1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,355 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Call 2 00:00:23,715 --> 00:00:28,195 Speaker 1: Trump's lawyers, Judge Mershon, do it now, do it right now, 3 00:00:28,235 --> 00:00:30,955 Speaker 1: and tell them to put their client's fat ass on 4 00:00:30,995 --> 00:00:33,515 Speaker 1: a plane and get it back to New York within 5 00:00:33,675 --> 00:00:37,195 Speaker 1: six hours, or you will jail their client and them 6 00:00:37,235 --> 00:00:42,035 Speaker 1: for contempt of court. At roughly two forty five Eastern yesterday, 7 00:00:42,075 --> 00:00:46,995 Speaker 1: you told the defendant and the prosecutor please refrain from 8 00:00:47,075 --> 00:00:51,795 Speaker 1: making statements that are likely to incite violence or civil unrest. 9 00:00:52,195 --> 00:00:55,955 Speaker 1: Do not use rhetoric that could jeopardize the rule of law. 10 00:00:56,195 --> 00:00:59,715 Speaker 1: At roughly eight forty five Eastern time yesterday, the defendant 11 00:00:59,715 --> 00:01:03,275 Speaker 1: incited violence and jeopardize the rule of law. And he 12 00:01:03,315 --> 00:01:06,035 Speaker 1: attacked the district to turn. Then he attacked the district 13 00:01:06,035 --> 00:01:08,915 Speaker 1: attorney's wife, and he attacked you, Judge Marchon, and he 14 00:01:08,955 --> 00:01:12,715 Speaker 1: attacked your family, And on behalf of the rule of law, 15 00:01:12,795 --> 00:01:15,155 Speaker 1: and on behalf of civil peace in the United States 16 00:01:15,195 --> 00:01:18,235 Speaker 1: of America, and on behalf of yourself and the DA 17 00:01:18,355 --> 00:01:22,795 Speaker 1: and the inviolability of the courts, dragged defendant Donald Trump 18 00:01:22,835 --> 00:01:26,035 Speaker 1: back into your court today and hold him in contempt 19 00:01:26,035 --> 00:01:30,115 Speaker 1: and then put him into a cell. At Riker's Island. 20 00:01:30,275 --> 00:01:33,155 Speaker 1: This is where we are right now. I have a 21 00:01:33,195 --> 00:01:37,355 Speaker 1: Trump hating judge with a Trump hating wife and family 22 00:01:38,075 --> 00:01:42,635 Speaker 1: whose daughter worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money 23 00:01:42,675 --> 00:01:45,395 Speaker 1: from the Biden Harris campaign, and a lot of it. 24 00:01:46,435 --> 00:01:49,795 Speaker 1: The criminal is the district attorney because he illegally leaked 25 00:01:49,875 --> 00:01:56,715 Speaker 1: massive amounts of grand jury in fromotion for which he 26 00:01:56,755 --> 00:02:01,075 Speaker 1: should be prosecuted, or at a minimum, he should resign. 27 00:02:02,995 --> 00:02:06,115 Speaker 1: And Alvin Bragg's wife can firm to report that claimed 28 00:02:06,115 --> 00:02:12,195 Speaker 1: her husband has Trump nailed on felonies. She has since 29 00:02:12,715 --> 00:02:17,475 Speaker 1: locked down her Twitter account. What more does the defendant 30 00:02:17,635 --> 00:02:21,835 Speaker 1: have to do, Judge mer Chan, He already threatened death 31 00:02:21,955 --> 00:02:25,675 Speaker 1: and destruction. He already reposted an article with a photo 32 00:02:25,675 --> 00:02:29,075 Speaker 1: of him wielding a baseball bat next to a photo 33 00:02:29,155 --> 00:02:33,595 Speaker 1: of the head of the district attorney. And yesterday, as 34 00:02:33,675 --> 00:02:37,675 Speaker 1: you were warning him, but also as you were bending 35 00:02:37,675 --> 00:02:42,115 Speaker 1: over backwards to protect his First Amendment rights, as you 36 00:02:42,155 --> 00:02:46,395 Speaker 1: were saying those things to him, his idiot sons, Junior 37 00:02:46,435 --> 00:02:50,395 Speaker 1: and Fredo were doxing your own daughter on every social 38 00:02:50,435 --> 00:02:52,795 Speaker 1: media site they could find. And if you don't put 39 00:02:52,835 --> 00:02:56,275 Speaker 1: them under a gag order, what exactly does the rule 40 00:02:56,395 --> 00:02:59,715 Speaker 1: of law mean in this country. What exactly is the 41 00:02:59,755 --> 00:03:03,835 Speaker 1: point of having laws in this country? What exactly, your honor, 42 00:03:03,995 --> 00:03:07,355 Speaker 1: is the point of having judges and district attorneys and 43 00:03:07,555 --> 00:03:12,195 Speaker 1: cops if their words mean nothing, and a psychotic, narcissistic, 44 00:03:12,275 --> 00:03:16,035 Speaker 1: piece of shit criminal like Donald Trump can leave your 45 00:03:16,075 --> 00:03:18,835 Speaker 1: courtroom and gun on his private jet and go to 46 00:03:18,875 --> 00:03:21,475 Speaker 1: his private club and pick up right where he left off. 47 00:03:21,755 --> 00:03:25,235 Speaker 1: Not merely endangering you and your wife and your daughter, 48 00:03:25,315 --> 00:03:27,995 Speaker 1: and the DA and his wife and everybody connected with 49 00:03:28,075 --> 00:03:31,915 Speaker 1: law enforcement in New York and Washington in America, but endangering, 50 00:03:32,035 --> 00:03:37,115 Speaker 1: as you yourself phrased it, the rule of law, by 51 00:03:37,435 --> 00:03:41,155 Speaker 1: as you yourself also phrased it, making statements that are 52 00:03:41,195 --> 00:03:45,235 Speaker 1: likely to incite violence or civil unrest. What more does 53 00:03:45,275 --> 00:03:48,395 Speaker 1: Trump have to do pull out a gun on Fifth 54 00:03:48,395 --> 00:03:52,155 Speaker 1: Avenue and shoot you, or say something like that again, 55 00:03:52,555 --> 00:03:56,915 Speaker 1: or inspire one of his brainwashed, gun fetishizing, hate filled 56 00:03:56,955 --> 00:04:01,675 Speaker 1: fascist mob to attack your daughter. Trump is in contempt, 57 00:04:01,755 --> 00:04:07,235 Speaker 1: of course right now. Jail him. He is in fact 58 00:04:07,235 --> 00:04:12,035 Speaker 1: in contempt of America. He is always and will forever 59 00:04:12,195 --> 00:04:16,355 Speaker 1: be in contempt of America. America means nothing to him. 60 00:04:16,755 --> 00:04:20,275 Speaker 1: Your words mean nothing to him. The law means nothing 61 00:04:20,315 --> 00:04:29,355 Speaker 1: to him. He will understand only punishment. Punish him, Judge Mershon, 62 00:04:30,715 --> 00:04:35,875 Speaker 1: as you were warning him, as you were calmly, responsibly, 63 00:04:36,555 --> 00:04:42,515 Speaker 1: even handedly warning the defendant and the district attorney to 64 00:04:42,635 --> 00:04:49,315 Speaker 1: avoid dangerous rhetoric the defendant's sons, we're putting out your 65 00:04:49,395 --> 00:04:54,275 Speaker 1: daughter's photo so she can be threatened and attacked and 66 00:04:54,435 --> 00:04:57,555 Speaker 1: added to the list of the hundreds and hundreds of 67 00:04:57,715 --> 00:05:01,755 Speaker 1: upstanding and honest Americans who have become the targets of 68 00:05:01,795 --> 00:05:09,795 Speaker 1: the mob because it's violent, depraved, despotic leader has made 69 00:05:10,115 --> 00:05:15,515 Speaker 1: them the targets of the mob at the very hour, 70 00:05:15,915 --> 00:05:21,115 Speaker 1: your honor, And then they hid behind the argument that no, 71 00:05:21,555 --> 00:05:25,075 Speaker 1: they weren't doing that. They had simply posted an interesting 72 00:05:25,275 --> 00:05:30,875 Speaker 1: article about your daughter from a British newspaper, and it 73 00:05:30,995 --> 00:05:34,875 Speaker 1: wasn't their fault that the article had her picture on 74 00:05:34,955 --> 00:05:39,035 Speaker 1: the link. And anybody who says they posted her photo 75 00:05:39,355 --> 00:05:46,835 Speaker 1: is lying. And the descendant of nazis literally one of 76 00:05:46,875 --> 00:05:51,395 Speaker 1: the hacks defending Donald Trump Junior doxing your daughter, Judge 77 00:05:52,115 --> 00:05:56,035 Speaker 1: by calling the reporter who called Junior out a quote 78 00:05:56,275 --> 00:05:59,915 Speaker 1: actual descendant of Nazi war criminals and heir to a 79 00:06:00,035 --> 00:06:03,195 Speaker 1: Nazi fortune unquote. That's where we are in this country 80 00:06:03,235 --> 00:06:06,955 Speaker 1: right now, Judge Marshahn, hours after you bent over backwards 81 00:06:06,955 --> 00:06:11,555 Speaker 1: to protect Donald Trump, the defendant, the vile creature who 82 00:06:11,635 --> 00:06:15,435 Speaker 1: has already stochastically threatened your daughter twice since you warned 83 00:06:15,515 --> 00:06:19,155 Speaker 1: him to tamp down the rhetoric, put a gag order 84 00:06:19,155 --> 00:06:22,235 Speaker 1: on Donald Trump Junior, your honor, put a gag order 85 00:06:22,235 --> 00:06:25,395 Speaker 1: on Eric Trump, your honor, put a gag order on them, 86 00:06:25,435 --> 00:06:28,835 Speaker 1: and put their madman father in jail. Because your gesture 87 00:06:28,835 --> 00:06:32,875 Speaker 1: of fairness and balance and integrity did nothing but to 88 00:06:32,995 --> 00:06:37,515 Speaker 1: embolden these mentally defective bullies, and the results were immediate. 89 00:06:37,715 --> 00:06:40,395 Speaker 1: And they do not just endanger you and your daughter 90 00:06:40,515 --> 00:06:43,475 Speaker 1: and your family and Alvin Bragg and his family, they 91 00:06:43,595 --> 00:06:50,995 Speaker 1: endanger America. Please refrain from making statements that are likely 92 00:06:51,075 --> 00:06:58,995 Speaker 1: to incite violence or civil unrest. Six hours after you 93 00:06:59,115 --> 00:07:04,795 Speaker 1: made those statements. And by the way, your honor, those 94 00:07:04,875 --> 00:07:09,795 Speaker 1: statements were made not in the controlled environment of a courtroom, 95 00:07:10,795 --> 00:07:15,155 Speaker 1: nor even in the one dimensional world of social media. 96 00:07:15,515 --> 00:07:18,515 Speaker 1: They were made live on national television in this country. 97 00:07:18,555 --> 00:07:21,955 Speaker 1: Because we have laws about exactly where on the wave 98 00:07:22,195 --> 00:07:26,235 Speaker 1: frequency Channel thirteen somewhere can put out its signal, but 99 00:07:26,315 --> 00:07:29,635 Speaker 1: there is not a damned thing, not one damn thing 100 00:07:29,675 --> 00:07:33,035 Speaker 1: that can even begin to influence the billionaires who have 101 00:07:33,155 --> 00:07:37,155 Speaker 1: just bought the nation's original all news cable channel for 102 00:07:37,235 --> 00:07:41,035 Speaker 1: the sole purpose of neutralizing its reality and corrupting it 103 00:07:41,195 --> 00:07:46,355 Speaker 1: into another right wing propaganda machine. CNN, Your honor, CNN 104 00:07:46,395 --> 00:07:55,315 Speaker 1: carried the entire goddamned Trump speech without warning, without editorial judgment, 105 00:07:57,315 --> 00:08:03,315 Speaker 1: and Trump used them. Trump used the idiots who now 106 00:08:03,435 --> 00:08:08,435 Speaker 1: own and run the fascists who have balked CNN to 107 00:08:08,715 --> 00:08:12,115 Speaker 1: amplify the attack on you, and on your daughter, and 108 00:08:12,235 --> 00:08:14,955 Speaker 1: on Alvin Bragg, and on his wife and on America. 109 00:08:15,035 --> 00:08:18,915 Speaker 1: Because having learned nothing from twenty sixteen or twenty twenty, 110 00:08:18,995 --> 00:08:25,355 Speaker 1: CNN televised the entire hate filled, narcissistic, paranoid speech by 111 00:08:25,395 --> 00:08:29,555 Speaker 1: the defendant live, not just the start through the first 112 00:08:29,595 --> 00:08:33,595 Speaker 1: reference to Bragg, and then showing clips of anything relevant, 113 00:08:33,635 --> 00:08:36,195 Speaker 1: but saying we cannot show this live. God knows what 114 00:08:36,235 --> 00:08:38,755 Speaker 1: he will say or what he will tell his idiot 115 00:08:38,755 --> 00:08:42,435 Speaker 1: followers to do, but the whole thing was shown live, 116 00:08:42,555 --> 00:08:47,235 Speaker 1: the entire catalog of Trump repeatedly and unsuccessfully trying to 117 00:08:47,275 --> 00:08:52,115 Speaker 1: hammer in the last nail in self crucifixion after self crucifixion, 118 00:08:52,395 --> 00:08:57,315 Speaker 1: literally going back as far as but her emails, but 119 00:08:57,555 --> 00:09:06,395 Speaker 1: focusing on his newest targets you and Alvin Bragg. It 120 00:09:06,515 --> 00:09:11,555 Speaker 1: was unconscionable, unjournalistic, unforgivable, and, as I have suggested here 121 00:09:11,595 --> 00:09:15,155 Speaker 1: four months, your Honor, part of the quest by the 122 00:09:15,195 --> 00:09:19,915 Speaker 1: new ownership of that channel to show itself to the fascists, 123 00:09:19,955 --> 00:09:23,275 Speaker 1: to tell them that if the fascists regain power in 124 00:09:23,315 --> 00:09:27,475 Speaker 1: this country, they should let CNN live and keep making money. 125 00:09:28,315 --> 00:09:31,835 Speaker 1: And also part of the quest by CNN's desperately failing 126 00:09:31,955 --> 00:09:36,235 Speaker 1: in over his head drowning president, a man named Chris Lickt, 127 00:09:36,635 --> 00:09:40,235 Speaker 1: to show himself to that new ownership and to beg 128 00:09:40,915 --> 00:09:44,035 Speaker 1: that they not fire him and end forever his career 129 00:09:44,075 --> 00:09:48,715 Speaker 1: of remarkably consistent mediocrity, manipulation and maschination, a man who 130 00:09:48,715 --> 00:09:51,395 Speaker 1: could not tell the moral difference between a fascist and 131 00:09:51,555 --> 00:09:55,715 Speaker 1: an old fashioned And it's only too goddamned bad, your Honor, 132 00:09:55,875 --> 00:09:58,435 Speaker 1: that you can't issue a warning to Chris Lickt that 133 00:09:58,515 --> 00:10:02,475 Speaker 1: if a television channel his or anybody else's amplifies the 134 00:10:02,595 --> 00:10:06,675 Speaker 1: hate speech of the defendant, as he violates the orders 135 00:10:06,795 --> 00:10:10,395 Speaker 1: of the court, your court, that the network can be 136 00:10:10,435 --> 00:10:13,395 Speaker 1: held liable that it's president and owners can be held 137 00:10:13,435 --> 00:10:17,075 Speaker 1: liable for the threat, the ever mounting threat against the 138 00:10:17,155 --> 00:10:20,875 Speaker 1: judges and the district attorneys, and the families and the friends, 139 00:10:20,995 --> 00:10:24,915 Speaker 1: and the cops and anybody else who tries to thwart 140 00:10:24,995 --> 00:10:28,155 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, or tries to get Donald Trump to behave 141 00:10:28,715 --> 00:10:32,595 Speaker 1: like a human, or just tries to get Trump to 142 00:10:32,675 --> 00:10:38,115 Speaker 1: not light this country ablaze. This cannot continue, Judge, marchn 143 00:10:38,755 --> 00:10:41,755 Speaker 1: This man will destroy this country, and he will not 144 00:10:41,875 --> 00:10:44,275 Speaker 1: have to do as much as try to rise from 145 00:10:44,275 --> 00:10:47,075 Speaker 1: his chair to do so. It will be done for 146 00:10:47,195 --> 00:10:51,155 Speaker 1: him by proxies and servants and worshippers and the scum 147 00:10:51,235 --> 00:10:54,755 Speaker 1: whom he has enabled to hate and pursue and attack. 148 00:10:54,955 --> 00:10:58,035 Speaker 1: They will have destroyed America before any of us can 149 00:10:58,115 --> 00:11:05,275 Speaker 1: do a goddamn thing about it. But you, judge, you 150 00:11:05,355 --> 00:11:10,995 Speaker 1: can do something about it now, maybe enough to stop 151 00:11:10,995 --> 00:11:16,795 Speaker 1: it now. You told Trump what not to do, and 152 00:11:16,875 --> 00:11:23,355 Speaker 1: he immediately did it again, as he always does it, 153 00:11:23,475 --> 00:11:27,715 Speaker 1: again and again and again, on national television, in front 154 00:11:27,715 --> 00:11:31,155 Speaker 1: of crowds, in front of mobs, in front of the 155 00:11:31,235 --> 00:11:36,035 Speaker 1: simple minded, in front of those who dream of killing 156 00:11:36,035 --> 00:11:41,875 Speaker 1: other humans because they would think it was fun. Bring 157 00:11:42,075 --> 00:11:45,435 Speaker 1: Trump back into your courtroom and scream at him for 158 00:11:45,515 --> 00:11:48,155 Speaker 1: thirty minutes, and then have the guards drag him to 159 00:11:48,195 --> 00:11:51,515 Speaker 1: a cell for twenty four hours, or forty eight hours, 160 00:11:51,555 --> 00:11:54,155 Speaker 1: or the rest of his goddamned life for all I care, 161 00:11:54,315 --> 00:11:58,395 Speaker 1: because that is the only thing he will ever understand, 162 00:11:59,075 --> 00:12:02,475 Speaker 1: and the only thing that the slime that follow him 163 00:12:02,595 --> 00:12:04,835 Speaker 1: and emulate him and seek to be the same as 164 00:12:04,995 --> 00:12:08,915 Speaker 1: he is. That is the only thing they will ever understand. 165 00:12:09,075 --> 00:12:11,475 Speaker 1: And if there had been a shadow of a doubt 166 00:12:11,515 --> 00:12:16,235 Speaker 1: that this was true, it was erased. Last night. Your 167 00:12:16,275 --> 00:12:20,035 Speaker 1: instructions went in one ear and out the other in 168 00:12:20,195 --> 00:12:27,915 Speaker 1: less than six hours. Save this country, Judge Mershon. Donald 169 00:12:27,995 --> 00:12:31,715 Speaker 1: Trump's contempt for you and for the rule of law 170 00:12:32,275 --> 00:12:35,315 Speaker 1: is more than just the technical violation of a warning 171 00:12:35,355 --> 00:12:38,875 Speaker 1: you gave him in court yesterday. It is the essence 172 00:12:38,955 --> 00:12:44,315 Speaker 1: of his being. And Donald Trump's being is sick and 173 00:12:44,595 --> 00:12:51,915 Speaker 1: evil and uncontrollable, and left unpunished, it will destroy everyone 174 00:12:52,075 --> 00:13:12,875 Speaker 1: and everything that is good about this country we call home. Happily, 175 00:13:14,035 --> 00:13:16,675 Speaker 1: I can report a victory in the American fight against 176 00:13:16,715 --> 00:13:20,995 Speaker 1: American fascism. In the election yesterday to decide control of 177 00:13:21,035 --> 00:13:26,155 Speaker 1: the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. Janet Protassuwich defeated Dan Kelly, 178 00:13:26,195 --> 00:13:28,395 Speaker 1: giving the Liberals a four to three margin there for 179 00:13:28,435 --> 00:13:31,155 Speaker 1: the first time since two thousand and eight. That not 180 00:13:31,235 --> 00:13:34,235 Speaker 1: only protects choice in Wisconsin, but it would preclude the 181 00:13:34,315 --> 00:13:38,715 Speaker 1: extremely aggressive antidemocracy forces in that state from using the 182 00:13:38,755 --> 00:13:42,115 Speaker 1: state Supreme Court to alter or erase the presidential choice 183 00:13:42,435 --> 00:13:47,315 Speaker 1: of Wisconsin's voters next year. Four three Liberals. Now you 184 00:13:47,355 --> 00:13:51,195 Speaker 1: may know, I did two episodes yesterday, the regular Countdown 185 00:13:51,235 --> 00:13:53,715 Speaker 1: podcast and a special update in the afternoon after the 186 00:13:53,795 --> 00:13:56,635 Speaker 1: arraignment of Trump, and I think we can both agree 187 00:13:57,235 --> 00:14:00,155 Speaker 1: jump get me started on that again. I need a 188 00:14:00,235 --> 00:14:03,275 Speaker 1: psychological break from all that, at least for a little while. 189 00:14:03,835 --> 00:14:06,075 Speaker 1: Normally that's the new baseball season at this time, if 190 00:14:06,115 --> 00:14:08,515 Speaker 1: you're nearly a week into it, it struck me that 191 00:14:08,675 --> 00:14:12,675 Speaker 1: something's missing, something's wrong in baseball. It is as if 192 00:14:12,715 --> 00:14:14,755 Speaker 1: I am at a great game and the seats on 193 00:14:14,795 --> 00:14:17,475 Speaker 1: either side of me are empty. It dawned on me 194 00:14:17,595 --> 00:14:20,315 Speaker 1: last night, finally, why I feel that way? Those seats 195 00:14:20,515 --> 00:14:25,115 Speaker 1: are metaphorically empty. Two of the greatest poets and conveyors 196 00:14:25,155 --> 00:14:28,195 Speaker 1: of the game are gone. Permit me to spend the 197 00:14:28,195 --> 00:14:31,675 Speaker 1: rest of this edition of Countdown remembering again our irreplaceable 198 00:14:31,715 --> 00:14:36,435 Speaker 1: losses of Tim McCarver and Vince Scully. That's next, This 199 00:14:36,595 --> 00:14:56,275 Speaker 1: is countdown. It was the night I was writing the 200 00:14:56,395 --> 00:15:00,355 Speaker 1: third episode of this series of podcasts August second of 201 00:15:00,435 --> 00:15:03,195 Speaker 1: last year, and just as I prepared to record the show, 202 00:15:03,235 --> 00:15:07,315 Speaker 1: the sad news came in. My friend had died. My friend, 203 00:15:07,475 --> 00:15:11,235 Speaker 1: Vince Scully, saying those four words had been one of 204 00:15:11,275 --> 00:15:14,915 Speaker 1: the great privileges of my life for about thirty five years. 205 00:15:16,435 --> 00:15:19,355 Speaker 1: There is sports in this podcast. I was a sportscaster. 206 00:15:19,475 --> 00:15:22,635 Speaker 1: I worked for ESPN four different times. But this was 207 00:15:22,835 --> 00:15:26,675 Speaker 1: and is primarily to be a news and politics podcast, 208 00:15:27,355 --> 00:15:31,115 Speaker 1: and I had no hesitation that no matter how much 209 00:15:31,115 --> 00:15:34,275 Speaker 1: I wanted this to be news and politics, I knew 210 00:15:34,355 --> 00:15:38,515 Speaker 1: how the episode for August third, twenty twenty two should 211 00:15:38,595 --> 00:15:49,955 Speaker 1: begin in memory of Vince Scully. On April fourth, nineteen 212 00:15:50,195 --> 00:15:53,835 Speaker 1: ninety nine, the New York Yankees played an exhibition game 213 00:15:53,835 --> 00:15:57,715 Speaker 1: against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, 214 00:15:58,395 --> 00:16:01,995 Speaker 1: and my friend, the Yankees play by play announcer, Michael Kay, 215 00:16:02,915 --> 00:16:06,395 Speaker 1: was shaking like a leaf. He spoke softly to me, 216 00:16:06,435 --> 00:16:10,915 Speaker 1: almost in a whisper. Michael does not speak softly. I 217 00:16:11,035 --> 00:16:14,275 Speaker 1: need you to do me a favor. I'm nervous just asking. 218 00:16:14,635 --> 00:16:19,475 Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed just asking. Can you He sighed heavily and 219 00:16:19,595 --> 00:16:23,915 Speaker 1: ran a hand through his hair. Can you introduce me 220 00:16:24,195 --> 00:16:28,915 Speaker 1: to Vince Scully. Michael Kay was starting his eighth season 221 00:16:29,075 --> 00:16:32,275 Speaker 1: that day as a Major League Baseball play by play announcer. 222 00:16:32,315 --> 00:16:34,595 Speaker 1: He had that in common with Vin Scully. They did 223 00:16:34,595 --> 00:16:37,275 Speaker 1: the same job. He also went to the same college 224 00:16:37,275 --> 00:16:40,155 Speaker 1: as Vin Scully, Fordham University. He had no reason to 225 00:16:40,195 --> 00:16:46,075 Speaker 1: be nervous about meeting Vin Scully, except that's Vin Scully. 226 00:16:46,195 --> 00:16:48,195 Speaker 1: I told Mike there was no reason to be nervous, 227 00:16:48,515 --> 00:16:50,795 Speaker 1: though I knew he would be, But I also told 228 00:16:50,875 --> 00:16:54,035 Speaker 1: him sincerely, there really was no reason to be embarrassed. 229 00:16:54,435 --> 00:16:57,795 Speaker 1: I first moved to Los Angeles in August nineteen eighty five, 230 00:16:58,435 --> 00:17:00,915 Speaker 1: and I went right to the top of the guys 231 00:17:00,955 --> 00:17:03,675 Speaker 1: doing sports on the local TV newscasts there back when 232 00:17:03,675 --> 00:17:06,115 Speaker 1: that meant something. Soon I was also on the all 233 00:17:06,155 --> 00:17:09,635 Speaker 1: news radio station during drivetime, which in LA has literally drivetime. 234 00:17:09,915 --> 00:17:16,755 Speaker 1: Vince Gully was technically a colleague of mine, and that 235 00:17:16,835 --> 00:17:19,595 Speaker 1: did not matter a lick Through the rest of the 236 00:17:19,675 --> 00:17:22,755 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five baseball season, I could not summon the 237 00:17:22,755 --> 00:17:26,675 Speaker 1: courage to go and introduce myself to Vince Scully. Through 238 00:17:26,715 --> 00:17:28,795 Speaker 1: the rest of the nineteen eighty sixth season, I could 239 00:17:28,835 --> 00:17:30,915 Speaker 1: not summon the courage to introduce myself to and through 240 00:17:30,915 --> 00:17:33,395 Speaker 1: the rest of the nineteen eighty seven season, through almost 241 00:17:33,435 --> 00:17:35,875 Speaker 1: all the nineteen eighty eight season, and then late in 242 00:17:35,955 --> 00:17:38,755 Speaker 1: that year I switched jobs got a big pay raise. 243 00:17:38,875 --> 00:17:41,955 Speaker 1: I was nearly thirty, and I said I have to 244 00:17:41,995 --> 00:17:46,315 Speaker 1: do this now. And when I finally said, excuse me, Vin, 245 00:17:47,235 --> 00:17:50,755 Speaker 1: my name is And at that point I did not 246 00:17:50,915 --> 00:17:54,995 Speaker 1: remember what my name was, found it somewhere, blurted it out, 247 00:17:55,075 --> 00:17:59,315 Speaker 1: said something, possibly in English, and Vince Scully beamed, I'm 248 00:17:59,355 --> 00:18:03,155 Speaker 1: glad you said hello. I thought I had done something 249 00:18:03,195 --> 00:18:06,755 Speaker 1: to offend you. He said, Also, I have a question 250 00:18:06,755 --> 00:18:09,155 Speaker 1: I've been meaning to ask you about baseball research. So 251 00:18:09,315 --> 00:18:14,795 Speaker 1: forgive me for not introducing myself to you. So I 252 00:18:14,835 --> 00:18:18,555 Speaker 1: don't think I've passed out, but I sure understood why 253 00:18:18,595 --> 00:18:21,315 Speaker 1: Michael was, as he put it, shaking like a leaf. 254 00:18:22,115 --> 00:18:24,995 Speaker 1: Vin shortly thereafter appeared in the Dodger dugout. I brought 255 00:18:25,035 --> 00:18:26,875 Speaker 1: the two of them together. We all chatted for ten 256 00:18:26,875 --> 00:18:28,795 Speaker 1: minutes we got a picture. I got out of the 257 00:18:28,835 --> 00:18:31,235 Speaker 1: way and they got a picture. We talked about Fordham, 258 00:18:31,235 --> 00:18:33,075 Speaker 1: where they went to school, and where I was born, 259 00:18:33,555 --> 00:18:35,995 Speaker 1: and then Vin excused himself to go do an interview, 260 00:18:36,035 --> 00:18:39,715 Speaker 1: and Michael Kay said, God, I'm still shaking like a leaf. 261 00:18:41,275 --> 00:18:45,075 Speaker 1: That's how we all felt about him, those of us 262 00:18:45,155 --> 00:18:48,635 Speaker 1: who with incomplete accuracy would say we were in the 263 00:18:48,715 --> 00:18:53,195 Speaker 1: same business as Vin Scully, we were, in fact part 264 00:18:53,235 --> 00:18:55,475 Speaker 1: of to turn the phrase he always used about others 265 00:18:55,515 --> 00:18:58,755 Speaker 1: who had fans and supporters, the Vin Scully Marching and 266 00:18:58,835 --> 00:19:04,915 Speaker 1: Chowder Society, Because yeah, he was the greatest broadcast master 267 00:19:05,195 --> 00:19:08,675 Speaker 1: I've ever met. But more importantly, he was the nicest 268 00:19:08,715 --> 00:19:15,075 Speaker 1: man in the world, and also delightfully profane when he 269 00:19:15,155 --> 00:19:18,995 Speaker 1: got to trust you. And like anybody else, he could 270 00:19:18,995 --> 00:19:24,115 Speaker 1: be fiercely and sometimes bitterly territorial about his broadcasts, and 271 00:19:24,195 --> 00:19:27,035 Speaker 1: he had problems with certain players, and at least twice 272 00:19:27,075 --> 00:19:30,315 Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties he almost left the Dodgers to 273 00:19:30,395 --> 00:19:34,795 Speaker 1: go home and broadcast for the Yankees, and he had 274 00:19:34,875 --> 00:19:37,795 Speaker 1: doubts that he had made all the right career decisions. 275 00:19:37,795 --> 00:19:39,915 Speaker 1: And unless you knew him pretty well, you would never 276 00:19:39,995 --> 00:19:43,395 Speaker 1: have known any of that. And no complaint or cuss 277 00:19:43,675 --> 00:19:47,355 Speaker 1: or uncertainty ever made its way into the public domain. 278 00:19:48,115 --> 00:19:51,155 Speaker 1: And even when I had known him thirty years and 279 00:19:51,235 --> 00:19:53,915 Speaker 1: had the privilege of having our visits start with a 280 00:19:54,035 --> 00:19:57,755 Speaker 1: hug and end with dinner, I would still think the 281 00:19:57,835 --> 00:20:01,435 Speaker 1: same thing I thought every time I ever saw him 282 00:20:01,475 --> 00:20:07,795 Speaker 1: coming towards me, Well, here comes God. And there was 283 00:20:07,835 --> 00:20:11,555 Speaker 1: not one moment that he acted like he was anything 284 00:20:11,595 --> 00:20:16,715 Speaker 1: more than maybe a pretty good, fairly popular baseball announcer. 285 00:20:18,475 --> 00:20:21,795 Speaker 1: He spent the years, all the years between his twenty 286 00:20:21,875 --> 00:20:25,835 Speaker 1: second birthday and his eighty ninth birthday, as the play 287 00:20:25,835 --> 00:20:28,355 Speaker 1: by play announcer of the Brooklyn and then the Los 288 00:20:28,355 --> 00:20:32,275 Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers. The day he started on the job was 289 00:20:32,355 --> 00:20:35,875 Speaker 1: so long ago. It was barely three years since the 290 00:20:35,915 --> 00:20:39,395 Speaker 1: Dodgers Jackie Robinson had broken the color line. In baseball. 291 00:20:39,915 --> 00:20:42,995 Speaker 1: There were just sixteen Major League Baseball teams, and the 292 00:20:43,035 --> 00:20:47,195 Speaker 1: ones Furthest. West and Furthest. South were in Saint Louis, Missouri. 293 00:20:48,195 --> 00:20:50,555 Speaker 1: Before the Second World War, one of those Saint Louis 294 00:20:50,595 --> 00:20:53,155 Speaker 1: teams had planned to move to Los Angeles, but the 295 00:20:53,235 --> 00:20:59,595 Speaker 1: year then started nineteen fifty, baseball in Los Angeles still 296 00:20:59,635 --> 00:21:04,275 Speaker 1: seemed like the most impractical of pipe dreams. Within eight years, 297 00:21:04,315 --> 00:21:07,235 Speaker 1: it would be Vince Scully's job to introduce Major League 298 00:21:07,235 --> 00:21:11,435 Speaker 1: Baseball to the nation's second largest metropolitan area, and in 299 00:21:11,555 --> 00:21:15,835 Speaker 1: large part also to prevent the Dodgers who just moved 300 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:20,435 Speaker 1: in from moving out. They almost did. There was a 301 00:21:20,475 --> 00:21:22,635 Speaker 1: referendum vote on whether or not to give them the 302 00:21:22,755 --> 00:21:25,595 Speaker 1: land for their new stadium in Los Angeles, and it 303 00:21:25,675 --> 00:21:29,395 Speaker 1: was really close, and it was Vince Scully's sincere and 304 00:21:29,595 --> 00:21:35,635 Speaker 1: smiling salesmanship that helped Yes to win narrowly. And then 305 00:21:35,675 --> 00:21:39,115 Speaker 1: there are the many recordings still extant of games in 306 00:21:39,155 --> 00:21:42,915 Speaker 1: that new Field Dodger Stadium from the nineteen sixties and 307 00:21:42,995 --> 00:21:45,915 Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. And if the recording you hear is of 308 00:21:45,955 --> 00:21:49,955 Speaker 1: the visiting teams announcers, you will hear, for the length 309 00:21:50,075 --> 00:21:53,835 Speaker 1: of the game something that sounds like a very distant, 310 00:21:54,475 --> 00:22:00,955 Speaker 1: very melodic public address system. It was thousands of transistor 311 00:22:01,075 --> 00:22:05,835 Speaker 1: radios held by fans to their ears, and all of 312 00:22:05,875 --> 00:22:10,355 Speaker 1: them tuned to Vin Scully. It was not a Dodger 313 00:22:10,395 --> 00:22:14,515 Speaker 1: game unless you were listening to Vin Scully, even if 314 00:22:14,555 --> 00:22:17,795 Speaker 1: you were at the Dodger game. And that did not 315 00:22:18,035 --> 00:22:20,955 Speaker 1: end in the nineteen seventies. Between two thousand and eight 316 00:22:20,995 --> 00:22:23,915 Speaker 1: and two and fourteen, while visiting LA, I went to 317 00:22:23,955 --> 00:22:25,955 Speaker 1: a bunch of games at Dodger Stadium with a big 318 00:22:25,955 --> 00:22:29,355 Speaker 1: Dodger fan named Jason Bateman. I would bring my scorebook, 319 00:22:29,835 --> 00:22:33,715 Speaker 1: He would bring his earpiece so he could listen to 320 00:22:33,755 --> 00:22:40,555 Speaker 1: Vin Scully streaming. We talked during the commercial breaks. On 321 00:22:40,635 --> 00:22:43,595 Speaker 1: the occasion of Vin's retirement in two sixteen, I wrote 322 00:22:43,595 --> 00:22:46,275 Speaker 1: a long piece for GQ magazine about the importance of 323 00:22:46,395 --> 00:22:49,235 Speaker 1: not viewing him as a saint. I told as many 324 00:22:49,235 --> 00:22:52,635 Speaker 1: of the inside stories I could of the delightful day 325 00:22:52,675 --> 00:22:56,315 Speaker 1: he compared a player's haircut to that of Charles Manson, 326 00:22:56,555 --> 00:23:01,755 Speaker 1: the mass murderer, of his wonderful swearing about a Dodger player, 327 00:23:01,795 --> 00:23:04,315 Speaker 1: and the reporter who broke up the player's marriage, of 328 00:23:04,395 --> 00:23:08,075 Speaker 1: his inability to stomach the people at Fox TV who 329 00:23:08,155 --> 00:23:11,075 Speaker 1: tried to make his broadcast, as he said, look just 330 00:23:11,195 --> 00:23:15,155 Speaker 1: like Pittsburgh's, and their decision to remove his friend Keith 331 00:23:15,195 --> 00:23:18,795 Speaker 1: from the National Baseball broadcasts. I can't tell all the 332 00:23:18,835 --> 00:23:21,275 Speaker 1: stories here, but the article is online and the stories 333 00:23:21,315 --> 00:23:24,835 Speaker 1: are pretty good, because well, it was Vin Scully, the 334 00:23:24,915 --> 00:23:28,275 Speaker 1: Charles Manson clip. I still have that on my phone. 335 00:23:28,835 --> 00:23:32,475 Speaker 1: I last saw Vin late in his last season twenty sixteen, 336 00:23:32,475 --> 00:23:35,435 Speaker 1: the year he retired. We took a picture, and as 337 00:23:35,475 --> 00:23:37,915 Speaker 1: happy as I am to see him in that picture, 338 00:23:38,035 --> 00:23:42,315 Speaker 1: he looks happier to see me. And while some of 339 00:23:42,315 --> 00:23:46,835 Speaker 1: that basic, deep abiding goodness in this man was not forced, 340 00:23:46,915 --> 00:23:51,595 Speaker 1: not fake, not embellished, but maybe a little managed, that 341 00:23:51,755 --> 00:23:57,115 Speaker 1: part was one hundred percent twenty four to seven real, 342 00:23:57,395 --> 00:24:05,635 Speaker 1: honest Vin Scully. He was happy to see you, friend, 343 00:24:05,995 --> 00:24:10,515 Speaker 1: co worker, player, fan, usually a fan about to pass out, 344 00:24:10,555 --> 00:24:12,915 Speaker 1: which I saw nearly happen when I introduced a friend 345 00:24:12,915 --> 00:24:15,835 Speaker 1: of mine to him in nineteen ninety one. Grown man, Well, 346 00:24:15,835 --> 00:24:19,835 Speaker 1: it's nice to meet you, Andy. Andy collapsed backwards towards 347 00:24:19,875 --> 00:24:22,955 Speaker 1: a wall in the ballpark and somehow managed to stay 348 00:24:23,115 --> 00:24:27,715 Speaker 1: upright and conscious. Vinn Scully stayed in touch with me 349 00:24:27,755 --> 00:24:32,035 Speaker 1: by email. I'm so proud of that. My last exchange 350 00:24:32,035 --> 00:24:33,995 Speaker 1: with him was in twenty twenty, as the life of 351 00:24:34,035 --> 00:24:38,275 Speaker 1: his beloved wife, Sandy ebbed away. Every time, every time 352 00:24:38,395 --> 00:24:40,995 Speaker 1: I sent him birthday wishes or I just checked in, 353 00:24:41,195 --> 00:24:43,515 Speaker 1: or when he wrote me, it was as if I 354 00:24:43,635 --> 00:24:47,555 Speaker 1: had done him some kind of honor. One email all 355 00:24:47,675 --> 00:24:53,315 Speaker 1: caps I have preserved them all reads high Keith. I'm 356 00:24:53,355 --> 00:24:55,795 Speaker 1: at that age when I think of someone, I try 357 00:24:55,835 --> 00:25:03,235 Speaker 1: to make contact with him. Happy Easter, blessings, Vin, blessings Finn. 358 00:25:03,475 --> 00:25:06,235 Speaker 1: That was him, But a wonderful habit to adopt a 359 00:25:06,275 --> 00:25:09,795 Speaker 1: friend comes to mind. You reach out. Imagine my thrill 360 00:25:09,955 --> 00:25:12,515 Speaker 1: to see an email from his Dodgers team address, which 361 00:25:12,515 --> 00:25:18,155 Speaker 1: I guess I can now reveal was simply read. There 362 00:25:18,315 --> 00:25:21,595 Speaker 1: is one story I wrote about for GQ that I 363 00:25:21,635 --> 00:25:24,115 Speaker 1: love to tell about Vin Scully above all the others, 364 00:25:24,115 --> 00:25:27,075 Speaker 1: and I feel like I should tell it here. In 365 00:25:27,115 --> 00:25:30,435 Speaker 1: August nineteen ninety one, I was watching from my TV 366 00:25:30,595 --> 00:25:34,475 Speaker 1: station in LA. It was a hot night, the Dodgers 367 00:25:34,475 --> 00:25:38,515 Speaker 1: were in Cincinnati, and Vince Scully mistakenly announced on the 368 00:25:38,515 --> 00:25:41,675 Speaker 1: air that Gil Hodges was at bat for the Dodgers, 369 00:25:41,715 --> 00:25:46,035 Speaker 1: when in fact it was Mike Sosha. Gil Hodges had 370 00:25:46,035 --> 00:25:48,755 Speaker 1: retired in nineteen sixty three, he had died in nineteen 371 00:25:48,795 --> 00:25:51,195 Speaker 1: seventy two, just went into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 372 00:25:51,835 --> 00:25:55,235 Speaker 1: The LA newspapers then began to wonder if Vince Scully 373 00:25:55,315 --> 00:26:01,515 Speaker 1: had lost it nineteen ninety one. He retired in twenty sixteen. Anyway, 374 00:26:01,515 --> 00:26:05,155 Speaker 1: on the next night's broadcast. Vin appeared on camera game 375 00:26:05,275 --> 00:26:08,275 Speaker 1: and explained what happened. This is roughly how I remember it. 376 00:26:08,515 --> 00:26:11,475 Speaker 1: There is no tape. I think I'm doing him justice, 377 00:26:12,235 --> 00:26:15,835 Speaker 1: he said, more or less. I had been thinking of 378 00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:19,155 Speaker 1: the late Gil Hodges. If you don't know, Gil Hodges 379 00:26:19,235 --> 00:26:22,035 Speaker 1: was a great dodger for a baseman, and my great friend, 380 00:26:22,355 --> 00:26:24,715 Speaker 1: and a great man who was taken from us far 381 00:26:24,835 --> 00:26:30,035 Speaker 1: too soon. And like Mike Sosha, Gil wore number fourteen, 382 00:26:30,675 --> 00:26:32,755 Speaker 1: and it was awfully hot in that booth, and for 383 00:26:32,795 --> 00:26:35,475 Speaker 1: some reason, instead of saying two and oh to Sosha, 384 00:26:35,835 --> 00:26:39,355 Speaker 1: I said two and oh to Hodges. But I think 385 00:26:39,395 --> 00:26:42,435 Speaker 1: the weather and the uniform number were not the only 386 00:26:42,475 --> 00:26:47,275 Speaker 1: reasons I confused them. Mike reminds me a lot of 387 00:26:47,315 --> 00:26:51,635 Speaker 1: my friend Gil, and like Gil, I think he may 388 00:26:51,675 --> 00:26:55,155 Speaker 1: be a fine major league manager someday. Anyway, I just 389 00:26:55,195 --> 00:27:01,635 Speaker 1: wanted to apologize for the mistake. Beautiful there. Then the 390 00:27:01,715 --> 00:27:06,635 Speaker 1: game reappeared on the camera and Vin paused, speaking off camera, 391 00:27:07,275 --> 00:27:09,795 Speaker 1: and he said something that still takes my breath away. 392 00:27:11,315 --> 00:27:15,355 Speaker 1: I wish I could bring Gil Hodges back that easily. 393 00:27:19,875 --> 00:27:22,795 Speaker 1: I am agnostic about an afterlife, but I will confess 394 00:27:22,835 --> 00:27:24,635 Speaker 1: I frequently hope with all my heart that there is 395 00:27:24,675 --> 00:27:27,915 Speaker 1: one and this is one of those days, so Vin 396 00:27:27,915 --> 00:27:31,035 Speaker 1: can be reunited with family members whom tragedy took too 397 00:27:31,035 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: early from him, and all those players like Gil Hodges. 398 00:27:34,835 --> 00:27:38,275 Speaker 1: I'm Jackie Robinson who saw in him what we who 399 00:27:38,315 --> 00:27:40,955 Speaker 1: watched or listened or had the privilege to really know 400 00:27:41,155 --> 00:27:45,435 Speaker 1: him also could say, here is this deeply decent, brilliantly 401 00:27:45,555 --> 00:27:49,275 Speaker 1: talented man, and the last person to claim either of 402 00:27:49,275 --> 00:27:53,995 Speaker 1: those descriptions for himself, here is my friend Vin Scully. 403 00:27:55,515 --> 00:28:01,195 Speaker 1: So blessings Bevin. I wish I could bring you back 404 00:28:02,155 --> 00:28:18,355 Speaker 1: that easily. It's hard enough that a baseball season has 405 00:28:18,395 --> 00:28:22,395 Speaker 1: begun for the first time since nineteen forty nine without 406 00:28:22,515 --> 00:28:26,315 Speaker 1: Vince Scully either announcing games or still here to enjoy 407 00:28:26,355 --> 00:28:28,395 Speaker 1: them with us and to remind us what there is 408 00:28:28,835 --> 00:28:33,155 Speaker 1: within the games to enjoy. But then on February sixteenth 409 00:28:33,155 --> 00:28:36,795 Speaker 1: of this year, the pain doubled. Tim McCarver, very probably 410 00:28:36,795 --> 00:28:40,475 Speaker 1: the best former player ever to become a baseball announcer, 411 00:28:41,275 --> 00:28:44,515 Speaker 1: died as well. Like Vince Scully, he had been a 412 00:28:44,555 --> 00:28:46,995 Speaker 1: friend of mine for decades, and like Vin, he once 413 00:28:47,075 --> 00:28:52,355 Speaker 1: resuscitated my flagging affections for the game itself in memory 414 00:28:52,555 --> 00:29:05,915 Speaker 1: of Tim McCarver. When I was twenty four years old 415 00:29:05,955 --> 00:29:09,195 Speaker 1: and working as a sports correspondent for CNN in New York, 416 00:29:09,275 --> 00:29:12,995 Speaker 1: I reluctantly admitted to myself that my affection for baseball 417 00:29:13,595 --> 00:29:17,595 Speaker 1: was failing. I had seen my childhood team, the Yankees, 418 00:29:17,875 --> 00:29:21,275 Speaker 1: rise from the Ashes to win two World Series, and 419 00:29:21,475 --> 00:29:23,955 Speaker 1: I was in the stands in Boston as they completed 420 00:29:23,955 --> 00:29:27,235 Speaker 1: the greatest midseason come back in the game's history. But 421 00:29:27,395 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: the Yankees perpetual churn had exhausted me, and five seasons 422 00:29:32,755 --> 00:29:35,995 Speaker 1: of having to go to baseball games as a professional 423 00:29:36,475 --> 00:29:38,715 Speaker 1: rather than just wanting to go to them as a 424 00:29:38,755 --> 00:29:43,275 Speaker 1: fan had left me board. And one night after work 425 00:29:43,355 --> 00:29:45,715 Speaker 1: in April or May of nineteen eighty three, I was 426 00:29:45,715 --> 00:29:48,195 Speaker 1: sitting in my little apartment in New York, finding nothing 427 00:29:48,195 --> 00:29:51,395 Speaker 1: to watch, even on the cable system offering the world's 428 00:29:51,595 --> 00:29:55,995 Speaker 1: widest assortment of channels, fifty of them, and I somehow 429 00:29:56,075 --> 00:30:00,035 Speaker 1: landed back on the New York station, Channel nine, whereas 430 00:30:00,155 --> 00:30:03,395 Speaker 1: the hapless New York Mets were cavorting on my screen. 431 00:30:04,115 --> 00:30:09,595 Speaker 1: Two men, we're laughing uncontrollably. I mean, I came in 432 00:30:09,635 --> 00:30:11,915 Speaker 1: from channel eight or channel ten, and the first thing 433 00:30:11,955 --> 00:30:14,195 Speaker 1: I saw was the ballgame at Chase Stadium, and the 434 00:30:14,235 --> 00:30:18,755 Speaker 1: first thing I heard was these two guys laughing. No words, 435 00:30:19,355 --> 00:30:27,075 Speaker 1: no explanation, no self control, just laughing. Well that was different. 436 00:30:28,195 --> 00:30:30,235 Speaker 1: I had never in my life been a fan of 437 00:30:30,275 --> 00:30:34,035 Speaker 1: the New York Mets. I grew up Yankee, and even 438 00:30:34,115 --> 00:30:36,795 Speaker 1: as that had begun to wane, I was not going 439 00:30:36,875 --> 00:30:40,555 Speaker 1: to become a Mets fan. I didn't hate them. At 440 00:30:40,595 --> 00:30:42,835 Speaker 1: age ten, I was overjoyed when my dad was able 441 00:30:42,875 --> 00:30:44,875 Speaker 1: to get us two tickets to a Mets nineteen sixty 442 00:30:44,955 --> 00:30:47,915 Speaker 1: nine World Series game. And I had seen the Mets 443 00:30:47,955 --> 00:30:53,795 Speaker 1: on TV hundreds of times before, but never to watch them. 444 00:30:54,675 --> 00:30:58,035 Speaker 1: And yet there I was, having voluntarily stayed in rapped 445 00:30:58,075 --> 00:31:01,475 Speaker 1: attention to a Mets telecast for twenty or thirty seconds 446 00:31:01,515 --> 00:31:06,955 Speaker 1: now as these two guys laughed their heads off. Eventually 447 00:31:06,955 --> 00:31:11,035 Speaker 1: they settled down, and Ralph Kinner, in his twenty second 448 00:31:11,115 --> 00:31:14,275 Speaker 1: season as a Mets announcer, said something to Tim McCarver 449 00:31:14,875 --> 00:31:18,315 Speaker 1: in like his twenty second day as a Mets announcer, 450 00:31:18,555 --> 00:31:21,115 Speaker 1: about how neither of them should ever try to say 451 00:31:21,195 --> 00:31:25,795 Speaker 1: that again. Just then the inning ended, McCarver said, the 452 00:31:25,835 --> 00:31:29,035 Speaker 1: Mets are retired in the third and management may very 453 00:31:29,075 --> 00:31:32,115 Speaker 1: well retire Ralph and me during the commercial, We'll be 454 00:31:32,275 --> 00:31:36,115 Speaker 1: right back or not. Well, now I had to watch 455 00:31:37,635 --> 00:31:41,035 Speaker 1: by the next inning. By the time Tim McCarver, whom 456 00:31:41,035 --> 00:31:43,355 Speaker 1: the Mets had hired away from the Philadelphia Phillies the 457 00:31:43,395 --> 00:31:46,995 Speaker 1: previous winter, had explained the name that he and Ralph 458 00:31:47,075 --> 00:31:51,595 Speaker 1: Kinner so butchered that they dissolved into laughter. I was 459 00:31:52,075 --> 00:31:56,755 Speaker 1: a Tim McCarver fan. The Mets were awful that year, 460 00:31:57,875 --> 00:32:00,795 Speaker 1: promising but still the second worst team in baseball. They 461 00:32:00,795 --> 00:32:04,475 Speaker 1: had not finished last or next to last in seven years, 462 00:32:05,035 --> 00:32:08,355 Speaker 1: and laughing during their broadcast for any reason was better 463 00:32:08,395 --> 00:32:12,875 Speaker 1: than paying attention to their games. And yet it quickly 464 00:32:12,955 --> 00:32:15,235 Speaker 1: dawned on me that I was not only laughing along 465 00:32:15,275 --> 00:32:18,835 Speaker 1: with McCarver and Kinner, but also I was paying attention 466 00:32:19,555 --> 00:32:22,675 Speaker 1: to the game. It was as if I were sitting 467 00:32:22,715 --> 00:32:25,715 Speaker 1: with these two guys in the stands somewhere, and we 468 00:32:25,715 --> 00:32:28,795 Speaker 1: were enjoying what we could of the nineteen eighty three Mets, 469 00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:32,635 Speaker 1: with McCarver in particular pointing out something subtle on the 470 00:32:32,635 --> 00:32:35,875 Speaker 1: field that I would have otherwise missed, and in a 471 00:32:35,955 --> 00:32:41,315 Speaker 1: much larger sense, McCarver kiner and the viewer. We were 472 00:32:41,355 --> 00:32:46,795 Speaker 1: sitting there enjoying the fact of baseball. The individual game 473 00:32:46,875 --> 00:32:49,635 Speaker 1: always mattered to Tim McCarver. But where it fit into 474 00:32:49,675 --> 00:32:53,715 Speaker 1: the jigsaw puzzle of that season's games, or into the 475 00:32:53,835 --> 00:32:57,515 Speaker 1: vaster jigsaw puzzle of all the games he'd ever seen, 476 00:32:57,635 --> 00:32:59,915 Speaker 1: all the games there had ever been, that was far 477 00:33:00,115 --> 00:33:04,235 Speaker 1: more important. Well before the week was out, I was 478 00:33:04,235 --> 00:33:08,115 Speaker 1: a met and because of Tim McCarver and my dying, 479 00:33:08,155 --> 00:33:14,915 Speaker 1: baseball fandom had been resuscitated. Because of Tim McCarver. As 480 00:33:14,955 --> 00:33:18,995 Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty three, very few baseball broadcasts, in fact, 481 00:33:19,075 --> 00:33:24,635 Speaker 1: very few sportscasts were interesting to watch as television programs. 482 00:33:24,995 --> 00:33:27,555 Speaker 1: Tony Kubeck had done the Baseball Game of the Week 483 00:33:27,795 --> 00:33:31,955 Speaker 1: and was crisp and informative, and he enjoyed himself, and 484 00:33:32,035 --> 00:33:35,315 Speaker 1: he taught me and other kids and adults what to 485 00:33:35,435 --> 00:33:38,915 Speaker 1: look for. But Vin Scully had only returned to the 486 00:33:38,995 --> 00:33:42,195 Speaker 1: national baseball stage that same year nineteen eighty three, and 487 00:33:42,315 --> 00:33:45,395 Speaker 1: Bob Costas had only become the backup on NBC's Game 488 00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:49,115 Speaker 1: of the Week the year before. Baseball television was, if 489 00:33:49,155 --> 00:33:56,555 Speaker 1: not a desert, a really arid place. Tim McCarver was 490 00:33:56,715 --> 00:34:00,715 Speaker 1: never arid. He was happy to criticize any player or 491 00:34:00,795 --> 00:34:04,515 Speaker 1: any manager at any time for strategical or logistical malfeason. 492 00:34:05,515 --> 00:34:08,755 Speaker 1: But he was also happy to underline whenever he was 493 00:34:08,835 --> 00:34:12,475 Speaker 1: wrong and they were right. You can't shade the defense 494 00:34:12,555 --> 00:34:14,795 Speaker 1: that way and throw him a fastball in that situation, 495 00:34:14,795 --> 00:34:18,755 Speaker 1: he'll put it over the fence. If seconds after that 496 00:34:19,275 --> 00:34:21,595 Speaker 1: the batter hit not a home run but a soft 497 00:34:21,635 --> 00:34:25,155 Speaker 1: liner to the shortstop whose location McCarver had just criticized. 498 00:34:25,675 --> 00:34:29,915 Speaker 1: Tim's self flagellation would be short and exact, or maybe 499 00:34:29,915 --> 00:34:35,675 Speaker 1: you can I'll try to stop managing from up here now. Usually, 500 00:34:35,675 --> 00:34:39,315 Speaker 1: of course, he was exactly right. About fifteen years ago, 501 00:34:39,395 --> 00:34:41,595 Speaker 1: he kind of fell out of favor with some fans 502 00:34:41,635 --> 00:34:44,515 Speaker 1: and some critics because the freshness of his approach as 503 00:34:44,555 --> 00:34:47,915 Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty three, tell the viewer not just what happened, 504 00:34:48,275 --> 00:34:50,515 Speaker 1: but what's going to happen next, and what's going to 505 00:34:50,595 --> 00:34:53,795 Speaker 1: happen after that, and what's going to happen after that. 506 00:34:53,795 --> 00:34:56,995 Speaker 1: That had been imitated by every baseball analyst, and indeed 507 00:34:57,035 --> 00:34:59,555 Speaker 1: by every TV sports analyst, and by a lot of 508 00:34:59,595 --> 00:35:03,115 Speaker 1: sportscasters in studios and a lot of the imitators were 509 00:35:03,115 --> 00:35:07,395 Speaker 1: younger and smoother, with a less pronounced accent, and as 510 00:35:07,555 --> 00:35:13,155 Speaker 1: is inevitable, with time, they had become faster. Lost in 511 00:35:13,195 --> 00:35:21,075 Speaker 1: that is that they all were and are Tim McCarver imitators. 512 00:35:23,355 --> 00:35:26,195 Speaker 1: McCarver rose quickly in Baseball TV. He went right from 513 00:35:26,235 --> 00:35:28,795 Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies active roster and he was a great 514 00:35:28,875 --> 00:35:32,155 Speaker 1: catcher to announcing for the Phillies and occasionally for NBC 515 00:35:32,275 --> 00:35:34,755 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty, then to the Mets in nineteen eighty three, 516 00:35:34,755 --> 00:35:37,475 Speaker 1: as I mentioned, and ABC Sports in nineteen eighty four, 517 00:35:37,795 --> 00:35:40,475 Speaker 1: and his first of twenty three World Series in nineteen 518 00:35:40,515 --> 00:35:44,675 Speaker 1: eighty five. When CBS got baseball in nineteen ninety they 519 00:35:44,755 --> 00:35:47,275 Speaker 1: hired him. I was at the CBS station in Los 520 00:35:47,275 --> 00:35:50,235 Speaker 1: Angeles and got to interview him. I predicted that the 521 00:35:50,315 --> 00:35:53,155 Speaker 1: underdog Cincinnati Reds would win the World Series in nineteen 522 00:35:53,235 --> 00:35:56,115 Speaker 1: ninety and maybe even sweep, and McCarver said, I think 523 00:35:56,155 --> 00:35:58,115 Speaker 1: that way too. I was afraid to say it. I 524 00:35:58,195 --> 00:36:02,755 Speaker 1: thought I was the only one. When CBS lost baseball 525 00:36:02,755 --> 00:36:05,995 Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four, ABC reh hired him. When Fox 526 00:36:06,075 --> 00:36:08,995 Speaker 1: got Baseball in nineteen ninety six, they hired him away 527 00:36:09,035 --> 00:36:11,515 Speaker 1: and all that time, he was also doing full seasons 528 00:36:11,515 --> 00:36:13,995 Speaker 1: in New York with the Mets, and when the Mets 529 00:36:14,035 --> 00:36:16,515 Speaker 1: hesitated to bring him back, the Yankees grabbed him in 530 00:36:16,595 --> 00:36:19,195 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, and he was their lead announcer play 531 00:36:19,195 --> 00:36:21,795 Speaker 1: by play man and a good one for three seasons. 532 00:36:23,795 --> 00:36:26,515 Speaker 1: I had met Tim McCarver when he was going from 533 00:36:26,635 --> 00:36:29,555 Speaker 1: player to announcer. At the nineteen eighty World Series. I 534 00:36:29,595 --> 00:36:32,395 Speaker 1: was startled to see him on the field at Veteran 535 00:36:32,475 --> 00:36:38,275 Speaker 1: Stadium in Philadelphia carrying the latest volume of Martin Gilbert's 536 00:36:38,355 --> 00:36:44,395 Speaker 1: series of biographies of Winston Churchill. I introduced myself and 537 00:36:44,435 --> 00:36:46,635 Speaker 1: I said I had just finished that book and hoped 538 00:36:46,675 --> 00:36:49,235 Speaker 1: he enjoyed it as much as I had. He asked 539 00:36:49,235 --> 00:36:51,715 Speaker 1: me how I thought it compared to Churchill's dozens of 540 00:36:51,795 --> 00:36:55,315 Speaker 1: volumes of his own autobiography. Well, I said, there are 541 00:36:55,395 --> 00:36:59,595 Speaker 1: fewer of them. McCarver laughed loudly. Good, this is heavy 542 00:36:59,675 --> 00:37:03,395 Speaker 1: enough on the plane, he said, And when in nineteen 543 00:37:03,395 --> 00:37:05,435 Speaker 1: eighty three I became a McCarver fan and got to 544 00:37:05,475 --> 00:37:08,155 Speaker 1: tell him so, he immediately asked me if there were 545 00:37:08,195 --> 00:37:12,275 Speaker 1: things he could improve on. Well, I gave him some 546 00:37:12,275 --> 00:37:14,475 Speaker 1: technical voice tips and told him not to worry too 547 00:37:14,515 --> 00:37:16,875 Speaker 1: much about them, that he was really pretty good at 548 00:37:16,875 --> 00:37:19,395 Speaker 1: it as it was. And I said, I suppose this 549 00:37:19,475 --> 00:37:21,675 Speaker 1: had begun when he was with the nineteen sixty five 550 00:37:21,715 --> 00:37:24,915 Speaker 1: Saint Louis Cardinals. They had thirty five players on the 551 00:37:24,915 --> 00:37:27,355 Speaker 1: team that year, twenty five of them making the roster 552 00:37:27,435 --> 00:37:30,595 Speaker 1: for most of the season. Eventually, of those thirty five, 553 00:37:31,155 --> 00:37:34,995 Speaker 1: McCarver became a broadcaster, and his teammates Bill White and 554 00:37:35,075 --> 00:37:39,115 Speaker 1: Lou Brock became broadcasters, and Kurt Flood and Mike Shannon 555 00:37:39,355 --> 00:37:43,115 Speaker 1: and Bob Yucker and Bob Gibson and Nelson Briles, and 556 00:37:43,155 --> 00:37:46,795 Speaker 1: they would all become baseball announcers. And then their teammate 557 00:37:46,875 --> 00:37:50,435 Speaker 1: Dick Grot would become a basketball announcer, and their teammate 558 00:37:50,515 --> 00:37:53,715 Speaker 1: Bob Perkey would become a local sportscaster in Pittsburgh. That's 559 00:37:53,755 --> 00:37:57,995 Speaker 1: ten out of thirty five. McCarver said on the team bus, 560 00:37:58,035 --> 00:38:00,435 Speaker 1: it was a life and death struggle to be heard. 561 00:38:03,075 --> 00:38:05,435 Speaker 1: I got to work again with Tim McCarver on a 562 00:38:05,475 --> 00:38:09,395 Speaker 1: regular basis at Fox in nineteen ninety nine and two thousand. 563 00:38:09,475 --> 00:38:11,635 Speaker 1: I was the host of Fox's pregame show for the 564 00:38:11,635 --> 00:38:14,115 Speaker 1: Game of the Week, that Tim did with Joe Buck 565 00:38:14,195 --> 00:38:17,955 Speaker 1: every Saturday, and also the pregame show host of our 566 00:38:18,035 --> 00:38:21,195 Speaker 1: coverage of the playoffs in the World Series. Midseason, I 567 00:38:21,235 --> 00:38:24,395 Speaker 1: would appear in their broadcasts from the studio doing highlights 568 00:38:24,395 --> 00:38:27,035 Speaker 1: of other games, and then in October I would literally 569 00:38:27,075 --> 00:38:30,555 Speaker 1: be in one of the team dugouts. I am proud 570 00:38:30,595 --> 00:38:33,955 Speaker 1: to say that in the former role, I once managed 571 00:38:33,995 --> 00:38:39,275 Speaker 1: to reduce Tim McCarver to silence. On June seventeenth, two thousand, 572 00:38:39,915 --> 00:38:41,835 Speaker 1: Tim and Joe Buck were doing the Game of the 573 00:38:41,835 --> 00:38:44,275 Speaker 1: Week from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, and I was, 574 00:38:44,355 --> 00:38:48,155 Speaker 1: as usual in the LA Studio doing the highlights for them, 575 00:38:48,515 --> 00:38:52,595 Speaker 1: watching all the games simultaneously on an array of television's 576 00:38:52,715 --> 00:38:56,555 Speaker 1: stacked one atop the other. In the fourth inning at 577 00:38:56,675 --> 00:39:01,315 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, the Yankee second baseman Chuck Nablock, whose defensive 578 00:39:01,315 --> 00:39:04,515 Speaker 1: play had been deteriorating for more than a year, charged 579 00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:07,195 Speaker 1: a softly hit ground ball and tried to throw it 580 00:39:07,275 --> 00:39:10,595 Speaker 1: back behind him to first base. He not only did 581 00:39:10,635 --> 00:39:13,235 Speaker 1: not come close to first base, but the throw in fact, 582 00:39:13,275 --> 00:39:16,955 Speaker 1: bounced off the top of the Yankees dugout and hit 583 00:39:17,035 --> 00:39:21,875 Speaker 1: a fan in the stands Now, I knew Yankee Stadium. Intimately, 584 00:39:21,915 --> 00:39:23,835 Speaker 1: I had more or less grown up there, and I 585 00:39:23,915 --> 00:39:26,515 Speaker 1: knew if the ball had not hit somebody in the 586 00:39:26,635 --> 00:39:29,315 Speaker 1: season ticket seats that my family had had there since 587 00:39:29,395 --> 00:39:33,675 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, it had come close. Probably hit my mother, 588 00:39:34,075 --> 00:39:37,915 Speaker 1: I said to the stage crew. Everybody laughed, and then 589 00:39:37,955 --> 00:39:40,555 Speaker 1: the Yankees broadcast cut to a shot of the afflicted 590 00:39:40,635 --> 00:39:44,515 Speaker 1: fan holding her head and being attended to buy stadium staff. 591 00:39:44,995 --> 00:39:50,715 Speaker 1: It was my mother. Nobody laughed. So moments later, after 592 00:39:50,755 --> 00:39:53,515 Speaker 1: I'd gotten her on the phone, when Buck and McCarver 593 00:39:53,715 --> 00:39:56,275 Speaker 1: threw to me for a Fox game break, I narrated 594 00:39:56,315 --> 00:39:59,115 Speaker 1: that exact highlight, and I said that Chuck now blocks 595 00:39:59,115 --> 00:40:01,515 Speaker 1: throwing problems, had now gotten personal, that he had now 596 00:40:01,635 --> 00:40:06,235 Speaker 1: hit my mother. We showed her her glasses are broken, 597 00:40:06,315 --> 00:40:07,995 Speaker 1: Joe and Tim, and she's going home. But I've just 598 00:40:07,995 --> 00:40:13,395 Speaker 1: spoken to her. She's okay, Joe, Tim. There was silence, 599 00:40:14,395 --> 00:40:18,875 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of silence. Finally Tim McCarver said, 600 00:40:19,155 --> 00:40:23,595 Speaker 1: what huh is that I'm speechless? Is that one of 601 00:40:23,675 --> 00:40:26,715 Speaker 1: Keith's jokes, Keith, are you still there? Was that? Really? 602 00:40:26,755 --> 00:40:31,155 Speaker 1: Your mother? I'm here, Tim, My goodness? She what did 603 00:40:31,155 --> 00:40:33,635 Speaker 1: the odds? Tim She's been going to Yankee games since 604 00:40:33,715 --> 00:40:35,875 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, and nothing bad has ever happened to 605 00:40:35,875 --> 00:40:37,755 Speaker 1: her before today. I'd say the odds are pretty good, 606 00:40:38,235 --> 00:40:40,515 Speaker 1: but did she She's fine. She'll be back in that 607 00:40:40,555 --> 00:40:43,395 Speaker 1: same seat tomorrow. She's a gamer, won't she ask me 608 00:40:43,435 --> 00:40:44,915 Speaker 1: to tell you she likes you better now that you're 609 00:40:44,915 --> 00:40:49,155 Speaker 1: worth the Yankees and not the Mets. After that, I 610 00:40:49,275 --> 00:40:52,515 Speaker 1: never saw Tim McCarver without him asking how my mother was. 611 00:40:53,275 --> 00:40:56,475 Speaker 1: In fact, he called me after his game ended that 612 00:40:56,555 --> 00:41:00,275 Speaker 1: day to make sure. After my mother passed away, Tim 613 00:41:00,315 --> 00:41:03,955 Speaker 1: would say he had been thinking of her. Nobody I 614 00:41:04,155 --> 00:41:08,315 Speaker 1: know who knew Tim McCarver personally could recall a difficult 615 00:41:08,355 --> 00:41:11,435 Speaker 1: experience with him. He was a sweet man who enjoyed himself, 616 00:41:12,035 --> 00:41:18,155 Speaker 1: enjoyed baseball, enjoyed broadcasting, enjoyed talking, enjoyed listening, enjoyed meeting you, 617 00:41:18,715 --> 00:41:22,955 Speaker 1: enjoyed singing. He put out a jazz album, and he 618 00:41:23,275 --> 00:41:27,515 Speaker 1: saved my love for baseball when it nearly died, literally 619 00:41:27,675 --> 00:41:33,195 Speaker 1: forty years ago. And one last thing. Tim McCarver said 620 00:41:33,275 --> 00:41:36,395 Speaker 1: something once on a baseball broadcast that is, to my mind, 621 00:41:36,795 --> 00:41:42,435 Speaker 1: the greatest piece of predictive analysis I have ever heard 622 00:41:42,675 --> 00:41:49,075 Speaker 1: in any sport, possibly in any realm, in television, politics, news, 623 00:41:49,155 --> 00:41:53,995 Speaker 1: the weather, but definitely sports. And it wasn't just that 624 00:41:54,115 --> 00:41:57,115 Speaker 1: he pointed out what everybody else in the stadium had 625 00:41:57,115 --> 00:41:59,675 Speaker 1: seemingly missed, including a manager who had just led his 626 00:41:59,715 --> 00:42:03,515 Speaker 1: team to three consecutive World Series championships. It was when 627 00:42:03,595 --> 00:42:06,955 Speaker 1: he said it. This was in the bottom of the 628 00:42:07,075 --> 00:42:10,395 Speaker 1: ninth inning of the seventh game of the World Series, 629 00:42:10,835 --> 00:42:15,515 Speaker 1: in literally the last seconds of the most emotional two 630 00:42:15,555 --> 00:42:19,755 Speaker 1: months of the most emotional baseball season ever. This was 631 00:42:19,835 --> 00:42:24,875 Speaker 1: on November fourth, two thousand and one. As in a 632 00:42:25,035 --> 00:42:28,795 Speaker 1: horror film or a disaster movie, there was just enough 633 00:42:28,835 --> 00:42:32,715 Speaker 1: time for one person, and one person alone, to see 634 00:42:32,835 --> 00:42:35,995 Speaker 1: that the monster was not dead, or that the damn 635 00:42:36,155 --> 00:42:39,475 Speaker 1: would not hold. And in this case, that person was 636 00:42:39,515 --> 00:42:42,955 Speaker 1: Tim McCarver. And this audio from the Fox broadcast of 637 00:42:42,995 --> 00:42:47,995 Speaker 1: that World Series game. It's not slick. It doesn't sound scripted. 638 00:42:48,715 --> 00:42:51,595 Speaker 1: There are no catch phrases. It isn't hip, it isn't 639 00:42:51,635 --> 00:42:57,395 Speaker 1: full of metrics. It merely predicts the exact outcome to 640 00:42:57,635 --> 00:43:02,755 Speaker 1: the inch of the play that would decide and end 641 00:43:02,915 --> 00:43:08,755 Speaker 1: the entire baseball season. Seconds afterwards, the chance of a 642 00:43:08,835 --> 00:43:12,915 Speaker 1: lifetime from Luis gons College two two, bottom of the 643 00:43:13,035 --> 00:43:17,515 Speaker 1: ninth Game seven of the World Series. Bases loaded in 644 00:43:17,755 --> 00:43:28,475 Speaker 1: field in one out, strike water. The one problem is 645 00:43:28,595 --> 00:43:33,035 Speaker 1: Rivera throws inside the left handers. The left handers get 646 00:43:33,075 --> 00:43:36,275 Speaker 1: a lot of book and bad hits in the shallow outfield, 647 00:43:37,635 --> 00:43:40,915 Speaker 1: the shallow part of the outfield. That's the danger in 648 00:43:41,035 --> 00:43:43,395 Speaker 1: bringing the infield in with a guy like Rivera on 649 00:43:43,475 --> 00:44:02,155 Speaker 1: the mountain center center trailed the Diamondbacks put old champions 650 00:44:04,795 --> 00:44:09,755 Speaker 1: Louie Gonzalez's hit landed exactly where Tim McCarver had said 651 00:44:10,115 --> 00:44:13,955 Speaker 1: the Yankees should have had their infielders playing but didn't. 652 00:44:15,155 --> 00:44:18,515 Speaker 1: When I saw Tim the next season, I said this 653 00:44:18,675 --> 00:44:20,875 Speaker 1: to him, and I said this about him to every 654 00:44:20,955 --> 00:44:25,195 Speaker 1: TV writer who asked that. That was the Bill Mazarowski 655 00:44:25,315 --> 00:44:29,235 Speaker 1: World Series winning home run of all baseball analysis ever. 656 00:44:30,755 --> 00:44:33,275 Speaker 1: And so in the last twenty years, whenever it was 657 00:44:33,395 --> 00:44:36,475 Speaker 1: my privilege to see Tim McCarver at a ballpark, he 658 00:44:36,555 --> 00:44:39,195 Speaker 1: would always say two things to me, as if he 659 00:44:39,315 --> 00:44:43,435 Speaker 1: were saying them to me for the first time. He 660 00:44:43,515 --> 00:44:45,875 Speaker 1: would say, thank you, Keith for what you said about 661 00:44:45,915 --> 00:44:49,315 Speaker 1: two thousand and one, and Keith, I was just thinking 662 00:44:50,195 --> 00:45:06,515 Speaker 1: of your dear mother, Thank you for listening. Here are 663 00:45:06,555 --> 00:45:08,915 Speaker 1: the credits. Most of the music was arranged, produced, and 664 00:45:09,075 --> 00:45:11,635 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Channel, who are 665 00:45:11,675 --> 00:45:15,475 Speaker 1: the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John 666 00:45:15,515 --> 00:45:19,075 Speaker 1: Philip Channel, guitarist based on drums by Brian Ray, produced 667 00:45:19,115 --> 00:45:22,595 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and 668 00:45:22,755 --> 00:45:26,395 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music 669 00:45:26,555 --> 00:45:29,155 Speaker 1: is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch 670 00:45:29,235 --> 00:45:33,675 Speaker 1: Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN. Musical comments by Nancy Fauss, 671 00:45:33,715 --> 00:45:36,555 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. Everything else is pretty 672 00:45:36,635 --> 00:45:39,315 Speaker 1: much my fault. Let's countdown for this the eight hundred 673 00:45:39,315 --> 00:45:42,555 Speaker 1: and twentieth day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against 674 00:45:42,595 --> 00:45:46,515 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. Keep arresting 675 00:45:46,595 --> 00:45:50,195 Speaker 1: him while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow, 676 00:45:50,235 --> 00:45:52,915 Speaker 1: and until then on Keith Olberman Good Morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 677 00:45:53,395 --> 00:46:06,235 Speaker 1: and good luck. Count Down with Keith Olerman is a 678 00:46:06,315 --> 00:46:11,075 Speaker 1: production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the 679 00:46:11,155 --> 00:46:15,675 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.