Sports Radio running thread

Ugh. Boomer is not the guy I'd want to be listening to when I'm getting ready in the morning, or really any other time, for that matter

 

After listening to IMUS for the last 30 years I am having a tough time finding a new show. Say what you want but for the most part Imus was intelligent radio.

 

While I still switched back and forth, Over the last years I drifted to Mike & Mike, whoo I like better than most here (I turn away when they get annoying with the schhtick), I think Deidre killed his show & sucked the personality out of him. I don't care who he talks to, it's hard to take a guy seriously when his political preferences are based exclusively on support for his 2-3 pet projects. His PR extortion act was often hard to listen to.

 

He's not my cup of tea, but I do know that some really like him. 30 years of being used to someone is not easy to change

I'm a Steve Czaban guy now. I gave up on Mike and Mike about a year ago. Just couldn't take Greenberg anymore

 

This happened in San Antonio. If he'd done this in Dallas, it would've been another day at the office:


Radio producer fired after racially charged skit about Iverson
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The producer of a sports radio show that aired a parody about Denver Nuggets guard Allen Iverson with references to drugs, seeking sex from Mexican women and the shooting of a homeless man has reportedly been fired.
KTKR-AM producer Eric Gray was dismissed, the San Antonio Express-News reported, citing internal e-mails.
Matt Martin, a Clear Channel Communications Inc. vice president and market manager for KTKR, wouldn’t confirm the firing Tuesday. He issued a statement saying the April 25 parody “included content that could be viewed as insensitive. KTKR does not condone or approve of inappropriate content or language.”
The skit, with an Iverson impersonator answering questions on air, had him seeking sex from “Mexican” women on the River Walk and the accidental shooting of a homeless man who was an “illegal alien.”
“For them to put out something like that is awful,” said Iverson, who is black.
The skit prompted Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich to pull out of his weekly call-in session with the show.
The Spurs lead the Nuggets 3-1 in the opening round of the NBA playoffs. Game 5 is Wednesday night.

 

Well said, FB. You certainly know your Texas.

 

I like JT, but he's overstating the Mavs win tonight. GS has all the mo, still, IMO.

 

I refuse to believe in light of what's gone on in recent months, that there are still people this fucking stupid who hold respectable jobs. This guy should have been fired, not for doing a racially charged bit but because he is obviously a dumb ass.

 

Keith Olbermann is a self-important pompous one-trick (Bush is evil) jackass and when he combines with Dan Patrick, who might be the biggest and most shameless name-dropper on the planet, it is a horrible hour of two huge ego's stroking each other off.

 

Olberman is very smart, but unbelievably smug and annoying

 

Whether you like Keith or not, calling a guy with his talent and intelligence "one trick" is just absurd. Not many people could handle transitioning from sports to news with the degree of skill he has.

What amazes me is the hosts have kept their jobs, even though the Spurs yanked the coach's show off the station and said the two guys, Jeff Vexler and Walter Pasacrita, are not permitted to be on any Spurs broadcast, pre or postgame show. It's not like the show's a particularly good or well-loved program, and the PD who put them on the air was fired within the past month or so. There shouldn't be anyone protecting them in the front office, so why are they still employed if the producer got the ax? A bit like that doesn't air if the hosts don't approve of it.

 

Rufino -- I think Keith Olberman is talented. I think Rush Limbaugh is talented. But both suffer from the same problem --they are one-trick ponies. Ask yourself when the last time Olbermann said anything that didn't have somewhere laced inside of its core "Bush and Iraq are evil." He is wasting his talent.