...or are the callers on local sports radio comprised from the lowest demographic of the sports-watching population? i stopped listening ever since i moved from houston a few years ago, but every now and then, if the rockets/astros make a big move, i tune in online to hear what charlie palilo or matt jackson etc. have to say on the issue. i remembered this week why i don't miss listening to these shows anymore... the calls are virtually an audio reading of the very worst posts from the GARM. i tuned in for an hour each day after games 1 and 2 last week and 100% of the calls were pertaining to some league conspiracy against the rockets or other grossly exaggerated claims about the officiating. i tuned in today and the first caller suggested we offer yao to the lakers in exchange for kobe bryant after the season. he was dead serious. i turned it off. i have the utmost respect for some of the hosts that have to tolerate the idiocy on a day to day basis. i would go berserk. of course, you could be kenny hand or rich lord and be a part of it yourself...
I always turn the radio volume down to zero when somebody calls in. I think call-ins are the stupid. Most people are too nervous to properly articulate what they are trying to say, and others are just flat out morons.
Move Steve to the Two Can Jeff Bagwell move back to Third (in 2005) The Texans should sign [insert 35 year old just cut from his team because of bloated contract free agent here]
Agree 100%. I think SR callers are people that either too dumb or too old to use the internet to keep up with sports, so all of their sports knowledge is based off of what they see on Sportscenter, hear during game broadcasts, see on the local news sportscast, or of course, hear on sportsradio.
the national shows are atleast palatable because the hosts monologue for the entire time and don't take any calls.
it doesnt mean their monologues are any good i prefer the idiocy of the local shows over whatever the national shows bring
If I had a nickel for every time I've turned off the radio in disgust because of some caller's unimaginable idiocy...
makes sense. I listened and called in when I was young--from about 1994-1997 or 1998. I guess things have changed a lot since then..?
I didn't think anyone could be dumber than some of the people who call in to those shows, but yesterday at the game, there were 2 guys who beat the pants off of ALL of them. These two mouthbreathers, the ENTIRE game, were in a heated (LOUD) discussion about how Yao was completely overrated, and that all of his accomplishments were simply due to the fact that he was just tall, not skilled. I could ignore that for the most part because clearly these guys were idiots who knew nothing about basketball and were only at the game because we were doing well. But then, these same two idiots starting talking about the Texans, and how they were NEVER going to be successful because Mario Williams was just "ok", but that we REALLY blew it because we passed up on the chance to have the next Emmitt Smith....REGGIE BUSH. I thought I had hit a timewarp, and we were back in 2006. I thought that discussion had been squashed with a vengeance after the last 2 years, but apparently these are the two imbeciles who are responsible for it even being a relevant discussion still. One of the guys was even like, "Look, the Texans don't even have a quarterback they can count on, and Young was AVAILABLE FOR THEM.....I can't stand to watch that franchise. It's just too painful." I wish I could teach myself to projectile vomit, because if I could, I would have unleashed all over both of them.
I guess the dumb callers and conspirators are more entertaining than some randoms logical analysis. I'm sure all the people that call are not dumb, but the people who screen the calls just pick the odd ones.
Being in Dallas, I don't really listen to sports talk radio anymore because, well... it doesn't exist here to my knowledge.
The worst ones are the ones that call in so often that the host actually knows them by name. The ones that seriously think they are part of the show. Regular talk show caller = someone who never gets laid
Who's the Yankee from Dairy Ashford who calls non stop? I ALWAYS turn off the radio when that twit calls in.
