Mondays & Fridays 5pm-7pm. That's when I hang loose and get crazy with the boys. Of course, I'm speaking of Bob McCown and his panel of pundits on the Fan590. Not that I'm not a Prime Times Sports junkie Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday...but the carefree anything goes attitude that envelops the Round Table really gets me going. Like the Edmonton Oilers of the 1980s, Prime Times Sports provides countless hours of entertainment.
Let's talk about some of the faces that are undeniably made for radio. As Chuck Swirsky will tell you, Bob McCown is the franchise player at the Fan590. He's the leader and the face and voice of the show. But let me extrapolate on my earlier analogy; The 1990 Edmonton Oilers won the Stanley Cup after Wayne Gretzky had been traded to Los Angeles thanks to the leadership of Mark Messier. And that's where Stephen Brunt comes in. Brunt is a brilliant writer, a great speaker and seems
to know everything. He obviously does a huge amount of preparation before every show and is always there to answer a tough question. If Bob's sick or on a three-week vacation then Brunt (with the help of Kelley,Ormsby, Faulds or whoever happens to be on the panel that week) will fill in admirably. The panel is usually comprised of hard-nosed journalists, all with their own unique view. They are always
interesting, informative and are rarely guilty of toeing the party line.
The topics discussed on PTS range from your sports-talk standards to race relations, problems with Quebec and pea-less whistles. Credit to Bobcat and his producers for always spending the right amount of time on each subject. When something is getting stale they move right along, but if it seems to be rolling they'll continue on with it for two or three segments.
Those who already listen know exactly what I'm talking about. But those who don't or those who are turned-off by Bob McCown's arrogance or his long, radio-unfriendly pregnant pauses, should take fifteen minutes and listen to the best sports analysis and insight that this country has to offer...I guarantee you'll be hooked.
2 comments:
I too am a PTS junkie; in fact I've even managed to convert Lee, which is pretty impressive as she finds Bobcat to be a bit of a right-wing zealot with a penchant for bigotry. Also I know this is totally the wrong forum for this, but I got The Pod…WOW…
WOW. You’ll be getting a big GBV care package as a reward for introducing me to this monster you call Ween.
[pregnant pause] You know, I really liked PTS until they started dissecting the novel Gravity's Rainbow, followed by their long tirade on the state our nation's health [pregnant pause] care as it relates to staphylococcus, and its particular detriment when contaminated with VRE. Lame.
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