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Mike Francesa Brings Crying Mets Fan Back On Show, Surprises Him With Ticket To Game
Sunday morning, a Mets fan known as Will from Queens called into the show, and got himself so worked up about the Mets’ postseason chances that he cried. Mike Francesa brought him back on the show today and surprised him with a ticket to tonight’s game. Will sounded like he was going to cry, again....
Mets Fan Calls Into Francesa Show, Cries On Air
Will from Queens was feeling a little emotional yesterday morning, and who can blame him? His Mets are in the playoffs for the first time since 2006, he just watched Ruben Tejada get his leg broken on a dirty play, and Matt Harvey? Don’t even get Will started on Matt Harv—[stifles oncoming sobs]—Mat...
Please Listen To Mike Francesa Shopping For Corks
MLB’s selling authenticated champagne bottles and corks from various teams’ locker-room celebrations, as they have in years past. On today’s show, Mike Francesa wanted to look into the going rate for Mets corks. Listeners were blessed to listen to Francesa traversing the online store for these corks...
Mike Francesa Treats Listeners To U.S. Open Play-By-Play
Mike Francesa will probably never be able to recapture the brilliance that was 50 Seconds Of Phone Scrolling While Live On The Air, but he deserves credit for yesterday’s sequel, Nearly Three Minutes Of Halting U.S. Open Narration....
Mike Francesa And Caller Have Wonderful Conversation About LeBron's Dick
Today, Mike Francesa and regular caller Mike in Montclair talked about LeBron cutting his head on a camera and, in a separate event, showing his dick. Since the usual outline of Francesa’s show is “Mike Francesa’s coworkers and callers explain sports to Mike and get his reactions,” Mike in Montclair...
Mike Francesa Treats Listeners To 50 Seconds Of Phone Scrolling
I like to think of this as a piece of performance art, called “The Inside Of Your Dad’s Brain.”...
The St. Louis Rams Have Nothing To Be Sorry For
You don't call Mike Francesa's radio show unless you are upset, and probably also otherwise damaged in some way. A person who is doing fine, thanks, does not run some avant-garde hear-me-out-Mike trade—Nothing crazy, just Eli Manning for a couple of first-round picks and a couple of second-round p...
Michael Kay Screams And Rants About Mike Francesa And Integrity
Yankees play-by-play announcer Michael Kay was fuming at radio host Mike Francesa yesterday on his radio show, and called out the Sports Pope after Francesa suggested YES controlled what Kay could and couldn't do....
Radio Host Mike Francesa Rants About The Jets For Over Seven Minutes
The shit-ass Jets are 1-7 after getting smoked by the Buffalo Bills in a game that featured many grand embarrassments from the home team, so today was the perfect day for Mike Francesa to unleash a merciless rant about just how crappy this team is....
Mike Francesa Fell Asleep On The Air Again!
It's been over two years since sports radio legend Mike Francesa fell asleep while on the air. That was a moment we assumed Francesa would never top, until he once again went ahead and fell asleep, while live on the air, last Friday....
John Calipari Called Into Mike Francesa's Show To Yell At Him
Today on his radio show, Mike Francesa was talking some shit about Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari. "He's not a classic X's and O's guy," he said in his particular way. Francesa then took a call from "John in Kentucky," who wanted to defend coach Cal's abilities. Turns out, "John in ...
Mike Francesa Has A Lot Of Dumb Questions About Soccer
We can't judge Francesa too harshly for not knowing dick about soccer, because he's probably not anymore clueless about the sport than 90 percent of the other American sports fans who populate his demographic. ...
Mike Francesa Barely Tolerates His Own Network's Draft Analysts
Mike Francesa's daily radio show is simulcast on Fox Sports 1 now, so you might assume that a segment built around two of the network's NFL draft analysts would lead to some good corporate synergy. The Sports Pope disagrees....
Mike Francesa Caller Wants To Know If Nudity Would Boost Mets Attendance
Ira in Florida with the burning questions:...
Mike Francesa Is Not Happy With His Fox Sports Partners
Mike Francesa's afternoon WFAN talk show simulcast moved from YES to Fox Sports 1 six weeks ago, bringing the longtime New York voice to a national audience—that is, when not pre-empted for Champions League soccer on the nascent News Corp (err, "21st Century Fox") network. ...
WFAN Just Obliterated Mike Francesa's Most Effective Marketer
WFAN Audio, the internet's largest repository of Mike Francesa clips, was decimated today, as WFAN/CBS issued takedown notices on hundreds of YouTube videos. This is only notable to that small subset of the population who cares what Francesa's up to, but that's kind of the point—even fewer people ar...
Mike Francesa Could Not Give Less Of A Shit About The Ultimate Warrior
You think the Sports Pope wants to sit here and spend his day talking about professional wrestling? Get a clue. Francesa could cah less about that gahbage....
Mike Francesa Wouldn't Shut Up About Paternity Leave Today
Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy is going to be away from the team for a few days on paternity leave, because his wife had a child and he wants to be with his wife and child. This is a thing that men in America, even athletes, do. Usually if they don't, it's because they're not lucky enough to hav...
Mike Francesa Talks Oscar Movies
A sample: "I saw The Werewolf of Wall Street, and I just did not think it was well done." ...
Mike Francesa And His Callers Talked Michael Sam And It Was Not Good
One of the dirty secrets about Mike Francesa is that underneath his lovable, old-man-watching-sports-from-an-oversized-recliner persona is someone who's... not so great when it comes to talking about gay people. His thoughts on the topic have always been more than a little perplexed....