OT: Local sports coverage talk (the Athletic/Local TV/TBN/WGR/Charging Buffalo/LGA, etc)
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Jim Bob
RIP RJ
Husko
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I know this is a reoccurring gripe of mine, but why does WGR allow all its "top" radio personalities to take reoccurring vacations during what should be prime time sports coverage every year? Yesterday I tune into WGR for the first time in months thinking I'll hear Jeremy and Howard break down free agency, nope, Howard is on his annual vacation which is always the first week of July which is always when NHL free agency starts. And it's not just that. Schoppe has one during the NHL trade deadline. Howard misses NFL training camp. Someone has one during NFL free agency. I know it's a minor thing, but it just gets so under my skin. There's like 5 big weeks all year for Buffalo sports, and somehow the primetime hosts are allowed to collectively vacation through all of them? Things like this is why I will never see WGR as a legitimate, professional producer of sports media.
BloFan4Life
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Don't forget the dumb narrative, "Something big happens when [radio personality] is on vacation." One of them is on vacation half the year and they take vacations at the time when the probability is high something will happen.
Also, these chumps work 4 hours a day. Is this even considered a full time job where they get like 6 weeks off a year?
Husko
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Yes, I meant to include it! They think it's a tongue in cheek joke, when really it's just completely manufactured nonstory. It's just a special kind of sad that in a market like Buffalo, where sports are such a big part of everyday life, there isn't any competition for genuine sports media.
Buffaloed
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I'm not happy with the way The Athletic gives new subscribers a big discount and sticks it to the renewals by charging full price. That's no way to treat early adopters. It's a lot easier to walk away from a magazine subscription than internet services when your deal expires. I copied my referral link and disabled auto-renew. Then when my subscription expired, I resubscribed using the referral link. Make . They gave me, the referrer, a $10 Amazon credit, and me, the referred, 25%. They're currently giving 40% off and a $25 Amazon gift card on referrals.
Yeah, but its not just The Athletic that does that. Almost every business does it, including utility companies (electric), internet, and cable services. Until more and more people start shopping around, and until there is enough competition to allow it, that's how business works these days.
I like the Athletic. I happily renewed this year.
Baccus
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Yeah the whole resub schtick with constantly changing discounts/perks is obnoxious and annoying. Just like Vogl.
I really hope they add another Sabres writer since Stimpson is working for that Coaches site now. Major analytic hole for Sabres coverage, let alone quality level drop. I'd be very unhappy if the Sabres coverage was just left to Vogl and Yerdon with the occasional Graham cosplay crossover.
Bills seem to have pretty solid coverage.
Jim Bob
RIP RJ
He is HORRENDOUS. He is insufferable at times. That show should be out of control good, the simulcast should be a must watch. Instead it’s the total opposite
Baccus
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I like Yerdon and think he does a better quality job as a whole over Vogl. I just think the current Sabres coverage is very much lacking if they don't find an analytics/outsider analyst like Stimpson was, who frankly gave a far more (in my opinion) honest critical accounting then Vogl and supported with more data compared to Yerdon's work (not blaming Yerdon, it's just not really in his wheelhouse so to speak).
edit- I'm somewhat conflating "outsider" and analytics as I generally see using the "numbers"/analytics as making you look outside the local aspects of sports coverage, aka "outsider".
I also use too many quotes around words as a form of emphasis.
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Buffaloed
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BN is much improved since the big buyout. Lance Lysowksi was a real find. They're producing less content but it's well researched and provides information the fans want to know. If there had been no buyout, Bucky, Sully, and Harrington would still be trading hot takes about the ROR trade and calling for Botterill's big head rather than covering what's actually going on.
sabresfan129103
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I didn't know Bucky Gleason went to go work for Catholic health.
On a side note does any know what Kevin Oklobzija is doing these days? I always thought he provided good coverage on the Amerks. It doesn't look like he has posted on twitter since 2016.
On a side note does any know what Kevin Oklobzija is doing these days? I always thought he provided good coverage on the Amerks. It doesn't look like he has posted on twitter since 2016.
Buffaloed
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He writes for the Rochester Business Journal and Pickin' Splinters - Rochester's Independent Sports Source
Jim Bob
RIP RJ
GrierIsGod123
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vcv
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I can't wait for Paul to get salty.
Should have swore to really get his attention.
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sabremike
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Didn't know where to put this but can someone clue WGR and Rivet/Peters in that if I want nonstop talk about the goddamned laffs I'd be listening to freaking Taranah sports radio and not the flagship station of the Sabres???
As a sidebar: Jeremy White’s story this morning was heart wrenching. Condolences to him, his wife, his family and his friends.
sabremike
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My God that was just horrible to hear. I can't even imagine what he is going through right now.
