I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't keep beating a dead horse but, hey, this is (partially) my site and so I'm going to. While I think you could devote an entire feature to the mega-stupidity, forcedness, and all-around lousy radio that makes up the bulk of Mike and Mike in the Morning, there are sometimes things that stand out to me and for some reason I feel compelled to complain about them to you.This morning, as I'm driving to work, they're talking about the Olympics and Mike Greenberg claims that "The time difference really works, you know?" Golic agrees, because, why not... and Greenberg goes on...
"I mean, twelve hours, that works out great. Five hours, now that would be bad... I mean, if it were London, what's London? Five hours? Six hours? Liam [one of their imbecile producers], what's London? Five hours?
Yeah, see, because if it were there, when the events are happening in the evening there, it'd be the middle of the night for us."
Ah, wait a minute. No. No sir, it would not be. London is five hours ahead of New York, thus if things were taking place in the evening there, it would be the afternoon in New York.
I guess it just bothers me that Mike Greenberg is supposed to be the semi-intelligent voice on this program and he doesn't even realize that London's five hours ahead of New York and not five hours behind. Maybe I'm being nit-picky, but that's kind of basic knowledge, isn't it?
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They don't do a whole lot of show prep...I'll be honest, I've never hated their show as much as you and as talk radio goes, I think they're not bad. I of course, listen to no radio right now...It kind of comes in bunches for me.
Congrats on another site wanting to make sweet, sweet love to you.
Even more nit-picky: when they say Beijing, are they saying it like Beh-jing or like Beh-zhing? The first one is right, in case you didn't know.
Seriously, that show is going to cause you to have a stroke or something while you are driving. Just say NO.
It still is not as bad as "Radio Music City Hall", but then again Chris Mortensen isn't a 'sophisticated' New Yorker like Mike Greenberg.
I used to like 'em more than I do now. Greenberg has become fabulously annoying over the last few months, fawning over guests (ESPN employees and otherwise), laughing hysterically at things that aren't funny, and generally showing that he's really not prepared for the show.
The new ESPN radio "clock," which now has four breaks an hour instead of three, means two short show segments right before and after the top of the hour--and this seems to give hosts license to talk about non-sports-related topics in those brief segments. Greenberg and Golic are not the only ESPN hosts who do this, but they're particularly egregious about it.
"Greeny" is a girl and no one wants to hear this chick talk sports in the morning anymore. It is played out. She is played out.
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