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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Indeed.... The local sports talk radio is so irrelevant that we get thread after thread complaining about the topics and quality on the local sports talk radio.
And your in every single one of those threads .. Let the people vent.
Vent in one big thread. Vent in another forum.
Vent away, just quit making OT thread after OT thread about it, especially because most of the "venting" is griping about things that aren't actually true.
What isn't true is that WEEI actually talks about football. I understand the dynamic, WEEI has Red Sox broadcasts and they probably believe that even bad news is good for ticket sales, but it is FOOTBALL SEASON. I have had this unreachable pain in my butt since Feb when the trucks left for spring training. I do not care about the Red Sox, they are a bunch of overpaid morons whose sole profession would consist of "Paper or plastic" if not for the rediculous business model in place in baseball.
Even this week, the week leading up to a very important football game against the Steelers, both stations talk about baseball, but WEEI is the worst. I am the consumer that both stations are looking for, blue collar worker who sits and listens to the radio for 2+ hours every day. A guy who is actually interested in what they might be saying and then EEI and the Hub produce two weeks of white noise about beer, chicken, Tommy John and the Cubs. Then, they talk about Gonk and Bibi Jones, which is just slightly more interesting than a one hour farm report on radio.
The obsession with the Red Sox is clearly present at both Radio Stations, but it really isn't out in the real world. There are people who are baseball people, and people who are football people, but talking about what is going on at Yawkey Way in Oct is nuts, I mean the World Series is still going on (I think) and even that is like watching wallpaper peal away from the wall slowly. My son is as big a baseball fan as anybody I know and even he is sick of Red Sox talk. The Sox sucked this year, even if they were the best team evah! They do not deserve the air time or the devotion of people who talk on radio for a living. We have a world champion hockey team that can't get a sniff of air time at EEI and gets too much air time at the Hub, a Basketball team that is on strike and a football team that has the best reacord in the AFC and has enough flaws to fill 24 hours of air time, yet the "experts" on the air insist on talking about a team that doesn't play another game that counts for 5 months.
Don't know why you are sticking up for EEI and the Hub, and maybe you listen to the radio more than we do, but when it counts during drive time, when people are actually listening to the radio, it has been non stop Red Sox. It has gotten to the point that when anybody starts talking baseball, I turn to politics or music. If I get the least bit interested, I don't go back. I can't stand any more baseball, even at its best, it is a boring sport.
1.) Your personal dislike of baseball is irrelevant to the market, because the numbers run the other way in the Boston area. Too many here don't seem to get that.
I'm not really defending the stations so much as pointing out what a load of garbage most of you are posting with your gripes. There are perfectly valid complaints that can be made about both stations, so the made up gripes aren't necessary. Neither local station is single sport oriented, because they are general sports talk stations. Deal with it instead of crying like a bunch of schoolgirls.
1.) Your personal dislike of baseball is irrelevant to the market, because the numbers run the other way in the Boston area. Too many here don't seem to get that.
2.) WEEI talks plenty of football, as does 8.5. Where each one lacks is with a minor sport, because WEEI is generally short on hockey talk and 8.5 is generally short on basketball talk.
3.) I'm not really defending the stations so much as pointing out what a load of garbage most of you are posting with your gripes. There are perfectly valid complaints that can be made about both stations, so the made up gripes aren't necessary. Neither local station is single sport oriented, because they are general sports talk stations. Deal with it instead of crying like a bunch of schoolgirls.
amen to that.1.) Your personal dislike of baseball is irrelevant to the market, because the numbers run the other way in the Boston area. Too many here don't seem to get that.
2.) WEEI talks plenty of football, as does 8.5. Where each one lacks is with a minor sport, because WEEI is generally short on hockey talk and 8.5 is generally short on basketball talk.
3.) I'm not really defending the stations so much as pointing out what a load of garbage most of you are posting with your gripes. There are perfectly valid complaints that can be made about both stations, so the made up gripes aren't necessary. Neither local station is single sport oriented, because they are general sports talk stations. Deal with it instead of crying like a bunch of schoolgirls.
As far as one individual bias/opinion doesn't represent the market I think that individual is you since the rest of us represent the majority here anyway. Your 'too many here' quote contradicts your early part of the statement.
As far as us posting garbage it seems a lot of us hear the same baseball talk yet you ,singular you, hear football talk and thus you got it right and the majority got it wrong. Ego much? And somehow you are shocked that in a football forum the majority of the people want football talk? For a guy that thinks highly of himself you really missed the boat on this one.
My last reply to you will be this to save the spin you will put on this post. You tend to do that a lot in threads to get a discussion muddled so people cant even remember what they were talking about anyway. You know lawyer stuff not interested. Good day
lmao very well said. i couldnt have put it better myself.If you think "People who post on Patriots forums and don't like baseball" is the majority demographic in Boston, I'll just politely disagree with your take.
It's not about ego, slick. It's about what's actually happening on the radio. I'm not shocked that the football forum people want football talk. I'm fascinated by the fact that the football forum people are so mentally warped on this particular issue that they can't handle hearing other sports talk, yet they keep listening to the stations and/or they keep spending time crying about it in OT threads on the forum. Are you people masochists?
Stop posting garbage. Good day. (There shouldn't be anything muddled about this post...)
Is local sports talk radio becoming irrelevant????