B&B was at its best when they would let some dumbass caller make an ass of themselves and then Terry would laugh at them and Dan would scream at them.

Callers were part of the experience. I mean we got "quotes of the year" from callers. Without callers we don't get "well maybe Mike North knows" or "What about Danks?"

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

You see what happened here? The subject was Mac's dismissal. I post about a discussion I had with him about the station no longer taking calls, like it did for decades. This whole thread turns on a dime and the discussion is about the station taking calls.

That is what a call on the air can do. It can provoke discussion on a subject the hosts were not even considering prior to the call. It can get further participation from callers wanting to support or oppose that callers opinion as well. It can make for great radio. It did for a lot of years. You get Mike North back on the Score taking calls.....the ratings double.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Who didn't laugh when the Monsters would play Hendrix?

Are you stoned or pissed off, or both, when you create these postings?

That's suedeoscience.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

The callers have value. One of the best things that taking calls did was it allowed the hosts and the station to gauge what the interest happened to be on a particular topic. It seems that one of the biggest complaints that I hear on here is from people that hate to be force-fed topics and views all of the time. Taking calls helped eliminate that because when people were disinterested in hearing about something they tended to call less often. Phone lines tended to be empty thus that was a signal to move on to another topic.

Another thing that would happen as a result of taking calls was that often times something that had not previously been discussed would get discussed. Often from something that emanated from the mind of a caller.

The no caller thing only works if you have the sort of guests that Chet would pump out. The score usually didn't have the those sort of guests. Typically they'd have some local scribe on to bash Reinsdorf, McCaskey, or the Tribune and that would be about it.

You make a good point. I think callers are better if they have a coherent question for the guest, but you can't let meatball callers ask Jed Hoyer "why does Bryant suck after he was hit in the head?"

There are just so many bad callers. That's in part on the producers. And Les.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Yeah. I remember the golden age of callers. Like whenever I'd hear, "here is City of Fools", I knew it was time to turn the radio off.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

B&B was at its best when they would let some dumbass caller make an ass of themselves and then Terry would laugh at them and Dan would scream at them.

Callers were part of the experience. I mean we got "quotes of the year" from callers. Without callers we don't get "well maybe Mike North knows" or "What about Danks?"

Son, they’re gonna beat on your white ass like it’s a rented mule

ask the ratings book

do you think you have intelligent, witty hosts discussing sports topics now?

None of the hosts are perfect but there are elements of Bernstein, Parkins, Spiegel, and Mac that make/made me enjoy listening to them. In addition to intelligent and wit, having a sense of humor, being a good storyteller, being interesting, and having a generally agreeable personality are important as well.

Good points....let's itemize them:
- Intelligent: I don't think any of the hosts are dumb, but....there's being intelligent and then trying to sound OVERLY-intelligent. That's a trend we've seen over the last 10 years.
- Wit: This is long gone
- Sense of Humor: This is long gone
- Good Storyteller: Also long gone.....
- Interesting: Nope.....there's much more reading of news updates, interviews. Same thing you get on TV and every other media. Sports talk radio lost everything that made them unique by taking out the interaction with callers. All the other crap can be found elsewhere
- Agreeable Personality: This may be true, but I don't find it very relevant. I don't need them to be agreeable. Arguably they're more agreeable and soft now then they were in their prime.