Did he have anything to say about Mac or the HFC reunion?

My guess would be had some snarky comment

I listened while I was driving through Central IL last night. Yup, and whined about not being asked to be a guest during the shows.

I heard him refer to noted American author "John Updick." Sounds like he's gunning for Connor McKnight's job with that one.

that sounds like him.

He’s got a point. He produced them for a long time.

Mac and Spiegs discuss his appearance on the reunion shows:

The station is worse off without Spiegel. Goff is about a -3.0 WAR host while Spiegs is a +1.5-2.0. I thought McKnight was the epitome of a replacement level host but he is trending downward.

Except Bernstein & Spiegel would have, or could have been, an unmitigated disaster, because Spiegel doesn't know how to oppose Bernstein (and likely the inverse) without derailing a segment. They lost countless transitions to Spiegel slapping at Bernstein, and you just can't have a whole show of that replacing the ratings successes that were Spiegel & Goff and Spiegel & Parkins.

And on top of all that, Bernstein & McKnight is somehow a ratings darling.

I remember Spiegel would get himself all worked up going into transition and Bernstein would only halfheartedly engage, essentially dismissing him with a "eh, whatever..." attitude while Spiegel was sounded like he was practically frothing at the mouth.

Except Bernstein & Spiegel would have, or could have been, an unmitigated disaster, because Spiegel doesn't know how to oppose Bernstein (and likely the inverse) without derailing a segment. They lost countless transitions to Spiegel slapping at Bernstein, and you just can't have a whole show of that replacing the ratings successes that were Spiegel & Goff and Spiegel & Parkins.

And on top of all that, Bernstein & McKnight is somehow a ratings darling.

Is Bernstein and McKnight getting good ratings? I must have missed that.

Makes you wonder about how many people really did give up the Score forever and ever and ever for firing Saint Jason.

Well we know Maddux Boy is back.

Still, the success of Bernstein & McKnight is almost jarring, to me. In my mind, that show shouldn't be doing that well, but maybe I've become just as jaded about sports talk as Dan had been until he stared into the radio abyss.

Makes you wonder about how many people really did give up the Score forever and ever and ever for firing Saint Jason.

Makes you wonder about how many people really did give up the Score forever and ever and ever for firing Saint Jason.

Do you really think there's a sizeable "Goff demographic" that they lost with Jason? That would imply that there was a (young/urban?) demographic who were listening because of Jason Goff, and I just can't see that happening. I can't see a whole lot of people flipping through the AM dial and hearing Goff's dulcet tones and being like "whoa where has this been all my life?" and becoming a regular/habitual listener. Maybe if there was a lot of word of mouth marketing at rooftop establishments with bottle service?

Maybe if Goff was solo doing Bomani Goff you'd have a small small chance of that, otherwise I just can't see sports talk radio as a whole (let alone the Goffsphere) attracting a lot of new listeners over the last few years who they'd be able to lose because of the departure of Jason Goff.

Other than this board and people in the business, I think nobody, especially the average fan, really cares much about any of these radio guys.