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Kirk Minihane

wickedwritah

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I really like the work he's done at WEEI over the past year or so. He's not afraid to poke fun at himself and to rip others, and has a quick wit to boot.

He's also gotten into some Twitter pissing matches with Joe Haggerty, those were fun to read.

I think Minihane-Holley would have been a better pairing than Salk-Holley.
 
He has grown on me. At first I didn't care for him. The first time I heard him he said that Jim Rice couldn't carry Ricky Henderson's jock. OK, that's his opinion. Then I found out that he's too young to have seen Jim Rice play, so he's basing that statement on bubble gum cards. I can't really value that opinion. He was a little kid when Rice played his last game. What he should have said is that Henderson had superior numbers, without editorializing based on numbers alone.

Since then though, he's been pretty good. Edgy at times, but that's OK. I enjoy his show with Dale on weekends. I really didn't appreciate him talking about having sex with his then pregnant wife. As Jerry Seinfeld once said, "there are some things I'd rather not know".

He's got it all over Muttnansky. They could make that switch tomorrow. I think he would be fine replacing Ordway.
 
ArtSpooner said:
He has grown on me. At first I didn't care for him. The first time I heard him he said that Jim Rice couldn't carry Ricky Henderson's jock. OK, that's his opinion. Then I found out that he's too young to have seen Jim Rice play, so he's basing that statement on bubble gum cards. I can't really value that opinion. He was a little kid when Rice played his last game. What he should have said is that Henderson had superior numbers, without editorializing based on numbers alone.

Since then though, he's been pretty good. Edgy at times, but that's OK. I enjoy his show with Dale on weekends. I really didn't appreciate him talking about having sex with his then pregnant wife. As Jerry Seinfeld once said, "there are some things I'd rather not know".

He's got it all over Muttnansky. They could make that switch tomorrow. I think he would be fine replacing Ordway.
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I can't say that Dave Kingman couldn't hold Babe Ruth's jock because I never saw Kingman play? The numbers prove that, just like they prove that Ricky was vastly superior to Rice.


In his chat Friday, Finn discussed Minihane not getting the co-hosting gig. Kept saying WEEI must have other plans for him. Between all the Dennis bashing and his statements on Minihane, Finn (choose one: wants/hopes/knows/thinks) that Minihane is going to be on in mornings with Dennis gone.
 
Not to turn it into a baseball discussion, but Rice had more HRs, RBI, and a higher lifetime batting average. Ricky's numbers may be superior in some areas, but I wouldn't say vastly. Last baseball reference from me. I promise.
 
DavidZ said:
wickedwritah said:
I think Minihane-Holley would have been a better pairing than Salk-Holley.
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Mike Salk hasn't even started yet so how would you know this?
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I've never heard of Salk, but based on the decisions that they've made lately, I'm expecting him to be bad. That's a poor attitude, but I bet I'm not alone. The people who didn't like Ordway are already listening to Felger. So the people who did like Ordway are not going to be happy. This guy faces an uphill battle.
 
I've heard Salk on ESPN Radio plenty of times. He also was on 890, IIRC, maybe filling in for Felger on occasion?

I like his voice and the way he handles a program. But he doesn't have the oomph one would expect in PM drive in this market. He'll be deferential to Holley, I feel.

Of course, I wish him the best of luck either way.
 
Salk is a cheap option. Entercom is going low budget. They would do anything to get out of the morning show contracts. They want to go young in the morning bad.
 
Doubt they'll take a buyout cause they won't get opportunities elsewhere.

The question is would Entercomm pay them to stay home and bring in another show for short dough?
 
pay them to stay home
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I doubt it they are already losing too much money. Their deal could stipulate that they are a morning drive show only. My guess is one or the other will be moved to midday. How that would work contractually IDK?
 
Bos79 said:
BoredModerator said:
When are the morning show contracts up?
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I think they got 2 years left.
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Chad Finn has stated that D&C got two years added to their contracts when they started on NESN in 2010. The contracts signed in 2007 were for 5 years so the extension takes them to fall of 2014, or a little over a year and a half.
 
This is more evidence that Jason Wolfe doesn't know what he's doing. On the afternoon show they have a big drawn out farewell (as they should have) for Ordway and formally announce his replacement. In the same seven day period they just add another host to the morning show, which has been done in a set way for over a decade, with little or no explanation as to what they're doing. And this is shortly after they fire the flash guy after only six weeks. It's almost like he thinks no one will notice.

He's also got a sleazy sounding flash boy on the afternoon show who seems to think he's God's gift to women. This guy's better than Pete Sheppard? Is that what the focus group said? Does anyone know what criteria is used to select these focus groups? Has anyone ever been on one?

One has to wonder that if they strip WEEI and fill it full of low paid Muttnansky types how long will it be before Chad Finn decides that TSH are the fat cats. It may be a moot point. If the Globe is sold to people who want to run a lean and mean operation, sports media critic will be one of the first jobs axed.
 
I think the morning show thing is fairly easy to explain. The formula for that show for a long time was three voices. Yes, the third voice was the flash guy and he often took a back-seat to the main hosts, but it was three voices. They tried to recapture that with the hire of Kevin Winter to do the flash, and apparently he didn't fit well enough, but that doesn't mean they don't still want three voices on the show. Minihane as a third wheel fills that third voice role. He's not a flash guy, so they let the morning show fit in with the rest of the day's shows using a generic, imminently replaceable update reader who is probably subcontracted from Metro or whatever the service is called these days. Minihane's already on their payroll, so it probably isn't costing them that much more to use him on the show. End result probably is two people to replace Meter's presence on the show and the net cost is probably less. Scary to think it takes two people to replace Meter, but there you go.

And maybe they think taking this tack will get under Dennis and/or Callahan's skin enough that they'll quit and save the company having to buy out or pay off the remainder of their contract. Who knows.
 
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