Questions, Comments?

Here's your chance.

E-mail them to me as a Reply or post them as a Critique below. Todd Wright will be the host of tomorrow's Tailgate Overtime show (7pm, Sun Sports), as I'll be helping the Rays announcers with another live pregame show before Game 3 of the American League Championship Series (pregame at 3:30, Fox Sports Florida).

On that note -- received a question from an anonymous viewer as to why he/she couldn't see the live Gator Pregame show we produced prior to Saturday's smackdown of LSU. Answer: that pregame show started at 7pm, head-to-head against our live pregame show for the Tampa Bay Lightning's home opener as well as the Rays pregame show, which began at 7:30pm. If you're scoring at home, that's three live pregame shows airing simultaneously on two networks (Sun Sports and Fox Sports Florida).

To make that work, we had to split the signals on each network and make decisions -- some based on contract requirements -- about where in the state we were going to send each show. If you live in the Tampa Bay area, I'm guessing you probably saw the Lightning pregame on one network and the Rays on the other; in South Florida, which is outside of the NHL-mandated Lightning territory, you probably saw the Gator Pregame show. If you go back to the Sun Sports & Fox Sports Florida homepage and click on "Contact," you can get a more detailed response as to why your part of Florida received the programming it did.

Also got a question here about our college football studio programming in general, and the changes that were made for 2008. Short version: "Rec Warehouse College Kickoff," the Friday night show with me, Brady, and Terry that re-aired on Saturday mornings, was not renewed this season. Variety of reasons, a few of which I actually agree with. The postgame shows after Florida and Florida State football games were essentially handed back to the schools, who now produce their coaches' press conferences online at gatorzone.com and seminoles.com. We're producing five live on-location pregame shows (the Florida-LSU game was number three) on Sun Sports, as well as beefing up the Monday night Tailgate Overtime show. That's the studio lineup for college football, which does not include the national games we can air live from FSN or any of the coaches' shows or 'third-party' shows that we air on both networks; check listings, as they say.

Hope that helps. Be nice to Todd and the boys on Monday. If you like, come watch me navigate the Rays pregame show at 3:30pm. See you on TV.