Clawmaster wrote:
Brick wrote:
Tall Midget wrote:
vitoscotti wrote:
The board's die hard Score apologists has dwindled down to a small group.
The board's group of regular posters has dwindled to almost nothing.
The CFMB now has a more precarious existence than that of the Score.
It's almost impossible to get new posters here. Younger people don't really use traditional message boards. Sports radio isn't relevant. They listen to Joe Rogan and Barstool and Pat McAfee and post on those sites.
The Score could have monetized fan content too but they were not progressive enough to do it. Boards like this filled that niche.
The only way to get more users here would be to prioritize Chicago sports teams and advertise but even then you come chicitysports.com that mostly seems to be people talking to each other on Twitter anyways.
There is still a massive number of dudes my age that listen periodically, but most of them are busy and do not have time for the political and filler stuff you hear on air and are moving to pods for content specific stuff. They mostly interact on the Pod sites, it certainly cuts down on the stuff here.
Still think this is a good place for content specific aggregation, can usually see if anything is popping just by skimming the team sections.
There are some OG's here that give you a bit of perspective you may not get elsewhere, and many here have the shared experience of listening to Chicago sports talk radio for decades, different ideas on what makes good and bad radio, but still a commonality and commonality is what humans tend to seek.
The Score has lost a lot to podcasts, but the one thing they have going for them that they do not utilize is that the shows are live. Most every show has decided that taking callers is beneath them and that no one likes callers. A lot of callers are awful radio but you need the volume of callers to sift thru to get to the good ones and the good ones can live forever.
Another thing they have going for them because of the live nature of the shows is disagreement and debate. Not just one host saying in the tone of Haugh "I disagree", but actual, heated disagreement. Unfortunately, they either have decided workplace harmony is more important or that people actually don't want to hear that but there are multiple instances of complete nonsense being spewed every day that just goes unchecked. Hell, almost the entire station was an Aaron Rodgers love fest the day after the I own you game, yet I don't know a single Bears fan in real life that doesn't hate Rodgers. Bottom line, they're in a heavily insulated echo chamber. Even the twitch chat is heavily, heavily moderated. The text line should be ripe for opposing view points but Bernstein/LoHo just pick the lowest hanging fruit possible from there.
Boers and Bernstein used to have a really loyal fanbase, I don't think any show on the station is even close to that and will ever get there with the way the shows are run now.
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Rod wrote:
There are a lot of hateful people out there
Juice's Lecture Notes wrote:
it's time you all are hauled out to the public square and shot in the face, a few inches to the good more than Trump was. You wanted this, now you've got it.