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)

quick takes: fox 25 - 10/08/2009 40 points

maria stephanos -  the foxy franchise just said "birth control" and "breast feeding" in a span of 30 seconds.  dekova will be on cloud nine.  she's looking as fantastic as always and delivers the news with verve.  (40 big points)

jim armstrong - gimme back the 2 minutes i wasted watching your report on how people find the term "whatever" annoying. (- 5 points)

ockerboom reads the birth control story.  did i jinx it?  (-5 points)


maria gets the breast feeding story! maria gets the breast feeding story! it's all joy in blog-ville. (10 points)