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He has fun with his callers (those who get it).
I don't normally like to play this card, but there's a lot of pretty smart people on this board. One's a U of C graduate. Another one graduated from Stanford. Just about every school in the Big 10 is represented: Illinois, Iowa, Purdue, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Michigan (I think), Ohio State (I think); those are some pretty good schools. We've got one guy who teaches at a Big 10 affiliate university. Just about everyone on here writes with proper (or proper-ish) grammar; you don't see any ESPN type "packers suck suckas !!!1!!!!" comments on here. I think we're pretty representative of sports fans who "get it." And yet none of us really care for Laurence Holmes.
I think we've elucidated some of the reasons why. The Pulse is pretty much a waste of time, or at least the explaining and presenting of the "segment" is a waste of time. "Subliminal song" was painfully, painfully bad radio. Not "so bad it's funny", but so bad that I'm switching the station. He's not particularly adept at analyzing any sport, and his observations are utterly pedestrian. Finally, he loses any charisma he might possibly have when he gets off on a tangent about how hot some woman is, or how sexy it is when women he knows where pink hats or football jerseys, or anything like that. It's not fun radio.
If we're wrong, why do the ratings bear us out? If we're wrong, why has Holmes been in training since I was in high school? If we're wrong, why did The Score have to bring in a jock with minimal radio experience to assist with a two hour show rather than let their perpetual B-list personality just have the low-pressure slot to himself?
For the record: I don't particularly care who you are. There've been quite a few on air personalities who have joined us here- Mac, Cy, Matt Abbattacola, Rongey, Mully and Hanley (in chat form), Silvy, Rock, Jason Goff, now Tim Bock. But the people tend to be a lot more respectful of the personalities who come on here and take some criticism by their real names, even if they disagree with the criticism. You may not particularly care about that, but considering that you've acted like a jerk and invited people to play "guess the personality", every person who was guessed is going to have a google hit on their name associated with you being an ass. Employers are none too keen on preemptively pissing off listeners, from what I hear.
Finally, just because I am in a bit of a jerky mood tonight, I'm going to take quotes out of context:
Palehose23 wrote:
I am a grown ass man