I think there's been speculation that numerous Score Searches were crooked, except for the one Tim Baffoe won, which was just shitty. I believe it was our chip egan who said something like Feder was reporting that Connor McKnight had won before they'd even had the final competition, and Feder is not known to just make shit up. Maya Gavin was in all likelihood selected to keep the FCC at bay. Then there was the time Senor was a judge and picked one of his interns, shortly after offhandedly noting that the Score's interns were the sponsors' sons. That one was my favorite.

Regarding the contests that they've run over the last several years, the only conclusion I have come to is that the "decision" as to who wins is not made by the online voting (done so, in my opinion, to bring traffic to their website) or the judges that are involved in the remote (done so to promote a sponsor). It is made by someome or some people in management. The year I took part in the contest I thought I had a good shot at winning once I was named to the last 4 contestants. I thought the on-air portion where each of us got a half hour to do a sports update and sit in with Hub and Brian Paruch went well. However, during the week leading up to the remote where the winner was chosen a post on the chicagoradioandmedia.com board stated that the winner had already been chosen. That post was made on the Thursday before the event and the message stated "congratulations Connor McKnight". The post was made by someone who followed the industry pretty well and had posted a number of things before that were very credible. Initially, I thought that was the case-considering the source-and I felt pretty relaxed going into the remote. When it came time for the announcement of the winner I really thought I had done well enough to get the job. When Connor's name was mentioned, I immediately thought back to that post and realized that the winners are chosen beforehand.

Connor has done a nice job at the Score. I think he has a bright future in the business. As for those who have won the contest since, I don't know much. I've caught a bit of Berger's show and it is college radio at best. What will come in the future with the contest, I'm not sure. I've never found out what they look for in a winner, but we'll see.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Mac in for Terry. Mitch running that one by Senor would surely lead to a great "(sigh) I have to be careful how I phrase this" rant.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

And looking at the Cubs, the Sox, the Bears, the Bulls...I just...[sigh]...

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Probably a hip replacement. Don't know why TB just won't say what it is.

Anyway, now it makes sense why he postponed his retirement until next January.

He wanted the Score's insurance plan to cover this. Makes sense.

I don't like white rappers.

I'm still convinced Bernsie worshipped at the altar of Ed Tyll. Their styles are so uniform.
Both had/have a gift to be ignorant and grate on your nerves.

You'd have to lobotomize bernstein to get Ed Tyll.

No, I haven't forgotten the shittiest thing Dan has done.

This is the time for tryouts to see who can be the next parrotting lickspittle once Terrence B. Oers permanently checks into Manor Care in January. I imagine it will be lots of Rozner, maybe some Holmes or Goff, and if they are desperate some Drinky. Doesn't that really just get you all excited to listen to the radio? The same bland and boring half-wits.

"I want to make this clear: I like Dan McNeil. I think he's a good guy. But for a certain segment of our listenership, he's become the avatar for a sort of...[sigh]...I don't want to say backwards, but certainly an unlettered, a provincial, a reactionary, if you will, view of sports. And looking at the Cubs, the Sox, the Bears, the Bulls...I just...[sigh]...I just think this city's teams have gotten so much smarter. So I guess my question is: haven't we, as a station, gotten smarter, too? I mean, when you think about this moment, when it seems like we've finally found the guys who can really disrupt these outmoded paradigms and start the long, arduous job of hacking scouting and hacking roster management and hacking coaching...is this the moment to be hiring a guy who's on the wrong side of so much of this stuff?"

Well Mac told me to to tell you to go FUCK YOURSELF!!! ..So now it's been said .. .

This could be Big Red's big chance.

This could be Big Red's big chance.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Then there was the time Senor was a judge and picked one of his interns, shortly after offhandedly noting that the Score's interns were the sponsors' sons. That one was my favorite.

Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

My favorite fuckup of his, just offhand, was when he was talking about watching sports on TV and said something like "it was great, Jared and Chad were going crazy." Beat. "You don't know them." Beat. "They're my roommates, you see." Um, usually when you do a casual name-drop, the point is that people will know who you're talking about. The most puzzling thing was that this was in a monologue to the audience, not chatting with a producer, where maybe one could infer that Jared and Chad were behind-the-scenes Score people or something, but to just report, by name, the actions of people who have in no way been introduced to the audience was dumbfounding.

I love the fact of Goff taking shots at Kap and bragging about ratings. I hope they understand where the ratings are coming from.

I can't blame Berger for thinking that was "good radio" when he was on a station where a guy who once spent an entire fifteen minute segment talking about his busted dishwasher got rewarded with a major daytime shift.

Well Mac told me to to tell you to go FUCK YOURSELF!!! ..So now it's been said .. .

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

I agree that if left alone, Bernstein and Mac would be interesting and entertaining, but I'd give 2 weeks before Mac chokes Dan

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

I never understood the love for Mac. I didnt listen to the Heavy Fuel Crew days so maybe that is where the fond memories come from. MJH was a horse abortion and Mac and Speeeeeeegs was even worse.

There is no better critic on this board of Bernstein than Dave in Champaign.

Seriously? MJH was awesome.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.