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Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton interview Gary Sheffield, best intervi (1 Viewer)

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BY CLAUDIA PERRYStar-Ledger Staff In most workplaces, lofting insults against blacks, Jews, Asians, Hispanics, gays, women, cops, teachers and the mentally ill amounts to career suicide. Not so in radio, where redemption, even a promotion, is often just around the corner. Witness two related developments yesterday that show shock jocks really do wear Teflon. WFAN (660 AM) announced it had hired Craig Carton, a serial insulter and the more pugnacious half of "The Jersey Guys" on 101.5 FM, as a sidekick to former Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason in the slot where the disgraced Don Imus once ruled. Minutes later, CBS Radio said it had reached a settlement with Imus, who was fired in April for calling members of the women's basketball team at Rutgers University "nappy-headed hos." Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Imus and lawyer Martin Garbus dropped plans for a $120million breach-of-contract suit. The move frees Imus to seek a return to radio elsewhere, and the Associated Press, citing an unnamed source, said he already was in talks with WABC (770 AM). That station's president and general manager, Steve Borneman, appeared to dismiss the claim later in the day, saying he had not had any conversation with Imus. "I have never met the guy, nor has anyone with Citadel Broadcasting (WABC's parent company) had any negotiations with him at all," Borneman said. "I wish Mr. Imus the best and say we are very happy with our morning team of Curtis (Sliwa) and (Ron) Kuby." Imus has reportedly been angling for a comeback, and industry analysts expect he'll succeed now that he's reached an agreement with his former employer. "America suffers from an epidemic of attention deficit disorder, not to mention hypocrisy," said Michael Harrison, the publisher of Talkers magazine, which covers the industry. "Now Imus is bigger than ever. As with most celebrities, he gained in infamy. Infamy and fame are the same thing nowadays." Rutgers officials had no comment on the settlement yesterday, calling the development "a matter between Mr. Imus and CBS." The Rev. Al Sharpton, who led the movement to have Imus fired, credited CBS in a statement "for not putting a few dollars above the integrity of the airwaves" and said he and others "will be watching and monitoring" Imus wherever he resurfaces. For Carton, the move to follow Imus at WFAN brings a much larger stage -- and even more scrutiny. "The Jersey Guys" estimated weekly audience is about 541,000. WFAN approaches that in a single day. The new show, "Boomer and Carton in the Morning," debuts Sept. 4. It will run from 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays and will focus exclusively on sports. Carton previously worked in sports radio at WIP (610 AM) in Philadelphia. Terms of the new deal were not disclosed, and Carton did not return calls seeking comment. He did issue a statement through CBS Radio. "Returning to my sports roots is something I'm very much looking forward to, and it's an honor and a privilege to be joining WFAN working alongside someone of Boomer's stature," Carton said. "There's no denying the straightforward, no-nonsense approach to the format is what sets it apart from all others and what listeners demand from the station's personalities." Carton left "The Jersey Guys" late last week after he and station management opted against renewing his contract "by mutual agreement," said Ray Handel, 101.5's director of marketing and promotions. Handel called the separation amicable. Casey Bartholomew, a host at the station from 1999 to 2002, took Carton's spot alongside co-host Ray Rossi. Carton's five years at 101.5 FM (WKXW) were anything but smooth. He repeatedly parodied ethnic groups, at one point using a mock Asian accent on the air. Earlier this year, he infuriated Latinos after he and Rossi called on listeners to turn in illegal immigrants in a campaign they dubbed "La Cucha Gotcha," a play on the word "Cucaracha," or cockroach. Assemblyman Wilfredo Caraballo (D-Essex) yesterday called Carton "a guy who's managed to insult almost every community around." You would have thought that after the Rutgers incident, a lesson would have been learned," Caraballo said. "But I guess they figured that this guy would get some ratings for them." Carton was especially controversial in 2005, when he made disparaging on-air references to the post-partum depression suffered by Mary Jo Codey, the wife of then-Gov. Richard Codey, when she was younger. Richard Codey (D-Essex), now president of the state Senate, threatened in response to "take him outside," and the two nearly came to blows when they ran into each other. Codey and Carton have since entered a period of détente, and the senator has appeared on "The Jersey Guys" several times. "I don't regret what I did," Codey said yesterday. "If the same situation were to present itself, I'd do the same thing, but we've sort of put it behind us. "It will be interesting to see how he represents himself, whether he'll be the Carton on 101.5 or a different personality," Codey said. "Obviously, going over there, he's got to be on his toes in terms of offending people." State Sen. Raymond Lesniak, who formed a cross-cultural group calling for 101.5 to rein in the host two years ago, said WFAN "has to be very careful that he doesn't fall back on his old ways."
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Lesniak (D-Union) said Carton "has cleaned up his act" recently, with less ethnic and homophobic humor. "He seems to have reformed," Lesniak said. "If that's the case, I wish him the best of luck. He's a very talented and funny guy, as long as he doesn't use that talent and humor to hurt people."

 
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Way to go WFAN. Fire one guy for insulting comments and then hire an old pro of that same indiscretion. Sweet.

BTW, this is going to be unlistenable, isnt it? As in WORSE than Imus even.

 
i think i'd rather listen to Chris Carlin and Kimi Jones or sadly i'd rather listen to Chris Carlin and Carl Banks

 
Looks like Mike & Mike full time for me instead of any switchin' back and forth.

As a Bengals fan I love boomer and all but Carton is unlistenable. Guess he'll call himself a "New York Guy" now since his during his whole "Jersey Guys" tenure he lived in Pennsylvania.

-QG

 
Carton already proved he knew nothing about sports when he was a Sportsguy on NEW.

I'd rather listen to cats F.

 
I would have much rather had a pure sports talk show in the am with Carlin or someone else - thank goodness for Sirius!

 
Don't know the other guy but I think Boomer is really good. One of the better NFL analysts out there. I wouldn't mind if he took over the morning show in Boston.

 
CYP said:
Please See Mine said:
Ugh. Carton was terrible on WIP. Hurrah, Paul Jolovitz.
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LMAO @ Paul Jolovitz. I just remember Carton spreading the Lindros drunk rumor then poof he was gone. 610 plain sucks these days. I have switched to 950
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Is it just me or does Jolovitz continually sound like he has pleghm in his throat?Jodie Mac is far superior to Eskin, but Gargano trumps the Bruno-Rome midday andI prefer Macnow to the 700 Level. Can't stand either morning show. WIP already poached one host from 950.
 
Please See Mine said:
CYP said:
Please See Mine said:
Ugh. Carton was terrible on WIP. Hurrah, Paul Jolovitz.
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LMAO @ Paul Jolovitz. I just remember Carton spreading the Lindros drunk rumor then poof he was gone. 610 plain sucks these days. I have switched to 950
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Is it just me or does Jolovitz continually sound like he has pleghm in his throat?Jodie Mac is far superior to Eskin, but Gargano trumps the Bruno-Rome midday andI prefer Macnow to the 700 Level. Can't stand either morning show. WIP already poached one host from 950.
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Who did WIP take? I dont listen to that station at all. I only listen when I am in the car to The Morning show and Jody Mac
 
CYP said:
Please See Mine said:
CYP said:
Please See Mine said:
Ugh. Carton was terrible on WIP. Hurrah, Paul Jolovitz.
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LMAO @ Paul Jolovitz. I just remember Carton spreading the Lindros drunk rumor then poof he was gone. 610 plain sucks these days. I have switched to 950
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Is it just me or does Jolovitz continually sound like he has pleghm in his throat?Jodie Mac is far superior to Eskin, but Gargano trumps the Bruno-Rome midday andI prefer Macnow to the 700 Level. Can't stand either morning show. WIP already poached one host from 950.
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Who did WIP take? I dont listen to that station at all. I only listen when I am in the car to The Morning show and Jody Mac
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Rob Ellis, who I think was on the 700 Level. Definitely on 950. He's done some weeknight and nighttime shows.
 
Breaking news: Carlin and Feinstein in the morning

Well, friends, we've all come this far in obsessively following the parade of morning guest hosts on WFAN since mid-April, so I might as well drag you to the finish line.

Next week, Chris Carlin will trade in Kim Jones for John Feinstein as his co-host in morning drive time. That should make for quite the abrupt change in tone and content.

What about the week of Aug. 27? Richard Neer. Solo. All the way through Labor Day itself.

Then, starting Sept. 4, a new day will dawn: Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton.

Many of the Imus supporters who used to read my blog have asked whether Charles McCord and Lou Rufino will stay on when the new show launches.

In the short term, it's theoretically possible. But at least in the case of McCord, there is approximately a 100 percent chance he will re-join Imus whenever and wherever Imus lands eventually. There is no chance WFAN will stand in his way.

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog..._and_feins.html

 
First show.. I love Carton but don't see this working. Both are dominating personalities and I don't think they'll stay out of eachother's way

 
QuizGuy66 said:
Carton call himself a New York guy yet? :hifive: -QG
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was listening to M&MD today and they had a promo for the new morning showsomethign like "Long Island's own BOomer Esiason and New Rochelle's Craig Carton" this show is absolutely awful, and i'm stuck on a 3 hour drive down to DE tomorrow morning and I wil only be able to get 1050 to about exit 9 on the turnpike :banned:
 
Righetti said:
QuizGuy66 said:
Carton call himself a New York guy yet? :rolleyes: -QG
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was listening to M&MD today and they had a promo for the new morning showsomethign like "Long Island's own BOomer Esiason and New Rochelle's Craig Carton" this show is absolutely awful, and i'm stuck on a 3 hour drive down to DE tomorrow morning and I wil only be able to get 1050 to about exit 9 on the turnpike :wall:
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It's pretty bad. Carton pretty much just took the money but it won't be a quality show. He needs the mic the entire time to do his thing.
 
was in the car this morning and listened to their interview with Gary Sheffield.. I kid you not when I say that this was maybe the best interview I've ever heard on talk-radio. Maybe it's the fact that Boomer is a former jock and people can relate to him but I think most of the credit goes to Carton who is able to break down the walls these guys have with his ridiculousness.


Sheffield is always a pretty candid interview but the detail they went into when it came to

*child discipline.. he admitted to going to his closet for a belt for his kids, his youngest one is 6

*Gooden.. talked a lot about what it was like for him when Gooden was in his downward spiral.

*Yankee clubhouse.. ARod would change out of sight in the video room

*Joe Torre.. Sheffield has no respect for him as a manager because he moved Sheffield down to the 5 hole after they got ARod to hit 3rd.. he showed Torre the stats about why he was the better option and Torre still batted ARod third.

*The Mets.. about his last days when he was hitting .300 and was leading the team in RBI and HR's but they wanted to go a different direction with Reyes, Beltran and Wright.. Sheffield felt like he could have been given a chance to succeed

but the best story was about the locker-room stuff.. he hated showering with Greg Maddux because he would rub his penis up against teammates and pee on them..
 
I heard it as well and you're right. I thought it was really interesting how he said people regularly think he has had the same problems as Doc because they were so close. I believe he claimed he's never even tried alcohol.

 
RUSF18 said:
I heard it as well and you're right. I thought it was really interesting how he said people regularly think he has had the same problems as Doc because they were so close. I believe he claimed he's never even tried alcohol.
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the other thing that was interesting was that when they were kids, he had to catch Gooden because nobody else was able to (or too scared to).. that's how he became a LL catcher and why he played that position in the Little League World Series.

what I thought was cool about that part of the interview is that Carton asked if Gooden was throwing in the 90's and Sheffield could have easily said 'yes' but he didnt'.. he said it was when they were younger and he was not yet throwing that hard..

 
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