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Eddie Andleman retiring (?)

raccoonradio

raccoonradio

Kevin Vahey said on Facebook:
>>wishes Eddie Andleman the best as he finally retires. His WTKK (96.9 FM) Sunday night show Dec. 26 will be the last one of his career. The Sports Huddle pretty much invented sports radio in Boston.
 
Who knows; K. Vahey wrote on boston-radio-interest that he was buying time from the station.
No idea if they will continue the show or do something else. Kevin added on b-r-i that Andleman
may have helped in one way to save the Patriots from possibly moving to another city. He owned
the parking lots around Sullivan Stadium and sold them to some guy named Bob Kraft...who later
would buy the team/stadium etc.
 
The new version did not have the punch that the "Eddie, Mark, and Jim" version had. Not even close, the attempts were there with some of the bits from the old show.. Loved hearing the dunkin donuts summer ads in november..Eddie is a legend and I hope the final hurrah goes out with a bang !
 
It's really a shame that all the real estate deals wrecked the original partnership, although Witkin becoming a sports agent didn't help.

When he started, there was the original Voice of Sports on WHDH which was a panel show, and perhaps Mainella. Andelman was the first to not take it all so seriously, to goof on announcers and sportswriters and athletes. He had a guy named Tony C. come on and Conigliaro called in a snit because he was the "real" Tony C. And some guy names Yasamsomethingorother who would be autographing "Big Yaz Bread" The show where they had Yastrzemski on after years of criticism was one of the most anticipated radio programs in the market's history.

All of the clowns who think they are cutting edge owe a debt to Andelman. Many have squandered it, hopping in the sack with team management, especially Patsies and Sawx, in a way that would make even the boozing writers of the 60s blush, especially since both clubs are big on disinformation campaigns about athletes sent packing.

He was one of the most influential broadcasters in the history of the market
 
Oh, and by the way.

You know the tape of Curt Gowdy calling Ted Williams' last at bat?

It's not an original. It was a re-creation done by Gowdy for an appearance on the Huddle. Curt never claimed it was the original, unlike the disgusting Milo Hamilton who actually went into a studio the day after Henry Aaron's 715th and recut the PBP (Scully's call for the visitors was sooo much better, but everything Scully does is soooo much better.)
 
Biff Bulkie, Roxbury Shrinkafeller with the ski reports, the Yawkey Jeans ad with Witkin singing, the bits on Zimmer, Leon Spinks, Bruno Sammartino, Slim Whitman, all the real interviews.. Sunday nights was Sports Huddle night.. Forget the tv..
 
He's tired, it's time. The last 15min's of the show is a commercial block which allowed him to leave early. Last week he was talking about Dallas and the "McGruder" film (Abe Zapruder's one of the tribe Eddie).

While he's always talking about his abilities and money, he has a kind of bitter tone about everything. If anyone's expecting either J or M to make an appearance on the final show I wouldn't count on it.

Shaunnessy's words are what you say about someone without really meaning it. The show was sort of a Borscht Belt wizeguy take on sports but more about self-promotion. There was certainly much of the latter.
It's sexist tone hit a lowpoint a few weeks ago when he quipped he would have handled Brady's wife by striking her "in the labonza." Not a surprising comment from someone who thinks Lisa Lampanelli? is a comic genius.
 
Gadon said:
Biff Bulkie, Roxbury Shrinkafeller with the ski reports, the Yawkey Jeans ad with Witkin singing, the bits on Zimmer, Leon Spinks, Bruno Sammartino, Slim Whitman, all the real interviews.. Sunday nights was Sports Huddle night.. Forget the tv..
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great stuff. Also over 30 years ago... I've got tapes of some of those bits as well as an hour of a show from '73 where some not-so-nice comments are made about Bill Russell and Reggie Smith. You hear it and realize there was a reason Russell didn't want anything to do with Boston for many years. I have to rip it to MP3 one of these days. If I do, I'll post a link on here.
 
DanStrassberg said:
Which spelling of his last name is correct: Andelman or Andleman? My guess is el, but most posts seem to use le.
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I'd wager that most posts would use "Jimmy Buffet" if the topic were Jimmy Buffett, too. Some misspellings become almost as prevalent as the correct spellings, if not moreso, among people who have no compelling reason to be accurate. "Andelman" is correct.
 
raccoonradio said:
Who knows; K. Vahey wrote on boston-radio-interest that he was buying time from the station.
No idea if they will continue the show or do something else. Kevin added on b-r-i that Andleman
may have helped in one way to save the Patriots from possibly moving to another city. He owned
the parking lots around Sullivan Stadium and sold them to some guy named Bob Kraft...who later
would buy the team/stadium etc.
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Obviously the guy who wrote it has no idea what he's talking about.

Eddie's group sold the land to Kraft at least three years prior to Patriots signing an agreement with Conn. to move the team to downtown Hartford. With Andelman selling those 330 acres to the Kraft really had nothing to do with helping to save Pats from leaving Foxboro.

Kraft was playing a game of political chicken w/Finneran and Mass. legislature trying to obtain 100% public funding to build a new facility. But it was NFL which technically and theoritically killed the Hartford deal. Eddie's land sale had zero impact on moving/keeping the team in Mass.

After learning that NFL owners were going to block the move(Hartford is a small TV market and network $$$ hit to the league would've been pretty big after losing Boston), Kraft simply had no choice but to dump Plan A and accept Plan B -- provide 50% of his own financing and the remaining 50% would be financed by NFL. Cellucci and Finneran kicked in another $70 million of state's money to redo access from Rt.1 which is still the biggest traffic nightmare before and after every stadium event.
 
I remember they had a deal in place for Hartford but Kraft could walk away and pay
a $1 mil. penalty if so, and he said they couldn't clean the toxins up by his deadline.
This led Conn. gov and future felon John Rowland to angrily declare he was now a Jets fan
 
There was a half decent sports show on TKK on Sundays before Eddie came back. I think it was originally hosted by Norm Richeu(sp) who died and was taken over by Bob Rogers ( the guy who was fired by NESN because he abandoned his post to coach a high school basketball team). It wasn't anything great but it was better than Mustard and Johnson. I wonder if they have any plans to resurrect it.
 
raccoonradio said:
I remember they had a deal in place for Hartford but Kraft could walk away and pay
a $1 mil. penalty if so, and he said they couldn't clean the toxins up by his deadline.
This led Conn. gov and future felon John Rowland to angrily declare he was now a Jets fan
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IIRC, there was also a steam plant on the land that would have held the new stadium, and nobody could find a way to get its operators to shut it down and move.
 
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/may/01/sports/sp-32994

>> (1999) The New England Patriots are back where they started after calling off a deal to move to Connecticut because a stadium could not be built fast enough. The Patriots officially notified Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland in a letter following a late afternoon phone call from owner Robert
Kraft. Rowland promised legal action against Kraft and possibly the NFL as well.
"It's now official. I am a New York Jets fan, now and probably forever," Rowland said at a news conference in Hartford.

The article mentioned the deal Kraft worked out in which he'd pay for the stadium in Foxboro
while the state would kick in money for infrastructure. CT was offering a stadium on the Hartford
waterfront. I believe that land became a convention center
http://www.ctconventions.com/

More info about the various attempts to build a new stadium for the Pats can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillette_Stadium under "location discussions". Boston (W. Roxbury?
South Boston?), Providence, and Hartford/state of CT all lobbied to get the team and a new
stadium complex.
 
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