No one listens to sports talk radio in L.A. Why the people in charge aren't worried.
LOS ANGELES â The New England Patriots have not played a game in two months. The Boston Red Sox are locked out of spring training. The Celtics are in season, but 10 NBA teams have better records.
On the most popular show on the most popular sports radio station in America, there is plenty to talk about. It is cold and gray in Boston on this first Monday in March, but there is fire and fury on the air.
It is the day after Kyrie Irving, who defected from the Celtics in free agency three years ago after suggesting he wanted to stay, compared the relentlessly jeering Boston fans to a "scorned girlfriend." The booing had been so harsh that Celtics star Jayson Tatum tried to hush the fans.
The Celtics won the game, mind you, but the afternoon hosts on WBZ-FM had Irving on their minds.
"How badly do you hate him out there â you, listening to me?" co-host Mike Felger asked. "And your best player loves him, defends him, likes him better than you."
No city loves its sports talk like Boston,
