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		<title>By: h2okie</title>
		<link>http://www.thelostogle.com/2009/11/19/sports-talking-radio-not-good/comment-page-1/#comment-19377</link>
		<dc:creator>h2okie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve lived a number of places and The Sports Animal is the worst sports talk radio program I have ever heard in a DMA of 50,000 or more. I was dumbfounded when I first moved here, but no one has stepped up to knock them to the curb where they belong (mostly Traber and Al). With the Internet, 3 Ogle readers could create something on their lunch breaks 10 times better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve lived a number of places and The Sports Animal is the worst sports talk radio program I have ever heard in a DMA of 50,000 or more. I was dumbfounded when I first moved here, but no one has stepped up to knock them to the curb where they belong (mostly Traber and Al). With the Internet, 3 Ogle readers could create something on their lunch breaks 10 times better.</p>
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		<title>By: knucklehead61</title>
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		<dc:creator>knucklehead61</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know this comes late and so probably nobody will read it (I just checked back to see if anybody was impressed with my previous post--sigh), but I think The Lost Ogle has grown to the point where you guys need to spin-off another blog:  TraberSucks.com.  Plenty of material.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know this comes late and so probably nobody will read it (I just checked back to see if anybody was impressed with my previous post&#8211;sigh), but I think The Lost Ogle has grown to the point where you guys need to spin-off another blog:  TraberSucks.com.  Plenty of material.</p>
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		<title>By: Poison</title>
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		<dc:creator>Poison</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ya know, I have to agree....Jim Traber is a COMPLETE AND CHILDISH IDIOT. No doubt about that.

I actually post on his weak website and have called into his show (he hung up on me, of course, whenever I attempted to debate him), and it&#039;s no secret that he&#039;s a genuine hypocrite that will try to tell you how morally sound he is.....while preaching about casinos, his gambling habits and his idiot FatJack friend. 

But hey, he did hit about .220 in the big leagues, right? I mean, he WAS good enough to get a one-way trip to Janpanese baseball, that&#039;s how awesome he was...just ask him. Actually, you don&#039;t have to ask him, he&#039;ll tell you all about it...LMFAO!!!

Not only did he make a complete ass out of himself with the Nick Collison argument (god forbid, anyone talk about another city, right Captain Maryland Crabcake?), but Bill Simmons has made him look like the complete FOOL that he is. Hell, even the local hack Berry Tramel runs circles around him on a daily basis.

Hey Jim....we all KNOW you&#039;re reading this. That being said, you ARE a hypocritical clown that couldn&#039;t hit a major league curveball.

Deal with that, you insignificant ass-clown.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ya know, I have to agree&#8230;.Jim Traber is a COMPLETE AND CHILDISH IDIOT. No doubt about that.</p>
<p>I actually post on his weak website and have called into his show (he hung up on me, of course, whenever I attempted to debate him), and it&#8217;s no secret that he&#8217;s a genuine hypocrite that will try to tell you how morally sound he is&#8230;..while preaching about casinos, his gambling habits and his idiot FatJack friend. </p>
<p>But hey, he did hit about .220 in the big leagues, right? I mean, he WAS good enough to get a one-way trip to Janpanese baseball, that&#8217;s how awesome he was&#8230;just ask him. Actually, you don&#8217;t have to ask him, he&#8217;ll tell you all about it&#8230;LMFAO!!!</p>
<p>Not only did he make a complete ass out of himself with the Nick Collison argument (god forbid, anyone talk about another city, right Captain Maryland Crabcake?), but Bill Simmons has made him look like the complete FOOL that he is. Hell, even the local hack Berry Tramel runs circles around him on a daily basis.</p>
<p>Hey Jim&#8230;.we all KNOW you&#8217;re reading this. That being said, you ARE a hypocritical clown that couldn&#8217;t hit a major league curveball.</p>
<p>Deal with that, you insignificant ass-clown.</p>
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		<title>By: Crimson Edgar</title>
		<link>http://www.thelostogle.com/2009/11/19/sports-talking-radio-not-good/comment-page-1/#comment-19352</link>
		<dc:creator>Crimson Edgar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You tune in because you don&#039;t want to miss it when Traber&#039;s head finally explodes on air, or maybe it&#039;s hearing them try to remember a recap of last night&#039;s Seinfeld episode. Love it, for years Traber acts like the messiah trying to lead OKC into the big league promised land, and when it happens proves him and Al and Dean to all be lazy daft frauds. Thought the stupid attack on Collison might be his Waterloo. They are the flagship after all. Sad things is the animal poached away most the best talent from the competition and hadly lets it on air in favor of melon-headed schtick. Traber fillibusters his show away fearing he&#039;ll get punked again if he opens the lines. Love it when the fast talking hick from Western Oklahoama that&#039;s named his prize winnning pig after Julie calls in. Al and Jim are remote whores. Only reason I can figure. Terrible image for the state for people passing through that sample the local sport&#039;s talk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You tune in because you don&#8217;t want to miss it when Traber&#8217;s head finally explodes on air, or maybe it&#8217;s hearing them try to remember a recap of last night&#8217;s Seinfeld episode. Love it, for years Traber acts like the messiah trying to lead OKC into the big league promised land, and when it happens proves him and Al and Dean to all be lazy daft frauds. Thought the stupid attack on Collison might be his Waterloo. They are the flagship after all. Sad things is the animal poached away most the best talent from the competition and hadly lets it on air in favor of melon-headed schtick. Traber fillibusters his show away fearing he&#8217;ll get punked again if he opens the lines. Love it when the fast talking hick from Western Oklahoama that&#8217;s named his prize winnning pig after Julie calls in. Al and Jim are remote whores. Only reason I can figure. Terrible image for the state for people passing through that sample the local sport&#8217;s talk.</p>
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		<title>By: cdkyle</title>
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		<dc:creator>cdkyle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I rarely listen anymore. Now every time I listen, its like a case scenerio for gamblers anonymous. They are either at the casino with machines clanging in the background, or the dreadful bookie telling me who&#039;s gonna cover. Like I give a &amp;@#+. I&#039;m trying to make my mortgage payment here. I turned over to get away from the daily grind. The last thing I want to hear is some guy telling me where to gamble my money away. Yeah right. I don&#039;t have time for this *^%#. I want some real sports talk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I rarely listen anymore. Now every time I listen, its like a case scenerio for gamblers anonymous. They are either at the casino with machines clanging in the background, or the dreadful bookie telling me who&#8217;s gonna cover. Like I give a &amp;@#+. I&#8217;m trying to make my mortgage payment here. I turned over to get away from the daily grind. The last thing I want to hear is some guy telling me where to gamble my money away. Yeah right. I don&#8217;t have time for this *^%#. I want some real sports talk.</p>
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		<title>By: bargainman</title>
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		<dc:creator>bargainman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>garbi - I appreciate you bringing up Jox 930.  I was just thinking about how classy Jack Mildren was and how he could calmly talk to people and share sports knowledge without bragging about his own sports accomplishments.  

Royce your post is spot on.  Traber irritates me more each day, but I always tune in.  It&#039;s almost like I put up with Traber just to I can hear what Trammel has to say, and he has killed Jim on the crabcakes, scheduling and Jenni Carlson.  One of my favorites though was when Tram had been in Colorado for a few days. Jim asked about his trip and Tram said it was okay.  Jim says, &quot;just okay&quot; and Tram says, &quot; I was afraid to say anything nice about another city for fear that you might try to run me out of town.&quot;  You could sense Jim&#039;s anger through the radio.  It was great.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>garbi &#8211; I appreciate you bringing up Jox 930.  I was just thinking about how classy Jack Mildren was and how he could calmly talk to people and share sports knowledge without bragging about his own sports accomplishments.  </p>
<p>Royce your post is spot on.  Traber irritates me more each day, but I always tune in.  It&#8217;s almost like I put up with Traber just to I can hear what Trammel has to say, and he has killed Jim on the crabcakes, scheduling and Jenni Carlson.  One of my favorites though was when Tram had been in Colorado for a few days. Jim asked about his trip and Tram said it was okay.  Jim says, &#8220;just okay&#8221; and Tram says, &#8221; I was afraid to say anything nice about another city for fear that you might try to run me out of town.&#8221;  You could sense Jim&#8217;s anger through the radio.  It was great.</p>
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		<title>By: johnbronco</title>
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		<dc:creator>johnbronco</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only reason to listen to them anymore is to catch when Dean-O is high as a kite and will pee on air.  Other than that, it&#039;s pretty stupid, they are about as deep as Sarah Palin and their knowledge is limited to what the USA Today colored graphs can show them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only reason to listen to them anymore is to catch when Dean-O is high as a kite and will pee on air.  Other than that, it&#8217;s pretty stupid, they are about as deep as Sarah Palin and their knowledge is limited to what the USA Today colored graphs can show them.</p>
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		<title>By: freedezbryant</title>
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		<dc:creator>freedezbryant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The irony in Traber bagging on Bill Simmons&#039; NBA knowledge is priceless. If Traber were to read Simmons&#039; book (which he obviously won&#039;t since he doesn&#039;t read), he would increase his own NBA knowledge by eleventy billion fold. There might be other people with more perspective on the NBA past and present than Simmons, but it&#039;s a very small group.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The irony in Traber bagging on Bill Simmons&#8217; NBA knowledge is priceless. If Traber were to read Simmons&#8217; book (which he obviously won&#8217;t since he doesn&#8217;t read), he would increase his own NBA knowledge by eleventy billion fold. There might be other people with more perspective on the NBA past and present than Simmons, but it&#8217;s a very small group.</p>
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		<title>By: garbi</title>
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		<dc:creator>garbi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a fascinating thread. I started listening to WWLS a lot when I had car back in college that had only AM radio. This was mid 1990s. 

I do like Traber sometimes. He&#039;s not an OU homer and sometimes his opinion on OU means more than something Al would say. 

Listening so much over the years, us listeners really feel like we know the people, and it turns into idol worship or mockery and disdain.

I don&#039;t know what I dislike more, WWLS in general, or Jim&#039;s insane attitudes on certain issues. WWLS runs their station &quot;by the book&quot; which means you always have to say WWLS, you always have to say, &quot;where are you at, Al&quot; before and after the break. You can never talk about former employees. I remember a few years ago, the last segment would be really short in the dominance hour. They&#039;d come back from break, spend two minutes telling us where they were at, talk for about 5 seconds, then have to tell us where they were at again. Don&#039;t the sponsors know that no one listens to those long commercial breaks.

Jim has also taken some horrible stances lately. First, on Nick Collison. I was stunned at his ignorance over the meaning of Collison&#039;s Twitter post. Then, his stance on scheduling and his argument with Tramel on this. Again, Jim&#039;s arrogance doesn&#039;t allow him to concede Tramel has a point. And then his hatred for Westbrook.

The Jox 930 was a good alternative with Rhode and Tramel. One of my favorite shows was when Rhode, Tramel and Nate Hybl were on. They were really good.

Wow, this is a long post. I guess I really know a lot about wwls. How sad.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a fascinating thread. I started listening to WWLS a lot when I had car back in college that had only AM radio. This was mid 1990s. </p>
<p>I do like Traber sometimes. He&#8217;s not an OU homer and sometimes his opinion on OU means more than something Al would say. </p>
<p>Listening so much over the years, us listeners really feel like we know the people, and it turns into idol worship or mockery and disdain.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what I dislike more, WWLS in general, or Jim&#8217;s insane attitudes on certain issues. WWLS runs their station &#8220;by the book&#8221; which means you always have to say WWLS, you always have to say, &#8220;where are you at, Al&#8221; before and after the break. You can never talk about former employees. I remember a few years ago, the last segment would be really short in the dominance hour. They&#8217;d come back from break, spend two minutes telling us where they were at, talk for about 5 seconds, then have to tell us where they were at again. Don&#8217;t the sponsors know that no one listens to those long commercial breaks.</p>
<p>Jim has also taken some horrible stances lately. First, on Nick Collison. I was stunned at his ignorance over the meaning of Collison&#8217;s Twitter post. Then, his stance on scheduling and his argument with Tramel on this. Again, Jim&#8217;s arrogance doesn&#8217;t allow him to concede Tramel has a point. And then his hatred for Westbrook.</p>
<p>The Jox 930 was a good alternative with Rhode and Tramel. One of my favorite shows was when Rhode, Tramel and Nate Hybl were on. They were really good.</p>
<p>Wow, this is a long post. I guess I really know a lot about wwls. How sad.</p>
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		<title>By: Rynofskie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rynofskie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Sports Anipal is a trainwreck.

Do you know why Al Eshbach looks like a shriveled, prune-man? Trabes has sucked all the oxygen from the atmosphere immediately surrounding himself, thus, Eshbach&#039;s stunted growth, and patchy beard.

BBJ looks like a half-empty sack of potatoes.&lt;--That one didn&#039;t cost you anything, but it&#039;s still true.

The Total Dominance Hour is just that. An hour of Trabes and Eshbach verbally domnating folks by merely yelling over them. Trabes is like a Sports Talk Radio Hitler. If you don&#039;t agree and follow, you will be belittled, harassed, bedowngraded, and eliminated. If you DO agree and follow, he will promote you, love you, let you suckle at his man-teats, and let you play poker with him and his partner in bro-mance, The Fat Jack.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Sports Anipal is a trainwreck.</p>
<p>Do you know why Al Eshbach looks like a shriveled, prune-man? Trabes has sucked all the oxygen from the atmosphere immediately surrounding himself, thus, Eshbach&#8217;s stunted growth, and patchy beard.</p>
<p>BBJ looks like a half-empty sack of potatoes.&lt;&#8211;That one didn&#039;t cost you anything, but it&#039;s still true.</p>
<p>The Total Dominance Hour is just that. An hour of Trabes and Eshbach verbally domnating folks by merely yelling over them. Trabes is like a Sports Talk Radio Hitler. If you don&#039;t agree and follow, you will be belittled, harassed, bedowngraded, and eliminated. If you DO agree and follow, he will promote you, love you, let you suckle at his man-teats, and let you play poker with him and his partner in bro-mance, The Fat Jack.</p>
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