Thursday, November 17, 2011

Cubs May Have Their Man, Paterno Statue Wobbling, Stache Hate

All signs point to the Cubs naming Dale Sveum their new manager. Sveum is the hitting coach for the Brewers, so he knows the Central. And he worked for the Red Sox as third base coach in their championship season of 2004, so Sveum knows Theo Epstein...
Dale Sveum

If the Marlins really did offer Albert Pujols a nine-year deal for more than $200 million, they've gone loco. No way the Cardinals should try to match that. Pujols is already showing statistical proof of age decline, and it's not going to get better. Nine years?!...

There are reports, denied by Penn State, that the university plans to remove the Joe Paterno statue during Thanksgiving break. I think PSU needs to pause. Paterno had to be fired, and the statue may need to come down eventually, but right now it represents his 60 years of coaching at Penn State. It's not a statue of Jerry Sandusky...
Is this Paterno on the way out too?
Iowa State has sold more than 50,000 tickets to every home football game for the first time in Cyclone history. Several weeks ago on SoundOFF, we challenged the ISU marketing department to pull out all the stops to make that happen. I didn't think it likely with Kansas and OSU at the end of the schedule, but ISU was relentless with ticket deals and news releases, and it's done. Nice job. Paul Rhoads and two straight wins didn't hurt either...

I had a double pizza day. That's a good day. Lunch was from Gusto Pizza, dinner at Noah's. Both delicious. I had pizza for lunch every day when we were in Italy. It's the perfect food...

I've always been fascinated, and flabbergasted, by the nasty letters, emails, and voice mails our female anchors sometimes receive about their hair, make-up, clothes, or just general appearance. I can't imagine doing that to a store manager, sales rep, or school teacher. Now for the first time, I can empathize with how Erin feels when someone she doesn't even know is mean about a haircut. I've had numerous messages and emails from viewers about how bad or awful or ugly or old I look with a mustache. They're not joking. Most instruct to me shave it off right away.

I assume most, if not all, of these people don't realize I'm growing the Stache for Cash to raise money for the American Cancer Society (in honor of my mom, a two-time cancer survivor) during No Shave November.  Even if I had no reason, other than wanting to grow a mustache, and even if it looked as bad as it apparently does, I worry that so many people don't see rude comments about personal appearances as a loss of civility and manners...
The Stache
On the flip side, the vast majority of people have had a good laugh, and given me grief in a fun way. I appreciate that. If you can't laugh at yourself, you're taking life too seriously. I'd also like to again take a moment here to thank some of the folks who have made nice donations recently on behalf of the stache: Gina Gettler, Andrew Downs, Karen & Eric Hoiberg, Andrew Wilcox, Justin Sheeder, Chad Svendson, and Patricia Murphy (mom). Thank you for standing up to Cancer...

Stache for Cash: http://teamacs.acsevents.org/site/TR?fr_id=42808&pg=entry

-Keith


      

6 comments:

Evil Adam said...

You should have the Channel 13 graphics department whip up something to play during or at the end of every sportscast (even the ones you aren't in) that says something like "Keith Murphy's Stache brought to you for the American Cancer Society, please donate to Stache for Cache." With a link to the website, or some directions on the who website to get to it. More publicity = more money for the ACS = good.

I don't understand why people think the internet makes it ok to send hurtful things to people. Do they not see you, or any of the people on their tv, as another human being? I suppose not, the internet creates a false and foolish sense of anonymity that makes them think they're clever for being cruel.

Brien said...

You should have the Stivers Ford jingle guy whip something up!

Anonymous said...

"...I'm downright proud to grow this GREAT MUSTACHE!" :)

Maybe Hassel would lay down the voice track for you...

Emily said...

Better yet, you should have a day where the entire sports team has mustaches.. or at the end of the newscast when all 4 of you are on camera, everyone should be wearing a mustache when you sign off for the night. That's a perfect way to end the show... and hey, it's sweeps, right? ;)

Steve Bosell said...

Keith, you're right. People should think before they send hurtful e-mails. Obviously, I'm guilty of it myself after all the nonsense I said to your sports team recently. But I'll confess, sometimes I act like a jerk because I have a ridiculously small penis. I'm sorry.

Steve Bosell said...

Due to the previous post, which was NOT posted by me, my wife and son laughed at me. You guys just keep it up, my lawyer Delores Blasengame, is recording all the lies and bolstering my lawsuit.