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Burns: D-backs need to stay relevant

D-backs President and CEO Derrick Hall remains bullish on the future of the Arizona Diamondbacks. “Do I think we can contend?” Hall responded “Yeah, I do.” A wonderful and ambitious thought for certain. One that is roughly similar to the dieter who thinks they’re going to shed 20 pounds in seven days. Or the guy […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Sampling the Phoenix Coyotes

It’s not that I don’t like Mexican food. It’s just that every time The Decision-Maker asks where we should eat out, it never really comes up. It’s always the pizza place down the street, the sushi restaurant at the mall, or the burger joint across the way. We rarely pick Mexican and when we do […]
13 years ago
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D-backs Fan Fest showed hope, optimism

Kirk Gibson wasn’t happy with me, and that my friends, is a precarious position to be in. Moments earlier he had just used the word “insane” to describe himself as a player. He’s got hands the size of frying pans and a look in his eyes that indicate if he were so inclined, he could […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Don’t rush to judgement on Ray Horton hire

I’ve never been afraid to expose my dorkdum so I’m not going to stop now. I have a rule: I never, ever add a movie to my Top 10 All-Time List until a mandatory waiting period of two years. That way when I walk out of, let’s say “Inception”, I ignore the instant reaction to […]
13 years ago
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Same movie, different ending. Only…if…could

The scariest movie I ever saw was the original Alien. I went fetal for four days after I saw that flick. Especially the part – all together now – where the alien bursts out of John Hurt’s stomach. I’ve seen that movie a hundred times since. Of course I know what’s coming, but that belly […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Super Bowl QBs hoping to leave the shadows

You’d never know it by the fact that today was the coldest day Phoenix has seen in 25 years, or that some weather channel anchor went berserk over “thunder-snow”, or that the Super Bowl host city might be subject to rolling blackouts to deal with all the power demands due to the cold. Punxsutawney Phil […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Is January 28th the Suns’ lucky day?

If it happens again, the Suns should make January 28th an official organizational holiday. They could call it “Turnaround Day” or “New Season’s Eve” or something hokey like that. I haven’t put a ton of thought into what to call it; I’m not terribly convinced I’ll need to. Odds are I have a better chance […]
13 years ago
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Burns: I don’t want to choose between players and owners

I am a child of divorce. It’s not a statement meant to elicit any sympathy; I’m sure many of you reading this grew up with divorced parents or are divorced yourselves or perhaps both. Hey…it happens. I bring it up because some divorces, as we all know, are nasty. A ruthless, to-the-pain competition over how […]
13 years ago
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Cutler’s toughness questioned; reliability will be now too

Somewhere today, Chris “Beanie” Wells understands. He gets exactly what Jay Cutler is going through. OK. Maybe not exactly. But to have your toughness questioned? Your work ethic, pain tolerance, your desire questioned? Yeah, the Cardinals running back has been there. The Bears quarterback suffered some kind of a knee injury in the NFC Championship […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Time for Al Davis to go

Listen to Sports Interactive from noon until 2:00 every day and eventually I’ll say something I shouldn’t. I’ll call a guy by the wrong name, mispronounce a word and scramble up the verbs and nouns like they’re breakfast. So when Raiders owner Al Davis called Cam Newton…Kim Newton, or refered to Stanford coach David Shaw […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Go Green this weekend

The words “Go Green” take on a whole new meaning this weekend. I’m not asking you to recycle that plastic water bottle or buy a hybrid or take the bus. Clog up your local landfill and buy a gas guzzler for all I care. Rather, I’m talking about my motto for this weekend’s Conference Championship […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Consulting a higher power for Cardinals QB options

Near the bottom of the email was the line “You are better than this Dave.” My first instinct was to wonder what I had done to make my dad so upset. Then I realized that the email was from Joe. Joe is a listener who thought I was nuts for suggesting it would be worth […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Suns fans change tune on Amar’e

As the old saying goes…..hindsight is 20/20. Remarkably some Suns fans can do even better than that. Some can actually look back in time and not only see things perfectly; they can see things that were never actually there to begin with. Amar’e Stoudemire made his triumphant return to Phoenix on Friday night and in […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Turkoglu trade fixes an unnecessary mistake

It happens more often than I care to admit. An impulse buy. A pair of gym shorts at Target. A new traveler coffee mug from Starbucks. And the minute I get home I realize I’ve wasted my money. Didn’t need it. Didn’t really want it. Got five just like it. I’ve never been afraid to […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Don’t root for a Cardinals loss

Some times in life things come exactly as advertised. When you go see TRON, you’ll get exactly what you expect. Loud. Bright. Action. No plot. Sunday’s game between two teams with rookie quarterbacks, the 4-9 Arizona Cardinals and 1-12 Carolina Panthers, came exactly as advertised. As an entertainment product, it was….uh…..lacking. A 19-12 loss that […]
13 years ago
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Burns: The Jay Feely Show in Glendale on Sunday

To sit here and say I knew it was coming would be a lie. But a little birdie told me weeks ago that the Cardinals were itching to bust out a Jay Feely fake field goal. That little birdie….was Jay Feely. So I sat on that little nugget, as you have to, and waited and […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Consternation and confusion at quarterback

Seeing that the roof was open at University of Phoenix stadium, I couldn’t help but to think of an old Seinfeld episode. Jerry is dating a woman whose appearance changes based on the lighting. Sometimes hideous, sometimes gorgeous, he can’t figure his two-faced date out. I was hoping that the open roof and the bright […]
13 years ago
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Burns: It can’t get worse for the Cardinals

Paul Calvisi is wrong. My co-host on Sports Interactive likes to say “it can always get worse.” Against their division rival, in a game that both teams have pointed to since August, on the second biggest stage in the sport, the Arizona Cardinals laid down and had their tummies scratched. I defy anyone to tell […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Tomorrow is all that matters for Cardinals

On Sunday the Cardinals crossed a threshold. Not the pain threshold, goodness knows they crossed that one a long time ago. No, they passed what I’ll call the “tomorrow” threshold. Today no longer matters; tomorrow is all that counts. It relegates the rest of the 2010 season to one giant audition. Who checks out? Who […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Cardinals trip over their own feet

Well that just about takes care of that…..doesn’t it? The Arizona Cardinals have been hobbling around for most of the season, resting the weight of their playoff hopes on two crutches; the dreadful NFC West and their heaven sent schedule. Sunday, both gave out and the Cards collapsed in a heap. In a game that […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Not the backbreaking loss it seems for the Cardinals

The Cardinals won the turnover battle, got exactly the kind of steady performance that we’ve been waiting for out of a starting quarterback and had a two touchdown lead with four minutes and 39 seconds left in the game. And they still lost. Their star wide receiver had his first 100 yard game of the […]
13 years ago
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Burns: Anderson the healthier option

In rifling through my daughters Halloween candy, I usually settle on the 3 Musketeers bar. Why? Partly because she won’t notice they’re gone, but mostly because the wrapper screams to me 45% LESS FAT! I shouldn’t be eating any of this crap, but if I’m going to be weak, I rationalize the choice by telling […]
13 years ago
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Burns: The Cardinals are lost

I keep thinking of that super-old game show, The $25,000 Pyramid. Clues: Your dad without a map….a teenager’s ipod……the passengers of Oceanic 815……the Cardinals quarterback situation. Answer: Things that are lost. That’s where the Arizona Cardinals are when it comes to their quarterback dilemma. Lost. True story…..An anonymous manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks grew so […]
13 years ago
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Burns: The similarities of the Suns and a rock concert

Watching the Suns opener the other night and it occurred to me that Suns basketball is like a rock concert. And I don’t mean that in a good way. Let me clarify; Phoenix Suns basketball is like the end of a rock concert. We’ve all been to the rock concert. At the end, the band […]
13 years ago