Reggie Miller's Lookin' Good...

"Later, he gets the rebound
Passes it to the man
And boom goes the dynamite"
--Worst Sportscaster Ever, Ball State University

I'm sorry, this kid kills me. If you didn't click on the sportscaster link in yesterday's blog, please do yourself a favor, scroll down and check it out. I can watch that thing over and over and find new things to laugh at every time.
Speaking of bad sportscasters, I've recently been lamenting the dearth of decent sports radio in Los Angeles at the hours I'm able to listen to my radio. Granted, Rome is a genius and Dan Patrick is almost always entertaining, but they're on when I have no radio access (9 a.m. to noon and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., respectively), so I'm essentially barred from all good radio. So here are my only real options, accompanied by the reasons I hate them (I will qualify the following criticisms by saying that I'm sure all of these individuals are nice people, and I hold nothing against them personally; it's their radio shows I can't stand):
- Mike and Mike on the drive from home to the gym (5:30-6 a.m.): Greenberg is perhaps the most arrogant personality at ESPN; it's obvious in the way he deals with people, and the stories from people I know that worked with him back up this perception. Golic is occasionally funny, but most of the time, I tune in and hear him ranting on a subject he knows nothing about. He knows about playing defensive line in the NFL, so if he's got something to say about Dwight Freeney (shameless plug for our guest host today) or Warren Sapp, then maybe I'll listen. I don't want to hear his long-winded (and wrong) opinions about LeBron James and the NBA age limit or about the Yankees' starting pitching. It's gotten to the point that if someone like Peter Gammons or Chris Mortensen isn't on (Mel Kiper was on this morning, so I listened for a little bit), I'll change it to classical music. That's only because the other early-morning option is...
- Van Earl Wright and Andrew Siciliano (formerly Tony Bruno's show) on this same 5:30-6 window: Van Earl's voice is the most annoying thing on the entire radio dial ("Good morning, ev-ruh-buh-duh") and Siciliano just likes to hear himself talk. There's nothing I ever like about this show, guests or otherwise...
- The Herd with Colin Cowherd, on the brief drive from the gym to work (7:30ish): Used to be pretty good, and I especially enjoyed the "Spanning the Globe" feature, in which they talk to reporters from all over the country, touching on issues relevant to that particular metropolis. I used to have respect for this piece, that is until I heard Dave Stone as the Los Angeles correspondence. Yeah, the same Dave Stone that is pretty much the worst voice on the local ESPN Radio 710. A quick Dave Stone sidenote: I tuned in early for the Angel game the other day and had to listen to Stonie blabbing on and on about Vlad Guerrero's statistics compared to Joe DiMaggio, compared to Ted Williams, etc. Numbers are interesting to look at (yes, even b***ball numbers, Suss), because they are easy to contrast with the eyes, but listening them just doesn't make sense (and he was reading everything, all the way down the stat line). So yeah, his presence on the Herd made me immediately question the validity of their other so-called "experts" across this great nation. If the rest of America is relying on Dave Stone to give them the inside scoop on Kobe or the Dodgers' off-season, then how am I supposed to trust Joe Nobody from Atlanta trying to talk to me about Ron Mexico? They're done...
- McDonnell Douglas, very rarely on part of the drive home (6:30-7 p.m.): My days have ended later lately, so I don't hear them anymore, thank goodness. If it isn't McDonnell going off on some L.A. team exec (none of them have ever done anything right, according to the Big Nasty), it's Krikorian laughing and faking his attempts to calm down the "Great White Father." The wise insights are few and far between with these two...
- GameNight on ESPN Radio, for most of my drive home (7-8:30 p.m., depending): Finally something worthwhile, but it comes to us from Bristol, not Los Angeles. They rotate talent a little bit, but John Seibel, Doug Gottlieb and Freddie Coleman are the regulars, backed up occasionally by Chuck Wilson and Sean Salisbury. I actually like all these guys, never too argumentative (McD/D), never arrogant (M&M), and always getting good guests (unlike the Herd), often from recently-completed games to talk about what's just been happening. That's an element of news that's somewhat important, you know, keeping people up-to-date on what's happening. My radio pretty much doesn't deviate from 710 on the way home (unless the Pads are on the Mighty 1090), because it's GameNight or the Halos, and that's not bad...
Short today, lots to do. Try to enjoy a Padre-less Thursday...