Terry's Peeps wrote:
The thing about athletes coming in and for lack of a better word "roasting" the guys is a good idea. I'm sure AJ, Charles Tillman, Chris Harris, and some others I can't think of now would've been more than willing to come out be rip on the media.
Silent auctions/giveaways should have been obvious.
I just think if you're gonna do an Anniversary thing, you have to have everyone come back. Or at least most of the major players.
Treat it like the annual DC Press Club dinner, where even the POTUS gets up to roast the press. I wonder if Lovie would have been willing to step in to take a few shots at Lawrence. They could have taped a couple of minutes with Ozzie.
The event seems like it was the station congratulating itself. This is fine and appropriate. They should have also had an event open to everyone. I wouldn't have to be free drinks or food but simply a chance to get to see "your guys" in a casual setting...almost like a Score convention.
The thing I would have liked to see is for the station to treat it like a "year of the Score" with little things througout the year....have a few events, provide some special programming, give a one hour shift to a listener (I know it would be shitty but also fun)...none of this costs a dime. This anniversary provided the promotions department a blank slate to do any creative thing they wanted. The blank slate was met with blank stares.
I would really like to see them have some Friday night/weekend shifts devoted to "best of" shows. I think it would also be smart to have that guy who wrote the history come in and do at least one shift.