Going to war with Jim Traber
Lots of folks by now have heard or heard about my spirited exchange with Gentleman Jim Traber on the Sports Animal’s Total Dominance Hour. I called Jim a chauvinist and four seconds later the world was on fire.
I received a couple of inquiries and saw a couple of Internet postings that I want to clear up. The show was not an act. The show was not planned. Not scripted. Not discussed beforehand. This was not some ruse to create another Sports Animal buzz. Jim and I go at it every once in awhile, but it’s always spontaneous.
I assume a lot of radio shows plant controversy, but I can tell you that with Traber and Eschbach, we never even talk before the show about which subject we’re going to discuss. On rare occasions, one of us might, during a commercial break, say something like, hey, let’s talk about the Hornets, or OU baseball, or Travis Ford. But never do we plan out a show, much less plan out a forest fire to get everyone talking.
Let me clear up another item. Jim and I are friends. We’re not go-out-to-dinner once a week friends. We’re not play-golf-regularly-together friends. I can’t find the time to go to dinner with anyone but my family; don’t play golf with anyone, much less a seven-handicapper like Jim.
I bust him on the radio because he’s fun to bust, and we most definitely disagree on a variety of subjects, and Jim is more combustible than gasoline. But there are no hard feelings. And whatever happens, it most definitely was not scripted.
-------------Berry Tramel can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can e-mail him here and follow him on Twitter @BerryTramel. Visit Berry's website here.
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Comments
Traber needs to take a chill pill, seriously. Everybody does not have to agree with him and its ok to agree to disagree sometimes, GEEZ! It’s really not that serious and Berry you were right as rain with this one. He always dogs womens sports and he knows it. Seems when somebody tells him the truth about something is when he gets hot under the collar. Also, not professional.
Berry, I quit listening to the sports animal because of trabor. I mostly listen to kref now. You should go back, I don’t get to hear your show anymore, I always enjoyed it.
Berry, I thought it was hilarious, quite honestly. I sat at my car just cracking up how Traber was just going off.
Berry:
I thought you were spot on. If anything, Jim and Al should be hyping the WCWS because it is good for OKC. The Oklahoman is a good corporate citizen. I wish there were more like her.