he overpaid

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Please die in a fire.

How was Fred and Murph's show? I like Fred...I couldn't listen to Murph.

Murph and Fred was ok. Probably on par with or maybe a little better than Mully and Hanley from what I remember. I never realized how awful Murph was until he had his solo show. That was worse than Loho. Either way, the MNMS was truly unlistenable. It was so bad that I actually listened to Mike and Mike and thought it was pretty good for awhile until I came to my senses.

5-7 slot. I wonder how many cocktails Nort will have before he goes on the air.

if we r really lucky, fritzy will drop by the show and tell everyone how great miller lite is

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Frank Coztansa wrote:
Please die in a fire.

The money is one thing. The other thing was, CBS wouldn't protect him anymore, when he ran afoul of some ethnic or political group. (And with the tighter FCC restrictions perhaps rightfully so.)

Think of Imus: this guy got punted and he seems far smarter than Mike.

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Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

Good luck to him, and if he's evolved then maybe it will be worth a listen. But I fear North has taken a tur nd won't look back. Jiggetts will cash a check the way a Harvard man can, and take the money to be that 2nd man.

Seriously, good luck!

I thought the structure of the morning shift was too fast paced for Murph's type of show. Those were the days of "scores on the fours". Throw in commercials and there was only a couple of minutes of content every 15 minutes. It takes Murph 15 minutes to hash out most of his thoughts.

The show was origianlly intended to be a Sox and Cubs fan with Murph and Fred getting equal billing. It became clear quickly that it was Murph's show with Cub talk dominating. This was a promotion for Fred so he didn't mind sitting back. He basically became the yes man that he continued on for the next decade or so through both Murph and Fred and North morning shows.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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How did you some of you guys find the Score? I was 14 or 15 when it came on the air. Some of you guys were 20ish...not quite what I think of am radio audience.

There is something I like about listening to Fred, not sure what it is. It's never earth shattering but he seems knowledgable enough.

Mike was given full control over the content and staff of his show. It was reported that they were paying huge salaries to a producer he took from WGN and Maxfield. He staked his reputation on that show and it failed miserably.

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I found the Score at about the age of 20. I was working a job at the county where they always had the radio on. The Score wasn't my go to station at the time

I grew up loving talk radio. I started listening to Dahl when I was 12. At 14, Brandmeier was a staple on the drive downtown in high school. Soon after the Loop featured Brandmeier, Dahl and Kevin Mathews all on one station. I first heard Stern when I was in college in DC. He joined the Loop as well before I was done with school to form the best lineup in possibly the history of radio. Brandmeier, Stern, Dahl and Mathews was true must listen radio. I was taking the train a lot and going on long runs so there was plenty of time to listen.

At the same time the Score programming was starting to mature into its golden age with Monsters, HFC and Murph.

These were the best days of talk radio in this city and I was glad to have experienced it at a point whe I had the most time to listen in my life.

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Anne was/is? married to Harvey Wells who ran the station at the time. Maybe she was some kind of Missouri Compromise for allowing Mike to have the morning slot, dictatorial powers, and freedom of the air waves. I do remember her being the token liberal voice for the show when politics and social issues came up. Maybe he needed a pushover to take the opposing stance to his White Man Manifesto. Still, she's a fucking muppet at the end of the day.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

she was more than a muppet. She was bizarre. Remember the breast feeding her kid well past an appropriat age story?

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You may have been in a catatonic state back then.

My mom was a Loop person too. I can't remember what I thought of it then, I might have a different opinion now.

What kind of car did you drive in high school?

You must have mistaken me for a suburbanite. My parents did not get me a car. When I got to drive it was a station wagon.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I was kind of different than most for liking talk radio at a young age. I have never really been heavily into music.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Please tell me it had wood paneling or pink wind sheild wiper things.

no pink wind shield but definitely wood paneling

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I was the kid with the Panasonic transistor radio who would listen to Eddie Schwartz at night. That radio still works today & is the bathroom in my man cave. Like a lot of people, I grew up in a house that had the kitchen radio tuned to WGN all day & night. I liked talk radio as a youth, but I also loved music & played piano & drums for many many years. I remember listening to the One On One Sports Network, the Sports Entertainment Network, & Sporting News Radio, which were national syndicated sports network. I lived in St. Louis in 1992 when the Score started, but I spent a lot of time in Chicago & would listen to the Score when it started. We moved back to Chicago in 1993 & I have been listening ever since. As Dolphin said, the Score in the 1990's was like a religious movement. Score remotes would be absolutely jammed with people. The Score was like a fraternity, broadcasting from their tiny little studios on Belmont Ave in the same building that WXRT was in. It was a great time to be a sports radio fan.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

no whammies.... no whammies.... STOP!

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To me, replace Stern with Bonaduce, and that was the group that I thought was awesome. Although I was 15 or so at the time.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I doubt he'll make it. Santa Anita is still running at that time.

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Don't take it personally.

It's funny you say that. My business partner is a thirty year old guy from Glenview. Just the other day I asked him if all of his friends automatically got cars as soon as they got their licenses. His answer was yes.

It certainly wasn't that way for my friends and me. My best friend in high school was a guy named Fred. He had an early birthday plus he had flunked a grade, so he was nearly two years older than everyone else in our class. He got his license when we were freshmen. His older brother Baki was a senior at the time. Sometimes he would let Fred use his car. I looked like I was about eight years old riding shotgun. Every upperclassman at ETHS absolutely hated us. But we had a car and they were walking. Fuck them.

I worked from the time I was twelve or thirteen saving every penny to buy a car. I started out selling flowers on the corner of Dempster and Dodge and then I caddied and got a job at an Italian restaurant. I bought my first car at McKay Datsun on Chicago Avenue. I think I paid $3,900 for my '76 Toyota Celica in the spring of 1980. It was more than a car. It represented freedom. Oddly enough, about six or seven years ago I was working downtown and almost never drove anywhere. I remember standing on the platform at Fullerton one beautiful spring day and thinking how free I was because I didn't need a car.

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Don't take it personally.

I worked for my first car,too. It was a Mustang. Not the nice Mustangs but when they went through the crap years (late 70's). it cost 1200 bucks,had a crack in the windshield and I was happy to own it.
Ford even back then was ahead of the game. The car would not start unless your seatbelt was on.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Those were the days, jimmy. Cruising around cranking up The Loop or WMET. Maybe Sky Daniels will play "Trampled Under Foot" soon!

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Don't take it personally.

Sky Daniels was a broad with a man's voice,right?

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

No, that was Patti Haze. Sky Daniels was the stoner who made an odd smacking sound all the time.

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Don't take it personally.

I started working as a caddie at about the same age. I saved every dollar except for a gyros, fries and boston shake at Nicks (Devon and Pulaski) every Monday after golfing for free. I used that money and everything I received in a car accident settlement to help pay for school. I didn't have my first car until I was finished with all my schooling which was well into my 20s.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I was at Evanston Golf Club where Jewish kids carried trunks for Catholic bigshots. I guess you were at Edgebrook where Catholic kids looped for Jewish machers. Was my guy Chris Otis a pro when you were there?

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Don't take it personally.