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ChilamBilam12 :Totally off topic boys, but keep the world in your prayers tonight.. if you haven’t caught the national news, Japan just got hit with an 8.9 mega quake and an ensuing Tsunami just after midnight our time.. estimated a minimum of 20,000 dead or missing, and Hawaii is under a Tsunami warning effective until 3:00 am

yeah please send your prayers! My best friend, and her children are over there visiting thier family!

@Joel
yeah he is very talented, has to be a good athlete, have good balance, rhythm, personality, acting skills

@PNT

Cool. He's good, I'll give him that!

@Joel
Yes.

I was reading about Squatch, the Sonics mascot, and found this - "The character's performer from 1999-2008 remains under contract with the relocated team". Is Rumble the same guy as Squatch?

@Joel
yeah i doubt they change anything

@f5alcon

If you've ever heard any of the other broadcasters (i.e. second stringers, and/or different stations), you'll see why they keep these guys. Those other guys are just painful to listen to. Uggg.

@Joel
well citdel was sold yesterday, so i am sure there will be a review of their costs, but i doubt they make any changes in our market.

@Grolgar

They have tenure.. they aren't worried about it, Grolgar. :)

@C_Dub

I agree it is for entertainment, @C_Dub, but they should combine entertainment with intelligent sports talk. Is that too much to ask? Is it too much to ask that these paid professionals know half as much as most of the fans on this site. Do some research. Study. It's a job. Take pride in it.

I've listened to sports radio in other markets and it is vastly superior.

I'm not asking for the world. I just would like them to try... which I don't think the prime timers do.

@C_Dub

+1 Right on the money.

I listen to Sports Animal like every day at work. People, it is PURELY for entertainment purposes. You don't listen to them for their "vast" knowledge of sports. You listen to laugh. Mark has the insane callers, Traber will rage on people now and again, Al just wants to get you off the phone ASAP. I do find it funny when Traber and Al will gang up on Trammel, it's like they're trying to make Barry out like a fool (which isn't hard).

The Morning Animals are hilarious though, but I don't work that early anymore so their show is out of my reach. BBJ is annoying imo. And Pat Jones is redneck as fck, makes me chuckle.

@kfmsooner
Some of Pat Jones' best stuff:

The OU and OSU football offense: "flagball, it's just flagball"
"Some of that is just for giggles and heehaws"
"He's a helluva..."

@Mark!
I like Rogers, but his callers are insane. I could listen to Pat Jones all day...some of the things he says are hilarious...Steele's impersonation of Pat Jones is priceless...

Mark! :@Ozarkhick

Mark! :@OzarkhickDean is at the bottom of my list; I can’t imagine a scenario where he would vacate that slot.Irony of ironies is the total dominance hour. Traber, Al, Trammel and Dean. Wow.

I said that Dean was at the bottom of MY list, not at the bottom of THE list and if YOUR list was different than YOU were wrong. I was just continuing a conversation where people were voicing their opinion about how terrible the broadcasters on the Animal were. I don’t mind that you dislike Trammel more. Most of them are terrible.
Sorry if I offended you. You really went the extra distance with this

And BTW, there is only one person defending Dean in this argument. I think public opinion seems to indicate that there is a 74.3% chance that Dean is the worst.

@clarkem

I had heard about that back and forth but hadn't read the quotes. That's crazy... SVG probably shouldn't have compared Stern to fascist dictators (Gaddafi reference?), but it's a weird exchange.

SVG is mad about the Howard situation, but he calls out Stern for not letting him be critical without retribution. What's crazy to me is that instead of just fining SVG (which I'm sure is what he expected), Stern makes that crazy comment like "We won't be hearing from him the rest of the season." Really?

Not sure what kinda threat will keep SVG quiet, but that's a pretty strong affirmation for what SVG was complaining about.

@kfmsooner

I agree... they all still have their moments occasionally. Traber on a good day talking about baseball is great, for example. But for the most part, a lot of it is bad, some painful to listen to.

Like PNT said earlier, one of the biggest problems w/ the station is that it's caller driver (i.e. callers can talk about anything instead of only talking calls about what the host is talking about like most ESPN hosts.)

I like Mark Rodgers, but once his show dips into the caller segment (which is pretty much his whole show after his first segment), I lose interest.

IMO, one of the best segments on the station is w/ BBJ and Pat Jones because they don't take many calls.

@Ozarkhick

Mark! :@Ozarkhick

Dean is at the bottom of my list; I can’t imagine a scenario where he would vacate that slot.
Irony of ironies is the total dominance hour. Traber, Al, Trammel and Dean. Wow.

I said that Dean was at the bottom of MY list, not at the bottom of THE list and if YOUR list was different than YOU were wrong. I was just continuing a conversation where people were voicing their opinion about how terrible the broadcasters on the Animal were. I don't mind that you dislike Trammel more. Most of them are terrible.

Sorry if I offended you. You really went the extra distance with this :)

I have listened to Al and Jim for years. Jim has declined rapidly over the last 6-7 years, especially after he started getting political. Al and Jim were at their best when Blake was the OU coach. The radio was really good then...some of the most hilarious radio ever was Traber/Rogers/Lutz arguing over OU football in the late '90's. Now, I can't listen to him very much. He yells too much and calls people names and takes the moral/religious high ground too much.

As far as Al, he has always said off the wall stuff to make the other hosts uncomfortable. It's one of his things. It's gotten worse the older he has gotten. The fist 20 minutes of him and Jim is awful...Al is a legend, but it has all passed him by. He used to be one of the great interviewers...some of his stuff was very great back in the day.

Ozarkhick : I like Pistachio Ice Cream. Butter Pecan, meh, not so much.

Mark! : HEY!!!!! That's wrong! Butter Pecan is better.

Ozarkhick : It's really just my opinion. You're entitled to your as well. Deal with it.

Mark! : DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!1 What do you mean!!!!!!!!!1 What you just said was JUST YOUR OPINION!!!!!!1

Ozarkhick : Yes, my opinion. That's what people share on internet forums. You just did it to. Deal with it.

Mark! : BWAAAAAHR GURGLE SLOBBER!!!!!!! What do you mean? You STATED YOUR OPINION on the internet and it contradicted MY OPINION!!!!!!!

Ozarkhick : Yeah, so deal with it.

Mark! : WHAT DO YOU MEAN???????????/

Mark! :@Ozarkhick

Yeah. I got that. What is “it”?

That this is an internet forum, which you seem to consider an inappropriate venue for people airing their opinions that differ from yours?

I loved it when you were like "Grrrrrr.....That's just your opinion!"

That was cute.

So deal with it.

PS: to our Laker fans out west, Tsunami watch effective until mid day tomorrow for the west coast of the United States.. keep an eye on the news, this shit is crazy.. all joking aside, if Perkins knee is healthy i vote shipping him to the coast on a 24 hour contracts, that scowl could hold back the waves for a 2 or 3 hr minimum :).. i know, i know, but hey nothing you can do but watch a pray

Hawaii Rob everything alright? Man thats crazy

Will do.

Totally off topic boys, but keep the world in your prayers tonight.. if you haven't caught the national news, Japan just got hit with an 8.9 mega quake and an ensuing Tsunami just after midnight our time.. estimated a minimum of 20,000 dead or missing, and Hawaii is under a Tsunami warning effective until 3:00 am

heh, a fan at twitter.com/chowell929 tries to give Kevin some more motivation to beat the Pistons:

"@KDthunderup Tried to shake Tayshaun Prince's hand tonight at @RePUBlicOKC totally blew me off. Beat their ass tomorrow."

testing my avatar.

@ThunderUp35
Thats why he is second to Jordan

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=620232...

Man David Stern sounds like a real a-hole here. I think van Gundy as a legit argument, and stern claims that he's just mad that his team isn't performing and his star player suspended,that his team is fraying. Thats pretty awful for a commisioner to say.

Tyson Chandler would be tied with Artis Gilmore for highest TS% in a season ever but he hasn't taken enough shots to qualify.

Nene's TS% this year is 9th all time.

@Ozarkhick

Yeah. I got that. What is "it"?

i'm really liking ty lawson's game too.

yeah, denver looks damn determined to impress with melo gone..

Denver looking really good.

@james hardens beard
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@ThunderUp35
kobe loves the game, like durant

MastrMatt :
I’m hoping my avatar loaded. It is my wife and I in Maui earlier this week. Hope this works.

man, for some reason, i cannot figure out where to load an avatar? i feel really stupid, but i've looked like 30 times...

Woohoo! Scott Brooks has not ruled out Perkins playing tomorrow

That was pretty neat. Kobe is obviously pissed about the loss

http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/b...
thought this was cool... not much of a Kobe fan but that is called dedication

testing...

thanks! @f5alcon

Mark! :

Ozarkhick :

Mark! :@Ozarkhick

Yeah, well, ya know, that’s just like uh… your opinion, man.

So you like Trammel? I’m not saying Dean is the best, this is more like saying “the T-wolves are better than the Cavaliers”. Deal with it.

Deal with what?

"It". Duh?

@ThunderUp35
http://en.gravatar.com/

i hope we crush the next few teams, get our starters some rest in the 4th

I know this question has been asked a thousand times already, but how do i get an avatar on my profile?

Oh one funny moment from The "Dominant Duo." A few weeks ago they were talking to Blevins. Blevins was talking about an injured NFL player and said they would probably "shoot him up." At which point Al say "he Dean did you ever shoot heroine?" There was a protracted moment of silence and then Dean just says, "No." It was funny in a totally random and slightly crazy way.

WWLS the Sport Amateur is just damn near useless for NBA coverage (outside of Pinto if you count him). You can tell by the stuff that most of them say they are far more concerned with spring football practice coming up than they are with a playoff push by the Thunder. I seriously doubt the lot of them had watched 10 NBA combined before the Hornets came here. Also, it is strange that they seldom interview any of the players other than on the thunder pre/post game shows. My guess is most of the players know how uninformed they are and prefer not to waste their time on them.

I worked at WWLS in the 90s as Traber was getting his start. Back then, he did no show prep and the only paperwork in front of him when doing his show was the newspaper. Al would make a few calls if something OU related was happening bt that's about it. He has really lost an edge now. The sports market has passed him by.

I hated the fact that the shows were so caller-driven. That makes for bad radio. Think of any top notch radio show on the air like Rome, Dan Patrick, ESPN Radio or even Rush or Hannity. They are all host driven. You talk about what the host(s) are talking about not the other way around.

Bob Jr. has knowledge but has opinions about little. The morning guys are entertaining since it is more of a guy-talk show than the others. Mark Rodgers is the best pure sports talk on their station currently and they stick him in the worst day part.

As far as the Thunder broadcasts, WWLS should hire Matt Pinto to do a talk show like Thunder Insider is on TV or a Scott Brooks coach's show. Craig Humphreys is always prepared and is one of the best guys you might ever meet.