I'm just glad he left to go get it checked out. He started out saying he'd go in a few days and Rich & Jon were pushing him to go sooner. Reminds me of years ago when my wife got poison ivy, that turned into a staph infection in her arm. it went from not serious to getting daily steroid shots at the doctor and serious concerns about if they wouldn't have to do something drastic literally overnight. She was fine at the end of it but a scary 4-5 days.
IIRC he did go late last week to get it checked out, so to your point at least he's getting it evaluated. Pretty scary it's still flaring up.
Yes, he said the doctor last week put him on some different antibiotics, but they don't appear to be working and he got significantly worse over the weekend. If it's flaring up that bad and he's on antibiotics, time to get to the ER or his own doctor in my opinion immediately (The other doc he saw last week was not his doctor, but another doctor at the same practice)
I’ve noticed that Rich really pushes back on Murray a lot lately. And Joe does not like it at all. About a month ago, Joe wasn’t on and Fred and Rich discussed how Joe had been complaining constantly that he didn’t have a full time job at 98.5 yet. And Rich said if he wants a full time job in radio he needs to go to another market because it’s not happening here anytime soon. I’m sure Joe heard that and was pissed.
Wallach is 60????? Wow. Doesn't he have young kids? I didn't realize he was that old.
It's like expert stock pickers. If you were an expert you'd just shut your mouth and make a shit load of money instead of telling all the world to hear.
THAT WAS THE JOKE! TRY TO KEEP UP!
Today Joe mentioned how he got his Indy pick wrong because they had lost something like 6 in a row to Jacksonville, so he just thought it was time for them to break that streak. There's a sure-fire gambling strategy, right?! I couldn't come up with that on my own!
Joe comes across MUCH better when playing off the very salty Lifshatz. On his own, he tries waaaay too hard for the hot takez and is tough to take seriously. Right now it's he and Jim Murray doing the Pats post game shows. I can't say that's the greatest combo. Having said all that, if they want to replace say Adam Jones with Joe for the weekday late show slot, I would take that change in heartbeat. Give him that "full time" gig if any.
Like what? Besides food and gambling. He’s unlistenably awful. Any time I see him on the show that day I listen to something else
I find the betting stuff interesting. Not because I care about his picks but as someone who gambles I relate to a lot of his stories.
It’s a similar issue with Jim Murray. Weekends Jim’s not bad. Weekday hot take emo trying to play into Felger and Mazz Jim Murray is horrendous.
I'll go one further and say Mazz is the same on the Baseball Hour. He's still a lazy hack but in the hour he's a little more focused on actual baseball info and not trying to out shtick Felger. He also has some real guests that he can ask interesting questions to and have a civil dialogue about the Sox
The thing about Rich is he approaches sports talk from the angle of a fan, not so much as an “expert”. It comes across in his questions for Ainge/Stephens, when he gets something in his head he’ll keep asking. The one that comes immediately to mind is when he insisted on bringing up Anthony Davis every week. Rich would fit in great with every other show across both stations
I really like LeRoy on the weekends as well, but the Joe Show is the best.
I find that Rich is all frenetic positive energy, while Fred is all casual negative energy. It's why they work so damn well together, but when one is out it totally throws the balance of the show off.
Fred's airplane segments are some of my favorites. I'm 100% with him and these stunts / fun activities have no place on a plane. It's so obnoxious
It’s sad that because Fred had a problem and went to rehab that when he’s got something that appears rather serious people will default to he’s drinking again. He’s got an IV PICC line in and was giving himself a shot during the show for the infection.
If you’re unlucky enough to follow him on Instagram, you know it’s warranted. That foot is nasty enough to keep even DA away.
Mhmmm, Rex would still probably find a way to enjoy those untrimmed toe nails.
Yesterday he made a comment clearly kidding that they were going to spend the show trying to figure out who the female Celtics staffer was. Apparently someone at the Celtics misheard him and complained to his boss about it.
Not surprised at all that the Celtics are not happy a radio show is talking about outing the private life of a non-public figure in their employ, even jokingly. Did Fred honestly think there wouldn't be some pushback? He can be very thin-skinned sometimes.
I don’t recall them even suggesting it jokingly. Dan Lifshatz asked if they were ok with speculation and they immediately shot him down. Later they sarcastically referred to that exchange, but I don’t recall it being floated even jokingly. I could’ve missed the segment though.
Yeah, that was an insanely tone deaf and dumb suggestion from Lifshatz. I don’t know if he has the same drive to get into radio full time like Murray, but that demonstrated horrible instincts.
