Sid Rosenberg, Troy Stradford Tiff at 640 Sports

Posted by Jose Lambiet , October 11, 2012 Print

Radio hosts Troy Stradford (left) and Sid Rosenberg (Special to Gossip Extra)

Former Miami Dolphins star Troy Stradford was yanked off his own sports talk show on WMEN-640 AM this morning after he questioned on the air the professionalism of fellow host Sid Rosenberg, the controversial personality who started at Fort Lauderdale station just two months ago.

Stradford, 49, who’s been hosting a two hour program at 640 Sports for nearly four years, says his emotions got the best of him after Rosenberg cut into his show yet again.

“I confronted Sid on the air with my listeners and next thing I know, I was told to go home,” Stradford tells Gossip Extra. ”I was very professional about it. But there’s a lack of respect from Sid’s part and I wanted my listeners to know.”

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Rosenberg was fired from Miami’s WQAM-560 AM earlier this year after hijinks that included his attempt to push his own sponsor behind the backs of station officials, a nasty gambling habit and a DUI arrest.

Still, Rosenberg rebounded at WMEN, where he’s had the 6-10 a.m. morning drive time slot since August 13.

Stradford, a Fins running back in the late 1990s, has the 10-12 p.m. show.

Thing is: Rosenberg has been cutting routinely into Stradford’s air time, like superstar jock Howard Stern used to do.

“It’d be 10 minutes here and 15 minutes there,” Stradford said. “But today, he stayed on until 11 a.m. I just got mad. I keep getting bumped for things that Sid does that are not worth it in my book.”

Instead of talking about MLB playoffs and the surging Dolphins, Stradford started on Rosenberg. Things snowballed when callers picked up the topic — and Stradford was sent home during a commercial break by General Manager Steve Lapa.

“I have no idea if it’s for ever, or just today,” Stradford said. “At least, I was professional in my criticism.”

Lappa has yet to return calls for comment.

Former Mark Eisenberg took over the air after Stradford left the building but did not explain what happened.

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Harveycop, 7 months ago Reply

Sid is a putz…another Limbagh type blowhard who can’t even control his own life. The station manager was WRONG…So wrong that his station just got dumped from my pre-sets.
Sam, 7 months ago Reply

No one in South Florida (except for NY fans) cares about Rosenberg or listens to his show. He is not funny and does not talk about what SF sports fans want to hear. If the GM did that then he is a bigger jerk then Rosenberg. This is a guy that has destroyed his own life and these stupid stations keep giving him air time. Bring back Armando Salguero, at least he talked about things that people wanted to listen to not a diatribe about how great NYC is every day. I hope he gets arrested AGAIN and 25 times is the charm that gets him banned from SF radio.
DannyD, 7 months ago Reply

Wow, yea Stradford is off the website!! I think he’s gone!
Sid Rosenberg, 7 months ago Reply

Troy had no right to question me. I am the greatest broadcaster in the market.
- GPH, 7 months ago Reply
  
  Everytime I am in South Florida and you come on the air, I switch the station. You represent everything NY in sports, which in South Florida is like putting a hair dryer in the bath tub, we can’t stand it. Makes me sick. Go home dude.
- Just Sayin..., 7 months ago Reply
  
  You can bet on it, I’ll drink, snort to that, even if my driver’s license is suspended I’m the King of All Media…oh, I forgot that’s Howard I better not burn him or he won’t bail me out of my gambling debts. Hey guys, did I tell you how great the Air Conditioning guys are? They gave me and my lovely wife a free AC….oh, that’s payola? Forget I said it. How about my lovely wife and kids. Dad’s driving drunk and stoned…wife’s an attny and if that was the wrong thing to do surely she would have told me….and my kids…I just love them. I NEVER drive drunk with them in the car. Only drive drunk by myself or with a stripper and I don’t really care about other peoples kids. F em….I’m the best sports caster in the world. Those stations that fired me and the cops that arrested me are haters, just haters.
- richie weiss, 6 months ago Reply
  
  Sid ……get over yourself
Steve SidsLapaDog, 7 months ago Reply

Thank you Troy for exposing Sid’s piss poor ratings since he’s been on 640 The Closet. Good for you Troy. Management was totally unprofessional here, they allowed Sid to do what the hell he wanted and punished Troy for speaking up about it. I hope Sids ratings continue to suck.
GPH, 7 months ago Reply

This guy Sid has no business being a radio host here in South Florida. He is a New Yorker and when it comes to sports, we can’t stand them. Run him off the air please. He sucks.
Edwin Joseph, 7 months ago Reply

This is so unfortunate. Sid you need to finally learn how to work with others. A man has now lost his show because you insist on stepping on other people’s toes while you’re fast running out of local radio stations to work in. Many felt bad for you when 560 turn their back on you but I must admit that Steve Lapa showed even less class in handling this whole thing. You may be the best broadcaster Sid, but you’re not the best MAN yet. Troy will rebound because he’s easy to listen to and there’s a place for that in this market.
Omar Little, 7 months ago Reply

This whole thing is pathetic. I feel bad for Troy because as it is he only had 2 hours. The station never had much faith in Troy because of his lack of radio experience and lack of sports knowledge. But he gave a real honest show and that was felt through the airwaves.

Sid more than likely got the green light from the station because he is right now their franchise. The station’s ratings has always sucked though because 790 will always take it.

But the reality is the advertising dollars are higher with Sid and because of that he got away with so much. This will all backfire and rightfully so. Troy was basically screwed the moment Sid signed.
Carlos G, 7 months ago Reply

Sid,you’re low life piece of crap.
640 management is weak and gutless,i will NEVER listen again!

Hosts…If you don’t have the balls to stand up for Troy,then i hope you’re next to have to bend over and take it!!!
A 1911 SHOOTER, 7 months ago Reply

I wanted to pull my companies advert. $ when this NY drug addict came on the air. I was talked into a sweet deal by my rep. though (lots of free time) but enough enough is enough now. This is the South and we don’t want you drug addicted, wife cheating, immoral types hanging around here anymore. Go back where you came from. Oh and my business has gone DOWN the last two qtrs w/Sid. I imagine I am not the only one either. I will be taking my ad $$ somewhere else at the end of the qtr and you can than Sid for that.
SF Sports Fan, 7 months ago Reply

Sid Rosenberg is a serial loser, who, somehow, keeps getting chance after chance after chance to retry his lame material in South Florida. It hasn’t worked yet and it won’t work now. We do not live in NY, we do not want to hear about NY, we do not care about NY. If it is so great there, and he was such a big shot there, why doesn’t he go back and compete in that NY arena? But, he can’t. So he wants to be a big fish in a smaller market, but is now a 10th generation Limbaugh. His political “commentary” is more like an uninformed guy you’d hear spouting off in a bar, then a guy who has any well thought out positions and knowledge to impart to the listeners. Armando and the Amigo, Armando and Perk, Troy Stratford—all their shows are more entertaining and pertinent to the average SF sports listener, and if they got rid of Troy, they are making my life easier in not listening to their station anymore till Slater and the big O come on. No more mornings for 640 on my car.
Sid Roderberg, 7 months ago Reply

All you stupid Miami fans complain complain complain but STILL listen to my show. Miami sports sucks. Nobody cares about you stupid miami people. You will listen to my show and like it. If any other host on my show complains then guess what? HE’S OUTTA HERE!
PS Vote Romney.
bbosshead, 7 months ago Reply

I have tried and tried to give Sid a fair shake by listening to his show,but i am still not a convert,and will never be.His constant New York talk and his political points are awful,and now that he has got a good man fired I will never listen to that station in the mornings again.Iwill stay above him and not knock him for his past,but the bottom line is he is awful for South Florida radio.He has nothing in common with us as fans.He is not a supporter of our local teams and his constant diatribe about all things New York is awful.
steve lapass, 7 months ago Reply

from the simple mind of steve lapass;
i am the gm at 640 and 850. i have never had a program director at either station because i don’t need one (no budget for programming either) as i am a radio gm who knows everything there is to possibly to know about radio. Programming? it is simply fill between commercials, i can put anything i there, at the end of the day it is the commercial content that matters. i will never gets ratings because of this and i will never (say I) care about ratings. radio is a business and on air talent is a dime a dozen. we picked rosenberg up when he had no where else to go and i could get him for nothing. sid is an typical radio guy who has to be on the air to feel any personal satisfaction, they’re all like that really, pathetic people in search of validation, Look at Joyce Kaufman, She is another total joke, but she costs me nothing, she has her niche small as it is, i since i don’t care about ratings or content…well you get the idea…..radio in this market is too easy…i mean, look at the Ticket. a kid doing morning drive with the catch phrase ‘i’m honked off like a goose’??? “IT IS IN THIS WASTELAND THAT I RULE “(nothing).
Jerry Burns, 7 months ago Reply

At this point, this station has lost my ears. Bring back Defoe and Troy, get rid of Sid and I’ll be back. This is south Florida. Not New York.
Phil todd, 6 months ago Reply

Troy really got a raw deal b/c management at 640 has no shame & even less class. To let a Great, very entertaining & so easy to listen to sports host like troy go for Sid Rosenberg is beyond disgraceful.. Thank God for KARMA!!