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        <title><![CDATA[Funhouse’s first Mike Francesa videos since self-imposed ban lifted]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It didn&#8217;t take long for the anonymous Twitter user Funhouse to get back to posting clips from Mike Francesa shows.</p><p>What was the first one he posted on Wednesday <strong>since returning from the self-imposed ban</strong>?</p><p>A clip of Francesa telling his audience that he witnessed first-hand the gambling exploits Michael Jordan.</p><p>Francesa <a href="https://twitter.com/BackAftaThis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">brought himself into the story recently on his radio show</a> when talking about Jordan&#8217;s gambling exploits that have been documented in the 10-part series <strong>&#8220;The Last Dance.&#8221;</strong></p><p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s be honest. Jordan is a freakish gambler,&#8221; Francesa said. &#8220;I actually have been in the casino with him, and he gambles crazy at the card tables. I mean he&#8217;ll play the whole table for big stakes. I&#8217;ve seen him do it.&#8221;</p><p>Francesa also made the point that Jordan was easily able to afford his high-stakes gambling.</p><p>&#8220;So he will wager a lot of money,&#8221; Francesa added. &#8220;But remember, it&#8217;s all relative. Jordan turned down million dollar appearances on a daily basis. Turned them down. They weren&#8217;t big enough. I&#8217;m talking about actual millions of dollars a day in appearances and turned them down. They weren&#8217;t big enough. That&#8217;s how big he was.&#8221;</p><figure id="attachment_15620200"  class="wp-caption alignnone aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/mike-francesa.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/mike-francesa.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/mike-francesa.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Mike Francesa</span><span class="credit">Robert Sabo</span></figcaption></figure><p>Funhouse also wanted his 100,000-plus followers to know that it wasn&#8217;t the first time Francesa wanted his listeners to know that he saw a sports legend gambling big bucks. The account also posted a video tweet from a few years of the longtime host saying <a href="https://twitter.com/BackAftaThis/status/1258203099480686592">he saw Pete Rose bet heavily numerous times</a>.</p><p>&#8220;A lot of us saw Rose bet a lot. I saw Rose bet when he was a player,&#8221; Francesa said in the older clip. &#8220;I saw him bet in the offseason in a card show &#8230; when he was a player, like a madman.&#8221;</p><p>These clips came less than two weeks after @BackAftaThis said he would never again post video from Francesa’s show — this, after Francesa and Entercom barred anybody from posting videos of the show without their consent, only to relent three weeks later.</p><p>Funhouse explained the reason for the flip-flop.</p><p>“Mike’s show is awful,” @BackAftaThis <a href="https://twitter.com/BackAftaThis/status/1258119854219038725">wrote in a tweet earlier on Wednesday</a>. “As I mentioned the other day, a big catalyst for me rethinking this was getting a taste of the despicable, deceitful Colin Cowherd day after day. The grass isn’t always greener when you decide to cover other hosts. Mike may be a jerk at times, but he’s OUR jerk.”</p><p>On April 23, Funhouse <strong>told The Post’s Andrew Marchand</strong> he would not start tweeting out Francesa clips again unless he was getting paid for it.</p><p>“I have absolutely no plans to resume posting Mike’s clips,” @BackAftaThis said with a chuckle at the time. “He let me out of jail and I’m not going back willingly unless I’m compensated handsomely for it.”</p>]]></content:encoded>
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