Neil Best has a transcript of Mike's opening this afternoon here -
http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog...uite_a_few.html
WOW! I missed that, thank you for the link and to Neil for typing! Allow me to make some observations...
not one person, not one person, and this has kind of amazed us, not one person has asked my opinion or has asked to do an interview with me about any part of what happened, not one. No one has asked me a question.
Mike sounds like a bitter, jilted lover here and demands attention, so he's going to vent.
Now I understand that I have never been a media darling when it comes to getting great treatment
Roughly means- 'You media people always liked Dog better than me, so screw you.'
"You learn a lesson, folks. I hope you don’t get your information from the newspapers, because the stuff that has been written during this time about me has been so wrong. It has never been even remotely accurate, I mean not even in the ballpark accurate.
In other words, I didn't leak anything to the papers, Dog did.
And I came here all summer and as always, came in, did a show and told you the truth. I told you things weren’t good. I told you we were at a crossroads, and anything I uttered to you all summer was 100 percent accurate and honest. I didn’t know where it was going.
In other words- Dog kept me out of the loop. You got a problem with the breakup? Take it up with Russo.
Chris is always the guy who played the fan, the guy who was more lovable because I played the tough guy. I understand that. That’s fine. What’s great about the audience is the audience sees through and knows what the truth is. And they know if you’re telling them the truth, and I’ve always tried to tell them the truth.
In other words- You idiots, you lap up Dog's stupid fanboy shtick and since I'm above that kind of thing, it's only natural that my ratings might fall because the great unwashed masses are low brow.
He (Raissmann) wrote that ‘Mike’d Up’ would be a colossal failure the first time I did the show and that there was no room on Sunday night for that kind of show. And I just finished my 250th show at NBC and you can go check and ask NBC about it. That show has record ratings thanks to you the public. For 250 shows it’s been No. 1. It has driven CBS’s show off the air, by their own admission
In other words- See, I'm the real star here, and a powerful tv star to boot, so suck on that, Raissmann.
I’m going to add some voices to this show. You know why? Because I’m here for the next 5½ years and I think that’s the best show.
In other words- I know my act is shrill and annoying so I better get somebody to help me out.
We have not lost a sponsor, we have not lost a listener, we have not lost anything.
I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS! PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF ME!