It was funny when he made fun of you though.

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C’mon guys. Think about this for a second.

If Bernstein would have don the his at ESPN 1000 they would have fired him. So why would they hire him just because it was the other sports radio station that had to do it?

It was a different time but Mac got fired from The Score and went to ESPN 1000 and it worked out pretty well for them.

COMMUNITY NOTE (by Elmhurst Steve):
Mac just made a comment about a sideline reporter having an inappropriate outfit on that looked like something suitable for an AVN convention. He didn't threaten anyone or their family. Really different.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Hey, serious question: have you had a stroke or something? I'd really like to know, as your inane typo-filled posts certainly have a different vibe if there are medical things going on that would help explain.

The Score fired him in 2014 and 2020 but I think the first time he left was of his own volition. Wasn't it shortly after they paired him with Dan Jiggetts and the show was a disaster?

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Mac had a style that fit what ESPN wanted when they were creating MJ&H. Bernstein has a style that no one at WMVP wants in that building. The entire line-up hates his guts and says so in no uncertain terms.

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2014 wasn't even a firing. It was Mac trying to hold out for more money when his contract was up and 670 holding their ground because it was the era where they could no longer justify the types of contracts that were given out earlier in the 2000s. It was more akin to an aging free agent thinking he is worth more than he is and the team letting him hit free agency to get a dose of reality

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Yes! I think AM 820 is a longshot possibility. The money and the audience would be a lot less, but seems like Dan was tired of talking just sports and the ideology of this station would suit him.

I think you're over-inflating Dan's interest in politics. Like most 'liberal' media members in the sports sector, they would likely prefer to Stick to Sports. It's when 'conservative' viewpoints (and not, like, the capital gains tax kind...) is legitimized and amplified (Conservative media is meant to impress the audience with how much of a shithead they are) it's mere human nature to speak up, that doesn't make you super woke

Of course, that doesn't explain Dan's Twitter addiction. But I believe, especially after this fish fiasco, Dan would want to talk about politics even less, not more

That's where he'll likely land, if he stays in talk radio. He was already turning the Score into that and couldn't keep his social/political thoughts to the side. He's been broken by DJT and should just own it now. If he wants to Chicago's version of Keith Olbermann, best riddance.

What a load of shit this is.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I'll put it in terms you can perhaps better understand: when the "politics" is simple bigotry, then yes more sports media have a take on politics*. Doesn't mean they want to become political media.

*BOTH SIDES

Bernstein was bringing his views into quite a few topics, sometimes sports related, sometimes not. Also, Dan thinks of many opposing viewpoints as bigotry when most people would disagree with his very extreme point of view.

Dan: "I read Craig Calcaterra newsletter, everyone should, he wrote this about MLB team payrolls"

CSFMB white guy grievance committee:

Have we got TheKapMan's thoughts on this?

He's not going to 820. That station can barely cover the contracts for the old or never were that they currently employ.

I think Dan could make money with a podcast. I'd take a look. He already has the setup for he and his son.

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And men have lost their reason.

Speaking of that where will that OWC go?

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Elections have consequences.

He was definitely open about his anti-Christian views for years, particularly with respect to Catholics or evangelicals. It’s not like somebody demanded he air that bigotry or his hand was somehow forged.

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It took one dope kneeling during the national anthem for sports media personalities to begin insisting, in unison, that they can't do their job without acknowledging politics. Who you crappin'?

I don't think he is anti Christian, just doesn't agree with that lifestyle (child molestation and female subjugation)

hmm, well, I can't make the same promise to you as I did to badrogue, as I don't think there's any framing of this argument that you would comprehend

to bring it back to the main point: I don't think Dan wants to become a liberal talk radio host

for one thing there's no immediate money nor long term career path in it. And the Twitter persona is something he's trying to therapy his way out of, not lean further into

it's so unlikely that it's actually more likely he'd do a disingenuous pivot towards anti cancel-culture

Yikes

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Let me take a gander at the Old Testament......Yikes. God and his chosen seem like real pricks. Perchance, are there orthodox jews in the world? Just asking a question.

Yeah, as we've discussed before, Dan's so-called "far-left politics" are pretty inchoate and mostly consist of fashionable upper-middle-class social liberalism while maintaining the economic status quo. You can get the same thoughts from half of Evanston. For all the agonizing over him being too political, I can't recall him saying anything particularly incisive or thoughtful, mostly because the majority of his political content was retweeting other media figures who weren't very insightful themselves.

However, I will take every opportunity to remind people that kind of out of nowhere, Dan wrote a column about then-incipient Ukrainian Nazi movements all the way back in 2012. He got that one right!

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Lame political takes are one thing, but when they're shoe-horned into a sports talk format by a pompous asshat who made his bones calling people gay and retarded it can get particularly galling.

dan maneeel got nearly infinity chances because his ratings. i have to believe espn would be willing to take a shot, especially at the right cost, on bernstein.

When did that happen? What was said? I certainly had several differences of opinions with him. But I am most definitely the one laughing now.

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