Courtesy Syracuse Post Standard

(May 3, 2010) If Mickey Rourke and George Foreman and tweed and Dara Torres and Michael Jordan and Britney Spears and Ford and Robert Downey Jr. and the Bills against the Oilers in that NFL playoff game a few years ago can come back . . . well, why not Bud & the Manchild?

What? Winston Churchill is the only guy allowed to return after having gone away?

Really now, beyond charisma, talent and allure, what did Ali and Sinatra and Brando -- each Lazarus in his own way -- have that a couple of hosts of a certain local sports-talk radio show lack?

That the transcribing of that list would require the services of a dozen monks over a few months, is not particularly important. What is, is this: After a 15½-month hiatus that began on the day Barack Obama took office, Bud & the Manchild has been resurrected to gum up Central New York’s radio waves.

Beginning this very morning, the two-hour show -- not very new and only moderately improved -- will be presented five days a week, Monday through Friday, between 10 and noon on The Score 1260 AM.

One again, I will channel Edward R. Murrow while playing the role of “Bud,” the seasoned journalist with the profound insight and the rapier wit. Meanwhile, Jim Lerch, the apparent offspring of runaway hubcaps, has been re-cast as “the Manchild,” whose main duty is to interrupt those with cogent thoughts.

Seriously, Lerch is the glue and I’m just the popsicle sticks of this birdcage . . . and together once more after our initial seven-year run, our pledge is to at least occasionally make the time you spend listening to us fairly worthwhile. And it all begins (again) today.

Oh, yes. For better or worse, I do plan to keep my day job here at syracuse.com, as well as the oones with The Post-Standard newspaper and Central New York Sports magazine. Because you never know.

Mark Spitz . . . Riddick Bowe . . . Jim Palmer. They all tried to come back, too. You may recall how all of that turned out.

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