Steve Somers | Sports Radio Personality | 11-24-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Sports Radio Personality Steve Somers calls into the show to talk about his illustrious career as a sports talk radio host. The conversation highlights Somers' impact on the New York sports scene, including his famous monologues and his distinctive vernacular. Somers talks about his new book, Me Here, You There? My Three Decades Overnight and shares anecdotes about his relationship with celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld and Christopher Mad Dog Russo. The interview also touches on Somers' memorable moments, including his promotion of the Rangers-Islanders rivalry and his unique way of referring to the New York Mets as the 'Metropolitans.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Harry.
0:00.7	Hello mate.
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0:30.0	God was he great.
0:31.0	He still is, of course, but so many sports fans in this city look forward to that Steve Summers monologue every night. Every night. It was genius. He would sit there and get a kick out of watching him write it. I saw him write it many times. So good. On the legal pads. Yeah. And he'd write it and then he would deliver it and it was perfect. And to this day when they talk about the most most popular WFAN hosts, you could talk all day about Mike and the Mad Dog, and they were the most popular. Summers is right there. I really wasn't. You know, I was only at FAA for five years. That's all I had. I had the midday show with Jody McDonald. I had two years of the midday show with Joe Biningo. I did sports on
1:11.0	Imus, and I hosted the Giants who owned a lot of real estate in those five years. But it's only five years, that was it. Summers is a legitimate legend. Captain Midnight, those overnight shows, and he moved to the 7 o'clock hour, was on after the local games, was brilliant then too. And now he's got a new book out.
1:29.1	I saw him a couple of weeks ago with Bruce back.
1:30.8	My friend Bruce on him. hour was on after the local games was brilliant then too and now he's got a new book out
1:28.7	I saw him a couple of weeks ago with Bruce back my friend Bruce on NBC the name of the book
1:33.1	is me here you there my three decades overnight all the schmoozerisms as Andrew
1:40.5	Marchand of the New York Post calls him are in there Jerry Se Seinfeld, everybody knows that Seinfeld and Summers.
1:47.1	Great relationship over the years.
1:48.6	He wrote the forward.
1:50.5	So it's a legitimate honor to bring on one of the greatest sports talkies in the history of our city.
1:57.9	I truly love this man.
1:59.5	Steve Summers.
2:00.4	Stevie, good morning, pal.
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