Frontman wrote:
sinicalypse wrote:
he had a way of making callers feel genuinely welcome and a valued part of the show.
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.)
welp, perhaps i'm guilty of looking back on Murph with rosy-colored-glasses as my mind is geared to remember the positive stuff as opposed to the negative stuff. when I called I tended to go with baseball stuff outside of the Cubs vs Sox bubble, so I probably didn't groove one to his wheelhouse of dickheadedness to garner the type of reaction that you talked about. I tend to remember him licking caller ass, but then again, if he was striking down EVIL SOX FANS(tm) trying to promote his Cubs agenda, I reckon he would champion people like me who made him look smarter by osmosis.
The most goofy thing I remember him shoehorning into conversation a bunch was, indeed, the deification of the 60s-80s Cubs experience. the 69 cubs are the epitome of legend for murph, as he's described on numerous occasions his visions of the 69 cubs in the shower sudsing up and getting all sudsy in the shower (the man has suds on his mind, whether he's in chicago with us or with brenly in san fran). But hey, if you were a legitimate "bleacher bum" and a part of the culture during that part of your life to the extent that your identity as a sports fan is defined by the experience, aren't you gonna talk it up like it's the greatest thing ever? I doubt anyone who willingly spent every day being a part of the old "cubbie thing" is gonna turn around and say that the franchise was a joke and the fans were pieces of shit once he's validated with 50k watts behind him.
Anyways, it's time for all this bullshit to end as it's time to
SHAKE THAT.
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Curious Hair wrote:
Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?