OT: Official Sports Media Thread 2 (TV, Radio, Print) MOD WARNING in OP

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Had to look up what you guys are talking about. You're right, she didn't deny it. She wrote a book defending it.

.........uh.

You misogynistic bigot!

 

[MattFromFranklin]

According to Minihane, Callahan told 2 people at WEEI that he doesn't want him on D&C anymore.

 

[BNHL]

According to Minihane, Callahan told 2 people at WEEI that he doesn't want him on D&C anymore.

About time. I'd like to see him get a group beating as he headed out the door to ESPN to annoy the whole country.

 

[DKH]

About time. I'd like to see him get a group beating as he headed out the door to ESPN to annoy the whole country.

He seems in destructive mode lately - he's almost bullying Callshan. I'm not sure he knows what he wants or who he is. If he is on that show by Christmas I'll be surprised

 

[Johnnyduke]

I have a hard time believing ESPN would hire minihane. Bayless is opinionated but minihane is too controversial for ESPN.

 

[BNHL]

Kirk and even Gerry seem pretty tough on thr woman producer- it would piss me off it was my kid; also Mike Girardi was giving her crap but not sure if they are joking

Kirk is struggling it seems he is emotionally all over the place at least it appears that way - he's talented but the way he goes after Dennis and Gerry I wonder how long it lasts

He is constantly testing hid boundaries and I could be wrong but it doesn't appear fake the tension you can pick up

I agree. She's new and they seem to go out of their way to be rude,especially Minibrain.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

According to Minihane, Callahan told 2 people at WEEI that he doesn't want him on D&C anymore.

I think you need to work more on understanding "tongue-in-cheek"

 

[Fenway]

I think you need to work more on understanding "tongue-in-cheek"

A good friend of mine who is a female worked at WEEI as a producer/screener for several years before she moved out of Boston. She would cover D&C occasionally and while Dino was easy to work with Callahan wasn't. She left before Minihane arrived so she has no direct knowledge of him. However she tells me that she has heard from former co-workers that NESN will resume the simulcast if Minihane is no longer involved. She also tells me WEEI is making a big push to get the Bruins contract starting with the 2017-18 season.

 

[CDJ]

Simulcast would only be good with minihane and his antics. I do not see the appeal in watching two dinosaurs talk into a microphone, and I'm dumb enough to watch just about anything.

 

[FribbleLine]

A good friend of mine who is a female worked at WEEI as a producer/screener for several years before she moved out of Boston. She would cover D&C occasionally and while Dino was easy to work with Callahan wasn't. She left before Minihane arrived so she has no direct knowledge of him. However she tells me that she has heard from former co-workers that NESN will resume the simulcast if Minihane is no longer involved. She also tells me WEEI is making a big push to get the Bruins contract starting with the 2017-18 season.

So the station who basically wanted nothing to do with the Bruins now wants the contract?

 

[MattFromFranklin]

I think you need to work more on understanding "tongue-in-cheek"

I didn't catch D&C, I heard Ordway and Fauria talking about it.

 

[BNHL]

Simulcast would only be good with minihane and his antics. I do not see the appeal in watching two dinosaurs talk into a microphone, and I'm dumb enough to watch just about anything.

Minihane is a disease.

 

[Fenway]

So the station who basically wanted nothing to do with the Bruins now wants the contract?

To be fair there is an entirely different management team in place now.

 

[OldScool]

Minihane is entertaining because he is a loose cannon train wreck. I guess thats what happens when you grow up with a silver spoon and don't have any fear of losing your job since he has financial security.

I enjoy Dino and Callahan. I can't stand Big O and for that matter most of WEEI. Its old/rehashed and lacks innovation. Bringing back the awful Whiner line is a joke. Cant wait to change the channel when that comes on.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

Minihane is entertaining because he is a loose cannon train wreck. I guess thats what happens when you grow up with a silver spoon and don't have any fear of losing your job since he has financial security.

I enjoy Dino and Callahan. I can't stand Big O and for that matter most of WEEI. Its old/rehashed and lacks innovation. Bringing back the awful Whiner line is a joke. Cant wait to change the channel when that comes on.

If you can't stand him why are you listening to him?

 

[CDJ]

Minihane is a disease.

You are the exact kind of person he cherishes. Guy loves to be hated and talked about. Any publicity is good publicity and what not


Also Big O just asked some random dude caller if he was a female as if it had any relevance on what he said. He's a dope. Made for very awkward radio...the caller and Lou just disregarded it entirely

 

[Si Hopkins]

Without Minihane, D&C is just an echo chamber. What's WEEI's plan here? Ride these two to their graves? Those two are the smallest minds in radio. Weak, scared and out of touch. Blow the A.M. up and start again.

I don't really mind the midday, but listening to Glen Ordway try to talk about Native American history was like watching a youtube video of a drunk guy falling out of a boat. You're kind of laughing as your cringing. You could almost hear him sweating.

 

[BNHL]

Without Minihane, D&C is just an echo chamber. What's WEEI's plan here? Ride these two to their graves? Those two are the smallest minds in radio. Weak, scared and out of touch. Blow the A.M. up and start again.

I don't really mind the midday, but listening to Glen Ordway try to talk about Native American history was like watching a youtube video of a drunk guy falling out of a boat. You're kind of laughing as your cringing. You could almost hear him sweating.

And with him it's nearly unlistenable. I disagree with every point you made.

 

[BNHL]

You are the exact kind of person he cherishes. Guy loves to be hated and talked about. Any publicity is good publicity and what not


Also Big O just asked some random dude caller if he was a female as if it had any relevance on what he said. He's a dope. Made for very awkward radio...the caller and Lou just disregarded it entirely

I used to listen to the whole show,now I turn it off early each and every day because of him.

 

[Si Hopkins]

And with him it's nearly unlistenable. I disagree with every point you made.

That's fine. D&C are far more compelling when they're being challenged. I like them more when they have to explain themselves, when they have to work a little harder. Their humanity shows. That's good, makes for more compelling radio. When it's just the two of them it's like halfhearted mutual ************. Sorry if that's rude.

 

[GarbageGoal]

That's fine. D&C are far more compelling when they're being challenged. I like them more when they have to explain themselves, when they have to work a little harder. Their humanity shows. That's good, makes for more compelling radio. When it's just the two of them it's like halfhearted mutual ************. Sorry if that's rude.

That's what their old audience prefers.

Humanity. Ha.

 

[Amorphis]

For me, the most offensive thing in Boston sports talk radio is Fred Toucher's stunning inability to spit out a complete sentence. I'm talking about an entire sentence without 4 "uhhh's" thrown into the mix. The second I turn on that show, all I hear is Fred struggling to verbalize a thought. He's perfected the "It's Toucher and Rich on 98.5 the Sports Hub," intro after commercial breaks. He manages to get through that tough sentence nearly 100% of the time. But when it comes time to form new sentences, things take a dramatic turn for the worse. "Rich, uhh, I understand, that, uhh, Adolfo, uhh, spoke to the people, uhh, after the Red Sox game." Rich: "That's right, Fred!" And then we go to yet another predictable Adolfo-driven bit.

This guy is a sports TALK radio host and he can't talk. Kind of frustrating to listen to.

A ton of people obviously listen to the show, but I just can't get past Fred stammering his way through every sentence. Can't do it.

 

[Fenway]

Trenni Kusnierek will be a major part of NBC Boston when it launches on January 1st and quite possibly much sooner as NBC would like the divorce with Channel 7 to happen before the Rio Olympics.

KPD writes

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON SECOND THOUGHT
For Trenni Kusnierek, it’s a must to keep mental health dialogue open

In a business so fixated on appearance and image, especially so for a woman, she decided four years ago she wouldn’t live a life reaching for a makeup kit to powder over her psychological challenges. The suicide of former NFL great Junior Seau proved her call to action.

“I’d only met Junior once or twice, and only in those brief stick-a-mic-into-the-interview setting,’’ she recalled. “But for whatever reason, I think maybe because he was a player I’d watched growing up . . . I’d seen him play, and he was a relative age to me. I thought, ‘Oh, my God, this person felt so terrible and he was so in the depth of his disease that he died from it.’ And we don’t talk about it.’’

About the same time, just weeks before she arrived at Comcast in September 2012, a lengthy profile on Kusnierek was about to run in her hometown “Milwaukee Magazine.†The story’s deadline approaching, she dialed the author in hopes to add something.

“Do you mind if we talk about my depression?’’ she asked. “I think people should know that they are not alone.’’

She has kept up the conversation, sometimes with a price, always with questions in the back of her head. She can’t help but wonder if being so open one day might impede her career path. Will it influence peers, viewers, work relationships? In the ever-expanding world of social media and instant connectedness, it also attracts its trolls.

“People are mean online,†she noted. “For a long time, no one used it against me. But I’d say in the last year or two, mostly on Twitter, or people in comments sections, oh, I’ve read, ‘She didn’t take her antidepressant today.’ Or, ‘Why don’t you take your crazy pills. Be careful, she’s nuts. She’s actually crazy.’

“And you think, ‘Really . . . now this? . . . this is something they are going to use against me?’ ’’

 

[Gee Wally]

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Next up - posters banned.

See post # 1.

 

[Dr Quincy]

For me, the most offensive thing in Boston sports talk radio is Fred Toucher's stunning inability to spit out a complete sentence. I'm talking about an entire sentence without 4 "uhhh's" thrown into the mix. The second I turn on that show, all I hear is Fred struggling to verbalize a thought. He's perfected the "It's Toucher and Rich on 98.5 the Sports Hub," intro after commercial breaks. He manages to get through that tough sentence nearly 100% of the time. But when it comes time to form new sentences, things take a dramatic turn for the worse. "Rich, uhh, I understand, that, uhh, Adolfo, uhh, spoke to the people, uhh, after the Red Sox game." Rich: "That's right, Fred!" And then we go to yet another predictable Adolfo-driven bit.

This guy is a sports TALK radio host and he can't talk. Kind of frustrating to listen to.

A ton of people obviously listen to the show, but I just can't get past Fred stammering his way through every sentence. Can't do it.

I honestly think that sometimes he doesn't know what story he's going to tell, what the point of it is and sometimes just makes up a pointless bs story on the spot: "So a friend of mine.. uh.. umm .... is dating a girl and um it's a situation uh um and I'm like... um what's going on with that?"

I also like how he starts this stupid "salami" thing a couple weeks ago, and then the other day starts complaining about a broadcaster trying to start a buzz word......