Mike Francesa is definitely maybe staying at WFAN.

The drive-time host followed up his much-discussed string of Twitter missives over the weekend by granting an exclusive interview to SNY’s Jonas Schwartz on Monday night where he expanded on his current situation.

The biggest new takeaway? Francesa is leaving the door open to bolt WFAN and go all-in on his app – but it sound like he’d much rather sign the “standing, long-term offer” the station and parent company Entercom have on the table.

“They’ve asked me to sign it many times. I haven’t signed, and I won’t until I get the app stuff clarified,” said Francesa, who revealed to the world Saturday he has been working without signing his contract since returning to the air last May following a brief retirement.

“I haven’t decided if it’s going to be the app or the FAN. We have to work this out, because there are some issues where I think we’re hitting a conflict. The app has gotten big enough more quickly than we thought. And I think there is a point where it does impact the radio show. So we have to decide how to work both of them.”

And if that does not happen …

“Is there a way where the app would come first and I leave the FAN? I’d say it’s not 50-50, but there is a percentage that it could happen,” Francesa said.

“Not likely, but possible?” Schwartz asked with a follow-up.

“Possible. I’d say it is a possibility,” Francesa added. “But I wouldn’t say it’s a big possibility.”

Another logical potential conclusion: Francesa signs the contract, dedicates himself to the radio show and shuts down the app, perhaps while finding a television simulcast home for his program, like the regional sports network owned by his pals at the Mets who he granted this interview to. But since we got lambasted by the big guy the last time we suggested this, we’ll just leave it at that.

“They’re still paying me a lot of money to do the radio show. We don’t want to impact that. But everything impacts everything now,” Francesa said. “There’s all this to discuss. It’s very complicated, it’s new. And as David (Field, Entercom’s CEO) said to me the other day, ‘new is messy.’”

If Francesa does stay, he reiterated he would be OK adding a new voice, or voices, to his show.

“If I agree that I’m going to stay for a period of time, then I would start to look,” he said. “I would think, right now, you’re talking about next fall (for any additions). It’s going to take some time. … If I was going to do that, I’d say I’d look for the first day of the fall book.”

If Francesa does add someone, he said it would be a “sidekick,” not a partner.

“Not a 50-50 relationship,” he said. “But ‘Mike and the Mad Dog’ wasn’t a 50-50 relationship anyway. Just ask [Christopher Russo], he complained all the time it wasn’t. I was always in the power chair.

“I’m not trying to recreate ‘Mike and the Mad Dog’. Nor do I think anybody ever will. It would be more of a sidekick deal. But someone who could host the show when I’m not here.”

“That’s silly. When they name the studio after you, you know that you’ve been here a long time. I’ve been sitting in this seat since 1989. I’ve been doing this for 33, 34 years in a row. I’ve been on top through that whole time. I have finished in first in the ratings like 70 or 80 times. At this point, it’s old hat,” he said.

Schwartz then pointed out to Francesa some believe this intrigue is all being ginned up to help Francesa survive the biggest ratings challenge ever posed by his ESPN Radio New York nemesis Michael Kay, who is threatening to beat Francesa head-to-head for the first time with two days left in the Winter 2019 ratings book period.

Francesa scoffed at the notion.

“I don’t even think about that stuff. It’s only brought up if somebody comes to me for a comment or something like that,” he said. “I mean, listen, do we look at the ratings around here? Hey, our program director (Mark Chernoff) brings them in every Monday and says, ‘Here’s where it is, here’s what’s going on.’

“But my goal has always been finish first in the marketplace, which we did last book again in the fall. The bottom line is, that’s my goal. I’ve never thought of it about another station. I’ve thought of it that I’ve got to finish first. That’s what I was taught to do.”

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