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The Fall and Rise of Alex Avila

It is the nature of talk radio to provide piping Hawt Taeks, with accuracy secondary. Points of view are delivered with Pope-like divine authority... until discarded, never to be mentioned again, in a perpetual, Orwellian rewriting of history [“We have always been in love with Avila!”]. What’s amusing is the remarkable way the faucet of drivel turned off. After being an almost daily whipping boy last season - especially in the first half - the @Gambo987 account has not mentioned Avila a single time this season. Of course, he was hardly alone in his loud disdain, for sports radio is also a paradoxical combination of mob megaphone and deliberate contrariness.