Great posts on the state of local sports radio today. Spot on and what everyone feels.

Remember what they said about James Brown. That when you heard his songs they resonated to what the guy on the street was feeling.

Clawmaster's posts are doing the same thing.

Nah, he's a f@g.

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He definitely embodies the boomer sentiment.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

Good poster. Good avatar.

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and what might that be ?

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

What the OP brought up.

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Not following. Claw feeling ( correctly) that todays local sports radio ( in particular 670's) sucks is a boomer sentiment ?

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

For his general reasons why- yes.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

i dont think it's a boomer thing. i think it's more multi generational except maybe for the millennials. people tune into these stations to hear sports. not SJW shit.

after just typing that, i take it back DAC. I guess you're right. Maybe the younger kids these days want to have a lot of SJW stuff on the radio and less sports. i don't know. but it may be the reason the score is going that way to build a younger audience.

maybe politics being in EVERYTHING is the way the youngin's live now and prefer to live.

another batch of fucking great posts this evening by clawmaster.

Doing the same thing as James Brown ?

I prefer the Von Erich claw to the Von Raschke claw.

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It is if you agree with him.

Clawmaster's idea of great sports radio is not my preference. I definitely prefer the current style of sports talk radio over the meatball, caller-driven shows of the 90s. But don't confuse my liking of the current style to liking all the different shows. The only show I listen to on the Score is the afternoon show. I find the rest of the shows boring and prefer listening to different podcasts.

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Lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.

That said, the posts themselves are very good.

I'm somewhere between the two of you in terms of listening preference in that I like good regular callers (for a local example, Wild Bill back in the Chet and early Score days RIP) but detest all other callers.

What I prefer is difficult to pull off anywhere these days: the original radio Sportswriters and the ESPN knockoff The Sports Reporters (the Dick Schap years). Three or four equally strong voices, shorter time frame (The Sportswriters was 5-7pm Sundays), no or maybe one guest, no callers.

One of my pursuits as we get to Spring Training is to find some good baseball podcasts. I have XM89 which gets me all the news and some reasonable analysis (Jim Memolo is actually really good in that format when he gets paired with Steve Sax on Sundays). But the podcast world is full of crap and until I retire I don't have time to sort through the shit - too many of them are bad callers with more time to pontificate.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

You making any good food for the Super Bowl today Chet ?

I probably won't even watch it. I haven't watched any of the playoffs. I may watch the Blackhawks game today as I think ESPN+ has the feed.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

it is being pulled off. Sports reporters are right here. With the original guys. They sound great as 30 years ago. Love their review of the Super Bowl yesterday.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t ... 1277836581

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Jim Memolo is actually one of my all-time favorite "no frills" sports talkers. He used to have a great weekend show on the Score. I'll have to check him out on XM.

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I like his XM show when I catch it during the season. No frills would be a good description but it’s well done so that’s a nice change of pace.

He is on something like one evening and two weekend afternoons.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Is the Clawmaster crabby?

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In a pinch, he can be.

I bet he's just boiling over.

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He seems pretty shellfish.

You'd think all this praise would get him to come out of his shell.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

and uses a lot of salty language.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

C'mon, Zippy. That's hitting us over the head with a mallet using a joke like that.

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It was the best I could do in a pinch.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

Yeah, you barely had a leg to stand on.

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Come on...I was on a roll.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb