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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Ok we're the #3 market, and our "best" show is only #16.....

Only championships matter.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

that could be the dumbest idea for a list ever.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

"They also ranked sports talk radio as the #650-trillionth most important thing in history of things."

Definite tallest-midget award territory.

Either that list was compiled before the Penn State scandal, or Talkers Magazine has a very skewed definition of "important."

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

Well, how high are you going to be ranked with Teery making up half your show when effort is taken into consideration? Given that, 16th is a remarkable achievement.

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You can't see me because of internet.

The landowner effectively owns part shares in millions of part-time slaves called, "taxpayers." -Roy L
A Personal Relationship with Jesus?

#1 Mike Francesa
#2 Jim Rome
#3 Dan Patrick
#4 Boomer & Carton
#6 Mike & Mike
#7 John Dennis & Gerry Callahan
#10 Angelo Cataldi
#13 Dan LeBatard
#14 Mike Missanelli
#22 Colin Cowherd
#25 Anthony Gargano & Glen Macnow
#32 Dan Sileo
#39 Chris Russo
#40 Paul Alexander, Jim Colony, and Gregg Gianotti
#42 Joe & Evan
#48 Tony Bruno
#56 Steve Somers
#57 Stephen A. Smith & Ryan Ruocco
#76 Brian Baldinger & Harry Mayes
#78 Michael Kay and Don LaGreca
#87 Max Kellerman & Marcellus Nas
#89 Michael Barkann & Ike Reese
#92 Mark Schlereth & Mike Hill
#94 Brandon Tierney & Eric Davis
#98 Dino Costa
#100 Joe Morgan

Rome being #2 is a travesty.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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Francesa is an atrocity. The fact that he's #1 on this list (let alone the fact that he probably belongs there!) is a sad commentary on the medium.

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I've heard a few M&MD airchecks and thought they were pretty good, but it was Russo who carried it, to me. Solo Francesa is just dull and irritable.

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It was a really good show, in its bizarre way. At its best, they'd crawl up their own asses and do a whole segment on Phil Rizzuto's defense in the middle of football season, just because. The downside was that at the end of the day, they were just a couple of old whitebread fuddy-duddies, and eventually it started sounding like your weird uncle and your cranky grandpa complaining about the hippity-hop and the Tweeter and whatnot, and that problem was amplified tenfold when the weird uncle left. The lack of repartee also robbed the show of its unintentional comedy, which remains unparalleled in sports radio. They once spent an afternoon puzzling over the Roger Clemens indictment, and I still laugh every time I remember Mike groaning "Ya know, Dawg, dis stuff is way beyawnd us--we're tawlkin' about cawnstitutional lawr, heah!"

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I liked the time Mad Dog had the epic shitlosing over the Marlins beating the Giants. We need more of that here at 670, The Voice Of Measured Perspective.

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Yeah. Score programming crawls up its own ass on a daily basis, but rarely in a manner that's fun or weird or unexpected.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

Speaking of New York sports radio, it's interesting to me that the Yankees have never had a super-long-term radio flagship the way the Cubs have.


All this time, I had thought that the Yankees were on WCBS since sign-on, figuring that since CBS owned the Yanks for a spell, they did so because they thought it would be a good programming idea the way the Tribune acquired the Cubs.

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WHERE'S MAC???

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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And the Yankees might be on the move again. There's talk that either the Yankees or Mets could be relocating to ESPN Radio's New York station, now on the FM side there. The Yankees/WCBS & Mets/WFAN deals expire after this season.

I know that financial constraints will eventually decide it, but it would make a lot of sense from a pure fan perspective for the Yankees to move to WFAN (which carries the Giants) and the Mets to move to ESPN (which carries the Jets), partially because the breakdown tends to be Giants/Yankees and Jets/Mets, and partially because it would consolidate the stations' respective identities as Humorless Old Know-It-Alls Telling You What's What and Brainless Bros Tweeting About Who's "Next."

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It was one of the stories that I read right after it was revealed that ESPN Radio was relocating from AM to FM in the New York area. ESPN Radio's New York ratings haven't been all that great, but the book is that their signal wasn't all that great either. Their supposed interest in the Yankees or Mets' radio rights might be considered a big splash for them, coinciding with their move to FM there.

This is the understatement of the year. There are places in North Jersey from which you can see the Manhattan skyline and not get 1050.

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For the record, Dave, 1050 AM was where ESPN Radio's New York outlet was located before relocating to 98.7 FM about 2 months ago. ESPN Deportes, which can be found at 97.5 FM here, is taking over the 1050 AM frequency in NY this fall.

It does make more sense for the Yankees to be on the Fan. It'd be pretty weird if the Yankee flagship were on the FM dial.

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Not necessarily, CH. A handful of pro sports teams have made the switch to the FM side in recent years, not just in Major League Baseball. The SCORE's big voice guy did a promo going to a commercial break in which White Sox fans can actually listen to the games in FM quality sound by getting an HD radio and tuning into 104.3 HD2.

It wasn't that long ago that the Bulls were on The SCORE's FM sister station, the former 105.9 WCKG for 1 season. That was before the Bulls went back to ESPN Radio 1000 and will continue to carry their broadcasts for many years to come.

The Bulls on FM came well before 105.9 "Fresh"-ened their music format, but didn't get good enough ratings. 105.9 FM these days now simulcasts WBBM Newsradio 780 AM's long running all-news format, including Bears' football. For those that didn't tune into Bear games on 105.9 FM last year, you'll be surprised how much better it sounded.

Yeah, but nobody has HD radio, so nobody cares.

We're talking about the New York Yankees, though. Call me old-fashioned, but the biggest sports team in America should be on a 50,000-watt clear channel.

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The Yankees already have quite a TV deal with YES Network, CH. I'm not sure what WCBS-AM pays to carry their broadcasts, let alone what ESPN Radio New York is offering to wrestle their broadcast rights away after this season.

Mike & Mike being in the top 10 of that list immediately destroys it's credibility.

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They're not that great. Besides, Mike Golic's still fat.

What does Golic being fat have to do with anything?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Nothing...He's annoying, whether he's on radio or TV.

Bingo.

And Francesca #1? Good God, that Sunday morning dose on the Score is bad enough. I couldn't imagine that on a daily basis.

Kiley and Booms are back together? Did not know that.

And that list certainly reinforces what Mac says about the looks of sports yakkers. Wow.