LOL....yeah, the Rodney Harrison conversation was awkward enough, but Kirk's birthday lap dance really took the cake, so to speak.Patriot_Reign said:What the hell is going on right now?
Bellhorn said:LOL....yeah, the Rodney Harrison conversation was awkward enough, but Kirk's birthday lap dance really took the cake, so to speak.
This was a legitimate beef with Ellen. One of the kids from the Jimmy Fund telethon wanted to meet her. They raised money to get accommodations made to fly him out to meet her while they reached out to her representatives to arrange the meeting.snowmanny said:I've listened two days this week, for a total of about six minutes. Both times all three of them were hammering Ellen Degeneras for being an awful awful person. I'm not sure why she is an awful awful person; it seemed to have something to do with her not saying hello to one of their friends.
Did they ever get any kind of contact or confirmation that a meeting was in the works?shoebooty said:This was a legitimate beef with Ellen. One of the kids from the Jimmy Fund telethon wanted to meet her. They raised money to get accommodations made to fly him out to meet her while they reached out to her representatives to arrange the meeting.
But when the kid got there it wasn't on her agenda and she didn't meet with him but they were nice enough to get him tickets to attend the show.
Her producer sent an email saying something to the effect of not being able to help everyone who wants to meet Ellen. Even though there were months of planning. Sadly the kid passed shortly afterwards.
They were hoping it would go viral. I think they are in the right on this one.
They did. Their producer was in contact with her people. Ellen's people's were asking all sorts of questions and even asked for his medical reports which were provided..There is no Rev said:Did they ever get any kind of contact or confirmation that a meeting was in the works?
shoebooty said:This was a legitimate beef with Ellen. One of the kids from the Jimmy Fund telethon wanted to meet her. They raised money to get accommodations made to fly him out to meet her while they reached out to her representatives to arrange the meeting.
But when the kid got there it wasn't on her agenda and she didn't meet with him but they were nice enough to get him tickets to attend the show.
Her producer sent an email saying something to the effect of not being able to help everyone who wants to meet Ellen. Even though there were months of planning. Sadly the kid passed shortly afterwards.
They were hoping it would go viral. I think they are in the right on this one.
jsinger121 said:
They are totally right on this one. Ellen is a total phony who is only out for herself and to promote her brand. My wife and daughter watch this crap. Take for example the two British girls Sophia Grace and Rosie. They have hardly a lick of talent. The Sophia girl is an average singer and the other one doesn't sing and just dances to the other one singing and due to Ellen they have become pretty famous from the show and continue to make numerous appearances on the show. She will promote them to further the Ellen Brand yet have no time for a Jimmy Fund patient.
CantKeepmedown said:Tuned in this morning on my way to work to catch the very tail end of a conversation about gay marriage. Kirk said something along the lines of it having absolutely zero effect on him, and if two guys down the street have a ceremony, it's not going to stop him from golfing every weekend. When he asked Gerry why he doesn't support it and why anybody else should care, Gerry stated, "You just wait." He then made a comment about Catholic Charities adoption, but didn't expand on it.
They've also been railing on this Massachusetts field hockey story, where a boy is playing goalie for a team, and is dominating. Gerry said, "maybe he'll try out for the role of Cinderella in the next school play." He can't help himself.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:Today I was listening for the obligatory two minutes between Touch and Rich (O2MBT&R) and they were talking about the fly over and how Minihane doesn't think it's the whiz-bang fun fest that Gerry and John do. So Callahan starts saying, "Oh I suppose that's because you aren't into the military or this country, right? And you don't like to say the Pledge of Allegiance when you were a kid. I bet you didn't say 'under God', right? RIGHT?" Minihane says, "Yeah sure. But I didn't say the Pledge when I was a kid. And I didn't say 'under God' when I was in eighth or ninth grade. I thought it was kinda dumb."
Gerry found this hard to believe. "You didn't say 'under God' when you were in eighth or ninth grade? ARE YOU SERIOUS? Oh wait, I forgot that you're from Winchester. I bet that you said, 'Under the SUN GOD or something', right? Chortle, chortle. GUFFAW!"
Whether or not Minihane said "under God" is not really the point. He probably didn't because no one took the Pledge of Allegiance seriously in junior high or high school. By the time you're that age, you've said it thousands of times and it's lost its meaning and you're a dip shit teenager.
The point of this little rant--and I don't think that this gets that much attention--is the zingers that Gerry Callahan says that he thinks are awesome and witty and funny. I get that the guy is on the air for 20 hours a week and not everything is going to be Chuckle Hut worth, but good lord, he is legitimately one of the unfunniest people in front of a microphone. This sort of "Under the sun god" quip is par for the course for this guy. You could probably say that Callahan is doing some form of "Dad joke" but that's giving a bad name to Dad jokes.
This joke doesn't even make sense. Are liberals pagans? Is Winchester even considered liberal? I live pretty close to Winchester and I don't think it's Cambridge west. It's practically Andover. Gerry Callahan's politics and views on life are pretty abysmal but his humor, man, that's the absolute worst.
Just turned 40. They had a thing on NESN right near the end of the broadcast run.IHateDaveKerpen said:
How old is Minihane?
grimshaw said:Just turned 40. They had a thing on NESN right near the end of the broadcast run.
Toucher and Rich are being awful as well.ivanvamp said:I'm one of the few here that actually likes listening to Dennis and Callahan, but holy cow they are brutal this morning. They cannot fathom the Hanley/Pablo deals and are lamenting how they are giving up on Xander Bogaerts.
"They will rue the day when they watch him (Bogaerts) produce elsewhere." - John Dennis
It's like they cannot fathom the notion that the Sox would play Hanley in left.
This is all sports radio, not just D&C or WEEI. They run on the assumption that listeners are only there for ~20 minute chunks, not all four hours of each program. So its repetitive and overly reliant on the whatever talking points generate more calls. As much as the "more informed and intelligent" listeners would love four hours of evolved conversations, hosts and program managers are deathly afraid of people tuning in halfway through and feeling like they missed enough of the conversation that they can't follow it and tune out again.GilaMonster said:D&C is essentially the radio form of click baiting. They say stupid and controversial things. People get mad and continue to listen or call to call them out on being idiots. And they completely refuse to respond in an intelligent fashion. They don't know anything about baseball to the extent of where it is embarrassing. WEEI is going down the drains. The market is becoming more informed and intelligent and they running out hosts that can't hold an intelligent discussions without beating a topic into the ground.
The best shows are the 10-midnight ones.
Alternate version.A refresher for those who claim Pedro is"100% clean".a real, white American.
Vandalman said:Callahan: "Schilling would have gotten more votes if he said 'Vote Kerry' instead of 'Vote Bush.'"
Minihane tried to call him on it, but Gerry kept ripping into the "moonbat" baseball writers.
joe dokes said:
There might be a Rice-like element of, "a lot of reporters thought he was an asshole" to it. But I doubt that it was his politics. It could also be the fact that his outstanding MLB seasons ( 8 or 9 of them) had lots of mediocrity sprinkled in. Personally, I think he falls short of the Hall.
My bad. Mediocre was the wrong word. The number of not-full seasons between '92 (his first real full-time action) and '07 holds him back, IMO.moondog80 said:
Not sure about that one; once he found his groove in 1995, he spent some time on the DL but was never mediocre. Though I agree that I don't think his politics played much of a role.
Red(s)HawksFan said:Apparently, Schilling was on air with them earlier and seemed to side with Callahan, at least in terms of politics potentially playing a role. No idea what the context of the conversation was (I don't listen), but the show's twitter sent this out a little while ago:
Dennis and Callahan @DandCShow
.@gehrig38 on John Smoltz's induction:"I think he is a Democrat & so I know as a Republican there's some people that really don't like that"
Red(s)HawksFan said:Apparently, Schilling was on air with them earlier and seemed to side with Callahan, at least in terms of politics potentially playing a role. No idea what the context of the conversation was (I don't listen), but the show's twitter sent this out a little while ago:
Dennis and Callahan @DandCShow
.@gehrig38 on John Smoltz's induction:"I think he is a Democrat & so I know as a Republican there's some people that really don't like that"
Red(s)HawksFan said:Apparently, Schilling was on air with them earlier and seemed to side with Callahan, at least in terms of politics potentially playing a role. No idea what the context of the conversation was (I don't listen), but the show's twitter sent this out a little while ago:
Dennis and Callahan @DandCShow
.@gehrig38 on John Smoltz's induction:"I think he is a Democrat & so I know as a Republican there's some people that really don't like that"
Vinho Tinto said:I don't know why Schilling is being kept out, but there is a very small difference between Smoltz and Schilling. That Smoltz is in on his first ballot, while Schilling and Mussina are hundreds of votes away, has confused me. Schilling is not the kind of guy who would take a snub well, so he's going to be an ass about it; but I do agree with him in thinking that he was not inferior to Smoltz.
Vinho Tinto said:I don't know why Schilling is being kept out, but there is a very small difference between Smoltz and Schilling. That Smoltz is in on his first ballot, while Schilling and Mussina are hundreds of votes away, has confused me. Schilling is not the kind of guy who would take a snub well, so he's going to be an ass about it; but I do agree with him in thinking that he was not inferior to Smoltz.
Hendu for Kutch said:I think it's the closer angle (He's versatile! He dominated on both ends!), which is fairly dumb because I'd think most ace starters would have a ton of success as closers.
However, I also think he gets "rounded up" to Maddux/Glavine level. If he were the ace of an otherwise mediocre staff, I don't think he gets in on the first try. But he's a part of a HOF-level 3-headed monster, ergo the thinking is he must be HOF material. Likewise, I think if Schilling had pitched with RJ or Pedro for the majority of his career, he'd have cruised in as half of one of the greatest duos of all time.