About what? And is that twice in as many days? Is this a new bit Mitch is trying out?

no idea, mic's were off. It's weird.

Dan was relating a dream he had where his car was hijacked but he still had to come to work.
Tanny: Dan even fantasizes about ways to get out of coming to work.
Jason: Wrong Dan.

Jason: Wrong Dan.

Dan was relating a dream he had where his car was hijacked but he still had to come to work.
Tanny: Dan even fantasizes about ways to get out of coming to work.
Jason: Wrong Dan.

Yes, I too cannot wait to hear Cleveland-centric NBA talk on a Chicago sports radio station for a few hours.

emailer amir was on teh radio for 15 minutes at 5pm... apparently to be an NBA expert you need to come off as a total know it all douche

Uh oh. JLN and DAC getting their wish and Bernstein being fired?

Can we just dispense with the pretenses and call it for what it is. It is not "out of town" basketball talk that people on here hate. Its any basketball talk. The people that bash B&G dislike basketball for the most part. Whether it is Bulls or Cavs is not really relevant as their dislike is related to the sports and not cities or teams.

The same people that rail on the out of town NBA are the same people that have no problem discussing out of town NFL or out of town College Football. Somehow someway geography goes out the window when it is a sport they like.

Wrong. M&H and moreso S&P talk Bulls all the time and have guests. I listen to them every day. B&G never anymore.

Can we just dispense with the pretenses and call it for what it is. It is not "out of town" basketball talk that people on here hate. Its any basketball talk. The people that bash B&G dislike basketball for the most part. Whether it is Bulls or Cavs is not really relevant as their dislike is related to the sports and not cities or teams.

The same people that rail on the out of town NBA are the same people that have no problem discussing out of town NFL or out of town College Football. Somehow someway geography goes out the window when it is a sport they like.

I follow these threads more than i follow the shows and all i ever read about is how much people hate basketball talk.

So you're railing against people complaining about basketball talk without actually knowing how deep Dan and Jason dive into their basketball discussions?

If i thought it was simply about them "diving deep into conversations" then i'd refrain from commenting. The people on here bitched about them discussing basketball during the NBA Finals of all things. The complaints that i've read on here have been related to them discussing basketball at all. Nothing to do with depth in my opinion.

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They had a guest on to drive discussion about an NBA conference quarter final game. That is not a proper topic for Chicago sports talk radio at the present pervasiveness of deep NBA fandom, even in this city.

Yeah to whatever it was you were attempting to say.

The level of deep rooted NBA fandom in this town does not warrant segments-long discussion of the NBA conference quarter finals featuring a team from LA and a team from Salt Lake.

I think you're being pretty presumptuous. Chicago has a lot of Basketball fans.

I just looked at their podcasts topics for the past 2 weeks. The only day that they were heavy on the basketball talk was today.

You said multiple times that you don't know how much basketball they talk, but now you do because of podcast descriptions?

They talk a lot of basketball, too much for this market, just accept it. Not even BRick would defend them this way.

Just looked at Waddell and Silvy's podcast topics for the same period and it appears that they they actually talked more basketball than B&G (for the same period)

Basketball talk isn't the reason for a decline in the ratings. I think that it was the apathethic way in which they approached sports. It started with Boers and it carried over.

Waddle and Silvy do straight sports shows. So do Mully and Hanley. Some people think that those shows are vanilla and boring. Most people may want that. Straight sports no chaser.

I think the score miscalculated years ago. The sophomoric antics turned a number of people off after awhile and they never were able to recover from it.

Of course they're not losing listeners solely due to national NBA talk, that's like saying ESPN is losing viewers only because of their liberal bias. B&G are losing to the competition for a multitude of reasons, but undeniably one of those reasons is the amount of NBA minutae discussed.

This criticism isn't coming from only the board, it's gotten so loud that the hosts felt the need to address it just a few days ago. Their most prized demo in the market doesn't like hearing about Giannis or a breakout Pacers player. This show talks too much national basketball, SEO driven podcast descriptions are irrelevant.

Waddle and Silvy talk basketball too. When Boers was still hosting they were talking considerably less basketball and they were still losing listeners.

You are speculating that it is because of basketball. I think that there are other factors. Their adversarial relationship with callers has more to do with their decline than anytbing.

Again Waddle and Silvy talk basketball too and have the type of guests that delve into deep conversations. Their ratings are higher.