[新聞] Francesa feels haunted by Lidle interview

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Yankees Neil Best
SPORTS WATCH

Francesa feels haunted by Lidle interview
October 12, 2006
from newsday.com

Mike Francesa understands as well as anyone the rough-and-tumble reality of
sports talk radio, where arguments often are just for fun and ratings, and
quickly disappear into the ether.

Last night, though, as he drove home from Shea Stadium to Long Island after
the Mets were rained out, he could not help but think back on one
particularly strange, sporadically contentious interview.

"When you look at it today and you know what happened, you weigh every word,
where normally you would just dismiss it as another athlete who was
disgruntled," he said.

That's certainly what Cory Lidle appeared to be Monday afternoon when he
called the popular WFAN show hosted by Francesa and Chris Russo to defend
himself.

A friend had tipped off Lidle that Francesa and Russo were harshly
criticizing him for remarks he made Sunday. The hosts interpreted Lidle as
having accused manager Joe Torre of not having the Yankees ready to play
against the Tigers; Lidle insisted he is a strong supporter of Torre.

For 13 minutes, Lidle, Francesa and Russo awkwardly debated the pitcher's
words and intent, the hosts mostly being respectful but persistent and Lidle
growing increasing frustrated.

It was silly talk radio fodder, but in retrospect two sequences stand out and
were difficult for Francesa to shake 31/2 hours after he and Russo initially
told listeners of Lidle's reported death.

The first began with Lidle saying that he was "sitting here trying to enjoy
my day in New York" when a friend's text message alerted him to the
criticism. Russo's response to that was, "First off, no Yankee fan should
enjoy the day in New York ... If I'm a Yankee right now I'm in hiding. I'm
not enjoying any day in New York."

Lidle: "Hold on. I have friends in and I'm not allowed to go and enjoy this
day in New York?"

Russo: "I don't know any Yankee fan who's enjoying the day, to be honest with
you."

Lidle: "I want to win as much as anybody, but what am I supposed to do, go
cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?"

Russo: "I know a lot of Yankees fans who are doing that, that's for sure."

Russo had been critical of Lidle previously, and got into a heated discussion
about his merits (or lack thereof) with Yankees GM Brian Cashman the day
after he was acquired from the Phillies.

Later in Monday's interview, Lidle told the hosts, "I'd like to meet you
sometime and we can sit down and you guys can really get to know me instead
of just what you think about me."

Said Francesa, "I haven't thought much about you at all, to be honest with
you."

At the time both exchanges sounded more amusing than insensitive. Not anymore.

"If I knew he had two days to live, I would've told him to enjoy himself,"
Francesa said. "But you can't do interviews that way. No one in the world
thinks that way.

"And then to think my last words to him were that I don't think about him
very much. You just weigh it very differently now."

Francesa said he couldn't help thinking of Lidle "not going home to a
6-year-old. Being a father changes your perspective dramatically. You think
about not going home to your own son."

After the story broke, Francesa, Russo and the staffs of WFAN and YES did a
good job switching into news mode. The mood inside their booth at Shea was
somber and focused as the rain pelted the field and the grim details poured
in.

"I don't care if it was sunshine," Francesa said. "We weren't going back [to
talking about] the game at that point."


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→ leddy:終究是輸了, 寬容點比較好, 安息吧! Lidle
推 fizeau:我想到很恐怖的事情。假如哪天洋基隊要搭他的飛機去客場
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推 greengreen42:樓上的你可以閉嘴了嗎?一直說垃圾話損死者?
推 fizeau:我不覺得這是垃圾話....像你這種王八蛋才會這麼想
推 alexfun:我印象中Cory Lidle有一個家人 好像前不久才去世
→ fizeau:吃屎吃太多腦殘了吧你
→ alexfun:那時候還趕回去奔喪  跳掉一次的先發投球
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