Category: Sports

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Remember Shakey’s Pizza Parlours?

Shakey’s used to have pizza parlours all over the country. Where I lived in the Washington DC area there were a couple dozen, back in the 60’s – 80’s. Sometime in the late 1980’s they started closing their restaurants. I don’t know why. They were really popular with families because they had a great variety of pizzas on a buffet and everyone could eat as much as they wanted of their favorite toppings. Plus they had great music entertainment at night, with rag time or dixie bands playing songs that everyone knew and could sing along.

Entire baseball and softball teams would come in to their closest Shakey’s after a game and eat pizza, drink beer or soda and have a lot of fun. We had our baseball team party at Shakey’s every year.

There’s nothing like them around here any more. Miss them and the great family entertainment.

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Cards vs Cubs

I really want to go to Chicago and watch the Cardinals come into town to play the Cubs. They do that twice this year, once in August and again in September.

I know this is a big sports rivalry, but it just doesn’t seem fair to the public to have all those games in the series completely sold out from the official box office. The only way to get tickets is to buy them from scalpers or online ticket resellers. That just seems wrong.

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Best Source for Stats

I have to say that I check the ESPN web site every day – at least once and sometimes more than that. I even saved the site as a quick link on my blog so I can get to it quick. If I wouldn’t get in trouble at work, I’d leave the ESPN site up on my screen all day as the default – only clicking away when I needed to work on MS Word or Excel.

Some of my buddies want to find a sports bar to hang out on the weekends. I’m not that big on watching a game in a crowded noisy place unless it is the arena or stadium, but I might give it a try and see if you can really watch the game and hear what’s going on. Or do you just go for the beer?

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Sports Talk

Every Thursday I listen to sports talk radio. It’s FM, but I know there are some decent AM stations out there and if I’m driving late at night I might surf the AM airwaves for something different.

I do listen to Jim Rome. He’s a bit of an ass but he is plugged in and has some good interviews. I hate the callers who read their “call” from a written script like third graders struggling to read aloud in class from their Dick and Jane primers.

Dan Patrick puts on a good show but he’s a pompous ass, too. I’m starting to think that the ass syndrome is part of the radio hiring requirements.

Our local boys do a better job with their show. George Plaster is a good host and another with the ass syndrome. But he has access and that’s what I’m paying for, I guess. Plus, when I really have something to say, he will take my call.

So, in the words of another radio pompous ass, “Well, there you go.”