From: Bob Braun on

"David Short" <David.No.Short(a)Spam.Wright.Please.Edu> wrote in message
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> "john smith" <eddygdvd(a)msn.com> wrote
>> Who is Doc Rogers?
> For those not in the cincy market.....
> Cincinnati has a vey powerful AM radio station called WLW.
> This radio station used to be part of the fabric of the city's collective
> life.
> A regionally famous com�dien Gary Burbank was under contract to them.
> They have the reds broadcast rights.
> They levereged their rights to the reds broadcast by holding sports call
> in
> shows.
> Bob Trumpy and Chris Collingsworth got there starts there.
> Over the years, WLW sports talk degenerated into sports babble becoming
> more
> ane more unlistenable.
> What was once conversation has turned into screaming rants and hosts
> taking
> "opinionated sides" just to generate response calls.
>
> Doc Rogers is a current radio host on WLW.
> He was ....a scout supervisor who was ousted during...Krivksy's front
> office
> turnover? I'm not sure when the reds let him go.
>
> My understanding is that he stays away from some of the more stupid stunts
> and tries to talk baseball. I don't listen, so I don't have an opinion one
> way or the other.
>
> dfs

That's one way to say it.....he was ousted and sued the Reds for
discrimination.

He then went to Baltimore and was in charge of their farm system for awhile.
He instituted a rule throughout the ENTIRE Baltimore system that a player
couldn't swing until he had a strike on him. Much akin to something you
would try with 9 year olds. He was run out of town there as well.

He spends much of every show talking about himself. He stumbles on to a
decent point pertaining the Reds once in a great while.

Google his name and look at the opinions of him in Cincinnati area forums.


From: Zuke on
On Sun, 2 May 2010, Bob Braun wrote:

>
> "David Short" <David.No.Short(a)Spam.Wright.Please.Edu> wrote in message
> news:hrk0tb$ve$1(a)posting.glorb.com...
>> "john smith" <eddygdvd(a)msn.com> wrote
>>> Who is Doc Rogers?
>> For those not in the cincy market.....
>> Cincinnati has a vey powerful AM radio station called WLW.
>> This radio station used to be part of the fabric of the city's collective
>> life.
>> A regionally famous com?dien Gary Burbank was under contract to them.
>> They have the reds broadcast rights.
>> They levereged their rights to the reds broadcast by holding sports call
>> in
>> shows.
>> Bob Trumpy and Chris Collingsworth got there starts there.
>> Over the years, WLW sports talk degenerated into sports babble becoming
>> more
>> ane more unlistenable.
>> What was once conversation has turned into screaming rants and hosts
>> taking
>> "opinionated sides" just to generate response calls.
>>
>> Doc Rogers is a current radio host on WLW.
>> He was ....a scout supervisor who was ousted during...Krivksy's front
>> office
>> turnover? I'm not sure when the reds let him go.
>>
>> My understanding is that he stays away from some of the more stupid stunts
>> and tries to talk baseball. I don't listen, so I don't have an opinion one
>> way or the other.
>>
>> dfs
>
> That's one way to say it.....he was ousted and sued the Reds for
> discrimination.
>
> He then went to Baltimore and was in charge of their farm system for awhile.
> He instituted a rule throughout the ENTIRE Baltimore system that a player
> couldn't swing until he had a strike on him. Much akin to something you
> would try with 9 year olds. He was run out of town there as well.
>
> He spends much of every show talking about himself. He stumbles on to a
> decent point pertaining the Reds once in a great while.
>
> Google his name and look at the opinions of him in Cincinnati area forums.
>
>
I used to like listening to him. He doesn't rant and rave which is nice.
However lately he has fallen into the latest WLW practice of taking
absolutely no callers. I don't know if it is because people don't call
or whether the station has a new policy that thinks we don't want to
listen to callers but would rather be yelled at for 20 minutes about
Ben Rothesberger's problems.

I wish they'd give the Sportstalk job to Marc Armstrong. That's about
the only guy on WLW I can listen to besides Doc Rogers and Ken Broo.


>
From: David Short on
On 5/3/2010 12:19 PM, Zuke wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 2010, Bob Braun wrote:
>> "David Short" <David.No.Short(a)Spam.Wright.Please.Edu> wrote in message
>>> I don't listen, so I don't have an
>>> opinion one way or the other.
>>
>> That's one way to say it.....he was ousted and sued the Reds for
>> discrimination.
>>
>> He then went to Baltimore and was in charge of their farm system for
>> awhile.
>> He instituted a rule throughout the ENTIRE Baltimore system that a player
>> couldn't swing until he had a strike on him. Much akin to something you
>> would try with 9 year olds. He was run out of town there as well.
>>
>> He spends much of every show talking about himself. He stumbles on to a
>> decent point pertaining the Reds once in a great while.
>>
>> Google his name and look at the opinions of him in Cincinnati area
>> forums.
>>
>>
> I used to like listening to him. He doesn't rant and rave which is nice.
> However lately he has fallen into the latest WLW practice of taking
> absolutely no callers. I don't know if it is because people don't call
> or whether the station has a new policy that thinks we don't want to
> listen to callers but would rather be yelled at for 20 minutes about
> Ben Rothesberger's problems.
>
> I wish they'd give the Sportstalk job to Marc Armstrong. That's about
> the only guy on WLW I can listen to besides Doc Rogers and Ken Broo.

Lance McAlister was the only one worth listening to when I turned off
cincy sports babble. Is he still around?

dfs
From: Bob Braun on

"David Short" <David.No.Short.(a)Spam.wright.Please.edu> wrote in message
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> On 5/3/2010 12:19 PM, Zuke wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 May 2010, Bob Braun wrote:
>>> "David Short" <David.No.Short(a)Spam.Wright.Please.Edu> wrote in message
>>>> I don't listen, so I don't have an
>>>> opinion one way or the other.
>>>
>>> That's one way to say it.....he was ousted and sued the Reds for
>>> discrimination.
>>>
>>> He then went to Baltimore and was in charge of their farm system for
>>> awhile.
>>> He instituted a rule throughout the ENTIRE Baltimore system that a
>>> player
>>> couldn't swing until he had a strike on him. Much akin to something you
>>> would try with 9 year olds. He was run out of town there as well.
>>>
>>> He spends much of every show talking about himself. He stumbles on to a
>>> decent point pertaining the Reds once in a great while.
>>>
>>> Google his name and look at the opinions of him in Cincinnati area
>>> forums.
>>>
>>>
>> I used to like listening to him. He doesn't rant and rave which is nice.
>> However lately he has fallen into the latest WLW practice of taking
>> absolutely no callers. I don't know if it is because people don't call
>> or whether the station has a new policy that thinks we don't want to
>> listen to callers but would rather be yelled at for 20 minutes about
>> Ben Rothesberger's problems.
>>
>> I wish they'd give the Sportstalk job to Marc Armstrong. That's about
>> the only guy on WLW I can listen to besides Doc Rogers and Ken Broo.
>
> Lance McAlister was the only one worth listening to when I turned off
> cincy sports babble. Is he still around?
>

I like Lance, but when he rants, he screams. He becomes Furman with a
brain.


From: RJA on
On May 2, 3:15 pm, "Bob Braun" <oxin...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> "David Short" <David.No.Sh...(a)Spam.Wright.Please.Edu> wrote in message
>
> news:hrk0tb$ve$1(a)posting.glorb.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > "john smith" <eddyg...(a)msn.com> wrote
> >> Who is Doc Rogers?
> > For those not in the cincy market.....
> > Cincinnati has a vey powerful AM radio station called WLW.
> > This radio station used to be part of the fabric of the city's collective
> > life.
> > A regionally famous comédien Gary Burbank was under contract to them.
> > They have the reds broadcast rights.
> > They levereged their rights to the reds broadcast by holding sports call
> > in
> > shows.
> > Bob Trumpy and Chris Collingsworth got there starts there.
> > Over the years, WLW sports talk degenerated into sports babble becoming
> > more
> > ane more unlistenable.
> > What was once conversation has turned into screaming rants and hosts
> > taking
> > "opinionated sides" just to generate response calls.
>
> > Doc Rogers is a current radio host on WLW.
> > He was ....a scout supervisor who was ousted during...Krivksy's front
> > office
> > turnover? I'm not sure when the reds let him go.
>
> > My understanding is that he stays away from some of the more stupid stunts
> > and tries to talk baseball. I don't listen, so I don't have an opinion one
> > way or the other.
>
> > dfs
>
> That's one way to say it.....he was ousted  and sued the Reds for
> discrimination.
>
> He then went to Baltimore and was in charge of their farm system for awhile.
> He instituted a rule throughout the ENTIRE Baltimore system that a player
> couldn't swing until he had a strike on him.  Much akin to something you
> would try with 9 year olds.  He was run out of town there as well.
>
> He spends much of every show talking about himself.  He stumbles on to a
> decent point pertaining the Reds once in a great while.
>
> Google his name and look at the opinions of him in Cincinnati area forums..- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Are you sure he did that in Baltimore? I know Dan O'Brien did it to
the Reds system. Votto has described how it made it harder to hit,
often down 0-1 in the count as a result.