Well, tanking (it is understood that the organization is behind this) and super-team building through crybaby, lowbrow tactics/tampering are enough reasons.

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Yes, thank you for sparing me from such high brow humor.

I've sampled both Mully/Haugh and Bernstein/Rosenbloom today (seems like the Paxson Interrogation was more of a story to Bernstein than it was to Mully) ... I cannot make it through this show if all it is going to be is some sort of bizarre victory dance over Parkins' "great" interview......hearing Parkins go back again, and again, and again, to break down something is quickly becoming as maddening as Rozner's incessant MCGOWAN schtick.

Trae Young and John Collins would like a word

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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
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NBA has never been better.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Bryant Reeves ate himself out of the league in about 3 seasons.

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Next year could be the best year in a long time. Need Durant to leave GS

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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

I listened to it on the podcast. Like others, don't understand the "celebration dance" over an interview. Good interview, Paxson defensive, but he always is.

Today on ESPN1000 Nick Fridell was on and even though I am not a big fan of him, made a great point. The whole Gar/Pax thing jumped the shark years ago. The two guys should have been fired. Wanna ask tough questions to a guest people will care about, get Michael Reinsdorf. He employs these two babbling idiots.

Until fans don't show and local sponsors stop, 3rd in attendance and I think revenue for a bad product. From a business perspective, that is hitting it out of the park. Again, grill Michael, not the clown show of Gar/Pax.

I was also thinking Michael Reinsdorf would be the guy who merits an interrogation interview. Why the praise for basically something that been done probably 10x already to Paxson on Chicago sportsradio? There's a stench to the interview. Like a set up job attack to boost the m&p relevance? Then, m&p pat themselves on the back the whole next day. Paxson now is low hanging fruit. Grill him, big deal. No push back.

Next day too , Mac revels in the compliments that this is like the good old days on Belmont Ave with no broadcast ties to teams. Bringing up the classic North/McCaskey interview. Yeah, the Bulls were desperate for a radio partner mid season. Right now the score can be honest about the Bulls. In Mac's new score era of honest opinions about broadcast partners let's see if it carries over to the Cubs? Will crazy Joe, Tom, Theo, Jed be taken to the wood shed if merited during an interview? No fucking way will they rock the boat with all the leverage the Cubs have over them. Especially when m&p will basically be a Cubs post game after day home games. Parkins will be his usual Cubs apologist hanging his bs hat on "that data dictates" any time Joe bungles another game.

I thought super-teams were supposed to be good for the league?

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GS would still be a super-team; this would create another (potentially).

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
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I don’t think it’s possible for it to be a “set up job”. Paxson may be a lousy exec but he’s not an idiot. The team has stunk for several years and doesn’t appear to be getting better. He knows he is going to get pounded the minute he agrees to the interview. The fact that he didn’t seem to have better answers to some of the more obvious questions is a bit concerning though.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

We are not going to get Pax to admit that he is bad at his job.

This why Pax only came on once a year at Christmas and talked to David Schuster.

Shoe's questions are cleverly worded to ensure Paz would return next Christmas.

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