Sunday, April 24, 2005

Game 18: Pirates at Cubs

2:20pm, Josh Fogg and Kerry Wood. Dave Williams might start for Josh if Josh still has ear problem. The Bucs are looking to win number seven.

... game on. That pregame thing on Kurt Smith's Voices of Summer (where is Lanny ranked?) reminded me of the article in the latest Sports Illustrated on XM satellite radio by Steve Rushin. My question: how much did he get paid for that gushing review? Seriously, I was certain, reading his glowing praise for the product, that he got at least a free year's worth of service in exchange for the column. And I'm most sympathetic to his whole love-of-baseball-radio sentiment.

Rushin can thank the likes of these people and these people if this upsets him. You'd think SI would require him to run some kind of disclaimer or disclosure when he devotes his entire column to such puffery.

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