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On Monday, Andrew Marchand reported that ESPN brass sought to recruit Mike Francesa for a “Mike and the Mad Canine” reunion with Chris Russo on Stephen A. Smith’s “First Take” program. On his BetRivers podcast on Tuesday, Francesa confirmed among the particulars.
“I do know there was a narrative written yesterday. The story had a whole lot of — I wouldn’t say it was 100% correct, nevertheless it had a whole lot of fact to it. I’m gonna inform you precisely what occurred,” Francesa mentioned, as lined by Barrett Sports activities Media. “They known as me final 12 months and needed me to stunned Canine and Stephen A. on ‘First Take’. Canine has been doing the present as soon as every week with Stephen A. They needed me to shock them and go on. I used to be a bit leery of unusual anybody. I felt higher in the event that they knew about it.”
Francesa mentioned he agreed to do it earlier than getting sick.
“We went backwards and forwards looking for a date. We agreed on a date and I had a nasty chilly…so I handed on that day. Suppose it was in March. Mentioned we’d get again to ’em. We by no means acquired again to one another once more, and that’s the place it’s been.”
Francesa was of the assumption it could be a one-off versus a daily engagement, and that from his perspective there have been no talks about it for at the very least the final six months.
“I don’t know the way it acquired out,” he mentioned. “It didn’t get out from me. However it's true that there was conversations. They did ask me to do it. They didn't speak to me about any provide to do it on a everlasting foundation or something like that. It was — so far as I knew — a one time factor. That was my understanding on the time. We haven’t mentioned it since final April, possibly Could.”
Marchand’s report said that ESPN “hopes to revive earlier talks.”
“Mike and the Mad Canine” was a rankings juggernaut in WFAN’s afternoon drive from 1989 till 2008, when Russo left for SiriusXM.
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