Courtesy Washington Post

(June 24, 2009) Tony Kornheiser recently appeared on The Locker Room with Kevin Sheehan on ESPN 980, though he kept insisting that he was not, in fact, in a locker room. Specifics aside, it was a 17-minute reminder that there is no one in Washington D.C. who can talk better about sports on the radio. Would that he were podcasting for this here site.

Anyhow, the specifics were plenty fun as well. Let's divide it into three parts; a fourth part included his comments about Monday Night Football, how the show had improved, how they had the best football broadcast on any TV network last year, and how he'll miss it.

His D.C. Radio Future

Kornheiser said when people stop him on the street, they always say two things: they loved him on MNF, and they miss his radio show and want to know when he's coming back on the D.C. dial.

"And I thought, 'Gee, I don't think we would have had 0.0 ratings if this many people actually listened,' but it was great to hear," Kornheiser said, concluding that "I'm open for business."

Aren't we all. Of course, my business is free-lancing blog posts to The Sporting Blog for one-seventh the amount of money I'd get for three segments on Washington Post Live, but whatever. Someone just sign him up already.

"A lot of business people want me to do syndicated national radio," he said. "I don't care about syndicated national radio. If they want to syndicate a local show that I do, I'm happy to do it, but I want to local radio. I want to get on the air and talk about something that happened on a particular intersection in town, that 100 percent of the people who are listening to me by choice, they know where it is. That's what I want to do. So all I need are a couple of radio stations, three or four radio stations to step up and say we'd like you to work for this, because again, can't stress this enough, I am open for business."

How many business people are interested?

"Not enough yet," he said. "But maybe in an hour. Maybe in an hour."