At least he doesn't smell like peanut butter or pork rinds. At least I hope not.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I defy you to listen to old B&B (pre-2010) and tell me that.

There was some GOLD in there.

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Yes.

Middays were the best.

Yeah, and it's all obscured for me now. I used to love WYC and their interactions with callers, but it's all a blur now.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I get that.

The YouTube clips have helped me remember the good of this show, but even those don't go all the way back.

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It's a little strange for me as I missed B&B entirely while Mac was with MJH on WMVP. Even when they weren't head to head at the start. I guess I missed the better B&B?

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Elections have consequences.

True. But the first half of Bernstein's 17 years were different than the 2nd half. Once he gained total power and control of the station, the show got progressively worse from year 8 to now.

You did.

Midday Show was awesome.

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B&B was the primary reason I started listening to sports radio as well. I will say that I think MJH was often a better show, but B&B was always my first. I still enjoy the off-topic discussions the most. That said, as others have mentioned, they should have probably killed the show right when Dan did the Penn State thing. Honestly, I fully expected him to go national before that all had happened and I will be surprised if he doesn't do it now. I can't see how he will want to sit with another partner moving forward.

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Budweiser has to spend that money somewhere. They aren't throwing it at an Eric and Kathy remote.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This girl understands.

They were only the best when they had no competition. Mac immediately began eroding listenership when he moved to 1000. Eventually he dominated them each and every month for years. This competition began with B and B having a huge advantage at the beginning and Scoreheads who previously would have never thought to change the station.

B and B popularity is a fraud. They are a niche show that has become the face of the station out of necessity rather than accomplishment.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

not only that, it spawned an industry of mildly educated douches with delusions of superiority

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I will grant you this, although awesome is too strong a word. It was different, interesting and entertaining.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

When they were the midday show it was the best. Dan was not self-entitled. They did research and had fun little segments like Second Hand News. When they shifted to afternoons they got lazy. Never met about the show, Boers literally phoned it in. And Bernstein started to think he was a star. He's a guy that needs a foot on his throat to do his best work, otherwise he becomes a self-indulgent ass.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

That's fair.

I enjoyed the hell out of it, and that's when the show was at it's best.

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The show reached its apex when Hood was producing. He really helped create a loose, free-associative and self-deprecating tone that has gradually eroded over the past ten years. Additionally, all of the characters and voices he contributed were often hilarious.

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GD doing work here. I don't agree with him very often, but he is spot on in his assessment.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

At some point the seemingly sincere self-deprecation turned into the type of phony self-deprecation that is so ubiquitous across social media platforms.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

That is Rozner in a nut shell. He does the phony self deprecation all the time, which gets overshadowed by his annoying reminders like "you heard it here first". The non-stop I told you so's overrides the purpose of his constant self deprecation.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Yes. Dan didn't get angry at callers who started a sentence with the words: I think.

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Prime B&B was better than Prime MJH. I never understood the draw of MJH. Harry makes nothing better.

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I liked MJH better. Of course we all hated Harry, and yet the show was still fun. I enjoyed their parody stuff a lot. "When you pitch and you catch, that's Amore, gay Piazza."

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Hawaii (fuck) You

The show was also hurt when Mike North left in that Bernstein was the guy who ran the station after that.

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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!

Agreed. Heavy Fuel Crew was the best show that the score ever produced. Chemistry between Boers and McNeil was better than B and B. Boer also didn't seem as angry as he does now. B&B was an OK show but it's ascendancy to top level is mostly due to the mediocrity that is other shows on sports radio.

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Yeah. B&B were the alternative to North, Fred, Murph, and the rest. Remember when Mitch did that "Best of the Best" cross-promotion campaign where they'd play a Mike North "highlight," there'd be a long pause, and then a Borat "WHAAAAT?"

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I'm John Feinstein was a nice throwback to that.

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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!

Loved HFC & The Monsters. Hell,I even enjoyed Tom Shaer in the early days.

Boers & Bernstein are the 2 funniest guys ever on the radio that I listened to BUT went downhill when Dan got too big for his elven boots.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

or "hi guys, how are you?"

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That bothers me almost more than anything else Dan does. People are just trying to be polite. Don't be an asshole because they are exchanging pleasantries. We have a society to maintain people!!!

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