Whether you're at the end of your coffee, your day, your week or even your rope, welcome to Whitt's End
*Big blow to the Cowboys' defense with Anthony Spencer needing microfracture knee surgery and likely being out for the year. Dallas is already without Jay Ratliff three more games and Tyrone Crawford suffered a season-ending injury early in training camp. I know new defensive line coach Rod Marinelli is working magic with the likes of George Selvie and Nick Hayden and Edgar Jones. But the Cowboys can't keep this up with only DeMarcus Ware and Jason Hatcher anchoring the front four. Can they?
*My former radio partner needs help. Serious help. At least he's getting
heart-felt advice from friend and former Ticket co-worker, Grubes. I don't take Greggo's calls or texts and I no longer follow him on Twitter, but couple of friends alerted me Sunday that he was attacking 105.3 The Fan's Mike Fisher. In attempting to harpoon Fisher's breaking news about Spencer not playing against the Rams, Greggo used words like "truth", "class", "integrity", "slimy" and "unethical." Laughable. Those criticisms coming from a guy with sub-freezing credibility. Those accusations coming from a guy who, among his litany of lies, skipped out on his
RAGE teammates, fabricated stories about his own mother to miss work, and misstated his days of supposed sobriety on the air.
Ring a bell? Sorry, but at this point anyone who believes Greggo's version of "just tellin' the truth" is simply stubborn, naive or as fucked up as he is. Greggo was once a radio icon in DFW. But these days he's nothing more than an alarmingly skinny 53-year-old habitual liar with a failed blog, banished to a life of irrelevance and Internet trolling with his days spent buying Heineken at Still On The Corner in Gainesville and picking nonsensical Twitter fights in a lame attempt to get people to notice him. It truly saddens me. We had some great times, made some good radio and I'll always have a special place in my heart for him. But I won't help Greggo until he finally decides to help himself.
*See, that's the maddening thing about your Rangers. Monday night they used the worst team in baseball as their personal pinata with Alex Rios' cycle, 12 runs, a complete game by Derek Holland and lots of fireworks and fun for the whole family.
12-0. Can't help but be a tad frustrated that this team wins games 8-2 and 12-0, but can't scratch out a single tally in all those 1-0 defeats.
*What do you mean
your son almost drowned at the football camp of some Cowboys? Sounds to me like the players should
almost pay you a bunch of money. Unless, that is, the kid suffered permanent physical damage. If so, prove it.
*After shredding the Raiders on
Monday Night Football, Broncos' quarterback Peyton Manning is on pace for 475 completions, 6,096 yards and 64 touchdowns. All would be NFL records.
*Is it too early, or does DeMarco Murray's 175-yard rushing performance demand an apology from his critics? I discuss over at
NBC 5's Blue Star Blog.
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*Texas Motor Speedway grand poobah Eddie Gossage has long been openly jealous of the Cowboys' popularity. He's got a bigger venue. Bigger one-day crowds. And now a bigger video board. His new "Big Hoss" will be 70 yards long, 10 bigger than JumboJerry at AT&T Stadium. But it's all relative. I went to Charlotte Motor Speedway and saw what is currently the world's biggest board and, honestly, at that giant track it looked like a 32" tube TV in the corner. TMS' new toy is huge, but it won't appear nearly as big as the Cowboys'.
*Credit Joe Nathan with another save, with assists from Elvis Andrus and Holland. Seems the former president of the Southeast Arlington Little League stole the organization's $20,000 in a move that threatened to cancel the Fall season.
Until the Rangers stepped in. Very cool.
*Watched a sneak preview of the JFK movie
Parkland last night at the Angelika Film Center. Nov. 22 is the 50th anniversary of the assassination, so get prepared for the onslaught. The movie starts with, um, a
bang. Gripping first 30 minutes, detailing President Kennedy's transportation to Parkland Hospital and the efforts to keep him alive despite a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Not as quite as gruesome as the opening scene of
Saving Private Ryan, but it's pretty damn intense. And bloody. And hectic. You'll learn details about the ornery medical examiner, Oswald's looney mom and the life of Abraham Zapruder. But mostly, I was reminded how terrible the whole ordeal makes our city look. Says a secret service agent of Dallas at one point, "What a horrible place to die."
*Can't imagine the backlash Jerry Jones would receive if he allowed a player to play in a game, then be sent to rehab immediately after. The 49ers botched Aldon Smith's care from the start.
*More proof that Brad Sham is as eloquent in life as he is behind the Cowboys' microphone, this is his Facebook posting re: the moving of his son, Paul:
My son is off to embark on a new chapter of his life tonight. It will separate us physically. His mom already came to terms dealing with that. This feels like a big step, and I want Sunray Paul Lewis Sham to be reminded that his mom and dad are his biggest cheerleaders. The bumps in the road don't alter our belief in you, son, nor the way we love you, which is more than anything in the world. Your dad will always be here for you, wishing you what parents wish their children most: safety, health, happiness and peace.
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*College football uniforms are officially outta control. Is this Virginia Tech's helmet for Thursday night's game against Georgia Tech? Or have
The Flintstones joined the ACC?
*Loved me some
Dexter, but the series finale on Showtime was underwhelming, no? He killed his sister, sailed into a hurricane and then ... grew a beard and became an anonymous logger with a creepy stare? Still, any show that can get you to root for a serial killer has to be considered a smashing success.
*Local TV audiences from last Sunday: Cowboys-Rams 943,000. Rangers-Royals 69,000. The Emmys 365,000. Bears-Steelers 454,000.
Breaking Bad 241,000.
*Sign you're getting old: You have more passion for what you see than what you do.
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An experienced rock-climber fell to her death in Grapevine because she inexplicably forgot to hook into her safety line. The Devil is in the details.
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*Toldja baseball over-celebrates. Even its babies drink beer in partying locker rooms.
*Stop me if you've heard this one.
Pacman Jones arrested. But hey it's only the 8th time he's been jailed since 2005. Probably just another misunderstanding.
*Yeah, I'll get crap wrong from time to time. And I'll do my best to correct it. I forgot Dan Bailey's missed 21-yard field goal in San Francisco back in 2011. So before Sunday's push to the right against the Rams he had made 38 field goals in a row under 40 yards.
*I'm posting
this video of me and Pat Doney on NBC 5's Big Game Sunday not because of our keen insight on Cowboys-Rams. But because I dare you to focus on our commentary when Carly Patterson tumbles past in the background. Giggle.
*Today? May visit my old friend Jay Lombardo to check out some new threads. Don't be a stranger.
