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So after listening to Howard, and the wrapup show, and no mention of the sirius iPhone app whatsoever…
Now go back about 6 months when the starplayr app was in beta, and the excitement from Howard and how great it would be for Sirius bla bla huge potential for more subscribers bla bla…
So what is the change…
Was it Howard’s greed getting in the way…
If I could only stomach O&A…

When I saw the headline Gruden to replace Kornheiser on MNF, on Fox Sports today, I knew there was a Football God and that our collective stay in Monday Night Football purgatory was officially over…. 

I have no idea how Gruden will fare, but anything has to be better then the worst ever football announcer in the history of the game.

I am not buying into the story that it was Kornholers choice, I have never ever talked to anyone that could even tolerate him, and I guess I don’t have to do the Sirius MNF sync trick, and I was getting so good at it…

I have a question for the people at the MLB network, did anyone tell them that you don’t just switch to commercials willy nilly, In the middle of interviews and such….
They have essentially made this show on baseball unwatchable, switching to stupid promo’s and commercials in the middle of people talking, and it seems that they don’t stop the tape when doing this… Ted Williams is talking and in mid sentence bang commercial, then they come back to a whole different subject WTF!

I remember back in the good old days, mergers usually resulted in a better company, and you took the BEST of both companies and kicked butt, by eliminating all the deadwood.

It seems that the rocket scientists over at SirusXM, have figured out how to screw that up beyond all recognition. First thing they did wrong is get rid of all the XM music programming, and keep the crappy redundant Sirius programming, seems like it is almost on a loop. Then they kept the crappy DJ’s (Here’s a hint cut the DJ’s and save money), if I want talk I’ll listen to Howard, and listening to Richard Blade’s wedding DJ gigs is getting old, kind sound like a commercial to me on a commercial free station…

So now comes the next blow, the apparent death of uSirius Starplayr, which looks like it officially ends the same day that you have to start paying for the Sirius internet feed in addition to your regular subscription. There is very little info coming out of the starplayr camp, but one rumor is that it is over the the apparent death of the iPhone app, and I am guessing a change to how things authenticate etc… There are rumors of a forthcoming SiriusXM iPhone app from SiriusXM, and that is the reason that uSirius Starplayr has not been approved. I have not seen anything regarding Rogue Amoeba’s Pulsar, but I’m willing to bet it is history as well…

uSirius StarPlayr, has/had a great interface, and is/was pretty rock solid form the start, and it will be missed. I can only hope that whatever the genius’s at SiriusXM come up with is half as good.

So now we come to Sirius stock SIRI, and yes I am an owner of this mess called a stock, and have a cost basis I think in the $2.70 range or about 20 time more then it is worth today.

I can only hope that the vast majority of Mel Karmazin, Scott Greentstein and the other rocket scientists running the show over there at Sirius is in stock , but I couldn’t find anything current… They’ll probably get a bazillion shares @ $0.14 and some how get it back to a dollar and be good to go for life…

So in closing, thanks Todd, Jason and the other guys, you did some pretty cool stuff, and I hope you had fun doing it…

Good luck…

Whoever at useless (usair) that came up with the bright idea to board the front of the plane first, and then motivate people even more to carry on their bags by charging an extra $15 per bag including the first bag is a complete and total ASSHOLE!!!

Take something simple and make it complex, don’t most airlines fill from the back of the plane…

Freaking idiots