The Name Game Blog…. By Hoch

I apologize for the crappy contests we’ve been doing on the show recently. They’re all versions of “the name game” that we do on the air so much. Here’s a quick recap…

The winner of our “morph an athletes name into a Chinese food dish” contest was: Mike Honey Golic Chicken.

The winner of our “morph an athletes name into any food dish” contest was: Chris Honey Nut Chelios.

So, of course, now we’re onto “morph an athletes name into a restaurant” contest. These are the top entries so far:

Jason Giambi Juice

Babe Ruths Criss Steakhouse

Adam Morrisons Cafeteria

Coach K-FC

Danny Wuerfel House

R.W. McQuartersDeck

Frank wy-checkers

Chief Wahoo”ters” McDaniel

Pollo Tropi Cal Ripken’s

“Hardee’s” Nickerson

Mike D’Antoni Roma’s

Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chipper Jones

Grant Long John Silver’s

international EDDIE HOUSE of Pancakes

Johnny Rocket’s Ismial

Reggie White Castle

Ozzie “Smith and Wollensky’s

Michael Cracker Barrow

Bernard IHOPkins

Michael Redd Lobster

Johnny Morton’s Steakhouse

Denny’s Erickson

Jerry “Outback Stackhouse

David Boston Market

Eddie Waffle House

Michael P.F. Chang’s

Major Apple”bees” White

Stuart applebee’s

Chick-”Fil-A”-Hearn

Dave And Busters Douglas

Please add your submission to the list. The NFL starts soon, so maybe we’ll actually have something to talk about on the air. But until then, prepare yourself for more name games. (Turn an athlete into a TV show? Tom Brady Bunch?)

20 comments July 26th, 2006

Chinese Food Names Blog… By Hoch

If you listen to The Dan LeBatard Show, then you’re probably aware we do some of the crappiest contests anywhere in radio. Sometimes (most of the time) our contests don’t even make sense. But every once in a while, we stumble across a good one, and that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday, August 19. That was the day that we held the single greatest e-mail contest in the history of radio.

I’ll spare you the long, boring story of how this contest came to be. But I will share with you the details of the greatest contest ever. Take an athletes name and turn it into a chinese food dish. For example, I said on the air “Fried Won Tonya Harding.” And “Beef and Broccoli (lee) Smith.”

From there the floodgates opened, and we received more e-mails than in any other contest we’ve done. The entries were phenomenal… and I still haven’t picked a winner. Out of the hundreds of e-mails about Chinese Food Dishes derived from Athletes Names, these are my favorites:

Michelle “Szech” Qwan Chicken

Fortune Cookie Rojas
Will we ever create a contest better than this one? That remains to be seen. Please post your own Chinese Food Athlete Names right here on this blog. (And if you have an e-mail contest idea, please post that too.)

26 comments July 20th, 2006

Summertime Blog - By Hoch

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If you’ve been listening to the show lately, you’ve probably realized we have nothing to talk about.  It’s summer… the Heat are done… the Dolphins are a couple of months away… so we’re really struggling with things to talk about.  It’s all about authors I guess.  We’re having on a lot of authors and writers on during the summer.  Just searching for things to talk about. 

So… once again, dear listener, I turn it over to you.  Who do you want us to talk to this summer?  Any particular musician?  Author?  Chef?  General Manager?  Busboy?  Anything?  This blog is eerily similar to the show lately.  It stinks.  This is a really bad blog.  Even as I’m writing it, I’m realizing just how terrible this blog is.  I’m not saying anything.  I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know.  You’re really wasting your time reading this. 

So where was I?  What do you want to hear this summer?  What can we do to make the summertime months a little more exciting?  Is it possible to only write questions for the rest of this blog?  We’ll find out… won’t we? 

This blog is not representative of my typical blogging skills.  I’m wiped.  The next one will be better.  Seriously. 

5 comments July 11th, 2006