Comments on: Sox Survive in Toronto

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:37:15 +0000

Yea, sorry, should have made some rational points, instead of throwing out a rant.
I also prefer guest interviewers over callers.

By: Jason Coyote

Jason Coyote — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:35:29 +0000

AOB, your post clearly demonstrates that rational discourse can exist between two people in a sports forum (I do agree with you on good guest interviews vs. callers). We generally agree to disagree, which is ok because at least you didn’t cut me off mid-post with a rant. LOL

By: Angry Old Bastard

Angry Old Bastard — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:35:25 +0000

I agree Jason….I mean, I don’t think you can revolutionize sports talk, it is what it is. I used to listen alot. I guess I just got burned out on it. To me it’s just endless people throwing crap against the wall. (hosts and callers)….I don’t think any of them have any kind of “special knowledge” about sports…I’ll still check in from time to time and try to catch some of the interviews which can be good……But when it’s just hosts and callers?….no thanks.

By: Jason Coyote

Jason Coyote — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:42:29 +0000

Not sure that’s accurate, Patrick. I still believe 98.5 is doing a better job out of the gate with regards to respecting their callers (no matter how idiotic their opinions may be) and the hosts not yelling or talking over each other.

To all – if everyone believes that BZ-FM is merely the same old/same old, I am curious to hear your ideas for revolutionizing sports talk. Although the SportsHub’s changes have been subtle in their seven days of existence, they do exist.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:35:07 +0000

I never expected much out of 98.5, just a copykat of WEEI. Comments here confirm that. Haven’t missed a thing. Too bad, a chance was missed. Again.

By: Angry Old Bastard

Angry Old Bastard — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:34:27 +0000

guys, guys, it’a all just a bunch of NOISE POLLUTION. That goes for WEEI and 98.5….it’s all a bunch of crap and all of them are laughing all the way to the bank. Why would Felger say Beckett is, “mentally weak” you ask?….because he knows it will get the fans(SOME of the fans) all worked up, that’s why….isn’t that the game for just about ALL of these media blowhards?…..from Felger to Shank Shaugnessy to Ron Borges to Tony Mazz to John Tomase….It is the 1st commandment of the sports media…”thou shalt irritate and annoy the fans and they shall come”……don’t take the bait

By: mandb97

mandb97 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:32:15 +0000

Absolutely not, I have been totally excited about the new network. If you had read some of my previous post you will have seen that I felt the new network has had very good start. But for some reason Felger, Tanguay and Mazz have taken some WEEI pills and have gone about yelling and being stupid, everything that WEEI is. I want to listen to WBZ FM not WEEI lite. Felger especially has disappointed me. I used find him smart with good arguments. But now he seems to have taken some lessons from the Glen Ordway School of Broadcasting.

By: Bruce, NV

Bruce, NV — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:33:23 +0000

Are you posting this from Entercom studios, praytell?

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:32:54 +0000

Felger said that Beckett was mentally weak?

That’s like saying an Olympic champion powerlifter is physically weak.

Why does he say stuff like that? This is why I have a lot less respect for him today than I did 5 or 6 years ago when he was a balanced, basically agenda-free breath of fresh air in the local print media, and especially on what was then an agenda-driven-hack-populated Patriots beat.

But the last few years he’s been all about being the biggest media whore in town, and that prods him to make these kinds of ridiculous “being contrarian/outrageous just for the sake of it” statements.

It’s too bad really.

By: mandb97

mandb97 — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:04:32 +0000

I agree with you. It is a better alternative but please do not dumb it down to the EEI level. You do not have to do scream and holler for the first two hours of your show over something most people care very little about. Also please look at Bruce’s twitter update on the right hand side. How does Felger open his show? He says Beckett is mentally weak. That’s right, the same guy who lead two teams to World Series championships and despite a bad oblique injury, would not give up the ball during the playoffs and did his best during the playoffs. Yeah, he’s mentally weak.

Oh by the way since you brought it up who was better for the Jets last year Favre or Clements? How about this year? Would you take Favre or the combination of Jackson and Rosenfelds? Guess what, Favre is better. If the market says he’s worth $12.5 million per year. I say good for him.