10-12-2006, 02:50 AM
Francesa feels haunted by Lidle interview...
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Later in Monday's interview, Lidle told the hosts, "I'd like to meet you sometime and we can sit down and you guys can really get to know me instead of just what you think about me."
Said Francesa, "I haven't thought much about you at all, to be honest with you."
At the time both exchanges sounded more amusing than insensitive. Not anymore.
"If I knew he had two days to live, I would've told him to enjoy himself," Francesa said. "But you can't do interviews that way. No one in the world thinks that way.
"And then to think my last words to him were that I don't think about him very much. You just weigh it very differently now."
Francesa said he couldn't help thinking of Lidle "not going home to a 6-year-old. Being a father changes your perspective dramatically. You think about not going home to your own son."
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Later in Monday's interview, Lidle told the hosts, "I'd like to meet you sometime and we can sit down and you guys can really get to know me instead of just what you think about me."
Said Francesa, "I haven't thought much about you at all, to be honest with you."
At the time both exchanges sounded more amusing than insensitive. Not anymore.
"If I knew he had two days to live, I would've told him to enjoy himself," Francesa said. "But you can't do interviews that way. No one in the world thinks that way.
"And then to think my last words to him were that I don't think about him very much. You just weigh it very differently now."
Francesa said he couldn't help thinking of Lidle "not going home to a 6-year-old. Being a father changes your perspective dramatically. You think about not going home to your own son."
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