I'm not going to pretend like I heard the entire show, or the story behind it, but when I randomly tuned in to The Score today I was greeted by Hub Arkush, and Arthur. My first reaction is that this must be some on-air tryout as part of their Score Search nonsense, but eventually I heard him refer to Arthur as his son.

Someone called in and told Hub how great it was that he brought his son on-air, as he himself had brough his son to his job and it was great. Hub then went on to talk about how much fun he was having.

From what I heard, the kid didn't say a ton. He basically piggy-backed and "agreed" with stuff that callers were saying. He definitely sounded nervous and far from someone that should be doing a talk show in Chicago.

All that said, THE HELL? Am I wrong in finding it really strange that the weekend shifts on the "#1 Sports Station" in the "best sports town" is nothing but Amateur Hour? In the midst of the city's NHL team dropping two games, after winning the first two, I tune in and hear a legendary Bears asskisser-turned-critic-because-he-no-longer-works-for-the-team AND his son. For some reason it seems like being a producer is now the minor league to becoming an on-air talent...right? So is it really strange that the football geek gets to bring in his kid for a weekend shift?

The most funny part of all of the 20 minutes or so was that they had that Mike Esposito guy STILL come in to do the scoreboard updates....apparently young Arkush was too busy not saying anything to try to handle that! (I only say that because when I hear Rosenbloom and Paruch together, they always have Paruch ALSO do the updates).

Anyway, maybe it's my disdain of Hub - but I found this laughable.

As soon as I heard Hub, I turned my radio off and thought nothing else of it....seriously.

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Hub Arkush has been an asset since 670 The SCORE hired him. When I tuned in, I heard Mike Esposito more than I heard Arthur Arkush, who I believe works hand & hand with Hub as an associate editor of Hub's Pro Football Weekly. It sounded kinda awkward hearing the Arkush boys this afternoon. The SCORE has had some guys lately who have no business in front of a microphone. Hub's partner tomorrow after yet another bad White Sox/Indians' game, "Stuttering" John Melendez, I mean Dan Hampton, is beyond terrible! Ozzie Guillen, Jr., host of "Latin Baseball Today" Sunday nights, is harder to understand than his manager! If I hear Arthur Arkush again, it'll be too soon! Thumbs down!

Talking ....it's a skill. Not saying one day maybe the kid gets better at what he is doing, but he had no place to be on the air in that format. Maybe a few phone interviews, but that was a bad move.

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I do not yet have any children that I know of, but I would do the same thing if given the option. The fifteen or so minutes I listened to was very bad radio. But, if the kid becomes a success, they can look back and laugh at it. I would have loved to have that opportunity, but I'm not upset Hub's kid had that shot. Best wishes kid.

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I'm a huge Hub fan. His Son Arthur should stick to running Dads Football magazine, because he was bad at radio.

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One of my day's highlights was scurrying to turn the radio off about 3 minutes into that nonsense, and I had to get off the throne to do it.

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As I stated, it was REALLY bad. If it was the first time the kid had a mic in front of him, it's not easy. If you'll pardon the expression.

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Was this just Hub and the kid doing a shift/show or was this something produced by Pro Football Weekly?

Not sure, but it was awful. Again, I love that Hub used his pull to get his kid a weekend slot with him. I'm sure the miserable f**ks like SID will pull the ratings for this Saturday midday show. I know the first time I was on the radio, I didn't exactly come across as a polished Matt Spiegel. If you don't create young talent, your company(s) will fail. F A I L HEEYYYYYY, my lawsuit is legit. Tell em Producer Cy.

It's the Fu**ing Catalina Wine Mixer!!

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You should post more often when you're chemically imbalanced ...

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You haven't followed me enough Don Tiny.

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This was a regular Score show, definitely not a PFW produced show.

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I'm pretty sure I've heard Arthur Arkush giving reports during "Pro Football Weekly and Basketball News" or whatever the hell it's called when it's not solely football season. He sounded less than professional on those occasions, too.

I wonder if he has a super-cool earring like his dad?

Yah, this was a real weekend shift show. It was bad, and the fact (in the 20 or so mins I listened) that Hub KEPT ON TALKING ABOUT the fact that his co-host was his son made it worse.

Before I flipped it off, I think he did say that they were going to bring in the update guy to talk with them at some point.

Quite an operation over there, that's for sure.

I think it would be kind of nice if they had all father/son shifts on Father's Day.

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I listened to a good chunk of the show. It also featured one of the worst call-ins of all-time.

John from Mt. Zion spent a good 2-3 minutes spouting cliche after cliche and qualifying his Hawks comments with "he's no expert", "just becoming a fan", etc. After a while, I really thought it was one of you doing a bit to see how long he could spout nonsense until Hub cut him off, but Hub never did.

I was mainly listening to see if Hub would crank out another gem like "I'm not a Lebron guy" like he did last week.

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I heard about twenty minutes towards the end of the show. It seemed OK to me, certainly better than most shows featuring Rock, Zawaski, Abbatacola, Holmes, Zaidman and the rest of the clown college trotted out by the Score for its evening and weekend programming.

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While I think Arthur was okay what kind of Dad names his son Arthur Arkush?

We'd probably get more actual sports commentary from Bernstein's 6 year old son than we get from Terry.

Most likely a guy whose dad's name was Arthur.

I like Hub but okay then 2 generations back someone named their son Arthur and their last name was Arkush.

How about making it a middle name?

I adored my grandmothers and loved them to pieces but neither of their first names went well with mine and wouldn't saddle a child with that.