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Bob Lobel

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the scribe

I'm curious to hear what people think of Bob Lobel, who's been doing sports
on WBZ AM since Gil Santos retired at the end of January. He seems a bit
scattered to me. Too much talking; too little reporting.
 
I meant to listen to a Lobel 1/4 hour report but missed out. I assume he was there for a reason, but I don't know what that was unless they were trying to smooth the transition from G.Santos (did Gil have a last day?).

BZ seems like they will be content to read a few scores from whomever is doing news at the time. Since EEI usually misses breaks from 5-12 mins. a timely scoreboard might be an assset for them.
 
Boston Sports Media Watch reported that Walt Perkins will be the guy officially taking over for Santos. Lobel was (thankfully) a temporary plug. He didn't seem to 'get' the pacing, timing and flow of a radio sportscast, choosing instead to ramble (sometimes slowly, sometimes incoherently) through the report. Hearing him speak among the others on WBZ made me think of the PBS kids' jingle, 'One of these things is not like the other.' Poor, poor Bob. He reminds me of a favorite pet dragging itself around the house because his legs and muscle coordination are gone.

Time for that last trip to the vet.
 
For the three weeks that he co-hosted (if that's the word) the Oldies 103.3 morning show with Karen Blake back around September, he was absolutely awful.
 
Gotta agree.
Lobel really sticks out as a disorganized voice on an otherwise streamlined station.

Half the time he never even mentions the specific final score of a game in the sports segment because he's so busy waxing poetic, making weak jokes with Ed Walsh or just generally rambling about things that don't seem to have much to do with a sports report.

I miss Gil..but am looking very much forward to Walt's debut in the mornings. A class act from what I've heard.
 
Radio-active said:
I miss Gil..but am looking very much forward to Walt's debut in the mornings. A class act from what I've heard.
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Yes, agreed. In media circles today we can partially define 'class act' as someone without annoying mannerisms or baggage. Walt, happily and as near as I can tell, comes onto the scene without either.
 
Sorry Bob, but the radio thing just doesn't seem to fit your style. I enjoyed his TV reports, but it didn't transition well to radio,maybe because there were no anchors to banter with and without video, the facial expressions that helped make the reporting somewhat irreverent made the radio presentation sound like marker 396 instead of market 10 (soon to be 11)

I hope he has fun in Florida covering spring training for the NH radio station that hired him on for the gig.

Dress warm it was 30 degrees there thursday morning. I hope my grapefruit tree on my front lawn survives the unusually cold weather they are having this winter.
 
The only time I can remember Lobel being good on the radio was when he would talk to Nik Carter on WBCN.
 
karsonwithak said:
MRBIboredop said:
the radio presentation sound like marker 396 instead of market 10 (soon to be 11)
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Is Boston shrinking?

K~
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The city behind Boston is Detroit, and I can't fashion any plausible reason how that particular city could ever leapfrog us. If it happens, it's more an indictment on Boston. Can you imagine losing a market battle to DETROIT with its massive declines in population and asset-valuation? What an embarrassment if Detroit pushes ahead of Boston. Two spots behind is Miami, and they're having their own real-estate problems, too.
 
mayermike said:
The only time I can remember Lobel being good on the radio was when he would talk to Nik Carter on WBCN.
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Lobel is sitting in with Eddie Mr. Kowloon himself tonight. The guy is like a bad penny. Just keeps rolling from frequency to frequency until someone picks him up.
 
Mr.Cowloon said he "left a radio job" over concerns about for-profit charities. He also said he'd "even some scores,when I get to put it in writing." I assume that means a book?

Continuing his problem with women, he strongly suggested that H.S. girls are using PED's to increase their chances for athletic grants in aid to college.
 
mayermike said:
The only time I can remember Lobel being good on the radio was when he would talk to Nik Carter on WBCN.
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He was pretty good on WBZ when he and Upton Bell did "Calling All Sports". Of course that was over 30 years ago and he wasn't a household name then.
 
the scribe said:
Too much talking; too little reporting.
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That's what I thought back in 1978 when he permanently replaced Roger Twibel on ch. 4, but that smirky grin and blinking eye lids apparently became fashionable.
 
dhoule said:
I think Bob's best fit would be with Comcast Sports Net or NESN.
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I think for every person that would be 'drawn' to Lobel if he resurfaced, there are 10 that would be pushed away. He's just not 'liked' by enough people (IMO) to make him a good bet for any network or station. It's an unkind, harsh reality that Lobel really ought to just fade away.
 
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