Terry Foster Retires from 97.1 FM
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/04/20/terry-foster-retires-from-97-1-t…
It will be crazy not hearing V and F together anymore. Those guys were my mainstay afternoon radio show, basically through most of my adult life.
You could tell Terry was just not the same when he came back.
Best of luck T Fost!
...now I can not stand to hear his voice. Caputo's next original thought will be his first.
Put Rico Beard...who I enjoyed on 105.1...together with his brother Rod Beard (Pistons beat writer) and call the show The Brothers. They teamed up one day on 105.1 when Ermanni was off and they were great. Funny, not too in love with their own voices, a bit edgy and a bit competitive.
Another idea...put Rico Beard (a State guy) together with Sam Webb. THAT would be fun.
I like Sean, and I liked his teaming up with Marc Fellhauer for the morning show on 105.1, but his hockey takes were too much. I like hockey, but I could care less about local non-professional teams. I can't see him with MIke however.
April 20th, 2017 at 10:58 PM ^
If you ever put Valenti and Henson together, you'd need to go hide in a bomb shelter. Even so, Henson would be gone within 6 months to find another venture. He doesn't stay in one place for very long before burning serious bridges.
I've never liked Samuelson. I've always thought he was a whiny pussy. Caputo is a blowhard who couldn't find his ass with both hands.
As for the rest of the guys, I have no opinion. I turned Detroit sports radio off almost 10 years ago, haven't looked back, and haven't regretted or missed it.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:01 PM ^
April 21st, 2017 at 10:21 AM ^
April 21st, 2017 at 12:05 AM ^
Jamie is so arrogant now, it's ridiculous.
Because they have one of the best rated sports shows, not only in the state, but in the entire country.
So he's still great at his job, agree with his takes or not.
Boombayeh, Terry.
Valenti is abysmal and treated Foster horribly when he came back. It was uncomfortable to listen to, Valenti giving Foster grief for issues that seemed to be because he wasn't 100 percent healthy.
And I don't know how else to say it.
Foster couldn't even communicate common knowledge about the teams happening. The stroke had a massive impact on his ability to remember and understand things occuring in the world of sports.
There were massive pauses in his speech and a lot of what he said made zero sense. Valenti picked on him because they are basically work brothers. He didn't pick on him because of his stroke.
I haven't listened since the stroke but this wouldn't surprise me. Foster's article explaining his decision doesn't say this specifically but it's clear from what he says that he is different from before the stroke and that it is harder to do.
Keep in mind that Lee Corso came back from a stroke to continue to do Gameday, but he contributed tightly-produced pieces of analysis 15 saturdays a year, rather than a much harder three hours of commentary and debate five days a week. And Corso was visibly affected himself.
I hate to be that guy but Foster always came off as a bumbling buffoon who had no real sports knowledge. Also his writing was borderline unreadable. He had been coasting off his connections for years. I wish him the best of health but I won't miss hearing him stumbling through a hockey or Tigers topic. Also Valenti knows his crap is crap. He just plays the angry anti-M character for ratings, IMO.
Valenti rarely made good points and when Foster had a stance opposite of Valenti he would be questioned about it then change his mind.
The only good radio talk show that was worth listening to was Zaret, Gibson, and Danielson. At least they knew what they were talking about - the rest are pure garbage.
I liked those guys when they had their "Locker Room" tv program after Sports Final Edition on Sunday nights. The banter was good and they're all smart guys, and so the quickly rotating topics worked.
So I was excited when they developed a radio show. But... it didn't work. It was virtually unlistenable. Zaret never seemed to enjoy what he was doing, a lot of the show wound up being Danielson pontification (I say this as a guy who thinks Danielson is a great color guy, but when he gets a stage and just starts talking, it can be insufferable), and whether Gibson was on set or not there wasn't much chemistry.
I tried, I really did, but I couldn't keep tuning in. I went back to Fithian and occasional helpings of Stony and Wojo.
Apparently, I wasn't alone. Which is why the show got cancelled pretty quickly.
My one real contact with Foster came years ago, after a tire killed four fans at the US 500 at Michigan Speedway (I was 50 rows up from where it happened. Didn't really bother me at the time, though now the idea that I could have been in the wrong place would be pretty haunting). He had attended the race as a reporter and gave a take that I felt was incorrect on television that night. I emailed him about it, and he responded cordially and somewhat reiterated his position with some support that he had spoken to some people in the paddock on this.
I appreciated that.
On the radio scale, I don't really miss radio in Michigan. It doesn't sound like something that I would enjoy listening to. And, as much as that may relate to my changing tastes, I would still enjoy a good show like Fithian in the afternoon on TKA.
The guys here in Minnesota are pretty good, and Dan Bareiro in particular does a good job bringing on guests who know the sports they cover and not overdoing the call-in hottakes. He overdoes the "radio cynic" role a bit, but who doesn't?
When I was in LA there was one good show on KSPN (Mason and Ireland) that they quickly blew up for no reason, and then reformed in a different slot within a year because the replacement programming was so bad. It was actually pretty shocking how badly the stations were programmed for the size of the market that they had.
Didn't care for him at 97.1
As the years went on I stopped listening to V and F, especially after the strokes becuase Valenti and Sullivan seemed like they were basically goading and bullying Terry from time to time. However, I come from the bias that 97.1 as an entity is a garbage excuse for sports radio. I'm not expecting anything groundbreaking but for being the only major sports radio station in a city like Detroit and THIS is what we're given? Ridiculous.
Right?
He's probably the worst talent they have on the air, that's why he's on at god unknown hours of the morning.
How have the local teams been treating us lately? Like shit. There's nothing positive to say about pretty much anything around Michigan now.
April 20th, 2017 at 10:24 PM ^
After 105.1 changed their format, the competion was gone. It's not only Valenti's fault being a D.B., but the stations program director is lame too. One day after 105.1 was gone, I called in the station after I listened to four hours of discussion of "Pokeman Go". The ass wipe that answered the station phone told me that I could change the station if I didn't like it !
April 20th, 2017 at 11:00 PM ^
There isnt much I like on 97.1. I turn it on when i dont want to listen to anything because as soon as I turn on that channel i immediately zone out , its like white noise
Can we bring back Deminski and Doyle please ?
Shortly after Valenti showed up. Foster
tried to be impartial but Valenti hates michigan with the
heat of a thousand suns. I think he knows the Sparty party
is over in football and he has tried to distance himself from MSU football.
He is a candyass fair weather fan and I'll enjoy his misery going forward.
April 21st, 2017 at 10:10 AM ^
Too bad the wrong guy retired.