spmack wrote:
Re: What's the deal with Dan McNeil?
Posted by Larz on 3/4/2012, 9:05 pm, in reply to "Re: What's the deal with Dan McNeil?"
Some of you people are heartless bastards. Here is one radio host who has no choice but to take some emergency time off to fix a personal health issue, and another who has to take some emergency time off to deal with family issues, and yet opportunistic Internet trolls come out of the woodwork on this site and elsewhere to kick these men while they are down. Unreal. No wonder message boards get a bad wrap.
One of the most thankless jobs in radio is a sports talk show host. No matter what you say or do, there will always be hundreds of people who will hate you with a passion and bad mouth you. If you play it safe & boring, listeners will say you are horrible and have no backbone. If you put yourself out there and voice your opinion, half of the listeners will have the opposite opinion and say you are horrible. There is not one single sports talk show host on the air right now that everybody would agree is decent. Every single one raises emotions and brings out the worst in message board denizens. No matter what they do, a radio sports talker is damned if they do, damned if they don't.
These people on the radio are human beings. They have personal lives which they need to tend to from time to time, just like everybody else. They have children and spouses and family members that love them for who they are. They have qualities and they have failings just like everybody else. It's one thing to say you don't care for their show or something they may have said. It's another to get as personal as some of the posts have been. (Including the one deleted post from an a-hole who thought it would be funny if one of these radio hosts was dead. Nice.)
If you want to wish these guys well as they take care of what they have to take care of, good for you. That means you had a Mother who taught you manners at some point in your life. If you don't want to wish them well, that's your right, too. Use some common sense, though.
Who is this "Larz Douche" anyways? What inside info does he have access too, exactly? Meat says "health and wellness" at first and then B&B start to hint at contract issues and CFSMB is only trying to peel back the layers of this onion like mystery.
And the "Attack on CFSMB by Larz Board" was probably posted by Larz under another moniker to drive traffic to his shitty site.
And yes, I know it's an old thread.