I'll be responding to a good chunk of your always-entertaining questions and comments from the "Ask Mac" thread. I'll try to have it filed by puck drop in San Jose. Thanks for your patience.

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Wrong thread.

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Mac, choose one:

A) Reading a Jim O'Donnell article
B) Licking fly paper
C) Watching Ozzie ball

Death is not an option....

Ah yes, the oh so self-important Mac has to create a NEW thread announcing that he is planning to respond to questions in the thread that already contains questions for him. Just perfect. God knows we wouldn't want this "honor" of this post getting buried in some thread created by some cretin....

Flipped on the stream again this morning to try the product, and what do I get but a couple of grown men giggling like school girls about McNeil backing himself into a hilarious song parody based on the Soldier Field turf. Great stuff McNeil, unfortunately I had to "PTFB" on your horrid show before I could hear you drop another Allen Bros reference or recall some silly date, as the listeners can literally hear your chest puffing out.

I've tried and tried, and while I know no one (especially the blowhard host who enjoys ripping on other shows for being mean to callers WHILE continually telling listeners to PTFB if they don't like what he is talking about (and/or tells them to kiss his ass/bite him etc)) cares - I'm officially done with this trainwreck of a "sports" talk show.

I'll go somewhere where the dopey host doesn't take pride in knowing little about something (many things). Where a guy doesn't get "so sick of basketball talk" that he is happy to jump into bad baseball talk. Where an unmentioned-in-the-title-of-the-show "co-host" doesn't show preference to his cover band over his "real" job. Where a chubby, annoying guy doesn't hand out hitting tips to professional ball players on live radio. Where I don't have to hear one man continually lick the rectum of the other. Somewhere where I can just hear some interesting angles on the sports world without getting the host's personal likes/dislikes/hobbies crammed in my ear, constantly.

McNeil, good on you for having such a hardcore fanbase.....after a year of you "trying to figure it out", I am done. Your show is horrible - from the talent to the production of it. I'm sure you have nice guys that work on the show with you, it's too bad that they must have to take a cleansing bath, night after night, after having to deal with your incredible ego and ridiculous idea of what's funny or entertaining.

Over/Under on 5 days before you just 'happen to catch a segment' or 'accidentally open the wrong podcast'


I'll take the under

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Team Cutler.

Was just about to post something similar. I'm sure he will listen.

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

Bet the farm on the under. Again, someone who hates the show and never listens has a multiple paragraph rant about how bad things are.

And now, the IB, Gloop, and Seaward parade will commence in 3, 2, 1...

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Are you Harry Teinowicz?

I dont think so.

But it wouldnt shock me either.

This scene from the Howard Stern's movie about sums it up:

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I feel the same way you do. Im not a Mac fan and I agree with most of Harry Seaward's thoughts, but I just don't listen. Making the same tired arguments week after week is just stupid, kind of like bad parody songs....

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Crazy. As I was reading his post the same thought popped into my head.

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

I guess you guys must have missed Mr. Teinowitz Adventures in Typing a few years back. If it were Harry it would look one continuous, never ending word...

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This is my signature...

Ya its not him.

Talk about "oh so important" ... I don't recall the topic being "Ask Harry Seaward". Did you have O'Donnell ghost-write this for you?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

look at me! look at me!

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@audioidkid

I hate to pile on, but...fuck! Quit fucking listening. Your self indulgent posts are worse than anything Mac or Spiegs does. And I actually agree with some of what you feel! Quit wasting your time making yourself miserable. Read a book, maybe some volunteer work? Go hold a crack baby. It's a big old world Harry, check it out.

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

Dude, do you fucking enjoy anything? What is your idea of a good sports talk show? Who has the best show in Chicago (in your opinion)?

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I am done with the show, so no worries about me posting in here anymore. It's just awful, and it's clear that McNeil likes to pander to a bunch of dopes here by gracing them with his presence once in awhile...while changing NOTHING about the issues some have with his show.

And, I never claimed to "happen upon" or "accidentally" tune into this show. From the day it was announced that he was coming back, I was excited. I gave it a go, and it annoyed me. I took some time off. I came back, still bad. I've been sampling it a bit, every week or two, and I am now done. I've never claimed to accidentally turn the radio on and hear the show....I've been honest in saying that I tune it in, INTENTIONALLY, once in awhile to see if he's decided to tweak anything. But he hasn't. For those that love his style and content as-is, that's great news for you.

If I were really concerned about "me-me" stuff, I would have created a new thread proclaiming my dislike of this show ... but, no, unlike your hero McNeil I posted within a thread RATHER than starting a new one for no reason.

Yeah, we will see about this. I don't buy it.

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

Don't let the groupies run you off. Do like RV does with north, listen once in a while and post all you want.

I don't post lengthy rants about the show. I limit my input to pointing out your emotional need to textually fellate Mac whenever any criticism is offered.

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Fire Phil Emery

bull...shit.

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This is my signature...

I'm sure the response to this will be "Ya think?!!"...

Harry Seaward is just looking to be the baddest of the bad enimics of Mac so that they will be talked about more on the board. Also makes me wonder if H.S., S.ID. & Gloopy are all the same person.

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

Don't let the door hit you in the ass while punching the fucken button.

I to will be announcing in the White Sox section I will no longer be watching as I was excited at the prospect of the 2010 season and I 've given it a go and it has annoyed me...I will be honest as well as I'm really concerned about "me-me" stuff, I would have created a new thread proclaiming my dislike of this team ... but, no, unlike your hero Ozzie I posted within a thread RATHER than starting a new one for no reason.

WE WILL ALL BE SLEEPING BETTER TONIGHT knowing Harry is no longer tuning in .

Hey dumbass, don't think too hard, just ask BigFan. He'll tell you that I am only me, not any of the others that don't kiss the lazy man's wide ass. You must be in radio somehow, you're just way too stupid to do anything productive.

Wow...that's supposed to hurt my feelings somehow?

Please tell me something that I don't already know about myself so that my life can be greatly enriched. Please tell me how I can lead a more productive life.....I mean, ripping people on message boards is really fixing the world's problems, isn't it?

I'm eagerly waiting with baited breath.

"Things are getting better, I can feel it." -Beck

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-"God is great. Beer is good. And People are crazy!"

You spend a lot of time kissing ass and blowing people on the message board, so I guess your life is complete.

You spend a lot of time kissing ass and blowing people on the message board, so I guess your life is complete.[/quote]

You spend all your time here bitching about everything and everybody. I guess your life is complete.

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