Meterparel is the morning flash guy for the Dennis and Callahan program on WEEI.
He is known for taking purposefully obtuse stances against the local teams for the sake of controversy. He went on a ridiculous run during last year’s Red Sox postseason, picking against the Red Sox for a number of inane reasons on a daily basis, only to come back the next day with a new one.
Boston College is exempt from his antics, as he serves as the play-by-play man for the football team of the school. Last season he infamously missed an important play during a game because he was in the bathroom. In the past he served as the voice of the New England Revolution, and the Triple A Charlotte Knights while working down in Charlotte.
He joined the Dennis and Callahan show in 2000.
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There are no words in the English language (except for a few Anglo-Saxon ones) to describe the suckitude of this cretin.
Back-stabbing weasel.
Doesn’t give NHL scores in the morning.
Made on-air sexual innuendos about Ray Bourque’s daughter, then in high school.
“Disapprove!”
Lets put aside his horrible shtick in the morning with the two racists, Dennis and Callahan, and concentrate just on his play by play ability calling BC football.
Doing that, Meterperel is the single worst play-by-play guy I have ever experienced. Virtually EVERYONE I know who has ever heard his awful “TAKE A BOW!!!” and horrible voice inflections, bad preparation, terrible attempts at being hip, dumb nicknames and just his downright annoying demeanor agrees. He is literally unlistenable. I like BC football, but if I am in my car I can’t stomach a listen. I may be able to tune in to listen to get a score, but I can’t take more than a couple minutes. Seriously, you being his friend has clouded what you are listening to. I mean, he is a disaster. He is worse than guys doing high school games on cable access. And lets not forget he is completely unprofessional and a liar, faking an appearance in Kansas City when he wasn’t there when he used to do Revolution soccer (he was actually in Foxboro watching on a monitor). He is the single worst commentator in the United States doing sports broadcasting.
When is BC going to wake up and can this guy?
Typical smarmy entitled rich kid. Adds nothing to D&C or any other show he appears on. BC should be ashamed of itself for hiring this dickweed to do their football games. I found myself rooting against “Matty Heisman” simply because of Meter. I hate him with the intensity of a thousand suns. DISAPPROVE!!!
A horrible, pimply voiced piece of shiit. Embodies the very worst in sports radio.
Wait until the real haters start posting.
There’s really absolutely no need whatsoever for Meterparel’s voice or opinion to be broadcast anywhere on this earth. His existence as a Boston sports “personality” is pointless. He’s not funny, he’s not informative, he’s not interesting, he’s not smart.
The. Worst.
Find a redeeming quality. Go ahead. I dare you.
‘He’s not fat’ doesn’t count.
He is the only member of the morning show to not equate a gorilla to black schoolchildren.
I agree with all the above comments, yet he’s still the best part of the D&C show.
The absolute worst of the worst at WEEI, and that’s saying something. Probably a victim of wedgies and being stuffed in school lockers in his youth. DISAPPROVE x 1000000
for the record dale arnold made on air sexual innuendos about michelle wie, then in high school.
Sure that wasn’t John Dennis?
In any event, Dale’s gunt has rendered him asexual.
i remember dale distinctly.
I think both Dennis and Callahan made those comments about Wie, IIRC.
He’s the reason I can’t listen to the morning show! Imagine that! Lets face it the only reason he got the BC Football gig is because he works for EEI.
APPROVE!
He seems to enjoy sports, he’s passionate, he even watches college sports.
A bad act both on D&C and the BC games for reasons I can’t quite understand. You’d think at some point the guy would figure out that he’s just plain annoying and make some changes.
The suckiest suck who ever sucked. I mean, he just plain sucks.
A smarmy, yukking bush-leaguer that for some unknown reason thinks he has what it takes to be a big time play-by-play guy who in reality sounds like he’s always doing a bad Dennis Miller impersonation.
Can you add a “super-disapprove” button?
i heard him a few weeks back not able to say what peyas are. is there another jew on the face of the earth that doesn’t know what peyas are? extrapolate that to sports and it’s all you need to know.
He also couldn’t explain what “kosher” meant, and seems to know more about US Weekly stories and celebrity couples than he does about sports.
Where to start? The phoney voice? The smarmy manner? The inane comments? The hypocritical attitude? He and his dimwit producer love to play that Dino “barking” sound effect over Joe Castig’s radio calls in the morning but of course he was a drooling sycophant when he worked with Joe during spring training. Why would any organization – much less a major college football program – consider him qualified to do play by play? I have noticed that he’s dropped the “gay” persona he was using a few years back; maybe he thinks it’s unbecoming for a married father.
Disapprove! Take a bow while you’re standing on the roof of a tall building, Jon!
A dunce sports flash guy making fun of a mediorce play by play announcer does not surprise me.
Bruce alluded to it, but let us count the ways:
Meterparel’s Baseball Predictions from September/October 2007:
-The Yankees would catch the Red Sox.
-Manny Ramiriez would never come back from his injury.
-The Angels would give the Red Sox trouble.
-The Yankees would beat the Indians.
-The Indians would beat the Red Sox.
-Jeff Francis would give the Red Sox trouble in Game One because he’s a lefty.
it’s not even worth getting angry about. He writes a script of contrarian comments to bait callers into arguing with him. Credibility = 0.0%
His job is to make his minders–Dennis and Callahan–look good. He does that job well. Anybody would look good when this clown is the measuring stick.
DISAPPROVE.
He thought that Tedy Bruschi was being selfish for wanting to return after his stroke.
Before you go to the next comment, just let that one sink in for a second.
He’s selfish for subjecting people to his voice every day.
I think it’s selfish that he demands oxygen like other human beings.
A HUGE disapprove for Eddie Munster. There is not another radio sports personality out there with worse ‘negatives.’ He is the very epitome of a ‘Rodeo Clown.’ When Dennis or Callahan fall off their bull during their program, ‘Rodeo Clown’ Eddie Munster is right there to do something utterly stupid or say something completely lame to deflect the attention. His BC play-by-play is THE worst imaginable; shouted in a high-octave voice that is akin to scratching nails on a blackboard.
Let’s review: Looks like Eddie Munster, says stupid things in a ‘Rodeo Clown’ sort of way, and is the worst play-by-play man EVER.
In point of absolute fact, the only ‘APPROVE’ ratings will come from ‘Eddie’ voting for himself, or his family coming to his aid.
“Twerp”
A giant bag of disapprove on this one!!
I just can’t get past that smarmy voice, that
comes off as a person talking with a clothes pin
on their nose.
Haven’t listened to that show in a very long time!
Sucks…just sucks!
What is this, some kind of joke? 3 Jowls down!!!
In spite of having no redeeming qualities, still only the third worst person on WEEI in the mornings. Stupid as Burton, emptily contrarian as Halloran, smarmy as Dennis, all wrapped up in a whiny voiced D-bag shaped package.
Wow..You captured my own feelings toward those three imbeciles perfectly..
If he was a hockey player he’d be Tim Thomas, a sturdy backbone to the morning team.
If he was a baseball player he’d be Trot Nixon, not the most skilled, but he’ll never be outworked, gritty, does the little things, founding member of the dirty hat brigade.
If he was an author, he’d be Judy Blume. Are you there God, it’s me Meter?
Hell Yeah he’s there Meter and he’s giving you a galactic thumbs up!
Your comment (however wrong it obviously is) was clear in your first post. The need to post something else is just… Meter-like.
Sigh. Where to begin.
First, the objective
o sports flashes frequently omit game scores
o sports flashes frequently omit entire sports
o rarely chosen to sit in “the big seat” when other
show regulars are on vacation.
o missed key plays in football game to go to bathroom
o pretended to be in Kansas City for soccer game
o give and take with callers is not his strong suit
o overall sports knowledge questionable beyond recent
“fantasy sports” results.
Then, the subjective
This guy is a self serving, self loving hack of the highest degree. Everything he does smacks of trying to create another role or opportunity for himself. Tries to draw attention to himself at all costs and in every assignment. Awkward at BEST as a fill in host on the rare occasions he is allowed into the “big seat.” He’s the friggin Bert Convy of Boston Sports Media – won’t go away even though he has no talent because he MUST be connected to someone, somewhere. He inspires listeners to root AGAINST the team for which he is doing play by play. His broadcast style is at all times forced, he is unable to simply converse and his fake laughter is unbearable. Obviously nervous with an open mic in front of him and frequently resorts to use of oddly placed “Yes!” as a means of covering dead-air as he is incapable of thinking of anything else to say.
Somewhere, Eddie is saying “My son got FIRED from that hell hole and they let THIS idiot stay on?” For once, I agree with Eddie.
Disapprove
He’s very good at being a self serving, self loving hack of the highest degree.
If you can only do one thing, do it well!
I think Meter just posted at /12:32:46
So we don’t offend anyone’s sensibilities, I will keep my remarks brief. I wouldn’t piiss on Meter if he was on fire. I wish he flew with Thurman Munson. DISAPPROVE.
Hand picked by Gerry Callahan… nuff said.
DISAPPROVE!
Very poor play-by-play man. One of the worst I’ve ever heard in fact. It’s hysterical to me that he actually believe he’s qualified to take on such a high-profile role as radio play-by-play man for the Boston Red Sox….the BOSTON RED SOX!! He can’t even make people want to listen to Boston College football games, even though their the only big-time college football program within 500 miles.
Staking out contrarian positions for the sake of being contrarian is what we all hated about Ron Borges, but at least with Borges you had the idea that he knew something about football, even if his anti-Belichick agenda always was getting in the way. With Meterparel, you just get the feeling that he knows NOTHING about which he speaks. His anti-Red Sox schtick last October was transparent and beyond embarrassing.
Very large disapprove from me.
Dissapprove! He is “ass-paper” man. I remember one morning the guys on AAF were bitching and moning about somebody in the building who was “building a nest” every morning and then leaving it there for the next person to clean-up. Guess who? I hate those people. Tells me something about the kind of person they really are.
This is idiot is what is exactly wrong with WEEI. He and his fake radio voice. F him. DISAPPROVE.
Absolutely the worst. His attempt at sounding like an announcer with his gutteral “big boy” announcer voice is pathetic.
Ubertool. Disapprove. Despite the smarminess, I suspect he is keeping his head just above a deep pool of self-loathing.
why would he think he can’t do sox play by play? geffner did.
Only three more hours until I can go home and disapprove on another computer.
Best line of the day!
Finally Bruce!
Meter is probably the dumbest human being to exist. It says something when hes considered good in the AM compared to his play-by-play. I dont know how he got that gig but he is damn awful at play-by-play.
Just plain awful, needs to ban from the US.
Come on people — Meter is running 4 point AHEAD of Tomase on approvals. There is still work to be done…
Horrible at play-by-play. Horrible at the flashes. Horrible at hosting when he sat in the big chair. Overall, one of the worst personalities on local sports radio.
Rotten to the core.
I wish I had four hands so I could give him four thumbs down.
DISAPPROVE.
Jortsfather, when not speaking in the 3rd person, is an Approve! machine. However, the machine farted at me this AM when I saw the name of JMP. He is the worst, prob still wears rolled up jorts and is offers zero to the station.
1,000,000 Disapproves
The worst. “You pay me for my opinion.” Enough said.
DISAPPROVE
He seems to revel in his own ineptitude. Look up the word
“grating” in the dictionary and you’ll see a front a side view of Meter. Must have received many a well-earned pounding in school. That probably explains a lot. Actually getting to post this is cathartic.
Where would Italian food, one of the greatest cuisines be without grated parmesan reggiano or pecorino romano.
Grating is great.
Disapprove! (ad infinitum)
Completely without talent. Typical ‘eei flash ignoramus, in the booth to play the resident stooge (see also Sheppard). Fancies himself the next Borges &/or Tomase with his contrived contrarian shtick.
At least he has ambition and goals.
Let’s not forget what a wonderful job starting up the bandwagon for getting Nomar outta here… He is the reason I stopped taking New Englnad Sports Tonight seriously… Disapprove!
If he did start that bandwagon, that’s at least one point in his favor. Have you followed Nomah’s career since he left Boston?
This guy takes smarmy to a whole new level! Saw him on ComcastSports last week and his opinion is Lowell is done. This was after the first game that he came off of the DL! He sucks.
DISAPPROVE!
At least Callahan is genuinely a racist and Dennis genuinely a blowhard. There is nothing AT ALL authentic about this pinhead. He’s like a WWE creation, but due to his spindly frame, he’d have to be a manager or an announcer. That’s it- he’s the Mean Gene Okerlund of the blown out port-a-john that is the Boston sports media. Contrarian for no reason against the local teams, unless you’re wearing maroon and gold. If so, he’ll gobble you down like the kielbasa queen. Like Rocky bellowing from the snowy mountaintops, I offer my leather-lunged best- DISAPPROVE! DIS-AP-PROVE!
I have never had a bad time listening to him do PBP for an Eagles or Revolution game.
Not once have I heard him make a bad call. And the pipes on this guy! No complaints there.
You must have missed his over-the-top TD call last season followed by Pete Cronin breaking the news to him that the ball didn’t cross the goal line.
oh, I wouldn’t say I missed it
I didn’t hear it, I’ve never heard any of his play by play, but I haven’t exactly missed it
ill take the morning crew over at 890, adam jones, kevin winter, and bob picoozi (sp?)
sometimes you get scores you don’t need or care about with the national guys, but on the whole straight professionalism
I’ve seen announcers suck before, but he and his morning show companions are the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.
And he sucks most of all.
It is because of talent like Meter that I listen to WEEI religiously.
When I was younger I’d listen all the time, as I grew older and more disillusioned I’d listen less and less. Now unless I’m with an older family member where it’s easier to just go along than to argue about the loss of interest, or on those few special days of the year where the nostalgic heartstrings pull and it feels like on Super Bowl week or World Series week I should be listening to sports radio. Despite the push of science and reason demonstrating that it is a lost cause, somehow in those times the pull of faith is too strong and I think, this week, if only this week I’ll listen to the sermons about Manny by the high priests of sloth, envy and gluttony. Only to leave again until the next time there is a big event and I have faith that ‘this time it will be different, how can they bitch about Francona after he performed miracles winning two World Series’. But they do, and never again will I listen I say, but then it is Easter and the Sox have just started their season and I just tune in to hear the game …
Meter does in fact = ‘No Pointe.’
You humble me with such a grand comparison. But no I am simply one of the millions, and millions of Meteorites.
p.s. You’re either a Meteorite or an Asteroid
20% approve? For all of their bashing of blogs, the trogdolytes over at ‘EEI sure are good at stuffing the ballot box.
We expected better from you, men of Wolfe.
A hearty disapprove for Gerry Callahan’s find. It’s been stated already much more eloquently, but I’d love to reiterate it. He has no redeeming qualities at all, atrocious big phony announcer voice, horrible at the sports flashes, thinks he is hilarious when in reality he’s lamer than Tiny Tim, even contrarians shun his opinions as too ludicrous. He’s not even trusted to host the show when one of the regulars is out, instead they’ll turn to such talents as Steve Burton or Larry Johnson. The only reason Meter got the BC Football gig was so that Jason Wolfe could stick it to Ted Sarandis one more time. Callahan should return him to whatever Carolina backwater he dredged him out of.
and if you’re listening Jason Wolfe .. 3 words: key man insurance
get it for Meter!
He’s as deep as he is wide.
Thinks working at THE #1 SPORTS TALK STATION IN AMERICA somehow qualifies him as announcer material. Using this logic I should consider myself an automobile by simply standing in my garage.
A turd’s turd, devoid of original thought or sports knowledge, stole Mike Breen’s flash boy act from the Imus show.
Couldn’t find his ass in a dark bathroom without a flashlight and instructions.
best personality on the station…funny and not a friggin homer like the rest of them and the callers…approve!!!
Mrs. Meterparel
The worst Boston has to offer in the electronic media world. By a country mile. He is terrible at everything he does – flash duties, pbp, guest host in the AM. He’s the kind of guy Hollywood casts when they want you to root against the nerd.
Absolutely love you guys today!! Great stuff and one hundred and ten percent on the money.
I only wish Bruce had picked another Monday to do Meter because I’m too busy at work this week to deliver the mile-long laundry list of foibles this Sports Spawn of Satan deserves, although I think that ‘smarmy’, ‘self-serving’, ‘grating’ and ‘weasel’ sum it up quite nicely.
forgot that he had stole breen’s act. is anything on weei’s morning show not ripped off from some other rival show or station? even when they were edgy they turned out to be pussies.
The reason so many people hate Meter is the same reason so many hate Gene Simmons of KISS — anti-semitism!
Meter’s got a big bankroll and lifetime security ($250,000 per annum plus BC and commercials).
You’ll be listening to him for the next 30 years. Meanwhile, Meter will have three mansions.
As one of just a few Jews in Boston sports media, Meter is subject to blatant anti-semetic attacks. He is a modern day Rosa Parks, who will never back down.
By the way, Bruce is “working DOWN in Charlotte” the same as “working in Charlotte?”
I think 5 random people making $30,000 a year contribute more to society than Meter.
Davey, “a modern day Rosa Parks”? You need extensive professional help, you anti-dentite.
just back from my anti-semitism meeting and wanted to check in with a disapprove.
not talented. his true persona is the only thing uglier than his on air character.
I disapprove of my radio for being able to carrying his weak signal. He is the definition of “grenade tosser” and “pot stirrer”. He looks like a vampire reject from the set of “Blade”. Ever since I moved to Western MA, I have avoided the AM show due to what he calls a “voice” now being in stereo. His opinions are so contrived and scripted, I don’t even know how people can call in angry to the show and argue with him. I’d rather watch and listen to 40 straight hours of Spygate and Barry Bonds stories featuring Pedro Gomez and Merril Hodge.
He’s so pitiful, I actually like Pop Looney on JT the Brick now.
A Wal-Mart door greeter who got lucky.
I too would like to thank all of you posters. It’s been a tough, hectic Monday here at work and for the last 10 minutes, I’ve been laughing my ass off with your commentary.
There is no need for me to repeat earlier criticisms, so here is mine. I see him as a pathetic sycophant. We all know them when we see them. They are all too common in high school (although most learn their lesson and eventually grow up). They are the kids who have no redeeming qualities of their own. They are permitted to hang around with guys that they think are cool only because they have brother who will buy beer for them or parents with a pool or some such lame reason. Most people outgrow that stage after they eventually get the crap kicked out of them by each of these supposed “friends”. I see Meter doing a very lame attempt at mimicking the boorish behavior of D+C, looking through the glass at them, snickering at his own stupid and insulting on-air comments hoping to see the two of them snicker back. It’s bad enough that he is a sycophant. That he has chosen these two losers as the object of his desperate attempt for some kind of acceptance is what lowers it all to the level of “pathetic”. Disapprove? Oh yeah.
Meterparel = McLovin
Disapprove vehemently, but admittedly my rating is based on his work from two years ago, since I have not listened to one second of D&C in two years. And I must say, the sky is bluer, my coffee tastes better, and the morning commute is more tolerable ever since. And judging by these comments, I haven’t missed out on anything ……
Amen.
131 approvals so far????
How many are from ‘EEI nitwits trying to keep one of they own from totally drowning in this poll??? There’s no way he can get triple digit approvals!!!!
Agree with all the negatives above. Cant say it much better or any different.
Fake voice, fake opinions. A wanna-be.
If Meter were a woman he would have Pam Anderson’s breasts with Ruth Buzzy’s face and hairnet.
Blows chunks.
Worst play by play man ever.
I will say nothing was funnier than listening to him get Challenger and Callender confused on the same play time and again. I used to be amazed how Challenger would go in motion, pick up the blitzer to give Ryan time, and make a catch 20 yards down the field on the same play.
No matter what METER gets your attention & makes you think. isn’t that what sportsradio is all about it? Plus you gotta admit he is entertaining!
The only thing this little turd ever made me “think” about was how many ways I’d like to pummel his scrawny arse. You have to be kidding me.
He’s the polar opposite of entertaining.
DISAPPROVE…a complete and total ass clown…My favorite “Meter Moment”?…..Patriots DESTROY Green Bay a couple of years ago 35-0….Meter’s big observation on Monday Morning?…”well, what I take from that game is,THE PATRIOTS CAN’T BEAT GOOD TEAMS!!”…..a damned fool, nothing more, nothing less
The only local sports media personality worse is stearns….
A mealy-mouthed little douche of the highest order. About as funny as a wet fart. I’d rather sponge bath Eddie Andelman at the Hot Dog Safari than have to listen to this tool on a regular basis. The worst of the worst. I wouldn’t be shocked if somehow his family tree links to the Andelmans. If so, that would explain everything.
PHANTOM DISAPPROVE!!!!
Even the Andelmans don’t like Meterparel. The People rest.
RAMONE!!!!!!!!!!! I’D RATHER LISTEN TO EDDIE ANDELMAN FOR 3 STRAIGHT MONTHS THAN LISTEN TO THIS GUY FOR 5 MINUTES!!!!!!!!
What else can I say that hasn’t already been said? Completely fake voice. Doesn’t believe a single contrarian word he says. An even worse play by play guy than Brian Gumbel. Bring back John Rooke for the play by play! Then perhaps I can listen again!
Pinkberry Bill knows he can take Meter in a fight. Nuf said.
Could’ve sworn I heard him mutter “mommy!” when he had his scrawny, smarmy ass reduced to gelateonous goo when Senator Schilling bitch-slapped him to a pulp a year or two ago. Perhaps the single-most enjoyable moment of my EEI listening career. A complete ass-kicking if there ever was one, so painfully one-sided that the KKK duo of D&C retreated to the shadows b/c they knew the twirp was way over his head.
Can’t say a single word without having that 1/2 laugh 1/2 douche-shtick voice, infintely worse than Burton’s cackle and Dale’s ballwashing of any athlete or coach.
$250K a year for his self-serving shtick that goes absolutley nowhere, ignoring sports scores, and hoping D&C pat his muzzle afterward and give him a scooby snack…if “The Office” were auditioning for a resident silver spoon, minimum wage cube farm idiot, who’s job is unknown, but causes everyone great amusement in toying with “the world of me according to Meta”, he may win an Emmy for dooooshiest doooosh in a male(?) category.
He blows.
I live in fear that this ass hat will weasel his way into the Red Sox play by play job. It will be the last day I listen. All phony enthusiasm and contrived catch phases. He has absolutely no feel for the game he is broadcasting. Every play is the most exciting play he has ever seen. He was in the bathroom during the biggest play of the BC season. It is as if he feels the game is being put on solely to showcase his broadcasting acumen, such as it is.
I wish he would just go away and I stopped listening to the morning a long time ago.
Almost 1 of 4 are voting approve?
The South Park guys have it right….one quarter of the population is retarded.
His mother & father & sisters & brothers all clicking ‘Approve’ until their hands bled got them half those votes while Meter sitting at his basement computer gave himself the rest.
I had to finally stop listening to the show. That nasaly, whiny, childlike, defiant act is hard to listen to. I swith back when dale and Holley come on
Disapprove.
…Always painful to watch a wanna-be try to keep up. The contrarian act has gotten old. Not even ALMOST ready for a job doing Red Sox games.
Move dowwwwwwn the bench, Meter.
A total douchebag…I started hating the Eagles for the mere fact he “calls” their games…I hope he gets hit by a bus…
I just can’t past the grunting and moaning in the flash booth. WTF is he doing in there?
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[I have been waiting for this for weeks, and I end up being on the road all day]
The worst of the worse. (Nopointe is a close second)
Zero point Zero Zero
A transparent douche bag.
WEEI should advertise the weeks that puke goes on vacation.
Borrowing from the campaign trail, the sound of Meter’s voice makes a freight train want to take a dirt road.
Eddie Munster look-a-like overdoes it with the phoney radio voice. Meter has risen to a level most geeks like him would die to get to. He should realize less is more. The more exposed he is the less we like him.
80% of the readers think you’re a D-Bag Meter…TAKE A BOW!
Meter is a complete disapprove. The play by play for BC football is awful, and if that gig wasn’t handed to him he wouldn’t be able to tell you a thing about college football just like the 2 morons he works with in the morning. When can he accept the fact the Sox will not go 162-0 each year and Francona won’t be fired at 11 pm each night after a loss. If this guy was the Sox GM they’d go through 70 managers each year, one for each loss. And while I can tolerate an assigned potstirrer like Sheppard, Mustard, etc; I can’t tolerate it when Meter is openly giggling when he does plays that role. This guy should been banished from any broadcasting gig after he got caught doing a “on the road” Revs game from here….
Meterparel is the worst, period.
He has no talent, brings nothing to the table and lacks even the basic skills required for his “sports” related jobs. And he also lacks personality to make people forget that he’s completley unqualified, yet he continues to have a job and be rewarded with play by play. All I can say is that he must have some pretty bad pictures of Mr Wolfe. Then again, Wolfie keeps Dale on board too so maybe he’s the problem here.
loser..nothing more needs to be said
Useless. Makes Sarandis look like a good play-by-play guy. At least you know Ted does his homework and cares about the sport he covers before he annoys you with his play-calling.
I’m certain this tool has not watched more than a highlight of a basketball game in years (which ties him with John Dennis). That these tools can rip the Celtics is laughable, when they can’t even muster up the energy to watch a basketball game.
Meter reminds me of this guy I went to high school with. He couldn’t actually *play* any sports, so he’d come with “controversial” opinions just to “prove” that he knew more than you did (I know that I’ll get crucified on a Boston board for this, but one that I remember was “Rick Middleton is better than Wayne Gretzky.”)
I don’t think anyone from Boston (or anywhere else) would argue that Rick Middleton was better than Wayne Gretsky.
Owned by Kevin Youkilus!!!
Sportsflash tag line:
“I’m Jon Meterperel, and I’m an ass.”
I know I’m like 2 weeks late on this, but I deem this “necessary therapy” and need to have this documented: I 1000% agree with all thoughts above, and could write 10 pages about this media Anti-Christ, but I’ll just stick to the basics:
1. you know “king of all dorks” was that kid in school that we all had that would argue that the Yankees, Canadiens, Lakers, etc. were better, but when he was at home alone would watch the games & root for the boston team..
2. phony voice right outta the CSB manual.
3. Is one of those a-holes that laughs at his own jokes .
3a. The next timehe comes up with something funny on his own will be the first. (I know for a fact that those Friday “King’s Things” he used to do were written for him)
4. has NEVER come up with an original thought on his own. when not completely glomming onto whatever Callahan says, he gets his contrarian argument points from another source, ie: Espn.com or some national outlet that he thinks none of us would figure out.
5. brings Callahans same viewpoints/humor from the radio show to Sports Tonight
6. gets EVERYTHING given to him through his rich daddy’s connections…(daddy works at Fenway now, got his sister a high exec job with the San Jose soccer team the Krafts owned for awhile) why again was it necessary for Meter to do one “random” inning of a Sox game?? I had hoped it was part of a “make-a-wish” deal.
7.loves to hear himself talk, so, when he can’t think on his feet, just repeats whatever D or C just said using different words…
8. tries to get everyone to believe that he knows what he’s talking about by adding a suffix or phrase at the end like, “no doubt about it, Dino” Uh, yeah, Skolnick, there IS a doubt about it, ‘cuz you just completely made that point up!!
9. As totally as one-dimensional a human being as he is, even then the only thing he knows MAYBE is baseball…remember that little game they used to have, “Beat the Meter” or whatever where the callers would trade trivia questions with him? the questions could only be ‘since 1975′…they stopped that ‘cuz they were giving away too many prizes..
10. He acts as if he’s this hip, cool guy’s guy and talks down to callers with that stolen “sarcastic, wise-ass Dennis Leary style personality” that Callahan stole himself, but in the early years they had to teach this 30 yr. old virgin everything: gambling & boozing down at Mohegan, stuff about chicks (you KNOW he married the 1st chick that laid him)when they had hot guests around, etc.
I hope he gets cancer of the larynx so we can be done with him forever, cuz with Wolfie’s sack-ful of 3 yr. contract renewals always reserved for the “boys”, that’s the only way to get rid him!
talentless, lazy, clueless, less in formed than anyone who reads the sports pages, and basically unlistenable
You guys are idiots if you think Meter sux. He is a libraby of sports knowledge and he is extremely clever. He makes me laugh in the morning with his funny throw in lines and he is great on the flash. Have you ever heard jermaine try to do a flash. He’s not D&C but he adds another element to the show that makes it the best sports show in the Boston area. The show needs him and I hope he’s around for a long time.
Meter and the Putt Putt twins are still on the air?
Will wonders never cease!
Call us idiots then, MikeA. (Adams?) Comparing him to Jermaine, a caller and not somebody who actually works in the broadcast profession, is completely irrelevant.
The Ghost of Acres hit the nail on the head with his thorough analysis of JM above (minus the deathwish, I may not like the guy but don’t wish him anything fatal).
If by ‘extremely clever’ you had meant snarky and condoscending, then I would have agreed with you. ‘Another element’ he adds to the EEI morning show is being a whipping boy. If that Iggy guy was a little older and had the cajones to challenge Callahan that would make for some must-listen-to radio, but not Mr. Metric.
And the way he treated the Revolution play-by-play job was a total disgrace to anyone who has ever tried to call a game.
Great voice. He should be a Voice over talent.
No type of real opinion or any analysis. As Curt Schilling aptly put…”there’s a reason why you’re doing the flash every 20 minutes”.
The whole show is weak, and the discourse is very mean spirited, I find. Meterparel is a milquetoast, but he wants to fit in, so he piles on with Dennis and Callahan. He’s a nonfactor.
http://dailyhutch.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-make-dough-but-dont-call-me-doughboy.html