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Mo Egger


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Poll: Opening Day Guy/Girl. There's you and I, baseball fans, then there's Opening Day Guy/Girl. The baseball fan is pumped for Opening Day because it marks the return of the baseball season. If lucky enough to get tickets, we'll stay at the game all day, and either way, plan on visiting Great American Ballpark numerous times this season. Opening Day Guy/Girl is excited because Opening Day is a place to be seen. They can drink at Opening Day, and they can get off work, but they really have no idea who the Reds are playing, who even plays for the Reds, and the over/under on innings they'll stay for is three. We loathe Opening Day Guy/Girl, right?
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On Air Details
I'm on weekdays, 9:00 - Noon.  I also host the Brian Kelly show and on occasion, "Extra Innings" on 700WLW.  During the football season, you can hear me on the award-winning "Bengals Weekly." 

Actually, "Bengals Weekly" has never won an award. 

You can hear me on The Sports Animal's Podcast Page.

E-mail me: mo@1530homer.com
About Me
I grew up in New Jersey a diehard Bengals and Bearcats fan. My parents are both from Northern Kentucky.  Thus, the answer to "You grew up in Jersey, but like the Bengals and Bearcats?"  Yes.  I was terrorized by my schoolmates (did I just use the word schoolmates?) when Joe Montana ruined a large part of my childhood in Super Bowl XXIII.  When your team loses the Super Bowl in heartbreaking fashion, it sucks.  When your team blows the Super Bowl and you live tweleve hours away and you have to be taunted by kids who worship Mark Gastineau, it stays with you.

I spent huge chunks of every summer here when I was growing up.  Basically, my parents were too cheap to pay for camp.  I moved to Cincinnati in 1994, during my senior year in high school.  Wonderful timing.  If you're a parent, I suggest moving your kid 750 miles away during what is supposed to be the best year of his/her life.  They won't be bitter.

I am a debt-ridden graduate of the University of Dayton.  One year of tuition during my time at UD would feed every hungry child in Angola.  From what I hear, the current cost of a UD education would feed every hungry kid in Angola, plus provide them with a dirtbike.  And a pony.  All that tuition money for a school whose basketball program hasn't won an NCAA tournament game since 1990.

In 1997, I began working at 700WLW as a show producer. I have been a loyal (read: not yet fired) Clear Channel employee ever since.   In my current capacity working for the Mays family, my main job is Assistant Program Director of The Sports Animal.  I fill the same role for two other AM stations. Not sure I can mention them here, but Clear Channel owns eight stations in town.  Four of them are AM.  You figure it out. 

I also am the producer/engineer for University of Cincinnati football and basketball on 700WLW.  This means I've gotten the opportunity to actually attend a Fort Worth Bowl.  You're jealous aren't you?

(Are you still reading this? Why?)

I'm on 1530Homer weekdays from 9:00 - noon. In addition to that, I get to do this website/blog thing.  Please pass along any idea, comments, complaints, links, whatever.  Seriously. I need help.  I have no idea what I am doing.  I'm living proof that absolutely anyone can have a website.  Really.  It requires zero skill.  A monkey could have a website.  Or a radio show.  

This blog is sometimes about sports, sometimes about other stuff, and often times about stuff only of interest to me, because it is, after all, my blog,

Away from work, I spend an inordinate amount of time obsessing about things like Jose Reyes' hamstrings, wondering why Davey Johnson didn't bring in Randy Myers in Game 4 of the '88 NLCS, and asking why Pat Riley allowed John Starks to shoot and miss 17 times in the 1994 NBA Finals. Yes, I root for the Mets and the Knicks.  Sorry.  The rest of the time, I wonder why Ryan Fletcher kept shooting against Tulsa in 2000, what part of LA the ref who wouldn't blow his whistle at the end of the first OT when UC played UCLA in '02 lives in, and griping to anyone who'll listen that the Bearcats got screwed in 2006.

I live in Sharonville.  Exciting, huh?

E-mail me at mo@1530homer.com


My Favorite Websites


Barstool Sports
Check the daily 'Wake-up With" feature.

Faith and Fear in Flushing
Indulge me.

Pro Football Talk
Daily must-reading for NFL fans.

Phil Mushnick
Most negative man in America.

Rich Walburg's Showbiz Stuff on 700WLW 
Sometimes I think I say funny things on the show.  Then I listen to Rich.


Uniwatch
I admit, I'm a geek.


Kimbo Slice's Wikipedia page
Google "Kimbo Fights," sit back, and enjoy.

Diamond Hoggers
I thought I loved baseball, then I read these guys.


Twin Killing
Based in Cincinnati. What I'd write if I could write.

Josh Sneed
Local comedian.  Ask him about Buddy Biancalana.

Matt Mosely's Hashmarks
Another NFL blog worth checking daily, even though he won't come on with me.

Gregg Doyel's page on CBSsports.com 
My show used to have two hosts, Gregg was one of them.

Faces of Meth
People who do meth make me laugh.

Tim and Jeff
Ask them about the guy in red pants.

Five Ounces of Pain
Adam Morgan is our UFC and MMA expert.  This is his website.

Thirty Five Seconds  
Cool college basketball blog.

Hot Chicks with D-bags.
A number of former co-workers on both ends of this site.

Crosstown Shoutout
Local college basketball blog by two guys...one a UC fan, the other an XU fan.

Girls Gone Sports
It's girls blogging about sports! 

Hulu
You can catch old episodes of TV shows, including some classic "A-Team."

Chickipedia
Like Wikipeida...but better.

Cincy Coolness
You're probably thinking this website is about me.  Actually, it's not.

The Jungler
Cool local sports blog.  As you might have imagined, Bengals-centric.

Channel Surfing
If you wanna watch an out-of-market game, this is where you go.  At least until it gets shut down.

MMA Fight Videos
Like YouTube for Mixed Martial Arts.

Hugging Harold Reynolds
The name is funny enough.  The content is even better.




Tuesday 04-01-2008 4:24pm ET
My blog has moved! 

http://www.thelotd.com/moegger/blog

Be sure to update your bookmarks!  Or you can just read all the old stuff here.
Monday 03-31-2008 2:13am ET




YOU CAN STOP HITTING REFRESH
Remember me? Mo?  Homer, 9 - noon?  No?  Then why are you here?

The sign of a good vacation: it feels like you were gone for months when in fact you were gone for a week.  I'd bore you with what I did and where I went, but I know how my eyes gloss over and my mind starts wandering when my co-workers return from their vacations and tell me unsolicited stories of their adventures.  I think me going on and on would have the same effect on you.  I can tell you it was sunny, it was warm, and not one person wanted to talk about Chad Johnson.

Got a lot of e-mails while I was out, but seeing that I'm still answering ones that go back as far as February 12th, give me a couple of days.  I meant to answer them Sunday, but I spent about four hours looking for my Opening Day ticket...because my wife threw it away.  Delightful.  Nothing like combing through week and a half old trash at midnight after your sweet wife remembers tossing it in there after you've torn the house apart looking for it. 

Midweek while I was out, I actually thought about doing some blogging.  Had some time to myself, some things on my mind, thought I'd post some stuff.  Didn't happen.  Thus, I'm down to zero laptops.  You may recall laptop number one was left in a room of the Morgantown Waterfront Hotel.  Laptop number two may be washing up in Cuba any day now.

I hear my replacement went over big with XU fans.  Sorry I missed the bulk of their run.  The West Virginia/Xavier game was tremendous.  A great run, and a great season.  You know I'm a UC guy, but on vacation, when I told people where I was from, just about everyone wanted to talk about Xavier hoops.  Kinda cool.  A great year.  A great class of seniors (I've killed Josh Duncan for a while, but his performance on Thursday night was Herculean), and a whale of a job by Sean Miller.

Also, thank you North Carolina.

Outside of four or five games, kind of a dud of a tournament, huh?

Anyway, couple of short items....

Opening Day!  Gameworks!  Newport on the Levee!  We're starting at 8:00am with the Cut-man and Trent.  I join the Cut-man at 9:00.  At 10:00, it's me and Lance, until he takes over by himself at noon.  Hope you can join us.  At 11:00, we're gonna be with former Red Chris Sexton, who will tell us how many people have confused him with the bad guy in "Karate Kid."

This blog, and the entire station site, is changing on Monday.  For the better.  Trust me.  Should be pretty cool.  It will be kinda of a work in progress, but should be more interactive.  Stay tuned.

Now, for a couple of quick things I missed while gone....


The most important thing I missed might have been this Barstool Sports gallery of Sasha Cohen, documenting her changing, um, appearance.

(Thanks to listener Steven)


We also had the online goodness of the Xavier Leg Spreader.


This UCLA cheerleader is certainly deserving of a top seed.




The new season of "The Hills" debuted while I was out, and for those who give me a hard time about watching it, here's one of the reasons why it's must-see.  We have Heidi and her dillweed boyfriend.

(Thanks to traffic man extraordinaire Matt Steinmann)


And finally, we have the continuing cramming down our throats of this guy.


Sunday 03-23-2008 9:05pm ET




ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER
I'm on vacation until Opening Day.  What that means is, I'm not going to be on the radio until then (hope to see you at Gameworks by the way) and I won't be blogging.  Unless I get completely bored.  Anyway, stay strong during my absence.   To hold you over, I present to you a portion of the infamous "Bicycle store" episode of Diff'rent Strokes.

And after you watch the movie...keep up with other stuff by visiting Nick Brunker's blog.  He's filling in for me this week and he needs your help with a different kind of bracket.