By Alan Linament

The past two weeks had WGR’s Schopp and the Bulldog alternating vacations. The normally mediocre show was on a par with getting home after a long day and having to listen to my wife tell me about her day. I found myself dreaming of ‘The Coach.’

• Just in case you didn’t hear, Mike Schopp has a kid. He mentioned it every 3 minutes during the 4-hour show for 5 days. He actually said he wondered what the 4-month-old thought about listening to the Sabres game. Are you kidding me??? Is the kid a savant or is his father just an idiot?

• We also know that his wife is a competitive tennis player as he talks about her whenever there are no callers - which is roughly 90% of the time the show airs.

• Schopp also said that Ruff should not be taken off the hook for the Sabres performance. When pressed by a caller if he thought Ruff should be fired, Schopp said “I’m not saying that, I’m just saying.”

• Now that they have a kid, I wonder if his wife will still fire flaming tennis balls (after pre-soaking them in lighter fluid) at him when he hasn’t cleaned the fridge to her liking?

• Bulldog enjoyed an on air love-fest with his pal Jerry Sullivan. Oh, we both like the Red Sox, oh we both like beer, oh my penile implant works better than your penile implant, blah, blah, blah.

• Sullivan also has pretend disagreements every Monday morning with Jeremy White, you can set your watch to it. It doesn’t matter what the topic is, Sabres coaching, T.O., Sully’s penile implant, you name it they will be at odds over the subject matter.

• Is it me or is Ed Kilgore getting sexier by the minute?

• Channel 7’s Steve Barber announced he will be leaving the station in April.  He will be replaced by a doorknob.