At this point, the break-up between Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg could be a reality TV plot line.

First came a report from Sports Illustrated that a new show for Greenberg was in the worksnews broke that indeed Greenberg would be hosting a morning show on ESPN, those reports went unconfirmed for months, Greenberg and Golic both separately referenced the split, before they announced on air they were indeed splitting. Then anonymous sources told SI that the relationship between the two “poisonous” and speculated that the duo wouldn’t last the year, Golic denied that was the case and now Greenberg likewise insists everything is fine.

In an interview with the New York Post published Wednesday, Greenberg directed his ire not at his Mike & Mike co-host but at the pernicious forces that, in his view, ruined his ride off into the sunset.

“We’ve been together a long time and we’ve had a very close-knit staff over the years. We’ve had people work with us and most of them have been with us for years and years and years,” Greenberg told The Post. “So, if there are people that are talking anonymously about us, then sure, that would bother me, too. Absolutely, no question. So I agree with Mike completely.”

“It would’ve been nice if we had been the ones to tell our audience that we were going to be going on to do separate things,” Greenberg said. “Instead, the overwhelming majority of our audience had already heard that by the time we were ready to tell them. That was the part that bothered me.”

It’s fair that Greenberg would be annoyed at people he’s worked with dissing him anonymously, but his complaint about not getting to tell his audience himself seems a bit unreasonable. Greenberg, a journalist by trade, should realize that sometimes word gets out before you want it to, particularly when you wait months and months to announce it.

Like Golic, Greenberg denied any acrimony between the two hosts and said they had been in touch frequently as Greenberg spent two weeks in Los Angeles shooting Battle of the Network Stars.

“He and I texted back and forth with each other probably six different times about different things,” Greenberg said. “Regardless of what anyone seems to want to think, Mike and I are doing just great.

“I will treasure what that guy has done for me and what he has meant to me — and he will continue to mean that to me for the rest of my life.”

So it seems that Greenberg and Golic will remain together in relative harmony until December, when they’ll officially part ways. And at that point, this long and dramatic break up will finally be over.

About Alex Putterman

Alex is a writer and editor for The Comeback and Awful Announcing. He has written for The Atlantic, VICE Sports, MLB.com, SI.com and more. He is a proud alum of Northwestern University and The Daily Northwestern. You can find him on Twitter @AlexPutterman.