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***** Official KTCK/1310 AM "The Ticket" Thread ***** (3 Viewers)

Daddy's merkin smells like tinkle.

Just got back from 24 hours in Dallas. Good times on The Ticket. I also came to the realization on the trip back that BaD radio is probably my favorite show.

 
Looks like others are noticing Greggo's poor performance. He was a 66.67% favorite to win the E-Brake this morning. He won.

 
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bentley said:
I also came to the realization on the trip back that BaD radio is probably my favorite show.
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In my mind, it has the best schtick to sports ratio of any show on the station. Bob's sports insight rivals Norm's and their bits are good. I also don't know why so many people hate Dan. I think the guy's a hoot.
 
I am amazed by the outpouring of love for BAD Radio in here. I haven't had the chance to listen to much of them in a long time, but sounds like I'm missing a lot.

 
Nigel Tufnel said:
Looks like others are noticing Greggo's poor performance. He was a 66.67% favorite to win the E-Brake this morning. He won.
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The thing about Greggo is I'm not sure he even knows sports anymore. He waits for Mike or Corby's opinion on something and then either agrees (90% of the time), or disagrees (10%) with insightful comments like, "Hey, their pretty good. You might want to tap on those brakes." Thanks Hammer, way to stick your neck out there. He is not far from becoming the yuk monkey of that show.
 
Bogart said:
Nigel Tufnel said:
Looks like others are noticing Greggo's poor performance. He was a 66.67% favorite to win the E-Brake this morning. He won.
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The thing about Greggo is I'm not sure he even knows sports anymore. He waits for Mike or Corby's opinion on something and then either agrees (90% of the time), or disagrees (10%) with insightful comments like, "Hey, their pretty good. You might want to tap on those brakes." Thanks Hammer, way to stick your neck out there. He is not far from becoming the yuk monkey of that show.
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I feel like we're watching the slow career decline of a legend.
 
Nigel Tufnel said:
I am amazed by the outpouring of love for BAD Radio in here. I haven't had the chance to listen to much of them in a long time, but sounds like I'm missing a lot.
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They are the show to listen to. Nice mix of sports and humor, nice mix of common sports and the obscure. Great bits, two hosts that seem like best friends, yet will rip on each other and disagree. Donovan is a STRONG contributor. Overall they are in complete touch with what their listerers. Pop culture, music, movies, video games, you name it. In fact, they are ahead of the curve alot of times (The Shield, UFC, PS2). They could have an intellegent conversation about MySpace, unlike that horrible segment on The Hardline yesterday.Greggo: "Well, what is IT?!?! NO, Danny, what IS it?!?"Wolf: "Hmmm, sounds like a tremendous timewaste......let me tell you about my Petty Theft show this weekend."
 
Bogart said:
Nigel Tufnel said:
I am amazed by the outpouring of love for BAD Radio in here. I haven't had the chance to listen to much of them in a long time, but sounds like I'm missing a lot.
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They are the show to listen to. Nice mix of sports and humor, nice mix of common sports and the obscure. Great bits, two hosts that seem like best friends, yet will rip on each other and disagree. Donovan is a STRONG contributor. Overall they are in complete touch with what their listerers. Pop culture, music, movies, video games, you name it. In fact, they are ahead of the curve alot of times (The Shield, UFC, PS2). They could have an intellegent conversation about MySpace, unlike that horrible segment on The Hardline yesterday.Greggo: "Well, what is IT?!?! NO, Danny, what IS it?!?"Wolf: "Hmmm, sounds like a tremendous timewaste......let me tell you about my Petty Theft show this weekend."
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BaD sort of transformed itself. Now they put in what has to be the most prep time of any show. It's probably the most groundbreaking show in the market right now.
 
culdeus said:
Bogart said:
Nigel Tufnel said:
I am amazed by the outpouring of love for BAD Radio in here. I haven't had the chance to listen to much of them in a long time, but sounds like I'm missing a lot.
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They are the show to listen to. Nice mix of sports and humor, nice mix of common sports and the obscure. Great bits, two hosts that seem like best friends, yet will rip on each other and disagree. Donovan is a STRONG contributor. Overall they are in complete touch with what their listerers. Pop culture, music, movies, video games, you name it. In fact, they are ahead of the curve alot of times (The Shield, UFC, PS2). They could have an intellegent conversation about MySpace, unlike that horrible segment on The Hardline yesterday.Greggo: "Well, what is IT?!?! NO, Danny, what IS it?!?"Wolf: "Hmmm, sounds like a tremendous timewaste......let me tell you about my Petty Theft show this weekend."
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BaD sort of transformed itself. Now they put in what has to be the most prep time of any show. It's probably the most groundbreaking show in the market right now.
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I am totally out of the loop, then. What I've heard from Donovan I really, really like, though. He seems like a friendly, funny guy.
 
Bogart said:
Why does Tuna have to speak EVERY SINGLE DAY, even on a bye week. This completely blows.
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:goodposting: I can't handle listening to that smug *******. He thinks he's cute and clever, but if it wasn't for nervous/courtesy laughter he'd be hearing the crickets...
 
Nigel Tufnel said:
Disco Stu said:
Bogart said:
Why does Tuna have to speak EVERY SINGLE DAY, even on a bye week. This completely blows.
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:goodposting: I can't handle listening to that smug *******. He thinks he's cute and clever, but if it wasn't for nervous/courtesy laughter he'd be hearing the crickets...
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"Look it, ... okay?"
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:lmao: If you want to do press conferences, fine. Give me one on Friday before a game, and one on Monday or Tuesday after a game. I really don't need Mark Bavaro and Dave Meggitt stories clouding up my BAD radio time.

 
The Hardline said:
O&A - 5 to 8Jagger - 8 to NoonPuggs and Kelly - Noon to 3Russ Martin - 3 to 7Tom L. - 7 to who knows
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Interesting. I removed them from my presets when David Lee Roth replaced Stern. I had no idea that O&A and Jagger were on now. Jagger himself was always a tool, but he used to have some funny guys working with him. Might have to stop by next week...Russ Martin is a #####. Hate that show. Do his sidekicks serve any purpose other than to laugh hysterically at his unfunny comments? I've never heard so much dead-air in my life...
 
Disco Stu said:
Russ Martin is a #####. Hate that show. Do his sidekicks serve any purpose other than to laugh hysterically at his unfunny comments? I've never heard so much dead-air in my life...
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Every time I flip over there, for whatever reason, there's always silence. It's just a bit jarring, since, on the Ticket, unless someone's getting laid out on, there always rolling prod value or, at least, talking. Weird show.
 
Disco Stu said:
The Hardline said:
O&A - 5 to 8

Jagger - 8 to Noon

Puggs and Kelly - Noon to 3

Russ Martin - 3 to 7

Tom L. - 7 to who knows
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Interesting. I removed them from my presets when David Lee Roth replaced Stern. I had no idea that O&A and Jagger were on now. Jagger himself was always a tool, but he used to have some funny guys working with him. Might have to stop by next week...Russ Martin is a #####. Hate that show. Do his sidekicks serve any purpose other than to laugh hysterically at his unfunny comments? I've never heard so much dead-air in my life...
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You hit the nail right on the head. I can't stand it when he asks his buddy J.D. to tell him something "not suitable for air", they go mikes off for 20-30 seconds and then back on and laughter. It's so very stupid, yet my wife loves it. We have a deal that if I can count to 10 during dead air, I can change the channel. So I only have to listen to Russ for about five mins when we are in the car together.
 
Bogart said:
Disco Stu said:
The Hardline said:
O&A - 5 to 8

Jagger - 8 to Noon

Puggs and Kelly - Noon to 3

Russ Martin - 3 to 7

Tom L. - 7 to who knows
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Interesting. I removed them from my presets when David Lee Roth replaced Stern. I had no idea that O&A and Jagger were on now. Jagger himself was always a tool, but he used to have some funny guys working with him. Might have to stop by next week...Russ Martin is a #####. Hate that show. Do his sidekicks serve any purpose other than to laugh hysterically at his unfunny comments? I've never heard so much dead-air in my life...
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You hit the nail right on the head. I can't stand it when he asks his buddy J.D. to tell him something "not suitable for air", they go mikes off for 20-30 seconds and then back on and laughter. It's so very stupid, yet my wife loves it. We have a deal that if I can count to 10 during dead air, I can change the channel. So I only have to listen to Russ for about five mins when we are in the car together.
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Oddly, I didn't read Stu's whole post, I just saw "Russ Martin" and chimed in with my comment, which is the complaint you both have. I need to stop skimming.
 
We need to organize some sort of P1 cornhole.

People are coming out of the woodwork that I didn't know were in the area.

 
Bogart said:
Disco Stu said:
culdeus said:
We need to organize some sort of P1 cornhole.People are coming out of the woodwork that I didn't know were in the area.
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I was thinking charity challenge cornhole on ice.
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Are they going back to the ice, or another football game?? CCOI is always a great time, will take the wife and kid, but would be down for cornhole as well.
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No idea. I honestly forgot they did the football last year. Either way, we could meet at a bar before the game. That's probably a ways off still though...
 
Nigel Tufnel said:
I am amazed by the outpouring of love for BAD Radio in here. I haven't had the chance to listen to much of them in a long time, but sounds like I'm missing a lot.
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BaD Radio is everything the ticket was when it rose to radio greatness. Two guys - relatively unknown - come together w/ some interesting shtick, good sports insight w/o the droning, repetitive East Coast / Chicago style of sports radio. Fun and hilarity ensue. It's definitely worth a listen. Like any ticket or ticket-style show you'll have to give it several sessions to start catching the inside jokes and oblique references but overall I think that if you liked the ticket of 4-5 years ago you'll like BaD and you'll also be able to notice how far the Musers and the Hardline have fallen.
 
Bogart said:
snowmonkey501 said:
original lineup:

Skip Bayless 6-10

Curt Menefee 10-12

Hardline 12-3

Dunham and Miller 3-7

Guys I miss:

Psycho Dave - Agree. And his crazy mother.

Kevin Scott - I always thought KScott was a bit generic and was too busy kissing up to the Hardline to really break out with his own brand of radio.

Big **** Hunter - Hit or miss but when he was "on" his shows were funny. Last I heard he had a Saturday night show on 105.3.

Expo Fox - When I think "Expo" I think Gravy ###*. That's too bad. He was a board-op savant and livened up the shows. It became uncomfortable listening to him only because the Hardline started to use him as a whipping boy in front of the audience.
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Heavy B said:
Nigel Tufnel said:
I am amazed by the outpouring of love for BAD Radio in here. I haven't had the chance to listen to much of them in a long time, but sounds like I'm missing a lot.
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BaD Radio is everything the ticket was when it rose to radio greatness. Two guys - relatively unknown - come together w/ some interesting shtick, good sports insight w/o the droning, repetitive East Coast / Chicago style of sports radio. Fun and hilarity ensue. It's definitely worth a listen. Like any ticket or ticket-style show you'll have to give it several sessions to start catching the inside jokes and oblique references but overall I think that if you liked the ticket of 4-5 years ago you'll like BaD and you'll also be able to notice how far the Musers and the Hardline have fallen.
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Bad radio is terrible. :thumbdown:
 
Joe T said:
Heavy B said:
Nigel Tufnel said:
I am amazed by the outpouring of love for BAD Radio in here. I haven't had the chance to listen to much of them in a long time, but sounds like I'm missing a lot.
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BaD Radio is everything the ticket was when it rose to radio greatness. Two guys - relatively unknown - come together w/ some interesting shtick, good sports insight w/o the droning, repetitive East Coast / Chicago style of sports radio. Fun and hilarity ensue. It's definitely worth a listen. Like any ticket or ticket-style show you'll have to give it several sessions to start catching the inside jokes and oblique references but overall I think that if you liked the ticket of 4-5 years ago you'll like BaD and you'll also be able to notice how far the Musers and the Hardline have fallen.
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Bad radio is terrible. :thumbdown:
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How often do you actually listen to them? Still thinking Greggo has it casts doubt on your opinion. 3 years ago BAD came off as a couple of whiny tools thinking they deserved to be drive time in a different market. Now they've really got a niche and it works.
 
Nigel Tufnel said:
pantagrapher said:
In researching a column on Hitzges set to run in next week’s Best of Dallas issue, I landed on last week’s exchange between Norm, long-time producer Mark Friedman and morning-show newsman (see: yuk monkey) Gordon Keith. In light of Norm’s “Picks of the Pole” selections going a hideous 8-23 over the weekend, Gordo lit a match by saying he probably could do better flipping a coin. Frito valiantly defended Norm, who emotionally dug in. Gordo, in his own sucker-punching way, raised legitimate points that Norm, in his numbers-numbing way, countered with illuminating stats. It was real. It was riveting.

And it’s like it never happened.

The tense, terrific segment mysteriously didn’t qualify as a “Dunham and Miller” morning-show “Emergency Brake of the Week” candidate, a fact not lost on afternoon show “BaD Radio,” which aired the conversation. But halfway through replaying the segment, station management bolted in and yanked it off the air. Forever.

Calls to the station’s power-brokers have yet to be returned. Stay tuned.

It was not The Ticket’s finest hour. In fact, it was embarrassing. With its Dallas Cowboys partnership, we worried about the station muting its opinions on the football team. To its credit, that hasn’t happened. But with its new ownership, we should obviously worry about the station muting itself. Privately, on-air personnel are disgusted at the censorship by new owners, who took control of the station in May. It is potentially a slippery slope when a self-proclaimed no-holds-barred station starts, um, barring holds.

For his part, Norm categorizes the exchange as provocative, yet harmless.

“It was an on-air spat, happens all the time,” Hitzges says. “Ten minutes later Gordon tried to apologize to me, but he didn’t need to. It was over. People have this assumption that I don’t like Gordo, but I do. I really respect him. He’s so quick and clever, and, for what he does, I really admire him.”

That doesn’t mean, however, that Norm approves everything about The Ticket.

“When I die that station’s in real trouble,” Norm says jokingly. “Because I ’m going to hire somebody to work through the night deleting all my sound drops.”

Hitzges, by the way, has come a long way since debuting as America’s first full-time sports-talk show host at KERA-FM (90.1) in 1975. At the time the number of people making a living talking sports in Dallas was two: Hitzges and KRLD-AM (1080)’s Brad Sham. In 30 years sports talk certainly has become bigger. But better?

“It’s grown tremendously, but I don’t think the level of quality has grown with it,” Norm says. “Competition makes us all better. Forces us to be more creative, do more research, more shtick, whatever. But you look around today and realize there are a lot of people in this business that just shouldn’t be.”

Something tells me the people who decided to keep an entertaining exchange from listeners are among that group. –Richie Whitt
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Interesting read. Wish I would have heard that exchange.
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Calling it "real" and "tense" are both very accurate. There's a bit more to it, though. The Musers passed the segment over in their e-brake segment. Bob and Dan were (supposedly) responding to a listener e-mail and awarding "The People's E-Brake". So not only did BaD trespass on some forbidden audio they also trespassed on someone else's sgement.

It reminded me of the days of Rocco Pendola when Rhyner warned him that the cardinal rule of the Little Ticket is: "Thou shalt not steal shtick".

I don't think the latter had anything to do w/ management shutting down the segment but it did heighten the tension for all of us w/ some history of listening to the station.

In any case, BaD were doing their usual "pause the segment and deliver commentary" when Gribble started telling them to move on. At first he made it sound like he was diffusing some of their more pointed jokes and comments but after Bob pressed him he admitted that management had pulled the plug.

Straight to commercial.

It was brought up passive-aggressively during the BaD / HL mix but I haven't heard anything since then.

 
Anybody want to pull into oncoming traffic when the overenunciating Latinos from the On the Border commercial grace the airwaves?

 
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