{"id":4363,"date":"2014-08-01T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2014-08-01T01:56:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T06:56:18","slug":"dan-mcneil-on-the-score-game-in-fourth-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/08\/01\/dan-mcneil-on-the-score-game-in-fourth-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan McNeil on the Score: 'Game in fourth quarter\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4364\" style=\"width: 802px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/08\/01\/dan-mcneil-on-the-score-game-in-fourth-quarter\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4364\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4364\" alt=\"Dan McNeil\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Danny-Mac.png\" width=\"792\" height=\"557\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Dan McNeil<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Time and patience may be running out for Dan McNeil.<\/p>\n<p>As his latest absence from CBS Radio sports\/talk <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/station\/670-the-score\/\" target=\"_blank\">WSCR AM 670 <\/a>stretches into its eighth week, the mercurial midday star seems to be preparing for his exit from the Score. So are his bosses.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still talking,\u201d is all Rod Zimmerman, senior vice president and market manager of CBS Radio Chicago, will say for now. Although Zimmerman won't confirm whether he's made McNeil his final offer, he expects to have the matter resolved in the next week or so.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, conversations already are under way with potential replacements for McNeil as midday co-host alongside Matt Spiegel, according to insiders.<\/p>\n<p>McNeil at first denied he was in a contract holdout after I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/06\/27\/with-dan-mcneil-out-is-the-score-tied-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported in June<\/a> that he was demanding a raise from a reported $300,000 to $500,000 a year and a move to afternoon drive. Since then he apparently hasn\u2019t budged despite his bosses' refusal to concede on either issue. Now he's telling friends he's prepared to sit out a year or more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry I don't have any real news on my future at the Score,\u201d McNeil told fans on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dan.mcneil.75?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook <\/a>Thursday. \u201cWe're still talking, but the game is in the fourth quarter. Sincerest thanks to all who've expressed they miss me. Hang tight. I'm not done world shakin' just yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time and patience may be running out for Dan McNeil. As his latest absence from CBS Radio sports\/talk WSCR AM 670 stretches into its eighth week, the mercurial midday star seems to be preparing for his exit from the Score. So are his bosses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}