Nordberg
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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.Nothing like a lot of Red Sox talk at Gillette. I think it adds an interesting touch of WEEI flaunting they really mostly care about the Red Sox in the Patriots' faces. It will get that disrespect thing going.
Right now they are talking about the Yankees.
Don't even get me started. I listen because it's all we have, for the most part.
Is anyone else disapointed with the over all Pats coverage this year?
Papers, Radio, and TV.
I think the Patriots coverage has been better this year than in the past, but it still sucks. WEEI seem to not to know how to talk football without DeOssie and Smerlas on the radio. Listening to Sean McAdam talk football is painful.
I know a lot of people have e-mail Jason Wolfe about the lack of Patriots talk on the radio and he basically says the callers control the topics (which is BS because the hosts set up the discussion) and they don't screen calls (more BS) and that this is just a baseball town. Funny, the 8,000 or so people who showed up to the first day of training camp might disagree with that.
Also, I actually find myself listening to Felger just because he talks football. I think he is a horrible talk show host, but at least it is football.
WEEI screens callers' subject matter before they even get on the air. I've called in the past to ask some Patriots questions and was told by the guy answering the phone, "We're talking Red Sox today." WEEI forces baseball talk because they air the Red Sox games and sell advertising accordingly.
I've been listening for over an hour now and the only Pats talk they have had is a 3 minute thing to announce Stanley Morgan making the Pats' HOF and Michael Holley shamelessly shilling his Tedy Bruschi book. Why even bother going to training camp?
I switch over to Felger too. As painful as he can be, you have to realize it's a shtick he does. He's always very careful to couch things a certain way "I'm not saying Moss is dogging it, but" type thing all the time. Or "one could make the argument that..." meaning he's not saying it, but he going to talk about others who might be saying it. But mostly Felger knows the game better and his guests are usually more interesting - Reiss, Hart, etc.
If Perillo is on EEI or on Patriot Mondy, then I stay. I get nothing from Smerlas and the Big O. While not hostile, there's not a lot of insight there either. It's just banter.
The best combo mix I think would be Felger, De'Ossie (to bring Felger down to basics) and someone like Reiss or Perillo (to add facts and perspective).
Ordway: Welcome to Patriots Monday
Caller: I wanted to talk about Richard Seymour
Ordway: What...you want to talk about Tim Wakefield? I think he is pitching
well. Eating up innings.
Caller: No! I wanted to talk about Seymour and when you expect him at
camp.
Ordway: I wouldn't put Wakefield in the bullpen at this time.
Caller: Forget it
if you want red sox talk its 24 7 on weei thats why i dont listen to it it makes my skin crawl listening to all the whiny red sox fansNothing like a lot of Red Sox talk at Gillette. I think it adds an interesting touch of WEEI flaunting they really mostly care about the Red Sox in the Patriots' faces. It will get that disrespect thing going.
Right now they are talking about the Yankees.