Out driving around today. Hit The Ticket,
expecting to hear SMU football with great play-by-play by Rich Phillips.
Nope, must have been halftime.
Wandered the dial and stumbled on a show on KESN (ESPN) that kept me tuned in for the next hour or so.
Not just "a show"; they call it "The Show." Pretty aggressive (and unimaginative) title, but it was good, kept me listening with approximate Ticket-attentiveness.
It featured Matt McClearin (formerly paired with Scot Harrison Sundays on the The Ticket (MaSS) before the two of them decamped to Birmingham for 3.5 years (WJOX)) and DJ Ringgenberg. They talked college football and Cowboys.
Matt the good cop, DJ the bad cop. In a show where McClearin is the mature older presence, you know you're going to hear some snottiness, but I liked it for all that. Ringgenberg's contempt for the Nebraska Cornhuskers was amusing after their shellacking by Iowa yesterday. (Ringgenberg's an Iowa grad.)
Wandered the dial and stumbled on a show on KESN (ESPN) that kept me tuned in for the next hour or so.
Not just "a show"; they call it "The Show." Pretty aggressive (and unimaginative) title, but it was good, kept me listening with approximate Ticket-attentiveness.
It featured Matt McClearin (formerly paired with Scot Harrison Sundays on the The Ticket (MaSS) before the two of them decamped to Birmingham for 3.5 years (WJOX)) and DJ Ringgenberg. They talked college football and Cowboys.
Matt the good cop, DJ the bad cop. In a show where McClearin is the mature older presence, you know you're going to hear some snottiness, but I liked it for all that. Ringgenberg's contempt for the Nebraska Cornhuskers was amusing after their shellacking by Iowa yesterday. (Ringgenberg's an Iowa grad.)
I see on Ringgenberg's LinkedIn page that he also interned for Norm from June
through August 2012. After describing his duties, he notes: "I
also prepared excellent coffee to the exact specifications of Mr. Hitzges on a
daily basis.”
A highlight of the show was an interview with Charean
Williams. She was excellent, damned hard-core sportsy talk and no
cutesy. The Ticket could use a sports-media call-in expert like that;
heck, could use a host like that. Would love to hear her on with the
'Line. She was with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram since 1999, laid off
last May. Cat should give her a call, she sounds like she'd be
worth shuffling for. Jeez, he's Ops Director for the station, he may have
programmed her. Move her on over, Jeff.
You guys may already know about The Show and Ringgenberg and Williams, but they were new to me, probably because I'm mostly Ticket-centric. Anyway, a meaty listen and thought I'd pass it along.
Did get to hear Rich Phillips's thrilling call of the final play of the SMU-Tulane game. Of course, most of Rich's calls are thrilling.
You guys may already know about The Show and Ringgenberg and Williams, but they were new to me, probably because I'm mostly Ticket-centric. Anyway, a meaty listen and thought I'd pass it along.
Did get to hear Rich Phillips's thrilling call of the final play of the SMU-Tulane game. Of course, most of Rich's calls are thrilling.
