What???? You'd take Mazz over Holley? Are you shitting me? Say what you want about Holley and going down ratholes, but at least he makes sense. Felger is the same way, I don't always agree with what he says, but he knows how to present an argument where you can tell he has put some kind of logic behind his thinking. It might be flawed logic but you can at least figure out where he came to his opinion and he has no problem admitting he is wrong.
Holley? Really? His next opinion will be his first and he's fucking bore. I'm no Mazz fan, but he's better than Micheal frickin Holley.
Can't speak for him, but for myself? I usually like Felger, especially when they're talking basketball or hockey, or some versions of football, but I tuned in yesterday to both of them stating that Kraft's comment of "Brady will be in camp, one way or another" in reference to his extension couldn't be interpereted as anything other than a threat to Tom, and in no way a show of faith by a guy who has said numerous times during the offseason that they will extend him, and the statement that the Red Sox threw in the towel on the season by not making a splash in the trade market. I promptly turned on my baseball america podcast I keep in reserve for days like today.
CLEARLY a threat.
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The worst sports talk afternoon of the year?
When I first heard about Favre, the first thing I thought of was Felger...how fuckin sad is my life??!!
Say what we will about Favre, I don't think he has ever let himself go quite like Beckett did leading into the 2008 season. The picture of a gut-sy Beckett with "I Can Has Cheezburger" above him still ranks as one of my favorite athlete pics. Pro athletes: they like beer and buffalo chicken tenders as much as we do!
I heard the same thing.
And Felger absolutely went apeshit on the Bruins this year when they did nothing at the trade deadline.
And Felger is still going ape-shit on the Bruins since the end of the season. I loved him calling out the Bruins and asking for an interview with Jacobs on what happened and what they were going to do and the Bruins offered Cam Neely (prior to the promotion) which led Felger on a rant along the lines of "I dont want to talk to him, give me someone who matters, I don't know what Cam does if he does anything. He clearly has no impact on this team so I don't want to waste my time talking to him."
No doubt...I wonder how much 98.5 is paying Mazz.
I'm not sure. The biggest difference between Mazz and his replacements seems to be that Bertrand, Jones, and Gasper are more willing to disagree with Felger. Still, I think the show works better with Mazz, but I can't really explain why.
While Mazz is the yes man to Felger 90% of the time, he is good at catching Felger's BS and making fun of him for it. Brings Felger down to Earth a tad after his rants.
Yeah...not a big Adam Jones guy. But the point is, as a foil to Felger, he works just as well as Mazz.
I could only listen to about 15 minutes today but I heard them say that the injuries are an excuse for the "suck ups" but the real problem was Beckett, Lackey, and Papelbon. "Can you imagine if those guys played better? That's easily five more wins". Then Mazz said you also have to consider that the Red Sox ownership weren't willing to add payroll at the deadline.
Absolutely on the bolded part. But they said that injuries were more of "an excuse" for homers and that the biggest factor was those three. If those guys put up the same numbers but they don't get hit by the huge injuries, they're still fighting for the best record in baseball imo.
That, and the fact that all the Red Sox did was put in a waiver claim, which we wouldn't even know about if the White Sox or Rangers had, too. And the risk of getting stuck with him is so tiny considering his ability to block and how easy it would be for them to discourage him and the fact that the Tigers are not the Marlins.
An avalanche of listeners in the coveted 18-35 demo, I'm sure. You may not like it but it definitely isn't going away.
4 hours of MMA talk today, with Felger repeating the same 2-3 talking points did get a bit tiresome, but I give him credit for trying.I'm winning my MMA fantasy league. Seriously, that sh*t might be worse than soccer.
