I am so far behind the rest of the Technical World! So much happens on my new iPhone and because I am still so uninformed, much of it goes unnoticed in my goofy life! So no one will know how surprised and thrilled I was to find that I had not one but TWO messages from my Radio Hero, Go-2 Guy, Jim Moore.
If you are my friend, you know how insane my love is for both the Mariners and the Seahawks, and if you have any memory left (unlike me) you will recall that my car radio and the ones in the kitchen and my bedroom are permanently set on AM 710ESPN, the best sports station in the northwest.
I started as a fan of Brock and Salk who used to be on in the early afternoon. But when a man returned to Seattle who had been on another station when he was here before, he was given that slot and Brock and Salk were moved to a morning show. Brock was once the QB at the UDub and Mike Salk came to us from Boston. He’s a huge fan of the Red Sox and Bruins. I love their football talk—but I digress.
Since my present lifestyle has me awake till the sky turns blue, I can’t listen to them any more, so happily for me, I found the Kevin Calabro show. His co-host is the man I love! He went to school at Washington State and is as avid a Cougar fan as my brother is a fan of the Oregon State Beavers. Kevin calls him his Go-2 Guy, and he is just special to me. He has a warmth and sense of kindness about him in the things he says and the way he says them. And a GREAT sense of humor which is frequently disarmingly self-deprecating. I love a man who can laugh at himself. It shows that he knows he is not perfect. None of us are, but a lot of men haven’t figured that out yet. <I’m grinning as I type.> But he also has to have confidence in who he is so that he knows people are laughing with him and not at him. And he has a neat laugh! He and Kevin are like a City Mouse and a Country Mouse—if Mice can golf!
Kevin is a basketball master. He called all of the Sonics games back in the day when they were champions, and he is now the best man in the country to call an exciting game. He paints the game with magic in his words. He, too, can make fun of himself and he and Jim trade barbs and jokes and I often find myself laughing out loud. It’s okay in the kitchen, but when I am driving or when I am working in the yard, passing cars and my neighbors probably think I’m nuts! I didn’t realize how hooked I was on their show until I made the long drive to see Dick and JD in California. Losing our ESPN signal was dismal. I managed to find other ESPN stations in Oregon and once I got out of the Siskyous, I found some country stations in California, but I never did find a good sports station after he moved to Ukiah.
Man—how can I get so far off base? I’d be picked off in a heartbeat on the diamond. I started by mentioning my message from The Go-2 Guy. I had called the station last week from the car. OnStar has never dropped a call for me before, but there is always a first time! When I called back to explain what had happened, I was told that they were “winding down” so I wouldn’t be able to speak any more. I didn’t think anything about it until I noticed they were still giving the phone number for people to call in. My feelings got all bent out of shape, so I wrote a cry-baby note to ESPN (Dick knows how much I hate to text!) and my Hero replied! And of course, I didn’t even SEE it until today.
I HAD been reading their blog on Facebook, though. They asked us to post what trades we were willing to make prior to the deadline at the end of July. I posted my same philosophy—NO trades--wait it out. These kids are good and getting better. Let us have a losing year this year and look at the good stuff. Then next year we can watch them go! Then, after I had hit the POST button, I remembered what I had wanted to tell them when I lost my call. Some crazy fans had been writing that they were willing to trade King Felix for a lousy bat. I reminded them that if you are building a BODY you don’t cut the HEART out. Felix is the heart of this team. It would make no sense to lose him now. I hope they will mention that tomorrow.
In the meantime, I have downloaded a new offline bogging editor and I am trying to figure out how it works. If I can get that done, this should post to the web. If not, I start all over. Oh, goody!
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