Jim Rome, Ignoramus

I drive around quite a bit at work, as most of you know. I enjoy listening to music mostly, but I need variety to avoid getting bored out of my mind, and so I listen to quite a bit of sport's radio. We get two stations in Omaha, ESPN 1620 AM and Fox 1490 AM. In the morning the listening is pretty good, 1620 has Mike and Mike in the Morning, one Mike is Mike Golic, an emmy winning ex NFL player, and they are witty and pretty knowledgeable about sports. I'm not sure who Fox has on as their morning guy, but he's not too bad either. Both programs are nationally syndicated, as are most of the programs on both stations during the day. Unfortunately, on 1490, at noon each weekday, they put the Jim Rome show on for 3 hours.

If you have never heard of Jim Rome, you are fortunate. For those of us who have heard of him, he is the epitome of ignorance and pessimistic review, he bashes everyone, yet the closest he ever got to playing sports was licking the sweat off Bill Walton's jock strap, I don't think Rome ever even played college sports, much less any pro sport of any kind. He is a complete pompous ass and a disgrace to the sport's media profession. He has his own special name for the brain dead tards that actually follow his show and write in and call him, he calls them 'Clones'.

His interviews are absolutely atrocious. Rome can spend a week bashing a guy, then he'll have the guy on his show on the following Monday, and he's got the knee pad's on doing a Monica Lewinsky on his guest, as though his guest is the greatest guy he's EVER had on. I suppose he is like this because of his history...

Years ago on ESPN2, probably the funniest thing I have ever seen in sports, or at least in the top 10, occurred in 1994. ESPN2 was a relatively new channel, a 'spin-off' if you will, from ESPN. A show called Talk2 had started the year before, and was hosted by Jim Rome, who was relatively unknown at the time. Basically, all that Rome was known for was his insulting comments towards people. Jim Everett was an NFL quarterback at the time, playing for the New Orlean Saints. Unfortunately for Everett, he had gotten several concussions and was seriously considering retiring.

Jim Rome, being the ass monkey that he is, spent about 2 years calling Everett "Chris Everett", trying to compare Everett to the tennis player, saying he was not a real man at all. So then came the day when Jim Everett was a guest on Talk2:

http://home.swbell.net/jdougs/everett.mpeg

(I am not linking it, some people can't get it to work that way, copy paste this into your address bar on your browser.)

If you can't see it, basically Everett tells Rome not to call him Chris again, and of course, Rome, being a childish idiot, calls him Chris. Everett tosses the table that separated them and smacks Rome around and then right off the stage, it's really the crowning moment for Jim Rome in his broadcast career, and almost immediately afterwards he was fired from ESPN. Rome should have invited Chris Everett on the show too, so she could kick his ass for being a chauvanistic pig.

Unfortunately, this was not the end of Mr. Rome. Fox, who specializes in the hiring of baboons and other primates, hired Rome to do a radio show for them. And for the last 8 years or so that is what he has done, much to the irritation of any human with a brain. So, he has spent his time ridiculing and insulting everyone he can in any sport you can imagine, from baseball to football to NASCAR to the Olympics, his rectal rhetoric knows no boundaries. He uses moronic slang, calling money "mad jack", and of course, his "clones" comments. And what an egomaniac, he finishes almost every interview with "wow, that was just an amazing interview, I'm so good, look at me, blah blah blah."

Then, for whatever stupid reason, ESPN was moronic enough to hire Rome's lame dimwitted ass back on, for a show called "Rome Is Burning". I won't ever watch it, it's bad enough having to deal with him on the radio, much less having to look at his ugly face on television, the man, er, boy has no common sense at all as far as etiquette, and I'm sure he'll end up getting his ass kicked on television again, except, this time he doesn't actually have people on the show with him, they are 'teleconferenced' in with him.

I think the only way I would watch this show is if someone actually did light him on fire, then "Rome Is Burning" would really be a meaningful show to watch, a real family pleaser. Stay tuned to local listings for time and channel.

Hot November!!!

It was 75 degrees today!!! WOW, talk about amazing. Of course, I was at work, and because the sun is basically gone by the time I get off work, I was unable to exploit this beautiful day to the fullest, be it running naked thru the park or protesting war protesters with a bullhorn, but non the less, it was a truly wonderful day.

I think to myself about how nice it would be if it were this temperature year round. Move to San Diego you say? Nah, learn to swim in the Arizona Bay, I say. I would have to say though that I like the heat of summer, the 100 degree temperatures that other people shy away from, I thrive in. And I would probably miss the snow and cold (I know, am I crazy???) if I got away from it, even though I tend to cuss up a storm about it sometimes in the winter around here.

I think that during the winter, I have time (lots of time) to really appreciate how nice the spring/summer really is around here. Nothing like the first 2 or 3 minutes in your car at 7:30 in the morning on a monday on your way to work, to make you think about the summertime, and how nice the mornings are during the summer.

I really did want to go for a jog tonite, but I realized that it had dropped about 20 degrees in 2 minutes once the sun disappeared. Oh well, such is life in the frozen wasteland that is the midwest during the bleak months of winter. ***This paragraph brought to you by Dairy Queen Blizzards, you want a really cool treat? Try a Dairy Queen Blizzard treat, now in Turkey and Stove Top Flavor!!!***

Legalized Robbery

Credit card companies certainly do make a hefty living ripping off the general public. Why is it that you can put money into a bank account and not get more than 3 percent interest on it right now, yet the interest on the credit card is 19%??? Wow, that really makes a lot of sense? Whatever. And God help you if you go over your limit. They nail you with an 'over your limit' fee each month that is more than your minimum payment. If by some chance, you are lucky enough to get back below your limit, if you pay the minimum payment each month, it will take you approximately 415 years to pay the card off, good luck. Even better, send in your monthly payment with under 15 days left till the cut off date, and they won't get it credited to your account on time, WOW, another fee!!! THANK YOU AGAIN!!!

Call them to complain about it, and you get to talk to a trained baboon who's only excuse is "well, you know, the post office takes up to 15 days to get your payment to us." Yes, I suppose that is why every letter you ever send someone never takes more than 3 days, and in most cases is there the next day. I guess that's just a conspiracy by the United States Post Office to screw over the poor helpless credit card companies and we should feel sorry for them and agree to paying stupid fees that accrue, yeah that's the ticket. I don't know what sort of sense credit card companies make. They basically wait for a person to fall down, then they run up and kick you in the head as hard as they can.

Even more fun: I get a letter from my card company that says "Your credit rating has changed, we now consider you a risk, we are raising your interest rate from 19% to 29%." Of course, I called to ask them why it had changed, and the baboon that answered the phone just grunted in my ear, had no answers, and ate a banana.

Just for fun, let's apply credit card mentality to a life situation:

For the following scenario:

your credit card = boat
dollars = people
credit card company = coast guard
drop in credit rating = crack in boat

Problem:

A boat is out in the ocean, there are too many people on the boat, and the boat is starting to sink, they need some help bad!!!

Coast Guard:

Tell them the only way to save themselves is to get people off the boat, all the while putting more people into the boat. Oh, you waited too long to get people off the boat, you get more people added into the boat. What? The boat can only hold 1000 people and you have 1020 people on the boat?? PUT 50 MORE PEOPLE ON THE BOAT!!! What? The boat develops a slight crack in it? ADD IN 10 MORE PEOPLE PER MINUTE!!

I think we can all see what happens here, the boat sinks. Oh, one more:

boat sinks = bankruptcy

It's really confusing actually. And you call and try to work with them and all they really want to do, to let you get people off your boat, is add a few more in. Talk about frustrating. And sure, you can say "you are the one that ran the limit up on your card." I suppose that is a fair statement, but that doesn't give these companies the right to bend a guy over the coach with sandpaper, now does it?

I guess a quick and easy way to pay off credit cards would be a new law. Every time a credit card company sends me a credit card application in the mail, they have to include a dollar bill with the application. It's really weird, I have such a bad rating, but they continue to send me application after application. "Sorry folks, I can only pilot one boat at a time, and this one is sinking fast okay?" If I get a dollar for every application they send in the mail, I should get my card paid off after I get about 1100 applications. That should take, oh, about 2 months. I wonder if I have the power to get that law passed? Yeah, good luck on that one.