Pete SheppardWe’re starting the week out with WEEI afternoon flash guy Pete Sheppard.

Sheppard has been with WEEI since 1994, making him one of the longest tenured on-air personalities at the station. He’s been working on The Big Show since 1999, where he is the flash guy and primary fill-in for Glenn Ordway when the latter takes one of his many vacations throughout the course of the year.

Sheppard also hosts The Real Postgame Show following Patriots games alongside Fred Smerlas and Steve DeOssie.

Unlike many of his colleagues at WEEI, Sheppard appears to enjoy and actually follow sports, and is an unabashed fan of the local teams, and his passion often comes through in exchanges with callers or co-hosts.

Sheppard is also known for his hatred of the internet and blogs, but there is a Myspace page dedicated to him.

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107 thoughts on “Approval Ratings – Pete Sheppard”

  1. He might suck, but you have to approve of someone with no talent who has managed to keep a high-profile job for so long.

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    3. mean spirited fat boy, last name isn’t even Sheppard, thats his “stage name”…real name is Costello..insert Abbott joke here

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  2. FINALLY! Pete is an absolute moron! He knows nothing outside of Boston sports (of which his knowledge of the different sports is minimal). He is unable to speak without sounding like a stuttering donkey. He’s a hypocrite (see comments regarding Moss). He’s better than Ordway and the rest, but that’s like saying heart disease is better than cancer!

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  3. I approve. He knows what his role is (bombtosser)and he does it well. I agree with Bruce’s comment, he actually seems to enjoy sports.

    The show is much better when he’s the host. The problem with the show is not Pete. It’s the format (beat the storyline into the ground) and talking over one another. He’s much better than all but a few of the co-hosts.

    Whom would you prefer to share a couple of beers with, Pete or Craig Mustard? No contest.

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    1. I agree. The show is better with Sheppard as the host.

      He is an over-the-top Homer, but I still approve.

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    2. I agree with aldo. Thumbs up for Pete. If for no other reason than he isn’t Glenn Ordway.

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  4. There’s no bigger example of a “right time, right place” beneficiary than this guy. Who knew you could go so far being barely literate?

    His love of sports doesn’t outpoint his complete disdain for anyone not privileged enough to be stuffed in front of a WEEI microphone.

    Disapprove with a bullet. Now back to the grill, the burgers are ready.

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  6. You know what, I’m going to approve. He sometimes flies off the handle. But he has quality chins, gunt, and gold chains.

    He’s a heavy version of Rutillio. He actually watches games beyond this market and likes all sports. Also listens to callers when he hosts the show and doesn’t belittle them for the most part.

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  8. I used to think that he had some talent and knowledge and was constrained by his ‘role’ as the fat bozo on that daily screamfest. But after hearing him over the last few years without the Big O, he has taken on all the bad traits of #1 Fat Man without taking on any of his good traits (there are a few).

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  9. The “he actually seems to enjoy sports” has got to be the absolute minimum threshold for someone in the industry he’s in. To understand it, have a halfway decent memory and be the least bit articulate would also seem to be prerequisites for the job.

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    1. But Fraudway and his morning compatriots actually don’t watch anything except for local teams. And whenever someone attempts to go beyond the storylines of the day, they trot out the old bit of “don’t play your CD collection.”

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  10. The only positive I will have for this load is that when he hosts the Big Show, it’s actually better than when Ordway hosts. They have more callers, and talk more sports, without Ordway rambling for 20 minutes each hour.

    It’s faint praise, like saying old lady porn with 60 year olds is better than with 70 year olds.

    That plus aside, he wears is Connecticut School Broadcasting “degree” as his badge of honor. Anybody that didn’t go through that rigorous training is worthless.

    Fake tough guy of the worst kind.

    DISSAPROVE

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  11. Another so called expert on EEI that thinks because he’s on the radio he’s smarter than you.

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  12. Keeps the show moving along .. smells of pesto and vomit .. secretly part of the Harry Potter cosplay subculture .. writes Tom Brady fan fiction .. likes to sit down and have a good cry .. thinks Super Size Me was about him .. singlehandedly responsible for collapse of Booty beer .. angry at Dale Arnold for stealing ‘his’ thing .. his thing – being fat and stupid .. wishes he knew how to quit you .. does a killer Neil Diamond at karaoke .. the type of guy you’d like to smoke some cigars with and play poker

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  13. Approve. Actually talks about sports and not storylines when he fills in for Ordway. The post game show is a much better alternative than the crap on BCN. Can actually keep Smerlas in line and get him talking about the game. These are low standards but he doesn’t bother me nearly as much as everyone else over there.

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  15. I’ve heard from very trusted sources he’s actually a good guy.

    At odds with David Scott.

    Drinks and gambles.

    Best gunt in his age group.

    Likes hockey.

    “Approve!”

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  16. Can you believe this guy has a job? Let alone one that would consist of him trying to put together an articulate thought. It doesn’t get more Bozo-like than this walking (unfortunately talking) punch line. I wish I had more opposable thumbs than God gave me. Only two thumbs down here.

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  18. Approval…

    I met Pete at Logan a few years ago along with Ordway, DeOssie and Smerlas when they were on the way to the superbowl, and Fred was by far the nicest, gracious, most down to earth guy out of the four of them. Ordway was arrogant and acted like he wanted nothing to do with me as I said a quick hello them as I passed by them in the terminal.

    I love Pete’s passion for the Pats and Boston sports in general. He seems to be a genuine regular guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. He’s not arrogant and full of himself like Ordway and the other guests on the Big Show. It’s refreshing to listen to Pete because he seems to generally like what he does and enjoys chatting with callers and talking sports.

    Love the Real Post Game show. A must listen after Pats games.

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    2. What does the fact that Fred was nice to you in an airport have to do with Pete Shepard?

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    4. All because you briefly saw them in an airport you come to this conclusion? You’re worse than Pete Sheppard.

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  19. He is proof positive that you don’t need much to get into radio as far as talent. About as dumb as they come! Seems to think that yelling makes him intelligent.

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  20. Disapprove for 100 reasons but no more than the completely embarrassing interview with Tenn radio station where he was on as “expert” on BC football, yet couldnt provide a single name or stat about the team. Should have been fired right after he hung up for how his bumbling and stuttering reflected on the station, and this region. Was once called Big O’s spittoon and I cant argue with that description.

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  21. Sean Grande’s not walking through that door. And if he did, Pete would douse him in bbq sauce and devour him.

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  22. Approve the enthusiasm and actual interest in the local teams (Bruins included). Disapprove the act and faux fights btw him and the Dennis/Callahan shows.

    One of the few WEEI’ers who is much more likeable off the air than on air.

    Off topic, but who wants a body massage?

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  23. watching someone in their moment of frailty can change your opinion of them. ever since pete and i were stuck next to each other in a traffic jam between exits 18 and 16 on I-93 i feel like we have some sort of cosmic connection.

    as i watched him pick his nose and contemplate the results he no longer was that fat blowhard that would be flipping burgers if not for his luck (we can assume hard work didn’t get pete to his station in life…) but was now just some overweight chump sitting in his modestly priced saturn and picking his nose.

    big surprise he bought the saturn and he didn’t go the anthony pepe route and max out his credit on a giant denali or caddy escalade.

    i approve out of pity.

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  25. I’ll agree he seems to enjoy sports. And then I think of his inability to string together any coherent thoughts about BC football when going on as a guest on a Tennessee radio station. That and other unprofessional anecdotes like it should only lead to one conclusion:

    DISAPPROVE

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  26. This is one case where the carefully even-handed description actually presents an unbalanced picture. Pete may know his sports — sometimes — but that rarely comes through as he is either creating some shouting tirade at a caller who dares to disagree with him (his opinions are, you should know, stone cold facts)or going off on some bragging about his and his Italian posse. “Get back to flippin’ burgers” is the man’s catch phrase — need we say more?

    I’m all for passion, but his is underinformed, self-centered and often misplaced.

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  27. Disapprove for one reason: His incorrect predictions have singlehandedly destroyed a decade of Friar basketball.

    He’s a moron, but he still comes off better than “I must step on EVERYONE’S line!” Smerlas.

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  28. Approve (barely). Even though Pete is a big fat loudmouth fake tough guy, the fact that his tough guy shtick is so transparent it actually comes across as funny. Unintentionally funny to be sure, but funny nevertheless. He’s the best of a bad lot, and even though that’s damning with faint praise it is good enough for an approval from me.

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  29. This guy is pitiful. If you’ve ever seen on Patriots On-Demand when Belichick is in studio, it’s just sad. He looks like a little boy lost. The whiner line call in asking whether he’d prefer dinner with Brady or sex with Bunchen was classic. Just discovered this site and literally can’t wait for Meter’s turn… literally, Meter, what a DB, discuss.

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  30. APPROVE…TENFOLD!…..I know Pete “the Meat” is going to catch alot of flack in this poll. But Bruce said it in the opening, AT LEAST THE GUY SEEMS TO LIKE SPORTS!…can you say the same about Heckle and Jeckle?…er, I mean Dennis and Callahan?….Pete seems like a run of the mill, blue collar guy, well guess what? That’s what ALOT of the listeners are!….I’ve been as hard as anybody on the WEEI “hosts”….but I must admit, I’m an unbashed MEAT LOVER!..I give Pete “The Meat” Sheppard 2 THUMBS UP…..APPROVE!

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  31. Mild Disapprove.

    He gets a few extra credit points from me for actually bringing a modicum of Bruins talk to the Big Show every now and then, and he actually tries to follow college sports a little bit, unlike the rest of the ‘EEI staff (with the exception of BC lickspittle Metaparel).

    His blind homerism for the Pats is ridiculous. It completely clouds his ability to look at the upcoming opponent objectively.

    Seems a tad too condescending for a guy who’s not exactly an Ivy League scholar, and his angry and VERY LOUD rebuttals of callers who disagree with him is not very becoming.

    All in all, I can handle Sheppard a little better than some of the other hosts on WEEI, but I can’t see my way clear to give him an Approval rating.

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  32. Hey Tony,

    not to get into a big “thing” about it, but when it comes to Pete’s “homerism” and the Patriots…The Patriots have made it to the AFC CHAMPIONSHIP game FIVE TIMES in the last SEVEN YEARS…..is there really that much to complain about?….Other than not winning SEVEN STRAIGHT Super Bowls???….

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    1. AOB,

      I acknowledge that there certainly has been ample reasons to feel confident about the Pats over the last several years, but I was referring mainly to Sheppard’s utter dismissiveness towards their opponents seemingly every week.

      Classic example: they were traveling to Indy last November to take on an undefeated team that had beaten them 3 straight times over the previous two seasons, and Sheppard yelled every day leading up to the game that “The Patriots are MUCH better than Indy!!!” to anyone that even dared suggest that the Colts might have had a chance in that game. The Pats won, but it required a great comeback in the 4th quarter against an Indy team that was down to one healthy receiver.

      That’s what I mean by his blind homerism clouding his objectivity when it comes to the Pats’ opponents.

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  33. On my way in to work today I gave spare change to 3 bums that I’m pretty sure could do a better job on The Big Show than Pete.

    Disapprove.

    Still, one must give credit to someone who can succeed despite a complete absence of talent.

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  35. Disapprove.

    Classic toady sidekick, same as to be found on the AM sports radio station of every major market in the country. Little is expected of Pete and he still doesn’t deliver. Only looks good in comparison to the legion of turds at WEEI.

    Better than: morning show, Fraudway, any Burton (except maybe Jake or Richard), Stearns, plagiarist preachers, Mike Adams.

    Worse than: anything on the radio other than WEEI between 2-6 pm, poison ivy.

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  36. I too met Pete once and he does come across as a decent guy in person, which is why the following response to Dave Scott a couple of years ago surprised me a little. Here’s the link (scroll about 1/3 of the way down):

    http://shots.bostonsportsmedia.com/2005/12/mad-meat-disease/

    Sheppard is actually the EEI sports director, for what that’s worth. The hiring of the ‘flash’ reporters fall under his responsibility. He is also a graduate from the Connecticut School of Broadcasting. I don’t think he ever attended college.

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    1. He flunked out of the Community College Of Rhode Island after 1 semester, which is not easy to do.

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  38. The ankles of Pete Sheppard snapped under his weight on his way to accept his Connecticut School of Broadcasting diploma. He was too large to drag out back to be euthanized, and there wasn’t a tent large enough to set up around the grisly scene, so he was shipped to Guest Street in Brighton, Massachusetts. It was here, under the watchful eyes of trainer Julie “Swingin’ Junk” Kahn and jockey Jason Wolfe, that Sheppard was nursed back to just enough health where he was able to shout over callers and pick on Larry Johnson while rubbing his formidable gunt. If not for these bizarre circumstances, I never would have been able to vote DISAPPROVE! for ol’ Pete.

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  39. Approve – he’s probably the best of the big show regulars. Don’t hold that against him.

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  40. Going through some of these “comments”….It’s OBVIOUS certain people just get a kick out of BASHING the more well known subjects…. I admit, in alot of cases it’s deserved…..but I think alot of the negative comments towards Pete are coming from the fact HIS OWN CO-WORKERS like to mock him (part of the show)…in actuality Pete probably knows more about sports than any WEEI “personality”

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  42. What the hell is wrong with you people ? This is a rare opportunity to “beat the meat” in public. All these approvals are bumming me out on my birthday.

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  43. I can’t believe anyone would give this guy an approval rating. What ails these people? He may be a nice guy (I don’t know either way) and he may “like sports”, but come on. He is a large part of why I listen to FM talk in the afternoon when I would much rather be listening to sports talk instead.

    My biggest complaint is that the man single handedly ruins decent guest segments, particularly with Belichick. Sheppard simply doesn’t understand that the audience wants to hear the guest talk, not him. He may be the worst interviewer in the history of broadcasting.

    He’s like a fat drunk guy that you get stuck sitting next to at the bar. You wish he would stop talking to you but he just won’t shut up and leave you alone. I cannot understand how anyone could defend him. I can find plenty of drunk obnoxious people to annoy me in person, thank you.

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  44. Disapprove. Merely liking local sports isn’t a valid reason – anybody hate the local teams. Dislike his tough guy persona that comes across as if he’s angry at life for making him fat and ugly. Hasn’t stopped him from his donuts and chips though. Loves the sound of his own voice way too much.

    Bullies callers which becomes someone without real intellect.

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  46. Every morning he must pinch himself. How did he ever get this job? If he wasn’t born with a deep voice, he’d be flippin’ burgers. No education, radio bully, complete phony. Better than Meterparel, though.

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  48. Sorry Lance, but liking local sports IS A VALID REASON……after listening to dolts like Heckle and Jeckle..(er, Dennis and Callahan) whine and cry about the Patiots “Running up the score” and the Celtics not winning a series in ENOUGH games (forget that they WON the series, they didn’t do it in the “required” amount of games accoriding to those 2)……Pete “The Meat” is a breath of fresh air……

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  49. Pete Sheppard as we know him as Flash Guy on the Big Show and potstirrer is a disapprove. I think if he was in a different show’s format, he’d go to into approve status. He does seem to like sports, watches them, and shows passion about them. His classic dispute a few years back with Dale about the Bruins was ignorant in one way, yet no one else at the station could even talk the talk with Dale when it came to Bruins hockey. When he does fill on the Big Show as host the show is more enjoyable, he keeps it running, and he keeps his Stearns/LJ/Moron co-hosts somewhat in check…..

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  50. I’m curious, is anyone listening to the Big Show today and are they talking about Pete’s approval rating here?

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