Dolfan in NYC Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 ESPN 980 here in DC - the station owned by the Skins - is doing 12! hours of coverage for today's Skins/Pats game A preseason game that almost no starter is playing in... Speaking of 980... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 ESPN 980 here in DC - the station owned by the Skins - is doing 12! hours of coverage for today's Skins/Pats game A preseason game that almost no starter is playing in... My favorite part of this is Czaban the day before complaining about how much coverage and hype is made of the game and how it is complete counter-productive since nobody is really playing it in He is right by the way but unfortunately the team owned radio station doesn't have the same theory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Lebatard suspended by the four letter for the Lebron billboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 ESPN has really bizarre ideas about what does and does not require punishment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Unlike most things at ESPN, that was funny. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie M. Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 ESPN is not in the business of being funny or edgy, though. Bet they got a call from LeBron's people and shat themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 ESPN is already in knots over LeBron going to Sports Illustrated with his Coming Home letter. That caught the four-letter by surprise. So even if his people didn't call, I can't imagine the bigwigs being happy over the LeBatard stunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 So after about a year of 710 ESPN Seattle being listenable in the mornings, it's back to sucking because they brought back Mike Salk a couple of weeks ago. For those of you who have had the good fortune to never hear his voice, Mike Salk is basically every annoying internet troll ever rolled into one fat hairy little man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 So sorry for your pain, Brian. No joke, listening to Salk is the stuff of nightmares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Not only is he back on the air but they also made him program director.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Rydell Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Dear ESPN, Don't EVER let Jemele Hill co-host "Mike & Mike" ever again. God, that was awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Dear ESPN, Don't EVER let Jemele Hill appear on air again. God, that was awful. FTFY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 i don't know between Jemele Hill and Michael Smith I would choose Hill most of the time. Apparently someone told Michael Smith that he needs to be act like Stephen A Smith and he has up his swarmy know it all douche level rapidly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I don't know if anyone else listens to CBS sports radio, but Tiki Barber and Dana Jacobsen have a bet about the outcome of the Giants/Lions game where the loser has to do a show dressed like the wrestler of their choice. Brandon Tierney, the third host of the show, started talking about 80s wrestling and was actually pretty knowledgable, although he kept referring to Kamala's handler as Friday. He was trying to describe what Kim Chee looked like, and Dana, who is very clearly not in to wrestling, got the wrong idea about his outfit and said 'so this giant black man was brought to the ring by a masked lion tamer?' Which got a good chuckle out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 I've watched the TBD show and I like it a lot more than that shitty show with Boomer that they air on the CBS Sports channel and I've always been a huge fan of Dana's from her ESPN days. Oddly enough Dana got into wrestling because she watches Total Divas, she was live tweeting SummerSlam. Either one wearing Kamala face paint in studio with one of those Kamala stars and moon shirts would be hilarious. Kamala's handler Friday was played by Buddy Wayne in Memphis. It's pretty much the same look and gimmick as Kimchee just a different name. I know it's horribly racist and God awful of me but I've always loved Kamala (the monster heel version anyway, the goofy babyface not so much). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 I'm the opposite. I love Boomer and Carton but find TBD to be horrendous (although I really enjoyed Brandon Tierney when he worked for ESPN Radio here in NY). I'm probably biased though being that I'm from NY and their show is NY-centric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Tierney really rubs me the wrong way because he sucks up to every coach/athlete guest but seemingly goes out of his way to no sell and shit on journalists when they are on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 I listen to TBD in the Morning since my nearest station made the switch to CBS in January 2013. The best shows are when Tierney is gone. Tiki and Dana have a good rappaport and they play off each other really well. Tierney's a jackhole who, even when he says something I agree with, expresses himself in a such a condescending way. And his constant mentioning of his dad being a detective for the narcotics unit is getting stale, too. I suspect Tierney is dumber than a box of rock salt. And he talks over the other two a lot. Dude is a rude mofo, and uses a fake Andrew Dice Clay ripoff demeanor to pump himself up. No one cares about his Brooklyn tough-guy persona. Just sit down already. As for the bet, I think Tierney is trying to talk Tiki into being Koko B. Ware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 *edited* Nevermind, someone beat me to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted September 13, 2014 Share Posted September 13, 2014 After the Rice thing and the Peterson thing today, I think I'd have a better shot keeping my sanity if they replaced every caller with Cthulu. The takes are the absolute hottest. It hasn't been this infuriating since the Riley Cooper thing when half the calls were white dudes who seriously thought it was a social injustice that only black people can use the n word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Rydell Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 I listen to TBD in the Morning since my nearest station made the switch to CBS in January 2013. The best shows are when Tierney is gone. Tiki and Dana have a good rappaport and they play off each other really well. Tierney's a jackhole who, even when he says something I agree with, expresses himself in a such a condescending way. And his constant mentioning of his dad being a detective for the narcotics unit is getting stale, too. I suspect Tierney is dumber than a box of rock salt. And he talks over the other two a lot. Dude is a rude mofo, and uses a fake Andrew Dice Clay ripoff demeanor to pump himself up. No one cares about his Brooklyn tough-guy persona. Just sit down already. As for the bet, I think Tierney is trying to talk Tiki into being Koko B. Ware. If it's any consolation, CBS Sports Radio is consistently the lowest rated of the five national sports radio networks. Major changes will be coming to CBS over the next six months as the initial talent contracts run out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Rydell Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 At least CBS Sports Radio got rid of Tim "The Homophobe" Brando and booted him over to satellite (on radio at least). That being said, CBS Sports Radio is still a collection of has-beens and castoffs that need to be put out to pasture. Scott Ferrall is easily the worst of the lot. He openly attacks his own callers and spends most of his show talking about how he and his producer "Mafia" get drunk and party in Vegas all the time. He has completely lost his "fast ball" and is a shell of what he was 20 years ago. What the fuck partying in Vegas has to do with the 49ers or Patriots, I have no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 The MoJo Show is pretty bad too, because they tend to waste entire segments screaming about whatever gibberish enters their heads. They're OK when they're on track. But when they go off track? Watch out. Actually, CBS' weekend lineup smokes their weekday schedule. I like Moose & Maggie on Saturday mornings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Rydell Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 I don't know who the hell was doing color commentary for last night's ESPN Radio coverage of Nationals-Giants, but that guy was awful. Fuck you, ESPN, for employing that guy in any capacity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Lucia Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 John Kruk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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