OT: Ahhhhhhh...I Can't Stand Listening to Mike Rothstein.
He is Gad awful to listen to.
He. says. like... one... word... per. minute.
I will say that will infrequently says something slightly funny, but the rest is brutal. He also talks over Ira a lot like he owns the show. Not of fan of him.
Bring Sam back!
The guy is the durst. It's his voice. It's just annoying.
No shit. If he wrote down what he is saying out loud it wouldn't be too bad. But his voice is grating.
Yeah, I agree with what he's saying as far as athletes getting a bigger piece of the pie. I'd be good with them getting cost of living covered, but that doesn't mean we can't make fun of OSU for being a bunch of cheating cheaters who cheat. Everytime Ira brings it up he goes on about how the NCAA is corrupt. Ugh, I just want to pile on OSU, we can pile on the NCAA later.
We should pay players well, but that money should be put in a trust and the player should not have access to it until they graduate with a degree.
I've always thought that things like that should be tied to academics, and then I realize that Alabama and Tennessee and such schools would obviously just hand out diplomas for nothing at all, given that they'd now be incentivized to do so. Fudging GPAs and everything else. It's happened before without as big an incentive, it'd only get worse.
I really hadn't considered that.
Don't they already get monthly checks from the University? When I was in college, I'd see guys regularly get around $1300 a month to cover living expenses and that was at a MAC level football program where the cost of living is much lower. I'd imagine guys are getting around $1800 to $2000 at a place like UM.
IIRC the guy who writes at Club Tril said he got checks for $1100 a month on the OSU Basketball team so I wouldn't necessarily speculate that larger Universities are paying anything more or estimate a higher cost of living.
but he's got a voice for newspapers
for radio.
Thank you. I've thought of this as a topic a few times. He sounds like a steady whine. I wish I could send him to his room like I do my kids when they start whining.
<br>I wonder how much their podcast traffic goes down when he is co-hosting.
I actually really miss Andy Evans. While Ira is good, I'm still sad Andy left.
I still can't forget when they had the dude from MVictors on after he wrote the factions post. Ira actually tried to claim he was in the "fierce pragmatist" clan which, like, LOL.
I have flashbacks of 8th grade Science when I hear his voice...my eyelids feel like 10 ton hammers.
I've tried to listen to the station this week, and I end up always turning it off because Rothstein has the most obnoxiously whiny, nasally grating voice I've ever heard on radio, and it's combined with the preening, pompous, "I'm-more-moral-than-you" demeanor that made me want to punch through the radio every time Jim Carty was on, before he left town.
Sam Webb can't return quickly enough.
I miss Dave Shand.He always kept it real with regards to the MIchigan athletic department.
Mike and Dave was the best show WTKA has put on the air in a long time. I sort of remember hearing Dave Shand was more or less forced to quit the show due to him keeping it too real in regards to the University...
Dave was awesome.
Mike Wickett was a punk.
Ran into him at Fraser's once, he was pretty cool.
Wickett was like 20 years old - incoherent due to lack of experience. DeFran is/was the punk.
Rothstein doesn't seem to have a clue and I love that Ira has countered all of his idiotic comments with responses that make sense.
HURRY BACK SAM!
weintraub and rothstein together have combined for an exceptionally unlistenable week----and normally i listen to the wtka morning sportstalk while driving every workday
Dennis Fithian and Doug Karsch were the best on TKA.....
Dennis has improved significantly since he left WTKA. When Karsch left and he took over the Sports Beat, he clearly wasn't ready, often letting his mind wander on the air so bad you couldn't tell what the topic at hand was.
Since then, I think he's a become a really solid voice. Maybe not somebody who could draw drive-time show numbers, but he's definitely the most enjoyable host on 97.1 nowadays.
When he was on last year, he said that Michigan should put Robinson, Forcier, and Gardner in the backfield all at the same time.
It's kind of hard to take his pretensions to expertise seriously after that.
Rothstein is a first-rate girly man ... and I've never used the term "girly man" in my life until now.
I swear the Ann Arbor News/AnnArbor.com looks to employ sportswriters from the Tri-State area and not from Michigan or the midwest. Rothstein, Carty, Thomaselli, Rob something or other (had a column, demoted to prep sports), Heuser, Bigelow -- am I forgetting anyone? It's peculiar to say the least.
My favorites have been Karsch, Shand, Cnockaert, and Sam.
A radio show about Michigan sports...no talk about "what I want in my man cave" or "best show on tv"...no Valenti??? I have no gripes.
What don't you like? Is it the voice, or the constant interruption, or the awful jokes, or the bad opinions, or the extended sentences that go on forever with no substance added, or the constant unnecessary references to Syracuse.
/my Rothstein impression (he constantly has run-on sentences like this)
The one thing I do really respect about Rothstein is how hard he tries to maintain journalistic integrity and objectivity. I don't agree with at least half of what he says, but I can see how he got his opinions. WTKA is a station of "homers." That's why I listen to it. That, of course, means Rothstein doesn't fit in.
His fixation with Isiah, while I agree with his premise, sounds like a rookie attempt at developing a radio personality. He also has a thin skin, but that can keep it interesting. Rothstein could work out well on the radio, but he would have to have a nationally-based show where his objectivity is a strength instead of a weakness.
As for his voice, it could be cleaned up with a couple of weeks of training and judicious use of delay and reverb. I'm not ready to give him an F quite yet. I'll give him a C-minus.
I just discovered the same thing this morning. I started catching up on this week's shows today via the downloaded podcasts. I quickly found myself clamoring to skip over portions out of habit to restore sanity, only to remember he was on all of them. Man, he is so grating, like a stupid and whiney high school boy. And unfortunately I had it on while running in hot and humid weather. The combo was enough to make me want to throw the ipod into a lake. Sam, do NOT go on vacation any more!!!
I really wish Linda from Grand Blanc was hosting instead.
First time I can recall turning that show off.
Wickett was hired when he was like 17. He wasn't some extraordinary radio talent that they just had to have. The dude sounded like a normal 17-year-old year.
Really made TKA look like clowns.