Mike Francesa is playing cleanup.
The blowhard WFAN host on Tuesday tried to walk back his comments shaming the Giants for drafting Corey Ballentine because he was involved in a shooting.
“They didn’t take a bad kid, it wasn’t his fault, they walked in to a bad situation,” the radioman said on his “Mike’s On” show. “It was a terrible tragic event but the question was what is the storyline [and] we didn’t find out until now.”
On his show Monday, Francesa implied Ballentine wasn’t a “great character guy” and blasted the Giants for drafting him, saying “it doesn’t look good” for the franchise.