Paul Daugherty: The Radio

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The Radio

Thanks for all who listened and called last night. Thanks to all who wrote nice things this morning. Keep calling and listening. It's about you. I'm just the facilitator. Tonight: New UK coach Billy Gillispie at 6:30... Reds opener in Sarasota? And, if time, your reaction to the candor on the airwaves...

NOTE: Listen to an excerpt of Paul's radio debut here (audio courtesy of 700WLW, Cincinnati).

9 Comments:

at 11:06 AM

Anonymous said...

Opening the season in podunk Sarasota makes no sense at all.

The weather was bad this year. That's it. Next year, it will be warm as hell, and instead of doing a show suggesting the team open its season in a sub-minor league ballpark, you'll be doing a show on global warming.

If you want to have a charming baseball experience, that's why you go down for spring training. Don't mess with the games up here.

at 12:55 PM

Anonymous said...

whadya say Paul? gotta agree with those that enjoyed the show. I'll call you tonight to agree some more.

Thanks, MFF

at 9:16 PM

Anonymous said...

Hi Paul, I wrote you when Willie DeLuca passed away...I wanted to inform you on the 12th of May, Willie will be inducted into the Sorrento's Resturant and Lounge Hamilton County Sports Hall Of Fame. If you are interested in attending please call Tom Taylor at 831-1153. What a honor and great award for Willie to be in with the BEST of Cincinnati! Thanks Paul, Bob and Donna Long

at 4:55 AM

Anonymous said...

According to Al Gore it will be 175 degrees next opening day and Sarasota will be like Atlantis. Be sure to bring sunscreen.

at 11:12 PM

Anonymous said...

Yeah, on your opening day idea, you have to check those mushrooms you pick outside of your cabin before you eat them. Cleveland is 200 miles
north and on a lake. Dumb idea to open with six games up there. Maybe a 2 game series with a division foe so they could make it up if necessary. Even when it has snowed down here it's been mostly forty. Let's leave Florida to the bugs and the sunshine people.

The show has been pretty good. Maybe put a few seconds of commentary in between callers because I notice you are catching a lot of people off-guard. Of course it may be your unfamiliarity with the board as you sometimes say.
But I am not asking for commentary adnaseum.

at 9:49 AM

Anonymous said...

Caught some of your show the other night about what the Reds can do to get more people to the ballpark...nothing gets me more fired up than that. you hit the nail on the head about Broadway Commons. The fact that you even had that topic on air is proof positive that the WRONG decision was made on the ballpark location. All this handwringing about how to get more people to the game was preordained the minute the first brick was laid at the Wedge. I love Cincinnati and the Reds, but what this town never seems to realize is that if you keep doing the same thing, why should you expect different results? We had a ballpark on the riverfront and it wasn't working there...why would we expect a new park to be any better? There wasn't anything to do around the old one, and there's nothing to around the new one. People arrive at the game, park, hopefully see the Reds win, and get the hell out of Dodge...or, worse yet to a proud Cincinnatian, head across the river for a good time. But Great American Ballpark is a monument to the mediocrity of consensus decision making that plagues our city. The Reds and the County dropped the ball on what could have been a magnificient opportunity to revitalize our city. Yes, City Council dropped the ball, too, if for no other reason than they failed to take the lead and get organized. The Reds didn't want Broadway Commons for no other reason than they didn't want their stadium to be in what is perceived to be the ghetto. Well, that's shortsighted, because Over the Rhine, and especially the Pendleton area near Broadway was poised for a Rennaisance and the concerns about crime and decay would have been swept aside by a wave of private investment and economic development. An example of the narrow-mindedness of the Reds...John Allen, to his credit, once called me at home in response to a letter I wrote advocating Broadway Commons, but Mr. Allen tried to convince me that among the reasons that Broadway was unsuitable was because of the engineering difficulties involving moving a century old sewer main that runs under the site...come on, Mr. Allen, how does that compare to the challenges of building a ballpark in a floodplain, not to mention builing one ballpark inside another that is still being used! In short the Reds and our government leaders squandered the single greatest opportunity to improve our city in decades, perhaps even the last century. And the Reds also doomed themselves to forever trying to come up with gimmicks to coax people to the ballpark...better field a competitive team, Mr. Redlegs!

at 9:57 AM

Anonymous said...

Paul, have to disagree with one thing you said on the radio the other night. There seems to be this myth about the good old days of attendance at Reds games. Back in the '30s and '40s, average attendance was somewhere around 4500 fans. In fact, there was talk in the '50s of the Reds leaving town because of the poor attendance. That was the whole reason that the Rosie Reds were founded...to "stimulate interest" in the team. My grandmother was a charter member of the Rosies. So to say that having 18,000-20,000 fans in the stadium, doesn't sound so bad, historically speaking. When you consider the attendance at Crosley Field, and probably other parks in the League, and there was no TV revenue in those days, it's maybe not surprsing that player salaries were what they were and many players had off-season jobs.

at 9:20 AM

bigdon said...

Paul, great job Friday night with Branch III and Mr Harmon. It was obvious to me you had done your homework ! Nice interviews.
PS. It's really nice to hear someone pleasant instead of Andy Furman ( thankfully gone ! )
I also very much enjoy your columns, Take care.

at 1:09 PM

T Bone said...

Paul,
I agree with Big Don....Great Show. It seems like you are bucking the trend of your sports talk show cohorts who simply make a comment and repeat it 100 times over the course of a show. Your guests have been interesting and you have asked them INTELLIGENT questions to add insight for the listener rather than just questions for shock value. Your preparation is noticed and appreciated by this listener. Keep up the good work....don't do a Jerry Springer but rather stay the course!

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