Anyone remember this quote?

$750K a year and no overhead expenses v. No salary and tons of overhead and headaches on COMCAST ?

It's a tough tough choice?

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Remember the time he said he quit radio to persue his life long passion of being a sports betting tout?

It's getting so I can hardly trust what he says anymore.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

i dunno but the the guy has more $$$ than i'll ever have so he must be good at something.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

It's called bullshitting.

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"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." ~ H.L. Mencken

he needs all of that money to pay for his extensive line of ed hardy and armani exchange t-shirts. old dude's gotta look good

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

I know, should say work with a lot of people who make a lot of money and suck at what they do, north falls into that catagory. His talent was to bulshit his way into a huge contract, fine, he got it, he fell on his face, that money will never come his way again because of that.

North has has said he is great businessman a million times, well....why, how? He hasnt done crap since he left the score bt put money out to get his mug on the webio and comcast, i know he isnt making a profit, great sale guys go out and get big time sponsers, NDHS and Rosemont are not on that list, he is small time, its his ego that is huge, but its about to be crushed in a few months if the show continues to suck and not bring in money, because right now, it isnt.

North made a comment the other day that he would more then likely still be on the radio if it wasnt for the economy......i though the economy was ok, now its bad? Pappy and his delusional world, its something special.

How quickly you guys all forget about PappyWear...

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You know me like that.

FWIW, the sun-times today said a one-hour condensed "Monsters" recap will begin running at 11 PM.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Can you give us the rundown of folks in your wedding party Dr. Ken? I like to put names with faces.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

North refuses to take the blame for his fall. It is always everyone else's fault. When it was going good, it was all because of him.

Mr. Irrrelevant is a POS and is deserving of everything that has happened to him.

I begin at "he's not good" and after awhile I get to humility. Of course, "bombastic" is a part of the personna.

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Middle Aged Crazy, like Uncle Terry

I bet when he dies, there will be 1000 people at his wake. Wonder why that is.

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Du hockey comme dans le temps

I have him in Dark sides dead pool...predict he will have a grabber on April 1st

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Proud to be UNVERIFIED.

Open bar?

I was thinking it would be more like 670 people at his wake.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

If that were the case, I might go, depending on where it is.

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Du hockey comme dans le temps

People just happy to see him gone.

North did more to shape sports talk radio on chicago than o'brien did to shape the late night talk industry. Conan may be good, but he is purely dirivitive. North, on the other hand, ushered in modern sports talk in this city.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Thanks go to Mike for bringing "Meatballery" to the Sports Talk landscape.

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President of Blake Shetlon fan club

Oh please...
nonsense.

dolphin, don't you DARE say something positive about Nort.

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Du hockey comme dans le temps

It's a far more meaningful change that what you described.

North's work was revolutionary.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Don't be thick. There is a clear difference in talk radio pre SCORE operating and post SCORE beginning operations. North was at the forefront of this change and arguably defined style of the station in the first decade.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

most people would agree that when north first started on the score he was tolerable. most would even say they enjoyed listening to him and jiggs. he gave a fan's perspective in an annoying, loud mouth way, but he wasn't mr. bigtime ego yet. then when he got a little recognition and some leverage, he turned into the piece of shit he is today and has been for the last 10 years. he wanted his own show and he wanted to be in charge and guess what? he sucked on his own. and when it all fell apart last year, he was so desperate, he came out with dontfademe to literally con any loyal listeners he had left. "It was always my dream to take peoples money fer givin dem my sports picks" If he had any dignity left, he flushed it down the toliet with this scam. mike nort had a good career, made a shitload of money, and now he is a desperate, washed up con man shaking his cup at old friends and sponsors.

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Frank Coztansa wrote:
Please die in a fire.

Bernstein, like Conan, is good but purely derivative. Rather than revolutionary, he is closer to counter revoluationary (as he has absolutely no use for fan opinions other than as what Beardown correctly identifies as a prop). You can mark a change in sports talk in this city when North began broadcasting. There is no identifiable change in what Bernstein produces with what was produced earlier by the SCORE. He may do it better, but he is doing the same thing.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Oh wow JAWS....you may have one upped Kid Cairo on the slurpage level...

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Look back to the early days of the SCORE and it was prepared to present the same kind of product that was offered in the Chet era. They hired the reporters and experienced hosts who were going to be guest intensive. They would be the high priests of sport, receiving the word of god and translating it for the ignorant masses with no room for the masses to translate for themselves. Guys like Shaer, Hanley and Boers would have been more than happy to never take a call.

North made the SCORE the populist voice that it became. His lack of experience allowed him to break the incredibly tired paradigm of Chet radio. The others followed only after they recognized the success North attained. That is why I say North defined the SCORE style of entertainment, which changed the style of radio in this city. That's revolutionary.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

but no one had done it before, and the SCORE was poised to continue the tradition

Look, I'm not saying the guy ushered in a new age of human history. He did change his little area of the world.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

You mean Edison Park?

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Bruce Wolf as Chet Chit-Chat was taking a very irreverent, humorous look at the sports scene when Mike North was still sweeping poppy seeds off his hot dog stand floor. I'm still trying to figure out what this great revolution North ushered in was. As has been stated here before, I'm personally offended by this notion that he's somehow representative of the "real Chicago fan." He's a semi-literate, loud-mouth meatball turd. If you think that represents you, so be it.