Breer took a not subtle shot at them the day after the draft. He essentially said the gamblers/Vegas knows NOTHING about the draft and who is going where and you shouldn't bet on the draft. It's clear that he, as a guy with actual sources on teams, was irritated at guys screaming "THE LINE ON PLAYER X MOVED! VEGAS KNOW HE'S GETTING DRAFTED BY TEAM Y!!!"
We’re now doing T&R fan fiction? We’ve hit a new low.
I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but I saw his video saying he's back in a week if all goes well at the doctor. Great news.
Didn't he say he will be able to talk freely in a week? May need some time after that to do his job in radio
Yeah there wasn’t much to it. Only about 5 minutes. Although he did mention and reaffirmed his Tweets and how Rich barely speaks to him outside of the show.Things definitely don’t sound good. But his voice sounds a thousand times better.
Not that I heard. Obviously, a huge (and obviously depressing in part) sports weekend so there was plenty to talk about otherwise.
….but they haven’t updated the feed since 28th on Overcast. Anyone know if they still supporting that distribution platform?
Thanks!
It’s Fred, so it could be a work but if it’s not it’s sad that this is the point it reached.
Well it was a good run. I’ve listened for 2+ hours a day for the last 15 years. This is like watching the Get Back Beatles documentary with Chachi narrating it via Twitter posts.
Oof. Yeah that’s not gonna be good for business! Where do we all go next? I guess it’s podcasts or bust. I mean I guess we should have seen it coming, remember there was that disagreement the week he went on leave when he was unhappy that things were going on when he was out
Right and also according to Fred he sounds very ready and willing to burn everything they’ve worked towards to the ground upon his return. Do we get a proper “Your Mom’s box!” at the conclusion of the show?
We’ve all heard the show when one guy isn’t there. It’s a pretty hard listen on the best of occasions. This is why I keep hammering on the O&A comparisons: we have a show that flows smoothly when both guys are present and engaged but suffers greatly when one guy gets run of the show for a day. Look what they’re up to when left to their own devices. It’s sad to say but I can 100% see the same outcome for T&R and it’s all because of one man’s demand for attention
Same here. I’m a morning person and usually the 6-6:20 break is my favorite part of the show since Fred is very candid and real before what happened last night.
It’s been over two years of this and Rich is paying for Lockhart out of pocket. I’m not shocked Rich is separating work and personal relationships. I can’t say about Fred’s cancer scare what rich did or didn’t do but I’d hope he’d be there for Fred.
I have no clue, but it sounds like Fred knew fairly quickly that the cancer scare wasn’t cancer. Like a week or 2. And his voice is back. I’m giving Rich a break. He’s clearly been there for Fred for a long time. He sounds utterly exhausted and overwhelmed.
Man, I hope not. That's WEEI-level hubris that gave us: "Welcome to the Big Show! Joining the Big O today: Butch Sterns, Fred Smerlas, and Larry Johnson!".
Wow i mean i know the late afternoon drive on WEEI was a dead zone but yikes. Getting beat out by local college stations with those numbers....
That was really awful radio, and Ordway was insufferable when he would tout his ratings. They used to make fun of Michael Felger on EEI, but he ended up costing Ordway a lot of money (and ultimately his job) when there was a decent alternative to Ordway's show.
Absolutley.
That was thing that used to drive me nuts about Ordway's bluster. He always used to say, "We're the guys down the end of the bar just talking about sports and you get to hear it." And I was always like if Larry Johnson, Ted Smerlas and Butch Stearns are talking really loudly about sports at a bar I'm at, I'm pounding my beer and I'm fucking leaving. At the end of its run, The Big Show was a disaster. Smerlas, Johnson, Stearns, Ted DeOssie, Steve Burton; a roster of talentless in articulate buttholes outyelling each other for four hours. And DeOssie was among the worst, "Did you ever play football? Did you ever play in the league?" Fuck off Ted. JFC.
I tried to find it, but Fred went off on this like 15 years ago about how they just are just a bunch of guys sitting around smoking cigars! It was one of Fred's best rants and echos your narrative.
