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Published: 4/27/2009 4:56 PM
Last Modified: 4/27/2009 4:56 PM

This was the greatest NFL draft ever.

Know why?

Because Mel Kiper was the highlight in a low-light sort of way. He couldn't hit anything. After hitting pick number one, which was made public the night before, he didn't get anything right again until the eighth pick; and hit only three of his top 16.

Players he had rated as arena types were being tabbed in the first round.

He should pay ESPN to be on the air.

While on the subject of performances that left one somewhat stunned, while running by the local weekend sports reports on TV, we settled on Channel 2, KJRH, long enough to hear the person running the show Saturday say something like what follows. A baseball clip was being shown. The weekend Channel 2 guy said of what appeared to be an extra base hit something like: Mama, more meatloaf!

No, nobody in my home was drunk.

The guy on that sports run has evidently not heard that the desperate search for a catch-phrase is now the stuff of parody. The wild swipe at a catch-phrase was so off-base, I called several people to see if they had heard what I thought that I had heard, which was somebody describing a hit with a foodstuff. Nobody had heard. Was it a dream? Go to the tape.

In further media developments, we are in the final stages of determining the best and worst sports talk radio people in the listening area.

We have found two candidates in one category, oh, 20 in the other, with competition in the second group best described as intense.



Reader Comments 18 Total
Ignatz (4 years ago)
Dean Blevins. His tearful whining when someone insulted the Sooners on a broadcast outside a stadium several years ago was priceless in the annals of "homerism".
Marathonman (4 years ago)
The local Mel Kiper? The Picker
DwayneDavis (4 years ago)
Pleeeeaaaaasssssseeeeee put me on the panel. I want a vote for best/worst sports talk personality in town.
buster (4 years ago)
Marathonman, tattoo; You hit home runs;
MAMA MORE MEATLOAF.
anm1135 (4 years ago)
You rock Picker! I wish you could get your own radio show. Finally there would be sports radio in Tulsa worth listening to.
Barleybaby (4 years ago)
anm1135 = picker
mgsooner (4 years ago)
Picker, the "Ma! More Meatloaf!" line is from a movie entitled Wedding Crashers. Obscure, yes, but not something picked out of the sky.
MexiMike (4 years ago)
Give Mel Kiper a break. It's not his fault that my poor Raiders are ran by a brainless crypt keeper who would sign a cheetah from Africa if he knew that it could run a 4.2 forty...nevermind its mauling attacks on the poor waterboy and overweight sideline officials.

With that said, maybe a cheetah does fit right in with my troubled Raiders. Ooh!!! BOOM goes the dynamite!!

(sorry, had to.)
mgsooner (4 years ago)
The Raiders have become a parody of themselves at this point. They have jointed the Washington Nationals and L.A. Clippers as the worst run franchises in professional sports today.
The Picker (4 years ago)
MGSooner: First let me start off by saying heaven help us all. And just what might a dopey line from a sappy movie have to do with a baseball game?

Tattoo: You get back on Fantasy Island right this second.

Dwayne: You're right, the battle for worst sports talk radio player is hotly contested. OU homers have taken over the state in all media forms, print to screaming on the radio, to mugging for TV. Even OSU media people have given their minds over to the Sooner state and have become OU homers.

In terms of best, the current short list has Jerry O, the former TU lineman, on it, that's about it.
Ignatz (4 years ago)
Geez, and Jerry O had a real NFL career to back himself up. MexiMike, I'm with you, Bud, I almost cried watching a recent tribute to the black and silver on the NFL channel remembering how great it was for so long. I'd forgotten that Kennie King (who may never have caught a pass for Switzer's Sooners) for a long time had the record for longest Super Bowl pass reception when the boys beat the Eagles. Some of those teams had nearly a dozen Hall of Famers on them.
mgsooner (4 years ago)
Traber's show was especially entertaining today. I tuned in and thought I was listening to Rush Limbaugh as I got to listen to Jim's idiotic political views for a good 10 minutes.
The Picker (4 years ago)
Is he the one who yells and screams about having fouled one into a bowl of sushi in Japan back in the day?
mgsooner (4 years ago)
Yeah. If you really want to hear something amusing call him sometime and ask him what he thinks about Sunny Golloway. But hang up first lest he blow out your ear drum with his ridiculous shrieking.
MexiMike (4 years ago)
Mgsooner, I absolutely agree. Every now and then, Traber will get on some ridiculous political rant forgetting that he is being paid (*gagging*) for his expert analysis (*gagging more*) on SPORTS!

At 5pm, it's absolutely necessary for me to switch to ESPN radio or the Buzz because if there's anything worse than reading one of Berry Tramel's columns, it's actually having to listen to him and his remedial, nonsensical opinions.
mgsooner (4 years ago)
It's amazing that he actually believes that we want to hear about his views on politics and morality, like he is some kind of role model. And I agree about Tramel. I think they should change the name to the "Total Incompetence Hour".
The Picker (4 years ago)
That Oklahoman guy thinks he knows it all and then some.

Why do they all yell?
madhatter (4 years ago)
How can a discussion of sports media not mention Bob '3 of 6 on his last 8 attempts' Barry. To me, hearing the 'voice of the Sooners' say 'doesn't make it back to the line of scrimmage but appears to have the first down' is just embarrasing!!
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