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SRIV94:
[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' date=\'Oct 12 2003, 06:03 AM\'] [quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Oct 11 2003, 12:21 AM\'] Doug -- GO CUBBIES!!! [/quote]
Only 1 more Win, and it's off to the World Series! First time in about 60 years, give or take (Back before the NLCS and NLDS were started) [/quote]
Shhh! Not so loud. Don't want to awaken the ghosts of Leon Durham and 1969.
I've seen enough Chicago collapses in my lifetime. Here's hoping (but not counting on) that I don't see another one now.
ObGameShow: You know, one of the sons of a certain MC used to play for the Cubbies (shame one of many episodes where he referenced it will most likely never see the light of day on GSN again).
Doug
Ian Wallis:
--- Quote ---I do recall him making several references during his tenure on CS and even occasionally on $otC of Philadelphia being his "hometown." One thing I didn't know was that he was a weekend/swing shift DJ at 77 WABC in 1973 (and moved on to Canada and DEFINITION from that gig)--
--- End quote ---
Jim was taping shows in Canada from the early '60s on, when CTV started up. He hosted one of CTV's first game shows, the Canadian version of "Fractured Phrases" in 1961. He also hosted the "Miss Canada Pageant" and "Eye Bet" before "Definition" came along. While he was doing "Definition", he also hosted a once-a-week evening show "Headline Hunters".
During the years he was hosting "Card Sharks" and "Sale" on NBC, he'd fly to Toronto during the weekends to tape "Definition", which ran until 1989.
SRIV94:
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Oct 14 2003, 08:45 AM\']Jim was taping shows in Canada from the early '60s on, when CTV started up. He hosted one of CTV's first game shows, the Canadian version of "Fractured Phrases" in 1961. He also hosted the "Miss Canada Pageant" and "Eye Bet" before "Definition" came along. While he was doing "Definition", he also hosted a once-a-week evening show "Headline Hunters".
During the years he was hosting "Card Sharks" and "Sale" on NBC, he'd fly to Toronto during the weekends to tape "Definition", which ran until 1989.[/quote]
That's right. I completely forgot about those other shows he did (and a quick check of the EOTVGS would have served me well in that instance). I was going by Allan Sniffen's WABC chronicle, which in spite of that omission is still pretty dang good.
Sniffen himself has lamented that he doesn't have an aircheck of Perry at WABC. That would be real cool to hear if one would ever surface (while the DJ page shows that Perry was there in 1973, other pages on the site show that he worked there in 1970-71 as well--in case you radio collectors need to check your archives ;) ).
Doug
SRIV94:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Oct 12 2003, 10:00 PM\'] [quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' date=\'Oct 12 2003, 06:03 AM\'] [quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Oct 11 2003, 12:21 AM\'] Doug -- GO CUBBIES!!! [/quote]
Only 1 more Win, and it's off to the World Series! First time in about 60 years, give or take (Back before the NLCS and NLDS were started) [/quote]
Shhh! Not so loud. Don't want to awaken the ghosts of Leon Durham and 1969.
I've seen enough Chicago collapses in my lifetime. Here's hoping (but not counting on) that I don't see another one now. [/quote]
See? You awakened the ghost of Leon Durham (how else do you explain Alex Gonzalez's inability to pick up a [basically] routine grounder). The idiot fan was also sent up from the depths of 1969 as well. So I'll be bold and predict that the 95-year curse will continue after Florida wins tomorrow night.
Sorry I took this waaaay off-topic.
Doug
GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Oct 14 2003, 10:03 PM\'] See? You awakened the ghost of Leon Durham (how else do you explain Alex Gonzalez's inability to pick up a [basically] routine grounder). The idiot fan was also sent up from the depths of 1969 as well. So I'll be bold and predict that the 95-year curse will continue after Florida wins tomorrow night. [/quote]
Everybody (Fox in particular) would looooooove to see a Cubs-Red Sox World Series, but it looks more and more like it'll be Yankees-Marlins. If that's how it plays out, the Yankees will win in four games and kill all of Fox's ratings momentum until The Next Joe Millionaire's final few weeks.
ObGameShows: If Fox had not cancelled Greed in 2000, it would still be on the schedule now! Boston Public was getting less than half of Greed's ratings when baseball moved in. Forget the Curse of the Bambino; Fox's Friday night lineup is haunted by the Curse of Chuck Woolery.
ObYankees: Despite MLB's attempt to level the playing field with that new labor agreement, George Steinbrenner knows the system is beatable. ObGameShowsAgain: He's the Michael Larson of baseball.
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