It was a reunion on the Oh the Pain Podcast hosted by Joe Benigno. Sid Rosenberg was on with his former WFAN partner Benigno.
Rosenberg recalled the chemistry the two had together and felt they were on their way “to becoming the next Mike and the Mad Dog, there was no doubt.”
“We were like a really cool sports talk duo. Usually sports talk duos are kind of nerdy, that wasn’t you and me. We were like really cool.”
Rosenberg is currently co-hosting Bernie and Sid in the Morning on 77 WABC in New York.
The two were on WFAN for nearly three years despite only being on a show together less than that. Rosenberg remembers his time with Benigno fondly. “Looking back on my whole career, working with you was as about as good as it got.
The two took the time to continue to catch up and Benigno was interested in the process behind Rosenberg morphing his sports talk show in Miami at the time, into one that featured more politics.
“It was 2014 and Mark Chernoff offered me the opportunity to come to New York and basically fill-in the whole summer at WFAN,” began Rosenberg. “I would do my Miami show in the morning and then I would fill-in middays for you and Evan (Roberts). I remember I was yelling back-and-forth is Carmelo Anthony a great player or just a great offensive player? Is Eli Manning a Hall of Famer or just a compiler? Is Lebron James going back to Cleveland?
I remember calling Danielle (wife) and said – there was just a terrorist attack in Paris – and I said ‘what am I doing?’ I got two little kids. I’m yelling with grown men, yelling at the top of my lungs about whether Carmelo Anthony is a great player?”
It was in that discussion with his wife that his new path would begin. “I came to the realization it was time to move on just a little and I started to employ more politics in my daily show in south Florida.”
At one point Benigno interrupted to ask Rosenberg about his history with Craig Carton.
“Twenty-two years ago when I got my first job in New York City at 102.7 WNEW was with a guy named Scott Kaplan. They fired Scott Kaplan. I went into Jeremy Coleman’s office, he works at SiriusXM, and I had worked with Craig Carton in Fort Lauderdale with Scott Kaplan back in 2000. I saw his resume and I said ‘I like this guy’. I know he got into trouble in Philadelphia, but give him a shot.”
“I’m the guy that really hired Craig Carton at WNEW to be my partner,” Rosenberg boasted. “As it turns out, he stabbed me in the back. He went to 101.5, I went to the FAN. We didn’t talk for years. Now we are very good friends but it was a very, very ugly ten years for me and Carton.”
