1. Ticket 1310 producer Mike Bacsik was fired late yesterday for drunken tweets he made referring to “dirty Mexicans” after the Mavs lost to the Spurs earlier in the week. Here’s the thing: nearly every Ticket host could be fired if you transcribed the choicest words that have come out of their mouths on the air. I’m not saying what Bacsik tweeted was funny or ought to be overlooked. But I am saying if Gordon Keith had tweeted something similar, it WOULD have been funny, and he would not have been fired. So that was Bacsik’s biggest mistake: not being Gordon Keith. That and the record-setting meat ball he served up to Barry Bonds, which every story about his Twitter boner has mentioned.
2. If I told you that police investigating a murder scene in Lewisville found a chainsaw still running when they got there, would you want to read more? I wouldn’t blame you.
3. Okay, what if I told you that some bar patrons in The Colony chased down a guy after he slit a man’s throat?
4. Don Hill got 18 years, but Terri Hodge only got 12 months? I’m lousy with questions on this Wednesday.
5. But I’ve got just one more: hey, Rick Carlisle, why did it take you this long to sit Dampier and run Butler all night? Cause even a drunk-ass Mike Bacsik could have told you that you should have done that before the series with the Spurs got out of hand. Anyway, good win last night.
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Boner? Ass?
Was this post before or after Celeste’s push-ups?
@1: What you can get away with ALWAYS depends on who you are (see Hansen, Dale).
@4: That’s because Terri saw the writing on the wall and pleaded to a lesser offense, while Hill took his chances with a trial.
For years now, the only thing worth listening to on the Ticket has been Bob and Dan.
Everything else is self-important trash.
For those wondering what the heck Marcus is talking about, last night after the Mavs game, Eric and I played some pool. After each game, the loser had the option of either paying the winner $10 or doing 30 pushups. Eric did a lot of pushups.
PS: Go, Mavs.
What Bascik did was drunkenly stupid, but yeah, firing him smacks of TREMENDOUS hypocrisy. You’re right, every host has uttered that bad or worse, and if the Ticket is so sensitive, why do they have several drops referring to Mexicans that are just as bad, that they play repeatedly?
It’s all about the context, baby. Chewbacsik’s twitter comments were taken out of the Ticket’s warm bosom of context. Plus he was drunk. Personally, I find him to be radio anthrax along with Norm but I don’t think he deserved to be fired. In fact, the dying medium that is radio needs all the publicity it can get. A smart company (not Cumulus) would milk this opportunity for all it’s worth. Kill me now.
@Chris Chris: The only problem I have with Bascik’s sacking is the fact that he was suspended first. Then, when the story hit CNN, he got fired. Look, either you think it was a fireable offense or you don’t. From where I sit, it looks like the Ticket simply couldn’t take the heat.
And I could have missed it, but I didn’t hear the Musers talking about it this morning. That also disappoints me.
I didn’t listen to it, but on the way in, Gordon mentioned that they’d be covering it in the Corner at 9:10…
Could you pay $5 and do 15 pushups? Or pay $7 and do six? Because what if you can’t do 30 pushups. Which I can — I would guess, probably. I know one thing, I can certainly smoke a cigarette furiously, with a kind of bristling paranoia, like a man condemned; so that translates to at least nine pushups, right there. Eight.
Okay, I’ll agree to these terms: What if you do as many pushups as you can before you collapse into a quivering flesh-puddle from which a disturbing rattle emits? Say for the sake of argument that’s seven: you would owe 33 cents for each pushup you didn’t do, which in this random example would be $7.59. These seem like fair terms.
@Daniel: Actually, the way we had it worked out, if you went the pushups route and then failed to do the 30, you had to pay $20. And I’ll say this for Eric: he wound up doing more than 100 pushups, some of them with his feet elevated on a chair. No way could I have done that. Props to P90X.
Mike’s mistake was doing Ticket Shtick outside the nurturing biosphere of The Ticket. One of Jub Jub’s famous drops is him saying “I hear the Mexicans are kind of dirty,” referring to the dirty play of the Mexican national soccer team. Mike likely had that in mind, though he shouldn’t have twatted it either way. It shouldn’t have gotten him fired, though.
Upon further consideration, here’s a theory about why the Bacsik firing was (mis)handled the way it was: local station management decided to suspend him. But then the story goes national, and the Cumulus Big Bosses start paying attention. They tell the local guys, “Hey, local guys, fire him.” The more I think about it, I’d bet money that’s what happened.
Gordon did cover the firing in the Corner, and the focus was context as mention by Chris Chris.
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