Mike Ryan

It was such a good time to be a Philly sports fan a week ago.

This also marks the third consecutive year where Dan says this is the best time to be a Knicks fan since that Larry Johnson game.

I know, but we've got to get used to it.

They were in the Eastern Conference Finals last year, and Halliburton had an Eastern Conference Final moment after moment after moment.

Yes, he and Charles have nailed, and it's a testament to Turner's production, that these guys go for funny, and they deliver on funny.

And they come off likable.

Yes, because sometimes people overshoot the mark,

But the funniest things in sports are usually things that are characters that were unintentionally funny, like John Madden and then Gruden.

And they kind of find their zone and people tune in because they make them smile.

But that's just them naturally doing that, not trying to be.

Bill Walton.

That's it.

Ray Hudson, not funny.

Again, in that same class of like, this guy's just brilliant.

Actually, you could say that Ray Hudson is trying to be funny because he certainly works and writes those things out.

Right, but I'm going to ask you an honest question.

Isn't there too much of that going around in sports?

Everyone is trying to replicate some derivative of the Inside the NBA, Fox NFL coverage, Jocular.

Here's an entertainment segment.

I saw All Fall Announcing doing something on this.