John Rooney is OK, but he lost me in the 80s when he argued Gary Redus was better than Rickey Henderson.

Redus A Bedtime Story was a better nickname, lol

John Rooney is OK, but he lost me in the 80s when he argued Gary Redus was better than Rickey Henderson.

 

lol that is a long ass grudge

lol that is a long ass grudge

No grudge, but it was a most ridiculous statement. He does do some college basketball games for anyone who needs a Rooney fix.

No grudge, but it was a most ridiculous statement. He does do some college basketball games for anyone who needs a Rooney fix.

 

Yea he does a lot of MVC games, I hear him on siu games and arch madness tournament

I don't listen to the score that often but when I do I hear the white sox discussed often, maybe just good chance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't listen to the score that often but when I do I hear the white sox discussed often, maybe just good chance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

There is a Saturday morning show about baseball. Obviously more Cubs heavy but they do talk White Sox.

105.9 is my guess.

 

 

Yes, All News 105.9 WCFS-FM Elmwood Park / Chicago (simulcast of AM 780 WBBM) is another possibility. The company that owns Newsradio, Entercom (formerly CBS) already has the rights to the Bears (WBBM / WCFS-FM) and Cubs (WSCR), so they would have 4 Chicago teams, if the White Sox and Bulls are added.

 

I remember in 2015, the one season when WBBM carried Cubs games, baseball aired only on AM 780 while FM 105.9 continued with All News. In your example, that would be just the opposite (All News airing on AM, Bulls and White Sox airing on FM). Presently, Chicago Bears games are simulcast on both AM and FM.

 

Probably the Bulls & Sox would prefer to air on AM 780 (if only one band is available), due to the extended reach of the 50,000 watt signal at night to many states far away from Chicago.

 

The White Sox previously aired on 780 WBBM during the 1980 and 1981 seasons. And the Bulls aired one season on 105.9, in 2006 - 2007 when that station had a Talk format as WCKG.

 

Perhaps an announcement will be made this week.

 

 

 

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John Rooney is OK, but he lost me in the 80s when he argued Gary Redus was better than Rickey Henderson.

Lol - complete and utter nonsense! What the devil are you talking about now!

 

Rooney never said any such thing of the sort. Rooney began his career with the Sox in 1988 (on the television side, succeeding Don Drysdale before giving way to Gary Thorne on the TV side in 1989), and he only presided over Redus’ final 77 games with the Sox before Redus was traded to the Pirates that year for...the mighty Mike Diaz! Remember Diaz’? No? There’s a reason for that - he was terrible! Diaz’ career didn’t last past the ‘88 season, for crying out loud. Look at Diaz’ career stats. Does he look like a guy for whom a player better than Rickey Henderson IN HIS PRIME would be traded for? Of course not! Which is why the amazingly astute John Rooney would have never said such an absurd thing as asserted by Our Very Own Dick Allen here. It never happened! Rooney may have favorably compared Redus’ skill set to that of Henderson, but he never came close to suggesting Redus was better than Henderson.

 

Dick, unless you have video/audio to prove otherwise, strongly suggest you back off of this obvious misstatement of yours that the great John Rooney made any suggestion EVER that Gary Redus was better than one of the greatest players of all time in Rickey Henderson. Very much a disservice to Rooney’s great career on the South Side.

I can imagine Rooney trying to "market/sell" Redus' acquisition to the fans as "our version of Rickey Henderson," and it sounds actually like a Hawkism, where Avi Garcia has a lot of similarities with a young Miguel Cabrera, etc.

 

To argue he was a better player, overall. Maybe Redus was having a statistically solid season, but he was only a 720 OPS guy that year for the Sox in 1988 (Henderson had a 793 OPS that year for the Yankees at age 30, and was 820 for his career), which was even 30 points under his career average.

 

Let's also not forget how abysmal those late 80's White Sox teams were, until Ventura/McDowell/Thomas/Alvarez/Sosa showed up to inject some new enthusiasm.

 

Rooney and Wayne Hagin together was my favorite all-time radio duo, fwiw.

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Lol - complete and utter nonsense! What the devil are you talking about now!

 

Rooney never said any such thing of the sort. Rooney began his career with the Sox in 1988 (on the television side, succeeding Don Drysdale before giving way to Gary Thorne on the TV side in 1989), and he only presided over Redus’ final 77 games with the Sox before Redus was traded to the Pirates that year for...the mighty Mike Diaz! Remember Diaz’? No? There’s a reason for that - he was terrible! Diaz’ career didn’t last past the ‘88 season, for crying out loud. Look at Diaz’ career stats. Does he look like a guy for whom a player better than Rickey Henderson IN HIS PRIME would be traded for? Of course not! Which is why the amazingly astute John Rooney would have never said such an absurd thing as asserted by Our Very Own Dick Allen here. It never happened! Rooney may have favorably compared Redus’ skill set to that of Henderson, but he never came close to suggesting Redus was better than Henderson.

 

Dick, unless you have video/audio to prove otherwise, strongly suggest you back off of this obvious misstatement of yours that the great John Rooney made any suggestion EVER that Gary Redus was better than one of the greatest players of all time in Rickey Henderson. Very much a disservice to Rooney’s great career on the South Side.

you can strongly suggest anything you want. I heard it with my own two ears. He said it.

Feder reporting Bulls most likely to the Score, Sox most likely to WGN or ESPN 1000.

Feder reporting Bulls most likely to the Score, Sox most likely to WGN or ESPN 1000.

 

Fingers crossed for WGN's far superior signal strength...

I missed catching a Mike Diaz homer by about a foot. Closest I ever got. So yes, I remember Mike Diaz.

If that's true, that's awesome.

Feder reporting Bulls most likely to the Score, Sox most likely to WGN or ESPN 1000.

Awesome all around. Did not want to see our Sox end up on FM.

 

Hoping for ESPN 1000 but will be fine with WGN. Anything is better than WLS.

Fingers crossed for WGN's far superior signal strength...

 

Same. AM1000 barely comes in at all here.

WGN probably looking for spring time programming as hockey should be done at regular season's end.

 

Oddly if the White Sox rebuild takes hold and the Hawks slide a bit, it would work out well for WGN.

 

Feder reporting Bulls most likely to the Score, Sox most likely to WGN or ESPN 1000.

 

Robert Feder is usually right on the money, so we can disregard Daily Herald writer Scot Gregor's Tweet about the White Sox going to FM.

 

 

Fingers crossed for WGN's far superior signal strength...

 

WMVP actually has an excellent signal (50,000 watts, clear channel regional), although some listeners located west of the towers (which are located in Downers Grove) have complained about reception at night.

 

 

Hoping for ESPN 1000 but will be fine with WGN. Anything is better than WLS.

 

WLS is a good station. I can think of many other choices that would be worse than WLS.

 

 

Same. AM1000 barely comes in at all here.

 

You're in Rockford. Last season, AM 1330 WNTA in Rockford 'Sportsfan Radio 1330' carried all White Sox games. Hopefully the station will renew for 2018. If not, AM 1060 WRHL in Rochelle is a station that reaches Rockford which has aired White Sox game for many years.

 

 

 

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Just saw this today, take it for whatever it's worth to you:

 

"WGN Radio will sign the team but Ed Farmer cannot be involved with the game broadcast and JR is balking but he also has no place to go. WMVP has no interest at all."

 

It would be supremely ironic if WGN after having and promoting the Cubs all those years now becomes the White Sox station.

Just saw this today, take it for whatever it's worth to you:

 

"WGN Radio will sign the team but Ed Farmer cannot be involved with the game broadcast and JR is balking but he also has no place to go. WMVP has no interest at all."

 

It would be supremely ironic if WGN after having and promoting the Cubs all those years now becomes the White Sox station.

 

 

Wait why can't Ed Farmer be involved?

Wait why can't Ed Farmer be involved?

 

Yeah that seems like a pretty specific condition to the deal.

Boy, ridding ourselves of Ed Farmer would make all of this truly worth it.

Yeah that seems like a pretty specific condition to the deal.

 

Technically broadcasters are employees of the station the games are on, and not of the team the broadcast about. It is plausible that WGN doesn't want to hire Ed Farmer for some reason.

Robert Feder is usually right on the money, so we can disregard Daily Herald writer Scot Gregor's Tweet about the White Sox going to FM.

 

 

 

 

WMVP actually has an excellent signal (50,000 watts, clear channel regional), although some listeners located west of the towers (which are located in Downers Grove) have complained about reception at night.

 

 

 

 

WLS is a good station. I can think of many other choices that would be worse than WLS.

 

 

 

 

You're in Rockford. Last season, AM 1330 WNTA in Rockford 'Sportsfan Radio 1330' carried all White Sox games. Hopefully the station will renew for 2018. If not, AM 1060 WRHL in Rochelle is a station that reaches Rockford which has aired White Sox game for many years.

 

 

 

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What is good about WLS? I live in Elmhurst and can’t get a good signal half the time. And the content on the station outside of White Sox games is dreadful. I’d take pretty much anything over it.