This is literally the deadest week in the entire sports calendar. Can't really criticize them for not having a lot content wise. The NBA timeout rule change is a good thing though. Should make the last couple minutes of games slightly quicker.

This is literally the deadest week in the entire sports calendar. Can't really criticize them for not having a lot content wise.

Frankly, I think they could benefit from a 3rd host, someone who could bring a completely different angle.

They also have talked a lot of NBA because that's the main sport from April - June (sorry early season MLB and NHL playoffs)

In Chicago?

Anywhere?

Local should supersede national within reason. Two baseball teams in town and you're talking Utah and the Clippers? For whom, exactly?

TV ratings within their radio market (which is the potential listeners they should cater to) say otherwise.

Now if you're producing a national show, that's a different story.

I'm not sure, locally, if people care about GS or Cleveland talk. They seem to disagree. I'm only saying that April, May and June is when the NBA season is at it's best in most years. Baseball season here is bigger with the Cubs now being a dominant team coming off the WS win, and they do cover them extensively, but what other sports should be discussed in that time of the year outside of the Cubs and NBA? There is some NFL draft talk, but it's the most NBA heavy time of the year outside of free agency in the first week of July.

B&G weren't breaking down the signings of Edwin Encarnacion (new team, huge money), Marc Melancon (new team, huge money), Josh Reddick (new team, big money), or even Aroldis Chapman (from an in-market team to the Yankees, HUGE money), so why are they talking about Victor Ola-fucking-dipo or Joe Johnson and their respective impact on the Western Conference?

NBA fandom has cultivated a weird synthesis of social justice concerns and marveling over the scale of league commerce that doesn't exist in baseball. Both leagues pay their players more money than any normal person can reckon with, but with the NBA it's implied that seventh men making superstar money puts the world to rights in a way that middle relievers making superstar money does not. It has a lot to do with race.

That doesn't explain away the "LOOK. HOW. MUCH. MONEY. THEY'RE MAKING" cooing every time Turner/Disney/Kia money enables some general manager to do something stupid.

Or, ya know, some of just like watching basketball.

Who's doing that? Let me guess: "people on twitter", right? Don't Bernstein me, bro.

Bernstein and Goff themselves?

There's another issue where if you are a serious NBA fan, then B&G are lacking there too. They know the game but not the league, and actually have an attitude that's not like an 'NBA fan', but more like CH's: only #ringz and LeBron matters, everybody else is just 'a guy' and not quite yet 'a thing'.

So if you're into national NBA talk, there are countless other podcasts to listen to. And if you're into local Bulls talk, B&G aren't good at that either as Reinsdorf kiss-asses. Actually Goff isn't as bad on that front but usually demurs to Bernstein there.

Spiegel/Parkins are better local Bulls content, or JHood at night on 1000. I guess if you're too old to seek out your own content on the world wide web, and like the NBA on a general scale, there aren't better options than B&G.

It has me wondering what is B&G's best sport. They're pedants when it comes to baseball, superficial with the NBA. Hockey is N/A. I suppose football, but then they get into their 'sources say' nonsense which limits them there too.

That old 'gay candy' clip posted above was great. How has nobody created a Goff mult named 'black chuckle'?

There's another issue where if you are a serious NBA fan, then B&G are lacking there too. They know the game but not the league, and actually have an attitude that's not like an 'NBA fan', but more like CH's: only #ringz and LeBron matters, everybody else is just 'a guy' and not quite yet 'a thing'.

So if you're into national NBA talk, there are countless other podcasts to listen to. And if you're into local Bulls talk, B&G aren't good at that either as Reinsdorf kiss-asses. Actually Goff isn't as bad on that front but usually demurs to Bernstein there.

Spiegel/Parkins are better local Bulls content, or JHood at night on 1000. I guess if you're too old to seek out your own content on the world wide web, and like the NBA on a general scale, there aren't better options than B&G.

It has me wondering what is B&G's best sport. They're pedants when it comes to baseball, superficial with the NBA. Hockey is N/A. I suppose football, but then they get into their 'sources say' nonsense which limits them there too.

That old 'gay candy' clip posted above was great. How has nobody created a Goff mult named 'black chuckle'?

everybody else is just 'a guy' and not quite yet 'a thing'.

NBA fandom has cultivated a weird synthesis of social justice concerns and marveling over the scale of league commerce that doesn't exist in baseball. Both leagues pay their players more money than any normal person can reckon with, but with the NBA it's implied that seventh men making superstar money puts the world to rights in a way that middle relievers making superstar money does not. It has a lot to do with race.

I wonder how anyone would ever think that the anti NBA
sentiment which is expressed on here wouldn't be racially motivated? Quintessentential racial apologist JLN are you reading? Sure you are and have since you commented in the thread you damn hypocrite.

NBA talk in those peak-NBA months should be discussed the same way other major sports in this town with a hometown-anchoring team are discussed: Most national-scale news is projected through or at least tangentially tied to the lens of the hometown NBA team, with a smattering of untethered national talk on things that are generally newsworthy and interesting. B&G weren't breaking down the signings of Edwin Encarnacion (new team, huge money), Marc Melancon (new team, huge money), Josh Reddick (new team, big money), or even Aroldis Chapman (from an in-market team to the Yankees, HUGE money), so why are they talking about Victor Ola-fucking-dipo or Joe Johnson and their respective impact on the Western Conference?

Do you think the notion that people revere big-money contracts for rotation players in the NBA in-part because previously (and arguably still-) oppressed minorities are the ones receiving guaranteed deals worth tens of millions of dollars, is a racist one? Not "dealing with race", I mean "racist". Further, do you think pointing out and discussing that notion makes someone racist? Also, do you realize who is who in the quote you posted?

Sorry, don't totally get your "gotcha!" moment, here. Finally, here's that full quote from me: