23 years old oday, per Danny Mac.

Thought they would mention something on the air?

Mitch giving out kisses today!

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

it was old enough to buy cigs and fuck adults 5 years ago... and was old enough to drink two years ago... what the hell do you celebrate 23 for?

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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Elections have consequences.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Should have more guys on that dont know the history of the Score and spend time mocking it. Good idea!

Wayne "Too Cool for the Room" Randazzo

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Happy birthday, The Score! Your evening show producer thinks you sucked.

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Rosenbloom talked about it when they came on the air this morning (following the CBS national broadcast @ 7:00 am...thank God).

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If you committed violence on that day, obviously, you shouldn’t be pardoned.- JD Vance on the J-6 insurrectionists

it's another one of those stories where the score started off as the plucky little underdog ("who wants to talk about sports all day?") and did its thing to establish the legend, and is now part of a giant media conglomerate (CBS/viacom/whoever) and is so established that their #1 guy aka FACE OF THE STATION (FOTS) can literally sit around on the station's flagship show and tell everyone to go fuck themselves all day long and there's no consequences for that.

if the early-mid 90s score had a mantra of "we're only talking to you because we HAVE to" it'd never have become the chicagoland radio institution that it became. it was able to build up enough good will with us that even when self-proclaimed "scoreheads" don't really like any of the daily shows all that much they still have 670AM as their default radio position throughout the day. that says something about just how much the original format/station/lineup/etc worked. now the station is only "the voice of the fan" because the big voice guy proclaims it as such when he does bumpers/commercials/idents/etc. back then it WAS the voice of the fan, especially when 2 of its original hosts (mike north, mike murphy) were essentially fans with no sports journalism credentials and at least murph went out of his way to make you feel good about calling in. if you had a clue of what you were talking about he'd coddle you, compliment you, and outright tell you to call back soon / don't be a stranger.

now? as CH has pointed out countless times over the years the station is the voice of the owners/REALLY.SMART.PEOPLE. who run the teams. sports talk radio is seen as a promotional wing for the franchises and a device used to disseminate their talking points out to the masses, a role that bernstein is extremely happy to take on because he always wanted to be on the big/business side of things as opposed to the fan side of things. maybe once upon a time a long time ago when he was a station reporter / weekend host / new-weekday-show-host he saw himself as "one of us" who made it to the airwaves and got to put on a fun/bad/gay show that didn't take itself too seriously... but once he got entrenched as FOTS in the post-north-era and ended up being the one survivor from the 90s score who never left or got kicked out at any point (as les was banished for awhile until his triumphant return, shoot around 2010 or something?) he decided that his show needed to be something more important than what it was... something that did the lord's work in gentrifying the hearts/minds/souls of the listeners into "better" fans (who were basically in lockstep with team ownership, let alone up to date on the hot social issues of the day) and that's where things changed....

and now? shit i dont think that ratings matter anymore. nobody listens to ESPN1000 and yet it's not making any major changes and trotting out the same shit every day til the end of time. b&b famously got trounced by mac in the ratings for a long time and that didnt change anything. it takes a total clusterfuck like hood and telander or hamp&holmes to actually get yanked off of the air (and replaced by somebody else who's already established in the industry) and even now that prolly wouldn't happen since the core concept of sports talk radio is profitable enough to keep on going without any ratings, welp, now it's all about focusing on the narrative and suffice to say teams now recognize the importance of having a good soldier like bernstein out there espousing your views and talking points and getting the public "on your side" so i reckon sports talk radio will continue on forever since you know if CBS/ESPN/etc didnt absorb each market's top sports talkers into their portfolios you'd have something like the CSN setup with the teams banding together themselves to buy up a station and put it out there, cuz the whole point is to have that message from the boardroom go out to the masses with some sort of "regular guy" or "fan just like you" being the middleman/gatekeeper who actually puts it out there. and that's never gonna go away.

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I went late to a class to hear the station flip its signal to 24 hours. I made a cabbie turn the station on driving home from a bar on New Year's Eve because I wanted to hear what the hosts had to say. Now I go days without listening.

Happy birthday, wscr

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Pappy?!? Is that you?

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

As distasteful as current hosts may find it, north is the reason the score exists.

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Couldn't agree more, gd. I enjoyed North during the good years. Love him or hate him, he is on the Mt. Rushmore of Chicago sports talk radio.

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Should have more birthday broadcasts with younger hosts maing fun of how the station used to be and the "stupid" bits.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Pappy wouldn't have been riding in a cab. He would have been driving.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

WSCR in the year 2035:

"Sigh, remember when this station used to do that crap thing where people would call in? I can't believe we would let just anyone have their voice on the radio. Haha, sigh, what was this, a town hall meeting? Ugh, that's so pathetic. Well, that's all the time we have for. Stay tuned for Laurence Holmes."

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i think by 2035 the board will be complaining about how goff (the #1 chicago sports talk radio host of 2020, per dan mcneil who is NEVER SARCASTIC NOT EVEN 1%) has lost his fastball and he just mails it in like terry used to, doing 2-3 shows/week from home via skype (or whatever has taken over for skype in terms of video calls). goff used to care, but now he's just cashing those 2mil/yr checks (inflation) with the least amount of effort possible, and he'll be the old/goofy "terry" co-host to the AI primary host Dan Botstein.

hell, by the year 2035 there might only be one token white host on the score (cuz by then jewish people will have formally filed the paperwork to be officially separated from "white people") and he'll be doing all the racial stuff and talking about how everyone's racist against america's newest minority and how there needs to be a rule in the NFL where teams interview AT LEAST one white candidate during the hiring process. we'll call it "the steve in elmhurst rule"

and les will still be doing overnights LIVE from his iron lung in elk grove.... and he'll still be playing the DOWN DOWN DOWN LAKERS GOING DOWN drop even tho los angeles was lost to the great earthquake of 2027 (RIP) and he'll be wiping his ass with the memory of 8x super bowl winning quarterback AARON RODGERS, who will eventually come out of the closet at the end of his career and shock the world when he proclaims that he's actually straight as an arrow.... DEFECT DEFECT not straight not so straight... REJECT REJECT

(man i can remember the day i realized that the old dialup bbs "dimension seven" i ran with a friend seemed to be named after a song that's crying out about being secretly gay. yikes)

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Congratulations to a once great station. Unfortunately, the station had it's best lineup 23 years ago. FAR better than todays roster.

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Go Cubs!!!!

With a tranny hooker in the passenger seat.

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He was in a limo that night.

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wow does he look like a douche

Pappy was moonlighting as a limo driver?

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

This isn't the upper peninsula of Wisconsin. Dope.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way