Mike & Mike, I Don't Want Your Pizza

I started liking Mike & Mike's radio show a few years ago, back when I used to drive to work. They seemed like nice guys, they had quality guests, and the show was intelligent, not overly provocative in that intentional shock-jock kind of way, and not quite as obnoxious as Sportscenter.

All of that started to change a year or two ago. ESPN realized they had something good, and as usual, they started to ruin it. The show got a little bit overblown. ESPN started running the show simultaneously on tv, which was okay, it was still better than Sportscenter. Then Mike & Mike starting turning up on Sportscenter itself, and that was a bit annoying, but I could still cope. The show was still on AM radio when I wanted it to be more low-key, and it was still a good show. I cringed a little as Mike and Mike became caricatures - Greenberg the pretty boy, Golic the ever-hungry ex-jock, but I stayed with them.

And then came the Domino's Pizza commercials. Mike & Mike shilling for crappy pizza like they were Abbott and Costello. While I appreciate Mike Greenberg offering that I've "got a new favorite day of the week," (I think that would be Tuesday, the day in which I can get two bland Domino's pizzas for like $4, which is still overpaying), I would prefer that he stick to sports. I never had a problem with Dan Patrick doing spots for Chili's (Friday's?), because he wasn't making an ass of himself. Mike and Mike are basically singing to me about pizza like two male cheerleaders on a speedball. I'm especially disturbed at how good they actually are at shilling for crappy food. They sound like seasoned pros. "Greeny!" "Golic!" "Pizza!" I can't take it, and I'm not sure I can ever listen to their radio show again.