It was a
very interesting Ticket day, I thought.
Mrs. P
is recovering from some surgery (she’s fine, thanks for asking) and we’re
watching some March Mildness (although this Kansas-Michigan game is concluding
in an interesting way). I’m in the old rocker
and thought I’d give you a number of
items to chew on.
A
commenter to the last post chided me for not having “sources” that would have
instantly alerted me to Alexis’s departure.
I was going to respond that when one has no sources at all, my ignorance
might be excused.
And
later that day, I heard from someone.
I never
know how to evaluate the stuff that (quite rarely and unexpectedly) comes my
way. I kinda consider the content, figure
out it makes sense in the context of other stuff we know or think we know. I decided this communicant probably had good
information. He (?) was someone who has
been listening to The Ticket for a long time, and also exhibited some inside
knowledge. And in this case, his stuff
was not incendiary, no apparent axes to grind.
Paring
it down s/he said: The Campout was a Muser-only
thing for several years before the whole station went. The Musers decided to invite the whole
station and make it a Ticket event. It
was never popular with some of the hosts, but they soldiered through. After last year’s campout, only three of the
nine on-air hosts were interested in doing it this year. Thus, no more Campout, at least not this year
and maybe never.
S/he also reported that
the end of the Compound had nothing to do with Greggo’s departure. S/he did not identify any specific reason the
Compound was shelved, but did suggest that the talent sometimes feels that some
items get stale and resist improvement.
Thanks to the Source –
tried to think of a funny name for this correspondent, but nothing comes to
mind.
I will say, however, that
in general this tends to support my fairly unremarkable thought that there is
some extremely interesting stuff that goes on behind the scenes. Not all the hosts are on board with all of
the stuff all the time. This isn’t a
shocking conclusion, but it’s the kind of stuff that the P1 would love to know
about. But, just as people beyond your
employer don’t know the politics at your workplace, I don’t reckon we’ll ever
get the story behind, for example, the demise of The Great Game. There were some ill feelings after the last
one, as I recall, centering on Mike Bacsik’s team-switching. (Am I remembering correctly that that was the
last one?) You know, it’s probably just
as well we don’t know.
Confessors! How unseemly!
You should receive your gratification entirely from the adoption of your
descriptors by Confessors and others. (I
ran into a guy the other day who told me that he was the author of the “Yuck
Monkey” designation on The Ticket. I
actually believed him.)
Faithful Confessor
ausgang left a comment to the last post reporting that he thought he detected sadness
in Mike’s voice, that he seemed a little depressed. Seemed to start 3-4- months ago. (ausgang stated that he had no knowledge of
any issues in Mike’s life.)
Well. ausgang, I was startled by your comment because
I noticed something in his voice at about the same time. I thought about writing about it, but decided
I may have been hearing things, and, truth to tell, I only hear it once in
awhile. (And not at all today, see
below.)
But I had a different
thought. I didn’t feel that what I heard
reflected any attitudinal issues.
What I thought was that
for the first time, I thought I heard age creeping into those incredible
pipes. As I say, I don’t hear it
often, but just once in awhile, I’ll hear a little crack, or a little breathiness,
that I don’t recall hearing before. The
man is what, 62? I mean, jeez, he comes
by it honestly, and he’s not a young 62.
And he’s a regular vocal performer with his bands, singing out of his
range (my opinion). Not easy, and maybe
what I’m hearing is just a little vocal weariness from a recent
performance.
But yeah, ausgang, I
noticed something, too.
Mike and Mark
I only heard bits and
pieces of The Hardline today, but what I heard sounded pretty good. Mike was fully engaged, sounded great, and
there was some sports talk on both their parts that indicated either
preparation, or just plain sportsy knowledge.
I think most of us would like to hear more of this Mike with Corby and
Danny, not just when sports is on the table, but in segments across the board.
I wish I had heard more
of their talk about the genesis of The Ticket, specifically Mark’s hiring by
Mike.
Intra-Show Sniping
(1) Corby won the E-Brake this morning for his
show stop-down with a bad pun (that is, a pretty good pun). George
took the opportunity to take on The Hardline, who had been sniping at The
Musers for not selecting enough of THL gaffes for the Friday contest. George made some rather cutting comments
about The Hardline, and concluded by recalling Corby’s suggestion that THL
should do an internal blooper competition of its own. George rather pointedly invited THL to do
exactly that. (I think that THL has won
the last three E-Brakes.)
Of course, there is
frequently some jabbing between the shows and it’s usually pretty-obviously
good-natured. George’s remarks did not
have that flavor. Anyone else thing
George was just the tiniest bit hot under the collar?
(Attention UnTicket –
that would be a nice clip to hear again.)
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As I said – an interesting Ticket day.
And now, I'm going to sit back and watch Perry Mason on Channel 24.
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Alexis Smith
