Francesa Ranting About Daniel Murphy Taking 3 Days Of Paternity Leave
“You’re a major-league baseball player. You can hire a nurse,’’ he said on his Wednesday show. “Whaddya gonna do, sit there and look at your wife in the hospital bed for two days?”…“First of all, the first two days, your wife is in the hospital anyway, you’re there with her,’’ he said. “And the baby’s in the hospital. So you’re not taking the baby home usually till the third day. You think the third day that Daniel Murphy’s going to be in charge of nursing that baby the third day? … That’s my point. He’s not there to take care of the other kids, he’s not there to nurse the baby.”
“I had 3 kids and worked every day they were born. I was at every birth. I was at the birth and at work the next day. I worked until a half hour they were born. I worked, went across, was in the room, and was at work the next day…Harrison was born at 9 in the morning, I worked that day. Had the baby at 9, worked at 1.”
“What are you doing? What are you supposed to be doing?”
Another classic rant for Big Mike. He wasn’t on Fox Sports 1 yesterday because they had a previous obligation to air dumb ass Premier League Soccer, so we have to settle for just audio. Just an incredible segment of radio from a 60 year old bazillionaire who’s paid to just babble about sports and shit all over his callers. “Harrison was born at 9 in the morning, I worked that day. Had the baby at 9, worked at 1″…took every single day in June, July and August off. Hilarious. I mean don’t get me wrong – what Mike does is fucking hard. I’m not one of these people who’s like “all he does is sit there for 5 hours a day! And he takes summers off!” Carrying a number 1 sports talk show by yourself every single day is an outrageously hard job. Granted its more that Mike has put in his time in the past and now can do whatever he wants, i.e. ranting about the birth of his children, but nonetheless 5 hours solo is not easy. Sprinkle in the fact that Mike’s show June, July and August would literally be the same exact show over and over and over again with Yankees baseball and Mets futility, and I understand why he takes his vacation then.
But all that being said, you can’t help but laugh at Mike Francesa complaining about a guy taking 3 days off. I kind of agree that paternity leave for a Major League Baseball player is kind of absurd but I’m not sure if the Sports Pope is the guy to be criticizing this trend.