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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Rome talks sports? If I happen to have it on while I'll driving all I ever hear him do is make inside jokes and quips, and read comments from his sycophantic listeners who are trying to break into comedy.
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Yes he talks plenty of sports. I have to wonder how many of you actually listen and how many just take the stereotype and run with it? The clones are rarely part of the show compared to say ten years ago. He's got an entire 3 hours to kill every morning so you can understand that he's going to have some jokes and quips as well as read emails from listeners. Besides isn't jokes and quips the entire basis of Onrait and O'Toole?
I hate to break it to you folks but thousands of north American radio sports broadcasters have come and gone and crashed and burned so becoming the largest syndicated sports radio show is no accident. I understand in Calgary where the average fan has a very narrow bandwidth of sports they are interested in that he may not be popular with a lot of people but as a guy that has 960 on all day in his cubicle he's pretty well my only source of current events in other sports like the NBA which I only follow very casually. I get pretty tired of Boomer's comments when Pinder brings up a current story in say tennis to which you get; "Tennis? Who cares, lets talk about when Freddie Hamilton will get back into the Flames lineup." Boomer has absolutely nothing to offer outside of hockey talk. Nothing. Mike Richards at least was into baseball, football, boxing, etc and the morning show was much more well rounded. The morning show is better after 9:00 when he leaves the show IMO.
Things are only going to get worse once the NHL playoffs are over and we have a full hour at noon of that baseball show where I'm convinced if you were to listen every minute from beginning to end may induce a coma.