Lighten up, fans: Landry's invitation was a joke

I was heading to the chiropractor's office this morning in yet another attempt to stave off the effects of advancing years when I heard The FAN 590's Don Landry announcing that he was about to make an apology. Now, Landry's more an Ali G type of interviewer than a Mike Wallace, so I had to wonder what in the world he had said.

Well, in his apology, Landry noted he'd received a fair number of complaints from listeners who thought he'd been a bit hard on Chicago sportswriter Joe Cowley. It was all a joke, Landry said.

I have to admit I was skeptical. Anytime somebody has to explain that they were joking usually means they weren't.

But after listening to the Tuesday interview, prompted by Cowley's articles claiming baseball is dead in Toronto, I'm with Landry. He hardly sounded angry when he invited Cowley to ``kiss my big old Canadian back bacon behind and maybe we can catch up some other time."

Unfortunately, Cowley didn't seem to take it as a joke and neither did many listeners. And there's the problem with such jokes: not everybody gets it.

Comments

[Mike]

That whole interview was a joke. Landry and Stellick did a horrible job with it and showed what bush league talent they both are. It would've been better left to PTS where Jeff Blair would've conducted a proper interview and known some facts,
But ultimately who cares. Even in Chicago, Cowley is not highly regarded and inconsequential. If they don't even take him seriously, why should we?

[Mike S]

He might have been joking when he invited Cowley to kiss his behind but I don't think he was joking when he said that Cowley was probably lying.........at best it was a very poor attempt at humour and at worst it was an incredibly disrespectful way to treat someone who agreed to come on their show

[Dlind]

I completely agree with you Mike. Cowley is a jerk, and his argument is ridiculous. Yeah, the Jays are struggling, but a few teams struggle every year. He is anti-Canadian.

Any half decent interviewer should have been able to shred Cowley to pieces. Landry and Stellick were awful and had no rebuttals. Like you, Mike, I listened and wished it was McCown or Blair doing the interview. Frankly anyone else on the station would have been better - even the guys from the hockey show probably.

[Rob]

It was Landry and Stellick were surprised by the interview. They had no answers to any of Cowley's moronic remarks. Landry is shown once again that not only is he a bad interviewer he has a horrible sense of humour. (His voices suck) A bad joke that quite obliviously took no time to think of was said with bad timing. It followed Landry's lying comment that was clearly not a joke. Boo to Cowley and Boo to Landry for letting Cowley off and then making a unprofessional and juvenile joke. Making us look like a bunch of northern Hicks.