6 days ago
How a hilarious Mike Francesa call united 2 Giants teams for a perfect sketch
Do the San Francisco Giants and New York Giants ever say hi or go out to dinner or something? Are there ever any interactions? Do they reach out?
That is something that Mike Francesca was asked by Dan from Warwick on WFAN's The Mike Francesca Show in March 2015. The caller wanted to know if the MLB team and the NFL team ever hung out, which was something that completely befuddled Francesca.
It was hard for Francesca to understand the connection between the two franchises that share a name, except that the San Francisco Giants also used to play in New York before moving to the West Coast.
Here is how Francesca responded over a decade ago:
"They have nothing to do with each other. There is no connection. They have different ownership. There is no connection between the two teams. There is no connection in any way between the two teams. They have no relationship. Do you think because they're Giants they're like brothers or something? That might be the weirdest question I've got in a long time."
As he thought about it, though, he accidentally created a beautiful image for his listeners.
Here is how he continued his response:
"Yes, as a matter of fact, they have the Giant picnic. They hold it over in Totowa [New Jersey] I think it is. And then they have the Giant relay race and the Giant raffle and then they all get together for the Giant breakfast the next morning and then they got their separate ways. That is true. It is a July weekend every year when it happens. The Rangers in Texas and the New York Rangers have the same thing. They meet usually in Abilene. They have that in August every year. [Henrik] Lundqvist is particularly close to Yu Darvish, as a matter of fact. There is a kinship there between the two of them."
Not long after, fans saw cartoon version of the call in a Mike-i-Mation.
Now, 10 years later, we finally got an answer to the question thanks to some help from The Eli Manning Show.
For a comedy sketch, we saw Francesca walking through a hallway and into a room where a uniformed Manning was hanging out with San Francisco pitcher Logan Webb and third baseman Matt Chapman.
Francesca delivered an excellent line read, noting that "they really do get together" upon seeing the worlds collide.
They joke about having a "Giants-Giants BBQ" and just calling it a Giants BBQ.
The annual @SFGiants and @Giants meetup… kind of a b̶i̶g̶ Giant deal.
Manning shared a behind-the-scenes clip on his social media where he provided more details.
He described it as a "yearly tradition" when the San Francisco Giants are in town to play the New York Mets. He called it a "great" tradition for the crew.
Bravo to everyone on brilliant execution on this sketch.
