I was reading the Suzanne Tobias’s blog (you should check it out on Kansas.com) and noticed where she had made a list of some of the common misconceptions people have about her.
She could only think of four and asked readers to come up with a fifth.
Well, I want to play. And, of course, I want it to be about me.
What are the misconceptions about me?
People think I’m intolerant. OK, true. I don’t suffer fools very well. It’s something I should work on. Then again, why suffer?
People think I’m grouchy and curmudgeonly. Guilty. But not as much as you might think.
People think I’m bright, witty and articulate. Boy, do I have them fooled.
People think I like stirring things up in my newspaper column and on my radio show with Bruce Haertl. Well, duh. Given the tremendous fortune to do both, why wouldn’t I try to stir things up? Doesn’t mean I’m always right _ just most of the time.
People think I’m kidding when I tell them I don’t have an emotional investment to Wichita State, Kansas and Kansas State. As a journalist, I cannot have an emotional investment to the teams I write about. What I can say is that it’s more fun to cover a good Wichita State basketball team than a bad one. The same holds true for the other two Kansas schools. But either way, I don’t lose sleep.
I can’t think of any others. If you have any, let me know. Just be nice.
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Bob, Hope your Blog Readers can come through…Looking for Two Tickets to this Saturday Nights game. They can email me at justin@js-place.com Thanks
I think that you are a closet NY Yankee fan. I remember listening to the Cardinals on the radio with my grandmother during hot summer nights I spent with her in Wichita. The Cardinals were great back in those days of Flood, Brock, Gibson and Cepeda. But they still were always 2nd string to the Yankees. I’ve had my priorities straight since way back then. Its time for you to see the light.
Heck, I’ll go ahead and add one: I think you’re a sentimental old cad. Cynical and grouchy and curmudgeonly, perhaps. But anyone who can croon Eagles tunes like you (and I’m still searching for that party photo from the early ’90s) has got to have a soft spot for romance.
Not to mention, you’re still watching “Grey’s Anatomy” and getting all caught up in the love octagons.