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Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

Long-time followers of this blog know of my love for the NPR news quiz, Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Once in a while they’ll have some baseball-related topic or guest, as was the case this week in the opening segment, “Who’s Bill This Time?” (The transcript is as accurate as I care to spend the […]

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About the World Series. Haven’t done one of these in a long time. I think I even neglected to write when Keith Hernandez was a guest back when his latest memoir — I’m Keith Hernandez: A Memoir — was published last year. But with the Washington Nationals winning the first championship for the nation’s capital […]

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My favorite NPR news quiz featured the Cubs owner on the “Not My Job” segment. Your can hear it here: Or just read the transcript (not as much fun) here.

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The “poet laureate”/PA announcer for the Red Sox was the guest for the “Not My Job” segment of last week’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, which was broadcast from the Wang Theater in the City Performing Arts Center in Boston. You can read the transcript or listen to Flavin — along with host Peter Sagal, […]

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Over the past few years, I have become extremely interested in the subject of memory. There have been many theories about exactly what memory is, but the most prevalent seems to be that it fades over time, and even that the more you try to remember, the less accurate it becomes, like making photo copies […]

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This whole Brian Williams business (not this Brian Williams, although he might have his own stories to tell) has a lot of tongues wagging. If he was “lying” about some of his experiences — being in a helicopter in Afghanistan that was shot down, seeing a body floating on the water in New Orleans after […]

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National pastime radio

October 28, 2014

This was one of the questions on the latest Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me: PETER SAGAL: Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week’s news. Amy, sports question for you. For the first time in 29 years, the Kansas City Royals have made it to the World Series but they almost didn’t […]

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Is he destined to be a pop culture touchstone? From this week’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me from host Peter Sagal: In just a minute, Carl gets ejected when umpires find rhyme tar on his neck. It’s the Listener Limerick Challenge.

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The latest Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me ran the gamut from all-Jewish (Peter Sagal) to half-Jewish (“Not My Job” guest Amy Schumer to not-Jewish-at-all-but-thought-to-be baseball barnstorming team House of David. Here’s the relevant portion of the transcript. PETER SAGAL: Amy Schumer, it is a real pleasure to talk to you. And we have invited you […]

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Maybe they should have used this on the “Not my job” segment, since Alex Rodriguez might be out of one soon. From last week’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me‘s “who’s Carl this time?” This was the last of the three quotes. CARL KASELL: I want to be a role model. PETER SAGAL: That was New […]

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The airwaves sure have been busy over the past few days. ♦ Jim Abbott (Imperfect: An Improbable Life) was a guest on yesterday’s Leonard Lopate Show. I find it interesting that the subtitle does not include “Baseball,” as in “An Improbable Baseball Life.” ♦ John Grisham, author of Calico Joe  was a guest on Only […]

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National Pastime Radio

April 11, 2011

NPR has had several baseball segments in recent days on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, The Leonard Lopate Show, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Only a Game. Leading off (this isn’t in chronological order) is comedian Jessi Klein who was featured in WWDTM‘s “Not My Job” portion of the program. SAGAL: Well, Jessi Klein, we’re […]

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Brooklyn Cyclones give Aguilera second shot at National anthem? From the AP item: Cyclones general manager Steve Cohen [Editor’s Note: MOT?] said in a statement that “when a player makes a mistake, they usually don’t get a shot at redemption, but with a singer, that’s a different story.” Speaking of the Cyclones, they were included […]

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Wait Wait, tell me again

February 1, 2011

The most popular post on this blog was one that resulted from listening to my favorite podcast, NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, hosted by the erudite Peter Sagal, a local hero ’round these parts (who just celebrated a birthday, I might add). That particular entry involved former Major Leaguer Moose Skowron, the guest for […]

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This week’s episode of my favorite NPR program featuerd Jimmy Fallon on the “Not my job” segment. Since we just celebrated the 30th anniversary of Disco Demolition Night, the topic was bad baseball promotions. Fallon should be an expert since he made a bad baseball movie (Fever Pitch).

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* "The Spaceman" lands on NPR

December 22, 2008

Bill “The Spaceman” Lee weighed made a guest appearance on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me yesterday, regarding the recent “shoe attack” by Muntadar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for Al-Baghdadiya television. Sagal: A lot of people were talking about the political ramifications of this [and] what it means for Preient Bush’s legacy, but that’s not what […]

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* The Moose is loose

September 8, 2008

Former Yankee favorite Bill “Moose” Skowron was the guest for the “Not my Job” segment of this week’s “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.” You can listen to the segment here. Skowron was saddled with questions about Michael Jackson, about whom, of course, he knew nothing.

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