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I heard the interview. I didn't take it as a threat. I actually didn't understand what Goff meant. I'm not sure Goff knew what he meant. He's always been the type of guy to just puke out words. He loves talking.

Larry did call Goff a hero. How is Jason Goff a hero?

It's always weird when Larry interviews Goff. He feels the need to suck Goff's dick. It's just two guys telling each other how great they are. I've said it before, I think it's cuz they are both black and feel they have to do this love fest. I actually don't think they're friends in real life.

But Larry saying Goff is a hero made me laugh. I like the Larry/Goff interviews for the entertainment. It's so stupid which makes it funny.

didn't some anonymous station employee who posted here back in the day report that when Larry had a party, cool kid producers like Goff and drinky tried to find every excuse not to attend. When they were forced to, they showed up, drank his free booze and took off as soon as possible.

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Goff is a hero because he spent a couple of hours cleaning up the commercial district in his neighborhood after the looting. He's a hero because he didn't want anyone to know about it. He just quietly put it all over twitter, had a reporter follow him around and is on the radio announcing it to Sir.

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Isn't Larry the only black host on the main Chicago talk stations? Score, ESPN 1000, wgn, wls.

yeah i love the constant bragging online about all the work

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Ok. I didn't know that. Goff is one of those types.

Don't get me wrong, sweeping up the glass from broken windows is a nice gesture. So it means you're nice. It doesn't make you a hero. Larry likes to build Goff up. Just do it Goff without telling people you did it. A bunch of non public figures did it as well, Jason.

I sometimes help old ladies load their cars at grocery stores when I see them struggling in the parking lot. That doesn't make me a hero either.

I think its great that he did the cleanup. However, he made sure to spray it all over his Twitter and have a reporter out to document and have Sir interview him about it all the while feigning a desire for anonymity.

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Real talk. Laurence is a lot of things, but I dont think he is dumb.

And let's be honest, you can be a moron and a lawyer.

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Right and you can be book smart and street dumb.

My brother is a great example. Straight A's his whole life. Then we run out of gas on his fuckin boat.

Like rearranging the deck chairs of the Titanic?

There's nothing stopping him from going to law school now.

He's definitely not dumb. He's just stunted in his emotional growth and does not have a creative mind. All the "I could have" stories flow from these flaws (baseball tryout, Yale, law school). That doesn't make him a bad guy or bad at his job. He puts together a very technically precise show.

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He is manipulative. Which doesn't make him smart or dumb.

And his emotional growth as you stated, is incredibly stunted. And his grasp on his personal reality is tenuous at best.

The odd part of all of this is he runs a technically sound show, which he learned from observing Murph.

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My older brother, perfect score ACT and SAT. Considered boy genius. When he was 16 his car broke down in the middle of Lake Cook and Waukegan road intersection. major intersection. My brother decided that was a perfect time to go to Cisco's restaurant and have a sit down dinner and then afterwards he walked 3 miles to a friend's house to use his phone. Meanwhile, cops show up at our house demanding to know why our car is sitting in the middle of a massive intersection.

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There's no correlation between wisdom and IQ. It's been researched. Going around the block a few times and soaking in that experience is every bit as valuable as raw intelligence.

Larry's " A Chicago hero...Jason Goff" statement will go down in Score history as one of the funniest quotes ever uttered by a host. And there have been quite a few by another hero of Larry.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=le ... ORM=WRVORC

Caught a bit of Sir the other day, and he had a new (?) producer on air named Julio Rosaio (not sure of the spelling). This guy has a golden voice for radio. Couldn't tell from the short sample whether he can put two thoughts together, but maybe he can get some air time.

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He's also full of shit..."I was being scouted by the Sox while on my club team at DePaul"

Check our Larry’s twitter and see his goofy awkward recaps after the Sox game.

The first one from last night is particularly good.

He looks and acts like a large child. Yikes.

Apparently losing his TV gig.

NBC Sports Chicago is scaling back its programming and laying off employees as part of cuts across parent company NBCUniversal.

Among those let go are host Leila Rahimi and Laurence Holmes, and dropped programming includes “Sports Talk Live.”

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Thoughts and prayers am I right?

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It's not like it was a sprawling operation to begin with. I just read last week that they laid off all their technical staff and outsourced it all back to Secaucus or Stamford or whichever suburb NBC warehouses its cable operations in. Somehow this is more cost-effective than running a Chicago channel out of Chicago.

The RSNs may as well switch to being gametime-only (which would actually come full circle for a lot of markets) since game telecasts are about all they're going to produce anymore. I think they discovered that people are perfectly fine just having old games on in the background during the day and have no real desire to watch Dave Kaplan's Midday Radio Host And Tertiary Beat Writer Roundtable or anything like that. Hour for hour, you pay so much for these channels and get so little.

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Has Leery made an announcement that he was just about to tender his resignation anyway, or something along those lines? IIRC, when he was wasn't retained by Ch. 5 he essentially said he didn't really want that job anyway because he wanted to devote more time to his radio show and 120 Sports.





Good for him for having a successful, decades-long career in the 3rd largest market in the country, but I have no idea how he has lasted so long. He sounds like someone doing a parody of a stereotypically cheesy sports-talk host.

Edit: As good dolphin said, he does hustle his ass off. Part is his longevity is likely attributable to that -- "sometimes your best ability is availability."

yeah, Kaplan is definitely a direct descendant of Chet in terms of his broadcasting DNA

I have to give the guy credit, he is an old school hustler. No job is too small and he travel far and wide for a payday. I respect that, especially in light of today's four hour workday producers happy to rely on their wives jobs to be given their daily bread

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Chet was a bit before my time.. Kap is a husslin MFer tho. He'll drive to Peoria to call a hoops game at 6 pm after working 3 hours at ESPN. Benetti is a husslin MFer as well.

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Kap offers the best product in town. He’s not the best per se at a thing...but he’s sure and steady. Takes calls. Talks sports and only sports. And has fun.

The guy loves sports and would be talking about them all the time if he were not paid to talk about them. Which hosts at the Score do you think that is true of right now? Maybe Mully, Haugh and Sir.

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Too bad the annoyance factor takes over about 15-20 minutes in. He's like those CBS radio guys except he's local.