Francesa loses his perceived his power over power company

EVEN in absentia, Mike

Francesa’s credibility remains off the charts, as in below zero.

In April, Francesa boasted on WFAN that the severe storm that had knocked out the power in his neighborhood was quickly restored to his home because the electric company workers at PSE&G are big fans of his:

“The guys at PSE&G, after listening — because I know they’re listeners — did a great job. Thanks for getting my power back on so I could do the show.”

Of course, his delusional conceit surpassed reality. Power companies don’t make house calls in the midst of raging storms. They service power grids that serve entire neighborhoods or regions.

Well, this past week’s storm again eliminated power to Francesa’s home — as well as tens of thousands of others. On Twitter, Francesa not only took the outage personally, his great regard for his personal PSE&G servants vanished like a lost tape:

“We amazingly survive the storm only to lose power this morning. Why now? Why now will we be out until Sunday? Called PSEG. Their response: No idea what happened. And not a crew in sight.

“Usually you have to be a badly run sports franchise to be this inept.”

One would think by now that TV would stop trying to trick golf viewers with stupid, petty, transparent and repetitive deceptions. Why bother to insult us with what we’ve been conditioned to know is bogus?

Thursday during ESPN’s coverage of the PGA Championship, Talor Gooch — 1-over, ranked 141st and not previously seen on the telecast — suddenly appeared. Of course he did. He was ready to strike a 65-foot putt. By now we knew better.

Though ESPN pretended the coverage was live, the anticipated fact that the moment Gooch appeared he’d sink that putt was pulling one of TV’s sustaining “live golf” cons. The moment Gooch appeared, golf fans knew they were about to be had. Again.