SLAPFEST 3 - LIVE AT THE BUS!!!

Z Report Draft Show - Episode III

Here is the latest podcast of the Z Report NFL Draft Show; this show ran live on 1560 The Game on Thursday night, March 6. Next show will be live on Thursday, March 13 at 6:00 PM right after the "Sean and John Show".

Where Does it Happen? It Happens at 1560...

HAPPY FREAKING VALENTINE'S DAY!!

While I am firmly in the camp that Valentine's Day is a fabricated holiday designed to increase flower, candy, and jewelry sales (of items like dazzling diamond earrings or shimmering diamond bracelets at IW Marks, 3841 Bellaire Blvd or 2623 Town Center Blvd in Sugar Land), I am here to help the people. Just one month ago, our listeners helped compile a list of the top "deal closing" songs. (Naturally, this occurred on Sade's birthday ... Sade being the matron saint of all things boot knockin'.) Now for the first time publicly, after input from many experts in this field, I give you the top 40 songs from the few hundred we received from our listeners on that fateful day. And they are ....

No Ordinary Love - Sade
My, My, My - Johnny Gill
Superstar - Luther Vandross
Change the World - Eric Clapton
Can You Stand the Rain - New Edition
I'd Die Without You - PM Dawn
Kiss From a Rose - Seal
The Sweetest Taboo - Sade
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak
Caught Up in the Rapture - Anita Baker
The One I Love - David Gray
Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
Smooth Operator - Sade
Reunion - Maxwell
Crazy Love - Van Morrison
Comfortably Numb - Roger Waters (Departed version)
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Love of a Lifetime - FireHouse
Oh Girl - Chi-Lites
Purple Rain - Prince
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
Love Serenade - Barry White
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
Fumbling Towards Ecstacy - Sarah McLachlan
Like Lovers Do - Heather Nova
A House Is Not a Home - Luther Vandross
The Suite Theme - Maxwell
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
More Than I Can Say - Leo Sayer
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Comforter - Shai
Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
With or Without Me - U2
Patience - Guns N' Roses
Colorblind - Counting Crows
Set Adrfit On Memory Bliss - PM Dawn
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
Any Time, Any Place - Janet Jackson

If any of you would like to download the songs on here to your iPod, I was kind enough to create an iMix of this playlist. Open your iTunes software and click here. (If that doesn't work, go to the iMix home page on iTunes and search on "1560 The Game - Deal Closers".

ALSO, if you're looking for something to buy that lovely lady in your life, I give you the purchasing advice of Youtube legend and consummate ladies man, Kige Ramsey ....




Roses, dinner, spa, and diamond ring. Got it. You the man, Kige.

I've now done all I can do. If you don't score on Valentine's Day now, you have no one but yourself to blame. (Unless you're name is Roger Clemens, in which case you can blame the Hendricks brothers. Seemed to work well yesterday.)

1560 THE GAME MEETS SOUTH PARK

OH MY GOD!!! THEY KILLED GRANATO!!!

Was 1560 The Game Represented at the Clemens Presser?

HELL YEAH WE WERE ...














Sorry, I didn't have time to photoshop deadly lasers shooting out of Clemens eyes straight through Richard Justice's sternum.

You Can Footlooose Anything

I've found that the answers to life's difficult questions can be found somewhere in the glorious two hours of "Footloose". And apparently, we've now got the video to prove it....



I know that when I needed to burn off some steam back in the day, I'd jump in the VW bug, head to an empty warehouse, rip the shirt off and freaking DANCE! If there happen to be some parallel bars around, then it's SO on. Hell yeah .....

Best Ringtone Ever

I think one of the truly great inventions of our time is the ability to make our cell phones ring with customized sounds. I mean, who would have thought it would be so much fun to have Steven A. Smith screaming "SLAVA MEDVENDENKO" over and over again any time one of my boys calls me? Certainly, not I.

If you haven't done so yet, I highly encourage getting your free 1560 The Game ringtones. Check them all out here. (You'll need to register for a Myxer account, but it's free and fast and worth it.)

My personal favorite ringtone is this one. Here's a hint as to what it is.....

(Not sure why Dikembe was adding a guy named "Tony" to the "John and Lance" show. We didn't ask him to say "Tony", we have no one at the station named "Tony". Granato looks a little like a Tony, but that's about it. As for Deke calling our station "666 The Game", clearly this is a subliminal message that he thinks we are Satan. And truth be told, he may be right.)

It's Juegopalooza Friday!

Our sincere thanks to everyone who made it out to Juegopalooza on Friday at Nick's Place. Thanks to you, our listeners, and the deadly combination of your money and your alcoholism, Nick's Place had it's second highest grossing day of all-time! Now that's some serious drinking! You should all be very, very proud (and very, very hung over). Thanks again to everyone!

On My Signal, Unleash Hell

Welcome to my new online home! You can leave your shoes on, just be sure to wipe your feet. All righty then, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Sean Pendergast. You may remember me from such films as "Venison: The Other Red Meat" and "Who The Hell Ate The Last Donut?" My current occupation is "Talk Show Host, 1560 The Game KGOW", which if you clicked over from the "Blogs" menu of the station's website (http://www.1560thegame.com/) and/or listen to my show from 2-6PM on weekdays, you already know.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with 1560 The Game, we are Houston's newest sports talk station. 50,000 watts of unbridled enthusiasm! Monday through Friday, I host the afternoon drive time show alongside a fellow named John Harris who is best known for the following:

(a) being very smart (graduated from Brown University in1994)
(b) being very knowledgeable about sports (John can recite the name, birth date, and favorite anabolic steroid of every baseball MVP in order since 1975)
(c) moonlighting as a Jonathan Lipnicky lookalike on weekends

Here is a picture of me and Mr. Harris in the press box at the LSU-Virginia Tech game earlier this season (drum roll please, as I get to use these new fangled blog commands to insert a picture for the very first time ..... you can cut the electricity in the air with a KNIFE, MEAN GENE!) :















Wow, I am no longer a picture uploading virgin! Someone get me a cigarette. I hope it was as good for all of you as it was for me! In fact, it was so much fun for me, I'm gonna do it some more! LOTS MORE! As much as I can! By God, I'm a picture posting whore!!

Staying with the LSU trip, check this out. These are the name tags for me, John Harris, and our production guru Frank Bullington (a/k/a Frankie the Bull). Yes, it says "Season Pendergast". Season?!? Sounds like a name that a lazy mom would give to her stripper daughter. "Should I name her 'Autumn'? How about 'Summer'? Ah, screw it, I can't decide. I'll just call her 'Season'. Now go make it rain, my little angel!!"















This picture posting thing is AWESOME!!! Hey, here is the Schlotsky's Deli sign I drove into with a UHAUL the first day I moved back to Houston!














How about that, kids? Just remember the old adage, when you're driving a twenty foot high vehicle, it means you're driving a twenty foot high vehicle. Don't you forget it.

Hey, how about another one? Here is the driver side window of my car on the SECOND day after I moved back to Houston! (Some frisky young ragamuffins decided to break into my car in broad daylight and steal my laptop, watch and iPod! Those little rascals!!!) Yes, for a period of time, I was averaging one insurance claim per day after moving back to Houston. I think I'm the one guy Geico couldn't help save 15% or more on my car insurance.

(Hey now watch me wrap text around a picture! DIG ME!) Now for those of you who wonder what it's like to have a career in radio, well, as soon as my career runs longer than a few months, I'll let you know. Because you see, here's the thing - neither John Harris nor myself ever hosted our own radio show before we landed this gig in the summer of 2007. That's right, thousands of broadcasting school grads working graveyard shifts in "metro areas" like Utica, NY and Billings, MT, and Johnny and I bully our way right to the front of the line in Houston. Is there no justice in this world?

How did this happen? Well, as soon as I figure it out I'll tell you. You see, Johnny had been a mild mannered accountant by day, and a nationwide college football expert by night (and during breaks between debits, credits, and pondered suicide attempts at Ernst and Young), writing for collegefootballnews.com and appearing on radio shows nationwide as a college football expert.

And me? Well, by day I'd been a mild mannered sales guy for various telecom companies, which is not quite as boring as it sounds, but certainly doesn't make you the center of attention at any Super Bowl parties. However, along the way I managed to become friendly with the right people (good people, by the way) in Houston, made a bunch of wisecracks, dabbled a bit in radio, and won five Smack-offs on the Jim Rome Show. Kids, if you want a career in radio, I'm not sure if I would follow this blueprint, but it worked for me.

So now, here I am, and I'm not going back. I'm at a radio station doing what I've always wanted to do with some of my best friends. In fact, in conjunction with the advent of my new blog, one of them (Lance Zierlein) returns to the airwaves today with longtime partner John Granato! The best Houston sports talk duo is back on the air from 7-11 weekday mornings, and not a moment too soon (echoing the sentiments of many Houston sports fans who have endured John-and-Lanceless mornings for far too long now).

In the few months I've been on the air, I have many stories to tell (which I will tell in time). I am now the 10th ranked kolache eater in the world. I'm one half of the TASW tag team champions. I've interviewed Corey Haim, and I've met Nick Van Exel. Can I now die in peace? Probably. With my love of fried foods, frankly we'll likely find out soon enough. But along the way, you can check back here at the Sports Kolache for some opinions, views, and a very light hearted, self-deprecating look at the life of a middle aged guy who is finally enjoying coming into work each day.