About an hour into his four-hour run on New York City station WFAN-660 AM, a caller identified as "Mike from Montclair" immediately laid into the New Jersey governor for last week's trip to Island Beach State Park during a three-day state government shutdown. Chris Christie toted his 15 percent approval rating into Manhattan to host 4½ hours of drive-time sports talk on the biggest sports station in the New York metro area. But New Jersey couldn’t let go of Christie just yet, and neither could Christie get his head out of Jersey, Montclair specifically. Ostensibly John wanted to talk about the Yankees, but the screener did not catch his real intent, which was to tell Christie he had done a “horrible job.” 
 
 “That’s good,” Christie replied. Christie Blasts N.J. Caller: 'I Love Getting Calls From Communists In Montclair' 
 
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 It was a "Did I really hear that?" Here's what happened (at least, what we can print) when Mike from Montclair called in: 
 
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 The governor then hung up on the caller, blaming the caller's antipathy on the tendency of Montclair to vote Democratic. When the governor defended himself by saying it was "an official government account," Roberts noted that Trump -- a longtime Christie friend -- managed to maintain a fairly colorful Twitter presence. Christie responded cheekily, “Is that what you really want my role model to be?” Christie’s sports takes had all the heat of a guy throwing batting practice; there just wasn’t much sizzle.
– New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie tried out for a new role in sports radio Monday—and got an earful from more than one person unhappy with the way he's doing his current job. Christie, who was filling in for New York radio legend Mike Francesa, was slammed by a caller identified as "Mike from Montclair" over his infamous beach visit earlier this month, NPR reports. "Next time you want to sit on a beach that is closed to the entire world except you, you put your fat a-- in a car and go to one that's open to all your constituents," Mike said. "I love getting calls from Communists in Montclair," Christie said of the left-leaning town. After Mike called him a "bully," Christie told the caller he was a "bum" for swearing on the air. Another caller from Montclair told Christie he was doing a "horrible job" as governor, NJ.com reports. Later in the four-hour show on WFAN 660 AM, Christie joked about President Trump when co-host Evan Roberts told the governor his Twitter feed was boring compared to Trump's. "Is that what you really want to be my role model?" Christie asked. There was also plenty of sports talk, but although Christie definitely knows his sports, he was clearly at his most animated when talking about politics, notes Ben Strauss at Politico. Strauss gives Christie 6.5 out of 10 for the audition and predicts that his next job will be as a political talking head, not a sports radio host.