“I am so tired!  I’ve been ridin’ the railroad and puttin’ out fires!”  –Corrie Cross 03-26-09

Viewer to Marcy:  “You’re a nice kind of wide.”  Same viewer to Sherri:  “And you’re big, too.”  03-26-09

“My family tree just keeps getting shadier.” –Sherri Talley 03-26-09

“2009 is all about making do.” –Randy Bain 03-30-09

“Skype on your iPhone.  It’s treatable with antibiotics, I think.”  –Rex Allison 03-31-09

What if you could?

I know I wouldn’t have walked around Sam’s Club in new sandals with fake bling on them - adornment that dug into my feet with every step.

I would have slept more.

I would have spent more time outside Sunday.

You?

We went to the same elementary school together in OKC.  We lived on the same block back then.  Our names rhyme.  And sadly, we accidentally match more often than not on air. 

It’s like our mommies dress us for work every day!

It’s no wonder reporters in the field sometimes get confused about who to toss back to on the set.   Who could blame a director who occasionally punches up the wrong anchor?  And when we both show up in purple, Fletch screams, “Stop the violets!”

Lord help us if we were still in grade school dressing alike.  We’d have our butts kicked on a daily basis on the playground. 

My co-anchor, Gerry May, and I are actually blogging about this topic at the same time.  Of course we are.  Isn’t that just the most precious thing?  Forget about the playground.  Gerry’s pushing me off the monkey bars after that comment.  Awe. 

This can’t be good in HDTV, unless you’re into HGTV and all the color coordination.   

In light of all the cuddly blue skies and sunshine, help us help you!  We need help in establishing our own identities.  What would you suggest?  A fashion anti-consultant?  Time apart?  Going back to black and white TV?

Male caller:  “I need to be interviewed by a female reporter.”  Nick Caloway:  “About what?”  Caller:  “I can’t tell you.  It’s top secret.”   03-16-09

Sherri:  “Ger, are you planting anything yet?”  Gerry: “I don’t plant.  I chop stuff down.”  03-18-09

“I once woke up in my front yard at my apartment in college cuddling a nutrarat.”  –Sharon on sherritalley.com 03-20-09

“I’m gettin’ kinda tired of people turning up dead in the streets.” –Clay Kirby 03-23-09

…corraled a horse while on a bike on Ellerbe Road. 

Go ahead, especially you, Tommy.

I once…

I love Captain Jack.  Not as much as Optimus Prime, but I’m seriously thrilled we have a cool mascot and that we’re back to “The Captains” at Fair Grounds Field.  We play ball in a couple of months.  Click here for more.

Your memories, please.

While you’re on deck, I’ll get this inning started with some of my favorites:

The breeze in the stands as the sun goes down/The way the American flag looks over the outfield/Looking forward to keeping score with a good, sharp pencil/The food Leroy used to make in the press box/Driving home with an exhausted, ice cream-covered child.

The night I saw the former Captain get hit in his big sponge head with a foul ball.  In what seemed like a slow-motion movie scene, the impact just made his head sway to one side, then the other. 

Bat races.

Cracker Jacks.

5:30 p.m.  - Suzie gets out of a cab at her hotel on a busy street in downtown Detroit.

7:30 p.m. -  Suzie realizes her Tiffany’s engagement ring must have fallen off her finger during the cab exit and onto the streets of Detroit.

4:00 a.m.  - After fretting all night and repeatedly calling the “lost and found” at the hotel front desk, Suzie feels the need to call her fiance’ and tell him she lost the ring. 

Only, she also feels the need to lie. 

This is the first time in their several-year relationship she’s done this, but nonetheless, she is too embarrassed about the cab incident and thinks another story would be better.  She tells her man the ring went down the shower drain.

4:06 a.m.  - The lie backfires.  The fiance’ requests hotel management break into the drain and recover the ring.

4:07 a.m. - Suzie thinks, “D’Oh!”  Especially when she sees the drain cover has smaller openings than an ‘09-’10 budget. 

6:30 a.m. - Suzie, realizing the value of the truth, especially now that she’s been busted, calls her fiance’ and comes clean about the shower.  Fiance is Mr. Nice Guy and forgives her.  Suzie is reminded that this is another reason she’s marrying him. 

8:30 a.m. - Suzie calls sister (that would be me) and frets some more.  Sister’s comforting advice:  “Wow, someone’s having a big day at the pawn shop.  You just made someone’s day in these tough economic times!  Go ahead and feel good about that.” 

10:30 a.m. - Suzie decides to look around outside the hotel and actually sees the ring in the street!  It was scratched up and some prongs were bent from the traffic, but there it was! 

6:00 p.m. - Suzie phones sister again and says, “I’m gonna keep it all dirty and bent up because it reminds me of how much honesty means in a relationship.”

“Why is Sonja’s “S” bigger than ours?  Oh, because Sonja has a huge “S”!  –Ed Walsh, referring to the “Ss” on our Mardi Gras Superman capes 02-21-09

Orin Smith: “Anyone have Fed Ex?”  Sherri Talley:  “No, I was treated for that a while back.  A little saave did the trick.”  02-23-09

“I’m gonna kill me an Avid!”  –Trey Lankford 02-20-09 

Sherri Talley:  “Are you going to run?”  Corrie Cross:  “No.  I’m going to drink a beer.”   02-26-09

“Having an iPhone and not knowing how to use it is like having condoms with no one around.” –Michael Boyter 03-07-09

Thanks, Mel, for forwarding this.