Anyway, it gets tedious reading people hate Mike, as if he never was the face of the SCORE in its most glorious years. The bits helped me remember.

North is a has-been. He is Mr. Irrelevant no matter how hard he tries now. No one cares about his thoughts or his show.

Grave dancing is fun and he deserves it.

Grave dancing is for the bitter, jealous, & insecure.

Thanks for playing those Pappy carts today. It certainly brought me back to a time when the Monster's could do no wrong. They had lot's of interaction with their fans both on the show and off hours. I don't know when it changed. Originally it was Mike who embraced his fan base while the HFC were a bit standoffish. I wonder if there was any single event that changed that for Mike.

Anyway, it gets tedious reading people hate Mike, as if he never was the face of the SCORE in its most glorious years. The bits helped me remember.

His program has always lacked substance.
I never really considered North to be clever on-air, but his afternoon work was a guilty pleasure. Some of those jag bag sessions were pure venom, crass and obscene to the nth degree -- but I still laughed out loud.
In the wake of Timberlake-Jackson, North had to scale back the jocularity on his show -- and he was left with nothing. B and B were also curtailed with their subject matter -- no more TB Diddler copy -- but both still had enough sports acumen to keep their show afloat.
The edge was gone, and Mike is just unable to be articulate about sports. He's not an X's-and-O's guy, he's unable to break down past players or events with any kind of detail and finishes off this train-wreck trifecta with his lack of depth to discuss present-day topics.
Like comedy, Lenny Bruce was extremely vulgar, but there was a message wrapped within the lewd talk. North is the Andrew "Dice" Clay of sports talk radio. Erase the profane-infused nursery rhymes and what was left with Clay's routine?
Erase the sexual innuendo, sexist or lewd talk and what's left for North.

Kirk, I'll bet your hero North had you convinced Pete Rose never gambled on baseball .
He spent a year on that sham....two hustlers hustling....and North is a notorious gambler....
You fall for that line of shit, John?

Grave dancing is for the bitter, jealous, & insecure.

He was a tremendous interviewer until the you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours started about 10 years ago.
He sold out his audience on the SCORE and didn't think anyone would notice what a shill he became.

Grave dancing is for the bitter, jealous, & insecure.

Can someone fill me in on what hour the pappy carts were played so I can listen to them on the podcast? Thanks.

Actually, no, it's most people who take pleasure in seeing someone undone by his/her hubris.

I dont hate pappy, I am a critic of his, yes, but thats because his last 6 years of radio, webio and tv have sucked, but he is saying how great it was, thats a lie. I have said it for years, pappys product was good for a long time, but once he got the money, he got lazy. His ratings, effort and ego prove it. I dont care that he got the money, get it while you can, but the money changed him, people who would know better then me have told me that, but the one word that is common in the discussions i have had with people is "lazy".

As a sports talk radio fan, i never saw pappy as the face of the score, i always liked HFC and B/B more then any of pappys shows, but thats my opinion. Bottom line, pappy had a big part in bringing the score where it is, but he also had a huge hand in his own downward spiral, actually it was all him and that hurt the score, something pappy will never admit to.

I have no issues with those who defend him, but I dont think you can tell me I am wrong that he became a control freak and coudlnt dig himself out of the hole he dug, he did this to himself and I just cant feel sorry for him, nor do I think he cares if I do or dont, but when he whines about it, no tears for him from me.

Hell, he was getting national attention & publicity ass well, to the point where WFAN in New York made North & Jiggets an offer to host a show. North turned it dowm because he couldn't leave Chicago.
Damn those were the days.

But North was the face of the Score & was, more than anyone else, responsible for WSCR's success in the 1990's.

We all remember how high profile he was in advertising, new stories, newspaper articles & the like.

Hell, he was getting national attention & publicity ass well, to the point where WFAN in New York made North & Jiggets an offer to host a show. North turned it dowm because he couldn't leave Chicago.

Damn those were the days.