Really? Dish Network now carries regional sports networks? Since when? When I bought my first house I went with Satellite/ Dish Network and no sooner was i hooked up, than the YES network began, and only Direct TV picked them up. I felt like the biggest douchebag around because we didn't have Yankee games that year and i had just married into a Yankee family. I had to switch to Direct TV a year after that,
my mistake. i had no idea they didnt. that sucks actually. and is dumb on their part. one of if not THE most popular franchise in the sport, in the largest media market in the country, and you dont offer them in their own backyard, nevermind nationwide since they have one of the largest out of town fanbases of any sport.
Yeh true, I look like a horse racing genius to my friends but honestly I have no clue what I'm talking about
i can picture mike floundering on a national stage, people will not identify with his talk like we do and will not care for his attitude and he will make new yorkers look like assholes on a national stage. this may be the best thing that ever happened. and may end up being the beginning of his demise.
Well at least he cant stake the claim to being the first NY show to go national, but I bet he will claim it anyway. Also this is LOL worthy: [youtube]2Dsd2crS50o[/youtube]
Just wait until people out in L.A. listen to him talking about Kobe Bryant, it will probably be a riot.
'i was dare when Kobee first learnt the alley oop. We go back a wayz and have many championships togetha. How many championships do you have Milwaukee? HOW MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!?!!! WE have a lot here in LA..' lol Fat Mike will be a quick study in making himself a part of other successful franchises, while simultaneously pissing off many other markets. I agree with alleycat that the exaggerated accent, talking over his interviewees, and the always right attitude will not translate well. It will unfortunately make New Yorkers look bad, but it will be fun watching his slow TV demise, which has already begun..
I don't think so, Colin Cowherd is national and most people can't stand him. Where Mike will have trouble is identifying with other cities and not being so New Yorkcentric. He can get away with being a grade A douche as long as he knows what he is talking about which is why Colin is good, he's a pompous ass but he's brilliant and funny. Mike , well the jury is still out.
One thing that I am interested to see is what happens when the Yankees are playing? In the history of his show, when the Mets were playing on WFAN, he didnt show up for YES. The Yankees are now on WFAN but you have to believe now that the main broadcast will be the TV broadcast. I wonder if FS1 wants him still on, even if he cannot be heard on the radio. If he is national, people in California dont care whether or not the Yankee game is being called on WFAN which they cant obviously get out there.
they have to be. you cant sign a deal like that without a 2 month break being agreed upon. or they could show joe & evan.
His show is already like that.. He'll just expand upon the teams referenced as he cannot just talk Yankees for the entire show now.
If his radio show is being simulcast on FS1, I don't see any changes. Boomer & Carton are now on a national channel and they still do a NY-centric show. Maybe I missed something, though. If Francesser is getting a tv show on FS1 that is separate from the radio show, then he would have to do a national format.
WFAN is the one paying Francessa. FS1 isnt the one paying his contract, although WFAN uses the money from FS1 to pay the contract. (Thats why it was nearly guarenteed he would be back on TV one way or another)
He is only popular on the national stage with metro area transplants. He's not going to bring in anyone that is not a NY fan so I can't see much new growth. And his football show has gone downhill so fast with the Friday replay's and Nantz instead of Simms that its not going to pull good ratings. Sorry, Fat boy apologists, he is a local NY guy that's an arrogant unlikeable human being and people hate NY'ers to begin with. For me, I don't listen anymore thanks to Sirius/XM. Actually, sports is over for me until baseball so its Stern and music. Screw sports talk, betcha is whinning Met fans already. Now the Jeter sob fest. God help me, how did I once listen to this crap. Free of sports blab once and for all.
today's show really was a disgrace, letting these fools talk about Jeters retirement like a family member just died, get a fucking grip. still not worse than satellite radio Stern though, I haven't listened to him since the krock days but I've seen some recent clips on youtube and holy shit he's become such a faggoty old grandma and everything he used to make fun of.
I subscribe to Sirius as well and NFL radio is a good channel, great commentary and the callers are pretty intelligent and make real points or ask good questions. They don't care about ratings because they already have your money with the subscription so they stick to the NFL.
