“I’ve never been to San Francisco personally, and I know you were talking very highly of it,” Tennessee radio host William Patteson said to his co-host. “Am I wrong in saying it’s kind of a little bit of a dump these days?”

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  3. Average never a foot in them but I hate them because they’re blue, San Francisco and New York hater

  6. Hey I’ve never been to the world class city that European and Asian tourists love alike where people complain about cost of living because so many people want to be there and where the major industries pay high salaries. Is it woke?

  7. The double-standard that exists these days with regards to how we talk about liberal, urban areas vs. conservative, rural areas is nauseating.

    People from the Midwest or South can portray any big city as being a lawless, filthy, crime-ridden hellhole with virtually zero consequence, but the minute someone in one of those cities points out the closed-mindedness, poverty, bigotry, or drug issues present in rural areas, they get branded as a “coastal, liberal elite” who needs to “get out of their bubble”.

  8. I love how a lot of the articles about Vitello talk about how much more money SF will need to give him to match his salary in Tennessee (which is true, and I’m sure Posey accounted for that in his offer). But it doesn’t account for quality of life being better here

    If I’m making millions of dollars, I would rather live in SF than Tennessee 100 times out of 100. How could it be true that the city is a dump but also rents are sky-high

  9. man who has never been to san francisco somehow manages to form an opinion on the city despite never setting foot in it, sounds about right

  12. I had an aunt and uncle that came to visit and they were scared to get off the plane, a couple days later my uncle literally shed a tear at the beauty of a a sunset at baker beach

  13. Homicide rate in Memphis is ten times higher than San Francisco. Radio host has been smoking more crack than the tenderloin

  14. People use to tell me “you’d love Austin if you love SF or Berkeley”. Then I dated a girl at UT for 2 years. I did not in fact love Austin and find it a poor comparison. 😅😅😅😅

  15. Oh no! The midwestern shitheads don’t want to come to SF! How will we ever survive?

  16. “And the manager of a baseball team in the MLB is not as glorious or as big of a spectacle as it is in the SEC baseball.”

    This is hilarious. Manager of one of the most storied baseball teams in major league history isn’t as glorious as an SEC manager job? LMAO

  17. > “And the manager of a baseball team in the MLB is not as glorious or as big of a spectacle as it is in the SEC baseball.”

    …

  19. The cool thing I got to experience in the Military was living in allot of these great rural places people keep raving about. The lack of infrastructure, low developed housing, run down public buildings, lack of medical facilities off base, and cocaine/fentanyl addicts around public street. But a company made a poop app for San Francisco so it’s a bigger shit hole than rural America.

    I don’t care if you hate urban city’s, but talking crap for places they never visited because some conservative jerk-off tells you it’s bad despite never visited is beyond annoying. Fuck off Patt

  22. I should’ve known better searching “Tony Vitello” on Twitter. So much vitriol from Tennessee folks aimed at San Francisco. Are the “Southern Hospitality” and “Southern Charm” slogans all but dead? Hopefully that’s not how most Tennesseans are, just like SF isn’t actually a third world city the current WH administration loves to make it out to be.

  24. Yes, William. Like most people with an opinion about things they’ve never experienced—you’re wrong.

    It towers over all the cities you’ve visited, and is much safer than the one you’re in. Numbers don’t lie. As in baseball.

    But, hey, don’t let that stop you from shaking your bones.

  26. I wondered onto this thread as a Vol fan, but I come in peace. I visited SF in July, and it was one of my favorite trips I’ve ever taken. It’s a beautiful, culturally-rich city that I hope to visit again.

    As a Knoxville native, I think the stereotypes about TN written here are just as inaccurate as the hate being shouted about CA. Also – Knoxville is very different than Nashville and especially Memphis.

    I think in a different life, I’d love living in SF, but I can’t imagine leaving TN.

    I hope that we keep Tony. He means so much to our community. But if he takes the Giants job, I’ll happily cheer him on and probably become a fan myself. That’s how most Vols fans I’ve talked to feel. Vol Twitter is filled with trolls.

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