


“I thought 20 hours before the biggest game of the year in college football and he was asking me about Cole Cubelic was pretty entertaining,” Finebaum concluded. You better be careful on your show today, Paul, if you ever take shots at Kirby.” “He got mad at me one time and said ‘You need to go talk to your boy’ because John Parker (Wilson) said he thought Jeremy Pruitt would be a bigger threat to Alabama than Kirby Smart would be. “Kirby pays attention - a lot - to our world and what goes on in the media,” Greg McElroy added. “I’m glad I could offer Kirby some entertainment,” Cubelic said. “We were talking about something and that came up. “I think it was the postgame that somehow went viral,” responded Finebaum. “Was it the postgame when Lane was cracking jokes or the halftime when he ran away from me and didn’t want to answer any questions?,” Cubelic joked. “He was mentioning to me off the air how impressed he was with your interview with Lane Kiffin the week before.” “Before I go, I want to tell you, Cole, you have a big fan in Kirby Smart,” Finebaum said during his Monday appearance on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning. That doesn’t appear to be the case between an SEC head coach and SEC Network reporter and sports radio host Cole Cubelic.

There are often contentious relationships between college football coaches and the media that covers them. ARod came out after, and they did this big feature on him.”Īfter Rhea Hughes described the story on Long, Cataldi asked “Was there any indication - from any of these authorities on baseball - that Kevin Long placed an actual priority on hitting the baseball? Did that ever come up at all?” In fact, now that I think of it, Kevin Long worked with ARod on the Yankees when ARod was cheating with steroids.

He once worked with ARod (Alex Rodriguez). And they went ‘You know what? It’s time we did a tribute to Kevin Long’. “It was right after the Phillies had won the game they hit five homers. “The timing of the homage FOX did for Kevin Long was not perfect,” Cataldi said. The club was subsequently no-hit during the game, and score 3 runs in the final two games before losing. The Philadelphia Phillies lost to the Houston Astros in the World Series over the weekend, and Philadelphia sports radio host Angelo Cataldi couldn’t help but poke a little fun at FOX Sports in the process of recapping the loss.ĭuring the World Series, FOX Sports aired a story detailing how Phillies Hitting Coach Kevin Long had helped the team transform itself from its previous losing ways and helped bring the club to the fall classic.
