Finally, made it to 10,000(ish) posts. Where do I start? Let me just say that I lurked on the board for over a year before signing up. There were many characters here typing something funny on a regular basis. Maybe a percentage of it was one person having a conversation with themselves. I mean, who would do such a thing, amirite? Anyways, it appeared to be a place of very passionate individuals bringing the fire on a daily basis.
I remember the night the White Sox won the World Series. Was listening to the Score and their celebration coverage with John Cangelosi uncomfortably introducing himself to every guest they had on the show. Seeing the real-time reaction here on the board was a really cool moment.
So I decided to make my own username and start posting the next spring. About something real important like preset stations on car radios. I took my pounding at first and the allegations of who I was really and the misconstrued way sarcasm comes across a keyboard. This was back in the golden age of guest posting, before the litigation started hitting the moderator’s digital doorstep. I am assuming there was some of this already with score670 branding and CBS’, err, Infinity Broadcasting lawyers talking about intellectual property and whatnot.
I can’t pinpoint in which order these events happened, but they did happen. OG’s family posting on the board defending him, Pappy and his cast of flim-flammers demanding apologies from board members, and Dan and Terry saying, “Penisbreath AKA Anusface” on the air. Them were good times!! I was also in the garage that Friday afternoon Telander quit on-air. I dropped the unlit cigarette out of my mouth in shock. J Hood should be on a daypart shift on one of these stations. Yes, he could not carry Mully and Uncle Fuzzy! Not his fault!
Also recall when Murph was on at night as my personal lead in for the Jim Rome Show tape delay on AM1000. I may be jumping back in time, but like I said, it did happen. Like when Pappy turned down 800 large in a contract dispute. Yes, it was a 50% haircut, I wish my hair was long enough to get cut like that. A few months later Danny Mac got clipped from AM1000, that was a shocker because I didn’t understand the business of sending someone home while paying them. That was the day it was time to hang the black bunting and roll in the funeral makeup for the station. I understand there are talented people there and bill more money than the bank has every year. They turned themselves into the Chicago Wolves overnight.
MJH was the show I first got to meet some of the board peeps. It was Manniversary 2007 at Balmoral. I won Dr. Ken’s contest Part III since Killer V was welcoming a Little V into the world. I had to go on a drug induced posting stream of consciousness to make that all important one thousand posts. I tried to look it up, but there is no Voice Of Hockey section anymore. (Fucking censorship!!) I will always recall Ben Gordon being the highest scoring Bull and the Sox making a late inning comeback to secure my winning the deal.
I got to meet so many people that day at Balmoral. Golfing with Dr. Ken, NSJ, and some former sales guy from AM1000. MUScholar was there, I’m surprised his ears didn’t blow him away in the wind that day. Hawkeye was jonesing to place a wager at the window. He was waiting for the live races and I told him they are simulcasts from the tracks on the east coast. I had a ticket from the last race that was just a margin over break even after playing one across the board. He grabbed the handicapping sheet and started drawing all over it like it was a treasure map. After all the scribbling, circling, and crossing out, the horse he picks is 10-1. Cool, I put 5 to win. By the time the field hit the gate, our horse was 22-1. The horse wins and he hit it about 15 different ways on the first race he bet. Back at the window, when he cashed out, the supervisor had to be called over and I just kept repeating, “What did you do?” The cashier’s arm was tired by the end of the time all his tickets were paidout. You’ll have to ask him how much it really was.
Later that summer, meeting GridIron Assassin, Spaulding, CoastToCoast, Woodridge Ryan, and the “mystery girl” at Shoeless Joe’s. Seeing drinky and Sir Shake That show up after the broadcast really broke the fourth wall, if there is such a thing in radio. Yeah, I was really fat back then looking quite beefy in the now famous picture. It has been really great meeting so many people off of the board and putting faces to a name(or names
) on a screen. Has it made the board more soft with all the IRL interaction? Of course it has. Did I just answer my own question? Of course I did. There are at least 50, if not many more board peeps I’ve gotten to meet at the various events, remotes, concerts, golf outings, gas stations, etc. I’m glad to have met almost half of you! The other half… not so much. What I am more looking forward to are the events that lay ahead in the future. Both tenants of the United Center are playoff bound, another season of Chicago baseball is near, the next Season of Game Of Thrones this week, DarksideFest is only 4 months away, and the Bears eyeing another SuperBowl run to closeout the calendar year. So while this has been a brief glimpse of reflection, let us be thankful for what we have in store for all of us Chicago Sports Fans. And Free Ajent now posts as
I know I have left so much out of this message board story. This is only my perspective of the accounts, descriptions, and pictures of just what the hell has happened here for the last nearly ten years. In parting, I ask two things. Please leave your own recollections of highlights or lowlights of the board since you have joined. And go read my HOF speech, it was pretty awesome. GOOD NIGHT NOW!
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Tl;dr things happened, no I’m not quitting the board.
