the must be something i don't understand abot Marinaro and Martin Lemay, i just don't understand how those guys have jobs. At least Marinaro seems like a good person.
TSN 690 and Other Montreal Based Media (Part 10)
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Habnot
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Sorry but I disagree about Montreal being only a Canadiens town. I am old enough to have lived the complete Expos life cycle and Montreal supported baseball better than most American cities. And that was with poor ownership, crap stadium and all. The fans just got the shaft with all the shenanigans with ownership. Attendance was always good when Bronfman owned the team.
A couple of other examples:
- Don't discount the success of F1.
- Montreal was one one the main NASL franchise - had some of the best attendance - and again without a viable stadium. Playing soccer of that Olympic Stadium turf was criminal but Montreal turned up in droves.
- Montreal supported the Machine - the first year the had a couple of sell outs.
Bottom line, you need proper ownership with any team in any market. Let's see if Peladeau can ride the wave and get a proper facility built. It's not fair to ask fans to show up an embarrassing venue (Molson Stadium) with no parking, traffic everywhere and a difficult walk up the mountain from the metro. Enough is enough.
A couple of other examples:
- Don't discount the success of F1.
- Montreal was one one the main NASL franchise - had some of the best attendance - and again without a viable stadium. Playing soccer of that Olympic Stadium turf was criminal but Montreal turned up in droves.
- Montreal supported the Machine - the first year the had a couple of sell outs.
Bottom line, you need proper ownership with any team in any market. Let's see if Peladeau can ride the wave and get a proper facility built. It's not fair to ask fans to show up an embarrassing venue (Molson Stadium) with no parking, traffic everywhere and a difficult walk up the mountain from the metro. Enough is enough.
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Formula 1 is more like an event. It comes once a year and people show up.
I think when people define "sports cities", they are generally talking about the day to day support of the home team over an entire season.
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That was one of Marinaro’s main points although, it’s not the first time Montreal is referred to as an events city rather than a sports hotbed. You can add to that other short term events like tennis which works on a limited timeframe just like the Jazz Fest and Just for Laughs.
Kimota
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Montreal are a Habs city and an event city. Not necesseraly a sport city. That's why the jazz festival festival was always successful. It's a good pop for a short term, People were there in the spring for the Expos but not there not there in the middle of the summer. Even if they had great teams. As far as the Alouettes, it's a lost cause. Quebecers as a whole are more into the NFL. That's why I think if there's a stadium to be built in Montreal, it should be for football as long as there's a garantee club coming in and a wealthy owner.
Having a dollar that hovers around 70-75 cents compared to US, very toxic language issues,high taxes doesn't excite Bettman or the MLB.
Habnot
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Montreal is a sports city, it will support teams. Pratte said it, last month the women played at Bell Center, Rockets played at Place Bell and FC Montreal played at Stade Saputo the same night in front of full houses. If this is not support I don't know the definition...
That being said, the City and Provincial government and some shaddy ownership have not been kind to Montreal. You can't blame the fans for not wanting to watch a shitty baseball team that has been ravished for 10 years in a crappy stadium. Pinning the Expos departure on Montreal sports fans is ignorant of what occured from 1994 to when they left.
That being said, the City and Provincial government and some shaddy ownership have not been kind to Montreal. You can't blame the fans for not wanting to watch a shitty baseball team that has been ravished for 10 years in a crappy stadium. Pinning the Expos departure on Montreal sports fans is ignorant of what occured from 1994 to when they left.
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Has anyone heard the Car Gurus ad that’s beeing played a ton on BPM?
The pitch guy is pronouncing it « Car Garoussah ». I couldn’t figure out what he was referring to for a few weeks and didn’t care to look it up until I finally heard some other ad pronouncing it correctly. To think that someone at Car Gurus actually approved this horrible mangling.
The pitch guy is pronouncing it « Car Garoussah ». I couldn’t figure out what he was referring to for a few weeks and didn’t care to look it up until I finally heard some other ad pronouncing it correctly. To think that someone at Car Gurus actually approved this horrible mangling.
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Marinaro has been replacing Laraque’s co-host over the last 3 weeks.
And at the tail end of today’s segment, Laraque announced that Marinaro will be getting his own show next year on BPM.
Not surprised as he seemed to be able to roll with the punches and seamlessly partake in Laraque’s and the guests’ banter, as well as callers to the show.
Those who longed for greater soccer talk will have been served.
And at the tail end of today’s segment, Laraque announced that Marinaro will be getting his own show next year on BPM.
Not surprised as he seemed to be able to roll with the punches and seamlessly partake in Laraque’s and the guests’ banter, as well as callers to the show.
Those who longed for greater soccer talk will have been served.
sampollock
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His act wears out in any language. OK in small doses when he has someone in studio to keep help curb his excesses.
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To be fair to Marinaro, he probably wouldn't have thought of or needed to think of starting a podcast had 690 paid him enough to live on. He started with the podcast as a side hustle, in addition to doing his 690 show (and one or two days a week "on location" at some restaurant or car dealership for the extra cash) Given the way Bell Media operates, I wouldn't be shocked if he was making no more than about $40K/year off his gig with 690. He HAD to get a side hustle. He has a wife and two kids and his wife was probably making more money. I'm sure it didn't take long for him to realize that he stood to make more money doing the podcast than Bell would ever pay him. So when forced to choose, he chose the option where he had more control over his career. If Bell had just let him keep his side hustle he might still be working at 690 today.
OR, Bell would have laid him off a year or two ago and he'd have to do the podcast anyway.
The best thing about his podcast is that you can fast forward through the bullshit. The first 8 or 9 minutes of his podcast is just a long into, followed by Tony self-glossing for a couple of minutes before spending the next five shilling for his sponsors before finally bringing on his guest. On YouTube, you can just skip ahead to the meat and leave the empty calories.
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I think 690 also hated the idea that Marinaro would be competing with them by interviewing the same guests the station featured, on his Sick podcast. You’re correct about the paltry salaries these radio gigs pay outside of the select few who got their paydays before Bell came into the picture and performed some pretty nasty annihilations.
#BellLetsTalk — promoting mental health but at the same time, creating the very conditions within its workforce that will cause it to avail itself of those very services.
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In retrospect, Mike Babcock was the perfect spokesperson, never understood why they let him go.
I'm all for Tony's success. Sure, he's a loud mouth stereotype too often making Italian Canadians look like insufferable meatballs, but I've always appreciated his hustle. And even at his worst, the podcast is still better than the remains of TSN690.
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Mapper quitting hockey coverage to become … a cop.
Said his goodbyes to reporting on JiC — confirms it was a childhood dream for him to join the police.
Said his goodbyes to reporting on JiC — confirms it was a childhood dream for him to join the police.
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He's on the Pat Burns road to becoming head coach some day
angusyoung
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Caught some on demand content from the station and they thought this was brilliant! WTF is wrong with these people?
The whole world was watching and they come up with this embarrassing crap,shameful.
The race at least was entertaining.
The whole world was watching and they come up with this embarrassing crap,shameful.
The race at least was entertaining.
WeThreeKings
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Yeah this pod sucked last night - that whole debate was a whole bunch of 'who asked and who cares'.
Give me info about what the scouts and teams thought about the players there at the russian combine.. instead we got a convo about Nick Suzuki and what is a 1A/1B center.
