1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:20,195 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:21,395 --> 00:00:25,475 Speaker 1: The Trunks Russia story roared back from the dead yesterday, 3 00:00:25,515 --> 00:00:30,315 Speaker 1: and basically nobody noticed, all too busy with the big 4 00:00:30,515 --> 00:00:34,435 Speaker 1: M and EM's news. It was the New York Field 5 00:00:34,435 --> 00:00:37,155 Speaker 1: Office of the FBI which handled most of the investigation 6 00:00:37,155 --> 00:00:40,635 Speaker 1: into Russia's interference in our two thousand sixteen presidential election, 7 00:00:41,115 --> 00:00:44,315 Speaker 1: and one of the FBI agents on that investigation was 8 00:00:44,355 --> 00:00:48,875 Speaker 1: the head of Foreign counter Intelligence, Charles mcgonaghal And one 9 00:00:48,875 --> 00:00:51,795 Speaker 1: of the putent linked Russian oligarchs McGonagall and the rest 10 00:00:51,795 --> 00:00:56,115 Speaker 1: of the bureau was investigating was named Oleg Deri Pasca. 11 00:00:56,875 --> 00:01:00,475 Speaker 1: And yesterday we found out that Charles McGonagall had been 12 00:01:00,515 --> 00:01:05,915 Speaker 1: indicted and arrested for secretly working full or Old Egg 13 00:01:05,995 --> 00:01:11,195 Speaker 1: Derrick Posca. Old Egg Derrick Posca, Why that's old Leg 14 00:01:11,355 --> 00:01:16,435 Speaker 1: Derrick Posca's name. McGonagall has spent much of the four 15 00:01:16,515 --> 00:01:19,395 Speaker 1: years since he retired from the FBI trying to covertly 16 00:01:19,435 --> 00:01:23,755 Speaker 1: get American sanctions against Derrick Posca lifted, and between that 17 00:01:24,355 --> 00:01:28,275 Speaker 1: and lying about it and taking money from another foreign 18 00:01:28,275 --> 00:01:31,955 Speaker 1: country while still working for the FBI. McGonagall could face 19 00:01:31,995 --> 00:01:36,755 Speaker 1: a maximum of seventy five years in prison. McGonagall on 20 00:01:36,835 --> 00:01:42,795 Speaker 1: Derrick Posca and oh, by the way, Derrick Posca's investment consultant, 21 00:01:43,635 --> 00:01:49,395 Speaker 1: Paul who is his name here? Mana Fort that if 22 00:01:49,435 --> 00:01:52,875 Speaker 1: somehow you have forgotten Paul man of Fort. He was 23 00:01:53,555 --> 00:01:57,395 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's second campaign manager in two thousand sixteen, the 24 00:01:57,475 --> 00:02:02,155 Speaker 1: one who just happened to work for free. Man of 25 00:02:02,235 --> 00:02:08,315 Speaker 1: Fort works for Derrick Poscac donegal investigates Derrick Posca, McGonagall retires, 26 00:02:08,355 --> 00:02:13,675 Speaker 1: and suddenly McGonagall works for Derrick Posca. Manaport works for Trump. 27 00:02:14,235 --> 00:02:19,075 Speaker 1: But Trump Russia is a hoax. The hoax, as we 28 00:02:19,155 --> 00:02:22,515 Speaker 1: all know, was Trump appointing an attorney general who would 29 00:02:22,515 --> 00:02:24,875 Speaker 1: bury not only the thinner parts of the Mueller Report, 30 00:02:24,995 --> 00:02:28,115 Speaker 1: but all of the Mueller Report. And now up pops 31 00:02:28,195 --> 00:02:31,875 Speaker 1: one of the lead FBI investigators into Russian interference in 32 00:02:31,915 --> 00:02:34,395 Speaker 1: the two thousand and sixteen election, who retires from the 33 00:02:34,435 --> 00:02:36,995 Speaker 1: bureau two years later, and we are expected to believe 34 00:02:37,035 --> 00:02:40,235 Speaker 1: the Russian Derrick Posca goes from viewing this McGonagall guy 35 00:02:40,275 --> 00:02:42,915 Speaker 1: as a man who's trying to put him into jail, 36 00:02:43,955 --> 00:02:47,715 Speaker 1: goes from that and becomes a valued comrade who can 37 00:02:47,755 --> 00:02:51,875 Speaker 1: get his sanctions lifted from him, just out of the blue. 38 00:02:52,475 --> 00:02:54,355 Speaker 1: He picked him out of the white pages in the 39 00:02:54,475 --> 00:03:00,715 Speaker 1: phone book. There is no connection between mcdonaghal investigates Derrick Posca, 40 00:03:00,755 --> 00:03:03,955 Speaker 1: and nothing happens to Derrick Posca. And five years later, 41 00:03:03,995 --> 00:03:08,395 Speaker 1: Derrick Posca hires McGonagall, and McGonagall breaks the law so much, 42 00:03:08,435 --> 00:03:10,755 Speaker 1: so fast that McGonagall could go to jail for seventy 43 00:03:10,755 --> 00:03:15,715 Speaker 1: five years. Even the Wall Street Journal actually saw some 44 00:03:15,795 --> 00:03:20,075 Speaker 1: of this. Let me quote its coverage from yesterday. Mr McGonagall, 45 00:03:20,515 --> 00:03:24,315 Speaker 1: who also supervised investigations into Mr Derrick Posca and other 46 00:03:24,355 --> 00:03:27,915 Speaker 1: Russian oligarchs before departing the FBI in two thousand eighteen, 47 00:03:28,395 --> 00:03:33,635 Speaker 1: began conspiring to provide services to Mr Derrick Posca. In 48 00:03:34,835 --> 00:03:40,235 Speaker 1: Prosecutors said he used shell companies and other means to 49 00:03:40,435 --> 00:03:44,835 Speaker 1: hide Mr Derrick Pasca's involvement in the work. They said, unquote. 50 00:03:46,315 --> 00:03:48,675 Speaker 1: The Washington Post did sum it up a little bit 51 00:03:48,675 --> 00:03:54,595 Speaker 1: more succinctly. It's headline, former senior FBI official accused of 52 00:03:54,635 --> 00:04:03,115 Speaker 1: working for Russian He investigated, you bet. Almost every news organization, however, 53 00:04:03,155 --> 00:04:07,235 Speaker 1: refused to put Trump's in their McGonagall Derrick Pasca story. 54 00:04:07,555 --> 00:04:10,195 Speaker 1: There is a reason Trump worked the refs on that 55 00:04:10,275 --> 00:04:12,715 Speaker 1: story for every minute it was in front of mind. 56 00:04:13,355 --> 00:04:17,075 Speaker 1: No refs can get worked as easily as American news 57 00:04:17,235 --> 00:04:20,595 Speaker 1: organization refs. They don't want any more of that abuse. 58 00:04:20,675 --> 00:04:25,195 Speaker 1: They have cocktail parties to go to with these peoples, Sonny. However, 59 00:04:26,075 --> 00:04:30,235 Speaker 1: the publication Insider got wind of the McGonagall Derrick Posca 60 00:04:30,355 --> 00:04:35,235 Speaker 1: scandal last September, and it named names, quoting their report 61 00:04:35,315 --> 00:04:38,995 Speaker 1: from then. A witness subpoena obtained by Insider seems to 62 00:04:38,995 --> 00:04:41,755 Speaker 1: indicate that the government and part was looking into mcgonagall's 63 00:04:41,875 --> 00:04:45,635 Speaker 1: business dealings with a top aide to Oleg Derrick Posca, 64 00:04:45,955 --> 00:04:49,395 Speaker 1: the billionaire Russian oligarch, who was at the center of 65 00:04:49,435 --> 00:04:53,995 Speaker 1: allegations that Russia colluded with the Trump campaign to interfere 66 00:04:54,235 --> 00:04:58,675 Speaker 1: in the two thousand sixteen election. Thank you very much, Insider. 67 00:05:01,235 --> 00:05:03,995 Speaker 1: We may never know exactly what Russia did for Trump 68 00:05:04,035 --> 00:05:06,195 Speaker 1: and what Trump knew about it in advance, and what 69 00:05:06,275 --> 00:05:08,995 Speaker 1: he solicited and what he didn't. But if not, it 70 00:05:09,035 --> 00:05:11,835 Speaker 1: will not be because there isn't evidence. It will be 71 00:05:11,835 --> 00:05:16,955 Speaker 1: because there isn't courage. The leads all remains sitting there 72 00:05:16,995 --> 00:05:21,235 Speaker 1: atop the table getting cobwebs on them, for sure, but 73 00:05:21,435 --> 00:05:24,795 Speaker 1: still atop the table where everybody can see them. And 74 00:05:24,835 --> 00:05:29,715 Speaker 1: you want one more lead besides McGonagall hereafter known as 75 00:05:29,795 --> 00:05:33,435 Speaker 1: the accused, besides the fact that he not only led 76 00:05:33,515 --> 00:05:37,115 Speaker 1: foreign counter intelligence and was a lead of the Russian 77 00:05:37,155 --> 00:05:41,035 Speaker 1: electoral interference case and was in charge of investigation of 78 00:05:41,115 --> 00:05:44,595 Speaker 1: Russian oligarchs. But in two thousand ten, guests, who was 79 00:05:44,635 --> 00:05:48,955 Speaker 1: in charge of the FBI task force investigating wiki leaks? 80 00:05:51,835 --> 00:05:57,435 Speaker 1: Was it the purple eminem? No, I'm sorry it was McGonagall. 81 00:05:58,435 --> 00:06:01,915 Speaker 1: But don't you dare say that any of this might 82 00:06:01,995 --> 00:06:05,235 Speaker 1: have anything to do with Trump, or that Mary Garland 83 00:06:05,235 --> 00:06:09,235 Speaker 1: should reopen the Muller investigation or publish the unredacted report, 84 00:06:09,275 --> 00:06:12,475 Speaker 1: because some Trumper is gonna yell at you. They'll either 85 00:06:12,555 --> 00:06:16,435 Speaker 1: discredit you're a news organization, or if you are independent, 86 00:06:16,435 --> 00:06:20,115 Speaker 1: they'll just discredit you. And if neither of those plays work, 87 00:06:20,195 --> 00:06:23,835 Speaker 1: they'll just scream about you enough and enough and enough 88 00:06:24,155 --> 00:06:27,715 Speaker 1: that you'll wind up on Caesar sayok, the mega bombers 89 00:06:27,795 --> 00:06:30,235 Speaker 1: list of the people he wanted to send the rest 90 00:06:30,275 --> 00:06:33,075 Speaker 1: of his pipe bombs too, only they caught him first 91 00:06:33,115 --> 00:06:35,195 Speaker 1: and put him in prison. Yeah, I was one of those. 92 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:40,515 Speaker 1: How are you if that was not enough Trump for 93 00:06:40,595 --> 00:06:45,235 Speaker 1: you be turns out that golf tournament he quote one 94 00:06:45,315 --> 00:06:47,555 Speaker 1: at his golf course and boasted about the other day. 95 00:06:47,555 --> 00:06:50,315 Speaker 1: He didn't play the first round. He just swapped in 96 00:06:50,395 --> 00:06:53,355 Speaker 1: his score from some other round of golf earlier in 97 00:06:53,395 --> 00:06:57,315 Speaker 1: the week, so that c when play began Sunday at 98 00:06:57,355 --> 00:06:59,995 Speaker 1: the Trump International, I had nothing to do with Russia 99 00:07:00,035 --> 00:07:03,075 Speaker 1: golf course. The other golfers were surprised to find they 100 00:07:03,075 --> 00:07:05,795 Speaker 1: were all five strokes behind a guy who wasn't even 101 00:07:05,835 --> 00:07:09,075 Speaker 1: at the tournament Saturday because d he was at the 102 00:07:09,115 --> 00:07:14,035 Speaker 1: memorial service for Diamond of Diamond and Silk, explaining that 103 00:07:14,075 --> 00:07:15,915 Speaker 1: he only knew diamond, he didn't know silk, but she 104 00:07:15,995 --> 00:07:18,515 Speaker 1: seemed great and complaining they told him the service would 105 00:07:18,515 --> 00:07:20,915 Speaker 1: be fifteen minutes when it was already three hours. And 106 00:07:21,035 --> 00:07:25,595 Speaker 1: yet E Trump was at his Florida golf course long 107 00:07:25,675 --> 00:07:28,035 Speaker 1: enough at some point this month to pose for a 108 00:07:28,075 --> 00:07:32,115 Speaker 1: photo that found its way into the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday 109 00:07:32,155 --> 00:07:34,515 Speaker 1: because one of the other two guys in the photograph 110 00:07:34,595 --> 00:07:38,715 Speaker 1: was Joseph Merlino, and Joseph Merlino used to be known 111 00:07:38,755 --> 00:07:42,115 Speaker 1: as Skinny Joey. I think you know where this is 112 00:07:42,155 --> 00:07:46,475 Speaker 1: going Skinny Joey when he was still a mom boss 113 00:07:46,595 --> 00:07:49,395 Speaker 1: in Philly, and nobody's saying if Merlino and Trump already 114 00:07:49,475 --> 00:07:53,315 Speaker 1: knew each other before the photo or even doing the photo, 115 00:07:53,395 --> 00:07:55,915 Speaker 1: because f that kind of stuff gets out and it 116 00:07:55,955 --> 00:08:03,595 Speaker 1: will do severe damage to the reputation of Skinny Joey. Also, 117 00:08:03,635 --> 00:08:05,955 Speaker 1: if you told me the third I in the photo 118 00:08:06,155 --> 00:08:09,195 Speaker 1: with Skinny Joey and Trump was Oleg Derri Pasca, I 119 00:08:09,235 --> 00:08:15,315 Speaker 1: wouldn't be one god damned bit surprised. Two other follow 120 00:08:15,395 --> 00:08:18,515 Speaker 1: ups today, which I must mention. You may remember my 121 00:08:18,635 --> 00:08:22,795 Speaker 1: complaint about Biden and the documents I said here yesterday. 122 00:08:23,275 --> 00:08:25,235 Speaker 1: I believe Joe Biden when he said there was no 123 00:08:25,355 --> 00:08:28,435 Speaker 1: there there because there wasn't. And in the non their 124 00:08:28,515 --> 00:08:31,915 Speaker 1: their space, there are now seven different stories and severn 125 00:08:32,035 --> 00:08:35,955 Speaker 1: different stories about how much the president is cooperating. Is 126 00:08:35,995 --> 00:08:38,795 Speaker 1: the same thing as seven different stories about exactly how 127 00:08:38,875 --> 00:08:42,515 Speaker 1: much the president donated to charity last year, And if 128 00:08:42,595 --> 00:08:46,235 Speaker 1: those numbers changed, they would get people scratching their heads. 129 00:08:46,235 --> 00:08:48,115 Speaker 1: And I don't know who thought this was a good idea, 130 00:08:48,195 --> 00:08:50,515 Speaker 1: and I'm hoping it wasn't President Biden, because if it wasn't, 131 00:08:50,595 --> 00:08:53,595 Speaker 1: he can fire everybody who did and he should do that. Well, 132 00:08:53,595 --> 00:08:58,115 Speaker 1: now it's eight stories, because what did somebody leak to 133 00:08:58,115 --> 00:09:01,955 Speaker 1: The New York Times quote. Biden's lawyers told the Justice 134 00:09:01,995 --> 00:09:04,475 Speaker 1: Department in November that they had no reason to believe 135 00:09:04,515 --> 00:09:07,915 Speaker 1: the copies of official records from his vice presidency had 136 00:09:07,995 --> 00:09:11,315 Speaker 1: ended up anywhere beyond the think tank in Washington, where 137 00:09:11,355 --> 00:09:14,875 Speaker 1: several classified documents had been found that month. Two people 138 00:09:14,915 --> 00:09:18,075 Speaker 1: familiar with the matter set on Sunday that assertion, the 139 00:09:18,115 --> 00:09:22,955 Speaker 1: people said, was based on interviews with former officials who 140 00:09:22,955 --> 00:09:25,635 Speaker 1: had been involved in the process of packing and shipping 141 00:09:25,715 --> 00:09:30,395 Speaker 1: such material. Unquote. Because sure, these are the people whose 142 00:09:30,435 --> 00:09:34,635 Speaker 1: word is gold on this, Because sure those people were 143 00:09:34,675 --> 00:09:36,915 Speaker 1: supposed to make sure there weren't any documents at the 144 00:09:36,955 --> 00:09:40,155 Speaker 1: Washington think tank either. But just because they were wrong 145 00:09:40,235 --> 00:09:44,275 Speaker 1: about that, that's no reason to suppose they're not right 146 00:09:44,715 --> 00:09:48,075 Speaker 1: about there being no documents anywhere else in the world. 147 00:09:51,035 --> 00:09:55,035 Speaker 1: President needs to fire his lawyers and anybody else connected 148 00:09:55,075 --> 00:09:57,995 Speaker 1: with this and get in some people who will doubt 149 00:09:58,075 --> 00:10:03,675 Speaker 1: more and assume less, because you want the doubt inside 150 00:10:03,715 --> 00:10:08,515 Speaker 1: the tent. And because each new version of this story 151 00:10:08,955 --> 00:10:13,235 Speaker 1: that comes out guarantees another week of coverage of this 152 00:10:13,395 --> 00:10:17,675 Speaker 1: meaningless trivial filing problem that is being turned into an 153 00:10:17,715 --> 00:10:23,315 Speaker 1: impeachment preamble simply because there are seven, no eight different 154 00:10:23,475 --> 00:10:26,475 Speaker 1: damned stories or maybe more by now, because I've been 155 00:10:26,475 --> 00:10:28,235 Speaker 1: in here in the studio for ten minutes and I've 156 00:10:28,275 --> 00:10:37,755 Speaker 1: been able to check Twitter. Lastly, because I need the 157 00:10:37,795 --> 00:10:44,275 Speaker 1: comic relief to Arizona, where the sitting senior senator from 158 00:10:44,315 --> 00:10:51,075 Speaker 1: that state is polling at thirteen percent, and the question 159 00:10:51,235 --> 00:10:54,475 Speaker 1: of if she tries to run as an independent in 160 00:10:55,355 --> 00:10:58,755 Speaker 1: four who she will damage more, the Democrat or the 161 00:10:58,755 --> 00:11:06,195 Speaker 1: Republican is now believed to be pretty much a toss up. Anyway, 162 00:11:06,995 --> 00:11:10,355 Speaker 1: the Democrat has now entered the chat, the real one, 163 00:11:10,795 --> 00:11:13,475 Speaker 1: and I'll just read the opening sentence from the Associated 164 00:11:13,475 --> 00:11:18,515 Speaker 1: Press bulletin yesterday. Quote Phoenix a p Democratic Representative Ruben 165 00:11:18,595 --> 00:11:23,915 Speaker 1: Diego to run for independent Arizona Senator Kirsten Cinema's seat, 166 00:11:24,315 --> 00:11:29,555 Speaker 1: setting up potential three way race unquote, which just on 167 00:11:29,635 --> 00:11:32,835 Speaker 1: a personal level is hilarious to me because when we 168 00:11:32,915 --> 00:11:36,635 Speaker 1: used to go out several times, Kirsten, unprovoked by anything 169 00:11:36,715 --> 00:11:41,115 Speaker 1: I said, insisted she had no interest in potential three 170 00:11:41,115 --> 00:11:59,635 Speaker 1: ways races, freeway races. What did you think I meant, 171 00:11:59,875 --> 00:12:05,995 Speaker 1: where is your mind today? Huh? Still ahead? The Baseball 172 00:12:06,035 --> 00:12:09,275 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame will announce its electees tonight, if any 173 00:12:09,715 --> 00:12:11,795 Speaker 1: I wonder if Mike Trout will ever get into the 174 00:12:11,795 --> 00:12:14,235 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame now that the lame team owner who 175 00:12:14,235 --> 00:12:16,835 Speaker 1: has made sure that Trout has never been to the 176 00:12:16,875 --> 00:12:20,315 Speaker 1: World Series has changed his mind and is not going 177 00:12:20,355 --> 00:12:24,635 Speaker 1: to sell the Los Angeles Angels team. After all, Mike 178 00:12:24,715 --> 00:12:27,515 Speaker 1: Pompeio knows who the real villain is in the murder 179 00:12:27,515 --> 00:12:32,355 Speaker 1: of Jamal Kashogi. It's Jamal Kashogi. Whereas person is ahead. 180 00:12:33,075 --> 00:12:36,355 Speaker 1: And the first rule of broadcasting from your high school 181 00:12:36,395 --> 00:12:40,235 Speaker 1: station to the upper most echelons of the business, the 182 00:12:40,355 --> 00:12:43,475 Speaker 1: rule is this, no matter how unimportant you think it is, 183 00:12:44,155 --> 00:12:47,355 Speaker 1: if you do not know how to pronounce it as 184 00:12:47,515 --> 00:12:54,035 Speaker 1: somebody who does newscaster who doesn't nukes the Vancouver Canucks, 185 00:12:54,755 --> 00:13:06,715 Speaker 1: that's next. This has countdown. This is countdown with Keith 186 00:13:06,715 --> 00:13:13,635 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead. On countdown. I called Willie Mays at home. 187 00:13:13,835 --> 00:13:16,475 Speaker 1: The voice that answered kind of sounded like him, except 188 00:13:16,875 --> 00:13:21,355 Speaker 1: as a woman. And also in sports, how do you 189 00:13:21,395 --> 00:13:26,275 Speaker 1: pronounce c A n U c K s And if 190 00:13:26,315 --> 00:13:28,675 Speaker 1: you pronounce it wrong on TV? How do you pronounce 191 00:13:28,715 --> 00:13:31,835 Speaker 1: it an hour later when it comes up again? In 192 00:13:31,835 --> 00:13:35,075 Speaker 1: the script? First, in each edition of Countdown, we feature 193 00:13:35,075 --> 00:13:36,955 Speaker 1: a dog in need you can help. Every dog has 194 00:13:36,995 --> 00:13:40,235 Speaker 1: its day. We go to Conro Texas and Robin, a 195 00:13:40,315 --> 00:13:44,435 Speaker 1: sweet tempered staffy who was clearly used as a bait dog, 196 00:13:45,635 --> 00:13:49,635 Speaker 1: and then somebody apparently put a lit firecracker in her mouth. 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Wait, check that not anymore. 204 00:14:46,715 --> 00:14:53,835 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith in Sports All bad news. 205 00:14:53,915 --> 00:14:59,355 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in California baseball fans absentee 206 00:14:59,395 --> 00:15:03,275 Speaker 1: owner Artie Murno has changed his mind and will not 207 00:15:03,515 --> 00:15:07,235 Speaker 1: sell the moribund team after all. This means the odds 208 00:15:07,235 --> 00:15:10,555 Speaker 1: are now six to five that the fifteen plate appearances 209 00:15:10,595 --> 00:15:14,115 Speaker 1: Mike Trout got in the two thousand fourteen playoffs, will 210 00:15:14,115 --> 00:15:17,995 Speaker 1: be the only time he reaches the postseason. Commissioner Rob 211 00:15:18,035 --> 00:15:21,755 Speaker 1: Manfred's statement on Moreno's about face quote, despite strong buyer 212 00:15:21,795 --> 00:15:24,875 Speaker 1: interest in the Angels already, Moreno's love of the game 213 00:15:25,475 --> 00:15:28,075 Speaker 1: is most important to him. I am very pleased that 214 00:15:28,115 --> 00:15:31,755 Speaker 1: the Moreno family has decided to continue owning the team. 215 00:15:31,795 --> 00:15:34,355 Speaker 1: And if he's pleased, that should tell you just how 216 00:15:34,515 --> 00:15:38,635 Speaker 1: bad news this is for the team. Baseball's Hall of 217 00:15:38,675 --> 00:15:42,235 Speaker 1: Fame class of three will be announced tonight, if any 218 00:15:42,395 --> 00:15:44,915 Speaker 1: doesn't look like it. As of the last count of 219 00:15:44,995 --> 00:15:47,955 Speaker 1: publicly released ballots, about a hundred and eighty five of them, 220 00:15:47,995 --> 00:15:51,435 Speaker 1: former Phillies, Reds and Cardinals third baseman Scott Roland and 221 00:15:51,635 --> 00:15:56,875 Speaker 1: Rockies first baseman Todd Helton were both above percent threshold 222 00:15:56,915 --> 00:16:00,115 Speaker 1: required to get in, but invariably, when the ballots not 223 00:16:00,275 --> 00:16:05,635 Speaker 1: publicly released are then counted, all candidates percentages flat line, 224 00:16:06,075 --> 00:16:09,355 Speaker 1: meaning the likeliest outcome is even though Roland and Helton 225 00:16:09,355 --> 00:16:13,915 Speaker 1: are above, neither of them we'll get in tomorrow, not now. 226 00:16:14,195 --> 00:16:18,555 Speaker 1: Though everybody this close to election gets in eventually, that 227 00:16:18,555 --> 00:16:21,515 Speaker 1: would mean the only player at this summer's induction ceremony 228 00:16:21,555 --> 00:16:24,755 Speaker 1: would be long overlooked Blue Jays and Braves first baseman 229 00:16:24,755 --> 00:16:27,635 Speaker 1: Fred McGriff, totally fitting that he would get the stage 230 00:16:27,675 --> 00:16:30,435 Speaker 1: by himself for a change. Since the Hall of Fame 231 00:16:30,475 --> 00:16:32,435 Speaker 1: news comes up today, I thought it would be fitting 232 00:16:32,435 --> 00:16:34,955 Speaker 1: if today's things I promised not to tell is about 233 00:16:34,955 --> 00:16:38,595 Speaker 1: a day when, aged twenty, I had to interview a 234 00:16:38,635 --> 00:16:41,595 Speaker 1: Hall of Famer for a radio network about getting banned 235 00:16:41,675 --> 00:16:45,195 Speaker 1: from baseball, and he answered the phone in a falsetto 236 00:16:45,355 --> 00:16:48,795 Speaker 1: voice coming up speaking of announcing. When I did the 237 00:16:48,835 --> 00:16:51,715 Speaker 1: sports on local TV news in Boston and l A, 238 00:16:51,795 --> 00:16:54,395 Speaker 1: people new to the staff always looked twice at my 239 00:16:54,555 --> 00:16:59,235 Speaker 1: scripts and wondered why I spelled almost every proper name, 240 00:16:59,315 --> 00:17:03,395 Speaker 1: even the well known local ones phonetically. Catcher Mike Sosha 241 00:17:03,475 --> 00:17:05,795 Speaker 1: of the Dodgers, for instance, ce spelled it s c 242 00:17:06,075 --> 00:17:09,795 Speaker 1: I O s c I A. On my script, I 243 00:17:09,835 --> 00:17:13,915 Speaker 1: spelled it s O s h A Sosia. Well, if 244 00:17:13,915 --> 00:17:16,115 Speaker 1: they asked, I would explain it's to make sure I 245 00:17:16,115 --> 00:17:18,395 Speaker 1: don't screw it up, but that was only part of 246 00:17:18,395 --> 00:17:20,915 Speaker 1: the answer. At kt l A and Los Angeles, we 247 00:17:20,955 --> 00:17:23,755 Speaker 1: had a very nice lady who translated the newscast live 248 00:17:23,875 --> 00:17:27,475 Speaker 1: into Spanish and she knew nothing about sports, especially not 249 00:17:27,835 --> 00:17:31,155 Speaker 1: how to pronounce anybody's name, so the fonetics helped her. 250 00:17:31,555 --> 00:17:34,195 Speaker 1: Later at k CBS, I found that occasionally they'd use 251 00:17:34,275 --> 00:17:37,075 Speaker 1: my sports scripts on the morning news, and often the 252 00:17:37,075 --> 00:17:40,555 Speaker 1: newscaster had no idea who Mike Socia was and would 253 00:17:40,595 --> 00:17:44,155 Speaker 1: see s c I O, s c i A, usually 254 00:17:44,195 --> 00:17:46,395 Speaker 1: only while actually live on the air. And then suddenly 255 00:17:46,395 --> 00:17:48,315 Speaker 1: an l A audience full of l A fans would 256 00:17:48,315 --> 00:17:52,995 Speaker 1: hear in l A newscaster referred to Mike Sioskia or 257 00:17:53,555 --> 00:17:58,715 Speaker 1: Mike shoo Shay. I mentioned all this because one of 258 00:17:58,715 --> 00:18:01,315 Speaker 1: the greatest arguments for doing it, and thus one of 259 00:18:01,315 --> 00:18:03,995 Speaker 1: the greatest train wrecks ever heard when the decision was 260 00:18:04,035 --> 00:18:07,635 Speaker 1: made to not do it, unfolded yesterday on the midday 261 00:18:07,635 --> 00:18:11,235 Speaker 1: news at a television station in Washington. Somebody copied a 262 00:18:11,275 --> 00:18:15,035 Speaker 1: paragraph of hockey news from the Associated Press wire and 263 00:18:15,155 --> 00:18:17,795 Speaker 1: handed it to the newscaster, who apparently had never heard 264 00:18:17,835 --> 00:18:21,475 Speaker 1: of hockey, or of Washington's hockey team, or of Canada, 265 00:18:22,235 --> 00:18:24,835 Speaker 1: or of looking at the script first and asking somebody, 266 00:18:24,915 --> 00:18:27,995 Speaker 1: how do you say this name? Let me read you 267 00:18:28,035 --> 00:18:30,435 Speaker 1: the script as it was written, then I'll play you 268 00:18:30,475 --> 00:18:34,875 Speaker 1: Her version of it quote. Former Washington Capital's coach Bruce 269 00:18:34,915 --> 00:18:38,755 Speaker 1: Boudreau has been fired by the Vancouver Canucks. The team 270 00:18:38,755 --> 00:18:41,555 Speaker 1: announced the change Sunday, less than a week after President 271 00:18:41,555 --> 00:18:45,315 Speaker 1: of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford said major surgery was needed 272 00:18:45,355 --> 00:18:49,635 Speaker 1: to fix the Canucks. Rick Tockett was hired as Boudreau's 273 00:18:49,755 --> 00:18:56,635 Speaker 1: replacement or Former Washington Capital's coach Bruce Boudreau has been 274 00:18:56,635 --> 00:19:01,595 Speaker 1: fired by the Vancouver Canucks. The team announced the change Sunday, 275 00:19:02,075 --> 00:19:05,435 Speaker 1: less than a week president of Hockey Operation Jim Rutherford 276 00:19:05,475 --> 00:19:10,195 Speaker 1: said major surgery was needed to fix the Canucks. Rick 277 00:19:10,355 --> 00:19:14,915 Speaker 1: Tuki was hired as Bodrow's replaced. Boom goes the Dynamite, 278 00:19:14,995 --> 00:19:18,595 Speaker 1: or in this case, the Ken Nukes, which, given how 279 00:19:18,635 --> 00:19:20,835 Speaker 1: things went this week in Vancouver, is not a bad 280 00:19:20,875 --> 00:19:25,115 Speaker 1: new name for the team. They can't nukes. The thing 281 00:19:25,115 --> 00:19:27,275 Speaker 1: about local news these days is that it goes on 282 00:19:27,355 --> 00:19:30,435 Speaker 1: for an hour after hour after hour. So sure enough, 283 00:19:30,475 --> 00:19:33,835 Speaker 1: an hour later, same story, same newscaster. But clearly she 284 00:19:33,915 --> 00:19:39,195 Speaker 1: had asked or had been told that it wasn't bow Drow. Unfortunately, 285 00:19:40,515 --> 00:19:45,035 Speaker 1: that's where the learning curve flatlined, and former Washington Capital's 286 00:19:45,115 --> 00:19:49,555 Speaker 1: coach Bruce Drew has been fired by the Vancouver Canucks. 287 00:19:49,715 --> 00:19:53,995 Speaker 1: The team announced the change today. Rick Tucket was hired 288 00:19:54,075 --> 00:19:59,955 Speaker 1: as Drew's replacement. Poor Rick Tuckett. A word about Rick 289 00:20:00,355 --> 00:20:04,595 Speaker 1: Tacket T O C c h E. T. Tacket, an 290 00:20:04,675 --> 00:20:08,035 Speaker 1: Indies sports center anchor who also didn't know hockey, encountered 291 00:20:08,115 --> 00:20:11,075 Speaker 1: Rick Tockett's name when he was a star player, and 292 00:20:11,115 --> 00:20:14,235 Speaker 1: whereas the Washington newscaster wasn't smart enough to ask, the 293 00:20:14,435 --> 00:20:17,275 Speaker 1: ESPN one was too smart for her own good hockey, 294 00:20:17,315 --> 00:20:22,555 Speaker 1: she reasoned was Canadian. All the Canadians she knew were French. Therefore, 295 00:20:23,235 --> 00:20:25,995 Speaker 1: Rick Tockett t O c c h E t became 296 00:20:27,235 --> 00:20:35,315 Speaker 1: Rick Tosha. I inherited all of her notepads after she left. 297 00:20:48,955 --> 00:20:51,155 Speaker 1: Now to the daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and 298 00:20:51,195 --> 00:20:54,715 Speaker 1: Donning Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 299 00:20:54,755 --> 00:20:59,595 Speaker 1: the world. Le Bronze Mike Pompeio. Since the days when 300 00:20:59,635 --> 00:21:01,675 Speaker 1: he was one of the dumbest members of Congress, it's 301 00:21:01,675 --> 00:21:03,875 Speaker 1: been obvious that he's been a big, ugly boil on 302 00:21:03,915 --> 00:21:08,555 Speaker 1: the nation's back side. His boastful ineptitude and scumbaggery at 303 00:21:08,635 --> 00:21:12,075 Speaker 1: CIA and as Secretary of State legendary. But in his 304 00:21:12,115 --> 00:21:15,795 Speaker 1: new book, Pompeo, who will live his entire life never 305 00:21:15,915 --> 00:21:19,675 Speaker 1: understanding how stupid nor hated he really is, slams of 306 00:21:19,755 --> 00:21:24,955 Speaker 1: all people. Washington Post columnist Jamal Kashogi, who was murdered 307 00:21:24,995 --> 00:21:26,795 Speaker 1: and then chopped up at the behest of the new 308 00:21:26,835 --> 00:21:30,995 Speaker 1: dictator of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad been sold. He didn't deserve 309 00:21:31,035 --> 00:21:33,555 Speaker 1: to die, he writes, but we need to be clear 310 00:21:33,555 --> 00:21:37,315 Speaker 1: about who he was. Pompeo goes on to explain Kashoki 311 00:21:37,435 --> 00:21:40,195 Speaker 1: was not a real journalist, but an activist, and then 312 00:21:40,275 --> 00:21:44,715 Speaker 1: slanderously ties him to the Muslim brotherhood. Here's an idea, Mike, 313 00:21:44,755 --> 00:21:46,795 Speaker 1: we need you to go on a mission for this country. 314 00:21:47,115 --> 00:21:54,395 Speaker 1: Saudi consulate Nistan bowl your game, idiot thrunner up Elon Musk. First, 315 00:21:54,595 --> 00:21:59,075 Speaker 1: Leah Heil Pearn, who was an online bitcoin schill, tweeted quote. 316 00:21:59,435 --> 00:22:01,915 Speaker 1: Elon Musk says he had major side effects from his 317 00:22:01,915 --> 00:22:04,355 Speaker 1: second booster and felt like he was dying for days. 318 00:22:04,755 --> 00:22:08,075 Speaker 1: He also said his cousin was hospitalized with mile kardiitis. 319 00:22:08,115 --> 00:22:11,155 Speaker 1: Why are MSM and the politicians that forced this toxic 320 00:22:11,275 --> 00:22:14,595 Speaker 1: jab silent unquote? Well, first of all, because Musk owns Twitter, 321 00:22:14,835 --> 00:22:17,635 Speaker 1: and he kept mentioning his side effects, which a lot 322 00:22:17,635 --> 00:22:21,155 Speaker 1: of people had, and his alleged cousin, over and over 323 00:22:21,195 --> 00:22:23,115 Speaker 1: and over and over and over again, because he is 324 00:22:23,155 --> 00:22:26,115 Speaker 1: a drama queen who on a daily basis proves that 325 00:22:26,195 --> 00:22:28,435 Speaker 1: his word is not worth a bowl of warm spit, 326 00:22:28,915 --> 00:22:32,995 Speaker 1: and who will say anything for sympathy. And second, because 327 00:22:32,995 --> 00:22:36,995 Speaker 1: of that, because it probably didn't happen. Part two of 328 00:22:37,035 --> 00:22:39,955 Speaker 1: Elon Musk's tenure here. The New York Times reports that 329 00:22:40,115 --> 00:22:44,515 Speaker 1: last year, when Marjorie Trailer Park Green tweeted made up 330 00:22:44,595 --> 00:22:47,275 Speaker 1: stuff about the vaccine, Twitter suspended her account, and her 331 00:22:47,275 --> 00:22:51,955 Speaker 1: response was to talk Kevin McCarthy into trying to get 332 00:22:51,995 --> 00:22:55,955 Speaker 1: her unsuspended. McCarthy, then the minority leader in the House, 333 00:22:55,955 --> 00:22:58,675 Speaker 1: he used taxpayer dollars to have his general counsel, a 334 00:22:58,755 --> 00:23:02,995 Speaker 1: Federalist Society fraud named car, called Twitter and argue for 335 00:23:03,075 --> 00:23:07,275 Speaker 1: hours to get green reinsta did funny this attempt by 336 00:23:07,315 --> 00:23:10,875 Speaker 1: Republicans to bully Twitter wasn't in them Twitter files. Hi Ellen, 337 00:23:11,715 --> 00:23:17,515 Speaker 1: no comment, Matt Tiddy, no handwringing. Glenn Greenwald, but our 338 00:23:17,555 --> 00:23:20,995 Speaker 1: winners a five way tie. I don't recall ever having 339 00:23:21,035 --> 00:23:23,635 Speaker 1: a five way time. We started this in two thousand five, 340 00:23:24,435 --> 00:23:27,195 Speaker 1: starting with the Mars Company, makers of M and M's, 341 00:23:27,595 --> 00:23:30,755 Speaker 1: which announced yesterday at shelving all of its advertising featuring 342 00:23:30,795 --> 00:23:35,195 Speaker 1: its so called spokes candies anthropomorphic Eminem's, who had been 343 00:23:35,235 --> 00:23:38,875 Speaker 1: repeatedly trashed by Tucker Carlson because Mars had made some 344 00:23:38,955 --> 00:23:42,755 Speaker 1: of them in do lesbians, and this bothered Tucker because 345 00:23:42,755 --> 00:23:47,395 Speaker 1: he was clearly sexually attracted to the straight Eminem's. Putting 346 00:23:47,435 --> 00:23:51,955 Speaker 1: this side the company folding to mother Tucker's candy fetish. 347 00:23:52,555 --> 00:23:56,915 Speaker 1: Mars has now designated as its new spokesperson comedian Maya Rudolph, 348 00:23:56,955 --> 00:23:59,915 Speaker 1: who may regret this. Let's just hope she can maintain 349 00:23:59,955 --> 00:24:03,395 Speaker 1: her professional dignity in the next eminem commercials. In exactly 350 00:24:03,395 --> 00:24:07,835 Speaker 1: the same way the Paul Jamatti has doing those phone 351 00:24:07,835 --> 00:24:10,435 Speaker 1: ads in which we watch him bringing nuance and deep 352 00:24:10,515 --> 00:24:14,755 Speaker 1: feeling to the role of Albert Einstein, dead these sixty 353 00:24:14,795 --> 00:24:18,155 Speaker 1: eight years and now at three years old as he 354 00:24:18,235 --> 00:24:23,755 Speaker 1: faces his most terrifying dilemma poor cell phone reception at college. 355 00:24:24,955 --> 00:24:28,755 Speaker 1: The Mars Company and Eminem's and Tucker Carlson and Maya 356 00:24:28,835 --> 00:24:34,035 Speaker 1: Rudolph and Paul Jamati, Mine Cutier has gone caput. Today's 357 00:24:34,315 --> 00:24:53,795 Speaker 1: Where's persons and confections in the now to the number 358 00:24:53,835 --> 00:24:56,075 Speaker 1: one story on the countdown on my favorite topic, me 359 00:24:56,195 --> 00:24:57,995 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell him. This has 360 00:24:57,995 --> 00:25:03,235 Speaker 1: been a somewhat uh fierce edition of the program. So 361 00:25:03,315 --> 00:25:04,795 Speaker 1: let me do something here at the end of It's 362 00:25:04,795 --> 00:25:08,875 Speaker 1: a little lighter. October is the anniversary of one of 363 00:25:08,915 --> 00:25:11,995 Speaker 1: the damnedest interviews I ever did, and it was with 364 00:25:12,075 --> 00:25:16,635 Speaker 1: Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Every time Willie May's 365 00:25:16,875 --> 00:25:18,835 Speaker 1: name comes up, I think of two things. One is 366 00:25:18,875 --> 00:25:22,955 Speaker 1: that interview at my first job from my first radio network, 367 00:25:23,915 --> 00:25:27,275 Speaker 1: and like I wasn't scared enough, he did a bit 368 00:25:27,715 --> 00:25:29,435 Speaker 1: that if I would have done it, they would have 369 00:25:29,475 --> 00:25:32,955 Speaker 1: fired me on the spot. The other thing is an 370 00:25:32,995 --> 00:25:39,275 Speaker 1: amazing injustice that befell Willie Mays that nobody talks about. Okay, 371 00:25:39,315 --> 00:25:45,235 Speaker 1: So it's a Saturday afternoon, October nine, just forty three 372 00:25:45,315 --> 00:25:48,955 Speaker 1: years ago today, and Willie Mays has just been banned 373 00:25:49,075 --> 00:25:52,635 Speaker 1: from baseball because word has gotten out that he assigned 374 00:25:52,635 --> 00:25:56,315 Speaker 1: a contract to do promotional events for an Atlantic city casino, 375 00:25:56,675 --> 00:26:01,235 Speaker 1: and there's a press conference coming up on Monday. I know. 376 00:26:01,395 --> 00:26:04,755 Speaker 1: Try explaining this concept to any current sports fan and 377 00:26:04,835 --> 00:26:08,635 Speaker 1: now used to seeing retired players on TV, not just 378 00:26:08,755 --> 00:26:12,035 Speaker 1: telling them to bet on games, but telling them how 379 00:26:12,395 --> 00:26:17,555 Speaker 1: to bet and who to bet on. Plus even then 380 00:26:17,595 --> 00:26:19,835 Speaker 1: this made no sense. It was like three months after 381 00:26:19,835 --> 00:26:22,795 Speaker 1: Willie Mays had been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 382 00:26:23,355 --> 00:26:28,355 Speaker 1: Three months now he's being banned for life for something 383 00:26:28,395 --> 00:26:31,915 Speaker 1: that today the Commissioner Baseball would send him a note 384 00:26:31,955 --> 00:26:37,355 Speaker 1: of congratulations and a paycheck. So anyway, nobody has done 385 00:26:37,355 --> 00:26:39,835 Speaker 1: an interview with Willie yet because he has been traveling, 386 00:26:39,835 --> 00:26:42,315 Speaker 1: and my phone rings and my little cubby hole at 387 00:26:42,435 --> 00:26:47,675 Speaker 1: United pres Internationals Radio Network three months that coincidentally was 388 00:26:47,715 --> 00:26:50,475 Speaker 1: how long my full time broadcasting career had been to 389 00:26:50,515 --> 00:26:53,155 Speaker 1: this point. And on the phone is maybe the top 390 00:26:53,195 --> 00:26:58,475 Speaker 1: baseball reporter of his day, Keith, it's Milt Richmond. This 391 00:26:58,515 --> 00:27:02,235 Speaker 1: man once reported in July that if the Milwaukee Braves 392 00:27:02,275 --> 00:27:05,835 Speaker 1: didn't start winning that they would fire their manner. Exactly 393 00:27:05,955 --> 00:27:09,635 Speaker 1: one year later, they didn't start winning, and exactly one 394 00:27:09,715 --> 00:27:12,155 Speaker 1: year later to the day, they fired their manager. That's 395 00:27:12,155 --> 00:27:16,355 Speaker 1: how good Milt Richmond was. Keith, write this phone number down. 396 00:27:16,435 --> 00:27:21,035 Speaker 1: It's William Mays home. He's expecting your call for an 397 00:27:21,035 --> 00:27:26,955 Speaker 1: interview about this banishment story. I squeaked yes, sir, Yes, sir, 398 00:27:28,035 --> 00:27:30,115 Speaker 1: and I went into one of our recording studios and 399 00:27:30,155 --> 00:27:32,475 Speaker 1: I dialed the number. And I will not recreate the 400 00:27:32,555 --> 00:27:36,035 Speaker 1: voice that I heard answer William Mays's phone, because while 401 00:27:36,075 --> 00:27:38,555 Speaker 1: doing this voice was once considered to be a staple 402 00:27:38,595 --> 00:27:42,075 Speaker 1: of American humor, even American humor written or performed by 403 00:27:42,115 --> 00:27:45,555 Speaker 1: the liberals. James Thurber short stories are full of this voice. 404 00:27:45,715 --> 00:27:48,915 Speaker 1: The voice is wildly racist. It is racist enough that 405 00:27:48,955 --> 00:27:53,715 Speaker 1: if today you heard an African American man do this voice, 406 00:27:54,155 --> 00:27:59,475 Speaker 1: you might still say still racist. It is a voice 407 00:27:59,755 --> 00:28:04,075 Speaker 1: similar to that of the actress Hattie McDaniel, who won 408 00:28:04,115 --> 00:28:07,395 Speaker 1: the Academy Award in nine for Gone with the Wind, 409 00:28:07,595 --> 00:28:10,955 Speaker 1: who was a world class blues singer, a top patriotic 410 00:28:11,035 --> 00:28:15,275 Speaker 1: fundraiser during World War Two, who played maids, housekeepers, and 411 00:28:15,355 --> 00:28:18,315 Speaker 1: maybe two hundred films. She also played one on a 412 00:28:18,315 --> 00:28:21,515 Speaker 1: famous radio show, and was paid so little that while 413 00:28:21,635 --> 00:28:24,275 Speaker 1: she was performing her role of the maid, she had 414 00:28:24,315 --> 00:28:29,875 Speaker 1: to keep working as a real maid. Anyway, I'm twenty 415 00:28:29,955 --> 00:28:32,435 Speaker 1: years old and I have to interview Willie Mays about 416 00:28:32,515 --> 00:28:37,555 Speaker 1: him getting banned from baseball. By the way, getting banned 417 00:28:37,595 --> 00:28:39,675 Speaker 1: from baseball at the same time they were banning Mickey 418 00:28:39,715 --> 00:28:43,515 Speaker 1: Mantle from baseball for doing promotional announcements for a casino. 419 00:28:44,555 --> 00:28:47,355 Speaker 1: And I call Willie Mays's number and I'm shaking like 420 00:28:47,435 --> 00:28:50,275 Speaker 1: a leaf and the phone is answered, and a gravelly 421 00:28:50,315 --> 00:28:55,755 Speaker 1: but feminine voice that sounded exactly like Haddie McDaniel says hello, 422 00:28:56,475 --> 00:29:03,275 Speaker 1: Mr Mays's residence. And I am a little throne by this, 423 00:29:04,715 --> 00:29:07,315 Speaker 1: but I power through and I explain who I am, 424 00:29:07,475 --> 00:29:09,715 Speaker 1: and she says, uh huh. And I say where I'm 425 00:29:09,715 --> 00:29:11,995 Speaker 1: calling from and she says uh huh. And I say, 426 00:29:12,075 --> 00:29:14,995 Speaker 1: Milt Richmond said Mr Mays was expecting me. And she 427 00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:20,635 Speaker 1: interrupts me and says, this is Willie. The Hattie McDaniel 428 00:29:20,675 --> 00:29:24,235 Speaker 1: like impersonation was done by William Mays. Now I do 429 00:29:24,355 --> 00:29:28,915 Speaker 1: not have this on tape. Silly me. When they said 430 00:29:28,955 --> 00:29:33,235 Speaker 1: you could never start recording before you got expressed permission 431 00:29:33,275 --> 00:29:38,635 Speaker 1: from the interviewee to start recording, I believed them anybody 432 00:29:38,675 --> 00:29:41,275 Speaker 1: else would have a tape of the phone being answered 433 00:29:41,315 --> 00:29:45,035 Speaker 1: and that impression done by William Mays. I'm afraid you 434 00:29:45,075 --> 00:29:48,075 Speaker 1: will have to take my word for it, because why 435 00:29:48,155 --> 00:29:55,275 Speaker 1: would I make this up? October and honestly, I still 436 00:29:55,275 --> 00:30:01,715 Speaker 1: haven't recovered from Mr Mays's residence. Now. The injustice about 437 00:30:01,715 --> 00:30:05,355 Speaker 1: William May's that nobody talks about this something else no 438 00:30:05,515 --> 00:30:09,275 Speaker 1: fan believes today. The US military used to draft Major 439 00:30:09,355 --> 00:30:14,235 Speaker 1: League Baseball players and NFL players and NBA players and 440 00:30:14,355 --> 00:30:17,915 Speaker 1: other athletes and send them into the service in the 441 00:30:17,955 --> 00:30:21,435 Speaker 1: middle of their seasons, in the primes of their careers, 442 00:30:21,715 --> 00:30:25,795 Speaker 1: even if there was no war in progress. Now they 443 00:30:25,875 --> 00:30:29,875 Speaker 1: only did it a couple of times after nine, and 444 00:30:30,035 --> 00:30:34,235 Speaker 1: usually that was thinly veiled racist political pressure, like when 445 00:30:34,235 --> 00:30:37,035 Speaker 1: they drafted Muhammad Ali in nineteen sixty six, when he 446 00:30:37,035 --> 00:30:41,195 Speaker 1: was heavyweight champion of the world at an activist Muslim 447 00:30:41,235 --> 00:30:43,795 Speaker 1: and twenty four years old, when everybody else who was 448 00:30:43,795 --> 00:30:48,835 Speaker 1: getting drafted was eighteen. Remember, but in nineteen fifty two 449 00:30:48,835 --> 00:30:52,315 Speaker 1: they drafted Willy Mays. William Mays had come up from 450 00:30:52,355 --> 00:30:54,315 Speaker 1: the minors the year before and led the New York 451 00:30:54,355 --> 00:30:57,235 Speaker 1: Giants from thirteen games back to the National League pennant 452 00:30:57,435 --> 00:30:59,835 Speaker 1: and was the kind of all around rural wind of 453 00:30:59,835 --> 00:31:02,675 Speaker 1: a player nobody had ever seen before. And on May 454 00:31:02,755 --> 00:31:06,395 Speaker 1: twenty nine, thirty four games into his second season boom, 455 00:31:06,475 --> 00:31:09,675 Speaker 1: he was drafted and inducted, and he missed the rest 456 00:31:09,715 --> 00:31:12,835 Speaker 1: of that season, and he missed all of the nineteen 457 00:31:12,875 --> 00:31:17,915 Speaker 1: fifty three season. They didn't draft Mickey Mantle, who also 458 00:31:17,995 --> 00:31:21,515 Speaker 1: broke in also in New York, also in nineteen fifty one, 459 00:31:21,915 --> 00:31:24,315 Speaker 1: and to be fair, Mickey Mantle had about four hundred 460 00:31:24,355 --> 00:31:28,235 Speaker 1: medical problems. But they also didn't draft nineteen fifty one 461 00:31:28,235 --> 00:31:31,195 Speaker 1: American League Rookie of the Year Gil McDougald of the Yankees, 462 00:31:31,235 --> 00:31:34,115 Speaker 1: who was a white guy. Or Walt Dropo, who was 463 00:31:34,115 --> 00:31:35,875 Speaker 1: the Rookie of the Year in nineteen fifty and was 464 00:31:35,915 --> 00:31:38,635 Speaker 1: a white guy. Or Roy Sievers who was the Rookie 465 00:31:38,635 --> 00:31:40,235 Speaker 1: of the Year in nineteen nine and it was a 466 00:31:40,235 --> 00:31:46,115 Speaker 1: white guy, or or or you get the point. Now. 467 00:31:46,155 --> 00:31:49,035 Speaker 1: Trying to calculate should have beens and would have been 468 00:31:49,155 --> 00:31:51,755 Speaker 1: in sports as a risky business, but you can get 469 00:31:52,155 --> 00:31:56,715 Speaker 1: a statistical approximation. If a player hits twenty homers in 470 00:31:56,755 --> 00:32:00,755 Speaker 1: his first season, then misses two years, then comes back 471 00:32:01,075 --> 00:32:03,595 Speaker 1: and hits forty one homers in his first year back, 472 00:32:03,835 --> 00:32:06,715 Speaker 1: you can extra appell eight from that that he probably 473 00:32:06,755 --> 00:32:10,235 Speaker 1: would have hit twenty seven homers in the first missing 474 00:32:10,315 --> 00:32:13,915 Speaker 1: year and thirty four in the second missing year. Your 475 00:32:13,995 --> 00:32:18,115 Speaker 1: numerical sequences twenty homers, then twenty seven, then thirty four, 476 00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:21,755 Speaker 1: then forty one. You have to take her a little 477 00:32:21,755 --> 00:32:24,075 Speaker 1: bit with it in Mays's case, because he did not 478 00:32:24,235 --> 00:32:26,995 Speaker 1: miss all of nineteen fifty two, just from June on, 479 00:32:27,075 --> 00:32:30,075 Speaker 1: and he had a slow start. He only hit four 480 00:32:30,115 --> 00:32:32,475 Speaker 1: homers in the first two months of nineteen fifty two, 481 00:32:32,875 --> 00:32:35,115 Speaker 1: so instead of twenty seven that year, maybe he only 482 00:32:35,195 --> 00:32:38,555 Speaker 1: hits twenty four. So a good guess as to how 483 00:32:38,595 --> 00:32:42,275 Speaker 1: many homers William Hays did not hit because he got 484 00:32:42,355 --> 00:32:45,915 Speaker 1: drafted and all the other guys didn't. The good guess 485 00:32:46,035 --> 00:32:49,675 Speaker 1: is all told, he missed the chance to hit fifty 486 00:32:49,715 --> 00:32:54,475 Speaker 1: four homers that he probably would have hit in real life. 487 00:32:55,195 --> 00:32:59,235 Speaker 1: William Mays finished with six hundred and sixty career home runs. 488 00:32:59,915 --> 00:33:02,555 Speaker 1: For most of the nineteen sixties, it was thought he 489 00:33:02,635 --> 00:33:05,635 Speaker 1: was the man who would challenge Babe Ruth's career home 490 00:33:05,715 --> 00:33:10,235 Speaker 1: run record, not Hank Aaron, but Willie Mays. William Mays 491 00:33:10,315 --> 00:33:13,835 Speaker 1: hits six hundred sixty homers, but if you give him 492 00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:16,635 Speaker 1: the fifty four more homers he might have hit if 493 00:33:16,635 --> 00:33:19,835 Speaker 1: he hadn't been so curiously drafted in nineteen fifty two, 494 00:33:20,035 --> 00:33:24,795 Speaker 1: William Mays finishes with seven hundred fourteen home runs, which 495 00:33:24,875 --> 00:33:31,035 Speaker 1: is exactly how many Babe Ruth hit seven hundred, so 496 00:33:31,555 --> 00:33:35,835 Speaker 1: no drafting and maybe in seventy two and nineteen seventy 497 00:33:35,875 --> 00:33:39,435 Speaker 1: three and nineteen seventy four. We are seeing Willie Mays 498 00:33:39,595 --> 00:33:43,515 Speaker 1: hit his seven hundredth home run and challenging Babe Ruth 499 00:33:43,835 --> 00:33:46,835 Speaker 1: and coming down the stretch and tying and breaking Babe 500 00:33:46,915 --> 00:33:50,635 Speaker 1: Ruth's record, and then right behind him, Henry Aaron hits 501 00:33:50,755 --> 00:33:53,955 Speaker 1: his seven hundred and fifteen homer and then his seven 502 00:33:54,075 --> 00:33:57,555 Speaker 1: hundred sixteenth homer to break the all time record held 503 00:33:57,635 --> 00:34:19,835 Speaker 1: by Willie Mays. Mr Maze's Residence. Countdown has come to 504 00:34:19,835 --> 00:34:24,035 Speaker 1: you from the studios of Alderman Broadcasting Empire World Headquarters 505 00:34:24,075 --> 00:34:26,555 Speaker 1: in the Sports Capsule Building in New York. Thank you 506 00:34:26,595 --> 00:34:30,275 Speaker 1: for listening. Here are the credits. Most of the music, 507 00:34:30,275 --> 00:34:33,235 Speaker 1: including our theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced and 508 00:34:33,315 --> 00:34:35,915 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chanelle. They are 509 00:34:35,955 --> 00:34:39,955 Speaker 1: the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John 510 00:34:39,955 --> 00:34:44,355 Speaker 1: Philip Chanelle, guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, produced 511 00:34:44,355 --> 00:34:47,035 Speaker 1: by t k O Brothers. Other Beethoven selections of it 512 00:34:47,155 --> 00:34:50,675 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. The sports music 513 00:34:50,915 --> 00:34:53,715 Speaker 1: is the Alderman theme for Me ESPN two, and it 514 00:34:53,795 --> 00:34:56,915 Speaker 1: was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 515 00:34:57,435 --> 00:35:00,875 Speaker 1: Musical comments from Nancy Fauss the best baseball stadium organist ever. 516 00:35:01,195 --> 00:35:04,675 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else 517 00:35:04,675 --> 00:35:08,115 Speaker 1: this is pretty much my fault. So let's countdown for this, 518 00:35:08,195 --> 00:35:10,915 Speaker 1: the seven ord and forty nine day since Donald Trump's 519 00:35:10,955 --> 00:35:13,635 Speaker 1: first attempt at coup against the democratically elected government of 520 00:35:13,635 --> 00:35:17,955 Speaker 1: the United States. Arrest him now while we still can. 521 00:35:18,875 --> 00:35:22,475 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown tomorrow. 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