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To Belding High School senior Erik Doty, the phrase "blessing in disguise" has a unique meaning.
On Oct. 27, 2008, Erik was riding to school in the passenger seat of his brother Kevin's truck while his cousin, Wade, sat in the back.
But the three never made it to school.
All Erik can remember is a sudden flash of the truck hitting an ice patch and swerving off the road. Three years later, however, all Erik has to do is look down for a constant reminder of that day.
Erik is now fitted with a prosthetic for his right leg from the knee down. His leg was crushed in the accident and was beyond saving. But if you ask him about it, he'll just smile and tell you he wouldn't ask for things to be any different.
"God gave me a second chance and I don't want to waste it," Erik said. "I believe I'm much better off today than I was before the accident"
Three years ago Erik was a shy student just beginning his freshman year at Belding High School. He didn't participate in any sports, kept to himself and didn't have much of an idea as far as what was ahead for him in the future.
Today, Erik is a senior at Belding High School and a 2011 U.S. Paralympic High School Tack and Field All-American.
A star is born
Erik took up track and field for the first time five months ago in June. In his first bout of competition at the Thunder in the Valley Games in Saginaw, he took first in every event he participated in.
"I participated in long jump, discus, shot put, javelin and the 100-meter dash," Erik said. "I started exercising about a year before I first participated, but I didn't have any experience."
Erik then went on to participate in the Endeavor Games in Oklahoma, where he again placed first in every event he participated in, qualifying for the National Junior Championships in Saginaw.
At the championships, Erik competed in discus, javelin and shot put, again placing first in all three events.
"I didn't think I was going to do as well as I did," Erik said. "I thought I was just going to go into it and just do it. Just be there."
His scores in Saginaw earned him the honor of being selected as a High School All-American.
The instant success took Erik's parents by surprise.
"Erik was always very shy, he didn't really play any sports," Erik's mother, Connie Doty, said. "To all of a sudden go into sports with no prior experience with track and field, we didn't see this coming. Who knew he could throw so well? But once Erik got a taste of it, we knew he was going to go far with this. It's fun to be his little cheerleaders in the corner."
Tough call,
good result
Connie looks back at the accident three years ago and says it still seems like something out of a movie.
"I saw the kids off to school in the morning on my day off from work," Connie said. "I saw on the news that there was an accident on Long Lake road involving a truck, but everyone around here has a truck. About an hour later my husband Dennis called and told me there was an accident and I knew by the tone of his voice that it was not good at all."
Connie said the decision to amputate Erik's leg was tough, but it was an obvious call.
"It was a mutual decision to go with an amputation," Connie said. "With a prosthetic, he'd be able to run again, and that's what we wanted for him."
Erik's brother, Kevin, says he still lives with the guilt of driving that truck off the road.
"I was just hoping he wouldn't be mad at me for the rest of his life," Kevin said. "I felt really guilty. Putting Erik through that, it's a huge life-altering change. I told him I was sorry and I felt really bad. His leg, that's something you can't get back."
Reflecting three years later, however, Kevin agrees that the accident was for the best.
"Before the accident, he wasn't really athletic," Kevin said. "But now he works out everyday. He's stronger than me and I'm three years older than him. It's good to see him, to see that he's handled it this well. I think it's good the way it is. He's going somewhere big now, and I'm happy for him. If it didn't happen, I don't know what he'd be like."
Big plans
Erik plans to wrestle for Belding this winter and will also participate in discus and shot put on the school's track team this spring.
"I'll probably wrestle without the leg," Erik said. "I'm all set for it mentally. I hope to be right up there with them, maybe do better. If I do worse, it's OK. I'll just get right back up and do better."
After graduating this spring, Erik has hopes to continue his efforts in track and field with aspirations to make it on the U.S. Paralympic team in 2016 in Brazil.
"To get there, that would just be amazing," Erik said. "It will take a lot of effort."
Erik's leg injury has not only changed his outlook on life and participation in sports, but has lead a new path for his professional career as well.
"I plan to go to college and start a career in orthotics and prosthetics," Erik said.
His parents couldn't be happier with his decision.
"He's a remarkable kid, but this has given him a direction now," Connie said. "A direction for social events, for competition and now for what he's choosing to do with his professional life. It's opened new doors."
"That's the way it should be," Erik's father, Dennis Doty said. "You have to give back. So many people have come through for him, it's time for him to come through for them."
Asked if there are ever days when he wishes he still had his right leg, Erik just smiled.
"I wouldn't be doing any of this if it wasn't for losing my leg, he said. "I probably wouldn't be doing any sports and I don't even know if I would want to go to college. It was a blessing in disguise."


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posted at 8:42 am on August 24, 2010 by Diane Suffern
Good news for job seekers proficient in Ebonics: The DoJ wants you!
The Smoking Gun reports:
The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration's Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a "DEA Sensitive" security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of "telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media"
(See one job application here, via Fox.)
Don't yet have a command of the "language?" That's okay; the Atlanta DEA field office is also seeking experts in Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Farsi, and Jamaican patois languages.
A few tentative follow up questions: Is this simply a case of law enforcement agencies utilizing all tools necessary in a diverse urban area and an acceptable use of taxpayer dollars? Or an indirect legitimization of substandard English by categorizing it with other recognized languages? 1996 Oakland School Board controversy redux, perhaps?
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Let's start with defining what mediation is (and what it isn't). Mediation is a process that takes place in many legal proceedings where the parties sit down with a neutral third person (the mediator) and attempt to reach a resolution of their dispute. Unlike trial, where the judge or jury will decide the case, mediation will not definitively resolve a case unless the parties choose to reach an agreement. While the mediator will have ideas about how the case should be resolved, the mediator does not ultimately make a ruling. Rather, the mediator simply facilitates the parties reaching a resolution.
Why do parties go to mediation? First, mediation is required by the courts before trial in most civil cases. So, going to mediation may be a necessary step in the litigation process. Second, mediation may be a prerequisite to legal action under a contract (or other binding document) between the parties. Third, reaching a settlement at mediation will allow the parties to avoid the expense and uncertainty of taking a case all the way to trial. Thus, resolving a dispute at mediation can be cost-effective and practical even for a party that is likely to win at trial.
Who is the mediator? In limited situations, the court may require the parties to meet with a particular court mediator. In many other situations, it is up to the parties to decide who they want to be their private mediator. There is no formal training required to be a private mediator, although many mediators do receive training in dispute resolution. Mediators are often retired judges or other experienced attorneys. Choosing a mediator can be a function of (1) what mediators are available in the area and whether they are available at a convenient time; (2) the type of case (given that some mediators have experience in certain areas of law); (3) the experience of the parties' attorneys with different mediators (or what they hear about a given mediator's reputation); and (4) the mediator's fees.
How much does mediation cost? Private mediators typically charge $100-400 per hour with the fee split between the sides of the case (plaintiff side and defense side). Mediators may charge extra for preparation or travel. Mediation of a simple case might take a few hours and of a more complicated case more than a day. It is not uncommon for a mediation to take longer than originally scheduled.
How does mediation work? Each mediator has his or her own style. In most situations, the parties will communicate with the mediator separately before the mediation providing background on the case and their view of how it should be settled. Any communications with a mediator are confidential; they will not be disclosed by the mediator to the other side without permission (and what happens at mediation may not be brought up in court). Some or all of a mediation may be conducted with the parties face-to-face, but the mediator will usually at some point meet with the parties privately. The mediator will then go back and forth (this is called "shuttle diplomacy") learning about the case, narrowing the issues and trying to bring about a settlement. One way or other, the mediator will try to get the parties to think realistically about the case and will engage in some degree of "arm twisting."
Mediation is at heart just like any other business negotiation. It requires each party to assimilate imperfect information about their case and make a decision about settlement based on potential outcomes. A skilled attorney can help navigate this process and achieve a favorable result.
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Yea, I read about that yesterday.
I have a telescope too - a 127mm starmax from Orion. Had it a few years now, and I have an entire set of lenses and some filters.
Unfortunately, I cannot see too much where i live due to city lights. I REALLY wanna take the scope out to West Texas and stop someplace 1 night to get a great view. One night, I stopped at a rest stop along I-10 back in New Mexico in 1998, and I was amazed when I got out of the car. I had never seen that many stars in my life. U never see that when you are in a city.
When I got the scope, I said I'd be satisfied if I could just see Jupiter and Saturn. Well, the planets are about all I can see with the city lights.
I did get to see that awesome view of Mars a few years back. Also have seen Saturn, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus.


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Parliament has passed the Law on Equal Opportunities and set up the Council to Prevent and Combat Discrimination and Ensure Equality; a reform of the Ombudsman institution is planned; the Action Plan for Roma has received an initial funding allocation and work to implement it is progressing; and several minority religious groups have been registered under the Law on Freedom of Conscience, Thought and Religion.
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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by berthesghost, Sep 21, 2012.
Wow, that sucks. But I support "sin" taxes.
Does the state (or city) of New York offer free cessation services to low income? If they do that, I don't think the tax can be considered regressive. If you don't want to pay the tax, you could just NOT buy cigarettes (which is the point of the tax). Since cessation programs are expensive, not offering them to low income people would make it regressive, because it is very difficult to say after the fact "well, you should have never started smoking", and the cost to quit could mean only better off people are able to do it.
A pack of cigarettes in Vancouver BC is $10, so if you smoke two packs a day - which heavy smokers do - you have a $20 a day habit, which equals $600 a month and $7200 a year.
There are a variety of smoking cessation services for free though and nicotine patches cost a lot less. In fact, you can just dial a number and get three months worth of nicotine patches free per year, for multiple years. At least that is how it is at the moment. And you can get your friends and family members to get free patches for you too!! I find it quite interesting, especially since you can get any strength of patch you want. Plus, the three strengths of patches cost the same. . .
So, pharmaceuticals clearly want smokers to become dependent on nicotine patches and/or other NRT.
But, it's better than spending $7200 a year. A lot of addicts will go without food or other necessities to buy their substance of choice.
If you use the patch to quit the way it's advised, it takes 3 - 4 months to gradually decrease the amount of nicotine going into the body. I don't think the patch was designed to be a long-term replacement for cigarettes.
As for the tax, it's the same for all the sin taxes. The heavy users who are lower income are going to pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes. The continual increase in those taxes by governments, especially on tobacco products, are designed to encourage people to quit. It was the cost that finally spurred me to quit over ten years ago -- when the price hit $10/pack, it was time to give them up. But, addictions are as individual as the people who have them -- everyone will handle them differently. What worked for me won't necessarily work for others.
It's really hard to complain about a tax that's designed to encourage people to stop doing something that's harmful to their health, as well as those around them.
I don't know about Canada, but I don't believe the US government really wants people to quit. Why else are tobacco farmers subsidized & why are laws friendly to tobacco companies? Why are they allowed to put fillers into cigarettes that make them even more habit-forming than just tobacco?
I don't believe the tax is designed to encourage people to stop smoking. I think it's just another way to gouge people who are already dependant.
According to Wikipedia, tobacco price supports ended 7+ years ago: "Adoption of the tobacco quota buyout in P.L. 108-357, Title VI, ended also the price support program for the 2005 crop and subsequent years."
This Congressional Research Service report confirms: http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/95-129.pdf
I don't mean to underplay the negative effects of earlier government policies; my mother's been dragging around an oxygen tank for about 10 years.
Yes, and cancer research is such a lucrative industry....
So poor people use easily accessible drugs to numb themselves from their existence? How fascinating! What a valuable study. I never would have guess this could be true!
I want to head a study someday that will prove that people without food are often hungry. I believe I could accomplish this study for somewhere in the $100,000 to $200,000 range.
The study is looking at the relative impact of smoking taxes on different income groups, not at the reasons for smoking. I think that's a worthwhile topic to study.
I'm not so sure actually. A lot of people do develop long-term dependencies on NRT. I recently read about an ex-dipping tobacco addict who was using four patches a day on an ongoing basis.
And while all NRTs have instructions for weaning off nicotine entirely, I question whether that is pharmaceutical companies' primary - or only - aim. The fact that they will give three free months supply of patches for multiple years is questionable, as is the fact that they are so easy to obtain. Just dial 811 and the only question they ask is whether you have taken Zyban or Chantix in the past six months. Then they are put in the mail. A person could get friends and family members to order patches for them as well and have a long-term free supply.
Add to that the fact that all three strengths of patches are the same price, giving no financial incentive to reduce the dosage. And they are available over the counter.
So I don't fully trust the pharmaceutical companies on this. They know that nicotine is addictive and profit mightily from NRTs, not to mention drugs that aim to assist people in quitting smoking. Nicotine isn't anywhere near as harmful as smoking and research on the health risks of nicotine on its own is lacking. Companies can market NRTs as heavily as they like and NRT advertising romanticizes addiction no less than tobacco advertising - e.g. in a current ad for nicorette spray a woman is on a dinner date and the spray made to look like a mouth refreshing mist. The caption 'for every cigarette, there's a nicorette' is catchy and clever IMO.
Lastly, smokers are advised to use the patch for 24 hours, which will only increase nicotine dependency - smokers' bodies at least get a break when they are sleeping. This is just one of a few questionable directions on the nicotine patches.
And most people I know who have used the patch, including me, figured out pretty quickly that the restless nights and wild dreams were a direct result of wearing the patch 24/7. The easy fix is to take it off at night, and put it on again in the morning.
Have you seen the cigarette packages in Canada?
For sure.
However, what I'm questioning is 24-hour patch. Smokers are being advised to increase the time nicotine is in their bodies while also being advised to reduce the patch dosages in a certain time. It's kind of contradiction and a mixed message. It suggests to me that they really didn't put much serious thought how the patch should be used to quit smoking.
I know that saving $7200/year or even half of that would be a huge incentive for me to quit, if I smoked. That would be a nice vacation, or two, or three, that would increase the happiness in my life tremendously!
No. That's why I said I don't know about Canada.
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that low income alcoholics spend 50% or more of their income on their addiction. Sad, but likely.
I quit on the patch, and have known others who have, None of us ever abused it like you are describing - and quite frankly, why bother? Why not just smoke? Now, I did know someone who chewed Nicorette gum well past the usual time for use, but he eventually stopped that too due to stomach issues.
Even if a very small number of people were to abuse it like you describe, the patch's effectiveness to the majority far outweighs the risks of abuse.
They're pretty graphic - pictures of what smoking can do to lungs etc.
The funniest scene in the film "Thank you for smoking" was when the anti-smoking group stuck nicotine patches all over the main character and gave him such a massive dose of nicotine he couldn't have another cigarette otherwise it would kill him. And also for a film about smoking they didn't have one scene with smoking in it.
I have always viewed smoking as an equivalent to lighting up dollar bills. Because it is just an incredible waste of money. But any addiction costs money and not in a positive way, whether socially or personally. Really is best not to start anything in the first place.
I can think of one person who used the patch on and off for more than ten years before becoming smoke- and patch-free. And of another who chewed the gum for quite a few years. Granted, that is a small sample, and as to the why: a) nicotine is addictive and b) patches or gum are nowhere near as bad for you as smoking
If you do a Good search you'll find lots of stories about NRT dependence, such as: http://robie2.hubpages.com/hub/Trading-Cigarettes-for-Addiction-to-Nicotine-Gum
I don't disagree with this at all.
What I question is pharmaceutical companies' intention. Even if a small percentage of people who use NRT become dependent on it or use it in repeated attempts to quit, it is a lot of money.
Take a look, some are not for the faint of heart.
Australia has those as well.
In fact by the end of the year the packaging of cigarettes will be in plain olive colour. No branding. The cigarette companies have been challenging the decision. They have been releasing pre-emptive packages which have half the wrapping pealed off and saying things like "It is what is inside that counts".


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posted at 9:37 pm on July 26, 2010 by Dafydd ab Hugh
The take-away from the massive dumping of leaked U.S. military documents on WikiLeaks, documents related to the conduct and progress of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is this: The putative "rift" between Islamist terrorists on the one hand, and radical Islamists who "reject terrorism" (at specific times and places) on the other hand, has nothing to do with any ultimate goal of Islamism.
The rift reflects only a difference of opinion about the precise strategies and tactics for achieving that goal. Islamist victory conditions are the same in both groups: a pure, radical Islamism dominant across the globe, with sharia the final law in every country.
This is, of course, the central thesis of Andrew McCarthy's seminal work, the Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America. But we see it played out in the carefully parsed response of the administration of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to the documentation, throughout the leaked papers, of cooperation between Pakistan officials and the Taliban… at the very time the former are supposed to be allied with the United States and NATO at war with the latter.
Note how carefully spokesmen dance around the actual accusation:
A senior ISI official, speaking on condition of anonymity under standard practice, sharply condemned the reports as "part of the malicious campaign to malign the spy organization" and said the ISI would "continue to eradicate the menace of terrorism with or without the help of the West."
The unnamed official pointedly restricted the term "menace" to terrorism; but the danger is not terrorism but Islamism. The accusation against the ISI, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence in Pakistan, is not that they, themselves engage in "martyrdom operations" in Pakistan or Afghanistan; of course they don't (in general). Rather, the data-dump documents that the ISI especially, but other Pakistan government bodies as well, leak military intelligence like a sieve. Some of the leaks are simple incompetence; but others are due to corruption (bribery) or a radical ideology that deliberately aids and abets Islamist groups… including those who prematurely engage in terrorism at this time, before Pakistan has been sufficiently "Islamicized" to embrace the ideology of the Taliban.
And again:
Farhatullah Babar, the spokesman for President Asif Ali Zardari, dismissed the reports and said that Pakistan remained "a part of a strategic alliance of the United States in the fight against terrorism…."
Mr. Babar questioned how Pakistan could possibly have the kind of connections to the Taliban that some of the reports suggest, asking if "those who are alleging that Pakistan is playing a double game are also asserting that President Zardari is presiding over an apparatus that is coordinating attacks on the general headquarters, mosques, shrines, schools and killing Pakistani citizens?"
Yes, I think we all agree that the current quasi-democratic, partially authoritarian regime in Pakistan believes it should remain in charge; consequently, it opposes terrorist attacks on "mosques, shrines, schools," and especially upon "the general headquarters" of Pakistan's military. But that isn't the question, is it?
Are elements of the ISI collaborating with the Taliban to bring about an Islamist revolution in Pakistan? That is the real question, and it remains unanswered by the Zardari administration.
Such a revolution needn't include terrorism; for example, if Zardari himself fully embraced Islamism and enacted sharia law, overturning what democracy Pakistan still possesses and joining "the Project" — but if he declared himself the supreme Taliban leader in Pakistan — that would still constitute an "Islamist revolution," without firing a shot. And it would be just as catastrophic for America and the rest of the West as a bloody insurrection or coup d'état.
Terrorism is not the enemy; it is a tactic of the enemy, one bolt in an entire quiver of bolts. A "global war against terrorism" has no meaning; but surely we can understand and support a war against radical Islamism.
This specifically includes not only those who want to advance Islamist ideas by terrorism but also those, like the Muslim Brotherhood, who share that goal but believe, at this time in history, that the Islamist Project is best advanced by propaganda, sabotage, bribery, "democratically" electing a totalitarian government (which then "pulls the ladder up" behind it)… and only sometimes by terrorism and bloody revolution.
Thus the surety we need is that Pakistan rejects the Islamist Project, and all it comprises:
- Dominance — Islam is dominant over all the world; infidels worldwide must pay the special tax and be treated as inferior beings.
- Purity — Islam is the Islam of Mohammed and his original followers; no reformation, no enlightenment, containing no Western ideas of individual liberty, democracy, or separation of religion and State.
- Completeness — Sharia is the entire law in every country and Islam the entire morality.
- Hegemony — the "true" Caliphate is restored to its rightful place as supreme ruler of the world.
If highly placed individuals within Pakistan (or Afghanistan) still support any element of the Project, then those individuals are our enemies, regardless of whether they believe terrorism is the best route to advance the Project at this time, in that particular place; and they should be treated as enemies by anyone who purports to reject radical Islamism.
The clever way found by representatives of Pakistan to ignore the implication that high-ranking government and intelligence officials either support the ideology of radical Islamism, or are at least willing to ally with them (for money, for power), and tendentiously redefine the question to focus only on the straw man of direct ISI involvement in terrorist attacks upon themselves, should make us very nervous indeed.
Why can't Pakistani officials, or President Zardari himself, just come right out and denounce the ideology of the Taliban? While it's important what tactics they use to advance that ideology, the most important factor is radical Islamism itself.
But don't look for the current American administration of Barack H. Obama to demand an answer; it has already ruled out ideology as a motivator of "Man-caused disaster" in the first place (an act of "Willful Blindness"). We cannot possibly win the war until and unless we are willing to confront the real enemy — radical Islamists — and win the war of ideas.
There are many ways to win a war of ideas or ideologies; but our core strategy is the same as that of the Islamists: conversion. We must convert the unaligned and even the enemy — either to another religion entirely (Christianity, perhaps), or at least to a non-radicalized version of Islam.
One path to conversion is to prove that our Western "culture of life" leads to a better life than the Islamists' cult of death. Another is to show that the West is the "strong horse;" this plays directly into the Arab cultural tendency to gravitate to the winning side in any conflict. But in order to convert, we need a Borg-like ideology that is powerful and seductive, against which "resistance is futile."
Fortunately, we have a couple ready to hand: Evangelical Christianity is winning that war in Africa, for example, as Animists and even Moslems on that continent are converting in mass numbers to an African Christianity that is both Western in outlook and native in local implementation.
Too, our own American ideology of individual liberty, Capitalism, rule of law, separation of religion and State (while maintaining the connection between religion and culture), and democratic governance by the consent of the governed is itself powerful and awesome, leading to a staggering improvement in human life and meaning, and to a strength that has made the still-young America the most powerful nation on Earth. (Even after eighteen months of Obamunism!)
But you can't surrender your way to victory; we must engage on the most important front — the ideological one.
That's how our Founders won the Revolutionary War, how the North won the Civil War, and how the Democratic West won World War II and the Cold War… they fought and won the war of ideas. Yet by allowing the multi-culti "elite" to jettison the entire intellectual arsenal of liberty, we have disarmed ourselves in what could be an existential armageddon.
So to hell with taking back "the night;" it's long past time for real America to recapture the light of the Western day.
Cross-posted on Big Lizards…


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Dear Jan,
You could use it as follow-up practice on new language presented in class. Many of the older course books (Streamlines, Grapevine, the Strategies series) have ready made cassettes for drills. You could also use it for pronunciation practice, the Headway Pronunciation series has useful materials for this.
Either the entire class could do the same exercise or you could allow the students to work in self-access choosing the ones they find interesting or have difficulties with.
The lang lab provides excellent practice for anyone who needs to improve their skills on the telephone. You probably have a way of connecting two booths to each other. If there's a technical person in your school, they'll probably know how to do it. By connecting 2 booths, students can speak to each other and get used to listening without visual clues (eg hand gestures).
If you connect 2 booths, you can also use the lab for pairwork practice. You could use any pairwork activities you would normally do in class. The beauty being that it's very difficult to peak or cheat.
As fillers at the end of the lesson, you could do a mini dictation. You can read out large numbers that they write down in figures or a little spelling test.
Hope this is useful


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Thread: Changes at 105.7 The Fan
01-04-2013, 06:07 PM #133iggyman555 Guest
Re: Changes at 105.7 The Fan
based on this, his other sons name is sorgi???????? are u fukin kdding me???
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Re: Changes at 105.7 The Fan
I bet all these guys are reading this stuff too.
It's like Billick once said. Who pays attention to what's said on the internet but he knew every word said
about him. ILMAO
Even Decosta knew about my comments on sunspot and complained to the club. I swear, the Ravens have
stringers or interns reading everything and reporting back to them. LOL
Someone, I think it was Bisciotti who said they have interns picking up guys at the airport whom they interview
for the draft. The guys don't know it but the drivers are listening to their phone conversations and reporting back.
One player was bragging about screwing his teammate's wife on his cell phone. The Ravens didn't draft him and
he was a big problem for the team that did.
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I remember Bruce getting all butthurt over everything,lol.
As for the rest, Norris doesn't know shit about sports but I like his take on the "News" as we have the same "mentality" towards things. Really the worst is the afternoon show and whomever talks about basketball all the damn time. Zinno is a whinny bitch. And the rest just are really bad and almost unlistenable. I occasionally will turn it on but it doesn't last long.
Maybe just talk radio isn't my thing, I dunno.
01-05-2013, 08:50 PM #140iggyman555 Guest
Re: Changes at 105.7 The Fan
does anyone listen to the player shows?
01-05-2013, 08:52 PM #141iggyman555 Guest
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also really annoying the same 2 guys call in all the time and trash baltimore sports, Q in Pikesville and Brian...i remember someone was saying Brian called in to the Pollard show and started to trash doss(iirc) and Pollard called him a fool and hung up.
it really pisses me off they always answer these 2 douches
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I really like the Rob and Vinny Show. Very entertaining and they work great together. They don't take themselves too seriously. They've been compared to the white and black cop on Sanford and Son, which is so true. They also have guests on weekly like John Clayton, Clarke Judge, etc. Glad they are back and added an extra hour. Also love their post game show. Vinny takes good notes on the game.
Bob Haynie is great, but once they stuck him with Zinno, I couldn't listen. I would not be surprised if Bob Haney pleaded with the station to end their show. Zinno would drive anyone crazy and I know he got under Bob's skin, which is hard to do. If Zinno has his own show, he will probably disagree with himself. I'm so glad the stuck him on in the late evening.
Scott and Jeremy are OK. Jeremy is an improvement over Anita Marks, that's for sure. Sorgi is Jeremy's make believe kid, kept in the basement, allegedly. Haynie and Scott Garceau would probably be a good pairing, and then the could reunite Jeremy with Ken Weinman in the 6:00 show.
Glen Younes I can take in very small doses but get tired of him kissing Ed Reed's behind.
The morning show I can take or leave but I do like the Monday morning QB with Wally Williams, Bruce Laird, and Mike Preston. Wally tells it like it is. Steve Davis tries to come across as a former bad ass, but he lost his man card years ago.
Re: Changes at 105.7 The Fan
I liked it much better when Scott was always arguing and correcting Anita Marks-lol. One caller asked her if there were any
player coaches in the NFL and she said sure there were. Scott said name 4. ILMAO.
It was much better watching their show on MASN late at night because you could see Scott's face cringe up when she
talked and screwed things up. Sometimes Scott didn't say anything but he was besides himself.
Great point about Bob trying to beg off on the show with Zinno. Never thought of it but I wouldn't be surprised.
I like Wally and Prestone. I like Prestone much better on radio than it print and when he spoke to us he was a cool
dude. It was funny when Jen Royale was on the post game show with Wally. It was after the HOuston game couple of
years ago when we won in overtime.
Jen couldn't understand why all the callers were so upset. They acted like we lost. We just won an exciting game in OT. Wally had to explain that it shouldn't have gotten to OT to begin with the Ravens blowing another big lead, a 3 TD lead in the 4th qtr as they usually did that year but I laugh at Wally every time I hear him. He was our LT when the Browns came here. Man, that was a huge and great line.
Then JO was the first Raven ever drafted but he actually played LG his first year. Then Wally was a FA but was really pissed
when he was franchised. Finally he ended up with Saints and JO took over at LT and the rest is history. The funny part
is Wally cheated himself out of a SB ring the team got soon after he left.
There was one other Anita Marks funny when she had Bert JOnes on. Bert was laughing thru the entire interview
and talking down at her when she said, I was a pro QB too you know Bert JOnes.
He burst out laughing and said it was time to leave. She the interview isn't over yet. Bert said the only woman
that tells me what to do is my wife. So long.
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The morning show with Norris and Davis is good, though i agree about the Davis comment. Vinny is not so good, when he talks about personnel and trades that calls suggest, you can see why he failed as GM. Glen Unis is terrible! Everything is "dude" and he sounds hopped up all the time.


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