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Thread: Changes at 105.7
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Re: Changes at 105.7
Jeff Rimer.. UGH! It was pronounced RIMMER. Go figure! That guy was a gigantic D-Bag. In the late 80's I was hustling pizza for Dominoes in Crofton, MD. Trying to make an extra buck or two in the evenings to offset my meager military paycheck. Rimer lived in Crofton as did most of the Capitals (this was when they trained up the street at Piney Orchard Ice Rink) Rimer would order pizza from Dominoes a couple nights a week and NEVER tipped. He lived in a nice ass house too. If his pizza cost $9.95, he would hold out his hand for the return nickel.
The guy was such a jackass that he tried to hide a gigantic satellite dish antenna (the old style that were like 12' wide) under an umbrella on his deck to hide it from his HOA. When the HOA caught on they demanded he take it down and threatened court action because he refused to take it down. He had the Capital Newspaper come to his house and run a front page puff piece on how important it was for HIM to have this satellite dish at his house because he needed it to pipe in Canadian hockey games that he wasn't able to see on regular cable channels. He also claimed that his First Amendment rights were being violated. He claimed it was mandatory for him to have this dish so he could be better prepared for his job. As I recall Rimer got canned by Home Team Sports about the time that the HOA was to take his case to court.
Not sure who was the bigger HTS D-Bag. Him or Michael Reghi.
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Re: Changes at 105.7
At first I was confusing Rimer with Chris Thomas, who was the TV sportscaster who left for Tampa and passed away at a young age shortly thereafter.
I do remember Rimer. He was also the sports director at WBAL radio. I always kinda assumed that his anti-football opinions were influenced by the station's holding the Orioles rights and Angelos pressure.
I think he still does hockey for the Blue Jackets.
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08-10-2016, 06:42 PM #135Veteran Poster
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I know Johnny Holiday is a Terp institution. Great guy, but he is usually three plays behind the action. He's gotten pretty bad.
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08-10-2016, 06:54 PM #136
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Thomas was the guy who correctly predicted after the Colts left that Baltimore would win a SB before Irsay and the Colts. He despised Irsay and never held back.
He also had an incredibly funny moment where he was teasing his sport report right before the commercial break, but right after they had announced the Lotto numbers for that week. He definitely thought he had won and stumbled through the sports segment, constantly stopping and say/yell "I seriously think those were my numbers". Although he didn't actually win, the entire segment was hilarious as he tried to keep composed while thinking he had just won.Last edited by B-more Ravor; 08-10-2016 at 08:44 PM.
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08-10-2016, 07:09 PM #137Veteran Poster
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HA HA. I had forgotten about that! And yes, it was hilarious. You could hear him off camera saying, "I think I just won. I think I won!!"
Thomas also used to have the drunk Irsay dummy (redundant, I know) on set for mock interviews. That was must see TV in the age before YouTube.
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08-10-2016, 08:20 PM #138
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08-10-2016, 11:34 PM #139
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I think this topic came up in the forum a year ago, or so. But the gist of the story is that maybe five years after the Colts left town, a bunch of old Colts fans chartered a bus to head up the the Vet to root against the Colts, who were scheduled to play the Eagles. The sports cartoonist Mike Ricigliano constructed a dummy of Irsay and bought a seat for him as a gag. Afterwards Chris Thomas borrowed the dummy to stage his hilarious on-air gags.
I think they ended up auctioning off the dummy to the guy who owned the Bay Cafe, who paid like a grand for it. Within short order patrons beat the crap out of it, beyond recognition. I think Ricigliano made another one.
Thinking back on Thomas made me realize I have not watched local TV news in probably more than five years. Thomas was a star back in the days before the local stations were owned by mega corporations, and he was allowed to be a genuine personality--an entertainer who happened to convey information as almost an afterthought. I stopped watching when the media consultants started to neuter on-air talent, turning them into inauthentic drones.
Bringing it back to the topic of this thread, we still have a good number of authentic personalities on sports radio who aren't relying on a formula to project some phony personality. And then we have a handful of bad ones who are.
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08-11-2016, 01:29 PM #141Regular 1st Stringer
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Actually I can do without just about all of these guys. I appreciate Ed Norris, Rob Long gets on my nerves, The one show I really do like is Scott and Jeremy. Scott knows just about everything about sports and I respect his opinion and Jeremy brings an off color humor to the show that is similar to my own humor. I think it's hilarious when people think he's serious or don't get his jokes.
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