Anyway, I remember this whole affair with Francesa and Mushnick. I even did a few searches online about it because I was so outraged at the comments MF supposedly made.

Francesa staunchly denied the comments and apparently there are no tapes out there to prove he made them. If they were in fact true, they are absolutely idiotic and inexcusable.

I kind of run hot and cold with Francesa/WFAN. As a sports nut in the NY area, I was raised on WFAN. I remember in my junior high school days, I would fall asleep listening to Steve Somers and wake up with Imus. Then after school, I would often catch Mike and the Dog.

Still, in recent years, I have not listened to the station nearly as much. Perhaps with everything so readily available online, the format is becoming a bit dated. I also don’t think sports fans need a single voice for six hours a day dictating what is important in the world of sports. For example, Francesa seems to only focus on the Yankees during the baseball season. All year round in fact, many sports and local teams are ignored compeletely as subjects, pretty much making the Fan moniker invalid. As Ron pointed out too, Francesa isn’t exactly the most gracious of hosts with his callers either. At the end of the day, while I love sports, we are still talking about recreational activitites here, not life and death, and not rocket science. In my opinion, one fan’s view is really just as valid as any other, as long as they have a basic understanding of the sport they are discussing.

It’s been so long, I’ve forgotten most of the affair, but picking one section:

Francesa also said the Jews he knows are disloyal Americans in that they would go to war to defend Israel but not the United States.

In the wake of an attack on the U.S. by Islamic lunatics, Francesa even called upon American Jews to prove their virtue as Americans, to choose between Israel, which he called “a failed experiment,” and the U.S.

Change “Jew” with another ethnic group and see how that would fly. And the Islamic countries are anti-American without the “benefit” of its alliance with Israel.