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Why are we obsessed with Mike Francesa and silly talk radio feuds? Ask Politi!

I returned home from the NFL Draft and, like a daytime TV addict catching up on his favorite soaps, I found myself scrolling through internet stories for the latest shots fired, cat fights and name calling.

Who needs General Hospital when we have local sports talk radio?

Mike Francesa is returning to WFAN in part, he said, because of a campaign to stop him -- which the station's morning-show star, Boomer Esiason, called "pathetic." Former WFAN aimed his blowtorch at Bart Scott, part of the "Afternoon Drive," for not being qualified to host a show, which led another of that show's trio of hosts, Maggie Gray, to call Russo a "total fraud," thus prompting Russo to declare that his friendship with the third host of that show, Chris Carlin, is over.