DL499: Here Are Ten (Or Eleven) Of Our Favorite Show Memories

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I always hated when, around the holiday season, my favorite shows would be listed in the TV Guide as *NEW* but wouldn’t be anything more than a damn clip show with five minutes of “new” material only used to transition from one clip to the next.

So, with that, I ask this: what would you do, baby, without us? IT’S A CLIP SHOW!

The difference in our situation, of course, is that we’ve been gaining listeners over the course of the last few years, so you, dear reader, may not have been around to hear Rick Telander talk about running into Jay Mariotti in a sauna, or Ian Eagle tell the story of when Bill Raftery invented the term “Onions,” or when Tony Kornheiser called me a narcissist. (Note: all in the show).

There are hundreds of clips we could have pulled. Some of the notables NOT in the show include: Norman Chad telling us that Kornheiser is dead to him, Annie Duke talking about just getting back from speaking in front ofREAD MORE

Pardon the Sports Guy, But People Liked To Watch His TV Interruptions

Okay, that’s not the best headline, but it is true. Bill Simmons finished up his week-long stint as guest host of PTI on Friday and while he wasn’t as polished (no pun) as Wilbon, he did get better and more comfortable as the week progressed. Sure, we took a jab at him for complaining about Tom Brady not being “Boston” enough. Sure he made a Football Outsiders reference and when Kornheiser asked him what DVOA meant he didn’t know. But heck, it got people watching.

Per TV by the Numbers (screen grab taken from there too):

Sure, we heard from a few readers who didn’t like Bill Simmons’ guest hosting stint on ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption last week. But fortunately for ESPN (and Mr. Simmons) those viewers don’t matter.

The viewers who do matter, i.e. the viewers who have Nielsen People Meters, liked him just fine. PTI got more viewing the week Simmons was on than it did the previous week.

Here are the numbers from those two weeks:

Date Day – Viewers (Millions) 20-Sep Monday –  1.523 22-Sep Wednesday –READ MORE