{"id":6716,"date":"2020-06-12T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/wfans-lazy-dull-programing-is-only-getting-worse\/"},"modified":"2020-06-12T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T03:10:00","slug":"wfans-lazy-dull-programing-is-only-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wfans-lazy-dull-programing-is-only-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"#WFAN\u2019s lazy, dull programing is only getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41836f1b970\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41836f1b970\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wfans-lazy-dull-programing-is-only-getting-worse\/#Old_MLB_games_remind_fans_how_good_it_used_to_be\" >Old MLB games remind fans how good it used to be<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wfans-lazy-dull-programing-is-only-getting-worse\/#Cancel_culture_is_total_cop-out\" >Cancel culture is total cop-out<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#WFAN\u2019s lazy, dull programing is only getting worse<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Old gag: They call radio a medium because when it\u2019s well done, it\u2019s rare.<\/p>\n<p>WFAN is much like ESPN in that all these years later \u2014 since 1979 in ESPN\u2019s case, 1987 in FAN\u2019s \u2014 both by now should be much better than they are.<\/p>\n<p>Seems that every change in hosts turns WFAN flatter, less sufferable or sustains the dreary status quo. Management seems short on the ability to hire the genuinely creative, knowledgeable, driven, clever, personable and those with better ideas. As Maynard G. Krebs said, \u201cStrictly Dullsville, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK, an absence of sports doesn\u2019t help but there is an absence of growth that is heard, at best, as stagnation.<\/p>\n<p>The pairing of Maggie Gray with Marc Malusis brings a daily dose of dull. Malusis, who was pretty good on SNY shows, is now tongue-tied, stuck to complete a thought without a string of \u201cums\u201d and \u201cers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The endless tangents they often go on \u2014 one was whether those named for their dads should be called \u201cJr.\u201d \u2014 don\u2019t even seem to interest them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15821857\"><img alt=\"Maggie Gray\" data- data- height=\"283\" width=\"324\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Maggie Gray<\/span><span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They do emit flashes. Yesterday\u2019s spirited exchange about the latest in the MLB-MLBPA war sounded both rare and welcomed. But the flatness \u2014 perhaps a lack of self-confidence \u2014 returned.<\/p>\n<p>Now promoted to afternoon drive, the Joe Benigno-Evan Roberts team has not grown in substance or creativity since first formed in 2007. They daily respond to what they read in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>papers but with no greater insights or perspectives than entry-level sports fans.<\/p>\n<p>They provide no audio evidence that they prepare to do anything beyond the vapid. It\u2019s \u201cThe Kill Time With Evan &#038; Joe Show.\u201d Look deeper into a story? Do more than complain about the Jets? Tell us something we didn\u2019t already know? Not a chance.<\/p>\n<p>The morning drive Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti show seems tired, even if Weekday Boomer tries to enliven it with childish vulgarities. Giannotti\u2019s humor is often heard as cruel. The show has run dry of both legitimate humor and talk-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal.<\/p>\n<p>Sports consumer issues are left untouched on WFAN. Those would take some research and some caring. Besides, if ticket ripoffs don\u2019t afflict the hosts why should they worry? How often do you hear a WFAN host going to bat for the batless? It\u2019s not as if someone was sitting in Mike Francesa\u2019s usual front-row seats.<\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has not served WFAN\u2019s finances well, either. Before the plug was pulled, the station had become saturated in sports gambling ads, including personal endorsements from WFAN hosts who wouldn\u2019t know a parlay from a teaser. But type in their names for a free bet!<\/p>\n<p>And it was Benigno who fairly recently personalized ads for DraftKings until it was scandalized by allegations of an inside gambling scheme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m illiterate with this stuff,\u201d he then confessed. \u201cI want nothing to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Too late. He was in it. And now, despite the phony advertising, he\u2019s the evening drive-time co-host on WFAN-NY. That\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Old_MLB_games_remind_fans_how_good_it_used_to_be\"><\/span>Old MLB games remind fans how good it used to be<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The problem with the word \u201cif\u201d is that it\u2019s a very iffy word. It can mean the midpoint between success and failure, hope and despair, or be a two-letter abridgement for \u201cI just don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If, for example, the MLB season soon starts in some shape or form, will it attract enough viewers to justify the cost of its patchwork?<\/p>\n<p>Based on the emails I\u2019ve received throughout the pandemic, many folks have lost their taste for modern baseball. They may watch its return as a curiosity at first, but no matter where it\u2019s played and how many customers are allowed to enter the park, they seem willing to write this season off as a total loss.<\/p>\n<p>After all, MLB\u2019s fans are again being taken for granted by both labor and ownership, not even a flake of the negotiations serving the best interest of fans.<\/p>\n<p>As Queens reader Tim Dooley put it, \u201cWatching MLB Network replay of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> 7 of the 1986 Red Sox-Mets World <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a>. Jesse Orosco drove in a run in the bottom of the eighth. Didn\u2019t he realize it wasn\u2019t his inning?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orosco pitched the eighth and the ninth. Dooley: \u201cI told my stepson, \u2018You will never see anything like that again.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s \u201cFirst Take\u201d co-host Max Kellerman exercised his freedom of expression last week when he declared, \u201cNo one really cares about hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given that\u2019s demonstrably untrue, Kellerman sounded, well, excuse the expression, bigoted.<\/p>\n<p>But this is where the big \u201cif\u201d enters: Had ESPN still owned NHL rights, would Kellerman have dared say that? ESPN on-air staffers are expected to sell everything held by ESPN, ABC and Disney with as much phony gusto as they can muster.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>Finally, reader Tom Fox asks us to recall April 1976, when Dodgers outfielder Rick Monday ran down two protestors to rescue the American flag they were trying to burn. What, asks Fox, do we suppose the reaction to that would be <em>if<\/em> it happened today?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m afraid America would be divided between celebrating Monday as a patriot and condemning him as a suspected fascist and racist. Even if he did apologize.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Cancel_culture_is_total_cop-out\"><\/span>Cancel culture is total cop-out<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>So shortly after a statue of a Texas Ranger \u2014 the lawman, not a ballplayer \u2014 was removed as racially insensitive, the TV show \u201cCops\u201d was lost to the PC after 32 years.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported that the show was \u201ccriticized for glorifying cops,\u201d which it often did, especially those who risked their lives for their communities.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I interviewed the co-creator of \u201cCops,\u201d John Langley, who acknowledged that the show has been attacked for including so many minority suspects. He said that he wished it were different but that he doesn\u2019t have the blessing of foresight to choose the suspected criminals in advance.<\/p>\n<p>The most unforgettable, powerful \u201cCops\u201d episode I saw was of a black cop, one of dozens featured on the show, demanding that a burglary suspect comply with his order to halt. Clearly seen on the cop\u2019s vest camera, the suspect, a black man, whirled and pumped four bullets into the cop.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was bleeding out until white cops arrived to stanch the blood, encourage him to remain conscious and to save his life.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the wife of the cop, following the shooting on a police scanner, called to hysterically beg her husband to hang in their, \u201cDon\u2019t die!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officer, after months of rehab, returned to the force and was interviewed. He said he made a near-fatal mistake by allowing the perpetrator to get the jump on him.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, \u201cCops\u201d often glorified cops, often those who earned it the hard way.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/11\/wfans-lazy-dull-programing-is-only-getting-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Sports News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#WFAN\u2019s lazy, dull programing is only getting worse&#8221; Old gag: They call radio a medium because when it\u2019s well done, it\u2019s rare. WFAN is much like ESPN in that all these years later \u2014 since 1979 in ESPN\u2019s case, 1987 in FAN\u2019s \u2014 both by now should be much better than they are. 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