JUST. SEND. MONEY.

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Why do you hate dogs and ponies?

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When my WWII veteran Grandfather passed away last June, there was a gun salute and enlisted men that folded the flag....

Those old guys (and two younger guys) were honoring my Grandfather and his service...just like the honor guard on Saturday night.

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@audioidkid

Much of life is a dog and pony show.

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My Dad was a marine and received the same honors at his funeral. Fuck Bernstein and his narrow minded views. I liked him a lot more before Twitter let me hear his real thoughts.

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I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. - Bill Hicks

Let's do it for Johnny!

When my purple heart, bronze star awarded WWII vet grandfather died in 1983, a couple of his VFW mates came out and folded the flag, they messed up and the stripes came out on the outside. So my uncle and I folded it the right way. But that's neither here nor there....

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Mine did too.

Fuck BernSTINE and fuck Twitter.

Pretty fuckin lame by Bernstein.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Sadly, it's par for the course.

BernSTINE is just a big lame.

More and more I am drifting towards not having any interest in listening to the show because of him ... I frankly don't listen very often now ... doubt I'm the only one ... Chunga might want to take note of a potential movement of people starting to revile Dan enough to NOT want to listen at all as opposed to listening to hate on him ... that's X-Pac type heat kids, and it doesn't sell airtime very well.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Same thing at my grandfather's funeral three months ago. Though the two young servicemen failed 3-4 times at the flag folding before they got it right. I had to stifle a chuckle after the third failed attempt.

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The people-meters that show fans clamoring for more hockey talk would certainly have picked up some mass exodus of B&B listeners.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I never feel bad for laughing, but ending that with NHNT made me

It's true, unfortunately.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

One of my favorite Jerry Lawler lines ever

You gotta get in line to hate that guy

But it's moving past hate .... it's steadily crusing towards "I'm just done with this" and walking away to anything else, even nothing, just as long as it's not that show.

He's not special. He's just a guy.

Problem is that far, far, FAR too often he pontificates ex cathedra and it just turns me completely off.

He's a 'know-it-all' contrarion that, imo, is becoming far too proficient in creating 'fuck-it-all' alienated listeners who will, in time, find their entertainment elsewhere.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Id still take him over X pac

You'd rather see a Dan Bernstein sex tape with Chyna?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

No, X Pac and Boers

One word: Velcro.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I feel the same was as Don Tiny. I'm not on Twitter, but see his posts here and it changed my thoughts on him from an annoying but entertaining radio host, to a complete dickhead and arrogant douchebag. Causes me to listen less and less.

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Bernstein: This Is Why You’re A Fan
June 25, 2013 11:50 AM





(CBS) Feels pretty good, doesn’t it?

This is the quiet time, the simple satisfaction of having invested emotion in a big-league, professional sports franchise that has won the title. The raucous celebration of last night has ebbed, thunderstorms across the area are acting as natural street-sweepers to clean up messes left by the kids in Wrigleyville, and raspy-voiced Blackhawks are still doing bleary interviews.

The dumbest people among us are clogging local sporting-goods stores looking for cheaply-made hats and shirts to validate their connection to victory, while the rest are content to revel in the kind of contentedness that comes with waking up knowing your team was the successful one.

Take note of this fleeting emotional oasis, appreciate it, and understand that this – right now — is the real payoff.

It will evaporate by the time the organized civic celebrations ensue, swallowed up in a whirl of TV live-shots, tribute songs, double-decker buses and choppers overhead. Commemorative newspaper sections, hastily-prepared glossy magazines and video retrospectives will grab for your disposable income, effectively making you picture the look on your kid’s face when you snag one in the checkout line on the way home from work.

Nothing replaces or approximates this — the unshared time when the feeling is all yours, not diffused over block after block of red sweaters, not beamed to every last outpost, not yet entirely commoditized, packaged and sold.


We set the bar higher as fans and observers because of how special these hours become.

Those who settle for less than titles and claim to be perfectly happy with a “good” year of regular-season winning or a mere playoff appearance will never connect with the perfect completeness of one’s team finishing off a run to an ultimate prize. Such failed seasons have to be acknowledged for championships to retain their significance.

There will be plenty of time for more parties, as the perfunctory rituals are performed. The trophy will tour in a spray of cheap sparkling wine, its quirky journey documented from the Canadian plains to the fjords. A banner is being produced as we speak, to be unfurled next season just before it all begins anew.

Don’t let this brief time pass without really savoring it and banking it away somewhere. It’s far more important than whatever plastic baubles that will soon be gathering dust or clothing that will soon fade, and be relegated unwittingly over time to the back of a drawer.

Right now. This is the point of all the caring.

You live with the little joys and nagging doubts over months and years, perhaps not knowing, remembering or questioning why or when it began to matter in the first place. Those pieces of heart and head devoted unconditionally, sometimes against your better judgment.

Allegiance to a pro sports team does allow for important social connection to a larger whole, both in the arena itself and beyond, across generations. That creation of community is real, and not to be diminished.

But there will ample opportunity for celebration on that scale. Plenty of it. Enough of it, truth be told.

Make sure you carve out just enough of this rare chance to make part of it always belong to you, alone.

Now you are an idiot if you buy any championship gear??

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Bernstein: This Is Why You’re A Fan
Those who settle for less than titles and claim to be perfectly happy with a “good” year of regular-season winning or a mere playoff appearance will never connect with the perfect completeness of one’s team finishing off a run to an ultimate prize. Such failed seasons have to be acknowledged for championships to retain their significance.

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I'm on board with this. Must feel great to be a Hawks fan today.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

So the dumbest are confined to buying hats and t-shirts, but the upper class, five foot AND A HALF, among us are allowed to buy glossy magazines. Got it.

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An actually decent piece from Dan, but of course he can't pen anything without a potshot at hockey fans.

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He did say cheaply made shirts and hats. I don't know if it applies to cheap quality jerseys.

But yeah; he's a douche extraordinairre.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

he purposely used the phrase sparkling wine to:

1) let you know he understands the technical difference of what constitutues champagne
2) mock the world that drinks anything but that grown in a specific region in France

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Why does Bernstein care so much about how sports fans enjoy and celebrate victory?

He's the Miss Manners of sports talk radio.

Do what makes you happy, Hawk fans.

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by the way, anyone buying shirts/hats should wait about three weeks when they will practically be giving away stuff they are now selling for exorbitant prices

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.