“Which end of the defensive radio spectrum will Dennis Miller be moved to…left or right?” asks Baseball Think Factory’s Repoz, no doubt extremely impressed the new hire of the former Outdoor Life Network claims to be “one of the few people who have read every edition of Bill James’ “Baseball Abstract” statistical analysis books.” From the Canadian Press :
“Some people want Jim Rome,” Miller said of the combative sports talk show host. “Some people want me.”
Not that he considers the MNF experiment a negative experience, anyway.
“I was proud of my tenure there,” said Miller, who believes his departure had much more to do with the availability of John Madden than with his own performance.
The new program will in many ways be a sports version of his old HBO talk show, “Dennis Miller Live,” which aired from 1994-2002. A typical one-hour episode will include a monologue, two guests and some phone calls from viewers. Miller also will take a page from “The Daily Show” and use a field reporter.
His scheduled guests for Tuesday’s premiere include Curt Schilling.
I’m not sure where the Outdoor Life channel lives on my Comcast spread, and finding out wouldn’t be the best use of a scarce time resource. That said, the Miller/Schilling segment is gonna be a doozy.
And thanks for sharing the photo (above), solving for me the mystery of who Dennis Miller was supporting this year (without the no brainer of GWB on the ticket). That is, if Miller can forgive Rudy’s liberal social views, well… one small step for mankind!
Update: An internet search revealed that Outdoor Life is one of the channels that squats/shares real estate with a host of Hi-Def channels on my cable band. Lord G*d, save me from the promo cycle.
So does this mean Miller has already sunk as a talk-radio host? He was doing that for awhile, too, recently. Anyway, I look forward to him somehow folding a denial of global warming into a long, convoluted and kind of underwhelming joke about how “Joey Harrington makes Guillermo Mota look like President William McKinley, for chrissakes.” And then he starts laughing at his joke. And then I remember why I will never, ever do cocaine.
when does this program start? how many weeks will this program run before being canceled? i need to know this information so i know when i will have to unplug my television and for how long i will need to leave it unplugged. thank you.