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I listen to the local Sports Radio station here in Philly and New York, WFAN and sometimes stations of other cities after their team loses a big game like Indianapolis.
My husband and I recently moved to Central Florida from northern NJ. We listen to both WFAN and WEPN (the local NYC ESPN station) on the Internet. We've been listening to them so long, we can recognize individual callers by their voices.
I listen to sports radio a lot during football season and for March madness. When I turn on a sports station I prefer for the hosts to discuss sports. I have a strong dislike for off-topic "guy talk".
Jim Rome...well...his show's entertaining at times...but at times he gets so distracted by the 'clones' or his callers that sports takes a back seat.
I'm mainly into National talk shows, like Dan Patrick and the Danettes, or the Tony Bruno show...which I don't really like, to much jibberish...it's more like a 'guy' verison of the 'view'....
I guess all the shows appeal to different moods your in at the moment...
I use to e mail Tom Looney a lot, and he would email back...
Tom Looney is 'real'...the way he is on the show is the way he is in real life....
As a long time NYC metro resident, I miss WFAN. Living in Pittsburgh, people can't seem to understand why a NYC station would talk about ND or USC football or Georgetown hoops. Or golf or Olympics. Here it was Steelers, 24/7 when I first moved to town in 2002. There was a little Pens and very little Pitt sports. During summers, there was a hour long Steelers show during afternoon drive time - during baseball season!
Thankfully the Pirates started getting good, the Steelers starting getting average and there's a bit more balance. But I still miss the "worldview" of all sports that WFAN provided.
To the point of hosts "egging on the idiot callers", I find that it's the radio-only guys who do that. There are a handful or print journalists who host radio programs and they mostly stay on point and don't try to be sport "shock-jocks".
I quit listening to sports talk radio for the same reason I quit listening to political talk radio---the hosts seem to have more interest in whipping up or engaging the nitwits than in discussing sports and their issues seriously, objectively, and with genuine wit as opposed to locker-room or gents' room jokes and insults. Mind you, I still love baseball dearly and watch (and write about) games as often as I can. But I guess I'm doomed. I'm too inclined to let the facts get in the way of a good innuendo, prejudice, or rabble-rouse. (I can only imagine what football, basketball, and hockey fans think when they listen to these meatheads and ponder that they're getting paid in the high five or low six figures on average to rant their heads off with so little to back it up.)
And it's not just because enough of the sports talkers, in hand with enough of the voting baseball writers, saw fit not to elect maybe the third greatest second basemen ever to play the game to the Hall of Fame on his first try and had the nerve to try to convince anyone with two brain cells to rub together that they had actually seen him play, seen the numbers as they were, and seen the sum total of his career as it was.
Yeah, this is my problem with a few hosts as well. Most of those guys, I just dont listen to. But I stopped listening to music stations years ago, so Sports Talk is what I listen to.
Yeah, this is my problem with a few hosts as well. Most of those guys, I just dont listen to. But I stopped listening to music stations years ago, so Sports Talk is what I listen to.
Since I am not a MLB or NHL fan, I only listen to the morning show on WIP at 7am because they are normally talking about other things besides sports. I still hate that they got rid of the Cuz at 1pm for some idiot named JOSH
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