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Did anyone else happen to catch Sid and Horton this morning on the good neighbor? I have not listened to Sid for a very long time, thus I might be the last person to the party here.

I could swear I heard at least 2 times Coach Horton making a statement about this weekend, one was the Michigan State mike linebacker, I cannot recall the other. But basically Horton made a statement of some sort, and then Sid basically asked the question that Horton had just answered.

Is this common with Sid these days? Is it this bad?
 


Law_Abiding_Gopher said:
perhaps I'm :horse:

Did anyone else happen to catch Sid and Horton this morning on the good neighbor? I have not listened to Sid for a very long time, thus I might be the last person to the party here.

I could swear I heard at least 2 times Coach Horton making a statement about this weekend, one was the Michigan State mike linebacker, I cannot recall the other. But basically Horton made a statement of some sort, and then Sid basically asked the question that Horton had just answered.

Is this common with Sid these days? Is it this bad?
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At this point you have to have respect for a guy who is over 90 years old and still working hard.

But at the same time you can't take him seriously. He has not had any journalistic integrity for years. He is nothing but a PR agent for the coaches and athletes of the Twin Cities.

He wants to be everyone's friend and be buddy buddy with them. That is not the job of the press. He hasn't been critical of anyone for years. As far as he was concerned it was a travesty that we fired Brewster when we did. Which I think everyone would agree he NEEDED to go when he did.
 


My favorite is when his phone keeps ringing in the background while he is on air. Generally he needs people to ask the same question at least twice for him to hear it.
 


Law_Abiding_Gopher said:
I did not mean this thread as an attack I wanted to hear from some people that have heard him more recently. He is an institution.
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He's also not a charity case. Sid doesn't deserve a pass because of his age, he's the one choosing to continue to work and for as long as he does he deserves equal treatment to all other members of the media.
 

Earlier this week he was on at 6:40am (which he amazingly is every single morning) and in the background his alarm clock was going off and it was VERY loud and it was actually a train alarm clock. Dave Lee asked him if he was at a train station and Sid said it was his alarm clock as if it was normal to have it blaring in the background of a live interview. That being said, I have to imagine I'll be six feet under by his age.

Oh, and he interviewed Steve Hutchinson this past weekend on the Sports Huddle (in a previously recorded interview) and twice Hutch had answered a question and then Sid asked it right after and Steve said "As I just said..."

Go Gophers!!
 

Sid pretty much needs to be put in a home. He needs to be slurping soup and being neglected by his family not trying to impart sports wisdom onto the Twin Cities.
 

BleedGopher said:
Earlier this week he was on at 6:40am (which he amazingly is every single morning) and in the background his alarm clock was going off and it was VERY loud and it was actually a train alarm clock. Dave Lee asked him if he was at a train station and Sid said it was his alarm clock as if it was normal to have it blaring in the background of a live interview. That being said, I have to imagine I'll be six feet under by his age.

Oh, and he interviewed Steve Hutchinson this past weekend on the Sports Huddle (in a previously recorded interview) and twice Hutch had answered a question and then Sid asked it right after and Steve said "As I just said..."

Go Gophers!!
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I'm impressed you could understand anything in that interview. The quality of the audio was so low it sounded like Sid had the microphone under his coat. I think Sid needs a new tape recorder.
 



It seems pretty clear that Sid has each interview questions written out and he asks it, even if the interview subject has just made a statement answering the question, which just proves that Sid is not listening to the subject's comments.

He's been wrong on so many predictions lately--Brewster won't get fired; Moss won't join the Vikings; Allen won't play hoops--that Chilly must be shaking in his boots after reading Sid's column in today's Strib asserting that the Vikings' problems are not Chilly's fault.
 

As long as he can get out of bed in the morning, Sid will be a reporter.
 

Sid, is that you?

I thought I read you repeatedly in this thread. Wonderful. Incoherant. Blatherful.
 




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BleedGopher said:
Earlier this week he was on at 6:40am (which he amazingly is every single morning) and in the background his alarm clock was going off and it was VERY loud and it was actually a train alarm clock. Dave Lee asked him if he was at a train station and Sid said it was his alarm clock as if it was normal to have it blaring in the background of a live interview. That being said, I have to imagine I'll be six feet under by his age.

Oh, and he interviewed Steve Hutchinson this past weekend on the Sports Huddle (in a previously recorded interview) and twice Hutch had answered a question and then Sid asked it right after and Steve said "As I just said..."

Go Gophers!!
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Sid's getting to be more and more like my Mom, who's in a nursing home. For the sake of any drivers (or pedestrians) in the west metro, I hope Chad's confiscated the car keys. We had to do that to my mother after she drove through a 7-11. Luckily noone was hurt, although insurance paid for an S-load of Hostess products. Now, if she doesn't have her hearing aid in, I can hear her TV when I get off the elevator, and her apartment is 50' down the hall. And yes, repeating conversations is a special treat.
 

I was listening the morning Dave Lee was trying to ask Sid about sports and his choo-choo train alarm clock was going off VERY LOUDLY in the background. That was a classic. I do not listen to Sid for his sports knowledge. I listen for moments like that... the ones you just can't make up. I also enjoy it when he gets frustrated and angry right away about questions or comments that he doesn't agree with, only to be proven 100% wrong in short order. The best recent example of that was his tirade about how Randy Moss would never ever, ever, ever be a Viking again and the rumors about the Vikings trading for him were a joke... only to have the Vikings sign Moss the very next week. It is just good comedy and it is so easy to see through his thin skin into his world off jock sniffing.

Some days he is almost impossible to understand and I think to myself "Wow, today might be THE day." But, it seems like just as one thinks WCCO is going to have to do something to get him off the air, he will turn around and sound pretty normal (if not still flat out WRONG) the next day. I hope he hangs in there forever. It is such good comedy.

He clearly believes he knows more than everybody else. Earlier this week I heard a bit of him and Chad on Chad's show. Chad was talking about something he knew was a fact, and Sid disagreed and basically said he didn't believe it because it hadn't been told to him first.
 

Law_Abiding_Gopher said:
perhaps I'm :horse:

Did anyone else happen to catch Sid and Horton this morning on the good neighbor? I have not listened to Sid for a very long time, thus I might be the last person to the party here.

I could swear I heard at least 2 times Coach Horton making a statement about this weekend, one was the Michigan State mike linebacker, I cannot recall the other. But basically Horton made a statement of some sort, and then Sid basically asked the question that Horton had just answered.

Is this common with Sid these days? Is it this bad?
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Yes, sadly it is common these days. I feel for Sid when so many people bad mouth him, (not you). I've been a reader of Sid's since late 70's when i was a kid. My brother bought me one of his books one year for Christmas, "Sid!" It's actually (IMO) a great interesting read. We are all getting older, I hope to be into sports as much as he is at his age.
 

gopherguy said:
Yes, sadly it is common these days. I feel for Sid when so many people bad mouth him, (not you). I've been a reader of Sid's since late 70's when i was a kid. My brother bought me one of his books one year for Christmas, "Sid!" It's actually (IMO) a great interesting read. We are all getting older, I hope to be into sports as much as he is at his age.
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Did you get the English version or did you read it in the original Aramaic?
 

1. Sid is still driving. That's freaking scary. A friend of mine lives near him, and sees him out and about now and then. Suffice it to say, this is not a good thing for the general public.

2. Sid's radio appearances are just pathetic. It was always funny way back when Steve Cannon or someone would poke fun at Sid, but nobody even does that anymore on air, because he's become such a shell.

That said, I don't have any issue with ripping the guy. Everyone I know who has had dealings with him has said that Sid has always been a complete and total jerk, going back decades. Unless you're some "close personal friend" of his, his automatic reaction has been to treat people like dirt. Now he's a sorry old man, making a fool of himself on the radio. Maybe he wouldn't have to work if he hadn't lost millions in the Bernie Madoff scandal. In any case, I don't feel sorry for Sid.
 

It's like it's just everyone's default to rip him how. Certainly, some senility is creeping in. He has days where he's hard to understand and seems confused. He has other days where he sounds like he did 20 years ago. Taken as a whole he's really no worse then a guy like Sansavere or half the people on KFAN. He still generally has a clue and does go around to the Vikings, Gophers and Twins almost every day. He knows nothing about hockey but never pretended to. Bottom-line is he gets ripped unfairly, IMO. Is he a jerk to people? I have no idea, but I'm not sure what that has to do with most of the folks on this board. Should he get a complete pass because of his age? No. But should he be given more rope because he's been a writer in this town for 60 years? Yes.
 

discochris said:
1. Sid is still driving. That's freaking scary. A friend of mine lives near him, and sees him out and about now and then. Suffice it to say, this is not a good thing for the general public.
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One other time with my Mom, I was following her home in a 2nd car. I noticed that most of the way she was driving with her two right tires in the bike lane. I mentioned that to her afterwards, and she said "there weren't any bikers." I replied "none that you saw, anyway." That was when we started thinking strongly about grounding her (she went Baja thru the quickiemart a month or two later).

discochris said:
2. Sid's radio appearances are just pathetic. It was always funny way back when Steve Cannon or someone would poke fun at Sid, but nobody even does that anymore on air, because he's become such a shell.
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He's so sad that further sarcasm or criticism would be redundant

discochris said:
That said, I don't have any issue with ripping the guy. Everyone I know who has had dealings with him has said that Sid has always been a complete and total jerk, going back decades. Unless you're some "close personal friend" of his, his automatic reaction has been to treat people like dirt. Now he's a sorry old man, making a fool of himself on the radio. Maybe he wouldn't have to work if he hadn't lost millions in the Bernie Madoff scandal. In any case, I don't feel sorry for Sid.
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I have to agree that some of this is karma. I concur with others that I hope to still be alive at 90, let alone into sports, but if Sid doesn't want to get ripped, he should check his azz into Shady Acres. On his current arc, in another year or so you can just give him a Fischer-Price kids Karoake machine and turn on the radio. He'll never notice that he's not really on the air. He doesn't seem to register what anyone else is saying now.

Did he really lose a bunch of jack with Madoff? I hadn't heard that. Considering all his lame efforts to get the new Gopher stadium built on his lands near the fairgrounds, that's effin' Karmic.
 

The first place I look at every morning is Sid's column. He probably has more contacts than anyone and he really knows MN sports history so it's an interesting read.
 

Cut Sid some slack. His radio gig is entertaining for the comedy aspect. I love it when Dave Lee and the other guy tries to get Sid mad about something. Over the summer it was awesome when they asked Sid to read the url for his birthday celebration.

If you want journalism you won't find it in sports. Sports in the papers or on the airwaves is not about journalism. The journalists don't go into sports.

Souhan rips into Sid and yet sports people in the cities will talk to Sid. There are plenty of guys in the cities who think it's their job to rip into the local sports scene so it's not like there's some void in the local scene. Sid fits a niche.
 

Kaliq is great. Gopher sports will be better off when Sid and the evil neighbor are gone.
 

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