Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (5:00-7:00)

Host: Bob McCown
Co-Host: Stephen Brunt
Guests: Co-author of "Leafs AbomiNation", Michael Grange; Claude Lemieux, NHL player and "Battle of the Blades" contestant; Peter Keating, writer for ESPN The Magazine; NBC and Versus hockey analyst, Ed Olczyk; George Stroumboulopoulos, host of "The Hour" on CBC.

McCown: "I'm developing a book that talks about the life and times in this stupid business and how the suits have tried to mess up my life."

Brunt: "That hasn't happened recently to you has it?"
McCown: "Not in a couple of hours, but I've been here."

"An announcement is forthcoming…it's up to them to make whatever announcement they wish…we’re not sure why we're not on, but it doesn't matter why we're not on, but it's up to them (Sportsnet)…but it's going to be okay…just relax!" quipped McCown during the show.

Regardless of all the speculation going around the internetsssss these days, it seems as there will be something different, new and fresh happening with Prime Time Sports and Sportsnet. My best guess is that Sportsnet is going to take McCown and company out of the Fan590 studio and bring him into the Sportsnet studios which would lend to better camera's, better graphics and video support to conversations that take place. The simulcast will still take place on Fan590, but Sportsnet will be the base, not the Fan590, as it is now. So instead of a radio show on tv, it will be a tv show on radio. This would bring PTS up to a level to compete with TSN (Again, this is all in my mind!)

So, McCown has 3 upcoming books (all in his head) which are:
- McCowns life and times
- A retrospective of Prime Time Sports (evidently a picture book?)
- ???

…although not much has been said about Jim Kelley's departure from Prime Time Sports, Brunt did mention it by saying "now that John Shannon is a sidekick…" So it's pretty well confirmed. Kelley's out. Shannon's in.

Strombo interview was great…wish he'd be on more and can't wait for the Fleury interview on the Hour.

Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown: Thursday, June 4, 2009 (5:00-7:00)

Host: Bob McCown
Co-Host: Stephen Brunt
Guests: Thursday: Nick Kypreos, hockey analyst for Rogers Sportsnet; the Toronto Star's Doug Smith; George Stroumboulopoulos from "The Hour" on CBC; Rob Becker, New York-based attorney; Mitch Melnick, show host for Team 990 in Montreal.

"If someone pretended to be me on Twitter, I wouldn't sue Twitters ass, I'd sue his mother!"

The bias about Martin as a Coach is laughable. The Sens were the highest scoring team when Martin left and haven't been back there since! Boring hockey, probably...but the results are solid, insofar as bringing the Sens to the post season (which for the Habs and Leafs are about the
only thing that matters these days!)

Strombolopolous suggests a "Jay Dog" that has Blue ketchup is the answer to engaging the Jays in the cultural landscape in T.O.??? Strombo talks the way I would talk if I was ever on the show - fast and asking more questions than answering...LOVED IT and hope he's back!

Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 (5:00-7:00)

Host: Bob McCown
Co-Host: Stephen Brunt
Guests: Keith Pelley, president of Canada'a Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium; National Post writer, Michael Traikos; Dan Shulman, baseball play-by-play broadcaster for ESPN; Doug MacLean of Rogers Sportsnet and THE FAN 590, and Canadian curler Kevin Martin

The podcast of Prime Time Sports will now be covering the 5:00-7:00 hours, which is GREAT! I'll be reviewing both hours here daily. Thanks to Neil Oosten at Prime Time Sports for getting back to us on this request (although we were one of a bunch that requested this!)

Doc is the best Blue Jays pitcher ever. Debate over. ...and who knew, AJ Burnett is older than Halladay?? Wow.

Shameless sponsor mention - Shulman loves Reese's Peanut Butter Cups...

I hear from a *very* inside source at Prime Time that Stroumboulopoulos will not be on the roundtable on Friday. Hopefully a rain check is issued, but you can't really bail on McCown more than once, can you??

Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (5:00-7:00)

Host: Bob McCown
Co-Host: Stephen Brunt
Guests: George Stroumboulopoulos, Nick Kypreos, Jack Armstrong, Rob
Becker, Bob Nicholson, Tom Higgins

"I PVR the TV version of the show 'cause I can't PVR radio." Geez, me and George Stroumboulopoulos are separated at birth!!! As you may know, Stroumboulopoulos is a fellow die hard Prime Time Sports fan. He is even on our facebook page (feel free to join).

Holy crap, Kypreos sounded like a complete buffoon - you really have to hear his defence of Walker. Even Brunt was left shaking his head. Normally, I am a Kypreos fan, in so far of the thoughts he brings to the discussion. This time, he made absolutely no sense at all saying that Ward could have defended himself. Here is the photo that set Bobcat off: