50 Days of Gray for Mile High Sports Radio

Today marks the 50th day that Mile High Sports Radio has been off-air.  It has left an Eeyore like gray cloud over the head of everyone involved whether it be from the top of Mile High Sports Radio to the once in awhile listener.  Things have not gone as planned but the station has remained quiet to keep from stirring the pot.  I understand their reasoning, they do not want to mislead their listeners and do damage control by not hitting the date they publicly air.   The only reason we have got any dates are because of Dusty Saunders Denver Post pieces, on-air talent sharing information via social media and my little blog but no hard on-air date has been set by the station publicly.


Everyone at the station is feeling the pinch as well.  Some people on the outside assume they can't afford to run the station and that's far from the truth.  The station has some great, long running sponsors as do the hosts.  Mile High Sports Radio just doesn't have a station to officially call home until paperwork gets finalized.  The delays are not their doing, they are set up and ready to go but they also can't go on-air or openly talk about what is holding things up and honestly, most people don't care.  They want their product or they complain as I often have.  Still, there is one thing we can correlate between sports radio and Denver, you have to have Broncos coverage.


Let's be honest, the Broncos and NFL in general rule this town and right now there is just a lot of spinning the wheels on the local sports radio until football season starts.  A main discussion in town is getting Troy Tulowitzki voted into the All-Star game and what is going on with teams outside of town that actually getting involved in the NBA Free Agency market and some BS list of Top 100 NFL players that.  The Texans proved that you can lose without a QB.  I am sure they would rather have Aaron Rodgers over JJ Watt, so how does the list hold any merit?  Otherwise, the biggest news we have next week is the MLB all-star game in a town that "doesn't deserve a team" as Dick Monfort said famously a year ago and a public appearance by Bru-Caitlyn Jenner on the ESPYs for an award that is more controversial than if it's okay to have a Confederate flag or same sex marriage.   Mile High Sports Radio isn't missing much, but their sponsors, on-air talent and everyone are trying to get things sorted out and in line.


We know there is one thing and one day that will make or break a re-launch, Broncos training camp! They will have to be on-air by the last week of July when Broncos rookies report on July 27th followed by the vets on July 30th and camp on July 31st.  I actually prefer the format by Mile High Sports Radio over the other stations in town.  The other stations send all their guys to the practices and talk about Dove Valley, the crowds, what guy caught a pass with no pads on in practice and we get the training camp practice darling.  I remember the question marks on if Bradley Roby was a good draft pick based off training camp last year, instead of waiting to see how he performed in games.  It's maddening and ridiculous and the ass kissing and awful player interviews where each guy says the same thing I have read and heard the past 20 years ("Just get better every day." "We have one goal." "Coach does a great job getting us ready." Cliché Cliché Cliché).  Maybe it's because I come from both a sports radio love and a love for entertaining radio like Howard Stern, but I want something different.  I want something unscripted and non-corporate. 


This is why MHSR has became top dog on my dial and on many other longtime sports radio fans.  They are unscripted and the hosts can go in the direction the day brings them. There is no, you must talk this about the Broncos and other sports.  No set, this is coming up next tease where each segment is already spelled out.  There is a don't know what they will say next aspect to Mile High Sports Radio and a duo that is most famous for it is the third longest running duo in Denver Sports Radio.  The list being:

1. Irv Brown and Joe Williams - The two go together or not at all and have been doing it since before I started tuning in.  They were my drive home from college every day for years.
2. Big Al & D-Mac - In September 2009 we were introduced to this bumbling stumbling duo of misinformation and weak comedy schtick. To steal the words of my least favorite flogger, I mean blogger, Colin Daniels, this is for the less cerebral audience.  Of course he used that to reference one of my favorite duos...
3. Danny Williams and Cello Romano -  These two have grown together from the old 9-11 am slot I found them on back in the Tim Tebow days to today.  At times they were like Bert and Ernie and others like Beavis and Butthead but of late it has became more Ren and Stimpy with Cello having to say "Danny, you idiot!"  However their day is going as a duo it has been a constant that is nice to see with so many shows changing locations, line-ups changing and hosts going solo or getting moved around or out. 

To steal a line from Snoop Doggy Dog and Dr. Dre "But uh, back to the lecture at hand"... there is only one thing for Mile High Sports Radio to do now, get on air by Broncos training camp and don't get to August and fourth calendar month off-air.  Coming out refreshed and with something to prove that week would give them a fighting chance to give listeners another option over the don't care about local in the morning corporate machines that 104.3 FM The Fan and 105.5 FM ESPN Radio run on.  Things don't go as planned as evident by all the things going on at Mile High Sports but the only plan they must execute is getting on-air prior to Broncos training camp.