Kids are back at school and everyone is back to work. Great to see the BIg O back on the air at the Rockin’ 850…the station that plays the sports hits. As always, O waltzed in with a smile on his face and a lot of cash in his wallet.

Hey, the the guy has earned it. Will Glenn end up on television? Who knows? But, you can see him the next four Monday nights at 10pm on the Late Editon of Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight.

Felger’s kryptonite is Boston College. Felgy - a BU grad - is like the pre-world series Red Sox fan feeling inferior to the Yankees. Obviously his hatred from the Eagle is a sign of insecurity. 

We are thinking of new things to add to the show in 2009. Any ideas?

Does anybody miss Gresh? I do.

The Celtics will be fine…unless they lose to Charlotte….no no….even if they lose to Charlotte.  But…they won’t.

With the Patriot season over we had three camera people in our studio. During the Patriot season Jeff Garcia holds down the fort by himself. Moose and Barry Alley were back in the house tonight getting in the way of Jeff.  Moose and Barry work their tails off in the field covering the Patriots,Red Sox and Celtics but when they are in studio….well, let’s just say they are entertainment for the rest of us.

Hope you all of you had a great holiday. Felger said during the commercial break between the c and d blocks that the best thing about Christmas is it is over. The three ghosts have to visit that dude. If they did he would probably scare them off.

Felger also drew the line in the sand with our producer Kevin Miller regarding our trip to spring training. Felgy stated that his 3 year old daughter Emma would have a spell over Kevin’s 4 year old son, Jack. According to Felgy Emma will be dragging Jack around by his nose. We shall see…Jack is a pretty independent fellow and a wiz at WII golf. Jack needs to make his dad bring the wii to Fort Myers. Then he will have the advantage over Emma.

My kids? My daughter will be at the arts and crafts table and my son will be attempting back flips into the pool from the third floor balcony.

Our coverage begins Feb. 16th from Fort Myers. Once again, the players and pundits will be with us live poolside at the Pink Shell Resort and Spa on Fort Myers Beach.

If you did not see this on the air…Felger was priceless today when he stammered in after fighting mall traffic. Completely out of breath due to frustration, Felger proclaimed that Christmas should be like the Ryder Cup and held every two years.

He is the only person that could come up with that.

Sorry I have not been around. The slacking must stop. Here is the latest.

Felger has thrown down a challenge to Ace Producer Kevin Miller regarding our trip to Red Sox spring training. Felgy predicts that his four year old daughter, Emma will have Kevin’s four year old son, Jack eating out of the palm of her hand. Felgy claims that Emma will be leading Jack around like a little puppy. This will be interesting. My son, Van has played with both kids. Both are high energy. Jack and Van have had some mean street hockey games. Emma gave Van a run for his money last year at spring training when they ran at least 100 laps around the dinner table at the Pink Shell. Early odds favor Emma. Women always have the edge.

Yes, we will be broadcasting from Sox spring training again this year at the wonderful Pink Shell Resort and Spa. Good thing. My kids would have had melt downs if we weren’t going back to the Palm Tree pool or the pool with the Octopus bridge.

Thoughts and prayers go out to Mike Gorman and his lovely wife, Terri. Like myself, Mike married up. Terri lost her mother to cancer last week. That is why Mike was out for the New Orleans and Utah games on Friday and Monday. It is always a pleasure to fill in for Mike. Big shoes to fill but Tommy carried me.

Every once in a while you have to go with your gut feeling and go out on a limb. On the Late Edition I made the statement that many of the top scorers in the NBA would want Rondo as their point guard because he gets the stars the ball in the right spot at the right time and never thinks about his own shot first ( sometimes to a fault). Basketball doctor Ryan Rusillo thinks I should be committed. There may be better point guards the league…Paul, Deron Williams..are more complete yes….I don’t want Tony Parker over Rondo. I am sorry. Rondo is the best assist man in the NBA right now period!

What do you think?

WHAT DO YOU PUT IN YOUR POST SHOW SALAD?

It’s iceberg lettuce! No other lettuce need apply. Cukes, carrots all of which is wrapped in paper towel to promote dry, crispy texture. Croutons, bacon bits and goat cheese. I have two seperate bowls going. I bring in tupperware and I have cutlery and bowls for the salad transfer. Newman’s Own Parmesan Dressing in the only dressing to be used. The materials are brought in one of Sarah’s foo foo expensive Newbury Street shopping bags.

WHAT IS THE BEST ADJECTIVE AN E-MAILER HAS USED TO DESCRIBE YOU?

They all ask how does The Wood put up with me.

WHEN  YOU DIE  AND IF YOU COULD COME BACK AS ANY ATHLETE YOU HAVE COVERED WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY?

Lonnie Paxton. Veteran minimum for a player like is around $800,000. He plays 8 plays a game and he gets as many girls as anyone on the team. What is not to like?

WHY DO YOU LEAVE THE TOP BUTTON OF YOUR SHIRT OPEN?

It is a huge problem in the men’s fashion world. The top button goes to high. But, when you leave it unbuttoned it is too low, I agree. The issue is there is no happy medium. So you see my man cheese.

WHAT IS THE HISTORY BEHIND YOUR 1982 NIKE SILVER PULLOVER?

During the Celtic game the other night our stage manager Jeff Garcia was humming the theme to Sanford and Son. Jeff did a decent job but then Donny took it to the next level. The guy has a 20 piece orchestra in his mouth. He is like Bobby Mcferrin. He had the organ, guitar and drums down. We both agreed that Fred Sandford was a classic. "I am coming to see you Elizabeth." I always thought Grady was one of the most underated supporting sit-com characters. How can Phyllis get her own spinoff from the Mary Tyler Moore show and Grady not get one of his own?

These are the questions we ponder during commerical breaks. Did you expect us to talk about the game? Why? We do that  on that air.

Felger is the opposite of Donny in the breaks. He is always on his  Blackberry checking sources and working on stories. I wonder if Brickbreaker is a code name for one of his sources?

All good shows tonight until we hit the Late Edition. It was one of those shows that you hope everyone missed because they went the bed.

Felger and I got tied up at the beginning. I thought I was suppose to talk and he thought he was suppose to talk. This is what happen.I was right, he was wrong. No, it wasn’t that simple. There was a computer error in the runddown. Remember, the rundown is a tv term for agenda, format or schedule. We were suppose to start the A block (tv term for first segment) with video of Adalius Thomas from Sunday’s game but instead the camera came on Felger and me because a line had jumped from one spot to another in the rundown telling the director that we were starting with a opening shot of the sky box not the VO ( tv term for Voice Over ). If we went with the VO I was to perform the voice-over and if we were on camera it was Felger’s turn to talk. Why is Felger always on camera and why am I getting the VO’s? HMMMMM.

Now, there was a part of the Late Edition where I really screwed up. It was the Ben Jarvis-Green Ellis portion of the show. I thought It was Felger’s read and totally shut down. Even when the camera was on me I thought it was still Felger’s turn to talk. I could not be the one making the mistake. Well, I was. It was about two seconds of dead air which when you are on tv seems like two hours.

You may have seen on the Late Edition Greg going nuts about our countries priorities in the D section ( TV term for last segment). All of us in the studio and in the booth were howling while watching this. Greg, who worked for John Kerry when he was 12 years old gets a little carried away with his politics. The rant you saw was after Greg spent the day…or maybe it was really an hour…touring the damage caused by Hurrican Katrina in New Orleans. My bad for calling it a flood. He then decided to call out the country for not doing enough to help the recovery. Well intentioned yes, a new thought…no.

So, if you are undecided in the voting booth. How about a write in for Greg?

I was working out today ( don’t laugh) when I was overcome with regret. I had delivered a season preview of our Celtic broadcasts at the Comcast Sportsnet Celtics Media Luncheon and now I was thinking of things of I wish I had said.

I wish I had told the story about Tommy when I was in the hallway and heard "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!." I ran into the conference room to see if Tommy was okay. He was stretched out in a swivel chair with his head leaning back and his arms raised in the air. I asked him what was the matter. He did make a move and groaned " Tonight, we got Eddie F. Rush!" Eddie was not one of Tommy’s favorite officials. Come to think of it, Tommy dislikes all officials but he really dislikes Eddie F. Rush….as most Celtic fans do.

I did tell the story however of how during the playoffs Tommy would stand up take a deep breath and tell us he had to take a walk. He would walk around the building to cool off before watching the game again.

On the Wendesday Late Edition of Sports Tonight I was burned not once but twice by Felger.

In the commercial break before the C block (tv term) Felger asked me about Posey’s defense against players like Kobe and Lebron. I told him Posey could get in the face of both players and keep his body in front of them and prevent them from going to the basket. It was one of Posey’s underated skills.

Now, I knew he would use this on the air. I am  giver people and I know Felger knows nothing about basketball. I felt I was making the segment better. I was being a team player.

Then during the next commericial break I said  that maybe Bill Walker could be the guy who fills that defensive void left by Posey. What does Felger do? The first thing he says on the air is "Bill Walker could be the guy etc…" Stealing my thought word for word.

He can have my thoughts on Posey’s defense against Kobe and Lebron but if you are talking hoops and say that Bill Walker could be a defensive stopper on larger swing players like Kobe and Lebron remember the idea was mine and not Felger!

Felger…The Plagerist…coming to a theater near you.

It was late Sunday afternoon and the Celtics were blowing out the Nets in the second to last pre-season game of the year. Donny and I were watching the game in one of our conference rooms. He said he was going to walk his dogs later and smoke his pipe.

Whhhaaaatttt?! You are a former NBA player turned television talent not a college professor. Can you picture Donny sitting in his den by a roaring fire reading Dicken’s and puffing on his pipe? Well, feel free to do so. I am not sure about the Dicken’s part.

You see D-Marsh has a pipe collection. His favorite tobacco is vanilla or cherry. (Dude, you can light a candle and get the same smell.) He has pipes from Canada, Rome, France, and Sweden. He also has three Sherlock Holmes pipes. Where is the raincoat and funny looking hat? One of the Sherlock’s is from 1934. He used a fancy name to describe them but I forgot what it was.

Oh yeah, Donny goes country with a corn cob pipe too.

He is a man of many interests. He likes golf, gagdets, motorcycles, classic cars  and his pipe collection. (What no slow wet kisses and long walks on the beach?)

Should Donny bust out one of his Sherlock Holmes beauties for Celtic’s Pre-Game live? Of course, it is elementary my dear Marshall.

Up and coming producer Nate Long has come up with a brilliant idea to help a disorganized grump like me. The papers that we hold in our hands are called rundowns (TV term for program agenda). We have a 6:30 Sports Tonight rundown and a rundown for Celtics Pre-Game Live. So I do not get my papers mixed up, Nate has thoughtfully printed my Celtic’s Pre-Game LIve rundown on blue paper. Nice idea…but if he was really smart it would be green. Get it…Celtic’s green. This isn’t the Wizards pre game show, Nate.

However, it was a good bid and this is just another example of why Nate is an up and comer. He wiil run a network someday if he doesn’t end up officiating the Super Bowl first. You see, Nate is also an up and coming college football official. He has the big Fitchburg State game this week. Nate is the only person who can tell me exactly what every official is supposed to do on a certain football play. Other people fake it, Nate really knows. Oh yeah, he is really rich and goes drinking with Kenny Chesney and Tim Wakefield on the island of St. John where he has bungalow on the beach. I wish he would invite me down.

If you saw my interview with John Farrell in the Sox clubhouse after game four you may have thought I was stalking him as he got out of the shower. He was not naked. He was half naked. He had a towel on and those comfy slippers they give pro athletes and people who stay in  five star hotels. 

Yes, I got lazy. Writing a blog is great when you are motivated to do so. Recently, I have not had the energy or the creative calling. Of course, that is no excuse but that is all I have.

To be honest with you, night Patriot games KILL ME! I am an old man. When I leave Comcast SportsNet  after a Celtic’s game or the Late Edition I can get home and in bed by 12 midnight. Anything after midnight and I am toast…a useless, drooling post forty fool. And if I don’t get to bed before 12 midnight the next day I am useless. Like every parent my kids kick my tail out of bed around 6am. I am not going back to bed…I work at night so the morning is my time with them. If it sounds like I am whining…I AM. 

In summary, you can blame my lack of blogging on prime-time Patriot games. We have another one on Monday. I am going to bed Sunday at 7p night after the Celtic’s game to get ready for Monday NIght Football.

I had to wear my glasses tonight because I forgot my contacts at home. People here give me a ton of you know what about my glasses. What do you think? Be honest. .

Tough show back from the weekend. I said in our open,"Should Terry Francona be second guessed after game four?" Of course, I met to say game three. I noticed with minutes to go before the start of the show so we had to record it again. I know, our marketing message is,"always live never scripted." We should add except for the opens. We have to pre-pro (tv term for pre production) our opens for technical and staging reasons.

Then I said that Kotsay could play fourth. Did I mean fourth base? I am an idiot. Of course, I meant play first.

I blame it on staying up late to watch the Sox lose in extra innings to the Angels. When I don’t get sleep I do say dumb things and become very grumpy.

   I am going to take a nap now.

   Okay, now I’m up.

Isn’t Troy Brown great? Some in the media feel Troy is not going make it as an analyst. Yes, he can be a soft talker but he knows it and is working on his television game the same way he worked on his on field game. He watches tape, listens to suggestions and works on his delivery. Don’t bet against this guy. He already proved everybody wrong once. Troy will be on our show every Monday and Wednesday during the football seaosn.