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This Week In Hot Takes: Bill Welt calls exit velocity “the most popular fake stat of them all”
Chris “Mad Dog” Russo blasts late start times, “gahbahge” channels TBS and FS1, and his own employer MLB in unhinged rant
This Week In Hot Takes: Phil Mushnick blames celebrations, ads, and sports TV for kids’ and parents’ poor behavior towards refs
No, Phil, touchdown celebrations don't really seem linked to parents threatening refs.
This Week In Hot Takes: Christine Flowers says Sixers are “dead to me” after endorsing Meek Mill, making fans “fools and chumps”
"Mill got [special treatement] from the Sixers, a basketball franchise that should have been worried about winning a championship but instead sent a message to all the law-abiding Philadelphians who worked hard to pay for their playoff tickets that they were fools and chumps."
Media reactions to Mike Francesa’s impending return range from Mad Dog’s “horse’s fanny” to Steve Politi’s “jerk” to Michael Kay’s “Leno”
"You can't do a long goodbye, because if you do a long goodbye, it gets a little tedious, number one, and number two, if you change your mind in five or six months, you look like a horse's fanny."
The Mike Francesa timeline
For better or worse, Francesa has part of the sports media landscape dating back to the early 1980s.
Chris Russo fires back at Boomer Esiason, continuing their ridiculous feud
“If you don’t like what we say or what anybody says or you don’t like the criticism, here’s what I would suggest, and this is as fact — get a rating."
Boomer Esiason blasts Mike and the Mad Dog: “The only time those idiots make news is when they talk about what’s happening here.”
"It's the Mike Francesa Studio, they open the first show saying Mike and Chris, they built it. And then the second [Mike and Chris] have an opening, two and a half months in, they say there's going to be an opening at FAN? That's just wrong. Classless."
Chris Russo is definitely not a fan of WFAN replacing Mike Francesa with Bart Scott
Francesa's former colleague took aim at the former Jets linebacker.
Mike and the Mad Dog say they’d reunite regularly, if given “right forum and price”
We could see Mike and the Mad Dog 2.0 if someone offers them enough money.
In advance of documentary, Mike and the Mad Dog will reunite (again) for town hall-style broadcast
Mike Francesa and Chris Russo will be back in the same place once again.
Mike and the Mad Dog 30 for 30 trailer previews rise and fall of legendary sports talk radio show
Aaaahh... good afternoon, everybody!
