I forgot about that!! WGN will replace Spike with North. They don't have Marconi Giardinera advertising!!! That what they need to put them over the top in the mornings!

Maybe the Gospel station needs a sports update guy! They already beat North, but maybe an update guy is needed.

560 would be a good fit. They have dimwits hosting right wing rant shows all day long on that meatball channel. Mike North would fit right in.

Can you imagine the irony if the increasingly strange Dennis Miller lost another job or time slot...again to a guy who alleges to appeal to the sports/meathead dynamic? Justice, I say!

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Coast- Did you like working with Mike? You may have answered this before but I dont remember. Did you use small words and draw pictures for him?

Is he really as dumb as he "acts"?

I think Mike's talking about the Mobil, Shell, BP, Speedway, Citgo, and Thornton's gas stations. But I honestly don't he'd fit the Citgo image, so maybe it's really just 5 stations.

Im hoping(more like praying) they bring someone in soon to take that spot from him. Between Mike North and Mike and Mike in the morning I cant take much more of this shit ass radio in the morning.

Careful there Coast. A certain 560 personality is here ALL the time.

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I'd ask if it is you, but I always thought of you more as a 420 personality.

Does Dennis Miller post here?

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Did Mikey continue his attacks? He now had some fresh ammo with the Teddy's take on B and B's program.

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When I worked with him, Mike seemed to be a very smart guy about his business. I don't think he is dumb at all. There aren't many dumb self-made guys in this world who parlay a 10th grade education into a million plus annual salary. I believe his schtick is real. He truly believes what he says. He doesn't know what he doesn't know but thinks he knows it all....especially about non-sports issues. That is not an unusual trait for an uneducated person and it doesn't make him a bad guy. And that combination worked for him on Chicago radio very well for 10+ years. Some radio listeners apparently like strong opinions on their radio, even if they are wrong or uninformed opinions. And that is why I think 560 would be a fit for him. They have other hosts like that already.

I had a respectful, amiable relationship with Mike. He is a nice guy to the people around him. He was nice to me. I didn't "hang" with him at all, but for the few minutes a week we talked on the show, it was fun while it lasted. He would sometimes challenge my picks. Good point counterpoint stuff. I liked doing the show and the remotes in Vegas, at Ditkas and a few other places, especially when Doug was there. I genuinely like, admire, respect and enjoyed being around Doug. Mike and I never talked about things other than sports, so pictures weren't necessary.

He said something to me once, when we were in Vegas, that was really enlightening to me. He was talking about playing golf and tennis, etc. and I said maybe he and I could play a round of golf sometime. He said "Coast, I don't want to play golf with you. I know you for one reason: your sports picks. I don't need to know you for any other reason." Or something to that effect. He made it very clear where I stood with him. Some people might consider that rude. I just chalked it up to his very direct style. Bebe was sitting right there, very graciously, smiling like she had heard this before. She is a jewel. One thing about Mike. He outkicked his coverage with her.

I don't think that's rude. Mike saying that to you Coast. That's fine. He was kind of big timing you but that's fine. He was being honest. Better than saying "Sure Coast, we'll play" while all along having no intention of doing so.

Mike is the guy that tries to be friends with people bigger than him too. Only those people patronize or placate him and pretend they are his friend. Reinsdorf is a perfect example. I'm sure there are others.

I find that kind of ironic that Mike accepts being patronized when he won't do it to others.

Coast, I think thats a terrific example of how you and North both look at things. It's a credit to you that you took it how you did.

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+1 (minus the doing the show and remotes part )

Since his first appearance on the Score, Doug has always seemed like a good guy/class act. No pretense, just a good guy. I've oddly enough even disregarded the Rush, since Buffone took a bath on the 'Bruisers' (?) ... and before the great 'Coatch' brought 'the light' into indoor arena football.

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It's not just his success on the radio that would indicate intelligence. He had a very successfull hot dog stand as well. Many critics like to use the "hot dog vendor" as an insult. I've always thought it was a testament to Mike having business skills as he has had success in two very different fields.

The point really isn't whether or not North's a good guy. The only point that counts is he is a very highly paid host of a low rated, bad radio show. No one is going to continue to pay excessive dollars for his lousy results. It's just bad business.

Good comments about Doug Buffone. He doesn't come across as the most book-learned guy in the world; has been known to butcher a word or two now and then; as an NFL player, radio guy, and man-about-town has certainly had the chance to rub elbows with some famous people . . . in other words, he has a lot of North's qualities in him. Furthermore, when he hosted mornings (well, co-hosted with Van Lier), I didn't think it was a particularly good radio show, so more in common with Mike. Yet, I don't find Doug offensive at all. In fact, I find him rather likeable. He just doesn't hit you in the face with who he is and why he's so great and why the world better stop and listen when he opens his damn mouth. What North is like in private, I can't speak to, but his on-air persona is pretty brutal.

Everybody loves Dougie.

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If the quality of his hot dogs bears the same relationship to his success as a hot dog vendor as the quality of his radio show bears to his success as a radio performer, there must have been a lot of peole admitted to hospitals for food poisoning in the vicinity of his hot dog stand "back in the day."

North had an incredibly strong run as the voice of the SCORE. He has recently lost his way, but I think the talent is still present for him to have an excellent show.

I equate this fall from grace with a great head coach who also takes on the position of general manager.

When do you consider him to have "lost his way," because when he was still on in afternoons, long before all this morning stuff erupted, I absolutely could not stomach him anymore, but then I at least had MJH as a local alternative to him.

If he can truly come back, maybe in a different time slot and with a different attitude about what his show should be about and get decent ratings and have fewer than, say, 7 out of 10 poll respondents wanting to can his ass, more power to him. Usually, however, once someone goes off on a massive ego trip like this and starts to think they're infallible and the whole world is against them, it's very, very difficult to recover.