I hope not, he was driving his grandkids to chik-fil-a

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Yeah it was that he enjoys the grandparent experience so much because a grandparent and a grandchild both have a common enemy in the parent and they get to do everything they can to make their life miserable

Earlier in the interview he yelled at his grandkids to get their seatbelts buckled

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So this was Danny Bernstein 's response to Trump shooting. Hope karma exists and some gang bangers are having a bad night soon near his northside house by WGN studios.


Dan Bernstein
@dan_bernstein
My young cousin just said "Surviving an assassination attempt with fist pumps is like getting an Infinity Gauntlet."

nah, not a bit at all.

Jingoistic behavior is one of his targets.

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on air, dan begged marcus stroman to ignore a team usa call-up and play for team puerto rico. said playing with lindor is more fun than playing for team usa. dan also told mark de rosa, that he was all in on team israel, at the wbc.

dan picks and chooses which examples of nationalism are ok and which aren't. by coincidence, MLB's field of dreams game is also outdated. iowa, corn...middle america, all no good. wants the game played in the dominican rep.

60 year old Dan is cutting edge.

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That Field of Dreams game has run its course. It was always a gimmick and we've already seen the spectacle enough times that we don't need to see it for a while.

its no BP Cup

Or Solheim Cup, which is the Ryder Cup for women.

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Bernstein said today he's hit one home run in his whole baseball playing days. I think he might be exaggerating the amount.

By how much?

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http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

The inside the parker counts, motherfucker.

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little league ground ball single that rolled past the right fielder picking dandelions

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I know this week is pretty boring without much sports stuff.

But a malort guest and chat?

Oy.

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Paired with Grote today, Dan sounded like a giant weight had been lifted off his chest and he could finally have fun again. Sounded like he appreciated having a cohost who was actually funny and capable of keeping a conversation interesting.

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I am here for the Larry sideswipes! Nice work. Grote seems fun with anyone. I'm unclear why he got moved off the Cubs for the insufferable Zack Zaidman.

I assume the caller "Mario from Hyde Park" is Leery?

Dan and Leila ask callers for their Bears Action Plan.

"Mario" calls with his Bears thoughts, but before he gets to that he says it's his birthday today. At the end of the call they ask about his plans for his birthday. He says he can't go out and get too crazy tonight because he's moderating a panel discussion tomorrow. The follow up question is, quite naturally, what the panel discussion is about. It's about Black...things.

A man in his 50s announcing it's his birthday is on-brand for someone like Leery.

Dan just did this bit a few weeks ago. Holmes, in typical fashion, repeats what Dan does. Such hilarious radio.

Sounds like Bernstein having extremely high blood pressure and anxiety issues. Hope he feels better and gets things under control.

Dan Bernstein, anxious? Whaaat?

BP is easily fixable.

Democracy is on the line in 2024.

Larry did allude to the Bernstine Grote pairing on Monday as an aside, said something like, "well hey if some of the listeners liked the yuk a muk time with grote then Fine i guess."

Yeah larry. That's what I want. I want fun radio with a guy who can give and take and be funny. I want a non creepy guy without an inferiority complex to either get to the point once in a while or at least have fun on the air.

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I was so high on Leery back when he had his little 2-hour punch and judy show, because I thought he was that. He sounded like he could be the fun, comic book/wrestling nerd who didn't take sports too seriously. For some reason he saw Jason Goff fall up stairs with the angry race hustling bit, and El Senor abides.

I always found his 2 hour show odd because he just replayed interviews from other shows and it was a "Best of the Score".

He's since though, as you said, become a grifter.

He was always a grifter. Playing other people’s content was his way of avoiding being the host of the show he was hosting.

Guy sucks. I think he’s mechanically adept at radio hosting, but I assume that’s all stuff that an be taught.

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Absolutely. I'm OK with a dork who wants to talk about comic books, superhero movies, and his Lance Briggs fetish, but you need to be able to formulate an original--or at least coherent--thought about those niche topics to maintain my interest. Holmes has never been able to do that. He has pretty good interviewing skills--as far as Score hosts go, at least--but he really doesn't offer much beyond that. He's a thin-skinned narcissist whose sports knowledge amounts to little more than a recitation of advanced stats that anyone with access to Google can find. Despite all of these flaws, however, he's still less annoying than Leila.

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Grote has an inferiority complex and I bet can be plenty creepy

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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could just be a plug for that on line therapy he's been pimping

We look at him working four hours a day, making a big salary with no demands and having a loving extended family and think there couldn't be anything that would cause stress. We don't know the half of what goes on in a person's life

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He's still vastly more entertaining than Holmes.

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