Least Essential Boston Sports Media Personality?

[JGray38]

At least with Cafardo he's providing material for one of the great threads in Internet history. So he's got that going for him.
 
It is always funny to see Nick being interviewed as an expert on national networks like ESPN and MLB Network every once in a while. They actually treat him with respect and give him a ton of credit for being an insider. It's Kabuki theater meets Punk'd.

I've spent a lot of time in that thread. Here's why he gets my vote- two years ago I would read his columns, digest the stupidity and comment on it here. Now? I pretty much ignore anything he writes, unless it's called out for being spectacularly dumb here. It's just not worth it anymore. And this is the guy with the vaunted Sunday Notes column.

 

[Dalton Jones]

I've told this story before so I apologize for repeating it but it seems so apt here. Tanguay and Dickerson got there start on local radio in Worcester in the mid '90s on a station that was eventually bought out by 'EEI. I was living in Worcester at the time and would listen to them occasionally. It has to have been the worst sports talk radio ever conceived and produced. Neither of them ever said an interesting thing in their entire tenure. Tanguay had the same Ted Baxter intonations he has now, and let me tell you, listening to him employ them to discuss the issues emerging from the latest Uxbridge-Oxford football clash of titans was sheer torture. Dickerson was no better. They were both colossally stupid. And they would go on and on, because for long stretches of time no one would call the station and they had to fill the air time with their inane banter.

Eventually Tanguay made it to Boston, sponsored I believe by Bob Lobell, who would throw him a bone every once in a while in the form of a turn on the weekend 5-minute sportscast. Out of such small beginnings did Tanguay build his inexplicable rise within the sports broadcasting firmament here. It does however seem as though his career is flaming out, as has happened to Butch Stearns, for example. The only thing that keeps him going is the tiny little incestuous club that is the Boston sports media scene, whose members seem always to look out for their own and can distribute a few crumbs to the likes of him and Butchy. Why Dickerson has yet to suffer the same fate is a mystery. We can all sympathize with his struggle to overcome the many ailments he has, but they have nothing to do with his abilities as a broadcaster, which are close to nonexistent. I was listening to him on the radio this morning talking about the NFL and suddenly cracked the code of what had been bothering me for so long about him: he believes he has something interesting to say and that people want to hear his opinion. He doesn't and they don't. His sole purpose should be to ask the others in the studio with him a question and then to shut up and get out of the way. Instead he waxes on to no purpose for incredible lengths of time, uttering banalities that haven't changed since his days in Worcester.

Gary and Greg, hands down the winners in this category.

 

[BannedbyNYYFans.com]

The only thing that prevented me from posting in this thread earlier was I couldn't choose between Tanguay and Dickerson. Well stated DJ.

The thread should be locked the conversation should be "Outside of Tanguay and Dickerson, who is the least essential....".

 

[NortheasternPJ]

What I just can't understand is why WEEI employs all these suck bags. There has to be a more talented and up and coming group than the retreads WEEI rolls out all night and weekend.

I was painting the house today and 98.5 and they had 3 hours of Johnston and Flynn followed by 2 hours of Bertrand solo leading into the Celtics.

Meanwhile WEEI rolled out Butch all morning.

Even Adam Jones haters have to admit he's better than the WEEI bench of Sterns, Mustard, planet Mikey etc.

 

[Byrdbrain]

It's one thing with Mustard and Johnson and Stearns who have been kicking around filling in at EEI for years but until recently Tanguay was at the Sportshub. After years of filling in and being awful there EEI decided he was worth bringing in.
 
That makes no sense to me at all.

 

[Buckner's Boots]

Steve Lyons. He brings nothing to the table that I want to hear. Eckersley and Caron have pretty good rapport and work well together, but Lyons' energy just derails the train.

 

[j-man]

I'm not in Boston but I do read the Globe, Herald and WEEI's site nearly daily, and I do watch a lot of NESN and CSNNE programming.   
 
My answer is Ron Borges.  He's the loud town crier, standing angrily on a soap box, who no one listens to or cares about.
 
As much as I dislike the CHB, many people still seem to pay attention to him.  The athletes are certainly aware of him and what he says.
 
Borges?  Is ANYONE aware of ANYTHING he writes or says? 
 
PS: Wilbur is a good choice for similar reasons.  And he's ALWAYS been irrelevant.  Borges had a period of relevance, even if he was loathed.  I used to read Borges fairly regularly and now truly never do.  Part of it is because the Herald's site is clunky and always slows down my computer.  But most of it is because Borges is a little slice of death.  But for consistency reasons, Wilbur has Borges beat.

+1

 

[j-man]

I've told this story before so I apologize for repeating it but it seems so apt here. Tanguay and Dickerson got there start on local radio in Worcester in the mid '90s on a station that was eventually bought out by 'EEI. I was living in Worcester at the time and would listen to them occasionally. It has to have been the worst sports talk radio ever conceived and produced. Neither of them ever said an interesting thing in their entire tenure. Tanguay had the same Ted Baxter intonations he has now, and let me tell you, listening to him employ them to discuss the issues emerging from the latest Uxbridge-Oxford football clash of titans was sheer torture. Dickerson was no better. They were both colossally stupid. And they would go on and on, because for long stretches of time no one would call the station and they had to fill the air time with their inane banter.

Eventually Tanguay made it to Boston, sponsored I believe by Bob Lobell, who would throw him a bone every once in a while in the form of a turn on the weekend 5-minute sportscast. Out of such small beginnings did Tanguay build his inexplicable rise within the sports broadcasting firmament here. It does however seem as though his career is flaming out, as has happened to Butch Stearns, for example. The only thing that keeps him going is the tiny little incestuous club that is the Boston sports media scene, whose members seem always to look out for their own and can distribute a few crumbs to the likes of him and Butchy. Why Dickerson has yet to suffer the same fate is a mystery. We can all sympathize with his struggle to overcome the many ailments he has, but they have nothing to do with his abilities as a broadcaster, which are close to nonexistent. I was listening to him on the radio this morning talking about the NFL and suddenly cracked the code of what had been bothering me for so long about him: he believes he has something interesting to say and that people want to hear his opinion. He doesn't and they don't. His sole purpose should be to ask the others in the studio with him a question and then to shut up and get out of the way. Instead he waxes on to no purpose for incredible lengths of time, uttering banalities that haven't changed since his days in Worcester.

Gary and Greg, hands down the winners in this category.

Tanguay he acts like a know it all   

 

[Stitch01]

It's still Eric Wilbur. Oh lord he had the hottest of takes on Brady this morning.

 

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

I've already declared SoSH an Eric Wilbur-free zone. WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS.