Pittsburgh Sports Media Thread

Postby **NAN** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 10:08 am

NAN's old user name was the catalyst to get people to start wanting a new area built.

Postby **dodint** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:39 am

If I had to fill several hours of radio a day I'd investigate all outlets to see what kind of content I can use to fill that time. Seems pretty obvious to me.

Postby **Gabe** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:03 pm

eh. He's contrarian for the sake of being contrarian at times. He's learned a schtick that gets him listeners and a local celebrity level career. I have an hour commute home and his show is a time filler.

Postby **columbia** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:06 pm

If I had to fill several hours of radio a day I'd investigate all outlets to see what kind of content I can use to fill that time. Seems pretty obvious to me.

But would you want to read through one large thread?

Postby **meow** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:36 pm

Postby **pens9192** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:15 pm

Drama today at the Pittsburgh Sports Media High School: https://twitter.com/PaulZeise/status/972135323085000705

Something about Pittsburgh Dad Jr. has some sources that said Pitt offered Stallings like a $4 buyout and when he wouldn't take it they fired him with cause citing the Louisville comments in January as the reason. I don't know the whole story but I think that is the gist. Correct me if I am wrong. I didn't hear it first hand because I can't sit through 20 minutes of commercials and updates. Considering Pittsburgh Dad Jr. is a blowhard I take it with a grain of salt.. and Zeise going to bat for Colin. Hey, on the home of the Panthers too

Postby **NAN** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:01 am

Drama today at the Pittsburgh Sports Media High School: https://twitter.com/PaulZeise/status/972135323085000705

Something about Pittsburgh Dad Jr. has some sources that said Pitt offered Stallings like a $4 buyout and when he wouldn't take it they fired him with cause citing the Louisville comments in January as the reason. I don't know the whole story but I think that is the gist. Correct me if I am wrong. I didn't hear it first hand because I can't sit through 20 minutes of commercials and updates. Considering Pittsburgh Dad Jr. is a blowhard I take it with a grain of salt.. and Zeise going to bat for Colin. Hey, on the home of the Panthers too

I'm sure most of what he is saying is true, however I don't think it is even close to the entire story and the FAN media are treating it as is. I think they are also butthurt because Pitt didn't give a presser.

Postby **MrKennethTKangaroo** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:13 am

Coaches leave before their contracts are up
Coaches ask for raises all the time
players leave before their four years are done
players leave as grad transfers

no one honors sht in college athletics

yet pitt is castigated for trying to weasel out of a bad buyout

I don't get it.

Postby **Morkle** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 2:17 pm

Especially the "other college hires coach" and the original school always wants the full buyout that most always gets negotiated down from the new school.

Postby **Sam's Drunk Dog** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:29 pm

Stan Savran's testimonials for Biondi Lincoln are way too long.

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:47 pm

Currently these two dudes are trading heaters over which one doesn't get laid

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:55 pm

Currently these two dudes are trading heaters over which one doesn't get laid

Postby **Silentom** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:09 pm

For those of us who are not interested, March Madness = death of sports media for 3 weeks every year. It cannot be escaped.
I used to think this never affected me, because I never watched sports programming anyway. Then I tuned into TBS last Thursday to watch Seinfeld, and raged out when I saw that bball was on.

Go away, march madness.

Stupid gotdam march madness.

Postby **dodint** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:10 pm

March Madness concludes in April. What a joke.

Postby **columbia** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:12 pm

March Madness is destroys sports talk radio, but is still less terrible than the NBA playoffs effect.

Postby **dodint** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:17 pm

My daily podcast just tells you on Monday that the entire week will be spent listening to people recite team names in various orders for 20-30 minutes at a time and if you don't like it just delete. So I oblige. Checked in today and they had one of the hosts kid doing it. Nope nope nope.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:18 pm

The Steelers destroy sports talk radio around here pretty much every day of the year.

Postby **columbia** » Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:18 pm

Now that I think about it...MM is worse.

Whenever I hear the phrase, “the chalk is flying”... I remove the safety from my Browning.

Postby **pens9192** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 2:58 pm

Ah yes, the time of year when everyone becomes experts on college basketball. I don't care for basketball but I fill out a bracket every year and watch it get slaughtered.

Postby **dodint** » Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:18 pm

"Welcome back, it's Dejan filling in for Mark Madden toda..." *click*

Postby **Nittany Ned** » Sat Mar 17, 2018 12:33 am

"Welcome back, it's Dejan filling in for Mark Madden toda..." *click*

Hey I did the same thing today! I’m sure most did

Postby **columbia** » Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:49 am

Some red meat from June 2014:

Ron Cook: Hiring of Jim Rutherford as general manager makes no sense
http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/ron- ... 1406070039

Postby **NailedPenguin** » Sun Mar 18, 2018 6:42 pm

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/18/us/penns ... index.html

Postby **Nittany Ned** » Sun Mar 18, 2018 7:09 pm

Rossi is pretty irrelevant these days.

Another Sunday with Tab Douglas. Great guy, great radio.

Postby **columbia** » Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:48 pm

This is a rare positive comment

, but Brian Batko handles himself quite well on the radio. it also helps to bring home the point that the Penguins have the worst dedicated media in the city.

* Metzger is good, mind you