1. Longtime sports talk radio host Chris “Mad Dog” Russo currently has three jobs. He hosts Mad Dog Unleashed from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET weekdays on SiriusXM. He appears on ESPN’s First Take every Wednesday. And he hosts a one-hour show, High Heat, every afternoon on the MLB Network. He’s been in sports media for more than 40 years and recently was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
So no matter how you feel about Russo, you can’t argue with his success. A big reason why he’s had the longevity and popularity is because he is not an act. What you get from him on the air is exactly how he is off the air.
So when he went on all his platforms this week and said he wasn’t into the Shohei Ohtani–Mike Trout faceoff in the WBC final and that he wasn’t into the tournament as a whole, the baseball community lost their minds.
