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Wow. A fair and balanced Murph? Must have been when I remember when the Score debuted...on 820 was it? I didn't mind him then...granted I was in high school and didn't know any better.
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Wow. A fair and balanced Murph? Must have been when I remember when the Score debuted...on 820 was it? I didn't mind him then...granted I was in high school and didn't know any better.
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He's a classic example of a guy that isn't very good at what he does, but still gets paid a large salary to do it because he's been around for a long while. He makes stupid arguments and ass-backwards statements continually, revealing that he knows very little about the sports he talks about despite watching them a ton. Specifically, he bristles at anything not "grindy" or "human" in nature with respect to baseball, and he has let Captain Meatball McNeil influence him to the point where he doesn't talk about basketball.
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Tom Waddle and Dan Bernstein are the only people I can listen to without constantly asking myself "how does this hack collect a paycheck from covering sports?" Sadly enough I cannot stand eithers on air partner, Boers and Silverman both suck. Which leaves me to listening to my ipod most of the time when I am driving.
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Boers is an acquired taste, true, but he definitely knows what he's talking about.
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i dont mind boers, he is an old coughing man with a modern sense of humor that indeed knows his shit. bernstein just thinks he knows everything, one day he is a dr, next day he is a lawyer.....and he always complains about beat reporters not asking these hard questions to players, coaches, gms etc and rips em......i say grab your balls and do it yourself.
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Well, to be fair, it isn't Bernstein's job to ask the questions, and I'll bet he makes a lot more money being a drive-time host than he does working a beat. And really, he has a valid point: the press corps in Chicago is just awful at asking real, perhaps tough, questions of players and coaches, and way more often than not just lob up softballs to said player/coach so they can continue writing their stories and collecting their paychecks with minimal fuss. It's embarrassing at times.
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I agree, it isnt his job, and yes....the media here does a very bad job. instead of asking the right questions they ask dumb ass questions that everyone knows the ansewer to, and when a coach or player makes a joke or misdirects a somewhat hard question the whole media starts laughing....and it is really annoying.
but at times i just wish he could go to the beat on a few occasions just to ask those hard questions that he seeks ansewers for, i just wish he didnt slam it down the listeners throat about it all the time, that is pretty much what i was trying to say.
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I have been told that he is a much better writer than a radio personality but I don't read his work. To me he just agrees with everything Dan says on air and it is rare for him to bring up an original opinion on something. He mostly annoys me with his condescending laugh and outside of baseball Terry really does not have much knowledge. That is my opinion though and I still listen to B&B because of Dan.
Also Dan does ask those "tough" questions when the show has guests on air. In fact if I am not mistaken there are a few Sox players that refuse to return to the show because he does not hold back as much as the beat writers.
Either way 670 or 1000 need to hire someone that knows and covers hockey.
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i agree
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voice lessons for anyone here?
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Steve Konroyd needs to get a segment in a good time slot to discuss the Blackhawks and the NHL.
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konroyd>jesse rogers
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I <3 Mariotti
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Then he'll punch you in the face.
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You better believe it. He loved his job, loved his side gags, and had could command of the callers unlike guys like B and B. He knew sports inside and out and could talk current sports or sports of yesterday. He was a livelier Les Grobstein.
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You obviously didn't listen much to the show.
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Well, apparently that was come and go for Murph, because when I listened he had none of those things, and was just a blubbering cheerleader for the Cubs for two hours a day because the station couldn't find anyone worthwhile enough to eat his contract for.
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Too bad you didn't listen to him more.
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No, I'm pretty happy with the amount that I listened to him, as I have killed enough brain cells drinking.