This guy get it

Bernsie or Mac, the point remains the same.

Meat could not hang and would get his feelings hurt all the time. He is much better served in his current role

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Yeah I agree. Meat is way too sensitive.
Anyone saying otherwise is just suffering recency bias.

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I disagree.

I think Bernstein and Spiegel would be a good pairing.

Would Spiegel get sensitive over things Benrstein says? Yes. But that makes for good radio.

And Spiegel would get over it. He's shown that through the years with his relationship with Bernstein. They fight. Then they're cool and have some good conversations.

No different then all of you and your wives. Your wives hate you for a little bit. Then get over it. Same with me and my "Girl chained to the furnace."

It's better radio then Connor and Bernstein. Where Connor nods to everything Bernstein says and they never fight.

Fights are good on radio. Listeners like it. We all loved "Boers vs Murph" for those many years. But that was true hate on both ends.

Spiegel and Bernstein don't actually hate each other.

It would be better than with McDoink. No one is disagreeing with that.

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Your extreme bias is showing.

Agree to disagree

I like mcdoink.

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McDoink should be dead. And Mulli should be necktied next

Not possible

As a person he seems like a great dude. I feel bad he lost his job. But he is just not good at radio, at least not paired with Bernsie

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Bernsie is always better solo or with a partner that can challenge him.

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Tension makes for good radio. That's one of the reasons that Bernstein and McKnight didn't work. Therefore, I think a Mac or Speigs pairing with Bernstein would, at least for a year or two, be entertaining. Also, it's fun to knock Bernstein, but he is easily one of the current top three hosts on the station, and I would argue is one of the top three hosts over the last fifteen years. The guy deserves some credit.

Bernstein is the most influential figure in Chicago sports media over the past 25 years.

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That is so wrong. Half the city has no idea who he is. Mark Giangreco is bigger than Bernsie could ever hope to be. Bernsie isn’t shit. That is why he started with the whole Penn State thing. To think Bernsie is huge in the world let alone Chicago makes me think less of you TM.

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Mark Giangreco was an important sports figure in like 1991. Now he's a guy who desperately is trying to hang onto his youth and just phones it in for a living.

Sure, Giangreco is more famous. But he hasn't had an impact on the sports media landscape in decades. Bernstein has framed the way many reporters and fans think about sports for more than 20 years.

I don't think his impact has been positive, but I do think it is pervasive.

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Oh man, Spaulding is not going to be happy. She is going to give you a piece of her mind

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I would like a show where the hosts don't agree with each other on every topic.

And he's struggling not to drown.
No one is beating down Steve Dahl's door. It is what it is.

Just what the board needs...another racist.

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The only thing Kap influences is people to change the dial.

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Exactly right.

He's influenced people for the worse, but to deny his influence on sports media is just silly.

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Just because someone is popular does not mean they are influential. Bernstein turned on a lot of listeners to metrics and critical analysis of the local teams in a way that no other local member of the sports media has. What did Giangreco really do besides being quirky and a little sarcastic?

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Some posters’ propensity for mega quote strings is the herpes of this board

To use dumb sports cliches, Dan is a high ceiling guy on a station full of low floors.

Bernstein and Rosner might have been interesting..
Any chance Rosner would ever want to come back to the score if given a chance?.. Did they ever name a new Saturday scorecard golf host?

Golf Boy

I don't think pairing Spiegel and Bernstein would work. Matt positively hates Dan down to his essence, and has too much pride in being the "here's how I really feel" guy to not derail shows constantly over quibbles with Dan.

Remember the "Babe damn Ruth" spring/summer, which I think was 2015? Spiegel killed countless transitions picking fights with Bernstein over inanities because Dan used a quote from an unnamed scout that Matt thought he had exclusivity on.

98 year old Carl Reiner telling the story of seeing Mel Brooks perform the first time. Brooks was playing a Jewish pirate. You know how hard it is to set sail these days? You know what they're charging for sail cloth? $1.37 a yard! I can't afford to pillage and rape anymore!