Teddy G, I hope this is really you, otherwise I'll look more foolish than usual by chatting with you.
I don't think the perceived conflict of interest has anything to do with the pay at all.
Korny, Mariotti, Chad, these guys are not media critics.
If the media's ethical line has blurred over the last 5-10 years a guy like you should maybe help define the line by saying no when something like this pops up. Be an ethical guidepost.
This was at best, fuzzy journalistic ethics (in my opinion) and although no express rules were broken, I would have expected that you would turn down this offer so that at the very least you wouldn't have to hear the inevitable North rant.
All that being said, welcome to the board.

. Let's just hope "Score is Doomed" doesn't offer his two cents.

I liked your reference to CSFMB in an article a couple years ago about MJH. Don't be a stranger.

This place is becoming quite trendy in the media world. Any chance Kenny Williams comes on here to post?

I strive to be fair to the people I write about – too bad Mike North didn't extend the same courtesy to me – and will continue to do that.

Hater.

I'll be watching you Mister.

Hater.

I'll be watching you Mister.

... so I don't think guest-hosting is all that different from being a guest on MJ&H. I do that every few weeks during college football season.

After he had already begun reviewing movies, Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay for a film called "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." Did this foray into the industry he criticized impair his objectivity? I don't know, but apparently the people who later voted him the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism and all his fans who've made him probably the world's most prominent film critic didn't seem to think so. Sometimes critics dabble in the very field they criticize. It's not unheard of.

What's up, fellas? Teddy G here. This is my first post. Hopefully you won't ask me to see my ID.

I enjoyed reading your comments – especially the one that had me showing up to Drew Peterson's pool party in a bikini – and thought I might as well respond.

I agreed to do the MJ&H show – after my editors approved it – because: 1) I thought it would be fun; 2) As someone who comments on and sometimes criticizes sports-radio talk-show hosts, I wanted to understand what it's like to do a four-hour show; 3) I wanted to see if I would be up for the challenge. Or if I would suck.

Was it a conflict of interest? Well, the $300 I would have made is going to the McCormick Tribune Foundation, so I don't think guest-hosting is all that different from being a guest on MJ&H. I do that every few weeks during college football season.

And I think the media's ethical line has blurred in the last 5-10 years. Some of my sportswriter colleagues – Trib and Sun-Times – either host shows or are paid contributors for Chicago radio stations. They don't cover sports media like I do, but they could be influenced by how they report a story that's broken by the Score or ESPN 1000.

Tons of writers – Mariotti, Kornheiser, Norm Chad – now work for ESPN and sometimes write about the network.

In my case, I wrote a year ago that MJ&H is my favorite show in town. But I've also dinged them over the dumb suspensions. I strive to be fair to the people I write about – too bad Mike North didn't extend the same courtesy to me – and will continue to do that.

Thanks for caring enough to make all those comments.

Teddy G

What you all need to remember too is, he used the guest co-host spot for a story. What I wonder is if he got paid for it, which he shouldn't have accepted. What he should consider doing is donating whatever ESPN1000 paid him (if they did) and donate it to charity. That would clear any sense of conflict.

Was it a conflict of interest? Well, the $300 I would have made is going to the McCormick Tribune Foundation, so I don't think guest-hosting is all that different from being a guest on MJ&H. I do that every few weeks during college football season.