93.7 The Fan Tells Hosts To Avoid Talking About Frank Coonelly's DUI

Which is way too many in my book. Tough to understand why he’s employed when Rocco DeMaro is available

His 14 or so successful years of hosting radio would disagree with this.

It’s still really small, but more than it was.

It was funny when Kauffman did it. At least find something else to read. He reads teh same book, doing basically the same stunt as Kaufman did in ’79. In my book, he loses points for that.

I do dislike the pornstar/stripper bits, though.

I have a friend who has a friend who used to dance at the club Madden frequents (you know which one if you listen to his promos on the radio), and she says that the friend says that Madden has, shall we say, unreasonable expectations as to the type of contact that he thinks his money should be buying at the club.

And there are few things more uncomfortable

I have no idea what you’re referring to. Are the girls just bad at making conversation?

He stirs the pot way too much when it comes to the sports teams here and I don’t approve. When I listen to sports I don’t like to get jerked around which is what he does on the air.

That and his whole obsession with hating on Malkin really turned me off to him.

Like Faulkner used to with MS accent…

on the fight at a High School basketball game, I think they would love to do some more grandstanding and moralizing.

I never thought I’d be writing to you, but I have to tell you about what happened to me the other day….

I grad-ji-ated from there in 77 so it is likely we crossed paths on the bridge at some point. I was an accounting major but was friends with some guys in journalism like Kevin Iole who has a nice gig with Yahoo now. It’s funny because something he wrote was linked on Smizik’s blog the other day and he was referred to as Kevin Lole.

Will it continue tomorrow?

I want to hear Gianotti discuss it as Vinnie Richichi then answer every question with “that’s fantastic” as Josh Miller.

that Smizik’s appeal is to older Yinzers while Madden’s demographic tends to skew towards younger yinzers. IMO he has beaten his schtick to death but he keeps at it because hey, it sells in Pittsburgh. He is almost obsessive with his dislike of certain Pittsburgh athletes like Hines Ward or Bettis and I can’t tell whether it is because they dissed him at one point on a show appearance or he knows that any criticism of a Steeler in this town will get you noticed.

Finally that tough guy persona he cultivates is a load up crap. He was a year or so behind me in school and while I didn’t know him I know a lot of guys who did and told me that he was a bit of a pussy.

I thought Vlad’s comment about his expectations in the Strip Clubs was pretty funny. He is the type of guy that makes chicks go “E’wwwwww, he’s gross”

If they are employees and aren’t allowed to comment on the reports…that would be censoring.

Aren’t the announcers the ones who do the news? If so, they were allowed to talk about it – it was just restricted to a specific context.