Broadcast (radio, TV, or podcast) sports talk shows that you actually like

Musberger is on a couple hours in the afternoon in the SouthPoint. He's happy to be talking numbers and his stories are freaking incredible.

 

Is a podcast a podcast if it's live?

 

Has Tony Bruno officially run out of sports networks to talk on?

I like the Patrick show. Guests who are typically newsworthy and have something to say, an atmosphere that doesn't pretend that our lives depend on sports and a strong aversion of hot takery and contrarian-itis for the sake of generating phone calls.

 

Technically he quit from WIP rather than be let go but, yeah, he's been his own worst enemy in contract talks.

We could do a whole thread on radio-TV people we miss on the air. Really enjoyed Bruno and Siciliano on Fox Sports Radio and well as Kiley and Booms. Actually, the original FSR lineup that launched in 2000 was pretty damn entertaining before everything became Hot Take Theater.

 

Steve Czaban is always good. He lost his national show but still has the local one in DC with his regular crew that you can find via podcast. Gets a little too local at times, but that's the nature of the beast I suppose.

 

I enjoy David Glenn's regional show. That's about the only program I can listen to on a consistent basis.

I like Bomani Jones in small doses, but liked him a lot more when he was local. Seems like since he's gone national he feels the need to push the envelope a bit too much.

I liked Taylor Zarzour a lot when he was local, but I don't subscribe to Sirius so haven't heard him in a few years.

The local talkers are terrible and the national shows we get on their sister station don't do much for me (Mike & Mike, Dan Patrick, Colin Cowherd). I don't go out of my way to find shows that aren't on in my area.

 

A lot of Sunday nights this summer, I found myself stuck in the car and not particularly interested in the baseball game. One of the local stations would replay The Morning Roast from ESPN. It could be hit or miss (I'm lukewarm on the NBA, and they marked out on free agency talk), but in general I thought they had some funny, insightful moments and good chemistry together. Be interesting to see what the hosts do after going their separate ways.

The Morning Roast: 8/27/17 All good things must come to an end

 

Afternoon drive (3-7 p.m. Pacific) on TSN 1040 from Vancouver, B.C., featuring Matt Sekeres (former print guy) and Blake Price. They have knowledgeable guests and draw valuable information out of them. Topics occasionally veer from sports (eating pizza with a fork and knife, for example), but overall the discourse is intelligent. Not homers at all, but they recognize that the natives are in a better mood when the Canucks don't suck.

 

Vancouver has some of the worst sports radio I have ever heard, these two aren't bad but they are competing in the NAIA.