*I thought the "800-'Kars-for-Kids' radio jingle was god-awful until I began to hear the audio invasion of the insufferable "State Farm" country-bumpkin song that seems to be played every two seconds on Bay Area radio. I'm sure you've heard it. The two annoying schmucks with the banjos that proclaim: "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there." State Farm is no good neighbor and when I hear that spot, I feel nausea coming. Get the hell away from me.
*Five worst Bay Area sports anchors:
-Dennis O'Donnell/KPIX: Be glad you had family money, DOD. Dennis used to be a nice guy before G-Rad made him out to be god. Mike Singletary, foolishness-and-all, exposed this guy on local TV long ago. Only Kim Coyle is worse. It seems at KPIX the business model on sports is to highlight the bottom feeders. O'Donnell has nice hair and suits, but his anchoring is tried and forced.
-Joe Fonzi/KTVU: Joe was mildly on the radar about twenty years ago before he decided to take about another two years off and practice verbal yoga. Joey boy, if you want to take shots at me, then you know how to get a hold of me. In the meantime, how's your golf game?
-Larry Beil/KGO-TV: Beil: the sultan of smarm, the king of kaboo, the epitome of asininity---WITH AUTHORITY!, (Where'd you steal that line, Lair, from Chris Berman?) Beil is still bragging that he once worked at ESPN so he has an excuse that he's a schmucko. Little do the folks that watch you know that you're so, so, so NOT what you appear to be off camera. The password is : phony. (WITH AUTHORITY!)
-Scott Reiss/Comcast Sports Bay Area: Mr. Jim Nantz wannabee long ago lost any sort of credibility when he was openly rooting on Twitter for his "beloved" Bay Area sports teams. Scotty, when a majority of the people you work with hate your guts, you know I'm not the only one who gets visual hemorrhoids when I see you. Take the smirk off your face and we'll talk, maybe.
-Damon Andrews/Comcast Sports Bay Area: There's only one Bryant Gumbel. And Damon, you're not hosting Masterpiece Theatre, its fucking cable sports. Get a clue. Read the room, matter of fact, get the hell out of the studio and buy a lap dance at the Gold Room. I hear if you mention you work at KNBR, they'll give you free pizza at Amici's.
*Rocking the SF Chronicle: Matier and Ross, Scott Ostler and Jon Carroll are in the top three of columns read at the 5th and Mission outpost. Free turkey sandwiches for all at Tommy's Joynt!
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Never met them-but they fit my theory that if Raddy mentions them as ESPECIALLY great guys..that means they are media country club mentality.
ReplyDeleteIf your in Gary's club,you can say the "N" word and "loveable" Gare says you just had a bad day. Those who don't agree,with him on that are the bad people...
Other than Reise who Raddy doesn't mention-I guess because he's his Comcast competition for jobs there,the rest are swell fellahs. Hmm,I myself thought Beil was ok...now I wonder..
Even Kate Scott now has put away an attitude of standupishness..I guess the fun of local fame has got to her. She giggles and winks at everything the two old men say. Even when its not.
Then theirs the Mariachi version of the State Farm commercial...
ReplyDeleteI have to bring up Joe Stalys all time worst sports endorsement for Visions care. Sucks donkeys big time. And so racist too. Joe might as well have read the script in black face.
Don't get it. I enjoy Larry Biel, tolerate KGO's terrible weathercasters to watch him. He's funny, usually gives me a laugh, and he knowledgeable about the subject. What he's like off camera I could give a s--- less. And on the post game shows, he does a nice job on interviews, actually lets the guest talk. I think he's the class of Bay Area sportscasters. He must have pooped in your turkey sandwich, because you rip him every chance you get.
ReplyDeleteFrank Summerville is insufferable. I've never heard him read a single story that he didn't mangle. Awful.
ReplyDeleteAlso, how about some comments about the regular graphics and crawl screw ups on KTVU and KGO? Who is running things at these two stations, trained monkeys? KTVU on the weekend is an embarrassment and just unacceptable during the week. KGO is also filled with errors during the week. I am watching more cable news because the local productions are so unprofessional. Cameras focused on the wrong news reader, wrong graphics for the story, etc. KTVU once showed the same photo for a murder suspect as the murder victim. Production staff at KTVU don't even know that Piedmont Ave. is in Oakland.
that effing double whammy horrible state farm nonsensical jingle makes me.........quickly.....turn the dial to kqed.
ReplyDeleteWould someone please choke the life out of the Kars For Kids waif? And State Farm? Who puts out this shit? Doesn't management get it that ads like these (toenail fungus, anybody?) are ratings killers? Back in the day, radio had standards. Not any more. A direct off-shoot of the FCC Act permitting beancounters to buy as many stations as they can devour. By the way, fuck Cumulus. When I worked at KGO 810 in the 80's, we had arbitron ratings in the 10s! Then came Crap Cities, blah blah blah and nowthe punks at Cumulus. Mickey Luckoff at one time wanted to buy KGO. What a missed opportunity. Today's KGO is insufferable. Sheeesh.
ReplyDeletethat effing double whammy horrible state farm nonsensical jingle makes me.........quickly.....turn the dial to kqed.
ReplyDeleteOctober 12, 2011 12:59 PM
I feel the same way, 12:59. I HATE those horrible jingles ... my spouse suggested we drop SFarm... at least we let our agent know our feelings.
Larry Krueger dropped the "At end of the day " cliche a few dozen times and as close to in a row as I guess it's possible. What kind of dufus acts like a teenager repeating what he heard the guys say thats new?
ReplyDeleteFunny too, Larry acts like the show is second to his degenerate gambling habit. You can easily see on TV-everyday- he's yellow highlighting his bets as Radnich talks. Raddy called him down irked about it,of course with the jokes like it didnt bother him-only IT DID bother him. Wow,Larry not respectful?...who would have guessed?.
Agree with 12:59, and 1:03. I have a friend that has a PPM and anytime either of those and other annoying spots come she could not leave that station sooner, often to competition or similar stations.
ReplyDeleteWorst of all are the incessant Kaiser/Sutter commercials. Ubiquitous across the AM band. How much do these condescending ads drive up our insurance premiums? Like the old family physician once said, "come see me and I'll find something wrong with you". BTW, don't forget those PSA tests men.
ReplyDeleteThe State Farm commercials may be overplayed, but they are fairly good as far as quality of music that's completely diverse. Kars 4 Kids just drones on and on and on in it's monotony.
ReplyDeleteActually, everyone you mentioned doesn't really get under my skin. The one who you neglected to mention (and I am assuming that you like him) is Mark Ibanez. I'll never forget the cameras showing him prancing up and down the 49ers sidelines at the old Stanford Stadium, jumping for joy that his "Niners" were kicking the Dolphins asses at Super Bowl XIX. I thought reporters were supposed to be objective about the events they covered? God, what a self-serving creep. Never liked him (or his act) since then.
ReplyDeleteDon't you fucking love it when a few of the KGO and KSFO trust fund babies /brown nosers talk show hosts tried to shove their opinions down the throat of the listeners? They acted like they have the solution to save the world. Most of them can't even thinking three moves ahead. These a-holes loved to sell the image of life is fucking well to their Marin County and Danville-located listener-ship. Most of them never ever suffered any real hardship in their life before. They lived the Life of Riley.
ReplyDelete@4:24 Yeah, or when Ibanez implied that the Giants brought the Bay its first baseball championship. The guy is a slimy, homer.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't disagree with you more about Larry Beil. The rest, spot on.
ReplyDeleteI totally disagree, Richie. I think O'Donnell, Fonzi, Beil, and Andrews are among the better sports anchors in town.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I don't expect much from someone who thinks that the two grannies, Roberta Gonzales and Dana King, are "hot".
I have a feeling your list should be titled, "Five Sports Anchors I have Grudges Against".
The State Farm jingle is refreshing and creative, perhaps it effects a narrow minded, one dimensional music fan like you. In fact Weezer has a State Farm jingle which runs currently, and it's fucking brilliant.Perhaps if they would have created a jingle in the style of that bald hack Billy Joel you would have been thrilled.
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree with 7:19: 5 sports anchors I have grudges against is a bulls eye.
The Mariachi State Farm commercial is just plain Racist.
ReplyDeleteWhere is La Raza civil rights group when you need them?
Rich. Never got your hate for Reiss. I've met him before and thought he was a class act. Not sure I buy the stuff about coworkers hating his guts. Need more details
ReplyDeleteYou can't blame the radio stations with playing those ads. It was probably a tough year after Meg Whitman propped up their ad revenue last year.
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of Ibanez either. Too slick and hasn't really endeared himself to the Bay Area beyond his few minutes at the end of each night. With his big paycheck, that's stealing money! But he was good to Rich so he's not on his shit list.
I don't mind O'Donnell and Fonzi either.
If you think Roberta and Dana are grannies, sign me up for an AARP card!! Muy Caliente! Sure there are lots of young pretty ones out there but a woman can be older AND still attractive. They're also smarter, know what they want, and don't have time for the immature B.S. and game playing. That's damn sexy in my book!
Replace Beil with Ibanez and Damon Andrews with the overennunciator Henry Wofford (Van Earl Wright bit got old years ago) and its OK. DOD, could you not wear your red and gold underwear when talking about the Raiders. He slid a few shots during his Davis eulogy (more than anybody else); I know your buttsore that CBS is an AFC network.
ReplyDeleteTHIS BLOG IS TOO POWERFUL! and read..
ReplyDeleteKruegers desk was cleared of sports newspages,no highlighting. I guess KNBR figures if they pay him to do a show ,the least he can do is pay attention and keep his filthy hobbys at home...
I'm a fan of Larry and like his 4:00 anchor spot.
ReplyDeleteRE: The Mariachi State Farm Jingle (9:52)
ReplyDeleteEverything is racist to you pal. hey amigo get a fucking life, everything in the world isn't designed to offend your uber racial sensibilities. You must be on unhappy sack of shit.
1042-I will take a wild guess at who you THOUGHT made that 952 post. You were wrong.Wasn't me But you will get my answer anyways.
ReplyDeleteUnhappy that people like you walk the Earth. I'm not your amigo, asshole.
My complaint with the State Farm commercials splattered over all the radio is that the company is obviously spending way too much on advertising, which means they aren't spending enough on paying claims. I wouldn't buy SFarm insurance under any circumstances...
ReplyDeleteLarry "Satin" Kreuger a few days before Al davis death called the raiders "scum: and davis a "scumbag".
ReplyDeleteChris Townsend should be on the list no knowledge just a's talk along with his whiny voice make me turn the dial. He must need the $$ or something and does the late night show on sportsblyine after his 6-10 pm show ends thats a long day and night especially when the late night show they dont have many callers.
@7:19 PM- Boy, did you ever nail that one correctly.
ReplyDeleteFool... Roberta is HOT HOT HOT... if there ever was a poster child for a MiLF... she's it. Dana isn't bad at all but not MiLF'ish
ReplyDeleteBRING ON THE CARL'S JR COMMERCIALS !!! AT LEAST THE WRITERS CAN WRITE!!!
ReplyDeleteGET RID OF THE HONDA COMMERCIALS AND THE STANLEY STEAMER COMMERCIALS...TALK ABOUT SATURATING THE AIR WAVES!!
Let me tell you how much I hate the 2 state farm "get to a better state" jingles. I actually came online to see if anyone hated this annoying crap as much as me, I've never done that with any other commerical or radio ad and I listen to radio a lot. There are 2 versions of this annoying-as-fuck song and when this dumbass starts singing I want to scratch my fucking eardrums out. If I met the guy who produced OR sang this I would like to beat his face with my fist until there was either no more face or no more fist. These ads have left such a bad taste in my mouth (ears?) that EVERY time I think of them I shudder. I will NEVER, EVER, EVER EVEN FUCKING CONSIDER GETTING STATE FARM INSURANCE.
ReplyDelete"Anonymous said... The State Farm jingle is refreshing and creative...maybe if you weren't so one-minded you'd get that..blah blah"
ReplyDeleteYou are so wrong. I'm not talking about the tune, I don't dislike the slightly country music theme. The thing I hate most about it is that it's aimed entirely at the 18-30 age group and it's clear by the lyrics (are you even listening to what they're saying?) that they this age group are either just complete stoned or are moronic fucks with an adolescent sense of humor, or both. If you can't fucking understand that you REALLY shouldn't be calling anyone narrow or one-minded. I'm 26, there's nothing more repulsive to me than that kind of attitude, I've been around it and participated in it for the better part of the past decade. Time to grow the fuck up.