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Summary: A "can't put down" read!!
Review: For anyone who has grown up playing or watching all sports like me- this is a MUST read. Whether you agree with Dog or not,you're on the phone all night with friends argueing the best sports debates of all-time. Being a high school basketball coach, this book will make my 3 hr bus trips & delays in airports be much more enjoyable. The discussions will last for hours.
Dog- you put out a bible for sports buffs that not only has plenty of "BARK", but what a "BITE". Great job!! I'll be looking for your next read.
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Summary: Great Work! Shows Strengths;Admits Weaknesses
Review: Having listened to Chris Russo since he was on little WMCA radio and watching him move on to WFAN, I was curious to see his writing prowess since his on-the-air vocabulary gets a bit jumbled sometimes. This is what I like about him, he seems down to earth and more like the callers to his show than other big ego radio talk show hosts. I decided to make the plunge and actually bought two items (the other is a great video for Little League parents called: "Backyard Baseball Drills"). The beauty of this book is that Russo writes the way he speaks. It will never make Oprah's recommended list but some of the arguments are real just like when I was a kid, discussing Mays vs Mantle. My favorite was the Dimaggio-Williams debate. This is a nice read that you can put down and pick up whenever, be it in the "can" or on the beach. Recommended!
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Summary: Toilet Tome
Review: I have loaned this book out to three friends who all listen to Mad Dog's radio show, and we agree. This book stinks! The writing is juvenile, the ideas insipid, and the style awful. The best thing I can say about the book is that it's short. It didn't take me long to flip through the pages (most of them have lots of empty space on them) and reach the end. The arguments are short because Russo has no facts to back them up, only opinions. Russo's opinions stand alone about as well as a flamingo in a hurricane.This is the perfect gift for a sports-nut who doesn't read, or for people who need kindling for their fireplace.
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Summary: Toilet Tome
Review: I have loaned this book out to three friends who all listen to Mad Dog's radio show, and we agree. This book stinks! The writing is juvenile, the ideas insipid, and the style awful. The best thing I can say about the book is that it's short. It didn't take me long to flip through the pages (most of them have lots of empty space on them) and reach the end. The arguments are short because Russo has no facts to back them up, only opinions. Russo's opinions stand alone about as well as a flamingo in a hurricane. This is the perfect gift for a sports-nut who doesn't read, or for people who need kindling for their fireplace.
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Summary: It's All Here! Strictly For The Sports Fans!
Review: i listen to russo and his cohost just about every day and boy do they know sports! if one guy doesn't know something, the other guy knows it. mike f. is the fact-based one with educated knowledge. russo is the one with all the opinions, never giving off much of an air that he read anything, but acts as if he has seen everything. the book is no different. i often find myself disagreeing with his opinions and marveling at his knowledge. he has actually put up fascinating arguments on who is the better pitcher - tom seaver vs. roger clemens. his verdict was seaver - saying clemens' awards and achievements weren't valid points for the argument. is he nuts saying that??? of course they are. they are indictative of the man's career and ability, but because he "hates the yankees" and doesn't like clemens, he lets things like that cloud his ability to be fair. stuff like that gets on my nerves and thankfully, little of it is in the book, which is a fine read i might add.
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Summary: Great Job by the DOG.
Review: I love the way, The Mad Dog 100: The Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time, is laid out. Its 100 short chapters on what the Doggie considers the top 100 sports arguments of all time (I guess in me saying that it is kind of redundant). So you can read it one chapter a day, or a few a day or read the whole thing in one sitting. It fits in with any persons type of reading pattern. Me I like to read 3-5 books at the same time, so this one is perfect. Its some lite but fun reading in-between all the heavy reading I have been doing. Some of the arguments are; What feat was more formidable Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak, or Ted Williams .406 season? Is Instant Reply an annoyance or an educational tool? Which athletes could have been separated at Birth? a very funny chapter. Which Baseball Players get all the Glory and never back it up? What moments are the biggest tearjerkers in sports History? What can be done to clean up sports? What's wrong with the collage football's national championship system? a very timely argument. Etc., 100 in all. For those of you not in the New York area Mad Dog Chris Russo is on one of the best sports talk shows in the country with his partner Mike Fransesca; its called Mike and the Mad Dog its on WFAN 660 in the afternoon and is only simulcast on the YES network. So you may have it on your cable or it you have the DISH. One great thing about this book is the memories it will bring back to you. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and am rereading it now. It would also be a great gift for any sports fan.
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Summary: Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time
Review: I received this book as a fathers day gift. In my opinion it is a total waste! The best argument was the first Ted Williams and
Joe Dimaggio MVP award. The book is filled and refilled with Russo's trivial aguments based on what I feel are major part of his personality and not fact. His opinions are the opinions of a person with a very large ego. ie. "What I would do"
The gift was purchased in good faith, but this book does not "cut it."
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Summary: Mad Dog to go
Review: In its full-sized hardcover edition, "The Mad Dog 100" is just small enough to bring into Yankee Stadium without a backpack. Thus, without having to sneak your bag through security, you can get it into the bleachers and read a full chapter between innings. Or while waiting for Nomar Garciaparra to finish adjusting his shoes and gloves. You could probably finish the entire book by the 7th inning stretch (if not DURING the 7th inning stretch). "The Mad Dog 100" is the first literary effort by Chris Russo, co-host of New York City's WFAN's popular afternoon call-in program "Mike and the Mad Dog". Russo's been with the station for about 15 years now, so maybe we can assume this book was at least a decade in the making. The author biography informs us that Mad Dog "also" hosts a program on the "new" YES Network -- which is probably the TV version of the radio program, in which you can watch a fidgety Russo squirm his way through overlong interviews, or the 400-pound Mike Francesa not move a muscle between ad breaks. The author is Allen St. John, known mostly for his more incisive sports commentary in the Village Voice. I'm going to assume that the topics for "the greatest sports arguments of all time" were listed by Russo, and then written by St. John in Russo's "voice". I mean, in a chapter debating the greatest home-run record of all time (a "chapter" here consuming parts of three pages), Russo talks about researching Roger Maris's 1961 assault on Babe Ruth's 60 HR mark, and being "surprised" to learn that contemporary journalists actually favored the asterisk. I think I was "surprised" to learn that Mad Dog actually DID research. In which library did he spend his late nights, making sure that his non-fiction tome wouldn't betray those audiences who associate the brand name "Mad Dog" with 100% accuracy? Most of the topics in the book are interesting -- best NBA rivalries, worst trades in sports history; the things you'd actually find yourself debating with your friends or co-workers for about 90 seconds, and 90 seconds is all it takes to read Russo's opinion on the subject. His "analysis" is really basic and you can even assume that some of the "writing" is just taken verbatim from the tapes of old Mad Dog radio programs. I mean, what were you expecting? Roger Angell? Bill James???
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Summary: who cares
Review: It's a book about who cares. Sporting events were designed for enjoyment and nothing else. Who needs to debate meaningless sport topics. The minute you begin to read more into sports than just wins and losses you've taken it way too serious. Reading about sports arguments is a waste a time. Just what this book is.
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Summary: GREAT READ WRITTEN BY A GREAT PERSON
Review: JUST BOUGHT THE BOOK AND I THINK ITS GREAT. RANKS RIGHT UP THERE WITH RICK REILY'S BOOK AND THE BOOK ON KOUFAX. IT COVERS ALL THE SPORTS MOSTY THE BIGGIES(BASEBALL,BASKETBALL,FOOTBALL,HOCKEY) BUT ALSO A LITTLE BIT ON TRACK AND FIELD, TENNIS, AND GOLF. i MEET THE AUTHOR AT A RECENT SIGNING AND HAD A BLAST BUT THE BOOK IS GREAT AND A GREAT LIGHT READ. YOU CAN SKIP AROUND SO A NOVEL IT IS NOT A GREAT READ WHEN ON THE SUBWAY OR BEFORE BED. EXPENSIVE IT IS BUT WELL WORTH ITS
GOOOOOOOOOOD AFTERNOON AND HOW R U TODAY!!!!!!
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