listener. I used to listen in college, quite a few years ago, and I got a lot of it. I turned it on the other day, and I have just been gone too long. If you go to Jim Rome’s site, there is a “Smacktionary” (or there used to be, maybe it’s “gloss”) that can get you somewhat caught up on the lingo.

It’s definitely an acquired taste. Once you get past Rome’s long pauses and all the inside jokes, it’s all pretty funny.

I find him to be a pompous jerk.

They fancy themselves to be celebrities. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Only in their own, very, very tiny universe.

The best “takes,” in my opinion, are the ones where they actually bother to talk about sports instead of lobbing “smack” at other “clones.” Most of these guys sound like insufferable douchebags.

OK. I think? Hell, I have no idea. I will say that he had, perhaps, an unfair advantage over the other “clones” in that he was able to use The Game’s audio facilities to produce numerous sound effects and soundbites to enhance his “take.”

I liked the jab at Sergio and Rudy, though.

if you give it a chance, but when you boil it down he is just a So. Cal dude after all. In other words, if Dave were writing a blog about today’s show he would title it “Jim R*me Smack-Off 09”.

It’s either him or Colin Cowherd, and Cowherd’s voice makes me want to claw my eyes out.

His sense of humor is awesome, and I for one like a joke that lives forever. I love the emails from people written in the name of other people. I like that the calls are written and creative, as opposed to the locals shows where it’s a bunch of people asking the host how his day was, then recycling some ill-thought out idea. The calls he does take are excellent, and he’s a great interviewer, even if he does follow his interviews with 5 minutes of “how awesome was that interview!”

My favorite Rome moment was during a discussion of baseball players retiring, and which team they should represent in the hall. The email went as follows:

Dear Rome,

I also ended my career with the Rays. I don’t recommend it.

Sincerely,
Steve Irwin

Like most people can’t stand Canzano for turning every conversation into a festival about how grand and wonderful he is, I can’t see any genuine difference between his ego problems and the rest of the clowns on Sports Radio.

Gavin Dawson is offensive, Rome is about as boring as watching golf, Canzano is well, like listening to Ron Popeil advertise his latest and greatest. Wheels is the only one worth listening to and even he gets under my skin sometimes.

Seriously, does sports have to equal gratuitous and insulting comments about women? I know its a medium dominated by male listeners, but not all of us care about whether Haarlow is hotter than girl x, or if you think girl y is a slut.

Sports Radio – Where morality and standards never happen.