I had to get something off my chest...

I like him on the Courtside show with Dave and Casey. He does well enough when he is setting them up with good questions. Maybe on the morning show he is striking sparks on a hot topic in hopes of generating more heat, which translates into better ratings. Rather than get hot under the collar about it, maybe you should suggest better topics for him to discuss.

I can only bear to listen to them for a few minutes before I’m just disgusting with their circle-jerk behavior. Quite possibly the best radio sports show in the history of the world? Wow. Even in jest, it still sounds ridiculous. I wish CIP were actually CIS…Chad in Sheboygan…in fact, anywhere BUT Portland.

but Chad said Portland is better without Oden, then I just turned it off unitl 9:00

it’s without basis and simply more catch phrases to keep the audiances attention.

I read a really good analysis about radio hosts. They have to keep talking all the time. That’s all gavin and chad do . The stuff they talk about is silly most of the time. When they bash on oden it’s cheap and some people love that crap.

Sophia

One of those idiots really believes he’s a star. Like REALLY believes it. It’s hilarious in an “I’m going t turn my dial now” sort of way.

Listen to Colin now, or silence. Either one is better.

I’m not saying go up to the guy and insult him, I’m just saying treat him like he treats Greg Oden everyday.

I hate those guys, I hate that 95.5 doesn’t get smart and put a decent show together for the mornings. I listen to 95.5 during Canzano and now I will listen during Wheels at Work (which was great today). I even listen to Rome a lot. But during the morning hours I listen to NPR.

1080, 95.5 my listenership is available from 7am to 10am please do something to earn it

are complete bastards. Even if they want to justify what they do by saying it’s their job to get people riled up, that doesn’t work because no one listens.

Luckily, I’ve heard some things about a new tandem in the morning which would be much more tolerable (no I don’t know who).

They thrive from strong negative or positive attention and ignore everything else. In other words, this thread encourages them.

This post comes as I was just thinking this morning that it was time to listen to something else in the morning. I used to really like Gavin even back from the 1080 days because he focused on basketball so much, but now all I hear is kneejerkin’ and negative sensationalism.
Also, I am so far from prude, but their sex talk makes me feel real wierd, and that is saying a lot!

no hate or venom.. I really don’t think there is a sports personality I would listen to consistently from 6-9am so I just don’t care much about MSP.. I’d only listen to it for a special guest or interview… and I’d listen to that regardless of who the host was..

however.. as a point of fact.. there is absolutely nothing that makes Gavin the ’People’s champ’.. that’s just stupid arrogance for the sake of arrogance..

And after reading this, I won’t.

Right now I would have to agree with you, it is very, very sad but also very very true. I personally keep my circle of Blazer friends to a select few who actually speak rationally. Thankfully, no L@ker fans in this group, just longtime hardcore Blazer fans.

Its getting to the point that I would almost rather talk to a Laker fan about the Blazers than most Blazers fans. Its a sad thing to say, but its true

I almost hate the Portland sports talk airwaves. Like the Oregonian, I have been abused so many times by the local hacks and their wimpy/weak agenda that I will never read or listen again without taking them with a big grain of salt.

Well said Mr. Tee.

Or should I say Mr. Bishop?

Bravo for saying what really needs to be yelled out from every roof top.

and one of the guys ( I think Gavin) was saying that he doesnt hate on greg that much, but wherever he goes around the city people are just killing him with what they say and he is surprised by that. I thought it was funny cause everyother morning they both just constantly talk trash about him. It was pretty funny to hear.

but does he really call himself the people’s champ? That’s pretty unoriginal, especially since it appears he named himself that.

I like Wheels’s show. I’ve only heard it a couple times but ti was good.

In the past I have sent day after day of a text message on my drive to work to 95.5, or text to 45495, sending messages like.. “I am a fan of Gavin, but Chad is a jerk and should be off the air”… obviously as a one person operation it doesn’t do much good, but for all of you that HATE this garbage that idiots like Chad and Big SCHMUCK do on the radio… we can run a TEXT campaing that they wouldn’t be able to ignore.

Leave Greg Oden alone and get some class on the air. Join me in my crusade.

Boom. Roasted.

Obviously CIP is a huge L@#%?$ fan. He is absolutely brutal to listen to at any time, when he goes on a rant, he says the same thing over and over without even using different wording, he can’t get through a sports report without totally botching it, and expresses his masculinity with talk of man-crushes and dimes. Obviously these guys do not know how to do a compelling talk-show without resorting to Limbaughsian or Larsonian tactics that deflect anyones input towards humiliation, and confusion( They attack callers with name calling, and hang up on them before their arguments can be fully explained), and get all of their attention either from irate people or people that have bought into their schtick. Total negativity is not what I want to hear in regards to the Blazers right now. Greg Oden is hurt again. BFD! We just killed the spurs! We are right in the middle of the playoff race. The more compelling story is how BRoy is stepping up as a leader for this team, not just by example but by sticking his neck out and saying he’s tired of this team struggling, and putting the rest of the team on notice. The msp can say whatever they want, I listen to music in the morning now anyways, and while they’re busy tearing down GO, the Blazers are going to continue winning and improving and when the end of the regular season comes these jobbers are going to have to play catch-up so that their true ineptitude doesn’t come crashing down all around them.

Chad: I only drink wine.
Gavin: It’s the fastest moving sports show in the history of the universe.
Chad: Erin Andrews naked
Gavin: Ok, I’m going to fake laugh uncontrollably after everything you say! hahaha
Chad: Your the Champ
Gavin: We suck at our jobs…
Chad: Dude…..I know

once the season ends. I would say Rice, but there is no way that man is physically able to get up before 11am :) Seriously, the MSP clowns are just bad radio, not it’s so bad it’s funny, but change the channel bad.

They are total dooshnozzles but what they does not even remotely resemble Limbaugh or Larson . Mind you I am not saying what Limbaugh and Larson do is so great, in fact I can’t stand Limbaugh. You obviously don’t like Larson, but is at least professional. The MSP knobs are anything but Professional.

but when it is as uneducated as these two, it kills me.

Back up what you are saying with hard facts, statistics, or interesting analyses and I will listen to your #&$% radio show. Until then BE is just fine for me.

Basically, Gavin is a typical sports radio guy – good radio voice, good instinct for sensationalism, completely lacking in any real insight, intelligence, or perspective. Take him for what he is.

So they pander to the only nationally recognized story line of the Blazers season: Greg Oden’s injuries.

that should really be directed at Dawson and Canzano.

Every podcast Dawson (I’ve only listened to two because he’s so awful) starts spouting some idiocy about what he FEELS about this and what SEEMS to be the case with that. Then Dave or Casey is like “Hmm… interesting but here’s two reasons you’re wrong and I actually have more but don’t want to be the one who brought you to full consciousness and the realization that you’ve been embarrassing yourself for some time now.”

There’s a scene in the Brother’s K that I think of everytime I hear him speak. It involves former jock now high school coaches who have never left their hometown.

And Canzano…. anybody read his latest post about Greg? How he looked him in the eye (also presumably into his soul) and asked him if he wanted to play… I mean really? Every one of his stories reads like a high school sophomore’s journal entry. I loved Ben’s post about Storyteller and how he exposed Canzano for what he is – the slightly more vitriolic Gavin Dawson of print.

Any fallout from that post Ben?

Have to admit, I like the guy. Sounds like I may be very much in the minority, but I do enjoy his radio show. Sometimes he’s a little full of himself, but him and Strong are entertaining, informative, and back up their statements with facts. I listen to be entertained (not dbagged by a couple of morning jobbers – gag, I said that).