ARE THEY SERIOUS?!?

I'm royally Pissed no end, as I come to discover this afternoon that my buddy and radio icon Joe McDonnell, who until this past Friday, hosted "The Joe McDonnell Experience on AM570 KLAC here in LA, was let go by the station, just days after he announced he had been given a contract extension to continue with the station just last Thursday.


Joe in a recent photo from his MySpace page.


Joe's been more than just a voice for sports on LA radio for over three decades, hes also been an inspiration to a number of us in the "Large mammal" category. For a number of years, Joe wieghed over 600 pounds, and despite the weight, he managed to do a number of strenuous duties as a sports reporter for a number of Radio stations and networks.

About two or three years ago, Joe underwent the Gastric Bypass surgery, and literally dropp almost 300 pounds, He's still losing weight but it's not as pronounced as it first was. In the time since he dropped his weight, he got married to a wonderful woman named Elizabeth and he's never been happier.

But what really makes this so infuriating to me is that the other shows on the station, The Loose Cannons, Steve Hartman, Vic "The Brick" Jacobs and Mychal Thompson, and Petros Papadakis and Matt "Money" Smith said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the end of the show on the station. Not a word about the end of the show, not a word about their now-former colleague, nothing. NPothing abotu Joe, Nothing about his co=hosts, Tim Cates, who handles Bruin Talk, the post-and pregame shows before UCLA football and basketball, nothing about Joe GRande, my buddy and host of the Joe Grande Weekend Barbeque, absolutely nothing...

It's like he's sudden;y never existed, snd that's something I just can't fathom...