via Bob’s Blitz

Professa Mike Francesa was at his see-through best on Friday. Addressing the Cliff Lee hunt, he said that Lee has “fungibility.” Then, His Highness’s sense of noblesse oblige kicked in. He explained the word’s meaning to his audience of serfs, peons, vassals and the ill-bred.

Fungibility, said Fran-say-so, means “uniqueness, unique.”

Gong! It not only doesn’t mean unique, it means almost the opposite. Fungibility means to possess such similar qualities that the items can be interchangeable.

Francesa, apparently having been informed off-air of his error, later tried to re-explain fungibility, as if he knew its meaning but might have left his audience of sloggers and grunts confused — as if we misheard and he didn’t misspeak. But his protracted, contradictory explanation just dug him deeper.

He might have said, “You know, my definition of fungibility, earlier, was wrong” and been done with it. Fat chance.

The amazing part was that NYBD was told by our WFAN moles that V/P Sports Programming CBS Radio/V/P Programming CBS Radio New York/WFAN Operations Manager
Mark Chernoff was angry that yours truly was mentioned on the air. He said giving blogs like this “credibility” was not something that WFAN does. Well, apparently their number one talk show host doesn’t take accountability for mistakes. Of course, he doesn’t “blog” so that is perfectly acceptable.

Blogs are not good radio, but Joe D from Brooklyn ranting about the Yankees in a raspy voice each day apparently is. I must be living in an alternate universe.

By the way, have you ever seen someone have more titles than Chernoff? I work for a Fortune 500 and even the CEO doesn’t have that many titles. Self important much?

Also, as of this writing, 60% of NYBD fans believe Craig Carton is afraid to have me on the air to discuss our differences. And this guy fancies himself as tough?

Mike Silva is a freelance writer and radio host since March of 2007. This website is his own personal "digest" of New York Baseball He's also hosts NYBD Radio on Blog Talk Radio and 1240 AM WGBB. Check out his sports media commentary at www.sportsmediawatchdog.com. Check out his official website, www.mikesilvamedia.com

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Tags: Cliff Lee, Craig Carton, Mark Chernoff, Mike Francesa, New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, WFAN