“Good weather for microphone shovin’,” I thought to myself as I woke up Thursday morning.When that batch of thunderstorms moved in Wednesday night, I had just left dinner in the Mid-Cities. When I first moved to DFW, I was the afternoon anchor at WBAP. When we had a tornado warning, I’d go back and forth with our…
This week, Texas got about two million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Despite the pause in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, local health departments have not paused efforts to improve distribution.I have also not paused writing blogs. That’s my pledge to you, the dozens of people who read this blog every week.A couple weeks ago, before…
This weekend, the Texas Rangers start their second home stand of 2021. Major League Soccer’s FC Dallas also begins its season with a match in Frisco.Loyal Scaiaholics will recall how seriously I take the task of tasting new dishes served by our professional sports teams.But this year, teams held back on those preview events. I’ve made…
The 1994 Montreal Expos had the best record in Major League Baseball. They had done away with the pinwheel hat that drew in Li’l Baby Scaia, but Moises Alou, Pedro Martinez and Montreal native Denis Boucher made up for that, opening up a six game lead in the National League East.They were underdogs who rose up to take…
“What could go wrong?!” I think to myself every time I get in a car for work.This week, the City of Arlington is debuting RAPID, which stands for a string of words I’m almost positive the folks at the city strung together after deciding what the name of the project would be. The city has contracted with a…
Li’l Baby Scaia was a big fan of meteorology. Back in the olden days, I’d space out to The Weather Channel when they, you know, talked about the weather instead of sending Jim Cantore into whatever disaster.Funny Jim Cantore story: I was working in Houston for Hurricane Ike. During situations like this, emergency management agencies prefer everyone…
I’m no professional critic, but as the Average Man’s Television Review [patent pending] will tell you, I am a college educated male between the ages of 18 and 49, so I’m kind of a big deal.And I’d like to open this blog with a question: Haven’t we had enough of unprecedented times?I bring…