good catch. liberal think-tanks and institutes have been saying that the usa has been backsliding on democracy. the citizens united decision seemed to set that off over a decade ago and the recent dobbs decision only added fuel to their fire. common denominator appears to be supreme court decisions are making us less democratic.

Interesting because the most democratic avenues to make change are all still readily available, but these all require more than virtue signaling to accomplish, so libs act as if they do not exist, you could do national efforts to amend the constitution (highly unlikely), put an issue to up to a national referendum (political types would likely ignore results), or even try to lobby states where abortion is banned and convince them to change the states policy (maybe the easiest method).

The same group of politicians that have been in power for decades, who had years and years to make changes and did absolutely nothing are now asking for people to send them money to actually get off their ass and do something?

This of course exposes the heroes of the left as frauds and will never be tolerated, but one must at least acknowledge the useful idiots like Dan Bernstein that are tirelessly working to maintain the status quo.

How often have you listened in the last 5 years?

That's a terrible take from Bernstein.

Mitch is too invested in his core. Like how Garpax and the Bulls hung on to theirs for way too long.

It was evident in his 30yr speech that these guys are here because of the relationships they have formed over the years with Mitch.

He has failed in hiring new talent. Parkins, Julie and Lala are a flop. Parkins brings nothing original to the Score that was not already present with the producers and beat reporters. Lala hiring was puzzling. Her auditions with Parkins were not good and her show with Bernstein was PTFB radio. Speigs was a safe hire when several other new voices were just as talented or more so then Speigs. Mitch had an opportunity to give us a fresh voice and instead we got stale bread.

It's time for an outsider to come in a re-evaluate the Score. Hopefully revamping the lineup with new talent that is not already at the Score. Gut it and start from scratch.

Weren't Julie and lala were hired because they were women?

Parkins and Spiegel are Mac's fault. I can't understand why he'd pick those 2 after dealing with Harry's faults or annoying characteristics. They are so similar to Harry with little of the upside of Harry.

You still have these strong opinions on people you don’t ever listen to?

What Harry upside are we talking about here?

I always thought Harry was a bit of a foil for Mac. It made him pay attention and be engaged. I never really thought of Harry as a bad guy. There were times the relationship was contentious and they thought of each other as pains in the ass I feel like deep down they mostly liked each other. There were certain aspects where they were as much alike as they are different.

Spiegel seems like a complete self absorbed man child. He's not funny, he's not interesting, he's a smarmy, pukey, fairly narcissistic, emasculate oaf that shows little grace or tact even when he should be grateful and loyal to someone all under the guise of being super positive. Harry had upside over him for sure.

Parkins came off as a less energetic version of Harry. I don't know if it's his age or his natural attitude but he comes off as too cool for the room or something. He's a snoozer for me.

You know how women are, don't you?

Sounds so simple just re-evaluate and get some fresh talent.

However if you have listened to sports radio from other places you learn how hard that is to accomplish. There is a ton of bad radio out there.



The score is not perfect and it will always pale in comparison to the 90s but be careful what you wish for

It is simple. The problem in radio is corporatization. Every station a copy of another. Following the same criteria as every other station. Resulting in the same cookie cutter requirements to fill a slot. No thinking outside the box or giving someone a chance that doesn't fullfill the requirements. M.North would have never been given a shot with these suit heads.

In my perfect world I know would never happen. But, fire the main 8 fulltime hosts. They're pretty much worthless. Use the cheap producer types to go 100% interviews. Even if the day is ½ interviews and ½ replays it would be a vast improvement than what's going on now. 8 of the stations worst hosts ever small taking is the Score's rock bottom. When North and some of the old hosts visit Parkins and Spiegel they didn't even know Parkins' name.

Harry was the 3rd bananas on arguably one of the top 3 sports radio shows in Chicago history...The Afternoon Saloon. The only thing that Parkins and Spiegel have in common with Mac, Jurko and Harry is that they too talk into microphones.

Parkins is nothing like Harry. I don't think you people remember what Harry was like when given the chance to run his own show, and yes, I men YOU people. Harry and Spike was in the group with the worst sports talk radio I have ever heard.

I don't even think Spiegs is like him, although I do think both Harry and Spiegs see themselves as entertainers who are just doing sports talk as a side gig.

Yep, a lot of revisionist history when it comes to harry

Harry was occasionally amusing,

No....he was NEVER amusing. He was awful 100% of the time.