Agree, Cowherd actually has 'Where he was wrong' as regular segment of his show.
LeBatard, on the other hand, usually sticks to his 'smartest guy in the room' persona.
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Agree, Cowherd actually has 'Where he was wrong' as regular segment of his show.
LeBatard, on the other hand, usually sticks to his 'smartest guy in the room' persona.
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Cowherd's "where Colin was wrong" segment can be deceiving though. He still manages to give himself credit a lot of the time. Or if his prediction turns out incorrect, he'll say stuff like "I guess I just thought they valued things like "x,y,z" more than they did.". which isn't exactly the same thing as admitting he was wrong
IMO, the Dan Patrick show is the perfect model for sports radio. But they seem to be the perfect blend of personalities, so it's probably hard to replicate. It just feels like a bunch of buddies chatting about sports- some analysis and opinion with friendly banter mixed in. It's the only national sports radio I can listen to.
I like that Gottlieb at least knows and comments on the Big 12. Patrick, Cowherd, Le Batard and the rest of the coastal talking heads don't even know who plays in our league.
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I miss Van Pelt and Russillo. They were exceptionally good. Funny, informative, and less non-sports filler than other shows. I don't mind banter, and it can be very good when shows go off on tangents or do bits, but what keeps me coming back is the sports coverage. And SVP/Russillo nailed that segment. Cowherd is pompous. Lebatard gets too goofy. Jim Rome entirely disappears up his own ass way too often. Dan Patrick is decent. Mike and Mike/Golic and Wingo are mass appeal stuff. They cover national sports stories, with very little depth. There's a time and place for that, to be sure.
You realize LeBatard is the highest rated sports talk radio show in the Country right? He is the anti-sports talk radio show, and that is why it works. Its really the only sports show I will listen to, because they don't spend 3 hours talking about the interception Mitch Trubiskey threw in the 3rd quarter. I also love that they refuse to have coaches or quarterbacks on because they never say anything and it is trash. The people that say they talk to much about race, are the ones that stick their heads in the sand at the first mention of it, then don't understand why we are in the current situation we are in.
The rest of the lineup is trash, just like ESPN. Sarah Spain is OK and at least decent noise as you are driving home. Nobody wants to listen to people argue over non-sense anymore as the World itself is to heavy right now.
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I definitely enjoy Lebatard, it's just that sometimes it gets to be too much. I want to hear straight sports news, sometimes, and on those days, he just doesn't scratch the itch.
Perhaps Dan and Mike cut it, because they are doing other things. Stupodity and all the other stuff they do. Plus they still have 3hrs of the local show, so maybe they didn't want to do 4 hrs of sports radio. Just because ESPN put out the press-release, doesn't mean they made the decision.
From his days at Northwestern, Greenberg does have a dislike for overweight, rude Hawkeye fans. So he at least has that going for him.
Van Pelt and Russillo were great together, but it seemed like Van Pelt was hardly ever there. Russillo and Danny Kannell were decent.
Sports radio died for me when Tony Kornheiser stopped doing it in early 2000s. He was intelligent, funny, and talked about non-sports things too. If you like/liked him on PTI, the radio show was much better. No one out there now comes close.
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Yeah, I read an article/book once that was talking about how ESPN had all of their on air talent assessed to get their q-rating, which is kind of like their mass appeal rating, based on a bunch of different factors. It's used a lot in the entertainment industry. Anyway the results were that SVP had the highest rating in the entire organization, and it wasn't even close, and that was a big factor in him getting his own Sportscenter program.
Except for the last two years his show has been about 15 minutes of hot takes and 2:45 talking about Dak Prescott and the Cowboys. Never in my life has a national show spent so much time talking about a pretty good QB on a mediocre team in a terrible division.
Not sure I could handle 2 hours a day of anybody, but I love Lebatard. It's as much a parody of sports talk radio as it is sports talk radio.
He does a podcast now, has for a long time. I listen to it every day. Right now during the sports shut down he's only doing shows usually on Monday/Wednesday/Friday, but before teh Rona he was doing them daily.
