I have listened to about every local sports talk show through the years going way back to The Sports Nutz, Arnie Spanier, Tim Liotta (sp?), etc., etc.
The current batch are mostly horrible, either both hosts (Doug and Wolf and Burns and Gambo) or one of them (the new guy Jody with Jurecki). Jurecki is only tolerable when talking football. Bauer, to me, adds NOTHING to the show and is annoying.
KTAR with Doug, Burns and Calvisi are the ultimate worst to me. I still think it's the SAME guy and he just changes his name every show. Just pathetic.
Local sports talk here in the valley is a wasteland IMO. The worst part is that it seems there is about 5 minutes of talk and 55 minutes of commercials every hour. But, that may be a blessing sparing the listeners having to listen to the crappy show
Not to say that some, if not all, may be good peeps in real life, I don't know any of them. But, it (sports talk radio) just isn't worth listening to to me. I'd rather listen to toons on Spotify or my ITunes mix.
Love sports but it seems it's more about the hosts trying to be funny or controversial over the actual sports. Trying to get the "scoop" over the other guys leads to ridiculous rumors and outright lies sometimes (hello Gambo). Like some have mentioned the love for out of market teams is really disgusting.
My favorite show was Vinny and Skinny, they seemed to keep on sports more than most have done. But, it wasn't long lived at all.
I like Chuck Powell because he is actually funny but his heart obviously isn't sports talk.
I think Wolfley's genuine nice guy aspect does come through, he just is better suited to be a WWE announcer than talk show host.