Our Daily Dread: Yup, the 'Saw (his real self-given nickname) has returned
Lee Harvey "Hacksaw" Hamilton (not his real name, nor nickname -- it's really "The Franchise") returned to the Southern California FCC radio airwaves after swimming upstream on XM Radio and writing columns for a San Diego-based news website since his most recent firing.
He's nothing if not resilient. Like Sam Waterston on another episode of "Law & Order."
His latest home: Double-X marks the spot. The 1090-AM signal, unfortunately the lone 24/7 all-sports station in San Diego, starts him in the full 3-to-7 p.m. shift today (yesterday was the official return, but it was interrupted for the Monday Night Football game radio call that no one really heard because they were watching on TV).
The station, the San Diego Padres' flagship, is one that airs Jim Rome's syndicated show (9 a.m.-to-noon), while somehow continuing the careers of "Coach" John Kentera (7-to-10 p.m.) and Billy Ray Smith (in the mornings, from 5 to 9 a.m.) then using what's left of The Sporting News radio programming overnight.
"Afternoon drive sports-talk, a 50,000-watt signal, Padres baseball and all star lineup," Hamilton said in an item written for San Diego News Network (linked here). "It's time to recreate the magic."
What's the magic number before he's gone again?
At this point, we say 'Saw (his real self-given nickname) is a "long-time sports-talk figure" in Southern California, noting how he was one of the originals at the old AM-690 (where Rome launched his career on the weekends), then KLAC-AM (570). Those who've kept track say it's been at least 21 years in the marketplace. It only seemed longer.
He was hosting the drive-time show on XTRA Sports 1360 in San Diego (KLSD-AM), which launched in late 2007, but was let go in September, 2008, after his contract expired and Clear Channel decided not to renew it. That also ended his participation in a show on KLAC with "The Loose Cannons."
"I still consider him to be talented and a compelling talk show host," says John Lynch, who owns XX Sports Radio.
On a SoCal radio landscape missing Joe McDonnell, Dave Smith and plenty of other talented voices ...
To each, his own freak. Good day now.
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John Lynch only hire people that reflect his views on sports and politics. Hamilton is perfectly suited as a resident ass kisser and suck up.
A fine example of a John Lynch sycophant would be his idiot director of programming, Hal "the Hammer" Brown. Like the Saw he glossed himself with his stupid nickname. Also like the Saw he has a bombastic vocal delivery that clearly indicates a need to overcompensate for his own insecurity. But the greatest transgression the Hammer commited was not the hiring of that bowl cut coiffured dork Lee Hamilton, it was his penny pinching experiment with those moronic amateurs known as the "Bleacher Bums." Anyone remember the disaster in the form of ATL Earl and Jordan Downtown? Juxtapose them with Lee, and Hacksaw looks "freakin' brilliant!"