My buddy coaches a LL baseball team. No kids on the team are related to him. His fiancee's son is on the squad. Need a ruling. Am I in the wrong for attending two playoff games last year to support said friend? They were damn good games. Side note: I drove my car and left the windowless van at home.

The emails that BernSTINE receives are all too perfectly timed, dovetail too perfectly with the narrative/talking point(s)...you get the picture. It's like these "totally random" emailers know the show topics before they are even brought up.....it's like they are in BernSTINE's head.

Really strange.

There's a huge difference between live music and mp3s. And there are very few bands that I'd say I "loved" that played in my time that I haven't seen play.

We lose a lot of rights when we look the other way when it doesn't affect our lives or it isn't a cause we agree with.

I usually like JORR's stuff, but I really don't know where he's going with this argument. By your logic, I have to shell out a few hundred dollars to prove that I love a sport by attending a game? I love NFL football. I have no use for any other form of football, be it HS, college, pee wee, etcetera.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

Thanks?

McNeil: big fan. Abandoned the team years ago, which was hard, but that championship back in '10 really brought him back. Big Chief MacHawk. Good thing we have a guy like this steering the ship of one of our talk shows! What a fan.

His favorite team gets back to the Finals. He is doing a remote broadcast LITERALLY down the street from the stadium. A stadium he surely could have gotten into. He's a HUGE fan, not a poser, so surely he did what ANY fan (in that situation) would do and went to the game. I mean what an opportunity! No brainer. I mean, he used to have to settle for nosebleed seats in the rafters back when was screaming at Bannerman....now, he is right down the street with the ability to pull a press pass/sit in someone's suite based on his "status". Wait, what's that? He drove home to Indiana? Watched the game at home? Wait, this guy's a real fan. Surely with the circumstances he found himself in, he chose not to battle the potentially awful road conditions to.....wait, he did? He drove home. But he's a huge fan. Big Chief MacHawk. Is this thing on?

I may have it wrong but as I understand Mac never stopped loving or keeping an eye on the Hawks during his down period. He simply refused to go and put up with the crap that they were. In other words, he wasn't a Cubs fan.

rpb is wrong. Phil McCracken is useful.

RPB is right. You suck.

I may have it wrong but as I understand Mac never stopped loving or keeping an eye on the Hawks during his down period. He simply refused to go and put up with the crap that they were. In other words, he wasn't a Cubs fan.

Ricketts wishes that were still the case. Have you seen the attendance for Cubs games this year? Not good.

I'm sure they have seen teams they "love" play live before. What's your point? Do you go see bands you like every single time they are somewhere in the area?

I usually like JORR's stuff, but I really don't know where he's going with this argument. By your logic, I have to shell out a few hundred dollars to prove that I love a sport by attending a game? I love NFL football. I have no use for any other form of football, be it HS, college, pee wee, etcetera.

You don't have to prove anything. But isn't that post right there an admission that you are a fan of watching football on TV rather than actually being a fan of football? I don't care what you like. It's not my business nor my concern. My point is simply that there is a difference.

You don't have to prove anything. But isn't that post right there an admission that you are a fan of watching football on TV rather than actually being a fan of football? I don't care what you like. It's not my business nor my concern. My point is simply that there is a difference.

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The point is most of them never see an NFL game. Liking football and liking TV aren't the same thing. That isn't a controversial stance, is it?

It isn't?

Of course it isn't.

Really?

I mean, it's the same game right? QB throwin' the ball, RB runnin' da ball....possibly a TE catching the ball, TD's count for 6, right?

Possibly you mean the experience is different?

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

I could argue that we are fans of the sport, and you are a fan of the event, much like the bleacher bums at Wrigley.

You could argue that, but you would be wrong. I'm not really a fan of football at all.

Yes it is.

When this is all over, which is not going to be for a while, Trump will be re-elected President.

Let me ask this, if someone really was a fan of football, why would he or she find sitting in Wilmette watching St. Rita and Loyola go at it distasteful?

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

Those emails are real. These are individuals who believe they are smarter than most people. And they feel a need to be heard because, damnit, what they think is fresh and original! They are likely over-educated for whatever current job they have (like Beerstain). You know, guys who like to tell people they read and enjoy James Joyce. They see Dan as a figurehead for the "smart" sports fan. All of the Bernstein parrots follow each other Twiiter. It's a club of sports misanthropes. You jerk me off, I'll give you a hand job. They watch sports but you get the sense there is no real enjoyment. So, they parrot what Dan says, or might say, and is it really hard to figure what his take on an issue might be if you have been listening regularly? Email or tweet is read on air, validation received, circle jerk continues.

Because they enjoy watching world class athletes.