Curious Hair wrote:
* BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF PERMANENT TIM DOYLE HOSTING GIG *
First of all, I want to thank Mitch, and Rod, not that Rod, HEY!, and everyone at CBS Radio Chicago and corporate in New York for having the courage to make...(sigh) to make a bold move for this station that maybe, in a way, goes beyond the conventional expectations of what the Score is supposed to be. I know a lot of people are going to say DAT GUY DERE AIN'T FRUM CHICAHHHGAH, HE CAN'T BE ON DA SCORE CUZ HE'S FROM NEW YORK! Yes. He. Can. Now my wife is from Jersey -- and when you tell someone you're from Jersey, they ask "which exit?" -- and the best way I can describe New York sports is that it's everything about Chicago sports...but better. The same big-city mentality, heritage franchises, but with real pressure to win, and the teams actually do win! Look at the Yankees! Look at the Giants! Look at, to a lesser extent, the Mets. And here we are settling for hockey. And it's not even that. Look at the Knicks! Even when they're bad at basketball, and they're bad at basketball, it's the talk of the town. Really, what I think this is for you, Tim, as a New York sports fan, is that you're coming up to bat after taking BP with the donuts on. Chicago really is, in so MANY ways, a lesser New York, so this will mean a greater WSCR. And it's not even as if you don't have...the, the bona fides of a Chicago guy! I know that Jimmy Phillips likes this move as much as we do, because not only can we say that a host on this station has a degree from Northwestern, but Northwestern can say they have a host on the Score! I'm kidding, of course. They have doctors and lawyers. I think they're fine with that. And that's okay! But it's important that we move on significantly from these...these atavistic expectations of provincial tribalism at this station.
And look, I know we all loved Terry, and I probably loved him most of all, but in a way, he'd become...I guess you might say vestigial to a station that's trying to influence narratives and, really, in a lot of ways, succeeding thanks to some hard work from guys like Laurence and Jason. And Julie, too, in so MANY ways. I mean, we sit here making fun of the meatballs, and here we were with a guy from Steger who managed to host a radio show somehow. It was like taking a call from a Bob. And there were...obvious limitations to what we could do and what this show could be with...(sigh) the situation with the studio, and now with, I guess you could say a more conventional setup, this show can start extending its brand and the Score brand into what I knew it could be and what Mitch has known it could be all along. I can't make any promises, but I know there are people having serious discussions about how...to fill certain daytime programming hours somewhere. I think that's the kind of thing that we deserve and you deserve too. So Tim, what do you say we celebrate with some pizza, if you know any good New York places around here. Make sure they ship the water in and everything.
this is almost as good as that bingo bullshit you did