We are still minor league

Not quite good enough to be a cage-liner but just good enough to wrap Uncle Ray Don's new Dale Jarrett Bobble-head.

 

It's a good rag to use for cleaning glass. Squirt some windex, and the printers ink gives the windows a good shine and leaves no streaks.

 

Newspapers

Newspapers are in major trouble. We have sit back and allowed Congress to be bought off and pass laws that give people like Rupert Murdoch the ability to buy multi media outlets and the result is fewer owners owning more papers. They then downsize the staffs and cut budgets to maximize profits and the result is watered down and homogenized news. We have no investigative reporting today to speak of. CNN has become a total joke. Fox always was. Hell if we had real journalistic integrity today maybe we would not be in that quagmire called Iraq right now....But I digress. You factor in the internet, where so many get their news now from media outlets and blogs and what you end up is lousy newspapers that are becoming more and more irrelevant every day. As they get worse the circulations go down and with it their budgets.

But geez how much can it cost to send a guy to Canton, Ohio? It's not like it's Manhattan. I agree that this is embarrassing and disrespectful.

 

The Tennessean is one of the worst papers in the country and their sports writers suck, especially Kuharsky. He gets his insight from the towel boys.

 

John McClain went to Canton earlier this week. The Wake-Up Zone's coverage this morning was great -- interviews with Matthews, Warren Moon, Eddie George, Benji Olson, even the curator of the Hall of Fame.

McClain was also on the Zone this morning and mentioned his 7-part video of a one-on-one with Matthews. Six of the parts are up now if you want to view them: Houston Chronicle videos.