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Originally Posted by Caboose
I originally read through this thread a few days ago, and let it sit a bit before I responded.
A few of the posts in here make me question humanity a little bit. The amount of personal hatred towards specific 960 personalities is just so strange to me. They're a group of guys doing a job and talking about sports on the radio. If you hate them with all of your hates....turn them off! And leave them off!
None of us are perfect. The people dishing out this less than constructive criticism are also not perfect. They screw up their jobs too. I have many great stories about huge work messes caused by myself. It's human nature and it's fine. Steinberg, Pinder, Boomer and the rest are not perfect radio hosts. In some of our opinions, they may even be bad. But they do not deserve to be called "garbage," or "marble mouth," or the rest of the crap given to them on this thread.
I have favorites on the station and hosts that I'd rather not listen to, but when they're on, I simply find something else to listen to. It's not that difficult to find something other than the Fan to listen to for an hour or so. In general, I appreciate their coverage and just enjoy getting the info that they provide, just like I browse CP for info, because in between some trolls and foolish people, there are SureLoss's and AC's giving great content.
Just....don't hate. It doesn't make sense. You screw up too, and fortunately for you, there aren't thousands of people listening or watching when you do.
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I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment and tone but I also think you may be reading too much into what people are saying. People can have an opinion and write it and still not be “all fired up” or “full of hate”.
I don’t hate these people. In fact I doubt anyone who posts on this message board does. We are expressing our observations and opinions and it doesn’t have to be all roses and sunshine. In fact, if these radio hosts read this site and I suspect they do, they could take feedback like mine as a positive or as constructive and maybe think about how they could be even better.
Not talking about anything but nachos and fantasy picks for an hour every morning is not “screwing up” but is “screwing around”. I try not to do that at work too and I’m definitely not perfect and welcome criticism at my work. That’s how I get better, by listening to that advice, introspection and then trying to change what I’m doing. It doesn’t mean my audience hates me if they’re telling me what they think I should be doing differently.
In fact- quite the opposite... if I didn’t care at all I wouldn’t even bother posting about it. So maybe they should take that as some positivity. I know that when these dudes actually do their jobs they’re pretty good at it and I like their insight. They should try harder.