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Buckeroo Bill
Published: 12/28/2007 5:16 PM
Last Modified: 12/28/2007 5:16 PM

Local sports talk radio is full of a lot of stuff.

It is full of media types for the most part, anchors and journalists alike, a former coach here and there.

Many are kiss-up homers.

Their opinions are no more interesting than yours, and are frequently less well-spoken.

Here's an exception. On the Tulsa Sports Animal radio scene, Cowboy Bill Watts vocalizes now and again. He's an original voice who is funny and big even on the radio. One thing he is full of is humor. He says what many sports fans are thinking but are too chicken to make public.

He is frankly the only one I'd make the effort to find on that dial.




Reader Comments 12 Total
Red Dog (5 years ago)
Hey Jay,
I hear you've chickened out at the last minute at least five times from being on the Sports Animal. What, you afraid you'll suck on the radio as bad as your picks do in the paper? Easier to hide behind a fake name and rip others than to get in the arena with your real name, right? You phony tool.
Nit picker (5 years ago)
World Picker:

Your disdain for local sports talk radio folks transcends your fan bigotry. (Who would have thought it possible. Probably no one but me.)

Many of them are truly uninteresting kiss-up homers---just like you.
The actual difference between them and you is that they are not cowards....they identify themselves.
You, on the other hand, are a local, kiss-up homer who is much too chicken and insecure to crawl out from under your mouse pad.

Plus, they make much more money than you do. Ouch!

For those of us who don't have a radio, how about elaborating on what Watts said which so many sports fans are too chicken to say?
Or are you too chicken to say it?

You should be fired....but required to identify yourself first.
DSR (5 years ago)
Red, Nit

Not that there is anything wrong with ripping the Picker's anonymity, but don't you find it at all disingenuous to do it anonymously? Are we not doing the same thing every day on this message board?

Cheers
wr (5 years ago)
Morning Mr. Picker. Every time I look out my patio window, the dogs bark. It is a lot of fun.
Nit picker (5 years ago)
DSR:

Although I am anonymous to you and other posters, remember that the World Picker requires us to give him our email-which often identifies us.

Don't for a nanosecond believe that World Picker would come across as such a fan bigot and negative jerk if he had to put his real name to each article/blog.

As soon as World Picker takes off his mask, I will do the same.

He won't even respond to reasonable posts,
e.g., elaborate on the things Watts says that many sports fans (does that include any of us?) are thinking, but are too chicken (are we chickens now?) to say.

World Picker should be fired.
Pickerfan (5 years ago)
Homerism aside, I like to hear the afternoon guys get all worked up. The morning guys are barely sports oriented until 10am anyway. They all are homers.
But, so are the local channel tv personalities and the eastern sports propoganda network personalities and the CSTV guys and ____________. (You fill in the blank.)
There is very little professionalism in sports talk anymore.
WORLDPICKER (5 years ago)
Hey Nit Picker, you sad sack, remember the bet you lost IN PRINT HERE? I'll go you double or nothing and take West Virginia plus seven and a half points against your version of the Florida State Criminoles. Want some?
WORLDPICKER (5 years ago)
Red Dog, why would anybody go on the radio, the ratings are zero.
WORLDPICKER (5 years ago)
See above blog for shocking local sports talk radio ratings comparison.
b (5 years ago)
Hey, Jay Cronley: Why would anyone write legitimate sports stories and then turn around and write anonymous columns (i.e. the picker)? Posters on message boards can remain anonymous. They don't get a paycheck from the newspaper. Why don't you put your real name to these columns?
DSR (5 years ago)
Nit,

Firstly, the Picker does not force one to give or have access to an e-mail address... his employer, World Publishing Co., insists on the address.

Secondly, your "you-do-it-first" argument draws attention to the advantages and disadvantages of anonymity. It is wonderful when used responsibly, and nauseating when used irresponsibly. If you consider the Picks column an abuse of anonymity, stop reading it.

Which brings the final point: You and perhaps thousands of others hate the Picker, yet voraciously devour every letter tapped from his keyboard. That sort of reader response does not imperil his job, but secures it. Again, if you want him gone, stop reading the column.
Nit picker (5 years ago)
To (anonymous) DSR:

Uh, don't think you have much of a point about anonymity, Mr. DSR.

I do not hate the World Picker. Never in a million years would I hate someone less fortunate than me. I don't hate you either.

I love reading World Picker, almost as much as I love reading myself.

Still, World Picker should be fired. I don't think he should be 'gone'. Just fired. He's incompetent. You and I are living proof of that.

World Picker: remind me of the bet I lost here in print, can't find it. Don't think it really exists. BTW: why so angry?? Did someone call your hand on something?

How many World Pickers are there?

From one 'Sad Sack' to another: "the pessimist may be right in the long run, but the optimist enjoys the trip a lot more." (author unknown to me)

WP should be fired. He knows it.



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