Charlie & Dave & Mel

Distinguished Senators has good post complaining about Charlie & Dave's inability to simply tell you the score of the game. I had nearly the same experience at the end of the game Saturday night. I had lost track of the exact score. So I thought I would find out quickly enough after the last out. You would think it would be as simple as this: "And that's the ballgame ... Padres beats the Nats tonight, 3 to 2 ..." Here's what we got (almost verbatim from MLB Audio Archive):

Darrin Jackson moves to his left, makes the catch, and the ballgame is over.

The Padres have won, the Nationals lose ...

Number 13 in a row in games decided by a run ...

And Trevor Hoffman inches closer to John Franco for number 2 on the all-time saves list ...

For Hoffman it is career save number 422, now just two behind Franco ...

And the Padres have won three in a row, four of their last five ...

The Nationals have lost the first two games of this series with the Padres.

And the final score ...

The Padres celebrate a victory,

Hoffman with a one, two, three ninth ...

We'll be back with the totals in a moment ...

it's San Diego 3, Washington 2.

Who gives a flying @#$! about Trevor Hoffman and his quest for John Franco? That's what the San Diego announcers talk about, guys!

Speaking of San Diego announcers, I had to shut Mel Proctor off Friday night, because his Ron Burgundy-like San Diego trivia night act wore thin VERY quickly. The last straw was him telling us that Dave Roberts' four-year-old has Mel's wife as a pre-school teacher.

Who gives a flying @$#% about who keeps the little Roberts from eating paste?

It made me want to skip the game and just watch a marathon of old episodes of "The Fugitive", and I hate "The Fugitive." I mean, who gives a flying %&*# about David Janssen?