Why the hell does Murph go so ape-shit when someone says DOT COM!?? Is there an inside joke I'm missing or is he just being an idiot?? Either way it's incredibly annoying which isn't good for a host whose annoying factor is already off the charts.


if this matter has already been discussed then I just apologi.

I always kinda wondered about that too. And how he preempts George with the DOT COM DOT COM before he can finish. If I were George I'd punch his lights out.

Does he not like the Internet ?

I think it's just another example in the long list of Murph trying to be cute and funny. Too bad as always it ends up coming across as annoying and creepy.

I think it fits in perfectly with (s)Murf's projection of a "bleacher bum" persona. He celebrates his ignorance of the internet the same way he holds "Never been in a locker room or had a press pass" as a badge of honor.

He wants to identify with his perception of the "Cubbie blue" core audience and making fun (even if it's self deprecating) of anything technically incomprehensible puts him in lock step with the "blue collar, hard working, not terribly bright" stereotype.

Which is smart on his part. He may piss off his co-workers and say stupid crap like "face to face over the phone," but he knows you have to play a role, so to speak, in sports talk radio. Or he can whisper about how revolutionary it is to take phone calls. Y'know. Either/or.

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Having spent this summer dabbling in the wonderful world of sports radio, doing remotes and live events, in addition to what I've heard on 670 in the past, I don't think Murph's schtick is exactly falling on deaf ears, if you catch my drift. Your average sports talk listener doesn't want to be talked down to by what they see as "some smart-ass college kid." You can only talk down to the regular schmucks that listen to sports talk for so long before you alienate them.

We're not representative of Mike Murphy's daily audience. We're not representative of anybody's audience. We're not exactly atop the ivory tower that the hosts themselves are in, but maybe we're just kinda hanging around the lobby. We're a hundredsome people who are clearly too invested in a comparatively underperforming subsection of the Chicago radio industry for one reason or another, whether it's an interest in pursuing a career in sports radio, a fanatical obsession with Terry Boers, or something in between.

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Lots of us a very hard-core, I agree. Of the Score's hosts, Murph has, in my opinion, the most "general-appeal". Which is why I thought his getting the drive-in shift a few years ago to be the best use of his talent.

The flip side is, Murph gets very wound up when under time constraints. In the morning show, he had to "hit" the windows for the traffic & news updates. That works against him.

He basically has his segments timed out for a 4-hour show. The 2-hour show works against him because he tries to run all the same segments. Instead of the comfortable leisurely pace, everything feels rushed. He's sort of like a character actor who has his lines memorized (and your's too, so he knows when your lines end) -- if you don't follow the script directly, you throw him off. And of course, some character actors know how their characters would "really" say something, and ad lib the actual dialog. Naturally, these two groups of actors don't work well together...

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