Before Mike Francesa was living off his legacy and staying relevant based on his ridiculousness, he and Chris Russo had an odd, but famously entertaining segment, where they would assign wins and losses.

Insert your best Francesa impersonation here.

“That’s a win.”

“Loss.”

“Win.”

When you look at Entercom vice president Susan Larkin blocking her ESPN New York counterpart, Tim McCarthy, from having Chris Carlin on the air for more than a brief appearance Wednesday on the “Michael Kay Show,” you can break it down using the old-school “Mike & the Mad Dog” game.

It’s a loss.

FAN/Entercom, which fired Carlin last month, comes across as playing scared. Francesa once — and rightfully so — looked down at ESPN NY as a bunch of “peashooters.” Coke barely had time for Pepsi — and you could argue back then that ESPN NY was RC Cola.

But Francesa and FAN are acting frightened now. Since Francesa has returned, The Kay Show has beaten Francesa in the rating books (though there is enough of a debate over streaming numbers that any reasonable person with an understanding of the looseness of Nielsen Audio could basically call it a draw).

Considering where the ratings once were, of course — “peashooters” and all — that’s a win for Kay.

So why would FAN react so strongly and at the last minute, just before 3 p.m., when Carlin with Kay on ESPN and Francesa on FAN were about to go on the air?

It is hard to say for sure, as Larkin declined comment. McCarthy also did not return messages.

But here is a little piece of information about the first week of ratings that may bring some light to the situation.

The Kay Show, according to sources, obliterated Francesa with an 8.0 number, No. 1 overall in the market, compared to Francesa’s 4.9. Even if you add Francesa’s usual 0.5 point for streaming, he is far behind.

Not only that, but since his return from sabbatical, Francesa had been propped up by the strong ratings of Carlin, Maggie Gray and Bart Scott.

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith’s national show finished basically even with the C-less “CMB” during the first week after the three-person “CMB” had been trouncing Smith in recent full books. This has deprived Francesa of his usual head start over Kay.

Meanwhile, you have to wonder if Carlin could end up at ESPN in some role doing talk shows and play-by-play in the future.

According to sources, Scott — still unsigned and unclear on his exact role on WFAN — has had talks with McCarthy, too.

Meanwhile, Francesa still hasn’t announced his plans. FAN is in a bit of flux. For the station, it used to be, “That’s a win. Win. Win.”

Now, Francesa and the FAN seem a bit more worried about losing. Say something funny, Mike.

Gronk Role: What is the exact plan for how Fox will use Rob Gronkowski? Gronkowski will be featured in mostly taped segments, though his first scheduled appearance will be live before Giants-Patriots on Thursday night. He will do some more of those, and Fox will have him for its Super Bowl coverage. Fox wants to give him the ramp to grow and see if he likes it. Makes sense.

Net gain: Maybe no local broadcast team has put together more quality and produced more stars than the Nets on YES over the years. With Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving on board, they may have a team up to the standards of the broadcast.

In light of that, the Nets will add a regular studio analyst to its TV pregame show. Jim Spanarkel will shift from games to strictly studio, while ESPN personality Frank Isola — who also has a talk show on SiriusXM’s NBA channel and writes for The Athletic — will do about 25 studio dates. The hosts will be Bob Lorenz, Chris Shearn and Nancy Newman.

On games, the broadcast will have two network-level play-by-players with Ian Eagle, the longtime TV voice for the Nets, and Ryan Ruocco.

Sarah Kustok will be the main analyst after spurning the Clippers, who tried to sign her as a restricted free agent. She had one year left on her deal, but YES let her talk to the Clippers before giving her a new contract to keep her.

Richard Jefferson will also do games. On some big matchups, YES will go with a three-person team of Kustok and Jefferson with Eagle or Ruocco.

Meanwhile, with Chris Carrino and Tim Capstraw, WFAN’s Nets radio team is top-notch. Besides the current crew led by Eagle, over the last two decades, YES has had Marv Albert, Michelle Beadle, Mark Jackson, Greg Anthony, Spero Dedes, Mike Fratello and Donny Marshall. Finally, the roster may be up to the level of its broadcasters.