TSN RADIO have found a gem in their company and need to use it properly as they are being destroyed by Sportsnet radio especially after Tim & Sid made their debut a week ago and are No.1 podcast on itunes.
I think Matt Cause is a brilliant guy and knows his stuff as he has filled in for Chris Schultz and was very knowledgeable about the NFL and was fit in very well with Mike Hogan on countdown to football this past Sunday. He has also been doing the weekend afternoon drive and getting funny and knowledgeable people on the air to talk about sports which is a breath of fresh air to sports radio and he also has great chemistry with TSN strong holds in both Dan O'Toole of late night sportscenter and Michael Landsberg of Off The Record which creates great radio.
He has also been producer of the flagship show on TSN Radio 1050 in Toronto with the highest paid announcer on TSN Radio in Toronto Mike Richards who show has not been living anywhere close to expectation as his morning show has been far behind the morning show on Sportsnet Radio 590 in the rankings. The problem with Mike Richards in the morning is that he is too serious and is trying to be like Bob McCown who is on Sportsnet Radio 590 on the drive home show Prime Time Sports and he does not go down to meeting areas where the movers and shakers in Toronto meet and pay off the serve staff for what they had hear while serving drinks or food or whatever people leave behind like my sources say about Bob McCown. The reality is that Mike Richards was given a lot of money to comeback to Toronto from Calgary where he had the biggest morning show around and by all accounts it was because he was funny and for some reason he has lost his funny personality and this is where Matt Cause comes into the picture because if Richards and Cause get together to out together the comedy bites maybe they could come up with comedy gems that better the morning show. Also Matt should be in studio with Richards as Richards' sidekick and maybe Matt's craziness maybe offset the seriousness of Richards and the guy Richards has been going to get different stuff from is Claude Feig who is the sports update guy and is as dry as Richards is which simply not a good fit for the show.
Finally they need to go out and get funnier people from around North America who covers sports just like they had a sports talk radio guy from Austin Texas to talk about the Cowboys winning the NFC East and he started by saying that nobody knows about the Dallas Stars and he is across from the game and then said that the Texas Rangers do not look like they are going to do anything in free agency and said that the Eagles were worst chokers than the Toronto Maple Leafs. He also said that Cowboys fans felt like jumping off the top of the new Cowboys Stadium and he was the funniest and most refreshing thing I heard on the TSN morning show and Mike Richards was off today so something needs to change and Mike Richards's cause and effect maybe the remedy to turn around the sluggish morning show and give TSN radio a fighting chance in Toronto.
Let's hope Mike Richards's cause and effect comes soon
Tom Mehegan
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