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Some glaring numbers show Red Sox drop in popularity - Boston Sports Blog - Boston.com

"........While most of the results confirmed that the Red Sox remain second in popularity to the Patriots,........"


Now THAT won't go down well with the powers that be over on Morrissey Boulevard.

Expect Eric Wilbur to get sucker punched by Shaughnessy, Massarotti and his editor Joe Sullivan.

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How DARE he not toe the party line? Burn him! Cast him from the parapets! :rocker:

Shame for a man to suffer such castigation for speaking the truth.....

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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.

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Maybe the Red Sox should recognize that everything about them is a parody of what it used to be. The team, the management, the TV and radio announcers, EVERYTHING is a joke at this point.

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

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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.

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BankofAmericaSox brand is receiving a serious pummeling even in New England. Well deserved on and off the field. Good luck, RKO employees.

EDIT: EEI employees. My bad.

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I tried, TRIED to listen to Felger and Mazz (with Jermaine Wiggins) yesterday and it was painful. Felger does get football but he knows the average listener doesn't want a ton of x's and o's talk and he would rather focus on the sensationalistic stuff while Wiggy has been hit in the head far too often but does make a point here or there. Then there is Mazz, ho-ly cow. Someone take him out back and shoot him.

My absolute favorite moment on 98.5 during the Super Bowl run last year was an ad for F&M with a sputtering Tony going off on the team during the pre-season, "how about finding some football players and winning some games!" It aired at least five times a day during last year's 13-3, AFC Championship season. Nothing exemplifies the lowest common denominator that is sports talk radio than that quote right there.

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Mazz accepted the survey because the same survey said that Felger and Mazz was the best local radio program and him the third favorite radio personality after Gil Santos and Gerry Callahan.

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If you listen to WEEI it most definitely is a Red Sox town. i gave up because they simply cannot stop talking aboiut the Red Sox, and i simply don't care about them. I don't see myself going back at this point, it's useless.