Regular Reader wrote:
A show like this puts me ever closer to completely turning off sports radio.
It's bad enough that Bernstein's stance is 180 degrees from where he (and Terry's) stance has been since the injury happened. IIRC it was: "We don't care if he comes back at all next year. This is routinely a 12-18 month period before he is fully healthy. Next season doesn't mean a thing in the greater scheme of things."
And earlier, Mr. "My own athletic exploits (dunking a tennis ball/turning around 90-95 mph cage fastballs) are the stuff of legend " noted that HIS ACL injury & surgery were more severe than DRoses, since well, "I(he) had a bit more cartilage damage".
Napoleon, meet your long lost asshole wannabe. 2/3rds of the time I can barely stand him. Now I'd love this narcissistic clown to just go the hell away.
hear hear! Double-R, WE SPEAK YOUR NAME!!! Posts like this compel me to say it was an honor and a privilege to have a few beers with you back @ the CSFMB winter party @ Cleo's back in Dec 2010.
That said, this post is pretty much in lockstep with mine in that, SERIOUSLY KIDS, these guys are doing exactly what the loathsome Skip Bayless does: EMBRACING DEBATE. Although, ironically, they just came back from commercial with Terry doing the ident and saying "There is no debate here." Same thing that Skip does.... grab an arbitrary position/stance, and then preface your reiteration of it by saying YOU CANNOT ARGUE/DEBATE/QUESTION THIS.... I mean holy fucking shitballs, it just hit me about 10 minutes ago.... these guys are trying to jump on the ESPN First Take bandwith and do edgy debate topics, except instead of doing what THE EVIL/FAKE SKIP BAYLESS OF ESPN DOES and picking an arbitrary position to purposely disagree with his co-host/s, they're doing it with their own damn audience backed up by their longtime mantra that Chicago sports fandom is filled with idiots that need to be educated, unless (of course) you agree with them in which case you're "one of the good ones" which traditionally hearkens the kind of topics that you'd be way more likely to hear in the middle of a spirited game of
BINGO THAT.
"None of this is really up for debate" - Dan Bernstein. Jesus Horatio Christ impaled on John Travolta's mighty majestic cum-excalibur, this is bad. Now callers are getting chastised for asking questions that, GASP, have been asked before. So keep that in mind, kids: when you call up the show you had BETTER be up to date on every question that's been asked in the ~2.5-4 hours b4 you call, cuz if you DARE to repeat a question they'll straightup sigh before they summarily dismiss you via the hangup.
The most depressing part is hearing one of my radio heroes, Terry Boers, be reduced to a fucking lapdog yes-man sidekick alongside The Mighty Crusader(TM) li'l danny burnSTINE cuz like.... just..... sigh. I'm seriously listening to this show in the same way I'd listen to the Stern show during the last year or two I could actually be arsed to download it: as a spectacle to behold just how much the show has fallen.
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Curious Hair wrote:
Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?