Of Recent Vintage: Loudmouths (2008)

Sportsnet New York (SNY) thought they could compete with ESPN with an afternoon talk block.

After 12 years, they've waved the white flag.

Loudmouths, the centerpiece of their afternoon drive block, was cancelled following Friday's broadcast. but by then, SNY's answer to ESPN's Pardon The Interruption, which it competed with, wasn't appointment television anymore, largely because original co-host Adam Schein left some years back for CBS Sports Network and his own show, Time to Schein. Co-host Chris Carlin, a radio veteran known to NYC area listeners as the radio voice of Rutgers football for so many years, had ceded his chair, as, per Bob Raissman of the New York Daily News, there was a rotation of three hosts while Carlin had moved back to radio in recent years.

In this clip from July 2013, then-Mets GM Sandy Alderson is the guest during the run-up to the All-Star Game, as the show is emanating on location at Citi Field.



At a time when SNY is in need of original content, dumping one of their longest running shows makes zero sense. Then again.....!

Rating: B.