About Zino's top 10

It all started with the Padres and their losing ways... They inspired me to write a list of reasons why they stunk. I was laughing out loud writing it, yes I know I laugh at my own jokes, and thought it might be fun to share the list with others.
I love the Scott & BR show on XX1090 am, my kids and I listen to it every morning on the way to school, and so I thought the two of them reading it on their show would really be fun. I sent the list to Scott and Marty (morning show producer), and was surprised to quickly get a positive response from Scott. There was one catch though, he wanted me to do it on the air...
I can have a fairly thick accent, particularly early in the morning, but Scott really wanted me to do it, and so I did. It was apparently well received, although I think they liked the name zino more then the top 10 list, and so they wanted me to do it again and so I did...
I sent the 2nd radio bit to a few friends and they all wanted me to keep sending it to them. I created this blog to share the lists with them and all the Scott & BR fans.
Please jump in and comment, on the lists or anything you care about, I enjoy the feedback...

zino

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Top 10 signs NBA games are fixed

This was my most difficult week by far... The family and I moved to Carmel Valley in San Diego, so it has been an incredibly hellish 2 weeks... Thankfully I was was inspired to do a top 10 list by the master himself, David Letterman... He did a list on the top 10 signs an NBA game is fixed, I thought it was pretty lame so I decided to show that mine would be better... So here is the head to head comparison. My signs are the ones that follow the numbers. Please vote on who you think has the better list... I think I have him beat on at least 8 of the signs. But you decide and vote on the poll that I have set up. Thanks.

Top 10 signs an NBA game is fixed or NBA finals are fixed…..

Dave: Game begins 20 minutes before visiting team arrives

Zino: 10)David Sterns real name is Rocco Gambini

Dave: Tip-off always goes to the player with the largest salary

Zino: 9) Game refs wear tee-shirts that say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

Dave: At the end of the first quarter, the score is 179 to 2

Zino: 8) Sicily is getting the first international NBA team

Dave: Missed three-pointers count for two points if they're "pretty close"

Zino: 7)Refs called a technical on the Lakers cheerleader for excessive cheers

Dave: One of the Laker Girls looks suspiciously like Pete Rose

Zino: 6) Celtics hired Bill Belichick as special advisor

Dave: Whenever he's open, referee takes a shot

Zino: 5) Referee keeps tapping Paul Pierce on the butt

Dave: Scoreboard has disclaimer: "All Scores Approximate"

Zino 4) Scoreboard shows final score at the end of the third quarter

Dave: The team loses even though it led in points, delegates and the popular vote

Zino: 3)Overtime in Boston is decided by fan voting

Dave: Jack Nicholson scores 25 points from his seat

Zino: 2)Jack Nicholson has his money on Boston

Dave: The Knicks win

1) The Celtics win….

Anyway, hope you had fun with this little twist this week. I do not have a good MP3 of the radio show to post this week, but you are not missing anything. I really wasn't very good, mainly because for the second week in a row, I could not hear Scott or BR very well. The Mp3 I got from 1090 was cutoff so I requested an other one and will post it as soon as I get it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know I'm late on responding, oh well. Your top 10 was definitely funnier, but I would change #7 - instead of "excessive cheers" I'd say, "excessive wardrobe changes" cuz they change outfits about 10,000 times during the game!

posted by sister-in-law, deb

zino said...

Thanks Deb.. I like your wardrobe change I think that would have worked better... And it also gave me another idea... Probably could have done one around the famous wardrobe malfunction..

zino