The Beast

Sports gambling isn’t even that interesting a topic when they do talk about it on the afternoon show, but I get that it is a revenue stream. To each of your points, I’m trying to remember when I heard politics. I seem to remember some of it in 2017 going through 2020. There was some heated conversations about Kaepernick, Covid and George Floyd I could remember. I don’t remember it being all of the time though. It should be a sports station but I never had a problem with times that called for some serious discussion by non-political pundits. I felt smarter about sports listening to Bernstein. His interviews, analysis, his introduction to analytics, it all made sense. Someone on Chicago Fanatics tried making it seem like he refused to apologize to that person and that’s why he’s out of a job. I don’t believe that. I think your point about Audacy makes a lot of more sense.

Part of it had to do with the dynamics of sports radio and the economic situations and not necessarily Bernstein though.

I think the following he had were some that liked him but many who did not like him and either hate listened or just had the Score on during the day.

Dan Bernstein has always been a mixed bag for me. I didn’t like how he treated callers on Boers and Bernstein, but that seemed to be part of their show. I met Dan in 2016 at a remote and he was kind of a jerk, but I chalked it up to that is just who he is. Since then, I’ve listened to multiple versions of his show and actually really liked his interviews and his analysis. I don’t really understand what his issue was with this dude last week, but it was really dumb. I bet Bernstein re-emerges in some form with a podcast and long form interviews. I doubt he would Be able to go up the dial though. The Score’s lineup needs an overhaul. Marshall Harris needs someone to drive that program. The afternoon program is okay, but may need to be separated to bring someone new in, unless that new person starts middays.

Tait was who I was thinking of too. I’m glad they gave up low rounders in separate drafts for each player. They are expensive players but the Bears have money to spend. They are also effectively on one year deals so they can use the two players they acquired as bridge players. At least they finally are addressing the line so Williams doesn’t get killed back there. They can certainly reclaim assets by trading down and what you describe makes a ton of sense.

What a boring Super Bowl, it was a blowout and a few Chiefs garbage time touchdowns. I was so glad Brady stopped talking after blowing Mahomes for much of the night. Now onto the new league year with free agency in March.

I’m not excited about the game because of the teams in it, but Philly does have a chance to win, so I’ll watch for that reason. I’m more excited about the food we’ll have instead of the game itself.😂 Italian Hoagies and a rotel dip!

I love that. There’s no sense investing in running backs when there’s so much greater of a need upfront. The most productive running backs of my lifetime were Matt Forte and Thomas Jones (signed, not drafted by the Bears). I’d feel better about drafting one high and hitting on one like those guys if they had a solid line upfront.

I’m not really a close NBA observer, but can someone explain to me why the Mavs made the Doncic/Davis trade? And…are the Bulls tearing down the roster to the studs like the Sox are and starting over?

I’m only hoping that Caleb Williams gets one unified voice from the coaches rather than too many voices which screws him up. To me, Ben Johnson’s voice should be the one who matters most.

It makes me wonder how different and potentially worse the Lions will be without their OC, DC and much of the offensive coaching staff. They’ll still be good but who knows if they can replicate the success they had.

I want to better understand what the goal is. Is the goal to move the team? Is it to turn over the roster to new prospects and the new way of doing things? It would kind of suck if they are not spending just to move even though I guess I’d understand why. I hope they have exhausted all options within their price range to improve the roster so as to flip players at the deadline. Of course Feddes don’t grow on trees and the old way of rebuilding isn’t possible anymore. And they have already traded away 2 of 3 blue chip players on the roster (if Robert still is considered one) so they are almost out of shots in the arm and need to develop.

I hope Tim regains form and salvages his career. And find where his power went because I thought that was what made him interesting in 2019.

If Poles gets fired, what’s the plan?

I’m wondering if Washington’s kicker will be their Achilles heel in the next round…