Like the greats (Howard, etc) Mike and Dog were fantastic interviewers. . . Mike used to the facts guy for cbs sports.
If I remember it right, Mad Dog had a background in "news" and thus was supposed to be the interviewer. Mike was the fact guy, as the show launched. Then it turned out they were both good at the other thing.
I listened all the time (even listened to Lampley's "Take a Sports Break") and they peaked (but stayed at the peak for a long time) when Dog's love of Will Clark spilled over. Mike was on vacation and
called in (OK, maybe it was a set up), ripped into to Dog for his Will Clark worship, then HUNG UP. Dog was incensed (Gelb! Get him back on the phone! Wherever he is, find him and get him back on the phone!)
But they could find common ground often enough that it seemed genuine. Like the Bo Jackson one, I am looking forward to explaining to my kids that there was nothing like it before, and nothing like it since. But I understand why it may not resonate if you were not in NY. Of course, my wife was in Asia during Bo Jackson mania, so she appreciated seeing what she had missed.
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I got a kick out of listening to those two argue about a ton of subjects I couldn't care less about - boxing, horse racing, Yankee/Giant/Met legends, etc..
On tape delayed sports: Dog: "So, Mike. I ended up watching the French Open final, which, it turns out, was played
three weeks ago! I don't watch a lot of tennis, but shouldn't the French Open final be live, Mike?!" Mike "Chris, if it was on at 3am, you would have missed it entirely. By the way, who won?" Dog: "I don't know, Mike. It wasn't live, so I turned it off!" Hours of passionate nonsense.