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Friday October 2, 2009 2:34 PM By Neil Best

Strange afternoon so far.Mike Francesa opened his show by ripping ESPN's Bill Simmons for his anti-HBO comments in my newspaper column today, calling him a "stooge" and a "fraud."This is the second verbal spat between the one-time pals in the past few weeks. In mid-September they went back and forth on the subject of Francesa appearing on Simmons' podcast and Simmons appearing...

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