OT...790 The Zone fires Mayhem in the A.M. crew for Gleason “joke”

Good. I am in no way a PC person, and think being PC has ruined this country.

However, their display this morning was outrageous and not funny in the slightest evidenced by the outrage.

Sponsors of a show can't have their name attached to such pitiful people, thus they lost their job.

Like one of the jackasses said in his 'apology'.....you live and you learn.

I met Steak a time or three back when he was still part owner with Saltzman at a coupla meet & greets at various sporting events trying to sell me & others advertising on 790...

I felt then that he was an insufferable, pompous prick... seems that the chickens have come home to roost... Good riddance...JMO..

Dimino used to be as good of an MLB analyst & interviewer as there was out there. He knew his stuff & did some great interviews with some of the all time greats...

Cellini... meh.. I think his dad(or older bro) Jim opened Steverino's & Sons of Italy back in the early 70's on S. Lumpkin St. so I'll give him that...

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Honestly, do you find that bit funny (not saying you do)? Steve Gleason has done more to raise ALS awareness than anyone I can think of.

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I don't even have to listen to it to know it's not funny.

I'm one of those people who can laugh at jokes about cancer because it's common place, I have had friends and family survive it/joke about it, I am certainly at risk for it, etc.

ALS, however, is (IMO) about the worst possible disease imagineable. It is a slow, painful death sentence and those who suffer from it deserve our compassion and admiration.
ETA: That's not to say cancer cant be the same (I know first hand this to be true) but at least with cancer there is always a slight chance that it can be caught, it can regress, etc. With ALS, you're fricked. It's going to kill you eventually and you are basically trying to wring out every bit of life from each day that you can. Three pieces of shite joking about it obviously doesn't really help you to meet that end.

Quite frankly, there are just some lines you don't cross and ALS is one of them (and I am quite adamant against the PC conditions we have grown into as a society).

ETA2: Also, cancer kids are off limits. Because frick you if you're making fun of a little kid who has not developed the mental/physical capabilities to last/ward off a disease an adult might be able to cope with.

(never listened to the 790 radio show(Bobby Bones controls the airwaves of Augusta, GA) & didn't know about the Saints player)

Saw this though:

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The dismissal, despite the circumstances, came as "a relief, really," Cellini said. "That station is a sinking ship."

His contract, he said, was up in November and he figured even then, it wouldn't have been renewed.

Cellini has been part of the Zone since it debuted in 1997. He has been working with Dimino that entire time, first in afternoons, then the mornings since 2003. Shapiro co-owned the station for 13 years and made a boatload of money off of it but blew it when he and his partner Andrew Saltzman gambled on a station in St. Louis that tanked. They were forced to sell it in 2010 to Lincoln Financial, which owned the signal. Shapiro has been a paid employee ever since. (Saltzman left last year.) Shapiro's contract was up September 8.

Cellini believes since CBS created the third sports talk station at 92.9 called the Game last fall, he sensed the Zone was going to die eventuallly. He felt Lincoln Financial, which isn't really a focused media company like CBS or Clear Channel, never made a real commitment to find an FM signal for the station, which he feels is a necessity in this day and age. (Rival 680/The Fan is also on 93.7.)

Ratings weren't off by much since the new station arrived but clearly, ad revenue became much more scarce.

He also saw the writing on the wall with the lack of advertising at times. "We had to stretch things out between commercials," he said. And there is no general sales manager.

Ultimately, this was an excuse, Cellini said, for the station to cut salary and insert a cheaper syndicated morning show, Cellini said. Syndicated "Mike & Mike" will likely be on tomorrow morning.

I'm told by a good source that all three hosts were well compensated for radio jobs - in the low six figures. And they all have other gigs, too. Dimino, for instance, also works at CSS.

Shapiro was more measured in his tones about the firing. "I am not going to disparage Lincoln Financial," he said. (They did bail him out.) "The ironic thing for me is that I'm an afficianado of the Saints and Steve Gleason. The bit was ill advised."

He said that two-minute clip is not representative of what they had done four hours a day for years.

He hopes to get another sports talk radio gig down the road even while he runs Atlanta Eats, a TV show and web site brand focused on Atlanta restaurants.

I reached Dimino at about 7:10 p.m., but he said he needed to make a couple of other calls before he could get back to me.

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That's not to say cancer cant be the same (I know first hand this to be true) but at least with cancer there is always a slight chance that it can be caught, it can regress, etc. With ALS, you're fricked. It's going to kill you eventually and you are basically trying to wring out every bit of life from each day that you can. Three pieces of shite joking about it obviously doesn't really help you to meet that end.

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I agree on your edit as well. I wouldn't make jokes about Cancer either TBH. but that can be curable. We are watching Gleason's death in front of our eyes. Joking about that is just pitiful IMO.

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Ultimately, this was an excuse, Cellini said, for the station to cut salary and insert a cheaper syndicated morning show, Cellini said.

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bullshite. I hope this follows that POS. I in no way blame Falcon fans or Atlanta for this little bitch BTW.

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The Falcons/Saints thing has been blown way out of proportion for years.. many Coon fans could really give two shits... just playing along with the hype imo.

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I actually always rooted for the Saints before their fanbase grew big heads after their Super Bowl win. The whole "rivalry" really is one-sided; all the flack we send back is simply in defense or spurned on by their irrational hatred for/inferiority complex toward ATL.

STFU! The station was going down the tubes especially w/out an FM signal. 92.9 was the final nail in the coffin...these guys were gonna be gone with or without this incident. This just made it happen faster.

You're just pissed becuase he makin fun of one of your own. Good lord, quit being such a sensitive bitch. Cellini's been making fun of retards for years.

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circle of douche I reserve for the likes of Jim Rome.

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You know, you're not too bad

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Stephen “Steak” Shapiro, Nick Cellino, and Chris Dimino

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With names like that, they sound more like half-assed mobsters who got caught shaking down strip clubs or something.