cheated death so many times in his life with all the violent crashes he endured, but in the end, his death was a quiet one.
Anyway, the prize all this week in the 4:10 PM "Classic Rock Clip" contest is the video compilation DVD from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, called Pride and Joy. Today's correct answer was "Old Man" by Neil Young, guessed correctly first by a caller who would not give his name. The winner was probably calling from work. Hats off to our listeners who risk all to call and win, hoping their boss doesn't catch on that they're playing radio contests on company time!
Today's 5:15 PM "Lost Classic" from the back of the rack was "Weekend Warriors," the title track from Ted Nugent's 1978 album. The Nuge celebrates his 59th birthday today.
Hopefully you made it around okay during today's latest blast of winter weather. Days like today I call "garbage bag" days, because I prepare for them by cutting a garbage bag down the sides lengthwise, and covering my windshield with the stretched-out bag so I don't have to scrape ice and slush from my windshield before heading to work. Works every time, I didn't have to scrape the windshield today! Hey, they don't call me "The Professor" because of my good looks!
Don't sigh relief just yet, the early forecast calls for us to get belted by a snowstorm on Saturday or Sunday...or both!
On a more serious note, drugs impacted the headlines over the past few days. Of course, today was the day that the Mitchell Report was issued, reporting the findings of Senator George Mitchell's 20-month investigation into steroid use in Major League Baseball. Several more major baseball names were fingered in the report, most notably Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and Miguel Tejada. Needless to say, the report puts a darker black eye on modern day baseball, putting the integrity of the game over the past few years in doubt. While the report will lead to changes to clean up the game, I think the damage is done and is largely unfixable. Some folks will call for the disqualifications of players, records, and even World Series championships impacted by the steroid era. But my question is: How do we know who all was using 'roids, and when and for how long they were using them? And how can we know for sure what all was impacted by steroid use? I think you let the records and stats stand, but footnote them with the fact that they occurred while steroids and performance-enhancing drugs were running rampant in the sport.
The other drug-related news of the past few days was the revelation that Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow's death several weeks ago was caused by a cocaine overdose...or as the official report put it, an "accidental cocaine overdose." Accidental? What happened, did Kevin mistake the stuff for sugar and "accidentally" sprinkle it on his cornflakes or stir it into his coffee? Granted, it's still a tragic death to be sure; but I think any consenting adult in this day and age who chooses to put the white stuff up his or her nose, does so with the knowledge - even in the back of his/her mind - that a date with the grim reaper might be a possible result of that action. So I tend to disagree that DuBrow's death was an accident if he indeed was using. He becomes another rock-and-roller whose demise comes under the heading "death by misadventure."
And while on the topic of recent passings, Evel Kneivel. I remember watching his stunts on ABC's "Wide World of Sports" when I was a little kid; including some of the imfamous "wipe-outs" that put him in the hospital and broke nearly every bone in his body. I remember the Snake River Canyon jump as well, and all the hype before the big event. It's ironic that Evel cheated death so many times in his life with all the violent crashes he endured, but in the end, his death was a quiet one.