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When it came to baseball there wasn't anyone and there still isn't anyone the Score has who was better. When it came to other sports he was average at best. Heard all the stories about him being a douche behind the scenes, but at least he treated his callers with respect. It's a shame you can't say that about all the hosts.

North,Tom Shaer,Fred Huebner,Norm Van Lier & Doug and O'B all are nice. Les Grobstein is very nice. I think Mac & Speigs and those morning guys also are nice. Let's see,who does that leave?

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

Really? I found it unpleasant. I sat next to him one day at a Brown's chicken and he was grunting and smacking his lips a lot.

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Don't take it personally.

What were you doing?

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

Eating some fritters and wings and not enjoying listening to Murph at lunch.

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Don't take it personally.

welp, perhaps i'm guilty of looking back on Murph with rosy-colored-glasses as my mind is geared to remember the positive stuff as opposed to the negative stuff. when I called I tended to go with baseball stuff outside of the Cubs vs Sox bubble, so I probably didn't groove one to his wheelhouse of dickheadedness to garner the type of reaction that you talked about. I tend to remember him licking caller ass, but then again, if he was striking down EVIL SOX FANS(tm) trying to promote his Cubs agenda, I reckon he would champion people like me who made him look smarter by osmosis.

The most goofy thing I remember him shoehorning into conversation a bunch was, indeed, the deification of the 60s-80s Cubs experience. the 69 cubs are the epitome of legend for murph, as he's described on numerous occasions his visions of the 69 cubs in the shower sudsing up and getting all sudsy in the shower (the man has suds on his mind, whether he's in chicago with us or with brenly in san fran). But hey, if you were a legitimate "bleacher bum" and a part of the culture during that part of your life to the extent that your identity as a sports fan is defined by the experience, aren't you gonna talk it up like it's the greatest thing ever? I doubt anyone who willingly spent every day being a part of the old "cubbie thing" is gonna turn around and say that the franchise was a joke and the fans were pieces of shit once he's validated with 50k watts behind him.

Anyways, it's time for all this bullshit to end as it's time to SHAKE THAT.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Liked his show at first and for many years.

But at the end he got really grumpy and his run in's with other hosts on the air was pretty stupid.

Too bad, don't know what happened to him. His show when he started on WLS and the Score years was actually good. Yes it was corny but I think he intended it to be. It was sort of suppose to be like a nostalgia trip of a show from the 40s/50s/60s with all the cheesy antics.

But you got to give him credit, he would be the only one in the media that would crap on the Cubs when they needed to be. He cut thru the WGN lovable losers bs and called out the cubs when they sucked, which is pretty much forever.

The final straw was when his former producers started posting on this site how much of a d-bag the guy was and somewhat an ignorant person (giving him benefit of the doubt calling him ignorant and not the 'R' word). That was really sad to hear. Hope he gets back on this feet wherever he is.