Former Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard’s epic troll job of Mike Francesa shows how far he has fallen

Mike Francesa has fallen a long way from his “numbah one” spot on the first sports talk radio station in North America, New York City’s WFAN 660 AM, to talking about sports on Twitter (a platform that he said that he would “never” join just a few years prior to joining in 2018 but, as Francesa often claims on a lot of topics in his thick New York accent, “I nevah said dat!”). This time, he received pushback, though, as he criticized former New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard, who signed a deal with the Los Angeles Angels earlier this week.

Syndergaard replied back to Francesa and epically trolled the former WFAN host.

Francesa rebutted at 6 AM E.T. on Saturday with this:

Syndergaard countered at 10:23 AM E.T. in yet another epic trolling of this NSFW tweet.

Former WFAN’s Mike Francesa has fallen a long way since he topped programming at WFAN in New York City.

After having the “numbah one” sports talk radio show in the world with Mike and The Mad Dog with Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo from 1989 through 2008, Francesa went solo on WFAN and Russo moved to SiriusXM Radio to have his own show and channel. Since then, Russo has added programming and big-name hosts on his channel and he has joined MLB Network but Francesa steadily went downhill.

Francesa’s show was put on the YES Network in 2008 through 2014 (after Mike and The Mad Dog was on the YES Network from 2002 through 2008) until he jumped ship to what was a small, national sports network at the time: Fox Sports 1 (now known as FS1). Within a year and a half, he was moved to FS2 and then, was off TV, in general.

He retired at the end of 2017 but within four months, he returned to WFAN and launched his own app. It was poorly received and widely lambasted for the cost and lack of content.

He slipped in the ratings and after numerous controversies, malaprops, and hilariously awful moments (like falling asleep on the air multiple times), he retired for a second time in December 2019 … only to return yet again just a few weeks later in January 2020. He debuted a 30-minute show for Radio.com but at the start of the pandemic, he rejoined WFAN as a temporary weekend host. By May, though, he returned to the afternoon drive-time spot that he occupied for 30 years but in a smaller window (6-7 PM).

But by the end of July, Francesa retired for a third time from WFAN.

Now, all Francesa does is tweet two or three times a week about something happening in New York sports. It’s definitely been a sad fall from grace for the “Spawts Pope” but considering that it has been going on for more than a decade, it’s been a train wreck in motion for a long time.