Yeah. Somebody call in with that. I won't. As you all know, calling the SCORE is beneath me. I'm way too big and important for that.

What could Goff and Julie have a beef about? They seem to be comrades-in-arm?

Goff's incessant laughter made that show intolerable.

One of the best moments was when he was still with Spiegs on the Maddon segment. He was asking something and doing his uncomfortable or whatever you call it and Maddon was like what the hell is so funny?

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My recollection is that Mac, as he often does with producers and interns, had a good relationship with Goff and tried to forward his career. He gave him opportunities on his show while his "mentor" Bernstein was giving him scraps of time jumping in on B and B. These were the days when Bernstein was on the ascent with his brand of "smart radio". His producers followed this lead by trying to portray everyone not on the smart radio train as stupid and bigoted. It started with North with the "Ain't That A Kick In The Head" drops at every mention of his name or racial topic that arose on the show. When North left, the producers needed a new target, which quickly became Mac.

The bullshit of it is that DA MAANEEEL started out as a funny and friendly thing from the HFC. It was mimicking some listener on a remote and Terry said it as a friend. He brought it with him to B and B. At some point, Bernstein felt entitled to use the joke, even though he had absolutely no nexus to it. Finally, his lickspittle producers felt they were entitled to use it. However, Bernstein and his boyquarium had lost all context of the joke and used it against Mac. Eventually Goff started using it not only for every mention of stupidity or racism but for every drug reference, even as Mac was going through a very public problem with addiction.

However, Mac really knew none of this as he learned about Goff busting his stones from this board. When Mac confronted Goff on air about it, Goff denied it happened but the evidence was significant and damning.

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Outside of it originating from an Asian restaurant worker on Belmont years ago not a fan you got it.

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This is da troof.

Goff "chose a side". He was definitely peer-pressured into it by thinking he was purchasing some sway from Bernstein, but he should have known - and Bernstein made it clear several, several times - that he does not vouch for co-workers for fear of something staining him and his course/brand.

Had Berns been Mac, he would have rewarded the loyalty somewhere down the road. But Dan B. is not Mac. When you vouch for someone you put your own head on the block as collateral.

Well. . . hold up a sec. . . maybe Bernstein wavered from his code and it stung him . . maybe he did vouch for Goff, and that is how he got the afternoon slot. If that is the case, Dan B. is probably kicking himself every day for not following his gut. I bet he will never make that mistake again!

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Aren't most of the employees at the Score white? At least the on-air people and producers

Goff beef candidates:

Mully for being too South Side Irish, Spiegel for working him but not being Dan Bernstein, Parkins for insufficient dues-paying, Grote for keeping a job through addiction issues like Mac did, Grobstein for not getting out of the way and letting younger people host, Hampton for torpedoing Laurence's one and only rack at middays, Rozner for getting fill-in spots he could have gotten, Zawaski for liking hockey, sales guys whose names we don't know for not getting him enough/more live reads, who else is there left to beef with?

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Pretty much anyone not named Terry or Larry.

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Yep - I remember it well. It was like the first or second time Joe appeared as a regular Tuesday at noon hit.

Goff said something odd and started giggling after Joe answered a question. Joe replied sternly, "What's so funny?"

Spiegs deflected with something legit but you could tell that Maddon was not a fan going forward every week. Heck of a bad first impression...

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