Shows used to be filled with sound clips making fun of a host/guest/caller screwing up a name or a caller acting the fool. Hosts regularly challenged team reps, columnists, each other. Each show had listener driven unique fun segment (caning, who you crappin', shot clock, etc.) Personality driven radio with some offbeat guys yakkin' about sports.

Impossible today because they would never dare do anything to challenge or embarrass a guest/host and they never take callers. Larry Horse would never have a job today. None of the hosts/producers are clever enough to come up with unique fun segments. Could never get a Neil from Northlake call through today.

So (have to use Nagy "so's" now because he likely has a short shelf life) we have show after show, segment after segment of tedious, non-personality driven radio. The hosts today would not have been considered for spots at the genesis of the station.

Well said. Gutless, cookie cutter, unimaginative radio. Main concern now is to bow to their liberal PC god. Guys who've never made a fist pushing data. We must all conforn. No more fun radio. No varied opinions on life. Play everything safe.

Here's a clip I dug up of the Score's program director going over the upcoming days show with a yes man host.

Shows used to be filled with sound clips making fun of a host/guest/caller screwing up a name or a caller acting the fool. Hosts regularly challenged team reps, columnists, each other. Each show had listener driven unique fun segment (caning, who you crappin', shot clock, etc.) Personality driven radio with some offbeat guys yakkin' about sports.

On Parkins and Speigel they routinely play sound bites making fun of other hosts, including themselves. Obviously, they don't to this with Holmes since he so thin-skinned and has a lot of angry tendencies. I agree that segments like Friday Fung and WYC are sorely missed. But if you remember, there was a lot of criticism on this forum about WYC in the last few years that it ran.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Huge difference how P & S interview Boomer & Olin Kreutz. They appear to be petrified of Kreutz. No pissy snide remarks on Kreutz's thoughts. Only marveling on his insight. No signature Spiegel's faint sighs of disgust. Spiegel's vast O line knowledge touched on data as an evaluating tool, which Kreutz downplayed. 2 trained poodles sitting up for a treat with Kreutz. 2 pissy bitches with Boomer. So bad it's good.

Laurence Holmes is a fucking weirdo, a nerd in denial, and a wannabe. Not a very good radio host either.

why does kreutz have the vanilla ice/snoop dog twang in his spoken voice? cultural appropriation.

why does kreutz have the vanilla ice/snoop dog twang in his spoken voice? cultural appropriation.

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

It's a Hawaiian accent. It sounds like Minnesota Jamaican to me.

Born: June 9, 1977 (age 44 years), Honolulu, HI

Mark Potash on with P & S. Parkins thinks Fields well save the franchise.

Parkins- I think what's happening in Cincinnati is a good one (example). Cincinnati...The Bungles... forever. Get the #1 pick and it's Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow looks like he could be a top 5 QB. For a long ass time. That's the hope with Justin Fields. That he's Bears proof. That's he's the magic elixir on all of this.

Mark Potash- Right now the early evidence is he's not. (a rare Chicago media honest opinion on Fields)

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

Parkins did a good job interviewing Steve Stone by minimizing his participation after a question.

Interesting SS never was employed by the Cubs (like he is with the Sox), but by WGN when he broadcasted Cubs games.

Kinda touched on his Murph feud.

He also threw in a little dig about the current Score's lack of listener participation (phone calls) citing how enjoyable meeting & talking to fans was when he did Score remotes.

Interesting SS never was employed by the Cubs (like he is with the Sox), but by WGN when he broadcasted Cubs games.

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

I would think Stone loathes interacting with the peasants, unless it is the people who worship him

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Parkins did a good job interviewing Steve Stone by minimizing his participation after a question.

Interesting SS never was employed by the Cubs (like he is with the Sox), but by WGN when he broadcasted Cubs games.

Kinda touched on his Murph feud.

He also threw in a little dig about the current Score's lack of listener participation (phone calls) citing how enjoyable meeting & talking to fans was when he did Score remotes.

Hanley on today said the Cubs are very involved in what can & can't be said about the team by Score hosts. Contradicting what Parkins and other Score hosts have falsely claimed.

I used to Score host the Ricketts thing at the Cubs convention, and we'd have a week's worth of conference calls, and emails, and talking points. And don't ask this, and we don't want to talk about that.