Ron MacLean is, and always was, a sniveller, and a worm.  At his age, and his fat salary, it won't be long until his growing unpopularity gets him the boot, too.

Jody Thornton wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

Sure we can.  I just have a lower tolerance nowadays for needlessly angry and dumb

 

Me too.  Bless you Rodney.
 

Jody Thornton wrote:

g121 wrote:

Walter wrote:

Mulroney is far more passionate and opinionated than Moore, whose excitement level never reaches above mildly bored unless he's shilling for Jiffy App or Frank Leo.  Give me Ben over bland every time.

*chuckles* talk about bland/boring/repetitive .. how about someone who mentions the "Jiffy App" in almost every post he makes .. 

Yeah I was going to say, Walter's hate-on  for John Moore is a tad strong; almost to the point of sounding problematic.
 

I don't hate John Moore at all.  Never met him.  Probably a swell fellow.  Been listening to him on 1010 since the by-gone days of his entertainment spots on old Ted Woloshyn's show, then listened to him afternoons for years.  Yes, I remember 'The Cocktail Hour'.  I am very familiar with on-air John Moore, thanks, and don't dislike him a bit, let alone 'hate' him.  Back off.  I loathe the 'Jiffy-App' spots.  Nothing more, or Moore, to it than that.
 

Mulroney is far more passionate and opinionated than Moore, whose excitement level never reaches above mildly bored unless he's shilling for Jiffy App or Frank Leo.  Give me Ben over bland every time.

As Jays fans, we watch all the games, and enjoy all the play-by-play crew, except Buck.  To us, his voice is like nails on a chalkboard, but to each their own.

I guess there's no 'Jiffy-App' for Mondays.  Suck it up, buttercup.

If an 'announcement' falls in the forest, and there's no one there to hear, does it still make a sound?

RadioActive wrote:

I ask this question because of what happened to me on the first day of the weekend. I took my dog for a walk Saturday morning just after 8 AM, and as always, took a radio with headphones with me. I tried desperately to find some non-music program worth listening to, but came up empty. 

CFRB had the usual CP24 simulcast, which, "as you can see," proves TV still doesn't work on the radio. AM640's Weekend Morning show was off on some tangent about a charity with a long interview that really should have been a one-minute PSA, CBC Radio 1 was playing music, which is not what I was looking for, 680 was endlessly repeating the same stories I'd already heard before I left, and even AM740 was doing some kind of talk show which carried not a scintilla of interesting content. And both The Fan and TSN 1050 were airing U.S. content, talking about completely irrelevant American college sports - or something similar. 

Finally, after tuning around for about 10 minutes, I did something I've never done before - turned off the radio in disgust and just listened to the sound of the overly cold wind blowing and the traffic moving. 

I get it - Saturday mornings are graveyards as far as the industry is concerned. But surely one station somewhere could come up with a show - even a reroll - that had some entertainment or interest value to it. Maybe I really should turn to podcasts!

Agreed, and Sunday morning is no better.  At least 640 airs a live talk program, for which they deserve some credit, but it has to be the most boring thing on radio.  When the highlight of the program is the endless butt-kissing events blather from Wally Crouter's kid, you know something is just not working.
 

One of the 2 albums I ever bought, unheard, based solely on the cover.  Loved his silver gloves playing the guitar on 'All American Boy'.  The other was 'The Joker' by Steve Miller.  Loved the mask (Long before KISS).  Both turned out to be classics.

Is Ed the Sock available?  Maybe even a smelly old sweat sock?  Does it really matter when no one is listening?

mace wrote:

What did he have to say about the Panthers disallowed goal. The HNIC talking heads all thought it was a good goal. Bottomline the kill shot came 47 seconds after the Leaf goal which basically sucked the life out of the fans.

But not until MLSE had sucked the last dollar out of the fans.
 

They're all tied for last.

AspectRatio wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

Instead it came out "Tom's Place. Tom will shoot you!"

I laughed out loud. I think that should be the new tagline from now on!

I heard that! As much as I'm annoyed by Tom and his droning on and folksy "non-radio presence" (even John Moore in the early days of the show seemed frustrated/exasperated by him, barely containing the eye-rolling coming out of the segment, before Moore tweaked his attitude a bit), I had to admire that Tom rolled with it, unflappably - saying something like "I'm not going to shoot you, I'm not going to shoot anyone. And I'm not going to shoot myself!" 

I'd shoot myself, before listening to one second of John Tory in the morning slot next week.  640 wins again
 

RadioActive wrote:

Not many people begin their vacations on a Wednesday, but CFRB morning man John Moore does. He's off starting tomorrow, with Jerry Agar doing the show in his place. 

Whether that will be the case for the next week is another question, but my suspicion is that Agar is only a temporary replacement and we'll be hearing from John Tory sooner than later. 

Thanks for the warning.
 

Centerline wrote:

Thank goodness.

Having never seen a second of the show, I'll take your word for it.