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RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Big Bull — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:21:56 GMT

Dawg_tired (5/16/2008)

[quote]Big Bull (5/16/2008)

[quote]Gordon Gottschalk (5/16/2008)

[quote]bigturk (5/16/2008)

I don't understand Marty's hatred of Drake. I rarely hear anything positive come out of his mouth. The other day he was bashing the Drake neighborhood saying how unsafe it was. Marty clearly lives in West Des Moines.

He hates Drake because his economic interests are with the Energy. If people are going to the Knapp they won't be going to the Well.[/quote]

I don't get why he likes to stand under the balcony while they do it!

Considering It would only take ten Drake fans to triple the mighty Energy's attendance, I think we can take the hit.

MT must get a percentage of the gate and free popcorn.[/quote]

The truth is he likes to watch Energy players urinate in public. Gives him some sort of perverse thrill.[/quote]

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Dawg_tired — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:17:10 GMT

Big Bull (5/16/2008)

[quote]Gordon Gottschalk (5/16/2008)

[quote]bigturk (5/16/2008)

He hates Drake because his economic interests are with the Energy. If people are going to the Knapp they won't be going to the Well.[/quote]

Considering It would only take ten Drake fans to triple the mighty Energy's attendance, I think we can take the hit.

MT must get a percentage of the gate and free popcorn.[/quote]

The truth is he likes to watch Energy players urinate in public. Gives him some sort of perverse thrill.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Big Bull — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:16:54 GMT

[quote]Desmoineshusker (5/16/2008)

I may be in the minority, but I appreciate both Toyota of Des Moines and Marty and Miller.

Toyota of Des Moines has been a very loyal sponsor of Drake Athletics even when it was not fashionable to be a Drake fan.

Marty and Miller have devoted more time to Drake athletics this year than either Iowa or Iowa State and the majority of it has been positive. Marty sometimes goes overboard in his opinions, especially concerning his certainty that Josh was going to transfer after the coaching change, but he is a talk show host that is paid to generate discussion and he does that very well. Miller often takes the opposite position of Marty and at the end of the day, it is entertaining and that is the whole point.

It sounds based on this unscientific poll that some Drake fans are too sensitive to any criticism of Drake, and being somewhat neutral in this state, I see the same type of complaints from Iowa and Iowa State fans that complain that the media is biased against them. The fact is that overall, the media in this market is pretty fair to all the teams and that includes Marty and Miller.[/quote]

Rumor has it Marty was severly ripped by both Toyota and KXNO for his Drake bashing.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Big Bull — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:15:16 GMT

Gordon Gottschalk (5/16/2008)

[quote]bigturk (5/16/2008)

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Big Bull — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:12:52 GMT

Dawg_tired (5/16/2008)

He lives in WDM. The parking lot of Jordan Creek Mall in a Ford station wagon.

I thought it was a festiva?

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Mecha_Bulldog — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:31:44 GMT

Desmoineshusker (5/16/2008)

Toyota of Des Moines has been a very loyal sponsor of Drake Athletics even when it was not fashionable to be a Drake fan.

That's important to remember. The Gabus group in general has been a great sponsor of Drake athletics, and we should thank them for it.

It sounds based on this unscientific poll that some Drake fans are too sensitive to any criticism of Drake, and being somewhat neutral in this state, I see the same type of complaints from Iowa and Iowa State fans that complain that the media is biased against them. The fact is that overall, the media in this market is pretty fair to all the teams and that includes Marty and Miller.

I see a lot of complaints that are more about Marty's style than his content. It's one thing to be negative. It's another to be a JA about it. He has almost nothing meaningful to say unless there's a big story, and I tune him out.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Mecha_Bulldog — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:22:07 GMT

Dawg_tired (5/16/2008)

He lives in WDM. The parking lot of Jordan Creek Mall in a Ford station wagon.

Marty at home:

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Desmoineshusker — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:20:53 GMT

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Gordon Gottschalk — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:58:50 GMT

bigturk (5/16/2008)

He hates Drake because his economic interests are with the Energy. If people are going to the Knapp they won't be going to the Well.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Dawg_tired — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:47:12 GMT

He lives in WDM. The parking lot of Jordan Creek Mall in a Ford station wagon.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

bigturk — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:32:06 GMT

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Dawg_tired — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:11:11 GMT

bump

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

puttheDbackinDrake — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:26:05 GMT

I echo GG's comments. Toyota of DM has been a big sponsor of Drake for many years. Pre-dating the arrival of the M&M's.

I have no reason to believe they won't continue to be a sponsor. You can turn the radio off, but I wouldn't take things out on the sponsors of the program.

I have decided to quit eating M&M's. They make me sick.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

usmcdog — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:25:16 GMT

Dawg_tired (4/24/2008)

Admittedly, I owned one a long time ago. It was a Celica. The sunvisors were pressed plastic that ripped at the seam spewing nasty white material all over. The body rusted through to the point that when I traded it in on the next worse car I ever owned, (Jeep Cherokee) the people who bought it from some dealership called me and acused me of fixing it poorly. I told them that when I traded it in it didn't even look like it was fixed poorly. I told them if that car was cheese, it would be swiss. I purchased that car new from a slime ball at Friedmans. I was all excited about it until a month or so after I bought it the shifter wouldn't go into second gear. I took it back and reverse was in the wrong spot. The car was never in an accident...dammit...but it was in the shop a lot...I mean a lot. I couldn't wait to get rid of it. This consumer reports differs with your consumer report.

It's only payback for Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Okinawa and other parts of the South Pacific.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Dawg_tired — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:34:25 GMT

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Drakey — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:25:02 GMT

DT: You must not read Consumer Reports because Toyota's NEVER have any problems. Is there a more boring car manufactured?

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Dawg_tired — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:31:00 GMT

It's less about Toyota of Des Moines and more about Marty and Miller. I had a Toyota once and frankly it was one of the worst cars I ever owned. So, I would never buy one anyway. Service was awful too.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Big Bull — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:24:49 GMT

Yes they are quite sensible and almost sporty in a soccer momish sort of way.

Ich bin ein BMW'r.

Now when Gordon posts to make fun of me for pimping BMW's, just remind him he will get drummed out of the USC Alumni association for not driving one.

German cars, Cuban cigars, and with any luck a final Divorce decree! Life doesn't get any better than that boy's.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

DUBulldog — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:18:26 GMT

DUlawdog (4/24/2008)

Hawkeye64 (4/24/2008)

Dawg_tired (4/23/2008)

Not a good showing for Toy cars of Des Moines. Are you listening????

Yeah look out all 19 people are going to have some major pull!!! Enjoy your crappy gas sucking GM/Ford vehicles! I got a 2009 Corolla and absolutely love it, first Toyota and the best car I've had.

2008 hybrid Camry - love it and the 40mpg that we get....

I've bought 3 cars there in the last 4 years....very happy with all of them.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Big Bull — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:18:24 GMT

BMW baby, Nothing like a high performance Panzer.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

DUlawdog — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:04:35 GMT

Hawkeye64 (4/24/2008)

[quote]Dawg_tired (4/23/2008)

Not a good showing for Toy cars of Des Moines. Are you listening????

Yeah look out all 19 people are going to have some major pull!!! Enjoy your crappy gas sucking GM/Ford vehicles! I got a 2009 Corolla and absolutely love it, first Toyota and the best car I've had.[/quote]

2008 hybrid Camry - love it and the 40mpg that we get....

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Hawkeye64 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:36:00 GMT

Dawg_tired (4/23/2008)

Not a good showing for Toy cars of Des Moines. Are you listening????

Yeah look out all 19 people are going to have some major pull!!! Enjoy your crappy gas sucking GM/Ford vehicles! I got a 2009 Corolla and absolutely love it, first Toyota and the best car I've had.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Gordon Gottschalk — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:35:10 GMT

DT, be a little careful here. Toyota of Des Moines has been a good sponsor for Drake.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Dawg_tired — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:02:08 GMT

Not a good showing for Toy cars of Des Moines. Are you listening????

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

kingnort — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:55:07 GMT

Toyota of Des Moines can suck it and that's even before they started sponsoring. My wife and I tried to buy a highlander a couple of years ago and the salesman and manager were complete d-bags. the marty and miller thing only compounds my distaste for toyota dm.

RE: Toyota of Des Moines

Mecha_Bulldog — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:48:46 GMT

Wilson of Ames, selling Cadillac, Toyota, and Scion. I'll bet they'll even give you a deal if you tell them you drove up from Des Moines

Toyota of Des Moines

Dawg_tired — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:37:31 GMT

This will be interesting. They have the power of the microphone. We have the power of the check book.