Radio The SEN Thread 9

[Registered User]

Yeah, how's the way Thompson was trying to pump up Cowan's comments last week (or the week before)?!? He was like: "THIS IS EXTRAORDINARY! I'VE NEVER HEARD ANYTING LIKE IT! LET'S HEAR IT AGAIN! Wow!"

It barely got a mention anywhere else on the station, let alone on any other station

 

[Collingwood 4 eternity]

Was funny listening to Sens Matt Thompson last Tuesday afternoon come to Harf time with breaking news that Matt Thompson from Melbourne Heart would be out for a month.

 

[Ricketts]

All night appetite are having an outside broadcast at the Malvern East Pancake Parlor next Friday morning the 10th.

Dash , Teo , Scott , A Rod , maybe S J Peake and maybe some of the footy utopia dream team crew.

Anyone going ?

Teo said this morning that he wants to meet his BigFooty fans

"How about that"

Get him up here.

 

[montybrasco]

Stars, Stripes, and Sports *

Hutchy promo’d another instalment of all things Super Duper Bowl on Sunday night and the cast of experts has been shuffled a little. Seems like Hutchy has moved to the subs bench and BT’s perpetually giggling Kermit Bretheraton has seemingly donned the off-white safari suit and gone in pursuit of some female company.

Into the hosting fray steps some whipper snapper I’ll call Dude 1 and with him is Dude *. Alan Excalibur returns to no doubt break down any NY Giants zone-blitz defence as well as nickel and dime packages. Or maybe not. All things American may not be quite what it claims to be here as Dude * informed the listeners that he’s “going to be honest” because he’s “not right across the NFL,” but he enjoys watching it and he’s “here to learn a fair bit” and further adds that with his cohorts he may be able to spend a dollar wisely during the game.

A co-host with an L plate. Hence the asterisk!

Straight down to business as we go to Excalibur to expand on the growing market and Dude 1 announcers the return of Mark B. Franklin who will hopefully make up for the dearth of information expected from Dude *. After 30 seconds from Mark B. we’re back to Excalibur for the odds.

I’ve found over the years that there is nothing more leading and more telling than money because we can all sit here and have an opinion; when people put their hand in their pocket and they sit there and actually make a market move, I think there’s no more powerful piece of information than the movement in markets. Whether that’s horse racing, whether that’s AFL, or whether we’re talking the Super Bowl, it makes no difference – money is king I think.
-Alan Excalibur
So suck eggs, Tim Costello – the punt is King!

Into the round table discussion via phone comes former Cat, Jet, Cardinal, Saint, and Lion, Ben Graham. Ben lets drop that he’s tipped against the G-men four straight times and he’s on the Patriots to win. Oh Dear. But he’s good value and talks the good talk. All impressed with the availability of the Yank athletes to media (compared to the bureaucratic-controlled Australian sport).

Now the enlightening Graham’s gone we can get back to the betting as Excalibur drops the clutch and rips away. Lots of alleged value here on those dodgy markets that make lotto an O.K. bet. And with that we move to Hutchy off the bench, pardon the pun. It’s 4:30am in Indianapolis which proves the Hutch is an SEN trooper at his 8th Super Bowl. He’s bullish for the G-men and he elucidates the travails of the Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts.

After some good work Hutchy stumbles as he still can’t quite understand why more people are supporting the Giants over the Pats and muses about if the game was played in New England they’d be almost unbeatable due to Tom Brady only losing once there over 6 or 7 years. They have lost home play-offs in 2009 and ’10, and they did lose there in November to the - New York Giants! Oops. Other than that gaff, the Hutch is solid. People hate the Pats for the same reason people hate Hutchy – jealousy and envy. Deal with it!

Hutchy gets queried about the build-up to Madonna’s H/T show and he’s all things peripheral before quickly referring to the markets for which songs will be performed. Cue Excalibur who returns talking about fishnet stockings. No fishnets would have returned $2.05 for a buck. Hutch departs with a monologue of the wonders of Excalibur’s business. It doesn’t let up.

Mark B. Franklin continues to try and save the show from death by a thousand bets as the topic swings to two-week break before the game, supply and demand of home-and-away season, and, of course, the 70 betting markets available. Cup of tea time as the King of bookmaking seemingly makes an attempt to go through every one of those #@*&$ markets. Talk about getting bang for your sponsor’s buck.

Markets, more markets and then Hutchy returns with an interview with the great Marv Levy and the savvy Hutch works the betting prices into many questions. He’s a master of the hustle and has no quit. Hutchy’s best interview of the weekend. Where would Hutchy rather be than right here right now! Tips are in and all the crew are swaying to the eventual winners.

The Dudes 1 and * were O.K., Mark B. Franklin was a full book, and Al-Pal never stopped talking about the books.

Show should have been called Star, Stripes, and Sports of [Sponsor’s website]. Sponsor’s website mentions: stopped counting at 27. Stevie “Steak” Salisbury did eventually make an appearance this weekend, before this show … in a commercial for guess who?

Sheesh!

 

[bedford]

This is great stuff, your making this thread one of the best

 

[peternorth]

great stuff monty.

cant wait to see what you come up with when tim "yeah but lets talk about afl" watson comes bacK

 

[bedford]

And thank god for that !

 

[peternorth]

And thank god for that !

looking forward to the F1 talk next month?

 

[imadodgyumpire]

People hate the Pats for the same reason people hate Hutchy – jealousy and envy. Deal with it!

I don't understand. What are you talking about? A lot of people don't like/hate the Pats because they're an overrated team/organization.

 

[Registered User]

Er, um, didn't Mutty leave? WTF was he doing there today? And worse still, why did we have to hear his opinions???!!? It's bad enough to, a) hear him reporting anything; b) then hear him in the studio pumping up nothing; but to, c) then actually hear what he thinks about all of the above...... AAAARGH!!

 

[bedford]

looking forward to the F1 talk next month?

haha not at all

 

[peternorth]

haha not at all

but its a motorsport

 

[Flameboy]

Er, um, didn't Mutty leave? WTF was he doing there today? And worse still, why did we have to hear his opinions???!!? It's bad enough to, a) hear him reporting anything; b) then hear him in the studio pumping up nothing; but to, c) then actually hear what he thinks about all of the above...... AAAARGH!!

I think his final shift is on Friday. Don't quote me on that, but pretty sure I heard it mentioned sometime yesterday on Harf's show.

I'm certainly happy that I won't have to listen to him anymore. The way he broke the smallest of stories...ffs...you'd think he was about to say Chris Judd had been struck down with a career threatening illness...only for it to be a slightly twinged muscle and out for one week.

 

[bedford]

Funnyguys = not funny, how long is Harf going to put up with Des.

 

[peternorth]

I think his final shift is on Friday. Don't quote me on that, but pretty sure I heard it mentioned sometime yesterday on Harf's show.

I'm certainly happy that I won't have to listen to him anymore. The way he broke the smallest of stories...ffs...you'd think he was about to say Chris Judd had been struck down with a career threatening illness...only for it to be a slightly twinged muscle and out for one week.

my fave stuff from everyones favourite reporter was when clarke made 300. he asked listeners why ppl hate clarke. he said "so, like....what's YOUR PROBLEM???"

Funnyguys = not funny, how long is Harf going to put up with Des.

i dont agree with some of what you say here, and your anti soccer and foreign sports ways, but THAT i gotta agree with!!!!

 

[bedford]

I'm NOT anti soccer Pete, i just hate all the publicity that Victory get as it is over the top.
Back to unfunny guys, how do they actually get work. Did Matt Hardy work for them as well.

 

[MYOB]

I'm NOT anti soccer Pete, i just hate all the publicity that Victory get as it is over the top.

Compared to what?

 

[montybrasco]

SEN’s Turfy is always ahead of the curve:
I left the tape running and what was on after the cricket shocked and disturbed me. I think Excess Baggage may be the most horrible TV I’ve ever seen in my life; involving the most horrible people I’ve seen in my life. … I checked the ratings figures out for Excess Baggage over the week; debuted with 880 (thousand), finished with 520 – Gone! Another week will see it out. And Channel Nine deserves it. They wanna put garbage like that on, yet again, no wonder they are languishing. … The world needed another weight-loss reality show, too, just quietly.

Curmudgeon Tuesday
KB’s Take
At last the farce is over. Alberto Contador has been found guilty and suspended for two years for testing positive. The Spanish star was caught, winning the 2010 Tour de France. All drug cheats blame contaminated meat, toothpaste, and spiked drinks. And Contador did not disappoint. The Spanish cycling federation cleared to no surprise, but WADA’s appeal win brings credibility to the sport. Two recent winners, Floyd Landis, and Contador who between them have won four of the past six Tour de France races have now been found guilty and stripped of wins.
I’m KB, That’s My Take.

This Take can only mean the crusty ole Smith will produce his big anvil which is already well stained with the blood of many a disgraced cyclist. He gives no quarter to the sport claming it’s not a good day for cycling at all but a day for more and more reflection on the drug use in cycling. Still a cloud over Lance Armstrong, too. The one sport he doesn’t have an asterisk next to is…
KB: I mean, is there any sport that you don’t have an asterisk next to?
Putz: Well, AFL.
KB: Well you tell us there’s thirty guys sitting in there with two strikes next to their name.
Putz: Performance enhancing drugs?
KB: Well, no, but that, that, that-
Putz: Thank you. That’s what we’re talking about.
KB: No, but if these drugs were found on match day they’d be performance enhancing.
Putz: Yes, and they’re tested for it and they haven’t tested positive. I’m talking about sports that have got a history of performance enhancing drugs. AFL doesn’t have it.

Smith’s Gibberish of the Week
Well, Kevin, I look for mostly people in the media for the Gibberish award and I’ve got to give to one of our own, young Andrew Gaze. He wins it for his defence of basketball. The health of basketball and I think probably an overreaction to Blake Griffin’s dunk.

[Abridged version of the extraordinary Gaze audio]
Well, not any more stupid comments could you ever hear regardless of how tall someone is. And this is on the back of one of the most extraordinary athletic feats you’ll ever wanna see on any sporting arena; on Blake Griffin’s dunk which he did against the Oklahoma City Thunder. It was one of the most extraordinary athletic feats you’ve ever see.

KB: So there it was – the most extraordinary athletic feat ever seen in sport.
Putz: Kevin, do I have to add anything?
KB: [LOL] No. So Andrew Gaze wins Gibberish of the Week.
Putz: He does. But I do want to say that I disagree with you about Blake Griffin’s slam dunk. I thought it was a powerful, forceful explosion of athleticism which I really liked, [LOL] but I think it’s not unparalleled in sporting feats.

(Be afraid, Andrew Gaze, be very afraid; he has a long, long, lonnnng memory)

Sports Psychiatrist Putz Smith Ph.D. Proffers an Opinion on Misogyny
Smith has written an article saying Australian sports fans are as immature as they are fanatic. Putz is not happy that “not as many people will go and watch the Women’s Open at Royal Melbourne this week as would if it was a men’s event when this field that has come to Melbourne for the Women’s Open is stronger than any individual event the men have ever held in Australia. And unfortunately, men, in particular, are bigots and won’t go and watch these women even though they’re so superior to most of the men who play golf, and they would learn so much but it’s a chauvinistic thing … .”

KB: So you’re saying that members of golf clubs who play regularly and play in their local competitions don’t want to go and see the girls.
Putz: Well, have no understanding of how good the girls are and don’t understand that Luke Donald who’s No. 1 in the world doesn’t hit the ball any better than Yani Tseng who’s No. 1 women’s player in the world.
KB: But people would say he would hit the ball better because-
Putz: But he doesn’t, Kevin.
KB: He can hit it longer
Putz: He hits it longer, he doesn’t hit it better! It’s such a stupid benign argument You’ve got no argument to say-
KB: No, no, I’m just trying to clarify.
Putz: [to say] if he hits it longer he hits it better.
KB: I’m just trying to clarify. You’re saying that if you lined up Yani Tseng and also Luke Donald from 150 metres out that Yani Tseng would be as good as Luke Donald?
Putz: They hit the ball as purely as each other.
KB: But would she be as good as Luke Donald from 150 meters out?
Putz: Yes!
KB: So if they had a competition, Yani Tseng would be on a par with Luke Donald, No.1 in the world because she would land it on the green and get it in the hole as many times as he would?
Putz: Would be the equal.
KB: Be the equal?
Putz: And men don’t recognize that; men refuse to recognize that.
[…]
KB: She is a marvellous player and they say she hits it like a man because she actually comes down on the ball and she creates enormous backspin.
Putz: Well are you agreeing with me or disagreeing?
KB: I don’t know whether she’d be as good as Luke Donald from 150 metres out.
Putz: Because?
KB: Well he is the No. 1 player in the world, Pat. The No. 1 player in the world! And therefore he’d have better control, his spin would be better, he’d be able to put better. I just think he can do it better.
Putz [aggravated] That’s an embarrassing position for you to take.
KB: No it’s not.
Putz: You’re saying because he’s a male therefore he’s a better golfer anyway? No matter how good Yani Tseng is? You’re saying he’s a male therefore he is better?
KB: Yani Tseng would beat me but as No. 1 player in the world-
Putz: Kevin, my golden retriever would beat you.
KB: But as No. 1 player in the world for the women’s playing against the No. 1 player I the world for the men, which is Luke Donald, I would suggest that he would beat her because he’s just bigger, stronger-
Putz: But you’ve just made the contest 150 metres out, Kevin.
KB: And touch. And touch.
Putz: Oh heavens above!
KB: You don’t think so?
Putz: She doesn’t practice as much as Luke Donald?
KB: She probably does. She probably practices more.
Putz: She does and she’s got the same skill level then she’ll be as good as.
KB: I don’t think-
Putz: You’re a bigot, Kevin. Of course you’re a bigot.
KB: [LOL] I don’t think that on an even playing field that the physicality of women, and the make-up of women, can actually beat male counterparts.
Putz: So they cannot hit the ball as [skilfully] as man? Is that what you’re saying?
KB: Don’t think they can.
Putz: You know nothing!
[…]
Putz: If you haven’t watched the best women on the world play golf-
KB: I’ve played alongside Kari Webb
Putz: I’ve seen all the majors; I’ve seen women’s majors; I’m telling you the best women players hit it as well as the best men.
KB: Well Mark Allen says he could beat ‘em now (Ha, KB drops Mark-Oh into the sexist mix)
Putz: Mark Allen is delusional, Kevin!
[…]
KB: I just feel, [Putz] if you’ve got the No. 1 female player against the No. 1 male player from any distance, say 150 metres out, I think what the previous caller said is absolutely correct, if you go on the stats out of the States, they will get in the hole more times than the girls.
Putz: Kevin, you, your point was you backed Luke Donald in from 150 [metres] out and I think that’s just sexism.
KB: No it’s not.
Putz: That’s is sexist, Kevin because you don’t understand who good Yani Tseng is
KB: I do understand how good she is.
Putz: No you don’t. Or you wouldn’t make the comment. She’s a fantastic player; hits it pure as Luke Donald and they would go head-to-head from 150 [metres] out.

World No. 1 Yani Tseng and No. 1 fan, Putz Smith.

It should be noted that Smith Ph.D., has a rule that he cannot be nominated by listeners for his own Gibberish and Goose weekly awards. Smart move, Putz.

While Putz in search of his inner sisterhood, seemingly has busted his supercilious argument right out of the annals of nut jobs like Germaine Greer, the broader discussion point should have been about why men don’t live vicariously through the sporting performances of women. They don’t attend women’s sporting events as groups for pleasure and enjoyment. Putz forgot we’re racist, too, as many top female golfers are Asian.

Are men bigots because we generally don’t watch daytime soaps? Are we chauvinistic because we prefer belt sanders to tanning salons and endless shopping? Little boys are sexist because they don’t play with girlie dolls? Social re-engineering of the male’s hard-wired brain has about 3,000 years to go before Smith gets his way.

But once again, the typical lefty journo reverts to catch words such as “sexism, chauvinistic, bigot,” to try and make his naïve argument stick. For heavens sake, football codes, cricket, golf, and various other sports are all faster, bigger, and better when played by the men. Idiot Smith could well do with some time spent studying the works of real Ph.D.’s like Warren Farrell and Herb Goldberg, et al., to at least get a clue outside his own erroneous male-feminist frame of reference. Putz obviously hates the biggest, strongest, fastest athletes in the world that play American football because … he’s a bigot and a racist?

A total Putz!

Women’s golf! Be there or … buy a footy club membership. FFS!

 

[Mentallo]

Funnyguys = not funny, how long is Harf going to put up with Des.

Agree.

Cd goes in when Des Dowling comes on.

 

[bedford]

Compared to what?

Compared to Heart for a start and its the same stuff on every program.

 

[MYOB]

Compared to Heart for a start

Clint Bolton is on The Run Home every week.

Heart has their own show on Sunday nights.

KB often has Joey Didulica on.

Its the same stuff on every program.

You're not serious are you.

During the AFL season, I can here the same interview 3-4 times a day, not to mention the same topic being discussed ad nauseam.

 

[peternorth]

I'm NOT anti soccer Pete, i just hate all the publicity that Victory get as it is over the top.
Back to unfunny guys, how do they actually get work. Did Matt Hardy work for them as well.

please dont bring hardy into this thread. his departure sent the listening public into raptures.

A total Putz!

jesus that was great reading.

it would be good to see men vs women. i mean women hit off their own tees which cuts out distance a bit.

Compared to Heart for a start and its the same stuff on every program.

being a sports station you're gonna hear the same stuff each hour. footy is no different, nor is cricket.

i have a feeling you're not a fan of MVFC

 

[bedford]

No i'm not because i get sick of hearing about them, when did they last win a game. Also with their feral supporter base they don't deserve the amount of air time they get.
And sorry for mentioning unfunny Hardy.

 

[MYOB]

No i'm not because i get sick of hearing about them, when did they last win a game.

That's why you are hearing about them.

 

[peternorth]

No i'm not because i get sick of hearing about them, when did they last win a game. Also with their feral supporter base they don't deserve the amount of air time they get.
And sorry for mentioning unfunny Hardy.

i recall you hating MVFC talk last season as well. so your dislike for the team (fair enough) has nothing to do with wins/losses