Sternless Trip, WoW lesson

Yesterday I flipped on the radio at home while I was making our lunches for work and I heard music. Hmm that’s odd, it’s after 6am, where is Stern? The music continued and I dismissed it as a glitch. We hop in the car, flip on Krock, music, no Stern. WTF? Oh well I flipped on the satellite radio and listened to music (even though I really don’t like doing that in the morning) I get to work, flip on the radio, music, no Stern and then I hear a station annoucement. It basically said the contract with the Stern show expired Wednesday and Howard decided to not renew. What the hell??????? I was pissed. First I was pissed that they knew this was coming and did not say anything and just let us run into the wall. Second I knew this was BS and it was the station that decided to not renew because Stern is going to Sirius.

I heard the announcement come on time and again, each time I got increasingly annoyed at the prospect of being Sternless for 8 months. Eventually I responded as you would expect, the emails started flying. First I sent one to the on air jock, asking him why he was lying about Stern’s absence and chastised him for reading such a phony sounding response from management. Then I took aim at the program director. Again I challenged him to defend the move and told him that instead of enjoying strong ratings for the next 8 months he instead caused me to boycott his station forever.

Evidently I made enough impression to get a response. The PD told me that the station did want to renew Stern for the last 8 months, however Stern was not interested. The reason he was not interested was because the station owners also own the Miami station that has butchered and censored Stern’s show endlessly. So as retaliation, Stern told our local station, owned by the same group to go to hell.

Well I felt bad for coming down so hard on them and apologized for doing so but I was still really bummed about it. This morning on my drive in I am channel changing like mad, trying to find something to fill the void, the NFL channel, Fox News, or music channels all left me empty. Damn this is gonna suck.

My brother and sister in-law arrive tomorrow for a quick hitting visit. I fired up the pool heater and expect to have a busy but fun weekend with them.

Todays World of Warcraft term:

gank

– To attack an opposing player when there is little to no chance that you will lose. For example, attacking a player when he is engaged with a monster and is already at a low health level.

– To attack a player that is a much lower level than yourself, posing no challenge to your ability while causing undo grief to the target player.

– to be a cheap ass loser