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Boston Sports Radio's Content Problem ?
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The people on ESPN Radio were saying this afternoon that they can't imagine the NFL will actually let the signing season start on Wednesday given the current situation. If the entire offseason timetable is delayed, there will be nothing to talk about. I'm sure people in the Globe and Herald sports departments and all those online sports sites are wondering what they'll be writing about for at least the next month and probably longer. Unprecedented.
It's not a problem unique to Boston, or to radio. ESPN and FS1 are struggling too. But this is how you find out who the real talents are. The ones who can be entertaining without current play by play. Obviously all of the teams will want to keep their brands visible during the quarantine. All of the athletes, coaches, team execs and league folks can do phone interviews. Then you have all the outside pundits who are looking for people to speak with.
I love what the Tennis Channel is doing -- rerunning complete coverage of last year's edition of the tournament that would have been played this week, right from the first round. Very few fans would remember every result from a tour event; most probably couldn't even tell you who was in the finals. So it's like watching a fresh, new tournament. Going back a few years and showing a full tournament would be kind of cool, too. Might the league and conference networks be interested in going that route -- showing three or four games from a given date in the recent past as they happened, starting with the best of the noon kickoffs, then going through the later starts and winding up with something from the West at 10:30? Beats all the "list"-type shows now dominating those channels.
Exactly...as NBC used to say, "If you missed it the first time, it's new to you!"
Sports Radio and to a certain extent TV are left to release a list of players from the NBA, NHL, MLB and XFL who tested positive for COVID-19 as soon as the players decide to come forward.
They can talk about current events.
Guy talk: Cigars, bourbon, comfortable slacks.
All of whom, likely, will survive, most either asymptomatic or with mild symptoms, as they are all healthy young men. I'm really not sure how that will make for good radio, or even why every athlete who tests positive -- even guys from the XFL?!?!? -- should be mentioned at all. Fans know that athletes aren't gods; they get sick occasionally as we all do, even though we on the outside don't call every sniffle "flu-like symptoms," we kind of prefer to say we have the flu only when we actually have the flu.
Anyway, sports radio has a month or more of NFL free agent/draft speculation, reaction and analysis to milk. After that, maybe some discussion of all-time great this or all-time worst that, kind of like the "list" shows that are currently filling up so much time on MLB Network. All of this is far more interesting than ticking off the names of every relief pitcher, center, tight end or left wing who tests positive. If the crisis stretches into summer with no immediate resolution in sight, as Trump speculated in yesterday's news briefing, then the sports hosts may indeed have little to talk about come August, other than maybe to muse on whether we'll ever see live sports again, whether the new cases will ever drop to zero or whatever the "safe" threshold is. Let's hope that never becomes reality.
Fellowship of the Miserable will complain about Brady leaving now.
Interesting story by Chad Finn in the Boston Globe about what Jon Miller and Ken Coleman did with Strat-O-Matic baseball to produce content For WITS during the 1981 Baseball strike.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03...-baseball-strike-call-went-out-strat-o-matic/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03...-baseball-strike-call-went-out-strat-o-matic/
I remember listening to that! I was hooked on Strat-o-Matic's rival game, APBA, at that time and was rolling the dice and reading the charts at home throughout that strike.
I'll just throw this one out as fresh meat:
I hear Tom Brady has been looking at private schools in the NYC area. Didn't a team there just have a QB retire? Hmmm.
OK folks, discuss.
What's to discuss? Reports have been out for hours that he's about to sign with Tampa Bay to replace Jameis Winston, who would certainly be an intriguing project for Bill Belichick to work on. But I have a feeling the Pats will opt for Andy Dalton.
Oh well...would have been an interesting switch.
He's "agreed in principle" to an offer from Tampa Bay for $30M per year. He'll replace Jameis Winston, who likely will be a backup somewhere. TB coach Bruce Arians has been successful with aging QBs in the past, signing Carson Palmer when he was the coach of the Arizona Cardinals.
It remains to be seen if he can duplicate the success of Peyton Manning in Denver.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap30...-brady-agrees-in-principle-to-join-buccaneers
Backups don't have the kind of arm Winston has or the kind of games Winston produced when he was in control. There is a huge talent there and there still may be a team and coach and system that can bring it out of him.
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