Curious Hair wrote:
I like that Rod Zimmerman's legacy of having to give the Score lots of special attention has continued.
middle-aged men are too emotional
Curious Hair wrote:
"Different-sounding" is the most charitable euphemism for "out-of-town jamokes can't seem to get anything going and blame the audience" that I've seen. Good work.
Agrest is guilty of some sleight of hand with the ratings talk, because ctrl-F "cubs" = 0/0, and maybe part of the reason the ratings drop hasn't been so bad is all that day baseball the Score paid out the ass to carry. Also, I'm guessing a big part of the increase in online listenership is that MLB doesn't black out radio streams in the home markets anymore, so now you don't have to listen to the Cubs in potato quality to get it for free.
Not sure about this new "extended bench" the Score has. I don't think it's ever been weaker. The hours that fill-ins would get don't exist anymore. Do they consider Bart Winkler their bench?
All six stations had better be profitable! They sound like shit and are so automated that they might all just be operated by one very precocious dog.
I would hope he wasn't as arrogant as it sounded, and that he meant they
had a deep bench that they've now exhausted replacing Parkins* and Bernstein and now have to "aggressively" replenish. Though even that isn't true, because Leila and Marshall are decidedly not full-time starting material. Similarly I think he is being a bit disingenuous when saying he's giving that pairing time to grow, when it's more likely just coinciding with Marshall's contract (and Cubs season).
*Agrest is giving undue credit to loser Stoolies by saying Laurence changed slots after the Nice Guy Eddie affair, when the actual catalyst was Parkins left
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