LOL -Will This Globe Sportswriter Get Fired?

[Nordberg]

I wouldn't mind a bit of Sox talk it they talked about you know.....baseball. But.....it's always off the field garbage that I can't stand.

Whenever I hear "clubhouse" I think of a bunch of kids fighting over a fort you build in the neighborhood when you were twelve

"Clubhouse".....I *ucking hate that word now.

Even the word "manager" is used instead of coach (game planning)

Cause baseball isn't about game planning.....it's about "managing" ego's in the "clubouse"

God I *ucking hate baseball

 

[lurker1965]

I wouldn't mind a bit of Sox talk it they talked about you know.....baseball. But.....it's always off the field garbage that I can't stand.

Whenever I hear "clubhouse" I think of a bunch of kids fighting over a fort you build in the neighborhood when you were twelve

"Clubhouse".....I *ucking hate that word now.

Even the word "manager" is used instead of coach (game planning)

Cause baseball isn't about game planning.....it's about "managing" ego's in the "clubouse"

God I *ucking hate baseball

It makes me think of this

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if it doesn't embed, Carlin Football vs. Baseball

 

[RhodyPatriot]

But...But.... This is a Red Sox town.

Half the broadcast media are crapping their pants because their football analysis skills don't go beyond "Brady looked really sharp out there" and "You gotta catch that ball". Talking baseball is easier because stats means something and arguing things like line ups and BS trade talk can take up hours or days of talk.

Personally, I think the Pats were probably more popular than the Sox for a while, but the media doesn't want the shift to happen.

The Patriots are more popular now because they've been consistently good for a decade.
The key word is NOW.
When Belichick and Brady go away and this is an 8 - 8 football team you'll see those poll numbers change. The numbers were different 5 years ago and they'll be different 5 years from now.
IMO this is primarily a baseball/hockey region.

 

[cupofjoe1962]

According to the Sweet Caroline "Warner World" Pink Hats, it aint over until the
fat lady sings....

Maybe they shoiuld open their eyes....

 

[MP-Logick]

According to that survey the top 5 most popular players on the Patriots, are in order:

1. Wes Welker
2. Tom Brady
3. Vince Wilfork
4. Rob Gronkowski
5. Patrick Chung

 

[Keyser Söze]

Not surprising. The Sux are terrible this year and they have an idiot for a manager.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

This was an online survey and it's pretty funny.

Wes Welker is the most admired Patriot player??

I can see that because us common folk can relate to a short, slow yet very successful NFL receiver.

Jacoby Ellsbury is the most admired Sox player??

Ellsbury is an oft injured underachieving diva who's had one terrific year in his entire career and is pretty lousy this season.

Bruins' Jeremy Jacobs is the 2nd most admired owner??

What?? Guy thieved from us fans for years, only spent money after a cap was introduced and has done little over the past 3 decades to give back to this community.

Gil Santos is the favorite radio personality???

Come on. Love Gil but come on.....


.......and my favorite

Question was Top 5 possible improvement for the Bruins
(these were write-in responses only)

#1 improvement Bruin fans want to see this year??? --- more/better/stronger promotions/packaging

WHAT??????????????? HUH??????????????
Bruins fans want their team marketed better??
That's what Bruin fans, the most hardcore Boston fanbase, are concerned about?? Team promotion???????

Wouldn't put much if any stock in this thing.
Been hilarious to read though.

 

[Tunescribe]

The Patriots are more popular now because they've been consistently good for a decade.
The key word is NOW.
When Belichick and Brady go away and this is an 8 - 8 football team you'll see those poll numbers change. The numbers were different 5 years ago and they'll be different 5 years from now.
IMO this is primarily a baseball/hockey region.

Baseball is falling into anachronism. Aside from that, the Patriots have pretty much been No. 1 outside the Route 95 beltway for the past 20 years. And even without BB and Brady, I think the Pats will continue to be an upper-echelon team because of superior ownership.

 

[Rob0729]

The Patriots are more popular now because they've been consistently good for a decade.
The key word is NOW.
When Belichick and Brady go away and this is an 8 - 8 football team you'll see those poll numbers change. The numbers were different 5 years ago and they'll be different 5 years from now.
IMO this is primarily a baseball/hockey region.

I think you are wrong. This town has always been streaky in terms of which team was king. The Bruins, Celtics, and Sox each have had their chance at the pole position and now it is the Pats' turn.

One thing that the Pats have going for them that none of the other teams have right now is the overwhelming popularity of the NFL. The NFL eclipses all the other sports combined while baseball is a dying sport in most of the country, the NBA has dwindled in regionality, and the NHL is another lockout from turning off the fans. Kids are growing up football fans more than baseball fans.

I think the Pats will be the biggest sport in this town for a while. I would say at least for the next 5-10 years. I think the Bruins are closer to the one bad season until people jump ship than the Pats.

I think the Red Sox popularity has been waning for a while now and the problems in recent years has accelerated the decline. I think people lost interest in them after they won their championships and the pink hats started to infest the park to sing "Sweet Caroline" rather than watch the game. I think in some bizarre way the curse fueled the fans.

 

[zoostation]

Shaughnessy (today) and Massarotti (yesterday) were fully accepting of the survey and thought it showed just how bad a job the Red Sox ownership has been doing lately.

Football know nothing and Patriot hater Massarotti is so emotional over the Red Sox slide that I actually thought he was going to cry a few days ago while discussing his anger. If he put 10% of that passion towards the Pats I would almost be able to live with the fact that he is clueless when it comes to the NFL

 

[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.

 

[captain stone]

Not surprising. The Sux are terrible this year and they have an idiot for a manager...

...and douchebags for players.

 

[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.

 

[captain stone]

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.

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

 

[Wolfpack]

But...But.... This is a Red Sox town.

Half the broadcast media are crapping their pants because their football analysis skills don't go beyond "Brady looked really sharp out there" and "You gotta catch that ball". Talking baseball is easier because stats means something and arguing things like line ups and BS trade talk can take up hours or days of talk.

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!]

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

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]

Baseball is falling into anachronism. Aside from that, the Patriots have pretty much been No. 1 outside the Route 95 beltway for the past 20 years. And even without BB and Brady, I think the Pats will continue to be an upper-echelon team because of superior ownership.

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.

 

[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]

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.

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.

 

[Rob0729]

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.

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.