Excuse me, did you throw a shoe?

I was turning from Sconticut Neck Rd onto Rte 6 in Fairhaven the other afternoon when suddenly.....there it was! A sneaker. Just one though. It made me wonder, "How did it get there?" "Where's the other one?" "Will they ever be a pair again?"

Ironically, I went on to a website we use to put the show together and someone else from a different radio station in a different state had the same question. He tossed it out to his listeners and got some interesting tales.

WHAT’S WITH THE SHOES??

My theories are:

They put a pair on the top of the car while loading up and forget about them until they fly off the roof

People are putting their feet out the window and their shoe flies off

Kids in the back seat are throwing their shoes at the other kids in the
back seat

We had a mother call who said that her son throws everything out of the
window, including shoes and sippy cups which is why the windows are
always up and the air conditioning is on.

We also had a woman call who was in the car with her sister and her
sister wanted to kill a bug in the car, so she grabbed her shoe and
sent the bug AND the shoe out on the highway.


I know there's a lot more to worry about in this world today, but at least I can rest tonight knowing there might be some perfectly simple reasons for this and hoefully there won't be too much separation anxiety among the nation's footwear.

(ANYONE SEEN MY OTHER SHOE?????)

I'll settle for 50...ok? 50!

This weather is just incredible! Will it ever warm up?

Is it always like this and I just have selective memory here? It's the beginning of April. I coach youth softball and baseball and the kids want to practice outside. But...it's 42 degrees with the wind blowing off the water! I don't even want to think of what the wind chill is.

Evey year we get excited on the first day of spring. Yay! March 20th has arrived! Then it usually snows. Then the beginning of April, the Red Sox, the Little League schedules! And there's still frost on the windshields in the morning. It's been a long wait. But I think I figured it out.

First of all, I am getting older so my tolerance for the cold is not what it once was. Second, we changed the clocks a lot earlier than we ever did before. And third, Easter came earlier than it has in a long time.

I remember wishing for a sunny day near 75. Now I'll settle for Partly cloudy and 50 or 52.

That was weird

Baseball at 6am.....kinda cool! It was weird today to have a baseball game interrupt the morning show. I can only wonder how it was for listeners to get up and get going while listening to the game. The weather guy, Dr. Joe, wondered how many people would be late for work today. I can just see it now, you pull up to your work, on time, when the Sox had two runners on and Manny at the plate. You HAVE to stay and hear how he doubled them in! So what if you're a little late??

I don't know how he did it but my son kept texting me from high school asking for updates on the score. I guess I'll have to talk to that young man.

We're going back to Mc Donald's tomorrow. More Baseball for Breakfast and more prizes. We had a small but loyal group there today. I think I'll try pancakes and baseball tomorrow.

Play ball!

The Red Sox start tomorrow..and for the first time in my career,the morning show is off because of baseball. Game time is 6:05am, pregame at 5:25am. So......I'll start the show at 5am, then head over to McDonald's on Coggeshall St. We're having a promotion for the next few days called "Baseball for Breakfast." We'll have the game on the radio and the television at McDonalds. Everytime the Sox score, we'll hand out free prizes!

Random thoughts

Still going! I was happy to see Hillary Clinton win Ohio and Texas. I think this is an amazing race. (Whoa! Good name for a TV show there!)I say let's keep it going. Do you think they'll BOTH end up on the ticket at the convention? One for President and the other for VP? I'm just not sure which one would be the leader right now. I think the pressure is now on the Obama campaign not to let her take all the momentum.

Stll waiting! The State of the City speech is tomorrow at 1pm. WBSM will air the speech live from Cafe Funchal. Evan Rousseau and I will do the "pre-game" show from 12 to 1pm. I say "still waiting" because I guess that would be the way I would sum up the state of the city. I like Scott Lang. I think he's a great guy. But I honestly find myself still waiting for.......WHAT I don't know. More accomplishments, more jobs, ....not sure.

Hockey is fun again! I used to love hockey with Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Gerry Cheavers. Then I drifted away from the sport in the 80s and 90s, but it is fun again. I think one of the reasons is that my youngest son likes the game and he always wants to go to Providence to see the PBruins. But I've even started watching the Boston Bruins on TV again. I'm a Zdeno Chara fan. I'd even buy a jersey if they weren't $100! Maybe it's because of the shoot outs. No more do you spend 3 hours watching a show end in a 2-2 tie.

How do you respond?

I've had my share of compaints to deal with over my career. You can't be on the air 4hours a day, 5 days a week for 30 years without upsetting someone. Some of the criticism I deserved, some I did not. I've made mistakes, I admit it. I've always tried to apologize when I've been wrong and to grow a thick skin at other times.

This week I received an email that just really shocked me. I didn't mention it on the air, mainly because I didn't know what to say. The email (and I will edit it for decency) said "How come you always pick on Hillary but not on that "anti Christ (N-word")? Yup. That's what it said. Well, they didn't say "n-word." I realize we've been running quite a few parodies on the Clinton campaign and the McCain campaign. And while I haven't been keeping score, there probably have been more on Hillary than Barack. I think the reason is because Hillary is trailing and at times seems to be desparate to gain some ground.

What got me about that complaint though was the language! The hatred! I can understand if you dislike Obama because of his lack of experience or his track record or his stance on the issues. But if the only reason you don't like him is because of the color of his skin, then I really feel sorry for you. I really hoped, maybe naively, that we were passed that. It's sad, but true, that some Democrats have had a tough choice to make between a woman or a black man. Why we can't see that it's only a choice between one "human being" and another "human being" I don't know.

In case you're wondering, I did click on "reply" when I got that email. I thought about it for a while....wondering if there was anything I could say to change that persons opinion. I finally decided the answer to that was "no." I don't have any words that can erase years of hatred and bigotry. What I did write was a simple, three letter word. It summed up what I thought when I read it and what I think as I look back on the whole issue now. I typed the word "WOW!"

I hope you have a great weekend and we'll see what the new week brings on Monday.

Feel like a kid again!

What a day! The shuttle comes home......a lunar eclipse tonight......and the Navy is going to blow up a satellite. Cool!

I loved the space program growing up. I loved to watch the Apollo missions. That's as far back as I can remember. I would watch the take off, the press conferences, and then the landing! The thirty seconds or so when you lose radio contact. The splashdown, the crew on the deck of the aircraft carrier. Remember when they all had to go in that silver camper thing because we didn't know what kind of space diseases they brought back?

Today we have the shuttle that lands like an airplane. I think back to how we had all taken these for granted before the Challenger blew up. Now you can't rest until it's safely on the ground.

I'm looking forward to the lunar eclipse tonight even though the weather could ruin it all. I guess it starts around 8:40pm and ends around midnight. Hope for clear skies to watch the red moon.

Oh and the spy satellite. Cool! The US Navy will fire off a heat seeking missile to try and blow it up! They say there is dangerous fuel onboard that could be deadly and the satellite is flying out of control. There is a theory that the satellite was a spy satellite and has secrets onboard and since it's out of control we don't want it falling into the wrong hands. That sounds like a much better "movie of the week" scenario. Either way, the navy has a window of opporutnity that will only be open for seconds.

Wow! It's like a real life arcade today!