The title of the thread works on a couple levels.

Finally... a new era has arrived. I'm eager to get this thing rolling a week from tomorrow. In the meantime, I want to open a few threads to take on a few of the comments/issues expressed here about my new project as I return to the Score. There has been some erroneous reporting (Lewis Lazare in the Sun-Times, oddly enough) and I want to clear up a few things.

The focus of the new show will be sports. It should be. And it's White Sox-Cubs week when we plug it in next week. I am not going to be bashful, however, about giving some closure to my eight years at ESPN, the free agency process and a couple other items for which I have had no forum to express an opinion. I think you guys will like the radio stuff because you consume so much of it. If you liked "Private Parts" (the Howard Stern movie) you will enjoy my story of sitting down to have lunch with the real PigVomit, WGN program director Kevin Metheny.

This is going to be an interesting summer. There is more fallout ahead. By the time we get to 2010, the current landscape will look dramatically different. I'm embracing every bit of it. I am not afraid of Justin Craig's changing world. I welcome it.

Thanks for the time to spend here on the board, offering feedback on stuff that is important to me. The board is a valuable resource and I wish more in my business view it as that. I assure you Matt Spiegel does and he will be posting frequently here in the days ahead.

Glad to have you back, looking forward to it Mac!

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i'm looking forward to your show, mac; i won't get to listen to much of it cos we don't get to listen to the radio at work but on my lunch hour i will be switching back and forth between you and silwad.

BUT YOU PROMISED ME THE NEW SHOW WOULD BE ALL COOKING! AND NO SPORTS! Let down again!

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“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.’”

yeah, what happened to "the Allen Brother's hour with the BBQ Hippie?"

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I'm going to listen to my old tapes of Murph during lunch just for nostalgia's sake. Unless I have sushi at lunch, in which case I will have a different sake.

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Hello Mac,

Best of luck to you and Mat!
I will be listening.

Sincerely,
Mr. Pasta

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

Should be good radio

Congrtas on post 1000, the new show &.....OK, this is overkill.

But seriously, I can't wait to hear the story of your sit down with Kevin Metheny.
Did he insist that you enunciate the call letters WGEEEEEEEN if you came on board with them?

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Here are some scenes with Paul Giamoni playing "Pig Vomit" in Private Parts. This is stuff Stern actually did. Pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvzc61xsck&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfRQYNFvbhw

That pig vomit guy has turned WGN's weekend programming into one giant vomitorium. A lot of his hires are unlistenable and seem best suited for low-watt stations in farm towns. Some of the new people remind me of hosts I used to hear on car rides through the rural south.

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That French guy was a very bizarre hire! That shit don't float in the midwest!
Try LA radio for "different".

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

Glad you are back Mac, looking forward to the new show!

My listening habits are about to change. I have listened to very little Sports Radio since all the changes at the SCORE. I will now be tuning in listening to Matt Spiegel and his sidekick,Danny Mac.

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

Looking foward to listening and participating via technology with the new show, Mac. Hopefully you, Meatpants, and the new boyquarium will continue to post here and keep using this board as a vital resource to your show.


And thanx again for those Sox tickets!

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Obviously I think it is a great hire. The time slot is horrible for me. Rather than 5 hours of B and B, how about a little best of the two shows. Mitch always likes inexpenisve programming.

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And men have lost their reason.

No thanks.

It's called a podcast, GD. Welcome to the 21st century.

A podcast has limitations which we have discussed repeatedly on this site.

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

Limitations? I must have missed that discussion. Could you give me the Reader's Digest version?

Looking forward to seeing Post 2000.

I see what you did there...

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He should've waited way back about 330 posts ago and used it for post # 670.

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Go ahead and torch the WGN bridge, douchebag.

You'll be out of town in no time.

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Knowing Mac, I'm sure there will be some unpaid suspensions and rifts with management by Post 1340...(670 twice for the mathematically challenged ..)

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Now that there is appointment radio. I can't wait to hear the story!

Stunned that WGN even considered Mac. Doesn't exactly fit the mold there.

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -Susan B. Anthony

I DIG his brother Pat's music.

Tee em up Mac.

Nothing would give me greater joy than you taking the cane to Harry and the other sycophants at that station who have done nothing but taken thinly veiled potshots at you for the last couple of months.

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Does your cat make too much noise? Try KITTEN MITTENS!


Charlie: Oh shit. Look at that door dude. See that door right there? That door marked 'Pirate'? You think a pirate lives in there?
Dennis: I see a door marked 'Private.'

I want to talk to the BBQ guy about issues with the Q grill