Finding Dery

By Jeff Moss
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
June 25, 2016

It has been three months since Matt Dery was let go by Detroit Sports 105.1 and we have been looking for the longtime sports update guy/talk show host ever since.

We heard he was giving speeches on how to win in the workplace, but we haven’t been able to find anyone who was swilling to pay for a seminar about victory at the office from a guy who is currently unemployed.

After that failure, we attempted to discover the Deez presenting parenting tips on how to raise your children the “Love and Logic” ~~pyramid scheme~~ way.

An amazing experience learning from the best. Love and Logic Institute, Inc. crew. Thanks to Foster, Jim, and… https://t.co/3OSfpSmmCt

— Matt Dery (@DerySpeaks) May 7, 2016

But we couldn’t find him selling this product to moms and dads once they found out that Dery’s own kids live in Indianapolis.

In fact, we could not find Ratt Dreary anywhere. UNTIL DSR fan @ciapawn located the Cleveland native in Utica emceeing festivities at the absolute lowest level of minor league baseball last week ….

@JeffMossDSR @SeanPBali pic.twitter.com/UjYNHgUAOO

— Ciapawn (@ciapawn) June 19, 2016

Oy ya yoy. The former WDFN and 97.1 employee has been relegated to passing out pastries between innings, hosting Hula Hoop contests and calling bagel races

@JeffMossDSR he is the host. He is giving out cupcakes in the stands between innings.

— Ciapawn (@ciapawn) June 18, 2016

@JeffMossDSR now he is hosting the hula hoop contest. I shit you not

— Ciapawn (@ciapawn) June 19, 2016

@TepidButter @JeffMossDSR he is pumped that biggie bagel won that race. This is embarrassing

— Ciapawn (@ciapawn) June 19, 2016

@JeffMossDSR blocked. Can’t read it. He also judged the bagel race and help cub scouts shoot t shirts into the stands

— Ciapawn (@ciapawn) June 19, 2016

Now, there is nothing wrong with earning a living even if you have to resort to being the Grand Poobah at a ballpark that hosts round robin baseball games between three teams that aren’t even at the level of the New York-Penn League.

I just find it a bizarre juxtaposition to Dery’s comments to me a few years ago regarding Sean Baligian having to “slum it” by working at 96.1-FM Grand Rapids from his house in Northville.