Just caught up on my podcasts today -- I knew he was going to do a bad beat poker story... those are so boring because everyone has them. I was hoping for a KC -7.5 bet where the Raiders kick a meaningless FG with 0:02 left in the game and he loses $500. Thanks for asking the question though... it had potential.
Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
The technology made it difficult to interrupt him. This was a trial for me.
I basically had to let him talk and then I talked. Interrupting was problematic.
Noticed this -- I think this happens a lot even to WSCR/WMVP interview phone in callers -- not much you can do. It does make it tougher to steer the interview, especially when he is somewhat doing you a favor by appearing on your podcast because he does have a little more cache in the business than the good doctor. I thought you did well given the circumstances. I missed the What Are We Drinking, but that doesn't work over the phone. BTW, not to go all Sini on everyone, but I had a
great nitro Pollyanna Eleanor on Father's Day @ 3 Corners south of Cog Hill... I was super impressed with it.
JORR wrote:
Look, I'm not saying they should ignore the hard news stories, especially when there is a real connection to sports, but I'm tuning into the Score to hear about Avi Garcia and Jose Quintana, not to listen to some unqualified goof pretend that he's Ted Koppel.
I agree -- if it is important enough of a news story, then you should patch through the news affiliate and get the sports guys off the air, otherwise you can do a respectful two or three minutes on the story and then move on to sports. Let the update guy/girl remind us of it in a two sentence update and if anything develops.
I do respect Parkins for saying he isn't going to do anything on this board and sticking to Twitter/FB/Insta. Much better than writing a grand opening email and then giving up after two days (or a half a day or whatever.) He'd get his own Gloopan and that would just be a pain in the ass to deal with on a regular basis -- if you don't confront him, you're ducking it; if you do, you're adding more fuel to the fire. If I were an on-air guy, I wouldn't come on here (at least not with people knowing who I was.)