Murph knew the ins and outs of baseball better than any other radio guy I can think of.

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He also pushed in through the out doors, if you catch my drift.
Hommina hommina hommina!

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Agreed, although one could argue that part of their appeal was they were only on the air for 2 hours. A full shift of Murph's shtick would have worn quickly.

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Used to listen to Murph every day at work. It was fine for background noise, and I enjoyed "Tool of the Week".

His callers were awful. Mostly because the same 10 guys would call back 2 hours later and get torn apart by B&B.


The worst audio he had was easily, "AND ED LYNCH IS STILL ON THE CUBS PAYROLL".

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Steve from Elmhurst used to call his show, too?

Murphy was a douche, but his show was pretty good...almost all sports(which I like) lotta cubs and MLB.

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and yeah, i genuinely miss murph on the score. say what you will about the guy (and you're probably right) but his show had a place on the score, IMHO. for better or worse, he was the antithesis of the bernsteinian model of berating and belittling callers who aren't in/applying-for your ALS... he had a way of making callers feel genuinely welcome and a valued part of the show.

also, again say what you will about the guy, but he bled cubbie blue. he didn't have some sort of a fandom complex where he had to prove himself to be a transcendental figure relative to the "meatball" entrapment of being a mouthbreathing shirtless-driving pantsless cretin of a fan.

and that's F-A-I-L...

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Murphy> Larry and Mully ..and it is not even close.

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Murph was great. He had the highest rated show on the Score. I liked his show because it had an old time nostalgic feel to it, & Murph was always prepared. He had all the bits & drops. I loved it. The Score lineup from that era was better top to bottom than todays lineup...& it isn't close.

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Murph's voice was the worst, but he had a good show. When ESPN wasn't having anything worthwhile on, I'd listen to him.

Anyone recall Chef Andre?

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I completely disagree. Fred was a yes man through and through. He was Steve Lawrence from the SNL skit The Sinatra Group with his "that's right". He would rarely inject Sox talk and rarely critique Murph's Cubs thoughts...and that is how Fred survived for nearly a decade in the morning through several show changes.

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Fred killed the career of anyone he worked with. Dude was brutal.

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I liked Fred,thought he was funny and a good host. Murph when he got angry at the Cubs was must listen radio BUT his gimmick stuff (Swami Murph) sucked!

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Speaking of multiple intelligences, Murph had baseball intelligence (but little else). Murph knew more about baseball than Bernstein will ever know. Why? Because he watched the actual games for like 50 years straight. When he wanted to talk stats, he spoke to John Dewan, who was an expert on stats. Murph didn't pretend to be an expert on stats.

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I wonder why they don't rely on Dewan as an expert anymore. Baseball relies on his company (he may have sold it). Why wouldn't the statheads at the station go directly to the source?

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completely disagree with your disagreement. He interjected Sox talk all the time and was a perfect counterbalance to Murph. The decision to have Murph go solo was when the wheels came off.

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Obviously its a personal preference thing but I think Murphy is waaaay out in front of Silvy in the annoying voice club. North too.

I'll completely agree with that too.

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Whatever do you mean? He had the morning shift for 4 hours before forced to compress the show to 2 hours for the mid-day shift. Plus his early-evening shifts would go up to 4 hours (depends how old-school you are: old 820am was on a dawn-to-dusk schedule)

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What I meant to say was I enjoyed Murph & Fred when their show was reduced to 2 hours. A little Murph goes a long way.

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I liked Murph best in the night slot. While out driving around on errands or whatever he was a good listen.

So did he lose his part-time gig on 1000? I never listen to that station.

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Except of course, if you disagreed with his point of view, which then he would insult you, call you a Sox fan, then continually talk over you until you hung cup. Then it would be "Let the record show...." line.

Murph was far too Cubs focused, and far too much about "back in the day of the bleacher bums." Tribune/Cubs wanted to GET AWAY from that era, because that was a time the Cubs were a laughing stock of all of sports. (That's also why I think WGN/Ricketts never hired him to be involved with Cubs broadcasting, as while it is a part of the team's history, Murph triumphs that era as it was something great, versus what it was.)

I will give credit where credit is due, Murph knows more about baseball than a lot of guys do. And when he was partnered with Fred (both at WSCR and that short bit at ESPN) it was a solid show, as Fred had a way of keeping the show moving forward.

But just being reminded of his schitck of soundrops and such makes me think Larry's show is pretty much Murph's, just with subbing in comic books for Cubs.

He was very sensitive regarding being called a Cubs shill. (North early on was pegged as the Sox shill.)

The thing about Murph was, he had appeal to the casual sports fan. While he had Dewan, he himself was not a stats guy - he was more interested in any insight the numbers might bring than the obsessing over the numeric minutia.

The reality is, this made him a terrific weekend talent, who also fit into the 6pm weekday slot very well.

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Murph drove me nuts. And apparently is quite a penis in real life. That being said I would take his show over Larry Holmes or M&H any day of the week.

yar

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Agreed...it was the equivalent to Doug and OB after a Bears' loss.

I think Murph was best suited to the weekend and evening slots, where he wouldn't have to contantly stop for traffic and weather updates, and where he could respond to games that had just been played.

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