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Ethics and politics? Seriously? No such combination exists.— March 16, 2012 9:08 p.m.
Take a Hikey, Mikey
gage gage gage, being a sniveling little crybaby is emotional, but is that being passionate? Ranting and raving about something without using any logic is emotional, but again, passionate? A flush of joy or fright is definitely a show of emotion, but again is that demonstrating a passion? Passion can indeed be emotional, but not in those contexts and not in this one. In your writing, emotion is merely the manifestation of the manic psychological affect the loss of a radio show you "love" has on you. Been there done thatbut I'm sorry, but that's not passion but rather just plain being emotional. Of course his loss is strongly felt by you and his other his M1's. I get that but it wasn't part of anything I referred to; it wasn't part of my point. And listening, or not, and liking, or not has nothing to do with my comments and I didn't knock you for your "love of the show" because it's nothing that matters to me. My points don't matter to you and and I never intended for them to. My point is, which you yourself just made, is that people in radio lose their jobs all the time. If you don't produce you're gone. Just like has happened to Esparza several times. And to put your words a little more concisely, he is a very little fish in a very very large pond. As you said, "And who cares if him being off of 94.9 wont be felt outside of San Diego...who gives a crap".You're right and that's EXACTLY the other point I was making. Thanks for finally getting, even if you don't realize you did. Oh and btw, I've lived in L.A. almost all of my life and for almost 30 yrs my wife had several different positions behind the scenes so to speak, in the entertainment industry.And In in that time we've had many friends, probably 2 or 3 dozen, who have or are working in the entertainment industry, both on the air and behind the scenes. So I actually have a very good idea of what I;m talking about. Again, I'm sorry for your loss, but life does still go on for all of us.— March 16, 2012 9:07 p.m.
Oceanside Councilmember Has Harsh Words for Mexican Mafia During Presentation from Laura Duffy
You're damn straight right about that surfpuppy619. A good friend of ours is a prosecutor in the Bay area. She a very attractive woman in her 40's and she absolutely hates having to go into a certain state prison up there. She has said several times that it scares the shit out of her so much that she wont go without what she calls her protection detail. And even then, it's hard to handle. We had dinner with her one night when she had been there during the day. After only a few minutes there, she was still shaken up that evening.— March 16, 2012 5:43 p.m.
Take a Hikey, Mikey
I originally only meant to make one post, so here's my third and final one on this thread. You are still circumnavigating my point and the bulk of your comment has no relation to anything I said. My comments are only about his viability on the RADIO. Everything else in you post has no bearing to that. My comments had nothing to do with his "fanbase" and non radio alternatives and really, neither did the article. Nowhere in either of my posts did I even mention anything not related to his radio gig as being part of the issue. If your understanding of ratings is true, then you know that in almost all cases, your shelflife on the radio is indeed all about the ratings, not counting the occasional socially/political incorrect incident, which usually, though not exclusively occurs on air, and was, btw mentioned as an on air issue in this case. Put simply, the amount of money your show can bring in to the advertisers is the deal. They generally don't care about anything else that doesn't create a positive addition to their bottom line. He may well indeed be a great guy with outstanding personal virtues and I have no reason to doubt what you say about that. But that wasn't what I addressed. In the context of my comments, about ONLY his radio gig, his short tenure is following the previous pattern, and while the loss of his show apparently is a big deal to you and the others in his fanbase, which I understand, within the radio industry, his loss as I said, will be barely felt, if felt at all at all, outside of San Diego. It's great to be passionate about your subject, but you're not writing with passion, you're writing with emotion, which doesn't serve your point of view well. That's proven out by the fact you don't seem to be able to make the distinction between his strictly on the radio gig which is all I'm commenting on, and the rest of his life, both professional and personal which have no bearing to my comments. You're rolling everything up into the same big ball, but you're the only one here doing so. As is said below, he may be a great guy but he has to be doing something wrong professionally. Sorry for your loss, but life does indeed go on for all of us.— March 16, 2012 5:21 p.m.
Sandra Bernhard at the La Jolla Playhouse
At times I have been reduced to voting for the lesser of 2 evils,as in Obama, so I guess that's about the the same as voting for the person deemed least stupid. But you do realize that Sarah Palin wasn't running for President? It's one vote cast for president/VP together. While the electoral college could elect for a different VP, because of the Twelfth, they don't.Even though the Constitution says that the President and Vice President are chosen separately, in practice they are chosen together and I think there has only been one instance in which a VP candidate didn't receive an electoral college majority. I get the idea of what you're saying, but the idea that choice of a VP candidate bears more weight than that of the Presidential candidate of the same party is really odd to me. I understand that you don't want Obama re-elected; he has been a big disappointment to me as well, but as Scott Marks put it, I simply can't consider any of the current alternatives. Not to get preachy, but I have voted for moderate republicans for various offices in the past. But none of these guys come even close to fitting that bill. I could go on and on, but I'll simply end with this: As bad as Obama has been do you really want to elect someone offers these choices: misogynistic, blatantly racist, anti gay rights, anti pro choice, anti women's health, anti military, pro protectionist? At any given time all 4 have displayed most, if not all of these. It's the ultimate political/philosophical dilemma: Is it worse to vote for the lesser of the 2 evils, to vote for someone just because you won't vote for the alternative, or to not vote at all? Tough choices all.— March 16, 2012 4:45 p.m.
Take a Hikey, Mikey
M1_12Gage It seems as if you missed my points. From your u/n, and your words, I gather that you are one of his fans. As such, you surly must realize that your views are most certainly tempered strictly to your own point of view. Since, as I said, I have no gun in this fight, I believe mine to be far less biased, in either direction. Let me be clear. Mike Esparza's personal life has no bearing what so ever on my opinion. Good or bad, those events and his personal beliefs are completely irrelevant; the kind of person he is off air, in "real life" has no bearing. The fact is undeniable that this is, at minimum, the 5th time he has either been asked to leave or not asked to return. No matter what logic you use, it remains a fact that for what ever the reason was, history has indeed repeated itself. You also seem to take issue with the statement from the author in regards to ratings, rants and negative fan reactions. Since I never listened, I don't have personal knowledge of these "rants", but the ratings are what they are; they don't lie. And after having just viewed a few other stories, I would have to say a large majority of the comments appear to give creedence to what the author wrote in regard to his "rants". I don't personally have an issue with Esparza or his show. My point was 2 fold. 1. After barely 2 years, he is off the air again, for whatever reason, and is continuing the pattern. As I said in my previous post, I would think it was to be expected. Life in radio is transitory at best for most, and again as I said, sadly predictable, for whatever reason, for some. 2. After barely 2 yrs into his current gig, being let go, in whatever manner it actually was done, while painful for some, really wasn't a major event in radio. No disrespect to Esparza and his seemingly loyal, if not rabid listeners, but his loss will be, relatively speaking, barely felt in the industry, if at all, outside of San Diego.If not for my regular perusal of the Reader , despite my many, many visits to San Diego during the time he was on the air because of my ties to San Diego, I would never have heard of him. As was said somewhere above, if he is talented he will resurface somewhere else. Again, it's not like the new owner of a station showed Jim Ladd the door. Just my opinion. Opinions vary.— March 16, 2012 1:51 p.m.
Take a Hikey, Mikey
I have been reading the comments here and I have to say, with no offense to anyone here, I’ve had quite a chuckle. So I'll weigh in with my 2 cents, for what it's worth. First let me say this. I don’t live in SD. But I do have many, many, many relatives living there, I’ve been to SD hundreds and hundreds of times and probably have spent literally thousands of days there so SD is very familiar to me. So as I believe someone else has said, I don’t have a gun in this fight. Regardless of where I’m at, if I listen to terrestrial radio, it’s usually NPR or a sporting event. When I was down in San Diego when I was growing up, I was usually running around with my cousins and we probably were listening to the old KCBQ on the old transistor radio. When my wife and I got out of college, we did live in Encinitas for a few months, maybe 6 or 8. We shared a house with my cousin and his gf. That was probably a couple of yrs after KGB started and then a few yrs later it was probably one of my cousins that turned us on to 91X. Not the crap 91X is now but back when it was AOR and then Alternative. OK so yeah I’m an old guy. I’m 61 and I happen to think most, not all, but most radio in the last 10yrs is crap. Just my opinion. Opinions vary. So here’s why I’m having a nice little chuckle over this. This guy was at this station for just over 2 yrs, if I read the story correctly. I was not familiar with him, but a quick search reveals that he was fired from 3 of his precious gigs and not "given a chance to renew his contract” at a fourth. And now the same in San Diego. So it appears that in his 20 or so yrs in radio, he has never left a gig on his own accord. And that’s what’s so amusing. Some people all up in arms about a guy who seems to be just repeating his own history. I mean it’s not as if this shouldn’t have been expected at some point. With a few exceptions, most radio “personalities” do not spend an extended period of time in one place; a shelf life as someone said. And in most cases, they’re either fired or just not brought back when their contracts are up. Especially this guy, who got “yanked off the air in a whirlpool of bad ratings, on-air rants about competitors, and negative reactions from fans”. It’s a way of life in radio. Most are just transients passing thru. I mean come on. Seriously? It’s not as if this was Jim Ladd getting the boot from Cumulus Media. As I said. Just my opinion. Opinions vary. Let the bashing begin!!!! LOL— March 16, 2012 12:31 p.m.
Davy Jones
When we heard of Jones' death, we, as probably many people did, spent some time listening to their records and we pulled up a few of their tv shows from the server. We had the chance to see them last summer at the Greek on their 45th anniversary tour. It was a really good show and they played for at least 2 hrs. Unfortunately, Mike Nesmith declined the chance to participate once again. My wife was 16 when their tv show started and she said Davy was always her fav. No surprise there. I always liked like Peter and Mike the best. Recently, we had the opportunity to meet Pete Tork in Scottsdale and got to spend a few minutes talking to him. We actually talked mostly about the cars there at the auction. I did mention that we saw the reunion show when it was in L.A. and he was genuinely appreciative when I said how much we enjoyed it. He also mentioned that it looked like they might tour again next year, which obviously won't happen now. I recently read that the cause of death was heart attack due to atherosclerosis. That's actually the same cod as my father's except that my dad was in his late '70's.— March 16, 2012 10:57 a.m.
Davy Jones
Actually, cherryIceCream, I don't Google. I BING. And since I have been to both places on many occasions, I know from personal experience.— March 16, 2012 10:06 a.m.
Davy Jones
Are you sure about that? Since Hawaii is the southern most state, if Florida is tropical, so is Hawaii. According to NOAA, this year the Tropic of Cancer is at 23° 26′ 16″. All of the Hawaiian Island lie south of that, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, and the southern most tip of the Keys lies at about 23° 27'(each degree of latitude is about 69 miles). A look at the World Map of the Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification will clearly show it. Hawaii seems to be a tropical climate and while southern most of the Keys is tropical, the largest part of Florida is sub-tropical. http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/present.htm http://www.blacktieguide.com/Classic/Warm_Weather… Not criticizing, just sayin....— March 15, 2012 9:37 p.m.