Bill's Girl said:
Please don't start this again. I had it on all day at work yesterday and it was mostly Pats talk all day!! It has been mostly Pats talk ALL WEEK.
Also of note, a guy called in yesterday to talk about the Bruins and said that he had called on Thursday to talk hockey and was told they were only taking football calls because of "bloody Thursday." So they are not biased against just the Patriots. Enough already with this stuff.
They weren't discussing the Patriots. They were discussing the NFL labor situation, due to the potential significance of it on the national sporting landscape, and America's most popular professional sport.
Any mention of the Patriots was relative to that. Had their been no labor issue, there would have been no football discussion, and no discussion of the Patriots, or the contractual situations of any of their players. This cannot possibly qualify as 'Pats talk."
You can deny that if you like, for whatever reason (I've yet to fully understand why you work so hard on here to deny any Red Sox bias on EEI, when it is so clearly obvious there is), but its a fact. Its also a fact that WEEI currently has the Red Sox radio rights, and it is critical for their business success that they have them again (and that question is open), because absent the Red Sox, their days of trumpeting themselves as "American's sports leader" are OVER. Despite what Freud maintained, sometimes a cigar is MORE than a cigar.
No, they're not biased against the Patriots. They are biased against any of the big four professional sports that they don't own the radio rights to. That's bad enough when it comes to the Celtics and Bruins, historic franchises that happen to be stuck in the midst of a fairly mediocre period in their histories, but its especially bad when it comes to the Patriots, the NFL's best and most successful franchise of the 00's, much of which happened while WEEI was discussing Alex Rodriguez, or Manny peeing in the wall, or whatever ******* soap opera they got going on over there at the moment.
You can whine about this opinion being expressed over here all you want. As long as that situation exists over there, you're going to keep hearing it, because its the truth.