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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:13 pm 
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while he was acquited, not sure how you got picked up for something like that if you had no intentions of 'playing the game'?


There is this thing called "conviction rate" used to evaluate the performance of prosecutors. In very oversimplified terms, if the time and effort required to try and convict one guy for a relatively harmless transgression will produce two trials/convictions for more serious sins, the prosecutors are likely to drop the more harmless case.

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And your point is?


My point is, when it comes down to something like Mike not staying up to see the home run versus Mac not showing up to his job on the biggest sports day in Chicago history, you can't very well criticize one, without criticizing the other......at least not with FACTS!!

You (anybody) can say "Well Mac missed the day, but he's likeable, so I'm all good with it" or you can say "Mike didn't see the home run? What a jerk, I don't like him, and he should be fired"........but....

you sure can't try to rationalize each situation with so called facts, or reasons that are stretched more than Oprahs stomach, without just admitting that the reason you're attacking one (North) and the reason you're letting the other off the hook (Mac) is based pure and simply on likes and dislikes.
Even though I have no problem with what either one of them did, while Mike would've only had a few hours sleep had he stayed up to see the homer, Mac could've gotten a full 12 hours or so and still have made his show.
So I would think that given the circumstances, to most rational people, what Mac did was worse.
But if you feel the need to find fault, then who does the majority of the board find fault with? North of course.

It's comparing apples to oranges. It's calling a spade a club (I made that up), and it's just not being fair - as usual - to North


Hey nimrod, why do listeners have to be fair? Good grief, get over North and yourself. In your little world it sounds like you would MAKE people listen to North. He sucks and has lost whatever made him. He has become a cartoon character and it isn't appealling to most listeners. There is nothing in this world that says people have to be "fair" to radio hosts. People's tastes change and many of those who used to like North now find him to be an overrated, phony asshole.


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Geez, you are a long winded blowhard. I'm not comparing the two other than one is likeable and the other (North, so slow learners like you can understand) is unlikeable. What is the problem with that?
Get over yourself and just understand what makes people write their thoughts. North acts like the big timer when in actuality his show's ratings suck. There really is no debate about the fact that Mac has the ratings now and North doesn't. All your bullshit about fairness isn't going to change the facts. North is in his last hour of self importance and so are you. Good bye.


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Both of them messed up. Mac apologized for his actions. Mike saw no problem with his. From pre school to federal courts the person who acknowledges his sin and shows remorse is given more leniency than the unrepentant sinner. This point seems to be lost on you.


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:40 am 
It was in The Reader cover story on North but that's cash-only for archives; but otherwise his arrest & trial was pre-internet so there's nothing on it. Mike even talks about it as a joke - you obviously haven't listened to him very long or very often or very aware. We need someone to go to the library and get the god damn microfilm for this jack-off.


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