Re: Detroit Tigers, 2009, Part III: How long does it take for Leyland to screw this up?
There are very few that I did like in Detroit sports radio. I'm told that Sam Webb does a nice job in the mornings on TKA, but driving to work in the morning doesn't allow for enough signal strength for me to listen. As for DFN, the drive time morning shows have been unlistenable for over a decade. I liked Baligian until his jackhole producer started *ing with all the drops and the other bull**** they got into and ruined his mid-morning show. Stoney and Wojo got stale, plain and simple, although within a year I suspect that they'll be back together on XYT in the afternoons.
When XYT moved to 97.1 and WDFN did not follow suit by simulcasting on 106.7, that spelled doom for DFN. That gave XYT the home team broadcasts plus full time programming, plus a full time signal. DFN did not match, and from there the writing was on the wall. And what angered me was, DFN had XYT dead to rights and didn't finish them off, which is what would have happened had they gone to 106.7 instead of changing formats every 9 months.
My brother in law has done work for Valenti and tells me that he's actually a nice guy in person. I dunno, I'd rather the guy still get hit by a bus. While Terry Foster appears to be a nice guy, he is still clueless, and Matt Dery has always been a whiny little *****. Nothing but a crybaby, a typical Cleveland fan. Drew Sharp is tolerable in small doses only, if ever, and Matt Shepard gets to be too much of the bitter old man act as well. Caputo on XYT does absolutly nothing except to add about 400 pounds to the airwaves. It's my understanding that Karsch knifed everyone in the back on the way out the door when he left TKA and he just seems like a dunce. The only one I really miss is listening to Tom Kowalski, because he kept it light and could laugh at himself and not take himself too seriously, and still got me info I wanted to know about.
The national shows are absolutely self-absorbed and completely full of themselves. Since I dropped the XM radio into my office, the last sports show I listened to was Tirico and Van Pelt, and once Tirico left, so did I. There's just nothing left for me in sports radio that I didn't hear 5-10 years ago.
There are very few that I did like in Detroit sports radio. I'm told that Sam Webb does a nice job in the mornings on TKA, but driving to work in the morning doesn't allow for enough signal strength for me to listen. As for DFN, the drive time morning shows have been unlistenable for over a decade. I liked Baligian until his jackhole producer started *ing with all the drops and the other bull**** they got into and ruined his mid-morning show. Stoney and Wojo got stale, plain and simple, although within a year I suspect that they'll be back together on XYT in the afternoons.
When XYT moved to 97.1 and WDFN did not follow suit by simulcasting on 106.7, that spelled doom for DFN. That gave XYT the home team broadcasts plus full time programming, plus a full time signal. DFN did not match, and from there the writing was on the wall. And what angered me was, DFN had XYT dead to rights and didn't finish them off, which is what would have happened had they gone to 106.7 instead of changing formats every 9 months.
My brother in law has done work for Valenti and tells me that he's actually a nice guy in person. I dunno, I'd rather the guy still get hit by a bus. While Terry Foster appears to be a nice guy, he is still clueless, and Matt Dery has always been a whiny little *****. Nothing but a crybaby, a typical Cleveland fan. Drew Sharp is tolerable in small doses only, if ever, and Matt Shepard gets to be too much of the bitter old man act as well. Caputo on XYT does absolutly nothing except to add about 400 pounds to the airwaves. It's my understanding that Karsch knifed everyone in the back on the way out the door when he left TKA and he just seems like a dunce. The only one I really miss is listening to Tom Kowalski, because he kept it light and could laugh at himself and not take himself too seriously, and still got me info I wanted to know about.
The national shows are absolutely self-absorbed and completely full of themselves. Since I dropped the XM radio into my office, the last sports show I listened to was Tirico and Van Pelt, and once Tirico left, so did I. There's just nothing left for me in sports radio that I didn't hear 5-10 years ago.
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