bigfan wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
bigfan wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I just listened to this shit. There's a good interview to be done with Narducy. Spiegel just isn't capable of doing it. Plus he honked Rozner off.
Maybe someone on WXRT, he didnt sound like such a fascinating guy, kinda sounded boring. He plays bass. congrats! If the guy had a cool story, he sure didnt share them.
Not even a Lou Wool story for me!
He's too young for Lou. Maybe a KC Johnson story!
And if Meat was going to talk to him about a Youtube video he could have rolled the one I linked in the original post or this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v8FEkHeIZIInstead he gets into some dumbass Armisen video about sexy elbows that isn't the slightest bit funny.
Fact is that my guy MEAT felt the time with jason Arduchi was something that people would rather hear than the Masters talk. I am not the biggest Golf fan, but its the damn masters, it's kinda like a putt putt course on roids! It's the closest thing to Golden tee taken to real life
Yeah, you're right. It's the biggest golf event of the year and it warrants some talk on what is ostensibly a sports show. But Spiegel is just following Mac's lead. Mac would definitely prefer to talk about grilling walleye than the NBA finals and sometime he does. Then he defends it as "guy talk". An interview with Jason Narducy definitely fits into that paradigm. The main problem is that Spiegel is a lousy interviewer. Like most guys on the Score he finds himself infinitely more interesting than the subject of any interview might be. These guys don't know how to ask the right questions.
Mully is the worst. He'll answer the questions for the guest. Why even have the guy on? I specifically remember an interview he and Hanley did with John Malkovich as Malkovich promoted the movie
Secretariat in which he played trainer, Lucien Laurin. I'm not expecting these guys to actually do any pre-interview research. God knows that would be too much to ask. But you know, I know a lot of shit just from reading both Chicago dailies every day since I was thirteen years old. Mully and Hanley are two newspaper men and older than I am. Why don't they know the stuff I do? For example, Malkovich went to the same little high school as Doug Collins way down in Southern Illinois. Malkovich is a big dude and I'm sure he played hoops. Collins is a few years older, but I'm sure their paths crossed in the tiny town of Benton, Illinois. Also, I know Malkovich was a huge fan of the good King basketball teams with Griffith and Hamilton and he could often be found watching them by himself in some West side or South side gym. But I guess the Score thinks it's more interesting for us to hear Mulligan answer his own questions while Hanley chimes in with insipid horse jokes.
But back to the reluctance to cover certain sports because you "don't like them", what the fuck kind of a sports fan are you? The best players and biggest events of any sport are worth discussing. I'm not a tennis fan, but I don't mind if a host takes a little time to preview Wimbeldon. In fact, I expect it. It's important. And their answer would be "nobody cares". No, you don't care and that makes you shitty at your job.
I advertised a few times on a show the old Channel 5 sports anchor, Duane Dow, used to do called
Spotlite on Bowling. I got to be half-ass friends with Duane. I couldn't believe all the different shit he knew about various sports. I mean the guy knew harness racing, for God's sake. Who the fuck knows about that? But this guy starts talking to me about Speedy Somolli. I asked Duane how he knew so much about such relatively obscure sports and he said, "I always wanted to be a sportscaster so I figured I should learn about all the sports." That's an idea. Or you could just talk about recipes for prosciutto-wrapped asparagus and do lousy interviews with C list rock stars.