The sports media continues to react to yesterday’s feud between Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy and 670 The Score host Dan Bernstein, caused when Bernstein took exception to being called by his last name by Barstool Eddie who was guest-hosting the afternoon show with Matt Spiegel. On today’s Boomer & Gio on WFAN in New York, hosts Gregg Giannotti and Boomer Esiason played the audio clips of the incident and explained the situation to their listeners.
After hearing Dan Bernstein’s now semi-famous response to being called by his last name, “You can call me Dan, or you can call me Bernsy, but you don’t know me like that,” Giannotti seemed as confused as most other people about the reaction.
“All right, so he’s serious,” Giannotti said. “…Don’t call me Bernstein, which his name is Dan Bernstein.”
“You can call him Dan or Bernsie?” asked Esiason. “I guess Bernsie obviously is his nickname.”
“But you can’t call him Bernstein, which is his actual name,” Gio replied. “And at the end of this, there’s a clip where his co-host, they go to break and there’s a clip, his co-host goes, ‘what did he call you?’ And then you see Dan Bernstein go, ‘Bernstein.’ You can’t call me Bernstein.”
Giannotti went on to explain to the listeners a bit of the background and that the Barstool staff says Bernstein has taken shots at them in the past and that “Bernstein has hated Barstool forever. Like that’s one of his things, that he hates Barstool. So, he doesn’t know this guy, Eddie. He just knows he’s from Barstool and he just got angry with the Bernstein thing.”
The hosts talk through what Portnoy had been writing and saying on social media asking his army of supporters to go after Bernstein, “professionally speaking,” by harassing him on social media and calling him by his last name any chance they get.
Giannotti then referenced Bernstein, who is in his mid-fifties, and said to Esiason, “We all know older sports talk guys that get like this, you know what I’m saying? They get to a point in their career where they’re just straight up miserable and anything will bother them.”
Giannotti put on a bow on the topic by saying, “It was amazing. You can call me Bernsie. You can call me Dan, but you don’t know me like that. The show is Bernstein & Holmes.”
Some of Bernstein’s social posts have had several hundred replies to them, mostly with Barstool fans making their presence felt. As of this writing, there has been no mention of the situation by Dan Bernstein on today’s show on 670 The Score.
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