Bob Stelton sucks

Wyman and Bob has to go. There is just nothing redeeming to it and it has run out of gas before another local host, the "Gas Man," could step in and put the pedal to the medal. The real problem is Bob "Stilted" Stelton, not Dave "Woozy" Wyman, who I enjoy poking fun at, but has more charm than Stelton could ever conjure up. In fact, Stelton has no charm, not even a negative charm. And worse, I question if the guy really is a die hard sports fan, or if he's just pretending to be, because he got a job in sports radio, and this is sad. He's the ultimate careerist, really. There are references to him being in a band called, "The Livin' End," and he sometimes talks about how little he was into sports at times in his life. If nothing else, a sports talk radio guy has to be the ultimate fan, and many of them were (are) sports journalists, but it's hard to imagine Stelton writing an interesting paragraph. I really don't know how he got this job, or even entered the field, but I want to say it was nepotism, even though I have no idea. He adds no insights or points of view to any of the conversations, and will occasionally take a hard line but even then he's never really controversial, or daring. He's so by the book he turns what can be a fun dialogue into sports about as entertaining as watching the stocks report on CNBC. He also isn't funny, or annoying, or anything, just a stick in the mud, who watches the games for his job, and adds nothing to the conversation. I'm really open to a mediocre show since this is filler for me during my first few hours of work, but even I have my limits and Stilted Stelton has tested them by being the most boring man alive with no strengths that I can see save a deep voice.

This brings us to Dave "Woozy" Wyman. I think he realizes the host is so bad at driving the show that he's trying to make up for it and he just can't do that. He's just too woozy, and can only talk football. Even worse, every time a story comes up about a player in any sport he lapses into a long memory about his own career that parallels it in some way. For example, the Mariner pitcher James Paxton got hurt for the umpteenth time early in the season, and I'd think any good sports talk guy could use the opportunity to talk about the tragedy of the career of Paxton, a player that promised to be great, had a fan base, threw a no hitter, but could never stay healthy enough to be remembered, a real biography. But what did Wyman do? He talked about his own injuries for five or ten minutes, and while it's impressive he was an NFL linebacker and a star (?) at Stanford, there is really nothing interesting about his career, but he usurped the time anyway never once bringing up Paxton, a fascinating failure. Wyman and Bob is a mistake and I hope the powers that be at 710 will take it off the air as soon as possible.