Nick Cattles, the host of ESPN Radio 94.1 FM's afternoon drive-time sports talk show, announced Tuesday he was leaving the station after 4½ years.
His last show will air Monday.
According to a post on his Facebook page, Cattles, a Rhode Island native, plans to move to the Boston area and work for 98.5 The Sports Hub.
I'm glad the highways and byways of Illinois will now finally be safe.Long time Chicago radio host and 670 "The Score" original Terry Boers is hanging it up today. Been with the station since 1992. Part of Boers an Bernstein, which blows away any sports show I have ever listened to in Boston. There have been nearly a dozen times I have almost driven off the road laughing since I moved out here in 2005 to this show.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/01/04/670-celebrates-terry-boers-retirement-with-farewell-show-thursday/
That's quite a lovely read, but the the most Philadelphia thing about it is how they all insist on believing the environment they describe is uniquely Philadelphian, instead of being a fairly standard dynamic in big city daily journalism. Very well-captured, though.How an Eagles beat reporter got ejected from the pressbox
https://theringer.com/oral-history-philadelphia-eagles-press-box-jeff-mclane-120a90dbd9c1#.rzdhlxvzk
I live to serve.As soon as I saw Deadspin's Rex Ryan article today, I knew that an epic SJH rant would appear in the comments. I was not disappointed.
I'm not trying to be a wise-ass, but I honestly forgot that Ron Borges wrote anything any more. And I actually almost forgot that he was still alive.I made the critical error of clicking on a link to a Ron Borges article. To say that he has reached the point of self-caricature would be a massive understatement.
I deeply apologize for reminding you of his existence. The picture included with the article makes your "still alive" point debatable.I'm not trying to be a wise-ass, but I honestly forgot that Ron Borges wrote anything any more. And I actually almost forgot that he was still alive.
That's okay. Anyone with a Natty Boh avatar is good people, even if they do remind me of Ron Borges' existence.I deeply apologize for reminding you of his existence. The picture included with the article makes your "still alive" point debatable.
It's kind of batshit for the writers to take this stance. Am i wrong or are they essentially saying Twitter reports need to live outside the editorial process in the name of speed? I mean yeah that's the hard reality of the market today, but now it's now a GOOD thing?don't see this posted anywhere but WEEI and Herald's Chris Villani suspended for breaking news on Twitter:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/05/02/boston-herald-twitter/
Herald writers are boycotting (but Steve Buckley is tweeting)
I get both sides. The writers are saying this is how news works now, we need the freedom to post the information we get while it is timely and worthwhile. Understood is that it raises a writer/reporters status to have a reputation for breaking news. The paper is saying that no, vetting sources and verifying information is the job of an editorial staff, and reporters should respect that. Otherwise, the paper and reporter risk their reputation of being trustworthy. And a reporter who wants to raise his status should not be the one judging the viability of sources. That is not his/her job. That is what the editorial staff is there for.It's kind of batshit for the writers to take this stance. Am i wrong or are they essentially saying Twitter reports need to live outside the editorial process in the name of speed? I mean yeah that's the hard reality of the market today, but now it's now a GOOD thing?
Did he follow that up by apologizing and saying he didn't think Papi weighed more than 400 lbs max?In opening his discussion re: Sox offensive woes with Thomase on their WEEI show this morning, Butch Stearns said nobody is talking about the 800-pound gorilla in the room, David Ortiz.
As a shocked Thomase stammered about that not being appropriate, I think I heard Butch say "Pun intended" or maybe it was "No pun intended"
Either way, he might be the dumbest human alive.
I had arrived at my destination and couldn't stick around to hear what, if any, damage control followed. My dog was my only passenger and I wouldn't be stunned if I was the only listener.Did he follow that up by apologizing and saying he didn't think Papi weighed more than 400 lbs max?
should we prefer "elephant in the room" or the elephant not in the room?I understand that race has been a very sensitive issue around here over the past week, but isn't that just a saying? I've heard a version of that for as long as I can remember.
I'm asking that question seriously. I've used "comments from the peanut gallery" a bunch of times in my life, but read in another thread here that it could have racist undertones. I had no idea.
It's just a saying. I was listening at the time, and Thomase's reaction didn't even register with me. I assume he was just trying to trip up Stearns for his own amusement. Can't say I blame him.I understand that race has been a very sensitive issue around here over the past week, but isn't that just a saying? I've heard a version of that for as long as I can remember.
I'm asking that question seriously. I've used "comments from the peanut gallery" a bunch of times in my life, but read in another thread here that it could have racist undertones. I had no idea.
It is a common saying, and people (and especially stupid people) who talk in public a lot often fall back on favorite phrases and common cliches or sayings to get them through it while they try to talk and think at the same time. And there is nothing inherently racist about that saying. But when you use it in relation to a very large black athlete, and your cohosts probably look at you like you just really f-ed up, you should probably stop very noticeably and acknowledge that it was really bad phrasing, apologize, and move on. It's like when ESPN published a rushed headline about Jeremy Lin having a bad outing that said "Chink in the armor." Perfectly valid phrase with no racist origin, but you have to realize it was a bad idea to use it in that context the minute you really look at it.I understand that race has been a very sensitive issue around here over the past week, but isn't that just a saying? I've heard a version of that for as long as I can remember.
I'm asking that question seriously. I've used "comments from the peanut gallery" a bunch of times in my life, but read in another thread here that it could have racist undertones. I had no idea.
I thought Tomase was pretty clearly taken aback in his immediate reaction. Again, I didn't stick around for more than a few seconds later.It's just a saying. I was listening at the time, and Thomase's reaction didn't even register with me. I assume he was just trying to trip up Stearns for his own amusement. Can't say I blame him.
I just went to "audio on demand" and rolled the tape a few times. It was "No pun intended," though Tomase inadvertently stepped on the "no," which came after a lengthy pause. It was at that point that Tomase continued with, "well, let's not..." and they plowed ahead. I think Stearns could have skipped the NPI remark, and Tomase would have left it alone.I thought Tomase was pretty clearly taken aback in his immediate reaction. Again, I didn't stick around for more than a few seconds later.
Did you hear the "Pun intended" or "No pun intended" line? I may have misheard it because they were talking over one another at that point.
One could rightfully compile the number of inaccurate or flat-out bad passes in Super Bowl LI and come to some type of determination. But to conclude they were thrown by a weak arm is to overlook too many throws that were, simply, perfect. (Unless his arm strength can fluctuate from snap to snap.)
There were more “interceptable passes” in that game, without a doubt. But that had to do more with the Falcons’ pass rush and game plan than it did Brady (who had two weeks of rest before the game) feeling fatigued. You can’t simply dismiss one great performance against the Steelers because of a bad defensive game plan and then completely ignore an optimal game plan from the Falcons in the very next game. It’s illogical, and it’s ignoring the same things that were overlooked after 2013, when Brady was “washed up” while coincidentally playing behind arguably the worst offensive line of his career and had an incredibly weak receiving corps.
But of course, Brady is turning 40 this summer, and he is a human being (probably), and so his NFL career will one day end (we think). And when (if?) it does, whoever wrote the most recent doomsday column will be seen as The Man Who Saw It Coming™.
Maybe it will be Fahey this year. Or maybe he’ll just be added to that ignominious list of those who came before him with a premature prediction of the demise of Tom Brady.
Regardless of what the future holds, we know this: Tom Brady had a strong arm in Super Bowl LI. To say otherwise is to ignore what is plain to see.
bump to thisIs there anyone with a regular gig worse than Adam Jones. I keep sampling on my evening commute and lasting 2 minutes with him. An angry, negative know-it-all. No thanks.
He is going to be on EEI tomorrow morning and they said they were going to ask him about this.Mut was arrested last week for DUI in Saratoga. His BAC was twice the legal limit.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/tv-radio/2017/08/14/weei-host-mike-mutnansky-arrested-for-dui-saratoga/ST1Rz7sUOru7WWtXSykt6I/story.html?event=event25
Last weekend, Ryan Schultz made some sort of misogynistic joke on Twitter that elicited a lot of anger and criticism, multiple women told me; Saturday night, the @rschultzy20 Twitter account was deleted. (It has since been restored, and again deactivated.) After this incident, women started talking about having been harassed by Ryan for years, and on Monday night, four writers began searching for the wife to whom he constantly referred to offer support to her and their two supposed children. They feared Ryan’s erratic and harmful behavior might be affecting his family most.
They couldn’t, though, find any evidence that his wife, Blair, even existed. Then they realized that the university Ryan said he was attending while working on his pharmaceutical degree didn’t have a pharmacology school. Finally, after looking at the Facebook pages of Ryan’s family members, they realized that he was not mentioned by any of them and wasn’t in photos with the children he had presented as his, and that another Schultz, Becca, seemed to have an awful lot in common with Ryan.