Mac was often accused of being lazy and uninterested. I think this gig just fits that criticism. The only person who could mess up that job is Kerry Sayers.

I still don't understand why anybody would think this show would be anything different than has been. The Drive had a top morning show before Downes retired, they're not going to tear up that winning format.

Finally fell into an opportunity to listen to Mac's new experiment yesterday when I had to drop my kid off at school.

You see, I like Sports Talk. I cannot listen to music in my office - it is too loud and distracting, and it gives no "time cues" (i.e. I can tell, while I am working, what time of day it is by listening to certain shows and how they talk, and it helps me pace-out my day).

Even if I did want to listen to music, society has progressed to the point where I can choose exactly what I want to hear - so there is never a chance that I would be subjected to Peter Gabriel or Elton John.

Anyhow, getting back to the meat-n-patatahs, I clicked on 97.1.

A ZZ To song was on. ZZ Top is ok - nothing against them. They are cool when you are cleaning the garage, or on a boat drinking Coronas, but they do nothing for me when I am driving.

Ok, finally, song over.

Pete "Rectangular Smile" McMurray jumps in and announces a "Sports Update" by Dan McNeil. Yes.

Our Dan McNeil.

Show Driver.

Reduced to giving blurby updates.

Mac spoke about 2-3 sports subjects in the span of like a minute or two, popped off an opinion that nobody could or did have a chance to volley, and then off it was to another tired rock song that I would never choose on a jukebox (I actually think it was Peter Gabriel, but I could be wrong because. . . .


CLICK!

Experiment over. Back to boring-ass Mully and Hanley. I think I was tuned in for a total of MAYBE 4 minutes.

Thanks a lot, Mac.

Bringing in a couple of talk show vets for your morning show, why wouldn't we think it would be something different? You could have gotten anybody to do the
format they are doing now. I certainly would have thought there would have been at least 10-15 minutes of talk per hour but it doesn't even come close to
touching that.

Just a bit off topic, but I've noticed alot of people say they are not a fan of the Classic Rock format. I would have thought that's the bread and butter of the middle aged white guy. What music are you guys listening to instead?

Please don't say The Lite.

I'll listen to pretty much anything that isn't country music made after 1990.

I am clearly not the target of this show. Classic rock to me is for commercials and to fill the silence at sporting events. Queen is good though.

Just a bit off topic, but I've noticed alot of people say they are not a fan of the Classic Rock format. I would have thought that's the bread and butter of the middle aged white guy. What music are you guys listening to instead?

Please don't say The Lite.

Just a bit off topic, but I've noticed alot of people say they are not a fan of the Classic Rock format. I would have thought that's the bread and butter of the middle aged white guy. What music are you guys listening to instead?

Please don't say The Lite.

You're not a middle aged white guy, yet. You'll get there soon enough. Enjoy, "Getting The Led Out".

I think it is missing the Gen X portion of the listening audience. I am just speaking for myself of course, but I have heard all the classic rock stuff for the past 30 years. I think we
touched on this a few weeks back, but they need some kind of classic alternative station with music from the late 80s through early 2000s. If not a whole station then at least a
program for 4-5 hours that would focus on this time frame. At least it would be different and not the same reheated canned stuff. Maybe there is something like that but I don't
know what it is. The few times I punch in FM radio my presets are for XRT and 88.9 in Milwaukee is a pretty awesome station that is somewhat similar playing newer alternative
stuff.

I don't just crack-out on a wild blob of unpunctuated grammatically-incorrect loonybabble and then say "VOILA! Admire my masterpiece!"

After "Free Bird" they spent a minute discussing lighters vs cellphones at concerts and then their go-to karoake song.

Riveting stuff

Sirius/XM does the 80's alternative and even the classic rock format so much better. These stations like The Drive just need to open up the playlist a bit, and not focus on the same 200 songs over and over.

But as you stated, they had success doing it exactly that way already. Their listening audience must be entirely made up of Ligue's. Why change it?