Early Score was the greatest.

Early Score was the greatest.

Sensitive guys Parkins, Speigel, Larry would never of survived the early wide open Score.

Yeah, I've found the retrospective show pretty depressing because it is a painful reminder of how far the station has fallen over the past 15 years.

It has lost its mission. It's convenient to blame Bernstein and I certainly join in. The truth is probably that it was a death by 1,000 cuts. Taking on team programming was really probably the first step in the switch from "voice of the fan".

Technological changes like phone to fax to text has effected the station as well. I do think that is overstated. If they open up the phone lines, they get calls. Texts suck.

Callers used to be as important as the hosts. There are funny and creative people out there looking for no compensation other than 1-2 minutes of air time. Bernstein wants to paint the listenership as nothing but mouth breathers.

Sensitive guys Parkins, Speigel, Larry would never of survived the early wide open Score.

Matt has been there for 26 years and I think Larry has been there for 20.

Didn't start listening until 2003 so I missed a lot.

My commute and work schedule back then was such that I heard every weekday show for the 1st 2 years - from the moment Tom Shaer said good morning until it shut down at dusk. Back then they actually had a news guy (the late Tom Webb). Jim Memolo came along a year or two later to try to offset Shaer's lack of personality.

That's about when I started listening and why I never understood the Terry Boers love. I suppose in the 90's he was capable of forming a coherent thought. I also wonder if some of the love for the early Score was born from the paucity of other sources of sports information. Now, if you want sports talk/information you can go to a zillion places. Back then, it was your friends/family, the newspaper, the local nightly news, or the Score.

I used to love Memolo, he always struck me as an underutilized talent at the station. A little further down the line, Joe Bartosh was also an entertaining backup who could never break in to the regular lineup. Kind of like Mark Grote, now, in some ways I guess. Shaky Siuntris (sp?) also falls into this category.

Matt has been there for 26 years and I think Larry has been there for 20.

Joe Bartosh was also an entertaining backup who could never break in to the regular lineup.

They were North's and Mac's cabana boys.

Meatpants being there for 26 yrs does not sound right. I know he was around early on, but didn't he have a pretty big break before he came back with Mac

I think he did some things that kept him technically employed by them. Not sure why they would cut the promos with that if it wasn't true.