Hockey · Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan
by Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan
Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan host this weekly New York Rangers podcast that discusses news and results about the team, and often jump off course for nonsense.
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I’ve been a Blueshirts for 45+ years. My earliest memories are of the Rangers. In all those years this is arguably the best outlet for news, perspective, fan therapy and humor. Love the guys!
Well I’ve been listening about six months & first off (sandwich method of feedback) overall I do love the pod despite the miserable Rangers’ state and their prospects going forward (really lack there of!). I don’t always agree but Greg & Ryan crack me up with your ‘say it as it is’ approach. Probably helps that I’m a Mets fan and originally from Rensselaer Co & now living in the Philly burbs, so there’s a bit of a link with the BB portion of the show. My gripe, as brutally honest as it is, is not meant to be rude or disrespectful, but Vincent my bro… just tooooo much chatter and repetitiveness in the Flying V. I’d previously heard your very self-aware mention that tendency & though he’s got good situational awareness, but for the second week in a row, I sub-consciously reached down on a walk and shut it off a 1/3 of the way through. I know it’s easy for me to throw darts on the listening end so please accept my apology if it offends. I appreciate your passion and your knowledge is impeccable but it’s just so overtly verbose. Again, not criticizing, just critiquing in hopes of seeing it get better. Nonetheless, it’s a great show and deserves a 5 star rating!
I discovered this podcast recently. After about five episodes, I find it enjoyable despite the long episodes and the Rangers’ disappointing year. Ryan is very good and brings a balanced view to the show. Greg is both insightful and often entertaining. My one criticism is enough with the constant NY Mets’ chatter and pointless analogies! Please! Many of us simply do not care! If I wanted to hear about the Mets all the time, I would listen to a Mets podcast. While some “occasional” MLB, EPL, and NBA references can add value, let’s keep the focus on the Rangers and the NHL!
Perfect amount of coverage to tangents ratio. Good reporting, I learn from this podcast. Maybe half of what I learned is about the Mets and it’s still a 5 star podcast.
The show started out entertaining for me a few years back. It still had obnoxious, and hard-to-listen-to moments (like the know -it-all, Greg, consistently yelling over his partner), but it was NY Rangers & NHL content. So I listened. Because God forbid local radio ever talk hockey in depth. There have been moments of laughter and insight on this show. But that has become less and less of the content. And the past 2 seasons have been muck racking central. With overblown dramatic takes, and these two clowns falsely creating a narrative that the GM was really bad at his job (proven wrong) and that the head coach was also bad at his job (proven wrong with back to back 100+ seasons), it became unbearable to listen to the hate spewed. The laughter then became a by-product of their “inside info” that the players hate Gallant and play in spite of him. Meanwhile, the guy has a rep that players would run thru a wall for this coach. Then to add salt into the infected wound this show has become w/ zero credibility, they entertain guests who tout charts as if it’s gospel. Their player assessments, and takes are usually way off base from the eye test, and intangibles that a player brings to the table. Just straight up video game dorkery. My favorite is when they have on the girl with blue hair who sounds like shes wired on Aderall giving takes so sure of herself that these two clowns just swoon over it. Lol. The best was she recently claimed that players like Kravstov (who’s been a health scratch multiple times in NY & now VAN) was a victim of Russian/Euro bias by the N.A. Coach and front office. They refused to admit that well- he just sucked. It’s a clown show. So for pure entertainment, if you’re looking for fictional NY Ranger talk by a crew who spews as if it’s fact, in a fake it till ya make it attitude- the show is def. for you.
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