Soccer
Enough is Enough!
07/13/10 09:47
After putting up, seemingly for months, with World
Crap pre-emption of real sports all over TV and
radio, now for several days, we have been faced with
yankee scumstripe babble, again taking over the
airwaves, first with tear-stained story after
tear-stained story about a guy who spent his life
saying “Jeter. Number 2. Jeter”, and now with the the
deification of convicted felon and significant
financier of richard nixon’s dirty tricks brigade,
the dead Steinbrenner.
Listen to ESPN and you’d think Abraham Lincoln had just died.
I can hardly wait for the All-Star broadcast tonight. It figures to be a sappy, sickening tribute to dead scumstripes. OK, give Sheppard a brief moment, but I do not want to hear tributes to the dead steinbrenner - a man who used his inherited fortune to 1) transform baseball into “Lot A goes to the Highest Bidder”, and 2) finance a portion of the illegal activities of Herbert Kalmbach, Donald Segretti, G. Gordon Liddy, Charles Colson, and the rest of Richard Nixon’s band of crooks who disgraced America and stole the 1972 Presidential election.
Put THAT on the Angel Stadium message board!
Listen to ESPN and you’d think Abraham Lincoln had just died.
I can hardly wait for the All-Star broadcast tonight. It figures to be a sappy, sickening tribute to dead scumstripes. OK, give Sheppard a brief moment, but I do not want to hear tributes to the dead steinbrenner - a man who used his inherited fortune to 1) transform baseball into “Lot A goes to the Highest Bidder”, and 2) finance a portion of the illegal activities of Herbert Kalmbach, Donald Segretti, G. Gordon Liddy, Charles Colson, and the rest of Richard Nixon’s band of crooks who disgraced America and stole the 1972 Presidential election.
Put THAT on the Angel Stadium message board!
theHoundDawg
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Just What I Feared
06/12/10 19:32
So, I’m out walking the dogs late this morning, and
as I feared, KSPN 710 - ESPN Radio in SoCal, is
broadcasting a soccer game.
No brain surgeon aftermath. No Laker prognostications. No NCAA realignment banter. No Dodger-Angel interleague series discussion. Nothing of interest. Soccer.
As 710 is the only real sportstalk station in this area, I was doomed. I did try that other station that used to have some interesting talk, 570 (formerly 690) and they were broadcasting what they called a car show. All I heard for the five minutes or so I tried listening was one “commercial” after another for the hosts’ friends who just happen to sell cars.
Unfortunately, my only satellite receiver is in my car.
Also, later in the day, as I could not avoid hearing the score of the match between the US and the British, I must inquire: How in the world could ANY tournament game EVER be allowed to end in a TIE???
No brain surgeon aftermath. No Laker prognostications. No NCAA realignment banter. No Dodger-Angel interleague series discussion. Nothing of interest. Soccer.
As 710 is the only real sportstalk station in this area, I was doomed. I did try that other station that used to have some interesting talk, 570 (formerly 690) and they were broadcasting what they called a car show. All I heard for the five minutes or so I tried listening was one “commercial” after another for the hosts’ friends who just happen to sell cars.
Unfortunately, my only satellite receiver is in my car.
Also, later in the day, as I could not avoid hearing the score of the match between the US and the British, I must inquire: How in the world could ANY tournament game EVER be allowed to end in a TIE???
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theHoundDawg
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Sorry, Soccer Fans
06/07/10 17:33
ESPN Radio Deserts its Fans
05/30/10 12:19
Words to die by:
We want to hear Mason and Ireland not Libya v Myanmar soccer, Mike and Mike not Iceland v Croatia soccer, Terry Smith not that goaaaaaaal guy. This will be the schedule for all of ESPN radio, not just 710 SoCal.
It’s going to be a long, boring, radio-less summer with all this world cup stuff pushing INTERESTING REAL SPORTS off the radio.
For those of us who listen to sports talk radio, the best of which in Southern California is by far that which is broadcast through the local ESPN station, 710KSPN, not to mention play-by-play of stuff like, well, Angel and Lakers games, and for some of you demented fans out there, usc sports, this announcement is an abomination.“Hear every match of the 2010 FIFA World Cup on ESPN Radio and ESPNRadio.com.”
We want to hear Mason and Ireland not Libya v Myanmar soccer, Mike and Mike not Iceland v Croatia soccer, Terry Smith not that goaaaaaaal guy. This will be the schedule for all of ESPN radio, not just 710 SoCal.
It’s going to be a long, boring, radio-less summer with all this world cup stuff pushing INTERESTING REAL SPORTS off the radio.
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theHoundDawg
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