erin: i want to read a comment steph curry made yesterday. he s becoming a folk hero. he said i don t know why he feels the need to target certain individual rather than others. i have an idea why, but it s kind of beneath the leader of a country to do. if the media is rooting for steph curry, he s showing more leadership than donald trump. howie: you have sports talk radio and local media talking about their teams. robert graf put out a statement saying he s disappointed. an nfl game began in london, a whole lot of players kneeling or locking arms during the national
joining me now, mike pesca, host of podcast. thank you for being here. come on. i think that s fine. there s tradition in sports talk radio, you can play the heel. mike s co-host mad dog was a giants fan, not football, baseball team, leads to clashes. san francisco giants. that s right. add it all up, that s certainly the least of his situation to reflect. being a cowboys fan is not a problem? that could work. he can make that work. it is churn. in sports radio, you try to elicit emotions, get people mad. seems to be good at that. kind of the opposite of what to do in politics. i think he has good sports knowledge and also that s a little overrated part of the job. there s only four or five sports you have to know, you have to know the local teams and he knows them. good communicator, former prosecutor. rhetorically, when he got in trouble for communication it was more the optics. in terms of verbal
communication, radio is a good medium for him. the problem is it s not an easy job. just because you show some skill or promise, the mets signed tim tebow. there s a better shot of tebow making the major leagues than christie sliding into the number one spot in sports talk radio and running with it. you just laid out what would make him a successful sports radio guy. so why don t you think he can do it? my scouting report if he were a player would list those attributes. now there are detriments. it is hard to overcome the fact that his listening area mostly hates him. even though wfan has a different listenership, it is not a fun i think callers want to call up and lambaste him for the beach, for bridge gate, and hasn t shown a sense of humor. bridgegate, he can t own that, he is denying it legally. it is good to have tension with
come and enjoy them, screen and hydrate. it would seem as if governor christie really doesn t care at all anymore. this is the behavior of a guy coming up on the end of his term limit and perhaps isn t going to be seeking political office again. for all we know he ll be on sports talk radio, might mike s replacement on the fan. this is sort of, hey, i m not apologizing at all. i think the only disappointing thing from that line of argument is didn t go all the way. in the news conference on sunday, he seemed to kind of deny that he had been on the beach when he said, no, i didn t get any sun. yeah, i was at the beach. i said i was going to the beach. what s the big deal? at least be 100% behind it. you heard the president say in the press conference he didn t get any sun. his spokesman said because ch s
deniali denial by suggesting that because there s no independent corroboration of what mr. jones said happened at the game people don t believe him. it s not a small number of people who don t believe him. i think it s rather large. if you listen particularly to sports talk radio, if you look at the comment boards even in the the boston globe you ll fi people skeptical and accusing him of lying. you have to place it in the context of what s going on nationally and what people say on cable networks, sports cable networks in particular describing boston as the most racist sports city in america. there s a realov overdefensive reaction to that. instead of talking about the bigger problem which is in fact people using racist terms at sporting events, shouting abuse at players, using the word as if there s nothing wrong with t we re bogged down on the symptom