No. He wasn't that good and had a bad attitude until they got Parkins in here and after about 3 months he realized that his job was next to go if he didn't get in line.

It's not admirable that he eventually treated Parkins well once he finally got it through his head that Parkins was a key part of the future with or without him.

Now he can pretend he "becomes" the Beatles full time.

Spiegel was blindsided just like Goff.

It was weird. Parkins invited the entire show crew and their wives to his house on Saturday. It's almost like Parkins knew and wanted to throw a good bye party without telling anybody it was a good bye party. Because Spiegel did a show on Monday. Goff didn't.

No. He wasn't that good

The guy did everything that was asked of him. He was the good soldier during Mac's departure, and didn't show loyalty to Mac when he and the station were playing hardball, he just put his time in with the fill-ins. He worked with Mitch's hand-picked long-snapper against his wishes for a partner. He worked with Mitch's hand-picked guy from Atlanta against his wishes for a partner to ratings success. He worked with Mitch's hand-picked guy from Kansas City against his wishes for a partner, to ratings dominance of the competition.

And in return for assisting the turn of the midday slot from laughable in the times of the long-snapper, to dominant up until last week, he gets pushed out of the daily lineup because Mitch's unbelievable push to get Goff over in the market failed horribly.

The ratings disagree.

The way I see it, you're either rewarded for ratings success, or you're not. You shouldn't be objectively punished for ratings success, though. I call that "getting hosed".

The ratings disagree.

Why didn't the ratings work with the last 3 partners?

What I do not like about it is, everything pointed to Parkins knowing about this for a while.

Spiegel did not get hosed. He still has a job if he wants it. He's a talented guy, but that doesn't make him a legit talk show host. He had more than enough opportunities and it never materialized. Parkins showed with one shot, he does have it.

So what?

Better than Finfer finding out via text while on air...God that was a funny show.

Spiegel will be fine as he is still a decent sports talker who hasn't alienated half the city. He'll land somewhere in market, unlike Goff.

He's not that good. Not really better than Goff at all.

Bad in a different way. And like BRick keeps pointing out, he sort of did to Parkins at the beginning what Hood did to Telander, though for less reason and not in such an extreme manner. In any case, his pouting was unprofessional. And he pouted a lot.

Also, it should be pointed out that he took a lot of time off for the job he clearly liked more. He quit doing a baseball show on the weekends he supposedly was good at because of it. He had to call in sick multiple times from voice issues directly relating to his other job.

Now, he was "allowed" to do that but when you have a job like his those kind of things make you less likely to survive big shakeups.

The guy weathered multiple shakeups, and his performance was trending upwards through multiple partners, AND he just got fresh paper. A loyal radio veteran with ratings success should certainly weather a storm brought on by the declining ratings of others. So what he might be prickly and a bit of a diva about his singing? He had results where it mattered, until those things apparently stopped mattering.

Now I don't know what his deal is like, maybe he refused to work with Bernstein in middays, and they're doing him a solid instead of firing him. If we get wind of that, I will downgrade Spiegel's treatment from "hosed" to "kinda shitty, but you gotta do what you gotta do to get by". However, absent that, the guy had all the things you supposedly need to be a daypart mainstay, and they forced him out for Connor McDoink.

Spiegel's Twitter profile still has him hosting 9-1, and he hasn't uttered a peep since the news was reported/announced.

Guy is probably drowning in scotch.