Talk radio has had a place in my life since childhood. Politics, religion, culture and sports all have a forum on the radio waves — and i have always made time to indulge in the conversation.

As a child, I recall tucking headphones under my pillow case in order to covertly listen to Sports Byline with Ron Barr after bedtime. In fact, when I was 12 I called in a won their hourly trivia contest. I sprinted down the hall to wake my parents up overjoyed. It never occurred to me until now that they probably didn’t have many 12 year old listeners on a late night talk show.

Now while sports talk is but one of many avenues I traffic, it is one of the few types of talk that typically is station-wide and primarily locally focussed. This creates a brand loyalty amongst listeners and, being a man of many opinions, I must pontificate on the state of Dallas sports radio.