1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:27,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Bob 2 00:00:27,675 --> 00:00:31,155 Speaker 1: Costas has been a friend for forty years and one 3 00:00:31,195 --> 00:00:34,835 Speaker 1: of my closest professional friends and supporters and boosters for 4 00:00:34,915 --> 00:00:37,955 Speaker 1: a quarter century, and now it is time for him 5 00:00:38,315 --> 00:00:43,355 Speaker 1: to shut the up about Joe Biden. If you have 6 00:00:43,475 --> 00:00:46,995 Speaker 1: missed it, Bob has begun a public crusade on national 7 00:00:47,035 --> 00:00:51,995 Speaker 1: television urging insisting now demanding that the president withdraw from 8 00:00:52,035 --> 00:00:55,795 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four campaign, or quoting him be shown 9 00:00:56,115 --> 00:01:00,955 Speaker 1: the door, unquote. I do not question Bob's motives while 10 00:01:00,995 --> 00:01:04,235 Speaker 1: attacking Biden for hubris for running and the Democrats as 11 00:01:04,275 --> 00:01:07,875 Speaker 1: Feckley for letting him run, Bob has rightly called Trump 12 00:01:07,915 --> 00:01:10,875 Speaker 1: a threat to democracy. I do not question Bob's motives. 13 00:01:11,035 --> 00:01:19,795 Speaker 1: I question Bob's hubris and his fecklessness. Bob shut the up, 14 00:01:20,315 --> 00:01:24,435 Speaker 1: because whatever Bob thinks he is accomplishing, whatever anybody else 15 00:01:24,515 --> 00:01:27,515 Speaker 1: doing stuff like this thinks they are accomplishing, they are 16 00:01:27,555 --> 00:01:33,275 Speaker 1: in fact accomplishing only one thing, helping Donald Trump period, 17 00:01:33,995 --> 00:01:38,595 Speaker 1: doing Donald Trump's work for him, just like John Stewart, 18 00:01:39,115 --> 00:01:41,675 Speaker 1: just like Ez Recline, just like Bill Maher, just like 19 00:01:41,755 --> 00:01:44,955 Speaker 1: jenk Yuger, just like every other apparent liberal who has 20 00:01:44,995 --> 00:01:49,915 Speaker 1: decided he and he alone knows the terrible truth, and 21 00:01:49,995 --> 00:01:53,635 Speaker 1: he must remove the President of the United States from 22 00:01:53,675 --> 00:01:58,075 Speaker 1: the Democratic ticket, the president who, for some reason the 23 00:01:58,155 --> 00:02:02,675 Speaker 1: Republicans also want removed from the Democratic ticket. The president 24 00:02:02,715 --> 00:02:07,235 Speaker 1: who for some reason Trump also wants removed from the 25 00:02:07,235 --> 00:02:11,995 Speaker 1: Democratic ticket. Bob Costas and Trump want Biden to be 26 00:02:12,155 --> 00:02:18,795 Speaker 1: shown the door. Coincidence, no doubt. I have previously war 27 00:02:18,915 --> 00:02:21,635 Speaker 1: gained what would actually happen if Democrats tried to remove 28 00:02:21,755 --> 00:02:23,595 Speaker 1: Joe Biden from the ticket now, and I will do 29 00:02:23,635 --> 00:02:26,435 Speaker 1: it again in brief shortly, but I wanted to emphasize 30 00:02:26,435 --> 00:02:29,195 Speaker 1: that it's not as if we do not have history 31 00:02:29,235 --> 00:02:33,755 Speaker 1: to consult about what happens when somebody says something stupid 32 00:02:33,835 --> 00:02:36,275 Speaker 1: like this, or when you do this, or when you 33 00:02:36,435 --> 00:02:39,235 Speaker 1: just try to do this. What happens is when you 34 00:02:39,355 --> 00:02:41,555 Speaker 1: do this or you just try to do this, what 35 00:02:41,715 --> 00:02:47,515 Speaker 1: happens is you lose. In nineteen sixty eight, the Democrats 36 00:02:47,555 --> 00:02:52,595 Speaker 1: successfully undercut Lyndon Johnson sharply enough and viciously enough and 37 00:02:52,715 --> 00:02:57,555 Speaker 1: anti Vietnam enough that on March thirty first, LBJ not 38 00:02:57,835 --> 00:03:01,275 Speaker 1: four years removed from what was then the biggest landslide 39 00:03:01,355 --> 00:03:09,515 Speaker 1: in presidential election history, withdrew biggest landslide in history, and 40 00:03:09,635 --> 00:03:13,155 Speaker 1: after he withdrew six months later, instead of him the 41 00:03:13,195 --> 00:03:16,955 Speaker 1: guy with the biggest landslide in history against the genuinely 42 00:03:17,075 --> 00:03:20,955 Speaker 1: evil Richard Nixon, instead of Lyndon Johnson running for reelection 43 00:03:21,075 --> 00:03:23,675 Speaker 1: after a knife fight of a primary that ended with 44 00:03:23,755 --> 00:03:28,475 Speaker 1: the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, we ran Hubert Humphrey 45 00:03:29,235 --> 00:03:31,515 Speaker 1: instead of the incumbent with the biggest landslide in history, 46 00:03:31,755 --> 00:03:35,875 Speaker 1: Hubert Humphrey, a dedicated and brilliant public servant with the 47 00:03:35,915 --> 00:03:40,115 Speaker 1: public personality of a guy who sold vacuum cleaner's door 48 00:03:40,155 --> 00:03:45,075 Speaker 1: to door in a straw hat. Thank god, we got 49 00:03:45,115 --> 00:03:49,915 Speaker 1: that albatross LBJ off the ticket. So instead we got 50 00:03:50,475 --> 00:03:55,875 Speaker 1: President Nixon and a larger war in Vietnam and Watergate 51 00:03:56,635 --> 00:04:02,435 Speaker 1: and the template by which Trump presidented. It's not like 52 00:04:02,515 --> 00:04:05,875 Speaker 1: there's no history about throwing your president overboard. 53 00:04:05,435 --> 00:04:07,755 Speaker 2: Bob Oh. 54 00:04:07,795 --> 00:04:10,675 Speaker 1: And it's not like that's all the history, Bob, because 55 00:04:10,715 --> 00:04:15,635 Speaker 1: we tried to LBJ another incumbent Democratic president. Anybody remember 56 00:04:15,715 --> 00:04:22,755 Speaker 1: that Jimmy Carter primaried by Ted Kennedy because Jimmy Carter 57 00:04:22,875 --> 00:04:25,515 Speaker 1: did not seem like a shoe in for reelection. Teddy 58 00:04:25,555 --> 00:04:27,555 Speaker 1: and a lot of the Democrats whom Carter had rubbed 59 00:04:27,595 --> 00:04:30,395 Speaker 1: the wrong way from the beginning, tried to cut Carter's 60 00:04:30,435 --> 00:04:34,715 Speaker 1: legs off, and they failed. And even though it was 61 00:04:34,755 --> 00:04:37,075 Speaker 1: obvious by May that Carter was not going to get 62 00:04:37,075 --> 00:04:39,595 Speaker 1: his legs cut off, Kennedy kept running and trying to 63 00:04:39,595 --> 00:04:42,275 Speaker 1: cut his legs off. And Kennedy did not concede until 64 00:04:42,315 --> 00:04:45,755 Speaker 1: the second day of the convention. And every day he 65 00:04:45,915 --> 00:04:49,075 Speaker 1: remained in the race, he wounded Jimmy Carter a little 66 00:04:49,075 --> 00:04:52,435 Speaker 1: bit more in the general election campaign. And what did 67 00:04:52,475 --> 00:04:58,835 Speaker 1: that get us? That got us Ronald Efing Reagan. Two 68 00:04:58,915 --> 00:05:04,275 Speaker 1: terms of Ronald Efing Reagan and his vice president George Bush, 69 00:05:04,875 --> 00:05:09,275 Speaker 1: vice president's idiot son, George W. Bush. Oh, and forty 70 00:05:09,395 --> 00:05:15,435 Speaker 1: years of even the most virulently anti Carter operatives realizing 71 00:05:15,475 --> 00:05:18,115 Speaker 1: they had not only enabled Reagan, but they had also 72 00:05:18,235 --> 00:05:21,555 Speaker 1: sabotaged the most honorable man to hold the White House 73 00:05:21,675 --> 00:05:26,515 Speaker 1: in the twentieth century. So there it is, Bob, we 74 00:05:26,595 --> 00:05:30,155 Speaker 1: do what you keep going on television and demanding while 75 00:05:30,195 --> 00:05:33,875 Speaker 1: you insult Biden with charges of hubris, and the Democrats 76 00:05:33,875 --> 00:05:37,155 Speaker 1: who will not Julius Caesar him with fecklessness, and we 77 00:05:37,275 --> 00:05:42,075 Speaker 1: have two possible outcomes. We successfully lbj Joe Biden and 78 00:05:42,195 --> 00:05:45,475 Speaker 1: run a Hubert Humphrey instead and guarantee Trump wins, or 79 00:05:45,555 --> 00:05:49,355 Speaker 1: we unsuccessfully LBJ Joe Biden and just damage him enough 80 00:05:49,555 --> 00:05:52,035 Speaker 1: every day for the next two hundred and fifty days 81 00:05:52,315 --> 00:05:58,195 Speaker 1: and we guarantee Trump wins. Your call, Bob, you want 82 00:05:58,195 --> 00:06:01,595 Speaker 1: to run Joe Biden, who got sixty six percent of 83 00:06:01,595 --> 00:06:03,395 Speaker 1: the strong vote in New Hampshire even though he wasn't 84 00:06:03,435 --> 00:06:06,795 Speaker 1: on the ballot, who took the South Carolina primary by 85 00:06:07,835 --> 00:06:11,755 Speaker 1: ninety four points, who one Nevada by seventy eight points, 86 00:06:12,075 --> 00:06:15,435 Speaker 1: who is projected by all the actual Moody's analytics people 87 00:06:15,515 --> 00:06:19,795 Speaker 1: to almost certainly win the general, probably by seventy or 88 00:06:19,835 --> 00:06:24,475 Speaker 1: more electoral votes without any improvement between now and November. 89 00:06:24,755 --> 00:06:27,035 Speaker 1: And it was so threatening to the Republicans that first 90 00:06:27,075 --> 00:06:30,835 Speaker 1: they embraced a Russian baked plot starring a now arrested 91 00:06:30,995 --> 00:06:34,875 Speaker 1: Russian asset to impeach and remove Biden from office, And 92 00:06:34,915 --> 00:06:38,115 Speaker 1: now they have segued to embracing a Trump baked plot 93 00:06:38,115 --> 00:06:41,275 Speaker 1: with a Congressional hearing starring a corrupt Special Council to 94 00:06:41,395 --> 00:06:44,995 Speaker 1: portray him as infirm to encourage the Democrats to remove 95 00:06:45,075 --> 00:06:50,795 Speaker 1: him from the ballot. You and the Republican Trump Operative 96 00:06:50,955 --> 00:06:57,035 Speaker 1: Special Council are on the same side of this, Bob, So, Bob, 97 00:06:57,635 --> 00:07:03,075 Speaker 1: John Ezra, everybody else walking this tightrope. You're going to 98 00:07:03,195 --> 00:07:07,075 Speaker 1: run Biden or you're going to stab him and the 99 00:07:07,115 --> 00:07:10,195 Speaker 1: eighty one million people who voted for him in the back. 100 00:07:10,635 --> 00:07:17,915 Speaker 1: So you can run who Kamala Harris whose approval numbers 101 00:07:17,915 --> 00:07:20,635 Speaker 1: are at Biden's levels or slightly lower, and who in 102 00:07:20,635 --> 00:07:25,195 Speaker 1: the latest Emerson poll trails Trump by three? Or are 103 00:07:25,195 --> 00:07:28,315 Speaker 1: you going to knife the president and the vice president 104 00:07:28,355 --> 00:07:31,675 Speaker 1: and run Gavin Newsom instead, who in the same Emerson 105 00:07:31,715 --> 00:07:35,035 Speaker 1: poll loses to Trump by ten and who will oh, 106 00:07:35,035 --> 00:07:38,355 Speaker 1: by the way, won't do it anyway? Or how about 107 00:07:38,355 --> 00:07:41,595 Speaker 1: the promising Gretchen Whitmer who loses to Trump by twelve? 108 00:07:42,475 --> 00:07:45,675 Speaker 1: I know Michelle Obama, who wants nothing to do with 109 00:07:45,715 --> 00:07:50,515 Speaker 1: this ever, Again, say Bob, I hear Dean Phillips is 110 00:07:50,555 --> 00:07:58,515 Speaker 1: interested and Jank Yuger. How feckless are the Democrats if 111 00:07:58,515 --> 00:08:01,795 Speaker 1: they realize this guy could possibly lose to Trump. Bob 112 00:08:01,835 --> 00:08:05,795 Speaker 1: Costas asked rhetorically, while I'm the Michael Smercanish Show on 113 00:08:05,875 --> 00:08:09,395 Speaker 1: CNN Saturday. If you do not know the Michael smarcana Show, 114 00:08:09,675 --> 00:08:13,035 Speaker 1: it features a rock ribbed conservative schmuck who has part 115 00:08:13,075 --> 00:08:14,955 Speaker 1: of his act in which he tries to con people 116 00:08:14,995 --> 00:08:17,915 Speaker 1: that he's middle of the road. He never raises his 117 00:08:17,995 --> 00:08:21,595 Speaker 1: voice or says anything mean. He just attacks liberals and 118 00:08:21,595 --> 00:08:24,875 Speaker 1: democrats and minorities every day for the last twenty years. 119 00:08:25,515 --> 00:08:28,275 Speaker 1: And Bob went on his show, and Bob went on 120 00:08:28,395 --> 00:08:32,475 Speaker 1: and on on his show, then get somebody else out there, 121 00:08:32,955 --> 00:08:35,315 Speaker 1: Bob explained, You don't go into the super Bowl with 122 00:08:35,355 --> 00:08:37,315 Speaker 1: a quarterback with a dead arm. You don't do it. 123 00:08:37,555 --> 00:08:41,915 Speaker 1: This is so obvious. Well, it's obvious if you don't 124 00:08:41,955 --> 00:08:44,555 Speaker 1: know politics in twenty twenty four, or if you don't 125 00:08:44,555 --> 00:08:47,475 Speaker 1: know political history, or if you don't know the law 126 00:08:48,235 --> 00:08:52,515 Speaker 1: or the polls or the electoral computer models, or just 127 00:08:52,635 --> 00:08:55,755 Speaker 1: as importantly, if you don't know the processes that would 128 00:08:55,835 --> 00:08:58,355 Speaker 1: have to be invented to push Joe Biden off this 129 00:08:58,475 --> 00:09:01,795 Speaker 1: cliff you want to push him off of because they 130 00:09:01,795 --> 00:09:05,715 Speaker 1: do not exist. Even if this was somehow the right 131 00:09:05,835 --> 00:09:09,515 Speaker 1: move and guaranteed to succeed, rather than almost guaranteed to 132 00:09:09,555 --> 00:09:13,555 Speaker 1: give Trump four hundred electoral votes, there is no legal 133 00:09:13,635 --> 00:09:19,155 Speaker 1: way to do it. When Costas first broached this while 134 00:09:19,155 --> 00:09:22,195 Speaker 1: he was on with Bill Maher, And by the way, 135 00:09:22,235 --> 00:09:24,835 Speaker 1: Bill Maher has now even given up pretending he knows 136 00:09:24,875 --> 00:09:27,395 Speaker 1: what the hell actually happens in the world outside of 137 00:09:27,435 --> 00:09:31,195 Speaker 1: his dressing room. They sort of skipped over the actual 138 00:09:31,635 --> 00:09:39,355 Speaker 1: procedure for presidential nomination usurpation that Bob favored and Bill favored. 139 00:09:39,715 --> 00:09:44,035 Speaker 1: Oh is this an election here? All these guys Costas 140 00:09:44,075 --> 00:09:48,195 Speaker 1: mar Stuart the hapless Ezra Kleine who he bounced from 141 00:09:48,235 --> 00:09:50,915 Speaker 1: Countdowns guest list around two thousand and eight because he 142 00:09:50,995 --> 00:09:54,195 Speaker 1: wasn't just dull, he didn't actually seem to know anything. 143 00:09:54,995 --> 00:09:58,595 Speaker 1: All these guys approached that little trivial detail, just how 144 00:09:58,755 --> 00:10:02,475 Speaker 1: do you throw the sitting president of the United States 145 00:10:02,475 --> 00:10:06,435 Speaker 1: off the ticket? They treated that kind of dismissively. The 146 00:10:06,475 --> 00:10:09,955 Speaker 1: most specific any of them have gotten is talk him 147 00:10:09,955 --> 00:10:14,115 Speaker 1: into standing aside. And what do you do then, Bob? 148 00:10:14,555 --> 00:10:19,755 Speaker 1: When Biden says no, everybody has a plan Bob until 149 00:10:19,755 --> 00:10:24,675 Speaker 1: they get punched in the face by Joe Biden. Quote. 150 00:10:24,715 --> 00:10:27,835 Speaker 1: If Biden's hubris is such that he doesn't understand the 151 00:10:27,835 --> 00:10:30,555 Speaker 1: best interest of his party and more importantly his country. 152 00:10:30,635 --> 00:10:33,515 Speaker 1: Bob now says, then he has to be shown the 153 00:10:33,635 --> 00:10:39,875 Speaker 1: door period. Well, ah, that settles it, Bob. I'm sorry. Jill, 154 00:10:40,035 --> 00:10:42,995 Speaker 1: the President says to his wife, doctor Biden. I was 155 00:10:43,075 --> 00:10:44,995 Speaker 1: going to run and I was going to win, but 156 00:10:45,195 --> 00:10:49,275 Speaker 1: then Bob Costas told me I can't run, and then 157 00:10:49,315 --> 00:10:54,435 Speaker 1: he showed me the door. There is no legal process 158 00:10:54,635 --> 00:10:58,995 Speaker 1: to do this. The last window to file for the 159 00:10:58,995 --> 00:11:02,595 Speaker 1: remaining democratic primaries closes in all but a handful of 160 00:11:02,635 --> 00:11:08,755 Speaker 1: states on who Bob Thursday. So you were going to 161 00:11:08,795 --> 00:11:11,795 Speaker 1: remove him after he wins all the primaries and clinches 162 00:11:11,795 --> 00:11:14,715 Speaker 1: all the delegates. You're going to cut his legs off 163 00:11:14,755 --> 00:11:18,875 Speaker 1: at the convention, by which point he controls everything up 164 00:11:18,915 --> 00:11:21,995 Speaker 1: to and including the credentials and the tickets that could 165 00:11:22,075 --> 00:11:25,595 Speaker 1: get you into the convention. And even if there is 166 00:11:25,635 --> 00:11:31,075 Speaker 1: some hidden parachute mechanism, some other break glass, in the 167 00:11:31,075 --> 00:11:34,715 Speaker 1: event of emergency process, if he wanted, Joe Biden could 168 00:11:34,755 --> 00:11:38,315 Speaker 1: take you to court. So now you are not only 169 00:11:38,395 --> 00:11:41,995 Speaker 1: doing Trump's bidding Bob by damaging Biden, and you are 170 00:11:41,995 --> 00:11:46,635 Speaker 1: trying to do Trump's bidding and Moscow's bidding and Putin's 171 00:11:46,675 --> 00:11:52,195 Speaker 1: bidding by getting Trump an easier opponent. Not only you're 172 00:11:52,235 --> 00:11:53,875 Speaker 1: doing all that, but you're now going to split the 173 00:11:53,915 --> 00:11:57,315 Speaker 1: Democratic Party into two wings, the wing with the President 174 00:11:57,395 --> 00:11:59,875 Speaker 1: of the United States in it, and the other wing, 175 00:12:01,875 --> 00:12:10,195 Speaker 1: the Bob Costas, Ezra Kleine, Bill Maher, John Stuart, Dean 176 00:12:10,515 --> 00:12:14,835 Speaker 1: Phillips wing, which consists of five people Costas, kleinb Mar Stuart, 177 00:12:14,875 --> 00:12:16,955 Speaker 1: and Dean Phillips. You know, Bob, Dean Phillips is a 178 00:12:16,995 --> 00:12:19,795 Speaker 1: really iffy attendance record for stuff like this. The cost 179 00:12:19,875 --> 00:12:22,115 Speaker 1: is kleinb Mar Stuart Phillips wing of five people may 180 00:12:22,155 --> 00:12:25,875 Speaker 1: only have four people in it. And then the two 181 00:12:25,875 --> 00:12:29,035 Speaker 1: wings are going to sue each other five months before 182 00:12:29,035 --> 00:12:33,835 Speaker 1: the election, so you can rally the nation behind checks 183 00:12:33,955 --> 00:12:45,115 Speaker 1: notes Democratic presidential nominee J. B. Pritzker. And we haven't 184 00:12:45,115 --> 00:12:47,435 Speaker 1: even gotten to that recap of the war gaming that 185 00:12:47,515 --> 00:12:50,995 Speaker 1: I promised. You do it, Bob, You show Biden the door, 186 00:12:51,715 --> 00:12:56,075 Speaker 1: and what happens next. What happens next is Donald Trump 187 00:12:56,155 --> 00:12:59,875 Speaker 1: spends the rest of the campaign noting correctly. I might 188 00:12:59,915 --> 00:13:02,795 Speaker 1: add that he has already beaten Joe Biden and this 189 00:13:02,875 --> 00:13:09,155 Speaker 1: new guy, notes Democratic nominee JENK. Huger, he shouldn't even 190 00:13:09,195 --> 00:13:10,755 Speaker 1: be allowed on the ballot. And oh, by the way, 191 00:13:11,195 --> 00:13:14,475 Speaker 1: Bob Biden is still on the actual ballot at every state. 192 00:13:15,675 --> 00:13:18,355 Speaker 1: And maybe Trump says, now that I've beaten Joe Biden 193 00:13:18,395 --> 00:13:20,995 Speaker 1: thanks to Bob costas, we don't actually need to hold 194 00:13:21,035 --> 00:13:24,075 Speaker 1: an election. I'll just take over now. And you know, 195 00:13:24,515 --> 00:13:27,915 Speaker 1: he is crazy enough to try a real coup with 196 00:13:28,035 --> 00:13:30,675 Speaker 1: tanks this time. Whether or not he does it, I 197 00:13:30,755 --> 00:13:32,675 Speaker 1: don't know. Somebody has to show him the door. I 198 00:13:32,715 --> 00:13:36,355 Speaker 1: guess at minimum, Bob, he will not debate your Biden 199 00:13:36,435 --> 00:13:39,995 Speaker 1: replacement level presidential candidate, because if you knock Biden off, 200 00:13:40,115 --> 00:13:42,835 Speaker 1: sixty to seventy percent of the name recognition in this 201 00:13:42,955 --> 00:13:50,035 Speaker 1: election will belong to Donald Trump. He's running against Mary 202 00:13:50,035 --> 00:13:56,315 Speaker 1: Ann Williamson is the Democratic nominee. Incidentally, Bob, if you 203 00:13:56,435 --> 00:14:00,915 Speaker 1: do oust Biden, are you assuming that only one Democrat 204 00:14:01,035 --> 00:14:04,435 Speaker 1: will try to replace him, or will there be so 205 00:14:04,475 --> 00:14:06,675 Speaker 1: many any of them rushing to get the nomination that 206 00:14:06,755 --> 00:14:10,755 Speaker 1: some of them will get stampeded at the front door. No. No, 207 00:14:10,795 --> 00:14:14,835 Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll be controlled and respectful of one another. Bob. 208 00:14:15,195 --> 00:14:18,555 Speaker 1: Instead of spending millions at their sudden manna from heaven 209 00:14:18,635 --> 00:14:22,675 Speaker 1: gift of how to succeed to the presidency without really trying. 210 00:14:23,915 --> 00:14:27,635 Speaker 1: I'm sure they will be polite and unified, and they'll 211 00:14:27,675 --> 00:14:32,155 Speaker 1: operate only for the good of the party. That twenty 212 00:14:32,315 --> 00:14:36,435 Speaker 1: eight different Democrats vied to run against Trump last time 213 00:14:36,555 --> 00:14:41,435 Speaker 1: should not be considered a precedent. Plus, from what I 214 00:14:41,435 --> 00:14:44,595 Speaker 1: can tell from your plan, they might even agree to 215 00:14:44,595 --> 00:14:46,035 Speaker 1: just let you choose, Bob. 216 00:14:48,715 --> 00:14:48,875 Speaker 3: Oh. 217 00:14:48,875 --> 00:14:51,435 Speaker 1: And by the way, Bob, whoever you do choose your plan, 218 00:14:51,555 --> 00:14:58,195 Speaker 1: b replacement is now the untested, unproven, unqualified one. Suddenly 219 00:14:58,235 --> 00:15:03,715 Speaker 1: we do not have the president running versus the crazy 220 00:15:03,835 --> 00:15:09,555 Speaker 1: ex president, have the crazy ex president running against checks 221 00:15:09,595 --> 00:15:13,515 Speaker 1: notes Bill de Blasio. 222 00:15:16,315 --> 00:15:16,435 Speaker 3: Oh. 223 00:15:16,435 --> 00:15:18,515 Speaker 1: And also, by the way, Bob, you have also made 224 00:15:18,515 --> 00:15:21,955 Speaker 1: the President of the United States into a lame duck, 225 00:15:23,475 --> 00:15:26,235 Speaker 1: unless you are expecting him to outright resign, in which 226 00:15:26,275 --> 00:15:31,035 Speaker 1: case Kamala Harris is the president and the presumptive nominee 227 00:15:31,475 --> 00:15:38,515 Speaker 1: unless you're intending to shive her too. And regardless, new 228 00:15:38,555 --> 00:15:44,475 Speaker 1: president lame duck, two lame ducks. What happens to the 229 00:15:44,475 --> 00:15:48,435 Speaker 1: Trump trials, Bob? Why would Trump bother to show up 230 00:15:48,475 --> 00:15:51,315 Speaker 1: in court for any of them? In in America run 231 00:15:51,315 --> 00:15:56,355 Speaker 1: by a lame duck or a caretaker president who is 232 00:15:56,395 --> 00:15:59,875 Speaker 1: going to lose by ten points, while every day Trump 233 00:15:59,915 --> 00:16:01,915 Speaker 1: gets to boast about how he has already beaten the 234 00:16:01,955 --> 00:16:09,275 Speaker 1: deep state, and he has beaten the new Democratic dominee 235 00:16:09,355 --> 00:16:18,875 Speaker 1: checks notes, Roy Cooper or Bob Nightmare of all nightmares. 236 00:16:19,875 --> 00:16:22,035 Speaker 1: For the first time in his life, Trump says something 237 00:16:22,075 --> 00:16:26,115 Speaker 1: that is not a partial or total lie. He finesses this. 238 00:16:26,515 --> 00:16:30,675 Speaker 1: He pretends to be sympathetic to Joe Biden. Poor Biden. 239 00:16:30,955 --> 00:16:33,515 Speaker 1: Look what the Democrats did to him. Look what Bob 240 00:16:33,555 --> 00:16:34,555 Speaker 1: Costas did to him. 241 00:16:35,115 --> 00:16:36,035 Speaker 2: Why why? 242 00:16:36,275 --> 00:16:39,835 Speaker 1: Trump says, it's an insurrection against the sitting president of 243 00:16:39,875 --> 00:16:43,395 Speaker 1: the United States. I empathize with you, Democrats. You have 244 00:16:43,475 --> 00:16:47,235 Speaker 1: been denied your choice. So I'd like to introduce my 245 00:16:47,395 --> 00:16:57,595 Speaker 1: new vice president on a unity ticket, Joe Mansion. So 246 00:16:57,715 --> 00:16:59,515 Speaker 1: those are the things that happen if you get your 247 00:16:59,555 --> 00:17:04,675 Speaker 1: way lawsuits, a rookie presidential candidate who gets to start 248 00:17:04,875 --> 00:17:09,115 Speaker 1: campaign in March, a unity ticket on the other side, 249 00:17:09,515 --> 00:17:16,635 Speaker 1: a broker Democratic convention, or a wounded incumbent president still 250 00:17:16,675 --> 00:17:20,355 Speaker 1: on the ticket, and you have handed the dictatorship of 251 00:17:20,355 --> 00:17:23,955 Speaker 1: the United States to Trump by fifty five forty five 252 00:17:25,075 --> 00:17:30,235 Speaker 1: sixty forty or maybe you have sent half the Democratic 253 00:17:30,355 --> 00:17:33,035 Speaker 1: voters to third party candidates. So Bob, now there's a 254 00:17:33,155 --> 00:17:36,995 Speaker 1: chance RFK Junior finishes second, and for the first time 255 00:17:37,035 --> 00:17:40,435 Speaker 1: since nineteen twelve, the incumbent president of the United States 256 00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:44,235 Speaker 1: finishes third and a two man race. And if that 257 00:17:44,275 --> 00:17:49,155 Speaker 1: were not bad enough, the day after the election, the 258 00:17:49,195 --> 00:17:53,915 Speaker 1: opposition to Trump, which might be the last thing left 259 00:17:54,395 --> 00:17:58,075 Speaker 1: between us and absolute dictatorship in this country and the 260 00:17:58,155 --> 00:18:01,275 Speaker 1: end of democracy in this country. After the election, the 261 00:18:01,315 --> 00:18:09,155 Speaker 1: opposition to Trump would be splintered because you, Bob, you 262 00:18:10,155 --> 00:18:25,635 Speaker 1: showed Biden the door. Not great, Bob. Incidentally, I do 263 00:18:25,755 --> 00:18:28,355 Speaker 1: know this has ended my friendship with Bob, and I'm 264 00:18:28,395 --> 00:18:32,755 Speaker 1: sorry about that. I valued it and I tried for 265 00:18:32,795 --> 00:18:35,835 Speaker 1: several weeks behind the scenes to talk to him about 266 00:18:35,955 --> 00:18:38,355 Speaker 1: what he had said on Bill Maher, and he was 267 00:18:38,395 --> 00:18:43,395 Speaker 1: not listening, as evidenced by his appearance with Smirkanish. I mean, 268 00:18:43,435 --> 00:18:48,275 Speaker 1: the next step down from Smircanish is going on Fox News. 269 00:18:49,275 --> 00:18:51,635 Speaker 1: I was going to leave one thing out of this, 270 00:18:52,355 --> 00:18:55,555 Speaker 1: but I just can't. And there's really no reason to not. 271 00:18:55,675 --> 00:18:59,995 Speaker 1: Now that sports analogy that he made quote, you don't 272 00:18:59,995 --> 00:19:01,915 Speaker 1: go into the super Bowl with a quarterback with a 273 00:19:01,955 --> 00:19:04,115 Speaker 1: dead arm, you don't do it. This is so obvious 274 00:19:05,515 --> 00:19:09,435 Speaker 1: that also does not work even as a sports analogy, 275 00:19:10,315 --> 00:19:13,875 Speaker 1: because what Bob is proposing is Patrick Mahomes of the 276 00:19:13,955 --> 00:19:17,995 Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs has a dead arm before the Super Bowl, 277 00:19:18,035 --> 00:19:26,395 Speaker 1: so you replace him with Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers. Bob, 278 00:19:26,435 --> 00:19:28,795 Speaker 1: they don't let you take a quarterback from a different 279 00:19:28,875 --> 00:19:31,355 Speaker 1: team to replace your quarterback in the super Bowl. You 280 00:19:31,395 --> 00:19:35,595 Speaker 1: can only use your already backup quarterback in that in 281 00:19:35,675 --> 00:19:41,635 Speaker 1: this scenario is Blaine Gabbert. So in the costas post 282 00:19:41,715 --> 00:19:45,395 Speaker 1: Biden world, the Democrat running against Trump and the momentum 283 00:19:45,435 --> 00:19:48,315 Speaker 1: of his madness and him being the only incumbent and 284 00:19:48,395 --> 00:19:54,115 Speaker 1: having all of the media and the Kremlin behind him, 285 00:19:54,555 --> 00:19:58,115 Speaker 1: the Democrat who gets to run instead of Biden against 286 00:19:58,155 --> 00:20:03,355 Speaker 1: that is whichever Democrat you Bob think is Blaine Gabbert. 287 00:20:06,675 --> 00:20:09,235 Speaker 1: And lastly, on this, let me broaden this out. This 288 00:20:09,355 --> 00:20:15,155 Speaker 1: age and purported infirmity stuff, which by the way, has 289 00:20:15,235 --> 00:20:21,675 Speaker 1: not been alleged in anything other than sound bites. There 290 00:20:21,795 --> 00:20:25,035 Speaker 1: is no allegation that the office of president is not 291 00:20:25,115 --> 00:20:29,115 Speaker 1: being fulfilled or is being fulfilled poorly in any way. 292 00:20:30,315 --> 00:20:35,355 Speaker 1: This age stuff is becoming the conventional wisdom on TV news, 293 00:20:36,275 --> 00:20:39,515 Speaker 1: And why it is becoming the conventional wisdom on TV 294 00:20:39,635 --> 00:20:43,595 Speaker 1: news and why they keep saying this is sadly easily 295 00:20:43,715 --> 00:20:49,395 Speaker 1: explained Kristin Welker, the first in NBC, hired apparently to 296 00:20:49,435 --> 00:20:52,595 Speaker 1: make Chuck Todd look not quite that bad in retrospect, 297 00:20:53,315 --> 00:20:58,355 Speaker 1: asked Gavin Newsom Sunday if it was quote responsible for 298 00:20:58,435 --> 00:21:01,115 Speaker 1: the Democrats to put Biden on the top of the ticket. 299 00:21:02,235 --> 00:21:05,915 Speaker 1: And of course when Bob costas self defense it was 300 00:21:05,995 --> 00:21:10,195 Speaker 1: on CNN about a month ago. One of the hosts 301 00:21:10,275 --> 00:21:13,435 Speaker 1: on CNN named Abby Philip, she's on four nights a week. 302 00:21:13,475 --> 00:21:15,835 Speaker 1: I know you don't know who she is, stated, quote, 303 00:21:16,115 --> 00:21:19,035 Speaker 1: nobody wants Trump, nobody wants Biden, as if it were 304 00:21:19,155 --> 00:21:21,915 Speaker 1: fact and not the product of the Beltway bubble, in 305 00:21:21,955 --> 00:21:24,435 Speaker 1: which she and everybody who works on her show and 306 00:21:24,475 --> 00:21:27,395 Speaker 1: everybody who knows her lives and given the ratings, that's 307 00:21:27,395 --> 00:21:31,275 Speaker 1: not a lot of people. But the mentality here pre 308 00:21:31,435 --> 00:21:34,075 Speaker 1: dates this by decades. It is, in fact ancient. It 309 00:21:34,155 --> 00:21:38,435 Speaker 1: dates back to when TV news owned the nation. There 310 00:21:38,475 --> 00:21:42,275 Speaker 1: has always been a kind of fomo at every national 311 00:21:42,355 --> 00:21:47,075 Speaker 1: TV news operation. Fear that the other guy will say 312 00:21:47,115 --> 00:21:52,875 Speaker 1: something that you did not say. Look, a presidential race 313 00:21:52,915 --> 00:21:56,515 Speaker 1: in which both candidates were enfeebled would be an easy 314 00:21:56,595 --> 00:22:00,035 Speaker 1: thing for stupid people like Kristen Welker and the NBC 315 00:22:00,155 --> 00:22:04,275 Speaker 1: News chairman Caesar Conde to digest, and thus easy for 316 00:22:04,315 --> 00:22:08,035 Speaker 1: them to sell. It is also easy to use as 317 00:22:08,075 --> 00:22:13,315 Speaker 1: a promotional tool. It's an ongoing storyline, like Clinton Lewinsky was, 318 00:22:13,955 --> 00:22:17,035 Speaker 1: like the Iran hostages were for ABC and Nightline in 319 00:22:17,115 --> 00:22:20,675 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. In nineteen eighty, the day the Clinton 320 00:22:20,755 --> 00:22:24,635 Speaker 1: Lewinsky story broke, one executive turned to another in the 321 00:22:24,755 --> 00:22:28,875 Speaker 1: MSNBC control room, pointed to a monitor and shouted, we 322 00:22:28,995 --> 00:22:34,035 Speaker 1: have found our nightline and that guy is our ted couple. 323 00:22:35,635 --> 00:22:44,155 Speaker 1: Unfortunately he was pointing at me. TV newspeople, especially in Washington, 324 00:22:44,755 --> 00:22:47,955 Speaker 1: most of them are not smart, and they live in 325 00:22:48,075 --> 00:22:52,475 Speaker 1: dread that somebody else will get and dominate the next 326 00:22:52,555 --> 00:22:57,235 Speaker 1: running story. So even if everybody else is saying the 327 00:22:57,275 --> 00:23:00,435 Speaker 1: same thing and the same thing is nonsense, especially if 328 00:23:00,435 --> 00:23:03,875 Speaker 1: everybody else is saying nonsense, they will hyperventilate at the 329 00:23:03,915 --> 00:23:09,315 Speaker 1: thought that they might not say it as well. It 330 00:23:09,435 --> 00:23:11,875 Speaker 1: is the Emperor's new clothes. We have to report this, 331 00:23:11,955 --> 00:23:15,155 Speaker 1: they reported it. I always think back to a day 332 00:23:15,155 --> 00:23:17,035 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three when I was working in the 333 00:23:17,075 --> 00:23:21,195 Speaker 1: CNN Washington bureau covering the return to town after their 334 00:23:21,235 --> 00:23:24,995 Speaker 1: Super Bowl victory of what were then the unfortunately named 335 00:23:25,195 --> 00:23:30,195 Speaker 1: Washington Redskins. I had just finished producing my taped report 336 00:23:30,715 --> 00:23:34,555 Speaker 1: when the bureau's chief assignment editor ran in, breathless with 337 00:23:34,675 --> 00:23:39,115 Speaker 1: a video cassette Reagan. She shouted, Reagan just congratulated the 338 00:23:39,155 --> 00:23:43,035 Speaker 1: team on camera. Here's your new lead. And I looked 339 00:23:43,075 --> 00:23:47,715 Speaker 1: at her and said, yeah, no, thanks, no offense. Politics 340 00:23:47,755 --> 00:23:51,355 Speaker 1: really doesn't fit into this. It's a sports story. She 341 00:23:51,515 --> 00:23:57,995 Speaker 1: turned white. She called my boss, she called my boss's boss. Happily, 342 00:23:58,035 --> 00:24:02,635 Speaker 1: my bosses at CNN Sports trusted my judgment then, anyway, 343 00:24:03,315 --> 00:24:05,875 Speaker 1: and Reagan try, I had to turn a football game 344 00:24:05,875 --> 00:24:09,075 Speaker 1: into a campaign point. That didn't happen, not in my 345 00:24:09,155 --> 00:24:13,835 Speaker 1: story anyway. The next morning, when a CNN Washington anchor 346 00:24:13,875 --> 00:24:16,635 Speaker 1: reported on the team's return to DC, she led into 347 00:24:16,675 --> 00:24:22,355 Speaker 1: my report, but first she played the Reagan SoundBite. This 348 00:24:22,595 --> 00:24:25,755 Speaker 1: is why you have heard this utter nonsense about Biden, 349 00:24:25,835 --> 00:24:29,195 Speaker 1: and you will continue to see this utter nonsense on 350 00:24:29,315 --> 00:24:34,475 Speaker 1: NBC because CNN said it. Because if CNN says it 351 00:24:34,955 --> 00:24:38,275 Speaker 1: and NBC doesn't say it, and some ratings on some 352 00:24:38,315 --> 00:24:42,075 Speaker 1: show at NBC News are lower than executives expected. They 353 00:24:42,075 --> 00:24:45,035 Speaker 1: will decide it is because we at NBC did not 354 00:24:45,155 --> 00:24:53,115 Speaker 1: say this about Biden, and they say it because ABC 355 00:24:53,195 --> 00:24:57,995 Speaker 1: said it, and ABC said it because CBS said it. 356 00:24:58,875 --> 00:25:01,955 Speaker 1: And the problem with this is that somewhere at the 357 00:25:01,955 --> 00:25:05,515 Speaker 1: start of this mechanism one of them said it because 358 00:25:05,595 --> 00:25:09,795 Speaker 1: Fox News said it, and Fox News said it because 359 00:25:09,835 --> 00:25:16,075 Speaker 1: Trump said it. And that's why Bob Costas and everybody 360 00:25:16,155 --> 00:25:25,035 Speaker 1: else needs to shut the f up about Biden's age. 361 00:25:30,715 --> 00:25:33,515 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, yes, the subject is how with 362 00:25:33,675 --> 00:25:37,075 Speaker 1: it people are? And Friday I promoted the upcoming live podcast, 363 00:25:37,075 --> 00:25:40,275 Speaker 1: The Countdown with Keith Olderman State of the Union postgame show, 364 00:25:40,635 --> 00:25:45,435 Speaker 1: and I said it was on December seventh. That'd be 365 00:25:45,515 --> 00:25:50,475 Speaker 1: March March seventh. December seventh would be going back in time. 366 00:25:51,395 --> 00:25:55,395 Speaker 1: I'm skilled, but not that skilled. As to today's news, 367 00:25:55,435 --> 00:25:57,635 Speaker 1: there is nothing big and new, but lots of follow 368 00:25:57,715 --> 00:26:00,435 Speaker 1: ups that are new, like Kenny the Cheese lying to 369 00:26:00,555 --> 00:26:05,115 Speaker 1: prosecutors about the Trump fake elector scheme and James Homer's 370 00:26:05,115 --> 00:26:10,115 Speaker 1: star Russian plant witness is not fleeing anywhere. And yes, 371 00:26:10,155 --> 00:26:12,675 Speaker 1: you are not crazy. If Trump lost forty percent of 372 00:26:12,715 --> 00:26:15,435 Speaker 1: the Republican vote, in another primary. Yes, he is in trouble, 373 00:26:15,595 --> 00:26:19,515 Speaker 1: so much trouble that even Axio's Politico and Matt Drudge 374 00:26:19,515 --> 00:26:23,915 Speaker 1: noticed that he's in trouble. And there is reportedly a 375 00:26:23,995 --> 00:26:29,635 Speaker 1: price on Tucker Carlson's head and that price is four 376 00:26:30,235 --> 00:26:36,995 Speaker 1: thousand dollars. That's next. This is an all new edition 377 00:26:37,035 --> 00:26:52,435 Speaker 1: of Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith album post scripts 378 00:26:52,475 --> 00:26:57,435 Speaker 1: to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark, some predictions. 379 00:26:57,555 --> 00:27:05,075 Speaker 1: Dateline thirty Rockefeller Center, New York artists entrance on his 380 00:27:05,155 --> 00:27:07,795 Speaker 1: way in to record a guest shot with Seth Myers. 381 00:27:07,795 --> 00:27:10,795 Speaker 1: At NBC last night, President Biden was asked when a 382 00:27:10,875 --> 00:27:14,995 Speaker 1: Gaza ceasefire could start, and he answered that one is close, 383 00:27:15,595 --> 00:27:16,755 Speaker 1: hoping by monday. 384 00:27:16,875 --> 00:27:20,075 Speaker 4: My not security advisor tells me that we're close, We're close, 385 00:27:20,275 --> 00:27:23,995 Speaker 4: not done yet, and I hope by next Monday will 386 00:27:23,995 --> 00:27:25,195 Speaker 4: have a ceasefire. 387 00:27:25,395 --> 00:27:28,355 Speaker 1: Two options here. This is one hundred percent accurate and 388 00:27:28,435 --> 00:27:31,195 Speaker 1: in good faith, and there may be a ceasefire by Monday. 389 00:27:31,475 --> 00:27:34,955 Speaker 1: And Biden has adroitly walked the Middle East tightrope and 390 00:27:35,035 --> 00:27:38,835 Speaker 1: really will get that ceasefire, which would utterly undermine the 391 00:27:38,955 --> 00:27:43,755 Speaker 1: he's too old argument or it's enhanced a little maybe 392 00:27:43,835 --> 00:27:46,395 Speaker 1: sketchier than he lets on, but he said it just 393 00:27:46,435 --> 00:27:50,035 Speaker 1: in time to make the network six thirty newscasts and 394 00:27:50,155 --> 00:27:52,995 Speaker 1: the Seth Meyers interview, and in plenty of time to 395 00:27:53,035 --> 00:27:56,635 Speaker 1: hit the pro Palestinian voting block in today's Democratic primary 396 00:27:56,675 --> 00:28:01,715 Speaker 1: in Michigan, which would also utterly undermine the he's too 397 00:28:01,795 --> 00:28:06,515 Speaker 1: old argument. By the way, o'biden said that while he 398 00:28:06,675 --> 00:28:11,195 Speaker 1: was eating an ice cream cone. No comment yet from 399 00:28:11,595 --> 00:28:19,955 Speaker 1: Bob Costas Dateline Los Angeles Smirnoff on ice. US District 400 00:28:20,075 --> 00:28:24,075 Speaker 1: Judge Otis D. Wright the Second has ordered James Comer's 401 00:28:24,075 --> 00:28:29,755 Speaker 1: favorite putin plant, Alexander Smirnoff held without bail, apparently until trial, 402 00:28:30,195 --> 00:28:32,995 Speaker 1: after he was re arrested for lying to the FBI. 403 00:28:33,675 --> 00:28:37,795 Speaker 1: His accomplices, clients and or victims the House Republican Caucus 404 00:28:37,795 --> 00:28:43,035 Speaker 1: and Trump have not been charged yet. Originally arrested in 405 00:28:43,075 --> 00:28:46,755 Speaker 1: Nevada and then ordered released by the judge, special counsel 406 00:28:46,875 --> 00:28:51,195 Speaker 1: David Weiss took the unusual step of refiling against Smirnoff 407 00:28:51,315 --> 00:28:55,675 Speaker 1: in California, and he was arrested again at his lawyer's offices, 408 00:28:55,715 --> 00:28:58,235 Speaker 1: and Weiss was nice enough to hint that he thought 409 00:28:58,755 --> 00:29:01,835 Speaker 1: the lawyers were trying to help Smirnoff flee the country. 410 00:29:02,515 --> 00:29:05,715 Speaker 1: As it relates to the Republican's disaster attempt to smear 411 00:29:05,795 --> 00:29:09,675 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden and impeach his father based on Smirnov's lies, 412 00:29:09,875 --> 00:29:11,715 Speaker 1: you almost wonder if it would have been better to 413 00:29:11,835 --> 00:29:15,755 Speaker 1: let him flee, maybe to Russia, but there are so 414 00:29:15,915 --> 00:29:20,755 Speaker 1: many windows in Russia. By the way, Hunter Biden testifies 415 00:29:21,155 --> 00:29:25,035 Speaker 1: behind closed doors to the House Oversight and we really 416 00:29:25,115 --> 00:29:29,915 Speaker 1: mean Oversight Committee tomorrow if things roll out honestly, next year, 417 00:29:30,995 --> 00:29:37,635 Speaker 1: James Comer will be testifying at his own trial Dateline 418 00:29:37,715 --> 00:29:41,955 Speaker 1: and Arbor. Trump ambulance chaser Kenneth Kenny, the cheese chesbro 419 00:29:42,395 --> 00:29:46,915 Speaker 1: under indictment in the Georgia electoral subversion case, told investigators 420 00:29:46,915 --> 00:29:50,115 Speaker 1: in Michigan that he did not have a Twitter burner 421 00:29:50,235 --> 00:29:54,115 Speaker 1: account and he did not ever advocate any extra legal 422 00:29:54,195 --> 00:29:57,795 Speaker 1: means of stealing Michigan's electoral votes in twenty twenty and 423 00:29:57,875 --> 00:30:02,315 Speaker 1: somehow getting them assigned to Trump. CNN reports, Oh yeah, 424 00:30:02,315 --> 00:30:06,075 Speaker 1: he actually did do that. His lawyer confirmed the account 425 00:30:06,355 --> 00:30:11,035 Speaker 1: Badger Pundit was Chesbrow's burner and from it. On November seventh, 426 00:30:11,035 --> 00:30:14,635 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Chesbrow tweeted quote, you don't get the big picture. 427 00:30:14,715 --> 00:30:16,995 Speaker 1: Trump doesn't have to get courts to declare him the 428 00:30:16,995 --> 00:30:19,795 Speaker 1: winner of the vote. He just needs to convince Republican 429 00:30:19,915 --> 00:30:24,075 Speaker 1: legislatures that the election was systematically rigged, but it's impossible 430 00:30:24,115 --> 00:30:27,715 Speaker 1: to run it again, so they should appoint electors instead. 431 00:30:28,235 --> 00:30:33,395 Speaker 1: That's Kenneth Chesbrow, and he is in a world of hurt. 432 00:30:36,635 --> 00:30:40,875 Speaker 1: Dateline South Carolina. Trump has declared the Republican primary is over, 433 00:30:41,315 --> 00:30:44,035 Speaker 1: even though the polling average showed him leading Haley in 434 00:30:44,155 --> 00:30:47,035 Speaker 1: South Carolina by twenty eight points, but he wound up 435 00:30:47,075 --> 00:30:50,675 Speaker 1: only winning by twenty points. In New Hampshire. The same average, 436 00:30:50,675 --> 00:30:53,235 Speaker 1: which is compiled by five point thirty eight dot com, 437 00:30:53,675 --> 00:30:56,115 Speaker 1: was an eighteen point Trump lead and the only one 438 00:30:56,155 --> 00:30:59,475 Speaker 1: there by eleven in South Carolina. He can claim anything 439 00:30:59,515 --> 00:31:03,035 Speaker 1: he wants, but even Matt Drudge's headline was forty percent 440 00:31:03,035 --> 00:31:06,395 Speaker 1: of Republicans vote against Trump up in South Carolina. Even 441 00:31:06,475 --> 00:31:11,155 Speaker 1: more shockingly, this headline Trump's demographic problem, which was a 442 00:31:11,235 --> 00:31:15,275 Speaker 1: Topaxios dot com and this one the warning signs in 443 00:31:15,315 --> 00:31:20,315 Speaker 1: Trump's South Carolina romp, a top Politico. Moreover, Politico's top 444 00:31:20,355 --> 00:31:23,395 Speaker 1: White House guy noted that slightly more than one out 445 00:31:23,435 --> 00:31:27,675 Speaker 1: of five Republican primary voters told exit polling that they 446 00:31:27,715 --> 00:31:30,595 Speaker 1: will not vote for Trump, and if that number were 447 00:31:30,635 --> 00:31:34,195 Speaker 1: to hold, it would be Biden by one hundred electoral votes. 448 00:31:35,115 --> 00:31:37,995 Speaker 1: I understand everybody at Politico has now been fired for this. 449 00:31:38,875 --> 00:31:42,515 Speaker 1: A lot of often reliable political analysts have been noting 450 00:31:42,555 --> 00:31:45,715 Speaker 1: that Trump's support in the primaries is about where it 451 00:31:45,875 --> 00:31:50,635 Speaker 1: was in twenty sixteen, around sixty percent in the Republican primaries. 452 00:31:50,635 --> 00:31:54,835 Speaker 1: But at this point in twenty sixteen, Trump was running 453 00:31:55,195 --> 00:32:01,195 Speaker 1: against eleven opponents, including four governors and three senators. He 454 00:32:01,355 --> 00:32:06,275 Speaker 1: was beating eleven people by sixty to they're combined forty. 455 00:32:06,595 --> 00:32:11,035 Speaker 1: He is now beating one opponent by sixty forty. There 456 00:32:11,115 --> 00:32:16,115 Speaker 1: are no two ways about this. Trump is underperforming and 457 00:32:16,235 --> 00:32:32,675 Speaker 1: people should start reporting that and dateline Trump trials. Prosecutors 458 00:32:32,675 --> 00:32:35,835 Speaker 1: in New York have preemptively asked Judge Juan mare Shaan 459 00:32:35,995 --> 00:32:38,915 Speaker 1: for a gag order against Trump to stop him in 460 00:32:38,995 --> 00:32:43,675 Speaker 1: advance from publicly disparaging witnesses in the Stormy Daniel's hutch 461 00:32:43,715 --> 00:32:46,835 Speaker 1: money case, which opens next month, and do not be 462 00:32:46,995 --> 00:32:50,715 Speaker 1: fooled in the other New York trial. Trump has not 463 00:32:51,435 --> 00:32:54,915 Speaker 1: filed the appeal of what is now with interest. Thank 464 00:32:54,955 --> 00:32:57,715 Speaker 1: you for this data. Letitia James the four hundred and 465 00:32:57,715 --> 00:33:00,675 Speaker 1: sixty four million, eight hundred and five thousand dollars he 466 00:33:00,755 --> 00:33:03,995 Speaker 1: owes in the New York Business fraud guilty decision. He 467 00:33:04,075 --> 00:33:09,315 Speaker 1: has filed notice that he will appeal, giving him thirty 468 00:33:09,435 --> 00:33:12,315 Speaker 1: days to raise that amount and more and put it 469 00:33:12,355 --> 00:33:16,395 Speaker 1: into escrow or he can't file the appeal. And just 470 00:33:16,475 --> 00:33:20,755 Speaker 1: for the sake of fairness, I am willing to buy 471 00:33:21,355 --> 00:33:26,475 Speaker 1: Trump Tower from Donald Trump. It has a nice view 472 00:33:26,475 --> 00:33:31,275 Speaker 1: of the park. I'll pay cash. My offer is twenty seven, 473 00:33:31,955 --> 00:33:44,955 Speaker 1: nine hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents. 474 00:33:49,115 --> 00:33:55,515 Speaker 1: This is Sports Senate. Wait check that not anymore. This 475 00:33:56,355 --> 00:34:03,075 Speaker 1: is Countdown with Keith Alberman in Sports dateline. The Grapefruit 476 00:34:03,155 --> 00:34:05,915 Speaker 1: League in Florida and the Cactus League in Arizona and 477 00:34:05,995 --> 00:34:11,795 Speaker 1: baseball spring training. And we have a new explanation for 478 00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:15,795 Speaker 1: why the new baseball uniforms look like they shrunk in 479 00:34:15,875 --> 00:34:20,675 Speaker 1: the wash, all three thousand or so of them. Shrunk 480 00:34:20,915 --> 00:34:25,715 Speaker 1: in the wash for all three thousand players. Tiny little 481 00:34:25,795 --> 00:34:28,875 Speaker 1: letters on the backs of the uniforms, tiny little numbers. 482 00:34:29,195 --> 00:34:31,395 Speaker 1: They look like you might have been able to buy 483 00:34:31,435 --> 00:34:35,035 Speaker 1: them at a discount store. Although the part about sea 484 00:34:35,075 --> 00:34:37,435 Speaker 1: threw pants is a bit of an exaggeration. They've been 485 00:34:37,555 --> 00:34:40,515 Speaker 1: like that for a couple of years. Still, when somebody 486 00:34:40,555 --> 00:34:42,715 Speaker 1: tweeted about a home run in a spring training game 487 00:34:42,755 --> 00:34:46,155 Speaker 1: over the weekend and wrote another massive dog for the 488 00:34:46,235 --> 00:34:49,595 Speaker 1: Cubs and was sub tweeted with when you don't know 489 00:34:49,635 --> 00:34:51,955 Speaker 1: if the tweet is about a homer or the pants, 490 00:34:52,355 --> 00:34:56,955 Speaker 1: that's pretty funny. Still. The explanation for this sartorial disaster, 491 00:34:57,355 --> 00:34:59,875 Speaker 1: it is not as much the fault of the manufacturers 492 00:34:59,955 --> 00:35:03,195 Speaker 1: Nike and Fanatics as it is the fault of Major 493 00:35:03,275 --> 00:35:06,995 Speaker 1: League Baseball itself. My old friend and play by play 494 00:35:07,035 --> 00:35:12,075 Speaker 1: booth mate at ESPN, Eddie Perez, revealed that Baseball asked 495 00:35:12,115 --> 00:35:16,235 Speaker 1: for its corporate logo to be moved and enlarged, taken 496 00:35:16,275 --> 00:35:19,035 Speaker 1: from the very top of the back up by the 497 00:35:19,075 --> 00:35:23,955 Speaker 1: collar to lower down below the collar piping. That threw 498 00:35:23,995 --> 00:35:26,075 Speaker 1: off the whole back of the uniforms, and they had 499 00:35:26,075 --> 00:35:29,115 Speaker 1: to make the letters and numbers smaller as a result. 500 00:35:30,315 --> 00:35:32,635 Speaker 1: There is more hope than ever that the uniforms will 501 00:35:32,635 --> 00:35:39,835 Speaker 1: now melt during the first real rainfall. Dateline thirty rock again. 502 00:35:39,955 --> 00:35:42,995 Speaker 1: Peter King, the NFL insider upon whom all the other 503 00:35:43,155 --> 00:35:46,475 Speaker 1: NFL insiders and the NBA insiders and the MLB insiders 504 00:35:46,475 --> 00:35:50,995 Speaker 1: and the NHL insiders are based, is retiring after forty 505 00:35:51,075 --> 00:35:54,275 Speaker 1: years on the beat at Sports Illustrated and later NBC, 506 00:35:54,355 --> 00:35:57,915 Speaker 1: where he wrote The Monday Morning Quarterback, which Sam Flood 507 00:35:57,955 --> 00:36:04,675 Speaker 1: at NBC moronically ordered renamed to Football Morning in America. 508 00:36:04,755 --> 00:36:08,275 Speaker 1: Worked with Peter at Football Night in America, which was 509 00:36:08,315 --> 00:36:11,995 Speaker 1: a real thing, and he was a pleasure. Most insiders 510 00:36:12,075 --> 00:36:15,555 Speaker 1: make you adjust to their needs. It's understandable Peter worked 511 00:36:15,555 --> 00:36:17,955 Speaker 1: the other way around. Anybody mind if I take this 512 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:21,515 Speaker 1: call from the commissioner, Okay, I'll be right back. Excuse me, guys, 513 00:36:22,075 --> 00:36:27,035 Speaker 1: dead series polite to the end. Peter's wife, Anne also 514 00:36:27,155 --> 00:36:30,835 Speaker 1: was the best baker spouse I have ever met in 515 00:36:30,875 --> 00:36:35,235 Speaker 1: the industry. Carrot cakes, cookies, whatever, something new every week. 516 00:36:35,515 --> 00:36:38,915 Speaker 1: I gained one hundred and seventy five pounds in three 517 00:36:39,035 --> 00:36:42,435 Speaker 1: years on Football Night in America. Now it is Peter's 518 00:36:42,515 --> 00:36:45,955 Speaker 1: chance to eat all that food. Only Peter King would 519 00:36:45,955 --> 00:36:48,915 Speaker 1: note that he has attended forty consecutive Super Bowls. So 520 00:36:49,035 --> 00:36:51,475 Speaker 1: when you talk about the commercials and the other fluff 521 00:36:51,515 --> 00:36:55,475 Speaker 1: and even the halftime shows. He really has never known 522 00:36:55,515 --> 00:36:58,955 Speaker 1: what you've meant, and he's now looking forward to finding 523 00:36:58,955 --> 00:37:06,795 Speaker 1: out next year. Godspeed and dateline and in Dale, Virginia, 524 00:37:06,915 --> 00:37:10,915 Speaker 1: former Major League baseball pitcher Jim Hannon has died. He 525 00:37:10,955 --> 00:37:13,515 Speaker 1: won forty one games and lost forty eight games over 526 00:37:13,555 --> 00:37:17,235 Speaker 1: a ten year stretch with Washington, Detroit, and Milwaukee, ending 527 00:37:17,275 --> 00:37:19,795 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy one. He was a pretty good pitcher 528 00:37:19,795 --> 00:37:22,875 Speaker 1: at Notre Dame before that, and what anybody who remembers 529 00:37:22,955 --> 00:37:26,115 Speaker 1: him for that does not know was that Jim Hannon 530 00:37:26,155 --> 00:37:29,355 Speaker 1: had a degree in business and his college research paper 531 00:37:29,475 --> 00:37:34,075 Speaker 1: was about the baseball pension plan. The paper was so good. 532 00:37:34,475 --> 00:37:37,435 Speaker 1: When the first real head of the Baseball Union, Marvin Miller, 533 00:37:37,515 --> 00:37:41,075 Speaker 1: was seeking to shore up that pension plan, he relied 534 00:37:41,155 --> 00:37:45,915 Speaker 1: on Jim Hannon's college paper from Notre Dame. And then 535 00:37:45,955 --> 00:37:48,875 Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two, Jim Hannon did something wonderful. He 536 00:37:48,915 --> 00:37:52,515 Speaker 1: founded and for fourteen years led the Major League Baseball 537 00:37:52,515 --> 00:37:57,235 Speaker 1: Players Alumni Association, advocating for ex players in need and 538 00:37:57,315 --> 00:38:01,435 Speaker 1: their families and launching scholarships and programs for ex players 539 00:38:01,835 --> 00:38:04,715 Speaker 1: to give back. Jim Hannon was far more than a 540 00:38:04,755 --> 00:38:07,315 Speaker 1: pitcher who once won ten games in one season for 541 00:38:07,355 --> 00:38:10,195 Speaker 1: the Washington Senators. He was still chairman of the Major 542 00:38:10,275 --> 00:38:13,955 Speaker 1: League Baseball Players Alumni Association when he died earlier this month. 543 00:38:14,355 --> 00:38:38,715 Speaker 1: He was eighty five years old. Stell ahead of us 544 00:38:38,755 --> 00:38:41,155 Speaker 1: on this all new edition of Countdown. It'll be time 545 00:38:41,235 --> 00:38:47,115 Speaker 1: for the first ever Countdown Baseball Spring Training preview. This 546 00:38:47,155 --> 00:38:50,915 Speaker 1: will be great if this is the year nineteen seventy eight. 547 00:38:51,795 --> 00:38:54,475 Speaker 1: I have gone deep into the vaults, and I will 548 00:38:54,515 --> 00:38:56,955 Speaker 1: present to you what I got and what I put 549 00:38:56,955 --> 00:39:00,355 Speaker 1: on the air. After my first trip to spring training 550 00:39:00,475 --> 00:39:06,155 Speaker 1: as a reporter age nineteen scam forty six years ago. 551 00:39:06,315 --> 00:39:09,195 Speaker 1: This month, I had in things I promised not to tell. 552 00:39:09,715 --> 00:39:14,195 Speaker 1: My voice had almost completely changed. First, Yes, still more 553 00:39:14,195 --> 00:39:17,155 Speaker 1: idiots talk about the daily roundup of the miss Grins, Morons, Undunn, 554 00:39:17,155 --> 00:39:21,275 Speaker 1: and Krueger effect specimens, who constitute two days worse persons 555 00:39:21,275 --> 00:39:26,155 Speaker 1: in the world, the bronze worse. It's a tie. Jonathan Allen, 556 00:39:26,275 --> 00:39:30,515 Speaker 1: Matt Dixon, Garrett hate Von Hilliard, Carol E. Lee, and 557 00:39:30,635 --> 00:39:33,555 Speaker 1: Kristin Welker of NBC News. Why so many of them? 558 00:39:33,875 --> 00:39:36,755 Speaker 1: I guess on the theory that they all decided, well, hell, 559 00:39:37,275 --> 00:39:40,275 Speaker 1: they can't fire all of us for this crap their 560 00:39:40,315 --> 00:39:43,355 Speaker 1: reaction to Trump losing forty percent of the vote in 561 00:39:43,395 --> 00:39:46,555 Speaker 1: the Republican primary Saturday night, an article with all of 562 00:39:46,595 --> 00:39:50,075 Speaker 1: their bylines on at Alan Dixon, Ake Hilliard, Lee, and 563 00:39:50,195 --> 00:39:56,595 Speaker 1: Welker titled Fewer Grievances, More Policy, Trump Aids and allies 564 00:39:56,955 --> 00:40:02,395 Speaker 1: push for a post South Carolina pivot because we haven't 565 00:40:02,395 --> 00:40:06,795 Speaker 1: had a good laugh at Kristin Welker's expense in hours, 566 00:40:07,475 --> 00:40:10,035 Speaker 1: or good laugh at the idea that anybody actually paid 567 00:40:10,235 --> 00:40:14,355 Speaker 1: to cover politics would fall for the idea of a 568 00:40:14,435 --> 00:40:20,515 Speaker 1: Trump pivot in year ten of Trump's insanity, a pivot. 569 00:40:21,475 --> 00:40:24,075 Speaker 1: This first ten years of him being baby Hitler and 570 00:40:24,115 --> 00:40:26,755 Speaker 1: trying to run a coup and telling his mobs to 571 00:40:26,875 --> 00:40:32,395 Speaker 1: kill people like NBC News employees, that was just prelude. 572 00:40:32,995 --> 00:40:36,235 Speaker 1: Now he's gonna pivot. The real Trump's gonna come out. 573 00:40:37,115 --> 00:40:39,995 Speaker 1: In the thirty six hours after this NBC piece of 574 00:40:40,115 --> 00:40:43,315 Speaker 1: crap and Trump's insistence that he no longer cared about 575 00:40:43,395 --> 00:40:47,635 Speaker 1: Nicki Haley, Trump posted eleven different times about Nicki Haley. 576 00:40:48,635 --> 00:40:51,755 Speaker 1: Oh my god, NBC Saturday was the day Trump truly 577 00:40:51,795 --> 00:40:56,395 Speaker 1: became president? Is that right? Kristen Welker, A bunch of idiots, 578 00:40:56,635 --> 00:40:59,635 Speaker 1: which reminds us of the runner up worser, the man 579 00:40:59,675 --> 00:41:02,835 Speaker 1: who put that moronic phrase on the map. Trump became 580 00:41:02,875 --> 00:41:06,155 Speaker 1: president of the United States in that moment period. Van 581 00:41:06,515 --> 00:41:12,955 Speaker 1: Jones guilty of premature jocularity yet again. The first time 582 00:41:12,995 --> 00:41:15,835 Speaker 1: he said something as stupid as that was on March first, 583 00:41:15,915 --> 00:41:21,195 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. That was three years and ten months before 584 00:41:21,515 --> 00:41:24,475 Speaker 1: Trump tried to overthrow the government. Van Jones is also 585 00:41:24,515 --> 00:41:27,115 Speaker 1: an idiot that is well established, but he's hit a 586 00:41:27,155 --> 00:41:30,915 Speaker 1: new high and low. Listen to this about Democrats and 587 00:41:30,955 --> 00:41:36,915 Speaker 1: Republicans working together, because otherwise the bird doesn't fly. 588 00:41:37,515 --> 00:41:40,715 Speaker 2: I've never seen a bird fly with only a left wing. 589 00:41:40,835 --> 00:41:42,835 Speaker 5: I've never seen a bird fly with only a right wing, 590 00:41:42,875 --> 00:41:43,875 Speaker 5: not even in Mississippi. 591 00:41:44,075 --> 00:41:45,915 Speaker 2: We need each other, We need each other. 592 00:41:46,075 --> 00:41:49,115 Speaker 1: Van The right wing doesn't want us to fly. The 593 00:41:49,195 --> 00:41:53,755 Speaker 1: right wing wants to kill us and eat us. And oh, 594 00:41:53,835 --> 00:41:55,915 Speaker 1: by the way, you know where Van Jones said that 595 00:41:56,795 --> 00:42:01,675 Speaker 1: he went to Sea Pack. Van Jones talked to Seapack 596 00:42:02,155 --> 00:42:05,275 Speaker 1: at that conservative convention where they all completely connect from 597 00:42:05,275 --> 00:42:09,075 Speaker 1: reality and where Trump compares himself to Nelson Mandela and 598 00:42:09,155 --> 00:42:14,115 Speaker 1: Alexeynavali and Christy Nomes says Biden and Harris suck which 599 00:42:14,155 --> 00:42:16,955 Speaker 1: given her extramarital affairs as a curious verb to use, 600 00:42:17,475 --> 00:42:20,435 Speaker 1: and at least Stephanic referred to the Biden crime family, 601 00:42:20,635 --> 00:42:22,515 Speaker 1: and not one person came out of the crowd to 602 00:42:22,595 --> 00:42:25,875 Speaker 1: kick her squarely in the ass, and Matt Gates threatened 603 00:42:25,915 --> 00:42:30,075 Speaker 1: to aid to not just Ukraine but also Israel. What 604 00:42:30,195 --> 00:42:34,155 Speaker 1: were you doing there, Van Jones? That is disqualifying. You 605 00:42:34,195 --> 00:42:36,995 Speaker 1: want to sit next to this guy, Schlap, take your 606 00:42:37,075 --> 00:42:40,675 Speaker 1: chances with that. You go join the Republican Nazi Party. 607 00:42:40,915 --> 00:42:45,435 Speaker 1: Go talk to them about bipartisanship. Talk by partisanship with 608 00:42:45,515 --> 00:42:48,835 Speaker 1: people who claim the plantation owners taught the slaves how 609 00:42:48,835 --> 00:42:56,715 Speaker 1: to become blacksmiths. But our winner the worst Tucker Conelson, 610 00:42:57,595 --> 00:43:01,915 Speaker 1: somebody named Mario Naffel as in awful but with an 611 00:43:02,075 --> 00:43:04,955 Speaker 1: N who makes stuff up and claims he he's a 612 00:43:04,995 --> 00:43:09,435 Speaker 1: news operation. His scoop yesterday, quoting some site called intel Drop, 613 00:43:09,595 --> 00:43:12,875 Speaker 1: which itself claims to be a news organization based in 614 00:43:13,035 --> 00:43:20,995 Speaker 1: Iceland or something. Tucker Carlson assassination plot foiled. No, I 615 00:43:21,075 --> 00:43:23,355 Speaker 1: know it's not what you're expecting. He wasn't going to 616 00:43:23,395 --> 00:43:28,155 Speaker 1: assassinate somebody apparently somebody was going to assassinate Tucker Carlson 617 00:43:28,475 --> 00:43:32,835 Speaker 1: and didn't I know what a sad day quote. Russian 618 00:43:32,915 --> 00:43:36,515 Speaker 1: forces reportedly arrested a man for a planned attack on Tucker, 619 00:43:36,875 --> 00:43:41,795 Speaker 1: allegedly orchestrated by Ukraine's intelligence. The plot allegedly involved an 620 00:43:41,795 --> 00:43:48,595 Speaker 1: ied targeting Carlson's vehicle at the Four Seasons Hotel, wait 621 00:43:48,675 --> 00:43:52,035 Speaker 1: the Four Seasons Kremlin. Tucker Carlson didn't stay at the 622 00:43:52,275 --> 00:43:56,235 Speaker 1: Kremlin Motel six. Also, I thought Russia was perfect. They 623 00:43:56,235 --> 00:44:03,755 Speaker 1: have IEDs in the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow. But 624 00:44:03,875 --> 00:44:07,795 Speaker 1: here is the real punchline quote. The suspect reportedly admitted 625 00:44:07,795 --> 00:44:15,275 Speaker 1: to receiving four thousand dollars for the attacks execution Tucker. 626 00:44:15,835 --> 00:44:17,915 Speaker 1: There's a price on my head. On that price is 627 00:44:17,955 --> 00:44:26,035 Speaker 1: four thousand dollars American Carlson two days, worst and cheapest 628 00:44:26,155 --> 00:44:41,875 Speaker 1: person in the world. Four years, pretty much until I 629 00:44:41,955 --> 00:44:45,515 Speaker 1: left Los Angeles local news for ESPN in nineteen ninety two, 630 00:44:45,675 --> 00:44:51,195 Speaker 1: I tried to record every broadcast I did radio television. Well, 631 00:44:51,275 --> 00:44:52,755 Speaker 1: it was just radio and television. I was going to 632 00:44:52,795 --> 00:44:54,835 Speaker 1: say something else, but it was just radio and television. 633 00:44:54,875 --> 00:44:57,595 Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety two, I was often mocked for this 634 00:44:57,715 --> 00:45:02,475 Speaker 1: because there was an element of ego to it, although 635 00:45:02,715 --> 00:45:05,195 Speaker 1: really I needed to see if I I was getting 636 00:45:05,195 --> 00:45:09,755 Speaker 1: any better or worse, and I had a vague sense 637 00:45:09,795 --> 00:45:14,995 Speaker 1: of if I don't record these who will the end result? 638 00:45:15,835 --> 00:45:19,755 Speaker 1: Everybody now wants to hear my tapes and see my videos. 639 00:45:20,195 --> 00:45:22,315 Speaker 1: And if I did it, I got it on tape 640 00:45:22,355 --> 00:45:28,555 Speaker 1: somewhere somewhere, including whenever baseball spring training opens. This pretty 641 00:45:28,555 --> 00:45:33,075 Speaker 1: good series. I did the Spring Training Journal mostly my 642 00:45:33,195 --> 00:45:37,355 Speaker 1: own interviews. I did it for WVBRFM at Cornell and Anthica, 643 00:45:37,395 --> 00:45:41,235 Speaker 1: New York, just before the start of the baseball season 644 00:45:42,475 --> 00:45:49,715 Speaker 1: of nineteen seventy eight. Nineteen seven d eight and now 645 00:45:49,835 --> 00:45:52,395 Speaker 1: part one of the report on Spring Training Via the 646 00:45:52,395 --> 00:45:54,275 Speaker 1: magic of tape, we take you to a place where 647 00:45:54,315 --> 00:45:56,395 Speaker 1: it is warm and sunny, Miami Stadium. 648 00:45:57,155 --> 00:46:00,355 Speaker 6: Baseball people approach spring training from very different angles. Yankee 649 00:46:00,435 --> 00:46:02,795 Speaker 6: manager Billy Martin has described it as a waste of time, 650 00:46:02,835 --> 00:46:04,635 Speaker 6: an opinion that holds little weight with one of my 651 00:46:04,675 --> 00:46:06,955 Speaker 6: Martin's chief rivals, Earl Weaver of Baltimore. 652 00:46:07,195 --> 00:46:09,675 Speaker 3: I've been doing a lot of experimenting, playing people in 653 00:46:09,675 --> 00:46:13,435 Speaker 3: different positions so that when you get narth if for 654 00:46:13,515 --> 00:46:16,875 Speaker 3: some reason you have to get more offensive people in 655 00:46:16,915 --> 00:46:19,995 Speaker 3: the lineup, that I can maybe switch an Eddie Murray 656 00:46:19,995 --> 00:46:22,275 Speaker 3: from first to third base, which enables me to get 657 00:46:22,355 --> 00:46:25,435 Speaker 3: lee at first movie, hit her into the designated spot, 658 00:46:25,475 --> 00:46:30,195 Speaker 3: and different things. And you use spring training for that purpose, 659 00:46:30,235 --> 00:46:31,915 Speaker 3: and sometimes you don't win a lot of games in 660 00:46:31,995 --> 00:46:33,115 Speaker 3: doing it, but at least you're. 661 00:46:32,995 --> 00:46:35,275 Speaker 2: Finding things out. Not winning a lot of games is 662 00:46:35,315 --> 00:46:37,035 Speaker 2: not necessarily a bad thing. However. 663 00:46:37,155 --> 00:46:39,475 Speaker 6: In fact, too much success in spring training is feared 664 00:46:39,475 --> 00:46:42,995 Speaker 6: by MADI, including Philadelphia's Danny Ozark. His club started slowly 665 00:46:43,075 --> 00:46:45,835 Speaker 6: last year, and Ozark blames it on a hot spring training. 666 00:46:45,875 --> 00:46:48,035 Speaker 7: I think we're like eighteen and six or something like 667 00:46:48,115 --> 00:46:51,235 Speaker 7: that in the spring, and now the season starts, and 668 00:46:51,355 --> 00:46:56,515 Speaker 7: that seems like everybody not complacent. But everybody feels like, well, 669 00:46:56,555 --> 00:46:58,475 Speaker 7: something's going to happen listening and we're going to get 670 00:46:58,475 --> 00:47:02,155 Speaker 7: some runs. It just didn't happen. So what we're trying 671 00:47:02,155 --> 00:47:04,955 Speaker 7: to do is kind of work up to this plan 672 00:47:05,075 --> 00:47:05,635 Speaker 7: day and not. 673 00:47:05,675 --> 00:47:07,715 Speaker 2: All the players are happy with the way the camps work. 674 00:47:07,915 --> 00:47:09,675 Speaker 6: Jim Rice of the Red Sox is a need for 675 00:47:09,715 --> 00:47:12,595 Speaker 6: a greater simulation of the regular season, especially for his 676 00:47:12,635 --> 00:47:13,435 Speaker 6: club's pitchers. 677 00:47:13,635 --> 00:47:15,635 Speaker 8: To me, spring training is mainly getting shape, and now 678 00:47:15,675 --> 00:47:17,115 Speaker 8: guys are in shape, but I don't think they're millon 679 00:47:17,155 --> 00:47:18,675 Speaker 8: prepared because they go out and just only pitch four 680 00:47:18,755 --> 00:47:20,515 Speaker 8: or five innues. I think in order to be a 681 00:47:20,515 --> 00:47:22,075 Speaker 8: complete pitcher, you got to go out and go nine 682 00:47:22,075 --> 00:47:23,835 Speaker 8: and say, hey, I gotta go nine today. And I 683 00:47:23,875 --> 00:47:25,475 Speaker 8: think when a pitcher walked out of the mine, he's 684 00:47:25,475 --> 00:47:27,395 Speaker 8: you have in his mind, Hey, I want to go 685 00:47:27,475 --> 00:47:28,395 Speaker 8: nine innies tomorrow. 686 00:47:28,475 --> 00:47:30,315 Speaker 6: In Part two of our series on spring training, a 687 00:47:30,435 --> 00:47:32,995 Speaker 6: look at the readjustment some ballplayers have to go through. 688 00:47:33,755 --> 00:47:36,155 Speaker 2: Now, let's go to part two of our spring training journal. 689 00:47:36,755 --> 00:47:39,755 Speaker 6: For some baseball people, spring training is a time of readjustment. 690 00:47:39,955 --> 00:47:42,275 Speaker 2: Trades, hirings, firings, and now the free. 691 00:47:42,075 --> 00:47:45,555 Speaker 6: Agent system make for strange faces in strange uniforms each spring. 692 00:47:45,995 --> 00:47:48,595 Speaker 6: For Bobby Bonds of the Chicago White Sox, it's almost 693 00:47:48,595 --> 00:47:51,275 Speaker 6: old hat. For the third time in four springs, Bonds 694 00:47:51,355 --> 00:47:53,275 Speaker 6: joins a new club, but this year, at least, he 695 00:47:53,315 --> 00:47:55,515 Speaker 6: says he's not uncomfortable in his new surroundings. 696 00:47:55,875 --> 00:47:57,835 Speaker 4: What really helps out this year is that the guys 697 00:47:57,835 --> 00:48:00,835 Speaker 4: on the team are good individuus, and they really are there. 698 00:48:00,995 --> 00:48:03,435 Speaker 4: The atmosphere of the whole team is good with stems 699 00:48:03,435 --> 00:48:06,235 Speaker 4: from the front office, fields, back and through. Bob Lemon 700 00:48:06,875 --> 00:48:09,795 Speaker 4: comes right on down with the players. So I don't 701 00:48:09,835 --> 00:48:12,715 Speaker 4: feel like a stranger really anymore. I feel like a 702 00:48:12,835 --> 00:48:15,315 Speaker 4: complete part of the ball, the whole structure of it, 703 00:48:15,755 --> 00:48:17,315 Speaker 4: and I don't feel that there's one individual that I 704 00:48:17,315 --> 00:48:18,195 Speaker 4: can go to talk to. 705 00:48:18,475 --> 00:48:21,595 Speaker 6: Other players go from losers to winners. John Mattlack suffered 706 00:48:21,635 --> 00:48:23,675 Speaker 6: through six seasons with the New York Mets. Now he 707 00:48:23,755 --> 00:48:26,035 Speaker 6: is part of a major contender, the Texas Rangers. 708 00:48:26,115 --> 00:48:28,075 Speaker 8: It's a good feeling to come from a team that 709 00:48:28,235 --> 00:48:29,835 Speaker 8: was once a contender and sort of want to slip 710 00:48:29,875 --> 00:48:31,115 Speaker 8: downhill a little bit to a team. 711 00:48:30,955 --> 00:48:32,915 Speaker 2: That is now a contender. So you know, any time 712 00:48:32,995 --> 00:48:34,795 Speaker 2: a situation like that arises, you've got to feel good 713 00:48:34,795 --> 00:48:35,115 Speaker 2: about it. 714 00:48:35,355 --> 00:48:37,475 Speaker 6: While matt Lack moves from the bottom to the top, 715 00:48:37,595 --> 00:48:40,555 Speaker 6: the root was reversed for Bobby Cox, first base coach 716 00:48:40,555 --> 00:48:43,115 Speaker 6: for the world champion New York Yankees last season, manager 717 00:48:43,155 --> 00:48:44,435 Speaker 6: of the dormat Atlanta Braves. 718 00:48:44,435 --> 00:48:45,075 Speaker 2: This year, I. 719 00:48:45,075 --> 00:48:46,515 Speaker 9: Enjoyed my first year in the big leagues where the 720 00:48:46,555 --> 00:48:48,395 Speaker 9: Yankees as a coach, and actually we went on to 721 00:48:48,435 --> 00:48:50,395 Speaker 9: win the Pennant and the playoffs and the World Series 722 00:48:50,435 --> 00:48:52,035 Speaker 9: and everything, and it was really an exciting year. And 723 00:48:52,155 --> 00:48:55,235 Speaker 9: I went to this club which finished dead lash last year, 724 00:48:55,275 --> 00:48:56,435 Speaker 9: but I've enjoyed every min of it. 725 00:48:56,595 --> 00:48:58,835 Speaker 6: And then there's Fergey Jenkins who goes to a new 726 00:48:58,835 --> 00:49:00,795 Speaker 6: and old team in seventy eight as he returns to 727 00:49:00,835 --> 00:49:04,075 Speaker 6: the Texas Rangers. Jenkins was last at Texan in seventy five, 728 00:49:04,115 --> 00:49:05,955 Speaker 6: and he sees a difference this time around. 729 00:49:06,075 --> 00:49:08,235 Speaker 5: The team is a little more experienced, They have a 730 00:49:08,275 --> 00:49:11,955 Speaker 5: little more depth, they have more experienced ballplayers. I think 731 00:49:11,995 --> 00:49:14,475 Speaker 5: that the biggest thing is that this team is a 732 00:49:14,475 --> 00:49:17,315 Speaker 5: contender now or maybe at the one year when I 733 00:49:17,355 --> 00:49:20,155 Speaker 5: was with Billy martin seventy four, we made a push 734 00:49:20,395 --> 00:49:21,555 Speaker 5: to jump on Oakland, but we. 735 00:49:21,515 --> 00:49:22,075 Speaker 10: Came up short. 736 00:49:22,115 --> 00:49:23,515 Speaker 2: But this year it looks like that the team could 737 00:49:23,515 --> 00:49:24,115 Speaker 2: do it. Tomorrow. 738 00:49:24,195 --> 00:49:26,235 Speaker 6: In Part three of the Spring Training Series, a look 739 00:49:26,235 --> 00:49:28,115 Speaker 6: at a team that operates on a wing and a prayer, 740 00:49:28,195 --> 00:49:29,795 Speaker 6: Bill Vex's Chicago White. 741 00:49:29,515 --> 00:49:33,275 Speaker 2: Sox, and now to Part three of the Spring Training Journal. 742 00:49:33,715 --> 00:49:34,755 Speaker 10: The Chicago White. 743 00:49:34,595 --> 00:49:35,715 Speaker 2: Sox seem to have found. 744 00:49:35,475 --> 00:49:37,515 Speaker 6: A new way to be competitive in these days of 745 00:49:37,555 --> 00:49:40,475 Speaker 6: millionaire free agents and discontented stars. The Socks go for 746 00:49:40,515 --> 00:49:43,195 Speaker 6: the low scale free agents, the comeback players, and the 747 00:49:43,315 --> 00:49:46,435 Speaker 6: rents a slugger system. Last year it was Eric Soderholm, 748 00:49:46,435 --> 00:49:48,675 Speaker 6: a third baseman recovered from the junk pile after a 749 00:49:48,715 --> 00:49:50,715 Speaker 6: season of inactivity due to a knee injury. 750 00:49:50,995 --> 00:49:52,195 Speaker 2: Solderholm is a student of. 751 00:49:52,155 --> 00:49:54,995 Speaker 6: Psychological conditioning and he thinks if you put somebody on 752 00:49:54,995 --> 00:49:58,075 Speaker 6: the spot, he'll produce. Solderholm also thinks that the Chicago 753 00:49:58,115 --> 00:49:59,275 Speaker 6: owner feels the same way. 754 00:49:59,515 --> 00:50:00,995 Speaker 2: Well, Bill Riggs got that idea. 755 00:50:01,035 --> 00:50:03,715 Speaker 6: Now this year's camp, because we has sixty players, they're. 756 00:50:03,875 --> 00:50:06,795 Speaker 11: In the camp so many people battling for so many downs. 757 00:50:06,835 --> 00:50:08,875 Speaker 1: It puts everybody on the spot that forces you to 758 00:50:08,875 --> 00:50:09,275 Speaker 1: for do it. 759 00:50:09,635 --> 00:50:12,195 Speaker 6: This year, the recovery project is Ron Bloomberg, who has 760 00:50:12,235 --> 00:50:14,275 Speaker 6: come to back twice in two and a half years 761 00:50:14,475 --> 00:50:17,555 Speaker 6: due to recurring shoulder and leg problems. So far this spring, 762 00:50:17,595 --> 00:50:20,115 Speaker 6: Bloomberg is healthy. But don't remind him of his past 763 00:50:20,115 --> 00:50:21,115 Speaker 6: physical infirmity. 764 00:50:21,315 --> 00:50:21,995 Speaker 10: Oh, don't talk. 765 00:50:21,875 --> 00:50:23,675 Speaker 2: About injuries for me. I had enough in my career. 766 00:50:23,755 --> 00:50:25,195 Speaker 9: I just go out there and do the best I can. 767 00:50:25,635 --> 00:50:27,675 Speaker 4: I think I'm doing quite well for the amount of 768 00:50:27,675 --> 00:50:28,795 Speaker 4: time when I have been playing. 769 00:50:29,675 --> 00:50:30,955 Speaker 2: I'm hitting the ball really well. 770 00:50:31,355 --> 00:50:33,115 Speaker 8: I'm not swinging with a lot of power, but I'm 771 00:50:33,155 --> 00:50:34,515 Speaker 8: hitting a lot of line drives. 772 00:50:34,235 --> 00:50:37,235 Speaker 4: I think for being out for two and a half years, 773 00:50:37,275 --> 00:50:38,395 Speaker 4: I think I'm doing a. 774 00:50:38,355 --> 00:50:39,515 Speaker 2: Remarkable job so far. 775 00:50:40,635 --> 00:50:43,755 Speaker 6: Last year, Chicago's here, Today, Gone tomorrow sluggers were Oscar 776 00:50:43,795 --> 00:50:46,635 Speaker 6: Gamble and Richie Zisk. This year it's Bobby Bods, who, 777 00:50:46,675 --> 00:50:49,075 Speaker 6: although he may be in Chicago for only one season, 778 00:50:49,275 --> 00:50:50,995 Speaker 6: promises to be a team player. 779 00:50:51,275 --> 00:50:53,555 Speaker 4: My main concern each year is to go out and contribute. 780 00:50:53,715 --> 00:50:55,195 Speaker 10: If I go out and I. 781 00:50:55,115 --> 00:50:58,715 Speaker 2: Can contribute to the team and I stay. 782 00:50:58,475 --> 00:51:00,555 Speaker 4: Healthy, I will help the team and I will have 783 00:51:00,595 --> 00:51:02,035 Speaker 4: a good year on my own because I will be 784 00:51:02,035 --> 00:51:03,995 Speaker 4: doing what the team has expected me to do. But 785 00:51:04,075 --> 00:51:06,115 Speaker 4: to say that it's the most important thing for me 786 00:51:06,115 --> 00:51:08,675 Speaker 4: to hit forty homers and still forty bases and we 787 00:51:09,075 --> 00:51:10,915 Speaker 4: don't win, No, I want to contribute to a winning 788 00:51:10,915 --> 00:51:12,715 Speaker 4: cause and whatever that takes, that's what I want. 789 00:51:12,515 --> 00:51:13,675 Speaker 2: To do the White Sox. 790 00:51:13,715 --> 00:51:18,435 Speaker 6: The formula is cheap, efficient, unique, and most importantly, it works. Tomorrow, 791 00:51:18,435 --> 00:51:20,755 Speaker 6: as our five part series continues, a look at spring 792 00:51:20,795 --> 00:51:24,315 Speaker 6: training for a losing team, the Atlanta Braves. Now here's 793 00:51:24,355 --> 00:51:27,235 Speaker 6: part four of the Spring training Journal of All of 794 00:51:27,275 --> 00:51:30,555 Speaker 6: baseball's losers, probably the Atlanta Braves are the most unique. 795 00:51:30,675 --> 00:51:33,155 Speaker 6: Spring training for them has to have highlights other than 796 00:51:33,195 --> 00:51:35,675 Speaker 6: a view to a successful season, and such a highlight 797 00:51:35,755 --> 00:51:38,035 Speaker 6: was presented this year by the appearance of Jim Bouten 798 00:51:38,115 --> 00:51:41,595 Speaker 6: in the club's minor league camp. Another highlight colorful owner 799 00:51:41,635 --> 00:51:44,355 Speaker 6: Ted Turner's tongue in cheek description of mister Boughton. 800 00:51:44,915 --> 00:51:45,915 Speaker 2: He's got a lot of talent. 801 00:51:45,955 --> 00:51:48,475 Speaker 11: He can play baseball, we can write, he can announce, 802 00:51:48,635 --> 00:51:51,155 Speaker 11: and he's twenty his month. We could use the guy 803 00:51:51,195 --> 00:51:54,235 Speaker 11: with a lot of talent on that well, who knows 804 00:51:54,675 --> 00:51:56,755 Speaker 11: one of our writers that's travel with the team. I'd 805 00:51:56,795 --> 00:51:58,675 Speaker 11: come down in a fluids I'm making to thrill in 806 00:51:58,675 --> 00:52:00,115 Speaker 11: in a lot of different pisations. 807 00:52:00,275 --> 00:52:03,035 Speaker 6: Would Turner take advantage of Boughton's notoriety and call into 808 00:52:03,075 --> 00:52:04,475 Speaker 6: the majors? Is a publicity stunt. 809 00:52:04,795 --> 00:52:06,235 Speaker 2: I don't know. It's Bobby Cox. 810 00:52:06,555 --> 00:52:08,955 Speaker 11: There's a vantage this club and Bill Lucas all right, 811 00:52:09,035 --> 00:52:10,275 Speaker 11: do it to cry and play the bill. 812 00:52:10,555 --> 00:52:12,555 Speaker 2: But the presence of a manager never stopped Turner. 813 00:52:12,835 --> 00:52:15,395 Speaker 6: Last year, he temporarily took over the Braves ass skipper, 814 00:52:15,435 --> 00:52:16,555 Speaker 6: replacing Dave Bristol. 815 00:52:16,755 --> 00:52:19,035 Speaker 2: Bristol is gone. Now, Bobby Cox is the new man 816 00:52:19,075 --> 00:52:19,635 Speaker 2: in charge. 817 00:52:19,715 --> 00:52:22,315 Speaker 6: He's running a camp of forty six players, only fourteen 818 00:52:22,355 --> 00:52:24,515 Speaker 6: of whom were major leaguers on opening day of nineteen 819 00:52:24,555 --> 00:52:25,195 Speaker 6: seventy seven. 820 00:52:25,355 --> 00:52:27,155 Speaker 9: Really, we're just trying to give everybody a chance to 821 00:52:27,275 --> 00:52:29,275 Speaker 9: ply and see as much of them as we can, 822 00:52:29,315 --> 00:52:31,115 Speaker 9: because we do we're kind of unique in most spring 823 00:52:31,115 --> 00:52:34,155 Speaker 9: training and most spring training camps, and then we've got 824 00:52:34,155 --> 00:52:36,275 Speaker 9: a lot more decisions to make. Most camps have maybe 825 00:52:36,275 --> 00:52:38,995 Speaker 9: one change in our starting lineup or so. And you 826 00:52:39,035 --> 00:52:41,755 Speaker 9: know where our eyes and ears are open, and we 827 00:52:41,795 --> 00:52:44,715 Speaker 9: have meetings a lot with our coaching staff, and the 828 00:52:44,755 --> 00:52:48,315 Speaker 9: instructors are are in camp and evaluate all the talent 829 00:52:48,395 --> 00:52:50,435 Speaker 9: that we have, and we're going to break North with 830 00:52:50,475 --> 00:52:51,435 Speaker 9: our twenty five best. 831 00:52:51,675 --> 00:52:54,475 Speaker 2: It might only be the best twenty four. The Braves may. 832 00:52:54,395 --> 00:52:56,835 Speaker 6: Not be able to afford that last player, which brings 833 00:52:56,915 --> 00:52:59,315 Speaker 6: us back to owner Ted Turner. All right, do it crime, 834 00:52:59,355 --> 00:53:02,195 Speaker 6: pay the bill, and that's believe me, that's a big 835 00:53:02,275 --> 00:53:02,795 Speaker 6: job too. 836 00:53:02,915 --> 00:53:06,235 Speaker 11: I got I'm not sure that the Cavenge facing leaders the. 837 00:53:06,555 --> 00:53:07,355 Speaker 3: Well through the lighter. 838 00:53:07,835 --> 00:53:10,835 Speaker 6: The Braves not the best, not even secure, but certainly 839 00:53:10,875 --> 00:53:13,395 Speaker 6: not dull. Tomorrow in the final part of our series 840 00:53:13,395 --> 00:53:16,075 Speaker 6: on spring training, Where were You When the Lights Went Out? 841 00:53:17,395 --> 00:53:19,115 Speaker 6: And now the fifth and final part of the Spring 842 00:53:19,115 --> 00:53:22,275 Speaker 6: Training Journal. The differences between spring training and the regular 843 00:53:22,315 --> 00:53:25,435 Speaker 6: Major League Baseball season come out in minor ways, subtly 844 00:53:25,635 --> 00:53:28,235 Speaker 6: like that one night in Fort Lauderdale, right here in 845 00:53:28,235 --> 00:53:30,115 Speaker 6: the middle of the sixth thenny the bottom of the 846 00:53:30,115 --> 00:53:32,755 Speaker 6: six between the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves, 847 00:53:32,795 --> 00:53:34,555 Speaker 6: just after Mickey Klutz had hit a ball down the 848 00:53:34,595 --> 00:53:37,955 Speaker 6: first baseline, the lights suddenly went out. They remained out. 849 00:53:38,275 --> 00:53:40,675 Speaker 6: A lot of flash bulbs are flashing because the fans 850 00:53:40,675 --> 00:53:42,875 Speaker 6: are taking pictures of the darkness, which doesn't make too 851 00:53:42,915 --> 00:53:45,755 Speaker 6: much sense in itself, but anyway, the Yankees were leading 852 00:53:45,795 --> 00:53:47,755 Speaker 6: here six to two when the lights suddenly went out. 853 00:53:48,235 --> 00:53:51,595 Speaker 6: Some people are lighting matches here and there calls for playball. 854 00:53:52,035 --> 00:53:54,235 Speaker 6: But the lights all the towers there, there are about 855 00:53:54,235 --> 00:53:55,155 Speaker 6: a half dozen of them. 856 00:53:55,355 --> 00:53:58,035 Speaker 2: They're all out right now and hidden by the darkness. 857 00:53:58,115 --> 00:53:59,875 Speaker 6: The evil that lurks in the hearts of men came 858 00:53:59,915 --> 00:54:01,155 Speaker 6: out into the open now. 859 00:54:01,195 --> 00:54:05,315 Speaker 2: The players are all converging around the Atlanta. 860 00:54:05,035 --> 00:54:07,635 Speaker 6: Dug out, while a group of fans is apparently run 861 00:54:07,635 --> 00:54:09,715 Speaker 6: out into the field in an attempt to get third base. 862 00:54:09,795 --> 00:54:12,955 Speaker 2: I think they're fans. What are they out there? Yes, 863 00:54:12,995 --> 00:54:14,875 Speaker 2: they are. They're being led from the field. At this point, 864 00:54:15,795 --> 00:54:16,955 Speaker 2: a couple of fans. 865 00:54:16,675 --> 00:54:19,515 Speaker 6: Went out to the field during the darkness here an 866 00:54:19,515 --> 00:54:23,035 Speaker 6: attempted to snatch third base, but a couple of security 867 00:54:23,075 --> 00:54:26,155 Speaker 6: officers called them there and stopped them. During all this, 868 00:54:26,235 --> 00:54:29,395 Speaker 6: Atlanta owner Ted Turner and Yankee president George Steinbrenner sat 869 00:54:29,395 --> 00:54:30,395 Speaker 6: helplessly in the dark. 870 00:54:30,635 --> 00:54:32,555 Speaker 2: Finally somebody found the light switch. 871 00:54:36,275 --> 00:54:38,115 Speaker 6: That the aroar from the crowd as some of the 872 00:54:38,195 --> 00:54:40,635 Speaker 6: lights have gone back on, the lights in the press box. 873 00:54:40,475 --> 00:54:50,315 Speaker 2: And now the field lights, and with the. 874 00:54:50,235 --> 00:54:52,595 Speaker 6: Exception of the two field lights out in wet Field, 875 00:54:52,955 --> 00:54:55,355 Speaker 6: they're all back on now because two more and there 876 00:54:55,355 --> 00:54:55,715 Speaker 6: they go. 877 00:54:55,995 --> 00:54:57,955 Speaker 2: It's almost like they'll be able to resume. Ah. 878 00:54:58,035 --> 00:55:00,635 Speaker 6: Yes, spring training in the regular season just ain't the same, 879 00:55:00,915 --> 00:55:03,035 Speaker 6: But soon the change from exhibitions to the real thing 880 00:55:03,075 --> 00:55:05,875 Speaker 6: will take place. And starting more on World Report Sports, 881 00:55:05,955 --> 00:55:07,835 Speaker 6: we'll take a look at the divisional and league races 882 00:55:07,875 --> 00:55:10,515 Speaker 6: for nineteen seventy eight. And that's the early sports tonight. 883 00:55:10,515 --> 00:55:13,035 Speaker 6: I'm Keith Oberman. Have a very good weekend. Molly comings 884 00:55:13,075 --> 00:55:16,035 Speaker 6: back with more sports tonight on late edition at eleven Carol. 885 00:55:16,435 --> 00:55:17,115 Speaker 2: Thank you, Keith. 886 00:55:17,115 --> 00:55:19,635 Speaker 4: It's five point fifty seven the stock report right after 887 00:55:19,675 --> 00:55:21,235 Speaker 4: this word from garage to France. 888 00:55:21,555 --> 00:55:25,715 Speaker 1: When I found the cassette those were recorded onto in 889 00:55:25,955 --> 00:55:29,515 Speaker 1: March nineteen seventy eight, I was surprised to find on 890 00:55:29,555 --> 00:55:32,915 Speaker 1: it that I had done and completely forgotten, a live 891 00:55:33,155 --> 00:55:36,355 Speaker 1: promo for that series. I had done it by phone 892 00:55:36,955 --> 00:55:41,315 Speaker 1: from Miami Stadium, then the home of the Baltimore Orioles, 893 00:55:41,955 --> 00:55:44,675 Speaker 1: and it was done live on our five thirty newscast 894 00:55:44,715 --> 00:55:48,355 Speaker 1: in Ithaca. And I was in Miami on the friday 895 00:55:48,435 --> 00:55:52,555 Speaker 1: that spring break ended, and the friday thus that my 896 00:55:53,435 --> 00:55:57,475 Speaker 1: trip to Florida ended. This was actually done. It suddenly 897 00:55:57,515 --> 00:56:00,195 Speaker 1: flashed back on me as well, about an hour after 898 00:56:00,235 --> 00:56:02,195 Speaker 1: I had been sitting in the stands at the beautiful 899 00:56:02,235 --> 00:56:05,675 Speaker 1: old Art Deco ballpark in Miami, and I had recorded 900 00:56:05,835 --> 00:56:10,155 Speaker 1: all those narrations in that series you just heard. This 901 00:56:10,835 --> 00:56:13,635 Speaker 1: was the preview, and now Keith Olberman recording from the 902 00:56:13,635 --> 00:56:14,595 Speaker 1: Miami Stadium. 903 00:56:14,875 --> 00:56:17,555 Speaker 10: Thank you, Mike. I'm parisally perched here in the press 904 00:56:17,555 --> 00:56:20,675 Speaker 10: box high a top Miami Stadium, a charismatic old place 905 00:56:20,675 --> 00:56:22,635 Speaker 10: that looks a little bit more like a metal barn 906 00:56:22,715 --> 00:56:24,955 Speaker 10: than it does a ballpark where the Baltimore Orioles and 907 00:56:24,995 --> 00:56:27,875 Speaker 10: Cincinnati Reds will play tonight. Yet, if there is one 908 00:56:27,915 --> 00:56:30,195 Speaker 10: thing that a week in the baseball spring training camps 909 00:56:30,235 --> 00:56:33,835 Speaker 10: teaches you, it's that appearances can be deceiving. The uniforms 910 00:56:33,835 --> 00:56:35,915 Speaker 10: are major league and so are the players, but what's 911 00:56:35,955 --> 00:56:38,315 Speaker 10: been happening on the field certainly is not. And that 912 00:56:38,435 --> 00:56:41,875 Speaker 10: counts both before and during the actual games. For where 913 00:56:41,875 --> 00:56:44,595 Speaker 10: else but spring training would you hear thurman Munson singing 914 00:56:44,715 --> 00:56:47,955 Speaker 10: short people. Where else would a Yankee player apologize to 915 00:56:47,995 --> 00:56:50,395 Speaker 10: a sports writer? And where else could you see owners 916 00:56:50,435 --> 00:56:54,075 Speaker 10: Ted Turner and George Steinbriter sit helplessly by as the 917 00:56:54,115 --> 00:56:56,555 Speaker 10: game between their two teams is halted by a short 918 00:56:56,635 --> 00:57:00,475 Speaker 10: circuit blackout. Nowhere else but spring training. Then there are 919 00:57:00,475 --> 00:57:04,035 Speaker 10: other things you expect, like contrasts. Why just day before 920 00:57:04,115 --> 00:57:08,195 Speaker 10: yesterday the Baltimore Orioles, Who's did Los Angeles? You guessed it? 921 00:57:08,355 --> 00:57:10,995 Speaker 10: Here's effervescence for you. Tommy Will, sort of, a manager 922 00:57:10,995 --> 00:57:11,995 Speaker 10: of the Dodgers. 923 00:57:11,635 --> 00:57:14,915 Speaker 11: Feel great. I can't wait till the season begins. I've 924 00:57:14,915 --> 00:57:16,955 Speaker 11: told everybody I got a weight problem. I can't wait 925 00:57:16,995 --> 00:57:20,235 Speaker 11: till it all begins, and I'm just ecstatic about this 926 00:57:20,355 --> 00:57:22,755 Speaker 11: ball club and we're going to have a lot of fun. 927 00:57:22,835 --> 00:57:26,835 Speaker 11: And it's an honor to be associated with outstanding players. 928 00:57:26,995 --> 00:57:30,395 Speaker 11: But above all, they're outstanding young man and the contract. 929 00:57:30,675 --> 00:57:33,355 Speaker 10: How about Earl Weaver who thinks everybody's on his own. 930 00:57:34,035 --> 00:57:37,075 Speaker 11: This is an individual's boy. If you get enough individuals 931 00:57:37,115 --> 00:57:40,395 Speaker 11: out there on the field doing their job and doing 932 00:57:40,475 --> 00:57:43,795 Speaker 11: their job right, then it becomes a team that doesn't 933 00:57:43,835 --> 00:57:45,595 Speaker 11: happen out on the field no matter what happens in 934 00:57:45,595 --> 00:57:47,315 Speaker 11: the clubhouse. That didn't make any district fund. 935 00:57:47,595 --> 00:57:50,795 Speaker 10: Two very opposite ends of the spectrum. Spring training means 936 00:57:50,835 --> 00:57:52,715 Speaker 10: a lot of things to a lot of people right now. 937 00:57:52,755 --> 00:57:55,115 Speaker 10: To me, it means a bad sunburn. But anyway, what 938 00:57:55,275 --> 00:57:57,235 Speaker 10: spring training means to certain people who will be the 939 00:57:57,275 --> 00:57:59,635 Speaker 10: subject of a five part series next week on World 940 00:57:59,675 --> 00:58:02,075 Speaker 10: Report Sports, and the week after we'll have a preview 941 00:58:02,115 --> 00:58:04,475 Speaker 10: of the upcoming season. That's it from here in Miami 942 00:58:04,715 --> 00:58:06,115 Speaker 10: and Keith Oberman back down of mic. 943 00:58:06,635 --> 00:58:09,035 Speaker 2: What would will deport sports be without Keith Oberman. 944 00:58:21,995 --> 00:58:23,835 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 945 00:58:23,875 --> 00:58:26,875 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown Musical directors Brian Ray and John 946 00:58:26,915 --> 00:58:30,355 Speaker 1: Phillip Schanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 947 00:58:30,715 --> 00:58:33,635 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on guitars, bass, and drums. Mister Shanelle 948 00:58:33,635 --> 00:58:37,555 Speaker 1: handled orchestration and keyboards. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 949 00:58:37,995 --> 00:58:41,195 Speaker 1: Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged 950 00:58:41,195 --> 00:58:44,075 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns allowed. You know 951 00:58:44,155 --> 00:58:46,435 Speaker 1: what occurs to me that that interview you heard, which 952 00:58:46,475 --> 00:58:49,075 Speaker 1: I did with Ted Turner on the field at spring 953 00:58:49,155 --> 00:58:52,395 Speaker 1: training in March of nineteen seventy eight. That's three years 954 00:58:52,435 --> 00:58:56,315 Speaker 1: before I went to work for Ted Turner, and it's 955 00:58:56,395 --> 00:59:00,435 Speaker 1: four years before I nearly had a fistfight with Ted Turner, 956 00:59:00,795 --> 00:59:03,755 Speaker 1: had a story about Ted Turner that I was covering 957 00:59:04,795 --> 00:59:08,635 Speaker 1: for Ted Turner. The sports music is the Ulderman theme 958 00:59:08,675 --> 00:59:12,435 Speaker 1: for ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 959 00:59:13,035 --> 00:59:16,715 Speaker 1: Which didn't exist when I recorded those reports from Florida. 960 00:59:16,995 --> 00:59:20,355 Speaker 1: Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, 961 00:59:20,355 --> 00:59:23,395 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was 962 00:59:23,435 --> 00:59:25,755 Speaker 1: my friend Larry David, and everything else was pretty much 963 00:59:25,755 --> 00:59:28,355 Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for this. The two hundred 964 00:59:28,355 --> 00:59:31,675 Speaker 1: and fifty second day until the twenty twenty four US 965 00:59:31,715 --> 00:59:35,955 Speaker 1: presidential election, and the one and forty eighth day since 966 00:59:35,995 --> 00:59:39,835 Speaker 1: dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 967 00:59:39,875 --> 00:59:43,315 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, use 968 00:59:43,355 --> 00:59:46,875 Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act, use the justice system, use the mental 969 00:59:46,875 --> 00:59:50,675 Speaker 1: health system, use the election to stop him from doing 970 00:59:50,675 --> 00:59:56,515 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 971 00:59:56,595 --> 00:59:59,675 Speaker 1: is tomorrow, do not forget our live YouTube special and 972 00:59:59,715 --> 01:00:01,795 Speaker 1: after the State of the Union on the night of Thursday, 973 01:00:01,915 --> 01:00:05,955 Speaker 1: March not December seventh. This is the news warrants till 974 01:00:06,035 --> 01:00:09,155 Speaker 1: next time. I'm Keith Aldremman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 975 01:00:09,475 --> 01:00:19,635 Speaker 1: and good luck. And now it is time for him 976 01:00:20,035 --> 01:00:25,235 Speaker 1: to shut the up about Joe Biden. Countdown with Keith 977 01:00:25,275 --> 01:00:30,315 Speaker 1: Oldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 978 01:00:30,475 --> 01:00:34,475 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 979 01:00:34,515 --> 01:00:35,715 Speaker 1: your podcasts.