This is sports-talk radio for people who hate sports, by people who hate sports.

I wanted to listen to something on the way home from work and while making dinner, and got this.

Ooh, how bad is it? Shep is almost as bad as Ostrowski when it comes to having no worse fate in this world than having to talk Chicago sports on the radio. He also sounds like a pimply intern while doing so but he's a bit older than I am.

I remember Baldy doing a show a few years ago that was basically an open forum on the state of the Score, where callers almost to a man said there was too much whining about having to talk to normal people about sports, as if that's not their job. As Les would say, SO MUCH FOR THAT.

Julie didn't even know the Vikings weren't playing this weekend.

Julie didn't even know the Vikings weren't playing this weekend.

Your description of Shepkowski is perfect and Baldy, from what I heard, is pretty much the same.

Are Julie and Magaggie this bad? This might be the male version of Julie and Maggie.

Mac producing Coppock probably helped him in a lot of respects, but the talent is something you either have or you don't have. The Illinois Media School commercials make my stomach turn. The only broadcaster factory the Score really gets hosts from is Syracuse.

Most of the greats in the industry were never producers. You think about it, there is nothing about producing that makes you a great host. Maybe you can learn to competently drive a show but talent is different than technical proficiency.

at work, for the longest time, we've tried to turn techs and engineers into sales people and its never worked. for 12 years we tried to fit that square peg into the round hole.

Sales people will promise the product will cure cancer, and it's then up to the techs and engineers to walk back all the ignorant statements made by the salesperson after the contract is signed.

I'm not really on board with this comparison. Anyone with half a brain doesn't want to be in sales. These people are in sales because they are usually dumb as a stone.

I worked with a rep who would send me emails so incoherent, they made bigfan posts look like sonnets. He may very well have been functionally illiterate. (Also, like bigfan, NEW TRIER GUY.) But we'd go out on calls and he was completely in his element. It's just a different kind of intelligence.

i have to have grammarly on every communication product we use otherwise i'm 5 steps ahead of my typing and it can look awful. but on calls its a different animal like your rep. our engineers go on one sales call and are usually in awe of what it takes to make a sale. some still feel like its super easy, see the $ that you can make, attempt it and just fail absolutely miserably at it. knowing a product and persuading someone else to use it is a different animal that people can scoff at all they want but can't even remotely accomplish it.

you can make anecdotes about bad sales people all you want just like you can say every engineer/developer is a pompous know it all social reject.

Mac producing Coppock probably helped him in a lot of respects, but the talent is something you either have or you don't have. The Illinois Media School commercials make my stomach turn. The only broadcaster factory the Score really gets hosts from is Syracuse.