Boycott 95.5 in the morning

First off these guys are obviously hypocritical, arrogant asses. The other day gavin was saying how it was so uncool to boo college athletes. His reasoning had to do with their age and not being able to deal with sudden celebrity. Then he starts going on this friggin rant about Oden, wanting to judge his entire career on one game. ONE GAME!!! And his little lacky who has a man-crush on Jim Rome needs to take a step back and realize he is not Jim Rome! Jim Rome is funny, insightful, fair all things that CIP is not. Just because you talk loudly and obnoxiously smarmy does not make you funny. These guys are lucky to have jobs and they should enjoy it while it lasts. I for one am turning on the game at 9:00 a.m. from now on. And btw msp we all have a right to our opinion too. So next time you get all up in Wheeler’s grill and try to make him understand your pathetic, sensationalist opinion, take his owning you like a man.

I’m boycotting their crap show. I hate the morning shows anyway. I mean Jim Rome is on and he is trash too. These guys get paid to be controversial though. They actually have meetings on how to be trolls to keep people interested. That’s why they are just clowns. Gavin is an idiot.

You’re losing your Mojo man.

You are taking yourself way too seriously.

Seriously man.

Good post Mr Guru.

Gavin is the same guy who hosted the “Draft The Stash” parties and spent months ripping on Kevin Pritchard for not drafting Adam Morrison, and instead drafting Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge.

He’s also the same guy who said “Ron Artest is the kind of player we need to be trying to trade for, to bring to the Blazers”. Or, “It wouldn’t be a bad thing to bring Rasheed back to the Blazers.”

Do we really want to place any value in his opinion or anything he says?

If that’s not enough, we have to listen to him and “Chad” insult anybody within arm’s reach in the most juvenile way possible. They have insulted Brian Wheeler, Jay Allen, and almost every other credible sports personality we have in Portland. They sound like a couple of drunk frat boys sitting around letting their gums flap. They spend most of their show bragging about drinking, gambling, and making lewd comments about anything that crosses their path. Speaking of gambling “Chad” makes a habit of bragging about how his gambling problem led to his divorce, and near financial ruin.

If they were not the only local morning sports radio show, they would have no ratings at all. We Blazer fans are so starved to hear Blazer talk, we are supporting a couple of degenerates, who would be better served to go sit on the bar stool they just came from before heading to work each day.

They need to pass that show on to someone respectable who actually talks about sports with a brain. This market has such people.

Boycott the Morning Sports Page, and their website. Also, call James Derby the program director of 95.5 FM, and demand a change.

but I can’t much stand them anymore.

Listening to them is like reading nothing but the silly Trollerposts and Trade Proposals on the Bedge for 3 hours straight, only these guys have less substance and call people stupid ass names like “renob” and “jabber”… I mean, what is this, Jr. High?

Grow up, boys! LEAD THE GOOD PEOPLE OF PORTLAND! Don’t try to be the West Coast Steven A. Smith!

We deserve better than these busters. That’s all they are is busters with bad takes. BOYCOTT!

..and that’s where I stopped respecting his opinion.

Some guys know their stuff, understand the game and what it takes to build a successful team.. others are simply ignorant fans who’s basketball knowledge is based off pick up basketball and glancing at box scores — Gavin Dawson fits under the latter.

He hasn’t lived up to expectations at all. We were told that 95.5 The Game would immediately change the sports radio world, but instead we get this clown. He’s covering a team that is filled with personality and intrigue, but instead of adding something interesting to the airwaves, he relies on making statements HE KNOWS ARE FALSE to stir up drama. This tactic (used by cowherd and almost patented by canzano) is like slapping us all in the face, when we should be high-fiving each other.

what are they gonna say Monday morning after Oden has another double double tonight with 4 or 5 blocks thrown in? Will they eat their words? I bet they don’t, as they seem to have a hard time admitting when they’re wrong. We’ll see though. Ultimately, I do like those two when they talk Blazers, but have been groing INCREASINGLY weary of their GO is a bust talk. It’s getting old fast, especially since anyone with half a brain cell knows that it takes time to get back into shape. They themselves less than 2 weeks ago were still talking about Oden needing to get his "fast twitch" muscles back, openly stating that they were very aware it would take a couple months for him to get back into pristine basketball shape. The fact that after his first significant playing time game (Miami) they were already trashing on him only serves to prove that they are trying to be "edgy" and "controversial". Plus, even though I think Wheels is a total company man, and have had my issues with the stuff he’s been spewing about Oden on the opposite end of the spectrum, I DID NOT like how Gavin cut Wheels off and ended the call like he was some regular douche bag caller. That was disrespectful, running up against the break or not. He should have ended that conversation much differently.

I began posting remarks a few days ago in a Junk Drawer about this topic and didnt get much response. I felt my complaints were falling on deaf ears, but its apparent others share my opinion.

The MSP is awful. Besides the ignoramus comments they make, is a sickening sense of super-ego that is really detestable. How many times can a guy brag about what a chick-magnet he is? Who cares?

Another aspect I disagree with is the shouting rants and name-calling when callers make opinions they disagree with. Are they saying “jabber” or “jobber?” What hypocrites.

Kenny Vance made the program pretty awful, but I enjoyed Katie’s enthusiasm and respect for callers. The program director has to bear some blame here having replaced the aforementioned with a fraternity row of punk jerks.

I’m going to tune in this week for the sole purpose of seeing if these guys will address the issue of fans being unappreciate of their LCD shtick, or continue their unabated and unappreciated shtick.

Then they deserve to be fired. If they can’t take a hint from Blazers Edge, they deserve the inevitable boycott.

not really… but seriously, give us something else. There’s gotta be a happy medium between the inane combo of K&K and the frat boy hijinks of Dawson and CIP. Maybe go national… is there a FoxSports equivalent of Mike and Mike?

I put in my two cents yesterday as soon as I saw the post and checked back a couple times lastnight— seems like it took a little while to get things going and it made me kind of nervous. I was wondering if people were actually buying into their hype. But it’s pretty undeniable that a lot of people are growing weary of these guys. I agree they are totally juvenile, and sound like a couple of fratboys, but one thing still gets me….That poll that they had on thursday about Oden being a bust. It was pretty lame to think 80 percent of people that responded thought Oden was a waste of a pick. I really hope that number was faked, and if it wasn’t all the people who voted need to stop drinking the kool-aid. These guys suck at their jobs. Listening to them does not make you part of some cool inner-circle unless you count the sweet friday nights you can spend in gavin’s brother’s basement, after the clown gets canned!! These guy’s are going down fast!!! Eventually the voice of reason will overcome, and these BRO’S will be out on the streets spanging!!!

Just cause your livin’ on the streets doesn’t make you “street” msp!

gavins the only one who puts dave on the radio airwaves. So what if his opinions sometimes contradict yours?? OMG!!!! ITS THE END OF THE WORLD WE NEED TO BOYCOTT HIM!!!!

call in if you dont like it. Gavin Dawson is a great radio guy

is on the 5th quarter now. And he is all good. We don’t have allot of Blazers talk, and the morning show is fine. I did not hear any one get called names. They are fine, just little frustrated with all these injuries that happened to Blazers.

Also Gavin did not hang up on Wheels just had to go to the break. If he even did its his show. He did not get the show by fooling everyone.

why don’t you get your own radio show if you so smart. And then you can hang up on anybody you like. You will be able to say your opinion for everybody and they wont be able to do anything if they don’t like it, just turn off the radio

I just think they need to stop being such sensatiolist hypocrites on their own show. If the only blazers talk on morning radio is negative, and instigative then it sucks and I for one am going to be laughing in their faces when Oden becomes a dominant big man.

its his co-host, chad. Chad’s fine, but he tries to be a Gavin Dawson clone and offers nothing of insight that Gavin couldnt say. Id like a co-host who has his own opinion about stuff. Ive barely ever heard them disagree.

I remember when gavin and john strong were with canzano on the bft and you could tell they didnt really like eachother. But i still loved it cause with dawson and strong, you get the broadest spectrum of opinions possible.

And I agree, but I think that these guys are both to blame because it seems like they just build off of one another’s inane ramblings. It would be nice if there was a little different perspective on the show and unfortunately when a caller does call in to offer one these guys just talk over them spewing their blazer-hate.

Dawson tries to spin the Thursday show as him merely saying he was disappointed in Oden – he tried that on tonight’s post game show. That’s a flat lie. Thursday’s show was an ugly, embarrassing, nasty rant. It was really inexcuseable given that Oden had only played like 30 minutes in his career.

That’s said. they have their amusing moments as well. But there comes a time when the crap outweighs the worthwhile stuff.

One of the callers during the 5th quarter grilled Gavin for cutting off Wheels and trash talking Oden and Outlaw. Dawson was pretty embarassed.

Will the MSP be as it has and there will be no change?
Will these guys tone down their act upon hearing the listeners comments?
Or will these guys ramp it up even more so?

For all the talk about “manning up” it’ll be interesting to see if these guys can walk the walk.

I can tollerate some of the seemingly unintelligent rants, and the lack of overall basketball knowlege. I can even tollerate them being contrarians. I can give them a pass for cutting people off.

I don’t tollerate things like Chad’s top 10 list of Jordan the intern’s pickup lines. (All 10 were extremely crude.)

Or when they spend two entire segments in a row glorifying beer drinking and loose women.

Just because I’m a Blazer’s fan doesn’t mean I fit into the demographic who likes beer commercials of the Swedish bikini team. And the rest of my family definitely doesn’t (wife and kids). Don’t they have the right to rejoice in a Blazer’s win the next morning too? Is my little boy less of a Blazer’s fan than all of us? He rides in his car seat chanting GO BLAZERS! GO BLAZERS! when I have a game on.

Look I’m not even asking for “Leave it to Beaver” content. I understand you need to spice things up sometimes. But this show is not just periodically spiced with borderline content. It is predominantly lewd and unacceptable content the majority of the time, and the Blazer’s are perhaps a side dish.

MSP, Canzano & Wheels all discuss the things I’m interested in as a Blazer fan. I really don’t give a rip about Suke’s life, Bert Sugar, NFL, MLB or any rehashing of the latest national sports story (Vick, Clemens, Terrell Owens &etc.)

To me, Gavin’s content comes from him actually being a passionate fan and Blazer fan in particular. 1080’s content seems to come from a quick perusal of espn headlines & token local sports news.

That Blazer fans are unwilling to put up with crudeness and vulgarity in the people playing basketball, then listen to these clowns who epitomize the attitude of the jailblazer years when they talk about basketball.

i hate them both. coward is a stereotyping elitist and 95.5 is full of losers that love each other and gush all morning. la familia is the dumbest crap ive ever heard. no one cares about his weight loss challenge.

ugh they attack callers when people dont agree with them it makes me sick.

they say its the best radio show ever or something. ahahaha….

is utterly unlistenable any more. I tried, but it’s horrible.

But I cant handle Jim Rome, half the time I dont even know what he is talking about Just playing sound bites over and over and calling people clones. It seems like he just loves to insult the general audiences intelligence and then listen to his voice repeat something he thinks is funny. I think 95.5 got that program wrong too.

Let the self-serving talkers keep talkin’.
If it’s gonna be negative, so what?
More fuel for our fire. We’ll just keep going about our business: Winning games.
Either way, if we end up with a particularly successful season, the ‘negative vibe merchants’ (to quote Neil from BBC show ‘The Young Ones’) will only find a way to spin it in the end anyway, claiming they were just trying to motivate the team or something. They’re just trying to drive ratings for themselves.

Radio announcers like Gavin, Jim Rome, Canzano are, imo, completely worthless in contributing to this world. They wake up everyday with their main goal to get the best ratings possible so they will get bigger and better advertisers. It is kind of sad really.

And he’s been exercising his rights quite a bit lately.

He was wrong about the Blazers’ draft (Batum is a starter and big contributor)

He was wrong about Outlaw. (See Jason Quick’s article on the Wolves game.)

He was wrong about Oden. (Two double doubles in two games.)

I don’t think boycotting is the answer. I like it when really opinionated people have to eat their words. I haven’t listened to his morning show, but when I have heard him other times during the day he has seemed ok. I voted for “No, lets fry their butts with call-ins” even though I would never call in. Good post though.

how they bashed Wheels the other day during an interview with him. That was the last straw for me.

Is this guy on something? Sheed back to the Blazers? Vince Carter to us. Steps in the wrong direction. Sheed is better off in Motown and Vince can drown in the New Jersey swamp. What an idiot! I can’t get that station here, but from what I am reading that definetly sounds like a good thing. Thoughts like the ones I mentioned show I am not missing much.

Thanks for responding… I only hope it makes a difference. Let me clear up my frustrations:

1) I have no problem with legitimate questions or inteligent , calm debate over any player’s abilities. I do have some questions over G.O’s abilities, BUT I’m wise enough
to give any of these kids at least a year, maybe two, of ON court, playing to figure it out
before I begin to assess them.

2) I find the MSP offensive to women. While I, as a normal, heterosexual male have no problem with appreciating a nice looking lady, I find that men who slobber over themselves, or, in the case of the MSP, subjecting us to at least an hour rant or more
about "wanting to have a Blazer-Dancer hot intern…’ and ending with words getting
bleeped out …. very juvenile and wrong.

3) True talent to hold conversation about a subject requires something I’m teaching my Grandkids…. God gave you two ears and one mouth for a reason. So you LISTEN and UNDERSTAND with your ears, head and heart, two times as much before opening your mouth to talk.

4) The corresponding lesson I taught my son is to understand that there are people in the world who have more experience than him and to listen for those morsels of wisdom you can gleen from them.

Brian Wheeler has watched more NBA players up close and personally in two months then I probably will in my entire lifetime. The man knows talent, and if he says “I will stake my reputation on G.O.’s talent and ability” that carries some weight with me.

(Sure I know BW is paid by the Blazers and doesn’t say highly negative very often, but he
will critique if you listen carefully).

Dawson and CIP ridiculed Wheels openly after they hung up on him rather rudely and abruptly.

5) I enjoy a beer every now and again just as much as the next guy. BUT, openly bragging about how much, glorifying it the MSP way is just so you can hear yourself talk and sound “cool”. It’s not cool when someone is struggling with alcohol addiction to shove their face in it. I have a friend who cannot listen to MSP because of their
blathering on and on and on about the amount they want/do consume.

6) Callers are mocked, insulted, called losers, “jobbers”, and many other things on the MSP, just because they have a contrary opinion. While it’s OK to kind of have to edit some folks who don’t know what to say or how to say it, calling someone names IS NOT the way to do that!

I’m not a radio professional. I do know a very few things about it, cause I have worked at a radio station before (on air). I’m not an NBA basketball player or coach. I have watched some games in person, and a lot more on TV. I’ve been an assistant coach to kids BB. I’ve been that person insulted by MSP, tho I’ve never called in. I’ve listened
and I expected better.

I will be calling the station (thanks for the PD’s name). I will start listening
again when they do change the morning show’s people to someone more
willing to be ADULT.

Thanks for responding to my survey.

I’ll admit I was wrong – I thought nothing could be worse than nasal, arrogant Colin Cowherd, and the next thing you know here come two losers in their 30s talking about hitting frat parties in Eugene and Corvallis. Chad Doing is probably the most pathetic human being I have ever listened too, at least Dawson has an opinion – he’s wrong 90% of the time, but there is cognitive thought there. Doing just says “right on champ” and does his worst Jim Rome impression (I like Rome, but not Doing’s knock off bit). I especially can’t stand the way they pick a guy to go at and attack him not just a player (which is fine) but as a man (not okay, especially when you would cower before doing it to their face). Outlaw, Oden, I’m guessing Martell is next, but I won’t be listening. From now on, I’m going news, Rome, Dan Patrick – these morning clowns are killing me slowly.

I listened to what I could from about 7am – 8 and my first impression was they sounded somewhat contrite. The talk at the time was football and I didnt hear the normal yelling and ranting, name-calling or typical lunacy I was accustomed to. Then when the topic switched to the PTB, a few text messgaes were read. One in particular referenced their last weeks Oden malarky. Immediately they went back on the defensive, for which the employ the old attack strategy. Then (I think it was Gavin) began spouting off about how he never called Oden a jobber. He reframed his argument saying he said Oden was playing like a jobber. What a reprehensible joke of an excuse. After a little while I switched back to KINK because it is so obvious these guys either don’t get it or are being encouraged by the station management to act this way, or likely both.

There is zero accountability for these guys poor attitudes, and they are unwilling to step up and assume even the slightest measure of personal responsibility in a journalistic sense.

Count me now officially in the 95.5 FM MSP boycott. Also, I spoke with a couple people today about this topic and wasn’t surprised to hear them say they tuned out these SHMUCKS some time ago for the same reason, and they arent even Bedgers.

Im now recruiting those I know who listen to the show to join the radio embargo. Maybe a loss of advertising revenue will force that stations management to reconsider its pitiful fraternity hijinks.