we had tony kubek for about a decade. i guess after nbc tied a can to his ass we were his only option. man did he hate us, our team, our fans, our city. he was totally pissed, from network tv to the great white wastefuckingland. he couldn't shut up about how useless and ignorant we all were. (it was all true, of course, but we didn't have to hear it every day.) the thing is, people here loved him. because he lent legitimacy to the operation. it was like, we got kubek, pass it around. we stole kubek from nbc, lalalalalala. i just wanted somebody to tell him to shut the fuck up, but the dumbfuck canuck play-by-play guys were even worse than the rest of us. kubek would disagree with everything they said, no matter what, and it was always, yes, tony now i see it, thank you for correcting me, and what a pleasure it is to have you here in toronto. then you'd here tony mutter to himself, christ get off your knees, man, jesus god help me.
i like tim. the thing is, you want the drone, that's what baseball is. it's incredibly boring. so boredom plus boredom times boredom has to equal something. the more nonsensical and irrelevant the story, the better, like a book with no beginning, no middle, no end, just crap, you pick it up and drop it off anywhere you want, it makes no difference.
