I like Sports Radio 950, I really do. As Philly's "other" sports radio station, it offers a refreshing counter to some of the excesses of the non-Macnow, non-Jolovitz portions of WIP. Jody MacDonald, in the afternoons, is the anti-Eskin; even the new morning show - co-starring former Jets QB Glenn Foley- is a marked improvement over the festival of idiocy that is the morning show on 610.
But I tuned into 950 on Saturday afternoon, and what I heard was worse than anything Eskin or Cataldi has spouted all year. I was only in the car for about 20 minutes, but in that time the host (not sure of his name), made three points, all of them totally, transparently, obviously wrong.
First, he had callers try to guess about something, which had happened 35 years previously to that day, which had ruined sports forever, and continues to ruin them to this day. People guessed- the DH? Artificial turf? But the answer was actually the passage of Title IX. Now, whatever you feel about Title IX, it wasn't even the worst thing to emerge from the Nixon White House on January 23, 1972- that would be the "Smoking Gun" conversation between Tricky Dick and Bob Haldeman, which also happened that day.
Secondly, our brilliant host tussled with a caller who argued, in line with everything the Eagles have said, as well as with common sense, that quarterback and top draft pick Kevin Kolb would not see any regular-season game action this year. Our host disagreed, arguing that, because Donovan McNabb played in several games when he was a rookie in 1999, ergo, Kolb must do the same as a rookie in 2007, because under Andy Reid, "that's how it's done." When the caller said that the team now has both McNabb and A.J. Feeley, the host didn't let up, swearing to us that since McNabb played as a rookie, Kolb must too. Nevermind that in '99, the Eagles were in rebuilding mode, and now, they're playoff contenders at the least. That's how it's done.
And finally, perhaps worst of all, the host went off on a rant about the National League and its inferiority to the American League. After a brief digression about how outrageous it is that one league has the DH and the other doesn't (why?), the host stated that the reason the NL is so far behind the AL is because the NL has two more teams, and therefore, there are "50 players who would be minor leaguers, who are instead on NL rosters." Uh, no. Not really. When baseball added two teams in '98, there was one expansion team in each league. And I'm no math expert, but wouldn't you think an extra two teams would mean those "50 minor leaguers" get spread evenly among all 30 teams, as opposed to only allocated to the National League?
This is the sort of stuff that FireJoeMorgan would've been all over, if they covered Philly sports radio. And you thought political talk radio was laughably ill-informed.
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