Ron Cameron

[Momo]

This seems like a good time to return to the very beginning of this thread (under another name) in 2013:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180114165 ... =3&t=38513

One of the posts includes what I consider to be one of the defining comments about Ron:

"To meet Ron C. is to have personal issues with him."

Wow, the first several pages of the old thread, thought forever lost to history! Untold generations, yet unborn, will be thanking you, Bobbert, for your collections as they, along with historians, study Ron at the Ron Cameron Excellence in Brokered Broadcasting Library & Museum.

I got curious about the length of that thread. Here is the last recorded evidence I could find of it, about nine months before it was accidentally deleted:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190301234 ... b880578e85

And thanks to Bobbert, we have the 1st & 5th pages of the original thread, along with - five years to the day, allowing for Leap Day! - a March 1, 2019 view of the Buzzboard page when the original thread had but a lowly eight pages.

[ShempLives]

Unfortunately WPON's stream for Ron's last show on February 16, 2024 wasn't working and I wound up recording nothing.

[Momo]

No worries, Frank. With our contemporaneous posts, we can just do a reenactment if that becomes needed.

[Majik]

Ron is the Ed Wood of sports talk radio.

Starting to reviewing some vintage posts. This one stood out.

Mo, I gotta admit, I kind of feel bad for disparaging the reputation of Ed Wood.

[radiofan1974]

So after tomorrow’s show, I am not sure what traffic will be like for this thread. For some they will be happy that the “Ron Cameron” thread will be slowing down

Just looking at the numbers though, over a million views and almost 27,00 posts. Rons show was a show not to miss, from the play by play, the weekend shows, the holiday extravaganza shows and so fourth

Hopefully the thread will live on when we have those Ron Cameron moments that come up

Posting when Jake Rogers hits a home run to win a game

When “Comboro” talks about being a leader

Haliburton wins a title

Killian Hayes….well you get the point

Hope we all continue to add comments now and then to keep this thread going and the entertainment the show brought

[ShempLives]

The AA and Revolving Door Show ended today's broadcast by mentioning the Ron Cameron tribute show scheduled for March 1st.

[Momo]

A tip of the hat today to DeltaDawn, who, in our ancestral thread, asked us to summarize Ron Cameron in one word.

Among the earliest of responses was one that asked DeltaDawn,

So what made this deserve a new discussion? He has been around forever. I think you have personal issues with him[.]

More than 10.5 years later, after 1792 pages, 26,870 replies & 1,481,086 views in this successor thread alone, my answer is, "Irreplaceable."

[uncleb67]

It should only be fitting that today it was announced the Pizza Cat Max location in downtown Detroit, a former advertiser on SportsTalk, is closing down. We all know “it (was) quite a place, you really gotta go there”…but not enough to dent that rent down there!

[Majik]

A tip of the hat today to DeltaDawn, who, in our ancestral thread, asked us to summarize Ron Cameron in one word.

Among the earliest of responses was one that asked DeltaDawn,

So what made this deserve a new discussion? He has been around forever. I think you have personal issues with him[.]

More than 10.5 years later, after 1792 pages, 26,870 replies & 1,481,086 views in this successor thread alone, my answer is, "Irreplaceable."

I think Ron was one of those people that if you met him or listened to his show, you couldn’t help but comment on him, be it positive or negative.

[Momo]

A female umpire on the doorstep of calling a regular-season MLB game?! It's probably best that Ron didn't see this development. As he might have said, "What is this world coming to?"

https://www.mlb.com/news/jen-pawol-firs ... 08-mlb-1-A

[Willie108]

Female umpire in MLB??? Ron would ask "What Are You Doing Here??"

[edj]

It should only be fitting that today it was announced the Pizza Cat Max location in downtown Detroit, a former advertiser on SportsTalk, is closing down. We all know “it (was) quite a place, you really gotta go there”…but not enough to dent that rent down there!

I was one who tried to patronize Ron's sponsors, but that was one I never got to. I have a friend who lives nears the Westland location but we've never gone there either. The menu certainly fits their slogan "Keep pizza weird".

How is Vegan in the Hood doing? That was another I haven't been to.

[Bobbert]

Unfortunately WPON's stream for Ron's last show on February 16, 2024 wasn't working and I wound up recording nothing.

Thanks for trying.

We can remember Ron in the same way he remembered a lot of things—in a different way every time we think about him.

[Bobbert]

So after tomorrow’s show, I am not sure what traffic will be like for this thread. For some they will be happy that the “Ron Cameron” thread will be slowing down

Just looking at the numbers though, over a million views and almost 27,00 posts. Rons show was a show not to miss, from the play by play, the weekend shows, the holiday extravaganza shows and so fourth

Hopefully the thread will live on when we have those Ron Cameron moments that come up

Posting when Jake Rogers hits a home run to win a game

When “Comboro” talks about being a leader

Haliburton wins a title

Killian Hayes….well you get the point

Hope we all continue to add comments now and then to keep this thread going and the entertainment the show brought

Yes, now that he belongs to the ages, we can take a more historical perspective of his career. The different reactions of the past week have shown that he was many things wrapped up in one person. Some unique perception of Ron will pop up in our minds and we'll share it here.

[Bobbert]

Female umpire in MLB??? Ron would ask "What Are You Doing Here??"

After calling the Free Press Tiger writer Evan Petzold a high schooler, and new Tiger GM Jeff Greenberg an intern, Ron probably would have had some very un-PC words for this umpire.