28 years old today.

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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 earliest memory is listening to Murph in the evenings when the station had to go silent at sundown.

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I head a little of Gleeson and Spiegel this morning taking a walk down memory lane with Tom Shaer.

Maybe Bernstein will have Megan Glaros and Aiyana Crystal on for a walk down mammary lane.

Whatever happened to Tom Shaer?

I think he wound up with one of those nebulous "communications consultant" jobs that people get when they stop doing local TV news. I could be thinking of Tom Dore, though.

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Didn't start listening until 2003 so I missed a lot.

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Early Score was the greatest.

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Yeah, I've found the retrospective show pretty depressing because it is a painful reminder of how far the station has fallen over the past 15 years.

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Yep.

I was studying abroad so I was not a day 1 listener but it absolutely did grab me when I returned home. They had already begun working out some of the programming kinks by that time.

I was working for the county in one of those jobs where the lifers would tell me to slow down on the work because it made them look bad. I'd go into the back of the offices and flip on the Score.

The morning shows at the station sucked for about the first 15 years, really until Murph finally brought some ratings. I hated Shaer, although I already hated him from his CH 5 gig.

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Sensitive guys Parkins, Speigel, Larry would never of survived the early wide open Score.

Matt has been there for 26 years and I think Larry has been there for 20.

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It has lost its mission. It's convenient to blame Bernstein and I certainly join in. The truth is probably that it was a death by 1,000 cuts. Taking on team programming was really probably the first step in the switch from "voice of the fan".

Technological changes like phone to fax to text has effected the station as well. I do think that is overstated. If they open up the phone lines, they get calls. Texts suck.

Callers used to be as important as the hosts. There are funny and creative people out there looking for no compensation other than 1-2 minutes of air time. Bernstein wants to paint the listenership as nothing but mouth breathers.

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Not bad so far this morning. Offman, Shaer, Mac and Gleason so far. I have to imagine it might be boring for younger guys.

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Gleason and Mac said as much. They would actually get into trouble for booking too many guests and not taking as many caller opinions. I contend it was email and moreso Twitter that killed it.

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Spiegel was an intern by 93 or 94 and then a producer for the Heavy Fuel Crew.

Pretty sure Holmes was a producer or intern prior to the North-engineered deep throat coup in 99.

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I thought Matt had quite a break in the middle in LA and on national radio.

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In a bio that may not exist anymore after however many website relaunches, Leery actually wrote something like "I consider myself the last of the first generation of Score hosts."

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That's about when I started listening and why I never understood the Terry Boers love. I suppose in the 90's he was capable of forming a coherent thought. I also wonder if some of the love for the early Score was born from the paucity of other sources of sports information. Now, if you want sports talk/information you can go to a zillion places. Back then, it was your friends/family, the newspaper, the local nightly news, or the Score.

My commute and work schedule back then was such that I heard every weekday show for the 1st 2 years - from the moment Tom Shaer said good morning until it shut down at dusk. Back then they actually had a news guy (the late Tom Webb). Jim Memolo came along a year or two later to try to offset Shaer's lack of personality.

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I used to love Memolo, he always struck me as an underutilized talent at the station. A little further down the line, Joe Bartosh was also an entertaining backup who could never break in to the regular lineup. Kind of like Mark Grote, now, in some ways I guess. Shaky Siuntris (sp?) also falls into this category.

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Nope.

The Score was able to make a connection with listeners. It was entertaining radio that veered far beyond sports talk and the information wasn't all that great. They had a fiercely loyal listenership.

The golden era of the station ended when with North deviously getting Monsters and Heavy Fuel Crew broke up. I don't think anyone who started listening after that time can understand just how good of a listen the station was back then

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Shakey produced some funny, pre recorded bits that would have been good comedy even on comedic radio shows. His Tyson impersonation was hysterical particularly when he said Lenox Lewis.

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They were North's and Mac's cabana boys.

Sometimes I'm still reminded of his line "670 The Score, Chicago's home for Bear fans, and also fans who are fully clothed."

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They were there and managed to survive it so that means you were wrong.

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Meatpants being there for 26 yrs does not sound right. I know he was around early on, but didn't he have a pretty big break before he came back with Mac

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I think he did some things that kept him technically employed by them. Not sure why they would cut the promos with that if it wasn't true.

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yeah, maybe so. I don't really care, just didn't sound right.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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He switched over to XRT for a bit as well that was co-owned.

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