It finally hit me today. That's what they are going for. Decent sports talk with little humor and a good amount of guests. Nothing special but good enough for background noise.

It shows how special B&B was. They feel they can't recreate it and instead it's milquetoast radio.

Dan centered his whole persona on treating sports fandom and sports talk radio as absurd. It would be kind of sad hearing him now try to do a straight sports talk show just to keep his job if he didn't spend the last few years going over the edge as a condescending SJW.

It finally hit me today. That's what they are going for. Decent sports talk with little humor and a good amount of guests. Nothing special but good enough for background noise.

It shows how special B&B was. They feel they can't recreate it and instead it's milquetoast radio.

It finally hit me today. That's what they are going for. Decent sports talk with little humor and a good amount of guests. Nothing special but good enough for background noise.

It shows how special B&B was. They feel they can't recreate it and instead it's milquetoast radio.

You are the guy that posts ratings as the only thing that matters though.

What does this have to do with anything in my post?

The Boers and Bernstein of the late 90s early 2000's was fun. I thought Dan would most likely go national around 2005 or so, but then he doubled down the shtick of insulting callers and it got predictably boring.

Then he went all SJW far left and now is just trying to have a job.

Maybe humility to him, I don't know. I think he is talented, but his extreme positions really hurt him

Why would it be sad if he was maximizing ratings?

It shows how special B&B was. They feel they can't recreate it and instead it's milquetoast radio.

The Boers and Bernstein of the late 90s early 2000's was fun. I thought Dan would most likely go national around 2005 or so, but then he doubled down the shtick of insulting callers and it got predictably boring.

Then he went all SJW far left and now is just trying to have a job.

Maybe humility to him, I don't know. I think he is talented, but his extreme positions really hurt him

Dan's time to go national would have been before 2005. He chose to play the smart kid in the dumb row at the Score instead. He can never say he wasn't warned.

Now he is doing everyday what he considered to be beneath him for the previous decade.

Dan centered his whole persona on treating sports fandom and sports talk radio as absurd. It would be kind of sad hearing him now try to do a straight sports talk show just to keep his job if he didn't spend the last few years going over the edge as a condescending SJW.

. Decent sports talk with little humor and a good amount of guests. Nothing special but good enough for background noise.

It shows how special B&B was. They feel they can't recreate it and instead it's milquetoast radio.

I think there's a subtle line there and once Bernstein crossed it, he could never get back. Yeah, sports fandom is absurd and entire radio shows dwelling on sports are absurd. The thing is though, we watch and listen anyway. Instead of sharing a joke with the listener Bernstein got to a point where it was obvious he had nothing but contempt for the listener. There's really no going back from that. When you ask, "Why do you care?" enough times, there is going to be a segment of the audience that eventually says to himself, "Yeah, why do I care?" and pushes the fucking button.

That is true and it will be hard for Bernsie to get it back. He is a chameleon though and if someone can do it he would be the likely one. I found an old interview of him by some smallish outlet in Chicago from years ago. I probably can't dig it up again but he basically stated what I felt all along. The hate of callers and the show they did was calculated and planned. It probably went too far off the rails about Penn State or Kaner time but it was an act.

No can he be believable enough to get it back after going to his pre act persona? We will see.

It's easier to be a straight sports show.

I must have missed the gay sports shows.

That is the problem with the thought these days that I am this or that until I am not. People remember.

Great point—you can’t just flip positions every few years and think people won’t notice.

Harry and Spike