Francesa makes his FAN call

WFAN’s host Mike Francesa has been in the hot seat since Monday over comments he made about the Corey Ballentine shooting. It only got worse for Francesa on Tuesday.

“When you finish a draft and stress that you went out of your way to take the right kind of guys, the guys you want on your team, the guys who are going to be great character guys and you stress that as strongly as the Giants did, it looks pretty bad when one of them gets shot on a Saturday night,” Francesa said during a show on his ‘Mike’s On’ app.

“It’s just more of the same for the Giants who can’t get out of their own way. I mean no matter what they say, and you’ve seen people poking a lot of fun at the Giants, and as someone who’s been around the Giants for 40 years, as someone who’s grown up with the Football Giants. It’s sad to see the Giants become the laughing stock around the league and right now people are doing nothing but making jokes about the Giants and that’s sad.”

Later on his WFAN show, he made similar comments, adding he didn’t know the details of the situation and was relieved Ballentine was expected to recover.

“When you’re bad, you’re unlucky and right now the Giants are really bad so they’re really unlucky,” Francesa said on his WFAN show.

By Tuesday, many, including fellow WFAN hosts, Boomer Esiason and Gio Gianotti, called him out on it.

“Those comments look idiotic now. It’s a horrendous story, and they just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, “Esiason said. “His buddy got killed. His roommate got killed. How do you take that and put that at the Giants’ feet is beyond me.”

That didn’t sit too well with Francesa, who made a surprise call into their show.

“How much misinformation can guys give out in five minutes... You didn’t say that I opened up my comment with ‘this could happen to any player on any team in any organization, any sport, anywhere in life,’” Francesa said.

Boomer and Gio made a point of asking if they had misquoted any of Francesa’s comments, with Boomer adding he didn’t hear Francesa say the word “if.”