SHOTS RESPONDED

• This will sound boastful, pompous and gross: But I’m sweating my earlobes off with all this blogging. No joke. It’s like Cardio-writing or Speed-blogging. Someone get me Body By Jake on Line 2!

• On behalf of the Badged-One and myself, Shots, we extend our warmest of welcomes to the good folks who have wandered into this Theo Realm form the Deadspin Zone. It’s a tribute to Will and Deadspin that so many folks can be bored to tears with the wayward ramblings of two of Boston’s bitterest (but most well-adjusted), media-bashing (and crtiquing) boys. Welcome aboard, folks! I’m Shots, he’s Sully and we’re the Wonder Twins:
Shape of Theo’s gorilla costume; Form of John Henry’s voicebox (aka invisible).

• Sully – some of the stuff you may have missed being in Texas and all. Y’all:
NBC7 didn’t make it to the end of John Henry. . . Who’s Better Than Butch Stearns did a stand-up for FOX25, post-presser, with Kim Carrigan and the station’s most-qualified, sports-savvy, talent, Gene Lavanchy in the newsroom. They were the final station to leave Fenway and the Theogate Hearings, lasting until 1:53 p.m. . .Tom Caron appeared for NESN and was sporting his hockey season goatee, which took us aback a bit. Hockey guys love goatees the way Springfield’s Garry Brown loves Labrador retrievers. . . Post-presser analysis from Babbling Bob Lobel began thusly: “How can you sum up 45 minutes of reality TV?” and ended clumsily with his announcement that “The Young and the restless will be re-aired at 1:35 a.m.,” he said, then adding, “Some people may claim they have just witnessed that very show, the Young and the Restless (from Fenway). . . Lobie’s website, CBS4boston.com, was touting that they will have the full audio of the news conference. We’ll be downloading the John Henry portion to replace the ocean waves MP3 that currently aids our nappy time.

• If this is wrong, so be it. But we simply include it to show how warped our readers are and how surreal this story has become. It’snot meant to be racially offensive in any way. Just humor offensive:

Dear Shots, And the once question that no one asked Theo: Were you a METCO gorilla?
Ah, thank you. The 9:30 show is completely different than the 7:00.

• Wait, you went to Ted Kennedy’s funeral and he was alive at it? That just figures. How big can he be? Tom Heinsohn big? Or Charlie Weis big? Or Wilson Phillips big?

• Fine, don’t join me in Amanda’s panties. But it would have been another fine story for Sully and the Ladies lore. You can be sure of that.

• Any chance of you flying into Logan for Eddie Andelman’s farewell show on Thursday? We could do the Eddie Farewell Blog, live from the Soldier’s Home with Eddie, Jon Anik and Anthony Pepe. And a bunch of old farts in their pajamas and walkers. That’s my kinda crowd, ya know?

Which reminds me - I’ve had a post-mortem follow-up on The Zone death in the hopper, in various stages of assembly, but this Theo thing has thrown everything out of whack. I’m thinking I can get to that after the Donny Marshall Podcast, which will hopefully be posted tonight before the end of the Celts’ (overlooked) opener.

Sorry, Sully - some programming housekeeping for the Shots readers out there - feel free to do same about your upcoming entries.

• All right - Percy The Dog doesn’t comprehend “when I finish the Blog” any longer. All he hears is: “blah, blah, blah, blah tennis ball.” So we’re heading down the beach for a couple of hours and then we’ve got a nap scheduled and a full night of writing, recording and ‘rithmetic.

Great job, Sully. We broke new ground today. Let’s hope no one falls in the hole.