| FAVORITE WATCH: | Timex(with the BIG numbers) |
| FAVORITE COOKIE: | Nabisco Devils Food Squares(they're round now) or Mallomars |
| FAVORITE CANDY BAR: | Mounds w/ Dark Chocolate |
| FAVORITE CEREAL: | Post Grape-Nuts |
| FAVORITE BOTTLED SALAD DRESSING: | Wish-Bone Olive Oil Vinaigrette They stopped making it! I'm SO bummed!!! |
| FAVORITE PASTA: | Tagliatelle |
| FAVORITE PIZZA: | Archie's: Medellín, Colombia |
| FAVORITE BREAD: | Eli's Sourdough(New York); Garlic Naan(India) and Campesino(Venezuela) |
| FAVORITE PRETZEL: | Laugenbrötchen(Germany) |
| FAVORITE ICE CREAM: | Häagen-Dazs Mint & Dark Chocolate Bar Of course, they stopped making it!!! Häagen-Dazs Raspberry Sorbet During the summertime!!! Wow!!! Too good!!! |
| FAVORITE SODA: | Dr. Pepper [Used to be, but I stopped!] Stewart's Root Beer |
| FAVORITE THING ON A BURGER: | Bar-B-Q Sauce Except, I never eat burgers!!! |
| FAVORITE T-SHIRTS: | JC Penney Authentic Pigment |
| FAVORITE SNEAKER: | New Balance White Canvas(every summer) Discontinued! I'm so bummed!!! |
| FAVORITE SHIRTS: | Wilke-Rodriguez |
| FAVORITE PANTS: | M&F Girbaud or Levis 505s |
| FAVORITE SPORTSWEAR LOGO: | le coq sportif |
| FAVORITE SAYING: | "Hard work is its own reward!" |
| FAVORITE SAYING 2: | "There's no fool like an old fool! You can't beat experience." - Jacob Braude |
| FAVORITE SAYING ABOUT LUCK: | "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity!" In other words, there is no such thing as "luck!" |
| FAVORITE SAYING ABOUT FRIENDSHIP: | "To have a friend, you must, first and foremost, BE a friend!" |
| FAVORITE SAYING ABOUT A LIAR: | "False in small, false in all!" |
| FAVORITE SAYING ABOUT A LENDING MONEY: | "Neither a borrower nor a lender be! For loan oft loses both itself and friend." - Shakespeare from "HAMLET" |
| FAVORITE MIKE TYSON QUOTE: | "Everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the mouth!" |
| BEST ADVICE FROM FATHER: | "Clean as you go!"(refers to preparing a meal!) |
| WORST ADVICE FROM FATHER: | "Study law!"(his reasoning: "music comes and goes but there'll always be a need for the law!") |
| STRANGEST ADVICE FROM FATHER: | Eat the shrimp tails!!! And I'm still the only one who does!!! |
| DAD'S PHILOSOPHY ON "FAIRNESS": | Steve: "But dad, it's not fair!!!" Sammy: "Hey! No one ever said life was going to be fair!!!" |
| THE HUMOR OF MY FATHER: | Steve: "Dad, I'll be home by 5:30!" Dad: "Thanks for the warning!!!" |
| MY FATHER ON TEEN-AGED BOYS: | "Boys in school are all vulgar apes!!!" Walking the streets, riding the subways, even in my own building - he was more right than wrong! |
| BEST SHAVING ADVICE FROM DAD: | "What stays on the face, belongs to the face!" which means: Never shave over the same place twice! |
| AIR TRAVEL WISDOM FROM MY FATHER: | "Birds don't write songs, why should I fly?!?!?" But, he ended-up flying all the time! Go figure! |
| MOST PROUD MOMENT: | My son Heath graduating from Univ. of California at Santa Barbara |
| FAVORITE MEAL TO COOK: | Paul Prudhomme's "Shrimp Etoufée" |
| GREATEST CHEF: | Lloyd J. Harris |
| FAVORITE SANDALS: | G.H. Bass |
| FAVORITE BASKETBALL HANG: | McBurney YMCA(New York City) |
| FAVORITE CARD GAMES: | Gin Rummy and Casino |
| FAVORITE COMEDIES: | "Dr. Strangelove"; "The Producers"; "Love and Death"; "Young Frankenstein"; "The World's Greatest Lover"; "High Anxiety"; "Broadway Danny Rose"; "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World"; "After the Fox"; "A Shot in the Dark"; "Waiting for Guffman"; "Best in Show"; "A Mighty Wind"; "The Ladykillers"; "The Aristocrats"; "For Your Consideration"; "Death at a Funeral"; "Tropic Thunder"; "Burn After Reading"; "A Serious Man"; and "The Big Sick" |
| GREATEST CONTEMPORARY COMEDIAN: | Dave Chappelle |
| FAVORITE FEMALE HUMORIST/COMEDIAN: | Sarah Cooper |
| FAVORITE OBSCURE COMEDY PERFORMANCE: | Richard Dimitri in "Johnny Dangerously" |
| RECENT FAVORITE MOVIES: | "The Instigators"(Apple TV+); "Wolfs"(Apple TV+); "The Banshees of Inisherin"(Amazon/Prime); "Fargo"; "Lone Star"; "Unstrung Heroes"; "The Spanish Prisoner"; "Big Night"; "The Big Lebowski"; "The Impostors"; "Buena Vista Social Club"; "Liberty Heights"; "The Cider House Rules"; "Deceiver"; "Sleepers"; "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"; "Lantana"; "Mystic River"; "21 Grams"; "Lost in Translation"; "Sideways"; "Crash"; "Good Night, and Good Luck"; "Lady in the Water"; "Babel"; "Letters from Iwo Jima"; "Pan's Labyrinth"; "The Namesake"; "In the Valley of Elah"; "Michael Clayton"; "Gone Baby Gone"; "No Country for Old Men"; "Slumdog Millionaire"; "The Reader"; "The King's Speech"; "The Imitation Game"; "Bridge of Spies"; "Fences"; "Lion"; "The Shape of Water"; "Mom"; "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"; "Mank"; "Badla"(India/Netflix); "Belfast" and "Jalsa"(India/Amazon Prime) |
| BEST RECENT DOCUMENTARY: |
"Trial 4" - Rémy Burkel "Active Measures" - Jack Bryan "Becoming" - Michelle Obama "I Called Him Morgan" - Lee Morgan "November 13: Attack on Paris" - Jules and Gédéon Naudet "13th" - Ava DuVernay "Good Hair" - Chris Rock "Religulous" - Bill Maher "When the Levees Broke"(DVD) - Spike Lee "Freedom Riders" - Stanley Nelson |
| FAVORITE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CHARACTERS: | Mike Myers' "Dieter" from "SPROCKETS" Jon Lovitz' "Master Thespian" |
| TONGUE-TIED À LA INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU: |
Keith Hernández during the 6th inning of the May 17th Cubs-Mets game said: "It was like a freath of bresh air!" Obviously, he meant to say: "It was like a breath of fresh air!" Inspector Clouseau originally said: "And I submit that you killed George, the gardener, in a rit of fealous jage!" |
| MOST USEFUL JR. HIGH CLASS: | Personal Typing |
| FAVORITE CATS: | Maine Coon; Russian Blue; or Norwegian Forest |
| FAVORITE HAT: | The "Big Apple" Paperboy(from Arnold Hatters) |
| FAVORITE FLOWER: | Blue Iris |
| MOST ANNOYING INSECT: | Mosquito(Zancudo) |
| WORST MEN'S HAIRSTYLE: | The "comb-over" |
| MOST STUPID MEN'S HAIRSTYLE: | The "MANBUN" |
| FAVORITE YOUNG GIRL'S HAIRSTYLE: | "Afro-Puffs" |
| MOST ANNOYING BEGINNING TO A SENTENCE: | "...And I'm like...blah, blah, blah..." OR "...And I was like...blah, blah, blah..." |
| FAVORITE STATE FLAGS: | New Mexico; Arizona; Colorado; or Maryland |
| FAVORITE FLAGS(International): | Brasil; St. Lucia; & Swaziland |
| FAVORITE THING ABOUT FLAGS: | Graphic design |
| BEST THING ABOUT NEW YORK: | Walking everywhere! |
| MOST ANNOYING THING ABOUT CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: | Being forced to listen to the trivial conversations of people with cell-phones while standing in line. |
| GREATEST 21ST CENTURY INVENTION: | The cell-phone jammer!!! |
| FAVORITE WEBSITE: | overheardinnewyork.com |
| LEAST FAVORITE POLITICIAN(S): | Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Jim Jordan, Josh Hawley, Kevin McCarthy, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Green, Mike Johnson and too many others to mention!!! Politicians are all simply detestable, virtually the same! But most Republicans are even more awful! |
| MOST TERRIFYING '08/'12 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: | Sarah Palin/Rick Santorum |
| MOST TERRIFYING '16 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: | Donald J. Trump |
| WORST PRESIDENT EVER: | Donald J. Trump |
| WORST PUBLIC SPEAKER: | Donald J. Trump Our national embarrassment and shame! Nothing but a snake-oil salesman! |
| MOST ANNOYING POLITICAL AFFECTATION: | Lapel Flag Pins, ALL lapel pins!!! Do these politicians and TV personalities really think that a stupid flag pin, any pin makes them more of a 'patriot' than they were before? They are, of course, idiots if they really believe THAT!!! I say, "Banish all lapel flag pins, in fact, ALL LAPEL PINS NOW!!!" |
| FAVORITE POLITICAL COLUMNISTS: | Tom Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Eugene Robinson & Van Jones |
| EVIL "TWINS": | Ann Coulter & Laura Ingraham |
| BEST SPEAKER AT THE ROSA PARKS MEMORIAL: | Rev. Charles Adams! WOW!!! That was the greatest!!! |
| FAVORITE CLINTON SCANDAL QUOTE: | "In the land of the pious hypocrite, the honest pornographer is king." - Frank Rich(New York Times) |
| FAMOUS FRATERNITY BROTHER: | Mike Ovitz |
| FAMOUS U.C.L.A. CLASSMATE: | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| CLASS WE TOOK TOGETHER: | "Sports in American Life"(I swear it's true!) |
| MY TERM PAPER: | Bill Russell's book, "GO UP FOR GLORY" |
| FAVORITE N.Y.C. LUNCH SPOT: | El Deportivo(48th & 9th Ave.) Out of Business!!! So Sad!!! |
| FAVORITE SHAKESPEARE LINE: | "Let's kill all the lawyers..." Dick, the butcher from "HENRY THE SIXTH"(Pt. 2) |
| FAVORITE JAZZ HUMORIST: | Larry Goldings |
| MOST OUTRAGEOUS E-MAILER: | Steve Lukather |
| GREATEST COMPLIMENT FROM JAN HAMMER('75): | "Wow Steve, that's a nice 'square-wave' you have there!" |
| OWE RECORDING CAREER TO: | Bobby Colomby; Bob James; George Braun; Kenny Inaoka; Yuki Ohmura; Hiroshi Itsuno; Ulrich Vormehr; and Mike Varney |
| WORLD'S GREATEST BAGEL: | H&H Bagels(Plain or Poppy...BURNED!) Price now: $1.30!!! (2017) |
| WORLD'S BEST PICKPOCKET: | Millie at Zabar's |
| FAVORITE ROAD BREAKFAST: | I.H.O.P.(Silver Dollar Buttermilk Pancakes w/ Boysenberry Syrup) |
| FAVORITE FAST FOOD: | Taco Bell |
| FAVORITE SUSHI: | Unagi |
| FAVORITE GÜIRO: | LP "Super Güiro" |
| FAVORITE BIOLOGIST: | Liz Bonnin |
| FAVORITE COUNTRY ALBUM: | Charley Pride "Live"(at Panther Hall) w/ Lloyd Green. |
| FAVORITE SONGWRITER (International): | Juan Luis Guerra |
| FAVORITE FEMALE SINGER (International): | Gracinha Leporace; Wanda Sá; and, Ana Belén |
| BEST SPORTS EXPRESSION/ADVICE (Usually given to a "rookie") APPLIED TO MUSICAL LIFE (Upon the release of someone's debut album.): | "Act like you've been here before!" "Compórtate como si ya has estado aquí antes!" |
| BEEN LISTENING TO: |
"Just a Closer Walk With Three" - Cory Henry & the Frankfurt Radio Big Band "Domingo" & "9" - Susana Cala "Nothing Stands"(Alternate Mix) - Emilie Zoé "Why Can't We Live Together?" (Live) - Steve Winwood "The Secret Life of Plants" - Bob Malach & the WDR Big Band "Lafayette Railroad" - Little Feat "For All We Know" - Paul Carrack "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" - Paul Carrack "Gotta Serve Somebody" - Patti Austin "Cutouts for Woodwinds" - Roscoe Mitchell "No Regrets" - Curtis Stigers "Gotta Be Another Way" - Knower (Louis Cole & Genevieve Artadi w/ Bob Mintzer & the WDR Big Band) "The World is a Ghetto" - Kandace Springs/WDR Big Band "People Make the World Go 'Round" - Kandace Springs/WDR Big Band "Afro Blue" - Kandace Springs/WDR Big Band "Chaltumay" - Newen Afrobeat "Sun, Sun Babaé" - Gilberto Santa Rosa/Eddie Palmieri "Carolina on My Mind" - Alison Krauss "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" - James Taylor "You Can Close Your Eyes" - Brooke Fraser w/ William Fitzsimmons "Protection" - Lucinda Williams "Pasarero" - Tatiana Parra & Keco Brandão |
| BEST CONCERT: |
Aca Seca Trio(Joe's Pub - May, 2014) Issac Delgado y su Orquesta(Central Park, NYC-Summer '97) Oscar D'León(The Latin Quarter-'95) |
| FAVORITE DANCER: | Francisca Riquelme - Newen Afrobeat (Santiago, Chile) |
| FAVORITE SONG TITLE: | "Woe is Uh Me Bop" Captain Beefheart |
| 2nd FAVORITE SONG TITLE: | "How Can I Miss You [when you won't go away]?" Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks |
| FAVORITE ROCK LYRICS: | "Up from the Skies" Jimi Hendrix |
| LEAST FAVORITE SINGING STYLE: | White college boy angst |
| UNLIKELY SOUND-ALIKE: | Bruce Springsteen sounds like Neil Diamond!!! |
| LOOK-ALIKES: | Dos Equis' "The Most Interesting Man in the World"("He lives vicariously through himself!") and George Zimmer("You're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it!") from the Men's Wearhouse. |
| FAVORITE TV SHOWS: | The Gentlemen"(Netflix); Slow Horses (BBC/AppleTV+); One Day (Netflix); Under The Bridge (Hulu); Inside Man (BBC/Netflix); Temple; The Queen's Gambit; The Landscapers (HBO); The Plot Against America; Peaky Blinders (BBC); Rake (Australia); Ozark; The Kominsky Method; Line of Duty; The Shadow Line; Fargo (FX); Wentworth (Australia); Vis a vis (Spain/Netflix); Trapped (Iceland); The Valhalla Murders (Iceland); Wisting (Norway); Dahaad (Amazon Prime/India); Bombay Begums (Netflix/India); Delhi Crime (Netflix/India); Sir (Netflix/India); Once Again (Netflix/India); Mumbai Diaries 26/11 (Amazon Prime/India); The Chestnut Man (Denmark/Netflix); Bloodline; Silent Witness (BBC/Amazon Prime) Happy Valley (Acorn); Hinterland; Marcella; The Bridge (FX); The Bridge (Denmark/Sweden); Longmire; The Night Of; Orange is the New Black; The Fall; Breaking Bad (AMC); Downton Abbey; Ray Donovan; Hell on Wheels; The Hour (BBC); Waking the Dead (BBC); Luther; Vera (DVD); Shetland (DVD); Wallander (DVD); Extras (DVD); Homicide (DVD); The Shield (DVD); Prime Suspect (DVD); The Office/BBC (DVD); Deadwood (DVD); Fringe; Weeds; Parade's End; The Wire (DVD); Meerkat Manor; The Dog Whisperer; McLaughlin Group; Chris Matthews; National Geographic Explorer; Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (CNN) |
| FAVORITE CHARACTER: | Dr. Walter Bishop ["FRINGE"] |
| ENOUGH ALREADY: | Personal Production Co. Logos for Movies & TV Especially those with SOUND and DIALOG!!! Enough already!!! STOP!!! |
| FAVORITE CHARACTER: | Dr. Walter Bishop ["FRINGE"] |
| CLEAR INDICATION THAT THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END TV SHOW: | "FLAVOR OF LOVE"(VH-1) |
| FAVORITE ACTRESS: |
Shahana Goswami (India) Kiran Sonia Sawar (UK) Hannah Khalique-Brown(UK) Amrika Mod(UK) Maisa Abd Elhadi (Palestine) Narges Rashidi (Iran) Taj Atwal (UK) Sonita Henry (UK) Indira Varma (UK) Cush Jumbo (UK) |
| 1ST FAVORITE CARTOON SHOW: | "CRUSADER RABBIT" |
| BEST NAME FOR AN ISLAND ON "CRUSADER RABBIT": | Nothing Atoll |
| FAVORITE CARTOON HENCHMAN: | Billious Green for Dudley Nightshade |
| MY FATHER WOULD ALWAYS SAY DURING TV COMMERCIALS: | "Lies.....ALL lies!!!!" |
| FAVORITE TV COMMERCIAL: | FedEx: "Chimney Sweeps" Subway w/ Jon Lovitz["Master Thespian"] Dunkin' Donuts "Stickin' to the Pleather" w/ They Might be Giants |
| MOST ANNOYING COMMERCIAL: | McDonald's "Random Red Couch" |
| LEAST FAVORITE GENRE OF ENTERTAINMENT: | The Broadway Musical |
| LEAST FAVORITE GENRE OF MUSIC: | Euro-Trash Electronic Trance Music |
| PRONOUNS?: | THIS is fucking bullshit! Just be WHO and WHAT you are, PERIOD!!! |
| RECENT BOOK READ: | Maureen Dowd - "THE YEAR OF VOTING DANGEROUSLY" |
| CURRENT BOOKS: |
Bill Milkowski - "ODE to a TENOR TITAN" - The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever - "WORLD TRAVEL" Barack Obama - "A PROMISED LAND" Curt Bianchi - "ELEGANT PEOPLE" |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Taurus |
| WORST CHARACTER FLAW: | Too slow to try new things, too slow to change! |
| BEST CHARACTER TRAIT: | My determination, my will to not be beaten-down by anything! |
| BIGGEST MYTH ABOUT ME RESOLVED: | I do NOT play solo Flamenco guitar in Greenwich Village!!! |
| FAVORITE GUITAR PICK: | Fender Extra Heavy |
| FAVORITE STRINGS: | Dean Markley SLP LITE(.009) |
| FAVORITE FRET WIRE: | Dunlop #6140 |
| FAVORITE GUITAR STRAP: | Levy's M26GF[Brown] |
| LEAST FAVORITE CYMBAL: | The Dry Ride!!! |
| FAMOUS FORMER GUITAR STUDENTS: | Diane Lane; Woody Harrelson; Mats Wilander; Bernie Williams; and Ivan Boesky |
| SHOWER WISDOM: | "Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference." -Nolan Bushnell |
| 2ND BEST/WORST ADVICE FROM DAD: | "Always marry a civilian!" Which means: Never marry an actress or a singer! |
| POEM FOR HEALING: | Rainer Maria Rilke, "PATIENCE" |
| BEST RELATIONSHIP ADVICE: | "Presence, not presents!" Which means: Give of yourself, not gifts! |
| LYRICS IN ENGLISH WHICH SOUND LIKE ANOTHER LANGUAGE: | "Gravity Rides Everything" - Modest Mouse Nissan Quest Commercial |
| LYRICS IN ENGLISH WHICH I COULD NOT DECIPHER: | "100 Years" - Five for Fighting Chase Bank Credit Card "Making our way back from Mars"?!?!? |
| FAVORITE LOCAL NEWS PEOPLE: | At the moment, NONE! They're all horrible! But, I liked Tiffany McElroy |
| LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT NEW YORK: | Local News |
| FAVORITE WFAN HOST: | Steve Somers "What is it?" |
| WORST DEVELOPMENT IN NEWS: | "INFO-TAINMENT." News as entertainment. Horrific! |
| MOST ANNOYING NEWS TERMS & PHRASES: | "back story"; "double-edged sword"; "slippery slope"; "end game" and the response to every statement? "Absolutely!" |
| MOST SHALLOW "NEWS" PERSON: | Julie Chen[CBS] |
| WORST NEWSREADER: | Contessa Brewer[WNBC] She's landed on her feet at LOCAL NEWS here in New York! |
| MOST ANNOYING NEWSREADER: | Alex Witt[MSNBC] I change channels the second I hear her voice! Fire her too! |
| MOST BLAND HOST: | Dan Harris [ABC's Good Morning America Weekend Edition] A voice that is really impossible to listen to! |
| SOUNDALIKES: | Dan Harris [ABC's Good Morning America Weekend Edition] and John Berman [CNN] Both voices are impossible to listen to! Who hires these guys? |
| MOST STUPID QUESTION ASKED BY A NETWORK TV REPORTER AFTER THE MOVIE THEATER MASSACRE IN AURORA, CO: | "Can you forgive him?" [Asked to a young woman lying in a hospital bed, severely wounded, and less than 48 hrs. after the shooting!] |
| MOST STUPID STATEMENT GOING TO BREAK AFTER THE MOVIE THEATER MASSACRE IN AURORA, CO: | Don Lemon: "Coming up, we're going to speak with a man who died saving his girlfriend!" [No wonder CNN is falling apart, WHERE do they find these people?] |
| NEWS ANCHOR WHO SOUNDS LIKE A GAME SHOW HOST: | Tony Harris[CNN] |
| FAVORITE NEWS PERSON: | Bob Schieffer[CBS] Going to miss him SO much!!! Zain Verjee[CNN] Scott Pelley[CBS] George Stephanopoulos[ABC] Anthony Mason[CBS] Fareed Zakaria[CNN] Chris Matthews[MSNBC] |
| BIGGEST NEWS DISAPPOINTMENT: | George Stephanopoulos[ABC] - leaving "THIS WEEK" for "GOOD MORNING AMERICA" What a HUGE error in judgment!!! |
| RECENT NEWS DISAPPOINTMENT: | Kasie Hunt[MSNBC] - leaving MSNBC for CNN Choosing money over what seemed to be a comfortable fit where her talents were recognized and appreciated. |
| NEXT BIGGEST NEWS DISAPPOINTMENT: | CBS News letting Scott Pelley go! Good news, at least they replaced him with Anthony Mason! But then, the most stupid decision of all, to give that revered chair to Jeff Glor! This is sure to be another HUGE error in judgment!!! |
| HOW TO IMPROVE LOCAL NEWS: | Fire ALL the anchors and start over! |
| LEAST FAVORITE EXPRESSIONS: |
"It is what it is!" "Thanks much!" |
| POOR SPELLING: | Architecture; Portfolio; Pre-Production; The New Yorker |
| YOU ARE A MORON IF YOU THINK THAT: |
When you see (for example): Patriots vs. Jets and you then say: "Patriots verse Jets" NO!!! You idiot!!! It is ALWAYS "Patriots versus the Jets" |
| MOST DANGEROUS PEOPLE IN NEW YORK: | Bicycle messengers & delivery guys and, of course, taxi drivers...Look both ways when crossing the street! |
| LEAST FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT SPORTS: | The 'new generation(s)' of smart-ass anchorpersons on TV[ESPN]; selfish athletes; and those who will not report to the team which drafted them! And, of course, player agents! |
| REASON FOR THIS GENERATION OF SPORTS ANCHORS: | Fathers, like me, who used to swear at the TV and make obnoxious comments! |
| MAN WHO PERSONALLY RUINED ALL SPORTS BROADCASTING: | Dick Vitale |
| MOST ANNOYING FAN: | "Fireman Ed"[NY Jets] STOP putting the camera on that megalomaniac!!! Enough already!!! |
| NETWORK THAT RUINED ALL SPORTS BROADCASTING: | ESPN |
| MOST ANNOYING BASEBALL ANNOUNCERS: | Michael Kay and Tim McCarver PLEASE, just shut-up!!! |
| MOST SMARMY FOOTBALL HOST: | James Brown[CBS] Definition: "unpleasantly and excessively suave, or ingratiating in manner; false earnestness" |
| YOUR "ACT" HAS BECOME TIRESOME: | Pierre McGuire Jim Rome Craig Carton Chris Berman [A blathering buffoon!] Dan Patrick [Obnoxious!!!] Tim McCarver Skip Bayless [The absolute LOWEST!] Stephen A. Smith Dick Vitale Brent Musburger [NAUSEATING!!!] Bill Raftery Gus Johnson Erik Kuselias [WHAT is NBC thinking?!?!?] Mike Mayock [Annoying beyond belief!!!] PLEASE, just go away!!! |
| MOST ANNOYING NHL/NBC "INNOVATION": | BETWEEN THE GLASS with Pierre McGuire I mute the TV each time they go to him! And all the cross-talk during play is excessive and so annoying!!! Please go back to 2 in the booth!!! Enough already!!! |
| NBC SPORTS: | WHO is the executive who thinks that HOCKEY FANS need to hear Pierre McGuire every single stinkin' night?!?!?! Whoever that person is, he should be fired immediately!!! |
| POMPOUS, SMUG, PRETENTIOUS, ARROGANT, HAUGHTY, SELF-RIGHTEOUS, SUPERCILIOUS, CONDESCENDING, and SELF-IMPORTANT: | Keith Olbermann And, he has terrible taste in suits!!! |
| ENOUGH ALREADY!!!: | Liberty Mutual w/ that stupid Limu Emu & Doug The Progressive Insurance idiot redhead, Flo! Geico Commercials The Gecko, and those Cavemen And now, the guy with the lame Rod Serling/Robert Stack impression The silent Verizon Network nebbish w/ the glasses Those two FIOS fools That Time-Warner Jerk w/ the Cap The Idiot Cooper Tires guy |
| MOST AMAZING PLAYOFF RUN: | The 2007-08 New York Giants Bravo boys! I never would have thought it possible!!! |
| MOST AMAZING PLAYOFF RUN II: | The 2011-12 New York Giants Bravo boys! At 7-7, this seemed even more impossible!!! But, THEY DID IT!!! |
| GOOD RIDDANCE: | Tiki Barber; and finally, Jeremy Shockey |
| LEAST FAVORITE TEAMS: | North Carolina Basketball Los Angeles Lakers Dallas Cowboys Notre Dame Football Los Angeles Dodgers Philadelphia Flyers |
| WORLD CUP INFAMY: | Zidane's head-butt of Materazzi |
| A TRUE HERO: | Prof. Liviu Librescu @ Virginia Tech |
| BIGGEST JERK - JACKASS FOR TEAM USA @ 2012 & 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES: | Hope Solo!!! Just shut-up, and play winning goal!!! And, in the end, to her credit, she did!!! Now, in 2016, she does another stupid thing, and proves to be another big distraction for her team!!! |
| RYDER CUP 2012: | The behavior of the USA "fans" made this a national embarrassment! They belonged at a Chicago Bears football game, or at a WWF event. I'm glad that Europe mounted an amazing comeback and won!!! Golf needs to find a way to restore the quiet dignity that it once had. Enough with all these "CADDYSHACK" morons screaming and yelling!!! |
| NICEST GESTURE: | Yankees Exhibition Game @ Virginia Tech(3/18/08) |
| 2020-2021 MOST AMAZING OLYMPIANS: | Neeraj Chopra(India) Yulimar Rojas (Venezuela) Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norway) Neisi Dajomes (Ecuador) Damian Warner (Canada) Canadian Women's Soccer Team USA Women's Volleyball Team |
| 2024 MOST AMAZING OLYMPIANS: |
Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Ukraine) Markus Rooth (Norway) Winfred Yavi (Bahrain) Femke Bol (Netherlands) Nafissatou Thiam (Belgium) Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Great Britain) Kimia Yousofi (Afghanistan) Valarie Allman (USA) Jakob Ingebrogtsen (Norway) Cole Hocker (USA) B-girl Manizha Talash (Afghanistan) USA Women's Soccer Team Italy Women's Volleyball Team France Women's Basketball Team |
| MY 2008 MOST TOUCHING OLYMPIC MOMENT: | Yao Ming walking in with 9 yr. old hero, Lin Hao |
| 2023 MOST AMAZING WORLD CHAMPION: | Femke Bol(Netherlands) |
| 2012 & 2016 MOST AMAZING OLYMPIAN: | Usain Bolt |
| MY 2008 OLYMPIC HERO: | Jason Lezak(USA) |
| MY 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS HERO: | Frode Estil(Norway) |
| MY 2004 OLYMPIC HERO: | Vanderlei de Lima(Brasil) |
| FAVORITE THING ABOUT BASEBALL: | Great plays by shortstops! |
| LEAST FAVORITE ATHLETES: | Alex Rodríguez; Phil Mickelson; Brad Marchand; Lleyton Hewitt; Barry Bonds; Roger Clemens; Carmelo Anthony; Cristiano Ronaldo; Andy Murray; & Hope Solo |
| BIGGEST JERKS: | Joe Lieberman, Hank Steinbrenner, Donald Trump, Tom Cruise & Russell Crowe |
| GREATEST POLITICAL OPPORTUNIST: | Hugo Chávez |
| NINE STOOGES: (for kissing the feet of a dictator) | Harry Belafonte; Danny Glover; Sean Penn; Kevin Spacey; Oliver Stone; Susan Sarandon; Shia LaBeouf; Diego Maradona; Naomi Campbell and Don King |
| MOST BUTCHERED LIVE INTRODUCTION OF ME: | [1] By Esther Marrow at Mikell's in the '70s: "...and on guitar....Steve Gone!" [2] By a DJ at a country club in Los Angeles in the late '60s ...after looking at the band and realizing that he knew everyone's name except mine, he introduced them all, then came to me....knew he still didn't know my name and then said: "...and on guitar.....Willie Jenkins!" [3] While on tour in Germany, in November of '99, I was introduced as: "Stevie Kane!" |
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