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Angelo Cataldi Bids 94WIP Farewell
“It’s time for me to go, Philadelphia. I need to spend more time with my family. Thank you for the best 33 years of my life.”

Published
4 weeks agoon
By
BSM Staff
Angelo Cataldi has officially signed off the morning show at 94WIP after a legendary 33 year career.
Cataldi hosted his final morning show Friday, which featured several farewell tributes from former colleagues, former Philadelphia sports figures, politicians, as well as longtime listeners and callers.
In true Angelo Cataldi fashion, he took the first portion of his final segment to allow a phone caller to criticize now former Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon, calling him a “horse’s ass”.
He then thanked many of the people who welcomed his show to Philadelphia sports radio, including Howard Eskin and Steve Fredericks who he claimed “taught people in Philadelphia what sports talk radio was”.
Thanks were then given to former WIP morning host Tom Brookshier for partnering with Cataldi in his early radio days. “I’ll never forget what he did for us,” Cataldi said.
Tony Bruno, Rhea Hughes, Al Morganti, and many of the managers he worked with, including David Field, David Yadgaroff, Rod Lakin, and Spike Eskin also received high praise from the outgoing host, as he shared his appreciation for their time together and what they meant to him and the show’s success.
After discussing how much he hated his former Program Director Tom Bigby, Cataldi admitted he learned a lot from his former boss, even after putting in his contract that Bigby couldn’t speak to him unless Cataldi wanted the conversation to happen.
“If I did not acknowledge how much he taught us, I wouldn’t be fair. He was really great, even though we hated him,” Cataldi joked.
He then retrospectively looked at himself, saying “I was kind of a jerk. I was obnoxious to a lot of people because I was so committed to do the best show we could. Some took it well, some didn’t. I’m not apologizing, but I am acknowledging it.”
94WIP midday show hosts Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie will step into the show vacated by Cataldi on Monday, February 20th. Cataldi gave a parting message to the pair who will replace his timeslot.
“When I took over, after Brookie (Tom Brookshier) left, everybody said to me ‘You’re doomed now. He’s a legend, nobody can follow (him).’ And now some people are saying that to Joe and Jon, and James (Seltzer, the pair’s producer), the next show. Don’t believe a word of it…give them the same opportunity you gave us. Offer them the same loyalty and they’re going to build on it the same way we did. They will be terrific here and they will be successful the way we were.”
Cataldi thanked his wife in the closing stages of his final segment, saying something she recently did on the air was the best moment of his illustrious career.
“She was there to listen when I got home, she calmed me down when I got crazy, she picked me up when I fell down, and her speech here a few weeks ago when she talked about the sacrifice of doing this job, that is the single greatest moment of my radio career.”
He then signed off the air by utilizing a phrase he said he mocked every athlete who retired for using.
“It’s time for me to go, Philadelphia. I need to spend more time with my family. Thank you for the best 33 years of my life.”
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Doug Gottlieb Details Interviewing For College Basketball Head Coaching Vacancy
“I’ve told people that for the radio element to — for the right thing — I’d give it up. The (podcast), I’m not giving it up.”

Published
17 hours agoon
March 17, 2023By
BSM Staff
Fox Sports Radio host Doug Gottlieb recently interviewed for the vacant head coaching job at Wisconsin-Green Bay and detailed the experience on his podcast.
“I got a chance to talk to (Wisconsin-Green Bay AD) Josh Moon several times during the year after they had made their coaching job available and my approach to how I’ve done these things — and this is not the first time I’ve gone down this path, but this was a different path,” Gottlieb said on his All Ball podcast.
“This is a low-major, mid-major job, and there’s no connection there. I’ve told people that for the radio element to — for the right thing — I’d give it up. The (podcast), I’m not giving it up. I love doing it and I think there’s a very smart world where if I’m coaching I can still do this podcast and still do it with basketball people all over the country and the world, and it’s kind of like a cheat code.”
He continued by saying that seeing Shaka Smart be successful at Marquette has motivated him to continue to search for the right fit as a college basketball coach.
“That’s what I want to do. And last year when I was coaching in Israel, that also continued to invigorate me…this is something that I would really like to do. It has to be the right thing. It has to be the right AD who hits the right message.”
He continued by saying that a sticking point of negotiations was he wasn’t willing to give up his nationally syndicated radio program for the job. He was willing to take less money for his assistants pool, but also to continue doing his radio show.
Gottlieb did not get the position with the Phoenix, noting that he was a finalist but was never offered the job. The position ultimately went to Wyoming assistant coach Sundance Wicks. Wicks had previous head coaching experience and had worked with Green Bay athletic director Josh Moon at Division II Northern State. He admitted he wasn’t necessarily “all-in” on the job due to the current ages of his children and whether the timing was right to uproot his family to move to Northeastern Wisconsin.
The Fox Sports Radio host does have coaching experience. He has worked as a coach for the U.S. men’s basketball team at the Maccabiah Games, sometimes referred to as the Jewish Olympics.
Gottlieb’s father — Bob — was the head men’s basketball coach at Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1975-1980, compiling a 97-91 record.
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Waddle & Silvy: Scott Hanson Told Us to Lose His Number
“We didn’t call him back, so he set out what he wanted to do.”

Published
18 hours agoon
March 17, 2023By
BSM Staff
Aaron Rodgers took immense pride in the fact that he told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter to “lose his number” while discussing his future earlier this week on The Pat McAfee Show. ESPN 1000’s Waddle & Silvy said they’ve experienced similar treatment from guests on their radio show.
While discussing the Rodgers interview with McAfee, the pair admitted that NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson once told their producer to stop trying to book him for interviews on the program.
“I believe the presentation was ‘Do me a favor: lose my number after this interview’,” Tom Waddle said. “So he tried to do it politely. Scott Hanson did. Get out of here. That concept is foreign to me. How about ‘Hey, next time you text me, my schedule is full. I can’t do it, but thanks for thinking of me’. ‘Lose my number?’ You ain’t the President, for Christ’s sake. I’m saying that to anyone who would say that. ‘Lose my number?’ We’re all in the communication business. I just don’t know — why be rude like that to people? What does that accomplish? You know what it accomplished? We didn’t call him back, so he set out what he wanted to do.”
Co-host Mark Silverman then mentioned that the show once tried to book Hansen and NFL Red Zone host Andrew Siciliano together in the same block, with the idea of doing a trivia game to see who the supreme Red Zone host was. Siciliano agreed, but Hansen declined.
The pair also confirmed that an NFL Network personality had told them to lose their number, but couldn’t remember if it was Rich Eisen or not.
Silverman later joked that maybe Hanson was getting a new phone with a new number, and was politely sharing with the producer that he could lose the current phone number because he would share his new number in short order.
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Seth Payne: Aaron Rodgers ‘Makes Gross Inaccuracies’ When Calling Out Media
“This is where Rodgers does this thing where he, in calling out reporters for their inaccuracies, makes gross inaccuracies in his accusations.”

Published
18 hours agoon
March 17, 2023By
BSM Staff
Aaron Rodgers is always mad at the media for the inaccurate things he says they report, but according to Sports Radio 610 morning man Seth Payne, no one is more inaccurate than the quarterback himself.
Friday morning, Payne and his partner Sean Pendergast played audio of Aaron Rodgers responding to a question about a list of players he provided to the Jets demanding they sign. Rodgers called the idea that he would make demands “so stupid” and chastised ESPN reporter Dianna Russini, who was the first to report it.
“Now to be clear, Dianna Russini didn’t say demands in her tweet. She said wishlist,” Pendergast clarified.
They also played a clip of Russini responding to Rodgers on NFL Live saying that she stands by her reporting and it is her job to reach out to confirm that it is true.
“This is where Rodgers does this thing where he, in calling out reporters for their inaccuracies, makes gross inaccuracies in his accusations,” Seth Payne said.
He added that if Rodgers is being serious, he is doing some serious nitpicking. He claims that he didn’t give the Jets a list, but that he spoke glowingly about former teammates and told the Jets executives that he met with who he enjoyed playing with during his career.
Payne joked that maybe he wrote down the names in a circle pattern so that it was not a list. Pendergast added that he could have had Fat Head stickers on his wall that he pointed to instead of writing anything at all.
In Payne’s mind, this is a case of Russini catching stray frustration. Neither in her initial tweet nor in any subsequent media appearance did she use the phrase “demands”.
“What he’s actually responding to in that instance is Pat McAfee is the one that described it as a list of demands,” Seth Payne said.
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