2 Live Stews

I've been doing podcasts of talk radio shows lately on the ipod. I just download the previous days podcast, throw an earbud in, and its commercial free smooth sailing on my commute. 3 hour shows are only about 90 minutes without the commercials. For you guys who enjoy sports talk radio, you know how brutal the commercial breaks can be, so its pretty wild to double your efficiency.

If you decide to try this out, I give a 5 star rating recommendation to the Two Live Stews on Sporting News Radio. I really love these guys. They make WEEI, well the Big Show atleast, just look like trash. You know how most of the people our age like Mike Holley the best out of the WEEI hosts? Its because hes young, smart, likes the same music we do, etc. We can relate to him and hes a cool dude. Well the Stews are like Mike Holley in terms of hip hop, smart, fresh take on the issues, unconventional, etc. The Stewart brothers are funnier than Holley though. They crack me up. They also have incredible chemistry being brothers.

Ryan Stewart, the younger brother, was an All American safety at GA Tech and went on to play for the Detroit Lions. Doug Stewart played sports in college but he is a former sports agent and mortgage lender. Ryan was a ladies man up until he got married recently and doug is the family man. They get into arguments that will have you in stitches, as opposed to the headache inducing arguments of The Big Show on WEEI. The Stews style is more like talk you would have in a basement with your buddies or at the barbershop. Like The Big Show will be ripping callers and explaining things over and over, while the stews are having a blast and discussing things like Fitz vs Moss, or Fitz vs Calvin Johnson, or what would happen if Vick was the Steelers their QB last year, and the stews call people out if they aren't keeping it real. Its my favorite style sports talk.

So thats my recommendation for the two live stews. They also have won radio on air talent of the year awards in 2004. They are cool dudes and Ryan is a former athlete so they get really good guests. At 245 everyday they do an awesome celeb news thing. The show airs in Atlanta, but they do mostly national stories. Actually I have been following the Falcons and Hawks more since I've been a fan of the show now that I think of it. Just go to itunes store and search for two live stews, then click the sporting news radio one and your good to go, free downloads of the days 2livestews for your commute. Or if you are on your computer between 1 and 4 in the afternoon on weekdays, you can just go to Radio Time, search for the zone, and listen to the stews live that way.

As for WEEI, I respect the ratings and success, but those shows blow. Im generalizing the station but I mean the afternoon drive show The Big Show. They just beat topics into the ground with no sophistication. You probably just said who wants sophistication in a sports talk radio show right? Well I do. Why would I listen to The Big Show when all I get out of it is finding out what the local sports stories are. I never learn anything from those guys. Its just guys yelling and ripping callers. They just pound the conventional and consensus opinions. Its also 75% yelling. 

Ordway called games with Johnny Most for 13 years, the guy is a legend in Boston. The premise of Ordway keeping things together and having sports writers as cohosts to bring the inside information is a good one, but it just doesn't work for me. Ordway now makes a million per year as the host and his ego has grown with his paycheck. He seems like a nice enough guy, but the fresh insight just isn't there, hes nothing special. And the writers as cohosts usually suck. You listen to them and realize that some people dont think outside the box no matter how close they are to the game.

-Jared Wolfe A.K.A. Tha PROfessa

Jared From Bridgewater

I was on Dale and Holley today at about 1:45 today talking about Michael Young, anyone catch it?

I was looking at Michael Youngs stats last night to prepare for a blog post so the numbers and info were fresh on my mind.

What I found was Young has declined a ton from his peak in 2005. He had a great run for a few years in his late 20's but since then his SLG% (power) has dropped 70, 40, and 20 points to the point where he was literally a league average hitter last season.

Young's OPS (on base + slg) was the same as Lowrie's. And his line of 285avg, 402slg, and 12hr was pretty much the same as Ellsburys line but with 3 more HR and 35 less steals.

So everyone that called Dale and Holley today was saying we should upgrade our power and defense by getting Young. Noone was really against it. So I decided to call in and give my take.

My point as a caller was that people haven't payed attention to Youngs decline. They are still thinking of him as the guy who in 2005 had a 900 OPS, 24 HR, and a line that looked like Nomar's from 2002. And the current Young is not even worth the 5 yrs at 80mill he is going to be paid. Nevermind Boston having to trade Buchholz in order to have the opportunity to overpay for him. Holley agreed with me and we both thought the difference between Lowrie and Young in the field wasn't that significant but Dale had an issue with it.

Last night I found that Young does very bad on most defensive metrics because of bad range to his right. He does have soft hands though and a good arm that helped him win the gold glove. So his defense is overrated to me but I said to Dale that regardless if he is great in the field, it doesn't make up for paying an avg hitter 16mill and giving up Buchholz.

Oh yea, at one point I said that people have a hard time believing that Ellsbury and Young had a similar line last season. Dale goes OK I've seen the numbers but I think last year was more of an abberation. And I said well his slugging went from 528 to 460 to 420 to 402 last season since 2005 so that sounds like a trend to me. Holley was like Man I'm enjoying this keep preaching, haha.

Calling in was kinda sick, never done it before. Might start trying to call Dale and Holley once a week or something. Wow imagine the hits we would get if I could plug the blog? Actually if any of you can get on the air and say the name of the site before they cut you off I'll give you some dough. 888-525-0850

-Wolfie on the blackberry