“PADRES & FREE AGENCY…YOU DECIDE”
The MLB Winter GM meetings are underway in Las Vegas. A busy and most important time if you are the General Manager of the San Diego Padres, the team that sells itself as a World Series hopeful, but a team that has never gotten to the Fall Classic under its architect AJ Preller. There's always 'Wait till Next Year' hopes, and with a core batting order of solid veteran, but very expensive players, there's always a chance. But now we are at a cross roads of a winter with...
“CHARGERS FANS….CHEERING OR BOOING LOSSES”
It has been 10-years since Dean Spanos moved the San Diego Chargers to Los Angeles. It has been the worst season in the LA market. As we reach the midway point of the NFL season, you could hand out indictments everywhere. The team is...
“NFL NOTEBOOK–THINGS YOU SHOULD SEE”
CHARGERS...Hard to believe they have gone 9-quarters without a TD (27-possessions) with Justin Herbert at QB...The modern day record is 30-possessions without a TD-done by Miami...Oddly Mike McDaniel was head coach there..Offensive Coordinator...
“PADRES FREE AGENT CONTACTS..TIGERS TRY MAKE DEALS..BILLS DESTROY VIKINGS…JAGUARS MAKE 3-NFL TRADES..NFL TRADE DEADLINE DAY..LAKERS NOW (10-2)..NBA-NHL-LIV UPDATES—
...(Baseball)... MLB-GM Meetings begin in Las Vegas with teams talking trades and talks moving into high gear on free agents...Tarik Skubal-Michael King-Adrian Morejon are the marquee names atop the free agent pitching board. Japanese slugger Teruaki Sato, Luis Arraez, Seiya Suzuki, Ty France, and Randy Arozarena highlite everyday players. MLB Network..Reports Padres have made contact with Agent Scott Boras about the parameters of a deal for free agent Tarik Skubal..Sources in MLB maintain Boras wants (45M) per year and a package that stretches 8-years and could be worth (340M). Rookie of Year Vote ..National League..Sal Stewart-Reds (.263-32HR).got 20-of-30 votes ..American...
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Lee ‘Hacksaw’ Hamilton has built a national reputation as one of America’s top sports-talk show hosts. He has been named Talk Show Host of the Year seven times by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. He has spent his last 26-years doing Sports-Talk Radio in San Diego, and was the first talk show host hired at the legendary 77,000-watt XTRA-Sports-690, and now at 50,000-watt Mighty 1090, hosts the San Diego Padres pre-postgame talk shows. .
He was the popular longtime Radio Voice of the San Diego Chargers, and also did NFL play-by-play for the Seattle Seahawks, and the Compass Media Networks, in addition to his college play-by-play work for the USC-Trojans, Arizona State Sun Devils, San Diego State Aztecs and the Ohio University Bobcats. His NFL play-by-play has been featured at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions in San Diego, and for NFL-Films.
He broadcast the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the WHA-All Star games.
He has also worked for Sirius-XMs Home Plate Baseball Channel, and did talk shows for Fox Sports 570-KLAC in Los Angeles, and Fox Sports Radio’s network..
He spent 8-years doing hockey for the Cleveland Crusaders and Indianapolis Racers, and 8-years doing Minor League baseball for the Phoenix Giants and the Utica Blue Sox.
He worked at KTAR-Phoenix, 3WE-Radio in Cleveland, and began his career at WLGN-Logan, Ohio and WIBX-Utica, New York.
An accomplished writer, he was named ‘Columnist of the Year’ by the San Diego Press Club, and has written freelance sports columns for the San Diego Union Tribune, and the SDNN-San News Network website.
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