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Being a good, strong, clean P1, I listen to the Ticket on weekends. The Orphanage is a must, and I’ll lend an ear to the Teebox when I have a sec. Elf’s Kosher Sunday offering is quite strong as well, and the Cirque du Sirois brothers are rising stars — they’ve already filled in for Norm’s weekday slot on multiple occasions.
This leaves the Scrubs, David Newbury (of USC kicking fame), and Matt McClearin (of cradle-robbing fame, outlined here). They’ve also been joined by the great Alexi Wall of failed ticket ticker fame. I was listening to their Cowboy foot-ball-ball segment yesterday and thought to myself “Wow, this is actually pretty good stuff!” Newbury was making football observations that were on par with the material Sturm puts out on his blog, and McClearin was chipping in occasionally with comedy. Here’s the audio of that segment:
Then the next segment hit, and I remembered why I’d switched over to Cirque du Sirois. The segment was supposed to be about bad drivers, and while parts of the message may have been valid, I came away thinking “this is the worst thing I’ve ever heard on the Ticket.” At one point, Newbury basically had to tell McClearin to shut up. The Ticker guy pointed out the hypocrisy of the statements being made, and when Alexi tried to chip in with a decent idea, he was dogpiled for not using the best phrasing. By the way “recurrences” may not be the correct word, but it is indeed an actual word. Audio here:
Granted, the show had been on hiatus for a few weeks, so their timing may have been off. They’re also not expected to be radio all-stars, given their relative radio inexperience. But seriously, let each other finish their sentences, pace yourselves, and think before you blurt out what’s on your mind! My $0.02. What do you guys think?
Worst show ever. Hands down. Matt doesn’t know much of anything, and David has to put up with that. Awful.
I wish I’d listened to more of Newbury and Bacsik so I’d have a better frame of reference. Newbury seems to have a fair bit of sports knowledge between his ears, and he’s probably qualified enough to chip in on the Train station as well (he’s a personal trainer). Matt’s an actor and a comedian, so he should have an appreciation for timing and flow…I wonder how Bob and Dan sounded in their first few months. “Moron Dog.”
Newbury and Bacsik was a little more raw, but a far better listen. Matt yells too much about stuff he shouldn’t be yelling about. If Matt is a comedian, then he needs to get a job to support his under age wife because he ain’t that funny. Terrible. You can tell in that last part of the audio that David doesn’t care for Matt that much.
I flipped on the ticket and happened upon the bad drivers rant. Terrible. If you’re going to rant on the ticket, have a good point and make it somewhat humorous. It was just a bunch of stupid “and another thing that pisses me off …” statements that were not thought out at all. Not a fan.
The Scrubs are terrible. I really wish the Orphanage had the Scrubs’ time slot. I always miss The Orphanage sleeping in Saturdays.
As far as NOT interrupting peoplem and ketting them have their 2 cents… J love BAD radio… but fuck Dan Mcdowell and his rudeness. I can’t stand my employees interrupting people, I’m sure not going to provide ratings to someone that’s as immature and self centered as that.
So, I’m drunk as hell and spelled every other words wrong. Feel free to insult me and invalidate everything I’ve said… My message still stands. Typos and ignorance can be looked over. Assholishness can not…
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Terrible, terrible show. To be fair, I don’t listen to the Ticket a lot on the weekends, other than the Orphanage and Norm/Donnie Doo doing Cowboys postgame (angry, drunk Cowboy fans making Norm angry=GOLD), so I haven’t listened to a lot of the Scrubs. But from what I’ve heard, MEH. Sounds like something the Fan or ESPN Radio would air. Very Guy Sports like sports opinions and both sound like douchebags. I’d rather hear Rocco Pendola read a phone book than listen to the Scrubs and their ass whip “Top 10” segment.
Dan is alright when he isn’t talking sports. The biggest beating on BaD Radio is the 15 minute Bob question that becomes a “I’m Sports Sturm” moment. The guy cannot ask a question without qualifying it by showing off his sports brain a least a dozen times.
it’s just banter is way better than this show
Whoa…whoa…slow down there, speed racer! Are you serious?
I wish the Orphanage was 4 hours and the Scrubs just disappeared like Jimmy Christopher.
I can’t stand Cirque Sirois, they sound like every other show on the Ticket. The Scrubs have their good segments and bad segments like all the shows but they’re different than everything else and talk more sports. I don’t listen to them constantly but when I catch them on Saturdays it’s usually a good listen.
I think if you were to tell the Sirois brothers that someone told them they “sound[ed] like every other show on the Ticket”, they’d be quite pleased.
The Scrubs do cover a wide variety of sports well – Newbury is very versatile (soccer, baseball, hockey, high-school/collegiate/professional football), and with the departure of Bacsik, he’s the only one qualified at KTCK to give an athlete’s perspective on things. The point was that the interaction between the two hosts needs to be worked on.
I was planning on doing a Scrubs article for My Ticket Confession, but delighted to see that AP has taken a whack at it.
I can’t speak much to sports knowledge since I have so little myself. I think p1day1 comes real close to it — with Matt’s appointment to take Bacsik’s place, this becomes just another motormouth sports talker. It doesn’t sound like a Ticket Show at all. Matt speaks loud and fast and there’s not a lot of variation in his pace or volume, so the ear is assaulted with this slab of sound. Just sounds like one of those East Coast slicksters that Ticket ads are always criticizing.
I’m thinking Matt might be OK if he just calmed down a little — it feels to me like he’s knows he’s got his big shot on the most amazing radio station ever, and he’s decided he’s not going to leave anything in the tank, as Michael Young might say. Directly from his cerebrum to your throbbing eardrum. UsGing today’s management cliche, Matt has no “filter,” although I think “editor” might be a better word. I didn’t know he was an entertainer — explains a lot.
Part of what makes The Ticket so nice to listen to its its easy, conversational pace (most of the time). I felt like Bacsik and Newberry had it, and also had some chemistry. Matt and David do not. The difference between the two being Matt, one must lay the decline in the show at his feet.
By the way — and this really isn’t Matt’s fault — I didn’t care for the station’s preoccupation with his conquest of a child bride. Hey, I would like to go on record in favor of true love, but I didn’t think that he came off particularly well in all that, and I think it may color the way that guys — who do a lot of talking about getting younger at that position but still have an instinctive puzzlement about dudes who can’t find a lady in their demographic. LIke I say, congrats to Matt, and I hope it all goes well, but now that’s a part of his identity that’s in the back of everyonen’s mind when they hear him.
By the way, how did this turn into a BaD Radio string? I thought I had that franchise.
Thanks for the forum, AP, and a nice piece of work. Keep up the good work with DP.
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