Fitz and Bruooks are the best. Murph and Mac are alright (although I don’t listen to the much). Ralph and Tom are tolerable sometimes. Damon Bruce is a stupid dumbface.

in order Radnich, fitz and brooks, murph and mac, tolbert and then i equally dislike barbieri and Dbruce.

None of them.

Both just wanna go all out for Manny (did the same with Tex) no matter the cost.

The worst is when they face questions of giving Tex 10 yrs, or giving manny 5 and how each player would really hurt the team in the later end of contracts like that with their performance and money they would be receiving and Barbieri says “The fans dont care about things like that”.

PLEASE do not speak for me.

D. Bruce throws out a LOT of lame ideas and tries to amp up his audience with things that just don’t really carry a lot of weight in bay area sports. However, that being said, at least he still does the research and is more realistic in his approach. Barbieri just seems to mail it in and seems to have very little grasp on sports in general. I do like Tom though.

If it weren’t for Barbieri constantly pulling in awesome guests he would completely suck.

I find Ralph really puzzling. For a guy who is obviously such a huge Giants fan, you would think somewhere along the way he would have learned about baseball. He has the same understanding of the finer points of baseball and how MLB works that I had when I was in High School, but since I am such a huge Giants fan and a baseball nerd I spent countless hours learning about the Giants and the game in general since then (this is not to say I don’t still have a lot to learn, but I think I have come a long ways) and one would think Ralph would do the same.

I only like Tolbert. Brooks is OK. I hate Fitzgerald. He’s a know-it-all and he’s an annoying pro Notre Dame grad. I can’t stand Barbieri but I tolerate him over Damon Bruce. I’m not awake to listen to the morning show. And I tolerate Gary Radnich.

This is broadcast on KNBR but I really like ESPN Radio’s overnight host Bob Valvano.

I want to punch Barbieri right in her ovaries.

When Gary Radnich dies and spends eternity in hell, Satan is going to just lock him in a room and play each and every broadcast he’s done. His punishment will be to actually listen to the grating sound of his voice for all eternity. Nothing could be more appropriate.

I dig Brian Murphy, but Paul McCaffrey is insufferable. Tolbert doesn’t make my ears bleed, so that’s a point in his favor. I’m usually not in the car during Fitz and Brooks, so I haven’t had the time to truly form an opinion on them. Bruce, when I end my commute during his broadcasts, more often than not makes me scream, “That’s stupid! You’re stupid!”

With the exception of Giants games, I haven’t listened to that station in well over a year. I can’t support a station full of guys who claim to be experts on sports (or at least enough of an authority to warrant being paid to talk about it), and yet say things that make me wonder if they have ever watched a game in their life. It’s pretty atrocious, as I imagine most sports talk radio to be.

I’m ashamed to say that I think Radnich is kinda funny sometimes, in a moronic way of course. Bruce isn’t someone who I really listen to that much and Fitz and Brooks are OK but Rod Brooks gets on my nerves sometimes.

I like Murph, but can’t stand Mac. (They should dump Mac and just give Dibbs and PConn more air time.)

I like Tolbert, but can’t stand Ralph. (I think he’s in radio so he can get free tapes of himself talking! His “interviews” are mostly him talking, as if that’s why we tuned in.)

I don’t listen to the other guys enough to have real strong opinions, but they all seem ok except for Bruce.

I can’t listen to sports talk radio at all.

At least you don’t have to listen to LA talk radio, those guys do nothing but Manny talk, its insufferable. The best one down here is Joe McDonnel and he has been shut out of sports talk. Down here we have Vic the Brick, we win.

Does anybody else miss the other Bruce: Bruce McGowan? Maybe it’s rose-colored headphones, but I think he was a lot better than Damon. At least he cared about the Giants.

especially when he went of for hours on Shaq free throws and how he should shot under hand…freakin priceless. I haven’t been the bay area in awhile and the VA doesn’t allow radio streaming so I haven’t listened latley but I liked Brooks with he partnered with Barry.
Does anyone know what Barry is doing now?

I listen to Murph and Mac in the morning on the way to school, for me they are the most entertaining, but not really good sports talk. The best overall show is Fitz and Brooks, they have the most knowledge, annd they are well connected to the teams (Warriors for Bob and Niners for Rod). Ralph’s voice annoys me adn Damon Bruce is Damon Bruce. I dont get to listen to Radnich cause im in school most days, so i dont really know about him.

The only things I can really listen to on KNBR are Warriors/niners/Giants games and Fitz and Brooks.

Their baseball takes are not always the best, but they are funny (at least, they are together), have good chemistry together and often make good points (usually on basketball).

I like when Michael Urban is in. He can actually discuss baseball in an intelligent way, being a former beat writer. I also like Ted Robinson when he fills in. Pretty bad when the fill in guys are your favorite. Maybe because they haven’t been around so long they have worn out their welcome? Radnich, Murphy and Tolbert are pretty entertaining as well. I used to be a bigger fan of Ralph, but he lost me when he started lobbying for the Lincecum Rios trade.

I like them all. Does that make me different?

Radnich is by far the most entertaining show. I don’t always agree with his views but I always get a kick out of his bits and the drops. His segment with Bruno is the 30 mins on KNBR, especially since it isnt broken up by commercials. I know a lot of people don’t like him because he comes off as an arrogant know-it-all, but I don’t think people get that most of its a work.

Murph and Mac should be called Murph with Mac, cuz its pretty much Brian doing all the talking and dominates all the interviews. Paully does have his moments, like the Lincecum song.

Fitz and Brooks are solid most of the time, except for Rod’s stuttering. I also find it strange when Rod try to act street one minute and then bust out some crazy intellectual vocabulary the next.

Don’t care for D-Bruce much. I can only tolerate his rants for so long. Larry Kruger was much better. BTW, Kruger just got signed by Mad Dog Russo on his Sirius XM station and is not doing an overnight show but I haven’t heard it yet.

Anyone listen to his Sirius show on Howard 101?

Though probably nobody cares (NOBODY CARES!) about my opinion, I usually catch every KNBR show at some point every week or two. So please allow me to continue with my KNBR rosterbation:

Murph and Mac: I like Brian Murphy, as he’s kind of the “every man’s” sports fan. He’s a Giants fan, and a complete homer, but is fairly amusing and self-deprecating. (Plus his wife is hot.) Paul McCaffery, on the other hand, has no business being on sports radio. His only purpose is to slip in mentions of the Dead or the Stones at the most random, non-sequitor types of moments. He’d be happier on KFOG or KFRC or something.

Gary Radnich: Gary has kind of become a caricature of himself. I think senility is fast approaching for him. I generally listen to Jim Rome during this time. I know how many people dislike Rome, and all I have to say to that is you either love him or hate him. I love the schtick, and he has nearly as many inside jokes as the McChronicles.

Fitz and Brooks: Probably my favorite show on KNBR. I’ve listened to Bob Fitzgerald since he worked with the late Pete Franklin on “The King and the Kid,” but his chemistry is even better with Rod. Rod was excellent when he was solo on The Ticket 1050 in trying to bring a youthful, urban “rep” back when KTCT had a pseudo-rivalry with what they called “The Sports Geezer” – that is, until we all found out their checks were signed by the same person.

The Razor and Mr. T: There is nothing I like more than when the days become “The Razorless Mr. T.” Ralph Barbieri is an absolute joke, and the biggest hypocrite on the air. His sign off is “Angels Fly Because They Take Themselves Lightly,” and no one is more self-important than Ralph. As for Tom – Tom is Tom. He’s an ex-jock, and a laid-back Southern California. He’s entertaining, but doesn’t provide a whole lot of insight.

Damon Bruce: Damon is basically Larry Kreuger Part II. I remember both of them from “Sports Overnight America.” They’re the same guy, right? Aren’t we all Pedro Feliz? I find Damon entertaining, although he does have a tendency to talk over people whose opinions are different from his – but then again, we’re talking about sports talk callers here…probably not the sharpest tools in the shed.

However, overall – we should be happy with what we have at KNBR. I moved to Southern California a year and a half ago, and I still listen to KNBR online. SoCal sports radio is drivel, in comparison.

He’s a Jim Rome wannabe. I can’t stand either one of them.

Radnich is a jackass. I happened to be in the car a lot when he’s on, and he seems to vary from irritating to annoying and almost tolerable.

Fitz and Brooks are by far the best. I actually enjoy their show, instead of just having it on for the hell of it. As other have said above, they work very well together, are both funny, and actually have a clue about what they are talking about.

Ralph and Tom. Sometimes its okay, often not. Tolbert is funny at times (though usually just dull), and Ralph can have something interesting to say on occasion, though for the most part, he just blabbers on some hobby horse of his—which only proves he doesn’t really know the game in question very well. What I do like about their show are the guests, such as Steve Young, who is always very interesting. And yes, as others have said, Robinson is excellent when he fills in.

I absolutely deplore Damon Bruce. Some times, I try to listen since I happen to be driving, and don’t feel like music at the time. However, I have never been able to keep listening, as I am always irritated enough by the idiocy to turn it off. This douchebag has not a clue about what he is taking about.