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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Right Blitz all day, Wright Hits all night.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Lefty-bashing grandstanding all day... righty-bashing Granderson all night

Live-mike braying all day... five-Ike-K-ing all night

[G-Fafif]

Nominal supporters of conservative economic principles all day and night.

[Edgy MD]

Time to break out my old WLIR bumper stickers.



Hopefully, Ike will dare to be different and hit a couple of screamers of the week.

[Frayed Knot]

... 107.1 FM on the East End as well as 94.9, 96.5, 96.9 and 104.5 FM.

No static at all.

[G-Fafif]

C.J. Nitkowski dares to be the next Josh sidekick to get a shot, this Sunday.

Not in on the Steve Phillips lovefest. Wouldn't shut up, couldn't pronounce Quintanilla or Nieuwenhuis, didn't hear himself say Chris Young the right fielder was in center field and then claimed Juan Lagares was "in center field as well," generally acted as if he parachuted in from a better gig. And didn't shut up. Smooth talker, though. Can see how he worked his sexual harassment magic on underlings.

[ashie62]

One more reason for a Prince tryout...

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: Time to break out my old WLIR bumper stickers. Hopefully, Ike will dare to be different and hit a couple of screamers of the week.

Had 5 different iterations of that joke in my head but couldn't get one out.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ashie62 wrote: One more reason for a Prince tryout...

That would be an interesting choice!

[Lefty Specialist]

TheOldMole wrote: WOR: THe new home of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the New York Mets.

Makes me wish the Mets had more day games.

[Frayed Knot]

Rush & Sean can add 'too many day games' to their standard complaint about 'too many gay dames'.

[Theoldmole]

Post of the Day to Frayed Knot.

[G-Fafif]

Tim Byrdak to get a shot when the Mets go to Montreal in late March.

To announce on WOR, that is. Still not pitching.

[G-Fafif]

Metsmerized Online says it has the numbers that sent the Mets from 660 to 710 without stopping at 880.

After the decision was made to bring the New York Yankees to WFAN, CBS Radio Inc. who owns the station, still wanted desperately to hang onto the Mets and have them switch to the Yankees� previous home WCBS 880. However, WOR, still fuming that they couldn�t sway the Yankees to go with them, set their sights on the Mets and they didn�t care how much it would cost them. They made an offer that Fred Wilpon couldn�t refuse. When CBS put their final bid on the table, it included $6 million dollars guaranteed plus a whopping 50% revenue share on all advertising. The brass at CBS thought they had clinched the deal. However, WOR swooped in with a counter-offer estimated to be around $9 million guaranteed, but without the revenue sharing. Given their still unstable financial state, the Mets simply couldn�t resist the extra $3 million in guaranteed dough. It was that whole bird in the hand thing� The numbers were told to me by a very reliable inside source and was confirmed by another. Take it with a grain of salt, but I�m inclined to believe both of them. The suits at CBS seem to think the Mets walked away from a much more lucrative deal. This is not my area of expertise, so I can�t tell you if they are right in their assertion.

[bmfc1]

It's jarring to hear the station ID include a discussion of the Ukraine.

The good news is that we'll undoubtedly see that $3M immediately poured into improving the team!

[Ceetar]

bmfc1 wrote: It's jarring to hear the station ID include a discussion of the Ukraine. The good news is that we'll undoubtedly see that $3M immediately poured into improving the team!

The alternative was "Derek Jeter has two hits tonight placing him 15th on the all-time hits list!"

[Zvon]

G-Fafif wrote: Tim Byrdak to get a shot when the Mets go to Montreal in late March. To announce on WOR, that is. Still not pitching.

He should work in the booth, and also work out with the team. Then in August we move him from the booth to the pen.

[Edgy MD]

This is really interesting. Particularly interesting to hear that the Mets actually had some choices and leverage through this all and weren't just fired and sent crawling to the only partner that would employ them.

I would hope that this is a chance to see a new broadcast entity built around the the team like WFAN was. Hard to believe that something like two baseball generations never heard the team on any other carrier.

[G-Fafif]

Not Casey Stern.
Not Andy Masur.
But Seth Everett, the third world-exclusive double-secret probation WOR pregame/postgame host reported on good authority to have the job.

Everett was a "baseball insider" on SNY several years ago and brought no particular inside information to bear while avoiding having any kind of appeal. So keep up the good work, 710.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: Not Casey Stern. Not Andy Masur. But Seth Everett, the third world-exclusive double-secret probation WOR pregame/postgame host reported on good authority to have the job. Everett was a "baseball insider" on SNY several years ago and brought no particular inside information to bear while avoiding having any kind of appeal. So keep up the good work, 710.

He should fit right into the "here's what Terry Collins just said, here's what just happened in the game you just listened to, and hey, these are the names of the guys playing the next game" role then.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

G-Fafif wrote: Not Casey Stern. Not Andy Masur. But Seth Everett, the third world-exclusive double-secret probation WOR pregame/postgame host reported on good authority to have the job. Everett was a "baseball insider" on SNY several years ago and brought no particular inside information to bear while avoiding having any kind of appeal. So keep up the good work, 710.

You might be right about that, Mike.

[G-Fafif]

Just glad there'll be a buffer between that fine 'OR syndicated programming and the game.

He follows in the footsteps of Howard Cosell, Marv Albert, Bob Brown, Bill Mazer, Al Albert, Howie Rose, Todd Kalas and Ed Coleman to name a few full-timers on the pre-/postgame beat. Directly before Howie invented Mets Extra, it was just Bob Murphy coming on maybe 15 minutes before first-pitch and interviewing somebody. That worked, too.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: Just glad there'll be a buffer between that fine 'OR syndicated programming and the game. He follows in the footsteps of Howard Cosell, Marv Albert, Bob Brown, Bill Mazer, Al Albert, Howie Rose, Todd Kalas and Ed Coleman to name a few full-timers on the pre-/postgame beat. Directly before Howie invented Mets Extra, it was just Bob Murphy coming on maybe 15 minutes before first-pitch and interviewing somebody. That worked, too.

Mets Extra is mostly commercials though, or at least it was. "Here's today's starting lineup" commercial. "Here's the pitching matchup!" commercial..

so we might not be as buffered as you think.

[G-Fafif]

If I tune in at 12:45 or 6:45 and I hear a half-dozen commercials that aren't the midday or afternoon drive-time hosts, that will be sufficient.

The original Mets Extra was, as the WHN promos put it, "a Mets fan's dream come true". Howie really threw himself into it and produced what we would today called premium content. The Mets Extra of the Coleman years was less vital, particularly in the context of the current information age. But nice to have that prologue and epilogue nonetheless.

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: If I tune in at 12:45 or 6:45 and I hear a half-dozen commercials that aren't the midday or afternoon drive-time hosts, that will be sufficient. The original Mets Extra was, as the WHN promos put it, "a Mets fan's dream come true". Howie really threw himself into it and produced what we would today called premium content. The Mets Extra of the Coleman years was less vital, particularly in the context of the current information age. But nice to have that prologue and epilogue nonetheless.

I suspect you'll hear at least a half dozen commercials that ARE for the midday drive-time hosts, but I guess we'll see. My goal when I'm radio bound is to aim to turn it on just before the 30 second highlight clips in the inbetween point of Mets Extra and 'pregame'.

That 10 minutes or so post/pre game with the hosts still are usually all I need given the current information age, but i admit I'm probably not a representative sample. If you don't follow Mets news from 4-7 it's probably nice to get an update on the lineups, who's hurt, what Terry said, etc.

[G-Fafif]

This weekend, John Franco takes his turn, in Las Vegas.

[Zvon]

Got to check the new station out down here. Its not clear, much static, but it doesn't go in and out like the old one used to. It's consistent.

[G-Fafif]

Correcting above: The WOR games this weekend are the Florida games: tonight at 7, tomorrow and Sunday at 1.

Carreon.

[Guest d'Kong76]

No baseball? It's Sunday!

[Guest themetfairy]

The Vegas game is on now.

OE - Oops, I misunderstood D-Dad. It's not on