I'd be willing to bet that the NHL hasn't produced a Plus 6 rating in at least 20 years.

edit: Curious Hair kinda beat me to it.

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Yeah, I wouldn't be comfortable sticking my neck out on any ratings prediction more daring than, say, the Flyers outdrawing the 76ers during the regular season. One of the few markets where you can safely put NHL above NBA. Red Wings and Pistons are about dead even in attendance and ratings, because Detroit isn't retarded and tribalist about hockey vs. basketball; it's okay to like both. Which dovetails nicely with my larger point, which is WHY MUST WE FOREVER HAVE A PISSING CONTEST BETWEEN THESE TWO LEAGUES

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What years did you attend Purdue? I want to ask my girl if she ever ran into a guy there named Brick.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

I blame SHARK.

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2000-2004.

By the way, my statistic there is almost certainly going to be true. Not baiting.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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Ah, okay. She was a freshman in '04. She probably don't know no Brick.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

She was there for the prime of Kyle Orton's career. Lucky girl.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That is the exact point I was trying to make on page 1.

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BTW Spark, arguing can be fun and liberating sometimes. I see why some people do it. It's like how a good sneeze can clear the nasal passages. Fun day.

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Kid Cairo's Boers & Bernstein YouTube Channel

Kid Cairo: 2013 March Madness Tournament Winner!

"Cowabunga? Cowa fucking piece of dog shit! This game is diarrhea coming out of my dick!"

Try it with IMU sometimes. It's really fun to dominate an argument to the point where you even feel sorry for the other guy.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I hate both of the last two posters like I hate Steak with mashed potatos


Which is to say: I need to be hungry and in the right mood to devour them.

Im gonna walk out on that one

Thats a walk off right there

So let's talk about Dan's Kaner article. As usual, Dan is superficially upset that the Chicago media doesn't cover the Blackhawks like they're a major team. However, when anyone suggests that he devote time on his show to said major league team rather than, say, talking about how when he was in the CBA, Flip Saunders ran a TON of stuff, he pretty much flips his shit and says he doesn't have to because no one cares about the Blackhawks. So why all the dissatisfaction with the Hawks' treatment in the media? Do you not care that at a 20-year-old sports talk station whose personnel more than significantly overlaps that of the city's two (three with the Herald) newspapers, you, too, are the media? Do you really want the Blackhawks to be covered like they're on the same level as the other four teams in town? Or do you want the Blackhawks to be covered only on your terms, which is that their games are insignificant, their league is insignificant, but their visibly sodden punkass of a star player is a transcendent figure in Chicago sports only to the extent that he is a visibly sodden punkass?

That sure is the impression I got when they talked this story to death. A few callers said, "whoa, you guys are talking about hockey" or something to that effect, only to be met with "this isn't about hockey, this is about a Chicago sports figure who is in trouble" or something to that effect. You can't shit on the Blackhawks and their place in Chicago for years and then boil over with righteous indignation that nobody is treating a Patrick Kane misadventure like a Jay Cutler misadventure, or pout about how no one is this easy on "Derrick." Perception is reality, and this station has worked overtime to cultivate the perception that the Hawks don't matter, all the while running counter to the team's post-$Bill efforts to remind Chicago that they in fact do. If you want people to be as upset as they should be that one of the best players on our local team, one whose first five seasons through age 23 have been among the best ever, is in trouble, then you have to give a flying fuck about just how good he is and how important it is that he remain good. And if that's not "adversarial" enough, then it fits right in with every other cozy media-fan-club relationship in this town.

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Goooooood, Gooooood.

Let the (message board) hate flow!!!

Um I just wanna say this may be the best spurs team of the entire dynasty, and could possibly be going up against the mvp and his two all star caliber teammates... This equals BIG ratings...

Seriously people, so when the bulls played portland, utah, and phoenix they got no ratings? Think about it.

Kid is on point.

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May 14th:


duh

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That Hawk rant

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You gotta be bleepin me!

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How can you not absolutely love Hawk? Seriously. That's awesome.

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This 4 PM hour is fixin to go straight into the OKC vault.

Nah he's been slacking lately. I've asked him to put a few things on youtube, and he has yet to.

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What am I missing!??!?!?!?!

Well, he's got...things now. Hopefully he is logging these in his journal to add at a later date.

Hawk's rant on the umpiring today. Probably his best rant yet. They opened the show with it. Podcast it up. Or wait, I'm sure they will be replaying throughout the show.

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The Score is so meatbally, running "Home Of YOUR First Place White Sox" promos in May.

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Stupid factual promos....

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Boers hasn't seen the pitch that hit Konerko in the face yet?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Don't worry, it's a Charity Goat.

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