FIGHTS BREAKING OUT EVERYWHERE AT WFAN

Can someone please get a psychiatrist over to WFAN. Feuds are breaking out everywhere. First it was Mike and Chris. Now we learn it’s Chris and Boomer and perhaps Carton. This was Russo a short while ago:

“Here’s the problem I have with them (Boomer and Carton) and I will come right out and say it...They called me at 8:30 in the morning and I got two kids sick, trying to get kids off to camp and I’m not thinking about doing any radio interviews, they call me at 8:30 in the morning and put me on, talk about the tennis and Boomer and I, we are knocking each other, having some laughs cause he was snoring when he got the tennis thing going, and then they hung up the phone...and that’s not the right thing to do...listen I don’t want to make a big deal about it, I am making a big deal about it bringing it up on the air but bottom line is in that situation if you want to talk tennis, I’ll be very happy to give you 3 or 4 minutes, have some laughs – don’t hang up the phone. That was out of line...Be fair, be fair, I don’t think it was Carton who hung up the phone...I’m not sure if you can bring me on in that spot and hang up the phone after 30 seconds. I thought that was a little weak to be honest with you.”

What We Have Learned Today

We have learned that Chris thought the Federer/Nadal match was epic. We have learned that McEnroe called Chris ahead of time to alert him of the rain delay with the match. We have learned that Chris asked McEnroe if he had time to go for a run before the rain delay was done. We have learned McEnroe told Chris to go for a run. We have learned Chris did not think Federer would lose that 5th set. We have learned that Chris thinks CC Sabathia might be just a rental for the Brewers. We have learned he still doesn’t know how to pronounce Eric Gagne’s last name. We have learned the problem he had with the all Williams sisters’ final is that Chris didn’t know who to root for – that was a problem for him. We have learned, again, that he doesn’t like their father, Richard Williams. We have learned that he has no problem with the mother. We have learned that he thinks Serena is a little “goofy.” What we have not learned, as of 2:39PM today is what Chris thinks about the two New York local baseball teams and their weekend series’ against their two biggest rivals.

RUSSO IN HEAVEN TODAY

The entire opening segment on the Nadal/Federer championship at Wimbledon. I wonder if Mike would have allowed Chris to open the show with Wimbledon today if he were there. But Russo is loving this today. He ended the segment saying there were
"3 things that have occurred so far in the first 6 months of the calendar year that are going down in history..." and those were
the Giants/Pats Super Bowl, Tiger's Knee and performance vs Mediate in the US Open and Federer/Nadal. Tennis all day on the FAN today...

MIKE FRANCESCA IS HAUNTING ME...

I am sitting at home on this Independence Day watching the Yankees as they struggle against the Red Sox (down 6-3 in the 7th as i type this) and i am being haunted by Mike Francesca. Francesca's ego might be a more accurate way to put it.

 With every Yankee poor at bat I hear his comments from earlier in the season when he proclaimed that it was the cold weather that was keeping the Yankees bats down. "Everyone knows baseball is not meant to be played in the cold." Which is odd since the World Series is played in October which is not sun bathing weather in NYC. Also, not sure how that excuse by Mike explains the fact that the Yankees don't score when it's 90 degrees and they are playing the Texas Rangers who have one of the worst pitching staffs in baseball. (Abreu just popped up to first with the bases loaded and one out, definitely had something to do with the rain. We all know baseball was not meant to be played in the rain)

 Then i watch Robinson Cano continue his season long struggles and i hear Mike's words of wisdom about the Yankees second basemen swirl in my head. "When i look at Cano i think to myself, there are a lot of hits left in that bat." Hmmm... Could it be that Cano is an incredibly undisciplined hitter and actually is not pre-destined to be Rod Carew as everyone says? Could Mr Cano actually wind up having a very bad season and has consistently selected bats with very few hits in them? 

 (ARod is now up and it is pouring and there are two outs and the bases loaded. Bad weather. Arod. Clutch situation. Good things are not going to happen.)

 The point about Cano also goes to another thing about Mike that goes through my head, which actually amazes me considering that he is someone who has watched sports his entire life. Events are not pre...

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 Events are not pre-determined in sports (except perhaps for AROD). There are upsets, the unexpected occurs, the Yankees don't make the playoffs. These things can and do happen. Georgetown lost to Villanova. Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson. Francesca has seen this stuff happen, yet for some reason he refuses to acknowledge that they can happen in the present. So as I watch the Yankees losing, I hear Francesca's ego loudly proclaim "TALK TO ME IN AUGUST." about the Tampa Bay Rays chances and I want to yell loudly. (side note: i also want to yell loudly because Ken Singleton is beyond unbearable as a broadcaster. Quick suggestion to the Yankees, you have an entire network dedicated to your team, get some good broadcasters, it helps make the games enjoyable.) Yes, talk to him in August because when the eighth month of the year comes all that it is pre-destined in sports will once again take their proper places. The Rays will collapse because they were unable to handle all the heat, the pressure that the Yankees and Red Sox are putting on them and the boys from the Bronx and Boston will once again battle it out. Oh, August, ye month that cannot cometh soon enough for us simpletons of the world.

 Mike drives me so insane at times that I find myself rooting for the Rays because it is essentially rooting against Francesca. He's become the Red Sox, the Patriots, George Bush all in one. For some reason, the "talk to me in august" proclamation just does not leave my head. Francesca is a history buff (or is it buffet?). He should know that tides change. Empires crumble and new ones rise. There are young upstarts and revolutions. These things do happen. If they didn't we actually would all be working today or celebrating THE BRITISH SURE ARE SWELL DAY. But Mike talks about the Yankees in the playoffs as if the mid 80s and 90s never happened. 

 Mike wasn't worried about the Yankees because the wild card was going to be no problem. How about now Mikey? The Rays are close to 20 games over, the Yankees are about to get swept by the Red Sox, the Twins and the White Sox (they are in the AL Central, Mike) are playing damn good baseball and oh yeah, the Tigers just found their way over .500. So it ain't going to be so easy. But unless it was the Tigers (who were terrible at first) or the Indians (who are done), Mike said "I'm not worried about them" when speaking of the Twins or Rays or White Sox. ARROGANCE.

 Quick question to anyone watching the Yankee game today: Did the folks at YES just learn how to use the blimp camera? Every pause in every at bat has been cut up with shots from the blimp including everything from abstract shaky views of the Yankee bullpen, to the new Yankee stadium to views of the picturesque Bronx. Are they getting paid per shot or something? It's insane. I get it, there are cameras on the fat airplane up there and then can show the stadium from really far away. Awesome. Move on. Please.

  Simply put the dude is haunting me. His ego, his arrogance, his proclamations. Every time something bad happens with the Yankees or a player like Cano or when the Tampa Bay Rays win a game, I just hear his voice in my head. It's driving me crazy.

 My dad tells a story that when he was growing up in the Bronx and the Giants and Dodgers were playing in their famous Bobby Thompson playoff game, that when the ball went from Bobby Thompson's bat over the fence, his friend, a Dodgers fan, took a baseball and simply threw it completely through his television set. Perhaps this is what I need to do. The next time Mike hosts the show solo and utters the words "Talk to Me In August," I will take a baseball and throw it into the television.

 This potentially will solve two issues. The voices of Mike Francesca will leave my head and we can finally purchase a flat screen tv.

 HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY FROM US AT MIKE AND THE MAD BLOG. Hope all your heads are free of the voice of Mike Francesca.

Pick your poison

With the Mike and the Mad Dog show on vacation today and tomorrow, that means WFAN has to fill their time slot with other hosts. Today it's Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts. Tomorrow it's Adam the Bull (who???). Over the years, we've seen several others rotated around when Mike and Chris are away - names like Steve Somers, Richard Neer, Russ Salzberg, Tony Paige. So who do you like in that 1-6:30 slot when MMD are on vacation? What's your WFAN Dream Team when Mike and Chris are out sipping on Mai Tais?

TODAY'S EDDIE C. REPORT

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The Mike and the Mad Dog MOCK Show

No Mike and the Mad Dog today? No problem. Here at the MikeandtheMadblog we'll fill out the show for you today..Here is the Chris Russo Solo Open:

"Anddd Goood Afternooon Everyboddyyyy, on this Thursday, before 4th of July weekend. ROW in Albany and YES piggybacking. We’ll get to Licata’s 4th of July plans in just a bit. But as you can see on YES with my hat, The story of the day – OH BABY TAMPAH!! TAMPAH!! TAMPAH!! 52-32. TAMPAH!!! GET ON THE BANDWAGON!!! That is a GREAT job out of Tampa Bay this week. SWEEPING THE RED SOX! I mean CMON now, who would have thought that? Be fair, the most you could have hoped for was 2 out of 3. GET OUT THE BROOMS! TAMPAH IS FOR REAL! TAMPAH!!! Ahh listen, if you’re a Yankee fan, you wanna get excited about 18 runs against the terrible Texas pitching? You wanna get excited about that? Ok. You want to tell me that Brett Gardner is the second coming of Willie Mays? Can I see more than one hit? Can I? Suzyn, John, take it easy, would ya. Could ya please? How’d Sidney Ponson look last night? I can’t go too crazy about scoring 18 runs. You DROPPED 2 out of 3 to Texas? I mean, c’mon now. Mike eliminated Texas on June 2nd! But to me, the story is TAMPAH! TAMPAH!!! 52. 32. 20 games over .500. That owner down there has done a TERRIFIC job. TAMPAH!!! And listen, the Mets. What can you say? They are an ENIGMA. And you know what, I’m sorry but Pedro is done! Done. Finito. FINISHED! I know I made this mistake with Leiter, but c’mon now, 4 runs in the first!!! That’s a TERRIBLE job out of Pedro. And I don’t want to hear Gary and Keith talking about how he battled back. TERRIBLE job. The starter was terrible, the bullpen was terrible. They are an ENIGMA. Let me spell it for you: E-G-N I-G-M-N-A. I mean you wanna say “Now hold on a minute there Chris, they had a 2 run lead in the 8th..” That’s what happens when your starting pitcher can’t go more than 5 innings! Bad JOB! You think Lincecum’s only getting through 5 there! I don’t want to hear from the Met fan. I don’t want to hear about the Mets anymore. And another thing, Ron, I like you a lot, but you CANNOT on the postgame show talk about how the Mets “showed a lot of fight.” I mean, you just CANNOT do that. I tell ya Timmy shows more fight when he’s trying to get the remote to watch that high school musical thing for the billionith time. Enough with that Zac Effron. But let's face it, they are a .500 club. Go 25-12 and then you can talk to me again. ENIGMA!! And listen, one other thing here before we go to break. Do I need to pick up the Daily News today and Front page see that Arod’s getting a divorce? I mean could ya PLEASE AROD! You just can’t make this stuff up with him. He has the baby and now he’s getting a divorce. PIPE DOWN AROD! Pipe down. I mean this whole idea that he’s running around with Madonna and he won’t play in the home run derby, just a terrible, terrible job out of AROD! And to be FAIR – what is his wife doing with that Lenny Kavich guy..Licata, what is it, Kavich, Kavitz..(Sal: Kravitz) Right Kravitz. Bad job outta her too. We’ll get to Wimbledon after the flash. We’ve got Pam Shriver and Billie Jean King to break it all down in the next hour. Mink, take it away."