Also, I'm the 1 guy in 100000 for whom the Hawks have always been my #1 team, and the thinly veiled disdain for the Hawks, their fans and the sport of hockey by the entire station except Mac, Zawaski and Grobber has become increasingly hard for me to abide over time.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

In its prime, it was the ECW of sports radio.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

In its prime, it was the ECW of sports radio.

I rarely troll.

Not even TNA?

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

No...I would say the Spiegel/Mannelly/Goff/Terry Retirement/Parkins/Bernstein/Goff era would be 2010-2012 TNA.

We are currently in 1998 WCW territory

I rarely troll.

Ouch. That was pre-NWO, right?

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

It's funny how this works. They're both talented hosts, but together, it was never right.

Hulk Hogan was battling Kevin Sullivan's Dungeon of Doom.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

My favorite part of that whole feud was when The Giant got knocked off the top of the parking garage at Cobo Hall during the Monster Truck deal and still came back to win the title (by DQ!!!) an hour later at Halloween Havoc 95...Yay WCW

My favorite part of that whole feud was when The Giant got knocked off the top of the parking garage at Cobo Hall during the Monster Truck deal and still came back to win the title (by DQ!!!) an hour later at Halloween Havoc 95...Yay WCW

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

WCW got by because they taped weeks of TV at a time and didn't tour. The WWF making it through the tough times is the real mystery.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Same.

Terry even gave up baseball talk. All he would say about baseball is that "Yup, I, I, I enjoy it ."

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The Bernstein tree's attitude of "everything's fine and nothing matters" really kind of undoes the whole premise of the station: we know the shit doesn't really matter. That's the fun of it. If I shouldn't care what's going on, I'll go do something else.

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The pussification of spmack.

I was listening to transition today and something funny came up that relates to this thread. People often lament that WSCR is no longer "The Voice of The Fan", and Parkins said the station is the voice of the fan because his friends love the NBA and the Bulls, and when they're going to interview John Paxson he can text his friends ahead of time to let them know. His friends also like that he can ask Jason Benetti to wish them a happy birthday during a White Sox game.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I was listening to transition today and something funny came up that relates to this thread. People often lament that WSCR is no longer "The Voice of The Fan", and Parkins said the station is the voice of the fan because his friends love the NBA and the Bulls, and when they're going to interview John Paxson he can text his friends ahead of time to let them know. His friends also like that he can ask Jason Benetti to wish them a happy birthday during a White Sox game.

As someone else mentioned it seems like McNeil and Parkins don't take many calls during their show, but Parkins thinks they're the voice if the fan because he can do favors for his buddies.

Saw a spmack post in the McNeil & Parkins section about not listening to much sports talk radio anymore, and I realized that I'm in the same boat, I went from being able to listen straight through the lineup whenever I could and trying to make time daily to listen to as much of The Score as I could, to now driving with the radio off more often than not and listening to podcasts while I'm on the range. And given how often the shows get posted about here nowadays, I'm guessing MANY are as well.

So my question is a simple one: Why?

Starting with me...I guess I just don't find it (in general, not just specifically any show) compelling enough to sit through 5-minute commercial breaks while I'm at the gym when I could be listening to Carolla crack wise. Maybe some of that loss of interest is due to being pushed away by the late political turn of B&B and later B&G literally telling me not to listen, but I can't honestly say that's all of it, because while they put on a better show than the previous afternoon drive show, I don't find McNeil & Parkins to be all that compelling, either.

It could also be the management-friendly tone taken up by MANY. If every time I tune in I hear a host telling me "everything is going to be fine" with a second-place Cubs team that was supposed to be a perennial World Series contender, I'm either going to call bullshit an not listen, or think "hey, everything is going to be fine, guess there's no reason to listen any more until the postseason" and turn off.