He encapsulated what every real Giants fan felt for decades until 2010. Decades of many bad teams and also MANY really good/great teams that always no matter what found a way to come up short. The night they finally won it all in 2010 felt like an exorcism for me.
@@MrSpeed-lt8gr yep! And 1993 still gets me. The last year before wildcards and they win 103, dominate the NL all year, and finish one game short with a complete team that was as good as any that year 🤦🏻♂️ and I still hate the Cardinals because of 87 😂 I was 12 and burned my Ozzie Smith starting lianeup figure
This was the golden age of not only Yes Network but WFAN. I would tune in every single day to watch Mike and The Mad Dog and when I saw this rant by Chris Mad Dog Russo I was on the floor laughing not because I enjoyed his pain but because of how mad he got he was practically turning red and I’ve been there with my teams where I get so mad I can’t even contain myself and I just explode. This was Chris Russo coming unglued and I was in stitches.
+ganja inmylungs420 Who cares? That has no relevance to the conversation. Beani mentioned the Knicks and Mets, not the Yankees. As a fellow lifelong Eagles fan I can relate Mike. Fly Eagles Fly!!
LONG POST about this rant: Just to give some context to what Chris Maddog Russo is saying, here are 10 points regarding what Russo said about the San Francisco Giants not winning big games ever since the Giants moved to San Francisco from New York, to help you understand what he is referring to regarding Giants big-game-history since moving to California: 1- “Busch stadium in 1987” He is referring to the 1987 NLCS, when San Francisco had a 3-2 lead over St. Louis. And then San Francisco lost both game 6 and game 7 in Busch Stadium. And in both game 6 and game 7, the Giants scored zero runs both games 2- “1993 season, with the score ending in 12-1” He is referring to the 1993 NL West division race between Atlanta and San Francisco (yes, Atlanta was in the NL West in 1993). Both teams were tied after 161 games and both teams had over 100 wins. So if both teams won game 162, or if both teams lost game 162, they would play each other in a game 163 to decide the NL West division. Atlanta won game 162 against Colorado, but the Giants lost game 162 to the Dodgers in Dodger stadium, with the score of 12-1. Piazza destroying the Giants that game. Thus, Atlanta won the 1993 NL West, while the Giants got disqualified and no postseason, even with over 100 wins. Since divisions were introduced in the 1969 season, only two teams have missed the postseason despite winning 100+ games = 1980 Orioles and 1993 Giants. 1993 was also the final season that MLB did not have a wild card and only had two divisions per league, so if there was a wild card, the Giants would have gotten it in 1993. 3- “The game in Wrigley Field; nobody beats the Cubs; we cant beat them”. He refers to the 1998 season tiebreaking-game-163 to decide the 1998 NL Wild Card, in which San Francisco lost to the Cubs in Wrigley Field, and the San Francisco offense didnt show up in that game. To make it worse, San Francisco could have gotten the NL Wild Card in 1998 if they had beaten Colorado in game 162, in which the Giants had a 7 run lead over Colorado in that game, but the Giants surprisingly lost that game 162 against Colorado, and then the next day game 163, they lost to the Cubs in that NL Wild Card tiebreaking game. ALTHOUGH, to be fair, the Giants did beat the Cubs in the 1989 NLCS, so the Giants have won big games against the Cubs (and then the Giants got swept against their crosstown rivals Oakland Athletics in the 1989 World Series). 4- “The lousy Mets did it to us” He is referring to the 2000 NLDS when the Mets won a very exciting NLDS against San Francisco. The only sad part about this series is that it didn't go 5 games. But the Mets were NOT lousy in 2000. 5- “Last year when they spit it up” He is referring to the 2002 World Series, when San Francisco lost that heartbreaking game 6 to the Angels, followed by that game 7 loss to the Angels. In game 6, with San Francisco up 3-2 in the series, they were 9 outs away from winning it all and had a 5-run-lead, but the Angels made a comeback and won that game 6. And in game 7, the offense for San Francisco didnt show up, scoring only 1 run. 6- As for the Giants-Marlins postseason history The Giants in 1997 faced the Marlins in the division series. The Giants won the NL West and the Marlins won the NL Wild Card. In games 1 and 2, which were both played in Florida, the Marlins won both games in walk-off fashion. And in game 3 in San Francisco, the Marlins beat the Giants to sweep them. In 2003, as we are seeing here, the Giants won the NL West and the Marlins won the NL Wild Card. The Giants lost game 3 in Florida in walk-off fashion. And in game 4 thats also in Florida, the Marlins took the lead over the Giants in the bottom of the 8th. And then the series ended in the top of the 9th, when the Marlins got the Giants baserunner out at home to end the series. So yes, all four postseason games that the Marlins-Giants have played in Florida have all ended in very dramatic fashion, with the Giants losing all four games. And yes, the Marlins have made the postseason twice in their ten year history, and both times they won the World Series, and both times they beat the Giants in the division series. 7- "Asides from 1962, the Giants have never won a big game" He is referring to when the Giants and the Dodgers finished tied after 162 games to decide the NL pennant. Remember, from 1968 and before, there was no postseason in MLB, so there was only a World Series between the best team in the NL and the best team in the AL. After both Dodgers-Giants finished tied for the NL best record (pennant) in 1962, the Dodgers and the Giants would then face each other in a best-2-of-3 to decide the NL pennant. The Giants won the first game, and then the Dodgers won the second game. And then the Giants won the third game in Dodger Stadium on the road to clinch the best record in the NL, which gave them the NL Pennant. So this is what MadDog was referring about. But to continue, the Giants would then lose the 1962 World Series to the Yankees in 7 games. The Giants lost game 7 with the score of 1-0, in San Francisco. Im surprised Maddog didnt mention this 1962 World Series lost to the Yankees, probably because Russo wasnt alive or just a baby or little kid when this happened, so he doesnt have that passion. But the Giants were the better team this 1962 World Series, and the Giants should have won this 1962 World Series, which would have been their first World Series since moving to San Francisco. 8- "Asides from 2002, the Giants have never won a big game, but that may have been more about the Atlanta Braves and not the Giants" He is referring here to when the Giants beat a 100-wins Atlanta Braves team in the 2002 division series. The Giants were down 2-1 in this Division series, and then the Giants won both games 4 in San Francisco, and then the Giants won game 5 in Atlanta. But as we all know, Atlanta during the Bobby Cox era, mostly came up short in postseason play, so thats why hes not giving the Giants too much credit for beating Atlanta 9- Francesa tells Russo at the beginning "We were looking for that Yankee-Giant World Series" . Russo has always wanted a Yankee-Giant World Series since he started working at the FAN, but it never happened. The two times that we came close to a Yankees-Giants World Series was in 2010 and 2012. The Yankees lost in the ALCS both times, while the Giants won their first and second WS titles since moving to California in both seasons. So 1962 is still the only time that both teams have faced each other in the World Series since the Giants moved to California (as of the end of the 2024 season) 10- Since this rant was in 2003, then I wonder what would have been his reaction in 2004, when the Giants, Astros, Cubs, and Dodgers were battling each other in the final 3 games of the regular season to decide the NL West and the NL Wild card, since the Giants lost a brutal game to get disqualified on game 161, when the Giants had a 3 run lead entering the bottom of the 9th inning, and then the Dodgers scored 7 runs in the bottom of the 9th, aka, the Steve Finley walk off grand slam, which made the Giants lose out on both the NL West and NL Wild card in 2004.
I had no idea that's what he meant. He was basically referring to all the times the Giants lost in the postseason leading up to this moment. Thanks for the information.
What a comprehensive rundown that was: well done. I’d only submit one note, and it’s in regard to your reference point no 2 for 1993 as the last non-Wild Card year. Had there been a Wild Card that season, the playoff seeds would’ve been: 1. Atl - East 2. SF - West 3. StL - Central WC. Philly That said, it’s based on the schedule and results as they were that year. In truth, the schedule would’ve been rearranged for new divisional play. So it’s likely that the now-Eastern Division Braves get a healthy dose of the above average Expos and the pennant winning Phillies that year as division rivals (along with the fireworks throwing Mets and expansion Marlins), and thus maybe have a harder time of it. Meanwhile, the Giants only have to deal with a just above .500 Dodger club in the four team West, featuring the fire sale Padres and the expansion Rockies. Sounds like they maintain that 100+ win standard? At worst, the Dodgers’ 12-1 thrashing of SF on the final day takes away their top seed. Either way, they’d face Philly in round 1. The Cards win a depleted Central, with only Art Howe’s Astros hanging tough as the Maddux-less Cubs, Bonds-less Pirates and Piniella-less Reds dwell in the cellar.
my dad used to listen to them as well, and I would always listen on the was to games and whenever I was in the car with him as a kid. still watch this every year my sixers lose lol
And sadly, we Twin fans are still feeling it even today. 2004 was our best chance in beating them after getting a rare road victory in GM 1, and our dumb manager Ron Gardenhire left closer Joe Nathan for too long and the Yanks came back to win in extra innings.
@@meharinationsportspodcast2582 Yeah man, I’ve been there....I was there for the first twenty years of my life until 2004. But if the Sox and Cubs can do it after droughts measured in generations, Minnesota and Cleveland can do it too. It’s just about getting management who cares and a few years of depth building.
@@manifestgtr The problem for those markets is baseball’s economics. With still no salary cap and only a luxury tax that the richest clubs can easily pay, the smaller market teams are at a big disadvantage. Cleveland has been able to put together a few really good teams in the last 20 years, but they each only had a 2 season or so window to win a championship before they were broken up. The Twins are in an even worse revenue situation. Unless they have an epically brilliant front office like the Rays (who still face limitations) or have everything come together just perfectly (like the Royals did in 2014 and 2015), they’re just not going to be able to beat the Yankees and other deeper, richer teams in the playoffs.
@@jdb316 Yeah, that’s probably the biggest factor in all of this. That’s where things like “moneyball” and player managers can *try* to pick up the slack. Cleveland winning is gonna be a big day for me if/when it happens. After Boston, they’re the team I really throw in for.
Perfect way of describing it lmao at first I was like “this ain’t that special” and he just kept going and going and going and I was in tears by the end.
That was epic, that loss made me realize that I cared way to much about the San Francisci Giants, I punched hole after hole in the wall of an empty room in my apartment in North Beach. Next year, 2004, a legendary friend of mine, and I decided, to face up to the Giants being about as important as air, at that point, and we started going to just about every home game, even if they stunk, that park had a sick bar scene and it was a blast to hang out.........by 06 07 08......they really stunk again, but we where there every night. The day Lincecum came up against the Phillies, Mad Bum coming up and making his debut out of the pen.....we were there.....Posey, Cain, came up, Brian Wilson was a clean shaven dude with out a ton of confidence, when he arrived, Panda, Romo......we hosted an All Star game at some point, Ichiro hit an inside the park HR....eventually 3 freakin Titles, finally stopped going in 17, hell of a ride!! Favorite 2 home games, Matt Cain's perfecto, and Panda hitting 3 Bombs in game 1 of the 2012 seriesc off Verlander. Good times, Go Giants, we got you a handfull Russo!
Bumgarner single handily won 2014…he willed that championship. It’s the most criminally underrated postseason performance of this generation and I’ve never heard Dog talk about it.
This is the first time I've seen the entire segment where this rant happened. I've heard just the clip of his rant before, but seeing Francesa's reaction made it even better.
I can't believe that Mad Dog can go back to talking normally at the end and his voice isn't all hoarse. That's a true radio host right there. He did his vocal exercises that morning lol.
I think every Giants fan had a breakdown like this at least once before 2010. For me, it was ‘93. I lived in Atlanta at the time, man, I was so upset!!!
Sometimes you gotta go through the pain before success!!! Take it from me i know! still waiting for the Jets and Knicks to win a championship in my lifetime!
The absolute apex of sports talk radio. A timeless classic. Made even funnier by the fact that the Red Sox and Giants have each won twice in the last 10 years.
Just about ALL of the teams that shit the bed in the playoffs in the late 90s and early 2000s have won championships. Red Sox, Cubs, Giants, Astros, Eagles, Seahawks, Bruins, Kings, Capitals. All of those cursed teams won titles.
Doug Anderson what the fuck are you talking about? Stephen A. Smith is a racist? Based on what? You gotta stop shooting that crystal meth dude. Or get the fuck off of opioids. I don't get it... the most racist group of people in the history of the planet are always calling Black folks racist. What is WRONG with you people? You are a really sick bunch.
This was my exact feeling after the cubs got swept by the dodgers in '08... i stopped following baseball until they hired theo, and didnt watch a game til '13... i just couldnt take it anymore for a few years... this rant takes me back there, lol
This is exactly how I feel as a Niner fan watching The Niners in big games the last 13 years. Kyle Williams in 11. Kap stopped near the goal line in the Super Bowl against the Ravens in 12, tipped interception in the endzone in 13, blowing a 10 point lead in the 4th quarter in SB after 19 season, dropped interception that would have won the game in 21 in NFC title game against the Rams, QB knocked out of the first drive of the 22 NFC Title Game, then this year.....a fucking punt that just so happens to hit a Niner player's foot when it landed, causes a muffed punt return and the game....along with a blocked extra point. How bad can a team's luck be?
I know that he now has enjoyed three world series titles, but I understand what he went through at the time when he had this rant. Twins have gone the whole decade without even making the playoffs. The one year they actually have a chance to make the playoffs and they are faltering. My patience with the Twins is running bone dry.
The sad thing about all of this is that Dog wasn't on the FAN to share his Championships. That would would have been twice as good as this rant. The ratings would have been twice as good to listen to Dog talk about a championship finally on the FAN
This is pretty much how I've felt every time the Dodgers blow it in the playoffs. I was only 10 months old when Kirk Gibson hobbled into the batters box and have seen nothing but dogshit in my life. If they blow it this year, I'm going to recreate this.
I've should've done this after Game 5. I nearly destroyed my house after that game. There were too many emotions after Game 7 for me to do so. But Game 5 man, wow.
8:20-8:41 Me as a Rays and Islanders (too young to remember the dynasty) fan. Only I'm 10 years younger than Dog was at the time with no kids. #LETMEWINONCE!
@@notoriouseagle1074When I was younger, the school bus would drive by a park with the old Islanders fisherman logo and the first hockey game I saw was the Shawn Bates penalty shot in 2002. The Rangers were bad at the time too which made the choice to follow the Isles an easy one. I didn't know anything about the Lightning at the time.
8:17-8:50 Me as a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, who was born during the Pirates losing era from 1993-2012. Then the Pirates had three good years from 2013-2015 and made the postseason all those years, but the Pirates won only one playoff game during that time. And now it's back to the losing, with only one winning season from 2016-2022.
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Since this rant... The Red Sox and Giants went on to win 7 of the next 16 World Series.
Yes !
@Tim Jones And the Marlins beat the Yankees in that World Series.
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The truth is the truth.
Yo they hate Russo clearly
The way Mike subtly goaded Dog into mania is just masterful.
Look at Mike's face @ 8:22. It's like he knows this is gonna be hilarious.
21 yrs later and I still can’t get enough of this.
This video is exactly how I feel about the lousy Miami Dolphins. Thank you Mad Dog for this gem.
He encapsulated what every real Giants fan felt for decades until 2010. Decades of many bad teams and also MANY really good/great teams that always no matter what found a way to come up short. The night they finally won it all in 2010 felt like an exorcism for me.
Game 7 against the Cards in 1987 and Game 7 against the Angels in 2002 hurt deeply for a long time. 2010 was healing.
@@MrSpeed-lt8gr yep! And 1993 still gets me. The last year before wildcards and they win 103, dominate the NL all year, and finish one game short with a complete team that was as good as any that year 🤦🏻♂️ and I still hate the Cardinals because of 87 😂 I was 12 and burned my Ozzie Smith starting lianeup figure
@@j.h.7266😂😂😂😂
@@j.h.7266lol
“Mushnick could be happy” is the most underrated part of this rant
20 years ago today…
Still hilarious
Gotta love Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo ranting about the SF Giants. Can we just win a title one time?! How about three Mad Dog.
This was the golden age of not only Yes Network but WFAN. I would tune in every single day to watch Mike and The Mad Dog and when I saw this rant by Chris Mad Dog Russo I was on the floor laughing not because I enjoyed his pain but because of how mad he got he was practically turning red and I’ve been there with my teams where I get so mad I can’t even contain myself and I just explode. This was Chris Russo coming unglued and I was in stitches.
One of the great radio segments of all time, and more proof that these two guys belong together. Maybe someday.....
Wolf Williams FOREAL!!!
Everything Mad Dog said sums up my life as a die hard Met fan.
He must be the happiest guy in the world now after seeing the Giants win 3 championships in 5 years
I make the same rant about my Eagles every year
And the same with the Knicks and Mets
beani24329 At least the Mets got 1986
+Mike McCarrick dude are you kidding me ? Yankees have 27 rings Mets suck
+ganja inmylungs420 Who cares? That has no relevance to the conversation. Beani mentioned the Knicks and Mets, not the Yankees. As a fellow lifelong Eagles fan I can relate Mike. Fly Eagles Fly!!
Here on 9/10/2021 because I love this clip so much. So many hidden gems.
Brings me to tears to this day. The best rant of all time for Giant fans. He absolutely nail's it. My Grandkids are all Giant fans. Makes me proud.
LONG POST about this rant:
Just to give some context to what Chris Maddog Russo is saying, here are 10 points regarding what Russo said about the San Francisco Giants not winning big games ever since the Giants moved to San Francisco from New York, to help you understand what he is referring to regarding Giants big-game-history since moving to California:
1- “Busch stadium in 1987”
He is referring to the 1987 NLCS, when San Francisco had a 3-2 lead over St. Louis.
And then San Francisco lost both game 6 and game 7 in Busch Stadium.
And in both game 6 and game 7, the Giants scored zero runs both games
2- “1993 season, with the score ending in 12-1”
He is referring to the 1993 NL West division race between Atlanta and San Francisco (yes, Atlanta was in the NL West in 1993).
Both teams were tied after 161 games and both teams had over 100 wins. So if both teams won game 162, or if both teams lost game 162, they would play each other in a game 163 to decide the NL West division.
Atlanta won game 162 against Colorado, but the Giants lost game 162 to the Dodgers in Dodger stadium, with the score of 12-1. Piazza destroying the Giants that game.
Thus, Atlanta won the 1993 NL West, while the Giants got disqualified and no postseason, even with over 100 wins.
Since divisions were introduced in the 1969 season, only two teams have missed the postseason despite winning 100+ games = 1980 Orioles and 1993 Giants.
1993 was also the final season that MLB did not have a wild card and only had two divisions per league, so if there was a wild card, the Giants would have gotten it in 1993.
3- “The game in Wrigley Field; nobody beats the Cubs; we cant beat them”.
He refers to the 1998 season tiebreaking-game-163 to decide the 1998 NL Wild Card, in which San Francisco lost to the Cubs in Wrigley Field, and the San Francisco offense didnt show up in that game.
To make it worse, San Francisco could have gotten the NL Wild Card in 1998 if they had beaten Colorado in game 162, in which the Giants had a 7 run lead over Colorado in that game, but the Giants surprisingly lost that game 162 against Colorado, and then the next day game 163, they lost to the Cubs in that NL Wild Card tiebreaking game.
ALTHOUGH, to be fair, the Giants did beat the Cubs in the 1989 NLCS, so the Giants have won big games against the Cubs (and then the Giants got swept against their crosstown rivals Oakland Athletics in the 1989 World Series).
4- “The lousy Mets did it to us”
He is referring to the 2000 NLDS when the Mets won a very exciting NLDS against San Francisco. The only sad part about this series is that it didn't go 5 games.
But the Mets were NOT lousy in 2000.
5- “Last year when they spit it up”
He is referring to the 2002 World Series, when San Francisco lost that heartbreaking game 6 to the Angels, followed by that game 7 loss to the Angels.
In game 6, with San Francisco up 3-2 in the series, they were 9 outs away from winning it all and had a 5-run-lead, but the Angels made a comeback and won that game 6.
And in game 7, the offense for San Francisco didnt show up, scoring only 1 run.
6- As for the Giants-Marlins postseason history
The Giants in 1997 faced the Marlins in the division series. The Giants won the NL West and the Marlins won the NL Wild Card. In games 1 and 2, which were both played in Florida, the Marlins won both games in walk-off fashion. And in game 3 in San Francisco, the Marlins beat the Giants to sweep them.
In 2003, as we are seeing here, the Giants won the NL West and the Marlins won the NL Wild Card. The Giants lost game 3 in Florida in walk-off fashion. And in game 4 thats also in Florida, the Marlins took the lead over the Giants in the bottom of the 8th. And then the series ended in the top of the 9th, when the Marlins got the Giants baserunner out at home to end the series.
So yes, all four postseason games that the Marlins-Giants have played in Florida have all ended in very dramatic fashion, with the Giants losing all four games.
And yes, the Marlins have made the postseason twice in their ten year history, and both times they won the World Series, and both times they beat the Giants in the division series.
7- "Asides from 1962, the Giants have never won a big game"
He is referring to when the Giants and the Dodgers finished tied after 162 games to decide the NL pennant.
Remember, from 1968 and before, there was no postseason in MLB, so there was only a World Series between the best team in the NL and the best team in the AL.
After both Dodgers-Giants finished tied for the NL best record (pennant) in 1962, the Dodgers and the Giants would then face each other in a best-2-of-3 to decide the NL pennant.
The Giants won the first game, and then the Dodgers won the second game. And then the Giants won the third game in Dodger Stadium on the road to clinch the best record in the NL, which gave them the NL Pennant.
So this is what MadDog was referring about.
But to continue, the Giants would then lose the 1962 World Series to the Yankees in 7 games. The Giants lost game 7 with the score of 1-0, in San Francisco. Im surprised Maddog didnt mention this 1962 World Series lost to the Yankees, probably because Russo wasnt alive or just a baby or little kid when this happened, so he doesnt have that passion. But the Giants were the better team this 1962 World Series, and the Giants should have won this 1962 World Series, which would have been their first World Series since moving to San Francisco.
8- "Asides from 2002, the Giants have never won a big game, but that may have been more about the Atlanta Braves and not the Giants"
He is referring here to when the Giants beat a 100-wins Atlanta Braves team in the 2002 division series.
The Giants were down 2-1 in this Division series, and then the Giants won both games 4 in San Francisco, and then the Giants won game 5 in Atlanta.
But as we all know, Atlanta during the Bobby Cox era, mostly came up short in postseason play, so thats why hes not giving the Giants too much credit for beating Atlanta
9- Francesa tells Russo at the beginning "We were looking for that Yankee-Giant World Series" . Russo has always wanted a Yankee-Giant World Series since he started working at the FAN, but it never happened.
The two times that we came close to a Yankees-Giants World Series was in 2010 and 2012. The Yankees lost in the ALCS both times, while the Giants won their first and second WS titles since moving to California in both seasons.
So 1962 is still the only time that both teams have faced each other in the World Series since the Giants moved to California (as of the end of the 2024 season)
10- Since this rant was in 2003, then I wonder what would have been his reaction in 2004, when the Giants, Astros, Cubs, and Dodgers were battling each other in the final 3 games of the regular season to decide the NL West and the NL Wild card, since the Giants lost a brutal game to get disqualified on game 161, when the Giants had a 3 run lead entering the bottom of the 9th inning, and then the Dodgers scored 7 runs in the bottom of the 9th, aka, the Steve Finley walk off grand slam, which made the Giants lose out on both the NL West and NL Wild card in 2004.
I had no idea that's what he meant. He was basically referring to all the times the Giants lost in the postseason leading up to this moment. Thanks for the information.
You need a life
Arguably in 2000 The Mets were the best team in the NL.
What a comprehensive rundown that was: well done. I’d only submit one note, and it’s in regard to your reference point no 2 for 1993 as the last non-Wild Card year. Had there been a Wild Card that season, the playoff seeds would’ve been:
1. Atl - East
2. SF - West
3. StL - Central
WC. Philly
That said, it’s based on the schedule and results as they were that year. In truth, the schedule would’ve been rearranged for new divisional play.
So it’s likely that the now-Eastern Division Braves get a healthy dose of the above average Expos and the pennant winning Phillies that year as division rivals (along with the fireworks throwing Mets and expansion Marlins), and thus maybe have a harder time of it.
Meanwhile, the Giants only have to deal with a just above .500 Dodger club in the four team West, featuring the fire sale Padres and the expansion Rockies. Sounds like they maintain that 100+ win standard? At worst, the Dodgers’ 12-1 thrashing of SF on the final day takes away their top seed. Either way, they’d face Philly in round 1.
The Cards win a depleted Central, with only Art Howe’s Astros hanging tough as the Maddux-less Cubs, Bonds-less Pirates and Piniella-less Reds dwell in the cellar.
I used to listen to these two every day. Mad Dog's rants always cracked me up. I remember this one. Even now, I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying.
do you listen to him on first take?
my dad used to listen to them as well, and I would always listen on the was to games and whenever I was in the car with him as a kid. still watch this every year my sixers lose lol
7:08 I love how Mike finished a coke and then has another coke waiting
Almost 14 years later, still GOLD!!
Add on another 7 and its still gold 💯
One word for this.. Classic.
One word “meow”
8:03 “Got the Yankees...walkin through the park in Minnesota....pounding the twinks!”
Hahahahahha
And sadly, we Twin fans are still feeling it even today. 2004 was our best chance in beating them after getting a rare road victory in GM 1, and our dumb manager Ron Gardenhire left closer Joe Nathan for too long and the Yanks came back to win in extra innings.
@@meharinationsportspodcast2582
Yeah man, I’ve been there....I was there for the first twenty years of my life until 2004. But if the Sox and Cubs can do it after droughts measured in generations, Minnesota and Cleveland can do it too. It’s just about getting management who cares and a few years of depth building.
@@manifestgtr The problem for those markets is baseball’s economics. With still no salary cap and only a luxury tax that the richest clubs can easily pay, the smaller market teams are at a big disadvantage. Cleveland has been able to put together a few really good teams in the last 20 years, but they each only had a 2 season or so window to win a championship before they were broken up. The Twins are in an even worse revenue situation. Unless they have an epically brilliant front office like the Rays (who still face limitations) or have everything come together just perfectly (like the Royals did in 2014 and 2015), they’re just not going to be able to beat the Yankees and other deeper, richer teams in the playoffs.
@@jdb316
Yeah, that’s probably the biggest factor in all of this. That’s where things like “moneyball” and player managers can *try* to pick up the slack. Cleveland winning is gonna be a big day for me if/when it happens. After Boston, they’re the team I really throw in for.
@@meharinationsportspodcast2582 Oh boo hoo-Pirates fan
I've seen it a million times and it never gets old
EVERY SINGLE freakin time!!
So sad. Oh brings back great memories to the greatest sports radio show of all time. Sad. Oh how times have changed
When Chris says "why waste my time!!!" is when it starts getting real! 🤣
Chris was speaking on behalf of every sports fan whose teams keep letting them down in this rant.
Chris was like a pot of water and they put on low, it just slowly but surely begins to boil over lmfao
Perfect way of describing it lmao at first I was like “this ain’t that special” and he just kept going and going and going and I was in tears by the end.
Look at that S*%@-eating grin on Francesa's face while Mad Dog is going off.
That was epic, that loss made me realize that I cared way to much about the San Francisci Giants, I punched hole after hole in the wall of an empty room in my apartment in North Beach. Next year, 2004, a legendary friend of mine, and I decided, to face up to the Giants being about as important as air, at that point, and we started going to just about every home game, even if they stunk, that park had a sick bar scene and it was a blast to hang out.........by 06 07 08......they really stunk again, but we where there every night. The day Lincecum came up against the Phillies, Mad Bum coming up and making his debut out of the pen.....we were there.....Posey, Cain, came up, Brian Wilson was a clean shaven dude with out a ton of confidence, when he arrived, Panda, Romo......we hosted an All Star game at some point, Ichiro hit an inside the park HR....eventually 3 freakin Titles, finally stopped going in 17, hell of a ride!! Favorite 2 home games, Matt Cain's perfecto, and Panda hitting 3 Bombs in game 1 of the 2012 seriesc off Verlander. Good times, Go Giants, we got you a handfull Russo!
Bumgarner single handily won 2014…he willed that championship. It’s the most criminally underrated postseason performance of this generation and I’ve never heard Dog talk about it.
Punching holes over baseball 😂😂😂😂 pathetic
Every time I'm down..I watch this..thank you for distracting us from our problems!💓
Whenever I am in need of a good laugh, I watch this clip---unlike some ESPN person manufacturing their emotions, this is totally real.
glassslide give me a break those guys are not manufacturing their emotions.
Nothing like the great old Mike & The Mad Dog show
@@egreenbery kids have no clue
Bc ESPN is the CNN of sports
@@ladistar lol okay kid
This is the first time I've seen the entire segment where this rant happened. I've heard just the clip of his rant before, but seeing Francesa's reaction made it even better.
Aren't you a member of Mongo Nation?
Ah man I remember watching this live...i was in tears.
The apex of sports talk radio. Timeless classic; awesome post.
Mike is so dam good, he's no longer on wfan,so now I watch his UA-cam videos, the GOAT of sports radio! Miss you mike
This is even funnier now that the Giants have won twice in the last 4 seasons.
ik redsox won 3 and giants 3 in 5 years
this is what i watch after every Jets season
Seeing Chris "Continent" laughing so hard he had to wipe away was priceless!
"beep that GD"
Congrats Dog again! Now you have 3 in 5 years. And you wanted to win one time
All they really needed was Bumgarner, the Freak, and the Panda!!!!
@@brianmolkogirl and to get rid of Dusty and Barroid.
I can't believe that Mad Dog can go back to talking normally at the end and his voice isn't all hoarse. That's a true radio host right there. He did his vocal exercises that morning lol.
I miss hearing theses two........😪
Iconic radio duo!!!!! Bring them back.. wfan never the same since this show!!!
18 years later and I still can't believe he was willing to trade his 3 kids for one Giants World Series championship. That's a fan. 718-937-6666.
I missed this duo!
Look how much happier Mike was.. I think when Mad Dog left it broke his chubby heart
😂
The best part is mid rant halt of emotions to a "bleep that G-D" then right back into the rant 😂🤣😂
I love how Zaun goads him into talking about the Giants, lol
The greatest moment in WFAN history starts at 6:59
@Alvalanker it never gets old. Knicks win and I came here.
Yup 1 TIIIIIIIME!!!
Man, I miss Mad Dog LOL!10:03 LMFAO!
I think every Giants fan had a breakdown like this at least once before 2010. For me, it was ‘93. I lived in Atlanta at the time, man, I was so upset!!!
That was brutal bro sorry
Just as a sidebar I just watched Russo and Stephen A Smith on first take from this week. Russo's aged very well
The Giants responded and gave him three world championships in five years
who else is rewatching this gem after seeing the 30 for 30?
Which 30 for 30 ???
@@joshuapeppars6985 Mike and the Mad Dog
I miss this show.
Good call by Mad Dog about Bonds not winning a World Series
Tee OB It's a team sport...
"the Mets... the lousy METS!" 9:12 lol
Waituhseckin! Waituhseckin!
2000 NLDS
When John Franco struck Bonds out
And now the Giants have won nine straight playoff series.
+Rylan Dawe The pro sports record is 19,set by the Islanders.
You mean three. Yes they won in 2010, 2012 and 2014, but they did not qualify for the playoff last season, which resets the streak to zero.
The streak resets when they lose a postseason series. It does not reset when they do not qualify for the postseason lol
S3TO1234 Actually, it does
@@timmysullivan2515 wrong
That Marlins team was epic
I remember this live on the radio. Absolutely epic
Thank you for posting. Obviously the classic of all classics.
Sometimes you gotta go through the pain before success!!! Take it from me i know! still waiting for the Jets and Knicks to win a championship in my lifetime!
SF Giants won two of the three last World Series. Perhaps they took Dog's rant to heart.
8:19 How I feel about the Buffalo Bills even with their recent success.
The absolute apex of sports talk radio. A timeless classic. Made even funnier by the fact that the Red Sox and Giants have each won twice in the last 10 years.
Just about ALL of the teams that shit the bed in the playoffs in the late 90s and early 2000s have won championships. Red Sox, Cubs, Giants, Astros, Eagles, Seahawks, Bruins, Kings, Capitals. All of those cursed teams won titles.
One kings but not the other
Add the Blues to that list now.
haha awesome to see the video of this finally up on youtube...mike and the mad dog in thier prime, miss these guys together
Times like this I wish I had Sirius radio. Doggy is going to be elated tomorrow. Congrats to the 2012 World Series Champion San Francisco Giants.
I gotta try this maybe the Mets will win
please mad dog.. never change!!! ever!!
Chris Russo was Stephen A before Stephen A
What a insult to maddog. Embarrassing statement.
Stephen A couldn't pick Dogg's huge schnoz.
Also steven A seems to be a racist....cant listen to him
Doug Anderson what the fuck are you talking about? Stephen A. Smith is a racist? Based on what? You gotta stop shooting that crystal meth dude. Or get the fuck off of opioids. I don't get it... the most racist group of people in the history of the planet are always calling Black folks racist. What is WRONG with you people? You are a really sick bunch.
Stephen A. isn’t a pimple on Dog’s fanny. Handwave.
This was my exact feeling after the cubs got swept by the dodgers in '08... i stopped following baseball until they hired theo, and didnt watch a game til '13... i just couldnt take it anymore for a few years... this rant takes me back there, lol
Amén
And then you got to enjoy 2016 hopefully. Happy for you man.
I'm bipolar it's not a joke but these guys pull me out of my depression
Mad Dog is quite entertaining when he loses his mind. The Super Bowl ticket trivia one a few days ago was hysterical.
This is exactly how i have felt about my Knicks, Yankees and Giants for the past 10 yrs
Keep watching until the second half of the video. That's when Russo explodes lol
I remember watching this live - we're coming up on 21 years! What?! Miss these days (and the boys together) forever
this is gold!
Man francesa didn't miss any meals back then
Triple chin
Every freaking game in that atupid ballpark? God bless mad dog
8:19 if you want to go straight to the rant.
miss them together, i still listen to francesa but its no where near as good when these 2 were together..all time best sports radio show ever!
That was the happiest I ever saw Francesa.
This is exactly how I feel as a Niner fan watching The Niners in big games the last 13 years. Kyle Williams in 11. Kap stopped near the goal line in the Super Bowl against the Ravens in 12, tipped interception in the endzone in 13, blowing a 10 point lead in the 4th quarter in SB after 19 season, dropped interception that would have won the game in 21 in NFC title game against the Rams, QB knocked out of the first drive of the 22 NFC Title Game, then this year.....a fucking punt that just so happens to hit a Niner player's foot when it landed, causes a muffed punt return and the game....along with a blocked extra point. How bad can a team's luck be?
this is how I feel being a Jets and Knicks fan.
These two were quite the pair.
I know that he now has enjoyed three world series titles, but I understand what he went through at the time when he had this rant. Twins have gone the whole decade without even making the playoffs. The one year they actually have a chance to make the playoffs and they are faltering. My patience with the Twins is running bone dry.
Chris has to give credit to Mike for not interrupting him at the end.
The sad thing about all of this is that Dog wasn't on the FAN to share his Championships. That would would have been twice as good as this rant. The ratings would have been twice as good to listen to Dog talk about a championship finally on the FAN
Sad that in 2021 if Chris calls Minnesota “The Twinks” he’d be fired.
There’s a lot of things about 2021-2022 that are downright sad
I imagine that room smelling pungently of cigars and coffee breath
Greatest rant ever
This is fantastic
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!!! This is so freaking hilarious and Mike's reaction makes it's so much funnier
Sports radio at its finest right here. ONE TIME!
Stugotz been trying to emulate this video clip for 14 years
8:17 is how I feel about the mets
The Tigers are starting to turn into this for me. It's been almost THIRTY FUCKING YEARS! WIN ONE ALREADY!!!
Make it 35. Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd counting.
Make it 37 years. My sympathies.
This is pretty much how I've felt every time the Dodgers blow it in the playoffs. I was only 10 months old when Kirk Gibson hobbled into the batters box and have seen nothing but dogshit in my life. If they blow it this year, I'm going to recreate this.
Have you recreated this?
I've should've done this after Game 5. I nearly destroyed my house after that game. There were too many emotions after Game 7 for me to do so. But Game 5 man, wow.
They didn't blow it this year.
Thats passion baby😆😎
Exactly how I feel about the Mets and Knicks
I miss listening to these guys during the day
8:20-8:41 Me as a Rays and Islanders (too young to remember the dynasty) fan. Only I'm 10 years younger than Dog was at the time with no kids. #LETMEWINONCE!
Why not the Bolts?
@@notoriouseagle1074When I was younger, the school bus would drive by a park with the old Islanders fisherman logo and the first hockey game I saw was the Shawn Bates penalty shot in 2002. The Rangers were bad at the time too which made the choice to follow the Isles an easy one. I didn't know anything about the Lightning at the time.
8:17-8:50 Me as a Pittsburgh Pirates fan, who was born during the Pirates losing era from 1993-2012. Then the Pirates had three good years from 2013-2015 and made the postseason all those years, but the Pirates won only one playoff game during that time. And now it's back to the losing, with only one winning season from 2016-2022.
UPDATE: Now I'm 8 years younger and the Rays just got eliminated in the Wild Card round for the 2nd year in a row.