BAY AREA MEDIA JERKS*Sal Castaneda --KTVU: Used to be a charming, funny, engaging man with a Bay Area pedigree no less; would light up your morning and provide laughter and sanity to the traffic commute nightmare.
Now is an egotistical, sullen, absorbed narcissist whose image and inflated ego has turned cheery Sal into a big time jerk.
*Frank Somerville: KTVU: the bright-eyed SF State alum who makes it known about his "conscience" on Facebook is anything but off the air; a vile, unfunny, insensitive, schmuck with all the sincerity of a Lodi truck stop.
*Mark Ibanez: KTVU: After Ibanez signed his three-year contract extension in March, the once-jovial sportscaster with supreme up in his professional life has become a certified lout. Mean, angry, also another narcissist who gave a symbolic middle finger to the little people. KTVU's worm too.
*Greg Papa: NBC Sports, Bay Area: The once-respected Bay Area broadcaster with Raiders' and Warriors' connection; he's now DETESTED by staffers both at the cable outlet and FM sports station. First off, Papa is a MEAN SOB. "The jerk of all jerks," says an industry source at NBC who works near his office. Papa is mired in a nasty divorce with a former Raiderette; basically screwed the equally smarmy but now sympathetic, Dave Feldman out of a job (as 49ers pre and post-game host) and is a BULLY around both his play stations. Papa also routinely TALKS over Kelli Johnson in the worst cable show in America, "The Happy Hour"--yeah, if you like warm beer on your cereal. The obnoxious Papa has been called out and the results are not very pretty.
*Allen Martin: KPIX: Grim, sullen, angry and perpetually pissed-off guy; one of many jerks at KPIX who thinks the world revolves around him. Martin should get out more and smell the coffee; maybe take a long walk on a short pier and examine life.
*Julie Haener: KTVU: the fake smile and inside dopey Haener has been exposed as an angry, petty, gossipmonger who stirs up more crap than the incubator at the Oakland Zoo. Her frequent, off-air, schmoozes with Bill Martin is one of many stirs at KTVU.
*Ronn Owens: KGO Radio: still a jerk; always will be a jerk; jerkkkkk to no end. He's probably going back for a sunset gig at KGO so the ego can get one last massage and provide the needed cash infusion to finance his frequent dates with the brunette who isn't his wife. Ronnnnn has a mean streak: just ask the waiters at North Beach Restaurant.
*Gary Radnich: KNBR: Can this overbearing egotistical jerk please be at the end of his once-storied career? No, unfortunately. He's become a caricature of himself. Isn't very smart. Out of touch and now talks about his sneakers more than he talks about sports. Great. The Bentley stories used to possess mild charm now is boring as hell. He famously told the Bay Area he spawns because when he's about to go kaput, he wants people around him. Now that's real classy from the king of the Tenderloin.
*Armstrong & Getty/KGO Radio: Double jerks en fuego. The mutts who want you to believe they're just a bunch of middle-of-the-road political yappers are in actuality, a couple of GOP operatives who kiss Trumpian ass on a daily basis. The Tea Party duo with all the moderation of a Simi Valley Starbucks. Their so-called openness during the Kavanaugh debate was so laughable they should have hit the hyena-cackle cart.
*John Lund: KNBR: a juvenile, redundant, pedantic asshole with fake giggles, repetitious monologues, dick joke insinuations, and more insincerity then a Market Street hooker. A disgusting, vile, inane, mentally-impaired pack of feces better suited for Siberia dive bars.
I'm surprised to see you constantly rip Ibanez. He seemed to be one of the only "names" that would go on your radio show, Lieberman Live.
ReplyDeleteI think a better title would be "Bitchin' With Rich."
DeleteLooking forward to the column called "415 Media Good Guys". Not holding my breath.
ReplyDeleteGood Gary rip. No HH rip. I love me some HH.
ReplyDeleteGee..... tell us how you REALLY feel, Rich?
ReplyDeleteYou bash Ronn, but just 2 days ago you talked him up to return to the "new" KGO. Which is it>
Well.................that about says it all.
ReplyDeleteDo you like *anyone,* Rich?
ReplyDeleteIt is about time that you caught up with Sal. He has been getting by year after year.
ReplyDeleteBrick being funny? That's like an actual brick being funny.
ReplyDeletei know it won't be approved, rich only publishes the positive comments about himself
ReplyDeleteI am one of the Seven people in Marin County who is sick and tired of hearing about anything-Radnich. I don't even like seeing his name.
ReplyDeleteApparently, others say they do. No accounting for taste, I guess.
can we add the overexposed im a big deal non stop windbag "uncle towney"with his annoying cackle to this list..and yes papa is the most arrogant prick on radio, maybe joe fortinbaugh makes the list too..
ReplyDeleteTremendous and right on takes Rich.
ReplyDeleteEspecially about Lund, A&G, and Owens...
I'd throw in Boooby Fitzgerald, Ethan Beer-man, Chip Franklin, et. al...
What's the one thing all these people have in common: they're all fakes, phonies. We here always smell out a phony miles away and these crummy fakes take the cake.
I met Ibanez a few years ago in Arizona during the Giants spring training. He was on the street with his crew to do a spot and I went up to him and introduced myself as a fan for years from the East Bay. He was very friendly and engaging, as was his crew, talking about what we saw on the field the day before. Seemed okay to me.
ReplyDeleteAnd why do you always put down Armstrong and Getty? Their political leaning? Not liberal enough for you? I find them entertaining and not Sussman and Green on KSFO, who are definitely not entertaining...just boring.
A&G have definitely gone more conservative, maybe I have also gone more liberal. I cannot stand their misogynistic behavior though. The names they call female opponents of Trump is downright embarrassing. Considering they are both married and Joe even has two daughters is bad.
DeleteBoredom is the measure of the limits of one's mind.
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