Mac thought that this was what everyone wanted to hear. He believed that his whole guy talk persona was the reason that he was popular. He had an everyman way of conducting sports talk radio and he believed that it would translate over to the music side because he incorporated music into his talk show. The problem with guys like Mac is that when transferred into the musical arena he will be exposed as a lightweight and the guys that liked his sportstalk style have found that they didn't like him all that much. He was an alternative to the vanilla style guys that you typically find on sportstalk radio and that was much of his appeal.

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Wow, spot on.

If only your basketball thoughts were better.

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I think you are right. I had a love/hate regard for North back in the day, but I loved sports & sports radio so there was a common ground. I never hated Mac...but again liked him as my SPORTS talk guy! North thought he was more than a sports guy...and Mac I guess the same. For me, take them out of that format and you are right....I just dont care so much what they have to say. Now as for North....I have continued to build a "hate" for him. He is a fucking idiot.

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I see that Mac hasn't even visited the board since his show started. Kinda would like to get his take on how the show is going.

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Agree to disagree, Panther.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I don't think it is very spot on.

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I think you are mostly right but I don't understand why it's not transferring. Is it the listener/talker part that's missing? Music interrupts and segments are short? Too vanilla?

Hell, he doesn't even talk.

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I have a couple of thoughts on this that are complete speculation. I feel Mac is doing this to keep busy and have a purpose so to speak. If he is still doing the 12 step thing that is an important part. Sitting home or golfing/fishing whenever you want is a way for his demons to creep in.

I assume he'd rather do sports talk but he didn't get the deal he wanted. Maybe he is just biding his time? He may have an out on this deal who knows?

Or he could be happy and doing what he wants. In that case good for him worse for me.

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Is this spot on, Hawger and Panther, or no?

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I would say there are parts of it that are true, but I don't know that anybody will ever know the truth unless Mac chooses to let us know.

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Being paid six figures to sit and play classic rock half the day with a buddy doesn't seem like a good plan for staying off the weed.

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Endless free time would be worse,imo.

Wow, why the hostility?

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I think the guys that became very popular at the score i.e. Bernsie, Boers, North, Macneil all became afflicted by this disease. They began to think of themselves as being larger than the genre. Look at how much Bernsie, Boers, and Macneil all appear to hate sports now. It was not that way in the beginning and I have listened to the score since the first day they signed on. I never got the feeling that North hated sports. I think he merely wanted to branch off into something else. He more than any of the other ones had a national following and he wanted to parlay that into something else. It failed obviously. Macneil has always fashioned himself as a more intelligent version of North and hence he is attempting to do the same thing.

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I think a few yrs ago you labeled me as being one of the best on the board. Of course i posted far more infrequently then.

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I think it's human nature that if you become successful, part of you starts to believe it was all you all along. To continue on with that thinking for years and years is a problem though. Maybe they have no one in their life to call them on their shit, because nobody does it at the station apparently.

You're spot on about what it was like in the beginning. Most gave off the impression that they were just happy for the opportunity to be on the air, then all of sudden they were above it all. Except for Memelo. That guy came off as smug right from the get go. How hard is it to get some talented people in here to talk sports. It's Chicago. There have to be better options out there.

I have said before that there are tons of broadcast graduates around the country native to Chicago. The problem is the Score does not clean out the status quo to give any a chance.

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They got rid of North, Murphy, and Mac, I'd call that cleaning out the status quo.

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And then asked Mac to come back.

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That was 10 plus years ago.

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Mac was about 6 months ago. Murph was about 5 years ago, and North was maybe 6.

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They didnt just get rid of them. Mac and North had offers to stay, they both left. So they didnt want either of them gone.

I would say $750K for North isnt a 'We want you gone" statement.

Mac wanted something else on the Score and I think it would have been much better than the dieing crap that you people keep promoting!

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youse people?

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So Mac doesn't talk much? 5 minutes per hour you guys say?

Well, I guess it's an easy job for the pay. It was said he turned down 350k from the SCORE. But that's a lot more work. I would imagine Mac wouldn't do this gig for less than 200k. But if you only talk 5 minutes per hour, that's pretty good pay per word spoken.

Mac gets a lot of cigarette breaks and gets to listen to clasic rock all morning. Good for him.

I find it a bit interesting that Mac has yet to post to this board since starting his gig on The Drive two weeks ago.