Amy G is Angry That She was 86ed from Giants' TV; We Aren't; KGO Radio Sick Patrol; Mark Thompson is Still Not Funny; Ibanez Wants Gig at PIX; Kumasi Aaron Circle7 Image Takes Unnecessary Hit; Liz Cook Scorn at 855 Battery; Thursday Pulse

REAL TORTURE: Amy G. SF Giants telecasts. Her act, anything she says and does.

That's real torture. But relief is in sight.

You haven't seen much of Amy G on telecasts the past few years. Other than a few commercials, she's been AWOL. And, according to my spies, she's FUMING! Yeah, angry and royally pissed off!

A combination of things has put Amy G in the penalty box: Larry Baer's less influence on the Giants'telecasts and NBC Sports Bay Area's realization that Amy G turns more people, (especially women) away from the broadcasts, imagine that.

Baer thought of Amy as his "good-luck charm" and placed her annoying presence on telecasts--almost as a daily pain--it was Baer flexing his muscle, forget taste and simple tact. Baer didn't give a damn. Thus, we give you the dreck that is Amy G.

No more, we hope.

She's still doing her useless crap on the Giants website but gone from the broadcasts on all other platforms including TV. Good riddance.

*Nice of KGO Radio to screw with you all; make sure to tell their hosts (those that aren't home in bed feeling like crap, due to Covid-19 infection) to deliberately be evasive. Only Pat Thurston was up front about John Rothmann's being MIA for over a week due to his testing positive. Yeah, Rothmann himself gave the OK but it's been well known that he was sick. Now, after taking Monday off for a trip to Vegas, Nikki Medoro, has been off her morning drive show and won't be back until Monday at the earliest. Medoro, like Rothmann, has been at home dealing with flu-like symptons. Yeah, as a reader said, "what happens in Vegas doesn't necessarily stay there."

*Mark Thompson (10-Noon) and his yahoo producer, John Daly, thought it would be funny to make jokes about a homeless guy near KGO Radio downtown studios. It is proof positive that Thompson is desperate and doesn't know how to do a radio show when he can't even speak without moronic sound drops thrown into his god-awful proogram and is too afraid to take calls because he simply cannot engage with listeners. So he texts because there, he can control the subject and not be embarrassed by a caller. Making mattrers worse today, Thompson's referring to a Subway sandwich shop across from KGO's studios and making it sound as if he were right here in SF--only Thompson isn't there, he broadcasts from his LA apt. and does so regularly.

Once again, KGO has become a caricature of its former legacy self. You can dismiss the excuse that it's a new era and that it is only tied to the fence by financial hurdles and the internet world. Bullshit! KGO has shit-for-brains management that doesn't know how to hire nominal, average talent and act like human beings as opposed to morons who couldn't carry a conversation if their life depended on it. When you have imbecile program directors like inept and incompetent Lee Hammer, you get inept and talent-less jerks like Thompson and Chris Merrill. KGO has HORRIBLE ratings for a reason.

*Mark Ibanez would, in a Bay Area second, begin a new era of sports anchorship at KPIX. Which would only make certain his "retirement" at KTVU was forced on him by a desire by Fox/KTVU bosses to tell hime to go home. Ibanez still believed he had game and would have loved to work another year or two. Fox thought otherwise. If Ibanez shows up (in a few months) on PIX, the idea of him wanting to be with family will reveal itself as the sham it is. You deserve the truth.

*Kumasi Aaron, the ABC7 News morning anchor/personality has a bright future but her want, lately, to play goofy and bizarre hijinks, for no apparent reason, does her and viewers alike, a disservice. Aaron needs to just be real and inject her genuinely cool sense of humor and wry wit every now and then. She must not be swayed by Mr. MORON, aka: Reggie Aqui, the PC disaster that is KGO in the morning. Aaron is network quality but will be detoured if she's influenced by jerky Aqui.

*GROWING FEELING at PIX: that Liz Cook is losing her status as a capable anchor with the goods to get PIX out of the wilderness. Cook, I think and have said, is vastly improved. But she's pissed off a lot of people at 855 Battery lately with an out of ordinary arrogance and demeanor. Cook has an influential daddy in the biz that got her to where she is so she's not gonna just get lost but as she gets older, she might want to read the room and be a little more humble.