I think some of it is the comfort level and possibly age of the hosts. They also don't dig too deep into the analysis of sports very much, but I feel is because they are tying to appeal to a broad audience.

... except the night I dropped my pants and then loudly proclaimed I was the Whore of Babylon and demanded more wine, but that's another story.

I believe it's all just gotten old and outdated. It's the same dumb calls over and over. The interviews with players are canned. As much as people hated North, he was the only guy that asked tough (and sometimes really dumb) questions during interviews. Now there are newspaper guys who are just talking about the same crap they write in their paper. B&B have had the same schtick for what now, 8 years? Its just getting old. I used to get excited about waking up to Murph and Fred. I used to enjoy the listen to T-Dub on the way home from hockey. I have no more enjoyment in any of it. Perhaps I am only speaking for myself and projecting that to others, but I have heard similar comments from others.

Yet, we still listen...hoping that the Score will return to greatness.

Let me also add, since joining this board, I have realized how many very creepy people are out there treating sports radio jockies like celebrities in the tabloids. I never realized the hatred of North. I have nothing personal against guys like RodeoVann, Good Dolphin and Beardown, but oh my God.

I also realized how many good natured people were fans of MJH. While some of you have been a little out there, the group from MJH have been a pleasure to meet and know. W_Z, M_C, HHJ, Spaulding, Frank, Darkside and Grid are/were all very real and cool people to meet. I think with the breakup of MJH, it killed a good subculture.

Also if you fuck someone like they are a millionaire they might go try to be one.

Matt,

I think the most important thing to take from all this shit that is being posted is that both you and Mac listen and respond to your fans. Are you both perfect? Of course not. Who would want to listen to something like that? Fans of Milt Rosenberg, maybe.

You guys listen, you evaluate the comments and you implement them into your programming if at all possible and you take the criticism constuctively and try to improve.

Who the fuck would not appreciate that as a fan?

Kudos.

Evolution, people. I ain't skeered. Mac and I communicate well, even when one of us is being a dipshit.

Well Mac told me to to tell you to go FUCK YOURSELF!!! ..So now it's been said .. .

I'd sure like to know how I am in that group as it is fairly well known that I don't hate North...but I guess you met Fred and he doesn't like me...but I'm the creepy one

... except the night I dropped my pants and then loudly proclaimed I was the Whore of Babylon and demanded more wine, but that's another story.

Hey, Im just going on what I heard for that one. I dont remember 99% of your posts.

Fred is upset because I nicknamed him and Annie, Steve and Edie, because they were parrots for North, similar to Steve and Edie on the old SNL skit, The Sinatra Group.

I believe it's all just gotten old and outdated. It's the same dumb calls over and over. The interviews with players are canned. As much as people hated North, he was the only guy that asked tough (and sometimes really dumb) questions during interviews. Now there are newspaper guys who are just talking about the same crap they write in their paper. B&B have had the same schtick for what now, 8 years? Its just getting old. I used to get excited about waking up to Murph and Fred. I used to enjoy the listen to T-Dub on the way home from hockey. I have no more enjoyment in any of it. Perhaps I am only speaking for myself and projecting that to others, but I have heard similar comments from others.

The problem is, it is the ratings that determine the commercial sales value, & WSCR ratings are brutal...probably the lowest in the 17 year history of the station.

I very much doubt the ratings are lower than most of the 820 era.

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

We read you, and we love that you're listening and thinking about the show.

Some of your points are solid, and the feedback is genuinely helpful.

Some of your points are venomous, and seem perhaps intended to just try and be mean-spirited for sport, but we can handle that too.

All taken in context. I look at the hate, the loathing, as skin thickener. I asked for this gig, and welcome it. I'm well aware that I'm a pin cushion often talking to pin pushers.

I'm having a great time. I feel like I'm getting better at this particular job every day, which is the goal, with everything in my life. As a host, I'm not a finished project, and lord knows the show isn't, so some bumpy rides are par for the course. That said, I know how to do this, this radio show thing, and I'll keep on believing in what I think is good radio. Getting there is a process.

I had a great time driving this week...with the cavalcade of sportswriters, none of whom I chose by the way, but all of whom I enjoyed for different reasons. Some days better than others; different guys, different strengths. I know some of you listened...imagine many of you punched the freaking button, so be it. It was a good week.

Driving the bus, like this week and with Hit and Run on Sundays, is nice, to get me back in touch with a level of calm, simply conversational Spiegel which has been occasionally hard to access with Mac...I'll give you that. We're going to talk about that, and a lot of stuff, tomorrow. One thing you guys have written about is the manic energy sometimes, and us fighting over air space and funniness, and guess what; you're right.

Evolution, people. I ain't skeered. Mac and I communicate well, even when one of us is being a dipshit. We're gonna be stronger every week.

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