I have to admit, I listen to sports talk radio in Boston but as someone who worked in television for a hundred years and had six, yes six, tv’s blaring in my office 24 hours a day, it’s as much for the noise as anything else…Breaking news doesn’t exist much on radio and those updates break are virtually useless when they tell me the Bruins\/Celtics won last night almost twenty four hours after the game has been played!….But every once in a while I’m sucked in when the anchors actually do something other than, a) interview some cliche speaking athlete, b) the aforementioned out of date update or c) crap on the other station in town…In essence, when they are themselves…<\/p>\n
I’m a sports fan, granted not as big as I used to be but whose tastes haven’t changed?…The only thing worse than a four hour baseball game is talk<\/em> about a four hour baseball game!<\/em>…And trade deadline\/draft day previews go in one ear and out the other…The fact is, I’m a television baby, having grown up on black and white images that brought the world into my home…Audio alone just doesn’t cut it for me…So you’d better be special to keep me around….<\/p>\n So when Rob Poole<\/a>, aka “Hardy” and Jim Murray<\/a> joined us at the Boston University sports journalism seminar series I was prepared to hear what passes for culture nowadays….Was I ever wrong!…Here were two guys who take their crafts seriously, with an amazing understanding of what makes good communication, let alone sports talk radio…These guys were thoughtful, well spoken and perhaps most importantly, entertaining…<\/p>\n Now, that’s not to say all of the current shows translate that way but it’s a start…Even the antagonism is listenable…(maybe i liked this because it had video?-feel free to comment) …<\/p>\n