Twin Cities Radio Triple Crown
Long day, good day. Just after getting out of the shower this morning, I received a call from John Hines at WCCO. He said, can you come on with Susie Jones and me at 10:10. I said sure. I already knew I was going to be on with Patrick Reusse of KSTP-AM at 1:05. After that interview, I was talking with a coworker and my phone rang again. It was Justin Gaard (or Gaardsy as he calls himself) of KFAN asking if I could go on with Dan Barriero at 4:20. I said sure. Dan kept me on for roughly a half-hour minus a four-minute commercial break, so he enjoyed our conversation (Justin told me that extended interviews almost never happen with people Barriero doesn’t know). All three interviews were an opportunity to discuss problems in youth basketball and promote BasketCases. Not too often, does one person get to talk on all three large Twin Cities AM talk stations in one day. Let’s call it the Twin Cities Radio Triple Crown.
In case you missed the Dan Barriero interview, go to this link (It is the second on for 2/16: Note its roughly a half-hour interview that starts about the 13:00 mark):
http://www.kfan.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=KFAN_Barreiro.xml
Here is a link to the WCCO interview, which was only a few minutes.
http://www.wccoradio.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=4394436
Here is a link to the Patrick Reusse interview
http://pcast.am1500.com/ST021610-2.mp3
And one more thing. I had to ref a B/Varsity girls basketball combo tonight. Seems like an easy assignment, right? Four minutes into the first game, we had one of many (and I mean many) jump balls. During that play, one of the players didn’t like getting landed on by another player. She responded by kicking her in the buns. Not real hard, but certainly enough to warrant a technical foul. You never know what you are going to expect when you walk onto the basketball court as a referee.