Earlier this week Chad Finn wrote an article skewering sports radio, WEEI. Of course I wrote something similar six months ago, but I don’t have the Boston.com platform from which to proselytize. I was, however, offered space at this blog, and humbled, I jumped at it.
Here is my submission- http://www.pinkhathell.com/2008/08/dirty-jobs-weei-listener.html
Here is Chad’s-http://www.boston.com/sports/ot/
If you don't listen to WEEI, well, good for you. Also though, most of this will not make any sense. And if it seems mean? Thgen you definitely haven't listened to AM850. Anyway, yesterday Chad had a live chat regarding his article and he answered one of my questions. I submitted many- I found myself, disturbingly, with time on my hands…lots of time. Here are the questions he chose NOT to answer- I can’t imagine why.
If you had to rank the weekday shows on WEEI from first to worst, isn’t Pete Sheppard still a douche?
Speaking of sports, what’s your favorite sports movie ever to be shown- drive-in style, on Gerry Callahan’s forehead?
Is it true that a night time host named “Mikey” has a very different idea of what “loving” an animal is than the MSPCA?
Pop quiz hot shot- You wash up on a desert island, stark naked. The only other inhabitant is a morning show co-host (Dennis, Denillo, Denitton- whatever). He’s been living on nothing but Cialis laced brownies for a month. The only clothing options you find are a full Manny Ramirez uniform and an off the shoulder Donna Karan evening gown- which do you choose? WHICH DO YOU CHOOSE???
Do you think when Julie “Crying Game” Kahn drops by the station to “inspect the equipment,” reciprocity expected by the on air staff and that accounts for the lack of turn-over in talent?
How many nights a week do you think John Dennis cries himself to sleep? Its gotta be five right?
They say a hundred monkeys banging away on a hundred typewriters will eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. This is false, I know, because so far all those monkeys have come up with is Butch Stearns blog…Your thoughts?
I’m certainly jealous of the people who work for WEEI. I mean, could you image working for a guy like Jason Wolfe? And how about all those opportunities to take sensitivity training over and over and over and over and over and over….again. Your thoughts?
I believe Dale Arnold blushes every time he says Albert Pujols name correctly. Like, “Let’s take a look at Pooh-Holes *blush*, er…I mean, at his numbers.” Right?
When Dennis or Callahan get off a particularly smarmy line do you think they high-five or smack each other on the ass? This is pretty easy to figure out…
There may have been a few more but these are the ones I remember. What does it all mean? Not much beyond the fact that we should never, never listen to WEEI. I think we can all agree that those dimwitted radio “guys” don’t represent any real sense of the Boston fandom. Just my opinion.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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You are CORRECT, sir!
- E.M.
All the points Buzz makes are dead on. What I would like to see is someone take the next step. We no longer need anyone to point out that the content is stupid, shallow, ill-informed, etc. But it would be interesting for someone to write in-depth on *why* such offerings are successful. Is it because its the only game in town? Because the local populace has enough morons of the right demographic age? A combination? Something else? I'd love to hear what Wolfe and Kahn say about their listeners behind closed doors.
It's probably the same reason we somplain about high taxes and the high cost of living in these parts but continue to vote in one party. We collectively are idiots.
Could be. WEEI attracts the idiots from the right. The voting booth gets them from the left.
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