Time for one of those masturbatory announcement posts. Which to our credit, hasn’t been done in so long that I honestly can’t remember the last one. Hey, we’re not a big national TV network, where we actually hire people to write and then mass mail self-congratulatory “news” about “breaking” some ratings record.
OMG! We cherry picked the Nielsen numbers, so we can announce that we had our third highest rated Wednesday night in primetime of the past 3 months!!!! HUGE NEWS!! OMG!
You’d be amazed how many of these emails are sent out by the networks all the time. Even though absolutely no one, other than employees of that network should or ever will care.
No, this is not a post to brag about our page views and unique visitor counts either. The point of this exercise is to announce the merger of The Sports Bank.net with the Maximus & The Bartender Show on Xers Radio.com
The TSB podcast will now be M&TB. I will be posting segments from Maximus and the Bartender within articles here. I will be appearing every week on the show, which runs from 5-8 PM central.
That’s not nearly enough time for me to go on my angry Howard Beale from “Network” type rants against what the Illini athletic programs or the “integrity” of Roger Goodell and the NFL. Paraphrasing Beale:
The NFL is not the truth. The NFL’s a god-damned amusement park. The NFL is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We’re in the boredom-killing business…You do whatever the NFL tells you. You dress like the NFL, you eat like the NFL, you raise your children like the NFL. You even think like the NFL. This is mass madness. You maniacs.
As it’s now college football season, it means you can hear me at 10:35 A.M. on KOZN 1620 The Zone Omaha, and then at 5:15 on Maximus and the Bartender.
Make sure you follow both of the co-hosts @MaximusRadio and @BartenderRadio on Twitter. Check out their show page and Facebook fan page.
If you’re somebody I’ve talked about doing a podcast with/a publicist pitching me an interview guest, well have a listen to last week’s show here on the Maximus and the Bartender
Paul M. Banks owns, operates and writes The Sports Bank.net, which is part of the FOX Sports Engage Network. Banks, a former writer for the Washington Times, currently contributes to the Chicago Tribune RedEye edition. He also appears regularly on numerous talk radio stations all across the country. Catch him Tuesdays on KOZN 1620 the Zone.
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