NY Post · Apr 30, 2019
Mike Francesa walks back comments shaming Corey Ballentine
Mike Francesa Getty Images for Radio Hall of FMike 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.
