If I say so myself…and I will…this week’s episode of The Knee Jerks was our best yet, much in thanks to our very special guest, Bob Page. (Let alone the show was also our longest, as we spent the first 60 minutes discussing Detroit sports, the national big picture and the current sad state of broadcasting with Bob)
If you ever heard a Bob Page broadcast, you’d know he was one of the most opinionated sportscasters to EVER come through Detroit. (New York as well, which really saying something!) Eno and I found out Bob hasn’t changed at all. He held NOTHING back, and as always, Eno has the highlights…
On being down on major league baseball: “After the 1994 strike, when they canceled the World Series, I was essentially done. You think I’m going to pay to see that nonsense?”
On his time in Detroit: “It’s
my hometown, and always will be. I would have liked to have come back
and done something in Detroit, but it’s a soft market and everyone is
afraid of their own shadow.”
On working in New York: “They
brought me in the back door, on a little-known network and a
little-known show. Other guys, like Eli Zaret and Bernie Smilovitz,
were brought in as these big stars. Maybe that’s why I lasted so long
and they didn’t.”
On New York as a sports town: “I will tell you that New York is, by far, the most overrated sports town. By far.”
On the U-M football program: “Les
Miles should be the coach at Michigan. All (AD) Bill Martin had to do
was call Les, say, ‘It’s time to come home. We don’t care what you’re
making at LSU.’ And …
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