In keeping with a fine Festivus tradition, it is now time for the annual airing of grievances in the sports world. I got a lot of problems with you people, and now, you’re gonna hear about it!
Here are a few for starters:
Butch Davis: Would it be too much for you to win a bowl game? Or beat NXSU once in a while?
Carolina Hurricanes: Really? Worst team in the NHL?
Jim Caldwell: Did 16-0 not matter to you? Or did you just want to show everybody why you were a flop the last time you were a head coach?
Michael Jordan: Stay classy the next time you’re inducted into a hall of fame. And is it really too much to ask that you actually give a crap about running the Bobcats?
“The New 620 The Buzz”: You’re dead to me, since I live east of US 1 and therefore cannot receive your paltry signal.
Roy Williams: Just coach your team and keep winning titles. Leave stadium security to someone else.
Carolina Panthers: Tell me why you didn’t sit Jake Delhomme down sooner?
Tiger Woods: Thanks a lot from every golf tournament you sit out because you couldn’t keep it in your pants.
Please air your sports-related grievances in the comments section.
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I wouldn’t just blame Jim Caldwell for the Colts pulling starters against the Jets, I would put more of the blame on Jim Polian. They did the same thing in 2005, and 07
But that was a Dungy decision then, Nino. The thinking was that Caldwell would not do it this time. He even said as long as the game was competitive he would leave the starters in. Lie much?
SMALL and PETTY PAT – Posting pictures of hotties you know and calling them “friends” yea right!
HP, they can be his friends. I mean, just because he met them while putting singles in their garters doesn’t mean they aren’t friends….
If Polian is telling Caldwell to pull the starters, then they both deserve blame. Its an organizational thing with the Colts. They always do this. Manning even said so. I dont agree with it.
I think you do, Nino. I think you like it, you closet ’72 Dolphins fan!!!
Urban Meyer: Maybe you should think things out more.
Brett Favre: Make up your mind.
haha.
No dolphins fan here. I would looove for a team to go undefeated so we would have to hear about the 72 dolphins anymore.
Caldwell pulling Manning likely cost me a FF championship. I lost the title by 10 points.
Orlando Pace/Jerry Angelo/Lovie Smith: You drafted Chris Williams for a reason, but you let Orlando Pace eat up salary cap space and allow a million sacks on Cutler instead of playing the guy. Well, look at the huge difference the rookie made last night (against Jared Allen, no less).
HP, don’t hate me because I know hot women. Mike, she is NOT a stripper. She’s a very hard working (and fairly vain) personal trainer. Believe me, if throwing money at her worked I would have robbed a bank by now and made rain like a champ.
“New 620 the Buzz”: Having to listen to ESPN dudes talk about nonlocal teams on Monday when we really want to talk smack about what happened with the local teams over the weekend.
Jim Caldwell: For creating another 8-7 team to own a tie breaker against the steelers…GO Bengals, Pats, Raiders, Cheifs…
S&PP. No hate, just a “grievance”
Live stream
^That might help the weak signal strength but it does nothing for the crappy content.
Well, I don’t hold it against this blog when I see your posts. I would hope you would do the same for 620.
I don’t hold YOU accountable for the crap content on the station. You at least attempt to give good radio. Going from having 3 stations with local content to having half a station with local content sucks tremendously. ESPN’s content is terrible, Adam Gold is bad, and the signal sucks. All of those things combine to ruin sports radio in the Triangle and create some pretty pissed off EX listeners. Don’t go all State fan when you get called out on it.
I like AG and Joe and am still an avid listener. I think it sucks their show was cut short and moved to 620. Mercury Morris was tremendous this morning. He asked AG how much coaching he had under his belt. It was hilarious. However, I do agree with pat, the sports radio in this area went to crap with the merger. I like DG on 99.9 but he’s on at the same time Rome and Rush are on. Also Rome is only 2 hours now. Terrible…
I get 620 pretty good on my way to work from eastern Wake to western Wake but on the ride home going back in to eastern Wake with the sun down its hit or miss, mostly miss.
Sorry Joe, I can’t defend you anymore since I have no knowledge of the post-850 sports talk in the Triangle.
But fret not, my friends. We may have a special surprise coming before too long. If Brian and I can make it happen, I will post more info. May and If, keep in mind.
Thanks for the live stream link, Joe. Sadly, it doesn’t do me much good in the car, though.
It is a grievance for me because I do miss AG and Joe (as well as the Packman). I wish somehow the corporate deal could have kept the Buzz on 850, which had a much better signal coverage in the Triangle, but I guess Curtis Media had to get something out of the deal. Maybe I can listen to 620 again about May when they don’t have to power down from 5:00 at night until 8:00 in the morning.
Just busting your balls Pat…and I get where you are coming from. My new corporate masters would disagree of course.
Sports Idiot and THF podcast? That has the potential to sound like my freshman year DJ sets at WKNC.
And Doc, you gotta be hardcore like my dad. The dude rolls around town with a boombox in the passenger seat because his car radio hates AM.
Joe’s dad is the best. The best!!!
No one said anything about podcasts, Joe, but thanks for trying to ruin our surprise. I’ll give you a hint, we got a call from XM Radio….
I would say get an iPhone to listen to the live stream, but it doesn’t appear to be available via Quicktime like the old one was, so it’s not really as accessible.
Anyway, I have very few grievances to air this year, so few in fact that I cannot think of any at the moment …
If you can stream on the iPhone you can shoot it through your car stereo if you connect via a headphone jack. Same can be said with a Blackberry or any device as long as it’s a headphone jack and not a direct connection.
lacrosse- waste of oxygen and good fields
Buzz/Bull- dropping Chris Clark for Bomani Jones
New Buzz/620- cutting last hour of Rome
99.9/850- putting DG on opposite Rome
Butch Davis- FSU, NCSU & Pitt games coaching effort
LAX is great. Would you believe that it is our second biggest sport in my industry? It is, and it is great I tell you!
“LAX is great. Would you believe that it is our second biggest sport in my industry?”
Are you a stripper?
I don’t know why everybody is giving Caldwell such a hard time. He actually made a smart decision. Going 16-0 means absolutly nada, just ask the Pats. If people are worried about them getting upset and losing in the playoffs because “they lost momentum”, then they don’t deserve to win anyway, and shouldn’t be considered one of the best teams.
Caldwell knows this, and so does the Colts’ front office. The media is so two-faced about this type of thing. Had he left Manning in, and he got hurt everyone on ESPN would be crucifying him for putting a worthless record over what is really important: going into the playoff’s with all your players which will give you the best chance to win the SB.
^^Todd with the post of the decade.
I don’t disagree with you fishTacos, but I also think it is the job of the coaches and players in all pro sports to try their hardest to win every game they play.
You win a Superbowl you go in the record books. People talk about you for about 2 seasons and then you are forgotten. You go undefeated and win a Superbowl you go in the history books and people talk about you forever. I don’t understand having a shot at history and not taking it. Going undefeated and winning the Superbowl are not mutually exclusive – it is possible to do both. Plus, if you aren’t going to try to win the game, then what is the point of playing? Just forfeit and let your fans hang on to their wallets.
It’s just a question of how much you are willing to risk. Or weighing out the consequences.
As fans, we always want to win, so there does need to be some backlash for a decision that doesn’t help your team do that regardless of the situation. My only point is that people (fueled by the media) aren’t mad about that, rather they are mad they didn’t get to see a worthless record that doesn’t help a team win the SB at all. NFL teams rest there players all the time, because it is what you do in meaningless games.
You and I disagree about what a worthless game is. In my opinion, as long as you are undefeated, no game on your schedule is worthless. Rather, it is another step towards potential greatness. Another step towards being more then just one of forty(?) other teams that have won a Superbowl, but instead being one of only two teams that have won a Superbowl AND gone undefeated. Other NFL teams rest their players all the time when that possibility no longer exists (because they have already lost at least one game)
I guess we do just disagree on the importance of this record. What does it actually prove, other than you just played better than every team on your schedule that year. It doesn’t prove you are the best team ever seeing as how few people actually believe the 72 Dolphins are. Sure you are never forgotten but this record is only cared about or remembered, in Sports Trivia and when another team like the Colts come close to tying it.
People may forget SB’s, but most people don’t forget them when HOFer’s win them. No one forgets Joe Montana’s, Troy Aikmans, Tom Brady’s or Terry Bradshaw’s, and no one would forget Manning’s.
Fact is, if Peyton goes down, so does there chances for a SB, or for winning another game for that matter. Suddenly people don’t care about the record at all, and wondered how stupid and selfish Caldwell can be.
If the goal is to keep Peyton and the other main guys healthy, then he played them too long.
They better just hope that whoever SD plays in the Divisional round beats the Chargers, because Indy won’t do it.
^ I agree. Todd, FTW.
I guess on paper, Caldwell’s job is to win the Super Bowl, not be perfect. (“Perfection…unattainable.” – Roy McAvoy). You could make the argument that he was trying to keep his guys healthy, that they’re all pros and they would be able to keep eyes on the prize, that they are reaping the wellness dividend hard earned over the first 14 weeks, etc. Those arguments would be wrong.
Anyone that looks a chance at immortality in the eye and blinks, forfeits the mantle of a true champion. They’re going to get the wellness dividend from the bye week. If, as it appears, they begin milking the recouperation time in addition to the bye-week, they run the significant risk of losing their edge.
Caldwell’s decision put him in a no-win situation:
If they win out, he shat the perfection bed.
If he loses, he’s thrown the Super Bowl baby out with the perfection bathwater.
It’s a good thing these guys are so well paid, b/c Jim Caldwell might very well win the Super Bowl going 18-1 in his rookie season as a head coach and still draw criticism.
Finally, while I am all for the airing of greviances, there is no such thing as a peanut butter sandwich with no jelly, Bobby without his Mickey, nor Todd without his Rachel Ray Pictorials. We don’t do anything half-way on Thee Blog: Feel free to also post Feats of Strength.
My first Feat of Strenth of 2009?
Jake Delhomme and TJ Yates: Both of these young men showed considerable muscularity in pulling the wool over their coaches eyes for far too long.
I beleive Caldwell wants to be the Colt’s head coach for a while, with the oppurtunity every year to win a SB…as long as Peyton Manning and other key players are healthy.
If they go down, then he will most certainly be questioned for his decision to leave them in much more than the decison to take them out…and if Manning did get hurt, than he won’t be coaching them for long, I guarantee that.
Well I think that I-Like-Tacos should do a better job of remembering Terry Bradshaw’s name. I also think that the Colts should have gone for the undefeated record.