my name's david, i do twice as much work for half of what hanley made. i also throw grass in the air and write a daily column indicating which direction it flew

You think management would have it edited out that quickly without one of the hosts being pissed about it?

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They even took about the part where Allen asked his first name? (Can't listen at the moment.) You could tell Haugh was annoyed.

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

Yet they have no problem playing audio of other people in the media’s awkward moments . They’re all sensitive bitches and I’m even giving Haugh the benefit of the doubt that he didn’t order or want it scrubbed . That’s all Mitch or that idiot Rhodes.

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

This has always been the case. Any legal or embarrassing matter by a athlete or otherwise know person big or small it is a huge story to be trumpeted and beaten to death. Someone at the station or their pal not so much. Earliest example I remember was North's DUI compared to Ditka's.

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Paul Allen is the goods.

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I mean, they did a hatchet job on Hanley so I would imagine they wouldn't want anything to potentially re-open the wound for listeners who bristled about it at the time ... ideally, they just want it thrown down the memory hole never to be thought or spoken of again. Just my guess ... maybe it's some combo of all three parties (Rhodes, Haugh, Mgmt). Who knows.

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Someone call into Can't Do It with this question.

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Team Cutler.

Agree 100%. He is a red ass.

Heard this live. Holy cannoli, the word "awkward" doesn't begin to describe this exchange!

Didn't listen to podcast but Mulli was tripping over himself trying to keep it from going REALLY bad, Allen was blatantly pointed and Haugh couldn't have sounded more offended.

I can't believe that all made it over the air.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Be sure to tune in to Bernstein and McKnight and also McNeil and Parkins to hear them, for some reason, play inane clips of Mike Francesa and pretend like it's interesting, funny, or that anyone in this market cares!

I absolutely care and find the Francesa stuff hilarious. I even posted it in the Best of Twitter thread!

But you DO have a point.

Everyone has always made fun of Francesa but Deadspin's been doing it with extra fervor because he came back out of retirement to displace a woman and a black guy who had taken over his shift. Kinda surprised Entercom, which now owns WFAN along with the Score, doesn't tell them to cut it out.

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Was the show that replaced him tanking in the ratings?

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

I don't remember, but ratings were probably down. I know the early reviews of Maggie Gray with Bart Scott were not favorable at all and it was only once Francesa Jay-Lenoed his way back in that everyone rushed to their aid.

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Yep. If you dis the WNBA there will be dozens of stories. But actually cover the games? No way.

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

What was the hatchet job?

Only thing I ever wondered about Hanley is if he and Thayer ever fucked.

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I heard Thayer "takes it in the seat" but never heard any rumors about Hanley.

Heard something here a while back, a Feder article referenced how good of an "uncle" he is, whatever that means, and the dude is in much too good of shape for a Chicagoan of his age.

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE

Does anyone know if Brian's last day on the Score was his actual last day of his contract?

I am pretty sure Steve Dahl had a story about Thayer banging his kids nanny in Hawaii.

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@audioidkid

The interesting thing (to me at least) is that WEEI in Boston--which is also owned by Entercomm--also frequently plays the same clips of Francesa, who is an evident source of amusement for the station's prime time hosts.

I don't think this overlap is coincidental. There's definitely some kind of overarching branding/promotional strategy at work here, although it's likely not functioning in precisely the way the corporate overlords intended.

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A lot of the Francesa stuff getting replayed on the radio just strikes me as company trying to jump on a trend years after the fact, like "See, don't you cool young kids find it hilarious to laugh at this old goof?". The first FrancesaCon was almost 5 years ago now.

The alternate theory though could just be Deadspin upping their Francesa content and hosts in all of these markets being even more dependent on them and similar sites now for things to talk about. That could definitely explain it for Bernstein at least.

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Yeah, but the nanny's name was Russell.

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Yeah, Deadspin has been making fun of Francesa for years, but it was only once he displaced a black guy and a woman that it really got personal.

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Does Fels work there ?

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

With all the holiday fill in shifts that are available, I wonder if Brian was even considered?

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I'm guessing he wants no part of it.

Mulli called haugh brian to start the 6am hour and quickly corrected himself... never forget your special bond with brian Illum

Haugh unphased then started talking about how the bears RT position was a real liability at times last season but immediately followed with saying he was pleased that there will be continuity on the O line now that massie is signed.