THE FOLLOWING IS JEFF DEMINSKI'S REVIEW OF THE SERIES FINALE OF "LOST"...

I told you so

...THIS HAS BEEN JEFF DEMINSKI'S REVIEW OF THE SERIES FINALE OF "LOST"

IN THE BUSH

This is a good one. Connecticut Attorney General and senate candidate Richard Blumenthal said today he had "misspoken" in claiming...more than once...that he'd served in Vietnam. He dismissed the controversy as a matter of "a few misplaced words".

He said he meant to say he served "during Vietnam" and not "in Vietnam".

I suppose when he said "I was deep in the bush catchin' fire from Charlie all around" what he MEANT to say was "I was elbow deep in paperwork as an army file clerk in Nebraska".

When he said "I dismantled a trip wire and saved a platoon" he meant to say "I got a paper cut in Nebraska".

When he said "I was one of the last men out at the fall of Saigon as the Vietcong rained Hellfire down upon us" he meant to say "It was rainy in Nebraska".

Darn those few misplaced words.

And yes, I know he wasn't really stationed in Nebraska.

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Just to let you know, we're not sure if we're going on air tonight or not. Reason: WPHT carries Phillies games, and last night's game in Colorado was rained out so they scheduled a double header for today. The weather there continues to be dicey. They got game 1 in, but if game 2 is played tonight we won't be on. If they get completely rained out to the point they call the game, depending on what time that might happen, then we will be.

In any event we WILL be on tomorrow (Thursday) night 10 pm to midnight.

PHIL-IN

We'll be back on air in Philadelphia tomorrow (Wed.) night and Thursday night from 10 pm to midnight. I think I left my headphones in my car. I'll have to look beneath the pile of empty diet Mt. Dew bottles. I digress. If you care to listen online go to www.thebigtalker1210.com and go to listen live in the upper right corner of home page. Totally okay if anyone wants to call in too (I've been asked this a lot after the fact which is why I mention it) but it would be better if you didn't say anything too inside for the Philadelphia audience so we all don't seem like a bunch of conspiring homers, lol. At the same time adopting a fake Philadelphia accent is not necessary.

ERNIE HARWELL DIED TONIGHT

Legendary voice of Tigers baseball and one of the most beloved people in Michigan died tonight at the age of 92 exactly 8 months to the day he revealed to the world that this would happen. He passed away at his apartment in Novi with Lulu, his wife of 68 years, at his side.

I had the honor of talking with Ernie Harwell several times over two different stations in Detroit. It's my opinion the person taking his death the least hard is Ernie. Always a man of faith, when Ernie announced his illness 8 months ago I was struck with how absolutely sincere he was in his acceptance. In a world where we don't ever seem to know for sure if we're doing the right thing, where marriages come and go like a spring melt, and where marriages don't last 68 years and careers don't stay in one place for over 40 seasons, where we're too damn stressed out to know who we even are or what we really want, Ernie Harwell knew who he was. He knew he loved Lulu. He knew he was man of God. And Ernie Harwell knew he was dying and seemed so calm, so resolute in his faith, that he seemed the embodiment of peace.

Ernie Harwell was about the best storyteller you could imagine. He seemed to be an even better human being. Read Corinthians 13 and see how much of it can remind you of Ernie. I didn't really know him. It was just an honor to know of him.