About a year ago, I forced myself to stop listening to local sports talk radio.
For those of you who’ve never lived in Boston, it’s almost impossible to escape WEEI. It’s playing on every car radio, in every corner store, and in every backyard that’s close enough to Boston to receive it’s signal.
The problem with WEEI is that the vast majority of the callers are over-opinionated, sky-is-always-falling types. You want to know where Boston fans got their negative reputation from, just do what Rick Pitino did and listen to WEEI.
Listen to WEEI long enough and you’ll discover that everyone in Boston thinks Terry Francona is a terrible manager, David Ortiz is washed up, Manny Ramirez is the most hated baseball player in Boston, and J.D. Drew is the antichrist.
I found the constant negativity was starting to effect my own thinking, so I stopped listening.
I switched to Sirius and started listening to national shows, mostly ESPN. I’ve since discovered that national radio not only helps inform me of the world that exists outside the Boston Sports bubble, but it’s also far less negative. So for me, it was a positive change.
Sports are supposed to be fun, after all. I’m sure there are those of you out there who love spending all of your time complaining about the athletes you root for, but it’s just not for me.
I’m a glass is half full guy—or at least a glass isn’t completely empty guy.
Anyway, point is, the opinions Boston Sports Fans yell and scream on their local sports talk radio often doesn’t jive with the way they actually feel in real life.
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