I've gotta admit it: I'm back on the ALS. Trestman and Rose being irretrievable idiots has rejuvenated Dan. Without creepy supplicative Cubs talk or CBS/Bears corporate synergy, the show is really firing on all cylinders. Ripping on John Feinstein, I love it! He's even breaking bad on Deadspin.

Maybe this is like when there's a breakup and you try to get back together, but I hope not, and also that's a really disturbing metaphor and I wish I hadn't made it.

But let's keep the good times rolling!

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Yes. The show has been quite good recently.

Not sure they've changed the world much lately though. If local sports radio isn't there for a moral compass then how can we survive as a country?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Thanks for the heads up. I'll give it a listen. I haven't tuned in for a while because the show has just been so bad....

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Yes. They've windsocked on topics/people they once fervently defended.

Like a Top 40 radio station they're playing their hits, every single segment. You don't have to listen long to hear them repeat their selves. Trestman, Rose, and their number one hit Marshall. Hell, they'll play them back to back.

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How did he break bad on Deadspin?

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It's still hit and miss, but they no longer are at Baez levels of constant embarrassing misses.

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Marshall threatening to fight a fan in the ring = "completely unhinged".

Ditka threatening to kick a guy's ass in his office = "Score Moment"

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Dan Bernstein is just mad that Brandon Marshall doesn't want to fight him.

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I think Dan is enjoying reading Marshall's quote a bit too much.

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Don't understand the Marshall pounding. Dan knew this would happen. Just the cost of business of having him. There's a reason he was only two 3rds.

The short show threads are indicative of a recent run of good shows.

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"ambush" gets a #ByCracky???? wow that's reaching, innit?

also talk of trestman eating grenades is kind of.... yeargh. did bruce arians really come here and scoff and say "no way in hell am i working here?"

and did they just call brandon marshall "a complete sociopath" ??? new audio?!?! great. i like it. i love it. we have always been at war with brandon marshalasia here on the b&b show! the longest running sports talk show in chicago that is unless PIG VIRUS didnt show up and mess with the winning formula that is DAVID KAPLAN + MICROPHONE = GOLD. his so-totally-not-written-by-him wikipedia page basically says that PIG VIRUS fucked up the longest running sports talk show in chicago and immediately after he failed/left WGN rewarded KAPMAN with a new LONG-TERM contract.

since we know david kaplan doesn't write his own wikipedia page (and if he did he'd be receiving some sort of WIKIMEDIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN PAGE EDITING since the man needs an award for everything he does) whoever wrote it must be some sort of superfan who really felt the burn when PIG VIRUS (they list it as "pig vomit" so i gotta go edit that for him. i got'cha back dave!) came in and fucked up a good thing that was rightfully restored with a LONG-TERM contract because in the end, even WGN radio had to kiss kaplan's ring and bump up the pay for the inconvenience of being without 100% of his radio pulpit for all of a year or two (cuz IIRC didn't they just marginalize him to an hour or two every night and shake up the co-hosts? it wasnt like they ever fired him or got rid of him entirely cuz YOU DONT GET RID OF THE KAPMAN. HE IS WGN! *kisses ring* THANK YOU DAVE! CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THAT TIME YOU GOLFED WITH MICHAEL JORDAN AGAIN?"

...and then dave went off to accept his GOLFER OF THE YEAR award from the illinois federation of low-handicap golfers.

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i think the fact that dan knew it was coming is exactly why the marshall pounding is going on. when dan has his "people" or his "guys" and one of them from miami says "oh yeah, have fun with brandon marshall! it'll be fine for the first year or so but then if things go bad you'll see what the guy is all about and well.... have fun with that! thanks for the picks!"

personally i think this is just shooting fish in a barrel for dan because i dont think the team really cares that much about him unless he's outright pepping up and saying FUCK ALL THESE GUYS GET ME THE BALL JAY!!!! in the middle of team meetings. there's gotta be a shitload of world class pudwhacks who are technically/legally "mentally ill" across the NFL and brandon is far from the only one..... so this is just easy outrage radio for dan, as this way he doesn't have to merely pile on trestman and cutler.... he can be racially diverse in his outrage and slay one of his sacred cows in the faux-sanctimony of athletes who "hide behind" charities and social causes/initiatives/etc.

and personally unless marshall has truly hit the wall this year and is physically unable to be a ~100rec 1200-1500yds 8-12TD bonafide #1 WR, i hope they keep marshall for another couple'a years because even if he's mental and part of the "rat's nest of stupid" with teh dumb twitter grandstanding (i mean seriously you cant even talk shit nowadays without the hypercritical bernsteins of the world being like OMFG HE JUST CHALLENGED A FAN TO A FIGHT..... well shit, rio ferdinand got a 3 game ban from the english football association for using #sket in a YO MAMMA joke in twitter, so i spose free speech was a highbrow concept that had run its course anyways....)

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"IF THE NFL HAD A COMMISSIONER THEY COULD LOOK INTO [THIS BRANDON MARSHALL DRAMA]"

oi vey..... i'm starting to feel the levels of social justice rise up.

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Exactly. If the worst things he's done is give away some t-shirts and post a couple stupid comments on Twitter threatening to do something that will never happen, the Bears are getting off pretty easy.

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Dan caught that Trestman uses the passive voice too much: "it will be addressed" with no explicit subject rather than an active "I will address it." We are on the same wavelength.

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oh comeon man.... all brandon's doing is talking shit. jesus christ almighty there's a whole genre of music called "rap" where you talk shit for a living..... this ain't some audio clip bombshell.... we know brandon marshall is a "sociopath" or a "nogooder" or whatever dan wants to call him.... but why is this some huge deal?

"why do y'all care? why do y'all care? it's entertaining.... it's fun" - brandon marshall right on the money. people peppering him about the timing of saying this and he's like "just because we're 3-6 i gotta change who i am? .... i'm a thought provoker and that's what i am"

so brandon's essentially trolling the bernstein types of the media world with all this shit-talking and dan's taking the bait and grabbing his torch and pitchfork of JUSTICE and taking brandon to task for this irresponsible stuff (remember: newschool/evolved dan bernstein isn't the voice of the fan.... he's the voice of the ownership/management. it's not about daydreaming "what would it be like to be michael jordan?" it's about daydreaming "what would it be ike to be michael jordan's boss"

FIRED. FULL MELTDOWN. whatever.... jesus christ almighty they're writing his ticket out of town? and has marshall been arrested 23 times or the guy who he talked shit to? comeon.

THE GM SAID READ YOUR CONTRACT AND HES MAKING A JOKE ABOUT IT.

jesus christ this is truly miserable person radio for miserable people. comeon dan.... he's just talking shit and TROLLING YOU (i know you're up on the term since you've used it in a context that's not too dissimilar from a senior citizen taking about technology) it's a bunch of bullshit.... he was just talking shit to the media and now we're getting REALLY. SERIOUS. RADIO. about how he's a cancer. and now he's going to beat up a fan in the name of anti-bullying? dude man he's just conjecturing.... but i guess when the team's 3-6 adn YOUR GM SAYS READ YOUR CONTRACT you don't joke about SERIOUS BUSINESS like that.... instead you brand him as "COMPLETELY DERANGED" and make OUTRAGE RADIO GOLD. concerned teammates are trying to stop him from self destructing! it's a conspiracy.

sorry for my diaherreal spat of consecutive/ish posts.... but comeon. this is seriously radio made for executives and not fans anymore.

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Doesn't Laurence threaten to fight listeners on a semi-regular basis?

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And now it's time for everyone's favorite segment....Giggle at Everything the Black Guy Says!

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"i'd get fired if i parked in the wrong parking space.... but THIS GUY can go out there and say all that?!?!?"

oh my god. i think it's PTFB time for sanity reasons cuz i like marshall.... or well this season i like the guy who was 100rec 1200-1500yds 8-12TD. i like having a #1 WR and he's a goddamn wide receiver... they're all mental exhibitionist sociopaths! can you picture dan getting serious with chad johnson? "what's this child please daycare service? if the NFL had a commissioner this wouldn't be happening"

DAN..... PLEASE!

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I LOVE Bernstein suddenly evincing concern about Marshall being "arrested again again and again for violence against women."

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

BUT HIS BOSS'S BOSS GAVE HIM AN EDICT!!! HE'S NOT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY!!!! TEAMMATES ARE NOW OFFICIALLY TURNING UP RADIOS TO TUNE HIM OUT!!!! THIS IS A FULL ON MEDIA MELTDOWN OF THE LIKES WE'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!!!! TERRY SAYING THAT HE'S GONE AFTER THIS YEAR!!! PERSONAL BRAND OF POISONS!!!! THAT WAS HIS BOSS'S BOSS FOR FUCKS SAKE!!! YOU LISTEN TO YOUR BOSSES BECAUSE BOSSES ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN YOUR WORLD BECAUSE YOU LIVE TO PLEASE YOUR BOSS!!!! LET ALONE YOUR BOSS'S BOSS!!!!!!!! THAT'S TWO LEVELS OF BOSS!!! RESPECT THEM!!!!!

you know if teammates are turning up music to tell him to STFU, then isn't it possible he's not a serious cancer and just that guy everyone talks shit aobut behind his back because NOBODY TAKES HIM SERIOUSLY IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!

ah well i don't wanna ruin their easy-outrage-radio-show programming cuz i'm having my own meltdown here (at least as far as bernsteinian semantics go) so i'm gonna go melt down into a sandwich and a cold one cuz good lord my 3 day weekend doesnt need to start off like this!

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hey i missed the beginning of the show so can you explain those?

downloading podcasts just feels icky and wrong.... unless they're wrestling podcasts which i download because stone cold says so.

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I'll admit that I normally don't know what you're going on about, but you're on the mark here. Marshall's transgressions here have been pretty fucking minor. Fired? Suck a dick, Boers.

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A Personal Relationship with Jesus?

Congratulations on not beating women for two years Brandon!

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Yeah, Emery is so worked up about this he said 3 words to him while he passed him in the hallway.

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CBS fired John Feinstein for being boring, so they've been having some fun at his expense. As for Deadspin, he called out Tom Ley by name yesterday for going after Rosenbloom on the Derrick Rose thing, noting that Ley is the same guy who went after him for the same thing last year (except Dan didn't mention that he himself got got in that one; he just said Ley always defends Rose).

Of course Dan is still on the side of management and ownership. That hasn't changed. What has changed is that Marshall, Trestman, and Rose have become so stupid that we're all back on the same side together.

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Well, I mean, if you're in on trading for a guy with 23 arrests and a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, and after several years his greatest transgression is shit-talking on twitter, excuse me if I fail to dignify your outrage.

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The landowner effectively owns part shares in millions of part-time slaves called, "taxpayers." -Roy L
A Personal Relationship with Jesus?

I call complete bullshit on Dan's "confrontation" of Curtis Enis.

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My guess is there is a lot that we don't know about. He basically has to go away after the season.

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