Looking forward to the new Sports Radio Station

[Rob0729]

Ehh..... I don't really care about the new station one way or the other. More sports talk means more opportunities to find a show that works for the individual, but nothing I've learned about the new station leads me to believe that It'll make for great radio. I do think it's ridiculous and telling for people do complain about D&C based upon their politics being 'far right' when they aren't, or based upon them not being a sports show when it's very common for a sports station to run non-sports for the morning drive, and I do think you've gone way over the top in your bashing of the station, but I'm very happy that you'll have something new to try.

D&C are pretty right wing for this market, but it isn't where they are on the political scale that bothers me. It is that they can dedicate then entire main part of their morning drive portion of their show (7-8) to talking politics rather than sports. If I want to listen to politics in my morning drive there are three stations broadcasting political talk all day long (680 AM, 1510 AM, 96.9 FM). I don't have a problem with them talking about other issues than sports (at least they don't beat the hot button issues into the ground like the Big Show does), but when it dominates the show like it does on their show it really turns me off. They can go two hours on politics and that is about an hour and a half too long for a sports show.

As for the news show, I refuse to write it off until I actually hear it. A very good program director can make bad hosts good or at least decent. The program director at WBZ may be aware of your and other criticisms of Felger and others and worked with them to tell them what works and what doesn't. Glen Ordway did it with WEEI back in the mid 90s. He was able to turn a pretty bad station (Eddie Edelman is all I have to say) into what it is today which you like and I used to like. He even made Dale Arnold tolerable.

As for going over the top with WEEI, maybe I am (I really don't think I am). I have just been frustrated with the quality of their programing forever. I have heard better and I listen to better every day when I listen to Sirius. The fact is there are a lot of people who have been frustrated with the quality of WEEI for a long time, especially Patriots fans. I hope the new station either raises the bar itself or forces WEEI to.

As for other parts of the country, I really don't care what goes on in other parts of the country. I only care about the Boston area. I think WFAN can be better than WEEI in a lot of way even if they are bashing Boston a lot, but I haven't heard sports radio in a lot of other markets. I do know Entercom does franchise the "Big Show" personna to other markets. I know that in North Carolina they have their own Big Show with their own local hosts, but with the same intro (music and annoucers). Just because a format is successful doesn't mean it is good.

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

D&C are pretty right wing for this market, but it isn't where they are on the political scale that bothers me. It is that they can dedicate then entire main part of their morning drive portion of their show (7-8) to talking politics rather than sports.

D&C had a great football talk interview with Boomer at 8AM today. Sorry you missed it.

 

[reflexblue]

If this new station is serious about competing with eei and surviving economicaly i think they are going to have to do more than just broacast in the Boston area. EEI has the whole of NE covered, especially the most populated areas. Boston, Providence, Worcester, Sprinfield/Hartford. I wonder if CBS is commited in the long run to expanding their coverage.

BTW D&C were very good when they first started out about ten or twelve years ago if anyone remembers. While Eddie Andelman was talking about toll both workers D&C were talking football.

 

[Rob0729]

D&C had a great football talk interview with Boomer at 8AM today. Sorry you missed it.

They occassionally do good talk radio. When they have Boomer, Adam Schefter, or Brady on; it is usually good radio. Unfortunately, they believe bashing Obama (who although I voted for him, I am not his biggest fan by any stretch) and/or Democrats in Congress is an actual sport and spends most of their time doing in the 8 AM hour.

I am glad that WEEI could take away 20 token minutes of Sox talk for actual football talk on the day of the first Patriots preseason game. At least until the pregame show tonight where they will discuss hot Patriots issues like the Sox line up for tonight, whether to sit Ortiz, and whether the Sox three game winning streak is real or just that Lions faultering. Today should be about 70-80% football talk and it will probably end up being more like 20-30% at best. That is why I don't like WEEI. They can't/refuse to talk football until the baseball season is over.

 

[jmt57]

Doesn't sound like they are off to a very good start. Are they promoting the station at all in the Boston area? I would have thought they would get the ball rolling prior to the first exhibition game, just to make sure everything was running smoothly. Then again, maybe they're counting on people to tune in today out of curiosity - after D&H - and leave it on for the pre-game and then the game itself.

As far as an online presence, forget it. The only way I even knew they had a website was from this thread. I googled "WBZ FM" and all I found was stories about the new station. After I found the link I went back and saw their site is listed half way down on the third page - and even there is very easy to miss.

 

[Rob0729]

Doesn't sound like they are off to a very good start. Are they promoting the station at all in the Boston area? I would have thought they would get the ball rolling prior to the first exhibition game, just to make sure everything was running smoothly. Then again, maybe they're counting on people to tune in today out of curiosity - after D&H - and leave it on for the pre-game and then the game itself.

As far as an online presence, forget it. The only way I even knew they had a website was from this thread. I googled "WBZ FM" and all I found was stories about the new station. After I found the link I went back and saw their site is listed half way down on the third page - and even there is very easy to miss.

They could be doing a soft launch. Many radio stations that change formats do a soft launch where they make a change with little fanfare and then work out the kinks a bit for a few months and then do a bigger promotional pitch. This could be their strategy.

From a promotional standpoint, they are in a better position than WEEI since WBZ TV will be able to advertise the station during Patriots games, during Sports Final, and during targets shows on their primetime line up. The fact they haven't been pitching the station on TV yet tells me that they are doing a soft launch and probably will start the promotional push at the start of the Patriots' season. I still think the station will be far more Patriots leaning tham WEEI based on their line up and they will probably market that.

 

[Patriot Power]

BS. Felger when he left to do ESPN 890 was very popular in this town and a Patriots ball washer. He didn't start to become the contrarian until Borges started to come on and people were calling in like crazy to fight with him. Even Boston Sports Media watch points out that Felger's show was good at the beginning and then changed when he went after ratings by becoming Borges Jr. and their job is to watch the media.

Felger is about the ratings. If his Borges Jr. act doesn't attract ratings he will dump it.

This is so wrong its not funny. Popular guy ? Before he left for 890, you don't remember his branding on the Big Show as 'the douchebag', the guy who would take beating after beating on the Whiner Line for his opinions and stances on the show? The guy who coined the phrase 'ball-washers' ? Ron Borges had nothing to do with this perceived change, it was there from the beginning. And oh by the way, Ron Borges was on his 890 show within the first month, so the 'along came Ron Borges' theory is yet another myth. I remember it well... 8 months into the show, starting with the departure of Viniatieri, he began a quest against the Patriots, calling them cheap, talking about not providing the fans with a good product, and talking about how Bellichick is 'wasting' Brady's years with the team by not spending to the cap (they were a whole 2.5 mil under at the time) and bringing in better players. Oh by the way, that year they lost in the AFCCC game, one series away from another Superbowl. Yeah, the team was really wasting away there Felger.

Boston Sports Media is just as wrong, and I pointed that out in an earlier post. His job is to watch the media ? What job ? He's just another blogger, with the same biases and slanted opinions that plague any other blogger. He wants to hold the Boston Media to higher standards, standards that he himself doesn't adhere to, he's guilty of the same kind of agendas and biases as all of them are, yet I never hear him call himself out. Please, don't give me Bruce Allen, he's a message board poster with a nice shiney web-page, his opinions don't hold any more weight than someone here. He also knows nothing about radio, that much was apparent with some of his Q and A sessions he held when 98.5 was announced. Or some of his suggestions for new radio shows (The Chad Finn and Christopher Gasper show?) Beyond that, he's nice to Felger because Felger emails him on a regular basis (search his archives to confirm that). He's also had an axe to grind with WEEI since that sight was first started, he has in fact made his way on the web by being the go-to site for WEEI bashing. Look at the facts... they've hired two of the most condescending, anti-fan guys in the Boston Media, one guy he's been hyper-critical of in the past (Maz)... and the guy has done nothing but cheerlead for them just because they aren't WEEI. That's honest, unbiased coverage?

There was NO CHANGE in Michael Felger, or his 890 radio show. The people who wanted a change like yourself, plus the WEEI-haters, Bruce Allen included, wanted/want him to succeed against WEEI so badly, that once again they/you're revising history. Anything was better than WEEI, and once Felger crashed and burned in the race, it was time to revise history and make-up this BS about a perceived change in his show, and his quest to be more like WEEI. Thing is... he's been that way all along, it just took a few months for the shiny glare to wear off the new toy.

Stay tuned to Bruce Allen for more unbiased, comprehensive coverage of 98.5. :rolleyes2:

 

[Rob0729]

This is so wrong its not funny. Popular guy ? Before he left for 890, you don't remember his branding on the Big Show as 'the douchebag', the guy who would take beating after beating on the Whiner Line for his opinions and stances on the show? The guy who coined the phrase 'ball-washers' ? Ron Borges had nothing to do with this perceived change, it was there from the beginning. And oh by the way, Ron Borges was on his 890 show within the first month, so the 'along came Ron Borges' theory is yet another myth. I remember it well... 8 months into the show, starting with the departure of Viniatieri, he began a quest against the Patriots, calling them cheap, talking about not providing the fans with a good product, and talking about how Bellichick is 'wasting' Brady's years with the team by not spending to the cap (they were a whole 2.5 mil under at the time) and bringing in better players. Oh by the way, that year they lost in the AFCCC game, one series away from another Superbowl. Yeah, the team was really wasting away there Felger.

Boston Sports Media is just as wrong, and I pointed that out in an earlier post. His job is to watch the media ? What job ? He's just another blogger, with the same biases and slanted opinions that plague any other blogger. He wants to hold the Boston Media to higher standards, standards that he himself doesn't adhere to, he's guilty of the same kind of agendas and biases as all of them are, yet I never hear him call himself out. Please, don't give me Bruce Allen, he's a message board poster with a nice shiney web-page, his opinions don't hold any more weight than someone here. He also knows nothing about radio, that much was apparent with some of his Q and A sessions he held when 98.5 was announced. Or some of his suggestions for new radio shows (The Chad Finn and Christopher Gasper show?) Beyond that, he's nice to Felger because Felger emails him on a regular basis (search his archives to confirm that). He's also had an axe to grind with WEEI since that sight was first started, he has in fact made his way on the web by being the go-to site for WEEI bashing. Look at the facts... they've hired two of the most condescending, anti-fan guys in the Boston Media, one guy he's been hyper-critical of in the past (Maz)... and the guy has done nothing but cheerlead for them just because they aren't WEEI. That's honest, unbiased coverage?

There was NO CHANGE in Michael Felger, or his 890 radio show. The people who wanted a change like yourself, plus the WEEI-haters, Bruce Allen included, wanted/want him to succeed against WEEI so badly, that once again they/you're revising history. Anything was better than WEEI, and once Felger crashed and burned in the race, it was time to revise history and make-up this BS about a perceived change in his show, and his quest to be more like WEEI. Thing is... he's been that way all along, it just took a few months for the shiny glare to wear off the new toy.

Stay tuned to Bruce Allen for more unbiased, comprehensive coverage of 98.5. :rolleyes2:

Felger was bashed because of his lack of baseball knowledge on WEEI. Felger used to embarrass himself talking baseball and the callers would ridicule him and tell him to stick with football. He did have a contrarian attitude about the Sox because I am guessing he didn't like talking Sox. Felger was still considered the guy at that point who used to embarrass Borges and Cafardo on Sports Final shooting down their anti-Patriots rants.

And Felger haters like you want to label Felger as always being a douchebag and forgets him being a major Patriots ball washer and biggest defender especially during the entire Brady/Bledsoe thing where Borges and Cafardo would bash Belichick for sport. You are accusing me of the same thing you are doing.

Personally, I never hated Felger even when he did his Borges Jr act, but he used to battle it out with Borges himself on ESPN 890 in his early days there. I don't have a revised memory because I unlike you actually listened to the show.

 

[Patriot Power]

Brady/Bledsoe was 2001. Felger went on the air on 890 in 2005. To quote Roger Clemens, you're misremembering... Felger was already well down his path to being this pot-stirring contrarian when he went to 890, for both the Red Sox, and the Patriots. I didn't listen to the show ? I cited some specific examples for you there, where are yours?. Here's another for you... Felger went on the air stating that his show was going to be talking sports and not bogged down in the minutae of Manny-talk or what-not, and yet within a few months he's running Monty Beisel clips, poking fun at the guy and cackling like a school-girl for days on end.

Before he left, he coined the term 'ball-washers' to distance himself from the EEI guys who he felt were too overzealous in their praise of the Patriots... oh by the way who had just finished winning their 3rd championship in 4 years.

And yes, if you want to assign it to me, I'll wear the term 'Felger-hater' with pride... he's been looking down his nose at fans for years, now they partner him with a guy more svarmy than he is and I'm supposed to support that ? Sorry, not happening. But the show never changed to become more like WEEI... people just got tired of the act, and the 0.0's followed.

 

[JD10367]

Well, I tuned in this morning, and while listening to a replay of Pats' Super Bowl wins was nice, I hope they quickly move on to actually discussing sports instead of beating their chest about being the Patriots' flagship station and the first FM sports station in Boston.

BTW, down in RI I pulled in the 98.5 signal quite easily, probably just as good as I get the 103.7 WEEI one. Don't know how far north and west the signal goes, though.

 

[Rob0729]

Brady/Bledsoe was 2001. Felger went on the air on 890 in 2005. To quote Roger Clemens, you're misremembering... Felger was already well down his path to being this pot-stirring contrarian when he went to 890, for both the Red Sox, and the Patriots. I didn't listen to the show ? I cited some specific examples for you there, where are yours?. Here's another for you... Felger went on the air stating that his show was going to be talking sports and not bogged down in the minutae of Manny-talk or what-not, and yet within a few months he's running Monty Beisel clips, poking fun at the guy and cackling like a school-girl for days on end.

Before he left, he coined the term 'ball-washers' to distance himself from the EEI guys who he felt were too overzealous in their praise of the Patriots... oh by the way who had just finished winning their 3rd championship in 4 years.

And yes, if you want to assign it to me, I'll wear the term 'Felger-hater' with pride... he's been looking down his nose at fans for years, now they partner him with a guy more svarmy than he is and I'm supposed to support that ? Sorry, not happening.

So Felger is a douche because he constantly played Monty Beisel acting like a douche to Tom Curran. Well, how about when WEEI would do the same thing with Rick Pitino's "Fellowship of the miserable" or Mo Vaughn's "It ain't about the money" or Terry Glenn's "Did. D-I-D. I did". Endlessly poking fun at an athlete making an idiot out of himself on tape is not exclusive to Felger. WEEI does it all the time. And this time, Beisel attacked one of his friends in the media. I blame Beisel anyway since he is a PR man himself.

Felger didn't bash the Pats because there was nothing really to bash when he was WEEI before he left. Even Borges had cooled his engines during that stretch. And just because he didn't lack any dignity and proclaim his man crush on Brady like Pete Sheppard has, doesn't mean he was a contrarian. People in this town are so sensitive when it comes to the Patriots that any criticism no matter how valid is considered bashing. Everyone wants cheerleaders and yahoo homers rather than true analysis.

As for remembering specific events on ESPN890, anyone can remember the extremes. Especially misremembering

 

[Patriot Power]

So Felger is a douche because he constantly played Monty Beisel acting like a douche to Tom Curran. Well, how about when WEEI would do the same thing with Rick Pitino's "Fellowship of the miserable" or Mo Vaughn's "It ain't about the money" or Terry Glenn's "Did. D-I-D. I did". Endlessly poking fun at an athlete making an idiot out of himself on tape is not exclusive to Felger. WEEI does it all the time. And this time, Beisel attacked one of his friends in the media. I blame Beisel anyway since he is a PR man himself.

To quote the Jumbo Shrimp... you're making my point. He was always that way, there was no higher standard the first year - there was no shift to become more like WEEI, he's been the same jerk all along.

And I've got no problem running soundbites and giggling about it... but that's the kind of thing he himself claimed he was going to get away from, "more sports talk, less grab-ass"... that's a quote from him on his first day on 890.

Look, I don't think you're a bad guy for wanting the new station to succeed, I want them to succeed as well (maybe not the Maz/Felger show, but the rest is fine), I just wish it could be done without revising history... and I'm going to call it like it is, especially because you won't find that from people like Bruce Allen, who is probably rubbing his nipples in a brand new 98.5 t-shirt today.

 

[QB12]

You can also listen to this station with the app "AOL Radio" on your iPhone. AOL Radio is free on the App store (iTunes).

QB12

 

[MoLewisrocks]

Felger was bashed because of his lack of baseball knowledge on WEEI. Felger used to embarrass himself talking baseball and the callers would ridicule him and tell him to stick with football. He did have a contrarian attitude about the Sox because I am guessing he didn't like talking Sox. Felger was still considered the guy at that point who used to embarrass Borges and Cafardo on Sports Final shooting down their anti-Patriots rants.

And Felger haters like you want to label Felger as always being a douchebag and forgets him being a major Patriots ball washer and biggest defender especially during the entire Brady/Bledsoe thing where Borges and Cafardo would bash Belichick for sport. You are accusing me of the same thing you are doing.

Personally, I never hated Felger even when he did his Borges Jr act, but he used to battle it out with Borges himself on ESPN 890 in his early days there. I don't have a revised memory because I unlike you actually listened to the show.

You're the one who refuses to see Felger for what he is, an opportunistic little duche bag who will say or do whatever it takes to attempt to drive his ratings be it in print, on air or on screen. And he's been this way since 2004 - the year he found out Holley landed the best seller. The year he began to appear on WEEI as more than a football commentator. And the most annoying part of his act is he knows better.

He once had it all explained to him, and had access, and he pissed it all away in favor of developing a devoted niche fanboy following naive enough to buy in to his whiny anything is bettter than being a homer schtick. He panders to the 20 somethings who have known little beyond championships by poking sticks at the very teams who have created a generation of entitled little twits... You love him because he champions your own self absorbed image as the guys too smart to buy all this ballwashing of champions...who realize that the simple fact that they don't win it all every year ample proof they are not above pseudo-objective analysis from the self proclaimed enlightened segment of their fanbase that probably knows the least about what it takes to win apart from in Madden...

I listened to the show too. I heard Michael's constant attempts to stir the pot with his shiny new anti patriot ESPN insiders and bitter Herald cronies. Which was all he had given he'd blown access a while before and to tell the truth he didn't have time for access, he was too busy flitting from radio gig to TV gig spewing objectivity...born of zero remaining access and totally dependent on toady insight. He bashed them when they didn't spend to his liking, he bashed them when they brought in talent, he bashed them for doing the very things he used to laud them for.

Michael Felger went from being the guy who prided himself on being truly objective and getting it right and explaining how and why it worked to the masses, to the guy who was willing to do whatever it took to get ahead. Which is why he jumped at the chance to bring a disgraced Borges back to the airwaves and he ultimately defended a guy who rolled the career suicide dice on the eve of a NEP superbowl... By then even a Kraft engineered bailout (Patriot Friday's) designed to force him some access wasn't enough to save his sorry ass. And as annoying as Pete can be he pales in comparison to Felger's wannabe producer boys and their inane banter that grew to hour long segments of filling in for Felger's increasing absences and the lack of any guest not an equally mind numbingly bitter mediot.

Has his abject failure the first time out caused him to rethink his approach? Reading his self described duche bag mailbags at WEEI I have little reason to believe so. You on the other hand seem almost desperate to. Good luck with that. I hope you are right. I'm just not naive enough to believe you are. Michael is not willing to make any sacrifices or invest the time and attention to this venture to warrant it's having a fighting chance at success. He's just taking another opportunistic shot. And when it fails his fanboy nation will all blame it again on someone or something else. He's becomming like the Drew Bledsoe of the airwaves...

 

[Rob0729]

You're the one who refuses to see Felger for what he is, an opportunistic little duche bag who will say or do whatever it takes to attempt to drive his ratings be it in print, on air or on screen. And he's been this way since 2004 - the year he found out Holley landed the best seller. The year he began to appear on WEEI as more than a football commentator. And the most annoying part of his act is he knows better.

He once had it all explained to him, and had access, and he pissed it all away in favor of developing a devoted niche fanboy following naive enough to buy in to his whiny anything is bettter than being a homer schtick. He panders to the 20 somethings who have known little beyond championships by poking sticks at the very teams who have created a generation of entitled little twits... You love him because he champions your own self absorbed image as the guys too smart to buy all this ballwashing of champions...who realize that the simple fact that they don't win it all every year ample proof they are not above pseudo-objective analysis from the self proclaimed enlightened segment of their fanbase that probably knows the least about what it takes to win apart from in Madden...

I listened to the show too. I heard Michael's constant attempts to stir the pot with his shiny new anti patriot ESPN insiders and bitter Herald cronies. Which was all he had given he'd blown access a while before and to tell the truth he didn't have time for access, he was too busy flitting from radio gig to TV gig spewing objectivity...born of zero remaining access and totally dependent on toady insight. He bashed them when they didn't spend to his liking, he bashed them when they brought in talent, he bashed them for doing the very things he used to laud them for.

Michael Felger went from being the guy who prided himself on being truly objective and getting it right and explaining how and why it worked to the masses, to the guy who was willing to do whatever it took to get ahead. Which is why he jumped at the chance to bring a disgraced Borges back to the airwaves and he ultimately defended a guy who rolled the career suicide dice on the eve of a NEP superbowl... By then even a Kraft engineered bailout (Patriot Friday's) designed to force him some access wasn't enough to save his sorry ass. And as annoying as Pete can be he pales in comparison to Felger's wannabe producer boys and their inane banter that grew to hour long segments of filling in for Felger's increasing absences and the lack of any guest not an equally mind numbingly bitter mediot.

Has his abject failure the first time out caused him to rethink his approach? Reading his self described duche bag mailbags at WEEI I have little reason to believe so. You on the other hand seem almost desperate to. Good luck with that. I hope you are right. I'm just not naive enough to believe you are. Michael is not willing to make any sacrifices or invest the time and attention to this venture to warrant it's having a fighting chance at success. He's just taking another opportunistic shot. And when it fails his fanboy nation will all blame it again on someone or something else. He's becomming like the Drew Bledsoe of the airwaves...

I have said repeatedly that Felger changed his persona for ratings. I have said I always thought Borges Jr. was an act. I just don't create this imaginary scenario in my mind that he had this vandetta against Michael Holley especially when they wrote two very different books. Most radio personalities create an on the air character. I seriously don't think Pete Sheppard is as dumb as he acts on the radio. I know that Jon Meterperal isn't the contrarian he pretends to be because he does it horribly at times. Same with Felger. I know he is creating an on air personality. Many may not like it, but that is what he is doing.

I just don't hate the guy and I actually think at times his contrarian point of view is the only one that is on point while WEEI worships at the House of Belichick and even think his bad moves are good moves.

I do love how you say Felger is persona non grata in Foxboro, but then say Kraft tried to bail the guy out. Kraft hates him so much he will do anything to help him.

Seriously, your hatred of Felger borders on obsession. You don't like the guy. Others do. You don't have to listen to him. But you hate him so much that you would rather see WEEI have no one challenging them and going back to 20 minutes worth of comercials an hour and not trying. How does that make sense.

Again, like the new station or not, listen to it or not, it has been the best thing that has happened to radio in this market in a long time even before today. WEEI has already made significant changes to make themselves better from seriously cutting down comerical time per hour to making nice with the Globe. Why hate?

 

[swheeler23]

I was trying to listen online but no sound.

 

[pats1]

I was trying to listen online but no sound.

It's finally come on.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

I have said repeatedly that Felger changed his persona for ratings. I have said I always thought Borges Jr. was an act. I just don't create this imaginary scenario in my mind that he had this vandetta against Michael Holley especially when they wrote two very different books.

I just don't hate the guy and I actually think at times his contrarian point of view is the only one that is on point while WEEI worships at the House of Belichick and even think his bad moves are good moves.

I do love how you say Felger is persona non grata in Foxboro, but then say Kraft tried to bail the guy out. Kraft hates him so much he will do anything to help him.

Seriously, your hatred of Felger borders on obsession. You don't like the guy. Others do. You don't have to listen to him. But you hate him so much that you would rather see WEEI have no one challenging them and going back to 20 minutes worth of comercials an hour and not trying. How does that make sense.

Again, like the new station or not, listen to it or not, it has been the best thing that has happened to radio in this market in a long time even before today. WEEI has already made significant changes to make themselves better from seriously cutting down comerical time per hour to making nice with the Globe. Why hate?

Your lack of maturity really shows in this issue. You are the one who is desperate for an alternative that speaks to your POV. You view Fleger through blinders for that sole reason. This one may not. In fact if it does succeed it will probably be because it didn't...

Kraft was throwing a lifeline to ESPN radio because competition is good for his businesses botttom line. He has supported a pre game lineup that could only attract that alternate segment of his demographic...Media has never been his forte, btw, or perhaps he ascribes to the philosophy that there is no such thing as insulting coverage, just more coverage... Thing is this team has been so good for almost a decade now that almost any coverage of it - mismanaged or not - succeeds... Almost.

I don't hate Felger, I resent what he did to get ahead. I simply refuse to see him as anything more than an opportunistic twit. And I choose to point that out to those who continually and most stridently attempt to portray him as something worthwhile.

 

[Deus Irae]

Again, like the new station or not, listen to it or not, it has been the best thing that has happened to radio in this market in a long time even before today. WEEI has already made significant changes to make themselves better from seriously cutting down comerical time per hour to making nice with the Globe. Why hate?

You put these out there, but give no verification that the reason for the changes is the new station. They may be connected, and I wouldn't put it past WEEI to gird itself for battle, but they may have occurred independently for all I know to date. If you've got some verification, I'd love to read about it, particularly the commercial time situation, since that's one that could upset the WEEI sponsors if not handled properly.

On a personal note, I never saw the big deal with not having Globe employees on the station, and I still don't. Why anyone considers that a loss is beyond me, given the alternate means of accessing their opinions and information.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

It's finally come on.

I can't find 'em...just some endless car like commercials that sound like they might be it...

LOL that's it!

Two guys who know more about the game than most players...LOL

Oh boy, Maz telling stories about Francona's reaction to his new co-host...