The one baseball writer who didn’t make Jacob deGrom’s Cy Young Award win unanimous also apparently wasn’t in the mood to “Schmooze.”
Long-time WFAN host Steve Somers, who landed an interview with John Maffei of the San Diego Union-Tribune early Thursday morning, started the discussion in his classic, joking style about why the writer did not pick the Mets’ ace.
But it all went wrong. Here’s how the interview went down:
“There was one baseball writer, and we have him on the line right now,” Somers said. “John Maffei, — not from Washington where you would think homerism lives and thrives — John Maffei is with the San Diego Union Tribune.