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Mike Greenberg

reviewed by alpepper

Mike Greenberg hosts ESPN Radio's "Mike & Mike Show" program with Mike Golic.

alpepper
10/12/2005

Mike Greenberg 1

Update: I have downgraded Greenberg to the lowest possible rating. All the ESPN Suits Horses and All of the ESPN Suits Men can't make this show even remotely amusing or insightful. It is the unfunniest show out there. The stupid parody songs are plain awful. It's the only sports talk show that gets so UNLISTENABLE, it forces me to switch over to FM music maybe 4 or 5 times per airing. I love the that they have their little "Just shut up" gig when ESPN goes at great lengths to bait athletes to say something controversial. They demand sound bites but in-turn lambast athletes for doing so. Worst of all is the idiotic "Stone Call Lead Pipe Locks." Greenberg picks the Saints (lose by 49 to the Packers) and Ravens (lose by 21 to the Lions). Take your lead pipe and beat your 2 milimeter crank with it. Greenberg is the pits. Just hearing his voice makes me turn the radio dial. The Mike&Mike Show is often unlistenable (boring and totally spin-doctored by ESPN suits). The show never takes callers (unlike the great Jim Rome). It simply broadcasts what ESPN wants you to think and not what the fan thinks. It mostly consists of 4 hours of the fat guy (former Eagles Lineman Mike Golic) browbeating his effete counterpart (Greenberg) all the time. But Greenberg often deserves it. He says some of the most asinine comments ever uttered in Sports Talk radio history like when he states every rookie du 'jour in any sport suddenly is the greatest players in that sport's history. I loved his announcement to the world (when the Lakers got Malone and Payton) that the Lakers are World Champs and that there is no reason to play the season. Like all of his predictions, totally unfounded and flat-out wrong. Greenberg is a multiple winner of the show's Just Shut Up Award, which is supposedly reserved for sports personalities. He claims to be a suave metrosexual which makes my skull bleed internally when he starts to talk about it. I will admit, he's a handsome dude in a Will & Grace kind of way. Twice, on national radio, he suffered the ignominy of being late because he had a flat tire and didn't know how to fix it. Greenberg is the stereotypical smart Jewish boy who went to a fancy college (Northwestern) who knows sports from what he read and watched and not from playing (Hey, that could apply to me if I were smart and went to a fancy college). The world needs more Hank Greenbergs and less Mike Greenberg

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kongfuman13 commented 1113 days ago.
I'm sorry i couldnt read the rest of this after you wrote the great Jim Rome

Loerke commented 690 days ago.
alpepper, your comment ranks among the very best sports takes in the history of RIA. thank you!
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