With Mike people tend to love or hate him. I admit he can have a pretty brusque beside manner. He often acts wholly dismissively of opinions he doesn't agree with. Who can forget the time he made Revis mad?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXDK-PVqzuQ
Still, a lot of his moments on the radio have been just classic-including the 19 years he and the Mad Dog were on the air together. With the Dog it's different but still great radio. Like when he just rips the Jets to pieces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-rAu4TtTmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRBg1w-zLU
Now as far as A-Rod goes, Mike's friendliness with him earns him the ire of many of his sanctimonous colleagues among the baseball writers. Of course, for me, it's exactly the opposite. He's always been very fair with A-Rod-which is rare among the NY pundits.
"Despite all of the lies, Mike Francesa is still an enohmous fan of Alex Rodriguez.
http://nypost.com/2015/04/06/mike-francesa-sits-in-a-rods-box-at-yankees-opener/
Well one thing that Rodriguez didn't lie about is that he was railroaded in MLB arbitration. I notice that the steroid scolds interpret any resistance to the witch hunt over steroids as being just plain evil. Like Bill Madden went as far as saying that Marvin Miller the great baseball union leader-prior to him the players were living in the dark ages under the Reserve Clause-which meant that one team owned their rights forever. Just to give you and idea of how specious the idea of competitive balance really is and how much it has to do with giving the fans a good product on the field, consider that for years the argument baseball was peddling to support the RC was that it guaranteed competitive balance; it seems to me that you can make a strong case for the opposite as that means that the teams with the best players get to keep them forever.
Yet because he voiced his own views-long after he was out of baseball in any case-about the way MLB has systematically violated players' rights during the witch hunt era Madden claims just having the wrong opinion should keep him out of the Hall of Fame.
So the Maddens and the Mike Lupicas of the world are just so outraged that A-Rod attacked the MLB arbitration case. The fact that he was right of course is in their mind besides the point. It was a railroading. The arbitrator was no more independent than Bud Selig had been for 22 years. Yet we have the absurd claim of Andrew Zimbalist that Selig belongs in the HOF but not McGwire, Bonds, Sosa, or Roger Clemens. Zimbalist thinks it was a wonderful arrangement in having not just an owner be the baseball commissioner-but the most entitled group in the world, certainly in American business, a 'small market owner' who thinks he should be paid for having no fans and a fielding a mediocre team year after year, He goes as far as claiming that is he and his fellow small market owners don't get their blood money the league won't survive and will fold any day now. Zimbalist goes as far-this was prior to Rob Manfred's succeeding Selig-as declare that the next commissioner should be an insider as that pleases the owner and what pleases them is all that matters.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Interests-Baseball-Governing-National-ebook/dp/B00H7O8Y0A/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428416013&sr=1-4&keywords=zimbalist
Listen you can agree or disagree with the ruling of the MLB arbitrator but what you can't say it was a fair process. It was a kangaroo court. The previous arbitrator had failed to rule as baseball wanted him to in 2010 against another player and they simply replaced the arbitrator.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/sports/baseball/baseball-fires-arbitrator-who-overturned-braun-ban.html?_r=0f
So the whole fact finding, testifying aspect of A-Rod's arbitration was a charade, a kind of show trial even-as the result was predetermined. Not surprising when you consider that in American business, at least, Bud Selig's legacy is being the king of all socialists.
Will you look at this? I have the occasion to quote Dan Quayle. As far as the criticism of the NY Post is concerned, Francesa should 'Wear their scorn like a badge of honor.'
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-06-14/news/9202220786_1_indiana-national-guard-pit-puppy-elite
So say what you want about Francesa, but his relationship with A-Rod shows to me that he's a fairer guy than most baseball pundits.
UPDATE: And yes, A-Rod was the sole bright spot for my Yankees yesterday. Even as this Yahoo Sports article recognizes that it has to add a dig. Typical of why I hate baseball pundits.
https://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-bad-were-the-yankees-on-opening-day--well--a-rod-was-the-bright-spot-230203379.html
UPDATE 2.0: For the record Mike says while he did happen to sit next to some friends and family of A-Rod this was just dumb luck-he didn't go with A-Rod and company to the game.
http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2015/04/mike_francesa_denies_sitting_in_alex_rodriguezs_ya.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXDK-PVqzuQ
Still, a lot of his moments on the radio have been just classic-including the 19 years he and the Mad Dog were on the air together. With the Dog it's different but still great radio. Like when he just rips the Jets to pieces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-rAu4TtTmM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfRBg1w-zLU
Now as far as A-Rod goes, Mike's friendliness with him earns him the ire of many of his sanctimonous colleagues among the baseball writers. Of course, for me, it's exactly the opposite. He's always been very fair with A-Rod-which is rare among the NY pundits.
"Despite all of the lies, Mike Francesa is still an enohmous fan of Alex Rodriguez.
Francesa took in the Yankees’ Opening Day loss to the Blue Jays from prime front-row seats — with Rodriguez’s family. Francesa was photographed sitting two seats down from Rodriguez’s half-brother, Joe Dunand, as the pariah slugger went 1-for-2 with a walk in the Yankees’ 6-1 setback.
Francesa and Rodriguez have been allies for a while. In November 2013, an incensed Rodriguez stormed out of the MLB arbitration hearing and into the WFAN studios, where he loudly proclaimed on Francesa’s show he was being railroaded in the Biogenesis case."
http://nypost.com/2015/04/06/mike-francesa-sits-in-a-rods-box-at-yankees-opener/
Well one thing that Rodriguez didn't lie about is that he was railroaded in MLB arbitration. I notice that the steroid scolds interpret any resistance to the witch hunt over steroids as being just plain evil. Like Bill Madden went as far as saying that Marvin Miller the great baseball union leader-prior to him the players were living in the dark ages under the Reserve Clause-which meant that one team owned their rights forever. Just to give you and idea of how specious the idea of competitive balance really is and how much it has to do with giving the fans a good product on the field, consider that for years the argument baseball was peddling to support the RC was that it guaranteed competitive balance; it seems to me that you can make a strong case for the opposite as that means that the teams with the best players get to keep them forever.
Yet because he voiced his own views-long after he was out of baseball in any case-about the way MLB has systematically violated players' rights during the witch hunt era Madden claims just having the wrong opinion should keep him out of the Hall of Fame.
So the Maddens and the Mike Lupicas of the world are just so outraged that A-Rod attacked the MLB arbitration case. The fact that he was right of course is in their mind besides the point. It was a railroading. The arbitrator was no more independent than Bud Selig had been for 22 years. Yet we have the absurd claim of Andrew Zimbalist that Selig belongs in the HOF but not McGwire, Bonds, Sosa, or Roger Clemens. Zimbalist thinks it was a wonderful arrangement in having not just an owner be the baseball commissioner-but the most entitled group in the world, certainly in American business, a 'small market owner' who thinks he should be paid for having no fans and a fielding a mediocre team year after year, He goes as far as claiming that is he and his fellow small market owners don't get their blood money the league won't survive and will fold any day now. Zimbalist goes as far-this was prior to Rob Manfred's succeeding Selig-as declare that the next commissioner should be an insider as that pleases the owner and what pleases them is all that matters.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Interests-Baseball-Governing-National-ebook/dp/B00H7O8Y0A/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428416013&sr=1-4&keywords=zimbalist
Listen you can agree or disagree with the ruling of the MLB arbitrator but what you can't say it was a fair process. It was a kangaroo court. The previous arbitrator had failed to rule as baseball wanted him to in 2010 against another player and they simply replaced the arbitrator.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/sports/baseball/baseball-fires-arbitrator-who-overturned-braun-ban.html?_r=0f
So the whole fact finding, testifying aspect of A-Rod's arbitration was a charade, a kind of show trial even-as the result was predetermined. Not surprising when you consider that in American business, at least, Bud Selig's legacy is being the king of all socialists.
Will you look at this? I have the occasion to quote Dan Quayle. As far as the criticism of the NY Post is concerned, Francesa should 'Wear their scorn like a badge of honor.'
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-06-14/news/9202220786_1_indiana-national-guard-pit-puppy-elite
So say what you want about Francesa, but his relationship with A-Rod shows to me that he's a fairer guy than most baseball pundits.
UPDATE: And yes, A-Rod was the sole bright spot for my Yankees yesterday. Even as this Yahoo Sports article recognizes that it has to add a dig. Typical of why I hate baseball pundits.
https://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-bad-were-the-yankees-on-opening-day--well--a-rod-was-the-bright-spot-230203379.html
UPDATE 2.0: For the record Mike says while he did happen to sit next to some friends and family of A-Rod this was just dumb luck-he didn't go with A-Rod and company to the game.
http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2015/04/mike_francesa_denies_sitting_in_alex_rodriguezs_ya.html
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