Appearently earlier in the week the Stewart brothers on their show on 790 made reference to Freddy's Nike deal and one of them said something about the lack of African-Americans in soccer. He, of course, got a bunch of emails about saying such a foolish thing. On their show today they said they would dig into the email bag on Friday, so if your in Atlanta and near a phone and a radio, show the game some love and call the station during "2 Live Stews" (which I am fairly sure runs from noon until three in the afternoon.)
You guys might like even more, knowing that they are the guys that took Rome's time slot on their station. I am sure they will be shocked that there is a guy named DaMarcus, who is one of the best young players in the American talent pool.
Re: Re: Coming Friday on Atlanta radio DMB is hardly the only one in the Nats' frame (sanneh, pope, howard, gibbs, stewart, cunningham, buddle, etc.) as a former resident of atlanta, it's seems typical of the unfortunate selection of radio hosts the city is doomed to - btw, isn't that the station that employed the idiot hannity and an even worse psycho named neil someting-or-other?
>>btw, isn't that the station that employed the >>idiot hannity and an even worse psycho named >>neil someting-or-other? No, that's 750 which is mainly newstalk except for Braves broadcasts. I would say on the whole that 790thezone is somewhat soccer friendly as I've heard them mention the Silverbacks and they even had a night when several of the radio personalities went to a Beat game to try and improve their "knowledge" of the game. But it's still a radio station in the South so there is more ignorance than interest in the sport.
I was actually impressed with their coverage of the World Cup. It wasn't great, mind you, but it was decent. They did live remotes for the "later in the morning" US World Cup games (I remember driving home from a bar after watching the Portugal match, and they were going nuts about it), setting up big screen TVs at Waffle Houses and inviting Beat players to join them. They took plenty of calls about the games. They had a producer or GM or something that seemed to know his stuff. Plus, one of the morning hosts, Beau Bach, drops little factoids about the Chiefs in from time to time.