I think Felger knows his stuff pretty well, he is well informed and does the research. But that doesn't translate into how he comes off on the air as he is all about leaning heavily into the schtick of being a big time troll. Does he have trash takes? Absolutely. As to if he's entertaining, well ultimately the high ratings bear it out. People like us want something of higher quality but it seems like the masses are fine with content that is all about trolling the audience and getting them mad at him.

Mazz and Jim Murray? Idiots who hardly put any effort in.

The biggest way critics of Felger & Mazz will succeed and get them off the air is to stop listening to them and to not talk about them at all. They get ignored, they become irrelevant and go away. The problem is people can't help but listen to them, especially those who don't like them.

That's not the point though. I'm sure Michael Felger is ecstatic that people hate him. All that matters to him is that people tune in such that his ratings are high and he can continue to get paid a lot of money to work 4 hours a day.

Its downvoted because its not true. That describes say Dennis & Callahan (gone from the market for what, 10 years now?) or Glenn Ordway (also no longer on the air). It does not describe Felger & Mazz.

Felger and Mazz actually hardly ever talk about politics and when they have they more often than not display leftist positions.

> He was one of the more vocal local ppl who said we should trade Brady in ‘14, and sticked with it for the next 5 years.

Felger was also big on pushing Brady out of town. Among other things he claimed Brady used steroids, claimed Brady was putting in hardly any effort, claimed Brady had illegal dealings going on with Kraft surrounding Alex Guerrero, took any opportunity he could to bash the TB12 stuff, claimed Brady would completely fall off a cliff like Favre did, and has pushed his chips in probably more than anyone in the local media that Brady is a cheater over Deflategate (when pretty much anyone these days knows it was just the weather).

...the second Brady leaves for Tampa? Felger bashing Belichick and the Patriots endlessly for "running Brady out of town".

I got drawn to this book by Xenogears as well. Highly recommended, both the book and the game.

(quoting Walter) Excuse me, her name was Asteroid.

A top choice for me as well.