I think it was almost the other way around: the original intent of the MNMS was to be much less sports-driven than anything on the schedule, basically what Imus was doing on WFAN. Anne Maxfield was supposed to have near-equal play as the liberal counterpart to conservative North, but that was such a disaster that they ended up cutting Anne down to just short newscasts and going back to mostly sports but with North constantly interrupting newscasts and scoreboards to give bad thoughts on life in general. I think I started listening right after they did the experiment of putting Drinky in the morning to resportsify the show only for him to get moved back because he was a "bad fit." By the end, it was pretty much straight-ahead sports talk with North and Fred, as I recall, though not very good, of course.

I suspect the audience for the political Mike North show was meant to be, like, small business tyrants and stuff like that. Remember his lead-in, Stocks and Jocks?

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Yes!!! But it was Drinky, Laurence, and Zach Zaidman. Mitch talked it up in the paper and all the imaging was about how these were the young lions of sports talk radio ready to take over. Their show was a clusterfuck, quietly replaced by like Brian Paruch or Steve Olken or something after seriously like two shows, and the whole thing was never spoken of again.

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Also, Drinky and Goff were paired up after B&B for those half hour shows. Sometimes longer if there wasn't a game. That was blown up quickly.

Drinky also got a shot in the mornings with North. Rumor was Fred Hubner hated drinky and got him fired from that shot.

I think drinky and Goff always thought it was cool to act like ass holes. Without any sports knowledge. Goff had a little more than drinky. Drinky just liked the Cubs I think. Didn't know much about any of the other teams. His free time was spent banging bitches and drinking. Where a guy like Bernstein and others dedicate there free time to watching and reading about the god damn sports. Which makes them better on the air.

Yeah, I think the Drinky experiment was around September or October 2006, right before I started listening regularly. I remember lots of references to Anne Maxfield being "put in a cage," and this board was very, very pro-Drinky. Goff, too. It's funny to watch the board's heroes and villains change over the years.

I don't remember Drinky and Goff getting many post-B&B shifts (Last Call was usually weekends or late nights, I think), but I do remember the summer of 2007 when Mitch stopped scheduling Brian Paruch or whoever for 6-6:30 shows and just made B&B stay late. It was easily some of the weirdest radio they or anyone at the Score ever did.

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I was never pro drinky or pro Goff. Which means I was on the right side of history.

Yep, very definition of FIGJAM.

But seriously I was listening to them in like 2004 or 5? The Me and Z show followed. R&B were very good. Someday the unabridged Seacrest autobiography must be written.

Letting Seacrest having skeletons out of his closet!

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