Hear hear.
Once in a while I turn on WEEI and I never last very long, hardly ever more than a minute. I used to think that Wiggy would be okay, having met him a couple of times, but he's brutal. I can't believe what comes out of his mouth sometimes.
I've only seen Curran a few times and Perry a couple of times but I like them both.
Maybe I'm a big dork (probably am), but I like intelligent sports talk, Way back in the day, when professional sports "talk" was only to be found in the newspapers, you had people like Jimmy Breslin, Red Smith and Dave Anderson at the Times, later George Will and others, whose writings were occasionally profound and always literate and intelligent. Tom E Curran occasionally comes across as an odd duck, but his commentary always offers a thoughtful take. He sort of thinks out loud when he speaks, which is far better than the prefabricated pabulum you get from most sports commentators. Phill Perry, who always strikes me as "the perfect son-in-law," pretty much does everything right, asks Bill tough questions, and vets his views rigorously before sharing them. I also like Rich Keefe, Fitsy, and Meggo: all smart, all fun. The late AM show has sunken nearly to an unlistenable condition since Keefe's departure from that slot. He was excellent foil to Gresh who, without that tether, wanders off into fart noises and angry insistence on how stupid the fans are. Meggo manages to add a little intelligent commentary into the drearily predictable "hot take" monologue we get from Adam Jones. Fitzy is...Fitzy (well, sort of).
WEEI is the only sports talk out in the boondocks where I live, so when WEEI goes wrong, I'm out of luck. I haven't listened to 98.5 in years. Maybe I should check that out online. There's no reception "over the airways" for that station, so I can't really listen to them in my car. (Internet reception is weak hereabouts, and I get one-bar signal on my phone. I hope WEEI can regain some of what they have lost. They could start by moving Adam to the late night slot, where his affinity for monologue could work, then giving Keefe his chair on Adam's current show. The morning show is just unlistenable for me: no redeeming virtues at all. I wonder what has happened to the ratings for that show.
Oh well, if I am not a dork, I am at least certainly an old curmudgeon. So it goes.