What posts are you reading? Pretty much everyone thinks Dan is full of crap and acts as a ventriloquist for Bulls management. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a graduate of Dan Bernstein's bad basketball thoughts summer camp.

Dan Mariotti. He has become that which he hated.

It seems that sports talk radio in Chicago is just not fun any more.

I find that lately I'm just burned out on it and listen to about only half of what I used to.

Probably just me, I needed a break.

It's not just you. I feel the exact same way.

I seriously do not know why they just did all that time on the finals. I can't see why this gets more than 20 minutes and an occasional call in cities that have other things going on.

On the one hand, it's had exceptionally high ratings.

On the other, Chicago isn't one of the top 10 local markets.

I don't mind the coverage to a point. At least Goff and Spiegs have thoughts on the game? Or is it just LeBron clapping. He does deserve it somewhat but I also don't want to hear it.

The bigger problem is that that under Goff's direction of anti-radio (post-radio?) there's no show prep so we can't assume they have other topics lined up later.

Good points.

It's one thing to weave it into a show, especially a show that is in a market with a team in a championship series...like the Blackhawks, and let it breathe, have guests on, talk to NBA fans and discuss the actual game...it's another thing to come firing out of the gate (breathlessly) shouting LEBRON LEBRON LEBRON LEBRON LEBRON, and calling everyone an idiot, sucking LeBron's dick and steamrolling any Hawks/baseball/anything else talk. It was bad, really bad. MR SCORE BASKETBALL INSIDER AND EXPERT didn't break anything down (outside of blathering about usage) didn't discuss shit, just puked out how great LeBron is, why you should watch, what you should feel, why you're an idiot that doesn't understand what is going on. Horrible.

I was, at one point, a big GOFF fan. He was raw but had a chance to be a good host in a drive time slot or a great 3rd man. I thought he'd get his chops in Atlanta and return or whatever to host and entertain me. Instead he went down there and get his ass fired, crawled back to Chicago for a charity job and is now taking it for granted and not being entertaining. *CLICK* Sane for Meat, this was his shot and he needed to take a stand early to reign Goff and the show in. He didn't and now he is in MAC LAND. *CLICK*

This is your midday show? This is what you go with? I haven't really listened in a long ass time to this station and this is what I get? I punched out...made a bad decision to check back in a bit later and it was still Lebron is awesome and you're dumb talk.

Obvious no prep goes into this show.

PRINT IT. SCALP IT.

It's not just you. I feel the exact same way.

I'm not a Goff fan but he is better than Mannelly and more attentive than McNeil. Dan McNeil would have either been absent during the NBA finals, or he would have completely ignored it. I don't know how that makes for a better show. It would have been grilling talk, rolling stones, or wall to wall Blackhawks talk. The finals would have been called boring simply to evade talking about it.

Add me to the list. I very rarely listen, and when I tune in I'm quickly reminded why I stopped. Goff and Spiegs are just having a grand old time entertaining themselves. It's like listening to 2 guys in a dorm room cutting up and bullshitting. Bernstein has become Mariotti. B & B is windsock, I told ya so radio. My listening consists of coming here, and reading how bad it is.

Agreed. I also don't get complaints about lack of preparedness. When the show was Mac and Spiegel, they supposedly prepared hours in advance (on those rare occasions where they both actually came into work) and the show still usually sounded even more half-assed and lazy than the one currently occupying this slot.

Agreed. I also don't get complaints about lack of preparedness. When the show was Mac and Spiegel, they supposedly prepared hours in advance (on those rare occasions where they both actually came into work) and the show still usually sounded even more half-assed and lazy than the one currently occupying this slot.

You're letting your memories (as accurate as they may be) of the last 2 or so years of the Mac and Meat Show cloud your judgement.

In the beginning the show was actually pretty OK and then got good and then, at the end, it became a true mess and then was killed.

Whatever this show is, right now, is maybe a tad bit better than Mac/Meat at their worst.

Yeah because Chicagoland is clamoring for a four hour wang suck fest on Lebron. Fuck the finals. One 20 minute segment is all that was necessary. You want all NBA all the time go national.

You're letting your memories (as accurate as they may be) of the last 2 or so years of the Mac and Meat Show cloud your judgement.

In the beginning the show was actually pretty OK and then got good and then, at the end, it became a true mess and then was killed.

Whatever this show is, right now, is maybe a tad bit better than Mac/Meat at their worst.

Yeah because Chicagoland is clamoring for a four hour wang suck fest on Lebron. Fuck the finals. One 20 minute segment is all that was necessary. You want all NBA all the time go national.