For whatever reason, I’ve started to get very annoyed with sports radio referring to college-aged and rookie professional athletes as “kids”. They probably don’t mean any offense with that, and young adults ages 18-25 aren’t exactly known for their scintillating maturity, but the repeated use of the term has started to rub me the wrong way. It sounds so condescending.
HA…try living in New England where some of the fans who call the sports shows can be some of the most irrational around, especially when it comes to the Red Sox or Patriots.
If the Pats win big, they are greatest team ever, and when they lose, the “Fire Bill”, “Trade Brady”. callers crawl out of the woodwork.
Concerning the Red Sox, for ages there was that ‘curse’ that hung over everything, and no matter how well they did (even in '04 through '07), a lot of the callers were all Doom and Gloom.
Rationality is not the norm around here, it’s extremes. It can be painful to listen to sometimes.
I think you should stop listening because of the aggressive sexism. That’s why I always turn it off within ten minutes.
–Cliffy
Moving to the Game Room from IMHO.
Sports radio is down there with political radio as the worst crap being broadcast. While many of the sportscasters are not actually stupid people, their audience in large part is, and they have to play to that audience to get ratings and ad money.
Half the time, it’s hugely opinionated pontificating by the sportscasters, and the other half of the time, it’s frenzied, foaming at the mouth calls from the semi-literate, mouthbreathing audience.
(there are exceptions; some local shows are pretty good, but they’re usually much more focused than your average afternoon sports show)
There is a local station here that calls itself ESPN 980. It has a FM frequency as well. So, on any given fall Saturday afternoon, an ESPN radio station should have a college football game, right? *Some *sort of college football.
But no. What we get is Maryland basketball. If there is no actual Maryland basketball game on, there is either the pre-game, the post game, or the Coach’s show. Or the recruiting talk show, or the injury report show. I live in Virginia and care fuck-all for Maryland basketball.
They should not call the station ESPN 980 if they can’t be bothered to carry college football on Saturday (or Thursday night for that matter.) In fact it seems that a vast majority of broadcasts other than Mike and Mike in the mornings are some sort of local preemption, rather than what you would expect for ESPN programming.
It’s a D.C. station. Maryland basketball is pretty big in D.C. I mean, you’re probably not happy with all the ads for D.C. restaurants, either, but that’s the price you pay for living out of market.
–Cliffy
A couple of years ago, the local sports talk station here in South Carolina lost the rights to broadcast the Carolina Panthers to a rival station.
So what does the station do to replace the Panthers games? It’s becomes part of the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network. Never mind Dallas is 1,000 miles away. They would broadcast the pre-game, the game and post-game shows. It was strange to hear commercials for your “local Fort Worth Dodge dealer.”
Since Spartanburg, S.C., has zero connections to Dallas, the Cowboys experiment only lasted 1 season. Now on Sundays, it’s generic ESPN football coverage.
Really? “Kid” is the thing that’s gonna get you to stop listening?
c’mon man it’s endearing