FROM THE DRAFT PILE: Who Will Be the Next Ticket Guy to Strike Out for Greener Pastures?

[As of this post there have been 942 posts on My Ticket Confession.  All but a very few are original drafting, the small balance being archive replays and a couple of guest columns.  I noticed that I had 9 unpublished drafts.  I went back to look at them and was mostly amused by my errors.  But it was fun to go back and read them, and I thought I'd publish a few of them so you could be amused too.  This also has the merit of substituting for actual new composition, making up for my lack of production recently, and the difficulty I have had in finding Ticket-listening time.

This item was drafted on December 27, 2012.]

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I include in this survey any Ticket guy whose name you would recognize, whether they get much on-air time or not.

I'm not talking about getting fired, I'm talking about leaving voluntarily. 

Here's my candidate:  Ty Walker.

Ty is a pretty talented and valuable guy.  I've come to appreciate his co-hosting skills with Sean Bass, his Tickers are very skillful (if you like Tickers), and he's experienced.   I haven't always felt that way about him, but I've come around; when I catch him and Bass on Ticket Sports Weekend it's always a strong show.     I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, but for some reason the guy gets little or no respect from the shows upon which he toils, most notably The Hardline.  Whether there is a reason for that, I have no idea.  I'm not aware of any.  Yeah, the porn enthusiasm and Star Wars stuff is a little peculiar, but no more than the crotchets of any other host.

The guy is a man; he's forty or thereabouts.  If he left for anchor work elsewhere he wouldn't be giving up a plum position or big coin, but he'd be leaving behind what sounds to me like not-in-fun ill treatment he sometimes receives.  Maybe it's a bit, maybe he's OK with it, but it sounds to me like there's an edge to it. 

I've speculated on the station's odd attitude toward Ty in the past, most notably in connection with the mystery of his network assignment at the 2010 Final Four and why The Ticket completely ignored it. 

I hope he hangs on at The Little One, and I'd like to hear more of him as a host. He deserves more of a shot; at a minimum, enhanced appreciation from his colleagues. 

Unless, as I say, there's some off-mic stuff we don't know about.

Any thoughts on who might be next to bolt?  Do you agree that Ty is an asset?

[This item seems to be unfinished.  I don't know why I didn't return to it.  It sort of looks like it started out to be a list, but ended up with only Ty as the only "candidate," singular, and the last line looks like a sign-off.   I don't know who else I might have put on this list before I stopped writing it, but I'm pretty sure two others, maybe the only two others, would have been Rich Phillips and Gordon Keith.  I might have included Donovan Lewis back then.

In commenting, you may wish to speculate on who among the present lineup, including producers, weekend talent, tickerpeople, and others whose names we know, might be candidates for departure.]