I'm guessing that most readers would have gotten the intended implication that I think Tony Mazz is one of the biggest pieces of sh*t to hit the airwaves. Butch Stearns is just stupid. Tony Mazz is as lazy as Nick Cafardo and is as vile as Dan Shaughnessy -- but at least CHB can write. By his own admission, TM often doesn't bother to watch the games that he then, arrogantly, comments upon. And his sole purpose on the air is to elicit listener response with his dim-witted consipiracy theories about local franchises being cheap.
The last time I caught one of Tony's pearls of wisdom was on his baseball show back in May. He was offereing as evidence of the Red Sox' "cheapness" the fact that they didn't match Detroit's offer for Victor Martinez and were, instead, left with a black hole at catcher. And, as Tony, continued, they could have moved Victor to the DH role next year, or even not picked up Ortiz' option for this year and it would have cost them no more. (never mind the fact that they'd have 3 years remaining on VMart's deal, while Ortiz is year to year.) Butch Stearns could never have come up with anything that patently specious... okay, maybe because Butch has problems putting together 3 syllable words, but that's a good thing in his case.
Massarotti just sucks period. He offers nothing. He makes Felger and Mazz unlistenable, and I actually am a fan of Felger and watch his work on CSN. Of your list, everybody but Mustard and Johnson would be an improvement over Tony Massarotti. Hell, why not add Bob Gamere to the list, assuming they could make sure no one under the age of 16 came close to the 98.5 studios during the broadcast. In fact, I just thought of a decent role for Tony Mazz... make him the host for a revival of "Candlepins for Cash."