Friday Footnotes

by Ziller on Dec 14, 2007 9:30 AM PST in Links Comment 9 comments

We'll talk about this more as the game preview comes around, but Philadelphia seems to be putting it together. Coupled with Washington's surprising survival, this road trip doesn't look as potentially docile as it did a week ago.
The Kings didn't get to practice Thursday because of snow. In other news, scraping frost of your windshield at 5 am sucks.
The community outreach tentacles of the Sacramento Kings reach lovely Fallon, Nevada. And when I say lovely, I mean '10 times more uncomfortable than Bakersfield in the dead of July wearing a wool turtleneck and snow shoes.'
The investigatory tentacles of George Mitchell reach the NBA.
Update on F.P. Santangelo: I didn't listen this morning, but did get through his entire interview with Mike Lamb from Thursday evening. Credit him for coming clean, unlike most of the others. Apparently, he talked with his bosses at KHTK earlier this week about it; he told his boss on FSN Bay Area (he does Giants work, including a stint in the giant glove during Barry Bonds' race to 756) a month ago. Whitey Gleason claimed this morning he and co-host The Phantom didn't know until yesterday, but "had an inkling." The KHTK bosses wouldn't comment on F.P.'s job status. If they fire him over this, they're idiots. I don't agree with most of what F.P. says on his show (especially about basketball and the Kings), but if his job is seriously in danger over getting named as a steroid user? Crazy. Yeah, it makes it a bit difficult as the steroid story in general isn't going away. And yeah, there's a certain loss of authority since F.P. has been essentially lying about his conduct through this whole thing. But being named in Mitchell's report and subsequently admitting to the charges doesn't preclude someone from talking about sports. To assume listeners will reject what F.P. has to say about sports now assumes listeners actually take what radio personalities say to heart in the first place. In this particular case (a morning show in a basketball town and a gentleman whose expertise is not basketball), it's not a valid concern. None of us are going to cry over the loss if he does go back to coaching or something -- I mean, he has been wildly hypocritical about all this, hasn't he? -- but he deserves to keep his gig. Honesty, even if belated, gets you everywhere, I guess.

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Friday Footnotes

If the Kings do NOT commit 20 turnovers like they did against the Celtics, they will be in a good position to get their first road win tonight.

by KingsFan on Dec 14, 2007 9:54 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Sacramento is a basketball town but more than that I think it's a professional SPORTS town. On the local radio shows the callers are just as interested in the NFL and MLB as they are the NBA. Sometimes more so I would say. I don't hear a lot of callers talking about non-Kings basketball teams but I hear many people call up to discuss the Patriots, Cowboys, Eagles, NY Giants, Red Sox, Yankees, Cubs and so on. Maybe it's because, other than Grant Napear, none of the radio hosts are related to basketball. F.P. is a baseball guy and Mike Lamb is NFL.

He can shoot, and he looks great in a suit. Hey, everybody - It's REGGIE TIME!

by dalt99 on Dec 14, 2007 10:15 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Hmmmm

I told you so on Jason Smith (especially if he becomes a multiple time all star)

It snowed in Philly?

Where is Fallon Nevada? Does it exist?

If nothing else the blogosphere is comic relief.

On FP I don't care if he comes or he goes. I have maintainted, including this, that the steroid issue is just one of many to come thru baseball. I think everyone in this deal is hypocritical, unless they just are entirely indifferent.

I am the stone that the builder refused I am the visual, the inspiration That made Lady Sing the Blues..I'm the spark that makes your idea bright...

by pookeyguru on Dec 14, 2007 12:17 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

question on the steroid subject

There is so much focus on baseball. Is football and basketball immune to this scandal?

by KingsFan on Dec 14, 2007 2:27 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

FTown

First time poster longtime lurker. My hometown of Fallon, in the news ahahaha that's pretty funny. Fallon is a rink a dink town bout an hour away from Reno.

by hopesandoval on Dec 14, 2007 2:49 PM PST reply actions 0 recs