well i was avoiding Gordo characters. but Tom Hicks is another real guest i forgot about him.
Hitzges is great; I used to listen to him when he did the morning show on 570. He and Hansen are 1 and 1a. That in no way salvages the Ticket. It's funny how every P1 in the world thinks that someone that dislikes the Ticket just doesn't understand the jargon. I listened long enough to get caught up and got tired of the complete lack of sports, aside from baseball, which sucks.
Ridiculous...
Somebody did a study once and they do 2/3 sports... (I don't recall who did it)
They talk tons of Cowboys during football season (too much IMO)...Mavs, Stars, and Rangers now. They have weekly guests as mentioned above. They cover everybody, but they don't KILL everything. How much can you say about any team???
oh well, to each his own. i really think the Hardline brings the Ticket down in a major way. Amid the diarrhea talk, i think Gordo comes up with some smart and edgy comedy, and I think George and Craig both are solid when they do talk sports. I think BaD radio talks enough sports to maintain credibility and i think they have the best comedy bit (1920's reporter guy). And Norm is always great, especially when he gets pissed at stupid callers.
But the Hardline's stupidity is just too much for me to take most of the time. They emphasize everything that people hate about the Ticket. Almost zero sports talk and the most idiotic of "comedy". Acoustic Grubes is the only saving grace on that show.
Come on, how can you not like the Reconsider Lounge?
So what you are saying is that Galloway is your leader?
It's a favorite argument to knock the Ticket because of their "non-sports" talk.... but the truth of the matter is that they talk about stuff that matters, where sports is always the priority. If the only thing going on in the sports day is a baseball game (1 of 162) and nothing else of importance sure they stray to other things.... but that's what makes them easy to listen to. "lack of sports" is a cop out because that is their main reason for being. The tickers don't focus on Britney's latest haircut.... it focuses on Sports. Because they are a sports station... despite what the ESPNites want you to believe.
LOL yeah that's pretty funny. But even that is just getting Mike to say ridiculous things so that Grubes can play those drops later.Come on, how can you not like the Reconsider Lounge?
The thing I hate about the Hardline is how they beat things into the ground. Almost every humor "fad" on the Ticket is started by Gordo or BaD radio making a reference once in a while, and then the Hardline finds out and starts beating us over the head with it - i.e. the shocker, motorboat, and now Miggs humor. It was funny when Gordo referenced it once every two months or so, but now that I hear "Miggs" 100 times a day on the Hardline it's not funny anymore.
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Yes, idiot P1. That's what I'm saying. Your incredible powers of perception have seen through my ruse, and exposed me as Randy Galloway's illegitimate child. It cannot possibly be that I've expressed my opinions pretty clearly throughout this discussion, it instead has to be that I am a mindless robot who must just have never listened to the Ticket or isn't sophisticated enough to understand their third grade level humor. I don't know, or care, what anyone else says about the Ticket, but I personally stopped listening to them because I could go the entire drive home from work without them mentioning sports a single time. Perhaps it's improved from then, but I'm not interested in finding out, as I don't particularly give a what they have to say about the Mavericks or Rangers.
It's amazing how many ing Ticket listeners are ready to just attack anyone that doesn't agree with them. Must be the same folks that jumped on the Little Mavericks' bandwagon when they started to win.
I don't care if you or anybody else listens to The Ticket or not...but when you say "complete lack of sports" it's just ridiculous...
I assure you I wasn't attacking. Just giving a different perspective. My apologies if you felt slighted by my post.
Sorry, but when I don't listen to the radio 24/7, I would define a 30 minute drive home with no discussion of sports as a "complete lack", and it happened enough times that I got sick of the station. Seriously, if I have to sit in the car and listen to the entire ing Hard Line in order to hear SOME sports talk then I'd rather pop in a CD. That's just me, though. Maybe that's why Ticket listeners are so defensive, because they listen all day long.I don't care if you or anybody else listens to The Ticket or not...but when you say "complete lack of sports" it's just ridiculous...
The Hardline does plenty of sports. For every non-sports segment they do, they also have sports segments. Their "problem" is they just get off topic too much but if you're a fan of the comedy then it isn't a problem. Dunham and Miller in the morning talk more than enough sports, Norm is basically nothing but sports, Bad Radio does less sports than any other show on the station imho. Maybe you are just driving home at the wrong time to hear sports.
Maybe you were listening to the same segments every day. E-news, comm quick hits, etc etc. They have non-sports segments at the same time every day normally. If you drive home on a consistent schedule there's a good chance you could hear non-sports every day for 30 min's. 30 min's is not even 2 segments...
It's good to know that you've based your opinions on 30 min's a day for a while. Makes sense now...
I agree with that for the most part. They do plenty of sports if you aren't there for just sports. If you like the comedy then it's not a big deal when they get off track. I didn't, so I chose not to listen anymore. Personally, I was never a big fan of Bob Sturm or Dunham and Miller either; when the radio is on it's in my shop or in the car and I'm just not interested in the extraneous crap. I liked Mark Followill when he was on the ticket, but he didn't get much time, and now he's doing Mavs PbP. I stopped listening before Hitzges got moved into the schedule. I'd listen to Norm, but I can hear him doing the Cowboys' post game now, which is enough for me.
I guess if you have to try to minimize my view and validate your own by believing that I only listened for 30 minutes, then go right ahead. I'm certainly not trying to step on anyone's ego by pointing out that the ticket sucks. I stopped listening to Tony Kornheiser's show because he spent more time talking about his upcoming prostate examp than sports, too.
I love the Ticket, but you're crazy if you think the Hardline talks a reasonable amount of sports. I can see why ANYBODY would hate The Ticket if the Hardline was the majority of what they heard.
Every day, besides E-news and Community Quick Hits, you've got "what's on mike's mind" which is easily the worst segment every day on the Ticket....after that there's a daily regaling of banal minutia about how everybody went out and got drunk at the Barley House the night before....and of course the segment where Danny talks about how much stuff sucks and you hear the "afternoon cloud" drop and then everybody starts calling each other 's....then you've got Corby over-selling everything (he's got about 43 different guys all with the label of "greatest actor of our generation" now)....on top of that, Corby is also the most incompetent and unprofessional "journalist" i've ever heard as he gets just about every point wrong on E-news unless he's got the story directly in front of his face ("I GUARANTEE you that 300 cost over $120 Million")....and then there's five minutes of Ranger talk.
The Ticket is greatness, but the Hardline is absolutely awful radio.
I'm not trying to minimize your view to validate anything
YOU said you listened for 30 min's on the way home every day...
Like I said, I don't care if you listen or not, but don't come on here saying they don't talk sports because that's BS and you know it...
They have 10 segments after WTDS...probably 5 of those are sports related.
I think too many people compare the Ticket to ESPN, but their compe ion for the major dayparts is 105.3.
Wow. 50 percent. Probably. What was I thinking?
Probably...as in, I haven't charted it or anything. Maybe 40% on some days...60% on others.
so you're not going to address the comment about your 30 min listening window? How are you an expert on the station if you've only listened 30 min's a day for a period of time?
Yeah, you aren't trying to minimize anything.
I'm not going to read you my goddamned resume to try to meet some minimum qualification in order to express my opinion. If you turned a country music station and they went 30 minutes without playing country music, would you keep listening? Well, maybe YOU would, but I wouldn't.
The Ticket sucks. That's my opinion. I never said not to listen to it, I simply said that I don't. If you don't like that, go find a Mavs board.
Bill Walton's kid.
Yeah, you aren't trying to minimize anything.
I'm not going to read you my goddamned resume to try to meet some minimum qualification in order to express my opinion. If you turned a country music station and they went 30 minutes without playing country music, would you keep listening? Well, maybe YOU would, but I wouldn't.
The Ticket sucks. That's my opinion. I never said not to listen to it, I simply said that I don't. If you don't like that, go find a Mavs board.
Ok...
So you formed your opinion based on 30 min's a day, probably around the same time each day...like I said before, it makes sense that you said they don't talk sports...
About Schmidt.
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