butchie's farewell - 55 points

last thursday was butch stearns' last sportscast.

butch opened with a decent montage that emphasized butch's best attribute: his connection with the fans.   any montage that includes a sports anchor serving drinks to fans at spring training is okay with us here at the anchor.

the montage was followed by a heartfelt thanks from butchie to the audience, those behind the scenes at fox 25 and some of the guys he's been teamed with in the past - like levan reid and tom zenner.

he left on the springsteen quote "i don't know where i'm going but i know i won't be back" and then made a quiet exit up the stairs of the fox set.

this is was followed by silence and a cut to an overhead shot of mark ockerbloom, maria and kevin lemanowicz looking sad and at a loss for words.  as kevin regrouped and began the five day forecast, you could hear maria break down.

a somewhat moving and completely classy exit.  (45 points)

a bizarre, distressed sound emanates from maria the foxy franchise as fox cuts to commercial. (10 curious points)