By DSR Staff
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
December 28, 2013
[Editor’s Note: After a one-year hiatus, the DSR has revived our year-end awards given out to the Detroit Media. Instead of one long article presenting all of the recipients at once, we will be rolling these out over the next few days. And yes, the Raggie Trophy is a Detroit snow globe, a “Made in Detroit” coffee cozy and one of Moss’s wife’s unused tampons.]
Worst Sports Talk Radio Show
“The Drew Lane Show” — Detroit Sports 105.1
This vote came down to the wire. In an epic battle with “Karsch and Anderson,” the tie breaker came down to this ….
Benedict and the Whale have been awful for years. The show is a total abortion on a station with the worst format known to mankind. One of the hosts is obsessed with sex — even though a female has never touched his pecker — and the other is a traitorous know-nothing whose only goal in life is to hold you over through the commercials.
And while Aldrich Ames and the Hippopotamus are the ultimate homer slapdicks, Anderson would rather eat a lightly-dressed salad than give credence to sabermetrics, and the dynamic dipshits have spent years lobbing softballs to Jim Schwartz (What’s your favorite Judas Priest song, Jim?) instead of grilling the Lions head coach, they couldn’t take this prize home by merely meeting expectations.
Nobody who reads this site expects Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger and Jabba the Cross-Eyed Hutt to put on a quality radio program. But for years, DSR readers have desperately waited for a challenge to the caller-driven drivel on 97.1.
The FM alternative to “The Ticket” finally arrived this year in the form of Detroit Sports 105.1, mainly because Greater Media had nowhere else to put Drew Lane after they had tossed Lane and Mike Clark off of WRIF. In an effort to get younger and cheaper™ (Doug Fister to Washington), Greater Media replaced “Drew and Mike” with “Dave and Chuck the Freak” on 101.1.
In an unfortunate confluence of events, we finally received a second sports talk station in Detroit, but the new channel’s signature program was everything that is wrong with 97.1.
Drew Lane and Marc Fellhauer have no business headlining a sports show. Having them anchor 105.1’s new endeavor is the equivalent of flipping AM-1270 to conservative right-wing programming and then hiring Jesse Jackson, Martin Bashir and Rachel Maddow to host.
Their lack of general sports knowledge is shocking. They don’t even know the basics, so their new show is just a watered-down version of the old “Drew and Mike” program with a little more brainless sports talk thrown into the mix.
When the pair aren’t walking down memory lane sans Clark, they are broadcasting to the lowest common denominator.
You get hacky black voices, homophobic blasts, 1990’s Zoo radio, bro culture and a frat boy sensibility mixed in with a depth of sports knowledge that you could get from reading today’s Free Press from 3 to 7pm on 105.1.
The highlight of their five-month run this far was openly shaming a potential rape victim on the air after prosecutors announced they were not going to press charges against Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston.
Because sports talk radio doesn’t get any better than playing “whore” drops when discussing a girl who may have been raped and isn’t yet done seeking justice.
We waited all of these years for THIS?!?!?!
One can only hope that Lane is eventually moved to WCSX (another Greater Media property) to replace the retiring Ken Calvert so we can get a viable alternative to Mike Valenti and Terry Foster in afternoon drive. You know, like an actual sports show.
Detroit Sports 105.1 had a golden opportunity to exploit 97.1 by targeting the Detroit sports fans who actually want to hear about the Wings, Tigers, Pistons and Lions, not Foster discussing white women’s asses or Charles Pugh’s latest foibles.
Instead, Greater Media has done the impossible. They have counter-programmed WXYT’s most listened to broadcast with a show that actually discusses sports LESS than V & F does.
And when Lane and Fellhauer delve into athletics, they usually do so with horrible guests like Herman Moore, Mickey Redmond, Darren McCarty or the Lions punt returner.
WHO FUCKING CARES WHAT ANY OF THOSE IDIOTS HAVE TO SAY?!?!??!
The following is all you need to know about “The Drew Lane Show.” This past November 22nd marked the 50th anniversary of two events. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on the very same day that William Clay Ford, Sr. purchased the Lions.
One of those occurrences was given wall-to-wall coverage even when crucial Tigers news was breaking. The other was completely ignored.
But hey, at least I know where all of JFK’s mistresses rank in attractiveness according to the PM drive time show on a SPORTS station.
Honorable Mention: Stoney and Bill with Sara, Karsch and Anderson, Valenti and Foster, Caputo and Fithian, any combination of Jeff Riger, Eric Thomas and Dan Leach, Ryan and Rico, Matt Shepard’s show, the Parker and the Man Podcast, Any Show That We Forgot to Mention except Matt Dery’s
Best Sports Talk Radio Show — “The Discussion” with Matt Dery
Worst Sports Talk Radio Show — “The Drew Lane Show”
Best Local TV Anchor — Lindsey Hayes — Fox Sports Detroit
Best Media Twitter Account — Tony Paul — @TonyPaul1984
Worst Media Twitter Account — TIE (@TerryFoster971 and @VGoodwill)
Worst Article/Column of the Year — Pat Caputo — Oakland Press
Best Article/Column of the Year — John Niyo — Detroit News
Best TV Broadcast Team – George Blaha and Greg Kelser — Fox Sports Detroit
Worst TV Broadcast Team – Mario Impemba and Rod Allen — Fox Sports Detroit
Best Radio Broadcast Team – Dan Miller and Jim Brandstatter — 97.1
Worst Radio Broadcast Team – Dan Dickerson and Jim Price — 97.1 Best Beat Writer – David Mayo — MLive.com
Worst Beat Writer – John Lowe — Detroit Free Press
Worst Columnist – Jeff Seidel — Detroit Free Press
Worst Media-Related Restaurant Disaster – Coming Soon
The Jamie Samuelsen Award – Jamie Samuelsen — 97.1 and Detroit Free Press
Craig Monroe Memorial Award — Bill Shea — Crain’s Detroit
Best Columnist – John Niyo — Detroit News