Now don’t get me wrong – I enjoyed Billy Squier back in the day…well, all the way up until he decided to commit career suicide by making a music video (for the song “Rock Me Tonight”) in which he spent five minutes in a pink teddy dry humping himself while writhing around on satin sheets.  BUT, before shotgunning the doorknob off the closet door, he had given us some rockin’ jams over the years.

Unfortunately, these two Houston stations chose to narrow the microscopic focus of their all-Squier playlist to his 1981 album Don’t Say No.  And while that is a great album – clearly his best – these stations didn’t even take advantage of his many hits on that one album.  Instead, they chose to play a two-song rotation of “Lonely is the Night” and “The Stroke” on endless loop.  No “My Kinda Lover.”   No “In the Dark.”  Just those two.

As if there aren’t already enough reasons to think Dallas is infinitely superior to Houston, this certainly adds to that seemingly never-ending list.

One of the main reasons we started hardliners.com was to extend the community of Ticket listeners to the (then) new online frontier known as The Internet.  Back in the mid-to-late-’90s, things were still in the very early stages of technological evolution, so it’s taken until now for this concept to be successfully executed with the proper technology.

Thanks to the miracle of Twitter and a few enterprising P1s, an online community of Ticket listeners called #the2300 has totally revolutionized the internet P1 experience.  Named for the military term indicating 11:00 p.m., #the2300 not only allows die-hard P1s to indulge in late-night banter and repartee from the comfort of their PC, laptop or mobile phone, but it even allows them to ask questions in real time to a variety of local sports media and athletes who often show up to be “Twitterviewed.”

Now that I’ve finally gotten with the program and become a proud member of #the2300, what are you waiting for?  As Rhynes would say, “Fun is going on.”

For more info, check out their website at the2300.com

The shows I’ve added to the list are Mad Men (9), Sons of Anarchy (10), Archer (18), Parks and Recreation (23), Eastbound and Down (25), Modern Family (27), Breaking Bad (28), Freaks and Geeks (49), The League (57), Louie (62), Party Down (66), Eagleheart (71), Dexter (80), Treme (86) and Terriers (95).

This is a big comeback for Natalie Portman, who was unemployed for almost NINE YEARS before turning 9.—
billy eichner (@billyeichner) January 17, 2011

Congrats to Auburn for winning the 2011 title. And congrats in advance to Oregon for winning it retroactively in 2013.—
Bill Simmons (@sportsguy33) January 11, 2011