I've always hated what he turned into. In '93 or so I went the Auto Show with the now wife. North was just getting off the air and struck up a conversation while in the beer line. Two beers later, the wife couldn't believe we hadn't known each other for years.

That Mike North was a happy go lucky, really funny guy.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

and then all include him saying something stupid. Which is fine. I enjoyed it. Would be happy to have back on the Score saying stupid stuff.

Remember, he wanted a raise from his $1.5M contract to come back and say dumb stuff and he rejected the $725K (probably with bonuses)

So, there is nobody else to blame besides North

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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.’”

Then he eventually got paid well and tried to turn into something he wasn't.

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He'd be great at nights, say $250K. I bet he would say yes!

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

He really was so unique and fun.

The guy had listeners over to his house as a promotion. He had another promotion where he would come to your house to broadcast. Can you imagine anything like that happening today?

There is one guy today who even remotely resembles that era of the Score and it is Dan Mc Neil.

I cannot figure out why one of these young fill ins doesn't take that populist approach that made North a star. Some may find it undignified but it worked and I promise you it would work again.

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

Probably 50k and he would be game.

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Because all of the young fill ins have their nose up Bernstein's ass.

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Which is interesting cause Bernstein wasn't such a dick when he first started out if I remember correctly.

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Bernsie used to do fun weekend radio solo. He was still kind of a pud as a young reporter trying to be serious.

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Elections have consequences.

He wasn't. Not even close. He was a bit of a smug know-it-all and rubbed some people the wrong way, but his shows were nothing like that are now.

If you left town when he was still doing fill-in, weekend, and then weeknight shows and came back now you wouldn't think it was the same person. He started changing a little bit when B&B first started and it's progressed (or regressed) to what he is now. How much is radio schtick and how much is what he actually thinks I don't know. I used to think it was all schtick but more and more I think he's just a shitty person.

If you take stupid or contrarian stances on sports issues for the sake of generating calls, that's one thing, but IMO the "crusader for social justice when it's convenient" and the "call everyone a racist but say racist things myself" stuff is completely classless.

The Dave McGinnis fiasco.

North and Ditka getting into it after Ditka's Saints lost to the Bears.

North beating Shaer in a sports trivia contest. (Shaer, like Bernstein, was a smug know-it-all, but didn't treat callers like garbage.)

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They should have cut to the phone calls since the Hawks were still bad then.

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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

This is what the result is when you proclaim yourself "the thinking fans station".

North should have stuck to his wheel house. His thinking he could branch out into other areas is what escalated a lot of what happened at the station and led the way to the thinking fans station.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Agreed. He killed his golden goose.

the incentive was laid out before him

He saw how the conservative talk show host business was booming. He thought he would be able to transition and double the already bloated salary he was making.

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

I don't know OB.

Really, what Ditka was saying was that he didn't know who Ditka was anymore. OB wasn't the one that changed (although I do believe there was some domestic issue attached to this as they were in laws to each other)

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

Yes he was. And still can. But the times are fewer and fewer.

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I remember listening when Laurence first tole the B96 softball story


Also, when Robin Ventura got named and Bernstein didnt know what to say