DocHoliday

Baseball is just dying as a sport. 3 hours of a lame lawn game that runs too long and too slow.

This is a fast paced generation that has embraced the NFL, and baseballs demise will only hasten as the diehards die off.

I for one embrace a future of football, basketball, soccer, and hockey being the big 4.

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captain stone

...and douchebags for players.

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ClevTrev

Thinking about the doom and gloom that is the current Red Sox talk show buzz and will be for quite some time, the realization is that over the past 10 years the team was competitive with only some short periods where their ability to compete was in question. They were contenders for being one of the top teams for most of the time during that period. Doom and gloom can only go so far, however, and the current team has no upside or hope that they'll climb out of the well into which they've fallen.

Attendance is down, TV viewership is down, and (holy dung) people may stop listening to radio sports baseball talk. Now that is armageddon and probably scares the chronicles out of the talk show hosts who've suddenly realized they're talking about a team whose fans are deciding to stop listening.

What happens to a sports talk show host whose chronic jibes at the baseball team no longer make an impact because the fans don't care? He ceases to exist.

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captain stone

I agree...except for the soccer & basketball parts.

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Wolfpack

It has nothing to do with that. It's because drama = ratings on the radio. You generate way the heck more conversation in this town by talking about how bad things are for a certain team than you do by talking about how great things are.

If the Red Sox weren't such a dysfunctional, poorly run organization there wouldn't be so much talk about them. But they are.

BradyFTW!

The one hurdle that I can't quite get past with basketball is how unabashedly awful the officiating is. It makes the NFL replacement refs look decent by comparison. I just have a hard time getting fully invested in a sport where it's openly accepted that superstars can more easily draw fouls, not get called for fouls, walk with the ball, etc. etc. simply by virtue of being superstars. There's some element of that in football (and every other sport, for that matter), but basketball's by far the worst. I love watching it otherwise, but at least 2-3 itmes per game the officials basically ruin the immersion for me.

Have started to come around on soccer ever since I started watching EPL with some regularity. At first, when I didn't really understand some of the more advanced rules or strategy on any level, it was kinda intimidating (kind of how I imagine that NFL must feel to a newbie). Once you get comfortable with the pacing and start to understand the strategy, though, it's really interesting to watch.

A good darkhorse sport, though, has got to be rugby. When the rugby world cup was going on, the local pub would play all of the games on a projector, and fans of all of the different national teams would come from all around to come and cheer their squads on. Nothing quite like being drunk in the company of a bunch of Kiwi strangers while New Zealand is thrashing the hell out of some hapless opponent. I think that any football fan would, at the very least, find rugby pretty enjoyable.

olschool

Right on. Baseball is a 1900's game trying to survive in a new century. I have three kids and seven grandkids, and none of them follow baseball. Football is king with them, and all the other pro sports are fading in the backstretch.

I know that if I'm having trouble sleeping, all I have to do is switch on a baseball game, doesn't matter who, and I'll be out like a light in ten minutes.

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ensoul

If I live to be a thousand I will never understand the love affair with the red sox or baseball in general. You cannot find a slower more boring professional sport to watch beside baseball. Yet you cannot walk around 100 feet without seeing someone with red sox gear on. If I was a "fan" of the red sox there is no way in hell I would be wearing their gear or supporting that embarrassment of a team.

I love Boston. Love the pats and the celtics but I cannot stand the red sox or their fans to the point where I want the red sox to lose every game just so the fans and radio personal are miserable.

Tunescribe

It's a double-edged sword with the Bankofamericasox. The peculiar thing about Boston is that people here enjoy being miserable over that team. It goes back to the original Puritan ethic of denying oneself life's pleasures. Over the many decades that evolved into a sort of twisted masochism which being a Sox fan eventually gave voice to. Through 89 years of losing it became their comfort zone, broken briefly by the two World Series titles and playoff runs. Now that things look bleak again, the old, familiar negativity has returned.

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Rob0729

Huh?!? Even when the Red Sox were good, they could go days or weeks before the trade deadline with callers calling in making ridiculous trade scenarios. Baseball is easier to talk about than football because there are things that even the dumbest fan can talk about and understand while breaking down the roster, games, etc.

In the past (and I am talking only few years ago), it was not uncommon for WEEI to be talking Red Sox in November and December on a regular basis even if there was no controversy. When you employ guys like Steve Buckley, Sean McAdams, Tony Mazz (although he has been forced to expand his repetiore now that he has his own gig), Lou Merloni, etc. as your regulars vs. a fraction of the pure football guys that WEEI used to employ; you talk baseball more. I use WEEI because 98.5 employed more football guys (Gresh, Zo, and Felger).

You are talking right now. I agree that is why they are dominating the sports conversation on both radio shows. I am talking the last 5-10 years. 98.5 has changed the dynamics a bit because they have overtaken WEEI in part because they talk more football.