A Happy Farewell...At Least for Us

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye to Bobby Kravitz and Colin Cowherd!!!

1070-AM The Fan (WFNI) has given Bob Kravitz the boot from the weekday afternoon "Kravitz and Eddie" show. Hehehehehehehe. Unfortunately, the powers at Emmis left Eddie White to host the show with multiple co-hosts to help out, including Kravitz on a part-time basis, i.e. unpaid. While we here at LomHenn.com are not huge fans of Bob Kravitz, I'm even less thrilled with Eddie White. I guess Emmis felt they could get away with it since WNDE 1260-AM dumped JMV for Mark Patrick (bad move) and XL-950-AM requires aluminum foil and gymnastics moves in order to tune in anywhere north of 56th Street.

Emmis stated that the motivator was financial in nature and not a slam on Kravitz. Yeah, right, and monkeys might fly out of my butt! And next month when Emmis adds a permanent co-host to the show again, then what are you going to say? That Eddie sucks ass as a solo act? Obviously since they've stated he will have a revolving door of part-time co-hosts.

Emmis has also reshuffled their lineup to move the Dan Dakich Show from a 10am to 1pm time slot to noon to 3pm. As a result the Colin Cowherd Show aired by ESPN is now caput. This is a good/bad thing. While I really had a hard time listening to Colin, he was typically good for some fodder for LomHenn.com. It will be interesting to see how the ratings go for 1070 having local content from noon till 6pm, or even longer on some nights.

**See EDIT below**

I guess we still have Kravitz to deal with in the paper and your faithful crew of LomHenn.com will be ever ready to tell Kravitz what a fucktard he is.

**EDIT** - Sorry, I guess I should actually read everything in an article, huh? I missed in all of the show shuffling that Joe Staysniak will host a mid-morning show from 10am to noon weekdays. So now 1070 will be almost all local all the time from 10am to 6pm or later. I really don't think we have that much going on Indy to warrant local hosts for 8+ hours on weekdays. Granted, I think most of the ESPN radio hosts suck major assage, but at least you got some national news and input. Now you will get to hear the same things over and over and over and over and over and.... Personally, I don't think it's going to work as well as Emmis thinks it will. My bet is that they will be reshuffling things again by September.

I think I've got a paper cut...who's got some lemon juice?

Quick Hits

I'm back with another episode of "Quick Hits", items that need to pointed out, but not necessarily big enough to warrant their own posts.

Dan Dakich Show

I generally like the Dan Dakich show. It is nice to have a local sports radio talk show and Dan does a decent job of hosting the show. However, he had a couple of trip-ups on Friday's show.

Regarding perfect games in baseball, "Perfect games never happen." Uhh, Dan it has happened 16 times in the modern era and 18 times overall. So they do occur. Really.

Regarding the NL Central Division, "The (Chicago) Cubs are in first place because they are one loss up on the Cardinals." No, dickhead, the Cubs are not in first place. The Cards were 52-46 while the Cubs were 48-45 before Friday's games. You can't assume that just because the Cubs have played five fewer games that all of them would be won by the Cubs. If you look at the standings, the Cards have a winning percentage of .531 versus the Cubs .516. By every statistical rule I know of, this would put the Cards in first place, Danny.

All-Star Game

Yes, I know that the American League now has a thirteen game unbeaten streak, which is the longest such streak in the series. However, I am tired of hearing all of the pundits go on and on and on about the woeful National League. The NL may be taking it on the chin since 1996, but I have not heard any of them mention that the NL won eleven straight from 1972 to 1982 and won 19 of 20 from 1963 to 1982. I guess since that occurred over 25 years ago, no one ever thinks to look back that far.

Hall of Fame & Steroids

This will be a bigger post at some point, but I still take the stand that if a player took steroids before it was made illegal by MLB, then technically, he did not do anything wrong. Yes, there are numerous players that are suspected to have taken steroids and several that have tested positive or been identified. Did it give them an advantage? Most likely, otherwise, players wouldn't have been taking them. Did it give them an UNFAIR advantage? No, because at the time it was not illegal and therefore, not unfair. So no asterisks are needed for those records that were broken.

Now in the case of someone like Manny Ramirez, it does bring up an interesting discussion about players who have tested positive and been suspended by MLB for PEDs. Do you start putting asterisks on their records? Do you throw out certain seasons of statistics? Do you totally bar them from consideration? Makes you think.

All right, its late and I need to get up early to drive to Chicago for a Cubs game...sweeeeeeet! Now, if they win today (Sunday) and the Cards lose, then the Cubs WILL be in first place.