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“I haven’t had the opportunity to speak with (Brian Waters) yet.”
Matt Cassel, the Chiefs new QB, when asked by reporters if Waters would make an appearance at Friday’s mandatory minicamp, Fox 4
GH: This might be the best deadpan line of the offseason.

“I guess it’s the question of the week. Hopefully he does come out for this weekend.”
Branden Albert, Chiefs offensive lineman, on the Waters watch, KSHB 41
GH: TV 41 showed a handful of local reporters sitting on the curb outside Yia’s Yia’s Restaurant in hopes of getting a glimpse of the MIA All Pro at the Chiefs First Downs for Down Syndrome fund-raising event. Waters did not show Wednesday night which adds to the speculation that he will be a no-show at Chiefs camp this weekend as well. We might need to get Dick Vermeil in here to tell Brian WaWa it’s time to take the diapers off, young man.

“These are farm ranch rabbits, basically raised in a closed environment and they are very, very tasty. …It looks like skinless chicken. You’ve got a lot of meat on a rabbit.”
Hen House Rep, on another riveting BTL segment, 810 AM
GH: Kietzman had promoted an in-studio appearance by Matt Cassel at around 3:30 pm on his Wednesday show. When I tuned in, KK and Elmer Fudd were discussing the best way to roast Bugs. Read on.

“Live radio does not always work.”
Kevin Kietzman, explaining that Matt Cassel had to cancel his in-studio appearance Wednesday afternoon, 810 AM
GH: Understandable, but KK didn’t give any specifics as to why Cassel canceled. With all the secrecy surrounding Scott Todd, I’m wondering if they didn’t pull the plug on Cassel’s in-studio appearance.

“Be there in person to watch history unfold. This will be one of the best seasons ever in KU football. …Reserve your place in history… History awaits, be there.”
David Lawrence, KU football radio commercial
GH: I am a bit too superstitious to want my team to air a promotion as brazen as KU’s. Wasn’t Mizzou supposed to have their best season ever last fall with their Heisman-candidate QB and all those NFL draft picks?  How many of those Chase Daniel poster schedules are still hanging in Columbia?

“(Phil) Steele bills his product as ‘the most accurate preseason magazine in the last 10 years!’ That doesn’t mean all of his picks are right. Nobody’s that good. In fact, one of his picks in this year’s magazine is outrageously off base; so off base most KU football fans likely will wait for the release of Lindy’s to begin digesting the outlooks of 2009 college football teams. Here goes: Steele picked Kansas to finish fourth in the Big 12 North. That’s right, fourth!”
Tom Keegan, sports columnist, Lawrence Journal World
GH: Kansas has what looks to be the best team in the North. But they have never won the North in the history of the Big 12. How can anyone look at KU’s conference schedule and be aghast at Steele’s prediction? When did Lawrence become Norman? Hint – it ain’t.

 “Kansas fans are going to go nuts over this! They are going to go nuts!”
Nate Bukaty, on Phil Steele’s preseason prediction that Kansas will finish fourth in the Big 12 North behind Nebraska, Colorado and K-State, 810 AM
GH: Unless Steele slipped in a comment about Bill Self or Xavier, I think the KU faithful will retain their sanity. Most KU fans think Phil Steele is a construction term.

“Memo to Steele: These aren’t the Jayhawks with block lettering on the sides of their helmets. These are the Trajan font Jayhawks. The Jayhawks of seniors Todd Reesing, Kerry Meier and Darrell Stuckey. Seniors have a way of making it happen and these guys have played like veterans since they stepped foot on campus. Sure, the schedule is particularly brutal, but fourth place? In the North?”
Tom Keegan, Lawrence Journal World
GH: KU is a Reesing injury away from resembling that block-lettered-helmet edition of the Jayhawks. If the O-line doesn’t protect the toughest QB in the conference any better than they did in Lincoln last year, Todd Slight of Bod might not return from that early-season trip to Boulder.

“There’s just this realization that what we thought we had, we really don’t have.”
Kevin Kietzman, on the reality that is our Royals, 810 AM

“We just don’t want to see this thing go back to promotion-driven baseball and see people going out there just for the promotions.”
Roger Twibell, 610 AM
GH: The Royals better HOPE the fans continue to come to The K this summer for the promotions. It is uncomfortably obvious they will once again not be visiting for the baseball.

“I’m a fan too and it’s tough watching me.”
Mark Teahen, 810 AM

“I don’t sense a gloom and doom attitude at all. They seem to be upbeat.”
Bob Davis, on his read of the Royals’ clubhouse, Royals Radio
GH: Davis either needs to get his sensor into the shop or ask these Royals players what the hell they have to be upbeat about. We need a Hal McRae-like Armageddon tantrum to take place in that “upbeat” clubhouse and cleanse the stench of losing from this squad. Wednesday night’s embarrassment in St. Petersburg was maybe the most humiliating performance by a Royals team in the past decade. And that my friend is saying a lot.

“I’m not a yeller and screamer. I think the best thing we can do right now is fight our rear ends off and try and stay positive.”
Trey Hillman, before Wednesday night’s loss to Tampa, Royals Radio
GH: As you will notice, the Royals players’ rear ends remain very much intact.

“To this we say, ‘We will beat you like a mule!’”
Royals radio commercial promoting the St. Louis Cardinals series at The K
GH: If only Michael Vick would have been beating mules instead of Rover! Apparently, mule beating is an accepted pastime in The Show-Me State. It is a bit puzzling though, that the family-friendly Royals would mention beating anything in their marketing blitz after the face-kicking parent brawl that occurred near the kid’s play area in the outfield plaza.  BTW, if it’s the Royals players who are scheduled to administer this mule beating, I hope they have better luck hitting an ass than they do a fastball.

“Dayton Moore is a stud! People forget how many other teams were after him when the Royals got him (as their GM). Anybody who’s panicking right now, don’t call the show after the All-Star break when the Royals are in first place!”
Caller Jeff, 610 AM
GH: I believe Caller Jeff may have been kicked by that mule.

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