If BaD Radio isn't on from 3-7 p.m. ...

[threesheets 1673]

The zydeco.

[RPM 26321]

Fake Chan Gailey is good stuff. My last season I didn't work for cash money. I did it for a sack of flour and a tub of sweet butter.

[Sparky 149]

When I saw Miami hired him I got excited knowing we might get more fake Chan.  I like how he always has a sorghum reference. 

[EastTexan 662]

Had forgotten how great fake Chan was.

[mdleast 8289]

Yup

[Jive Turkey 12598]

21 hours ago, Sparky said:

Fake Coach O breaking bad news on WTDS was hilarious.  Very Rantesque, I could envision that going on for an hour with different scenarios.

they replayed that part in the BaD Radio open today.

it starts around the 12:45 mark.

http://bobanddan.com/why-today-doestnt-suck/

[CBT 1282]

S-Pod....that's what I call my butt.

[BigDHornfan 6548]

Where's Mike?

 

[bluto 4929]

No love for corby saying Henry is a bigger stronger faster version of earl campbell yesterday? You guys are slipping

[harold 81]

 

[Jive Turkey 12598]

holy. shit.  my sister just told me.

Edited January 6, 2020 by Jive Turkey

[mdmost 43001]

Wow. Best of luck to him. Let's just say that those are the terms it's being talked about by just about everyone. Never thought it would be Mike going out before Norm. 

Edited January 6, 2020 by mdmost

[Jive Turkey 12598]

Wonder if Jake is gonna slide to drive time.  Or maybe Davey joins?  Or Kelly Milligan?

[Zepol87 9186]

Well damn.

[CBT 1282]

Leaving the nurturing biosphere of the mothership. T&Ps.

[mdmost 43001]

I would imagine Mike has been letting it be known to management for a bit. You have to think having Jake on with Corby was a bit of a trial run. Corby and Danny cannot carry a sports show. Maybe Sirois gets his chance. 

I guess Rhyner and Jason Garrett had a pact?

Edited January 6, 2020 by mdmost

[Continental Op 3934]

OK... Let's all play Fantasy Program Director:  

1.  BaD to drive time.  Move Jake up to host.  Make Mino producer.  

2.  Use chaos to force Norm out.  Move Sirois up to host.

3. Get Gen X Davey involved somehow. 

4. @grubes solo show noon to 3. 

Edited January 6, 2020 by Continental Op

[pied 252]

wow

[cactusflinthead 27598]

Wow. Just wow.

[mdmost 43001]

Why does it look like Mike is walking off to Brooksie himself?

[AustinMT 952]

IN an ironic twist, Rocco Pendola returns to take his spot

[orange dream 1251]

 

Stay hard Rhyner

 

[Landomatic 3813]

Wow...good for him.  Glad he didn't ride it out even further past his prime.  Stay hard old grey wolf.

[Surly Bevo 24908]

Mike’s been phoning it in for years. This still sucks though. When he was on it was greatness.

[Sparky 149]

Damn, Norm outlasted him.

[Jive Turkey 12598]

such a Mike move to have no funeral.

[NOMAAA 1696]

man. 

[Angry Gorilla 1768]

8 minutes ago, Continental Op said:

OK... Let's all play Fantasy Program Director:  

1.  BaD to drive time.  Move Jake up to host.  Make Mino producer.  

2.  Use chaos to force Norm out.  Move Sirois up to host.

3. Get Gen X Davey involved somehow. 

4. @grubes solo show noon to 3. 

Corby back to overnight board op

[mdmost 43001]

Pretty kickass that he went out on his terms and didn't want a long, drawn out retirement sendoff. 

Edited January 6, 2020 by mdmost

[pops 6985]

Welp, that's it for me and the Hardline. 

[Angry Gorilla 1768]

Hopefully there is no more Hardline.  They should move BAD to drive time, but selfishly I like them where they are.  I can listen to their whole program, I stop listening to the Hardline once I get home.

[mdmost 43001]

I bet management keeps BAD where they are. Moving BAD changes their dynamic. If anything I bet they do some tryouts with Jake and Sirois. There is no way you can build a drive time show around Corby and Danny. 

[Sparky 149]

Ben and Skin are out of a job right now and said they have a big announcement coming Feb 1 on where they are going. (gun to had emoji)

[Surly Bevo 24908]

Ben and Skin are spares.

[Skipper 6135]

Crazy.  And sad, but yeah, it was probably time.  The lineup moves are definitely going to be very interesting.

[sasquatch69 603]

Man, I'd love Wilonsky to take the gig, but he's already overextended just with his DMN duties.

[Jive Turkey 12598]

 

[Angry Gorilla 1768]

They should push BAD radio to 12-4, and take an hour away from whoever replaces drive time.

[mdmost 43001]

Wilonsky spoke with Mike

Mike Rhyner, founder of The Ticket and a Dallas radio fixture since the 1970s, is off the air

The former KZEW on-air personality’s surprise retirement came via social media Monday

The Ticket Sports Radio's Mike Rhyner speaks during a panel discussion celebrating the 20th anniversary of the station at Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, Friday, January 24, 2014.(Allison Slomowitz - Special Contributor)

By Robert Wilonsky

3:51 PM on Jan 6, 2020

 

This story is breaking will be updated throughout the afternoon.

Mike Rhyner has retired.

The Texas Radio Hall of Famer, who began on Dallas radio in 1979 and in 1994 co-founded The Ticket, made the stunning announcement Monday that he will no longer appear on “The Hardline.” That’s the afternoon show he has co-hosted since the station went on the air almost 26 years ago.

 

He made the announcement via social media just after 3 p.m. Monday. That video, he said, was made in mid-December – the first day after he began Christmas vacation.

But Rhyner said in an interview Monday he has known “the time was right to step away” since early fall. And nothing happened between then and now to change his mind.

 

pic.twitter.com/2gw2sgAXLI

— Mike Rhyner (@theoldgreywolf) January 6, 2020

“It just reached a point to where it really felt like the right thing to do,” Rhyner told The Dallas Morning News. “I started to think about it early in the fall and kept waiting for something to jar me out of that idea. And it never came. Before long I reached – it almost sounds crazy – an almost Zen-like state with it. I guess I hit such a point of acceptance nothing could shake me. And nothing has.”

Rhyner said he did not tell his co-host, Corby Davidson; nor the station’s program director, Jeff Catlin. Only Dan Bennett, Cumulus Media’s regional vice president, was in the loop. Rhyner said Bennett tried to talk him out of it, to no avail.

“He saw he wasn’t going to get very far,” Rhyner said. “I think he saw I was pretty dug in on it.”

Around 3:40 p.m. Monday, “The Hardline” played the audio of his farewell.

Afterward, morning-show co-host Gordon Keith said, “It’s amazing and shocking.”

Rhyner’s “Hardline” co-host Corby Davidson did not find out until last week.

“The story is: He just got to a great place and decided this was the time and pulled the ripchord,” said Ticket morning-show co-host Craig Miller. “I’m happy for him.’

[mdmost 43001]

Corby said Jake will be on some. No doubt that's the plan, they just need to see how the chemistry works. 

[Kevin O’Shea 279]

Wow. Was not ready for this. Would love to see BAD Radio get afternoon drive.
 

If they try to stick it out with Corby and Danny they will need someone that can actually talk sports and watches games. Jake maybe can fill that. Also count me as someone who wants Davey involved full time in some capacity. 

[HiggyBaby 2529]

Well shit.

[Dbeasy 15051]

This hit me hard.

[Junior Miller 1502]

Hadn't listened to the Hardline much at all ever because Corby sucks so bad but please don't move Sirois there and don't move BaD. BaD is perfect in the noon slot and I have other stuff to listen to for late afternoon slot anyway. 

They also need to retire the Hardline name. No Rhyner no Hardline. 

[CBT 1282]

I hope they leave BaD where it is. Love the idea of giving them another hour. 

[mdmost 43001]

 

[Angry Gorilla 1768]

At least he cleared Christmas

[mdmost 43001]

It's very interesting that I do not give one total shit about the Hardline not discussing the new Cowboys head coach. I'm good with an entire HL that's just about Rhyner. It really speaks to the power of the station and what Rhyner built. It also helps that the station has had over 7 hours of non-stop Mike McCarthy talk. 

Edited January 6, 2020 by mdmost

[Mileslong 4727]

Welp, that's it for me and the Hardline. 

Gagree, I can’t stomach Corby anymore. Jake and Sirois are so happy. What a huge blow, the end begins

[Jive Turkey 12598]