Dan Russell

40 years ago today!!! We started with “Pleasant Good Evening” just before welcoming our first of over 25,000 guests — Canucks Coach Bill Laforge. danrussellsportstalk.com

Radio has low “viewership”? That’s a new one for me and I’ve been around a little.

Former New York Rangers star Ron Duguay, being treated for Stage 4 cancer, has been hospitalized after collapsing at his home, his daughter said. usatoday.com/story/sports/n…

Guaranteed there’s more than meets the eye here. There usually is.

Today would have been Terry Fox’s 68th birthday. Happy birthday, Terry ❤️ A true Canadian hero 🇨🇦🐐

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night. It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me. Sad and embarrassed and exhausted. Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one. People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room. Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old. He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second. That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed. There is a name for it. So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers. The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin. And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride. Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was. And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving. Just another joke at our expense.

CNN's Jake Tapper was a deranged bloodhound following the trail of Joe Biden experiencing *normal aging processes* in office but can't turn his Sherlockian skills to the comparatively simple question of whether Mitch McConnell is *still on Earth*. Is there no money in the latter?

On this date in 1956, Roberto Clemente of the Pirates hit the first, and still the only, walk-off inside-the-park grand slam in MLB history ⚾️

He is currently bombing the civilian infrastructure of another country, a country that was at this World Cup!, a country that he attacked illegally, but we’re expected to watch him hand over the World Cup to the winning team as if he is some sort of normal A N Other world leader.

@DemocraticWins Until she changes her mind again. #FakeCourage

BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, Senator Lisa Murkowski just announced she will vote no on Donald Trump’s SAVE Act. This will likely kill Donald Trump’s last hopes of passing the bill. Let’s go.

On this date 99 years ago, Ty Cobb recorded his 4,000th career hit – the first player in Major League history to accomplish the feat⚾️ To date, Pete Rose is the only other MLB player to reach the milestone.

Number of games NHL teams have when they face an opponent on the second half of a back-to-back. Quite the difference from MTL to TOR and WPG.

Thanks so much, Bob. Knowing you enjoyed it enough to buy copies for your golf buddies is so humbling. I hope it brought back some great Sportstalk memories. Looking back, the book may be even more relevant today as a roadmap to how local radio once worked. #PleasantGoodEvening

Keep going!! You’re halfway there. Please tell me you are also five days a week?? 😮👍

Bombastic! I had never heard that description of the beginning notes of the Sportstalk theme. I hope you read in my memoir the origin of the iconic intro and “who’s in the band“ extro. #PleasantGoodEvening

@DanRussellST Oh ya , every time i'm reminded of Sportstalk i hear the opening theme playing in my head. Love it and miss it !!

I can’t remember what I had for dinner yesterday, but useless crap like this, I’m all over it!

This is so good, but it’s also sad that it doesn’t happen more often. Huge kudos to Ossoff for putting on a clinic!

That’s actually awesome! 👏

I believe that is 2026 speak for “I’m not confident many will call in”.

Full marks to you Alfie for remembering the name of our band leader. Do you also recall his first name?