Yeah, yeah, it's only talk radio, and worse yet, it's only sports talk radio, but dangnabbit, the Drive with Darren Mckee (aka DMac) as the primary host (he's had a few different cohosts over the years) has been canceled, to be replaced by the Drive with Phillip Lindsay and Zach Bye.
Which, no offense to Mr Lindsay and Mr Bye, is just not going to cut it for me. I've listened to both of them (well, only a few interviews with Phillip Lindsay, but quite a bit of Zach when he was paired with Brandon Stokely) and I guess I'm just not their demographic - too much about gambling on sports and not enough about what makes sports entertaining.
DMac was a bastion of irreverence without indifference on the sports talk airwaves for over twenty years, and though the opinions and views of sports talk show hosts doesn't amount to a hill of beans in the long (or short) run, DMac's opinions were at least thought-provoking and entertaining.
On top of DMac being let go by the station, so were former NFLers Orlando Franklin, Nate Jackson, and Chad Brown - all of whom were always interesting and insightful with their commentary.
Hell, Nate Jackson and Chad Brown were probably the two smartest talk show hosts on the station - not just football smart or sports-in-general smart like most sports talk show hosts, but smart smart. They made driving around in the van during the late morning hours almost like being in on round-table discussions at a think-tank staffed by thinkers who also happened to play football.
Now I'm probably going to have to go back to listening to classic rock stations like all the other cranky old dudes.
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