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Author:  leashyourkids [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:05 pm ]
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Dan is flying solo today, which is music to our ears. Now he can shower us with his wisdom and trademarked "deeper understanding" of sports and news without being interrupted by mouth breathers like Abbatacola or clowns like Rongey. I'm just glad we got to meet him last week and understand his genius prior to this glorious day so that we can appreciate today's show even more.

I never thought I'd top the birth of my child, but I may have to rethink that after today. God is good.

Author:  Curious Hair [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:07 pm ]
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Tell me this is a bit. TELL ME. THIS. IS A BIT.

Author:  Peoria Matt [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:09 pm ]
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Curious Hair wrote:
Tell me this is a bit. TELL ME. THIS. IS A BIT.


:lol:

....Sigh....

Author:  Godfella [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:11 pm ]
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#ReallySmartRadio

Author:  Curious Hair [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:12 pm ]
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Peoria Matt wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
Tell me this is a bit. TELL ME. THIS. IS A BIT.


:lol:

....Sigh....


The part that gets me is that if the guy did say "yeah, I was doing a bit," what would Dan say back? "Oh, good bit, really had me going, you should fine-tune that one a little"?

Author:  leashyourkids [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:17 pm ]
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Curious Hair wrote:
Peoria Matt wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
Tell me this is a bit. TELL ME. THIS. IS A BIT.


:lol:

....Sigh....


The part that gets me is that if the guy did say "yeah, I was doing a bit," what would Dan say back? "Oh, good bit, really had me going, you should fine-tune that one a little"?


Who are we to try to predict how the sharp mind of Dan Bernstein would respond?

Author:  City of Fools [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:22 pm ]
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I'm not going to start a thread for this, but Joe O is on with Cowley and his linguistic skills and enunciation are on par with college radio. I'm confident in saying I would be better than Joe O at radio. This is brutal.

Author:  815 [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:29 pm ]
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City of Fools wrote:
I'm not going to start a thread for this, but Joe O is on with Cowley and his linguistic skills and enunciation are on par with college radio. I'm confident in saying I would be better than Joe O at radio. This is brutal.


Pretty sure it is Shepkowski with Cowley today, but your comments still apply. :lol:

Author:  City of Fools [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:31 pm ]
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815 wrote:
City of Fools wrote:
I'm not going to start a thread for this, but Joe O is on with Cowley and his linguistic skills and enunciation are on par with college radio. I'm confident in saying I would be better than Joe O at radio. This is brutal.


Pretty sure it is Shepkowski with Cowley today, but your comments still apply. :lol:

could be...I don't know either of them but I thought Cowley was referring to him as Joe O.

Author:  leashyourkids [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:33 pm ]
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City of Fools wrote:
I'm not going to start a thread for this, but Joe O is on with Cowley and his linguistic skills and enunciation are on par with college radio. I'm confident in saying I would be better than Joe O at radio. This is brutal.


Yeah, the guy on is bad, but come on... I've heard your calls to the station. :wink:

Author:  Don Tiny [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:36 pm ]
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City of Fools wrote:
I'm not going to start a thread for this, but Joe O is on with Cowley and his linguistic skills and enunciation are on par with college radio. I'm confident in saying I would be better than Joe O at radio. This is brutal.

Why in the blue hell is it apparently so g-damned hard to hire competent people into a business wherein their primary, and possibly sole, function is to speak their native language into a microphone without sounding like you just got in from Romania on a cattle boat last week?

It's perhaps most galling when listening to 780 ... I mean, of all places to hire superlative speakers, I'd think that'd be the station to be most innerested in doing so.

Author:  City of Fools [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 1:44 pm ]
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leashyourkids wrote:
City of Fools wrote:
I'm not going to start a thread for this, but Joe O is on with Cowley and his linguistic skills and enunciation are on par with college radio. I'm confident in saying I would be better than Joe O at radio. This is brutal.


Yeah, the guy on is bad, but come on... I've heard your calls to the station. :wink:

hey now!

I love Cowley, but this pairing is just terrible...this guy isn't going to be good even on a chime in basis. I'm sorry...a lot of people don't succeed in radio...

Author:  Tad Queasy [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:09 pm ]
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Don Tiny wrote:
City of Fools wrote:
I'm not going to start a thread for this, but Joe O is on with Cowley and his linguistic skills and enunciation are on par with college radio. I'm confident in saying I would be better than Joe O at radio. This is brutal.

Why in the blue hell is it apparently so g-damned hard to hire competent people into a business wherein their primary, and possibly sole, function is to speak their native language into a microphone without sounding like you just got in from Romania on a cattle boat last week?

It's perhaps most galling when listening to 780 ... I mean, of all places to hire superlative speakers, I'd think that'd be the station to be most innerested in doing so.


There are a surprising number of people on 780 who frequently stumble and say "um..." a lot. Regine Schlesinger usually sounds like she's suffering through bouts of severe intestinal discomfort while she's reading, Julie Kronos (sp?) has vocal fry, and Josh Liss (sp?), who does sports, inhales VERY loudly before the start of each sentence. Very odd.

Author:  redskingreg [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:41 pm ]
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The more I've heard Cowley, the warmer I am to him replacing Terry. He's not nearly as jag baggy as I expected.

Also, aren't we supposed to masturbate to solo Dan, per Matt?

Author:  Gloopan Kuratz [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:43 pm ]
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redskingreg wrote:
The more I've heard Cowley, the warmer I am to him replacing Terry. He's not nearly as jag baggy as I expected.

Also, aren't we supposed to masturbate to solo Dan, per Matt?

Drinky has to do it for us.

Author:  Juice's Lecture Notes [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:45 pm ]
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redskingreg wrote:
The more I've heard Cowley, the warmer I am to him replacing Terry. He's not nearly as jag baggy as I expected.

Also, aren't we supposed to masturbate to solo Dan, per Matt?


Yeah, the bouts with cancer have really mellowed him out. When he was covering the Sox, he was certainly the jag bag you expected.

I also love his willingness to absolutely torch the Bulls.

Author:  Beardown [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:49 pm ]
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Cowly couldn't do it. He lives in Minnesota. He's just on the road all the time covering the Bulls. His wife and kids are in Minnesota all year. Which is weird. But that's how he wants it.

You'd think he could get a job a Minnesota paper.

Author:  leashyourkids [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:54 pm ]
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redskingreg wrote:
The more I've heard Cowley, the warmer I am to him replacing Terry. He's not nearly as jag baggy as I expected.

Also, aren't we supposed to masturbate to solo Dan, per Matt?


I don't know if we'resupposed to, but I've certainly had my needs met a few times within the last hour.

Author:  leashyourkids [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 2:55 pm ]
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The number of this guy's sources are impressive. Just another great thing about him.

Author:  Tad Queasy [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 3:36 pm ]
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Listening to the last half hour or so it's become clear that Dan has taken several steps backward as a solo host since the days before B&B. He used to be a personable and engaging solo host but now frequently interrupts callers and generally acts like a snippy bitch who'd rather be doing anything besides hosting a call in show.

He's sounding more and more like the terrible national hosts on C-B-S Sports Ra-di-o whose actual names I don't know but insist on going by initials as if they're household names.

Disappointing that he stopped caring.

Author:  KDdidit [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 3:55 pm ]
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Tad Queasy wrote:
Listening to the last half hour or so it's become clear that Dan has taken several steps backward as a solo host since the days before B&B. He used to be a personable and engaging solo host but now frequently interrupts callers and generally acts like a snippy bitch who'd rather be doing anything besides hosting a call in show.

He's sounding more and more like the terrible national hosts on C-B-S Sports Ra-di-o whose actual names I don't know but insist on going by initials as if they're household names.

Disappointing that he stopped caring.


Yeah wasn't there a time he would fill in solo every once in a while on Dan Patrick's show? He's back on the Not Ready for Primetime Player list.

Author:  badrogue17 [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 4:33 pm ]
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Not much call for a smarmy Caller Bob nationally I guess.

Author:  leashyourkids [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 4:38 pm ]
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badrogue17 wrote:
Not much call for a smarmy Caller Bob nationally I guess.


You take that back!

Author:  Godfella [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 4:47 pm ]
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Wait... what did I miss?

Last week at this time Bernstein was a great cordial guy at a remote shaking everybody's hand and posing for pics.

Wha' happened?!? :shock:

Author:  SuperNintendoHjalmarsson [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 5:03 pm ]
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tuned in for, and received, a "Nebulous" affirmation. Didnt take long either.

Author:  Peoria Matt [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:14 pm ]
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Godfella wrote:
Wait... what did I miss?

Last week at this time Bernstein was a great cordial guy at a remote shaking everybody's hand and posing for pics.

Wha' happened?!? :shock:


Reality just kicked in the Real Time Sports door.

Author:  Horses4Larry'sarse [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 6:33 pm ]
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Godfella wrote:
Wait... what did I miss?

Last week at this time Bernstein was a great cordial guy at a remote shaking everybody's hand and posing for pics.

Wha' happened?!? :shock:



Maybe on the air he's just doing a bit or more likely an exaggerated version of his real safe a la Larry David

Author:  Zizou [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:40 pm ]
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Dan's been sounding very paternalistic the last few days with these younger dudes. Now that B.Oers is out of the picture he must feel the need to become everyone's rabbi. He's also gone full Leary with his recollections of daily interactions and mundane activities.

Author:  leashyourkids [ Thu Dec 29, 2016 11:41 pm ]
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Zizou wrote:
Dan's been sounding very paternalistic the last few days with these younger dudes. Now that B.Oers is out of the picture he must feel the need to become everyone's rabbi. He's also gone full Leary with his recollections of daily interactions and mundane activities.


Isn't it great?

Author:  Don Tiny [ Fri Dec 30, 2016 12:21 am ]
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badrogue17 wrote:
Not much call for a smarmy Caller Bob nationally I guess.

At least until Nancy Grace retires/dies.

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