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“Here Comes Foster!” There Goes Al Michaels

by Kevin Burton I love me some Al Michaels. Our sportscaster-sports consumer relationship goes back more than 50 years. How much do I love Al Michaels? Well, I watched the entire unwatchable Raiders-Chargers game Thursday because he was calling it. I didn’t even have any fantasy players involved. And I’ve been watching …

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Good Riddance Steve Physioc, Go Royals

by Kevin Burton The Royals lost their season-opening baseball game to Minnesota 2-0 Thursday. The prediction I saw last week said the team would lose 103 games this year. So why am I newly pumped about the team? The team has promoted Jake Eisenberg, who had been doing play-by-play for its Omaha …

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Yay, Comma, Football Is Back, Period

by Kevin Burton Remember the interjection song from Schoolhouse Rock? The song says interjections are “generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling’s not as strong.” Well I was feeling pretty sheepish about this, but I said the sentence “Yay! Football is back” …

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