HAH! YAH! They heard me, guess what was JUST played:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mnw9uiYggU

You ain't alone, Vegan. I've heard that Dan plays a "character", but it takes a lot of hatred to laugh at a guy who is an obvious alcoholic or has a mental handicap on a major radio station. I suppose it's okay, as long as Dan doesn't post pics of Mike's wife on a message board.

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Oh, no. It's way different. You don't become a hockey player because you're dirt-ass poor and 300 pounds. These guys are all students of the game.

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It's shocking to me just how long this has been going on - I assume, with most people, it would have never gone this far as they would have stepped in for their dad/uncle/grandpa etc. Maybe he doesn't have a lot of family around...or are they not aware of it? I'd be so pissed if I found out that they were having my addled father on the air, WEEKLY, to "review" movies and stumble through rating them etc. I know the argument can be made that "well, it makes him happy - he enjoys calling in" - but holy crap does it seem just mean. And keep in mind, this is coming from the ignorant monster who thinks it's ok to comment on a publicly shared picture of a host's wife!!!!!!!!!!!

I think he's doing this to prepare himself for what Terry's contribution's to the show are going to be like in a few years.

Or right this minute, and he just wants Terry to be surrounded by others who have similar linguistic skills.

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now I'm afraid.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

I think a lack of empathy is one common denominator here. As much as I enjoy some of Bernstein's sports thoughts, he gets quite disturbing when he separates the world into Very. Smart. People and dumbasses. This is particularly so when he makes fun of brain-damaged football players, and when he asserts he's more than happy to see someone else's kid damage their brain so as long as Bernstein gets to watch it all on Sundays.

Let's say 10-15 retired football players died next week as a result of random violence or an accident. I don't think Dan would care, and if he did express sadness, I would not take it seriously. Dan likes to cast himself as a humanist when it comes to other, well-known issues he discusses on the show, but no genuine humanist would speak so callously about CTE and other stuff the way he does, let alone exploit alcoholics (if they do indeed have problems) for cheap laughs on his show. In his world, dumb people live long enough to keep the smarts mildly entertained, then they die off to make room for a new generation of brainless wastes of flesh.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Reading between the lines on Dan's admiration for Charlie Pierce and his fountain of righteous anger, it almost sounds like Dan is saying that he doesn't have a lot of genuine righteous anger and has to work hard to contrive it. Anyone else pick it up this way?

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Dan re-acknowledges Alex Brown and his personal pronouns...

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

sorry Curious, I missed it. I picture Dan taking off the headphones, going home after work and not saying three words. He's really soft spoken off the air.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

I'm questioning the validity of negative comments about bernstein's wife.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Only if it's synchronized

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Except Coach Fitz. That guy's a genius.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

They only mean Illinois when they say that. FYI.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

Because of course they do.

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The Bulls haven't done anything wrong, and they're not going to do anything wrong.

I just realized the Yahoo piece Dan read on the air was by Ryan Lambert. Hahahaha man you've gotta know better than that.

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