I don't think it's a Chicago/St.Louis thing with him. He shits on everyone that is doing good or having fun, UNLESS doing the opposite will piss off his most reviled group - Chicago sports fans. I get a sense that Dan would love nothing more than to shit down the throats of every Chicagoan and do it while mocking them with that Chicago meatball impersonation. He hates everyone equally.

Dan is your typical Chicago "inferior" man who has to lash out at every city in the Midwest because it is not Chicago and thinks Chicago is on par with L.A. and New York, which it is a far cry and people there don't even give a thought about Chicago because they have no inferior complex.

I do admit to liking him bash the meatballs for I have season tickets to the Bears game and nothing shows your manhood like getting in a fight at a Bears home game with another grown man wearing an opposing teams jersey.

Boilermaker nicely put and agreed! But Dan has such an inferiority complex about Chicago always talking about "big city media," and always calls it world class, etc. I have lived in New York for 10 years, outside of tall buildings, there is nothing similar to New York. It is simply 3 times the size of Chicago and one of 3 mega cities in the world. Chicago is a big Midwestern town, which I love and love the sports teams and glad to be back home. Sorry, back on subject.

I got a Hub Arkush-level chuckle out of Dan talking about how sports radio hosting is about more than just picking something that you know people enjoy and criticizing it just to get phone calls.

I don't think it's a Chicago/St.Louis thing with him. He shits on everyone that is doing good or having fun, UNLESS doing the opposite will piss off his most reviled group - Chicago sports fans. I get a sense that Dan would love nothing more than to shit down the throats of every Chicagoan and do it while mocking them with that Chicago meatball impersonation. He hates everyone equally.

The "Jeter baby" stuff between Terry and Dan was classic.

We need more pics of his wife.

We need more pics of his wife.

I have never equated NY and Chicago. The sheer scale of NY is a huge difference. Manhattan is extremly unqiue- large, alive, packed with businesses and neighborhoods, Central Park, a noticeable lack of chain restaurants, food carts everywhere, narrow roads, bustling sidewalks, crazy traffic and always noisy. The five burroughs have no equal in Chicago. It seems like every bar has an Irish accented bartender. i could go on much longer.

New Yorkers talk down about Chicago, like yeah it's cute in a younger sibling type of way. Also many have never even been to Chicago.

Boilermaker nicely put and agreed! But Dan has such an inferiority complex about Chicago always talking about "big city media," and always calls it world class, etc. I have lived in New York for 10 years, outside of tall buildings, there is nothing similar to New York. It is simply 3 times the size of Chicago and one of 3 mega cities in the world. Chicago is a big Midwestern town, which I love and love the sports teams and glad to be back home. Sorry, back on subject.

What got me going is calling Cardinal fans racist. When losing an argument or feeling inferior that card is always used.

I do admit to liking him bash the meatballs for I have season tickets to the Bears game and nothing shows your manhood like getting in a fight at a Bears home game with another grown man wearing an opposing teams jersey.

been to Times Square lately

and the five burroughs are really living off the reputation of about half of one from what I can tell

Chicago is a world class city in just about any way you would define the phrase (business, arts, advanced education, culinary, technology, really the one area Chicago is lacking is fashion ). New York is bigger and much more well known. I don't see how that detracts from Chicago.

really the one area Chicago is lacking is fashion

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Chicago also lacks in must visit attractions. When you tell someone they should visit New York, or London, or Paris you can name at least 3 or 4 must visit iconic attractions. It's harder to do for Chicago. That was probably the biggest failing of the planning of Chicago though they seem to be doing a good job of trying to make up for it.

As I said, most people I know out here talk very highly of Chicago after a visit. In many ways, Chicago is superior to New York. There are ways it falls short though, but outside of a few cities in the whole world every city does.

Staten Island and the Bronx live off the reputation of the others.

That what kind of my point. New York, London and Paris are like mega star cities of the world with only a few other cities like Rome and Hong Kong in that group. It doesn't detract from Chicago that it is not New York.

I agree that there is nothing here that is a must see for the average schmuck. There is no Coliseum or Arc d'Triumph that every minimally educated person around the world knows about. It is no coincidence that Chicago is comparatively young to almost any other big city in the world. There are no "George Washington slept here" sites because there was no Chicago.

Actually, Dan goes on a lot about how Chicago is nothing compared to New York.

He's said that Chicago pizza is a fraud and New York pizza is the only true pizza, and then there was that Susannah Collins interview where he had to demonstrate his familiarity with every nook and cranny of bourgeois Brooklyn.