Whither M&MD?

[Guest AG/DC]

Cory Lidle, that's top-ten material.

[Frayed Knot]

="KC"]AG: >>>Is there a top ten of M&M stupid moments?<<< I'm surprised there isn't a web-site.

Oh there are.
I've never checked them out but there are definitely chat rooms devoted to the show.

[stevejrogers]

Easily the Mecca of all Mike & The Mad Dog message boards*

*Little inside Internet NYC Radio Community joke there. The webmaster of musicradio77.com and their board's moderator calls his place the Mecca of all Internet Radio Message Boards. I HAD to work the joke in there.

[Theoldmole]

On Edgy's link, and Russo saying those things don't happen to hockey players...doesn't he remember Terry Sawchuck?

[Theoldmole]

Mike: I can't eat four-legged animals.
Russo: Can you give me an example?
Mike: COWS!!
Russo: What about hamburgers?

Mike: I can't eat bread.
Russo: Can you eat bagels?
Mike: No, that's bread.
Russo: French Toast?
Mike: That's made from bread.
Russo: Pancakes?

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Has anyone created the Mike & the Mad Dog drinking game yet? My initial idea is to drink every time Russo admits, on the air, that he does no prep work whatsoever. For example, if they have an author on and Doggie says something like, "Now, I haven't read the book." Or when they're talking about an important sporting event and he says, "Well, I didn't see the game."

[metirish]

Some of my favorite M&MD stuff was when they used to have NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman on , neither of them sounded like they knew much about the NHL yet they would tell Bettman how to make it better.

Other faves would include M&MD as movie critics , or spending the show talking about The Sopranos.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Meanwhile, Imus is in hot water again, for saying, "There you go."

Something about a black athlete who's in some kind of trouble. The details are already making my eyes glaze over.

[MFS62]

Nymr83 wrote: My favorite Russo moment was him not knowing that Delgado, and all other Puerto Ricans, are American citizens.

Yes, they've had a problem with nationality over the years.

Later

[soupcan]

My favorite Russo-ism was years ago and pretty innocuous when compared to all the others.

He was talking about some team, somewhere doing something stupid and instead of screaming 'It's a travesty!' like he always does, he screamed 'It's a TAPESTRY!'

Years later I still laugh about it and repeat it whenever a situation calls for it.

[Guest Kong76]

I don't think the Imus thing will warrant a thread, but I chuckled this morning
when Warner was reporting that Big Brown had shoe problems in the first 1/8
mile at Belmont and it was caught by a free-lance photographer.

One of the side-kick brothers on the show says, "what color was he?" and when
he was told brown he quips, "there you go."

No really, it was funny.

Never mind.

[Guest AG/DC]

Funny thing is that Stern (when we listened at work back in the nineties) did that shit every day.

Robin Quivers: Authorities are saying two men are critically wounded after an argument erupted into a gunfight at a family picnic this weekend in Queens.

Howard Stern: Oh Jesus. Idiots.

Quivers: Police are reporting that Youssef Mouhamed and Ahmed Sal...

Stern: GUILTY!!

Quivers: Howard, those are the names of the victims.

Stern: Oh, well, then, continue.

[soupcan]

I think the difference is that Stern was obviously doing it for comedic effect and Imus was being serious.

[Guest AG/DC]

Well, I never found Imus funny at all, but I guess that's not a line he's even allowed to toe any more.

I mean, I guess he was trying to be funny when he made the "hos" crack.

Edited June 24, 2008 by Guest

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Yeah, when I heard the quote, I immediately thought of Stern. The difference between the two, I guess, is that Stern is funny and Imus makes me want to drink Drano.

[metirish]

Predictably this " story" is all over the internet.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Steve opined...

"Now I like Romie, but he has been in NYC for several years now and people aren't clamoring for 1050 to get his show a better timeslot, or more publicity.

Rome has as much relevance right now as Rush Limbaugh.

I'm sure all people know of him is just from the Everett thing, and don't even know he has a successful nationally syndicated show. And certainly not the fact that his own show spawned two talk shows hosted by former callers of his."


Now Steve, you have your New York blinders on here.

Not that I'm a fan, and he might not get much run in ultra blue state New York, but Limbaugh is huge, probably the No. 1 syndicated talk show in the country.

I do like Rome, and he might not be big in New York, but he might be the top-rated sports talk show in the country.

I used to like listening to Imus during the morning drive back when I worked on the other side of the state because he'd have a decent mix of sports and politics.

Sports talk radio in Detroit is...awful. My side of the state is usually syndicated stuff.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Imus is better when he's not trying to be funny.

The scripted bits on his show are just awful. (Richard Nixon, Jack Nicholson, Bill Clinton, Walter Cronkite, etc.)

The interviews could be very interesting though, especially when he gets politicians to let their hair down a little bit. And when I listened to his show (I haven't in years) I did learn about some interesting books that I might not otherwise have read.

[Guest AG/DC]

There are plenty of places (radio, television, print, online etc.) to learn about good books. Imus is just a high-profile outlet, not a particularly reliable one.

Imus didn't get into the book business until some strange thing in the late nineties where his wife fell in love with I Was Amelia Earhart, turned him on to it, and he started plugging it like it was the first book he ever read. In fact, it's little more than a historical bodice-ripper, but the sales shot through the roof, publishers started sending him more than he could possilby read, and he had a huge new niche.

[Benjamin Grimm]

AG/DC wrote: There are plenty of places (radio, television, print, online etc.) to learn about good books.

Oh, of course. I've discovered far more books from those other places than I did from Imus. (I'm still reading more than three years after ditching WFAN and Imus.) I'm just saying that that's the portion of his show that can be interesting, as opposed to the infantile jocularity. (Which isn't.)

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

AG/DC wrote: There are plenty of places (radio, television, print, online etc.) to learn about good books.

Like this forum! I found out about a really cool book about uniform numbers.....

[Frayed Knot]

="soupcan"]I think the difference is that Stern was obviously doing it for comedic effect and Imus was being serious.

Without getting into a whole inane Imus-v-Stern debate, of course Imus was also attempting comedy.

The reason the last incident stirred up a shit-storm is that the ones he picked on:
a) did nothing to deserve it
and
were a group the media found easy to get behind, seeing as they were: female, minorities (mostly), students, and not only members of a winning local sports team but an amateur one to boot (at least to the extent that any college hoops team is amatuer)


Comedic barbs are treated very differently depending on whether or not the public/media views the target(s) as sympathetic.

[soupcan]

="Frayed Knot"]Without getting into a whole inane Imus-v-Stern debate, of course Imus was also attempting comedy

If we're talking about the Pacman Jones comment - no, he wasn't trying to be funny, he was serious when he said it. It was a matter-of-fact statement made during the news.

The following day after the media shitstorm he explained that what he meant was 'Of course he's black, that's why the police are picking on him.'

As if to say he sympathizes with the plight of the black man in this country.

[Frayed Knot]

]If we're talking about the Pacman Jones comment - no, he wasn't trying to be funny, he was serious when he said it. It was a matter-of-fact statement made during the news.

Yeah he was.

It started with Warner Wolf referencing Pacman's history in nightclubs which led to an Imus (sarcastic) reply along the lines of; hell it's a nightclub, there are guns and women and drinks all over the place, let's cut this guy (Pacman) some slack
WW: "Yeah but he's been arrested 7 times since [whenever]"
Imus: "Well, what color is he?" -- implying that the arrests were because he's black
WW: "He's African-American"
Imus: "Well there you go"

[G-Fafif]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: he might not get much run in ultra blue state New York

I prefer to think of us as ultra blue and orange.