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Who's the dipshit?
« on: February 28, 2006, 05:40:26 pm »
We have a sports-talk host here in ATL that I actually find to be very entertaining.  He's a good baseball man.  Anyhow, he's been down in spring training the last couple days and was at Kissimmee covering Roger's simulated game.  Anyhow, I'm listening to the show and he starts in with, "I've been going to spring training for years now and there's always this same idiot hanging around the Astros asking the most ridiculous questions.  I don't know his name because I refuse to take the time to find out, but he's terrible."

He goes on to say that this same dipshit asked the following question:  "Hey Raj (as he taps him on the shoulder to get his attention), so...you serve up that homerun pitch to Koby so he'd look good in front of the Astros management?"

Any guesses on who the dipshit was?  Again, he never said the guy's name so I have no idea.
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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2006, 05:43:32 pm »
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Any guesses on who the dipshit was?  Again, he never said the guy's name so I have no idea.



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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2006, 05:49:39 pm »
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We have a sports-talk host here in ATL that I actually find to be very entertaining.  He's a good baseball man.  Anyhow, he's been down in spring training the last couple days and was at Kissimmee covering Roger's simulated game.  Anyhow, I'm listening to the show and he starts in with, "I've been going to spring training for years now and there's always this same idiot hanging around the Astros asking the most ridiculous questions.  I don't know his name because I refuse to take the time to find out, but he's terrible."

He goes on to say that this same dipshit asked the following question:  "Hey Raj (as he taps him on the shoulder to get his attention), so...you serve up that homerun pitch to Koby so he'd look good in front of the Astros management?"

Any guesses on who the dipshit was?  Again, he never said the guy's name so I have no idea.



Carl Dukes.
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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2006, 05:50:48 pm »
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Richard Justice.



Or Mr. 3%.
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« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2006, 05:52:01 pm »
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Or Mr. 3%.



John Granato is up there this week (I think).  My money is still on Dukes though.
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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2006, 05:52:43 pm »
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Brad Ausmus.
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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2006, 05:53:37 pm »
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We have a sports-talk host here in ATL that I actually find to be very entertaining.  He's a good baseball man.  Anyhow, he's been down in spring training the last couple days and was at Kissimmee covering Roger's simulated game.  Anyhow, I'm listening to the show and he starts in with, "I've been going to spring training for years now and there's always this same idiot hanging around the Astros asking the most ridiculous questions.  I don't know his name because I refuse to take the time to find out, but he's terrible."

He goes on to say that this same dipshit asked the following question:  "Hey Raj (as he taps him on the shoulder to get his attention), so...you serve up that homerun pitch to Koby so he'd look good in front of the Astros management?"

Any guesses on who the dipshit was?  Again, he never said the guy's name so I have no idea.



Carl Dukes.



That does sound like vintage Carl Dukes.



 Edited to add:  Even if it wasn't, he's still a dipshit.
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« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2006, 06:02:18 pm »
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Brad Ausmus.



The sports-talk host said Roger stared back at him as if to say, "First of all, don't ever touch me again."  Then he went on to say something to the effect of, "My son will either make his own way or he won't.  I don't give up homeruns on purpose.  Never have, never will, and I'm sure has hell not going to start now."
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« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2006, 06:06:25 pm »
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Brad Ausmus.



The sports-talk host said Roger stared back at him as if to say, "First of all, don't ever touch me again."  Then he went on to say something to the effect of, "My son will either make his own way or he won't.  I don't give up homeruns on purpose.  Never have, never will, and I'm sure has hell not going to start now."



Definitely Carl Dukes.  Only he would use the "Raj" moniker to begin with, and the touching part probably seals it.
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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2006, 06:29:10 pm »
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Brad Ausmus.



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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2006, 06:31:59 pm »
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That does sound like vintage Carl Dukes.

Edited to add:  Even if it wasn't, he's still a dipshit.  



No kidding. His was the first name that popped to mind. How do guys like that even get a radio job in the first place? Weeble-wobble-can't-pronounce-a-name-with-the-letter-L-in-it-to-save-my-life-sycophant extraordinaire.

The guy bugs me, big time.
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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2006, 12:07:03 am »
Who is Dukes?
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« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2006, 12:05:01 pm »
He's the sometimes pre- and post-game host on 740AM in Houston (the flagship station). He's horribly inept, and spineless but in a friendly puppydog way. He also can't properly pronounce a name with an "L" in it... it comes out sounding like baby talk. I remember cringing every time he mentioned Derek Bell (well, aside from Bell himself). It would come out like "Dair-ick Bay-oh." Pre- and post-game stuff is mostly fluff, but for goodness sake, at least show that you can manage simple pronunciations without sounding like you have a speech impediment.

Carl Kasell on NPR has the same effect on me -- he sounds drunk and slurry most of the time, or at least like he's been chewing on enough ice that he can't feel his own tongue.
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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2006, 12:19:59 pm »
maybe he does have a speech impediment.
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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2006, 12:24:25 pm »
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Who is Dukes?



His best trick is the little conspiratorial whisper he uses in his interviews with players.
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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2006, 12:29:26 pm »
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maybe he does have a speech impediment.



The inconsistency of pronunciation suggests to me that it's not an impediment.
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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #16 on: March 01, 2006, 12:34:43 pm »
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He's the sometimes pre- and post-game host on 740AM in Houston (the flagship station). He's horribly inept, and spineless but in a friendly puppydog way. He also can't properly pronounce a name with an "L" in it... it comes out sounding like baby talk. I remember cringing every time he mentioned Derek Bell (well, aside from Bell himself). It would come out like "Dair-ick Bay-oh." Pre- and post-game stuff is mostly fluff, but for goodness sake, at least show that you can manage simple pronunciations without sounding like you have a speech impediment.
 



How does he pronounce "Baio?"
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Re: Who's the dipshit?
« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2006, 12:36:09 pm »
Who, Derek Baio? The same.
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« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2006, 01:26:39 am »
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"I've been going to spring training for years now and there's always this same idiot hanging around the Astros asking the most ridiculous questions.  



I guess that makes me an idiot too since that is the first thing that came to mind when I heard Koby cracked one off of Daddy-O on the first pitch after the BP screen was moved.

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