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Originally Posted by transplant99
They do....and when they do, people complain they aren't talking about hockey.
Its ridiculous.
As for Wiils, Im not his biggest fan either but people were hating ON HIM for defending Smith...all year. I thought it was a dumb hill to die on as well, but I dont blame him for taking shots back after seeing what some said about him both on here and on twitter. It got way way to personal.
Never mind the absolute dress downs that Pinder tried to lay on him as well...both working for the same station, its was an embarrassing display of petulance by Pinder repeatedly and I wouldn't be surprised if he was disciplined for it.
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It's definitely hard to please all the people, all the time. I guess I just find it weird that knowing the morning team can't talk Flames for 3 hours straight they decided to take the show the way they do. It's a sports talk station for crying out loud. My guess would be Kirsh knows he's got no one better to do the mornings, so he lets them do what they want. And the morning guys know they're completely out of their element talking anything other than Flames, so they avoid it like the plague. The funny thing is there's so much other sport and sport-related things happening every single day - anyone who puts in even a modicum bit of research could come up with a segment that is interesting. I hear broadcasters talk about sports all the time I couldn't care less about - but they find those interesting bits, guests, and angles to make me not change the channel. I'd love to hear the morning show do that too so I can still get the local talk mixed in with those things, but you can't always get what you want. So for now I don't listen often.
Pinder's job is to create a show where people want to listen. He may have stepped over the line here or there, but I hope he wasn't disciplined. Controversy keeps me sitting in my car in my driveway to hear a professional debate. Pettiness doesn't. Can't say I've heard Pinder be petty (I don't listen all the time tho).