It would appear that I find myself with considerably less incentive - aside from rote habit leading me there on occasion - to consume The Score in its entirety.

If it's not poorly thought-out opinoins to flat out fiat-like proclamations I'm generally at a loss for anything that remotely resembles interesting or entertaining radio.

To be sure, all good things must come to an end, but this end is being artificially hastened by a complete lack of good sense from far too many sources, a number of them that should definitely know better and either have succumbed to personal hubris or professional apathy.

It's too bad ... for everyone ... doubly so because it really shouldn't be as such.

(PS - keep the 'listen to ESPN' crap out of here .... they don't have anything remotely like what I'm looking for, which they never had in the first place)

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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 give them half a douchebag. Maybe just the nozzle part. They are too complacent. Could be so much more fun.

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

The problem with the Score is that everyone wants to be the smartest guy in room. "It's not cool unless I say it is".

That being said, radio talk in a other cities is awful.

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Ahhh,for the days of Bob Collins Monday morning interviews with Mike Ditka.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Each show has a major flaw.

Mully is just a complete ass and is unlikeable.

Meat, pretty much ditto.

Berns has jumped the shark and is a caricature of his old self.

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

Those days flew the coop a long time ago.

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I'd say that era crashed and burned.

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The Bob Collins Memorial Fly-In Breakfast

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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

"Hows 'bout you,darlin?"


I hated Bob Collins with a passion. I thought he was a 3 dollar bill phony. It was interesting when he died,I don't remember a lot of "miss him" quotes from WGN.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

It's weird, I really don't listen anymore. I'm consuming a lot of podcasts and Sirius/Stern. And with the ability to FF through commercials, trying to sit through the commercials while listening to sports radio live is unbearable. And none of the sports radio shows have enough interesting content to make me regularly check in on their podcasts.

The only time I really listen to any sports radio these days is if someone on here posts something that sounds really interesting (recently, the Boston/Meatpants debacle).


My sports radio obsession has completely died.

Yeah, it sucks because it's been such a major part of my life since I was 18.

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Radio or something else?

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

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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

Exactly. Thus is why I was really Hoping that Mitch would take the WGN radio position and a new PD would make the tough decisions that need to be made to improve WSCR and to once again be the voice of the fan.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

On Monday I had lunch at the Third Rail and Drinky was there doing scoreboard updates. There was one other non-Score employee patron at the place.

At the entrance there was some 670 paraphernalia including a huge stack of photos of Drinky and 5 Sharpie pens for autographs.

NSJ, you ever listen to sports talk radio? I've never seen you post much in that regard.

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Well, did you sign any of them for him?

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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'm with Bucky on the end of the obsession. I still listen in some of my free time. I used to listen ALL THE TIME.

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

Seriously. Nonstop from M&H through B&B.

Yes, albeit much less than 5 years ago.

I once posted 575 times in one evening regarding sports talk radio so I decided to cut back a bit.

I'm glad to say that my only knowledge of him is from Steve & Garry ripping him. He sounded like a country bumpkin asshat.

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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!

I used to listen up until the point the station went off the air every night but even in those days I wouldn't listen to whatever shit the score offered in the morning

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

Hawaiian!

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Posting 575 smiley faces does'nt count.

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This has definitely been one of the shittier weeks. They bungled the Blackhawks thing pretty badly, IMHO. I understand hockey's the red headed bastard child of sports in Chicago, but the immediate reaction of their biggest show was "Hope you guys are happy, because I don't give a fuck." The fucking Heat's title got more fanfare.

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Once again the term 'Personality" is not the focus, it's the way you talk up to the mic, how you professionally conduct an interview, your journalistic skills, blah blah blah,

Ironic, the classically trained guys, like a Skip Bayless try amazingly hard to seem like they are nutty, raw, meatball real fans that attend games.

One other issue is the lack of younger guys they have and the way those guys talk to and connect with an athlete.

I dont care if the 2 minute update guy has a beer after a game with the player, coach, etc. I dont give a shit about journalistic integrity from these guys.

Also ironic is the guys that are influenced the most by the teams are the beat writers.

Bottom line, the Score needs some new blood, that is NOT Danny B Approved.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Really, just business as usual...

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@audioidkid

I thought it was just me. I fired the Score for good about a year ago but I tuned in for a second during B+B the day after the Hawks won the Cup and I heard talk about Jim Belushi.

Enough Said. Thanks for the memories.

It doesnt help that our best team is the fifth team in town. The best player in town is a quitter. Baseball is dead and the Bears may finish last in the North.