I can't speak for Score Is Doomed, but I play a game I like to call "tabula rasa radio roulette" with Murph's show, the Mike North Mourning Fiasco, and the Last Neighborhood Saloon. Basically what I do is tune in to each program on a daily basis and wait for a comment that is so egregiously stupid that I have to switch the station off for the rest of the show. The tabula rasa part enters the equation because I do this just about every day, giving each show a "blank slate" from which to work no matter how mind-numbingly horrific it was the day before.

While I realize this practice is both idiotic and masochistic, the sad state of Chicago radio (aside from the low frequency college stations) leads me to engage in this behavior. Plus, I do admit that I take a certain perverse pleasure in bearing witness to the unstable mixture of ignorance and ineptitude that is Chicago sports talk.

In any event, in my informal competition Murph is always the quickest station changer, clocking in at a robust 15-30 seconds (on average) before I have to dump him. Sometimes he doesn't even have to speak--it could just be one of his ubiquitious drops like the "That's no Gouda" soundbyte or the "Andy the Clown" horn that induces a pervasive feeling of existential dread in me. Next comes North's daily exercise in barely suppressed white supremacist rage. This show usually lasts about two minutes on my radio, although it's more likely that Fred's pointless obsequiousness or Jen's contrived "smart ass" banter will trample my will to live more quickly than any of Mike's hoodlum wistfulness or thinly veiled bigotry will. Your show, then, wins the distinction of being the tallest midget in this category. I usually can stomach about five minutes of it before Harry's inane Beaver Cleaver take on sports or Jurko's fake enthusiasm lead me to contemplate hurtling myself through my windshield.

I hope you don't take the above personally, Mac. You are still a genuine radio talent, but your partners will always make for a very heavy albatross indeed, no matter how much weight they lose. And at least your show is better than those produced by North and Murph, right?

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Hahaha, bravo, that is spot-on.

I go through the same ritual, although I've been able to abstain from North for about 2 weeks now. Keeps my stress level down.

TM is right. I have the station on from the morning commute and I always hope to hear sports news. But I'm usually switching to BBM after a few minutes of listening to the crap you put out to get sports news and that's a pathetic commentary about your show. It's gone down the crapper and your arrogance here shows why.

The second semester has not started yet

SID.... this is for you.

Your logic is of the pretzel variety... and you rarely back your thesis with any substantive examples. Bastardizing a line from the great Melvin Udall "People who speak in generalities should shampoo my crotch." Humor all of us with specifics when you cast aspersions. Define my "arrogance" other than by stating "displayed here."

I've done two things to set you off: I made a case that North will find employment when his deal is up (oooh), and I interacted with several posters -- and readers -- on some of the inner workings of the business I've been in, one way or another, since October of 1982. I believe most who read CSFMB have appreciated my sharing those observations and opinions on the radio biz since I began posting. I always welcome a disagreement... a suggestion (I've employed many given here over the last couple years)... an argument. Please explain how that connotes arrogance.

There is a growing feeling in my cranium SID is or was employed in the industry... and perhaps mine are among the footprints on his underachieving back. Which failed producer/reporter or host are you, SID? Are you a PD or GM over whom I've triumphed? Whoooooooooo are you? Who, who? Who, who?

Out yourself, SID, and share with sports radio consumers how much it sucks to have your career become a bugstain on the windshield of a CTA bus.

It would make my week if it was somehow revealed that SID is actually Boers. Or maybe Murph.

Or Harry.

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nostradamus is Joe Bartosch.

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....or possibly George Ofman.

Whatever the case, nostradamus is definitely one of the update guys.

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You really are a fool. Just a former listener who likes good radio, something you no longer seem capable of.

[quote="Mac"]Beardown wrote: Can you think of anybody that would hire him Mac?

Yes. A station looking to add a personality with Q-rating....

dude, the cat sucks....

dude, stick to regulatin' jurk's h20 intake.... general rule of thumb - CHICAGO radio BLOWS CHUNKS.... golden era (WLUP - johnny b, kev, a drunken dahl) - G-O-N-E!.... and if i do recall - you = minor player

LOL!! How could I forget that you are the entertainment giant! The god of radio!
You really are full of yourself.
Maybe you should channel this humor to your show to make it more entertaining than it has become!!

I have to say.... the above just might very well be the *ahem* "arrogance" that many suggest... me, i just think you're a dick

Nostradamus is not SID. Nostradamus has a very distinct style in his writing, which is far different from SID.

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Yeah, really Mac, this post has to be the best fodder for Who Ya Crappin? that I've seen in some time. You start by challenging SID to "define your arrogance" and then conclude by speculating that the real reason SID dislikes your show is that you've left your "footprints on his underachieving back". So only some kind of personal grudge could explain dislike for your show? If that's not arrogance, what is? Embarrassing!

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can only post if you wish to place your nose up one's harry arse?

I have only one name and you really are pretty funny. Now go to work!! Get things done and leave me to my disgust for the Chicago sports radio scene. I'm enjoying Mac's insufferable ego on the board. I think you are on to something though with the Mac/North team. It would be a good listen before they killed each other!!

Just a thought or two here,
Nos was let go as a producer by at least one host from each of those shows.
And...he would have Mac's footprints on his back.
And that was a really arrogant thing to say Mac.

[quote="Score is doomed I think you are on to something though with the Mac/North team. It would be a good listen before they killed each other!![/quote]

Nope. The team for must listen radio would be North and Bernstein. Then one day, Dan would disappear...

Nope. The team for must listen radio would be North and Bernstein. Then one day, Dan would disappear...[/quote] LOL!! Very true!