A radio host tweeting about their show’s planned topics for the day is relatively normal. A host doing so with a seemingly-unrelated sideways photo of a woman is…less normal. But that’s what Howard Eskin, a long-time host on 94.1 WIP in Philadelphia, did Saturday:
Ready to roll this morning with my show @SportsRadioWIP . Trea Turner and #Phillies. Eagles expectations. Players that hung around too long. 8-10a. pic.twitter.com/1YXQmYAdiJ
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) August 5, 2023
That prompted comment, particularly from Barstool Sports’ Dan Katz. Katz first retweeted this with “Bonk,” a reference to the “Go to horny jail” meme.
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) August 5, 2023
Eskin then said this was a photo of his daughter getting ready for a Taylor Swift concert in Los Angeles:
Thats my daughter getting ready for Taylor Swift concert last night in LA. Taylor swift bigger than any sports we talk about. Thanks to @BarstoolBigCat for retweeting. https://t.co/pPSuFGEr4o
— Howard Eskin (@howardeskin) August 5, 2023
And that led to Katz offering another comment:
Listen. The tweet was funny and made no contextual sense to include the picture of his daughter with no explanation. Now that there has been a material change. We take a step back and say #respect @howardeskin https://t.co/vstkL4KzpI
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) August 5, 2023
Katz is right; there was zero context provided by Eskin here at first. And this then led to some further jokes:
Going to a bachelor party with boys. Going to get goofy.
(Insert picture of daughter)
— Merchant of Football (@diazzcfb) August 5, 2023
The Bears signed defensive end Yannick Ngakoue to 2 year deal. Running to Walmart at 10 to get paper plates and dish soap. pic.twitter.com/1ejNVSWGSo
— BooMan 🐢 (@ChannelBooman) August 5, 2023
Castellanos rips one into the night pic.twitter.com/8jnRvru6Rv
— ⛳️ Caddyshanks Newsletter (@caddyshanksnews) August 5, 2023
Perhaps the best version of this, though, came when Katz tweeted a contextless photo of donuts, and one of his followers came through with the meme.
Ready to roll this morning with my show @SportsRadioWIP . Trea Turner and #Phillies. Eagles expectations. Donuts that hung around too long. 8-10a. pic.twitter.com/YPLHXGGnEZ
— Jake (@LookOutItsFouts) August 5, 2023
Eskin has working in Philadelphia media in various roles since 1972, and has been at WIP since the station’s early days in 1986, hosting some of the first sports programming there before it eventually switched to all sports. He’s come up here a few times over the years, from condemning Gabe Kapler for writing about lube to calling the ESPYs with Caitlyn Jenner a “freak show” to saying he’d retire if the Eagles drafted Bijan Robinson.
Fortunately for Eskin, the Atlanta Falcons chose Robinson, so he didn’t have to live up to that pledge. That’s allowed him to continue his radio work, where he currently hosts on WIP every Saturday morning. And, in this case, that led to him posting a contextless photo of his daughter with a tweet around that radio work. We’ll see if there are more contextless photos to come from him.
[Howard Eskin on Twitter; undated top image of Eskin from a video NBC10 Philadelphia did on in him in 2011 when he was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame]
About Andrew Bucholtz
Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.