Game On

The first pre-season game is this Friday out in lotus land and, to say the least, I am looking forward to it. We will get a chance to see how the new guys are doing (as well as the veterans) on the field with their play and also how they are picking up the new temporarily limited-version offence. Practice is a good time to evaluate the players, but a live game time, albeit pre-season, will weed out the good from the bad a little bit further. 620 CKRM will have the game Friday night starting with Roughrider Warm-up and Countdown to Kick Off at 7:30 PM. Then of course the game and the Point After, followed by Frenzy and I wrapping it up with the first Roundtable of the year. I’m not sure if we will be in the studio or at the 4 Season’s but I will let you know later in the week.

Even better news is that we are drawing ever closer to the day we all get to see some real hitting on Taylor Field. Friday June 22nd the hated Stamps will be in town. Bob Poley and I will be on with the Touchdown Club starting at 4:30 PM on the mighty 620 CKRM. I am, of course, really looking forward to this game, as most of the time the second pre-season game features many more of the starters. Or, as is the case this year, the guys that have possibly won out a spot in camp. I imagine we will see KJ and Marcus a lot that night, along with the top 5-6 receivers and so on down the line. Also, we may get to see a bit more of the playbook than we did in the first game. Got to love a home game. This one usually does well ticket-wise, so if you’re waiting to buy yours don’t wait too much longer.

Another great Sportsline tonight with Rod, John, Carm and me. If you missed it, you can hit the link on my page to get to the archived version; it should be up sometime Tuesday. I really do enjoy doing the shows on Monday nights, If you did not hear the news, the first Belmont Tire Coach’s show of the year will air this Wednesday night and we will be live at the Press Box Sports Bar. We hope to have Eric on for the season kick-off. As mentioned, I really enjoy Sportsline and when we started with the Coach’s Show last year it also became on of my favourite parts of my week. Not that Sportsline is a salad, but on the Coach’s show we tend to get more meat and potatoes, and I say wahooo. Wednesday night 6:05 P.M. on the mighty 620 CKRM or come see us live at the Press Box.

The other thing I have to add today is that this year I never want to hear a fan boo the home team. Honestly, what does that accomplish? Does it make the person feel better about themselves in some small way? Does that person think it makes them look cool? What the H E double hockey sticks makes you want to boo your own team? If they are playing poorly, people can get frustrated (so do I) but I have never even come close to wanting to boo my team. Again, someone needs to tell me what booing your own team accomplishes. Are these one-game fans? Are they season ticket holders for 50 years? I bet a little of both. If you’re that pissed off at the team, leave! Do us all a favour. Speaking only for myself, I don’t want to hear it and others, I imagine, will agree with me. If you are reading this and have actually booed your team in the stands at TF drop me an email theracerreport@gmail.com and please explain to me what you get out of booing your team.

And to wrap-up today, a note to CTV television. If you can find time in your news cast (not on the sports) to show the big crash in the F1 race yesterday, I would think you could at least say in the sports who won the race. Some of us do care about that part as well. Man, this has always annoyed me. Motorsports are not worthy of any press coverage until there is a huge crash, heck the crashes make Plays of the Week, but the great move at the end of the race to win by half a second is not even worthy of mention. If I need motor ports news I have many places to get the information from, so I no longer concern myself with not hearing much of it locally. However, I find it perplexing that they can find room in the cast for the crash. I once had it out on the radio on a call in show with a local sports guy who said he does not care about Nascar. That’s fine, I said, but I bet you will be the first one on with the video of the big crash. He disagreed with me if memory serves me correct. One last note on this. It was a number of years ago now, but I was watching Plays of the Week one Friday and one of the clips was a drag car going out of control and going into the stands. I was appalled as I knew in that crash one of the crowd members was killed by the car. Not exactly a Play of the Week, in my opinion, but, hey, it was the big crash I guess. Rant Over

MONTREAL (CP) — Polish driver Robert Kubica got the green light to leave hospital Monday — a day after a spectacular crash totalled his Formula One car — but he still needs approval to compete next weekend. Full Story

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Today’s Lyrics

“I remember long ago

When the sun was shining”

Note to self: Get new seat cushion for sec 25 row 50 seat 11