2011 98.5 - WEEI Love/Hate Sport Talk Radio Opinion Thread

[DarrylS]

Originally Posted by FredFromDartmouth

I think that Gresch is the best football guy locally. You Gresh bashers are basing him on what he looks like. But listen to what he says: he is very well spoken and knowledgeable and pretty funny. I also love that he can beat on twerps such as Felger.

Disagree completely Gresch shyt the bed when he was on the score in RI and has not progressed, he sound rather dumb to me... Zo would be better if he stuck to being an expert, rather than just another sensationalist..

All of the choices right now are pyss poor..

[PatsWickedPissah]

Gotta admit. I've stopped listening except for SIRIUS NFL radio.

[shakadave]

Originally Posted by FredFromDartmouth

I think that Gresch is the best football guy locally. You Gresh bashers are basing him on what he looks like. But listen to what he says: he is very well spoken and knowledgeable and pretty funny. I also love that he can beat on twerps such as Felger.

Some random thoughts:
1. I agree with FredFromDartmouth --- Gresch is my favorite, Holley #2.
2. Dale and Holley was the one listenable show on EEI. Now they have none. WEEI is geared to the 68-year-old, slightly-retarded-but-undiagnosed, barber-shop crowd. The Big Show was a cacophony of people yelling over each other, pausing occasionally to take calls from drunk men.
3. 98.5 = where to go for Pats and Bruins talk. EEI is for Red Sox.
4. How many of you go all the way back to Ordway doing Bruins Replay in the early 80s? And his show with Mike Andrews.
5. Gresch's rap (vs. Felger) was great, and Felger's was good too. Far above the mostly-inane results such efforts usually produce.

[Tunescribe]

Originally Posted by rivers983

IMO.... if you know what you're talking about, you have a much better home in WEEI. If you don't, you are much more attracted to 98.5

Don't know for sure what you mean by this, but it doesn't apply to football talk.

Originally Posted by rivers983

Middays: Awful and awful. It is beyond me how Mutnansky is a full time host in this market, he is miserable. Merloni is good regarding baseball but that's it. Gresh and Zo are intolerably awful as well.... I find myself listening to music in the middays now - when before I would never change Dale and Holley.

Gresh and Zo know football, which is all I care about.

Originally Posted by rivers983

Nights: Mikey all the way. If you don't like Mikey...you're not a guy.

Heh. I'll amend this to suggest: If you don't like Mikey, you're older than 14 and a Patriots fan. The guy is a clown, and a bad one. He knows pre-adolescent humor and the '60s Red Sox, and that's about it. He knows NOTHING about football and doesn't seem to really care. I will never forget a year or so ago (before I wrote him off altogether), when he couldn't tell which teams were in the NFC and which were AFC. He made a complete fool of himself and should've been fired for that alone.

[Seels]

I switched to 98.5 as soon as it was around for mostly one reason: I hate D&C. I think they're despicable human beings, and beyond that, I don't want to hear political speak when I'm looking for sports talk. If I wanted to listen to whiny racist republican douchebags I'd do that. When I turn on sports radio I want to hear about sports. Toucher and Rich are juvenile, but they are a million times more entertaining than D&C (and seriously, 23 year old guy up above, lighten up eh?).

Holley is great but Arnold is both boring and unknowledgeable, and that's a dangerous combination. I don't mind Gresh and Zolak. Their non-football knowledge is limited, but they at least seem like they try.

The Big Show was old years ago. I don't even mind Ordway that much, I just think the entire format of the show sucks, the whiner line is stupid, the callers are almost as annoying as the hosts...there is just nothing good here aside from Holley.

Felger and Mazz is pretty good most of the time as long as Felger is on it. Felger seems like the most well rounded of all of the guys knowledge wise, being able to cover NFL MLB and NHL without completely embarrassing himself. People just have to realize he's a character, trying to get a rise out of people a lot of the time. Mazz on the other hand is brutal -- completely inept in non-baseball sports, and merely bad with baseball.

[Joker]

BRING BACK PETE!

Pete Shepard to Carol from North Carolina after she calls all the men in R.I. spacones..."well Carol...you're nothing but a piece of white trash..in fact ..the highlight of your day is getting in your car and driving to the mall to get a Big Mac..."...

in related news, as far as sports radio goes, familiarity breeds contempt..

[Rob0729]

Originally Posted by rivers983

Nights: Mikey all the way. If you don't like Mikey...you're not a guy. D.A. is knowledgeable, but boring.

Funny, I thought if you don't like Mike Adams you realize there is more to Boston sports than 1960s and 1970s Red Sox which apparently is all he knows how to talk about other than the Yankees tattoo on his arse. Adams is awful and I am embarrassed for him when he pretends he actually knows about football.

[Rob0729]

One thing both stations need to do is ban Steve from Fall River, Dakota from Braintree (although he is Ordway's exclusive), Frank from Glouchester, Everett, Danny from Quincy, and every other serial caller who only purpose seems to say ludicrious inflamatory comments that make the host look good.

[DarrylS]

Originally Posted by Rob0729

One thing both stations need to do is ban Steve from Fall River, Dakota from Braintree (although he is Ordway's exclusive), Frank from Glouchester, Everett, Danny from Quincy, and every other serial caller who only purpose seems to say ludicrious inflamatory comments that make the host look good.

But that is the crux of this thread, it is no longer about sports it is about who has the bigger personality.. and who has the greatest bombasity. For some reason they think that this keeps listeners listening... nothing could be further.

The medium has become the message.

[nnmnmmnn]

About two weeks ago, I tuned into WEEI to listen to a scheduled BB press conference. The idiots were talking over the interview, making fun of the nonanswers. To the point that it was impossible to follow the press conference itself. Well done WEEI, you finally drove me away from the last thing that would make me tune into the station. Now I got 98.5 on swole.