Sports Radio

When I married my husband, I did not enjoy sports. I didn't mind playing sports, but I definately didn't watch or listen to professional sports. And I definately didn't want to talk about sports. I used to listen to general talk radio. I liked Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Larry Elder (sometimes) and even Sean Hannity (I know, pathetic). Then we moved, and I had to find new radio stations.

I can still listen to Dennis Prager, and occassionally I still do. Michael Medved is on here at 12 midnight, so that is out. Larry Elder isn't played in this market and he gets on my nerves anyway. And don't even get me started about Sean Hannity. I really think he just reads, verbatim, the emails and faxes he gets from the White House. He does not have an original thought, ever.

My husband, throughout our marriage, has listened to Sports Talk. I used to hate it. Who cares about all these teams, and the people who would call in, ugh. Just freaking out about some crazy college basketball team. Lately, however, I have been caught in the the grips of sports talk. You still can't get me to listen to local sports talk. Those shows are dominated by callers who are obsessed with a team and just want to talk about it ad infinitem. But ESPN Radio, is actually entertaining.

The show that pulled me in was "The Herd". It is on from 8 to 11 Pacific time. If you want to get your wife/girlfriend/daughter into Sports Radio, have her listen to this show. At least 1/2 the time, he isn't talking about sports. He will talk about pop culture, the differences between men and women, all sorts of craziness. Last week, he was talking about how his wife was out of town, so he could eat whatever he wanted for dinner. Count Chocula cereal and Hi-C. He had a segement last year about how all men who drive corvettes have moustaches.

Once I started listening to the Herd, I started to know more about sports (maybe way too much, but that is another question). Once you know all the issues, it makes it way more fun to listen to people fight about it. So now I end up listening to Dan Patrick and sometimes even Game Night. I have officially become a freak....It has come to the point that I would rather listen to sports radio than Dennis Prager!

This is rather embarassing to me, but my husband loves it. He wants to tell all his friends. He thinks it is great and he tells me that all his friends will think I am the best wife ever. The problem is that their wives will think I am a freak :).