You should call in and tell him that he doesnt know the NBA

That doesn't sound very worthwhile. But it's pretty clear that he doesn't if you listen to the show and know even a bit about the league.

Just heard him call Rick Carlisle a replacement level coach.

You're a pretty knowledgeable and well spoken guy but he will make you out to sound like Evergreen Park Jeremy. #OhMyGod

yeah that's a dipshit opinion. Probably doesn't help that he frequently abuses the meaning of 'replacement-level'

Anyway, Dan was bragging today about how many doctors he knows.

It's time we start talking about Post-Peak Bernstein.

I like advanced stats, but I can't get on board with unwavering fealty to a statistic that relies on comparing real players to fictitious ones. I only care about comparing players to other players.

The concept of a "replacement player" is fine, but dan doesn't seem to grasp that it's simply a term meaning "baseline". He acts as if the "replacement player" represents actual people, as if, when a team has a guy playing short who has a negative WAR, they can simply reach into AAA and call up a "replacement level player" and do better than the guy they have.

based on the podcast descriptions, the show sure seemed '85-Bears heavy...

Was it for.the.sponsors. or something? This used to be the kind of show who'd giggle at those drunken reunions, not spend so much time on maudlin nostalgia.

Big time '85 Bears love from Bernstein during the first part of the show yesterday.

So much and obviously over the top that there must have been a sponsor/money issue at the core.

Bernstein told stories about begging his mom to go to Jewels, etc. to get all the freebies back in the day. Looking at the The Black and Blues Brothers poster on his wall every morning when he woke up, etc., etc...

He told the same great stories that happy die hard Bears fans have told for decades.

You know, the same ones he has been ridiculing for years on the air.

The new suit at the top must have been listening a bit closer yesterday?

what was funny to me is dan uses the WAR term replacement level for everything.. yet the one time a caller asked if you add up a teams war shouldnt that equal their win total and Dan basically said he didnt know how WAR was calculated....

Big time '85 Bears love from Bernstein during the first part of the show yesterday.

So much and obviously over the top that there must have been a sponsor/money issue at the core.

Bernstein told stories about begging his mom to go to Jewels, etc. to get all the freebies back in the day. Looking at the The Black and Blues Brothers poster on his wall every morning when he woke up, etc., etc...

He told the same great stories that happy die hard Bears fans have told for decades.

You know, the same ones he has been ridiculing for years on the air.

The new suit at the top must have been listening a bit closer yesterday?

That really highlights Dan's specious knowledge of advanced metrics (I doubt he actually knows what variance is, much less how it is calculated). It's SABR 101 to know that the "Wins" in "Wins Above Replacement player" or "runs" in "Value Over Replacement Player" aren't equated 1:1 with extra wins in the column, or overall, "real" runs scored.

Hell, even "replacement player" doesn't equate with zero runs or wins. A team comprised entirely of replacement level players would still win games, they would simply be, overall, exceptionally, historically bad.