Mike loves creating wars. Fights with Ryan Church, David Wright, Tim Russert, Mushnick, Raismann, Kay, and now his supposed best friend Parcells. Does he get along with anybody? He's a joke. Dog never said anything about rooting for espn or hoping Mike does bad. Mike's just making it up in his head. Jesus he used to kill people for having thin skin. All Dog said was he felt it was a competition at the Superbowl and he got double the guest as Mike. Stern said all the other stuff what was Doggy supposed to do leave the room.
Mike'd Up: The Mike Francesa Show
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over on mikefrancesa.com...we always joke about the "wars" he has...and his signature line "if they want a war, it'll be a short one"...
Cashman on now. Jsut said he won't read the Torre book, said he heard most of the comments and is surprised. Mike is incredulous that he wouldn't read the book, and rightfully so.
Cashman not coming across well here
Cashman not coming across well here
You guys do a heckuva' job over there.
I highly suggest a visit for any of you WFAN-junkies.
Seeing some of the handles are worth the visit alone:
- Gun To Your Head
- Loosey Goosey
- Mike's Little Birdie
- Dog's English Teacher
- Diet Coke Isn't Working
thanks...Francesa is aware of us...and is not happy we exist...some of the material is a bit over the top (mike's weight, guy talk)...but the show threads are great...
When someone from the board calls in they try and play what i call "francesa bingo" and get in as many of his signature lines...good times...
When someone from the board calls in they try and play what i call "francesa bingo" and get in as many of his signature lines...good times...
Francesca spends the day in Hartford previewing the UConn-Pitt game tonight. he will be on from 2:00 until 6:45. Always good pub for Uconn, the Big East and CBB
Mike's UConn ballwashing is sickening. He likes the program because it's successful, no other reason. He's a typical media starfucker. He doesn't even do this for his own school because they're not any good. And does he do this with any other tri-state area school, big or small? No, of course not. He blows UConn because they're big and it Mike likes being around success.
I don't blame Calhoun or UConn- any school would love this kind of publicity, it's just so predictable of bandwagon Mike.
I don't blame Calhoun or UConn- any school would love this kind of publicity, it's just so predictable of bandwagon Mike.
Why wouldn't Mike be in with UConn? It drives ratings in the NYC area because people are starving for good college basketball. St. John's sucks so why talk about them? I'm sorry that you don't like UConn, but the publicity come with the success.
Why the hell would he cover St. Johns. If they were number one Mike would be there. He has the number one team only an hour plus away, why not go. He has a huge audience in Connecticut, what's he supposed to do today cover more Joe Torre and Arod.
Last night on Miked Up, FFF was discussing the Oscars with film critic, Jeffrey Lyons (big Sox fan). As a final question to Lyons he asked him how many games the Sox were going to win this year, and Lyons responded "102". Francessa replies "they've got to many questions", and Lyons comes back with, "I'm including the post-season" to which FFF replies "they won't make the post-season".
To the initial qquestion Lyons should have answered: "2 more than the Rays and 4 more than the MFYs".
To the initial qquestion Lyons should have answered: "2 more than the Rays and 4 more than the MFYs".
I caught the press conference and Mike's immediate follow up. I have to say, it was brilliant.
"My cousin Vinny"
"The Yankees aided and abetted"
Every newspaper will be assigning their reporters "Find the cousin"
A million questions unanswered.
Yelling that how can ARod expect us to believe he took something three years straight, 70-100 injections, but doesn't know what it did to his body or how it helped him or what it was.
Today is a day you wish the Doggie was still around. That being said, Mike was awesome.
"My cousin Vinny"
"The Yankees aided and abetted"
Every newspaper will be assigning their reporters "Find the cousin"
A million questions unanswered.
Yelling that how can ARod expect us to believe he took something three years straight, 70-100 injections, but doesn't know what it did to his body or how it helped him or what it was.
Today is a day you wish the Doggie was still around. That being said, Mike was awesome.
It's like bizzaro world today...Russo is very low key in his Arod take today...Francesa is much more animated and incensed...
Didn't Mike kill Rutgers football when they were "good?" As I recall, he always hammered Rutgers and dismissed them as the product of an easy schedule.
It doesn't surprise me that he would focus on college basketball as March Madness starts to ramp up; CBS owns the station, after all.
A friend of mine in local radio has heard that Dog might team up with Kay on 1050 ESPN, New York sooner than we think.
Not quite. Rutgers AD Bob Mulcahey is a long time friend of the show, so much so that Mike and Chris used to coach the annual spring game once in a while. Mike busts on Rutgers as a way to make fun of former producer Chris Carlin who does radio pxp for the Scarlet Knights. When you consider that Rutgers is the biggest D-1 football program in the tri-state area it was only natural that the show was in some way associated with it.
He went to the UConn/Pitt game because it was the biggest college game of the year in the area, so naturally Fat Mike just had to be a part of it. The only quirky non-ratings sports story Mike fully embraces is horse racing. Everything else he follows closely has to do with bandwagon hopping and starfucking. I mean, why else would he like Notre Dame football so much? Or the Yankees? The list goes on. He just happened to be close to Seton Hall basketball when they were a big deal in the late 1980's, yet how often does he talk about them now? Never, of course, because they suck and it doesn't help his him or his ratings.
So he's a bandwagon fan like approximately 95% of other sports fans. So what?
I just don't find it particularly shocking that in a media market like New York your college program has to be a really big deal before you are noticed. Outside of select SEC/ACC/B12/B10 markets, that's almost universally the case. I mean, it's like railing against ESPN because they selected Austin for a TAMU-UT gameday when there is a huge MAC showdown in Oxford Ohio.
1. He would never ever admit to it, and would vebally berate you for even suggesting that he was one.
2. It makes him look like a money-grubbing, power-mad phony baloney. Which he kind of is, kind of isn't.
3. His whole outlook on life is that of the Tony Bennet "I Like Things That Are Great" School. It's very shallow. His horse racing interest is the only thing that makes him human (even if I have no interest in horse racing) to me.
4. He's basically a user of people, things. He sucks on their success and spits them out when they're not. It's an ugly way to live, I think.
I like how Russo used to latch on to small hoop programs like Manhattan, Hofstra, Iona, Fairfield. Dog is a sports fan with a heart and a passion for the little guy and it shows- he wears it on his sleeve. He's curious, it feels like he's a fan for the right reasons and I feel like Mike is the exact opposite.
I'm not getting your point. Francesa's job is to chase the ratings. That's what sports talk is all about. I'm not a fan of college basketball, but I'm interested in number 1 vs number 4 (especially since I have some loose ties to UConn) and I enjoyed listening to Mike's coverage.
1. I still don't see how Mike not admitting that he is a bandwagon fan makes him a more applicable topic of scorn. Like any other major sports city, NY is a bandwagon town, so it makes sense to have a bandwagon sports talk show.
2. I think that you are exaggerating just a tad. I see it as covering topics which might have some interest among his listeners and spur talk. Sports radio never pretends to have equal access and never will. Topics of importance get discussed and top 10 hoops matchups or Rutgers going undefeated or St Johns recruiting scandals are important.
3 & 4: Again, I think that is basically an ad hominem attack rather than an accurate observation.
I think we have different ideas about what Mike's job is. I see him as a guy who facilitates what other New York sports fans are talking about and to add his commentary, with the goal to keep people listening. You ascribe some higher purity of essence or die-hardism to his role, like he has a duty to discuss the Red Storm. With rare exceptions (large college towns isolated from pro sports) that's too high a standard for sports radio, or any media outlet, to cover the mundane with the same fervor as the important.
I see your point. I think what I'm really talking about here is Mike the person- his ego, his personality, not so much his role as a talk show host. He reminds me of Barbara Walters at times; she equates closeness to celebrity as celebrity and I think Mike equates closeness to successful sports people/teams in the same way. Of course, in public and on the record Walters always denies this and Mike denies it too, but you know that off camera they are both clearly smitten with themselves, their access to important people and their insider information and how being around important things feeds their ego, their sense of importance.
Could you ever see Mike as a Mets or a Jets fan? Of course not, he wouldn't be able to take the losing, the suffering, their second class status in NY. He has a bully mentality and could never endure being around the JV when the varsity is so much sexier. He's a bright lights kind of guy.
Could you ever see Mike as a Mets or a Jets fan? Of course not, he wouldn't be able to take the losing, the suffering, their second class status in NY. He has a bully mentality and could never endure being around the JV when the varsity is so much sexier. He's a bright lights kind of guy.
Sorry, but this is a crock. He didn't stop talking about the Yankees in the dark years of Bucky Dent and Stump Merrill. He talks about what his listeners want to hear - mostly Yankees, Giants, Mets, Jets in that order.
Frankly, I'm surprised he doesn't spend more time on UConn considering the long-term success of its program and the number of rabid UConn in his broadcast radius. He maybe talks to Calhoun a couple of times a year. I can't remember him ever covering a game the way he did with Pitt-UConn. If St. John's or Seton Hall had this kind of multi-year success, he'd spend a lot more time on them.
Actually in the early 90's they talked about the Mets the most. Then when the Knicks got hot shortly after (and the Rangers for one year) they talked about them a lot too. Yankees were in there of course, but not at the top.
I'm mostly talking here about Mike's psychological makeup more than the show itself. Of course they would talk about the biggest story in town (usually a winner, but not always- see Strawberry or Tyson or Peter Edward Rose) to get ratings, esp in a market like NYC that is a bandwagon town to end all bandwagon towns. What I'm really getting at here is Mike's starfucker mentality. For instance, I'm sure his CD collection is nothing but Sinatra, The Beatles, Springsteen, the greatest hits of the 20th century etc. No way he digs in to find a hidden gem like Les Savvy Fav or some shit. It's why Mike is so successful, he's been able to stick with the big stories and not get sidetracked into the minutia. It's a formula that works very well in NYC but it's a very limited view of life, I think. With Russo there you got more variety, more topics, more passion about the smaller stories- a fuller, more surprising listening experience.
Yeesh, you sound like a stalker. Who gives a crap about his inner personality. He's an afternoon radio host. Take a deep breath.
rumor ahs it that Max Kellerman will be joining Mike'd Up as his sidekick. I hope this isn't ture as Kellerman is almost unlistenable, but Kellerman has been replaced on 1050 by the Herd and WFAN wanted someone young to go along with Francesca.
In case you didnt know, Kellerman is an enormous Yankee homer and a sabermetrician. Last year he did an entire show explaining to people why Edwar Ramirez was the best reliever in baseball at the time
In case you didnt know, Kellerman is an enormous Yankee homer and a sabermetrician. Last year he did an entire show explaining to people why Edwar Ramirez was the best reliever in baseball at the time
No. It would not but I would most definitely watch that. And perhaps that might be the point. Kellerman opposite Francessa would be incredibly entertaining.
To me the obvious pairing is Kim Jones. She's smart, funny, great voice, has credibility. Mike doesn't do yuck-yuck guy talk anyway (which I'm glad of), and this would be a good matchup.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03112009/sport...ania_159033.htm
IS WFAN mega enough for two afternoon show megalomaniacs? We may soon find out.
IS WFAN mega enough for two afternoon show megalomaniacs? We may soon find out.
I could see the Fan putting Max on from 10-1 and putting Joe B. and Mike together.
Yeah, Kellerman is awful. He's not a sabermetrician, he's a guy who comes up with opinions and cherry-picks statistics to help back up those opinions. His show was just a big Yankee circle-jerk. The Mike and Max show figures to be really bad.
Mike and Craig Carton would be hilarious. Though I always thought Moose would be a good pair with him.
But in all seriousness it's to bad that Ron Darling has his Mets job (whish he's fantastic at) cause he was an AWESOME guest host with mike. The guy is class!
But in all seriousness it's to bad that Ron Darling has his Mets job (whish he's fantastic at) cause he was an AWESOME guest host with mike. The guy is class!
Justin Morneau was the 4th best player on his team that year. What a great point by Kellerman. Mauer, Santana, and Nathan were all better. Sign him up.
Made it a point to tune in today as Billy Packer was on to talk college hoops.
I was expecting analysis and predictions but all I got was a stupid promo about Billy's lame NCAA show on a cable station nobody watches. Gee, thanks!
I was expecting analysis and predictions but all I got was a stupid promo about Billy's lame NCAA show on a cable station nobody watches. Gee, thanks!
Newsday's Neil Best is reporting that Sid Rosenberg has resigned (amicably?) from his job in Miami.
Interesting.
Could he be the partner Mike needs?
Interesting.
Could he be the partner Mike needs?
not gonna happen...when Francesa was first looking for someone Sid leaked that he was in the running...that ended that...