Newsday’s Neil Best seems to think Joe Beingno has the dubious honor of being frontrunner for the position of Mike Francesca’s yammering bud on the Russo-less “Mike’d Up”. Warning : the following content, while not necessarily unsafe for work, might prove nauseating and/or frightening to persons of a timid sensibility (link courtesy Maura Johnston).
If Joe Benigno lands the gig as Mike Francesa’s WFAN sidekick, they ought to put up a historic marker to commemorate the occasion in the station’s third-floor men’s room.
It is there, Benigno informed the world on Oct. 10, that he spends an hour or more before dawn most days, reading newspapers, seeking solitude and, um, getting his game face on.
“We’ve learned too much new,” Francesa said, speaking for all of us as Benigno described his morning routine in their first segment together – and everyone in the studio vowed never again to borrow a tabloid from him.
Francesa seems comfortable with Kim Jones, as in an amusing exchange as the show ended Wednesday:
“You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much pitching; that’s all you have to know about life,” Francesa said.
“Amen,” Jones said. “I wish I knew the first two. I don’t care about pitching.”
Let’s just say that line wouldn’t have worked as well from Benigno. (Much as the third-floor bathroom story would not have come out quite the same if Jones had told it.)