As the Bruins schedule on NESN melts away — collateral damage of the ongoing NHL lockout — the network has done a nice job hustling to provide viewers a hockey fix , especially with the re-airings of broadcasts from the 2011 Stanley Cup run.
But while Bruins fans pine for the return of real live hockey games (where have you gone, Jack Edwards and Andy Brickley?), it surely won’t go unnoticed that the network has added a rather familiar hockey name.
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Chad, you're being far too kind about WEEI's on-air politics in general and Dennis & Callahan in particular. In one of the bluest states (if not the bluest) in the country, Dennis & Callahan & The Big Show went on for years with irrational hard-core right wing politics and tormented a heavy share of their listening audience who had no alternative elsewhere on the dial to get their sports fix. Toucher & Rich are nowhere near as good for sports talk, but I can't go back to the D & C after so many years of being insulted by two people using their bully microphone pulpit to promote a point of view one could easily find elsewhere on an Entecomm-owned Boston radio station.
There's a reason that Rush Limbaugh's ratings here in Boston are among the lowest of any major market nationwide. Hopefully the failure to be the number one rated sports show due to their political leanings is costing them performance bonus money in their paycheck.
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Hey, Shag, you forgot to mention in your Tommy Heinsohn column that Bob Ryan, as a cub reporter who never even played college basketball, when covering the Celtics actually tried in many people's opinion to undermine Tommy Heinsoh as Celtics coach. It was crude, indecent , laughable and many of us who witnessed it have never forgotten it or forgiven Ryan.