1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,235 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Kevin 2 00:00:21,315 --> 00:00:25,595 Speaker 1: McCarthy is out, and the ensuing chaos mainlines directly back 3 00:00:25,635 --> 00:00:31,475 Speaker 1: to an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I'll 4 00:00:31,515 --> 00:00:33,515 Speaker 1: get to that in a moment. But the real lead 5 00:00:33,595 --> 00:00:37,475 Speaker 1: story did not happen in Washington yesterday. Which idiot Republican 6 00:00:37,595 --> 00:00:41,835 Speaker 1: becomes the new future former Speaker of the House does 7 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:47,315 Speaker 1: not much matter. The real lead story is in Trump's phone, 8 00:00:47,955 --> 00:00:50,795 Speaker 1: because the real lead story is summarized by the phrase 9 00:00:51,475 --> 00:00:55,235 Speaker 1: and now we wait. Turns out that not only did 10 00:00:55,355 --> 00:00:58,675 Speaker 1: Judge Arthur anger On issue a gag order against Trump, 11 00:00:58,715 --> 00:01:01,195 Speaker 1: the second gag order, he has a partial gag order 12 00:01:01,195 --> 00:01:05,115 Speaker 1: in the classified documents case two hours after Trump attacked 13 00:01:05,115 --> 00:01:08,995 Speaker 1: the clerk of Angeron's courtroom yesterday, but angerng issued a 14 00:01:09,035 --> 00:01:12,275 Speaker 1: gag order against Trump less than a day after he 15 00:01:12,315 --> 00:01:15,715 Speaker 1: had warned Trump's lawyers informally that their client needed to 16 00:01:15,795 --> 00:01:19,795 Speaker 1: shut the f up engern of whom they should be 17 00:01:19,795 --> 00:01:24,595 Speaker 1: installing a statue outside his courthouse soon provided a template 18 00:01:24,675 --> 00:01:27,755 Speaker 1: for Judge Tanya Chutkin for a week from next Monday. 19 00:01:28,195 --> 00:01:31,435 Speaker 1: Judge Ngaron not only gagged Trump, but how he gagged 20 00:01:31,475 --> 00:01:35,355 Speaker 1: him also gags Junior Trump and Eric the Idiot Trump too. 21 00:01:35,795 --> 00:01:41,115 Speaker 1: Quote personal attacks on members of my court staff are unacceptable, inappropriate, 22 00:01:41,355 --> 00:01:44,875 Speaker 1: and I won't tolerate it. Consider this statement a gag 23 00:01:44,995 --> 00:01:49,555 Speaker 1: order forbidding all parties from posting, emailing, or speaking publicly 24 00:01:49,555 --> 00:01:53,355 Speaker 1: about any of my staff. As the New York fraud 25 00:01:53,435 --> 00:01:57,035 Speaker 1: trial closed for the day, a free scheduled Trump fundraising 26 00:01:57,075 --> 00:02:01,515 Speaker 1: email went out and probably just missed, violating the brand 27 00:02:01,555 --> 00:02:04,515 Speaker 1: new gag order. I just finished the second day of 28 00:02:04,515 --> 00:02:07,715 Speaker 1: my my sham trial in New York. For the past 29 00:02:07,715 --> 00:02:10,435 Speaker 1: two days, I sat in a courtroom and I listened 30 00:02:10,435 --> 00:02:13,875 Speaker 1: to the Democrats fervently try to destroy everything my family 31 00:02:13,915 --> 00:02:18,635 Speaker 1: and I have built. Unquote. Trump attacks the trial's process, 32 00:02:19,075 --> 00:02:21,755 Speaker 1: claims it is a political event, but he does not 33 00:02:21,955 --> 00:02:26,075 Speaker 1: mention anybody by name. At nightfall, Trump then posted on 34 00:02:26,075 --> 00:02:29,275 Speaker 1: social media what was for him a limp and tepid 35 00:02:29,315 --> 00:02:32,875 Speaker 1: criticism of the law under which he is being tried, 36 00:02:33,315 --> 00:02:35,435 Speaker 1: which he tagged with a generic and not at all 37 00:02:35,515 --> 00:02:40,515 Speaker 1: spicy criticism quote. This was done by radical left Marxist design, 38 00:02:41,635 --> 00:02:45,875 Speaker 1: but you can see him edging closer back to his 39 00:02:46,035 --> 00:02:49,595 Speaker 1: usual bile, and I suspect this is just a matter 40 00:02:49,675 --> 00:02:53,555 Speaker 1: of time. As I posited yesterday, Trump's entire worldview is 41 00:02:53,635 --> 00:02:57,635 Speaker 1: predicated on the idea that there are no rules he 42 00:02:57,715 --> 00:03:02,355 Speaker 1: cannot get around. He certainly will test the judge. The 43 00:03:02,395 --> 00:03:06,155 Speaker 1: only question is how much, and how soon, and how 44 00:03:06,155 --> 00:03:10,235 Speaker 1: the judge responds. There were reports last night, apparently drawn 45 00:03:10,275 --> 00:03:14,035 Speaker 1: from an interpretation of New York statutes, that anybody violating 46 00:03:14,115 --> 00:03:17,755 Speaker 1: any New York judge's gag order might be liable for fines, 47 00:03:18,075 --> 00:03:21,395 Speaker 1: or for a stricter gag order, or even for thirty 48 00:03:21,515 --> 00:03:25,555 Speaker 1: days behind bars. This quickly morphed into reports in places 49 00:03:25,595 --> 00:03:29,475 Speaker 1: like the Hollywood publication Deadline that Engern had threatened to 50 00:03:29,515 --> 00:03:32,675 Speaker 1: put Trump in jail for thirty days. Well, here's hoping 51 00:03:32,715 --> 00:03:35,395 Speaker 1: he does that, or three hundred and thirty days. But 52 00:03:35,475 --> 00:03:38,915 Speaker 1: he has not done that yet. He threatened only quote 53 00:03:39,035 --> 00:03:42,915 Speaker 1: serious sanctions, and he left that up to Trump's imagination. 54 00:03:43,955 --> 00:03:47,155 Speaker 1: What is fascinating here is the subtext, because rarely do 55 00:03:47,235 --> 00:03:52,275 Speaker 1: we see Trump's imagination in action. Rarely do we see 56 00:03:52,315 --> 00:03:56,035 Speaker 1: so concisely and so clearly how bad the cracks in 57 00:03:56,115 --> 00:03:59,915 Speaker 1: Trump's brain really are. A week ago, this morning, a 58 00:04:00,035 --> 00:04:02,635 Speaker 1: crass Twitter account with all of two hundred and thirty 59 00:04:02,715 --> 00:04:07,235 Speaker 1: nine followers attacked Judge's clerk because she had run for 60 00:04:07,315 --> 00:04:10,355 Speaker 1: a seat on Civil Court in New York and was 61 00:04:10,515 --> 00:04:15,395 Speaker 1: endorsed by the organization Manhattan Democrats. An hour later, this 62 00:04:15,555 --> 00:04:19,275 Speaker 1: same account grabbed a photo from the clerk's Instagram page 63 00:04:19,515 --> 00:04:23,715 Speaker 1: showing her in what was an apparent fan photo, standing 64 00:04:23,795 --> 00:04:27,475 Speaker 1: next to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. She was the fan, 65 00:04:27,995 --> 00:04:30,955 Speaker 1: and the senator apparently did not even know who she was. 66 00:04:31,955 --> 00:04:36,075 Speaker 1: Even now with all the subsequent publicity, two separate tweets 67 00:04:36,115 --> 00:04:41,275 Speaker 1: asking why is Judge Ngeran's principal law clerk paling around 68 00:04:41,315 --> 00:04:46,675 Speaker 1: with Chuck Schumer? They have gotten fewer than five hundred retweets. Somehow, 69 00:04:47,115 --> 00:04:50,555 Speaker 1: that tweet got in front of Trump's twitching eyeballs, and 70 00:04:50,635 --> 00:04:53,155 Speaker 1: he jumped from the reality, which is a photo of 71 00:04:53,195 --> 00:04:58,315 Speaker 1: a random cog in the Manhattan judicial system, asking Chuck 72 00:04:58,475 --> 00:05:04,155 Speaker 1: Schumer to pose with her, to this fevered production of 73 00:05:04,195 --> 00:05:10,515 Speaker 1: Trump's own malignant brain quote, Schumer's girlfriend is running this 74 00:05:10,795 --> 00:05:15,595 Speaker 1: case against me. How disgraceful. This case should be dismissed immediately. 75 00:05:16,475 --> 00:05:18,915 Speaker 1: He then provided a link to the woman's Instagram page, 76 00:05:18,955 --> 00:05:22,635 Speaker 1: which she then had to make private. It's Trump's insanity 77 00:05:23,035 --> 00:05:27,315 Speaker 1: in real time. A random photo of a random court 78 00:05:27,355 --> 00:05:30,755 Speaker 1: clerk is blown up by a troll account, and not 79 00:05:31,275 --> 00:05:34,475 Speaker 1: very well blown up an account that previously had accused 80 00:05:34,515 --> 00:05:37,555 Speaker 1: the judge of being a quote hobo who was drinking 81 00:05:37,635 --> 00:05:41,035 Speaker 1: gin during the trial. It's been blown up from that 82 00:05:41,195 --> 00:05:45,355 Speaker 1: into paling around with Chuck Schumer, and Trump then blew 83 00:05:45,395 --> 00:05:49,155 Speaker 1: that up, turned that into the clerk being Schumer's quote girlfriend, 84 00:05:49,835 --> 00:05:53,195 Speaker 1: and the deranged assertion that she was running this case, 85 00:05:53,595 --> 00:05:57,035 Speaker 1: and the hyperbole on top of hyperbole on top of hyperbole, 86 00:05:57,195 --> 00:06:02,595 Speaker 1: that the case should be dismissed immediately immediately. Of course, 87 00:06:02,715 --> 00:06:07,875 Speaker 1: Trump's people do not need anything but his word to 88 00:06:08,035 --> 00:06:13,155 Speaker 1: believe anything, or to pretend to believe anything. As long 89 00:06:13,195 --> 00:06:17,675 Speaker 1: as he can invent evidence of his perpetual martyrdom and victimhood, 90 00:06:17,915 --> 00:06:20,355 Speaker 1: he can take anything he finds and turn it into 91 00:06:20,355 --> 00:06:23,595 Speaker 1: a weapon, even if the judge then makes him delete 92 00:06:23,635 --> 00:06:28,595 Speaker 1: that weapon. The larger meanings, though, are pretty obvious. On 93 00:06:28,675 --> 00:06:31,635 Speaker 1: the opening day of this fraud trial, Judge Angern said 94 00:06:31,635 --> 00:06:35,875 Speaker 1: he expected it to continue into December. Trump himself is 95 00:06:35,915 --> 00:06:39,515 Speaker 1: not expected to testify for several weeks yet. Whether he 96 00:06:39,555 --> 00:06:43,355 Speaker 1: continues to milk the trial for pity and cash, every 97 00:06:43,475 --> 00:06:46,395 Speaker 1: day by showing up to the New York courtroom. Remains 98 00:06:46,395 --> 00:06:49,795 Speaker 1: to be seen. Whether the attorneys or his idiot adult 99 00:06:49,915 --> 00:06:53,235 Speaker 1: kids can convince him to control himself online and in 100 00:06:53,275 --> 00:06:58,155 Speaker 1: front of microphones remains to be seen. But December is 101 00:06:58,355 --> 00:07:02,315 Speaker 1: eight long weeks from now, and Trump has the restraint 102 00:07:02,475 --> 00:07:07,875 Speaker 1: of a four year old or of a cat, or 103 00:07:07,955 --> 00:07:12,675 Speaker 1: of a four year old cat. And then, of course 104 00:07:12,755 --> 00:07:18,395 Speaker 1: there is October sixteenth, and what that means for October sixteenth, 105 00:07:18,435 --> 00:07:21,395 Speaker 1: the date is already marked historically by the birth of 106 00:07:21,515 --> 00:07:26,795 Speaker 1: Angela Lansbury and the death of Marie Antoinette. Now it 107 00:07:26,835 --> 00:07:29,995 Speaker 1: will feature the hearing in Judge Tanya Chutkin's courtroom about 108 00:07:29,995 --> 00:07:34,035 Speaker 1: what kind of restraint, what gag order or alternate for 109 00:07:34,075 --> 00:07:37,355 Speaker 1: a gag order she will impose on Trump, because since 110 00:07:37,475 --> 00:07:41,475 Speaker 1: Jack Smith first filed asking for one, Trump has said 111 00:07:41,515 --> 00:07:44,595 Speaker 1: that someone whom Smith now identifies as a witness in 112 00:07:44,675 --> 00:07:47,675 Speaker 1: that case, General Mark Milly, was guilty of a crime 113 00:07:47,675 --> 00:07:51,115 Speaker 1: that previously would have been punishable by death. Trump has 114 00:07:51,155 --> 00:07:54,315 Speaker 1: told his hordes that they should quote go after Attorney 115 00:07:54,355 --> 00:07:56,915 Speaker 1: General Letitia James of New York. And now he has 116 00:07:56,995 --> 00:08:00,395 Speaker 1: thrown into chaos the life of a woman whose greatest 117 00:08:00,435 --> 00:08:04,395 Speaker 1: transgression was thinking that a photo of herself standing next 118 00:08:04,395 --> 00:08:07,835 Speaker 1: to Chuck Schumer was worth the effort involved to post 119 00:08:07,875 --> 00:08:13,755 Speaker 1: it online. I'll go through what I'm expecting here. Yet again, 120 00:08:14,195 --> 00:08:17,955 Speaker 1: I apologize for that. But I can't emphasize enough that 121 00:08:18,035 --> 00:08:22,515 Speaker 1: this federal case, that gag order hearing could be an 122 00:08:22,635 --> 00:08:27,955 Speaker 1: extraordinary turning point, an extraordinary crisis in fact in American history. 123 00:08:28,555 --> 00:08:32,675 Speaker 1: The New York case and that gag order could conceivably 124 00:08:32,795 --> 00:08:35,155 Speaker 1: end up with Trump being found in contemptive court and 125 00:08:35,315 --> 00:08:40,915 Speaker 1: ordered incarcerated for some days. But the federal case, it's 126 00:08:40,955 --> 00:08:44,755 Speaker 1: a federal case. Trump is not out on bail in 127 00:08:44,795 --> 00:08:47,515 Speaker 1: New York. He is out on bail in Washington. A 128 00:08:47,595 --> 00:08:50,755 Speaker 1: violation of that bail, which is what Jacksmith's filings are 129 00:08:50,795 --> 00:08:54,715 Speaker 1: all about, can and often is met by a judge 130 00:08:54,875 --> 00:08:58,515 Speaker 1: revoking the bail, especially if it involves threatening the witnesses 131 00:08:58,915 --> 00:09:01,715 Speaker 1: to say nothing of buying a gun or even just 132 00:09:01,795 --> 00:09:06,555 Speaker 1: pretending to buy a gun. Inspect Judge Chutkin two at 133 00:09:06,555 --> 00:09:09,435 Speaker 1: the hearing on the sixteenth, or after taking some time 134 00:09:09,475 --> 00:09:12,075 Speaker 1: to consider what happens during the hearing on the sixteenth, 135 00:09:12,275 --> 00:09:14,595 Speaker 1: I would expect her to walk right up to the 136 00:09:14,675 --> 00:09:19,235 Speaker 1: line of jailing Trump but not doing it if there 137 00:09:19,315 --> 00:09:22,035 Speaker 1: is a way for her to create a mechanism by 138 00:09:22,035 --> 00:09:26,555 Speaker 1: which she establishes draconian restrictions on his social media and 139 00:09:26,595 --> 00:09:29,435 Speaker 1: personal commentary on the case and the witnesses and the 140 00:09:29,435 --> 00:09:33,835 Speaker 1: prosecutors and herself and their motives and everything else. If 141 00:09:33,875 --> 00:09:36,675 Speaker 1: she can do that and then show it leading to 142 00:09:36,835 --> 00:09:41,555 Speaker 1: automatic pre announced punishments for him if he breaks those rules, 143 00:09:41,875 --> 00:09:45,155 Speaker 1: like maybe a huge fine for the first defense, then 144 00:09:45,355 --> 00:09:47,995 Speaker 1: revocation of bail and being put in prison for the 145 00:09:48,115 --> 00:09:51,635 Speaker 1: second or the seventieth. Who knows. I think she'll do that. 146 00:09:52,355 --> 00:09:56,075 Speaker 1: She will be explicit, and she will also make sure 147 00:09:56,115 --> 00:09:59,795 Speaker 1: the onus is not on herself to later rule that 148 00:09:59,835 --> 00:10:02,995 Speaker 1: he must be imprisoned. She will put the onus on 149 00:10:03,275 --> 00:10:07,675 Speaker 1: him to imprison in himself. If you do this, you 150 00:10:07,755 --> 00:10:12,035 Speaker 1: are going to jail. Then when it happens, she had 151 00:10:12,075 --> 00:10:15,195 Speaker 1: nothing to do with it, and not to exhaust you 152 00:10:15,235 --> 00:10:19,635 Speaker 1: by repetition. But the question then becomes what happens when 153 00:10:19,675 --> 00:10:23,595 Speaker 1: he does it? Anyway, The New York trial before Judge 154 00:10:23,635 --> 00:10:26,675 Speaker 1: Andngaran is ultimately most valuable because what we just saw 155 00:10:27,155 --> 00:10:30,395 Speaker 1: was the if then scenario playing out in real time 156 00:10:30,635 --> 00:10:33,195 Speaker 1: and Goron did not just issue a gag order because 157 00:10:33,235 --> 00:10:37,035 Speaker 1: Trump attacked the clerk yesterday. He had warned him via 158 00:10:37,195 --> 00:10:42,155 Speaker 1: his lawyers, informally but clearly, and twelve hours later Trump 159 00:10:42,195 --> 00:10:47,435 Speaker 1: did it anyway. With whatever Tanya Chutkin tells Trump not 160 00:10:47,515 --> 00:10:52,875 Speaker 1: to do, he will soon or late do it anyway. 161 00:10:54,315 --> 00:11:01,315 Speaker 1: That is his madness. And then what happens. The marshals 162 00:11:01,915 --> 00:11:04,475 Speaker 1: go to get him and they shoot it out with 163 00:11:04,475 --> 00:11:10,635 Speaker 1: the Secret Service. The Secret Service is withdrawn beforehand, so 164 00:11:10,675 --> 00:11:17,075 Speaker 1: Trump gets private armed security. There's almost an infinite number 165 00:11:17,075 --> 00:11:19,595 Speaker 1: of different endgame scenarios, and there is only one we 166 00:11:19,675 --> 00:11:22,515 Speaker 1: can be certain will not happen, which would be Trump's 167 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:26,875 Speaker 1: surrendering himself to be jailed without confrontation. His broken brain 168 00:11:26,955 --> 00:11:30,155 Speaker 1: does not work that way. That a lot of us 169 00:11:30,195 --> 00:11:32,675 Speaker 1: have always feared that this would be the only way 170 00:11:32,795 --> 00:11:35,715 Speaker 1: all of it could possibly end up does not change 171 00:11:35,755 --> 00:11:40,875 Speaker 1: the fact that it still is a nightmare scenario. Well, 172 00:11:40,915 --> 00:11:43,075 Speaker 1: we will get enough hints in the next week and 173 00:11:43,115 --> 00:11:46,635 Speaker 1: a half, courtesy of Judge anger On and the gag 174 00:11:46,755 --> 00:11:49,915 Speaker 1: order and whichever conspiracy theory Trump thinks he can get 175 00:11:49,915 --> 00:11:52,195 Speaker 1: away with launching to distract from the reality that he 176 00:11:52,275 --> 00:11:56,595 Speaker 1: is guilty of fraud. We will get more hints, and 177 00:11:56,715 --> 00:12:00,635 Speaker 1: we will get maybe a conclusion on Monday to sixteenth, 178 00:12:01,355 --> 00:12:06,155 Speaker 1: and then, as they say, that's when it gets interesting. 179 00:12:10,595 --> 00:12:13,355 Speaker 1: There is, in fact another Trump story that is also 180 00:12:13,475 --> 00:12:16,395 Speaker 1: more important than how many speakers of the House the 181 00:12:16,475 --> 00:12:19,755 Speaker 1: Republicans will burn through before the end of the calendar 182 00:12:19,875 --> 00:12:25,715 Speaker 1: year or maybe the month. Trump's default setting is irrational stupidity. 183 00:12:25,755 --> 00:12:28,835 Speaker 1: We know that he speaks to that quality in millions 184 00:12:28,875 --> 00:12:31,595 Speaker 1: of our brethren, who in olden times would have been 185 00:12:31,675 --> 00:12:36,435 Speaker 1: left back in school for decades. But again, when it 186 00:12:36,515 --> 00:12:39,195 Speaker 1: comes to the subject of money, he gets even more 187 00:12:39,235 --> 00:12:43,595 Speaker 1: irrational and more stupid. This is what he said before 188 00:12:43,715 --> 00:12:46,875 Speaker 1: the post about the clerk, before the gag order, before 189 00:12:46,995 --> 00:12:49,555 Speaker 1: day two of the fraud trial. See if you can 190 00:12:49,675 --> 00:13:03,315 Speaker 1: spot the stupid. In fact, so trumpy Mary A. Lago 191 00:13:03,435 --> 00:13:07,875 Speaker 1: is worth one and a half billion dollars, not three 192 00:13:07,995 --> 00:13:10,795 Speaker 1: years after the tax assessors of Palm Beach County, Florida 193 00:13:10,875 --> 00:13:14,795 Speaker 1: decided it was worth twenty six million, and Trump protested 194 00:13:14,875 --> 00:13:17,475 Speaker 1: that was too high, and he appealed, and then he 195 00:13:17,515 --> 00:13:19,595 Speaker 1: withdrew the appeal in he grade nine, you're right, it's 196 00:13:19,595 --> 00:13:24,595 Speaker 1: worth twenty six million. So he owes back taxes on 197 00:13:24,835 --> 00:13:29,715 Speaker 1: the difference, which is one billion, four hundred and seventy 198 00:13:29,755 --> 00:13:33,915 Speaker 1: four million dollars. I mean, even in terms of what 199 00:13:33,955 --> 00:13:37,235 Speaker 1: Trump claimed to banks that marri Lago was worth, he 200 00:13:37,275 --> 00:13:43,115 Speaker 1: was still skinning the taxman, the prosecution in the fraud cases. 201 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:46,595 Speaker 1: Trump told them the banks four hundred and ninety million. 202 00:13:47,395 --> 00:13:50,875 Speaker 1: If that's true, he was still shorting the tax assessment 203 00:13:50,915 --> 00:13:54,235 Speaker 1: in Florida by one billion, ten million dollars. I mean, 204 00:13:54,275 --> 00:13:56,315 Speaker 1: if I'm in the government of Palm Beach County, I'm 205 00:13:56,355 --> 00:14:04,355 Speaker 1: definitely looking into this now. Thanks for saying it on camera, Moron. 206 00:14:06,155 --> 00:14:08,595 Speaker 1: And one more Trump legal note that is not about 207 00:14:08,675 --> 00:14:12,155 Speaker 1: Jack Smith or Arthur Engern or Trump's social media accounts. 208 00:14:12,195 --> 00:14:16,355 Speaker 1: The Atlanta Journal Constitution matter of factly reported that quote, 209 00:14:16,635 --> 00:14:20,235 Speaker 1: Fulton County prosecutors are floating plea deals to a number 210 00:14:20,315 --> 00:14:24,075 Speaker 1: of defendants in the election interference case involving Trump, according 211 00:14:24,075 --> 00:14:27,555 Speaker 1: to people with knowledge of the proposals. Unquote, The AJC 212 00:14:27,835 --> 00:14:31,315 Speaker 1: reminds us Scott Hall already got one of these plea deals. 213 00:14:31,875 --> 00:14:34,315 Speaker 1: He was involved in the voting records breach out in 214 00:14:34,395 --> 00:14:38,315 Speaker 1: the Styx. The paper also mentions Trump Election day chieftain 215 00:14:38,435 --> 00:14:42,155 Speaker 1: Michael Roman, whose lawyer says he said, no, thanks, He's innocent, 216 00:14:42,675 --> 00:14:46,195 Speaker 1: And it says Fannie Willis's office has also approached quote 217 00:14:46,395 --> 00:14:49,075 Speaker 1: people who were indicted for their alleged roles in the 218 00:14:49,115 --> 00:14:52,875 Speaker 1: appointment of a slate of Trump electors, election data breach 219 00:14:52,955 --> 00:14:57,035 Speaker 1: in Coffee County, and harassment of Fulton Pole worker Ruby Freeman. 220 00:14:58,195 --> 00:15:00,595 Speaker 1: That's a lot of people. And if you think the 221 00:15:00,635 --> 00:15:05,515 Speaker 1: Atlantic case is moving quickly, you better sit down. Jury 222 00:15:05,555 --> 00:15:09,515 Speaker 1: selection for round one the trials of Kenneth cheesebro and 223 00:15:09,635 --> 00:15:19,555 Speaker 1: Sydney Powell. Jury selection starts in sixteen days. Okay, So now, 224 00:15:19,715 --> 00:15:26,395 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy, you've been waiting patiently for your obituary. Here 225 00:15:26,475 --> 00:15:35,675 Speaker 1: goes fifty years ago next Friday. On episode five of 226 00:15:35,795 --> 00:15:40,515 Speaker 1: season four of The Mary Tyler Moore Show on CBS, 227 00:15:41,635 --> 00:15:44,715 Speaker 1: Lou Grant said it to Mary Richards, it seemed like 228 00:15:44,755 --> 00:15:49,515 Speaker 1: a throwaway line from an exceptional sitcom. I've always remembered it. 229 00:15:49,755 --> 00:15:53,155 Speaker 1: I had no idea that half century anniversary was coming up. 230 00:15:53,755 --> 00:15:56,715 Speaker 1: And it's not a throwaway line from an exceptional sitcom. 231 00:15:56,755 --> 00:16:02,115 Speaker 1: It is, in fact the first rule of usurpation and insurrection. 232 00:16:04,715 --> 00:16:10,355 Speaker 1: And as Lou Grant said, good broadcasting quote. You never 233 00:16:10,555 --> 00:16:15,875 Speaker 1: fire your old sportscaster, he told her, until you've hired 234 00:16:16,315 --> 00:16:22,675 Speaker 1: your new sportscaster. House Republican radicals caught the proverbial car 235 00:16:22,715 --> 00:16:25,075 Speaker 1: they have been chasing, and they have no idea what 236 00:16:25,155 --> 00:16:28,835 Speaker 1: to do next, and they look like idiots. Three decades 237 00:16:28,875 --> 00:16:32,875 Speaker 1: of being nearly unbeaten in pure political street fighting skills 238 00:16:33,155 --> 00:16:36,755 Speaker 1: out the window because these morons did not remember the 239 00:16:36,835 --> 00:16:43,635 Speaker 1: lou Grant sportscasting rule. The actual half century anniversary October thirteenth, 240 00:16:43,675 --> 00:16:47,675 Speaker 1: at nine pm Eastern, the episode called Hi there, sports 241 00:16:47,715 --> 00:16:51,595 Speaker 1: fans may in fact come and go without these clowns 242 00:16:52,475 --> 00:16:54,875 Speaker 1: naming anybody is the new speaker or worse yet, and 243 00:16:54,915 --> 00:16:57,555 Speaker 1: in many constructions, maybe more likely they will already have 244 00:16:57,595 --> 00:17:00,955 Speaker 1: elected somebody speaker and managed to fire him too, and 245 00:17:00,995 --> 00:17:03,235 Speaker 1: maybe they can just rotate it once a week, like 246 00:17:03,275 --> 00:17:05,755 Speaker 1: they do prime ministers of IT'LL or managers of the 247 00:17:05,795 --> 00:17:11,395 Speaker 1: New York Mets. The offing of Kevin McCarthy is actually 248 00:17:11,435 --> 00:17:15,195 Speaker 1: notable only because a it underscores the reality that the 249 00:17:15,235 --> 00:17:18,915 Speaker 1: Republicans have bluster and the novelty of having opened, you know, 250 00:17:19,235 --> 00:17:23,795 Speaker 1: the Pandora's box of American fascism and American political violence. 251 00:17:24,435 --> 00:17:28,635 Speaker 1: But they don't have any leaders, as evidenced by b 252 00:17:29,435 --> 00:17:32,715 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy saying on Face the Nation two days before 253 00:17:32,795 --> 00:17:35,915 Speaker 1: his friends garrotted him that he would survive and they 254 00:17:35,915 --> 00:17:39,035 Speaker 1: should bring it on. And now that's probably the worst 255 00:17:39,075 --> 00:17:43,355 Speaker 1: political TV interview of our time, unless you include Prince 256 00:17:43,395 --> 00:17:46,955 Speaker 1: Andrew's twenty nineteen sit down with Emily Maitliss of the BBC, 257 00:17:47,475 --> 00:17:49,275 Speaker 1: which could have only gone worse if he had been 258 00:17:49,355 --> 00:17:53,915 Speaker 1: arrested in the middle of it, leading to C McCarthy's 259 00:17:53,955 --> 00:17:56,675 Speaker 1: epic news conference last night in which he compared Vladimir 260 00:17:56,715 --> 00:18:00,355 Speaker 1: Putin to Hitler in the thirties. Yeah, I guess that's impressive. 261 00:18:00,715 --> 00:18:03,715 Speaker 1: I think the comparison actually is Hitler in the thirties 262 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:08,155 Speaker 1: and Trump. Right now, let's see him say that. And 263 00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:11,555 Speaker 1: then McCarthy turned things over to Patrick McHenry, the little 264 00:18:11,595 --> 00:18:15,875 Speaker 1: scumbag in the bow tie who promptly ordered Nancy Pelosi 265 00:18:15,955 --> 00:18:21,435 Speaker 1: to vacate her special hideaway office by today because it 266 00:18:21,555 --> 00:18:26,195 Speaker 1: will be reassigned. She's in California for the funeral of 267 00:18:26,235 --> 00:18:30,475 Speaker 1: Dianne Feinstein, and he McHenry is a little weasel, and 268 00:18:30,635 --> 00:18:34,475 Speaker 1: all of it concluding with d McCarthy's only actual accomplishment 269 00:18:34,675 --> 00:18:38,155 Speaker 1: he lasted two hundred and seventy days on the job, 270 00:18:38,515 --> 00:18:42,715 Speaker 1: twelve days more than the record holder for shortest speakership ever, 271 00:18:43,115 --> 00:18:46,755 Speaker 1: poor Michael C. Kerb of the Indiana Third, who was 272 00:18:46,835 --> 00:18:51,075 Speaker 1: taken by consumption on August nineteenth, eighteen seventy six, having 273 00:18:51,115 --> 00:18:57,595 Speaker 1: presided over exactly one session of the forty fourth Congress. Actually, 274 00:18:57,675 --> 00:18:59,955 Speaker 1: it occurs to me that I'm still assuming an awful 275 00:18:59,995 --> 00:19:03,475 Speaker 1: lot about the Republicans and McCarthy here in saying that 276 00:19:03,555 --> 00:19:07,475 Speaker 1: this ouster is in the conclusion of his career or 277 00:19:07,515 --> 00:19:12,595 Speaker 1: anything else. House Republicans are incompetent enough, and McCarthy is 278 00:19:13,075 --> 00:19:15,315 Speaker 1: vengeful and vain enough that though he said last night 279 00:19:15,355 --> 00:19:17,555 Speaker 1: he will not run again for speaker, and he salted 280 00:19:17,595 --> 00:19:21,795 Speaker 1: the earth and he burned the bridges hell I've done that, 281 00:19:22,435 --> 00:19:25,955 Speaker 1: he might still get the job back, trust me, especially 282 00:19:26,355 --> 00:19:28,835 Speaker 1: if they actually give a lease Stefanic or this clown 283 00:19:28,915 --> 00:19:32,595 Speaker 1: McHenry or another one of these goobers a shot at it, 284 00:19:32,795 --> 00:19:35,195 Speaker 1: And especially if McCarthy really would turn around and make 285 00:19:35,195 --> 00:19:38,515 Speaker 1: a deal with the Democrats, this time predicated on aid 286 00:19:38,595 --> 00:19:42,675 Speaker 1: for Ukraine and some palatable fix for the actual problems 287 00:19:42,715 --> 00:19:45,955 Speaker 1: on the border, and most importantly, giving McCarthy the chance 288 00:19:45,995 --> 00:19:50,235 Speaker 1: to metaphorically attack Matt Gates's privates with pruning shears every 289 00:19:50,315 --> 00:19:53,635 Speaker 1: day through the next election and in the process turn 290 00:19:53,675 --> 00:19:57,915 Speaker 1: him into some kind of ooh congressional sissiphus, only making 291 00:19:57,955 --> 00:20:07,675 Speaker 1: it hurt more. Also of interest here, Campbell Brown is 292 00:20:07,755 --> 00:20:11,195 Speaker 1: out at Meta, and there's a story about her and 293 00:20:11,395 --> 00:20:14,555 Speaker 1: CNN and how they hired her when they couldn't hire me, 294 00:20:14,795 --> 00:20:17,235 Speaker 1: and her colleague at Meta. Her name is in the 295 00:20:17,275 --> 00:20:20,315 Speaker 1: news to Anne Cornblued, and that story is even better 296 00:20:20,355 --> 00:20:24,115 Speaker 1: because her name invokes Savannah Guthrie, because Anne's husband left 297 00:20:24,115 --> 00:20:27,435 Speaker 1: her to marry Savannah Guthrie. And then somebody at MSNBC 298 00:20:27,595 --> 00:20:33,275 Speaker 1: had Savannah interview and ooh, that's next. This is gout down. 299 00:20:35,635 --> 00:21:00,675 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Overman stell ahead on Countdown. 300 00:21:00,675 --> 00:21:02,875 Speaker 1: The baseball playoffs are underway, and there are a lot 301 00:21:02,875 --> 00:21:04,515 Speaker 1: of things I could predict, but I'm going to stick 302 00:21:04,555 --> 00:21:07,915 Speaker 1: to one of them. One prediction alone. There will not 303 00:21:08,075 --> 00:21:10,875 Speaker 1: be a riot during any of these games, because there 304 00:21:10,955 --> 00:21:12,995 Speaker 1: was a riot in nineteen ninety nine, and I was 305 00:21:13,035 --> 00:21:15,595 Speaker 1: not only covering it, I was in the middle of 306 00:21:15,635 --> 00:21:19,275 Speaker 1: it on the field until security threatned to have me 307 00:21:19,395 --> 00:21:22,515 Speaker 1: arrested things I promised not to tell. Coming up first 308 00:21:22,515 --> 00:21:23,995 Speaker 1: time for the daily round Up with the Miss Grant's 309 00:21:24,035 --> 00:21:27,395 Speaker 1: morons and dounn In Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's 310 00:21:27,395 --> 00:21:33,475 Speaker 1: worst persons than urged the bronze. Campbell Brown, former NBC 311 00:21:33,635 --> 00:21:36,195 Speaker 1: News correspondent and one of the many many former eight 312 00:21:36,235 --> 00:21:41,715 Speaker 1: PM hosts at CNN. I was reminded, I mean literally, 313 00:21:41,755 --> 00:21:45,435 Speaker 1: I had forgotten that she was head of news for 314 00:21:45,595 --> 00:21:49,195 Speaker 1: Facebook and then Meta. She got nothing done, They abandoned 315 00:21:49,195 --> 00:21:53,155 Speaker 1: producing and promulgating real news, and now it is reported 316 00:21:53,155 --> 00:21:57,075 Speaker 1: she's leaving the company. Campbell Brown's first gig at NBC 317 00:21:57,315 --> 00:22:00,395 Speaker 1: was as one of the regular White House correspondents during 318 00:22:00,435 --> 00:22:03,635 Speaker 1: my first MSNBC show there, The White House in Crisis 319 00:22:03,835 --> 00:22:08,635 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight. As a correspondent, she had great hair. 320 00:22:09,755 --> 00:22:12,795 Speaker 1: In two thousand and six, CNN president John Klein offered 321 00:22:12,835 --> 00:22:15,315 Speaker 1: me CNN's eight PM show and the chance to bring 322 00:22:15,355 --> 00:22:17,715 Speaker 1: my staff with me over there, and then he got 323 00:22:17,755 --> 00:22:21,355 Speaker 1: overruled by his boss, a man named Jim Walton. And 324 00:22:21,475 --> 00:22:24,955 Speaker 1: Jim Walton, twenty five years earlier, had been the backup 325 00:22:25,195 --> 00:22:30,275 Speaker 1: graphics guy on My Little four Minute Afternoon sportscast on CNN, 326 00:22:30,435 --> 00:22:34,035 Speaker 1: not the graphics guy. He was the backup graphics guy. 327 00:22:34,795 --> 00:22:38,795 Speaker 1: Became head of CNN worldwide. They have trouble with filling 328 00:22:38,835 --> 00:22:42,395 Speaker 1: that job. Klein told Walton that he was making an 329 00:22:42,435 --> 00:22:45,395 Speaker 1: existential mistake, that they had a chance to put MSNBC 330 00:22:45,555 --> 00:22:48,435 Speaker 1: out of business by hiring me away from them and 331 00:22:49,075 --> 00:22:52,395 Speaker 1: then using me to take on Fox News and instead. 332 00:22:52,555 --> 00:22:54,875 Speaker 1: Kleine told him it would now end up with him 333 00:22:55,355 --> 00:22:58,115 Speaker 1: hiring somebody lesser at eight pm, and then client said 334 00:22:58,355 --> 00:23:01,675 Speaker 1: Walton would fire him Kline, and then Klein said somebody 335 00:23:01,675 --> 00:23:06,035 Speaker 1: would in turn fire Walton, of which happened, and the 336 00:23:06,035 --> 00:23:10,675 Speaker 1: person they hired instead of me was Campbell Brown. I 337 00:23:10,795 --> 00:23:14,635 Speaker 1: kicked her hair in the ratings. Campbell Brown and I 338 00:23:14,715 --> 00:23:17,715 Speaker 1: co anchored the Weekend Today show one Sunday about two 339 00:23:17,795 --> 00:23:22,475 Speaker 1: thousand and five, and she never stopped smoking cigarettes during it. 340 00:23:23,115 --> 00:23:25,875 Speaker 1: I was a cigar smoker at the time, and even 341 00:23:25,955 --> 00:23:29,235 Speaker 1: I was overcome by this smell. We were on I 342 00:23:29,275 --> 00:23:32,395 Speaker 1: think for two hours. I think she must have had 343 00:23:32,875 --> 00:23:36,355 Speaker 1: sixty cigarettes. She didn't finish all of them, but sixty 344 00:23:36,395 --> 00:23:39,875 Speaker 1: cigarettes is sixty cigarettes. Every time she was not on camera, 345 00:23:40,115 --> 00:23:43,075 Speaker 1: Campbell Brown lit up a cigarette they opened a door 346 00:23:43,115 --> 00:23:46,435 Speaker 1: to the street for her. She went outside. During the commercials, 347 00:23:46,475 --> 00:23:49,915 Speaker 1: they surrounded her with fans. Never seen anything like it. 348 00:23:50,875 --> 00:23:53,555 Speaker 1: A year later, I ran into her at Gabriel's restaurant 349 00:23:53,555 --> 00:23:55,395 Speaker 1: here and the guy she was with was president of 350 00:23:55,435 --> 00:23:58,075 Speaker 1: ABC News. I didn't know him. He introduced himself. He 351 00:23:58,115 --> 00:24:00,755 Speaker 1: was lovely to me. And Campbell, who I had worked 352 00:24:00,755 --> 00:24:03,635 Speaker 1: with for ten years by this point, co anchored a show. 353 00:24:04,675 --> 00:24:13,915 Speaker 1: He said, hello, you the runner up and Cornblute. Now, 354 00:24:13,955 --> 00:24:16,275 Speaker 1: An didn't do anything wrong here. It's just easiest for 355 00:24:16,395 --> 00:24:17,955 Speaker 1: me if I put her in in this part of 356 00:24:17,955 --> 00:24:21,435 Speaker 1: the show. If anything, she is the victim here turns 357 00:24:21,435 --> 00:24:24,875 Speaker 1: out and Cornblute, formerly of The Washington Post, was Campbell 358 00:24:24,915 --> 00:24:30,435 Speaker 1: Brown's colleague and remains Meta's vice president of Global Product 359 00:24:30,635 --> 00:24:34,835 Speaker 1: Content Operations. I mean, I'm impressed. Twenty years ago, she 360 00:24:34,955 --> 00:24:38,035 Speaker 1: was a regular guest on shows like Mine on MSNBC. 361 00:24:39,035 --> 00:24:42,475 Speaker 1: She was also married to a BBC producer named Mark Orchard, 362 00:24:42,915 --> 00:24:45,755 Speaker 1: which will become relevant in a moment. I think I've 363 00:24:45,755 --> 00:24:48,795 Speaker 1: mentioned before that another person who got into NBC via 364 00:24:48,915 --> 00:24:52,875 Speaker 1: me was Savannah Guthrie. Savannah Guthrie, who was working at 365 00:24:52,875 --> 00:24:55,275 Speaker 1: Court TV, assigned to cover the Michael Jackson trial, and 366 00:24:55,315 --> 00:24:57,675 Speaker 1: we were looking for somebody who would also cover it 367 00:24:57,755 --> 00:25:00,635 Speaker 1: for us, just my show as well, and who would, 368 00:25:00,715 --> 00:25:04,195 Speaker 1: as we said, then play not just report the news, 369 00:25:04,195 --> 00:25:07,595 Speaker 1: but have fun with me and my stupid questions. Plus 370 00:25:07,595 --> 00:25:09,395 Speaker 1: one of my producers was trying to set her up 371 00:25:09,395 --> 00:25:12,995 Speaker 1: with me. Though her entrey to NBC by a countdown 372 00:25:13,035 --> 00:25:15,915 Speaker 1: clearly went really well and hats off to Savannah for that, 373 00:25:16,075 --> 00:25:19,995 Speaker 1: the setup part went nowhere because at the Michael Jackson 374 00:25:20,075 --> 00:25:25,635 Speaker 1: trial she began a relationship with a BBC producer named 375 00:25:25,875 --> 00:25:30,515 Speaker 1: Mark Orchard. Yep, the guy was married to Anne Kornblute. 376 00:25:31,115 --> 00:25:35,435 Speaker 1: Soon Mark Orchard divorced Ann Kornblute to marry Savannah Guthrie. 377 00:25:35,515 --> 00:25:39,635 Speaker 1: At NBC, Savannah Guthrie was quickly and rightly targeted for stardom. 378 00:25:40,115 --> 00:25:43,155 Speaker 1: They decided to get her as much anchoring experience as possible, 379 00:25:43,155 --> 00:25:45,635 Speaker 1: and they threw her in with no experience to anchor 380 00:25:45,715 --> 00:25:48,515 Speaker 1: an hour of day Side, which is where they put 381 00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:51,075 Speaker 1: the people they don't really care about. And sure enough, 382 00:25:51,075 --> 00:25:53,315 Speaker 1: one day, I'm looking at the rundown of the Savannah 383 00:25:53,315 --> 00:25:55,995 Speaker 1: Guthrie Hour of Day Side at MSNBC and it's one 384 00:25:56,035 --> 00:25:59,075 Speaker 1: of those moments where you think your eyes are going 385 00:25:59,115 --> 00:26:02,395 Speaker 1: to fall out of your head. Whatever. The first story 386 00:26:02,635 --> 00:26:05,355 Speaker 1: was that they were having Savannah do it. They had 387 00:26:05,355 --> 00:26:08,635 Speaker 1: booked as the expert guest to talk about it to 388 00:26:08,715 --> 00:26:13,035 Speaker 1: give it some context, a reporter from the Washington Post 389 00:26:14,195 --> 00:26:20,155 Speaker 1: and Cornblute. That's right. They had scheduled Savannah Guthrie to 390 00:26:20,275 --> 00:26:26,155 Speaker 1: interview her husband's preceding wife who he left for her. 391 00:26:27,875 --> 00:26:31,235 Speaker 1: Savannah evidently did not notice this until she was seated 392 00:26:31,235 --> 00:26:33,075 Speaker 1: at the desk and about to go on the air. 393 00:26:33,115 --> 00:26:34,675 Speaker 1: And if you ever want to see an interview in 394 00:26:34,715 --> 00:26:37,635 Speaker 1: which eight or ten questions are asked and answered in 395 00:26:37,715 --> 00:26:41,515 Speaker 1: one minute and there is no superfluous smiling or banter 396 00:26:41,675 --> 00:26:45,875 Speaker 1: by the anchor or the guest, find that interview. Oh god, 397 00:26:46,075 --> 00:26:51,195 Speaker 1: was that funny? Not for them, especially not for Savannah, 398 00:26:51,195 --> 00:26:54,035 Speaker 1: because soon she too was the former missus Mark Orchard. 399 00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:55,955 Speaker 1: I forget the details, but I think he moved on 400 00:26:56,035 --> 00:27:00,875 Speaker 1: to the the next wife came around the corner. Okay, 401 00:27:00,995 --> 00:27:04,515 Speaker 1: enough of that. The Winner and Worst Persons Congressman Jamal Bowman, 402 00:27:04,715 --> 00:27:08,435 Speaker 1: Democrat of my hometown. You already know about the whole 403 00:27:08,475 --> 00:27:11,795 Speaker 1: fire alarm thing which Republicans, when they're not killing off 404 00:27:11,795 --> 00:27:14,115 Speaker 1: their own speakers of the House are trying to turn 405 00:27:14,155 --> 00:27:18,395 Speaker 1: into the worst thing since the Crucifixion. Bowman's office responded 406 00:27:18,435 --> 00:27:21,235 Speaker 1: to that by distributing talking points to fellow Democrats and 407 00:27:21,275 --> 00:27:24,835 Speaker 1: other perceived friends. One of the points read quote, Republicans 408 00:27:24,875 --> 00:27:27,595 Speaker 1: need to instead focus their energy on the Nazi members 409 00:27:27,595 --> 00:27:33,515 Speaker 1: of their party before anything else. Republicans howled, howled, after 410 00:27:33,555 --> 00:27:36,995 Speaker 1: which Bowman tweeted an apology quote, I just became aware 411 00:27:37,075 --> 00:27:39,835 Speaker 1: that in our messaging guidance there was inappropriate use of 412 00:27:39,875 --> 00:27:45,115 Speaker 1: the term Nazi without my consent. Huh. Congressman Paul Gozar 413 00:27:45,275 --> 00:27:48,195 Speaker 1: traveled to the border with a blogger who has praised 414 00:27:48,275 --> 00:27:53,075 Speaker 1: Nazi Germany. Congress and Rosendale. He posed with neo Nazis, 415 00:27:53,675 --> 00:27:56,555 Speaker 1: the Republican nominee in the Illinois third in twenty eighteen, 416 00:27:56,595 --> 00:27:59,395 Speaker 1: as a Holocaust denier who claimed to be the head 417 00:27:59,395 --> 00:28:02,515 Speaker 1: of the American Nazi Party. Trump had dinner with Nick 418 00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:05,635 Speaker 1: Fuentes and Kanye West. And he keeps posting globalists and 419 00:28:05,755 --> 00:28:09,835 Speaker 1: Israeli loyalty stuff and warnings to American Jews. And he 420 00:28:09,915 --> 00:28:11,795 Speaker 1: used to read from a book of Hitler's speeches that 421 00:28:11,835 --> 00:28:17,275 Speaker 1: he kept in his bedroom. Should go on, so Congressman 422 00:28:17,395 --> 00:28:20,515 Speaker 1: Congressman Bowman, your office said there were Nazis in the 423 00:28:20,555 --> 00:28:28,235 Speaker 1: Republican Party. There are Nazis in the Republican Party. Why 424 00:28:28,275 --> 00:28:33,435 Speaker 1: did you apologize, Congressman Jamal. They're Nazis, sir. You called 425 00:28:33,475 --> 00:28:39,515 Speaker 1: them Nazis. That's what Nazis are called, Nazis. Bowman. Two days, 426 00:28:40,515 --> 00:28:57,635 Speaker 1: worst person and all. Finally to the number one story 427 00:28:57,635 --> 00:29:00,155 Speaker 1: on the countdown and my favorite topic, me and every 428 00:29:00,155 --> 00:29:03,035 Speaker 1: time the baseball playoffs roll around, I am flashback to 429 00:29:03,115 --> 00:29:07,395 Speaker 1: one of the sixteen posts I have covered. I'm old 430 00:29:08,195 --> 00:29:10,555 Speaker 1: five of them is part of the actual game broadcasts, 431 00:29:11,075 --> 00:29:13,955 Speaker 1: and they will not hang the nineteen ninety nine American 432 00:29:14,035 --> 00:29:17,595 Speaker 1: League Championship Series in any kind of sports art museum. 433 00:29:17,915 --> 00:29:21,075 Speaker 1: There was bad pitching, bad defense, bad hitting, and especially 434 00:29:21,115 --> 00:29:25,235 Speaker 1: bad sportsmanship by players and fans alike. But for me, 435 00:29:26,035 --> 00:29:28,795 Speaker 1: covering the New York Yankees through all five games from 436 00:29:28,795 --> 00:29:31,435 Speaker 1: the unique vantage point of a corner of their dugout, 437 00:29:31,715 --> 00:29:35,955 Speaker 1: it was perfection. The good stuff started in Game three 438 00:29:36,035 --> 00:29:39,315 Speaker 1: on Saturday, October sixteenth, nineteen ninety nine, and it featured 439 00:29:39,315 --> 00:29:42,635 Speaker 1: the return of the former Red Sox hero Roger Clemens 440 00:29:42,915 --> 00:29:46,275 Speaker 1: in the uniform of the hated Yanks to Fenway Park, Boston. 441 00:29:46,955 --> 00:29:49,355 Speaker 1: I don't have much time for Roger Clemens, but I 442 00:29:49,395 --> 00:29:52,675 Speaker 1: was a witness to two occasions, possibly the only two 443 00:29:52,715 --> 00:29:56,315 Speaker 1: occasions of his life. When he received the raw deal 444 00:29:56,835 --> 00:30:00,075 Speaker 1: rather than dishing it out, the fans at Boston's Fenway 445 00:30:00,115 --> 00:30:03,675 Speaker 1: Park blamed Clemens for leaving the old town team two 446 00:30:03,715 --> 00:30:06,315 Speaker 1: years previously, when it was a decision actually made by 447 00:30:06,395 --> 00:30:09,915 Speaker 1: Red Sox management. So they serenaded and booed him out 448 00:30:09,955 --> 00:30:13,075 Speaker 1: of that game after just fifteen batters and just over 449 00:30:13,155 --> 00:30:16,795 Speaker 1: two innings, and our Fox TV cameras caught them tearing 450 00:30:16,915 --> 00:30:21,995 Speaker 1: down Roger Clemens banners which hung outside the park. Poor 451 00:30:22,075 --> 00:30:25,755 Speaker 1: Roger completely rattled, fell apart like a twelve dollars fake rolex, 452 00:30:26,035 --> 00:30:28,275 Speaker 1: and from where I sat between the third base camera 453 00:30:28,315 --> 00:30:31,475 Speaker 1: and the Yankee dugout, you could see he was ashen. 454 00:30:33,195 --> 00:30:35,395 Speaker 1: The game got out of hand quickly, a theme for 455 00:30:35,435 --> 00:30:38,235 Speaker 1: the series. Boston led thirteen to nothing in the seventh inning. 456 00:30:38,835 --> 00:30:41,195 Speaker 1: One of the oddities of my seat was that between 457 00:30:41,195 --> 00:30:43,595 Speaker 1: me and the Yankee bench was a low railing and 458 00:30:43,755 --> 00:30:47,075 Speaker 1: very ancient chicken wire fence that had been painted over 459 00:30:47,195 --> 00:30:52,715 Speaker 1: annually for something like since the First World War. But 460 00:30:52,875 --> 00:30:55,155 Speaker 1: next to the fence on the player's side was the 461 00:30:55,235 --> 00:30:59,675 Speaker 1: dugout bathroom. It was really just a door and a urinal. 462 00:31:00,355 --> 00:31:03,115 Speaker 1: So at some point every Yankee player came down to 463 00:31:03,155 --> 00:31:05,635 Speaker 1: that end of the dugout, and almost all they said hi, 464 00:31:06,195 --> 00:31:09,955 Speaker 1: and then excuse me. A minute late in the game, 465 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:13,595 Speaker 1: as it got dark, the Yankee superb Cuban Emmigray pitcher 466 00:31:13,715 --> 00:31:17,635 Speaker 1: Orlando El Duque Hernandez made that trek and said hi, 467 00:31:18,475 --> 00:31:21,075 Speaker 1: but did not go into the tiny bathroom in the 468 00:31:21,155 --> 00:31:23,715 Speaker 1: dugout at Fenway Park. Instead, he sat down on the 469 00:31:23,755 --> 00:31:26,075 Speaker 1: steps right next to the little chicken wire fence, and 470 00:31:26,115 --> 00:31:29,995 Speaker 1: he said, Kate, can I ask you a question? I 471 00:31:30,115 --> 00:31:32,875 Speaker 1: was startled. The official line was El Duque Hernandez did 472 00:31:32,955 --> 00:31:36,235 Speaker 1: not speak any English. I pointed this out to him. 473 00:31:36,595 --> 00:31:39,795 Speaker 1: He laughed, you'll keep my secret. You know how much 474 00:31:39,795 --> 00:31:43,235 Speaker 1: time I save not doing interviews in English. He got 475 00:31:43,275 --> 00:31:47,315 Speaker 1: an occasional conjugation wrong, Otherwise his English was perfect. He 476 00:31:47,395 --> 00:31:51,195 Speaker 1: got to his question, Keith, why do you leave SportsCenter? 477 00:31:51,515 --> 00:31:54,475 Speaker 1: You and Dan were so good way downtown. Bang. They're 478 00:31:54,515 --> 00:31:57,755 Speaker 1: not gonna get him. I suspect anybody sitting in the 479 00:31:57,795 --> 00:32:02,075 Speaker 1: stands in the ten rows nearest me could hear my laughter. Orlando, 480 00:32:02,115 --> 00:32:04,275 Speaker 1: I left Sports Center before you left Cuba. How did 481 00:32:04,315 --> 00:32:07,555 Speaker 1: you see? He said, we have nothing in Cuba, but 482 00:32:07,675 --> 00:32:11,435 Speaker 1: we have baseball fields and we have satellites. It's deep, 483 00:32:11,475 --> 00:32:14,595 Speaker 1: and I don't think it's playable. I was stunned. I 484 00:32:14,595 --> 00:32:17,475 Speaker 1: had already discovered that nearly every American born Major League 485 00:32:17,475 --> 00:32:20,315 Speaker 1: player of nineteen ninety nine knew me by voice, let 486 00:32:20,355 --> 00:32:24,115 Speaker 1: alone by sight. But this Cuba thing and el Duque 487 00:32:24,155 --> 00:32:29,035 Speaker 1: reciting my old Sports Center catchphrases was a genuine surprise. Oh, yes, 488 00:32:29,075 --> 00:32:31,475 Speaker 1: you and Dan, you teach me a lot of my English. 489 00:32:31,595 --> 00:32:34,235 Speaker 1: What's the one for the hockey? Can't believe I shrunk 490 00:32:34,275 --> 00:32:37,275 Speaker 1: that guy's freaking hand. I love that. Why'd you leave? 491 00:32:38,235 --> 00:32:40,915 Speaker 1: I tried to explain it was mostly geography, that if 492 00:32:40,955 --> 00:32:43,035 Speaker 1: when he had pitched briefly in the International League, he 493 00:32:43,075 --> 00:32:45,675 Speaker 1: ever faced the team in Patucket, Rhode Island, that that 494 00:32:45,835 --> 00:32:49,035 Speaker 1: was kind of where ESPN was, only it was more remote, 495 00:32:49,515 --> 00:32:53,715 Speaker 1: much smaller town. Oh, el Duque said, like Cuba, but 496 00:32:53,875 --> 00:32:57,595 Speaker 1: with snow. And I said, yeah, that was it exactly. 497 00:32:58,315 --> 00:33:00,115 Speaker 1: And now I was living in Los Angeles and I 498 00:33:00,115 --> 00:33:02,955 Speaker 1: owned a big house on the beach. Okay, I get it. Listen, 499 00:33:02,995 --> 00:33:04,915 Speaker 1: you see me in the park, you say Hi, there's 500 00:33:04,915 --> 00:33:07,595 Speaker 1: nobody around, we talk, okay, If I say nothing, don't 501 00:33:07,635 --> 00:33:09,955 Speaker 1: be offended. I'm just making sure everybody still knows I 502 00:33:09,995 --> 00:33:16,675 Speaker 1: don't speak English. Orlando Hernandez did not get here till 503 00:33:16,715 --> 00:33:18,555 Speaker 1: he was thirty two years old. He pitched until he 504 00:33:18,595 --> 00:33:19,995 Speaker 1: was forty one. If he got in here when he 505 00:33:20,035 --> 00:33:21,475 Speaker 1: was twenty two, he'd be in the Hall of Fame, 506 00:33:21,515 --> 00:33:23,075 Speaker 1: and then he would have been the color man on 507 00:33:23,115 --> 00:33:25,475 Speaker 1: the Game of the Week. He pitched three years for 508 00:33:25,515 --> 00:33:27,835 Speaker 1: the Yankees and two for the Mets while I lived 509 00:33:27,835 --> 00:33:30,195 Speaker 1: in New York, and it was always a pleasure to 510 00:33:30,195 --> 00:33:33,435 Speaker 1: see him. Case, you're still collecting baseballs, you want this one. 511 00:33:33,595 --> 00:33:36,755 Speaker 1: I walked by Ray Bonds with this one. So that 512 00:33:36,915 --> 00:33:40,395 Speaker 1: was Game three on the Saturday. On the Sunday, I 513 00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:43,995 Speaker 1: awoke to see my picture in the Boston Globe. In 514 00:33:44,035 --> 00:33:47,315 Speaker 1: those days, the newspapers all used to have columnists who 515 00:33:47,315 --> 00:33:52,995 Speaker 1: wrote about nothing but TV and radio sports casts. No, seriously, 516 00:33:53,555 --> 00:33:56,275 Speaker 1: I had been a sportscaster on local TV in Boston 517 00:33:56,315 --> 00:33:59,075 Speaker 1: fifteen years earlier, in nineteen eighty four. Then I'd been 518 00:33:59,115 --> 00:34:02,035 Speaker 1: to Fenway Park as long before as nineteen sixty six, 519 00:34:02,195 --> 00:34:04,195 Speaker 1: and yet I had grown up a Yankee fan in 520 00:34:04,235 --> 00:34:08,075 Speaker 1: New York. I explained that even then I was also 521 00:34:08,155 --> 00:34:13,275 Speaker 1: a fan of the long suffering Red Sox fans. Now 522 00:34:13,315 --> 00:34:16,355 Speaker 1: this was too complicated for some people at the Boston Globe, 523 00:34:16,755 --> 00:34:19,515 Speaker 1: which quoted me correctly as saying I always felt an 524 00:34:19,515 --> 00:34:21,915 Speaker 1: affinity with the fans. But then under my picture in 525 00:34:21,955 --> 00:34:27,755 Speaker 1: the article used the caption Ulberman, Red Sox fan. Still 526 00:34:27,795 --> 00:34:30,355 Speaker 1: wondering how they got that wrong, I did my pregame 527 00:34:30,395 --> 00:34:33,035 Speaker 1: TV stuff for Fox, then climbed over the little chicken 528 00:34:33,035 --> 00:34:35,555 Speaker 1: wire fence back into my spot for our in game 529 00:34:35,635 --> 00:34:38,115 Speaker 1: dugout reporting, And as the top of the first inning 530 00:34:38,155 --> 00:34:40,915 Speaker 1: began of the fourth game, the Yankees leadoff Banchuck Knoblock 531 00:34:40,995 --> 00:34:43,235 Speaker 1: moved towards the plate, and as he did, it was 532 00:34:43,275 --> 00:34:47,395 Speaker 1: the cleanup hitter, Bernie Williams, walking towards me, presumably to 533 00:34:47,515 --> 00:34:51,635 Speaker 1: use that little urinal in a closet. Wrong again. It's 534 00:34:51,795 --> 00:34:56,195 Speaker 1: meet Keith Weekend. Hey Keith, he said, in his lyrical voice, 535 00:34:56,395 --> 00:34:59,595 Speaker 1: extending a hand to shake Bernie Williams, like I didn't 536 00:34:59,595 --> 00:35:02,275 Speaker 1: know who it was. Say, listen, I was reading the paper. 537 00:35:02,435 --> 00:35:05,555 Speaker 1: Are you a Red Sox fan? For a moment I 538 00:35:05,555 --> 00:35:08,435 Speaker 1: put aside the fact that the game, the playoff game, 539 00:35:08,915 --> 00:35:11,635 Speaker 1: had now started and the guy up three batters from 540 00:35:11,635 --> 00:35:14,475 Speaker 1: now was asking me about a typo in the Boston Globe. 541 00:35:15,515 --> 00:35:18,235 Speaker 1: Bernie Williams was never accused of burning himself out with 542 00:35:18,275 --> 00:35:21,635 Speaker 1: too much competitive focus. That's just who he was. I 543 00:35:21,715 --> 00:35:25,835 Speaker 1: explained the mistake as quickly as I could. Oh, I thought, so, okay, good. 544 00:35:26,155 --> 00:35:28,475 Speaker 1: I'm glad because you can be a fan of anybody 545 00:35:28,475 --> 00:35:29,915 Speaker 1: you want, But I don't think it would be right 546 00:35:29,955 --> 00:35:32,475 Speaker 1: to have a Red Sox fan in our dugout. I 547 00:35:32,515 --> 00:35:35,675 Speaker 1: agreed with him. Just as Chuck Knoblock singled, and the 548 00:35:35,755 --> 00:35:38,155 Speaker 1: number two hitter, Derek Jeter advanced to the plate, and 549 00:35:38,155 --> 00:35:40,755 Speaker 1: the third hitter, Paul O'Neil went out to the on 550 00:35:40,915 --> 00:35:43,755 Speaker 1: neck circle. And that's when Bernie Williams surprised me more 551 00:35:43,755 --> 00:35:48,195 Speaker 1: than Orlando Hernandez had. Plus, Bernie went on, doesn't your 552 00:35:48,235 --> 00:35:50,555 Speaker 1: mom still have those seats like ten rows back of 553 00:35:50,595 --> 00:35:55,355 Speaker 1: our dugout at Yankee Stadium. This was before my mother 554 00:35:55,435 --> 00:35:59,155 Speaker 1: became famous for getting hit by a very badly thrown ball. 555 00:35:59,235 --> 00:36:02,555 Speaker 1: The next year, I asked Bernie Williams how the hell 556 00:36:02,555 --> 00:36:05,995 Speaker 1: he knew where my mother sat? You've had seats there 557 00:36:06,035 --> 00:36:11,195 Speaker 1: since the seventies, haven't you. I just stared at him. Oh, Keith, 558 00:36:11,235 --> 00:36:14,635 Speaker 1: it's my job to know that. I said, no, it isn't. 559 00:36:15,595 --> 00:36:17,835 Speaker 1: It's your job to play center field for the Yankees. 560 00:36:18,875 --> 00:36:21,155 Speaker 1: This was just about the time Derek Jeter grounded out 561 00:36:21,195 --> 00:36:23,395 Speaker 1: and Paul O'Neill left the on deck circle and Bernie 562 00:36:23,395 --> 00:36:25,555 Speaker 1: Williams was supposed to be in the on deck circle. 563 00:36:26,115 --> 00:36:29,115 Speaker 1: I know your mom, I see her, nice lady, So anyway, 564 00:36:29,555 --> 00:36:33,475 Speaker 1: I interrupted him. Bernie Jeter just grounded out, and now 565 00:36:33,555 --> 00:36:36,555 Speaker 1: block went to second and O'Neill is up with one out. 566 00:36:36,875 --> 00:36:40,715 Speaker 1: Shouldn't you get out there? He looked back at the 567 00:36:40,755 --> 00:36:43,075 Speaker 1: field of play. Oh yeah, you're right. He stuck out 568 00:36:43,075 --> 00:36:45,915 Speaker 1: his hand again. Nice visiting with you. Let's talk more later, 569 00:36:46,195 --> 00:36:48,995 Speaker 1: and just double checking you're not a Red Sox fan, right. 570 00:36:51,355 --> 00:36:55,435 Speaker 1: Bernie Williams got three hits in that game. Another New 571 00:36:55,555 --> 00:36:58,995 Speaker 1: York sports reporter once said that if he concentrated on baseball, 572 00:36:59,035 --> 00:37:01,755 Speaker 1: really concentrated, Bernie Williams would either be so good that 573 00:37:01,795 --> 00:37:03,915 Speaker 1: he would hit four hundred, or he would be so 574 00:37:04,035 --> 00:37:07,635 Speaker 1: stressed out that he would become a serial killer. In 575 00:37:07,715 --> 00:37:10,155 Speaker 1: this game, the Yankee scored six runs in the ninth, 576 00:37:10,155 --> 00:37:11,915 Speaker 1: and there was a play so controversial that when the 577 00:37:11,955 --> 00:37:14,875 Speaker 1: Red Sox manager got himself ejected over it, the home 578 00:37:14,955 --> 00:37:19,155 Speaker 1: fans littered the field with debris. Almost all of it 579 00:37:19,275 --> 00:37:23,035 Speaker 1: was just plastic soda bottles, but still there was a 580 00:37:23,075 --> 00:37:27,755 Speaker 1: couple of flasks thrown too. Yankees manager Joe Torre ordered 581 00:37:27,755 --> 00:37:30,715 Speaker 1: his team off the field and play was suspended. As 582 00:37:30,715 --> 00:37:33,795 Speaker 1: the plastic bottles continued to fly and via my earpiece, 583 00:37:34,155 --> 00:37:36,675 Speaker 1: which I listened to even if Chris Matthews never listened 584 00:37:36,675 --> 00:37:39,315 Speaker 1: to his, my producer ordered me on to the field, 585 00:37:39,355 --> 00:37:40,875 Speaker 1: and I did as I was told, and I set 586 00:37:40,955 --> 00:37:42,515 Speaker 1: up in front of the camera, right in front of 587 00:37:42,555 --> 00:37:46,275 Speaker 1: the dugout full of Yankee players. A plastic bottle whizzed 588 00:37:46,315 --> 00:37:49,275 Speaker 1: past my head and I half wondered if Bernie Williams 589 00:37:49,275 --> 00:37:50,915 Speaker 1: had thrown it, just in case I was a Red 590 00:37:50,915 --> 00:37:55,235 Speaker 1: Sox fan. Almost immediately, a Fenway Park security guy started 591 00:37:55,275 --> 00:37:57,955 Speaker 1: swearing at me in Boston and told me if I 592 00:37:57,995 --> 00:38:00,355 Speaker 1: didn't get off the field and into the seats immediately, 593 00:38:00,475 --> 00:38:03,755 Speaker 1: he'd have me arrested. This time, I could actually hear 594 00:38:03,875 --> 00:38:06,635 Speaker 1: some of the Yankee he's laughing. Get over that fence 595 00:38:06,715 --> 00:38:08,715 Speaker 1: right now. Sit your backside down in that seat and 596 00:38:08,715 --> 00:38:11,675 Speaker 1: do not move. My producer heard all this through my 597 00:38:11,755 --> 00:38:15,195 Speaker 1: microphone and told me to comply. I didn't even look around. 598 00:38:15,395 --> 00:38:17,075 Speaker 1: I just went over the fence and I sat down 599 00:38:17,275 --> 00:38:19,115 Speaker 1: in the front row where I'd been ordered to. And 600 00:38:19,115 --> 00:38:21,435 Speaker 1: that's when the guy sitting next to me said hi, 601 00:38:22,275 --> 00:38:24,155 Speaker 1: and I realized the guy sitting next to me was 602 00:38:24,195 --> 00:38:28,955 Speaker 1: George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Yankees. I said, Hi, 603 00:38:29,555 --> 00:38:32,795 Speaker 1: you want to say something about this on TV? And George, 604 00:38:33,075 --> 00:38:36,875 Speaker 1: who loved me as I loved him, said sure. And 605 00:38:36,955 --> 00:38:39,675 Speaker 1: my producer heard all this through to the microphone as well. 606 00:38:40,475 --> 00:38:42,795 Speaker 1: The announcers immediately threw it to me, and I said 607 00:38:42,835 --> 00:38:47,035 Speaker 1: seven words, George Steinbrenner, your thoughts on all this. He 608 00:38:47,115 --> 00:38:49,755 Speaker 1: proceeded to very pleasantly blame the Red Sox fans for 609 00:38:49,835 --> 00:38:53,035 Speaker 1: being drunk, blame Fenway security for letting a riot start, 610 00:38:53,235 --> 00:38:55,955 Speaker 1: blame baseball officials for not immediately forfeiting the game to 611 00:38:55,995 --> 00:38:59,675 Speaker 1: his club, and blame the Boston manager for inciting the crowd. 612 00:39:00,555 --> 00:39:02,875 Speaker 1: I had said to George, I would ask a follow up, 613 00:39:02,875 --> 00:39:05,515 Speaker 1: but you seem to have covered every thing, and so 614 00:39:05,675 --> 00:39:07,675 Speaker 1: I threw it back to the play by play booth. 615 00:39:08,195 --> 00:39:11,595 Speaker 1: Steinbrenner's remarks made every newspaper in the country, and in 616 00:39:11,635 --> 00:39:14,195 Speaker 1: many accounts I was noted as the interview and frankly, 617 00:39:14,475 --> 00:39:19,075 Speaker 1: I didn't really do anything. The next night, the Yankees 618 00:39:19,115 --> 00:39:21,115 Speaker 1: won the series in five games, and the fifth game 619 00:39:21,155 --> 00:39:23,755 Speaker 1: was devoid of Cuban pitchers confiding they were fans, or 620 00:39:23,795 --> 00:39:26,995 Speaker 1: Bernie Williams quizzing me about my fan dumb, or me 621 00:39:27,155 --> 00:39:29,635 Speaker 1: being ordered onto the field during a riot, only to 622 00:39:29,675 --> 00:39:31,675 Speaker 1: be thrown off of it and directly into the seat 623 00:39:31,675 --> 00:39:35,195 Speaker 1: next to the owner of the Yankees. All I had 624 00:39:35,195 --> 00:39:36,915 Speaker 1: to do on this night was get into the Yankee 625 00:39:36,955 --> 00:39:39,715 Speaker 1: clubhouse two innings before the game ended, so I could 626 00:39:39,715 --> 00:39:44,835 Speaker 1: cover the celebrating players and the award presentation. The excitement 627 00:39:44,875 --> 00:39:47,555 Speaker 1: of the weekend clearly was over. I would just say 628 00:39:47,635 --> 00:39:50,475 Speaker 1: hi to these guys. They'd throw champagne in my direction, 629 00:39:50,555 --> 00:39:53,475 Speaker 1: and then I'd throw it back to Joe Buck. I 630 00:39:53,595 --> 00:39:56,275 Speaker 1: was on a platform bleached in a camera light as 631 00:39:56,315 --> 00:39:59,195 Speaker 1: the technicians checked their stuff. The game was still going 632 00:39:59,235 --> 00:40:02,675 Speaker 1: on when the clubhouse door slammed open and in strutted 633 00:40:02,675 --> 00:40:07,195 Speaker 1: the Yankee second baseman, Chuck Nablock. He was swearing profusely 634 00:40:07,595 --> 00:40:12,955 Speaker 1: profoundly and proficiently. He had been having trouble throwing ground 635 00:40:13,035 --> 00:40:15,595 Speaker 1: balls away, and as the eighth inning started, the Yankee 636 00:40:15,595 --> 00:40:18,995 Speaker 1: manager Tory had removed him, denying him a chance to 637 00:40:18,995 --> 00:40:22,315 Speaker 1: be in the on field celebration of the pennant. Nablock 638 00:40:22,515 --> 00:40:26,275 Speaker 1: was enraged, so enraged that he never saw me, or 639 00:40:26,315 --> 00:40:30,675 Speaker 1: the platform or the camera lights. He used all the 640 00:40:30,835 --> 00:40:35,035 Speaker 1: known expletives and directed all of them all at his 641 00:40:35,235 --> 00:40:40,075 Speaker 1: own manager. The Yankees pr guy, a childhood friend of mine, 642 00:40:40,155 --> 00:40:42,115 Speaker 1: rushed over to insist that I could not report what 643 00:40:42,155 --> 00:40:44,395 Speaker 1: I had just heard. He was a little shocked when 644 00:40:44,395 --> 00:40:47,515 Speaker 1: I agreed with him. I'm here as a lighting prop. 645 00:40:47,675 --> 00:40:50,275 Speaker 1: I told him. Now, Block has a perfect right to 646 00:40:50,315 --> 00:40:52,955 Speaker 1: expect there'd be no reporters in the clubhouse during the game. 647 00:40:53,595 --> 00:40:55,915 Speaker 1: If he says it again afterwards, I'll say I heard 648 00:40:55,915 --> 00:41:01,155 Speaker 1: it just now. Otherwise I'm not saying anything. There is 649 00:41:01,195 --> 00:41:04,515 Speaker 1: a course, a punchline even to this and this extraordinary week. 650 00:41:05,435 --> 00:41:09,315 Speaker 1: The next summer, Chuck Knoblock's career as a second baseman 651 00:41:09,475 --> 00:41:12,955 Speaker 1: ended because he completely lost the ability to throw an ordinary, 652 00:41:13,075 --> 00:41:16,755 Speaker 1: uncomplicated baseball to first base. Since similar cases of the 653 00:41:16,835 --> 00:41:20,635 Speaker 1: yips seemed to afflict players whose baseball centric fathers had 654 00:41:20,635 --> 00:41:24,355 Speaker 1: gotten sick or jailed or something, and Knoblock's dad had 655 00:41:24,555 --> 00:41:27,355 Speaker 1: just entered the final stages of Alzheimer's. It was probably 656 00:41:27,395 --> 00:41:32,395 Speaker 1: that the last disastrous throw he made the next year, 657 00:41:32,835 --> 00:41:36,795 Speaker 1: on June seventeenth, two thousand, bounced off the Yankee dugout 658 00:41:36,795 --> 00:41:39,595 Speaker 1: and spun weirdly and hit a woman in the box seats. 659 00:41:40,115 --> 00:41:44,755 Speaker 1: The woman was my mother, the one where Bernie Williams 660 00:41:44,995 --> 00:41:48,795 Speaker 1: knew where she sat. All the things that followed. Since 661 00:41:48,795 --> 00:41:50,875 Speaker 1: I was in the studio that day doing the highlights 662 00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:52,995 Speaker 1: for the Fox Game of the Week, they require their 663 00:41:53,035 --> 00:41:55,835 Speaker 1: own segment of this. But the one thing that has 664 00:41:55,995 --> 00:41:59,595 Speaker 1: always mystified me was how Chuck Nabloch did not know 665 00:42:00,355 --> 00:42:03,555 Speaker 1: not to throw the ball where he did, because at 666 00:42:03,555 --> 00:42:07,435 Speaker 1: some point burnt Any Williams must have warned him, Hey, hey, Chuck, 667 00:42:07,915 --> 00:42:11,355 Speaker 1: don't do it there. That's where Keith Olberman's mother sits. 668 00:42:24,835 --> 00:42:26,675 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 669 00:42:26,715 --> 00:42:28,515 Speaker 1: you for listening. 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