It's pretty easily distinguishable when he says that he knows Dan gives to charity but can only speculate as to something in his past that makes him who he is today.

I would have never guessed Bob from accounting would have a head stored in his refrigerator after the deep conversation we had at the Christmas party.

He earned a small degree of goodwill with me. However, it also confirmed he is 5'5" or thereabouts.

I said this almost 10 years ago and I will say it again; some of you are weirdly involved in the lives of people you listen to on the radio. Or in the cause of Mac, used to listen to years ago until he became irrelevant.

They aren't your friends and you don't know anything about them. Remotes are a sales tool. They aren't trying to invite you to their BBQ's.

Mac and I were cool when we in the same tax bracket. Now he is filing 1040EZ's like my kids. Sad. Shit he may even be getting the earned income tax credit.

No one cares.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Mac and I were cool when we in the same tax bracket. Now he is filing 1040EZ's like my kids. Sad. Shit he may even be getting the earned income tax credit.

Nas, I know it, and I was joking. Sorry that didn't come through in my post.

What was the joke?

That I make $800k a year like Mac did and pay a 39% marginal rate, which seems to be my board personsa. Are you really that stupid to miss it or are you just the asshole assumes you are? My guess is both. Wait, not a guess. It's my lock of the century.

Maybe one day!

Now he is filing 1040EZ's like my kids.

If he claims his son as a dependent he's not filing a 1040EZ.

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

If he claims his son as a dependent he's not filing a 1040EZ.

If he claims his son as a dependent he's not filing a 1040EZ.

I also disagree with Mac's assessment of Bernstein that he based on knowing him for several years.

When Spiegs and I were rehearsing before takeoff in June of '09, Matty borrowed $300 from me to get his car fixed. You can fill in the blanks.

$300 for abortion?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I don't have to sell you a car to tell you what I really think of Bernstein. Let me save you the trip.

I believe his charitable efforts with pediatric oncology are both genuine and admirable. Raising money is no easy endeavor and I know for a fact Dan rolls up his sleeves and busts grapes for the cause.

His producers have been clear (not Shep -- yet) he wasn't generous to them. When Spiegs and I were rehearsing before takeoff in June of '09, Matty borrowed $300 from me to get his car fixed. You can fill in the blanks.

He can be charming. His bedside manner is top shelf when it needs to be.

His treatment of those who aren't his intellectual equal is deplorable.

I'd go musky fishing with him. He's not a pussy, physically, and I know he'd research the craft and understand you have to throw big baits with big tackle 'til you're sore and sometimes never see a fish, yet keep throwing. He enjoys the outdoors. I'm happiest when I'm on the water with a 9' St.Croix Big Nasty in my hands. It'd be fun throwing with him... to get him on "my turf." Some of my best friends (and fishermen) don't have the stomach for musky hunting. I bet he would.

It's my perception he doesn't have many friends. I don't think many trust him. The veneer, not the guy I know, comes off as arrogant, aloof and selfish.

There were several road trips where I enjoyed his company. A strip club in Phoenix in '96 (his first). San Diego in '98. On that trip, he and I were both stuck between choices on the menu. One of 'em was the same. We ordered three entrees and split the one we both wanted. I think it was Pacific swordfish, but don't hold me to it. Matt Fishman, my EP then, told us it was bad form to order an extra entree. Bernsie and I got blasted together in Salt Lake City with the Bulls in '97. We crashed Grobber's overnight show and assumed control.

Dan can suck the joy out of the dumbest shit. Even the strip club was like a sociology class assignment, a participant observer type of thing (Participant Observe was the name of my column sophomore year at Ball State, for the award-winning and nationally-respected Daily News.) I'd probably flick ash on him if we fished muskies and he started doing metrics on cast-to-follow ratio or fishing WAR. His passion for metrics is a turnoff to a lot of people who just wanna be a part of the party and use radio and sports for escapism, not to go to fucking school.

Other musings:

It bothers me his smartest-guy-in-the-room style has permeated the air staff there (with few exceptions). I don't fault him for that. If the others feel they have to pass the Bernstein dick-quotient litmus test, shame on them, not Dan. Have the balls to be yourself and not try to impress another host because you also are smarter and better than your audience. There isn't enough fraternity house feel at the Score for my tastes. But Bernsie is just one guy. The others who play follow the leader... well... that's on them.

It is a fact Bernstein was the only Score host who reached out to Danny Parkins and welcomed him to the air staff. I was not surprised when I learned this.

In Miami in '99, my wife, Jill, and Dan Jiggetts had to restrain me and keep me from going Doug Buffone on him when he was laughing about bad pub the station got in the Sun-Times. Dan was still a reporter or evening host with designs on moving up and several wondered if he planted the fucking story with Robert Feder. There never was evidence he did, but he was a suspect.

He's sympathetic to people with mental health issues. He understands it is a physical, neurological disease. He also has been willing to have conversations with me about autism and even share some stuff on the topic with me. I believed it to be sincere. He's a father, too.

I wonder if something happened to Dan in his childhood he hasn't come to grips with. Or maybe he wants to talk about it on the air but doesn't want to hurt somebody. Maybe he hates himself for something he did. His hostility and often contemptuous disposition isn't an accident. There is some deep-rooted hurt there. He loves Silence of the Lambs. Somebody should ask him "What is your worst memory of childhood... and don't lie, or I'll know."

Anything else?

I never had a single friend until I went to North Star Camp for the first time. It so happened that David Berkowitz, the most popular, most athletic kid at my school (to this day I've never seen a player with oilier hips and better vision in zone schemes) went to the same camp. Long story short, he pretended to be my friend before he and his cohorts committed the inimical act of taping me to a park bench and shoving a pipe up my ass. I never trusted again. There, I said it.

I never had a single friend until I went to North Star Camp for the first time. It so happened that David Berkowitz, the most popular, most athletic kid at my school (to this day I've never seen a player with oilier hips and better vision in zone schemes) went to the same camp. Long story short, he pretended to be my friend before he and his cohorts committed the inimical act of taping me to a park bench and shoving a pipe up my ass. I never trusted again. There, I said it.

Mac just texted into Kaps show referencing the topic he was discussing. Not even listening to Spiegel's shitshow anymore ?