Mr. Mojo took notice of TL’s blog, “Love is in the air on The Bruce Cunningham Show” earlier this week. The very next day, the topic on Cunningham’s show was: “hating.” Coincidence? Maybe.
But the topic gave me some mojo pause and when it comes to hate, sure there’s the Steelers and their fans but I hate Cleveland. They are a colossal group of crybabies, hell bent on hating Art Modell, obsessed with the Ravens success and the Browns’ lack thereof plus that town is a cesspool for pestering insects that are so plentiful they actually interrupt the play of Indians’ games.
And of course there’s this seemingly perpetual issue of staph infection.
Now we hear that former Cleveland Browns receiver Joe Jurevicius has sued the team claiming that they misrepresented the cleanliness of their training facility. The suit also cites negligence on the part of team doctors for a staph infection in Jurevicius’ right knee that placed him on IR last season. Jurevicius was released by the club in March.
The lawsuit also claims that Jurevicius may never be able to play professional football again as a result of the infection.
This isn’t the first time that a Browns’ player has fallen to staph. Other Browns players who have contracted staph infections since 2004 include: LeCharles Bentley, Kellen Winslow, Braylon Edwards, Brian Russell and Ben Taylor. It’s possible that Jurevicius’ suit will be the first of several.
Did I say I hate Cleveland?
On Friday while running around town the Mojo Man tuned in to The Scott & Anita Show on 105.7 The Fan. You know, we really don’t seek to intentionally beat up on Miss Miami but the things that spew out of her pie hole are just too hard to ignore – or resist for that matter.
Yesterday the topic of objectively covering sports was bantered about and Marks’ position was that she is not a fan (she just hosts on The Fan) and doesn’t own any team jerseys (see picture above) so that she can cover the local teams without any bias, believing that by being a fan of a team, a media member could not be as objective.
What a freaking joke!
This woman is an apologist for any player that has appeared on her show or any player that she has partnered with for one of the player shows. Can she honestly say that she is objective in her opining on the careers of Chris McAlister or Willis McGahee? She claims McAlister will be a Pro Bowler this season meanwhile no team has made any effort to acquire the troubled cornerback who last year paraded around the team’s hotel in Miami in a wife beater t-shirt and a couple of scantily clad ladies.
She claims her boy McGahee was “screwed” by the Ravens last year. Really? Mr. Mojo thinks that when you consider what the Ravens paid McGahee and match that up against his production, seems like the Ravens were on the receiving end of that screw. And let’s not even go into his poor conditioning, affinity for the night life and overall me-first behavior.
Professional media members CAN be fans and still report or opine objectively. This town is full of such reporters. But hey, if you can’t be a fan of teams and still be objective, that’s ok – don’t be a fan and do your job. But Anita, the same goes for players.
Stop being such an apologist for your boys.
Congratulations to Dave Johnson, who has earned some well-deserved airtime on 105.7 The Fan’s Orioles radio broadcasts. Dave manages to blend his Baltimore-everyguy personality with the kind of baseball insights only a scrappy ex-player can provide — outspoken, fair, and insightful without an ounce of that Rick-Dempsey-phoniness.
Dave is also a regular The Tom Davis Show, the ESPN-1300 weekend radio ode to the O’s, and MASN-TV innings-eater. Mr. Mojo would never come right out and suggest that The TDS is a tired act, but let’s just say your father’s father has been listening to Tom read the same Johnson Lumber Company ad copy, word-for-word, since 1919.
And while we’re on the subject what about Tom’s alluring sidekick, radio “personality” Phil Wood? Phil is a baseball traditionalist in the same sense the Pope is religious. So we understand it when the Nats’ chief-cheerleader occasionally veers off on a stern lecture about players wearing their stirrups improperly.
But even Phil achieved a new level of über-grumpiness when he recently took on-air-offense to a TDS promo that introduced him as, “baseball aficionado, Phil Wood.” Phil snapped back curtly, “aficionado means fan.” Harrumph. Lessee, how about, “renowned baseball scholar and certified genius, Phil Wood?”
Does that adequately express it, Professor Wood?
The existence of Mr. Mojo in at least a small way is to pay homage to Jim Morrison, a fallen musical artist. Today many are paying homage to yet another artist taken too early. Of course I am talking about Michael Jackson.
Jackson’s legacy will be forever tarnished by his eccentricities and his questionable behavior particularly as it relates to children. Doubts about molestation linger.
We may never know the truth. Nothing was proven in the court of law yet in the court of public opinion Jackson is often viewed as a convicted pedophile.
No one can deny that Jackson was very unusual. Did it have something to do with being raped of his childhood? Was his personality the result of parental abuse? Was he simply being kind, compassionate and caring towards the children who shared his bed or was it something more dark and sinister?
The doubts can leave you on the fence and that’s exactly where Mr. Mojo sits on this one, feeling very little if any sense of loss. And that’s a shame particularly if Jackson is truly innocent.
Let’s all hope that the children who befriended Jackson at his Neverland Ranch experienced something there that will help shape their character in a positive way rather than undermine their sense of worth or tear at the fabric of their self-esteem.
