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Citizens of Chicago, your long civic nightmare is over: Your morning radio "star" Sean Salisbury is no longer haunting your airwaves. The Chicago ESPN Radio affiliate isn't sure what they're gonna do with Salisbury yet — he might end up with the plum spot of doing pregame for Bears telecasts — but it appears they're realizing that, sometimes, radio hosts need to be likable and, you know, able to complete full sentences.
In other ESPN staffing news, if you're one of the 15-20 people who actually have ESPNU on your cable systems, you're not gonna have former "Dream Job" host Mike Hall to kick around anymore. He's leaving the network to "explore opportunities" in Chicago; maybe he can take Salisbury's spot! Because we never watched "Dream Job" or ESPNU, we're not sure who Mike Hall is, but we wish him good luck anyway.
Sean Salisbury Removed From ESPN Radio Morning Show In Chicago [Sports By Brooks]
Anchor Quits ESPNU In Search Of His Dream Job [Awful Announcing]
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Maybe Sean can exchange photos with Alycia Lane. They seem made for each other.
A picture of Sean's "junk" will be stored forever inside the comedy pyramid. May distant future civilizations marvel at it...
Balls and Little Sean. Family portrait.
No more Mike Hall!?!? Nooooooooooo!!! What will be come of ESPN U?
Lil Sean will land on his feet, dont worry. Well, I mean Lil Sean doesn't have feet, but you get the picture.
Sean Salisbury you're no The Balls.
/lloyd bentsen
I wonder if Mike Hall was doing some hugging at the local Boston Market as well, or maybe he was the one being hugged?
He said NO INTERNET, dammit!
Sean Salisbury Eventually Will Be Doing High School Girls In Boise.
Fixed.
@DisgruntledGoat: ... and my cell phone will never be the same.
@DisgruntledGoat: No, I didn't get the picture, and I don't want you to send it to me, either.
It's like the ultimate pedophile challenge in that picture, and I'm not sure who is winning.
explore oppurtunites = sweep floors at Second City Theatre.
The Balls and The Cock, respectively.
Makes sense. Salisbury only enjoys working with visual media.
Mike Hall sounds like a terrible nickname for a dorm in a bad 80s movie.
Citizens of Chicago, your long civic nightmare is over
No more three-track service between Fullerton and Addison!?!?
Oh. Nevermind.
@Von Hayes: It'll become ESPN Me?
So ESPN the Radio gets circumcised?
Was there a bigger symbol of ESPN's booyah period than "Dream Job"? Maybe "Teammates" but I'm not sure.
@SlickBomb:
a certain lazy eye comes to mind
So, now that Mike Hall is gone, who's in charge of feeding and watering Mike Gottfried?
@Ron:
The Balls ALWAYS wins.
I was at the taping for the first Dream Job show.
I will now hang my head in shame.
@SlickBomb:
Scoop Jackson covering people playing video games?
Salisbury is gone from the Chicago airwaves, but I will not celebrate until I know what demonry ESPN will unleash on us next.
not to brag, but... annie liebovitz aint got shit on me
@SlickBomb: "Stump the Schwab".
The only thing haunting in that picture resides just south of The Balls' schnozz.
annie liebovitz
Remember, his co-host Rosie (Sal Rosenblum) was no peach either. Let's hope they give the morning 9-12 slot to Jonathon Hood, an actual, honest to god, decent announcer with a sense of humor, great presence and something I think is surely missing from almost all of sports talk radio...blackness.
@SlickBomb: You know, I sort of liked Teammates, but not as an ESPN show. If that makes any sense.
If I remember correctly, wasn't Mariotti fired from that job long before Salisbury was on-air? Something about a feud with Reinsdorf about his Sox coverage?
@Ascender:
You mean Steve Rosenbloom?
They gave the 9-12 to Tom Waddle and Marc Silverman, as predicted when Waddle signed. The open slot is 7-9 PM.
@Ron: The children, of course. The children are winning.
Lean on me...When you're The Balls. And I'll be your friend.
I'll help you carry on.
For it won't be long, 'till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on.
@Ascender: we've got our blackness here in ATL...
@Ascender: No love for Larry Holmes? Why, who will take the mantle of the 21st century's Lou Canellis without him?
@Encouraging Referee Pittman: Too bad it isn't 670, they could get Ed Farmer, the baseball announcing equivalent of your neighbor who yells at the kids to get off his lawn.
It's a shame AJ didn't take an Autograph Kit with him to Miami. Then he could have had Sean sign an electrostatic autograph slip, which he could have subsequently adhered to this photo.
Heh...he's as good in the media as he is in football. And he makes John Clayton seem normal.
@Yostal: I agree. I actually enjoyed it.
@George of the Jungle: @Ascender: We've got our blackness in Minneapolis as well.
@Yostal: Yeah, but Farmio's not really an employee of 670, he works for the Sox. Before last season he was on 1000 with the Sox broadcasts.
@Yostal:
They should just blow up the Cubs and Sox radio and TV booths and start over. I miss John Rooney, and I hate the White Sox.
It is once again safe for bars in Chicago to install photo booths.
@Yostal: I genuinely miss Stump the Schwab and 2 Minute Drill.
@SlickBomb:
"Teammates." Hearing Eric Byrnes talk about Barry Zito's "womanly, child-bearing hips" was just plain wrong.
Speaking of the Balls and Cock, I just downloaded an article to read (for work) that was written by Bushway, Johnson, and Slocum. Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
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