David Lee Roth, who was put on the air in some markets as a replacement to Howard Stern, complained about managerial interference during an interview on the Howard 100 news show on Sirius this past week. As reported in the New York Daily News, the aging ex-rocker called his bosses "social retards" and other colorful names in response to orders that he program his show for the Lynyrd Skynyrd set (...hey man, is that Freedom Rock?!) and stop speaking Spanish on the air. Howard Stern, who is facing a lawsuit from CBS for breach of contract, reported the news on HowardStern.com, and according to Billboard Radio Monitor, Stern commiserates with The Grapes of Roth: "Bring a guy in, $4 million a year. Destroy him. And you can see they're setting him up to not pay him because they're saying he's not cooperating." Apparently, Diamond Dave will also soon be given a female news reader a la Robin Quivers to play off of. January's ratings for Roth show a steep decline in listenership of his target 18-34 year old audience in New York - 13.8% to 1.3% as reported in the Daily News - but that's no surprise. Those are some mighty big, crass, sophomoric shoes Dave has to fill.