He's still on the air?

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He was in with Silvy yesterday. Still sounding good.

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Good luck to him. He had a great run in chicago sports radio.

What's the deal w/ AM1000? The way his tweet read is like he said FU to AM 1000 and I'm done. Sort of like when Murph suddenly retired. Does AM1000 treat their people like shit? it sounds like it.

Yeah I wonder if this was a bit of a "forced" retirement? Don't know if his contract was coming up or not but maybe they told him they weren't going to renew it.

that's what it sounds like. too bad - because Fred should be on the air somewhere! he's that good.

But he had a really tough job most of his career. He was paired up so many years w/ Murph and had to take all of Murph's faults. I think he also was matched up with Mike North for some time and that was probably no fun. he just had to agree w North on the show - which he did and which was smart for him.

I liked Fred with Murph but he was great when he was solo. Always listening to him it was like one of your buddies got a radio show and was broadcasting specially to you. I also liked his baseball knowledge.

All the greats are retiring sadly.

I haven't listened too much to Fred lately, but he is a voice of my childhood from Sports Phone. When my dad would get together with his brothers on a weekend night, all of us cousins in our early teens would call Sports Phone from whatever house we were at that time to get updates.

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brant miller Z95 vibe

909-1313?

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976...

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

Wasn't Fred just working weekends for the past 10 years or so? So he's basically been retired.

I used to call Sports Phone.

Long distance. My parents would get mad.

I hated numbers with lots of 9s and 7s and 6s. It took so long to dial them.

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George Offman was a sports phone veteran too. Alot of the early score guys all came from sports phone.

I think he works 4 or 5 hours on Sunday mornings with Zander or maybe Hanley.

Surprised he has enough dough to retire, he probably made 35k a year his whole life.

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Fred does a long-winded podcast on the mickey mouse network Schuster and Les were on. The ESPN 1000 guys best trait is they're not Score vermin.

THANKS FOR CALLING, I'M RON GLEASON FOR SPORTSPHONE..."

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Have Fred and Hanley on this morning here at my dad's place. Very comfortable radio for a day where there isn't much going on sports-wise. He is talking with Hanley now about his decision to retire.

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is there a podcast to this or will be? give us more details on what he said.

Forgot to log in as whistler for this one.

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I think I found it : https://goodkarmabrands.com/espn-chicag ... n-jurko-2/ December 24th one - 29th min.

He talked about Murph, North, and a few others.

Fred's last weekend at ESPN 1000.

If he'd never become a parrot of the worst of North, I'd still respect his career.

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He had nothing to do w/ North's show. He was told to do that job and he did. he had no choice. He just said 'yes mike' a million times on the show.

he had to feed his family land his bosses assigned him a position - what else do you want him to do?

Mmm?...like current Score hosts parroting sjw trash or lose their jobs?

At least they have a little integrity. Fred just had the worst in Score history.

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you're being just plain ignorant here.

Murph and Fred pulled THE BEST ratings on the Score for MULTIPLE years.

When Fred was with Murph he got paid really well.

Hate Murph all you want, but the guy made everyone on his show money. All way way to the lowest producer.

And Fred was a big part of that success.

So when they put him with North he was suppose to say no to a big salary? What other choices did he have? None.

All of us would have made the same choice if we were in Fred's shoes at that point of his career.

Fred's final show podcast here :

https://goodkarmabrands.com/espn-chicag ... -podcasts/

Murph calls in around the 11 min mark. 1/8 12pm show.

Wtf? Are you smoking as well?

I couldn't care less about Murphy and haven't mentioned him in years. And it's telling that you accepted Fred's willingness to lose his voice and integrity to a blowhard asswipe.

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