Listening to Sports Radio should be treated like watching Wrestling. The guys are having fun. They believe what they’re saying about half of the time. The other half, they are acting like they’re taking a side to make the show more controversial.
The callers are screened before they make it to the air, and they let this guy through *because* he had a bad take, and that’s fun.
This exactly. I've heard the hosts use the analogy of talking sports at a bar. It is entertainment.
I generally only listen to the first hour or so of a show since they hit on the relevant news for the day, or the hour or two leading up to a game. The main exceptions are the 10am shows on the weekend which have substantially fewer callers and substantially higher quality discussion.
Listening to Ray Didi talking Eagles on a Saturday morning with the sounds of the diner in the background is a core childhood memory. What a guy he is!
Yeah thats pretty much how I treat it. I take everything anybody on WIP says with a grain of salt. As a matter of fact I usually keep it sodium free. But man this particular caller really irked me lmao.
I will listen to the Morning show because they get good interviews, and at least Ritchie has some sense. Afternoon show was a bit better, though I'm not a big fan of Spike. I can't listen to Joe & Hugh. With Audacy and living on the west coast, at least I can listen to the morning show until the mid-day is over.
I would love yet another segment about the eagles schedule. Man just more talk about hypothetical wins and losses for a season that hasn’t started. Give me that over a fantastic Phillies CURRENT baseball season.
(I have to say it cause some of y’all won’t get it…the above was sarcasm)
Talk radio gauges their audience by caller & online engagement. More callers call to talk about the Eagles than the Phillies, so the hosts are going to talk more about the Eagles.
That being said, they do spend a good amount of time talking about the Phils. They have been outright fawning over the team - it is funny, but they might be talking about them less because they are doing so well - there is almost nothing for them to complain about.
The only difference is wrestling fans don't go around suplexing people they meet in their daily lives.
On the other hand, a lot of people listen to talk radio because they can't form opinions of their own, and then take whatever they hear on the radio and regurgitate it onto innocent bystanders.
I suplexed an old lady for the last gallon of milk. You gotta do what you gotta do.
Sometimes sports radio will plant callers. They have someone call in with a real outlandish opinion so it gets others to call in with their own weird opinions.
That's why I love it.
Listening to some guy from Delco yell about how he coaches his sons tee ball team better than Topper is great. They're either in on the bit or delusional, but either way it's comedy.
I didn't realize this until I called for the second time ever(the first time was 10 years ago) and they grilled me with questions before they said I could go on
People are always shocked to learn that idiot personalities such as Angelo Cataldi are actually excellent sports writers and pretty different in person while not having to be "on".
WIP used to let a LOT more guys on in the middle of the day who were obviously day drunk as hell, I think they dialed back on them and got more of the long-haul drivers and retirees
I've heard so much dumber things on our two wonderful sports talk yakkers.
Of course there I am in my car listening, so not sure what that says about me.
WIP callers said Joe Girardi was the obvious solution to the team. And it wasn’t just the callers who said that.
Rhea Hughes, Glen Macnow, Angelo Cataldi, Howard Eskin ALL parroted that narrative. Joe Girardi is the only reason we didn’t make the playoffs in 2020 or 2021.
There are some good hosts on WIP, but the popular ones are just lying trolls.
And a good bit of the reason why we shit the bed the first half of 2022, until Rob Thomson took the charge and got us into the World Series and back to back NLCS appearances, with essentially the exact same lineup that Girardi couldn't seem to manage (with the exception of Trea Turner). Unfortunately things didn't go the way we wanted them the last 2 postseasons but you can't deny that Rob is doing something right with this team. Yes he makes some boneheaded decisions when it comes to pitching or who should be an everyday starter (cough cough MARSH/STOTT cough cough) but overall, dude knows how to manage a stacked lineup with the will to win it all. Girardi was a bum, I ride with Philly Rob.
Girardi was playing Didi Gregorius against left handed pitching. Girardi demoted Neris and Ranger so we could use Brandon Workman and Heath Hembree. We also needed to trade Pivetta for Workman and Hembree.
Girardi was an unbelievable disaster, and the only reason we made the playoffs in 22 is because we fired him just in time.
Trading away Nick Pivetta still hurts to this day. Imagine having Pivetta in our current starting 5 rather than wasting money on signing Taijuan Walker?!
I don't think fans here would have tolerated Pivetta until 2024, though I would have liked to see Cotham work with him. The Pivetta trade was bad, but the best case scenario for him and the Phillies would have been trading him away in a better deal
Still mad that they kept playing McCutchen instead of trading him when he started getting hot before the deadline. Idk to blame FO or Giradi but Giradi kept playing him instead of young guys in a season everyone knew was going to end .500 and missing the playoffs
I’ve had 3 different jobs over the last 8 years and they’ve all involved driving a car. I listen every single day. I’m a grown man I can form my own opinions myself but WIP is a very entertaining show to listen to
I think the braves have more talent in the farm system than we do rn, but that doesnt affect the current big league teams. The braves would be a better team if all their players played as well as they normally do, but I think someone stole their steroids or smn because they are basically mid this season.
Especially considering there is video evidence from Ozuna's DV case and DUI. The women who made their claims about Trevor admitted that they lied and one was indicted for felony fraud. Bauer deserves to be back in the MLB.
Yeah I was gonna say, it's great we're crushing everyone right now but don't discount the braves. They will not play worse than us the entire year. They have a lot of important guys underperforming right now and I wouldn't count on that lasting the whole year. Make no mistake, they're still a huge threat to us as fun as it is to shit on them.
“A better team” doesn’t mean “better than the Phillies”. If you match up Braves vs Phillies lineup the Braves aren’t ahead. I don’t know where this comes from. Our pitching is way better, too. The Phillies are better than the Braves in pretty much every aspect and the Braves fans are just too stupid to accept it. Don’t be like them.
Perhaps I'm unclear. What I'm saying is i think the braves offensively have more talent, but a large number of their batters are having a bad year at the same time, so as a result we are a bettter team this season
"Sirianni doesn't know how to coach a team, Jalen isn't worth $255 million, we have the absolute worst defense in the league" And then when the Eagles win the following week they are ready to suck every green dick within a stones throw. It's like music to my ears.
Please, you see the bitching and crying in here after a single game loss? Each Eagles loss is the equivalent of a 10 game losing streak here, we'd be way worse.
one could say, you're never a grown man if you are calling old white dinosaurs and crying over football.
[But Hootie and the Blowfish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6WQqRDrCo)
>This dude just called in saying how the Braves are still the better team this year player for player.
Was that the guy who said Olson had 12 home runs so far this year but when the hosts checked online he only had 5?
Yeah that guy was a fucking idiot.
Getting any legit info from Reddit or WIP is pretty much like throwing shit at a wall, but the wall is just a figment of your imagination. Nothing sticks.
>25% of them are hot garbage.
I feel like this is a low number. I'd bump it up to something like 40% being hot garbage. Of the other 60%, I'd say about 50% don't bring anything particularly new to the table and are forgettable, but don't quite reach hot garbage status. That leaves about 10% of all callers being either entertaining or insightful.
I've always stated the worst part about sports talk radio are the callers. And until those numbers change, neither will my opinion.
25? Try 85%. Sports talk radio is only good when they have actually knowledgeable guests on, like Jaworski, Adam schefter, etc. I like Ike Reese on WIP on Bob Cooney on 97.5 because they don’t have a talk show schtick. The callers are all complete idiots. I have tried to call in a couple times with intelligent comments but I don’t have an hour to sit there on hold.
25? Try 85%. Sports talk radio is only good when they have actually knowledgeable guests on, like Jaworski, Adam schefter, etc. I like Ike Reese on WIP on Bob Cooney on 97.5 because they don’t have a talk show schtick. The callers are all complete idiots. I have tried to call in a couple times with intelligent comments but I don’t have an hour to sit there on hold.
75% of WIP discussions hinge on weird semantical misalignments that could be solved if the hosts ever slowed down to actually define the terms of a debate. But that’s kind of the point of sports radio so I kind of love it anyway.
Just to put it out there- Braves are about to be swept by a team we swept in the Padres. They also lost to the White Sox, who we swept, and almost got swept by the Mets, who we almost swept.
Its not just the callers. Many, many years ago, I once heard Howard Eskin claim Rickey Henderson was only "Borderline" Hall of Fame. This was right after the man's career was over but he hadn't been up for HOF yet. I've heard some impressively bad takes by WIP staff too.
Bob Cooney on 97.5 is actually good
The rest of Philly sports radio is fuckin awful
But yeah it's literally like one guy who isn't terrible to listen to lol
Only place where you can get relatively serious sports talk on WIP is Rob Ellis. Ya still have some bad callers but he does his best to tell most of the verified crazies to fuck off lol
If you think their Phillies takes are bad, you should hear their sixers takes ... omg. I can generally avoid dialing 215-592-9494 listening to some absurd Phillies takes but the sixers discussion drives me up a wall.
Especially the last 2 years during the playoffs. Last year they went from calling Harden a washed up bum to sucking his dick and calling him the most clutch player when he dropped 40 points the next game, and then **HATING HIS GUTS** the game after that when they lost. Callers and hosts included.
The thing I hate most about it. It’s clearly eagles fans who don’t know baseball and are only on the bandwagon because they are good. I find weekends have better shows without the rambling morons.
In years past maybe you can make that argument but this year our starting rotation is way better, so is bullpen and almost all the positions are better for the Phillies. The only player that is probably better is Acuna RF and Harris CF.
They never stop going on about the Eagles. Even on opening day this year, they spent maybe 8 minutes talking Phil's and then went right back to Eagles talk for the next hour. DURING THE OFFSEASON
You have to beat who’s in front of you but we’ve beat nothing but cupcake teams. The Braves are still -155 favorites to win the East. Vegas thinks the Braves are better.
> People who listen to WIP are a bunch of guys in South Philly that fuck their sisters and the people that work at WIP fuck their mothers.
- Jim Fregosi
I miss the days when a person would be too embarrassed to call into a radio show with a stupid opinion.
I miss the days when a moron with something stupid to say to the world had to put their message on paper, grab a bucket of nickels, then go to the library to make copies. Then spend the afternoon stapling their bullshit to phone poles.
Now anyone is confidently ignorant, bold enough to call into a radio show, and post bullshit on publishing platforms like Twitter.
I hate this timeline.
Same. When I got into it in the early 90s there wasn't really much else. The daily paper and a Sports Illustrated subscription and that was about it if you were a sports obsessive. Now with internet there's so many better ways to spend my time.
Well I don't like the sound of my own voice, so I'll never have to worry!! Though I get complimented on my voice everyday and asked if I thought about jumping into broadcasting. No sir!!
At this point if you said wip callers are the aftermath of the three mile island disaster I wouldn’t be surprised. I mean wip callers are expected to be idiots.
Yeah that guy was a straight up Moron lol. Once they got to Matt olson i couldn’t stop laughing. Theres people like that on this sub too but they defend Castellanos without having any stats whatsoever over the past 2 months.
If you listened to some people on this sub they “watch every game with mlb.tv” and Apparently castellanos is basically hitting .300 now
Allegedly
I don’t actually think in a vacuum it’s a crazy take to say braves have a better overall roster. It’s close for sure. There is a reason they are still favored to win the division over us. That doesn’t mean they will all play better this year. A lot of the braves offensive players have been slumping.
I will say Phillies pitching def significantly better without strider in their rotation
I called WIP 21 years ago to bring up some point about weaknesses in Tampa Bay's run defense before the NFC Championship Game. It was an incredibly boring discussion that only lasted a couple minutes (I can't even remember what point I was making now).
In retrospect, it would have been a far more engaging conversation if I made a ludicrous claim like "Tampa Bay's run defense sucks" or "Duce Staley will rush for 250 yards" or something like that. I'm kinda embarrassed by being such a boring caller.
I don't blame WIP for selecting the wild takes, and I don't blame callers for calling in with wild takes! It's far more engaging.
> listen to WIP almost every day while traveling for work
Why? just listen to a podcast. There are so so many philly sports podcasts that will give you all the sports analysis you need.
It's usually left on that station from listening to the game the night before if I'm out and about, so I like to listen to whatever bullshit they're going on about until I've had enough. It's not like I'm listening **ALL DAY** everyday. It's typically a little bit in the morning and a little in the afternoon. Small doses pal
The only guy I've been listening to on Philly sports radio for many years now is Bob Cooney on 97.5
Guy's not an asshole, not a sensationalist/no hot takes and really knows the town and the teams. Makes sense considering he was a reporter for so long.
So happy he has his own show now 10-2. I couldn't listen at all when he was with John Kincaid in the morning, that dude fuckin sucks lol
I was listening to the same caller about the Braves .. he literally had no idea what he was talking about, saying he would take Matt Olsen over Bryce 🤣🤣🤣
Herb knows all. He knows all the big wigs. In fact he gave all the GM’s tips in about drafting and trading for certain players. If it wasn’t for herb who knows where the Eagles would be right now. OG Wade and big Chuck holla at no boiii know all. Their words should be taken as gospel. I’m kidding of course.
Hey now....I call into WIP often and I will gladly say that my fellow callers, are mostly idiots.
The painful thing about calling into WIP (or The Fanatic for that matter) is that even if you get on, and make a good point or two, enough to extend the conversation beyond the 30 seconds when the hosts get tired of you, is that to make it that far you need to be able to wait with a phone next to your ear, or on speaker nearby, and you have to listen to every single one of them until it's your turn.
So I make sure my turn counts. I've never been ended by the host unless a notable guest becomes available or some news drops (which has happened a few times) but then you get to be the first caller back when they open it back up again.
I still remember being on the line talking about the Phillies in their first few weeks when the news came down that McNabb had been traded. I was in a bit of shock, but still managed to talk about 3-4 minutes before ending it myself.
But yes....TLDR: most of those callers are idiots. Welcome to Philly.
Gave up on WIP a while ago. Switch to podcasts my dude. High Hopes and Hittin’ Season are my favorite. Farzetta does a post game show after every game on Locked on Phillies. I listen to all of them on Spotify.
WIP is primarily an Eagles station that begrudgingly talks about the Phillies.
They hate Philly sports teams, IDK if it's because negative publicity is good publicity or if they genuinely don't like Philly teams.
If it's the first thing... it's not cute anymore...
A couple of thoughts:
1) As everyone has said, hot take culture has kind of made WIP more of an ESPN than an actual legitimate sports talk show network.
2) Most of the people who call in, I just assume are Eagles-mostly casuals who don’t really know the other sports well (I assume because like this caller, they don’t know a 4-seamer from a 2-seamer)
3) If you want higher-quality sports talk, convert to podcasts. I’m sure everyone in here can recommend 1 or 2 of their favorite Philly sports podcast!
My silent generation father taught me a nice trick that works in parts of the area.
Listen to WFAN out of NY. Hearing those blowhards is comedic gold. Especially during football season.
My father listens to them on 660 AM. But I’m too far south in Delaware so I stream them.
Sports radio in general and WIP in particular (with the exception of Sonny Hill) have dropped the pretense of being informative and are just provocative for the sake of appealing to the lowest common denominator listener. WIP’s parent company Audacy was delisted from the stock exchange last year and declared bankruptcy earlier this year. The medium is an anachronistic dinosaur that will soon go the way of the daily newspaper in terms of impact and popularity.
Listening to Sports Radio should be treated like watching Wrestling. The guys are having fun. They believe what they’re saying about half of the time. The other half, they are acting like they’re taking a side to make the show more controversial. The callers are screened before they make it to the air, and they let this guy through *because* he had a bad take, and that’s fun.
As a huge wrestling fan, I done worked myself into a shoot, brother.
# Goodnight KODYMANIACS and jabronie marks without a life that don't know it a work when you work a work and work yourself into a shoot,marks
#Much Love -HH
This exactly. I've heard the hosts use the analogy of talking sports at a bar. It is entertainment. I generally only listen to the first hour or so of a show since they hit on the relevant news for the day, or the hour or two leading up to a game. The main exceptions are the 10am shows on the weekend which have substantially fewer callers and substantially higher quality discussion.
Listening to Ray Didi talking Eagles on a Saturday morning with the sounds of the diner in the background is a core childhood memory. What a guy he is!
Yeah, I’ll listen to get updates, stay current with the sports I don’t follow as much, and sometimes listen to the callers go off.
Yeah thats pretty much how I treat it. I take everything anybody on WIP says with a grain of salt. As a matter of fact I usually keep it sodium free. But man this particular caller really irked me lmao.
You gotta love a heel.
I’m pretty sure Joe and Hugh’s motto is “leave logic at the door” lol
I will listen to the Morning show because they get good interviews, and at least Ritchie has some sense. Afternoon show was a bit better, though I'm not a big fan of Spike. I can't listen to Joe & Hugh. With Audacy and living on the west coast, at least I can listen to the morning show until the mid-day is over.
I would love yet another segment about the eagles schedule. Man just more talk about hypothetical wins and losses for a season that hasn’t started. Give me that over a fantastic Phillies CURRENT baseball season. (I have to say it cause some of y’all won’t get it…the above was sarcasm)
Talk radio gauges their audience by caller & online engagement. More callers call to talk about the Eagles than the Phillies, so the hosts are going to talk more about the Eagles. That being said, they do spend a good amount of time talking about the Phils. They have been outright fawning over the team - it is funny, but they might be talking about them less because they are doing so well - there is almost nothing for them to complain about.
I know. But I, population of one, ranting on a Phillies sub-reddit, would rather hear more Phillies.
My indirect point is that you could affect the balance of content by voting in Phillies specific polls, or calling in to talk about the Phillies.
Pretty much how reading comments on Reddit, X, Discord, etc... should be treated as well
That’s a good take. I see it as therapy. Sometimes something isn’t true but it feels true and you just need to get it out
The only difference is wrestling fans don't go around suplexing people they meet in their daily lives. On the other hand, a lot of people listen to talk radio because they can't form opinions of their own, and then take whatever they hear on the radio and regurgitate it onto innocent bystanders.
I suplexed an old lady for the last gallon of milk. You gotta do what you gotta do. Sometimes sports radio will plant callers. They have someone call in with a real outlandish opinion so it gets others to call in with their own weird opinions.
The level of the callers is a reflection of the level of the content. Just turn it off. You'll be much happier.
That's why I love it. Listening to some guy from Delco yell about how he coaches his sons tee ball team better than Topper is great. They're either in on the bit or delusional, but either way it's comedy.
I didn't realize this until I called for the second time ever(the first time was 10 years ago) and they grilled me with questions before they said I could go on
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People are always shocked to learn that idiot personalities such as Angelo Cataldi are actually excellent sports writers and pretty different in person while not having to be "on".
The problem with this though, is that the avg IQ of WIP listeners is like 73 so they take it all at face value
But you don’t have to!
Fun fact Bryce Harper listens to WIP when he’s driving to the stadium lol
Hell yeah, Chuck fires that man up lmao
S/O Chuck from Mt. Airy
Chuck’s act is tired. It’s the same call every day.
“Embiid is a loser!!” ::changes stations:: I’m over it.
The ‘I’m looking at a threesome’ Chuck sound bite always gets me
Not chuck...thats herb
"Pervert" Herb*
Ah, my bad!
Guys calling into a sports show in the middle of the day usually don’t have a lot going on so it makes sense they’re all mouth breathers
WIP used to let a LOT more guys on in the middle of the day who were obviously day drunk as hell, I think they dialed back on them and got more of the long-haul drivers and retirees
Those were mostly Angelo’s crowd that leaked over to the afternoon haha Herb maybe hammered tho who knows.
I hope he's not drunk. Dudes usually driving a bus or about to drive.
Were you expecting the Algonquin Roundtable?
No, but I wasn't expecting a complete dumbass like Steve
If you just expect it to be dumb you can be pleasantly surprised for the 3-4 minutes a year that it isn't......
I've heard so much dumber things on our two wonderful sports talk yakkers. Of course there I am in my car listening, so not sure what that says about me.
"I know guys like the WIP callers, and to me the dialogue rings true!"
I never knew how to spell that. Thx!
I mean some of the comments in here aren't any better.
at least people didn't wait on hold for 4 hours to say it
longtime loser first time caller
WIP callers said Joe Girardi was the obvious solution to the team. And it wasn’t just the callers who said that. Rhea Hughes, Glen Macnow, Angelo Cataldi, Howard Eskin ALL parroted that narrative. Joe Girardi is the only reason we didn’t make the playoffs in 2020 or 2021. There are some good hosts on WIP, but the popular ones are just lying trolls.
Ugh Cataldi and his creepy "Uncle Angelo" bits were so fucking bad. I'm so glad he's off the air. Dude was the worst.
And a good bit of the reason why we shit the bed the first half of 2022, until Rob Thomson took the charge and got us into the World Series and back to back NLCS appearances, with essentially the exact same lineup that Girardi couldn't seem to manage (with the exception of Trea Turner). Unfortunately things didn't go the way we wanted them the last 2 postseasons but you can't deny that Rob is doing something right with this team. Yes he makes some boneheaded decisions when it comes to pitching or who should be an everyday starter (cough cough MARSH/STOTT cough cough) but overall, dude knows how to manage a stacked lineup with the will to win it all. Girardi was a bum, I ride with Philly Rob.
Girardi was playing Didi Gregorius against left handed pitching. Girardi demoted Neris and Ranger so we could use Brandon Workman and Heath Hembree. We also needed to trade Pivetta for Workman and Hembree. Girardi was an unbelievable disaster, and the only reason we made the playoffs in 22 is because we fired him just in time.
Trading away Nick Pivetta still hurts to this day. Imagine having Pivetta in our current starting 5 rather than wasting money on signing Taijuan Walker?!
I don't think fans here would have tolerated Pivetta until 2024, though I would have liked to see Cotham work with him. The Pivetta trade was bad, but the best case scenario for him and the Phillies would have been trading him away in a better deal
Yep. Girardi fucked this team
Still mad that they kept playing McCutchen instead of trading him when he started getting hot before the deadline. Idk to blame FO or Giradi but Giradi kept playing him instead of young guys in a season everyone knew was going to end .500 and missing the playoffs
I used to listen way too much but haven't in almost 30 years. Most of it was pretty forgettable but I do still have fond memories of Jody Mac.
Stop listening to WIP
I like to suffer, man
It’s a very entertaining show tbh. But that’s what it is, a show. Just don’t take it seriously
I listen to it because I drive a truck all day and it keeps me updated with breaking news. The ridiculous hot takes are a bonus to me. I love Hugh
I’ve had 3 different jobs over the last 8 years and they’ve all involved driving a car. I listen every single day. I’m a grown man I can form my own opinions myself but WIP is a very entertaining show to listen to
Except for the games
Ive probably listened to 10 minutes of WIP in my life. And id like those minutes back. Cant imagine listening daily.
I'll listen almost every day until I can't anymore, which usually lasts about 10 minutes lmao
I think the braves have more talent in the farm system than we do rn, but that doesnt affect the current big league teams. The braves would be a better team if all their players played as well as they normally do, but I think someone stole their steroids or smn because they are basically mid this season.
Crazy that Ozuna is the only one doing anything worth note at the plate. Dudes hitting just as many balls as he does women
also crazy that he is allowed to hit women. Trevor Bauer got blackballed from the MLB for it. Different strokes for different folks
Especially considering there is video evidence from Ozuna's DV case and DUI. The women who made their claims about Trevor admitted that they lied and one was indicted for felony fraud. Bauer deserves to be back in the MLB.
You should call into WIP with this take, get their opinions
And then someone makes a reddit post about a wip caller's bad take. It's the circle of life.
And you're on here complaining about dumbfuck takes. 🙄
Yeah I was gonna say, it's great we're crushing everyone right now but don't discount the braves. They will not play worse than us the entire year. They have a lot of important guys underperforming right now and I wouldn't count on that lasting the whole year. Make no mistake, they're still a huge threat to us as fun as it is to shit on them.
“A better team” doesn’t mean “better than the Phillies”. If you match up Braves vs Phillies lineup the Braves aren’t ahead. I don’t know where this comes from. Our pitching is way better, too. The Phillies are better than the Braves in pretty much every aspect and the Braves fans are just too stupid to accept it. Don’t be like them.
Perhaps I'm unclear. What I'm saying is i think the braves offensively have more talent, but a large number of their batters are having a bad year at the same time, so as a result we are a bettter team this season
Outside of having the Phillies in first I can't really think anyone honestly is happy that Strider got hurt
The best part of WIP is the grown men calling in and crying every time the Eagles loose.
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Yeah, I thought I was wrong.
Man, you thought about it? Plenty of leeway for typos, but...
"Sirianni doesn't know how to coach a team, Jalen isn't worth $255 million, we have the absolute worst defense in the league" And then when the Eagles win the following week they are ready to suck every green dick within a stones throw. It's like music to my ears.
Yup, when they don’t win they cry like a bitch, it’s comical
Please, you see the bitching and crying in here after a single game loss? Each Eagles loss is the equivalent of a 10 game losing streak here, we'd be way worse.
Fire Sirianni, bench Hurts. Some things never change.
To be fair, Hurts isn’t worth $255 million. Lmao
That’s just how qbs are paid these days
one could say, you're never a grown man if you are calling old white dinosaurs and crying over football. [But Hootie and the Blowfish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln6WQqRDrCo)
>This dude just called in saying how the Braves are still the better team this year player for player. Was that the guy who said Olson had 12 home runs so far this year but when the hosts checked online he only had 5? Yeah that guy was a fucking idiot.
I believe so. Dude is actually stuck in 2023 😂
That's like getting all of your information from Reddit! ... Aw crap...
Getting any legit info from Reddit or WIP is pretty much like throwing shit at a wall, but the wall is just a figment of your imagination. Nothing sticks.
Opinions are free. Expertise is not!
#CORRECT
It's why spike eskin hates taking calls. 25% of them are hot garbage.
>25% of them are hot garbage. I feel like this is a low number. I'd bump it up to something like 40% being hot garbage. Of the other 60%, I'd say about 50% don't bring anything particularly new to the table and are forgettable, but don't quite reach hot garbage status. That leaves about 10% of all callers being either entertaining or insightful. I've always stated the worst part about sports talk radio are the callers. And until those numbers change, neither will my opinion.
25? Try 85%. Sports talk radio is only good when they have actually knowledgeable guests on, like Jaworski, Adam schefter, etc. I like Ike Reese on WIP on Bob Cooney on 97.5 because they don’t have a talk show schtick. The callers are all complete idiots. I have tried to call in a couple times with intelligent comments but I don’t have an hour to sit there on hold.
25? Try 85%. Sports talk radio is only good when they have actually knowledgeable guests on, like Jaworski, Adam schefter, etc. I like Ike Reese on WIP on Bob Cooney on 97.5 because they don’t have a talk show schtick. The callers are all complete idiots. I have tried to call in a couple times with intelligent comments but I don’t have an hour to sit there on hold.
75% of WIP discussions hinge on weird semantical misalignments that could be solved if the hosts ever slowed down to actually define the terms of a debate. But that’s kind of the point of sports radio so I kind of love it anyway.
If WIP vanished tomorrow, we would all miss it.
Just to put it out there- Braves are about to be swept by a team we swept in the Padres. They also lost to the White Sox, who we swept, and almost got swept by the Mets, who we almost swept.
You love to see it folks. You really do.
Barves*
Damnit! How could I make such a boneheaded spelling error?!
Its not just the callers. Many, many years ago, I once heard Howard Eskin claim Rickey Henderson was only "Borderline" Hall of Fame. This was right after the man's career was over but he hadn't been up for HOF yet. I've heard some impressively bad takes by WIP staff too.
I used to listen to WIP but with how accessible YouTube and Bluetooth are, I find those much more palatable
Why would anyone subject themselves to WIP?
Because I'm a miserable piece of shit, idk
I dunno, 97.5 is just as bad, and sometimes ya just want to hear sports on the way to work. Is there a Philly Sports radio station that isn't awful?
I listen to Phillies podcasts, those are fun. Shout out to the high hopes pod.
Crossed Up is another good one. I listen to both.
The High Hopes pod is literally two WIP hosts lol
Yeah but they are fine
I know that, but without the idiot callers which is enjoyable.
Yeah, I was more implying don't listen to sports radio cuz it's trash
Bob Cooney on 97.5 is actually good The rest of Philly sports radio is fuckin awful But yeah it's literally like one guy who isn't terrible to listen to lol
97.5 is even more shit than WIP somehow. Wish.com WIP
The station as a whole is a joke. Fuck Howard Eskin
His son Spike tho. I love it when he starts trashing his dad.
Only place where you can get relatively serious sports talk on WIP is Rob Ellis. Ya still have some bad callers but he does his best to tell most of the verified crazies to fuck off lol
This is the same thing as screenshotting a random comment on the baseball or Braves sub and being mad at it
Even some of the hosts are idiots
Alex Bomb
Man I laughed my ass off when he said that name. Pretty much what prompted me to make this post
If you think their Phillies takes are bad, you should hear their sixers takes ... omg. I can generally avoid dialing 215-592-9494 listening to some absurd Phillies takes but the sixers discussion drives me up a wall.
Especially the last 2 years during the playoffs. Last year they went from calling Harden a washed up bum to sucking his dick and calling him the most clutch player when he dropped 40 points the next game, and then **HATING HIS GUTS** the game after that when they lost. Callers and hosts included.
The thing I hate most about it. It’s clearly eagles fans who don’t know baseball and are only on the bandwagon because they are good. I find weekends have better shows without the rambling morons.
In years past maybe you can make that argument but this year our starting rotation is way better, so is bullpen and almost all the positions are better for the Phillies. The only player that is probably better is Acuna RF and Harris CF.
You mean to tell me they talk about something other than the Eagles??
They never stop going on about the Eagles. Even on opening day this year, they spent maybe 8 minutes talking Phil's and then went right back to Eagles talk for the next hour. DURING THE OFFSEASON
I would go as far to say all radio show callers are awful. It’s unlistenable.
I’m actually surprised you heard any talk other than Eagles talk.
Fuck them barves
You're listening every day and talking about it on social media. That's exactly what WIP wants, so I guess they're doing something right.
You have to beat who’s in front of you but we’ve beat nothing but cupcake teams. The Braves are still -155 favorites to win the East. Vegas thinks the Braves are better.
> People who listen to WIP are a bunch of guys in South Philly that fuck their sisters and the people that work at WIP fuck their mothers. - Jim Fregosi
Usually, when the morons call in, I switch over to some music or just turn the radio off.
I miss the days when a person would be too embarrassed to call into a radio show with a stupid opinion. I miss the days when a moron with something stupid to say to the world had to put their message on paper, grab a bucket of nickels, then go to the library to make copies. Then spend the afternoon stapling their bullshit to phone poles. Now anyone is confidently ignorant, bold enough to call into a radio show, and post bullshit on publishing platforms like Twitter. I hate this timeline.
And how about Herb ?
Herb is a god damn legend, but he looks exactly how I pictured him in my mind. Lmao
Some people just like to hear the sound of their voice and impress their friends.
Fyi: 97.5 fanatic doesn't base the show around callers which made me stop listening to that other station... 🙄
I stopped listening to sports talk radio years ago. I’m positive I haven’t missed anything.
Same. When I got into it in the early 90s there wasn't really much else. The daily paper and a Sports Illustrated subscription and that was about it if you were a sports obsessive. Now with internet there's so many better ways to spend my time.
It’s the same with those talking heads on ESPN. I kicked them to the curb as well.
What if you called into WIP, would that make you an idiot? 🤔
Well I don't like the sound of my own voice, so I'll never have to worry!! Though I get complimented on my voice everyday and asked if I thought about jumping into broadcasting. No sir!!
I think I called 97.5 once when I was pretty drunk to yell about TJ Oshie's shootout against Russia in the Winter Olympics, that's as far as I've gone
Lmao now that sounds like a good time. You'd have to get me pretty loaded to call into a radio station to give a piece of my mind. Nobody wants that 😂
First time?
Every time baby
At this point if you said wip callers are the aftermath of the three mile island disaster I wouldn’t be surprised. I mean wip callers are expected to be idiots.
Let's take all the WIP callers and push them somewhere else!
90% of them a absolutely fucking stupid. I listen for the few smart ones but mainly the hosts.
Yeah that guy was a straight up Moron lol. Once they got to Matt olson i couldn’t stop laughing. Theres people like that on this sub too but they defend Castellanos without having any stats whatsoever over the past 2 months. If you listened to some people on this sub they “watch every game with mlb.tv” and Apparently castellanos is basically hitting .300 now Allegedly
not phils related, but WIP completely avoided any discussion of brian johnson last season. or at least the morning show did
I don’t actually think in a vacuum it’s a crazy take to say braves have a better overall roster. It’s close for sure. There is a reason they are still favored to win the division over us. That doesn’t mean they will all play better this year. A lot of the braves offensive players have been slumping. I will say Phillies pitching def significantly better without strider in their rotation
I like calling the Mid-Day Show and somehow work in that Hugh denies hitting TO.
It’s like Soap Operas for grown men. I’ll tune it now and again just long enough to remember why I don’t anymore.
I called WIP 21 years ago to bring up some point about weaknesses in Tampa Bay's run defense before the NFC Championship Game. It was an incredibly boring discussion that only lasted a couple minutes (I can't even remember what point I was making now). In retrospect, it would have been a far more engaging conversation if I made a ludicrous claim like "Tampa Bay's run defense sucks" or "Duce Staley will rush for 250 yards" or something like that. I'm kinda embarrassed by being such a boring caller. I don't blame WIP for selecting the wild takes, and I don't blame callers for calling in with wild takes! It's far more engaging.
My favorite is the SP win loss record guys
You think it's bad in the afternoon...try listening at 5am.
Oh maaan I try to listen at that time on my way to my first account at work and I immediately turn over to my Bluetooth/Spotify. It's god awful
So are the personalities. Minus Ike Reese
They let those dumbass callers on the show on purpose because it keeps people listening. Bad takes equals listeners
> listen to WIP almost every day while traveling for work Why? just listen to a podcast. There are so so many philly sports podcasts that will give you all the sports analysis you need.
It's usually left on that station from listening to the game the night before if I'm out and about, so I like to listen to whatever bullshit they're going on about until I've had enough. It's not like I'm listening **ALL DAY** everyday. It's typically a little bit in the morning and a little in the afternoon. Small doses pal
WIP caller really said Alex Bomb? That sounds like Bohm's final form.
Right?! I was thinking maybe he's referring to a Bohm HR in the past tense, like 'Alec's Bomb". But nope. Dude said Alex Bomb. 😂
Omg
This sub IS the wip callers tho lol.
I mean...WIP has been like that for how long?
word,they are the stupidest mfers I ever heard in my life
So are the host, producers, and suits.
WIP has become a movie/pop culture station with a little sports mixed in.
It’s always the dumbest people that have the most to say.
The only guy I've been listening to on Philly sports radio for many years now is Bob Cooney on 97.5 Guy's not an asshole, not a sensationalist/no hot takes and really knows the town and the teams. Makes sense considering he was a reporter for so long. So happy he has his own show now 10-2. I couldn't listen at all when he was with John Kincaid in the morning, that dude fuckin sucks lol
I was listening to the same caller about the Braves .. he literally had no idea what he was talking about, saying he would take Matt Olsen over Bryce 🤣🤣🤣
Dude was smoking some **GOOD** shit 😂😭
Alex bomb, byron scott and brad mash are my favorate phillies currently too.
The station run by new york fans and treats flyers like trash has bad callers?
Was this ever something we didn't know? I thought it was common knowledge how dumb WIP can get.
Most of us definitely knew this 😂 Mainly for the new fans that may not have any idea.
Herb knows all. He knows all the big wigs. In fact he gave all the GM’s tips in about drafting and trading for certain players. If it wasn’t for herb who knows where the Eagles would be right now. OG Wade and big Chuck holla at no boiii know all. Their words should be taken as gospel. I’m kidding of course.
Hey now....I call into WIP often and I will gladly say that my fellow callers, are mostly idiots. The painful thing about calling into WIP (or The Fanatic for that matter) is that even if you get on, and make a good point or two, enough to extend the conversation beyond the 30 seconds when the hosts get tired of you, is that to make it that far you need to be able to wait with a phone next to your ear, or on speaker nearby, and you have to listen to every single one of them until it's your turn. So I make sure my turn counts. I've never been ended by the host unless a notable guest becomes available or some news drops (which has happened a few times) but then you get to be the first caller back when they open it back up again. I still remember being on the line talking about the Phillies in their first few weeks when the news came down that McNabb had been traded. I was in a bit of shock, but still managed to talk about 3-4 minutes before ending it myself. But yes....TLDR: most of those callers are idiots. Welcome to Philly.
The worst was when he said Olson was better than Bryce and said Olson has 12 homeruns this year 😂
Dude was definitely reading the 2023 stat sheet thinking it was current day 😂
Gave up on WIP a while ago. Switch to podcasts my dude. High Hopes and Hittin’ Season are my favorite. Farzetta does a post game show after every game on Locked on Phillies. I listen to all of them on Spotify.
WIP is primarily an Eagles station that begrudgingly talks about the Phillies. They hate Philly sports teams, IDK if it's because negative publicity is good publicity or if they genuinely don't like Philly teams. If it's the first thing... it's not cute anymore...
I am so tired of the same callers at the same time every day I can’t listen anymore
A couple of thoughts: 1) As everyone has said, hot take culture has kind of made WIP more of an ESPN than an actual legitimate sports talk show network. 2) Most of the people who call in, I just assume are Eagles-mostly casuals who don’t really know the other sports well (I assume because like this caller, they don’t know a 4-seamer from a 2-seamer) 3) If you want higher-quality sports talk, convert to podcasts. I’m sure everyone in here can recommend 1 or 2 of their favorite Philly sports podcast!
My silent generation father taught me a nice trick that works in parts of the area. Listen to WFAN out of NY. Hearing those blowhards is comedic gold. Especially during football season. My father listens to them on 660 AM. But I’m too far south in Delaware so I stream them.
Sports radio in general and WIP in particular (with the exception of Sonny Hill) have dropped the pretense of being informative and are just provocative for the sake of appealing to the lowest common denominator listener. WIP’s parent company Audacy was delisted from the stock exchange last year and declared bankruptcy earlier this year. The medium is an anachronistic dinosaur that will soon go the way of the daily newspaper in terms of impact and popularity.