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OT: Mike and the Mad Dog 30 for 30

Rico444 said:
Am I missing something here? He did bank the shot in.
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No he didn't. I hit the back rim on the way through, but it never touched the backboard.
 
Mike and the Dog were great together, separately they are both pretty pedestrian. Mike long ago mailed it in, I still listen on occasion, but more because I find his antics and attitude to callers amusing.

Carton is insufferable.

That both Mike and B&C can hold those time slots speaks more to the dearth of sports radio talent in NYC than it does to those guys acumen. I think Boomer is actually enjoyable to listen to, but Carton is so off-putting that I can't do it.

Midday - Joe B. are you kidding me bro, Joe B. the fan has to do better than that, but I suppose he appeals to every dimwitted Jets fan out there. Never mind the numbnuts that named his kid Jet or Jett or whatever.

Steve Sommers is an all-time classic.
 
Northbound said:
Mike and the Dog were great together, separately they are both pretty pedestrian. Mike long ago mailed it in, I still listen on occasion, but more because I find his antics and attitude to callers amusing.

Carton is insufferable.

That both Mike and B&C can hold those time slots speaks more to the dearth of sports radio talent in NYC than it does to those guys acumen. I think Boomer is actually enjoyable to listen to, but Carton is so off-putting that I can't do it.

Midday - Joe B. are you kidding me bro, Joe B. the fan has to do better than that, but I suppose he appeals to every dimwitted Jets fan out there. Never mind the numbnuts that named his kid Jet or Jett or whatever.

Steve Sommers is an all-time classic.
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The schmooze.
 
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Sommers pulls some pretty interesting and obscure clips in the intros to his show. Last night he had some twilight zone stuff that few would recognize due to their age, although his audience is pretty old probably. Long winded, can't he just say Mets not Metropolitans?
 
jibsey said:
Sommers pulls some pretty interesting and obscure clips in the intros to his show. Last night he had some twilight zone stuff that few would recognize due to their age, although his audience is pretty old probably. Long winded, can't he just say Mets not Metropolitans?
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I love Sommers. All the way back to high school betting late NBA games when they didn't have an overnight person on 20/20. They had a Sam Ryan recording and he'd read the late scores at the end: The Hollywood Fakers 103 The Sacatomato Kings 99.

Him thanking the Icelander fans for the farm fresh eggs they provide for breakfast.

The Ducks and Geese and Chickens and Eggs song.

Ranger Roundup with the Chief.



The most underrated FAN host was Jodi Mac. Saturday overnights an hour of wresting and then rotisserie roundup. An hour of him reading box scores at 3am. Great radio.
 
jibsey said:
Francessa is a self important jerk. I could have been less flattering. He has some knowledge and good sports memory, but he has a job in which he talks to people and always gets the last word. More than half of the time the caller is already off the line as he pontificates his response and of course that means he's always right. He's deferential to the experts that come on the show but shows a lot of contempt for the fans who pay his freight. Not all sports radio hosts operate this way, and if they hire Christie they'll have someone worse than Mike.
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But that's what gives him a unique quality and separates himself from a very saturated field. If mike was one of these sports talk radio hosts that left callers on the line for minutes at a time, we wouldn't be having this conversation. His show would be boring like the rest. He has unique qualities that has propelled him to numba 1.
 
whaler11 said:
I love Sommers. All the way back to high school betting late NBA games when they didn't have an overnight person on 20/20. They had a Sam Ryan recording and he'd read the late scores at the end: The Hollywood Fakers 103 The Sacatomato Kings 99.

Him thanking the Icelander fans for the farm fresh eggs they provide for breakfast.

The Ducks and Geese and Chickens and Eggs song.

Ranger Roundup with the Chief.



The most underrated FAN host was Jodi Mac. Saturday overnights an hour of wresting and then rotisserie roundup. An hour of him reading box scores at 3am. Great radio.
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Yes!!!! Somers was awesome with the chief. Now we are talking . Jodi Mac was the best. Weeknights overnight were schmoozer and weekends overnight were jodi Mac. I used to call in to jodi Mac all the the during wrestling hour.

" Jodi Mac do me a favor ...."
Late 80s through 90s fan I listened like 18 hours a day.
Imus
Ed coleman and Dave sims ( the Cole-man and the Soul man ... Lol)
Fatso and fruit loops
Then would fire it back on for Somers.

Great radio
 
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August_West said:
Yes!!!! Somers was awesome with the chief. Now we are talking . Jodi Mac was the best. Weeknights overnight were schmoozer and weekends overnight were jodi Mac. I used to call in to jodi Mac all the the during wrestling hour.

" Jodi Mac do me a favor ...."
Late 80s through 90s fan I listened like 18 hours a day.
Imus
Ed coleman and Dave sims ( the Cole-man and the Soul man ... Lol)
Fatso and fruit loops
Then would fire it back on for Somers.

Great radio
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I had a cheap Sanyo boombox in my college apartment where the FAN was on 24 hours a day. I would turn it down for sweet love with a young lady but otherwise 660.

My favorite Imus shows were during the Zodiac copycat. Just the best.

Only Russ was terrible. The sweater was the worst.

My father got really sick and was missing a lot of work the summer before my senior year of high school (90). We would sit on the deck and listen to Mike and the Dog talk Pete Rose for 5-6 hours a day. That show and era was awesome.

My unpopular FAN opinion is that I don't mind Joe and Evan. I don't hear them much but they don't bother me.
 
Mike and the Dog covering baseball between '96 and 01' was as good as it gets. The Dog, trying to do a reverse Hoodoo, pretending to be a Yankee rooter for months (don't remember which summer this was) until Mike brought Dusty Baker, manager of his beloved Giants, on the phone and Dog had to break down and admit his true loyalty was priceless. Mike and the Marquee holding impossible trivia contests for Superbowl tickets was also a treat.
 
Showballot said:
But that's what gives him a unique quality and separates himself from a very saturated field. If mike was one of these sports talk radio hosts that left callers on the line for minutes at a time, we wouldn't be having this conversation. His show would be boring like the rest. He has unique qualities that has propelled him to numba 1.
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That makes his show good, smacking down the caller when they are not even on the line? Try this if you are married or have a significant other: The next time you have a spirited discussion with them after about 1 minute just slap some duct tape over their mouth, then continue to make your point vigorously, even ranting a bit. You'll be numba 1.
 
After Dog left I stopped listening entirely. Dog and Mike balanced each other and made the show entertaining. When he left, it became "too much, too much" (ie. too much Mike). Even while Dog was there though, I grew very very sick of listening to all the SF Giants talk. I could care less about the Giants, didn't want to hear about them, and ended up knowing way too much about them due to Dog.
 
whaler11 said:
I had a cheap Sanyo boombox in my college apartment where the FAN was on 24 hours a day. I would turn it down for sweet love with a young lady but otherwise 660.

My father got really sick and was missing a lot of work the summer before my senior year of high school (90). We would sit on the deck and listen to Mike and the Dog talk Pete Rose for 5-6 hours a day. That show and era was awesome.
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That's great that you have the memory of listening with your Dad. I agree the early 90's era was awesome and the one thing the doc didn't hit probably b/c its hard to capture is the way they had legitimate discussions about both the 'hot issues' of the day but could also debate for hours about Ali vs Frazier and many other historical sports moments. Sports talk has now devolved into everyone's hot take and daily outrageous opinions so its very hard to recapture when this was unique and the fact that they made it seem like true debates and differences of opinion versus an opinion as pure schtick.
 
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jibsey said:
That makes his show good, smacking down the caller when they are not even on the line? Try this if you are married or have a significant other: The next time you have a spirited discussion with them after about 1 minute just slap some duct tape over their mouth, then continue to make your point vigorously, even ranting a bit. You'll be numba 1.
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You're lawst
 
When I travel to NYC and turn on Mike's show, it's noticeable to me how much time he spends just saying the same thing over and over and over again. It's what salespeople say is "going past the close". If he were more efficient he could easily fit in another 20 callers or 10 different segments.

I do still enjoy listening to Sommers though. He is certainly different.
 
I loved listening to them when Yanks were on their 1996-2001 run. Dog would get so frustrated. All in good fun. They were a great team for a bunch of years. I remember hearing them on in the background of one of The Sopranos episodes.
 
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Takes and interviews Uncle Mikey is the best business.

He's smarter and sharper than the rest of the sports radio hosts.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
I actually met Secretariat one time.

A beautiful and stunning hawse.

Elizabeth from Elizabeth, ga'head sweetheart.
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We bring in the manager of the New York Yankees, Georgia Roddy. Good afternoon how are you today.
 
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