Which markets are you talking about? They could have totally different situations with their local teams. Consider most people peaced out on the Bears by October, the Bulls have been mediocre-to-bad, and the Blackhawks have been pretty good but the Score doesn't believe in covering the NHL unless absolutely necessary. To the extent that it's content-related, it would have to be that they're locked into all the Bears stuff they have to do because the whole CBS cluster is married to the Bears. There just hasn't been a lot of Chicago sports to talk about, especially when you treat one (arguably two now with the Sox) of your teams as Rosemary Kennedy.

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Hmmm. That's an interesting theory. That's the type of thing I would come up with. Since I didn't, it's probably not true.

It's ok. You're new at this. You'll get there one day, kid.

Alright, this wasn't bad. Blind squirrel, nut, all that jazz

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Philly, and Boston.

There you go: two Super Bowl teams, two rock-solid sports stations in WFAN and WIP, and the Warriors' market.

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Well, yeah, WFAN and WIP have cemented themselves as a must listen for sports fans in that market, and their talent/content can weather poor performance by local teams. WSCR, seemingly, cannot, and I think that reflects on their personalities and style of content.

Philadelphia acknowledges all four of their major teams. That always helps.

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Now?

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Host of the weekly "We Fish ASA" podcast
Weekly columnist for the Northwest Herald
Bi-monthly columnist for Illinois Outdoor News magazine
Former host of The Outdoors Experience on WIND and The Great Outdoors on CLTV
http://www.wefishasa.com

Beardown is my guy.

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You know me like that.

Get him on the podcast. You can do the following segments;

-Behind the scenes radio conspiracies
-Knot tying
-Solutions to clean up blood stains
-French fries
-Fingerprints

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Hood

As you know, I am not in the virulent Spiegal haters club. I think he has been disappointing at times in his dedication to his day job and his sensitivity. I think someone just needs to tell him that his music is a hobby, not a career.

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

Now I know why he does that sneer as his smile rather than a full toothed smile.

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

No! Hood and McNeil were baaaaad together. All hood did was his imitations and they aren't that good. Hood alone or sometimes with jd when he wasn't pissy about something was okay.

Disappointing at times? Your guy Speigel sucks balls. He's not your type of guy either. He's better at his hobby than his career which is unfortunate for all of us.

That's a good description of Hood. Too many unfunny imitations, and if one of them is funny and gets a positive reaction he immediately does it over and over again and kills it. He's tolerable when he's not pissy, but he often is pissy, especially when someone disagrees with him, and when he's like that he's pretty much Chocolate Spiegel.

Listen to the podcast to find out a fun fact about J Hood. You won't be disappointed.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

It was like he'd be doing stand up for dan. Idk why but Dan would laugh. hood would keep doing stuff but none of it was funny. It was brutal. Whenever he'd sub with Dan my eyes would roll back in my head and then i'd punch the button.

Euphemism?

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I like all types of guys

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

I have a feeling we won't see him (here) again for another 6-9 months.

RE: some of the board's suggestions on who I should have championed for a partnership in 2009 instead of Spiegs.

J Hood was not a possibility. Mitch wanted nothing to do with J at that time. No idea if that's changed.

Doug Buffone was not a consideration. Loved doing Bears/NFL pregame stuff with him more than 20 years ago, but he was not equipped to do all sports. His knowledge of/ and interest-in the NBA and college basketball was less than even mine!

Steve Rosenbloom was not a candidate. Mitch never suggested him and I never was desirous of a full-time partnership with him. He's a comfortable Saturday listen and as a bench guy... not what I would call a starter.

I wasn't desirous of Barry Rozner. I like Barry, but believe he's much better as a contributor than as a host.

Did I miss any other of your suggestions?

Thanks for posting Mac. Sorry for calling you an asshole. Did not know you were sworn to secrecy for a few months.

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Joe Cowley?

You missed mine but that could have been on purpose or because my response was long winded.

I agree with you on Buffone, Rozner, and Rosenbloom hosts not working out and why.

At that time, Cowley hadn't really emerged as a columnist and I don't think anybody then was even considering him as a co-host. Once I got to know him and work with him a few times, I regarded him a fine bench guy.

No need to apologize, spmack! I am an asshole... just not for reasons you indicated.

"Career in Radio" advice is always good from a guy that swaps out jobs more than Bobby Petrino.

Laurence Holmes? At the time, Spiegs' most recent work had been Sporting News Radio, nationally-centered stuff, and Holmes had been doing a daytime gig in-market for awhile, I'm wondering what made Spiegs more of a viable candidate than Holmes, who appeared to, even at that time, have the better resume? Was it music knowledge?

A Rozner/Mac pairing would have put me in the most conflicted position possible. I did put up with Harry, so I may have leaned toward listening.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Lots of things make anyone a more viable candidate than Holmes, even Spiegel.

How about Kaplan ?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

ok, someone with the mult login has to take this one