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I was listening to Frangie and Ballou yesterday and the conversation they were having starting morphing into one about the best sports movies of all time.

 

It got me thinking about after the draft, it is mostly sports dead zone in this area until August.

 

That usually means we have some dreadful sports talk radio to look forward to.

 

What are the worst dead zone topics?

 

Sports movie is a big one. As most show hosts in Jacksonville are white males in their 40's or 50's, movies like Field of Dream, Caddyshack, Hoosiers and Slapshot are treated as royalty.

 

Another bad topic is the "Mt Rushmore" one. Who would be on the Mt Rushmore for quarterbacks, the Mt Rushmore of college basketball coaches, etc.

 

What are others?

Whose career would you rather have, [some sport GOAT] or [an actor/entertainer]?

Frangie and Ballou get on a topic from a million years ago and won't let it go. I also think they genuinely enjoy making Amanda Borges look like a dummy, although to be fair, she does just fine on her own. The 'question of the day' segment is always out of her league and they always make her go first. It's becoming uncomfortable. She should just ask the questions. Not sure how she got the job. 

Quote:Not sure how she got the job. 

 

I think we know the answer...

 

A personal least favorite of mine is the "Who is the greatest #### of all time?" question. It's completely unanswerable and totally subjective so the debate, and I use that term loosely, is never ending and only increases in intensity as time goes on. I know that some folks around here enjoy that kind of thing, but it's the epitome of time wasting in my mind.

It doesn't matter the topic, all Ballou does is list a bunch of names of people you've never heard.  The rest of the show is them talking about what concerts they've been to.  You could just include pretty much anything they are talking about as the worst, including the question of the day.

Golf

Quote:I think we know the answer...

 

Yeah, sexism at it's finest. At least Jessica Blaylock really knew her sports! 

Sports radio in the Boston area has become pretty much non-stop team bashing. I was just listening and the daily topic is manager John Farrell of the Red Sox and his incompetency, blah, blah, blah. All summer of this? Glad I spend it in Florida.

Did someone say sexy?

Anytime the hosts recap what they did over the weekend.

Quote:Yeah, sexism at it's finest. At least Jessica Blaylock really knew her sports! 

 

Not to White Knight her, but her interview work with the Bucs and Bolts was very good before she got here.

Quote:Not to White Knight her, but her interview work with the Bucs and Bolts was very good before she got here.

I don't doubt it. She was worthy of being a host. The new one is probably just a journalist major who obviously knows nothing of sports except for the most basic of basics. 

Quote:I don't doubt it. She was worthy of being a host. The new one is probably just a journalist major who obviously knows nothing of sports except for the most basic of basics. 

 

I was speaking of the new one, she came over from the Tampa franchises.

Schedules. When they start looking ahead and talking about what games are winnable. This is especially true with Gator basketball. I think it was the 3:30 segment daily for at least 3 weeks straight. Frangie repeating the same predictions 3 to 4 times in a row, before letting someone else talk, then repeating the same thing the next day. Ugh

Sirius XM radio.

 

Local sports talk radio really blows.  I would rather listen to national sports talk than any of these folks.

Poker


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You can mark your calendar by the discussions they have.


Every year, the same recycled topics of the day/week.  The best sports movie always has a day set aside.  So does the "girl in a bikini"/golf cart show.

 

I usually tune out for the entire SEC week.  The interviews are tiresome and such few takeaways from any of it for so much coverage.  What is good, is replayed on every single show throughout the day until they've killed it.

Quote:You can mark your calendar by the discussions they have.

Every year, the same recycled topics of the day/week. The best sports movie always has a day set aside. So does the "girl in a bikini"/golf cart show.


I usually tune out for the entire SEC week. The interviews are tiresome and such few takeaways from any of it for so much coverage. What is good, is replayed on every single show throughout the day until they've killed it.

I agree. SEC media days is the most pointless and boring stuff.

Quote:Anytime the hosts recap what they did over the weekend.

 

I don't know. Looooove hearing about what the host shot that weekend on the golf course. Or what Golf Channel showed they watched.