To Old Friends, fired but not forgotten..

As many of you now, Bonnix has not been a Chicagoan all his life. He spent 10 years away in the Bay Area. Upon return to our fair city, he spent many a days programming away trying to stay out of the cold that is Chicago. The only thing that got him through this return to Chicago was listening to Mac, Jurko and Harry on WMVP ESPN Radio 1000.

Sadly, last month this Heavy Fuel Crew was put to rest as Dan McNeil was fired. He had been skating on thin ice anway lately, with many suspensions and on air melt downs. Furthermore, the trio that got me through many cold Chicago afternoons had lost their luster and was no longer very good. Too much about Mac grilling or his autistic son. Who really cares about his son anyway.

So it is for the best that Dan McNeil, who mercilessly made fun on Mike North upon his departure from the Score, was unceremoniously let go. Still, as you often, incorrectly no doubt, feel that you intimately know radio personalities, it is with a heavy heart that I learned of Dan McNeil's demise.

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