Beardown wrote:
Parkins1 wrote:
- Let’s go Vitscotti, don’t hold back. You’ve never posted one positive thing about me and now I’m here and you cower away anonymously? Let’s hear any valid, constructive criticisms you got and see if you can avoid lowest common denominator name calling bullshit. I’m dubious.
- As for commenting on my coworkers, we talk on the show how there’s a list of people who can take it and those who can’t. Not an actual written down list or a mandated list but in my head I know who can and can’t and I’ve figured that out through trial and error. I wish it wasn’t that way, but it is. Some of that is on them, some of that is on the culture of the station the last 10+ years. It’s a huge criticism of mine and a valid one of yours. Many people in my profession can criticize athletes and coaches but can’t take it themselves. So we joke and play malaprops and have fun with the people who can take it. The people who can’t shouldn’t be off limits but are... I don’t make the rules but I do abide by them.
- As for the idea of bits... I love them. I’ve done more in the 3 years I’ve been at The Score than the other shows combined. Can’t Do It, Pick a Player, Bears Voicemails, Score Stories, Celebrity football picks, Mock the Mold (gave out masks before Cubs/Nats when Dusty complained of mold), $3.5 million t shirt given to Jordan Bell, sign at Sox game saying Chicago Wants Machado in Cubs colors. Some have pissed off teams and cost us the chance of ever getting Rick Hahn on the air. Some have pissed off the Bulls. Some have pissed off teammates. Some ran their course. Some died when the new show started because those show mates (hosts/producers) weren’t on board. I’ll do them as long as I’m in radio but some shows will have more than others because in order for them to work you have to have the whole show on board. That’s not a criticism btw of my current show, it’s just a reality. And btw as many people who like those bits there’s an equal number who hate and complain about them. You realize when you’ve done this as long as I have you’ll never please everyone and every show, boss, timeslot, producer, cohost is different and as the straw that stirs the drink on the show I look at myself as a point guard who has to put people in position to be successful to make each show work to the best of its abilities.
- As for remotes, we want to do more. We try to do more. Beer companies have changed their marketing approach so it’s tougher. I know for a fact we were literally just about to do a bunch more with the opening of the rivers casino sports book account. It’s something Mac and I both believe in. We do a lot of shows from Gallagher Way before Cubs games. There’s no question there should be more opportunities but there are still some, we’d love to see ya there.
I hope you guys enjoyed Bill Walton yesterday, he was incredible. Keep the questions coming, sorry my responses aren’t and never will be enough for some.
Just getting into this thread.
Appreciate you talking to us, Danny.
I'm able to read between the lines.
Parkins thinks Larry is a thinned skinned pussy. He thinks Julie is a b.itch. I know why he can't say it. I wouldn't say it if I were in his position either. It's politics. Keeping your job. Keeping relationships. All that shit.
So I said it for him. Parkins is nodding his head as he reads this.
Hi, Danny. I'm Beardown. Nice to meat you.