I need a co-host to be either knowledgeable about a major sport (basketball, football or baseball) or be funny. Not a high bar. Again, they know they have a problem with this show. Ronge may not be that far around the corner.

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OK, I will give Leila her due

today on midday midway thy were discussing a goat killing a bear. Dan said it was unlikely for a goat to win but the "goat could use a well placed poke with a horn". Leila quickly said "couldn't we all"

incredibly funny and the first quick witted thing I have ever heard from her

Good job today, Leila

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

and members of well placed poke... or did i do that wrong?

They appear to have cut that joke off of the podcast

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So when she first became cohost, i was like ok this is alright. and i would listen pretty regularly. but it waned. and now I barely listen. After resigning from my old gig and waiting for the new one to start I was doing some basement remodel projects the past few weeks and would put the score on at times but i'm sorry, this show is just not interesting. I feel dan is getting older and is neutered due to his circumstances, and Leila is very vanilla. I just literally have no use for anything she is saying. I mean I don't really care for anything Dan is saying either. He's trying to be smart and I commend him trying to cut the meatball with math, probability and reason, but i'm just not that into it.

I agree with this assessment. When I rarely listen the show doesn't do anything for me. It's not offensive (Bernstein/Goff) or annoying (Bernstein/McKnight). It's just boring.

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Isn’t a big part of the reason the shows are boring is because the hosts are scared to death therefore can only offer the most vanilla sanitized “proper” takes lest they be subject to the unemployment line ?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

That and the focus of the station is on news and reporting with SJW thrown in...problem is, the hosts just aren't that interesting.

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The shows are boring because the hosts have almost no lived experiences that are interesting. Everyone outside of the morning show is communications school to entry level media job to score host. They didn't have interesting jobs unrelated to sports. They didn't take meandering paths that put them in interesting situations with interesting characters. None even seemed to acquire vices that are fun for a little while before becoming destructive. No one talks about his weekend on a Monday because none of them did anything anyone would find interesting.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Half the board should be happy about that since they don't want to hear about non-sports related personal stories.

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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

You would think Dan would have more stories about his time working for the Rockford Lightning or Rockford Cubs that many might find entertaining.

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Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

There is nothing Bernstein can do or say that will generate positive feedback from more than a handful of posters on this board.

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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

for me its a matter of you don't know what you got til its gone. I used to complain all the time about drinky/goff/boers/bernstein. but compared to what they have on that station today, that was must listen to radio.

I think it might just be a poor match. I think there are some who would be a good fit for Dan that have a more realistic shot (whenever it was Dan and Jhood I thought it was very good) and likely the same could be said for Leila. one of the afternoon guys is likely to be willing to step out more on a limb and push Leila to be more interesting. I'm almost 100% certain Dan did not want this.

He did that 25 years ago. The stories were largely limited to drinking at close to the hotel bars with the coaches. He was trying but it wasn't exactly riveting. I doubt that players looked at Bernstein as anything other than a team spy/snitch.

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What’s worse is she has an off putting tone to me. Nothing she says in particular just the way she says it. I still listen occasionally but don’t care if I miss it.

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Elections have consequences.

Trouble with Bernsie and his stories is he never gives up anything juicy. Afraid to get fired or sued. So we get him and some washed up NBA guy drinking in Sioux City. Or him and writers in Platteville.

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Elections have consequences.

Cuz he’s a fucking nerd who’s spent his life adjacent to good stories, without having ever experienced them.

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I've listened to this show pretty regularly over the past few months since they talk about the Bears a lot.

I don't think I've heard Leila utter an interesting or unique thought during that span. Most of the time she's not even coherent. And she frequently slurs her speech. Is she drunk? I wouldn't blame her given her partner, but she's evidently not one of those people who become increasingly entertaining as their consumption of alcohol increases.

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This is dumb.

Good counterpoint.

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Her voice is very annoying as well. It has a late era Eddie Schwartz tone to it.

i agree she sounds kinda drunk

it's kinda hot

I just don't think she sounds drunk. Mulligan on the other hand can't put a sentence together.

Funny ironic to have this hot babe working with arrogant radio only horse face guys.

Yesterday she was alleging she has seen people on twitter, the text line, and the twitch chat arguing in favor of pace keeping his job. I can't definitively say she is just making shit up but I haven't seen a single instance of this happening on twitch or twitter. Unless she is misconstruing people pointing out his late round draft success for saying he should be retained. But as many have said, she constantly regurgitates trending talking points and seems to lack any originality. Maybe she knows this and is grasping for something to add, i don't know. She does speak like she has a mouth full of cotton balls though.

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I don't listen as often as you do, but I could not agree with you more. I don't know why she gets a lot of love. Give me Julie Swieca over her any day of the week.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I thought Swieca was excellent, especially on her long form, Sunday morning baseball show. I was a young father back then and would be up at the crack of dawn, even on weekends, so I'd hear most of her show. She was also great on the football roundup, talking about games going on while the Bears played. I liked her work, but I think she went nuts and she also blew coach clown shoes, which damages credibility, unless you work in Boston. There it gets you promoted.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I used to listen to it a lot either going out for breakfast or more likely driving an hour to play at some remote golf course outside the six county Chicagoland area. I remember a fantastic rant she had back when Konerko had a rough first three months one year, to the effect of Kenny Williams is an idiot for insisting that Konerko isn't hurt when everyone realizes he is... because it means that he is just bad then, and since Kenny was the one who signed him to that contract then Kenny is an idiot either way. I was pulling into a golf course as she got going and just sat and listened laughing until she finished.

She had taken over Sunday mornings from Bernstein, who had gotten his first weekday slot. Bernstein pre-marriage pre-internet solo was pretty good as well, especially on baseball.

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