I handle the weekday morning and midday news on 1150 WIMA. I also take care of our news content on the web, Facebook, etc.
I also enjoy being the host of the weekly Buckeye Tailgate Parties during the football season.
Todd also throws me a bone once in a while as well, getting to do play-by-play for area games on our broadcast schedule.
Personality Bio
Name: Jason D. Aldrich
Original Hometown: Gibsonburg, OH (Google It!)
College: University of Toledo, Communications, 1996
Previous Work Experiences: Program Director in Tiffin, OH News and Sports Director in Findlay, OH On-Air Personality in Findlay and Tiffin, OH University of Findlay Play-by-Play 1997-2004 BGSU Football Sideline Reporter 2004-2008 News and Sports at WIMA Lima, OH 2008-Present
Favorite Sports Teams: Ohio State Buckeyes, Toledo Rockets, Cincinnati Reds, Bengals, Boston Celtics, Columbus Blue Jackets
Websites That I've Wasted A Little Too Much Time At:
NCAA Football 10 Teambuilder - Maybe you don’t play video games. But if you enjoy random humor, you’ll like some of the user created teams that you can browse on the site.My favorites include the West Canaan Coyotes, the Bayside Tigers, and the Mays University Pitchmen.Do some searching and you’ll see user created schools for your favorite high school teams too.
ESPN Commercials - If you are a fan of the "This Is Sportscenter" series of commericals, here's a good start to seeing a bunch of them on YouTube...
Club Trillion - If you like Ohio State Basketball and random humor, you'll enjoy Club Trillion. I advise reading it from the first to last post so it makes a little more sense... Labelscar.com - Chronicles "Dead Malls" (Like the American Mal) throughout the country. I have no idea why I find this interesting, but it makes for a good read...
Thesixtyone.com - One of my favorite ways to waste time in college was to find likable music by obscure bands on the internet. Had this site existed then I wouldn't have made it past my junior year...
With OhioState and Miami set to square off in football this weekend, it was only a matter of time before the national sports media, Hurri-criminal fans, and envious Michigan fans started piping up about the pass interference call at the end of national title game. Having handed over the reigns of the Buckeye Tailgate Party to my friend Jason Aldrich, I’m left with few avenues do address this, but thanks to YouTube I can effectively shut down those arguments.And all I need is two videos. Exhibit A:The claims that the pass interference call was wrong. I’ve maintained that the call shouldn’t have been pass interference all along.It was a cut and dry case of defensive holding.Let’s go to the tape…
I think that spells it out nicely. Exhibit B:The game never should have gone to overtime. Let’s fire up the flux capacitor, and rewind from that point in the game.Time is winding down in the fourth quarter, and the Buckeyes are working to kill the clock.On a key third down, Craig Krenzel just misses Chris Gamble on a pass to move the chains.Or does he? Observe the following…
Somehow this is never talked about.The hold and the fact that he caught the ball are obvious.The point that’s missed is that Krenzel gets drilled well after he releases the ball, which would be roughing the passer.Somehow on one key play the officials managed to miss all three points. It’s worth noting that you can only find that last video if you try really, REALLY hard, yet there are 20 times as many videos complaining about the pass interference call.I’m not saying there’s a conspiracy going on here.It’s more likely that the people who root for Miami have more time on their hands to post videos since they are less likely to be employed than OhioState fans.(Copyright 2010: Bureau of Stats I Just Made Up). With that said, go Buckeyes!
The Twilight Saga As Explained To Me By My Wife While I Wasn't Really Paying Attention...
Thursday 07-08-2010 6:44am ET
Our nation finds itself in the middle of an underreported epidemic right now.A book series turned movie franchise aimed at teenage girls has captivated not just that demographic, but also adult women.I find this fascinating; professional, educated, smart women waiting in line for the same movie as their Justin Beiber worshipping daughters.Among these women is my wife. In almost every conceivable way, my wife is my better half.She’s better educated than me, more level headed, better looking, and so on and so forth.(I’m quite a bit taller than her though, so I’ve got that going for me.)Best of all, my wife is the least dramatic of any woman I’ve ever known.However this makes her love of a movie franchise aimed at angsty teen girls all the more puzzling. Being the enterprising journalist that I am; I decided to get to the bottom of it.A day after she saw the latest installment of the Twilight series I asked her to tell me the story so I could see why it was so interesting.The following is the Twilight Saga as told to me by my wife… A long time ago in a galaxy far away (or perhaps in the present day Pacific Northwest), there lived an angsty high school girl named Belle.Among Belle’s more identifiable personality traits is that she has a soft spot for equally angsty teenage boys with a penchant for sparkling in the sun and having perfectly coifed hair.(She also apparently makes the same pained facial expression while running her hands through her hair anytime there’s a plot twist.) One day said angsty teenage boy a penchant for sparkling in the sun and having perfectly coifed hair moved into the school, and soon the two were head over heels for each other.Only it turns out the boy is actually a vampire who is really over 100-years-old, and somehow this doesn’t make it creepy that he’s in love with a teenage girl.Much of the first book/movie focuses on this budding inter-species relationship, and then some other vampires apparently get angry about it, and there’s probably a fight scene or two along with some dialogue lifted from “Grey’s Anatomy.” Oh, I forgot to mention that the good herd (I’m assuming that a group of vampires is a herd.Either that or a flock.) of vampires only drink the blood of animals, and not humans.They’re like the vegetarians of vampires.I’m not sure this makes much of a difference in the story line or not but I thought you should have that information. In the second book/movie Eddie the Glimmering Vampire (I also forgot to mention that the vampire’s name is Edward) either disappears or becomes a foreign exchange student or something because he’s still pretending to be a teenage boy, again despite being over 100-years-old and being portrayed on screen by a guy who’s at least 32-years-old.Anyway, he’s gone, and you’ll never believe it, but there’s another group of new kids at the angsty chick’s school AND they have a secret too! The new kids are actually werewolves, but later they find out they aren’t actually werewolves but shape shifters who just think they are werewolves, but neither you nor they know that yet.(I know; my mind was blown too.)One of the werewolves/shape shifters/space aliens develops quite the affinity for Belle, and quite the disdain for wearing a shirt when on camera.His name is Jacob.Suddenly Belle finds herself in the middle of a supernatural love triangle with Jacob and Eddie the Glimmering Vampire after Ed returns from his sabbatical. I’m not sure how this resolves itself.I think there may have been a four man WWE Survivor Series-type match pitting Team Edward vs. Team Jacob, with the winner getting the valet services of Miss Elizabeth.Or the affections of the angsty chick.I have to admit I was still trying to figure out the whole, “vampires can go out in the day and not die,” concept when my wife was talking about this part.Long story short, Eddie wins, Jacob loses and has to leave the WWE. In the latest movie installment, “Eclipse,” there’s sadly no talk of the solar phenomenon. Things are going swell with our favorite star-crossed cross-species couple, despite there being no way an 18-year-old girl and a 100-year-old vampire pretending to be an 18-year-old boy and being portrayed by a 40-year-old man would have anything in common to talk about.(For some reason this bothers me more than anything else.Think about it, even a routine trip to the mall would be a fight.“When I was really your age, we made our own clothes!”) Anyway, Jacob is still hanging around because he’s apparently now stalking Belle.In the meantime a redheaded vampire from the first book that I forgot to mention isn’t happy with the vegetarian herd of vampires for not keeping it real, and recruits a large herd of newly transformed vampires to attack them.It turns out that the redhead vampire’s husband was also obsessed with Belle and was killed in the first book/movie.It’s never really revealed (or I wasn’t paying attention) why every supernatural creature in the Seattle-metro area is obsessed with this girl. To stop the new herd of vampires, the vegetarian herd teams up with the formerly hated werewolves/shape shifters/space aliens to defeat the forces of evil.(The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced this whole story was ripped off from pro wrestling.If Hulk Hogan and the NWO are the bad guys in the next movie, I won’t be too surprised.)Also Eddie and Belle decide to get married, and Jacob continues his battle against shirts. So that’s where we are now.But there are still two more movies to be made based off the final book in the series.My wife says this is a good idea because there are too many plot points in the last book to put in one movie.I say this is a good idea because the series is a cash cow and the studio would be dumb not to milk it for all it’s worth.Some of the issues yet to be resolved: SPOILER ALERT!!! -It turns out that most of what is going on is being orchestrated by a group called the Voltron’s.They’re apparently some sort of AFL CIO for vampires and don’t approve of what the vegetarian herd has been up to, especially then whole “not eating humans” thing. -Belle and Eddie get married, and then consummate the marriage resulting in Belle getting pregnant with the world’s first ever half human half vampire baby.(If you don’t count Blade.)The Incredibly Angsty Duo name their baby some gothy sounding name that’s probably going to cause a whole lot of people who should know better to name their real life baby that same name. -Jacob, unable to take the hint that he lost the girl, continues to hover around sans shirt.Because hybrid human-vampire babies age rapidly, Jacob suddenly falls in love with the girl with the gothy name, in a desperate bid to outdo Edward in the “creepy relationship with someone too young for you” department. So there you have it, the Twilight Series in a nutshell.I probably should note that I wasn’t really paying much attention. Share Use the above link to share this story with your friends on Facebook. Be sure to visit the 1150 WIMA Facebook page for the breaking news, sports programming, and station information. You can also comment on our stories by becoming a fan of our page.
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