Motor City Sonics

One of those cases where a major record label falls in love with a band and signs them and then for some reason wants to change them and interferes. This happened to Spoon and they bought themselves out of their contract and stayed indie. Why sign them and change them? Never made sense to me.

I've listened to plenty of Richard Hawley music but until this morning, I hadn't heard this. Have no idea why. It came up as I had the Spotify randomizer based on Lisa Hannigan on............This song is brilliant. It's just about perfect (because the perfect song does not exist, because that would be impossible).

"...........there's also a negative side" Woke up feeling about 75% normal today an sinues are mostly clear. I CAN BREATHE THROUGH MY NOSE AGAIN. Energy still isn't there yet, but it's Saturday and it doesn't need to be. The Tylenol has yet to kick in and that always makes me feel a couple notches better. Still got that little bit of sweat on my back that you get when you're sick. When that goes away I'll feel like it's over.

not sure. he doesn't look out of place at all. it's possible that the days of parking guys could be over. If this team stays healthy they could be a surprise this year. But of course, we're Detroit, so we know key players will get hurt right away because we can't have nice things here.

Because he was just talking to you about baseball, he wasn't trying to sell you anything and that's why Dirks is so good. Just talks baseball..........that's all we want. C-Mo is unlistenable. Just stop trying to cheerlead..........do it when it's the right time. That's one thing Rod had down (Ohhh Jackson!). I know they'll use Gibby part of the time and I don't mind that, but you can tell that those Parkinson's meds are draining him and I hate hearing him struggle. Petry's alright. Maybin is alright and sounds better now than he did the first few times I heard him nationally. Jonesy is interesting. Not polished, but it works, but it wouldn't work 160 times. We don't even know who's gonna carry them next year. Bally's is going to survive another year?

He was very good. Would it be weird with his dad's firing? I am guessing Dirks & Scales on a rotating basis and if Curtis Granderson wants the TV gig, he should get it, but I think he''s got other things going that a bit bigger than baseball, doesn't he?

Tested positive for it awhile back, months ago. but I think it was a flawed test I have it now. Do I ever Sunday evening - walked Lucy the wonder dog. When I came in I was sweating. It was a warm evening, but it seemed a little odd. Felt Fine Monday morning. Felt sluggish. Scratchy throat. Took the test. Negative. Went to work (I get colds every year this time of year). Throughout the day I kept feeling worse, so I avoided everyone and went home. Tuesday morning - Holy hell I felt horrible. Incredible headache, neckache, sweats/shivers, cough. My mom lives close, had her drop off a couple of tests. Both positive. Laid in bed and just moaned like Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally. Never had a temp over 98.3 (97.3 - 97.5 is my baseline). Just laid in the recliner feeling sick. Wednesday morning - Woke up MUCH better than Tuesday (Tylenol helps). Went to Urgent Care and they confirmed it. Gave me a script for Paxlovid. Couldn't get it delivered and wasn't about to go into a store, even with a mask and surgical gloves (I have boxes that were expired when I worked at the hospital, but are fine for household chores and dog doody pickup - they were going to throw them away). I was able to continue doing my afternoon show from home (the miracles of modern technology). A listener emailed me "You sound horrible, why are you working?". (Out of fear that if they get by without me for even two days I'll be fired or something, it's a mental thing). Rested up, scheduled station music through the weekend, watched some telly. Thursday Mom picked up the script for me. Took it and it has the most bitter constant aftertaste of anything I've ever taken, so I decided to stop because I didn't need to pile that misery on top of the rest and I constantly had to be sucking on candy to defeat that taste. Felt better but started getting all the phlegm. Phlegm is an ugly word, isn't it? Perfect. Lots and lots and lots of ugly-ass phlegm. Then today. I can not remember fatigue like this in my entire life. I am freaking drained. Been laying about like a lump of dirty clothes all day. Other than the absolute true misery of Tuesday morning, this hasn't felt much worse than a bad cold. A very mild fever (if you can call 98.3 a fever) and the rest is a bad cold that won't go away with incredible fatigue. Of course it's lasting longer than a cold and I am banished from work until Wednesday at the earliest, but will continue working from home. If you want to hear what a sick person sounds like on the air 107.1 in Ann Arbor through about 6:50pm. I'll be playin Jason Isbell, The Police, Theo Katzman, David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, Devon Gilfillian, Echo & The Bunnymen and the Talking Heads. (annarbors107one.com). Small staff - no backups and the whole 'they can't get by without me, can they?' thing . Then no more working for a few days and more laying around. I sure hope this fatigue improves by tomorrow. I sat in the recliner to watch only Murders In The Building. I was on Season 1 Episode 4 and the next thing it was Season 2 Episode2

What are the chances Chase Claypool whiffs on a block that leads to Tue's career-ending head injury............

I don't think there would be much blowback. I think the only potential resistance is if they hire Mario and not Rod, it might look racist, unless it comes out that Rod threw the punch. But would Rod be the kind of guy that would overreact to something?

You underestimate John Angelos' mastery of effing things up.

I worked with two guys, in radio who had a couple of physical altercations and one of them involved throwing hands. Suspended for a week both times and they got along fine after that. The station doesn't exist but they are still friends now. Stuff boils over sometimes. Spending every working day with the same person who knows how to needle you? Not the end of the world. Don't know why anybody needed to expose Rod & Mario's tiff. If they think what happened was so unforgivable (was Mario the puncher or the punchee?) then go rescue Kevin Brown from that ridiculous owner in Baltimore, who, believe me, will screw this thing up for the Orioles by 2025 and have them back in the cellar again.

That play where Justin Fields was shaking the whole bed was pretty intense. Oh wait, I'm watching The Exorcist.

Give the Bears time. They haven't figured out how to lose this one yet. Their coach is lucky he wasn't fired after the Denver game.

It was lots of NFL Films productions for me...........I hear the song "Autumn Thunder" in my head right now.

So his first name gets "starred" out, even though it's just a first name? End censorship now !

**** Butkus has died.

Here's a great breakthrough............Native Americans playing Native Americans. Nice touch.

But there is the issue of how can you expand when you have 2 teams that aren't even interesting in their own market. One of them is in the playoff chase every single year, but in order to do that has to trade any star players before they start getting star money (making it harder for even the few fans who care to form connections with players). The other team did the big spending thing and won the world series twice only to very quickly sell the team off - another way to alienate a fan base. Nashville is practically begging for a team, and I have to be honest, though it's not the biggest market, I am guessing a playoff game gets more than 19K to show up. After Nashville..........then where? Vegas is taken. Montreal? Do they have the stadium? Can they even renovate Olympic? Kind of doubtful that taxpayers are goin to foot the bill for a new stadium and the infrastructure it takes. I sympathize with Expos fans. Closest they came to a World Series, a team full of stars and the strike ends the season and then Jeffrey Loria pulls his crap and does what Oakland's owner is doing to the A's now, you know, Rachel Phelpsing a team. Not sure Vegas is any better than Miami when it comes to baseball fans. Portland? Sorry, the city is a political nightmare. Charlotte? Maybe. The money is there, but is the interest? It fills a little void there. Gives the Braves a regional rival. I think there are two places that would be great, but owners of other teams nearby would block it - and that's Indianapolis and New Jersey. If you move Tampa to Nashville, I don't see any really good options for expansion and if you expand with Nashville and one other you're still going to have the Rays and Marlins failing. We're really into sports in this region, partly because in the cold months watching sports is something to do. Much of the U.S. doesn't have that problem and just doesn't get into sports (outside of football) like we do.

I can't believe that they're going to build another stadium right next to the Trop. What a joke. They just don't care about baseball in that area (unless they're NE or MIdwest transplants). Shame that such a well-run organization has to play for such a lousy fanbase.

Republicans are goin to eat themselves alive. Go ahead and put the extremists in charge. Good luck with that. By the way, how can you blame this on drag queens and Trans people? Think of an angle. I'm sure the cult will believe it.

Bring back Rod & Mario. So they don't like each other. Big deal. They made it work before.

Bring in a hockey guy !!!

Bring in Tito Francona to do color. He would be absolutely fantastic (I am guessing he'll have a national TV studio gig).

Knew the knives would be out for McCarthy within a year. Surprised it took this long. They're gonna try to vote Trump in as Speaker.