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Message: [QUOTE="Bonpland, post: 2475480, member: 6000"] I listened to FAN from the day it went on the air. From when it was Mike and Ed at 10:00 to 1:00 and Russo was doing late night fill-in spots. When they put them together they were an instant success, but in the long run they were less about sports talk and more about sports gossip. They were two guys venting their opinions from a barstool. For fans it was entertaining but as mentioned they had no interest in reporting sports other than the ones that they both loved (plus occasionally commenting on Mike's interest in horse racing and Dog's love of tennis). Once Mike was on his own he was more likely to talk about who Jeter was dating than he was to comment on the World Cup, the Olympics, college sports (save the Final Four) or any other sport that he refused to recognize. He celebrated when he got things right (Kansas winning the NC with Danny Manning, or the Yankees pulling off a World Series win in '96) but never owned up to when he got things completely wrong. (Does anyone else remember his histeronics the afternoon before the Red Sox won the '04 series? "Someday the Red Sox may win a World Series, but not this day.") He and Dog definitely changed sports talk in the country but not for the better. Wherever you travel now you are subjected to local boviating sports "experts" trying to achieve success by emulating Mike's particular brand of arrogance. Then why did I listen for as long as I did? Because us sports fans are looking for updates and interviews and John gave us the updates and both Mike and the Dog generally behaved themselves when they had a head coach or a star athlete on the other end of the line. But once Mike was on his own and had no one to pull him back occasionally he just ran with his own ego. I'd love to have a sports talk station to check in on from time to time but I sample when I travel and the sports radio listening landscape out there is full of self important, highly opinionated "experts" who cover little more than what they personally like. Mike's extraordinary success in NYC has played a large part in shaping that landscape. [/QUOTE]

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