Tall Midget wrote:
Goff is really quite mundane as a solo host. His topics become conventional, his delivery is mechanical, and his opinions predictable. At this stage in his career, he functions best as a foil for Bernstein or Boers. He hasn't yet figured out how to properly channel his creativity or accumulated the sports knowledge necessary to carry a solo show.
I like Les, Bernstein and Boers solo.
+10 on the the goff opinion there. i've said the same thing a few times now, that jason (at this juncture in his career, anyways) is a really vanilla talk show host solo... it's like he's consulting with HOSTING A SPORTS TALK RADIO SHOW FOR DUMMIES and following a script prepared by the book to teach the host how to do a show. even though jason himself is quite likeable and indeed humorous and entertaining, he clearly functions better when he's with someone else. the last LOL moment i heard on a goff solo show was when he started dropping the RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH clips... but even then he had cosmrocks tannehill with him.
bernstein is pretty good solo... you know, i liked it when he did dan patrick on the national show.. he put away the cutesiness and his overall b&b schtick and worked really hard at delivering a vanilla naitonal sports show, and IMHO his intelligence and perspective and even sense of humor were kept in check when he was doing somebody else's show, as opposed to his own.
obviously les is quite good at what he does, and i agree with the earlier poster who said that he's well-suited for overnights. les, like murph before him (at least when murph worked the shift that SHAKE THAT has now), relies heavily on caller participation and generally tries to welcome the caller into the show and respects the opinion (even though, yeah, les does often show off the encyclopedic sports knowledge... however i don't think it's with an "I KNOW MORE THAN YOU" edge like scorehead projected"
i don't like matty solo... laurence, well, shit.... he's laurence. he kind of doesn't really work too well with a host or by himself... he's outkicked his coverage in the hosting dept, although if he was paired with a non-bernstein-disciple he'd probably work as a second wheel.
so i guess... holy shit i'm going to agree with, was it RPB? hub. i like hub... now when hub talks NBA it's laughable because please don't forget
Hub Arkush wrote:
LOL Deng is the most underappreciated athlete in this city. He gives you 18/6...and I'm sick of hearing about his contract
hub obviously knows football and there's some blowback from diehard bears fans that think he's got a stoney syndrome where he's bitter that the bears fired him from the radio team so he's extra critical about them, but i've found that he tends to be fair in his assessments... he just says the things that we don't want to think about, let alone hear... namely how bad the bears really are/could-be.
he loves the cubs and as such tends to have a pretty solid repetoire of thoughts about them... hockey? he's probably on the bandwagon and dropping some old hawks references cuz he's an old dude, but yeah. whatever.
basically, during football season if i notice that hub is on in place of loho or doing a weekend show sometimes... i'm going to click him on. i think he's got a good pace to his shows and even though i can see how people would think he's being smarmy with callers, hub does know football really damn well, so that is going to bleed through with the callers.
sorry for the tl;dr nature of this post, however, i had to break it down and by process of elimination i've got hub as the winrar.
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Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?
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Good for me and Richfarmsystem....bad for everyone else. 
I was literally on pins and needles until you reveald the guy to be Jason Goff....
How did this clear the 1 post cooling off period?
