As long-time subscriber, S. Goldman, commented in yesterday’s posting, this afternoon is the last show of the Imperious One, Mike Francesa, on WFAN.  For those of us in New York, he has dominated the drive time hours for the last 30 years or so.  He was bigger than life – always opinionated and very knowledgeable about the Yankees and Giants.  He was abusive to the callers who disagreed with him and soaked up the adulation from those who sucked up to him.  For SU, the best was listening to him say everything in triplicate – especially when Mad Dog left for Sirius Radio and he was on by himself for 5 and a half hours a day.  There is an art to saying the same thing 3 times in a row and SU suspects that to this day, he has no idea he is doing it.  No clue.

He became more cranky the last few years and who can blame him after doing this for such a long time?  Last year, during the election, he became totally unlistenable as he is a huge Trump supporter and we listen to him for sports, not his politics.  Anyway, best of luck to Big Mike.  I am sure he will stay active doing something sports related.

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Melo makes his Garden return tomorrow night as OKC comes to town.  SU says the Knicks will give him a nice video montage of highlights and the fans will give him a warm ovation.  You can picture the montage: setting the Garden scoring record for a Knick, pointing to his head after a made 3-pointer, doing the jab step move from the right side,  jab stepping from the left side, and of course, jab stepping from the top of the key.  Perhaps they will include some video of him jogging down the court on defense?  The Knicks gave up a lot of young players to the Nuggets to acquire him and their style of play during his era was boring.  But he put points on the board, was never afraid to take the last shot, and was a stand up guy in the locker room.  At OKC, he is shooting 40% from the field and there is talk of moving him to the bench to play with the 2nd unit which makes the most sense given the number of individual style players on the Thunder.  It will be interesting to see if he is a team player and makes the move.

He deserves the applause tomorrow night.