Monday Mayhem; Phil Matier isn't Going to the 49ers but Matt Ryan is; No Truthiness at Chronicle; Jeremiah Crowe is still a Schmuck; Papa Excess; Lund Matrimony Not So Sexy; Send in the Clowns

 I'M NO INSIDER, BUT...

*Matt Ryan to the 49ers and Jimmy G back to the Bostonians in Patriot uniforms --if I'm right, you read it here first.

*I'm laughing this morning: one of the BIGGEST trades ever in NFL lore; one that has been on the talk-show nadir and even non-sports domain since it broke on Saturday night and yet, where's KNBR? Talking about the Giants and baseball, barely a mention. Which is why KNBR is NO sports station but a PR machine for Larry Baer and Charles Johnson.

*KOIT has a successful business model which is built around generic Top 40 hits and seemingly eternal Christmas music; that's all fine and dandy but it would be great if the corporate bullies STOPPED screwing with its highly successful morning show and instead, picked on someone their own size. Hard to do, but doable.

*When Brian Murphy draws sympathy from the devil because he has to work alongside (even remotely) that pompous, LOUD, no-talent HACK named Paulie Mac, that takes quite a bit of doing. On the other hand, Murphy himself, a downright Marin white-privileged asshole, is by no means a cool dude.

*If Murphy were paid by his use of words, :dude" and "Copes", he'd be Bill Gates.

*Hey, Phil Matier, the person of truth, it's downright pathetic that your Chronicle gig was highjacked by Hearst suits who cut you off, early, (even after 35 years) so they could save the paper money, that's the truth. Phil, I know you got a sweet buyout and I know they took care of you but this "I'm moving on" BS is just that, BS. You know it, I know it, and now the public knows it.

*TRUE TO FORM, on his KCBS morning gig, Matier was not even asked by the PR flack himself, the Alameda SHILL, Stan Blunder,  about his ABRUPT Chron departure, which should have been a sign that something was sort of weird, but Bunger's not about truthiness, but if you want to chat about a Marin headwind? He's all ears.

*The Chronicle, yes, has been a non-factor for years, but still worth reading for the columns and Doonesbury -still, I can't remember such a sad state of affairs since the demise of the Examiner. Reminds me of the late, great, Jason Robards portrayal of WashPost's EIC, Ben Bradlee's "give it to the SF Chronicle" retort in "All the President's Men."

*If the SJ Merc were to go kaput, then we could be a region of 10 million folks without a legit daily because the Chronicle is on life support. Unknown bylines, a slew of zero-cred writers and a paper thinner than Karen Carpenter. 

*KGO Radio? Had 9/11 happened when there was a Cal Basketball game on would you have allowed the broadcast to continue? I'm joking of course but seriously, I don't know anymore.

*John Rothmann, the angry host who was cut short by that great content provider, Cal basketball, was, yes, PISSED OFF last Thursday night and he should have been. Because there's no place he'd rather be, except at KGO last Thursday night.

*Pat Thurston does a hard, thorough job within parameters that sometimes make sit very difficult, so yeah, I'm a fan. Even when I think Pat goes a bit overboard, I'm still a believer. And I also know she doesn't broadcast her show based on whether she's kissing up to a cruise ship provider.

*Rigo Chacon, meet Luuuuuuz Pena. 

*Yo, Copes, less giggle even if it means less golf playing time with the boss and Murphy, because it's an assault on the ears.

*SPEAKING OF THE DEVIL, KNBR PD, Jeremiah Crowe, one of the biggest assholes in this town, curries favor with the non-air people by taking them out to Burger King and golf tours. Crowe, an enabled Philly whore, whose white, non-people-skills, made him a Cumulus favorite, has about as much warmth as a Clovis strip mall. 

*Actually, Crowe is a really swell guy. It was he that argued that the Safeway gift card be increased from 15 to $20 bucks for the KNBR little people, those that he doesn't play golf with but are literally responsible for making sure KNBR is on the air.

What a cool dude, Jerry is, or as Murph's golf partner would say, "DUDE!"

*If you look up "White Privilege" in the dictionary, Crowe's bearded face is next to the meaning.

*Greg Papa's gargle laugh and John Lund's ass-kissing and new-wife chatter, I can't figure out what's more invigorating, tell me.

*Lund I'm sure told his new love that tickets on the 50 for Niner's games would be no problem as long as she went ahead with the nuptials because, you know, getting married again, at 53,  was on the bucket list.

*Which explains why Lund had a facelift not so long ago.

*PAPA: you are NO Bill King and not even a smidgen of Lon Simmons and Hank Greenwald.

The reason why you are on so many shows, as you once told me, is because you have a lot of overhead to pay for.

So, let's just say, you're lucky enough that the NBC and Cumulus suits, pay you. Until you get overused and middle-aged grump and tell a 26 year-old Danville Starbucks barista that she's simply adorable then? "TOUCHDOWNNNNNNNNNNNNN San-Fran-cisco!"

*Martin Wyatt up in Washington (State) maybe the coolest sports anchor ever in Bay Area history --including Mark Ibanez.

*The housewives of KTVU has a certain ring to it.

Send in the clowns.