Wild-Eyed Sinicalypsical Conspiracy Theory: this whole song and dance was just an effort to keep the equal-opportunity wolves from the door because there aren't many women of color on the radio doing sports or, as a matter of fact, much of anything, not even in a market as large and heterogeneous as ol' number 3. While I won't say the fix was in, they began with an end in mind, and they were clever enough to have the whole thing sponsored by Pepsi and farm out a bunch of remotes/live appearances so they could bill practically enough to offset the eminently redundant hire in the first place.

Under the right set of circumstances (back in the day) I would have...

That is the kind of thinking that keeps Raven Symone employed.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Butterscotchface?

Im pretty hammered right now.

What was your favorite moment of the Maya Gavin era on The Score?

I'm declaring a victory without research.

Yeah, but Grobstein does like five or six hours a night, and it's between Usually Abbatacola and Mully & Hanley. The Maya Gavin show was bookended by Sporting News Radio, I'm pretty sure. It'd be SNR from, say, 10 or 11 to 2, then her for two hours, then back to SNR. That paints the mental picture of, like, someone commandeering an empty radio station while a night janitor looks on. Ivan's right. She was set up to fail. I'm not saying this because I was rooting for her--I think I heard all of one segment of her show, and it wasn't particularly good, like, at all--but because it's plain as day that the whole thing was not a good-faith effort to develop new on-air talent.

The premise of the contest was stupid to begin with--we're looking for someone to do a couple hours of overnight on Saturday night/Sunday morning. Why not just give the winner the whole overnight shift instead of just carving a spot out of SNR? Why not give Saturday late evenings when the Sox don't play? Why not Sunday afternoons? Because it would piss off the clubhouse to take those sweet Sundays-3-to-5 plums away from Mike Esposito?

If Mitch disliked her so much that he supposedly atoned for his error by burying her in satellite-bookended overnights, why did he let her win in the first place? I know Bernstein supposedly fawned over her at the auditions, but contrary to popular belief, Bernstein does not run the station, and in fact probably couldn't give less of a shit about PepsiMAX SCORE Search 2: The Half-Assed Search For A Half-Assed Overnight Host, so Mitch should've seen to it that someone better won.

Wild-Eyed Sinicalypsical Conspiracy Theory: this whole song and dance was just an effort to keep the equal-opportunity wolves from the door because there aren't many women of color on the radio doing sports or, as a matter of fact, much of anything, not even in a market as large and heterogeneous as ol' number 3. While I won't say the fix was in, they began with an end in mind, and they were clever enough to have the whole thing sponsored by Pepsi and farm out a bunch of remotes/live appearances so they could bill practically enough to offset the eminently redundant hire in the first place.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

So, Maya Gavin wasn't given a chance
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Larry Holmes 27 minutes shows are excellent

Things I continue to learn from Krazy Ivan

I think the chance Shark is referring to is a chance of succeeding at the Score.

The gave her the absolutely worst shift in the world. Did she even have a local lead-in? 2am-4am is just awful. The callers at that hour are the worst. It makes the usual Les crowd seem intelligent.

I listened a few times and her pace and timing wasn't good for overnight. THese knobs who call in wanted to ramble on about total nonsense and she is trying to move the show on. She had a decent radio voice and demeanor. Seemed comfy on the air. Content wise? If they can give Larry a show, Maya deserves one.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Bumping this because I thought I had a good post upthread.