Awful Announcing
"Did you ever realize the games are on a delay? Depending on whether the game is on a real line or a satellite line. The game can be on a three-to-five second delay, also. You didn't bring that part up. Okay?"
"There’s no place, NO PLACE, better than SiriusXM to do the kind of show I want to do, with the freedom to talk about the topics that I want to cover and the listeners want to talk about."
Francesa's old partner, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, will be appearing on ESPN New York instead of WFAN in the final day of the ratings book battle.
No, Phil, touchdown celebrations don't really seem linked to parents threatening refs.
"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."
"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."
For better or worse, Francesa has part of the sports media landscape dating back to the early 1980s.
“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."
"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."
Francesa's former colleague took aim at the former Jets linebacker.
We could see Mike and the Mad Dog 2.0 if someone offers them enough money.
