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Greg Sazima's avatar

Matt, long time listener, first time caller. Don't remove that rodent from the Commodore, feed him - that's how it runs.

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Bayesian's avatar

Some good stuff as usual, Matt (I had never heard of Bobby Bare Jr., or at least not that I remember - his dad wasn't really my kind of thing).

The discussion of Soccer Jesus, Football Jesus, etc. reminds me of Ambrose Bierce and The Devil's Dictionary:

"MONDAY, n.

In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game."

Bierce's original entry for Monday was probably written around 1890, so just before basketball was invented, and before football (which was more like a rugby football variant in those days) had moved much off some Ivy League campuses.

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