"Boo Manny loud, Giants fans!"; really? As if he cares? I'm thinking Manny Ramirez is relaxed right now, perched in his suite in one of SF's finest luxury hotel suites. I think he probably just consumed a lavish omelette with about six eggs and 7 pieces of toast and in between his 11th cell phone call, just dialed back home to make sure the bentley was cleaned. Baseball? Boos? Uh, ok, whatever.
Swine flu paranoia/hysteria. H1N1. OK, so now we're really being warned. The fall could be your own personal, helter-skelter, unless you get a flu shot and/or a swine flu/H1-whatever-the-hell-N1-C1 shot, but the government admits there's not enough of the vaccine shots available, so you're on your own...great stuff! Nice way to scare everybody from here to beyond. I mean, having a coordinated press conference with the WHO, ( World Health organization) and CDC; what?, that was out of the equation? Paging Doc Gurley.
Bay Area TV news directors are giddy. We're having a heatwave. Time for the 4656th proverbial reporter-to-Walnut Creek story in which reporter asks family, "so, how did you beat the heat?; was it really 'hot?" and my favorite, the inevitable footage of kids near a pool and reporter, usually a giddy gal: "hey, 'it's pretty hot out here!", uh, duh, yeah, we've been known to have a heat wave now and then.
Item: VJ's on the CBS5 weekend payroll. That's not surprising, given the state of the industry. Consensus? How long before its everyday at EVERY station, and not just in the Bay Area...I don't mean to pick on KRON because I sort of know, but I've been told of extreme morale problems inside 1001 Van Ness. "You come in, do your work, and get the heck out and go home," said a longtime on-air staffer. This wasn't the only one, either. Supposedly, tons of tension in the newsroom and I'm told, two particular higher-ups are villified by news staff... Giants post-game wrap: saw that yesterday's post-game KNBR wrap was on TV; hope that was just a one-timer because, yes, I agree with Jon Miller and Kruk and Kuip: its a better show, OFF tv...If you're going to the game tonight, tip your hat to the great one, Vin Scully. Scully announced this will be his last season behind the mike after 60 celebrated years. We will miss you Vinny.
Just got off the phone with a legend: Buddy Greco, yes, THEE, Buddy Greco is coming to the Rrazz Room at the Hotel Nikko next Tuesday and Wednesday, (August 18-19). The last time Buddy played SF was over twenty years ago at the Venetian room. You want some entertainment and old-school style? Then you must see this Mr. Greco.
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