Granted, Howie Rose’s call of David Wright’s dramatic game winning single in the bottom of the 9th last night doesn’t quite measure up with John Sterling’s greatest hits (especially those high-far-gone balls that are caught at the warning track), but WFAN’s Mike Francesca couldn’t resist taking exception this morning — both to Rose’s tone and to Wright’s “Carlton Fisk routine.”
“What is this? Did I miss the entire summer? Is it May 20 or October 20? Was this the World Series last night?” sputtered Francesca, but not before waxing eloquent about a subject near and dear to the hearts of all of his New York area listeners —- the Spurs’ Game 6 win over the Jason Terry-deprived Mavericks.
(not Randy Johnson)
Dragged back to subject of the Yankees and Mets by Chris Russo, Francesca dismissed Randy Johnson, saying of the The Big Eunuch, “he’s Kenny Rogers now”.
The Bombers should be so lucky. Rogers, for those who don’t actually follow Major League Baseball, is 7-2 this season with a 2.91 ERA. He’s also allowed 4 HR’s so far, compared to Johnson’s 9.
I was watching that Mike & the Mad Dog show whilst waiting for the game to start and they were talking to some female (not Suzyn Waldman) and the subject of trading for an outfielder came up. The female mentioned maybe Reggie Sanders and the obese loser known as Francesca blurted out “No, I hate him.” The female seemed really bothered and asked “you hate him?!?” Then Russo had to step in and ramble on about how Sanders isn’t very clutch. I predict some type of meltdown from Francesca in the future. It will hopefully be really disgusting and cost him his career.
i think a slap fight with Tommy Hilfiger is way overdue.
oh, eff francesa. he might define ‘blowhard’ but for the fact that his co-host actually *sounds* like he’s inflating during half of their daily wfan sets.
Francessa is a huge blowhard. He is a yankee fan and never lets a fan say anything anti-yankee without attacking that fan and calling them stupid.
When they began you hoped Russo would become like Francessa but the opposite has happend . Francessa has become mean and nasty and lets you know he is “better than you”.
Espn radio has by far passed these guys in their entertainment value and their objectivity.
DK,
sorry to say this, but you oughta remain open to the possibility that Mike is better than you. At least until you share the same agent at Bill Parcells.