Jim Traber sucks

[ADs_Agent]

don't really have a point, the guy is just a ****** bag.

[bustedplay]

He thinks an awful lot of himself

[Ruuuuuufus]

man lands on moon!

[oumartin]

the guy is pretty intellegent I think but his ego is as big as his belly.
heck its almost as big as robert allens belly

[walkoffsooner]

Yea I used to like him then he just got to full of himself just getting to comfortable in his job needs rung up .

[birddog]

When Traber first started out on the Animal I thought he was pretty cool. Now he's just a pant load.

[longtimesoonerfan24]

Traber is an idiot. Enough said.

[King Crimson]

I'm always duly impressed when he'll be giving yet another "expert" opinion on something and then cite a game of the previous week as support for his argument....and then have to ask Rusty or whoever "Now, who did they play again?".

[boomersooner28]

I will trade you Chris Plank and the entire idiot staff from here in Tulsa for Traber!

[OUAndy1807]

the guy is pretty intellegent I think but his ego is as big as his belly.

I don't think that knowing a lot about sports qualifies someone to be called "intellegent"

As for Traber in general, I'm breaking out a new title: Turbo-******.

or Uber-******.

[bustedplay]

He's way too BIG for his little farming helmet. I would bet he would score more than a 6, and never see him him with a bottle, peeing on the side of a middle school building. But when he brags about his wealth of knowledge, makes him suck!

[Ruuuuuufus]

But when he brags about his wealth of knowledge, makes him suck!

"I hate to give it up to myself, but today I just gotta give it up to myself."

[Big Red Ron]

Sorry to disagree with my Sooner brethren but Traber knows his stuff. Plus he thinks Gottlieb is a ****** so he can't be that bad!

[oumartin]

I will trade you Chris Plank and the entire idiot staff from here in Tulsa for Traber!

Do they still do walk the plank trivia?

[Hamhock]

I will trade you Chris Plank and the entire idiot staff from here in Tulsa for Traber!


I can't believe Plank is still on the air. I'd rather listen to 101.5.

By the way, you know you can trade Plank for Traber, right? You don't have to listen to him.

[SoonerObsession]

I don't know why so many of you guys don't like Traber. I think he's ok. Sometime's everybody on the radio can get on your nerves. I think he is pretty objective when it comes to talking about OU and OSU. I thought he messed up pretty bad with the whole Nate Hybl fiasco, but everyone sticks their foot in their mouth every once in a while.

[usmc-sooner]

out of all the guys on that program Traber is the best. IMO

[RacerX]

out of all the guys on that program Traber is the best. IMO

And that nails it for me. WWLS sucks.

[bigdsooner]

I will trade you Chris Plank and the entire idiot staff from here in Tulsa for Traber!


no $h!t, thats why i dont listen to em, they're too damn annoying and its pro homo st. lex and terry are cool though

[mildpussy]

Jim Traber?

I f'ed him

-Diceman

[okienole3]

http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26348&highlight=okienole3

[OUAndy1807]

I'm not saying he's not fair or objective, I just don't care for his pompous attitude. I understand that those guys have to be outrageous so that people will listen, but they all come off as a bunch of *********s.

I left my skyfi in the house the other morning, and the morning animals were reading Chuck Norris jokes. That **** is about a year old and just completely ripped from the internet. Why would anyone listen to 25 minutes of commercials per hour to hear someone reading the same jokes I got in an e-mail months ago?

[Collier11]

Guys is it that tough to figure out? Every tv or radio show whether its comedy, politics, drama, sports or what the F ever, they are out for ratings. What makes Traber great?? He is their controversial guy who will speak his mind, stick by what he says, and sometimes **** you off which in return=RATINGS!!! Which also in return lands traber gigs with the diamondbacks, espn, channel 5, and so on...the guy knows what he is doing and how to market himself

[FriscoTXsooner]

I might as well get my two cents in, Traber isn't the best on air personallity I've heard, nor is he the worse. In general the Sprorts animal lacks quality anything. The fact that they over pay their talent especially Al Ashbeck who can't talk without sounding like he has a mouth full of crap, and then have to present 5 minutes of advertising every segment just to pay for this dip sticks salaries, isn't any wonder that no body wants to listen to them anymore. I live in Dallas, and I'll have to say that sports talk radio is much better down here. I never thought I would say anything bad about an Oklahoma station, but it's time to pull the plug on this guys, and get some new talent.

[Sooner_Bob]

I will trade you Chris Plank and the entire idiot staff from here in Tulsa for Traber!


What little I've heard from Plank I don't think he's that bad . . . but I only hear him on KMOD.

[Boomer.....]

I get annoyed with him, especially when al and jack come on. It cracks me up when he argues with Mark and other callers. Everyone gets under his skin by calling him an OSU homer.

[SoonerStormchaser]

He's ok to deal with in real life (he comes where I work at all the time)...then he gets on the radio...and it goes downhill...

[birddog]

I think the Animal peaked right around the year 2000. Something happened around that time but my memory fails me.

[okienole3]

You realize how bad the Sports Animal is when you live in Dallas. The guys at the Ticket run circles around those putzes. But I still listen when I get back North.

[OUmillenium]

I think the Animal peaked right around the year 2000. Something happened around that time but my memory fails me.

I agree...the something that happened is they stopped talking/analyzing sports and began trying to entertain and make money off of advertising. Try Sirius radio 123 - "Rivals Radio" in the mornings is awesome.

[oumartin]

thats when they took Stealy off the noon-2pm slot and About the time Dan Lutz got ill. He was great with traber.
BBJ and Craig were together their whole time and then it was Al, Jim and Dean on total dominance.
Jack Mildren may be the worst radio guy in the business.
Didn't they take Stealy off the noon-2pm slot when Mark Shannon did the little A&M joke? that started this whole snowball effect

[Boomer.....]

Jack Mildren may be the worst radio guy in the business.


That's an understatement. All he does is mention things that happened the night before and agree with Jim and Al's comments. It frustrates the sh!t out of me.

[Petro-Sooner]

M2C

Could not agree more with Boomer on jack. The guy that drives me up the wall the most is rusty. Hes a producer. Sit there and answer the phone and shut up. We dont care about your raiders. I find him more annoying than jack. I like Jim though.

[oumartin]

That's an understatement, That's an understatement, That's an understatement,That's an understatement, That's an understatement, That's an understatement


:D

[Petro-Sooner]

Bingo!!!

[SOONER44EVER]

If you don't agree with Traber you're wrong. Its simple. Remember, Traber is the guy who said Bush will go down in history as being one of the greatest Presidents of all time. :rolleyes:

[TopDawg]

I think the Animal peaked right around the year 2000. Something happened around that time but my memory fails me.

That's when I stopped working there.

Flattery will get you nowhere.

[OUMallen]

I like Trabs until he starts yelling down callers and wanting to fight. He's a radio personality. He needs thicker skin.

[OUMallen]

And anyway, how is anyone worse than BBJ?

[okienole3]

And anyway, how is anyone worse than BBJ?

You can't be.

[ucosooner]

Not a big fan of the guy personally, but he was nice enough to call a little radio show at UCO and talk about Kirby Puckett. Apparently his story had something to do with drinking beer.
Of course he probably did it for the fact that he could go on and say, "look at me I had a few beers with someone famous!"
I say big deal, nobody listens to our station anyway.

[okienole3]

Your show is probably better than his.

[Sooner24]

You realize how bad the Sports Animal is when you live in Dallas. The guys at the Ticket run circles around those putzes. But I still listen when I get back North.


I would rather listen to Rosanne Barr sing the National Anthem for a couple of hours then listen to the Ticket.

[OhU1]

I like Traber. However, I hate his radio commercials. There are a lot of ads with Jim or Dean telling us to "trust them" because they think that the advertisers product is great. Pay me and I'll say I perfer pickled turnips to pizza.

The worst is how upset Jim gets when someone calls and lets everyone know that the "Fat Jack" loses them money. "The Fat Jack" pays the Sports Animal a lot of cash. WWLS doesn't want anyone to report the Fat Jacks true record except Fat Jack during his paid Ads and paid guest appearances.

Usually during one of these guest appearances at an Indian casino Jack or Jim will tell you they played a slot during the commercial and won $1,000. Absurd.

[okienole3]

I would rather listen to Rosanne Barr sing the National Anthem for a couple of hours then listen to the Ticket.

You either are not a fan of the Dallas teams, have absolutely no personality, or don't like them because they are no OU homers.

[ADs_Agent]

when it comes down to it, Traber is so pompous that I wish I could take off my arm just so I had something to beat him with. I went to one of his remotes at BWW, while on the air with Gotlieb I yelled somethign at him and he just looked up with this glare that I laugh at to this day. Everyone do yourselves a favor, invest in a Sirius or XM radio and listen to Jim Rome, at least when he's pompous he makes sense, and the only person Rome has challenged to a fight is Chrissy Everett

[AimForCenterMass]

You guys don't know how good you got it. My home station is in Idaho and believe me, sports do not exist in potato land. The natives of the Spud State try to convince themselves that BSU is a legitimate team and that all others would go down on "the blue". They have no local sports radio like the Animal. I have to listen online just to get my oklahoma sports fix.

I'll admit, Traber is full of himself and I can't stand listening to Big Gay Al smack his food on the air, but I enjoy hearing callers and the crew go back and forth. It's entertaining, which is why we all listen to radio in the first place. Yeah, every now and then they throw in some stats to keep it educational, but it's mostly for entertainment.

It's funny though. Traber knows so much, he'll argue with every average joe caller that doesn't see it his way, but the minute you get a celeb or sports figure on air, he starts kissing their ***.

Also, how many times do you hear him mention he played "in the big leagues". Did he actually play for Baltimore or was he just in the farm league?

[Scott D]

Anyone who thinks the Animal is good or quality wouldn't know good or quality if it bit them on the ***. Not to mention they've been blatantly deprived in the world of sports radio. A team of elementary school kids could do better then the clowns on the Animal.

[MikeInNorman]

Jack Mildren may be the worst radio guy in the business.

martin, if we keep agreeing like this, SF will be no fun at all.

[King Crimson]

the commercial breaks on KREF and WWLS boggle the mind. every 12 minutes i think. even, in Denver which has lousy sportstalk (unless you want to hear about the Broncos all day in the off season), is at 20 minutes, 40 minutes and 5 before the hour.

I've never liked B. Tramel much but his radio show isn't bad. and I like Myron Patton OK when he's not spending half the show talking about the Lakers. KREF is MUCH better than the Animal.

and, for whoever mentioned buying Sirius or XM to get Rome.....it's on KREF and they stream. the WWLS streaming software is about as kickass as a Yugo or a brown Pinto wagon. it sucks in ways that haven't even been discovered yet.

I think Trabor does the voice of the bear in the Frontier Airlines ads.

[Taxman71]

I hate any and all sports radio that thinks it has to have 2 or more "personalities" on at the same time. More is less in radio. It is rare that two on-air personalities are tolerable (Mike & Mike on ESPN).

KRef has it right by letting ONE guy do the show and let callers get their takes in. Not one show on the urinal is worth listening to since they seem to have a 3 person minimum on every show.

[ADs_Agent]

I really enjoy the Animal after 8 when they put on Dan Patrick, I really enjoy his radio show, and you know why? He knows what he's talking about, he has legitimate guests, and is rational.

[AimForCenterMass]

Scott D, I wasn't saying The Animal is great. Instead, I was saying it's better than nothing which how it is in Idaho, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

[AimForCenterMass]

Don't know if any of you have seen this.

Jim Traber fighting (http://www.gozipper.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=29)

[Scott D]

Scott D, I wasn't saying The Animal is great. Instead, I was saying it's better than nothing which how it is in Idaho, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.

oh I understand what you are saying, and I'm disagreeing that the blissful sound of silence on radio airwaves is lightyears better than The Animal.

I personally think the best of the shows we have on WDFN (http://www.wdfn.com/main.html) up here in Detroit is the 9am-12p show "It Is What It Is" hosted by Sean Baligian. He has on air input from his producer Marti and whoever is there to do the half hour/hour news updates (Matt Shepherd, Matt Dery, or Rob Otto). But it's mainly Baligian and the callers.

[King Crimson]

KREF also plays Free's "All Right Now" and the Replacements as bumper music....

[snp]

I can't stand Traber's arguing tactics. Lots of strawmen, red herring, and whining.

I don't mind him too much though. He can field questions about college football, basketball, and baseball, as well as NBA, NFL, and MLB.


One thing I don't get about the Sports Animal is why don't they have a stat guy? A caller will call, ask them a stat, they won't know it and just won't bother to look it up. Hire me for some change and I'll do it for them, ffs.

[CrimsonChampion]

I don't care if Trabe is an aggie or a Sooner, I'm as big of a Sooner as you can get and I love the guy. He says it like it is, if folks don't like it, don't listen.

Plus I like the be happy friday music

[ADs_Agent]

Traber is a joke, if you disagree with him he hangs up on you or challenges you to a fight etc.

[picasso]

I actually liked Trab back in the 90's when he had his own show and would do the rebel yell to start the radio day.
I can still tolerate him to an extent but he does wear on you. and that Fat Jack thing is a joke. I do not want to hear that round bubba opine about anything!
I played in Trab's golf tourney last summer and he was bragging about Fat Jack's Porsche Cyan.:rolleyes:
give me a break, dude is a sports bookie. niiiiiiiiiiiice.

[Sooner24]

You either are not a fan of the Dallas teams, have absolutely no personality, or don't like them because they are no OU homers.


If they would talk a little sports and not just try to entertain themselves it might be worth listening too.

[stoops the eternal pimp]

I wonder what he had to say when Detroit beat Cleveland in game 7....He said once Cleveland went up 3-2 that Detroit was done...and of course didnt listen to one opposing viewpoint....

[Scott D]

Traber still hates that I taunted him on his boards with the virtues of why he was nothing but a Bob Horner wannabe. :D

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Traber still hates that I taunted him on his boards with the virtues of why he was nothing but a Bob Horner wannabe. :D

Spek for mentioning Bob Horner.....

[ADs_Agent]

I wonder if any of the ticked off callers ever actually went to one of his remotes to pick a fight?

[Big Red Ron]

I wonder if any of the ticked off callers ever actually went to one of his remotes to pick a fight?I wonder how many of them are no longer in grade school.

[ADs_Agent]

I wonder how many of them are no longer in grade school.

do you never hear Traber call out certain callers to come to his remotes?

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f299/flash7205/troph11.jpg

here is a trophy for the ignorant post of the day.

[Big Red Ron]

Sooners shouldn't listen Traber's BS. He is an idiot. Thanks for playing noob.

[ADs_Agent]

noob? are you in high school? are we playing Halo? man for someone who doesn't listen to Traber you sure know a lot on the subject, go post in a topic that you can contribute to.

[Big Red Ron]

noob? are you in high school? are we playing Halo? man for someone who doesn't listen to Traber you sure know a lot on the subject, go post in a topic that you can contribute to.How clever. You're new around here, right?:twinkies:

[ADs_Agent]

I've done a lot of reading, but I don't post much.

[RiddlerOK]

"I hate to give it up to myself, but today I just gotta give it up to myself."


"I gotta give it up to myself for giving it up to you giving it up to yourself for giving it up to Traber giving it up to himself"

Train?..............................Bueller?

[RiddlerOK]

Traber still hates that I taunted him on his boards with the virtues of why he was nothing but a Bob Horner wannabe. :D

And I thought you'd at least give props to Ed Kranepool............

[ADs_Agent]

don't expect decent NFL talk unless you're talking about the Steelers

[winnard]

I like Traber. However, I hate his radio commercials. There are a lot of ads with Jim or Dean telling us to "trust them" because they think that the advertisers product is great. Pay me and I'll say I perfer pickled turnips to pizza.

The worst is how upset Jim gets when someone calls and lets everyone know that the "Fat Jack" loses them money. "The Fat Jack" pays the Sports Animal a lot of cash. WWLS doesn't want anyone to report the Fat Jacks true record except Fat Jack during his paid Ads and paid guest appearances.

Usually during one of these guest appearances at an Indian casino Jack or Jim will tell you they played a slot during the commercial and won $1,000. Absurd.

Good lord, this is an excellent post. You hit the nail on the head about the Fat Jack being lucky bit. I do enjoy listening to Traber, he's got 'some' knowledge about sports...


winnard

[Landthief 1972]

The only time I can tolerate the Animal is from August to January... I wonder why. :D

[Big Red Ron]

noob? are you in high school? are we playing Halo? man for someone who doesn't listen to Traber you sure know a lot on the subject, go post in a topic that you can contribute to.I don't know much about him. His mother, that's different.

[SoonerDood]

I will trade you Chris Plank and the entire idiot staff from here in Tulsa for Traber!
NO JOKE! Is the Buzz still OSU/Cardinals all the time? Do they know there's an OU yet?

[jackietreehorn]

I really enjoy the Animal after 8 when they put on Dan Patrick, I really enjoy his radio show, and you know why? .

i do know why--because dp is the man!!
traber loves himself!!!
traber: "what'd i say last week craig? did i not say this was gonna happen?" or
traber: "Have i not been telling you guys? so i'm gonna go ahead and give it up to myself."
jackietreehorn: "F'in blow me sir!"

[LLoyd Dobler]

Have you ever noticed that when Traber mentions an OSu player - he has the potential to become a superstar or "Supahstah"

When he talks about an OU player, he has a chance to be good, really good.

[the OOF]

traber's alright in my book. certainly on the arrogant side but i listen to him before i'll listen to anyone else on that station.

and i actually enjoy listenin' to pat jones. did i just say that?

BOOMER SOONER!

[the_ouskull]

Traber is a joke. Plain and simple. Also, I've heard that his calling people out to come to his remotes has gotten him in some trouble before. I can't remember the story, or where I heard it, so I know that it more or less butchers my credibility, but when I heard the story, I completely believed it, and I've got a pretty good BS detector after years of bartending... ("I'm sober, I swear;" and, "no, I don't have a boyfriend," etc...)

I can't listen to the Animal until ESPN radio starts either... although I like FOX Sports Radio on the REF just as well. ...and they have Jim Rome, so I'm pretty much stuck on 1400 AM.

My problem with Traber, et al... is that they're being paid WAY too much for how little work they do, and it's a cycle that they can't control now. They're paid so much for their jobs that the station has to run more ads than it should (Commercial Animal, anyone? Anyone?) to be able to cover costs. So, since they're always in and out of commercial, a LOT of air time is wasted talking about inane sh*t like where they are, and what they're eating, etc... ie - plugging the place from which their remote is being broadcast. Then, whenever they have more than one personality on the radio at a time, it ceases being caller-driven, which is what talk radio should be anyway, and starts being a conversation between two (or more) shallow, vacuous people who are talking about things that most listeners either don't care about hearing, can't afford doing, or both. (Respectively, their kids, their vacations, etc...)

Meanwhile, KREF is just taking phone call after phone call.

Now don't get me wrong. I honestly don't feel like there are many, if any, callers in the OKC area that are worth listening to either, especially when they're giving THEIR opinion instead of just asking a question. The MAJOR exception being James The Marvel. He might be annoying, etc... but at least he's fresh; he's different.

If the REF ever gets the signal strength to compete with the Animal, you'll see the Animal lose a lot of listeners, and then maybe those "brilliant sports minds" they've compiled will have to start doing their freakin' homework again instead of continuing to be caricatures of their former selves and arguing with and running off the callers.

Notes for Animal "personalities," (and I use that term VERY loosely):

- If you have to turn your volume up to make a point, it's probably not a good point.
- If you have to hang up on a caller, it's not because they're an idiot, it's because YOU'RE an idiot. You're the one who is supposed to be the expert. If you can't make them see your side of things, or at least explain it without violating Rule #1, then you're not doing your job effectively. Their job is to listen, yours is to enterain, not to hide behind your kill switch.
- If you have to call someone out to your remote, etc... you're in the wrong line of work. Find me someone that's ever offered to fight Myron Patton.
- Humility. Humility. Humility. There is ALWAYS someone who is going to know more than you; especially on a specific topic or two. Don't be afraid to defer. It makes you look more intelligent when you do this, not less intelligent.

That's all for now.

the_ouskull

[Taxman71]

True. KRef is light years more entertaining than the animal. It is not like Berry Tramel or Toby Rowland are going to woo anyone with charisma, but they talk sports all the time, only have one person in the booth and their callers, esp. Tramel's on the drive home, are generally very intelligent sportswise and well prepared. I think people only call the animal to get a free hamburger from Johnnies.

As bad as Traber and Al have gotten, nothing in the history of radio will ever approach the suck that is the animal morning show. That is the poorest excuse for radio in any market, of an generation, at any timeslot in any genre.

[the_ouskull]

You had me until your last paragraph. I haven't listened to the Morning Animals for a few years now, but they used to be all that was keeping that place going.

the_ouskull

[stonecoldsoonerfan]

You had me until your last paragraph. I haven't listened to the Morning Animals for a few years now, but they used to be all that was keeping that place going.

the_ouskull

all due spek to skull, but you're behind the times now. they basically sit around and entertain themselves at the expense of their listeners. i won't listen to them anymore unless they're talking sports, and that's basically between every bad joke about passing gas, belching out loud, and any other jr. high mentality comment.

[Taxman71]

I think the old school "Al and OU football" following is keeping that place going (in addition to KRef having a weak signal = no options for listeners). I occassionally hear Humphries when I am channel surfing in the afternoon. Wow, can a person's voice be as annoying as his inability to speak to anything but golf?