My Ticket Confession

A home for those who love almost everything about The Ticket (1310 AM, 96.7 FM, Dallas-Fort Worth), and who would like to discuss -- respectfully and fondly -- their thoughts on how (and whether) to eliminate the "almost."

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Weekends are Tough for The Hammer

An Anonymous Confessor passes along some Greg Williams tweets and offers a comment with some plausible speculation: TCUWhiteTrash GREGGO ...

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Well, It Finally Happened: Peter Gammons Blows off the Musers

In his defense, it's probably a busy day for Boston-based baseball mavens, and baseball mavens generally, after last night's wild mu...

Monday, September 26, 2011

BREAKING NEWS: Is It That (1) Richie Whitt Is Out at the Observer, or (2) the Observer is Getting Out of "Full-Time" Sports Reporting?

Thanks to Confessor Shaggy to alerting this site to Richie Whitt's farewell to The Observer, or its farewell to him. Richie tees it up...

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Memo to Alice Walton: Let Me Broker Your Date with Mike Rhyner

[ITEM: A week or so ago The Hardline was reviewing the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest people in the U.S. and noting the ones who lived ...

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Final Observation on Greggo's Weekend Meltdown . . .

. . . and then I'll put a cork in this topic for awhile, unless there's some news. ===================== Let's put aside ...

Monday, September 19, 2011

Make MTC Your Source Today for Responsible Former-Ticket-Host Journalism and Breaking News re Same

======================= UPDATED 9-19-11 1:55 PM: Greggo is on RaGE today and is, in fact, the first voice heard interacting with Josh a...

Sunday, September 18, 2011

BREAKING NEWS: Is This The End of Greggo?

Greg seems to be burning a bridge before being asked to cross it. Here are the series of Tweets issued by Greg Williams Sunday afternoon ...

MAYBE NOT BREAKING NEWS: A Greggo Firing, But Probably Not THE Greggo Firing

An anonymous commenter to the prior article reports that Greg Williams just tweeted: "TCUWhiteTrash GREGGO I have so much 49'er ...

Monday, September 12, 2011

A COUPLE OF QUICK HITS: (1) Paynj and (2) Croak

(1) Mike's Continued Interest in Unusual Animal Habits. We have already had occasion to remark on one of the most bizarre moments ...

Sunday, September 11, 2011

BUCKLE UP, BUTTERCUP!!

Sean Bass has given us the catchphrase for the season, for good or ill. The pre-game shows have been good. Sean and Donovan were plenny f...

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

OPEN THREAD: Your 9/11 Recollections

A new Confessor dropped me an email suggesting this, and it struck me as a great idea. I invite you to tell the Nation your memories of 9/1...

Friday, September 2, 2011

ANOTHER WEEKEND OPEN THREAD: Gordon Is Bored

I thought it was just me. Oh, Gordon was his usual brilliant self, but, it seemed to me, more lurid than usual. The concentration of sex...

WEEKEND OPEN THREAD: Well, What Did We All Think of The Hardline Today?

I will reserve comment for now. Commenter Anonymous beat me to the punch in the previous article; I thought it was a thoughtful reaction an...

Thursday, September 1, 2011

MORE BREAKING NEWS: The Fan Invades The Ticket's Backyard

I was thinking that maybe The Fan had some Cowboys pre-game, so when the Hardline took a break I switched over. I switched over just in ti...

BREAKING NEWS: Cirque to Replace Scrubs

I have it on impeccable authority (that is, I didn't hear this myself) that around noon Cash Sirois announced that Cirque du Sirois woul...

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Mr. Miller v. Mr. Do

Your Plainsman has been off work the past couple of days after undergoing a medical procedure. Nothing serious. Old Doc Stone rode out on ...

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Non-Tickety Observation on the 105.3 FM Call of the Vikings Game

My non-Tickety observation is that it was terrible. Babe Laufenberg was doing the teevee color, so Brad Sham was paired with "Coach ...

Friday, August 26, 2011

Big Weekend?

Contrary to speculation, it appears that Matt McClearin is going to continue to co-host with Scot Harrison on The Soul Patch for a third wee...

Monday, August 22, 2011

Congratulations and Best Wishes to Bob Sturm

I'm almost never in my car during BaD Radio, but I was today when Bob announced that he would be taking an extended leave from the show ...

Two Quick Hits on AP's Scrubs/Patch Comments -- Actually, Not All That Quick, as It Turned Out

If you haven't read them yet, go back to the just-prior post and scroll down to his comments (there are other good ones in there): htt...

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Scrubs/Patch -- The Voyage Continues

Soul Patch sounds great to me today. They've dropped the self-consciousness and reduced the on-air contributions from the production gu...

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Little Weak Jeremy and Anonymous – It’s Just Confession! (PART 3)

After Little Weak Jeremy’s initial comment and Anonymous’s point-by-point response, each offered one more comment apiece. Little Weak Jerem...

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

MTC CHALLENGE: Name One Website That Takes Longer to Load than www.TheTicket.com

Sunday, August 14, 2011

OPEN THREAD: Weekend Wife Swap

How did the Newbury/Anderson and Harrison/McClearin pairings sound to you? I missed the former and am now listening to the latter. It sou...

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Little Weak Jeremy and Anonymous – It’s Just Confession! (PART 2)

Hope you are enjoying the game and JJTaylor’s play-by-play on Twitter. Confessors Little Weak Jeremy and Anonymous continue their discussi...

Has the Byron Anderson Experiment Come to an End?

Matt McClearin working with Scot Harrison on The Soul Patch this weekend.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

A Few Quick HIts

(1) I hadn't tuned in to RaGE in awhile, so after Mike and Corby did their "how will the Cowboys do" review, I flipped over fo...

Holy Frack, That "Jackpot" Theme is Back!

When it ran awhile back I was humming it -- the whole thing -- for weeks. Drove me nuts. All I could think about was some lottery-playing ...

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Little Weak Jeremy and Anonymous – It’s Just Confession! (PART 1)

I get a notification on my Droid when there’s a new comment on the site. A couple of posts ago I noted that there were a couple of length...

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The Plainsman: Tiny KTCK Coverage Area, Texas; I am one of many gentleman listeners to The Ticket. I do not know anyone at The Ticket. I have never called into a program on The Ticket. I pop into a remote or station event from time to time but have never met any Ticket employee. I am not a radio industry insider. I am just a guy who spends a lot of time in a vehicle and whose employer doesn't tell him to turn off the radio in his work area.

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