Given our current Twinkie crisis/shortage, this is the most useful video you'll ever see on this blog.
Let's be honest. You're not listening to the radio today. If you are, you're traveling long distances with someone who's not going to allow you to listen to the radio because they'll be too busy droning on about themselves. Maybe you've blown off work early and you're spending time with someone who's not going to hammer their insufferable sports opinions down your throats for hours. Or maybe you're beginning your Amateur Night Biggest Bar Night Of The Year festivities with some cold ones. Maybe you're plotting out your Black Friday (which now sadly, includes Thursday) plan and you don't have room for our show.
I understand.
But I'm still required to do a show anyway.
Programming Note: We're out of the way early, done at 5:30 to make way for UK hoops.
Before we get to today's show, let me express my thanks for being raised by two people who didn't feel like they had to cut their Thanksgivings short so they could wait in line to buy me a toy in order to prove that they loved me.
I know, you want that great bargain. I know, you're relatives are only so tolerable. But avoid the temptation to stand out there like a buffoon to buy something for someone and take that time and spend it with that someone.
That gift will be available, at a decent price, later.
Rant over. Now on to the radio show.
Guests
3:04 - Marvin Lewis
3:42 - Aaron Schatz, FootballOutsiders.com
4:20 - Steve Tasker, CBS Sports. Calling Bengals v. Raiders
4:42 - Dan Clasgens, Getsportsinfo.com
Plus, you'll hear what Bengals players will be eating tomorrow, Carson Palmer's conference call with Cincinnati media, and a montage of his worst moments as a Bengal.
Topics
-I know Sunday is Carson Palmer's long-awaited return to Cincinnati. That's the backstory to this game. Sunday seems like it's all about Carson Palmer. It's not.
Sunday is about Andy Dalton.
It's Andy's team, not Carson's, that has legit playoff hopes. It's Andy, not Carson, who will face the inevitable comparisons to his predecessor. It's the Bengals, not the Raiders, who have something to lose and are expected to win. Carson enters the Jungle prepared to face a crowd that's frothing at the mouth waiting to let him know how they fee.l. And he's supposed to lose.
Andy will be enjoying the comforts of the home stadium and its crowd. And he's supposed to win.
More important, he has to.
Sunday might seem like it's about the Raiders' QB. It's actually about the guy on the other sideline.
We'll discuss starting at 3:04.
-Also, help me with the outrage over the kid who scored 138 points in an NCAA D-3 game that no one saw.
I'm a hoops purist, but the people upset about how this made such a mockery of the game amuse me.
Know what's made mockery of basketball? Point-shaving scandals. Cheating by coaches. A massive drug problem in the 70s and early-80s. Racism. The And-1 Mixtape Streetball Tour. David Stern's new ball. Overexpansion. Bernard King's exclusion from the Hall of Fame. The game survived each of those things.
It will survive this.
-Also, more conference realignment fun, more generic Thanksgiving topics, and the coolest email correspondence ever. Plus, the #MoEggerTQD. Should be a fun day, even if no one is listening. We start at 3:04 today on ESPN1530. This video would've been cooler had the Ohio U. masco skied up from behind him and punched Brutus in the face.
