Comments on: 850 The Buzz Blog Is Dead

By: 850inExile aka UNC RAJ

850inExile aka UNC RAJ — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:26:28 +0000

I’m not going to make it. I’m trying to listen to this new lineup and I just can’t do it. They are talking about Mark Sanchez and Eli Manning… why should I care? So much for having local sports talk. At least Charlotte has WFNZ (which, this time of year, is Panther’s talk all day long). Now, the Triangle has nothing but generic national sports talk. Can’t wait to spend the day hearing about Kansas and Kentucky and how great the Big East is during basketball season, with a tiny bit of UNC and Dook sprinkled in. This sucks.

By: first time long time

first time long time — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:42:13 +0000

Hate to see Thee Blog get killed. Now that 850 has gone away I do not see me upside for local talk radio in the Triangle till the next shake up. Looking at the new lineup it seems WRAL is going for a regional coverage model with Taylor Zarzar and Dave Glenn in syndication. There will be two local shows everything else national or regional. As much as I enjoyed Dave Glenn from back on his run with Sports Saturday to his drive time show, not sure how his current format will translate to a regional model
(Packman is regional). Best of Monday and Top Ten Friday rolling up against Rome and the Mighty ESPN, good luck with that. The new version of Thee Blog will have to be much tamer now that Joe O is under a big corporate umbrella. Good luck to all those guys because time are a changing.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:26:38 +0000

Good send off THF! Thee Blog was the about the first blog I visited on a regular basis as I did not even know of Deadspin or any others before. I used to post quite often back in the day but got a little slack in the last year – though I still hit it up many times a day. Thee Blog will be missed. I’ll continue to visit yours regularly but probably won’t admit aloud since I’m one of those damn Dukies!

By: Jordan8027

Jordan8027 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:10:34 +0000

I actually really came to enjoy bomani jones and his take. especially how much he ripped on duke. if anyone caught his show after their blue/white scrimmage on the first day of practice, it was absolutely hilarious!

By: smallandpettypat

smallandpettypat — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:24:21 +0000

I started listening to 850 with the Sports Babe back when I was in HS. Loved Solarte, but Chris Clark was my favorite of all time. Dave Glenn is great, I just don’t like Adam Gold, and Joe registers pretty neutral with me. It is most definitely the end of an era.

By: chuckheel85

chuckheel85 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:23:48 +0000

Very well written and well said THF… I definitely will miss 850 The Buzz and Thee Blog. It was very entertaining to read and to comment on, now and then. All of the comments you posted there were well thought out and I thought you did a good job of trying to keep everyone, even Carolina fans, on an even keel.
I will say though, that I enjoyed how smallandpettypat used to tweak State and Duke fans. It was pretty funny.
I feel the same today about the Thee Blogs demise that I did when goheels.com went away. Goheels.com used to provide indepth analysis and hard-hitting commentary, a lot of it provided by Art Chansky among others. Then UNC decided to do an “official” website, which was pretty much a mouthpiece of the university and they bought goheels.com and now in-depth, hard-hitting analysis of Carolina Sports is gone.
But, the silver lining in this black cloud is that your blog, THF, is still here. Keep up the good work!!!

By: Gorsk

Gorsk — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:55:11 +0000

Imus, then Mike Solarte brought me to The Buzz, then I started to read/post on Thee Blog about a year or so ago. I’ll miss the back and forth that site gave fans of all stripes and colors. Progress ain’t always that good.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:06:17 +0000

A daily reader of Thee Blog, I never posted there. I loved reading the comments and got a big kick out of some of the posters. I never posted because it was a bit snarky for my tastes. I think I’m older than most of the posters there (here too most likely) and my generation tends to be a bit less vocal when it comes to trash talking. I don’t mind hearing it, I just won’t get caught up in it.

Thee blog is where I found Tarheelfanblog so it’s got that going for it too.

I’ll miss it as well. Best of luck to the station employees and to the posters (many of whom I would imagine might show up here).