Friday, May 22, 2015

Take on the end of a Kingdom

With all the talk about David Letterman's retirement, leave it to the King to turn the entire conversation from the gap-toothed funny man from Indianapolis to himself. This week, Fatso announced that he knows the date he'll retire end and indicated that that date isn't far off. This caused quite a stir in the interwebs as an entire army of self-proclaimed Mongos took to Twitter to pay their respects. The sting was felt from Fort Lee to Montvale, from Brooklyn to Harlem, from Cresskill to Parsippany and from Seattle to Costa Mesa, everybody listens to Fatso, whether they admit it or not.
If Francesa does leave it will mean that for the first time in 30 years there will be no member left on WFAN from the original Pope and the Dope show.
Mike Francesa has been the go-too sports talk voice in this city for thirty years and nobody comes close to being a must listen anywhere on the dial, be it terrestrial or satellite radio.
Now this could all be a ploy by the big man to exhort some additional cash out of WFAN, but if he does close up shop I cannot imagine who Chernoff puts on instead, certainly hope it isn't David Lee Roth.

1 comment:

Mr. R. Lee said...

Is that Mike Francesca guy on the Mike and Mike show? I thought that was a skinny Mike and a fat Mike Golic?

Is Mike Francesca on Sirius XM on the Mad Sports channel?

If he isn't on any of the above, he isn't aired in Southern California to my knowledge. This is where Jim Rome started out, Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton ruled sports radio before Jim Rome, and Jim Healy ruled before Hamilton. Since Big Joe McDonnell died recently, I dunno who rules LA sports talk radio.

Maybe John Ireland or Vic the Brick. We've fallen on hard times out here.