AbbysDrawers wrote:
What was the Boers/Murph feud about anyway?
Mike Murphy vs. Terry Boers
Before agreeing last year to have his "Boers and Bernstein" show moved from mid-days to afternoons, Terry Boers put forth a non-negotiable request: He would not take part in "transitions" with Mike Murphy, the Score's host from noon to 2. Rosen restored the transitions—segments in which the hosts gab freely with one another for 5 to 10 minutes—when he joined the Score last year. But there's no transition banter between the Score's afternoon shows.
"I'm not interested in speaking to him," Boers said. "Not on the air, not off the air, not anywhere."
The feud started in the early '90s after Murphy played a cut from a '69 Cubs reunion show. During an interview with second baseman Nate Oliver, Murphy said something that struck Boers and then-partner McNeil as a little odd.
"[Murphy] sounded like he was a charter member of the Village People," McNeil said.
McNeil approached his producer to make a cut of what Murphy had said. McNeil and Boers played it the next day on their show.
"[Murphy] came in giving Terry the finger, saying he's a cancer, all guns blazing," McNeil said. "I was just as guilty in trying to make [Murphy] look the fool. Terry didn't care one way or another."
But Murphy, for reasons that remain unexplained, took out all his ill will on Boers. The feud has not subsided. Boers occasionally mocks Murphy by playing less-than-flattering clips from his show.
And Murphy, whom some at the station describe as overly sensitive, once grew so annoyed that he waited in the studio to confront Boers, who had left for the day. Murphy declined to discuss the specifics of his feud with Boers, saying it has nothing to do with his show.
"I grew up listening to Wally Phillips on WGN," Murphy said. "He would never mention his wife, his family, what he liked to eat, who was coming on next and what so-and-so did or said. And I've always emulated Wally Phillips.
"My show is non-stop sports from the first inning to the ninth inning. I don't talk about where I eat dinner or where I buy my shoes."
Boers said that when he goes on remotes, Score listeners frequently ask him why he doesn't do transitions with Murphy.
Said Boers: "I don't want to start our show having spent a moment with him. I hope he feels exactly the same way."