It didn’t take lengthy for the nameless Twitter consumer Funhouse to get again to posting clips from Mike Francesa reveals.
What was the primary one he posted on Wednesday since getting back from the self-imposed ban?
A clip of Francesa telling his viewers that he witnessed first-hand the playing exploits Michael Jordan.
Francesa introduced himself into the story lately on his radio present when speaking about Jordan’s playing exploits which have been documented within the 10-part sequence “The Final Dance.”
“Let’s be sincere. Jordan is a freakish gambler,” Francesa stated. “I even have been within the on line casino with him, and he gambles loopy on the card tables. I imply he’ll play the entire desk for large stakes. I’ve seen him do it.”
Francesa additionally made the purpose that Jordan was simply capable of afford his high-stakes playing.
“So he’ll wager some huge cash,” Francesa added. “However bear in mind, it’s all relative. Jordan turned down million greenback appearances each day. Turned them down. They weren’t sufficiently big. I’m speaking about precise tens of millions of {dollars} a day in appearances and turned them down. They weren’t sufficiently big. That’s how massive he was.”
Funhouse additionally needed his 100,000-plus followers to know that it wasn’t the primary time Francesa needed his listeners to know that he noticed a sports activities legend playing massive bucks. The account additionally posted a video tweet from a number of years of the longtime host saying he noticed Pete Rose guess closely quite a few instances.
“Quite a lot of us noticed Rose guess rather a lot. I noticed Rose guess when he was a participant,” Francesa stated within the older clip. “I noticed him guess within the offseason in a card present … when he was a participant, like a madman.”
These clips got here lower than two weeks after @BackAftaThis stated he would by no means once more publish video from Francesa’s present — this, after Francesa and Entercom barred anyone from posting movies of the present with out their consent, solely to relent three weeks later.
Funhouse defined the rationale for the flip-flop.
“Mike’s present is terrible,” @BackAftaThis wrote in a tweet earlier on Wednesday. “As I discussed the opposite day, an enormous catalyst for me rethinking this was getting a style of the despicable, deceitful Colin Cowherd day after day. The grass isn’t at all times greener whenever you determine to cowl different hosts. Mike could also be a jerk at instances, however he’s OUR jerk.”
On April 23, Funhouse advised The Submit’s Andrew Marchand he wouldn’t begin tweeting out Francesa clips once more except he was getting paid for it.
“I’ve completely no plans to renew posting Mike’s clips,” @BackAftaThis stated with a chuckle on the time. “He let me out of jail and I’m not going again willingly except I’m compensated handsomely for it.”