By David Scott
Boston Sports Media Watch

Cousin Bill’s kind extension of ducats to Game 2 has put the kibosh an earnest effort from Shots this week. We got a bit banged up, you could say.

After an extensive pre-game at the official Shots Spot near Fenway, T.C.’s Lounge, we made it to the eighth row of Section 42 for the tail end of Sweet Baby James and the playing of the in-house Playoffs Tribute. The montage coyly uses black and white footage for the Cleveland losses and a combination of Star Wars and Jaws music to build up tension and passion. Nicely done.

(There is also some in-house, in-game spoof reels that we’re assuming were done in-house by Doc Chuck or his crew. Thursday night’s featured a fan trying to “Fisk” his life into a better spot and we are told the Game 1 production was a Roger Clemens/Mike Piazza take-off.)

Bottom line? We’ve got a few quick-hitters for you and then you’re own your own. Amazing time to be in this city – simply amazing. . .

• With Doc Chuck now referenced, we need to ask: How did out-of-Herald-Hibernation Mike Barnicle forget to add in the note that his own paper was recently reporting that Dr. Charles Steinberg may be on his way out of Fenway and out to Dodgerland?

• Wow is that DirecTV blimp an impressive unit. The blimp to end all blimps.

• Why no relevant replays in Fenway on the scoreboard? Very frustrating. And the park needs a few more video display areas come to think of it.

• Papelbon’s entrance and the “Shipping Up to Boston” incorporation is just outstanding. By far the loudest part of the night on Thursday complete with a cardboard cut-out Papelbon on a stick with convulsing legs.

• Ladies and gentleman, the writing equivalent of Okie’s outing on Thursday night, provided by local boy gone national, Dan Wetzel.

Wow. Just read it, appreciate and forward it to the Sports Guy because Wetzel out-Bostons him at EVERY turn.

Quite likely the best thing we’ve read all playoffs-long.

• Yes, we’re giddy in anticipation. (Photog’s name is Danielle Levitt and she’s also done Jessica Biel, whose legs we like better than KG’s):

• Evidently caught up in all the Red Sox excitement, FOX25’s Ryan Asselta made an alarming gaffe on Monday night when he reported at the tail end of his sports segment that the Celts had raised their pre-season record to 4-0 with a win over the Knicks.

Slight problem – the Celts lost and it was the club’s fifth game of the pre-season (even with the New Jersey humid-out not counting). We’re starting to understand how Butch Stearns has such job security: surround yourself with nincompoops.

• Bronson Arroyo is better on radio (as he was on WEEI 850 AM on Thursday) than he is on TV (as he has been with CSN). If only Glen Ordway could get his damn questions out, we’d all be better off. For all of the Big No’s radio talents, he still can’t get out of his own way in interviews where he always needs to inject his opinion and over-edification.

• Not quite the take on live-blogging that we have, and Keith Thibault misses the fact that we are all now multi-taskers now and that networks will someday use the live-bloggers the way the score and time is used on-screen. Except it will be on the computer screen and it will be in the form of what Rob Bradford does and what the Hartford Courant’s John Altivilla has been doing since jumping from the Jints’ beat. Altavilla gave a taste last season and we’d expect him to be even more in-game active this year.

Overall, though Thibault is on the right track and did a nice job of differentiating the approaches.

It should also be noted, that Shots dabbled extensively in live-blogging last season for CSTv.cm and we started to get a feel for what works and what doesn’t. (We’ll be doing it again this season, in fact.) One big key is interactivity and a reliable comments section with intelligent users submitting said comments.

• While we’re huge Kevin Cullen fans, his Thursday column of 19-year-old girl who is such a diehard Sox fan that she had to go out this week and buy paraphernalia in Boulder, struck us as a bit lame. Surely one transplanted “fan” doesn’t prove anything about Colorado’s supposedly lame support of the Rockies. It also doesn’t say much about supposed Soxhead Syd’s collection of Sox tees and hats. Bandwagon fan, she is.

Cullen is still hitting about .750, but that effort was a three pitch strikeout.

• Every Heisman winner needs a “Heisman moment” and Matt Ryan delivered his last night. Too bad no one will pay attention in this town.

• Some Bobby Knight gems found within just to get your college basketball heart beating.

David Scott writes from a seaside shanty on the shores of Hull, Mass. and can be reached at shotsATbostonsportsmediaDOTcom.