HotThis morning they covered Junior's wife going on Shark Tank.Spank Miller indeed.My link
At $187 jeans though. Yikes.
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***** Official KTCK/1310 AM "The Ticket" Thread ***** (1 Viewer)
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At $187 jeans though. Yikes.
Joe T
Footballguy
According to Ben's twitter: Ben and Skin declined ESPN's final offer. I always thought they were kind of meh. I think Mike Rhyner put it best by saying they have a case of the "same voice." It's too hard to tell them apart over the airwaves.Also want to note that I once played Ben in a game of Madden at his house and he whipped my ###. He is good at Madden. I later passed out on his couch so in the end I think I won.
culdeus
Footballguy
New School just passed Mike/Mike in the ratings. I wonder if they made a push for morning drive and got pushback. Fan now averages more than espn during the day. I assume they eventually move that direction. I like them on the fox broadcasts.
Bogart
Footballguy
I think you won.
If I were Rhyner I would fear for my life everyday. Some day Greggo is going to go off, and that is the first place he heads.
honky kong
Footballguy
Good stuff. Keep it coming.
Bogart
Footballguy
To be fair, we have probably mentioned 4 or 5 radio stations over the years.
Joe T
Footballguy
Friend of friend. I wouldn't really say I know him much at all. My good friend's wife is good friends with Ben's wife so somehow we all ended up hanging out one night. He was a really good guy though. Very funny. And he has a hot wife.
Statcruncher
Footballguy
Man is there anyway we can trade Donnie for Doocy?
Bogart
Footballguy
I use to hate Doocy when he would first fill in, but he is growing on me. I can defend Donnie when he is playing yuck monkey to Bob and Dan, but it feels like lately they are giving him the driving seat or the co-pilot seat too often and, not so good buddy. I thought Bob was out the other day because it was just Dan and Donnie for a segment, only to hear it pop up at the next one. Strange.For the record, I'm all in on Jake Kemp. I hope they really give him some real airtime in the near future. I still wish they would do a night-time show. Doesn't have to be as goofy as the WAC, but when Bob first came to town, his show was a good listen, even if there was baseball/hockey/basketball playing on at the same time.
Bogart
Footballguy
Corby's story about doing St. Paddy's day was step for step what I did with my kids that day. Kind of bummed I didn't see him out there. There is no doubt we were in the Human Maze the same time he was. Took him and his kids about as long as it took me and my kids, WAY too long.
The Hardline
Footballguy
Anyone Voting in This?
Vote Daily Here: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/more-sports/headlines/20130407-sportsdaydfw-broadcasters-bracket-who-do-you-like-behind-the-mike.ece
Link to Bracket Image as it is too big: http://res.dallasnews.com/graphics/2013_04/brackets/broadcastBrackets.jpg
Donnie Doo worked Renner and his hair.
LOL @ Doocy getting run in the first round. He is the suck
And LMFAO at the Hammer being removed upon request.
Vote Daily Here: http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/more-sports/headlines/20130407-sportsdaydfw-broadcasters-bracket-who-do-you-like-behind-the-mike.ece
Link to Bracket Image as it is too big: http://res.dallasnews.com/graphics/2013_04/brackets/broadcastBrackets.jpg
Donnie Doo worked Renner and his hair.
LOL @ Doocy getting run in the first round. He is the suck
And LMFAO at the Hammer being removed upon request.
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
I think Doocy's hilarious.
Disco Stu
Confirmed FBGal
Statcruncher
Footballguy
Disco Stu said:Nigel Tufnel said:Big fan.
Dear diary.....feeling kinda down today
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Bogart
Footballguy
http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/more-sports/headlines/20130415-the-fan-cancels-rage-relationship-with-greg-williams-richie-whitt.ece
Greggo with the hat trick. Now fired from all three sports stations. I didn't realize he had been gone for two weeks. Station blames ratings, but you have to figure his behavior has something to do with it. I actually feel a little bad for Whitt, I really liked his blog back in the day.
Maybe this is where Ben and Skin end up.
Greggo with the hat trick. Now fired from all three sports stations. I didn't realize he had been gone for two weeks. Station blames ratings, but you have to figure his behavior has something to do with it. I actually feel a little bad for Whitt, I really liked his blog back in the day.
Maybe this is where Ben and Skin end up.
culdeus
Footballguy
The whole thing was odd. This missed my radar also, and explanation about this hasn't come out. I'm starting to wonder if the fan folds up shop. Problem is they were doing ok in ratings station wide at least as compared to ESPN.
Buck Bradcanon
Footballguy
I was crying from laughter the other day when they played a bit Jake did where he prank called random people using only DiGianni drops. Jake is awesome besides..he is a very well spoken dude.
If you missed it, you can access it here Link.. D&M - George DiGianni Prank Calls.
culdeus
Footballguy
quote:
I remembered when Ben and Skin first appeared at the Ticket; two kind of goofy guys with shared backgrounds and affinity for hoops. They were cool dudes. They were very polite, very helpful, always there at events and promoted station with pride. We liked them. And by ‘we’ I mean the weekday hosts who basically decided who were in and who were out. The thumbs of approval were almost unanimous. Rhyner never gave a thumbs up, he hated everybody (I love that dude!). And I thought that they were pretty good. Needed much work and experience, but worth keeping around. After a few years toiling on weekends they soon seemed to become restless about making this talk radio thing a full-time gig (both had other career jobs and radio was just a part-time job on weekend). No big deal. Weekend guys come and go. Most like the GREAT Mark Elfenbein, were content on this arrangement cuz they were making a gazillion dollars a year in other endeavors. But B&S were different. They had ambition. They had desire. And they knew how to work a room. GAWD-ALMIGHTY could they work a room and the politics of glad-handing. They had a plot they wanted to chart and they weren’t about to let anyone trouble that, especially a bunch of long timers running the clubhouse at The Ticket.
Now with The Ticket being the bad-### in the biz and no one there seemingly moving along, B&S started to tirelessly work the press boxes of the AAC and Ballpark. Just putting their name out there, and letting anyone that would listen that they were players. They were better than a weekend show, and a sense of entitlement creeped in on those young men. They soon started to become ‘pals’ with several players. And this soon morphed into thinking they were friends with those guys. And it was there that it started.
B&S were labeled “Friend of the Athlete”. There are few worse hallmarks a press guy can get than “friend of the Athlete”. But at the time, it all seems so right. In my early years, Randy Galloway told me to never venture into those waters. “It never works out” he loudly told me time and time again. And I would be burned on it a few times till I pulled my head out of my ###. It’s a one way street. The odds are never in your favor. They use you but no way in hell they’ll allow you to use them. But B&S proudly touted the roster of players that they “knew”. And as soon as social media took off, there were galleries and galleries of pictures with B&S and “their boys”. It soon became comical and embarrassing. And it was around this time that they landed a fulltime gig at Live 105.3. They worked afternoons.
This was before 105.3 switched to all sports.
They had a platform to display their goofy bits, sensational NBA knowledge (Skin knows more about the NBA than ANY media guy in this town) and an impressive Rolodex of players both former and present. I thought their show was good. They worked hard at it and it showed. But they were still getting their heads bashed in by Bob and Dan. But in the blink of an eye, the Einstein’s of CBS decided they’d join the all-sports ranks by switching formats. B&S would move to afternoon drive and have the pleasure of being annihilated by the HardLine, which happened. Not even the endless promotion of star-studded guests would prevent that massacre. And up until this point, in two different time slots, they never generated ratings. So after a few months, yet another PD change would spell the end for B&S. So now you had a ratings loser in two-time slots. So naturally, ESPN couldn’t wait to give them a gig.
They were falling all over themselves to get them signed. And they did. They would now occupy the mid-days. But the stone cold truth about these ‘great guys’ was the internal politicking they had done. I have it one 100% authority that B&S were stealthily inserting the knife in the back of RJ Choppy. And they would further that practice as they orchestrated the ouster of Michael Irvin and Kevin Kiley. Now it’s getting serious. These guys weren’t ****ing around; they were going for the knees of the Playmaker. And it was to the wonderment of the industry. They were never a ratings generator, but they claimed they were a money-maker. In radio it usually doesn’t work that way. But somehow in their back channel meandering and under the table dealing, once again they’d come sevens all the way. One funny aside…after B&S performed a season long sucking session on CJ Wilson, and begging and pleading that he would call when he chose his new designation. The Ticket broke that news. Yep, B&S, friend of the athlete, pal through and through, forgot to tip-off his ‘buddies’ when he signed his giant deal. That had to hurt. Or at least move him down in the rotation of B&S parade of friend of the athlete.
Times in the old Dallas sports talk wars had settled into a symphonic snore. Not much going on. But suddenly the plates shifted. Bruce Gilbert tendered his resignation at the Fan. That wasn’t good. Although the ratings hadn’t shown it, he was the BEST PD in the country and there is NOBODY better. It soon became apparent to me that if Bruce couldn’t turn the Fan around, no one could. That worried me. If he is leaving, that means someone else is coming. And I had zero confidence that CBS could make the right hire. I was right. After much stage posturing and fake enthusiasm, they decided on Spittle, Gavin. That sealed my doom. I was a short-timer. It was just a matter of time. I had heard that he made a comment that “he just didn’t get me”, “didn’t understand my motives” and “Didn’t know if I was equipped to man the important afternoon drive slot”.
Yea, that ******* didn’t know how to read 14 years of absolute domination in a top four market.
Guess I wasn’t ready for the big time radio of western Orchard Park or the tough town of Houston. So I saw the writing on the wall, but it was another news item that caught my eye. It seems that ESPN and Ben & Skin were parting ways. They couldn’t agree on a contract, so B&S were walking. Just like that. Walking out on a gig without another one lined up.
Yeah ****ing right!
Who believes that ****?
I did what most guys with 27 years of spies, espionage and equally estranged muckraking tactics. I got on the phone. It didn’t take long. B&S had been is secret meeting with Spittle, Gavin since February. They were assured a job as soon as their non-compete expired. So not only were these *******s negotiating for a job that wasn’t open, they were violating their own contract at the time. Swell fellows. If you ever find yourselves in a game of monopoly with these dudes, keep an eye on the bank.
I remembered when Ben and Skin first appeared at the Ticket; two kind of goofy guys with shared backgrounds and affinity for hoops. They were cool dudes. They were very polite, very helpful, always there at events and promoted station with pride. We liked them. And by ‘we’ I mean the weekday hosts who basically decided who were in and who were out. The thumbs of approval were almost unanimous. Rhyner never gave a thumbs up, he hated everybody (I love that dude!). And I thought that they were pretty good. Needed much work and experience, but worth keeping around. After a few years toiling on weekends they soon seemed to become restless about making this talk radio thing a full-time gig (both had other career jobs and radio was just a part-time job on weekend). No big deal. Weekend guys come and go. Most like the GREAT Mark Elfenbein, were content on this arrangement cuz they were making a gazillion dollars a year in other endeavors. But B&S were different. They had ambition. They had desire. And they knew how to work a room. GAWD-ALMIGHTY could they work a room and the politics of glad-handing. They had a plot they wanted to chart and they weren’t about to let anyone trouble that, especially a bunch of long timers running the clubhouse at The Ticket.
Now with The Ticket being the bad-### in the biz and no one there seemingly moving along, B&S started to tirelessly work the press boxes of the AAC and Ballpark. Just putting their name out there, and letting anyone that would listen that they were players. They were better than a weekend show, and a sense of entitlement creeped in on those young men. They soon started to become ‘pals’ with several players. And this soon morphed into thinking they were friends with those guys. And it was there that it started.
B&S were labeled “Friend of the Athlete”. There are few worse hallmarks a press guy can get than “friend of the Athlete”. But at the time, it all seems so right. In my early years, Randy Galloway told me to never venture into those waters. “It never works out” he loudly told me time and time again. And I would be burned on it a few times till I pulled my head out of my ###. It’s a one way street. The odds are never in your favor. They use you but no way in hell they’ll allow you to use them. But B&S proudly touted the roster of players that they “knew”. And as soon as social media took off, there were galleries and galleries of pictures with B&S and “their boys”. It soon became comical and embarrassing. And it was around this time that they landed a fulltime gig at Live 105.3. They worked afternoons.
This was before 105.3 switched to all sports.
They had a platform to display their goofy bits, sensational NBA knowledge (Skin knows more about the NBA than ANY media guy in this town) and an impressive Rolodex of players both former and present. I thought their show was good. They worked hard at it and it showed. But they were still getting their heads bashed in by Bob and Dan. But in the blink of an eye, the Einstein’s of CBS decided they’d join the all-sports ranks by switching formats. B&S would move to afternoon drive and have the pleasure of being annihilated by the HardLine, which happened. Not even the endless promotion of star-studded guests would prevent that massacre. And up until this point, in two different time slots, they never generated ratings. So after a few months, yet another PD change would spell the end for B&S. So now you had a ratings loser in two-time slots. So naturally, ESPN couldn’t wait to give them a gig.
They were falling all over themselves to get them signed. And they did. They would now occupy the mid-days. But the stone cold truth about these ‘great guys’ was the internal politicking they had done. I have it one 100% authority that B&S were stealthily inserting the knife in the back of RJ Choppy. And they would further that practice as they orchestrated the ouster of Michael Irvin and Kevin Kiley. Now it’s getting serious. These guys weren’t ****ing around; they were going for the knees of the Playmaker. And it was to the wonderment of the industry. They were never a ratings generator, but they claimed they were a money-maker. In radio it usually doesn’t work that way. But somehow in their back channel meandering and under the table dealing, once again they’d come sevens all the way. One funny aside…after B&S performed a season long sucking session on CJ Wilson, and begging and pleading that he would call when he chose his new designation. The Ticket broke that news. Yep, B&S, friend of the athlete, pal through and through, forgot to tip-off his ‘buddies’ when he signed his giant deal. That had to hurt. Or at least move him down in the rotation of B&S parade of friend of the athlete.
Times in the old Dallas sports talk wars had settled into a symphonic snore. Not much going on. But suddenly the plates shifted. Bruce Gilbert tendered his resignation at the Fan. That wasn’t good. Although the ratings hadn’t shown it, he was the BEST PD in the country and there is NOBODY better. It soon became apparent to me that if Bruce couldn’t turn the Fan around, no one could. That worried me. If he is leaving, that means someone else is coming. And I had zero confidence that CBS could make the right hire. I was right. After much stage posturing and fake enthusiasm, they decided on Spittle, Gavin. That sealed my doom. I was a short-timer. It was just a matter of time. I had heard that he made a comment that “he just didn’t get me”, “didn’t understand my motives” and “Didn’t know if I was equipped to man the important afternoon drive slot”.
Yea, that ******* didn’t know how to read 14 years of absolute domination in a top four market.
Guess I wasn’t ready for the big time radio of western Orchard Park or the tough town of Houston. So I saw the writing on the wall, but it was another news item that caught my eye. It seems that ESPN and Ben & Skin were parting ways. They couldn’t agree on a contract, so B&S were walking. Just like that. Walking out on a gig without another one lined up.
Yeah ****ing right!
Who believes that ****?
I did what most guys with 27 years of spies, espionage and equally estranged muckraking tactics. I got on the phone. It didn’t take long. B&S had been is secret meeting with Spittle, Gavin since February. They were assured a job as soon as their non-compete expired. So not only were these *******s negotiating for a job that wasn’t open, they were violating their own contract at the time. Swell fellows. If you ever find yourselves in a game of monopoly with these dudes, keep an eye on the bank.
culdeus
Footballguy
New board sucks. Sorry, I think this is interesting about BenSkin. Others have pointed out they are doing their bit segments across from throwaway segments on the hardline. I just can't get past all the cowboys #### sucking and forced segments on them to stay tuned in too long.
culdeus
Footballguy
greggo wrote it. I had it all formatted with more content and for some reason only the copy paste came in. don't feel like going back and editing that again.
Bogart
Footballguy
This doesn't make any sense, does it?
BaD Radio on verge of leaving The Ticket for The Fan
Possibly leaving Donnie behind as his contract runs through January.
BaD Radio on verge of leaving The Ticket for The Fan
Possibly leaving Donnie behind as his contract runs through January.
Bogart
Footballguy
Well, Bob has tweeted that they are staying. Drama over before it began. I'm sure it was nice to be wined and dined across the street, but all the money in the world wouldn't make me go into that unstable environment.
Side note: just started reading Whitts blog on the collapse of RAGE. Fin Greggo. Just wont learn.
Side note: just started reading Whitts blog on the collapse of RAGE. Fin Greggo. Just wont learn.
bentley
Footballguy
Yeah, no ####. This is great reading. Thanks for the post. I'm ignoring the Rangers, the Rangers thread at ShaggyBevo, Twitter and the GMTAN for this.
Buck Bradcanon
Footballguy
culdeus
Footballguy
yeah, that whole thing went super fast. Got a text last night and twitter was imploding, then it was all done? On a sunday night?
Disco Stu
Confirmed FBGal
So Whitt has access to Greggo's twitter direct messages? Is his password HAMMER1310 or something?
Crazy stuff.
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
I wanted BAD to leave just to see what would happen. I'm bored with everything that happens on the Ticket after the Musers.
Nigel Tufnel
Footballguy
I thought that was an interesting read, but Whitt is such a ####### #####. He and Greg deserve each other.
Bogart
Footballguy
I'm going to bet that Greggo logged into twitter from computer or device at The Fan. IT took it from there. Keystroke reader on his work laptop maybe?
Bogart
Footballguy
I'm sure they were seem as a stabilizing force after all this went down. I kinda of wish they would have made the switch. It would have been fun to see what would have happened. I wonder if Donnie could have joined them if they would have given it a go.
culdeus
Footballguy
How the hell did Richie get a hold of those then? And that certainly doesn't seem like fair use of personal communication. I'd sue the #### out of him if I was Greggo.
Buck Bradcanon
Footballguy
I wonder if they would have given Jake part of the slot. He seems really good.Bogart said:
Nothing new but Musers just talked about it all at 7:40.
Statcruncher
Footballguy
I hear you. I used to like BAD, but Donnie and Dan are pretty much total whips anymore. Not worth it to fight through them for the Sturminator.Nigel Tufnel said:
culdeus
Footballguy
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/34883469
Greggo's response to Richie's writings. He doesn't know how he got those tweets either.
Greggo's response to Richie's writings. He doesn't know how he got those tweets either.
Statcruncher
Footballguy
I haven't kept up with Greggo since he left the Ticket as he was never my favorite, but that podcast is a shocker. Sad to see him so irrelevant that he's basically in Kige Ramsey mode now. Greggo crying foul and playing the victim makes me lol. And he looks terrible, has his past caught up with him or does he have a medical condition?