Aggravated Sox Fan Bob wrote:
It is sad. Time marches on. When WSCR inaugurated, it was a blast. Fun to listen to almost always. I heard Bernstein say Friday that the entire original concept has changed. Too much information available too fast. When Sportstalk started, there was time for the knucklehead caller to call and argue with the all knowing clown of a host (North comes to mind) and hours could be consumed with the entertaining arguing. Now, facts are available quickly, and it kills the time to speculate and argue.
The way it works currently, it seems that the only opinions that matter are those of the hosts. And with 3 of these stations up and running this is BRUTAL. You live long enough and watch enough sports, your opinion should be just as valid as any talk show host unless you have fallen off a pumpkin truck.
I don't care what David Kaplan's opinion is! The fact that this goofy show is splashed on Comcast TV makes me long for the unintended comedy of North's TV show.
Danny Mac will be fine. All works out in the long run.
It's come full circle.
Sports talk in this city started with the all knowing host (Chet, Swirsky) providing the listener just a faint bit of information through interviews with the listener a passive party.
The Score's popularity was a direct repudiation of this model with a hyper populist approach to sports. Not only did the fan have a voice, the on air talent was a true 4th estate against ownership and teams.
Well, now we have our synthesis where there is some populism in the topics covered but the stations are purely management side analysts.
Thesis-antithesis-synthesis
We have been in this era for several years, since at least the end of MJH. I am hoping a cyclical revolution occurs, and fast.