Chuck Booms Hate Speech Continues Unchecked at CBS Cleveland 92.3 The Fan

by Cleveland Frowns on August 15, 2012

CBS Cleveland 92.3 The Fan’s morning show host Chuck Booms is best known in these parts for his vigorous defenses of Obama/Hitler comparisons and demeaning caricatures of minority races created by white men, as well as for his extreme displays of cowardice, and a general propensity to blame every problem in the world on people who aren’t middle-to-upper class white men. So you probably won’t be surprised to learn that Chuck comes hard after the gays, too.

Yesterday morning we tuned in to 92.3 on our way to the dentist (because nothing could be better preparation for needles and drills to the face than a few minutes of listening to the Kiley & Booms show). We don’t remember whom or what Booms was discussing specifically, but it was just before 10AM right as the show was ending, and he was talking about a person being flustered (Pat Shurmur at a press conference probably?). To make his point, he used the following simile:

“He was sweating like Ellen [DeGeneres] in a room full of girl scouts.”

Which is great, of course, because Ellen DeGeneres is a famous gay person, and what Chuck wants his listeners to believe (and what far too many of his listeners are already all too happy to believe) is that all gay people aren’t just perverted deviants but also dangerous pedophiles who struggle to control themselves around children.

Maybe we could consider Booms less of a mouthbreathing lowlife for this if Ellen had any kind of checkered past at all, but she’s actually about as spotless a celebrity as there is. So it’s just a completely and thoroughly baseless attack, not just on Ellen but on all homosexuals, that panders to the worst prejudices of the worst of Booms’s listeners.

It’s actually much worse than the views expressed by Chik-fil-A leadership that have subjected the restaurant chain to a sweeping nationwide boycott. WFAN sponsors and especially Kiley & Booms show sponsors should take note (we of course will take note of them), and CBS and WFAN should be embarrassed for using their platform to let this guy continue his relentless campaign to keep Cleveland in the gutter.

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In other news, former Browns legend Jayme Mitchell was released by Tampa Bay this weekend which of course is completely and thoroughly incomprehensible.

Browns/Packers tomorrow. Hope everyone has a decent go of it today.

  • BIKI024
  • http://twitter.com/AnthonyLimaFAN Anthony Lima

    Pete,

    Does this mean you won’t be getting your hair done at Lady Jane’s?

    • ClevelandFrowns

      Sacrifices, man.

      • Believelander

        I’m back. Some causes are worth commenting for. +1 interlikes for all of this.

        • ClevelandFrowns

          We missed you, buddy. Welcome back.

  • wiseoldredbeard

    Frownie – solid work, my friend. When are you going to line this guy up for a debate?

    • humboldt

      Seriously, what strings do we need to pull to make this happen?

  • mo_by_dick

    End the War on Love.

  • nj0

    Classy.

    Worth noting that he went after a lesbian too. Maybe gay men get a pass because they could possibly be part of that “middle-to-upper class white men” demo?

    • BIKI024

      he probably should’ve referenced Paula Poundstone

      • manc

        True, because Poundstone did actually get in some real live trouble a few years back, of a Sanduskyian nature.

        I dunno, I used to listen to Kiley and Booms when I lived in DC. I like em, but they do get pretty salty sometimes. It beats Mike and Mike talking about their kids and reading texts their producers write.

        • Hamfist

          I dunno. M&M at least don’t constantly try to go for the lowest IQ denominator.

        • Petefranklin

          Curse of M&M on the tribe, look at the record the last two years after that Greenburg guy showed up at the Jake. Goilc gets a pass I guess.

          • actovegin1armstrong

            The Golic’s, Mike, Bob and Greg are actually intelligent, interesting and nice guys, even though they went to the wrong schools.

          • Petefranklin

            I have a friend out here who grew up on the same street and she loves them.

    • Hamfist

      More than likely it’s because some buffed up gay man would come down to the studios and give him an ass-whipping.

      • Petefranklin

        Or a scrawny angry one.

  • http://twitter.com/Dennymayo Denny

    He’s just ‘mad jealous’ that he doesn’t get to do marriage with Portia de Rossi.

    • WFNYJon

      C’mon Denny. Everyone knows you do marriage “on” people, not “with” them. Get your prepositions right.

      • actovegin1armstrong

        Jon, were you beginning a sentence with a proposition?

  • GrandRapidsRustlers

    I want you to have a debate with this guy about Wahoo in which people can call in…I would look forward to joining forces with you and just roasting this guy on the air.

    • wiseoldredbeard

      The only way this guy would agree to debate would be in a forum where he could mute Frownie. No way he’s letting in others that he can’t control. I accidentially listened to him once and can assure you that I’ll never do it again. Consider WORB a part of your boycott.

      • http://twitter.com/cpmack Chris M

        Any debate would have to be in writing. He can’t drown out Frowns when he writes in all caps.

        Of course, that is based on the idea that Booms in fact knows how to read.

  • humboldt

    At least he unironically wears a cross when spewing hate at his fellow man.

    • bupalos

      This comment is another clear violation of Booms’ 1st amendment rights.

    • ClevelandFrowns

      He wears the cross because he’s so fucking metal, man. I thought that was clear.

      • Petefranklin

        MUYFA, maybe he’s in the closet.

  • actovegin1armstrong

    “Chuck comes hard after the gays, too.”

    What would you call it then?

    It sounds like some type of “love /hate relationship”.

  • http://twitter.com/lilOUmikey Mikey

    I think it’s even more absurd of how irate he gets over Sandusky (warranted) then makes a joke regarding something fairly similar.

  • wiseoldredbeard

    As an aside, I think some praise is in order for LeCharles Bentley. Part of his settlement with the Browns was that Lerner fund scholarships for several minority students to go to Ignatius every year for 20 years. Good to see a hometown guy acting with such class.

    • Hamfist

      Not a real big fan of LCB on the radio, but this is a classy move.

    • Petefranklin

      Hope they are for scholars and not atheletes.

      • CleveLandThatILove

        Their athletes are scholars for the most part.

        • actovegin1armstrong

          Bravo CLTIL,
          It is possible to be an athlete and a scholar.

        • Petefranklin

          Yeah some do a minimal amount of schoolwork to keep the state off them so I guess they’re scholars too. My elementary had a guy who was dumber than a box of rocks get recruited by Eds and he ended up playing football at a private MAC school for 4 years. A scholar??? definitely not but I guess the world needs phys ed majors too.

          • acto

            PeteF,
            Please do not try too hard to perpetuate the stereotype. There are kids who realize that the only way out of a bad situation is to play better than their peers. Sometimes these kids pulled out of poverty study hard and take advantage of their educations. They do not become morons until years later when they start reading sports blogs

          • CleveLandThatILove

            Agreed. They address five areas of each young man’s development, one of which is “intellectually competent”. They meet with the student and their parents/guardians a couple of times to discuss their progress in each area. They do try to not let them fall through the cracks.

  • bupalos

    damn frowns I can’t believe you would violate Booms’ 1st amendment rights like this!

    • rgrunds

      Yes yes….YES!

      beebopabupalos

      • actovegin1armstrong

        “beebopabupalos”
        rgr, it took me a while to translate that from its latin origins:

        “Where there is one Bupa, there are many Bupaloses.”

        • rgrunds

          really erudite. I’m not just saying that.

    • mo_by_dick

      I would like to reserve my right to unlike this the moment someone posts some screed analyzing Booms’ comment under first amendment case law.

  • 910Derp

    No doubt it was a dick move on Boom’s part, but that’s no reason to let the chicken bigots off the hook. It’s intolerance in both cases.

  • http://twitter.com/GHClevelandSprt Mike Stein

    Maybe the room full of Girl Scouts was hot?

    • Believelander

      The A/C could have been broken, or a boiler could be going awry. The room could literally have been full of girl scouts, which would generate a lot of heat in not a lot of air. Really, Chuck Booms can only be accused of being too hypothetical.

  • rgrunds

    Oh Come On.

    Lets be sensible.

    It’s a scientific fact that homosexuals will undress and kill you.

    Jeez. Where’s your judgment, FrOrange? Did you O.D. on something you stole from the dentist?

    That DeGeneris remark is hilarious…..sweating like the Archbishop at a Boy Scout Jamboree.

    • http://www.autismspeaks.org/ PML

      Or a yinzer at a speech pathologist?

    • CleveLandThatILove

      Thanks for the priest-pedophile joke, rgrunds. You just don’t hear enough of those, really.

      • rgrunds

        But I just made it up and couldn’t control myself…..

      • http://www.autismspeaks.org/ PML

        You watching Project Runway this Season?

        • CleveLandThatILove

          Of course. I miss Kooan already.

          • http://www.autismspeaks.org/ PML

            He bring great dishonor to crazy asians everywhere.

    • actovegin1armstrong

      rgr, please scatter your insults wisely.
      I feel left out.
      What about us buysexuals? We may be just as dangerous and I always observe my credo, “when I want sex I have to buy it”.

      • rgrunds

        I am so sorry. I really do want you to feel acknowledged.

        Everybody, Actovegin, is defective!

        (But not as much as me)

  • http://twitter.com/DaddyBulldog WPR

    Could have used the punch line, “Sweating like Pete P. in a Applebee’s booth in Hartford across from Eric Mangini”? Or is that too on the nose?

  • Peter

    A radio host here lost his job for calling some of the Bucs monkeys. Looks like this malaka should work on his resume

    • acto

      Really Peter?
      I was just a puppy when I watched it but I remember Humble Howard on Monday Night Football when I believe it was Joe Washington was making a great breakaway run saying “Look at that little monkey run”.
      He caught a lot of grief for it, but Cosell never seemed like a racist.

      • Petefranklin

        Getting fired for it is quite a bit of grief. Wasn’t Joe W. It was one of the smurfs, Murphy or something like that.Alvin Garret.

      • manc

        Good pull. It was actually Alvin Garrett having a huge game against the Cowobys in either 1982 or 83, back when My Beloved Redskins strode the world like a colossus.

        Cosell was the furthest thing from a racist and was a longtime civil rights advocate, but the man was pilloried by a bunch of turds with no attention span. A somewhat illustrative and sorry episode and vaguely related to the “Booms told a joke and should be punished” sentiment expressed here today.

        • rodofdisaster

          Taking things out of context (literal or social) is a favorite American pastime.

  • Bryan

    It seems that the regular commenters here are all in agreement with your sentiments on this one Frowns. While that is certainly a good thing, it makes for a boring day for debate.

    Anyone got anything juicy we can argue about? Who do people think Haslam is going to replace Shurmur with after we go 2-14? Cowher time?

    • https://twitter.com/jimkanicki jimkanicki

      i wouldnt say all the regular commenters are in agreement here… but not everything is worth going to the mattresses over. as for me, i’m saving my bullets for the inevitable paul ryan chat pending with bup. right bup?

      • GrandRapidsRustlers

        I’m getting my popcorn ready for that one.

        • https://twitter.com/jimkanicki jimkanicki
      • bupalos

        I love Paul Ryan. What’s not to love about a “deficit hawk” that manages to slash every part of the budget that benefits lower and middle class folks, all while increasing the deficit? I mean, that’s really pretty hard to do. You also have to love a self-made man like that– worked like 6 weeks at his family’s business, which in turn apparently makes all it’s money off government road contracts. He’s the best spokesman for the “keep the government out of my medicare” crowd that I can imagine. All this AND Ayn Rand??! Pinch me!

        I tend to think Haslam is a confident enough guy that he’s not going to hire the last flavor of the decade, but try to find some young competence. Cowher is apparently a decent coach as far as preparation and discipline, but for my money game day he’s really about as bad as they come. He’s actually the last guy since Shurmur that I remember letting the clock run out at half holding the ball inside the opponents 10. He’s also responsible for the Steeler’s near loss to the Browns in that one playoff game where they decided to just let Holcomb have what he wanted and never changed a thing.

        • jim

          Yeah but Ryan has really great hair. And he smiles. Lots of smiles.

          • GrandRapidsRustlers

            The good news for Ryan is that his name is not Biden.

            I am fully convinced that Obama and Mccain were having a beer one night in DC and had an agreement in place that if they ever opposed each other for the office of the President they would make VP selections in a game of can you top this.

            I am devastated that Vegas will not give me odds on this because it had to have happened.

          • Petefranklin

            Try offshore,the new Vegas SUCKS. Just last month Britans William Hill consolidated 3 local chains into 1 making you bet into one of the 4 or 5 lines left here. It’s just no fun anymore when shopping results in the same results.

        • CleveLandThatILove

          Paul Ryan is a conservative and a cheesehead. That’s like the holy grail, right Bup?

          • https://twitter.com/jimkanicki jimkanicki

            and a Miami U alumnus..
            ♪ Love and honor to Miami,
            Forever and a Day..             ♫

          • CleveLandThatILove

            Trifecta!

          • Beeej

            I had no idea we had a fight song until now. Thanks Kanick. Fly Redhawks!!! or Roll Redhawks!!! or Whatever it is we say to encourage our team at sporting events.

          • Petefranklin

            Muck Fiami and the horse they rode in on. Bobcats win yet again this year in another laugher.

          • Beeej

            I would expect those kinds of boorish manners from an OUer. While the Bobcats may have prevailed on the sporting pitch in recent years, Miami is still number one in terms of class and gentlemanly conduct.

          • bupalos

            There is practically nothing conservative about Paul Ryan. Wisconsin is way too good for his ilk, although he’s looking to change it.

          • wiseoldredbeard
        • thebearchoo

          Sorry this is a bit off topic, but seriously, can we all agreee that the word “folks” might be the most overused word by politicians of all-time (or at least the last decade or so)?? I grew up out in BFE on a farm, but it really pisses me off when these clowns refer to me as a “folk” in some attempt to connect with me on any sort of level, because they can’t. “Hey you Willy Mo, you’re a folk just like me, we’re all folks in this together!” No, you’re not a folk and don’t call me a folk because that’s not going to get me to vote for you.

          Ok so back to the discussion…wait I don’t even want to think about Shurmur…so incompetent. Every time I think “Can this guy really be as overwhelmed/incompetent as he seems to be?”, he comes up with something to give the answer to that question a resounding yes.

          And Booms, yea the guys a complete troll, but once you embrace his trolldom, his show can be entertaining. Definitely hit or miss for me.

          • BIKI024

            favor, would you mind enlightening me with some examples of what Shurmur “comes up with” THIS PRESEASON everytime you think “can this guy really be as overwhelmed/incompetent as he seems to be?”

            i’m not sold on him one way or the other, giving him the benefit of the doubt to see how the season goes, but any help you can provide for me to see the light would be greatly appreciated.

          • Bryan

            The GIF where he pulls down his mic, tries to drink the water, and then pulls the mic back up is pretty strong evidence of buffoonery, which indicates incompetence isn’t far away.

          • BIKI024

            @Bryan – nah, that’s pretty weak evidence

        • nj0

          break out the mattresses!!!

        • Petefranklin

          Yeah he sure was a huge deficit hawk when W got us into such a mess. He called the last pres out all the time didn’t he?

        • http://twitter.com/edudak Eric Dudak

          Anyone with that view of what Ryan is proposing is simply uninformed of what the true nature of his budget proposals are or are head in the sand about the fiscal realities facing our countries future or both.

          It is the status quo which is unsustainable unless you think the fiscal collapse of Greece and the chaos in the euro-zone is a goal worth shooting for.

          • bupalos

            Do you have any details on that? Because while I agree he talks a good game, from where I sit what he is proposing doesn’t look like it affects the deficit at all without a lot of magical thinking about how cutting taxes for guys like Romney somehow leads to balanced budget ponies for everyone.

      • acto

        jk, please write a letter to Sigmund.
        I think the phrase refers to wrestling as in “going to the mat?
        Very Freuding of you, you may love liberals in a way you do not understand.

        • https://twitter.com/jimkanicki jimkanicki

          appreciate the etymology, i’d wondered about it and wasn’t sure if ‘go to the mat’ was correct… so i went for the safer (i thought) godfather reference. besides wrestling references would only be more homoerotic, no?

          (you got the godfather reference i hope?)

    • GrandRapidsRustlers

      Booms is a moron.

      Moving on…

      I would take a potted plant over Shurmur at this point.

      I am a Gruden guy over a Cowher guy.

      The good news is that this owner will not hire a lifelong QB coach and give him the keys to the Cleveland Browns.

      • wiseoldredbeard

        What is with the never ending obsession with Gruden in Cleveland? Aside from winning the SB his first year there (arguably due to the defense instituted by Dungy), he had a mediocre tenure. If he really is that amazing (look what TB gave up to get him from Oakland), why hasn’t anyone hired him? Not to bust your balls GRR, but someone needs to explain this to me!

        • GrandRapidsRustlers

          I can explain it with 2 things.

          1. He won a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay. (let that sink in.)

          2. He won a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay WITH Brad Johnson. (let that sink in some more)

          I think the reason that Gruden and Cowher have been so slow to return is that they make obscene amounts of money on TV, get to stay in the game they love, and waiting for the perfect job to open.

          • wiseoldredbeard

            I get that he won a SB in his first year there (which, as I acknowledged above everyone with a brain credits to Dungy and Kiffin not his offense with Johnson), but aside from that season what did he do there? Had as many seasons over 500 as under 500, and never won another playoff game. Maybe I’m an idiot, but I don’t find that terribly impressive.

          • GrandRapidsRustlers

            Have you followed the Browns like I since birth? That IS terribly impressive.

          • wiseoldredbeard

            By the way, your logic would seem to support doing something stupid like signing Trent Dilfer to be our QB. (Of course, nobody with a brain would ever make that move…)

      • acto

        Join in the chant!
        “We want Chuckie! We want Chuckie!”

    • mo_by_dick

      Debate proposal: Hot Cheetos or Taki’s?

      • wiseoldredbeard

        How are Andy Capp’s Hot Fries not in the debate?

      • Beeej

        Korean chili paste flavored chips.

  • Believelander

    So basically, we’re blowing it out of proportion because we don’t like the guy for being a bigot and getting paid to propagate his bigotry as a media personality. Yeah, we’re some jerks.

    His job isn’t to get reactions from people by being an ignant. There’s plenty of, oh, I don’t know, sports-related ways to get a rise out of people on a sports talk radio show, you pee noss.

  • Believelander

    Which deceased friends of Haslam have younger relatives in the sport?

    • Beeej

      I bet Lamonte would know.

  • bupalos

    Is that photo really Chuck Booms? He needs to host the next Crunkmas

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjTigjbk2EU

  • CleveLandThatILove

    Speaking of cheeseheads, here’s something fun complements of the factory of happiness. Good to know some things don’t really change.

    Lambeau Field sits back on a corner of a residential area, across the street from the practice field. When I was little, there was only an outdoor practice field, with a few rusty bleachers for fans to watch. My dad would take us, we never got to a game.

    Anyway, the players would dress in the stadium and then have to walk pretty far through the lot and across the street to get to practice. Kids would ride their bikes there, wait for the players to come out, and let them ride their bike down. Back then the kids were always on the handlebars, it was hilarious.

    This was last month, from my cousin.

    • rgrunds

      That comment depersonalizes people from Wisconsin. I expected more from you. You have just created a Cheese Sambo.

  • Atdietz80

    Radio in general is a heap of garbage. Good thing we have podcasts. I’m not sure how Booms keeps getting work. He is billed as a comedian, but I have yet to hear evidence of him being funny or interesting for that matter.

  • rodofdisaster

    Just because speech is free, we are under no obligation to endorse it.

    “The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press,
    is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.”
    Justice Robert H. Jackson
    (1892-1954)

    Seems to me this guy isn’t part of the solution…and therefore…

    • rgrunds

      I think what Rod thinks.

  • http://twitter.com/edudak Eric Dudak

    Please explain how it is possible to equate the words of a public persona who is trying to create controversy with the Christian owner of a highly successful franchise who simply stated his belief in the traditional view of marraige? This vew also happens to be held by a majority of the nation. The man never said he would refuse service to anyone for any reason.

    Also, if there really is a national boycott of Chik-fil-A, it has been a dismal failure.

    • nj0
    • 910Derp

      It’s not his opinion that gay people don’t deserve civil rights that’s the issue. It’s the fact that a business spends part of it’s profits to financially support hate groups. Why would I give my money to that business when some of that money will end up going to people holding views that I oppose?
      A majority of the country once had the ‘opinion’ that black people didn’t deserve civil rights either. Replace ‘gay’ with ‘black’ , and the issue is really simple.

      • CleveLandThatILove

        For the love of God, enough with the civil rights BS here, and throwing the black card. Technically, gays have the same rights as everyone else. Nobody can “marry” a person of the same sex. It’s not hateful to try and sustain a sacrament that joins a couple in the eyes of God.

        Marriage and civil union are two different things. Gays should be able to do whatever they want, but stop trying to call it what it is not. The financial and other so-called benefits should be afforded them, of course. That’s not the issue. Something tells me the lefties won’t be satisfied with that, because where’s the hate? Gotta have the hate.

        • rgrunds

          No. More.

        • Beeej

          So it is more an issue of semantics?

          • CleveLandThatILove

            I believe so. California didn’t want it, what does that tell you?

          • mo_by_dick

            That Dan Cathy and other magnates of intolerance were making it rain out there?

          • nj0

            Elections are affordable?

          • Beeej

            While I can’t quote statistics, I have seen a lot more vitriol along the lines of, “God hates fags,” “Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve,” “Gays burn in hell…etc.” Than I have, “Civil Unions are cool, just keep it out of the church and everything will be fine. Here is a fondu pot and some His & His towels. Enjoy your union.”

            If it is purely an issue of using the word marriage, then why would there be protests outside of city hall? If churches don’t want to recognize the union, who cares? That is their right. Why the outrage for something that is being done outside of the church? My wife and I got married in a traditional Korean ceremony (for show), and at the U.S. Embassy (for legal purposes, which basically included filling out the correct forms and paying fees). No one protested our “marriage,” although there may be some that are against it because we’re mixing up her pure Korean blood with my mixed up Anglo-American-with-European-ancestry dirty blood. God, Jesus, Zeus or Whomever may not recognize our marriage, but everyone else is okay with it.

            My understanding with California, is that people may perceive the state as being extremely liberal when in fact, outside of the cities, most of Cali is rather conservative.

          • CleveLandThatILove

            Beej, you see a lot more vitriol because that’s what the media finds provocative. There are 300 million people in this country, and there’s a little bit of everything and there always will be. I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but the feeling I get is that most of us don’t care what others do.

            I get upset with overly broad generalizations and throwing the word hate around, especially when it comes to religion, race, etc.

            Hate is a very strong word. I’ve never hated another person. I may dislike or disagree with things they do, but you will rarely see me use the word hate except in this context.

          • nj0

            “the feeling I get is that most of us don’t care what others do. ”

            Yet civil unions keep getting voted down.

        • nj0

          Separate but equal?

          • mo_by_dick

            was going to say — i’m almost ready for the first amendment case law now. ALMOST.

        • rodofdisaster

          Marriage (in my opinion) is a religious institution. If they can find a church that will marry them then they can knock themselves out but the real issue here is to be afforded the legal rights of a spouse.

          As to what to call it…you can call it what you like. They’re just words and I think there’s a valid argument that heterosexuals have also done their share to degrade the institution of marriage.

          You folks are lucky as I usually don’t come out of my shell for political or religious discussions. As it turns out I recently had a dying patient whose life-partner was excluded from visiting him by the family while he was in the ICU. Were that a legal spouse that would have been impossible.

          • nj0

            I get that opinion and hear it often, but the sad fact is that marriage is a federal institution and I don’t see the gov’t getting out if it. All the talk about what to call it is a distraction in my opinion. I don’t think most people honestly care. What they care about are the actual rights.

            That’s a horrible story though. I think (hope) that if more people realized the effects of denying rights to couples they would be for some equality.

          • CleveLandThatILove

            His family kept his partner away? That is heartless.

        • nj0

          “The financial and other so-called benefits should be afforded them, of course. That’s not the issue.”

          Actually, it kind of is. They are currently not afforded those rights on a federal level.

        • 910Derp

          separate but equal was decided in 1954. marriage as a civil right was decided in 1967.

  • rgrunds

    AND, since YOU brought it up, FrOrange….it has also been verified by highly placed Political Scientists that Albania was RUN by a cabal of homosexual Indians who would kidnap nude captives from Czechoslovakia then undress and kill them.

    How does that make your bleeding heart feel ? Huh, big boy?

  • boomer

    And, Chuck is gay himself. Self hatred.

  • DeShaunquandrejermichael smith

    Booms is hilarious. His voice might be annoying but keep in mind that he’s also a comedian. He tries to use his comedy background in the morning and applies it to sports. Be thankful we have great talk radio in Cleveland.

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