Twitter Wars! @hhreynolds / @thurmanthomas Twitter Throwdown Immortalized on Cubed

The verbal jousting that lead to my moving into Thurman Thomas' Top 5 Stupid Group is now forever immortalized on FoxSports.com's Cubed/Lunch with Benefits.

<a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=320c88aa-5c18-41e1-9956-81b617d9eb28" target="_new" title="">Cubed: Episode 38</a>

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Pacquiao Talks About Fighting His Way out of Asia

The world's greatest pound-for-pound boxer talks about some of his early fights and foes - including King Hippo and Super "Douche Bag" Macho Man.

<a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=c597de1b-0150-4955-9da0-e9766190d124&from=IV2_en-us_foxsports_videocentral" target="_new" title="Cubed: Manny Pacquiao's Punchout">Video: Cubed: Manny Pacquiao's Punchout</a>

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MLB on Fox's Pedro Coverage Mild Compared to That of NY Papers

Following Twitter last night, Yankee fans were livid about the broadcast's Pedro coverage. One must wonder how they feel about the local press'.

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Separated at Birth: A Fair and Balanced Moose

Today I stumbled upon Fox News and temporarily thought Daryl Johnston became a daytime cable news anchor under the stage name "Trace Gallagher." When Gallagher went 20 seconds without mentioning his relationship with Troy Aikman and/or Emmitt Smith, I quickly realized I was mistaken.

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Commercial CRitic: Howie Does It

No contesting that the auto industry is feeling the full brunt of the economic recession. Workers are losing their jobs in droves in the Midwest with the Big 3 posting consistent billion dollar losses.

While thousands suffer, Howie Long is profiteering by taking all action indiscriminately from the autos, a bit of a switch hitter.

By now, you have probably seen the mocking ads by Chevrolet that sarcastically reference new features of the Ford F-150. The rough and tumble Long puts common Joes in their place for having the audacity to purchase a top of the line truck.



The premise of the ads probably rolls off the backs of the Ford Company, but it may irk them that the ads are being shot with a man that they write checks to: Howie Long.

Just a few short months ago, Ford unveiled the new F-150 on Fox NFL Sunday with Bradshaw rummaging around in the truck on set and Strahan bafooningly accompanying him. Ford has long been a sponsor of the show, and the Fox team has made special trips to Ford Field on Ford's dollar.


Simply, Howie Long is a two-timing cheat. He says ugly things about the one he has been married to for years to please his hot new thing. In the end, though, he will always come home to that steady relationship.

As a taxpayer that now owns a significant portion of these companies, I demand that Howie Long stop his whorish behavior.

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Jack Bauer Attempts to Break Joe Buck's Silence on Ride-Gate

The Smoking Gun released a "blistering report" by the US Department of Justice's inspector general citing "A federal government lawyer who moonlighted as a statistician for Fox Sports improperly arranged for United States Marshals Service (USMS) deputies to drive broadcasters Troy Aikman and Joe Buck to the 2008 Super Bowl and lead motorcades for Buck and Tim McCarver during the 2007 World Series..."

Suspecting a much larger cover-up, and after Buck refused to cooperate with authorities, the DoJ is said to have brought in former Special Agent Jack Bauer of the recently-disbanded US Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU) in an attempt to strong arm the Fox announcer into giving up his contacts.

An HHR mole at homeland security leaked to us this exclusive picture of the interrogation.

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CR Dunbar: Fox NFL Sunday Needs New Focus

I was watching Fox NFL Sunday yesterday and saw Jay "Oscar" Glazer's segment. He had the Fox exclusive that Jay Zygmunt would be fired as GM of the Rams either on Monday or Tuesday.

From the sense of it, it seemed that Glazer was breaking the news before even Zygmunt knew about it.

I humbly ask that they apply this news technique to their own show.

Admittedly, I have only seen about 80 percent of the Fox pre-game broadcasts this year. I watch it because I am sadly a follower of the Lions, and it is slightly more likely that Fox will have analysis of the game as the NFC station. However, this year the new Fox team has been gut-wrenchingly obnoxious.

The one upmanship between Strahan and Bradshaw needs to stop. They spend more time delivering and receiving jabs about pre-nups, balding and teeth, intertwined with inside jokes that require them to slap Howie, that the show has become more of an episode of "Til Death" with slow-pitch punchlines rather than a football program.

To add to the problem, Menefee does nothing to bring the topic to football, but fuels the flame for the two. JB would throw a shot to close out a segment and head to commercial, but Menefee gets caught overextending a segment by allowing more banter.

The public put up with the dimwit routine with Bradshaw to soften the military delivery of Long and the X and Os of the requisite coach (mostly Johnson). The addition of Strahan, who has been stroking producers for years to get a broadcasting job, has doubled the dimwit delegation and, subsequently, the focus of the show.

What does he add that he needs to be at the table crammed in like a ass on a toilet seat?

I would applaud the producers should they leak to and allow Glazer to announce that Strahan will be fired on the following Monday or Tuesday.

The show was tolerable and enjoyable as late as last year. The Strahan addition has turned the show into a deformed "The Other Half," and we all know how that turned out.

No Bones About It

The Phillies won right?

As a Phillies fan, I thought perhaps I was dreaming on Wednesday night.

And just to eff with me, Fox pulled this little stunt...

Trick or Treat!

It's over, Johnny.

Whitey Was a Prophet: McCarver's Outstayed His Usefulness

Few athletes were as well received in Philadelphia as Ritchie Ashburn.

Conversely, I personally loath Tim McCarver more than any other personality broadcasting today. While Joe Morgan and others garner a lot of guff, McCarver, more than any other announcer, has continually irked me for years .

McCarver, who is broadcasting today's Phillies/Mets game on Fox, as he likes to do, loves self-promotion. While he is a wealth of baseball knowledge, as he should be having been married to the sport for what seems like a half a century, his smugness offsets any interesting tidbit he might spew.

Needless to say, he has outstayed his welcome.

McCarver, of course, because he is broadcasting a Phillies/Mets game in Philly, has to try to appear himself to be a real "homeboy" and associate himself with the beloved Ashburn (who coincidentally played for both squads).

However, when Fox aired the clip of McCarver and Ashburn broadcasting the 1980 NLCS, I couldn't help but snicker at Whitey's not-so-subtle jab at McCarver:

"...you had a great career. Too bad you didn't realize it was over a couple years sooner."



Classic Ashburn.

Maybe McCarver should that heed and think about his broadcasting career in the same light.