I realize that I'm not completely dialed-in to the pulse of the metro Detroit sportsfan, but I am still very confused by the talk radio content. The past 3 days I've listened to WDFN (via iheartradio) during my morning commute. This amounts to about 120 minutes of WDFN time over the past3 days. That would be August 18-20. The dog days of summer, indeed. 120 minutes of listening and I received 119 minutes of discussion of RichRod and the state of the Michigan football team.
I realize that the Tigers have faded from relevance faster than Lindsay Lohan's acting career, but there was one mention today of the score from yesterday's baseball game. That's it. Over the course of 3 days, I didn't hear a single mention of Lion's training camp, the potential new owner(s) of the Pistons, anything about the Red Wings - or, for that matter, any news out of East Lansing.
Someone please help me - is this really the most interesting topic on the minds of the Detroit sportsfan? Is the all encompassing topic whether Tate Forcier has wings on his helmet? There has to be more - there has to be!
My morning commute (~8am) is mostly Lions training camp, for what it's worth.
ReplyDeleteThe typical topic is Tom Kowalski lamenting the total lack of depth in the secondary.
As for the Tigers, nobody wants to mention them anymore. They fell harder and faster than even the worst pessimist would've predicted. Folks are pretending they don't exist. It's just too painful.
I suppose that's understandable. But Michigan is predicted to be absolutely horrible. Seems like that would be that. End of discussion.
ReplyDeleteI suppose folks around here love to complain about coaches... and RichRod is a LightningRod.
ReplyDeleteSean Baligian (and Killer) in the morning are usually pretty solid. Ryan Ermani at 10 am Detroit time (8 am Denver time) is horrible. He is a Wal-Mart Wolverine who tries so hard to sound intelligent but only embarrasses himself, and is an embarrassment to UM fans. I think he bet Baligian and Killer 100 Coneys that UM would start out 7-0. All that being said, it is the dead of summer for sports in this town right now. There is over-hype for any nugget of information, because the Tigers are dead and nobody else is really playing. It'll improve once we hit September.
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