(By the way, when a newspaper in this day and age assigns four reporters to investigate a guy... well... draw your own conclusions.)
But she's a fine piece of radioin,' she is! You can hear her here.
Can't sit for the 55 minute version. Here's how it goes for nearly an hour, in this case, haggling over A-Rod's non-trip to a doctor in Houston:
Francesa: You get things wrong.
O’Keeffe: We don’t get things wrong.
Francesa: You wrote a story saying A-Rod was going to
Houston. He never went to Houston. You got it wrong.
O’Keeffe: We said he was going to Houston. We got it right
that he was going to Houston.
Francesa: He didn’t go to Houston, you got it wrong.
O’Keeffe: We didn’t get it wrong.
Francesa: How can you say that? He didn’t go to Houston, so you got it wrong.
O’Keeffe: He was going to go to Houston, we were told he was going to Houston, we didn’t get it wrong.
Francesa:You said he was going to Houston, but he didn’t go to Houston. So you got it wrong.
O’Keeffe: We said he was going to Houston, and he was, we didn’t get it wrong.
Francesa: Did he go to Houston? No. He didn’t go to Houston. You said he was going to Houston. You got it wrong, first.
O’Keeffe: No, You Got It Wrong is on second.
Francesa: That’s what I said! Did he go to Houston?
O’Keeffe: Right. He’s on first.
Francesa: Did he go to Houston?
O’Keeffe: That's right. He's on first.
Francesa: You Got It Wrong!
O’Keeffe: Yes. He's on second.
Francesa: Who's on second?
O'Keeffe: You got it wrong.
Francesa: No, YOU Got It Wrong!
O’Keeffe: That's right.
Francesa: How can you say that?
O’Keeffe: He's on third.
Francesa: Yeoooooogh, heeeeeeey, huminahuminahumina.... O’KEEEEEEF!
Francesa's one of those rare polarizing characters whom I neither love nor hate; he gets a little repetitive and can say "waitasecond"
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I loved the dynamic shift when Mike said he'd read the leaked affidavits; I think the stunned bits of silence there were the best bits of radio I've heard in a while. That, and Mike F. answering "yes" or "no" to a few Mike O. questions. Sometimes it's just so great to hear "yes" or "no". Maybe it always has been.
Thanks for posting the link, Duque.
When you're at the table with Allan Selig and you look around and can't spot the mark, the mark is you. Four of you, maybe, but still you.
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