Ebjournal Revisited.

Will I still listen? Probably.

Although I listen to sports radio as much as the next sub-metro-sexual, I rarely call in or email them, simply because I don’t have the time or energy. I’ve only ever called in once to WSCR 670am (to complain about the Simeon Rice Incident after Tampa Bay went to the Super Bowl wherein Mr. Rice told us he went to the School of Hard Knocks, and forever tainted his legend at the University of Illinois. Incidentally, at the beginning of the Tampa Bay/Washington game last weekend, he introduced himself from “The University. Of. Illinois.” Clinton Portis and Santana Moss introduced themselves from “The U.” Go Canes!)

And today was the first time I emailed into WMVP 1000am to complain about the complete lack of math skills that Fran Fraschilla displayed during the Illini-MSU halftime show last Thursday. Did my email make it onto the popular Mac, Jurko, and Harry bit “Critics at Extra Large?” Oh well.
No.

So now you can read it. I went for straightforward over clever. Obviously my genius is going unpublished. (Just kidding. I’m publishing it here. And it’s not genius.)

Gentlemen,

An elementary thumbs down!

During the halftime studio session of the
Illinois-MSU game last Thursday evening on the
television flagship, my hackles were raised as I
listened to Fran Fraschilla discuss the Big Ten
Conference.  He mentioned that conference play would
be extremely difficult this year, due to the high
number of seniors starting in the Big Ten.  He then
went on to say that “26 of the 40 starting players in
the Big Ten are seniors.”  Even though 86% of
statistics are made up on the spot,  simple math is
not.  Fran, there are 11 teams in misnamed Big Ten.
Five players start a game for each team.  How many
starters is that in all?  My second grade students
could figure that (and Jurko could too!) that means
there are 55 starting players in the Big Ten, not 40.
To Mr. Fraschilla, and to the fact checkers at the
mothership, please remember this bit of advice from a
second grade teacher (it’s the same thing I tell my
students after they’re done taking a test):  CHECK
YOUR ANSWERS!
Thumbs down.

Regards,
~It’s Elementary 

Oh well.

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