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I actually like Jim Donovan and Doug Dieken.

Me too.

I cant post it because even if I post the censored version I will probably get banned for masked profanity but go on You Tube and search "Jim Donovan Pranked" there was a prank caller to Browns Red Zone who asked Jim if Jim had the biggest male reproductive organ(not those words) on the panel. The Panel was Donovan, Dieken, and Grossi. They tried to go on with the show, and they just couldn't hold it together and had to take a commercial break.

KING

That was hilarious. It gave Tony Grossi a giggle fit.

I can't stop laughing.....

FYI.... NSFW.

the thing is ,I was wanting to listen to see how Triv and co would react and it was just as I suspected, he just trashed everything , and then played a interview he had with Lombardi, how he told him he didn't like him..I didn't get to hear all of it.

Perhaps that also rested in the minds of the Browns PR staff.

I heard a little of this too. He brought Andre Knott on as well and both just bashed the other stations. Actually, they sounded like whiners more than anything. Bitter until the end.

Personally, I am not a fan of Triv, and think Knott never said anything bad about the Browns- which oddly enough said was going to happen with the other stations signing as partners with the Browns, that they would be kissing butt the whole time. I thought Andre Knott did that ALL THE TIME. Ironic, I guess.

Just a couple of bitter guys that won't have the access they once did. But then again, Triv never Õad access to begin with. But when you have two stations that do nothing but talk sports, like WKNR and 92.3 The Fan, that gives them the advantage. Who even talked sports on that radio anyways (WTAM)? I thought they only did pregame, post game, and the games itself. Nothing during the day about Cleveland Sports....maybe that was a contributing factor as well.

So what will they do now?
I know all about their contacts and what they did for the draft etc..

Triv has become such a joke on the sports side of things that he has tried to be a "more well rounded host", discussing social issues and such in addition to expressing his rather modest sports knowledge.

I admit that I really haven't listened to him in quite some time because he had become a bore, obnoxious, and far too convinced of his own sense of self importance.

Yo, 'Peen:
It really was like magic, back in the day... wasn't it?

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In a way, It kinda saved me. (... I was such an inquisitive little kid)

When I was 10, I got a Crystal Radio Kit (do you remember those?) as a Christmas gift from "Santa." It was the last gift He ever gave me.

When Pops & I assembled it together, , we took a 'time-out,' after the box was opened.

I'll re-create as best as I remember it:

Pops took a minute, and said something like this:

"Bobby- this is Santa's last gift to you... he's giving you The World. He'll always be around... but he needs to spend his time with all the little kids who are younger than you. He asked me to help you with this last gift, so that I could help you to know about the gift he's giving you. Some day, you'll understand. He also asked me to answer any questions that might come up, because we always stay in touch..."

Pops was "smooth," yo- He found a way to transition me from "momma's Boy" to "adolescent," when My Moms finally "didn't have all the answers." The Transition was almost seamless... Momz had me from baby 'til 9 or 10... Pops had me after that.

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Dawg: we wired up that AM crystal radio kit- and I left Santa in the dust! The antenna extended 60+ ft.- from my bedroom window to the city lightpost at the edge of our property. That 60+ feet of un-insulated wire formed the basis of my understanding of The World. I lost many hours of sleep after Pops & Me assembled that kit- but in balance- I gained The World.

It EXPLODED.... and I was listening to Tallahassee, Ottawa, ONT, Detroit, Chicago. (and when the weather was 'just right'), St. Louis, L.A. and Brisbane, Australia. (!!!)

My first portable AM/FM Transistor Radio was only half-used... until I got to High School, and discovered "The Redbeard Show" on WFIN- from Findlay, OH. Shortly thereafter, I acquired my first AM/FM stereo receiver (complete with dual L-R speakers... and I went FM, all the way.

(My late-adolescent "alternative musical tastes" were formed by the great radio jock: "Redbeard".... via his syndicated late-night show on WFIN (out of the U of Findlay, back in the late- 70's-)

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Thanks, 'Peen: for taking me back to my adolescence... and the wonders of first experiencing he World Beyond My House... I'd almost forgotten that.

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At this point, I believe that I don't own a single 21st C. device that picks up an AM signal.... I'll have to remedy that situation, post-haste.

It would be quite nice to surf the (analogue) airwaves this Summer... and find "Old Friends & New Prospects.... as my hair grows grayer.

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"Getting Grayer" doesn't necessarily mean "getting older." Or- maybe it just means this:

"That which you did when you were young, will now keep you you young.... now that you're perceived as 'old'..."

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Maybe- just maybe... I'll drive that 3.5 miles to our nearest Hobby Lobby.... and drop a dime on the newest "Crystal Radio Kit"- just for or "old-time's" sake...

...or maybe, I'll jump into ham radio, as a "brand new" new adventure....


'Peen... you've made an "olde-tymer" feel young again tonight... and that's a gift, My Dawg.

I thank you.

Cool story, Clem. My fondest memories of AM radio were with Ernie Harwell calling Tiger games. "He stood there like the house by the side of the road".

Harwell...

Dude had a voice I'll never forget...

J/C

Can we replace Dieken with Bill Walton?