vitoscotti wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
http://mediaburn.org/video/chicago-slices-raw-mike-murphy-wscr/
Heeeeeey, it's Murph doing the evening show in 1993! In the first few minutes, I caught Mac, Boers (who at this point was still being somewhat civil with Murph), Ron Gleason, and Jerry Riles. And of course, the yellow pad!
Seems like way too much going on for one man to handle, then try to talk about sports.
I remember listening to Murph in the early days at wls and especially early at the score losing his temper a lot. The producer would screw something up and Murph would go ballistic. He'd literally be screaming go to commercial now several times. They'd return from commercials and he'd be calmed down but still steaming.
Really tense and you could see why tempers flew.
Murph at WLS was a different Murph at the score.
@ WLS he had a Sunday night show if I remember. Once a week show. He was really eased back and you could tell in his voice he just felt like the luckiest guy to be on the air. He use to even take callers from mentally hanidcapped people who their dads/moms would put on the phone to talk w/ Murph and Murph would be great with them. He would say 'hey pal' or something really nice to make the person feel important. A caller once called and thanked him and murph gave credit to an old Chicago radio person who I dont remember the name of right now.
@ the Score Murph turned into something else. Remember the early score was on like 5 hours a day but as they grew, seems like murph's patience diminished. those same calls he use to take for those mentally hanicapped kids he didnt have time for. I remember one guy who was a old caller from WLS tried to put his kid on and murph wasn't in a playful mood. the guy at the end of the call said like he was disappointed. I'm sure as the years went by more shit was going on at WSCR that murph really couldn't take anymore. If it wasn't for the bullies mcneil and boers or murphs show booking huge ratings but still being 3rd fiddle to the HFC or North and Jiggets.
Then there was an infamous call from channel 32 sports anchor. Williams? i forgot his name right now but african american dude who called murph a racist on the air. at the time everyone was confused why he would do that but later on on the old forums we heard from ex producers where murph would say or imply some really stupid insensitive things about african americans. and of course the producers say he was abusive to everyone of them
who knows what happened but those 2 murphs were different. also could be guy was getting older and cranky.