Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown - Tuesday, July 21 (5:00-7:00)

Host: Bob McCown
Co-Host: John Shannon
Guests: Tuesday: President and GM of the Toronto Raptors, Bryan Colangelo; Pat Gillick, advisor to the Philadelphia Phillies; SportsBusiness Journal writer, Bill King.

Yet another great co-host in John Shannon. Great behind the scenes discussion regarding sports television production and direction. For anyone interested in sports broadcasting, particularly hockey, the first segment is for you.

Interesting times in Toronto - Bosh and Halladay could easily be gone this time next year. These moves will be critical for both the Jays and Raptors.

I was waiting for McCown to tell Gillick that Beeston may need the ultimate convincing from Gillick himself in coming back to the Jays as GM, something that Bobcat has espoused on fadoo.ca and on Prime Time Sports.

Hey Bobcat, there are no "wimpy easterners" in Ottawa...we LIVE cold here!!! Saskatchewan ain't got NUTTIN' on Ottawa with regards to winters!

The Bill King interview was great. Hope he returns! McCown quipped on blogs, "Blogs are opinion pieces, they are not information pieces. Any information that has been gleamed off of a blog has been usually ripped off of someone else, traditional media. What are bloggers? Amateur columnists!" Thanks Bob - I take that as a compliment, although I am not ripping off
anyone...and you won't see profanity here!!! :)

As these are the dog days of summer, I've compiled a top 5 list of Bobcat's Public Enemies:
1. Gary Bettman
2. Tom Watson
3. All-Star Games
4. Soccer
5. Cito Gaston

What/Who am I missing? Post below!!

Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 (6:00-7:00)

Host: Bob McCown
Co-Host: Stephen Brunt
Guests: Jeff Hunt, Bert Sugar, Alondra Johnson

Jeff Hunt came on in the first segment. I've heard Hunt on Over the Edge radio show in Ottawa on the Team 1200, and Hunt's candor on today's show was much more open…maybe it's *who* he was talking to.

Hunt was right when he said that this debate amongst residents of Ottawa has turned into a soccer/Kanata vs. a football/Ottawa debate. As mentioned earlier here, I'm a resident of Kanata (and for that matter Ottawa too.) I have no problems with building infrastructure in the Ottawa region as long as tax dollars aren't spent. What the City of Ottawa is doing is downright laughable. The City is currently spending $4/million a year to maintain the dump that is Frank Clair and Lansdowne. They will also have to spend $25 million to keep this dump up . I'm not sure what the plans of the City could be that would deal with this eye sore and "massive problem" that as little as a few months ago needed to be partially imploded due to safety concerns.

Hunt's plan can be found here.

McCown/Brunt love listening to Bert Sugar…so do I…what a legend!

Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown: Monday, April 6, 2009 (6:00-7:00)

Host: Bob McCown
Guests: Doug Smith, John Wells

No Brunt or Kelley today??

McCown thinks 90+ wins for the Jays??? Bobcat - are you insane? His logic is that Cito and Tennance's attention to detail on offense is the key that will be the success for the Jays this season. Markham used be the #5 guy and McGowan who was brought in as an injury substitution is now in the rotation - both who have proved to be according to Bobcat, "integral part of the Jays and the big missing pieces to the puzzle." Romero, Percy, Richmond - it just takes 1 of them to get hot to be competitive, and if 2 of them are hot, they'll be competing for the East. A whole segment went by discussing the Jays, and Ricciardi's name wasn't brought up once. If the Jays have a brutal April, McCown will be all over Ricciardi, who is now his 2nd favorite whipping boy next to GB.

I'm not a golf fan (unless mini golf counts), and a very fringe soccer fan, but I don't get how McCown loves golf and is despises soccer. I find golf incredibly boring, but very useful when enjoying a nap on a spring afternoon! Bobcat, why the hatred for soccer but the love for golf? Augusta carries with it a romantic love affair with McCown that isn't comparable with many other things. McCown's use of the English language to describe the greens is legendary (although not particularly witnessed in this episode.)

Maybe I gotta head down to Augusta myself?