In the popular TV sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond” the character Ray Barone was a popular and very successful sports writer. But at home his wife thought he was an idiot.
Now let’s turn the channel back to real life. Mike Greenberg is a popular and very successful sportscaster on ESPN and ABC. But according to his 2006 book his wife thinks he’s an idiot.
Actually his book was called Why My Wife Thinks I’m An Idiot. It was his first book, and one of his most popular, Perhaps because it is not only about sports, buts about the challenges of being a spouse and a parent.
As one review at the time noted, Greenberg’s was a book about a man tryling to grow up before his children do.
We both had a great time doing this interview in the spring of 2006.
So here now, from 2006, Mike Greenberg.
Mike Greenberg will be 58 later this summer. You can hear him on his podcast #Greeny.