Good for him that he found another path when the radio career didn't pan out.

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

Yeah, Lawrence The Barber played ball with us at one of the Hoops get togethers at Hiawatha Park. It was Goff, LA, and Matt Weber.

This was quite a read.

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Isnt Weber like a custodian now?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Buncha white guyz opining on lack of diversity in the media!!

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

He should have stayed @ com ed

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I agree with you guys.

This was a great read.

Maybe the best thread in board history. Not joking. You guys had lots of interesting things to say and made me think.

Who was the guy that made the article to spark this? What does he do?

READ THIS PAGE

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

My first post was clear. Besides Van Lier it was complete. It seems like it bothers you and your reaction is quite emotional. I don't believe that's a long list and success is rare. As the original repost said if you are a black man enter Chicago sports radio why would you think you'll succeed when the only one to do it is a former Bear who helped start the station and has been gone for over a decade?

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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!

Shoulder full of stripes , pocket full of pink slips.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

I guess getting fired in Atlanta and Chicago bumped him up to the rank of General Goff.

So Holmes hasn't been a success? Hood has made a long career out of being on the radio. And Goff has had multiple chances. Now it's the duty of the audience to listen to a show they don't enjoy so that the host can be successful?

As you have pointed out there was not great competition. Yet, Goff could not beat Waddle and Silvy. Perhaps, it was literally not caring what the audience wanted to hear and proudly boasting about it on the air rather than - oh a black man can't make it because you know. That's how discourse breaks down. Everything has to be viewed through some social justice lens of for us or against us. If you disagree even slightly then you don't have a valid point because you must be evil.

And stop with your condescending bullshit. You can infer the emotion of the writer based. You know that all people who said they weren't listening to Bernstein and Goff secretly were. Turns out they weren't, and it's not the people predicting a change that look stupid.

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

It wasn't me who came up with what is the important timeslots and I have no desire to defend that night shifts aren't nearly as important as the day shifts.

It's not about social justice. It's just the reality of just how few the chances are and how all but one ended quickly. You can't argue that so you do the standard responses about SJW.

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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!

This is a business, and you too far gone to see that yet! I told you before, you're not packin' them in like you used to. No one digs your radio show but yourself. Let me give you a piece of advice, junior: your show makes sense to no one... but yourself.

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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

And if someone Jason's age can't believe that they can gain from learning from their elders, they're delusional. Do you seriously think that Jason ever picked up the phone and called a Dan Jiggetts or a Robert Jordan or a Phil Ponce or a Jim Rose or even a Michael Wilbon and said "I want to be honest to my beliefs but I want to be more popular too. How did you get longevity?"

Jason still has a bright future if he's willing to understand what his deficiencies are and either fix them or work within them. Sadly, he comes across as thinking that those deficiencies are his greatest strengths.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Goff thought his echo chamber was reality.

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Elections have consequences.

Irony

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Still does....

I heard you can get pregnant from echo chambers.

And Tom Chambers.

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Goff said specifically, if you don't like us, don't listen. I turned it off, as did a lot of people. People don't usually get fired when they are winning the ratings battles.

This isn't just about Goff. Ironically, in terms of time spent as a daytime host, it seems like he is either second or third in total time spent there. No one really seems to know much about Norm Van Lier and his time on the radio so he may have had more time but Goff got 3 years. I don't think Hampton and Holmes got 3 years but I can't say that for certain.

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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!

Van Lier's time on the Score was curtailed by a few incidents that occurred outside of the job. I remember him battling alcohol problems. He also had a run in with someone that made headlines. All of this stuff is ancient history and i'm sure that I'm forgetting some details but I remember this happening.

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I have no doubt bernstein thinks that the problem is that the fan just isn't smart enough for the kind of radio he and Jason were doing. It's a really arrogant viewpoint. Much like Hillary Clinton. If people don't like me there's something wrong with them. They're racists, idiots, whatever, because if they weren't they'd love me.

There are plenty of people as intelligent and as educated as dan bernstein who simply don't want their sports shows to be social justice lectures. He can tell himself it's because he's smarter than everyone else if it makes him feel better, but he's wrong and he's out of drive time.

And I quoted CH above because the last part of his post is particularly relevant. "Expertise" is highly valued among modern liberals. I believe the current focus on "expertise" is probably because of some of the people the president has surrounded himself with. I don't want to get political here, but it's really just a philosophical difference. Trump likes what he considers "common sense". The professional managerial neoliberals value wonkiness above all else. Again, forget the politics and your own opinion, that isn't my point. As CH asks, what is bernstein's expertise on these subjects? He acts as if he's above everyone else, but he's really just another motherfucker bloviating like Rush Limbaugh.

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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

Ironically one of Bernstein's favorite words.

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Hampton could not talk. Have you listened to Leery's show? Like half his show is replaying other people's shows.

LA is most likely the producer who came out to Hoops 2. His nickname was Helicopter, but I can't remember his actual name. Somebody will. He came with Goff and Webby.

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

I already did.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

CoF has spmack on ignore.

Very SAD.

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And Nas.

Sensing a pattern from Fool.

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CoF has the same issue as Beardown. He wants anything like that to be about him

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."