Drake Harris' dad on WTKA w/Sam Webb

Valenti's annoying when it comes to college sports, but he seems pretty clear eyed with the area pro teams.  I just turn the station when they start talking college, but think they're good for pro.  If nothing else it's better than music radio on my drive home from the office.

 Am not in the area now, but whenever I was the radio was immediately tuned from 97.1 to another station @ 2pm after Karsh & Anderson as I couldn’t stand the way they played their audience to incite people to call in. I have to admit even I was duped @ the very beginning of their show’s run 5-6 years ago.

I think that's what the words "Drew Sharp" do to me.  I mean, despite all the Mike Rosenberg douchebaggery, that cannot trump years and years of him bagging on anything UM or Detroit sports related.  

Thing is, other cities have reporters that go too far the other way trying to not sound like a homer, but this guy sounds like he has a vendetta.  When we beat Sparty in hoops, it doesn't matter because they still have a better program and one or two wins don't change that.  But when they beat us in football, there was a changing of the guard and our program is overrated.

Valenti sucks, but he is still the author of "The Rant" with HR Puff 'n Stuff after the ND game in 2006.  For that, he will always have a place in my heart.

glued--it's all about the clicks and views. I question whether, as driver of our mediated lives, that's a real good thing for the country, how we view our problems, pretty much anything. Does not--in any case--lead to calmly considered opinion. The thoughtful media types--oh wait, there aren't any. 

I don't know if I would go so far as to call it "intellectual-sounding".  The only currency radio talk hosts have is the perception of authority and the perception of credibility.  People who think they are going to call into a radio show and out-argue the host when that is the one thing a radio host can't allow, it's funny when you think about it.  Those guys control the phone line, those guys control the volume of the microphones and the phone speakers.  They can spin any call anyway they want to ensure they come off better than the caller.

Mike Valenti is a blithering idiot.  You only have to read his blog to confirm that.  The man can barely spell.  Still, no caller into his show is ever going to be allowed to make him look bad, otherwise the show loses the perception of credibility.

The smartest thing you can do is follow the advice several other posters have already made and just don't listen.  If they don't have any listeners, they won't be on the air.

Actually, what Valenti said was if Harris' goal was to sign onto a program that can compete for a National Championship, then Michigan doesn't belong on his list, along with Michigan State, because neither of those programs, "play in that pool".  Typical straw man logic that he likes to employ to present the appearance of objectivity while pissing off the rival fanbase and getting people to call him and yell at him.

Hey man, I held a posbanger for photoshoppin that puppy. I have no skill at doing things like that myself, and the only pony with a Block M on it ended up being a Blue one. The dead OSU pony won by default really.

Blackgandhi - I'm not shocked by this. You can tell a lot of what he says is to piss people off & get phone calls to his radio show. I would bet he's a dude that loves sports, drinks, gambles, etc, just like the rest of us. Now, I do think msu being little brother in so many ways to UM chaps his ass and stuff that goes against State does bother him more than he shows.