GKJ
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- Feb 27, 2002
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People actually listen to 97.5?
Kind of funny when their on-air morning hosts openly make it known that they don't give a shit about one of the teams whose games their broadcast (if the Sixers aren't on). We're in an era of sports-talk thanks to ESPN (owners of 97.5) embrace-debate where the most interest is drawn up based on hot takes, and any intelligible hockey fans know that people who aren't hockey-first or even hockey-second people just don't have the depth. I enjoyed Gargano when he was on WIP but since he moved he's just been a caricature, not unlike almost anyone else who works on 97.5. I'm not saying that WIP is the shining city on the hill, but it's interesting that just about anyone who made the jump from 97.5 to 94.1 don't make it very long.
We all know which sports personalities in this town ignore the Flyers on purpose when they're not hot, but just let anyone who wants to jump on the bandwagon get on. Nobody - I mean nobody - would be a Phillies fan in this town otherwise.
Make way more fans that way. When I was growing up, the Flyers were the #2 team in this town unquestionably from the time we got Lindros up to the rise of the Phillies (and thus decline of the Flyers). People waste too much time on purity tests when it's supposed to be fun. Flyers fans know where to go if they want hosted-content that's intelligible whereas none of the other teams' fans in this town do.