Heavy hundred of sports talk

I don't know if that show is on any stations in or around DC, but I caught about 15 minutes of them the other night driving back from picking up dinner while in Orlando. It was hilariously bad. The talked for a few seconds about Matt Williams going to the Nats with Dibble making a few comments hinting he could be a good manager, but wouldn't succeed in Washington because his bosses would be so bad. But I'm sure he doesn't have an ax to grind.

Then the rest of the time was spent talking about the weekend's upcoming football games with both of them noting a few times they don't really know anything about football.

 

There's no science to any of that. Nobody at Talkers listened to all those shows. It's just a gimmick to call attention to Talkers, and it works.

 

There's also a tie at #55. I can't stop laughing about that.

 

I don't know.

And this list is STILL ridiculously tilted toward New York when Patrick (who I like) and Cowherd (who I despise), on national TV every morning, aren't rated ahead of -- my god -- Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton.

That is simply silly. The world doesn't begin and end at the Bridge.

 

I live in the NY market, and have no problem with Francessa being #1, even as he becomes harder to listen to by the day. Still, the list looks like it was put out as a gag by the Boomer & Carton Show.

 

Mikeeeeee's tolerable in small doses, when he has a guest worth listening to. Problem there, of course, is trying to hear something out of the guest while MF keeps talking over him and trying to show everyone how smart he is.

It's painful to hear a host who has such contempt for the bulk of his listeners. He's a bully and an epic self-aggrandizer.

When you present yourself as a know-it-all, you'd better be right, all the time.

Not even close.

I'm well aware the show makes a ton of loot. But it's flawed, beyond compare.

 

Helpless and hopeless.

 

Somers grossly-underrated @ #56.

 

Now, that I agree with -- that he's underrated.

 

Czaban and Cooley have been together for two months.

Lavar Arrington? He is in the middle of a long-winded question that he started on Monday. Horrible radio.

 

Agree. I'm not the biggest Chad Dukes fan, but I do feel bad for him being stuck with LaVar, who I love when he's not asking 32-minute questions and/or laughing like a maniac about nothing in particular on the radio. A while back, there was some thick friction between LaVar and Dukes. Seems to have been cleared up, but it got ugly there for a while.

I've definitely switched to Cooley and Czaban on my afternoon commute.