The Morning Jab – Shoe and Joe
Monday – Friday – 6A – 10 A EST
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Dave “Shoe” Schumacher grew up outside of Boston in Arlington, Massachusetts. He studied broadcasting at Emerson College. A lifelong Boston sports fan he moved to Maine to work in radio. He has been the host of the Morning Jab for 20 years interviewing a number of athletes/celebrities and providing the area with the longest running sports talk radio show. Shoe lives in South Portland with his wife. They spend most of the summer on a lake in Oxford, ME
Joe Palmieri, born in Philadelphia, grew up on a farm in the “Blueberry Capital of the World”, Hammonton, New Jersey. Joe graduated from Emerson College. Before moving to sports and The Big Jab, Joe was a television journalist. He worked in markets throughout the country and CNN for more than 20 years covering major events including presidential campaigns and the USA trip of Pope John Paul. Joe and his wife Cheryl live in South Portland and can be seen biking throughout Southern Maine.
The PM JAB – Javs & Eli
Monday – Friday 2P – 6P EST
PM Jab Facebook
PM Jab Twitter
Brute Strength Podcast
Javier Gorriti Twitter
Eli Canfield Twitter
Javier Gorriti, a former hockey player for the Black Bears, graduated from UMaine Orono in 1998. Upon graduation, after one year in the CHL, Gorriti entered the workforce. In the fall of 2008 Javier decided that he wanted to pursue his lifelong dream of working in sports radio and joined WJJB and the PM JAB.
Eli Canfield, a native of South Portland and 2020 graduate of the University of Southern Maine, joined The PM JAB as the permanent co-host in December of 2021. Canfield interned with The PM JAB from January until September 2020 during his senior year of college before spending 15 months at The Times Record in Brunswick as the sports reporter before returning to the station permanently.
Monday-Friday 10A – 2P EST
Middays with Mannix & Mannix Twitter
Mannix & Mannix Soccer 30 Podcast
Jeff Mannix Twitter
Taylor Mannix Twitter
One of Maine’s foremost sports voices, Jeff Mannix joined The Big Jab Sports Radio in October of 2011 as a fill-in host and part-time producer. Since then, Jeff has been a regular presence on the Big Jab airwaves as a show host and play-by-play announcer. He’s also frequently behind the scenes as a remote producer for all Atlantic Coast Radio stations.
In 2016, Jeff became the full-time host of the Saturday Morning Jab. He brought in his brother Taylor Mannix as his co-host and the show was rebranded as the Big Jab Saturday with Mannix & Mannix in October 2018. In December 2021, Jeff and Taylor moved to Monday-Friday from 10:00 am-2:00 pm as Middays with Mannix & Mannix.
In addition to his show hosting duties, Jeff recently completed his fifth season as the executive producer of the Big Jab Maine Celtics Radio Network and enters his third season as a producer for the WPEI Sea Dogs Radio Network. In 2016, Jeff joined the broadcast crew for the Big Jab’s Super Saturday high school football state championship coverage and was the exclusive play-by-play voice in 2019 and 2022.
Outside of his role on the Big Jab, Jeff is an accomplished play-by-play broadcaster. In 2018, he was chosen as the lead men’s hockey play-by-play television voice for the University of Maine Black Bears on ESPN+. Jeff served as the director of broadcasting and lead broadcast voice for the American Hockey League’s Portland Pirates from 2011-16 and served a short stint as the fill-in broadcast voice of the AHL’s Providence Bruins during the 2016-17 season. From 2005-07, he was the radio voice of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Lewiston MAINEiacs, earning first-place honors for Radio Play-by-Play from the Maine Association of Broadcasters in 2007.
Prior to joining the Big Jab, Jeff’s career also included stints at WZON-AM in Bangor and Inland Northwest Broadcasting in Moscow, Idaho. In both locations, Jeff was a show host and broadcast various high school sports.
Jeff graduated from the University of Maine with a B.A. in Journalism and resides in Lewiston with his wife, Nicole.
Taylor Mannix grew up in Portland. He attended both Hall-Dale and Portland High School, graduating from PHS. Upon graduation in 2011, he enlisted in the US Army and was stationed in El Paso, Texas, serving 3 years before returning home to attend college. He started at the University of Maine-Augusta and played basketball for the UMA Moose in the Yankee Small College Conference for one season before transferring to the University of Maine to study Sports Journalism. Taylor worked with ESPN+ and for three years was the TV voice of Maine women’s soccer, field hockey and baseball. He has since made his presence known in the Portland media market as co-host of the Middays with Mannix & Mannix, along with his brother Jeff. Taylor also broadcasts high school sports for WHOU.live and is a statistician for the Maine Celtics of the NBA G-League.