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Jimmy Myers

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No Jimmy Myers on WTKK Sunday afternoon, and no mention of him on the website.
I never thought they'd let him go. I'll miss hearing him.
 
I realize that he is the only African-American host on WTKK, but he is awful. Maybe they could lure Lovell Dyett ove there....
 
Two weeks ago at the end of his show he made an abrupt announcement that he was being let go. No explanation - I was wondering about this as well.
 
He was awfull but in a good kind of way. I enjoyed listening to him. reminded me of the bartender in love boat, Ted Lang when he was Jr on Thats my Mama!
 
Didn't he quit on air at Ch 4, just got up and walked away?

After Reggie Lewis died and there were allegations of drugs he proclaimed he would
defend Lewis' honor and be "the guardian at the gate"
 
I found his show occasionally entertaining, but he pulled the race card every hour, it seemed. If he didn't, he would trot out his community organizing-type friends that would do the dirty work for him.

I still remember him on the old WEEI in the early 90s railing about how the fans didn't cheer Reggie Lewis the way they cheered Larry Bird, insinuating that the Boston fans were racists.

He also participated the big coverup regarding Reggie Lewis' death (cocaine), and all the shenanigans with Reggie's wife, the autopsy, Reggies life insurance plan, etc..

He carried her water, and would attack any caller that had legitimate questions about the situation.

Can you guess how he attacked them? Yep. Called them racists.

He was fired shortly after that, I think.

Race baiter of the worst kind.

He will not be missed (by myself, anyways)
 
DGinnetty said:
I found his show occasionally entertaining, but he pulled the race card every hour, it seemed. If he didn't, he would trot out his community organizing-type friends that would do the dirty work for him.

I still remember him on the old WEEI in the early 90s railing about how the fans didn't cheer Reggie Lewis the way they cheered Larry Bird, insinuating that the Boston fans were racists.

He also participated the big coverup regarding Reggie Lewis' death (cocaine), and all the shenanigans with Reggie's wife, the autopsy, Reggies life insurance plan, etc..

He carried her water, and would attack any caller that had legitimate questions about the situation.

Can you guess how he attacked them? Yep. Called them racists.

He was fired shortly after that, I think.

Race baiter of the worst kind.

He will not be missed (by myself, anyways)
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I remember him making a stink over the Basketball Hall of Fame draping uniform tops of the greats -- many of whom are black -- over white plastic or styrofoam torsos. They weren't Caucasian flesh-colored, they were literally white. And they were just meant to support the uniform top the way human chests and shoulders would. Yet Jimmy managed to play the race card. Hard to imagine the Basketball Hall of Fame being accused of racism, but he did just that.
 
I had lost track of him and had not heard him on the air in at least a decade. Had I listened recently, I might well have been as unhappy with his continual emphasis on racism as are the others who have posted in this thread. A host with such a fixation could easily have turned what could otherwise have been an entertaining show into something that was simply too painful to listen to. But although the Meyers I remember had an obvious chip on his shoulder, he did not seem to me to have been utterly consumed by White racism, as he apparently later became. I considered him to be flat out the most knowledgeable and entertaining sports-talk host I had ever heard, with the possible exception of Steve Fredericks.
 
Any room for him at WILD?

Hopkins still in jail pending trial (next yr?). I think he would have been free if he
admitted to being a sexual predator (deal offered) but he refused, claims innocence...occasionally
we hear updates on him
 
Walked off the set
Yes he did. I wish I could remember the female anchor's name (with the elegant voice) but I think she appears on the GBH fundraisers. The male might have been Maurice Lewis?
Anyway Jimmy did his 'cast and with very few words pulled the piece from his ear and threw it down on the desk (had a long cord on it in those days) got up and walked off, by the camera. It wasn't particularly loud, just abrupt.
 
Mr. Myers has always been his own worst enemy. If he had eschewed his racism and stuck with sports, he could have been successful, IMHO.

Steve Fredericks on the old WEEI 590 was the best radio sportscaster in town back then, bar none. I think he moved to Philly from Boston ? 1970 ?
 
Myers is an exceptional talent who wears emotions on his sleeve. Unfortunately, his emotions are not what most people like to hear.

That he does not have a m-f gig is a sign of why Boston talk radio is horrid.

And I agree about Fredericks, although is drug era through the WITS days and then continuing in Philadelphia are regretable.

You do know that as Steven Oxman, he was the voice of the 76ers the night Havilcek stole the ball.If someone would ask he would say that "I saw that a whooole lot differently than Johnny Most." Reportedly there exists a tape of his call, but I never heard it.

Mac Richmond sued Fredericks and CBS over his name when he went to WEEI after doing issue talk at night for the Big X (except Fridays when he did sports)
 
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