Watchdog

Great news for fishing fans who get World Fishing Network through Verizon or Dish Network! Charlie Moore TV debuts at 8 p.m. Friday night.

A news release from the channel says the show "provides viewers a peek inside the mind of one of the country's most unpredictable, and funniest, television hosts during his zany fishing escapades."

Sounds, um, zany. So does another show on WFN called "Hookin' Up" (seriously) featuring angler Mariko Izumi (pictured at left).

Click below to read all of the release so I don't have to make sense of it, as I have not been fishing since I caught a salmon outside Anchorage in 1984, then cooked it when my mother visited from East Northport.

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You can win $1 million playing fantasy fishing.

No, really.

After I win I am going to quit this job. But in the meantime I guess I should write a story about Darryl Strawberry for the newspaper.

I still can't believe he complained about being double-switched out of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series just after the Mets' shocking victory.

I didn't ask him about that today. It didn't seem relevant. And I'm a weenie.