Apparently WFAN-AM’s Mike Francesa spent one of the 27 consecutive live hours of his daily show (live from Queens!) ripping into ESPN.com columnist Bill Simmons. Called him a “stooge” and a “fraud.”
In the old days, if Simmons was a newspaper columnist, he’d have very little recourse. Back when Francesa mattered to under-54s outside the Tri-State, sports radio was the medium of immediacy.
Not anymore.
Now Simmons can respond in seconds to his hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter, while reaching many more via re-Tweets.
Which he did, with the simple:
“Wait a second, Mike Francesa thinks that I’m the one who’s a “stooge” and a “fraud”.”
And then Simmons posted this absolutely delightful video:
Okay, let’s not get carried away with the overall number of people who care about this. In truth, most of the folks paying attention are media junkies, Francesaphiles and those made aware of Francesa by Simmons’ (now-former) undying love of Francesa’s old show, Mike and The Mad Dog with Chris Russo.
But in my pathetic existence, I live for these kinds of confrontations.
A unwieldy, rapidly-fossilizing mediasaurus like Francesa getting napalmed in a rain-down response from Simmons.
God I love the internet.
Does this mean I’m easily amused?
7:35 pm on October 2nd, 2009
I didn’t realize that ole Mikey boy was still on the air.
8:23 pm on October 2nd, 2009
Pat,
Yeah, kinda like I didn’t think Styx was still together. Then I saw them at an Indian Casino. Same thing.
9:16 pm on October 2nd, 2009
Francesa has the best show in America. Simmons is page 2
12:38 am on October 3rd, 2009
both of them are garbage and never once have told me anything about sports that I didn’t already know
12:41 am on October 3rd, 2009
Nice sweater, ao …
12:52 am on October 3rd, 2009
oops I meant to say, nice sweater, where can I get one like that?
Nothing like a close-up of a tonsil operation to get people hungry…
3:05 am on October 3rd, 2009
Sweater?
Turtleneck. Try.
7:05 am on October 3rd, 2009
No, in the video… on the left.. being sarcastic… I should’ve made that clear! And funny, I didn’t make it funny either.
7:46 am on October 3rd, 2009
Francesa has never been worth listening to. Mike and the mad dog was one of the most annoying radio shows ever put on the air. Russo has one of the most annoying voices around and Francesa one of the most annoying personalities.