Two examples of tacky radio...
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PHOENIX (AP) - St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was irate over a Phoenix-area disc jockey who called Darryl Kile's widow and asked if she had a date for Thursday's playoff game.
Flynn Kile hung up the phone after KUPD-FM radio's Beau Duran called her Phoenix hotel room, The Arizona Republic reported on its Web site Thursday night.
Chuck Artigue, the market manager for the Sandusky Group, which owns KUPD, said the prank "was in terribly bad taste" but no action would be taken against Duran.
Artigue said he talked to major league baseball officials and Arizona Diamondbacks president Rich Dozer to apologize.
A call by The Associated Press to the station on Thursday night was answered by a man who did not identify himself and referred all questions to the station manager on Friday.
"I'm vehement in saying that whoever is responsible should suffer serious and dire consequences," La Russa said. "If we could get our hands on them, we would deal with them physically. It was so brutal that something should happen to them. I hope whoever was responsible gets nailed."
Kile was found dead in his bed at the team's hotel in Chicago on June 22. An autopsy showed the 33-year-old pitcher died from blocked coronary arteries.
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Talk about somebody who should be shot...
And here is a tacky one from the Chicago Tribune... these morons are the local jocks on ESPN Radio here...
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Friday, the classy trio of Dan McNeil, John Jurkovic and Harry Teinowitz will conduct a contest that reaches a new low for the station. It calls for Green Bay fans to bring women down to the 'MVP studios, where station staffers will take their pictures.
The photos will then be placed on 'MVP's Web site, and listeners will get to vote for "Miss Wisconsin." The winner gets two tickets to Monday night's Bears-Packers game.
Make no mistake, this is not a beauty contest. It's just the opposite. The station is playing on the notion that Wisconsin women are large and unattractive.
McNeil has referred to it as "dog day Friday." Jurkovic ever so delicately said the station was looking for "women with udders." Teinowitz makes an allusion to elephants, saying, "Any way you slice it, it comes up peanuts."
By the way, get a load of McNeil, Jurko and Harry's mugs. Nobody will compare them with Costner, Cruise and Banderas.
The bottom line is the station is degrading women, pure and simple. What's sadder is that there will be women who go along with the stunt.
Station manager Mitch Rosen said 'MVP "had no intention of offending anybody," but McNeil doesn't seem to care.
"We realize the contest isn't for everybody, but I've stopped trying to be all things to all people," he said. "If it's offensive, well, that's why there's vanilla and that's why there's chocolate. We can only make fun of ourselves for so long."
When asked why he felt the contest was necessary, McNeil replied: "What do you want me to do, give away pantyhose? Go through directions to Champaign?"
McNeil knows this contest will appeal to a certain segment of his audience, not that you would want to hang out with any of them. Let's hope the majority of listeners will be so disgusted they won't bother tuning in.
The whole thing is so stupid it's sad. Just when you thought sports-talk radio couldn't get any lower, these three dig the hole even deeper.
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Yeah... I'm glad I listen to the other Sports Talk Station.
