Poor Mike Francesa. The WFAN radio icon and fan of naptime can’t seem to catch a break: first, he apparently fell asleep during a baseball report with Sweeny Murti, then he had to deal with the ensuing jokes from a veritable murderah’s row of prank cawlers. And yesterday, he was once again subjected to a prank call. This one, courtesy of ‘Leo in Flushing,’ makes mention of Artie Lange… and blumpkins. [Bob's Blitz]

Mike Francesa is a blowhard. But sometimes, the ol’ bear blows so hard that he needs to catch some zzzz’s — and sometimes, he needs to do it on-air. If only Mikey fessed up to his makeshift shut-eye, he wouldn’t have had to field hilarious harassing calls on his show. Or maybe he would, but he wouldn’t have been such a doucher about it. Watch him get tormented, after the jump.

New York City broadcasting legend (and noted fan of stealthy afternoon treats) Mike Francesa thinks that Twitter is evil, and should be against the law. Video, after the jump.

On Wednesday, titan of New York sports talk radio and celebrated mathematician Mike Francesa had a bit of trouble on the phones. We think we might know why.

On Sunday night in Baltimore, the New York Jets were putrid.

Titan of New York sports radio Mike Francesa is aware of all of this. Monday during his afternoon radio show on WFAN, Francesa, who is known to be tough on the Jets, went on a 14-plus minute tirade against the team, taking special care to point out every single player and coach who had mortified themselves in front of America with their play on Sunday night.

Mike Francesa, the sometimes lovably-gruff and sometimes just-plain-gruff godfather of sports talk, attempted to calculate just how many points the Saints went up by after a fourth quarter touchdown against the Texans on Sunday.

Godfather of sports talk radio Mike Francesa doesn’t have much to offer about the soccer. He apologizes. By “the soccer,” Francesa is of course referring to Sunday’s Women’s World Cup final that drew an 8.6 rating in U.S. households, which, as we pointed out earlier, is a higher rating on average than last year’s World Series.

The June Arbitron Numbers are in, and once again, WFAN has soundly beaten 1050 ESPN New York. WFAN’s ratings increased from a 2.6 in May to 2.8 in June. ESPN, which just brought on Mike Lupica to go head-to-head with Mike Francesa, slid from May’s 1.0 to a June 0.9. Somewhere, a celebratory 2 liter of Diet Coke is being uncorked.

[Arbitron, via Bob's Blitz]

“Austin in Fairfield” wished to speak with New York sports radio godfather Mike Francesa about the lawsuit being leveled against the New York Mets. At some point during this conversation, signals get crossed, and Francesa blows his top. Which is always fun.

If basketball analysts taking shots at one another is your thing (and really, why wouldn’t it be?), then you’ll be happy to hear that Charles Barkley is still more than happy to share his thoughts on Billy Packer’s criticism of his qualifications to analyze the NCAA Tournament.