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Elections have consequences.

What?

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Just wait until they ask Scott Darling about defaulting on his college loans

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

The "accomplishments" cheered by NBA fans are ephemeral, dunks and "posterization" within a context where the results are secondary to highlights. That stands in stark contrast to the long term excellence that is valued in The Great Game. As well as to the NFL, where people cheer Cyldesdales and Ali Landry with as much ardor as they do Tom Brady and Eli Manning.

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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

Kerry Wood 20 strikeouts!

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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!

It's funny jorr complains his basketball thoughts don't get respected enough and then he comes here and shits out thoughts like these.

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

as i've said since day 1, this isn't a new show! the whole point of this show is that they DIDN'T want to make a new show, so they took goff out of his "hottlanta/9-1" cocoon and attempted to "pimp that butterfly" [if you will] into what dan mcneil [jokingly?] referred to as "the #1 chicago sports talk show host of 2020" -- the results? it's kinda weird cuz the dynamic of dan no-doubt helping jason end up getting promoted to a 9-1 slot after objectively failing at atlanta evenings = jason's indebted to dan so he'll never really challenge him too much on anything.

then, i couldn't tell you how SOCJUS jason got during the 9-1 show cuz i never really bothered to listen that much [as i knew i'd at least have the next 10-20+ years of my life to hear goff on the score, so i'd rather listen to drivetime talkSPORT with adrian durham [some kind of UK troll/shit-stirrer] and darren gough [to meet my 'goff quota'] so honestly i cant tell you if jason is ratcheting up the identity [politics] talk and all that, but really it can be brokwn down really simply in that my favorite part of b&b over the years was terry boers... he's not there anymore [even in his older/diminished-radio-capacity] so when you lose the near-unilaterally favorite part of any show [and especially when they try to keep the same show going, just with the "cool guy"s role being dished out to a younger guy who ticks more "desirable demographics" boxes, welp, what did you really expect?

at the end of the day i think the "story non-story" here is that dan would rather try to do a watered down version of the b&b show he's comfortable with [with that "pimped out butterfly"] as opposed to bringing in another host with gravitas/bonafides who could have been more of an equal to dan, cuz then maybe he could challenge him on something and we'd have an interesting show?

ah well, i guess you could technically blame terry for making dan comfortable with "no challenges" radio cuz terry was quite alright with just going "uh huh" / "yes dan" to rubberstamp any faux-/righteous BS dan spewed cuz he was never gonna mess with the gravy train that was those nice fat checks (esp for 2-3 days a week from the ISDN home in mokena) until he got too old to do the gig. c'est la vie, no?

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I've never made such a complaint. I'm confident regarding my opinions on certain eras of basketball. I'm not gonna argue with you about Kawhi Leonard or Boogie Cousins. I have little idea.

But I do know the NBA is driven by highlights and star players in a way where the appreciation of their feats are often seen as the end rather than as a means to achieve such. And there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it probably makes more sense. Sports really are entertainment. It's kind of silly that Jose Quintana can ruin 10 or 12 days a year for me. But the truth is, he can, he has, and he will. It would actually be nice if I could just be satisfied by watching 26 year old Matt Davidson hit a 420 foot homer once every two weeks or so.

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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

Goff has shown that Boers was definitely underrated. Even Mike North or Mike Murphy would be interesting to listen to than Goff and Bernstein.

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

What is wrong with the NBA is there are no Cinderella's come playoff time.

Everybody knows that the elite teams win 99.9 % of the time.

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

I know the station will be carried by Cubs baseball, but what have the recent books even looked like in the offseason? I haven't seen them since Feder got shitcanned by Tronc.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

The people you're describing are children and casual fans. Actual NBA fans care about the results. If what you said is true Blake Griffin would get a lot more respect around the league.

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

I do think, despite what the Hawks have done in the last five years and what the Bulls have failed to do, interest in the two teams is about the same. But all that means is that these are two very popular teams and you're cultivating a needlessly antagonistic relationship with one of them.

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It has gotten to the point where the Hawks have blackballed that station. TVR did one hit there, and I think it was required in his role as the You Can Play ambassador. If you tune in WMVP, you'll get frequent Hawks related guests including Kane calling into Kap's show.

670 is going to be talking exclusively baseball this spring as the basketball team disappears to a lottery pick and the Hawks go deep. Even Eddie Olczyk doesn't call 670 anymore except when NBC requires him to.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I'm sure they'll have some good segments on the Spurs and Warriors this spring. All hope is not lost my friend.

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

Wrong.

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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

Sports fans care about the results. NBA fans get oddly burrito about players and GMs.

Do you know how to even read the chart you posted? I said the last 5 years. The charts don't include this season, but the Hawks have the higher ratings this year so that would be 3 out of the last 5 years then with the likely trajectory favoring the Hawks. Only year the Bulls did better was Rose's "return" Also, the years the Hawks beat the Bulls, they do so by a larger margin then in the seasons the Bulls beat them.

http://www.blogabull.com/2017/2/16/1463 ... siness-csn

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Hard to take a Cub fan serious when they accuse other sports fans of getting oddly burrito about GMs.

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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

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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

I think he moves into charts and graphs in 4th grade.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

So you were wrong?

Thanks for coming clean.

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Do summation of the last 5 years (especially when you add in this year's numbers) and the Blackhawks have scored the higher ratings cumulatively.

if you can't figure out how to do that, then please find the nearest elementary school and enroll yourself.

Just so you know, Bulls are at 2.12 this year and that will drop in the final month.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Don't misplace your anger at me. It's zero coincidence that NBA fanboy Dan Bernstein has widened his homosexual horizons from Sam Hinkie to now include Theo Epstein.

This thread is getting good. It will probably get even better as soon as Julie DiCaro says something stupid and all the hockey fans migrate over to her topic.

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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

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

A Cub fan literally started a thread saying the postseason results don't matter because the Cubs heroic GM did all he could and that was good enough. MANY Cub fans agreed. So nope, not taking your "NBA fans don't care about results and only care about being GM fanboys!" complaint seriously.

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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