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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Matt Abbatacola: 'Terry was a father figure to me'

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT on 104.3 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app.

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0:00.0

Dan Bernstein unfiltered.

0:02.2

Got most of the band back together as we welcome, one of the greats of all time, Terry Boers. Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. How are you, man? How are you guys doing? How you guys doing? Well, I thought the show belonged to all of us. I mean, you guys worked as hard as we did on it, so, I mean, I had no... I wouldn't say we worked hard, but we were there. What we did was a team.

0:24.2

That had nothing...

0:25.0

That had no... I wouldn't say we worked hard, but when we were there. What we did was a team. That had nothing to do with one guy or the other guy or two guys. It was all of us. The guys that worked behind were just as important to me as the guys who worked in front. And I love you to this very day because of how hard you worked.

0:38.6

You know, those were the greatest days of my life.

0:41.3

The common thread that went through everything that was good during those years at the

0:46.0

score and during the years of Boers and Burnstein, the common thread was you.

0:49.1

And that was, you know, when the lights went on for the show to start, the good times, the culture that was built,

0:55.6

that was good in the hallways, the camaraderie between different departments, you were the

1:00.5

common thread of all of that. You really were. I mean, you were the heart and soul of everything

1:04.8

that we did that was good at the score. You should have told Mitch that it paid me more.

1:10.3

We're back with more of honoring an original, a Terry Boar's celebration of life on the score.

1:19.5

That's what we're doing.

1:21.1

We're going to be here until 7 o'clock.

1:23.5

And sometimes the Zoom is going to pop up.

1:27.2

And if you're watching on Twitch or on the scoreores YouTube page, you're going to be like,

1:31.3

oh my God, that's that person.

1:33.4

And sometimes that person's actually going to be sitting right next to me.

1:36.9

Mattabatacola is here.

1:38.8

Hi, Maddie.

1:39.5

Hey, buddy.

1:40.5

It's really good to see you.

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