ARE YOU NEW HERE? NOT LOGGED IN? PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO REGISTER FOR AN ACCOUNT AND LOGIN TO REMOVE THIS WINDOW
Welcome to PatsFans.com. Do you have an account? If not - please take a moment to register for our forum and experience a much smoother experience with fewer ads, along with no longer having to see this notification window. Also learn about how you can receive a free Patriots T-Shirt from the Patriots Official ProShop by CLICKING HERE. Please enjoy your stay here, and Go Pats!
That is your OPINION. My OPINION is different. I felt the format of WEEI is outdated and boring. You felt different. Why people switched to 98.5 is up for debate unless you have focus groups to support your theory. Personally, I feel a lot of people hated WEEI's format like I do and just didn't have a viable alternative. When Felger was on 890AM, he was the same guy and they could get ratings because of the signal.
How is it up for debate when I'm pointing to the same things people have used as their justification? Your own point matches one of mine:
Quote:
My OPINION is different. I felt the format of WEEI is outdated and boring
Quote:
What has happened is that people got familiar with the WEEI format, and that always leads to calls for change.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob0729
You complained about how the Pats treated guys like Brady, Wilfork, and Mankins which was almost word for word to what Felger says on the same topic.
This is incorrect.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob0729
Unless you know what Felger is really thinking, you can't say that. Besides, many of his listeners (or at least callers) agree with him. You can't stir the pot when you have a lot of agreement by your audience.
1.) Yes, I can
2.) Yes, you can.
You're now making assertions that are completely counter to reality, and to the English language.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rob0729
As for spouting off for ratings, he learned that from WEEI. In the morning, Dennis and Callahan always take different sides of an argument. Not because they disagree, but because it makes better radio. Then they throw Meter in there with the wacked out, moronic side of the argument to allow fans to ridicule. The Big Show has guests on for the sole purpose to spew moronic anti-home team rants just so Ordway can easily shoot him down (see Steve from Fall River, Al from Everett, Dakaota from Braintree, Frank from Glouster, Danny from Quincy, etc.) which got tired before Butch from the Cape passed away. Sorry, but most talk show hosts' true beliefs frequently are not what they say on the air whether is it sports talk, political talk, or whatever. In many cases, if the host gave their 100% honest beliefs, it would be boring radio.
Spouting off for ratings has been going on from the beginning. Consistently taking positions solely for ratings is what I'm talking about, and that's precisely what Felger does.
__________________
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
- Marcus Aurelius
FEATURED ADVERTISEMENT
DONATE TO PATSFANS.COM
RECEIVE A FREE PATS T-SHIRT AND SAVE 15% OFF WHEN YOU BUY FROM THE OFFICIAL PROSHOP!
Free T-Shirt & Save 15% Off!
Like Our Site? Please help support our site and server costs by DONATING TO PATSFANS.COM and receive a FREE PATRIOTS T-SHIRT and SAVE 15% off EVERY purchase you make from PatriotsProShop.com. You'll also receive added benefits to your account including Removing All Ads During Your Experience Here At Our Forum.
NEEDED YEARLY SITE DONATIONS: 345 | CURRENT # OF SUBSCRIBED SUPPORTERS: 98
If you listened to Felger more often, you'd realize that this isn't the case. For right or wrong, the guy speaks his mind. Honestly, I don't think he's smart enough to do what you are accusing him of. He has no filter.
Ive listened to him plenty and I would bet any amount of money that he looks at what angle he can take to stir the pot. Hes a lot smarter than you're giving him credit for when it comes to this matter, he cant add 2 + 2 but he knows what gets the masses juices flowing.
The show would work, in my opinion if they had someone beside him that would challenge him on his off the wall thoughts, instead you got Massarotti agreeing with him most of the time.
Right after the Sox let Victor Martinez go Felger said the only thing that makes sense that the sox would let him go is because they're selling the team, Mazz agrees. How about they were using their money to go after other better players than Victor.
Stupid stuff like the example I stated above (and there are many more)and his staying on one topic for a whole week (hello Randy Moss) isnt for me.
How is it up for debate when I'm pointing to the same things people have used as their justification? Your own point matches one of mine:
How are opinions up for debate? I don't know. Because they are. Just because SOME PEOPLE say they do something for a certain reason doesn't mean everyone did.
Quote:
This is incorrect.
Yeah, whatever.
Quote:
1.) Yes, I can
2.) Yes, you can.
You're now making assertions that are completely counter to reality, and to the English language.
Again you are confusing opinions with facts. You have no proof for any of your assertions.
Quote:
Spouting off for ratings has been going on from the beginning. Consistently taking positions solely for ratings is what I'm talking about, and that's precisely what Felger does.
D&C, Glenn Ordway, Jim Rome, Colin Cowherd, JT the Brick, Mike Greenberg, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Howie Carr, Howard Stern, Opie and Anthony, etc. all say hello. Imagine a radio show host gearing his show to try to get ratings. Go figure. Hey, I totally believe Greg Mustard speaks his mind. It has done wonders for his career.
Seriously, do you think any radio show host doesn't gear their show and opinions to generate ratings. Isn't the point to make your show interesting, entertaining, or even controversial enough to attract listeners? If you don't think most of the guys on WEEI spout off for ratings, then you are kidding yourself.
It's not really a surprise. Unfortunately, WEEI blinked, and we've now got a worse lineup over there, since the revamped Big Show sucks and the D&H replacements aren't nearly as good as their predecessors.
There's now only 1 sports talk slot worth listening to on Boston radio, and that's the D.A. slot at night, when fewer people are listening.
98.5 has been a disaster for Boston Sports talk radio.
I like Merloni when he was a guest host ... the Mutt and merloni show is gawd awful. Mut's voice is about as tolerable as mazz's.
I have been listening to either my CD's or WBZ 1030 traffic on the 3's ...
Always riveting!
__________________
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck." RAH
I can't think of a single "buffoon" that was rotating in over at WEEI who did not have far more sports knowledge, at least within their field, than Felger.
The Big show had a rotating group of guest 'hosts', all of whom were more knowledgeable than Felger. That format allowed for a more turbulent back and forth because Ordway is a good enough host that he could usually control it. Felger isn't even good enough to control Maz when he gets going, and Maz is nothing but Felger's pet monkey on that show.
To call the rotating co-hosts on WEEI uninformed when comparing them to Felger is just ridiculous.
As much as Orway drives me nuts the rotating hosts ... brought in topically was a good listen. Holley is great but he is way too tame for the afternoon crowd. I used to love Dale and Holley ... but that was just me.
Re: Felgie & Maz Get a New Deal @ 98.5
Linear Mode
