Chris “Mad Canine” Russo obtained a bit carried away Wednesday on First Take. I do know, that’s his job on the present. The man invented sports-talk radio quantity. His takes are someway louder than his voice. In small social media clips I discover Mad Canine entertaining. I even discover a few of his perspectives on life attention-grabbing. Whereas I get a kick out of him generally, he’s finest taken in small doses. An excessive amount of Mad Canine and also you’ll hear one thing stupefying like when he mentioned on Wednesday that Shaquille O’Neal is the fifth-best middle of all time.
Mad Canine has been yelling no matter is on the highest of his thoughts into microphones for many years. I’m certain he’s accustomed to athletes, or ex-athletes, being upset with him. Nonetheless, even amongst the best athletes on the planet, O’Neal exists on his personal stage. He is likely one of the few those that makes different giant human beings say, “rattling, he’s huge.”
O’Neal additionally takes his “G-14 classification” as an all-time nice huge man critically. Nothing will get underneath his pores and skin extra on the TNT set than when Charles Barkely makes wisecracks about his recreation. Not less than Barkely is deliberately making an attempt to hassle him. O’Neal might need thrown one among his turntables when he heard what Mad Canine mentioned on First Take.
I’ve met Shaq a few occasions. For many who haven’t, you can not probably think about the dimensions of that man. He’s like a constructing that may stroll. Had he not been an expert basketball participant, he might have had a profession within the WWE because the Undertaker’s different long-lost brother. I don’t need him mad at me, so think about me as flabbergasted as Stephen A. Smith and Jay Williams have been.
How dare this radio gasbag besmirch the title of one of many best gamers in NBA historical past. Fifth-best middle? Poppycock! Mad Canine can discuss all he desires in regards to the NBA again when gamers traveled by steam engine and performed in Chuck Taylors. I’d pair the Orlando Magic model of Shaq with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to make one of the best frontcourt of all time.
The Tremendous Bowl is in Las Vegas this 12 months. O’Neal has a restaurant on the market and hosts an annual Tremendous Bowl celebration. First Take will likely be on web site, and Mad Canine Radio will in all probability have a sales space on radio row. He had higher purchase out Large Hen for an evening to get again on O’Neal’s good facet.
I don’t know Mad Canine, however I wouldn’t have the ability to take pleasure in myself in the identical metropolis as an individual if I angered an individual whose quick model of his title grew to become a synonym for enormous.