Mike Francesa scolds his staff before realizing he was on air: Going to go viral now

It seems Mike Francesa didn’t realize they were doing this one live. During a live episode of his BetRivers podcast, Francesa chided his staff for talking in his ear and providing him with the wrong information regarding St.John’s and the Big East championship. The famed former radio host spent several minutes going back and forth with his staff before calling on them to restart the recording.

The only problem was that it was live. Francesa was talking to them for more than two minutes before he was alerted that he had been live-streaming the entire time and frustrating the sports talk host even further. “We’re live? This was all on the air, me just yelling at you guys?” he asked with surprise.“What? You gotta be kidding me.

You guys have got to be kidding me.All right, I apologize for that outburst, okay, folks? I didn’t realize we were live, I thought we were taping this, okay? That’s my mistake, I didn’t realize that.

Now … so this is going to go viral now because I yelled at you guys, you realize that?” All things considered, Francesa maintained a level-headedness after finding out that his conversation with his producers had been airing live, putting him in a bad position and opening him up for jokes at his expense. The clip was posted to X and has garnered more than 500,000 views since it was uploaded. The portion of the stream was edited out for the recorded version of the show that was uploaded. Francesa fans also didn’t seem to be bothered by the way the host talked to his staff with many expressing they thought he handled the situation well. “Honestly I thought he was really respectful and nice about it,” one person wrote. “I guess he didn’t grow up in an Italian family.That was sweet talk,” another person joked....