Fire Ryan Poles | Fire Ben Johnson

This will be the last post for a little while (unless something stupid happens in Chicago sports). And the way things are going with the teams I follow, something stupid is bound to happen.

Good ol’ David Huh?. That’s what he has been called for many years. I just can’t figure out how this guy continues to have every job everywhere at the same time. There are at least 75 other journalists and personalities in Chicago who have more knowledge than this guy.

I already knew this guy was an idiot. About a decade ago, he vouched for the Bears to keep John Fox as head coach. I know it’s an opinion. But damn. Anyone who says something as stupid as that should have been fired immediately. Anything this guy would say or write, it literally would make someone go “Huh?”

This dumb fuck is everywhere. Mornings on The Score. Afternoons on CHSN. Not just that, TWO different shows back-to-back with The Big Pro Football Show and The Chicago Lead on that channel. And even at times, he’s on some of the Sunday night sports shows after the news. Then even this past weekend, he was heard in the mornings on The Score. Do The Score believe he is great at this?

I just don’t fucking get it. This guy is dumb as shit. This idiot is the reason Brian Hanley was replaced on the morning show. Brian Hanley was a Score original. Him and Mully were pretty damn good together. It was years ago, but I am still pissed about it that Hanley was done dirty by the dipshit running that station at the time. Hanley ended up going to ESPN 1000 for the weekends I believe and now, it seems he’s doing other things. But this is all on David Huh?.

If I am not mistaken, he started off primarily writing about the Bears 20-25 years ago. Then, he pretended to be a hockey expert talking about the Blackhawks. He doesn’t know shit about hockey and sports in general. Again, vouching for John Fox to keep his job is enough evidence for David Huh? to lose his job. Instead, all of these damn TV and radio stations keep giving him work.

I listen to ESPN 1000 in the mornings. That’s right. David Kaplan is amazing compared to this dweeb. To be fair, Kaplan has actually grown on me in the last decade. When he was at WGN Radio, he was unbearable. J-Hood is a legend and will always be a fan of his.

I am sure the higher-ups at both The Score and CHSN aren’t reading this. But if anyone is, getting David Huh? off the radio and TV will increase ratings. Keeping him on there will continue to make the viewers lose brain cells.

I find the Chicago sports landscape to be lackluster. Many do as well.

In October of last year, perhaps we were being treated with something amazing. The Chicago Sports Network took over for NBC Sports Chicago. And they announced that it would be available with an antenna. As long as you had half of a brain, you could get the channel. I already had an antenna as backup. For an entire season, I was able to watch the Blackhawks and Bulls for free. I finally cancelled my cable after all of these years. I never thought that would happen. Between my home and business, I saved about $300 per month not having it. I got an antenna for both places and started watching those games as well as the Bears.

What was really great about it is that I realized that Comcast had a major delay of live broadcasts of almost one minute. It never was that way until about 2020-2021 when I realized it. I realized it watching the Super Bowl a few years ago and noticed about a 45-second difference. That is absurd. Again, never was that way. It was maybe five or ten seconds a the most compared to an antenna.

But then, all of the dumb fucks started complaining. First, it was “I shouldn’t have to setup an antenna!” Then, it came “I only hear audio!” “WHY WON’T YOUTUBE TV HAVE IT???” All of this was fucking stupid and asinine. CHSN was in chaos for the idiots. While myself and others were having no problem.

First, it’s very easy to setup an antenna. Then, the ones who had only sound on the channel had a TV as old as they were. And last, YouTube TV has zero interest in carrying any local sports channel. Then everything started going downhill.

On the main channel in Chicago, it was broadcasted in beautiful 1080p HD. The picture was crisp and even better than NBC Sports Chicago. Because so many dipshits complained that they couldn’t get the picture because their TV was made in 2008, CHSN downgraded their picture to 720p to make it available. And trust me, it wasn’t even that clear. It looked very much like standard definition. But hey, it’s free, right? I still wasn’t really that pissed.

Then came the drama from, you guessed it, Comcast. This dipshit named Jason Coyle, who was the top guy at CHSN, released a statement that the goal of this network was to make it available to everyone. And to his credit, it truly was. People who have Comcast could have easily bought an antenna. OR, make the switch to something like DirecTV. It wasn’t that difficult. I made the switch within a day or two.

So here is Comcast causing this ruffle. Then came the news this past week. CHSN became available on Comcast. BUT, it would be on one of their more expensive tiers. In exchange, CHSN agreed to get rid of the free option on an antenna. So just like that, 500,000 or so viewers who got it on an antenna in Chicagoland are shut out for the cable subscribers who are flocking away in mass amounts.

Why even tell us that we will be able to watch the games on an antenna for the long run only to take it away after eight months? I know we aren’t entitled to shit. But this is fucking bullshit. And no, I am not going to go back to Comcast to have a 45-second delay. I have plenty of websites where I can watch the channel for free that do that. I want my games actually live on an antenna to avoid those delays.

CHSN tried to get on Comcast last November/December. They offered it very cheap and Comcast said no. Right after that is when CHSN should have told them to go fuck themselves. Instead, six months later, they cave in. And they fuck over the fans. Again.

All of these antenna users won’t go back to cable. They also won’t pay $30 for this fucking channel direct. Neither will I. There are several websites to watch the channel for free, albeit on a 45-second delay. That will suck. I also have plenty of sites to watch the NBA and NHL packages that may have about a 15-25 second delay. This is what we will do because as mentioned earlier, Comcast has that same 45-second delay. And I am sure the feed they sell direct from their site has the same one.

So I might as well watch it for free.

Jason Coyle, Jerry Reinsdorf and Danny Wirtz could have all prevented this from happening. They could have told Comcast to go fuck themselves. Instead, they chose revenue that is quickly diminishing over the fans. Shame on these three.

Fuck CHSN.