March maddeningness
Mar 19, 2007 Americana, Medialites
I like sports. I don’t love sports. I’m not obsessed with sports. But I like sports, and I like sports talk radio, too. I long ago gave up on political talk radio, which is mostly very stupid. But sports talk radio, while stupid, is not about the fate of the earth. I like the personalities who do sports talk, except when they talk about things like movies or, God forbid, politics. (There is one guy on ESPN — Max Kellerman — who really should keep his half-baked politics to himself.) I even like Keith Olbermann on ESPN radio. I mentioned this to Bob Cox, who said, of course — he’s talking about something he understands.
But I hate sports talk radio in March.
Oh, the obsession with the “brackets,” the “seeds,” the “pairings” — sounds like a farm, no? Oh, the single-minded dumbellness of it. Hey, we have Bob Wobb, right here “in studio” with us, he’s the coach of Southern West Nevada A&M State! Great, great.
Tell me when it’s over. With all the diffusion in media today, can’t we have a sports talk station that sticks to something important, like whether Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter still text-message each other or the decrease in the rate of expansion of Barry Bonds’s hat size, even during the NCAA tournament? It makes me want to hear more about golf. Anything would be better than this torture.
Just not the NHL.
