Petros and Money, how are these guys employed?

[exboardop]

I have never posted on the Sports board, but have posted in my local market enough.

I have a major gripe with FSR for this "Petros and Money" show. What a joke of a show. These clowns are terrible. Major west coast and USC bias. Hint: no one outside of the SoCal area gives a rats ass about USC. We dont want to hear his drunk father on the air, their silly sound effects and "crunchy groove" this and "three things thursday" that. Give me a break, it's like 2 out of work ex-jock stoners whose father owned a radio station decided to give these guys a shot.

I MUCH prefered andrew siciliano and that show before Faux Sports forced this nonsense on us. And here it's been a couple years.

What a joke, anyone else agree? These guys must be getting paid in beer, I cant imagine they are kept on for ratings, must be a money thing like everything else in radio now.

 

[udfan07]

I couldn't agree more. On my local FSR station they play the promos for the show and every promo seems like all they talk about is celebrities or something incredibly stupid. I am so glad I do not listen to the show at all because of those promos

 

[numchuck]

I dislike this show as well for the reasons you stated, but living in Southern California I can give you background information on these two.

Petros Papadakis was the darling of the local USC-biased sports media when he played football at the school. His grandfather and father also played football for USC, and his father until recently owned a very popular Greek restaurant in San Pedro, which is L.A.'s harbor district. Petros came back from several major injuries to become a decent running back during a bad era of USC football. As you can tell from the radio, the guy is a motor-mouth. As a result, he was quickly steered toward broadcasting after his college football career ended. He also works as a college football analyst and sideline on TV, where is more subdued than the talk show. Additionally, he's the public address announcer for USC basketball home games, and sometimes needlessly appeared on L.A. Clippers telecasts (may have changed since a new production staff took over), where he contributed nothing but nonsense and noise during non-game segments. Petros was initially heard on a Sporting News Radio outlet, working in tandem with Mark Willard and then on his own, but left that station right before it changed from the sports format to Korean-language broadcasting.

KLAC, the FSR flagship here in SoCal, paired Petros up with Matt "Money" Smith, who used to do sports reports on "Kevin & Bean," a popular morning show on rock station KROQ. Smith, however, is not an ex-jock, has a full background in the record business and radio. He was initially teamed on KLAC with former UCLA quarterback Wayne Cook and Joe Grande, the latter previously did sports reports and remote location pranks for Power 106, a hip hop station. The trio's show, which thankfully didn't last very long, was called "Fun Times with Money, Wayne & Grande." It was anything but fun, just extremely awkward radio because the three hosts had absolutely no chemistry together. Smith also does some football and basketball play-by-play and football studio hosting outside L.A. Have never saw or heard any of it, so I can't give a critique.

The final three hours of "Petros & Money" are now heard nationally, as detailed in other discussion boards on this site. A one-hour strictly local broadcast precedes the national show. I used to listen to them sometimes while driving, but stopped after twice hearing Petros terribly misinform listeners about jazz musicians during the Dead Guy/Alive Guy birthday segment at the show's conclusion.

 

[saraswati]

numchuck - thanks for the background (except for mentioning the "fun times" disaster - ha! - i thought i'd buried that memory a long time ago - that show was almost as awful as that joe mcdonnell/joe grande evening 570 mess years ago).

i sheepishly like PMS in small doses. their local hour is usually decent - looser clock, more socal jokes and angles and less paid guests. money smith is a good straight guy - hence his college ball pxp and advertising voice over work. i totally understand that they don't translate nationally.

i liked petros from his KMPC days and find he works best with a complete local or at least a west coast angle. his reggae & other music knowledge doesn't play well outside of the pacific time zone (i.e. the inverse of talking SEC football in oregon or NHL talk in new mexico).

i dunno, i usually tune in for the local hour and only will return when they have adrian wojo or don mclean to talk hoops. agreed, the rest is not great(the national hours).

sad to hear that they butchered jazz musician b-days. i usually appreciate their music knowledge and opinions.

 

[numchuck]

I can tell Petros appreciates jazz, but he doesn't know as much about it as he lets on. He was way out of line calling saxophonist Pharoah Sanders "an angry black man" on the Live Guy birthday segment, basing this because he saw Sanders wear a dashiki at a gig. I've seen Sanders wear a pinstriped suit at a gig at the same club Papadakis was at, but would not analyze and stereotype Pharoah's personality or demeanor based on either apparel choice. I hadn't heard a sports talk show host talk about jazz since the late Bud Furillo was last on the air, but Petros should stick to commenting about reggae and, or course, football.

 

[landtuna]

Unfortunately, Petros is a fixture color analyst on PAC-12 TV games. I find his voice and football knowledge to be very irritating.

 

[the golden boy]

Due to some programming changes several months ago, Fox Sports is heard only at night (mainly after 9) and weekends in my area, so I'm happy that I've been spared from having to hear PMS.

 

[tomficker]

I think both of these guys are talented but after several years now, the show just falls flat.

 

[radio777]

Most folks can't stand Petros and will turn to the Mason & Ireland Show just up the dial in drive time for some actual coverage on the local basketball teams. I used to listen to PMS, but their schtick has kind of worn down after a couple of years. One day if Robin Bertolucci ever falls through the cracks, it will finally be the end of Don Martin, PMS, and the ol Loose Cannons.

 

[futballfan]

Because FSR obviously only cares about the LA market as they continue to ram this LA show down the rest of the country's throats. It's the affiliates' faults for picking it up....

 

[numchuck]

The affiliates don't have PMS or any of the other FSR shows rammed down their throats. They pick up these shows because they don't have to pay for them and are just required to air a specified amount of nationally-sold advertising each hour. It's cheaper than having to pay for local hosts, and this says a lot about today's radio industry.