I've been listening to you for 15 years. I love your show but you've got to get over yourself. Bringing on air those inarticulate, mealy-mouthed athletes for interviews is horrible. I know you think you can surgically manipulate the interview and get something out of them but, uh, no you can't. I have to turn you off. Take a page from Colin Cowherd. He interviews people with something to say and can say it. Please Brah
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JIM ROME: YOUR INTERVIEWS STINK
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I usually don't post in sports-talk, but I gotta bring this up....
I doubt that Romey will ever change, unless the "clones" drop like flies. One thing I noticed.....if you wanna get on the show, you might be wasting precious minutes/hours....He will interview some B-list sports figure for one whole segment, then after 3-4 minutes of commercials, it's back to Rome, for much of the next segment, "analyzing" the previous interview, e.g. ---"That was a great interview. I loved it when he said [blah blah blah]. Oh yeah. Also when he said [blah blah blah]." Um....yes we heard the interview.
Do I have him pegged?
cd
I doubt that Romey will ever change, unless the "clones" drop like flies. One thing I noticed.....if you wanna get on the show, you might be wasting precious minutes/hours....He will interview some B-list sports figure for one whole segment, then after 3-4 minutes of commercials, it's back to Rome, for much of the next segment, "analyzing" the previous interview, e.g. ---"That was a great interview. I loved it when he said [blah blah blah]. Oh yeah. Also when he said [blah blah blah]." Um....yes we heard the interview.
Do I have him pegged?
cd
It's his formula. It worked (at least for several years there, before there was 1.5x1042 competitors. It's his comfort zone. It's what he does. Does he even take any callers these days?
I doubt he'll change.
I doubt he'll change.
I really believe Jim thinks he is the Edward R Murrow of Sports Talk.... 
He interviews a lot of athletes with low IQ's who say nothing worthy of being broadcast. Even J Moore his best fill-in host was making fun of one of them. Delonte West "better have my donuts"... Many of them I can't understand because they speak broken English.
He interviews a lot of athletes with low IQ's who say nothing worthy of being broadcast. Even J Moore his best fill-in host was making fun of one of them. Delonte West "better have my donuts"... Many of them I can't understand because they speak broken English.
Maybe in a way he is surreptitiously satirizing the sports industry.
There was a time when Jim Rome was "fresh" to use his "gloss", however that was two decades ago. The show has since devolved into a self-congratulatory ego-fest where Rome reads his own "takes" off of a teleprompter or papers handed to him. Every sentence sounds like a forced statement with each syllable seeming to fight for it's own 15 minutes of fame. While he calls himself "van smack" and will certainly "drop the hammer" on certain athletes or aspects of life that are easy targets, he is very careful to stay politically correct--which wasn't always the case.
Naturally there's the issue of the callers/listeners... Rome frequently picks on the "clones"/his fans with the same playbook of insults for 15 years; they're all unemployed, sex-crazed, degenerate, dysfunctional illiterates that spend their days collecting cans, watching porn and hiding out in their parents' basement. Those that call in might actually fit some of these ideas as they clearly rehearse their calls, reading their takes full of inside jokes and references to other calls or show vocabulary that the average listener couldn't understand if they had a degree in quantum theory.
The interviews are softballs at best, not once has Rome ever asked an insightful question or something that many of the listeners were thinking about, instead it's... "What was going through your mind when you hit the game winning home run the other night?" That question is copy/paste to any baseball player that hits a home run... that's small market radio if I've ever heard it. The only time an interesting interview occurs on the show is when the interviewee actually decides to take over and offer up something different... such as in the case of Mark Grace.
I listened to Rome when I was in college more than ten years ago and every so often I pass by the show now and everything I said there still applies, which is unfortunate.
Naturally there's the issue of the callers/listeners... Rome frequently picks on the "clones"/his fans with the same playbook of insults for 15 years; they're all unemployed, sex-crazed, degenerate, dysfunctional illiterates that spend their days collecting cans, watching porn and hiding out in their parents' basement. Those that call in might actually fit some of these ideas as they clearly rehearse their calls, reading their takes full of inside jokes and references to other calls or show vocabulary that the average listener couldn't understand if they had a degree in quantum theory.
The interviews are softballs at best, not once has Rome ever asked an insightful question or something that many of the listeners were thinking about, instead it's... "What was going through your mind when you hit the game winning home run the other night?" That question is copy/paste to any baseball player that hits a home run... that's small market radio if I've ever heard it. The only time an interesting interview occurs on the show is when the interviewee actually decides to take over and offer up something different... such as in the case of Mark Grace.
I listened to Rome when I was in college more than ten years ago and every so often I pass by the show now and everything I said there still applies, which is unfortunate.
Leebo65 said:
This is the same Colin Cowherd who has blatantly stolen bits from the internet without giving credit, and who was petty enough to call for a denial of service attack on The Big Lead blog. The same Cowherd who insists that the Big Ten misses out on athletes solely because 'it's cold up there'. He's also the same Colin Cowherd who boldly speculated that Sean Taylor's demise was of his own 'thug' undoing before investigators established that Taylor was actually the victim of a home invasion.
Yeah...that's some intelligent sports radio right there.
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