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Author Topic: RIP Les Grobstein  (Read 1344 times)

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RIP Les Grobstein
« on: January 17, 2022, 09:50:25 AM »
Overnight host on 670 The Score.

On the way home from late night Marquette games I would text in a 70s or 80s Marquette comment (“I haven’t seen this intensity from a Marquette team since Al McGuire”) and Les would go off on some great Marquette stories.

Crazy guy that will be missed.

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2022, 10:23:33 AM »
Les was perfect for the over night shift - it let him ramble -his specialty - without having to talk to callers, guests, etc.

That said, he seemed like a really hard working, decent guy.

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2022, 10:26:24 AM »
Wow, I did not know he passed away. I very much enjoyed listening Les. He made a lot of late night/early morning car rides on biz trips a bit more enjoyable. This news makes me sad.

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2022, 10:26:44 AM »
Overnight host on 670 The Score.

On the way home from late night Marquette games I would text in a 70s or 80s Marquette comment (“I haven’t seen this intensity from a Marquette team since Al McGuire”) and Les would go off on some great Marquette stories.

Crazy guy that will be missed.

The Grobber was great. 
“This is bar none atrocious.  Mitchell cannot shoot either.  What a pile of dung”

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2022, 11:09:02 AM »
This is a huge bummer, there will never be another Grobber. He was the perfect overnight host. I would text in all the time with awful takes, just to see if he’d read it, and he always would. I recently texted him “Bring back Ditka as coach!” and sure enough he read it on air.

I really can’t imagine Score overnights without him, he was an institution. RIP.

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2022, 11:39:59 AM »
He was unlistenable.

Les may have been a very nice person (I have no idea); he loved sports; he knew a lot of sports history.

But the reason that he was "perfect for overnights" was that very few were listening.  He was terrible on the radio.

R.I.P. 

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2022, 11:48:57 AM »
He was unlistenable.

Les may have been a very nice person (I have no idea); he loved sports; he knew a lot of sports history.

But the reason that he was "perfect for overnights" was that very few were listening.  He was terrible on the radio.

R.I.P. 


Hope you aren't in the eulogy writing business.  (The "R.I.P." at the end was a nice touch though.)
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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2022, 12:05:25 PM »
FBM, I would also say that you may have been a nice person (I have no idea), and add an R.I.P. (and I would mean it). 
 
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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2022, 12:07:30 PM »
FBM, I would also say that you may have been a nice person (I have no idea), and add an R.I.P. (and I would mean it). 
 
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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2022, 12:13:00 PM »
I think that will be the universal eulogy.
Luke 6:45   ...A good man produces goodness from the good in his heart; an evil man produces evil out of his store of evil.   Each man speaks from his heart's abundance...

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2022, 12:33:17 PM »
Jon Greenberg just told a story about being in a stadium after the game and everyone was clearing out around 11 so he asked the security guard how long he had to stay. The security guard said until the last guy leaves. Greenberg looks over and Les is setting up his equipment to do his overnight show from the stadium.

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2022, 06:54:30 PM »
The Grobber was a Chicago media throw-back and a real piece of work. The press boxes there won't be the same without him.

He also was the guy who turned arguably the most famous (or infamous) postgame Chicago press conference ever -- Lee Elia's tirade against Cubbie fans -- into a national story and a Chicago legend.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/media/2022/01/17/les-grobstein-legend-among-chicago-sportscasters-dies-69/6555117001/
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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2022, 07:13:06 PM »
I remember riding the school bus listening to Larry Lujack, little snot nosed Tommy, and Les Grobstein. Quite the combination. Just means that I am old.

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2022, 10:18:34 PM »
Used to listen to Les when he was on with Dahl and Meier on WLS in the 80's.

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2022, 03:42:23 PM »
Bring back T-Dub overnights

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Re: RIP Les Grobstein
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2022, 02:58:36 PM »
I best remember the Grobber from his time with Larry Lujack.

Lujack would hurl it at the Grobber in a way only Lujack could. The Grobber was the guy who fired back at Lujack. Not done and usually not done well when it was done in Chicago.

 

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