What They’re Saying, October 10, 2008

Here are our Friday links to the sports media columnists and their weekly musings…

David Scott in Boston looks at Michael Wilbon and his apparent disdain for MMA…and YouCastr

Michael Hiestand at USA Today looks at a former player who takes his craft to the big screen…

In New York Bob Raissman at the NY Daily News reports the NFL is looking into how last year’s spygate tape got leaked…

Bob Wolfley at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel examines why baseball post-season ratings numbers are on the decline…

David Barron at the Houston Chronicle has a sit down with ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit…

Dave Darling at the Orlando Sentinel looks at Versus’ entry into sports entertainment…

Ray Frager at the Baltimore Sun also looks at the latest Versus offering…

Doug Nye at the State looks at how the networks decide which games to telecast…

At the LA Times Steve Springer calls for TBS to make a radical change to their baseball studio coverage…

Tom Hoffarth at the LA Daily News talks with TBS’s Ron Darling…

Ray Buck at the Fort Worth Star Telegram looks at the ramblings of Stephen A. Smith on Pacman Jones…

John Ryan at the San Jose Mercury News has a look at The Express…

John Maffei at the North County Times looks at the Patriots/Chargers Sunday night match-up…

Jay Posner at the San Diego Union Tribune also previews the game with NBC’s John Madden…

Paul Christian at the Rochester Post Bulletin has an examination of the Minnesota Wild’s TV coverage this season…

Tim Lemke at the Washington Times has his weekly column mashup…

Dan Ceasar at the St. Louis Post Dispatch talks with local Blues radio analyst Kelly Chase…