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Author:  Dr. Kenneth Noisewater [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:55 pm ]
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uofiguy wrote:
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
This show is lost like a ship in a hurricane.

Making fun of Siragusa is my beacon. Guy's an absolute joke.


I wondered about that when I saw it. Before they went to that break, they had a moment of tribute to Tony's on-field producer that had died that week.

I wondered if they were going to go to him for a recollection and he just couldn't do it.

Author:  McDude [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:56 pm ]
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Not sure why Dan is being a penis to the guy asking about the fumble. It was just a simple question...

Author:  Don Tiny [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:57 pm ]
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I had to take a couple breaks, breathe deeply, but I got through most of sini's rant, and I can't say there are many, if any, points that I dislike.

Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:57 pm ]
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That makes sense Dr. Ken.

Author:  Hawg Ass [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:03 pm ]
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Kirkwood wrote:
Anthony/Tony from Kenosha! My guy! :lol:

T-bone?

Author:  uofiguy [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:04 pm ]
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Im excited for some NBA talk. Good to get a repreive from wall to wall Bears dissection.

Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:05 pm ]
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I don't think that was our Tony.

Nice rant Sini...

Author:  SHARK [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:06 pm ]
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uofiguy wrote:
Im excited for some NBA talk. Good to get a repreive from wall to wall Bears dissection.

Hard to believe, the NBA season tips tomorrow with Celtics/Heat & Mavericks/Lakers on TNT.

Author:  redskingreg [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:27 pm ]
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What was so bad about that anthem? Anyone?

Author:  City of Fools [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:32 pm ]
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I was watching that game last night (Stand beside me) and I told the wife: this will be on B&B. To which she replied, who's D&C?

Author:  SHARK [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:33 pm ]
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redskingreg wrote:
What was so bad about that anthem? Anyone?


I don't know. It started out fine...Maybe this might shed some light.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-l ... --mlb.html

Author:  Reared on the Score [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:39 pm ]
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listened to the podcast of the Aschburner interview (since I like that guy*) and the first question by Mr. NBA Berns is "What is the ::giggle:: Harden ::guffaw:: $60million ::exasperation:: Rockets?? For a 6th man?"

I guess I should just be happy Goff wasn't there to back up that nonsense. Does Bernstein really think Harden is bench player and that the Rockets shouldn't parlay 'their future' (expirings, low-lottery picks) to get such a player (who's 23?). Then the very next question is about how the Bulls 'get out of their wilderness'. Well what the hell about the Rockets wilderness? Getting James Harden is a significant move, you dopes.

*he later said "I listen to your show quite a bit, and must say I don't think you can be an NBA fan with a championship-or-bust attitude", ha.

Author:  Time Traveling Bunny [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:42 pm ]
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I've been enjoying the show today. Very silly.

Author:  The Original Kid Cairo [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:46 pm ]
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sinicalypse wrote:
Dan Bernstein wrote:
I’ll always agree with you about stupid Bears fans, believe me. Any of us who deals with some of these people can understand your pain and frustration. They can be under-informed and over-served, have problems stringing together the simplest of sentences, and many of them are also some combination of morbidly obese and hideously ugly.


welcome to the tribe of dan (no, not that one) --- a thoughtfully intelligent place where joy is written off as the caterwauling of the stupid, and entry to the exclusive "cool kids club" is gained by continued patronage of Dear Leader, whose comic exaggeration can't completely hide the fact that he's probably somewhat ashamed of what he does for a living.

reading stuff like this reminds me of a george carlin standup set where he's doing one of his bits about how "people are really goddamn stupid" but then he takes a slight pause and says "....well not you guys, obviously, you're obviously good people!" --- of course they are, they're making it possible for george to not have to sit in an office for eight hours a day five hours a week doing normal work.

the same thing applies to dan here... and he's clearly marked his niche/territory/etc. i think dan knows that sports have their place in society, as the distraction from our day to day lives that they provide gives many people some genuine entertainment, therefore there is definitely low-level merit to what he does for a living... but i think deep down beyond the all-too-easy penn state / CTE / lance armstrong crusading to "make a difference"; he thinks that manifesting his jaded sports self-actualization in such a way that he fosters that aforementioned carlin-type relationship with his audience is, by and large, a means of evolving his audience's means of consuming sports.

by doing things like getting people interested in some SABRmetrics and not just challenging, but outright attacking just about every instutional foundation of the contemporary chicago sports world- dan thinks that we're going to be better for the wear once we come around to his point of view. if we're willing to accept his views and embrace the way he consumes sports, and keep in mind in terms of self-validation he's making six figures a year to regurgitate the sports he's consuming, then ultimately we're going to be "better" sports fans by "evolving" beyond the "traditional" means of sports consumption.

so i get where he's coming from with all this stuff.... and i spent most of my 20s listening to his radio show while i'd clank away on the keyboards at work or drive around in my car... and by and large he has definitely helped shape the way i intake my sports.... but still, i've grown a bit weary of the "us (smart people) against the world (fucking idiots)" mentality. i'd be willing to bet that dan would cut down some coach who gave an impassioned "ITS US AGAINST THE WORLD" cliche speech, but that's pretty much what he does with his audience... and god bless him i mean it works and he's got his loyal followers and there's definitely a sense of b&b tribalism (example: once on twitter i cracked a joke @ maddux boy and schmutzie ("omfg it's maddux boy and schmutzie! i'm starstruck!" =) and they quickly fired back, so as we matched wits i had to LOL as they started dragging the @boers_bernstein and @dan_bernstein accounts into the exchanges, almost as if to point out to dear leader HEY LOOK AT THIS GUY CRACKING WISE AT US!!! almost like i'd be shamed via the process of having my idiocy brought up to the big chief and then i'd quickly rethink my position and refrain from doing such things in the future) --- and hey, god bless him for that... that's how you cultivate a loyal audience... but in the wake of stuff like this where it's laid on thick, nowadays in my old/er age i gotta kick back and detach and wash my head of it, just like many of us are doing on this board as we continue to grow more cynical and jaded with b&b as a whole.

so basically, all of this existential hooha is just my quasi-intellectual way of saying that while i'll always enjoy the show and it's burrowed a place in my soul like, say, smoking cigarettes.... an increasingly larger part of me wants to do "stupid" things like pay too much to freeze my ass off at a game with worse-than-tv views with a few in me and sing BEAR DOWN CHICAGO BEARS with some meatballs i dont know and not care that my quarterback doesnt like me cuz no matter how much money he's got he's paid to throw a damn ball for a living and like.... you know what? i think i'm plenty capable of being analytical and intelligent and all that.... but if i'm gonna choose a tribe, i'm going to side with the morbidly obese and hideously ugly under-informed and over-served meatballs who have problems stringing together the simplest of sentences--- cuz you know what? it's like weird al taught me: dare to be stupid

anyways, my next ~10 posts will be 3 sentences or less to compensate for this one. it's manic mondayyyyyyyy

Well done.

Author:  Curious Hair [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:30 pm ]
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-m ... ver,29922/

Author:  Dr. Kenneth Noisewater [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:15 pm ]
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Curious Hair wrote:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-on-personal-mission-to-explain-why-univer,29922/


:lol: :lol:

When reached for comment, Lerner told reporters that ending a news story with a follow-up comment from a source was a “lame and hacky” journalistic technique.

Author:  Tad Queasy [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:24 pm ]
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Curious Hair wrote:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-on-personal-mission-to-explain-why-univer,29922/


How many times will Bernstein be sent this link by tomorrow at 1 PM? Hell, how many copies of it will Spiegel print out and leave on Dan's desk himself?

Author:  Spaulding [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:25 pm ]
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Good find! That's him, exactly!

Author:  leashyourkids [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:32 pm ]
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In an ironic twist, Bernstein will point out that he doesn't subscribe to such tribalism and will ridicule those who enjoyed the comparison.

Author:  Curious Hair [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:45 pm ]
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Spaulding wrote:
Good find! That's him, exactly!

I picked up an Onion downtown on Saturday and thought of him immediately. Second-best article in this week's edition behind the uncomfortably on-point "Study Shows Human Imagination Capable Of Magnificent Things During Masturbation."

Author:  Spaulding [ Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:46 pm ]
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That one is way off. Same author?

Author:  W_Z [ Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:43 am ]
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Curious Hair wrote:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-on-personal-mission-to-explain-why-univer,29922/


this is the onion at its finest. great social satire.

lerner has a point about GFIII though. :wink:

Author:  Reared on the Score [ Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:08 pm ]
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leashyourkids wrote:
In an ironic twist, Bernstein will point out that he doesn't subscribe to such tribalism and will ridicule those who enjoyed the comparison.


Unless Deadspin posts it or Darren Rovell tweets it.

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