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Matt Cord
has a pair on him. The 93.3 WMMR DJ and Sixers announcer, who's in a neck brace after a car accident Monday in the Wachovia Spectrum parking lot, got in the face of 94 WYSP's Vinnie the Crumb Thursday night at the Continental (2nd & Market) and asked Vinnie to hit him.

"We're chest to chest," Vinnie said on Friday morning's Kidd Chris show. "He's in a neckbrace. The first thing out of my mouth was 'Are you out of your mind?' "

Since moving from afternoons to mornings in November, Kidd Chris and cohorts have been on the warpath against 'MMR's Preston & Steve, which is the top-rated show in the demographic groups both stations go after. In one example, Kidd Chris show agents loudly, rudely and disruptively heckled Preston & Steve producer CaseyBoy with homophobic taunts at a charity basketball game at St. Joe's raising money to fight colon cancer.

Cord told Vinnie he was upset that Vinnie had advised listeners to punch Kathy Romano, of the Preston & Steve show, if they saw her on the street. Vinnie, who once worked with Cord at 'MMR, told him that he had not said that but that somebody on Kidd Chris' show might have. Vinnie and wife, Jeanette, were at the Continental and went over to a table of friends, including 610 WIP's Joe Conklin. Cord at first ignored Vinnie, then blew up on him, Vinnie says. Cord called Vinnie Friday to apologize to him and Jeanette, but declined comment when we reached him.

On Feb. 21, Cord and a 'YSP listener, JP, who name-dropped 'YSP's Monkey Boy and said "Preston and Steve suck" during a live 'MMR broadcast at a Foo Fighters concert, had to be separated by Spectrum security.

Meanwhile, as Cord recuperates from his injuries, CBS 3 meteorologist Tom Lamaine is handling his Sixers announcer duties. Lamaine was a Sixers broadcaster in the early 1980s.

Posted by Dan Gross @ 8:44 AM  Permalink | 25 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 9:22 AM, 04/07/2008
    Boys will be Boys and Girls will be Girls...
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:43 AM, 04/07/2008
    Do people wonder why we buy satellite radio?
    sharksnj
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:47 AM, 04/07/2008
    If I looked like that dude (and I know a guy named Heebli who does), I wouldn't go around asking fat Italians to hit me. Just a good rule of thumb really...
    Reggie
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:24 AM, 04/07/2008
    Everyone mentioned in this post are amateurs and just not funny. I love how so many guys now shave their heads to garner attention. They are so jealous of my lushish locks.
    Steak
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:44 AM, 04/07/2008
    You GO Matt...don't take any s**t from those apes at wysp. Matt, Preston & Steve, and EVERYONE at WMMR *ROCKS*
    SJ_Native
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:22 PM, 04/07/2008
    The quality of the Kidd Chris Show has been deteriorating as of late. Creativity and intelligence seem to be lacking in the writing. I'm tired of the repeat one liners, and hard core racist jokes. Chris is underestimating how many minorities actually listened to WYSP. Preston and Steve on the other hand were never entertaining. I find my dial on 104.5 the majority of the morning.
    Leron
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:54 PM, 04/07/2008
    Wannabes whininig about wannabes....they all will be has beens shortly...
    Jim M.
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:00 PM, 04/07/2008
    Sirius Satellite Radio - channel 100 Nothing else needs to be said.
    Rollie
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:06 PM, 04/07/2008
    CONKLIN RULES
    S.J.
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:17 PM, 04/07/2008
    My money is on Vinnie!
    Taz
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:25 PM, 04/07/2008
    My satalite radio subscription ended two weeks ago, and i have been trying to test the waters to see if i could live with this... These guys are like the JV team trying to be tougher then the other JV team. no one cares.
    summerdaleSULLY


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