I think everyone at The Score is in survival mode, and if you have to overstate the crimes of Dan McNeil to make sure you stay on the good side of the people on twitter who decide The Score lineup then you do it.

That was my take. Parkins wasn't bad to him. I think it was a little strong to say "people you love do things you hate". Mac didn't commit some heinous crime. This isn't your finding out some deep dark secret about your favorite uncle.

Think of how fucked up it is though when we have a society that considers McNeil a "bad guy" for a dumb tweet while many are demanding the release of violent criminals in the name of "justice".

I think everyone at The Score is in survival mode, and if you have to overstate the crimes of Dan McNeil to make sure you stay on the good side of the people on twitter who decide The Score lineup then you do it.

I think everyone at The Score is in survival mode, and if you have to overstate the crimes of Dan McNeil to make sure you stay on the good side of the people on twitter who decide The Score lineup then you do it.

Some people there legitimately did Danny Mac dirty and Zawaski is chief among them. I hope that giant tub of lard is ready to offer some Uber rides when his 2nd job at Illinois Media School goes away once regulators wise up to that scam.

I didn’t like Parkins initially. As a non-North Shore Loyola Academy guy, I think I had him properly sniffed out immediately, but was willing to give him a chance. Turns out I was right. Opportunistic, no-loyalty weasel, in no small part a product of upbringing.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

I know you said this about Parkins Opie, but I think it applies in a broad way to much of what is posted on social media.

The opportunistic nature of the SJW crowd is rarely noticed.

Their lack of loyalty to anything other than clicks or likes makes the social media stratosphere such a miserable and lonely place.

I think the only logical partner for Parkins is Bernstein but they don't have enough money to add more full time people in the daytime.

I never thought about it like that. Your last two sentences explain a lot. I said this a few years back that while I fully support free speech, I have found most of social media to be a net negative. It has that junior high kind of quality to it where everyone is trying be popular, and many get hurt along the way.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Social media has positives, but it is currently a net negative. Big time.

The pressure put on young women by the likes of the Kardashians on places like Snapchat and Instagram is incredible. Women feeling ashamed of themselves for no other reason than not living up to a false narrative playing out on a constant loop.

Parko could at best be Bernsie, which means the station at best needs to pair him with someone who's funny.

I think the only guy they have left at the station that could fill that role would be Z-Pac. And I haven't heard enough of him to be sure. Otherwise it's gotta be an outside guy.

The station will literally kill itself if there are three major shows out of four with only one host. That is instant death. It cannot keep going on.

I know this isn't a popular opinion, but 2020 has been a little strange.

I never thought about it like that. Your last two sentences explain a lot. I said this a few years back that while I fully support free speech, I have found most of social media to be a net negative. It has that junior high kind of quality to it where everyone is trying be popular, and many get hurt along the way.

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

I don't want this to turn into yet another political discussion after all the work we've done to keep that shit off the front page, but it's hard for that not to happen when something like Mac's firing is so obviously informed and driven by the current political climate.

We've lost all perspective. The likely next vice president is visiting a rapist in the hospital to tell him how proud of him she is. A corporate football league has players wearing the names of murderers on their helmets. But Dan McNeil is a real bad guy because he joked about a sideline reporter's outfit.

This is what happens when we elevate people's feelings to our highest value. Did Mac's tweet hurt Maria Taylor's feelings? Probably. We've all had our feelings hurt. It certainly isn't good. But here's what we seem to have forgotten. Not only have we all had our feelings hurt, we've all hurt the feelings of others. We seem all too willing to own one thing and not the other.

Nobody remember's Jesus's admonition about letting he who is without sin cast the first stone. We've become a nation of stone casters enabled, aided, and abetted by social media.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

I am going to highly doubt that her feelings were hurt by a comment that was retracted within 20 minutes. But as you stated who fucking cares? Should a millionaire sidelines reporter only be able to receive praise? Her comment was that if a female feels confident in an outfit then no one has the right to judge. America (the country) owes Janet Jackson an apology for her Super Bowl halftime performance then.

If she was really that comfortable in her outfit then nothing Dan McNeil could say about it should bother her. But come on. Very few people are that comfortable. Most of us have doubts and insecurities. Even people who are told how great they are twenty times a day. Sometimes even especially those people.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

I don't really understand the mentality (espoused by Julie and others) that they needed to be on social media "for their jobs." Did anyone care what Dan McNeil said on Twitter "for his job"?

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

I don't want this to turn into yet another political discussion after all the work we've done to keep that shit off the front page, but it's hard for that not to happen when something like Mac's firing is so obviously informed and driven by the current political climate.

We've lost all perspective. The likely next vice president is visiting a rapist in the hospital to tell him how proud of him she is. A corporate football league has players wearing the names of murderers on their helmets. But Dan McNeil is a real bad guy because he joked about a sideline reporter's outfit.

This is what happens when we elevate people's feelings to our highest value. Did Mac's tweet hurt Maria Taylor's feelings? Probably. We've all had our feelings hurt. It certainly isn't good. But here's what we seem to have forgotten. Not only have we all had our feelings hurt, we've all hurt the feelings of others. We seem all too willing to own one thing and not the other.

Nobody remembers Jesus's admonition about letting he who is without sin cast the first stone. We've become a nation of stone casters enabled, aided, and abetted by social media.

I'll try and keep it non-political too. I think another interesting part of it is what was gained by firing Mac over this instead of suspending him? Do we really believe that any Score listener would have boycotted the station if Mac only got suspended for a week and had to make an apology? Even if you love NBA countdown and her other work at ESPN but also love The Score are you really going to have this be the line in the sand that causes you to change your behavior? I have a hard time believing that this would have been a big deal by the time he came back sometime next week or in October to anyone. However, it was an immediate dismissal to placate people you don't even have a good reason to believe are even listening based on geography alone.

So here we are a few days later, and I doubt people even care about what happened that were outraged by it, and most probably can't even name the station he worked at.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

Think of how fucked up it is though when we have a society that considers McNeil a "bad guy" for a dumb tweet while many are demanding the release of violent criminals in the name of "justice".

Spiegs is still the best partner for Parkins but Entercom is not giving anyone full-time paper

They fired Mac to save money and that is the entirety of it

Perhaps whoever buys 670 in the bankruptcy fire sale may be willing to invest something in the station and do it, but not until then.

Ah, Lemonparty, the 8th sacrament.

Maybe Parkins could pay Spiegs in partially used gift cards like he gave him for a wedding present.

Spiegs is still the best partner for Parkins but Entercom is not giving anyone full-time paper

They fired Mac to save money and that is the entirety of it

Perhaps whoever buys 670 in the bankruptcy fire sale may be willing to invest something in the station and do it, but not until then.