Curious Hair wrote:
Jason always felt more like he was on loan to Atlanta than gone for good, the way he would always call in to offer analysis or just to say hello to Dan and Terry. It was almost like the guy who graduated from high school but kept hanging around campus. Jason can be very good (but he can also be very bad), and excels at, as sinicalypse famously pointed out, being all things to all people. He deserves a shot at middays if he wants it, but again, gotta cut down on the bad days.
i've also not-so-famously said time and time again that the goff solo shows are way too often done like they're constructed off of a template that you read in "SPORTS TALK RADIO SHOW HOSTING FOR DUMMIES." his shows are very very vanilla, if you will. he has no natural structure style or flow about it... you get the impression that he's sitting there thinking "ok so this is what i'm supposed to do" when he realizes "oh hey wait a minute... i'm black and it's christmas time so i gotta do that annual thing where i play christmas in hollis as i decry that there's never any christmas music "for us" during the season and i have to lock down the black demographic by pandering to them because that's what it says to do right here on page 23 of SPORTS TALK RADIO SHOW FOR DUMMIES.
once jason can get past the metaphorical "christmas in hollis" crap and, as i've also not-as-famously-been-saying-since-day-one, REALIZE THAT THE TREACHEROUS THREE'S SANTA'S RAP IS A WAY BETTER RAP CHRISTMAS SONG, i don't think he'll ever really be that good. you play christmas in hollis because everyone knows it and it's what's expected of you.... you play the treacherous three because it's simply the better damn song. that said, when jason stops doing what he thinks is expected of him (his, and many other people in the industry's blackness is kind of like
the I'M GAY song in the kids in the hall movie... of note is the last group line of the song or i guess
that one song from CB4 now that i think about it) he will improve cuz i don't think he's necessarily a dummy or anything (nor is he a genius at the same time) and i think he's had a good run with some good experience and if he kicks back relaxes and straps it on (teh balls moreso than the shaft).... well maybe just maybe you'll have something. maybe you'll have the guy that damaneel famously called the #1 sports talk show host in chicago in 2020.
but until then, welp, we'll be subjected to visionary ideas like WHITE HISTORY MONTH.... and that worked out real well down there in HOTTlanta. cuz you know, it really didn't help jason that the b&b show elevated him to ULTRABLACK! status (think of raymont's positional versatility, except that jason was paragon to all things cultural and racial in the here and now) because dan/terry/matt are all married/family men who don't get out much, if at all, and then jason was the lady/'s man on the prowl with his fingers on the pulse of the streets/youth/culture at every juncture. they really hyped him up to be mr. suave/cool/sophisticated/etc and welp.... then when you heard him do his thing it's just kind of like, wow this guy is really really really trying really really really hard to do a boring-ass radio show like any one of 500 disposable nationally syndicated sports radio shows out there.
it almost makes you wonder if damaneel was speaking in jest when he predicted that goff would be the #1 chicago sports talk host of 2020, eh? =D
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Curious Hair wrote:
Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?