RIP Toucher and Rich Show ... It was fun while it lasted
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I thought it was a pretty good story. I wasn't expecting to hear he nailed Kate Upton or anything, but hearing second hand about your Grampa shooting your Dad in the backyard over lawn-watering was pretty funny I thought.
I don't want to speak for anyone else but to me it is the build up they give to these stories that make them annoying. For 12 hours Rich posted updates on this HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT and then the announcement was Canseco signing with Worcester. Then Fred spends 10 minutes this morning building up the Adolfo story like it is going to be some kind of ground breaking moment in radio because "It even shocked them" and then the story is about Adolfo's crazy family shooting each other over lawn watering.
Without the build up those could have been two cool moments/stories, with the build up and heightened expectations they just fall flat.
I'm with Homebrew on this one. It was somewhat interesting in the way he learned of it, but people shooting family in Texas isn't exactly earth shattering, and they completely over-billed it.
My reaction after was essentially, "Cool story, bro".
Every morning at 8:00 they play the pre-recorded news blurbs from the WBZ news desk. One of the stories during today's news was the retirement of Steve LeVeille from WBZ AM radio. Fred screamed "LE-VEEEEEEEIIILLLLLLLLE!!!!!!!" over the news reel. I was fucking dying laughing.
Did anyone else hear that?
Did anyone else hear that?
I heard it too and I cracked up as well, even though I had never heard of Steve LeVeille before--I guess he's been on WBZ for 13 years and now is going to retire to Maine to hang out on a beach.
ANOTHER 98 Mile Rap Battle. I didn't get to hear the entire thing but it sounds like Felger isn't going to do it this year and Tanguay is? After a pretty lackadaisacal showing by 98.5 lately, I'm pretty excited that they are doing this again.
Fred got a few great jabs in on Felger, talking about how he needs to repeat the same points about Beckett and Lester, and can't be bothered to make a two minute rap. Fred also mentioned how T&R have much higher ratings than Felger and Mazz.
I'm looking forward to this year's battles as well. I thought "98 Mile" was right up there with "Naughty Mazz."
I can't wait to hear the listeners' entries, this should be very good.
A while back (more than 10 years probably), Howard Stern did a song parody contest where listeners submitted entries and the best ones were played on the air. I've never laughed harder in my life. I'm hoping T&R can get some really funny material from their crazy audience.
A while back (more than 10 years probably), Howard Stern did a song parody contest where listeners submitted entries and the best ones were played on the air. I've never laughed harder in my life. I'm hoping T&R can get some really funny material from their crazy audience.
I know T&R said specifically that they dont' want to turn this into the Whiner Line, but I'm concerned that it is going to become exactly that.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/07/25/98-mile-ii-round-1-zolak-vs-wallach-985-the-sports-hub/
These are pretty funny. And I second what Phenom said, Fred ripping Felger for not participating is priceless. "Lord knows, to take 2 minutes out of your day to stop doing the same contrived Beckett thing would really hurt."
Maybe it's because of my intense dislike for both Tanguay and Gresh, but I thought both were very dissapointing this morning.
Wallach and Zo should both advance instead of one of these two.
Wallach and Zo should both advance instead of one of these two.
Gresh should be DQ'd since about 33% of the lyrics in his rap were the actual G Thang lyrics, weak...
and because he sucks at life
and because he sucks at life
It's not you, those were fucking weak. I liked Tanguay's until Fred dropped that Rich really did everything and all Tanguay did was speak a few lines and let Rich drop it into a song.
I listened to Wallach's last night and wasn't impressed with that either. Good for them for trying, but so far it hasn't been nearly as impressive as last year.
Everyone just needs to vote for Tanguay anyway. Gresh is such a thin skinned prick he was already bitching 2 days ago that no one was going to like his rhyme because they don't like him.
I think DA was matched up with Rich specifically because those are the 2 best. Rich said last year that he's glad he lost early (despite the fact he had a really good one) so he could focus on everyone else's production.
Did Rich lose last year or did he pull out voluntarily so he could focus on production? His rap was awesome last year, I only wish they had made better brackets where Rich and DA would face off in the final.
I think that last year, he was looking for a reason to pull out anyways, and since they had 5 people advance, he dropped as the "winner with the lowest margin of victory" to make it an even bracket moving forward.
I was dying when Rich transitioned to Chachi - that skit was hilarious. Sucks for Fred because I thought his was very good as well, just not quite as funny.
I didn't listen to T&R pre-Sports Hub so I don't really get Adolfo, but scarily enough I sort of agreed with him this morning. They know who and what he is, if they didn't want him to do this poorly, why bother including him when Felger dropped out? Why not have Hardy, Chachi, Jim Murray, or a weekend guy do it instead? I don't really find Adolfo the character to be very amusing, but I also don't really understand it when they seem to go out of their way to embarass him.
I know what you mean erfus, I've never been a fan of Adolfo and can't fucking stand him so I found it amusing when he was crying about being bumped, at the same time it was kind of a dick thing to do. I don't think Fred liked it much either, not because he's going to lose, but because it was kind of unfair to Adolfo.
DA's rap was terrible this morning. The chorus was atrocious, and his lines about Rich being inconsequential to "Toucher and Rich" made no sense because as we know, he's responsible for all of the bits.
However, Rich killed it. Wallach, Rich, and Fred have all had the best raps thus far.
However, Rich killed it. Wallach, Rich, and Fred have all had the best raps thus far.
Rich had by far the better rap, but DA's line with the Rich-Bitch-Glitch flow killed me. The rest of his, particularly the hook, was meh.
They moved it back a day since he just got back from vacation and it sounded like he just mailed it in. Rich's seemed like it was about 3 minutes long, he was much better prepared.
Generally, I'm not sure there's enough material for this to be an annual event with the same cast of characters. They need to cast a wider net, which they started to do this year with Tanguay and Bertrand.
I was too, I stayed in my car before entering work to hear the rap and turned it off in the middle because it just sucked.
When Bobby Valentine is fired, the thing I'm going to miss most is Rich's impression of him. No matter what he says, I laugh really hard.
Best rap battle yet. I actually think Mazz takes it, but barely.
What a lame move by Felger to pull out of the contest.
Any Idea where I can listen to this? I can't find it on the site.
edit: nevermind, here it is: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/08/01/98-mile-ii-round-1-mazz-vs-bertrand/
Last year the championship round, the two finalists rapped about WEEI. This year I have a feeling the target will be Felger.
