Bad job, everybody
Meanwhile, this sucks in a large way. My first and most ingrained Mike & the Mad Dog memory is from the day the Yankees traded Rickey Henderson for a pile of squirrel poop. Everybody knew it was a horrid deal - one of the first three-for-one trades in which the sucker team received three shiny quarters in exchange for a dollar bill - but it was avowed Yankee hater Mad Dog who neatly encapsulated the anger:
“For RICKEY HENDERSON, a HALL-OF-FAMER, all you can get is ERIC PLUNK? ERIC PLUNK! ERIC PLUNK! And Greg CADARET? [This was pronounced “cat-a-rett.” Mad Dog never sweated the phonics.] Luis POLONIA? You’re telling me that LUIS POLONIA is going to replace RICKEY HENDERSON? LUIS POLONIA!” My recollection of the wording is probably way off. I would *love* an audio clip of this if it’s floating out there in the ether.
I did a story on Mad Dog last year. Great guy. I do not expect to conduct too many more entertaining interviews in this lifetime. I’ll miss the show, because Mike and Chris can’t conceivably be as entertaining apart as they were together.
