Thursday, March 12, 2009

Kellerman! Simmons! Francesa!

Neil Best of Newsday has been on top of the Kellerman story since it broke (err, I tipped him off about it and was not attributed)


And yesterday afternoon he transcribed a portion of the B.S. Report (at the 45:09 mark) where Simmons addressed the story about Kellerman and the rumors concerning Francesa. (I'm just going to blockquote the whole thing):

Bill Simmons: "Max Kellerman left his ESPN Radio New York show today. Uh, I'm throwing our hat in the ring. Our collective hat."

(Simmons' friend) JackO:
"Fantastic. He left it? Why, he just gave it up?"

Simmons:
"I don't know. Details have not come out."

JackO:
"There was some ugliness?"

Simmons:
"Who knows? I had a reader email a month ago and say he was at a restaurant where Max and Mike Francesa were having dinner together."

JackO:
"Really? Uh, oh. The new Mad Dog, do you think?"

Simmons:
"Mike and the Max Dog?"

JackO:
"Mike and Max. It works."

Simmons:
"Mike and Max?"

JackO:
"Got the alliteration down."

Simmons (with a Francesa accent):
"We'll be back, 'Mike and Max,' after this. 'Mike and The Max,' maybe?"

JackO:
"Yeah, but that's his first name, he can't become The Max."

Simmons:
"Let's say, hypothetically, Francesa and Kellerman, does that show work, or not?"

JackO:
"You know, I've only seen Max Kellerman on TV. I've never listened to his radio show, so I don't know what he's like. It might be a case of too many lead dogs trying to be there, you know."

Simmons:
"It's like a Kobe-Shaq."

JackO:
"I'm not sure how it would work. One guy's got to be the second banana and know his role."

Simmons:
"2003 Kobe and Shaq, not 2000 Kobe and Shaq. It would be interesting. I could see the show being great for like three months and them like fighting to the death."

JackO:
"If you've already been the star of your own show it's tough to go back now and be the supporting actor."

Simmons (with a Francesa accent):
"Hey, Max, let me tell you something, you're in the big time now. This is my show. You are a second banana, my friend."

JackO (with a Francesa accent):
"You know, you don't bring a knife to a gunfight."

Simmons (with a Francesa accent):
"I'm Jordan, you're Pippen, got it?"

Simmons:
"But that would be interesting. Keep an eye on that."

The restaurant story is pretty interesting, but I would be curious to know if it came before or after Kellerman was notified that his air time was being cut back.

A Kellerman/Simmons show would be phenomenal, but obviously that's not going to happen because Kellerman can't go back to ESPN and Simmons can't leave. Even though I imagine he was kidding, I'd probably listen to a Simmons/JackO show. I give it a try at the very least. Too bad it would never happen because 1050 would never bring in such a personality so closely associated with Boston into the New York market, even if Simmons had JackO to balance him out.

6 comments:

  1. You have to be kidding me about wanting to listen to a daily Simmons/JackO show. JackO is easily pushed around by Simmons on the podcast and I would expect things to escalate on a daily radio show. In fact JackO is the most pathetic Yankee fan I know who never defends the team and joins Simmons in mocking it. It'll be the sports equivalent of Hannity/Colmes where Simmons is the former and JackO is the latter.

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  2. I don't agree with JackO on a lot of Yankee points, but don't think he's that bad. He is certainly Colmes in that duo, but it would be interesting to see how it played out.

    Would you rather listen to Cowherd or Brandon Tierney?

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  3. Cowherd is a herb with a huge ego that doesn't know what he's talking about, aka talking out of his behind. He's too fixated on college sports which quite frankly doesn't have as high of a following as the West Coast where he should only be based.

    There is a reason why BT was originally on at 1050 in the night time ... it's to put insomniacs to sleep.

    With Max gone I'm no longer interested in sports radio.

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  4. Forgot about that option...

    I'm not far from there, but there are certain days when I need something to listen to at work and nothing on my iPod jumps out.

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  5. Thanks for posting this! Came in handy when we put together a Simmons/Francesa timeline at our http://www.fantasy555.com podcast/blog

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  6. NO ONE NEEDS TO BE WITH FRANCESA. HOWEVER I WOULD PUT STEPHEN A WITH FRANCESA OR JASON WHITLOCK. CALL IT MIKE AND THE ANGRY BLACK MAN.

    SIMMONS SOUNDS LIKE A BITCH ANYWAY AND MAX IS A CLOWN TOO.

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