Dean of Nashville anything doesn't mean much

David Climer was on 104.5 radio in Nashville today and the Tennessean sportwriter was introduced as the "dean of Nashville sportswriters," or maybe the person just said "writers."

The Dean just a few minutes later mentioned "Junior Gilliam" as a name not previously addressed when the radio crew began discussing area baseball players of note. Only the Dean pronounced the Nashville-born Gilliam's last name as "Gil-um."

Being a little older than Climer, I believe, I can assure you that the old Dodgers second-sacker's last name was pronounced the conventional way, "Gil-le-ahm." Climer must have confused that with the illiterate way "Jefferson Street" Joe Gilliam Jr.'s name was apparently pronounced, "Gil-um."

Being a journalist you would think that over the years Climer had ran across the name Gilliam before and realized that only "Jefferson Street Joe's" name was sounded as "Gil-um." Guess not.

The war to end all wars

Kevin Ingram on the morning 104.5 radio show was talking about the UConn women's basketball coach the day after the team went undefeated in winning the national title. In making some kind of analogy, he said, "...like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor." None of his co-hosts corrected him.

I would say maybe Ingram and company need to stick to sports, but it hasn't helped Climer any.

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