Radio Warz.

On Wednesday, WIP revealed the official list of people who will contribute to Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie’s new morning show:

Key word “guest,” so these are the part time folks chipping in. The people pictured, Joe Weachter, DeCamara, Ritchie, James Seltzer, and Rhea Hughes, will be hosting 6-10 a.m. every day.

It’s an okay list of contributors. Ruben Amaro Jr. and Ben Davis will be good for this much-anticipated Phillies season. Jaws is a steady football mind. Respected and measured. Doesn’t get too high, doesn’t get too low, pretty much calls it down the middle. Ray Diddy is obviously a legend in these parts and Devan Kaney adds something different, definitely some badly needed new blood in the local sports media scene.

Seth Joyner and Joe Conklin will be automatic dial changes. Respect to Conklin, but he’s been doing the same bits for years and should have exited stage left with Cataldi. Seth will just bring Negadelphia to the show and incessantly hammer the same tired points over and over again:

“The Eagles need to be more aggressive” 

“When I played for Buddy Ryan, we got to the quarterback” 

“Jonathan Gannon is playing too much zone” 

So on and so forth. He’s a one-trick pony who speaks to the dwindling portion of Eagles fans who think every defensive snap should be a zero blitz with press man on the back end. I’d rather have Skip Bayless contributing to the WIP morning show.

Very curious to catch the new show vibes. Hopefully Joe gets away from Angelo’s tired act and dumps the regular callers. That would be a good start.