Bernie Ward is wasting time on a local story about a girl's basketball team

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and this whiny mother of one of the players is driving me up the wall.

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1. When it's Uncle Bernie, it's never a waste of time!

I thought it was great how he eviscerated the whining little brat. You don't mess with the coach, and it sounds like these people have some inflated sense of entitlement, obviously nurtured by their equally coddled and whiny parents.

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2. Now that you mention it

I confess that listening to this has sort of fascinated me, in a soap opera kind of way.

Here's the Chronicle story:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/22/MNGTILTVRT1.DTL&hw=coach+castro+valley&sn=001&sc=1000

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3. "She spoke about my teammates in a negative way!"

That made me crack up.

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4. Stewart and Colbert were reruns tonight...

This election is so important...we gotta keep the momentum going our way...