NBC Bay Area goes gaga over Singletary's use of 'D-word'; Tuesday rundown

OK, so I've been a little late on the Mike Singletary bandwagon; in fact, even though I've often thought in his playing days, he was the defensive equivalent of Jim Brown,  as 49ers coach, he's been, we'll, remarkably unspectacular so far. Long on words, short on action, and now where was that more evident than Sunday's debacle in Seattle.

Now the local media is coming down hard baby, but they're going after verbal divots. Even NBC Bay Area posted a tiny portion of Sing's press conference Tuesday, in which he called his team sort of "dumb." I'm not suggesting the remark was taken out of context, but surely, Sing's said and done more peculiar things--this minutiae wasn't all that earth shattering. ("D" word? Is that as toxic as the "c" word or "n" word--"d" word has all the makings of trying to be utterly cute.)

**Give Singletary this: he makes for interesting copy, digital or otherwise. He is uber-unpredictable and his pressers have become must-listen radio.

**Lost in all the KTRB/A's conundrum is the future of Stanford football/basketball broadcasts. My own three cents: Football broadcasts seem safe, but basketball is clouded.

**Just for the hell of it: Why wouldn't the A's consider buying KTRB? I mean, they could probably buy it for the equivalent of a Ben Sheets game check.

**"Hello and welcome to the Press Box show in which 10 of my family's friends, me, myself and I will titillate you with every obscure writer and schlum who talk to me as I work for free to maintain my press credentials and ask pointless questions to Shooty Babbitt."

**Next week on the "Press Box": The ghost of Win Currier and Charlie Zeno offer their takes on Bob Geren's bunting theory.

**CBS5/KPIX sent out multiple e-mails extolling their ratings win over the other outlets on the San Bruno fire coverage. First off, I don't like the idea of pubbing "we're #1"! so soon after a local tragedy that is still fresh in our mind; secondly, as good as Channel 5's coverage was, (and it was) what wasn't mentioned is the fact that for a good fifteen minutes the station tonsils said the disaster was the result of an airplane crash.

**Why is it when disasters/earthquakes take place, is there a quick turn to "eyewitness accounts", residents calls, etc? What happened to "reporting?" I know often times initial news in this digital world is difficult to gauge what exactly is taking place, but can't anchor A and B ad-lib just a bit? In San Bruno, we ALL saw on TV that there was a massive fireball--obviously, something catastrophic had occurred. Could not a bit of..."Folks, we obviously are looking at something quite disturbing--Has a plane crashed? Has there been a gas-line leak and explosion? We don't know yet, but we are making calls and..."That ain't too hard, is it?

**Didn't catch "7Live" but heard a lot. We'll talk about it sometime soon.

**Ysabel Duron: a class act at a classless and clueless company.

**Bay Area Sports writers: outside of Ostler, Kawakami and Monte Poole, a bunch of no-nothing scribblers that couldn't have an edge if you put 'em in the cutlery dept. at Crate and Barrel.

**Today at SFist and SF Appeal we begin coverage by placing a picture of a giant elephant from the SF Zoo and taking a Bay City News rewrite and copy and pasting it. Whoopee!

**Breaking News: "KQED-FM has traffic on the 1's!" (just kidding)

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