Mike never did get the union guy on the radio, even though he ordered his producer to get him on the phone. Tough luck for the producer.
Belichick would have benched him and let the union sue.I don't think I've ever seen Mike so angry. Holy cow.
He's absolutely right, too: can you imagine if the union had told the Pats they couldn't bench Adalius Thomas last year?
Francesa is as charming off-mike (pun sorta intended) as he is on-the-air.
From today's NY
Pretty, isn't it? For the uninitiated, check out various YouTube vids with Francesa chewing out Erickson for turned-off monitors, lack of AC in the studio or where Mike's three large ham grinders are.
But, not surprisingly, pissed as hell at the guy who kept "Gardy" from catching Hamilton's foul fly.Ugh. When talking about the douchebags in right field: "They did nothing wrong"
Clearly, players only age when they're on the Yankee roster...therefore because Werth has never been with the Yankees, he's an infant.Yep that's what he said. Because Swisher has had a couple of bad post seasons, the Yankees need to get younger by replacing him with an older player.
Mike thinks the theory of relativity pertains to his cousins in Yonkers, Queens and Jersey City.<BR>Mike is explaining how he can tell if a ball is a HR or not. "If it goes behind the pole and I lose vision of the ball, if it disappears, then I know it's foul because it's behind the pole." He literally explained this for a full minute. He's telling it like he just came up with the theory of relativity.<BR>
So it should be fun, no, esp in light of the fact that the Rangers didn't even have to break the (Lee) glass for a game 7?Man, I laughed my ass off when an ignoramus called (~4:30 pm) and confidently predicted the Yankees would win today because it was Mickey Mantle's birthday.
Fat Fuck Francesa used that exact same reasoning 6 years ago when he declared "Someday... A team will come back from being down 3-0 to win a postseason series in baseball. But not on this day" before ALCS Game 7, and the Sox ended up spraying their urine on Mantle's monument in center field.
The mystique and aura crap will never, ever die with that franchise.
Can you still get Sirius if you sign up to that stupid trial subscription thing?Confidently on Friday he said this series is going seven. Yankees will make you earn it, we may lose but not in six. He was hedging for Lee. oh wish Dog was around for Monday's show.
That call was great."I have never considered myself a cocky Yankee fan."
Mike used the last hour of his football show on Sunday to talk Yankees since the Jets had a bye and the Giants didn't play until Monday night.Too start show with 20 minutes of football was amazing...I was looking at clock like keep going just ignore it Mike. Jets bye week and no Giants game til tonight too.
Also, Mike knew he'd have extensive interviews with Girardi, Cashman, and the Yankee beat reporters later in the show. He figured he'd get the football talk out of the way at the beginning, and then devote the rest of the show to the Yanks.Mike used the last hour of his football show on Sunday to talk Yankees since the Jets had a bye and the Giants didn't play until Monday night.
Uh, I have no idea what he would have done and I wasn't saying what he did was right or wrong, just throwing out a possible reason as to why he didn't start his show Monday with Yankee talk. Calm down (!)To the last two posters, so what? If the Yanks had won games 6 and 7, would he have started with football? The Jets and Giants didn't even play over the weekend!
EDIT -- it's not an actual quote, just a projection."Nobody cares about the World Series. What people are really focused on, their primary concern, is an all New York Super Bowl (and Notre Dame football -- the ratings tell you that). The Giants will get there. The Jets -- I dunno; they haven't showed me enough, and you can never rule out Peyton Manning. But if they do get there, the Giants will mop the floor with them. Because they have character, and the Jets are mouthy, run by a big blowhard (like me)."
Good question. I don't beleieve I've ever heard a proper explanation.Question: why does Francesa so openly root for the Yankees yet constantly deny he's a Giants fan?
Mike laying into "Pollamolla".