WKNT Sacks 3

Favorite PD sports-gossip-panderer Roger Brown reports, "Local sports station WKNR AM/850 Monday fired longtime personalities Greg Brinda, Kendall Lewis and Ken Silverstein." Silverstein is a good reporter. Brinda I could do without. And Kendall.... that fact that he remained employed for so long was already a bit of a miracle. He was a guy who had NOTHING good to say EVER about ANY Cleveland sports team. Why the hell was he on the radio in the first place? What sports fan wants to listen to some blowhard tell you day-in/day-out that your team sucks and will never amount to anything?

These moves probably won't hurt KNR's already low ratings, and they'll pick up ESPN radio's early morning show, which can't hurt. In fact, what Cleveland sports radio really could use is to pick up the excellent ESPN radio more often. I'll take the Dan Patrick show over just about anything currently on the air. Jim Rome? Eh, he's entertaining sometimes but the sheer lack of intellectual stimulation coming from that show is deadening. Triv? He reminds me of so many manager/pitcher/first-baseman types on my father's old softball teams... Roda? He's annoying and sometimes okay, but just not insightful at all.

Speaking of ESPN radio, why is it that ESPN _radio_ is so much better than most of ESPN's television programming? The radio programming is markedly good, and you can go several hours without hearing a boo-yah. Too bad you have to be driving through another city to hear it.