Bernstein has seen great success making fun of stupid callers and make no mistake, Bernstein is right with most of the callers he trashes.

you mean the callers that get put through specifically for the purpose of being trashed ?

Bernstein will be remembered as one of the two or three most influential personalities in the history of Chicago sports talk, but he will never be loved.

I think that minimizes his importance to the genre. On the macro level of radio, even radio in Chicago, no, I don't think you can list him as a legend. He most certainly is in Chicago sports radio. I don't think there is any debate that he is on the Mt. Rushmore of that subset.

Bernstein has seen great success making fun of stupid callers and make no mistake, Bernstein is right with most of the callers he trashes.

However, he also became bored and complacent and wanted to be more important than a guy cashing big checks making fun of idiots so he got big into a few social causes. That has started to go away somewhat and I think it coincides with him being more and more involved with One Step.

I think this new show will probably be a good challenge for him. I also wonder if he will see the sincere admiration many had for Boers and wonder if he can one day have a similar impact. Probably not though.

he's too old to be worrying about national fame now. he should just sit back, be himself, have fun, and stop arguing with callers.

I don't think bernstein is a great guy because he stopped for some conversation with us, the listeners, at a remote. But I will say he was different in person. For one thing he didn't use the over-enunciation that he does on the air. I suppose someone taught him that in a communications class or something, but in the post-Dahl climate of radio au naturel he just comes off as a pretentious douchebag.

Arguing with callers is his raison d'etre.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Arguing with callers is his raison d'etre.

As compared to the callers that aren't put through?

yes, as compared to those who have a basic level of intelligence who aren't put through
it's a bit, they let they stupid people through so Bernstein can mock them and everyone has a big laugh
i didn't realize that was news

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

: I am surprised they did not have a segment with you yesterday so you could say goodbye

and he will despise that he shares that stage with North

My hope would be that in a month or so they figure out to put Jason back on the show, do a poor man's three man booth and let Rozner affix to Spiegs. I'd listen to that.

Maybe you're right. I don't have a personal connection to Bernstein, so I can only go by what I hear on the radio. The transformation of the Score--from its early identity as "the voice of the fan" to a propaganda tool for sports ownership and the mouthpiece for a corporate ethos more broadly--has always been more interesting to me than the behind the scenes personal stuff. And Bernstein has been the driving force behind that transformation, as exemplified by the metamorphosis of his own on-air persona. I have no idea if the shift in his radio identity corresponds to a radical change in his personality in his private life. But since Leash thinks Bernstein is a good guy in real life, I'm willing to bet my life's savings that Bernstein likely comes off as Satan's chief disciple to anyone who knows him off the air. Still, though, I have no way of gauging whether Bernstein has always been a horrible human being or not.

I'm okay with that.

yes, as compared to those who have a basic level of intelligence who aren't put through
it's a bit, they let they stupid people through so Bernstein can mock them and everyone has a big laugh
i didn't realize that was news

:lol: Love CofF ...he worked on the show for a day and has it all figured out

He knows stuff. Listen to him. Important guy. I am surprised they did not have a segment with you yesterday so you could say goodbye

I'm okay with that.

And Chet.

He has to be behind Chet, North, and Mac at the least.

:lol: Love CofF ...he worked on the show for a day and has it all figured out

He knows stuff. Listen to him. Important guy. I am surprised they did not have a segment with you yesterday so you could say goodbye

Yes, I think Chet has to be there.

Thinking about it more, maybe Terry is not on the Mt. Rushmore.

Bernsie in a three way booth would never work. He needs too much space.

I don't want to have to listen to Goff on my drive home from work...almost anyone other than Goff would be fine to me...

:lol: Love CofF ...he worked on the show for a day and has it all figured out

He knows stuff. Listen to him. Important guy. I am surprised they did not have a segment with you yesterday so you could say goodbye

This sums it up for me. I attribute the fawning to general courtesy for a person who had a big hand in the station's success. And it was clear that success was in doubt in the early days.

In Terry's little exchange with Drinky, he all but admitted to not being good at making friends and not letting people into his life. I am having trouble reconciling that with the numerous descriptions of him as a mentor who was there whenever a co-worker was feeling down. Hell, how often was he even in the hallway given his ISDN line? Always hard to separate the truth from the courtesy flattery.

I still loved Terry for his DH columns, Chicago Sports Fire (that's what they called it, right?), and HFC. Even the early days of B&B were entertaining to me. But I have never been more disappointed in someone wasting his talent as the last decade was nothing short of packing it in.