It's silly season in Podcast land
Jim Young joins us in the studio this week in Radio Free Sports. Jim and fellow News & Record sports writers Jeff Carlton and Rob Daniels reveal their first-ballot selections for the Mascot Hall of Fame, which inducted its first class this week. Not that they were asked to. Why should the Expos’ Youppi! get some consideration? Who are the best and worst of college mascots? We have the answers. We also tell you why the Padres are proof baseball shouldn’t allow sub-.500 teams to make the playoffs and debate whether the NHL should be so gung-ho in sending its players and coaches to the Olympics in the middle of hockey season.
Give it a listen and feel free to blog your mascot favorites. And forgive us for any over-the-top Jeffrey Dahmer references you might hear.
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By the way Jeff, on Baseball tonight (last night) Larry Bowa espoused the exact view I'd voiced on the podcast - that the Padres shouldn't be in the playoffs if they can't crack .500. Is that a good thing? Or a bad thing?
Posted on August 19, 2005 3:32 PM
First off, I'd assumed Mr. Wear Out His Welcome had been fired. I haven't seen Bowa on Baseball Tonight in ages. When they were 7-team divisions, being No.1 after 162 games was a big deal, and I didn't mind an 84-78 team making it under those circumstances. But it didn't seem fair that a 103-win Giants team couldn't get in. So, woohoo to the wild card. But I'm not ready to NOT reward a division winner with a playoff berth, even in a 5-team division.
So, given that, Jim, would you be willing to expand the playoffs -- AGAIN??? Or are you going to keep hammering the Padres ... until they hammer the Braves in the NLCS?
Posted on August 19, 2005 3:42 PM