1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:20,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's 2 00:00:21,075 --> 00:00:27,275 Speaker 1: latest official idiot press secretary has called Adolf Hitler quote 3 00:00:27,915 --> 00:00:32,115 Speaker 1: Adolph Hilter, and I don't know if this should get 4 00:00:32,155 --> 00:00:34,715 Speaker 1: her fired for being a historical idiot or if it 5 00:00:34,795 --> 00:00:38,115 Speaker 1: will get her fired for insulting Trump's role model. It 6 00:00:38,235 --> 00:00:42,875 Speaker 1: happened on CNN as the spokesperson Caroline Levitt began a 7 00:00:42,995 --> 00:00:46,235 Speaker 1: day in which elderly first offender Trump and his henchman 8 00:00:46,555 --> 00:00:49,995 Speaker 1: kicked open not one but two emergency exits to let 9 00:00:50,075 --> 00:00:54,035 Speaker 1: him back out of Thursday's debate and blameing President Biden 10 00:00:54,155 --> 00:00:57,235 Speaker 1: for it. Whether he actually chickens out or not, I'm 11 00:00:57,275 --> 00:01:00,475 Speaker 1: sure even Trump does not know his brain, after all, 12 00:01:00,635 --> 00:01:03,995 Speaker 1: is broken. Also, by the way, there's a small chance 13 00:01:04,155 --> 00:01:08,195 Speaker 1: Jack's is trying to get Trump indicted in New Jersey. 14 00:01:08,915 --> 00:01:14,555 Speaker 1: I'll get to that. Adolf Hilter first. Yesterday morning, the 15 00:01:14,635 --> 00:01:18,915 Speaker 1: dumbest of the idiot Trump spokespeople in an almost incomprehensible 16 00:01:18,955 --> 00:01:22,115 Speaker 1: descent from the stupidity of Sean Spicer, who now appears 17 00:01:22,115 --> 00:01:24,995 Speaker 1: to have been the Einstein of the group. Caroline Levitt, 18 00:01:25,075 --> 00:01:28,435 Speaker 1: the one who thinks the word is dammoning, went on 19 00:01:28,515 --> 00:01:30,715 Speaker 1: CNN and decided to try to fill the buster. Here 20 00:01:30,715 --> 00:01:33,835 Speaker 1: the host Casey Hunt with attacks on debate moderators Jake 21 00:01:33,875 --> 00:01:37,755 Speaker 1: Tapper and Dana Bash. Hunt threatened to cut the interview off. 22 00:01:38,115 --> 00:01:41,715 Speaker 1: Hunt called Levitt, who claims to be twenty five, ma'am, 23 00:01:42,675 --> 00:01:46,435 Speaker 1: She mammed her and then lost in the cross talk. 24 00:01:46,595 --> 00:01:51,435 Speaker 1: Listen carefully to Levitt. Trump's spokesperson claims that quote, it 25 00:01:51,555 --> 00:01:54,515 Speaker 1: takes someone five minutes to google Jake Tapper Donald Trump 26 00:01:54,675 --> 00:01:57,995 Speaker 1: to see that Jake Tapper has consistently compared Trump to 27 00:01:59,395 --> 00:02:03,555 Speaker 1: Adolf Hilter. What do you expect from Joe Biden. 28 00:02:05,275 --> 00:02:07,955 Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it's so it takes someone five 29 00:02:07,955 --> 00:02:10,315 Speaker 2: minutes to google Jake Tapper Donald Trump to see that 30 00:02:10,395 --> 00:02:11,395 Speaker 2: Jake Tapper hes ma'am. 31 00:02:11,435 --> 00:02:14,555 Speaker 1: Can christ is off for his interview? If colleidelf Hilter 32 00:02:15,435 --> 00:02:22,235 Speaker 1: sweet Jesus on Hockey skates, Trump's press secretary called him 33 00:02:22,395 --> 00:02:26,275 Speaker 1: Hilter christ is off for his interview. If colleidelf Hilter 34 00:02:26,435 --> 00:02:30,555 Speaker 1: like in the old Monty Python sketch. Back to the point, 35 00:02:31,315 --> 00:02:37,115 Speaker 1: Caroline damning Hilter. Levitt martyred herself on every right wing 36 00:02:37,155 --> 00:02:39,915 Speaker 1: outlet throughout the day yesterday when She went on Steve 37 00:02:39,955 --> 00:02:43,155 Speaker 1: Bannon's right wing outlet, the I'll be in jail next 38 00:02:43,235 --> 00:02:47,795 Speaker 1: Week outlet. Bannon said either CNN must apologize to her 39 00:02:47,995 --> 00:02:51,915 Speaker 1: and MAGA, or Trump should bail out of the debate. 40 00:02:52,435 --> 00:02:56,755 Speaker 2: Cassie Hunt O June apology, CNN O Jun apology today, 41 00:02:57,195 --> 00:02:59,915 Speaker 2: and if we don't get that apology to Caroline Levitt 42 00:02:59,915 --> 00:03:03,115 Speaker 2: and to the Trump campaign to MAGA today, President Trump 43 00:03:03,115 --> 00:03:03,835 Speaker 2: should cancel this. 44 00:03:04,195 --> 00:03:07,315 Speaker 1: Bannon also said the debate should be canceled because Joe 45 00:03:07,315 --> 00:03:11,715 Speaker 1: Biden is not going to be the Democratic nominee. He 46 00:03:11,835 --> 00:03:16,075 Speaker 1: also called CNN's Casey Hunt Cassie there, so put that 47 00:03:16,155 --> 00:03:21,835 Speaker 1: on the list right below Caroline Levitt calling Hitler Hilter. Well, 48 00:03:21,915 --> 00:03:25,635 Speaker 1: one thousand spaces below Caroline Levitt calling Hitler Hilter. But 49 00:03:25,715 --> 00:03:27,915 Speaker 1: you get the point. So that's the number one in 50 00:03:27,955 --> 00:03:31,355 Speaker 1: the event of full ad fear of losing a debate 51 00:03:31,675 --> 00:03:37,875 Speaker 1: Raking Glass in the emergency for Trump some rage against CNN, 52 00:03:38,155 --> 00:03:40,435 Speaker 1: which means he can cancel, which means he can say 53 00:03:40,435 --> 00:03:43,475 Speaker 1: he's canceled because CNN is sowing the tank for Biden 54 00:03:43,515 --> 00:03:46,075 Speaker 1: that had insulted his press secretary and wouldn't let her 55 00:03:46,155 --> 00:03:50,795 Speaker 1: talk about Adolph Hilter. Hours later, three forty two Eastern 56 00:03:50,835 --> 00:03:55,075 Speaker 1: Trump produced his second full lad emergency escape quote drug 57 00:03:55,115 --> 00:03:59,995 Speaker 1: test for Biden. I would come also immediately agree to one. 58 00:04:00,995 --> 00:04:04,035 Speaker 1: An oldie, but a goodie. Honestly, if you hired a 59 00:04:04,115 --> 00:04:08,395 Speaker 1: spokesperson who went on national television and thinks the name 60 00:04:08,755 --> 00:04:13,675 Speaker 1: is Hilter and said this, you needed the drug test 61 00:04:13,795 --> 00:04:43,955 Speaker 1: back then, Sparky, there has been a second news leak 62 00:04:43,995 --> 00:04:47,715 Speaker 1: about Trump's marri Lago espionage scandal, and I'm beginning to wonder, 63 00:04:47,755 --> 00:04:49,835 Speaker 1: and it is a long shot if this is not 64 00:04:49,995 --> 00:04:53,395 Speaker 1: some kind of laying of groundwork for a new prosecution 65 00:04:53,475 --> 00:04:56,995 Speaker 1: of Trump on the document's charges, on the espionage charges, 66 00:04:57,155 --> 00:05:01,035 Speaker 1: on the stealing secrets charges, but a new prosecution in 67 00:05:01,155 --> 00:05:05,955 Speaker 1: New Jersey. Yesterday's leak did not resonate among American news media, 68 00:05:05,995 --> 00:05:09,435 Speaker 1: which can generally only barely handle one thing at a time, 69 00:05:09,875 --> 00:05:12,995 Speaker 1: like the debate. The story itself about Trump making a 70 00:05:13,035 --> 00:05:16,235 Speaker 1: special trip to Florida to make sure nobody had touched 71 00:05:16,235 --> 00:05:19,035 Speaker 1: the documents he stole from the White House. That may 72 00:05:19,075 --> 00:05:21,435 Speaker 1: not be much more than another one of those threads 73 00:05:21,435 --> 00:05:23,955 Speaker 1: that you pull on and maybe the thread just comes 74 00:05:23,955 --> 00:05:27,275 Speaker 1: off in your hand, or maybe it unravels the entirety 75 00:05:27,315 --> 00:05:30,715 Speaker 1: of Trump's size sixty two suit. I don't even think 76 00:05:30,715 --> 00:05:33,395 Speaker 1: the prosecutors know exactly what they have here. But the 77 00:05:33,435 --> 00:05:36,915 Speaker 1: point is, in three business days there have now been 78 00:05:36,955 --> 00:05:40,395 Speaker 1: two leaks about the prosecution of Trump for violations of 79 00:05:40,395 --> 00:05:44,435 Speaker 1: the Espionage Act, and history teaches us that this almost 80 00:05:44,515 --> 00:05:49,235 Speaker 1: invariably means somebody inside is trying to make something happen 81 00:05:49,555 --> 00:05:54,155 Speaker 1: and somehow make this case come alive again. The first, 82 00:05:54,235 --> 00:05:56,075 Speaker 1: of course, was the leak that a year ago, a 83 00:05:56,155 --> 00:05:59,995 Speaker 1: senior judge in Florida had gently tried to get Trump's concierge, 84 00:06:00,115 --> 00:06:03,955 Speaker 1: Judge Eileen Cannon, to recuse herself from this case, and 85 00:06:03,995 --> 00:06:08,275 Speaker 1: when that did work, the senior federal judge, Warren Cannon 86 00:06:08,315 --> 00:06:10,515 Speaker 1: there would be held to pay if she stayed, and 87 00:06:10,555 --> 00:06:13,155 Speaker 1: that a year later, all the judges in the state 88 00:06:13,315 --> 00:06:15,995 Speaker 1: are still talking to each other about it, enough that 89 00:06:15,995 --> 00:06:18,675 Speaker 1: the New York Times got wind of the thing. The 90 00:06:18,755 --> 00:06:22,075 Speaker 1: new leak is that nearly two years ago, early July, 91 00:06:22,555 --> 00:06:26,635 Speaker 1: Trump stunned his own people by suddenly leaving New Jersey 92 00:06:27,075 --> 00:06:29,955 Speaker 1: for a crash trip to Florida in the middle of 93 00:06:29,995 --> 00:06:32,835 Speaker 1: the summer, and that his aid and chief marri A. Lago. 94 00:06:33,195 --> 00:06:37,395 Speaker 1: Igor Walt Nauda flooded the phones of staff down there 95 00:06:37,595 --> 00:06:41,555 Speaker 1: with texts about how Trump quote wants minimal people around 96 00:06:41,675 --> 00:06:45,715 Speaker 1: Mary Lago and keep it discreet and in case none 97 00:06:45,755 --> 00:06:48,035 Speaker 1: of that got the message across now to peppered the 98 00:06:48,035 --> 00:06:53,995 Speaker 1: messages with zippered mouthed emojis and shushing emojis. Apart from 99 00:06:54,035 --> 00:06:56,875 Speaker 1: the geography, Trump can't stand being in Florida in midsummer. 100 00:06:56,915 --> 00:07:00,195 Speaker 1: He never just goes there. Two years ago, his residence 101 00:07:00,355 --> 00:07:04,355 Speaker 1: at Mari Lago was being remodeled. Staffers did not think 102 00:07:04,355 --> 00:07:07,075 Speaker 1: there was any location at Mari Lago in which Trump 103 00:07:07,075 --> 00:07:11,155 Speaker 1: would be willing to stay. Yet, leaving an Alaska fascist 104 00:07:11,235 --> 00:07:15,075 Speaker 1: rally on July ninth, twenty twenty two, Trump directed he'd 105 00:07:15,115 --> 00:07:18,155 Speaker 1: be flown not back to New Jersey, but to Florida. 106 00:07:18,635 --> 00:07:22,155 Speaker 1: He stayed there, according to this report, on the down low, 107 00:07:22,835 --> 00:07:27,915 Speaker 1: for three days. Why did he go to literally check 108 00:07:28,115 --> 00:07:32,835 Speaker 1: all the boxes? ABC News, quoting sources familiar with the matter, 109 00:07:33,235 --> 00:07:35,595 Speaker 1: broke the story and says staffers say they were told 110 00:07:35,635 --> 00:07:38,395 Speaker 1: Trump wanted to make sure the boxes full of White 111 00:07:38,435 --> 00:07:43,315 Speaker 1: House documents, most of which were stolen and classified, were 112 00:07:43,635 --> 00:07:46,475 Speaker 1: still there. Remember this was in the middle of the 113 00:07:46,515 --> 00:07:49,875 Speaker 1: negotiations between Trump and the Government Records Office about trying 114 00:07:49,915 --> 00:07:53,115 Speaker 1: to get him to voluntarily return what he quote took 115 00:07:53,315 --> 00:07:56,155 Speaker 1: unquote before they had to go and search for it 116 00:07:56,275 --> 00:08:00,035 Speaker 1: and take it back involuntarily. It's important to consider the 117 00:08:00,075 --> 00:08:04,395 Speaker 1: timeline and where this new information fits. In January seventh, 118 00:08:04,475 --> 00:08:08,875 Speaker 1: twenty two, Trump returned fifteen boxes of documents. One hundred 119 00:08:08,915 --> 00:08:13,155 Speaker 1: and ninety seven of the documents had classification markings. May eleventh, 120 00:08:13,195 --> 00:08:15,955 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, a grand jury hits Trump with a 121 00:08:15,955 --> 00:08:19,995 Speaker 1: subpoena for more material. It is convinced he is still concealing. 122 00:08:20,555 --> 00:08:23,955 Speaker 1: June one, twenty twenty two, Trump tells his attorney, Evan 123 00:08:24,035 --> 00:08:27,755 Speaker 1: Corkoran that all the remaining documents at marri Lago are 124 00:08:27,795 --> 00:08:32,115 Speaker 1: in a basement storage room. Also on June first, literally 125 00:08:32,355 --> 00:08:35,315 Speaker 1: minutes later, while Corkoran went to the basement and went 126 00:08:35,395 --> 00:08:38,355 Speaker 1: into the storage room to look for the documents, Trump 127 00:08:38,515 --> 00:08:42,835 Speaker 1: has the locks on a closet in his residence. Changed. 128 00:08:43,955 --> 00:08:46,995 Speaker 1: June three, twenty twenty two, the Feds come to pick 129 00:08:47,075 --> 00:08:51,155 Speaker 1: up the documents they're voluntarily giving back, and another Trump attorney, 130 00:08:51,395 --> 00:08:54,835 Speaker 1: Christina Bob, signs a document indicating that's it. That's all 131 00:08:54,915 --> 00:08:58,635 Speaker 1: we have also. June three to twenty twenty two, a 132 00:08:58,715 --> 00:09:02,795 Speaker 1: twenty year veteran Trump employee named Brian Butler says Walt 133 00:09:02,915 --> 00:09:05,715 Speaker 1: Nauda had him load a bunch of big white banker's 134 00:09:05,835 --> 00:09:08,715 Speaker 1: boxes that had been in mariy Lago and put them 135 00:09:08,715 --> 00:09:12,355 Speaker 1: on a Trump private jet headed for Trump's home at 136 00:09:12,395 --> 00:09:16,395 Speaker 1: the Bedminster Crapshack golf course and Cemetery in New Jersey. 137 00:09:16,995 --> 00:09:20,035 Speaker 1: Butler later reveals that when he saw photos of boxes 138 00:09:20,275 --> 00:09:23,035 Speaker 1: photos included in the indictment of Trump, he said, Hey, 139 00:09:23,515 --> 00:09:28,115 Speaker 1: I know those boxes. I move those boxes. June twenty two, 140 00:09:28,315 --> 00:09:32,075 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, the surveillance video at mary Laga is subpoened, 141 00:09:32,635 --> 00:09:36,675 Speaker 1: and now the new information comes. In July tenth, eleventh, 142 00:09:36,715 --> 00:09:41,155 Speaker 1: and twelfth, twenty twenty two, Trump suddenly and almost secretly 143 00:09:41,275 --> 00:09:46,835 Speaker 1: goes to mari Lago to make sure his boxes are okay, 144 00:09:48,315 --> 00:09:51,075 Speaker 1: and as the tag to this. August eight, twenty twenty two, 145 00:09:51,155 --> 00:09:53,955 Speaker 1: the FBI executes its search warrant of mari Lago and 146 00:09:53,995 --> 00:09:57,475 Speaker 1: it finds eleven thousand, two hundred and eighty two more 147 00:09:57,515 --> 00:10:01,395 Speaker 1: government documents and photographs that Trump has stolen. One hundred 148 00:10:01,435 --> 00:10:04,555 Speaker 1: and three of them have classification markings. Eighteen of them 149 00:10:04,755 --> 00:10:10,595 Speaker 1: our top secret. So wait, after Trump claimed he'd given 150 00:10:10,795 --> 00:10:14,035 Speaker 1: everything back to the Feds, he ships a bunch of 151 00:10:14,035 --> 00:10:18,715 Speaker 1: boxes from mary Lago to New Jersey. Five weeks after that, 152 00:10:19,195 --> 00:10:21,955 Speaker 1: we now know for some reason, he goes back to 153 00:10:22,075 --> 00:10:25,835 Speaker 1: marri Lago from Alaska one of the hottest times of 154 00:10:25,875 --> 00:10:29,435 Speaker 1: the year, to check on the boxes that are still 155 00:10:29,515 --> 00:10:33,555 Speaker 1: at mary Lago that apparently only he knows still are 156 00:10:33,635 --> 00:10:36,915 Speaker 1: at Marrilago. Presumably he goes back there to check on 157 00:10:37,035 --> 00:10:41,515 Speaker 1: what's still in the boxes at mary Lago. More obstruction 158 00:10:41,595 --> 00:10:45,315 Speaker 1: of justice or could there be a geographical surprise in here. 159 00:10:45,315 --> 00:10:48,955 Speaker 1: It's obvious now that no matter what the standard operating 160 00:10:49,035 --> 00:10:52,235 Speaker 1: procedure at the Department of Justice might have been about 161 00:10:52,235 --> 00:10:55,035 Speaker 1: how Custom dictated to Jack Smith that he had to 162 00:10:55,075 --> 00:10:59,355 Speaker 1: indict Trump in Florida because the crime was not stealing 163 00:10:59,395 --> 00:11:02,555 Speaker 1: the secret documents, it was refusing to give back the 164 00:11:02,595 --> 00:11:06,755 Speaker 1: stolen secret documents. That Florida could result in either the 165 00:11:06,795 --> 00:11:10,315 Speaker 1: actual random assignment of the case to a compromise corrupt 166 00:11:10,435 --> 00:11:14,995 Speaker 1: judge appointed by Trump, or the corrupting of the randomization 167 00:11:15,195 --> 00:11:17,675 Speaker 1: process to make sure the case was assigned to her 168 00:11:18,315 --> 00:11:21,835 Speaker 1: and that they should have indicted Trump instead, or also 169 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:26,395 Speaker 1: not in Florida, but in Washington and or New Jersey. 170 00:11:27,435 --> 00:11:32,195 Speaker 1: This newly discovered secret kind of crazy trip by Trump, 171 00:11:32,315 --> 00:11:36,595 Speaker 1: after he's hidden thousands of classified documents from his own attorney, 172 00:11:36,675 --> 00:11:40,115 Speaker 1: after he has shipped countless other boxes full of something 173 00:11:40,515 --> 00:11:44,435 Speaker 1: to the golf course in Jersey. This crazy secret newly 174 00:11:44,515 --> 00:11:48,555 Speaker 1: revealed by Trump back to Florida trip in July to 175 00:11:48,675 --> 00:11:53,395 Speaker 1: check on his boxes. This really really smells. Could be 176 00:11:53,515 --> 00:11:57,795 Speaker 1: it smells of Trump's ever surprising insanity and paranoia, or 177 00:11:57,795 --> 00:12:00,235 Speaker 1: it could be its smells of an opportunity for Jack 178 00:12:00,235 --> 00:12:04,395 Speaker 1: Smith to break the Eileen Canon gridlock by indicting Trump 179 00:12:04,435 --> 00:12:07,475 Speaker 1: in a new case that ties the private plane shipment 180 00:12:07,555 --> 00:12:10,995 Speaker 1: from mary Lago and Trump's July tenth secret trip to 181 00:12:11,155 --> 00:12:15,555 Speaker 1: Mari Lago and indicts him as a result in New Jersey. 182 00:12:17,475 --> 00:12:22,115 Speaker 1: That's if Biden is reelected and the cases continue, Because 183 00:12:22,315 --> 00:12:26,155 Speaker 1: if the cases continue after January twentieth of next year, 184 00:12:26,595 --> 00:12:30,555 Speaker 1: there's still the small matter of Aileen Cannons slow walking 185 00:12:30,595 --> 00:12:34,355 Speaker 1: them in Florida. And even if it is not all that, 186 00:12:34,515 --> 00:12:37,235 Speaker 1: even if those boxes he flew to Florida to check 187 00:12:37,315 --> 00:12:40,435 Speaker 1: on were just full of I don't know. I think 188 00:12:40,475 --> 00:12:45,995 Speaker 1: it's something good. Condolence cards from when Ivanna died. Yeah, 189 00:12:45,995 --> 00:12:50,675 Speaker 1: that's it. Condolence cards from you know what's her name, 190 00:12:50,915 --> 00:12:56,035 Speaker 1: Zex's wife person her death. Between this story and last 191 00:12:56,035 --> 00:12:59,275 Speaker 1: week's leak about the warning to Eileen Canon of judge 192 00:12:59,355 --> 00:13:04,595 Speaker 1: not lest you be judged, somebody, somebody is clearly trying 193 00:13:04,835 --> 00:13:10,235 Speaker 1: to awake the Trump espionage trial from its coma. I 194 00:13:10,275 --> 00:13:12,475 Speaker 1: would say, to get it to come out of its 195 00:13:12,995 --> 00:13:16,995 Speaker 1: grave at the Bedminster golf Course, but that probably would 196 00:13:16,995 --> 00:13:28,475 Speaker 1: be in bad taste, like that ever stopped me before. 197 00:13:29,115 --> 00:13:32,195 Speaker 1: Briefly back to the debate, but the usually on the 198 00:13:32,235 --> 00:13:37,755 Speaker 1: losing side. Political consultant Liz Mayer is selling debate bingo 199 00:13:37,915 --> 00:13:41,235 Speaker 1: cards a pack of thirty for five dollars, which I 200 00:13:41,275 --> 00:13:43,835 Speaker 1: guess would be a business strategy and a business model 201 00:13:44,155 --> 00:13:47,195 Speaker 1: if she hadn't just tweeted one of the bingo cards 202 00:13:47,235 --> 00:13:49,635 Speaker 1: out where you could screenshot it and print it at 203 00:13:49,635 --> 00:13:52,515 Speaker 1: home for free. There are twenty five squares, and most 204 00:13:52,515 --> 00:13:55,955 Speaker 1: of the events on the squares are pretty mundane or hackneyed, 205 00:13:56,195 --> 00:13:58,435 Speaker 1: where they say more about the writer than the debaters. 206 00:13:58,555 --> 00:14:03,515 Speaker 1: Biden mentions, Trump indictments, no kidding, Trump says, black voters 207 00:14:03,515 --> 00:14:06,995 Speaker 1: empathize with his allege criminality. Why alleged he's convicted on 208 00:14:07,035 --> 00:14:09,715 Speaker 1: thirty four counts plus at the company fraud case in 209 00:14:09,995 --> 00:14:14,595 Speaker 1: three e Gene Carrol cases. Ah is Mayor's nominally a Republican, 210 00:14:14,995 --> 00:14:17,395 Speaker 1: but there are a couple of laughs on this. The 211 00:14:17,435 --> 00:14:21,515 Speaker 1: center square on the bingo card is Millennia shows up. 212 00:14:22,595 --> 00:14:28,795 Speaker 1: There's also anyone talks about sharks and question about Missus 213 00:14:28,875 --> 00:14:33,275 Speaker 1: Alito's flags and best of all, your dark horse big 214 00:14:33,315 --> 00:14:40,995 Speaker 1: money payoff quote Trump farts un quote one of the 215 00:14:41,035 --> 00:14:45,995 Speaker 1: twenty five squares ought to say. Debate actually happens, and 216 00:14:47,075 --> 00:14:51,235 Speaker 1: one way or another, there is debate counterprogramming. Robert F. 217 00:14:51,395 --> 00:14:58,915 Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior's running mate, Nikelle Nicole Many Nichols Nicole self 218 00:14:58,955 --> 00:15:02,995 Speaker 1: funding a hand has confirmed their campaign will be holding 219 00:15:03,475 --> 00:15:07,555 Speaker 1: its own debate at approximately nine o'clock Eastern Thursday night 220 00:15:07,715 --> 00:15:13,595 Speaker 1: and promises a few surprises. Kennedy is staging his own 221 00:15:13,635 --> 00:15:20,195 Speaker 1: debate with only one candidate himself present. Oh oh, I 222 00:15:20,315 --> 00:15:23,315 Speaker 1: get it. Robert F. Kennedy Junior is going to debate 223 00:15:23,395 --> 00:15:31,875 Speaker 1: against reality. A reminder that I'll be live on YouTube 224 00:15:31,915 --> 00:15:34,435 Speaker 1: for analysis. In a special live video edition of the 225 00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:37,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alderman podcast Thursday night. Sounds like about 226 00:15:37,955 --> 00:15:42,875 Speaker 1: ten thirty pm Eastern or or Trump won't show up 227 00:15:42,875 --> 00:15:45,275 Speaker 1: and blame Biden, and maybe we can talk about that live. 228 00:15:45,355 --> 00:15:48,755 Speaker 1: We really haven't discussed the backup plan. We will not 229 00:15:48,835 --> 00:15:55,635 Speaker 1: be talking about Adolph Hilter. Also of interest here, By 230 00:15:55,675 --> 00:15:57,795 Speaker 1: the way, Trump would never make that mistake, would he? 231 00:15:58,195 --> 00:16:00,875 Speaker 1: Also of interest here on an all new edition of Countdown. 232 00:16:01,275 --> 00:16:04,475 Speaker 1: It was the greatest joke I ever did at Trump's expense. 233 00:16:05,075 --> 00:16:09,035 Speaker 1: It's thirty four or thirty five years old, and until 234 00:16:09,075 --> 00:16:12,555 Speaker 1: this past weekend I had forgotten it. So at one 235 00:16:12,755 --> 00:16:15,395 Speaker 1: end of the spectrum, I apologize for making you wait 236 00:16:15,475 --> 00:16:17,955 Speaker 1: so long to hear it. And on the other end 237 00:16:17,995 --> 00:16:21,475 Speaker 1: of the spectrum, I apologize because I'm about to reuse 238 00:16:21,555 --> 00:16:27,515 Speaker 1: material from early in the Bush presidency. The first Bush 239 00:16:27,795 --> 00:16:35,235 Speaker 1: that's next. This is Countdown. This his Countdown with Keith Oberman. 240 00:16:36,355 --> 00:17:00,355 Speaker 1: Oberman stell ahead of us on this all new edition 241 00:17:00,475 --> 00:17:03,995 Speaker 1: of Countdown. There's a reason that I chose, of all 242 00:17:04,035 --> 00:17:07,475 Speaker 1: of them, Larry David's impression of the Yankee Stadium announcing 243 00:17:07,595 --> 00:17:11,475 Speaker 1: all time great Bob Sheppard as the intro for this segment. 244 00:17:12,115 --> 00:17:16,595 Speaker 1: June seventeenth, two thousand, so I missed the anniversary by 245 00:17:16,635 --> 00:17:19,635 Speaker 1: a week for some reason. I have not told you 246 00:17:19,675 --> 00:17:24,155 Speaker 1: this story previously. The people involved in today's new edition 247 00:17:24,235 --> 00:17:27,315 Speaker 1: of Things I promised not to tell former New York 248 00:17:27,395 --> 00:17:34,515 Speaker 1: Yankees second Baseman Chuck Knoblock, my mother and Babe Ruth 249 00:17:35,755 --> 00:17:39,155 Speaker 1: stand by. But first, there are still more new idiots 250 00:17:39,235 --> 00:17:41,075 Speaker 1: to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, 251 00:17:41,075 --> 00:17:44,995 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two day's 252 00:17:45,155 --> 00:17:52,675 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world world the brons me. I 253 00:17:52,715 --> 00:17:54,435 Speaker 1: don't know why it took me so long to remember 254 00:17:54,435 --> 00:17:55,875 Speaker 1: this or to bring it back. I think it was 255 00:17:55,915 --> 00:18:00,395 Speaker 1: my first on air joke and insult about Trump, probably 256 00:18:00,435 --> 00:18:03,115 Speaker 1: my best, and it's either thirty four or thirty five 257 00:18:03,195 --> 00:18:06,835 Speaker 1: years old, with the irony that even then, in nineteen 258 00:18:06,875 --> 00:18:09,315 Speaker 1: eighty nine or nineteen ninety, Trump could not have gotten 259 00:18:09,395 --> 00:18:12,035 Speaker 1: up on a bicycle if they'd used a forklift and 260 00:18:12,155 --> 00:18:16,515 Speaker 1: two winches. For those two years, Trump sponsored an attempt 261 00:18:16,595 --> 00:18:20,115 Speaker 1: to make an American version of the Tour de France's 262 00:18:20,275 --> 00:18:25,595 Speaker 1: bicycle race work. It was called the Tour de Trump. 263 00:18:26,795 --> 00:18:30,115 Speaker 1: I showed highlights of the race on Channel two in 264 00:18:30,155 --> 00:18:33,155 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, either in eighty nine or ninety and I 265 00:18:33,275 --> 00:18:38,275 Speaker 1: said the race is called the Tour de Trump because 266 00:18:38,955 --> 00:18:46,555 Speaker 1: it's ten laps around Donald Trump's ego. The runner up worser. 267 00:18:46,635 --> 00:18:50,155 Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty good. I was just a kid 268 00:18:50,195 --> 00:18:52,435 Speaker 1: of thirty at the time. The runner up worser the 269 00:18:52,515 --> 00:18:55,715 Speaker 1: United Kingdom's Conservative Party, which is not only expected to 270 00:18:55,755 --> 00:18:59,115 Speaker 1: get blown out of office on July fourth in a landslide, 271 00:18:59,475 --> 00:19:02,715 Speaker 1: but which is the only known major party in any 272 00:19:02,875 --> 00:19:08,475 Speaker 1: Western representative government to also have an apparent gambling problem. 273 00:19:08,835 --> 00:19:11,995 Speaker 1: Two of its candidates in the July fourth election and 274 00:19:12,115 --> 00:19:15,115 Speaker 1: one of the close aids to the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, 275 00:19:15,675 --> 00:19:21,075 Speaker 1: have been investigated for placing bets on which date Sunak 276 00:19:21,155 --> 00:19:25,675 Speaker 1: would choose on which to hold the snap election. One 277 00:19:25,755 --> 00:19:28,835 Speaker 1: of the candidates, Lauras Sanders, the Member of Parliament for Bristol, 278 00:19:29,275 --> 00:19:33,675 Speaker 1: is married to Sunak's campaign chief, and she put a 279 00:19:33,715 --> 00:19:37,075 Speaker 1: bet down, a legal bet down, on when they were 280 00:19:37,155 --> 00:19:41,155 Speaker 1: actually going to have the election. Hubby was the campaign 281 00:19:41,235 --> 00:19:44,395 Speaker 1: chief to the Prime Minister who would select it, so 282 00:19:44,555 --> 00:19:48,155 Speaker 1: the campaign chief and the close aid might have known 283 00:19:48,195 --> 00:19:51,555 Speaker 1: when Sunak was going to call the election. Campaign chief 284 00:19:51,595 --> 00:19:53,955 Speaker 1: Tony Lee has also taken a leave of absence after 285 00:19:53,995 --> 00:19:57,115 Speaker 1: it turned out a police officer was also arrested for gambling. 286 00:19:57,315 --> 00:20:01,115 Speaker 1: When it was revealed that cop was on Sunak's bodyguard detail, 287 00:20:01,555 --> 00:20:03,155 Speaker 1: he put a bet down on what date it was 288 00:20:03,195 --> 00:20:05,275 Speaker 1: going to be, And there was another candidate for office 289 00:20:05,275 --> 00:20:07,195 Speaker 1: who did the same thing. I mean, it's one thing 290 00:20:07,275 --> 00:20:09,955 Speaker 1: to lose and get your party thrown out of office 291 00:20:09,995 --> 00:20:13,195 Speaker 1: after fourteen years, but for people around you to try 292 00:20:13,235 --> 00:20:17,395 Speaker 1: to cash in a few hundred bob by betting on 293 00:20:17,875 --> 00:20:20,675 Speaker 1: which day you're going to lose and get thrown out 294 00:20:20,675 --> 00:20:24,435 Speaker 1: of office. Also to reprise an old Monty Python joke 295 00:20:24,515 --> 00:20:29,355 Speaker 1: with Sanders being investigated for gambling, the Conservatives won't hold Bristols. 296 00:20:30,715 --> 00:20:34,635 Speaker 1: Google it, it's worth your time, and two Monty Python 297 00:20:34,715 --> 00:20:37,915 Speaker 1: throwbacks in one episode of the show, mister Hilter, he 298 00:20:37,955 --> 00:20:42,275 Speaker 1: won't hold Bristols either, but our winner the worst. Remember 299 00:20:42,355 --> 00:20:47,555 Speaker 1: Dylan Byers, the puck news media guy through whom executives 300 00:20:47,595 --> 00:20:49,795 Speaker 1: everywhere get the coverage they would be happy to pay for. 301 00:20:50,715 --> 00:20:52,795 Speaker 1: I mentioned last Friday that a year ago he had 302 00:20:52,795 --> 00:20:57,115 Speaker 1: gratuitously trashed Howard Fineman's work as quote garbage, and then 303 00:20:57,235 --> 00:21:01,115 Speaker 1: after Howard died Buyers called him a giant and said 304 00:21:01,155 --> 00:21:05,075 Speaker 1: his funeral was a hero's farewell. Buyers may have topped 305 00:21:05,115 --> 00:21:09,235 Speaker 1: himself in this continuing Washington Post scandal over the corrupt 306 00:21:09,315 --> 00:21:12,155 Speaker 1: new British publisher and editor. And by the way, the 307 00:21:12,275 --> 00:21:14,835 Speaker 1: editor turns out, he's not leaving Blighty to go to 308 00:21:14,915 --> 00:21:18,155 Speaker 1: DC after all. Buyers wrote of this stuff at the 309 00:21:18,235 --> 00:21:23,235 Speaker 1: Washington Post quote inside the Post coup. Earlier this month, 310 00:21:23,355 --> 00:21:27,755 Speaker 1: journalists on the Foreign desk discussed a plan to dig 311 00:21:27,835 --> 00:21:34,355 Speaker 1: for unflattering information on their new publisher. Buyers has gotten 312 00:21:34,435 --> 00:21:37,955 Speaker 1: fried NonStop for having written that, and with total justification. 313 00:21:38,075 --> 00:21:43,235 Speaker 1: Post reporters have been, you know, reporting on a scandal 314 00:21:43,755 --> 00:21:46,155 Speaker 1: with the added degree of difficulty that the story is 315 00:21:46,195 --> 00:21:48,435 Speaker 1: in their own building and their bosses have tried to 316 00:21:48,475 --> 00:21:51,515 Speaker 1: bury that scandal and that story in this idiot, Buyers 317 00:21:51,875 --> 00:21:56,475 Speaker 1: can't stop fellating management long enough to think, even for 318 00:21:56,635 --> 00:21:59,795 Speaker 1: just a moment, that they deserve applause for their journalism 319 00:21:59,915 --> 00:22:03,395 Speaker 1: and courage and the meetings they've had to share, the 320 00:22:03,515 --> 00:22:05,795 Speaker 1: tips they have and how they're going to cover this story. 321 00:22:05,875 --> 00:22:12,155 Speaker 1: He calls that quote a plan to dig for unflattering information. Heh, boy, 322 00:22:12,155 --> 00:22:14,675 Speaker 1: that's called journalism. As my friend of half a century, 323 00:22:14,715 --> 00:22:17,875 Speaker 1: Will Bunch wrote, just wait until Dylan learns about the 324 00:22:17,995 --> 00:22:20,995 Speaker 1: Washington Post reporters who discussed a plan to dig for 325 00:22:21,115 --> 00:22:26,515 Speaker 1: unflattering information on Richard Nixon. Dylan, I'd also like to 326 00:22:26,515 --> 00:22:29,235 Speaker 1: point out that if any investigative reporters feel the need 327 00:22:29,275 --> 00:22:32,555 Speaker 1: to dig for unflattering information on him, all they have 328 00:22:32,595 --> 00:22:37,635 Speaker 1: to do is read his articles Buyers two days Worse, 329 00:22:38,195 --> 00:22:55,875 Speaker 1: Parson and I told this story over the weekend to somebody, 330 00:22:55,915 --> 00:22:58,395 Speaker 1: and it occurred to me for the first time on 331 00:22:58,435 --> 00:23:01,155 Speaker 1: this all new edition of Countdown that I had never 332 00:23:01,235 --> 00:23:04,955 Speaker 1: told this story on this podcast nearly two year years 333 00:23:04,955 --> 00:23:06,995 Speaker 1: of it, and I have not told what may be 334 00:23:07,235 --> 00:23:13,835 Speaker 1: the most famous story about me in sports anyway, to 335 00:23:13,915 --> 00:23:16,795 Speaker 1: the number one story on the Countdown at a story 336 00:23:16,795 --> 00:23:21,195 Speaker 1: that begins a little bit in the past nineteen thirty four. 337 00:23:22,155 --> 00:23:24,075 Speaker 1: I was not there for that part of it. But 338 00:23:24,155 --> 00:23:27,035 Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty four, my mother, who was five years old, 339 00:23:27,715 --> 00:23:32,755 Speaker 1: was sent over to her uncle's house or apartment for 340 00:23:32,835 --> 00:23:35,755 Speaker 1: the day. My grandparents needed the day off from her 341 00:23:35,835 --> 00:23:37,715 Speaker 1: for some reason, and I'm not sure what it was, 342 00:23:38,035 --> 00:23:42,275 Speaker 1: but her uncle, Willie, my great uncle Willie, took her 343 00:23:42,315 --> 00:23:45,275 Speaker 1: to Yankee Stadium along with a kid that he knew 344 00:23:45,635 --> 00:23:47,955 Speaker 1: who he used to push to Yankee Stadium because the 345 00:23:47,995 --> 00:23:50,755 Speaker 1: young man was in a wheelchair, and often before the 346 00:23:50,795 --> 00:23:53,555 Speaker 1: games in nineteen thirty four, the last season that the 347 00:23:53,635 --> 00:23:57,275 Speaker 1: legendary Babe Ruth played for the New York Yankees, Babe 348 00:23:57,355 --> 00:24:00,915 Speaker 1: Ruth would see this kid in a wheelchair and consistent 349 00:24:00,955 --> 00:24:03,355 Speaker 1: with the times, would come over and rub his back 350 00:24:03,435 --> 00:24:07,155 Speaker 1: for good luck, which seems to us to be very crass, 351 00:24:07,155 --> 00:24:08,795 Speaker 1: and also, if you're just looking at it from a 352 00:24:08,835 --> 00:24:11,395 Speaker 1: superstition point of view, how in the world would that 353 00:24:11,435 --> 00:24:15,515 Speaker 1: be good luck in any event. So one day, for 354 00:24:15,555 --> 00:24:17,795 Speaker 1: the first time, when she was five years old and 355 00:24:18,075 --> 00:24:20,595 Speaker 1: just turned five years old, her birthday was in June, 356 00:24:21,755 --> 00:24:26,075 Speaker 1: she goes with her uncle Willie and the boy in 357 00:24:26,075 --> 00:24:28,875 Speaker 1: the wheelchair to Yankee Stadium. They don't have the money 358 00:24:28,955 --> 00:24:30,955 Speaker 1: to go to the games. It's the middle of the depression, 359 00:24:31,235 --> 00:24:33,275 Speaker 1: but they live in the Bronx. They're a few blocks 360 00:24:33,275 --> 00:24:35,915 Speaker 1: away from the stadium, and they go to say hi 361 00:24:36,035 --> 00:24:37,955 Speaker 1: to the players on the way in, and sure enough, 362 00:24:37,995 --> 00:24:42,075 Speaker 1: Babe Ruth says hello to them and asks my mother, 363 00:24:42,195 --> 00:24:44,395 Speaker 1: at the age of five, what her name is now. 364 00:24:44,395 --> 00:24:46,995 Speaker 1: Her name was Marie, but because her mother's name was 365 00:24:47,075 --> 00:24:50,715 Speaker 1: also Marie. The family often referred to her as Babe. 366 00:24:51,675 --> 00:24:54,715 Speaker 1: I heard my grandmother referred to my mother as babe 367 00:24:55,035 --> 00:25:00,275 Speaker 1: when my mother was forty five years old. It was 368 00:25:00,355 --> 00:25:04,955 Speaker 1: rather extraordinary. In any events, she says, my name is Babe, Babe, 369 00:25:05,115 --> 00:25:08,435 Speaker 1: and Babe Ruth was so delighted by this that she 370 00:25:08,555 --> 00:25:11,675 Speaker 1: went back inside and got her a brand new baseball, 371 00:25:11,715 --> 00:25:14,395 Speaker 1: which he gave to my mother. The first day she 372 00:25:14,435 --> 00:25:17,955 Speaker 1: went to Yankee Stadium, she met Babe Ruth. She talked 373 00:25:17,955 --> 00:25:21,435 Speaker 1: to Babe Ruth, and Babe Ruth gave her a baseball. 374 00:25:21,635 --> 00:25:25,475 Speaker 1: Needless to say, in the ensuing sixty six years that 375 00:25:25,595 --> 00:25:30,235 Speaker 1: my mother was a Yankee fan, nothing of interest ever 376 00:25:30,315 --> 00:25:33,675 Speaker 1: happened to her at Yankee Stadium. She would eventually see 377 00:25:33,715 --> 00:25:36,795 Speaker 1: the Yankees win a couple of World Series, and eventually 378 00:25:36,835 --> 00:25:40,595 Speaker 1: she saw her own son reporting from the field after 379 00:25:40,635 --> 00:25:43,355 Speaker 1: the World Series games on the World Series broadcast. But 380 00:25:43,475 --> 00:25:47,235 Speaker 1: nothing like getting a baseball from Babe Ruth on your 381 00:25:47,315 --> 00:25:51,915 Speaker 1: first day as a fan and meeting Babe Ruth occurred 382 00:25:51,915 --> 00:25:54,315 Speaker 1: to her. There was a brawl once between Red Sox 383 00:25:54,395 --> 00:25:56,515 Speaker 1: and Yankees fans. I recall when I was ten or 384 00:25:56,515 --> 00:25:59,755 Speaker 1: eleven years old, beer was thrown, and she may have 385 00:25:59,795 --> 00:26:02,715 Speaker 1: gotten a few drops of beer on the shoulder of 386 00:26:02,755 --> 00:26:06,315 Speaker 1: her dress. I seem to recall that happening. That was it. 387 00:26:07,595 --> 00:26:11,355 Speaker 1: Nothing else of interest, Certainly, nothing difficult or untoward happened 388 00:26:11,355 --> 00:26:15,715 Speaker 1: to my mother at Yankee Stadium until the middle of 389 00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:20,395 Speaker 1: June in the year two thousand. The Yankees on that 390 00:26:20,515 --> 00:26:24,915 Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon had a second baseman named Chuck Knoblock, who 391 00:26:24,955 --> 00:26:27,355 Speaker 1: had been a great star for them in an extraordinary 392 00:26:27,355 --> 00:26:29,915 Speaker 1: addition to their team and set off the process by 393 00:26:29,915 --> 00:26:34,155 Speaker 1: which they won three consecutive World Series and four in 394 00:26:34,235 --> 00:26:38,195 Speaker 1: a span of five years, and almost five in a 395 00:26:38,195 --> 00:26:42,075 Speaker 1: span of six years. In any event, Knoblock unfortunately had 396 00:26:42,275 --> 00:26:46,155 Speaker 1: an issue throwing the ball to first base. Many second basemen, 397 00:26:46,195 --> 00:26:49,715 Speaker 1: many baseball players have developed this. It's somewhat consistent with 398 00:26:49,755 --> 00:26:52,155 Speaker 1: the idea of the yips in golf, where you can't 399 00:26:52,235 --> 00:26:55,635 Speaker 1: sink the putt even though it's two feet away. For 400 00:26:56,235 --> 00:26:59,075 Speaker 1: baseball players, it turns out to generally be an expression 401 00:26:59,115 --> 00:27:03,635 Speaker 1: of emotional distress. Your mind is sabotaging the most fundamental 402 00:27:03,635 --> 00:27:06,635 Speaker 1: thing in the game. It's stopping you from throwing the ball, 403 00:27:06,715 --> 00:27:09,915 Speaker 1: and the easier the play is, the more familiar you 404 00:27:09,995 --> 00:27:12,435 Speaker 1: are with it, the more difficult it suddenly becomes. It 405 00:27:12,475 --> 00:27:14,915 Speaker 1: happened at Chuck naw Block. It happened to another second 406 00:27:14,955 --> 00:27:17,955 Speaker 1: baseman named Steve Sachs, and they've all turned out. And 407 00:27:17,955 --> 00:27:19,795 Speaker 1: there was a pitcher minor league pitcher who became a 408 00:27:19,795 --> 00:27:22,875 Speaker 1: writer named Pat Jordan, and they all turned out. And 409 00:27:22,915 --> 00:27:25,115 Speaker 1: another one named Rick ang Keel, a pitcher for the 410 00:27:25,115 --> 00:27:27,915 Speaker 1: Saint Louis Cardinals, all of whom suddenly lost the ability 411 00:27:28,075 --> 00:27:32,795 Speaker 1: to throw the ball in the easiest way possible, in 412 00:27:32,875 --> 00:27:35,595 Speaker 1: the way in which they had the most control, couldn't 413 00:27:35,635 --> 00:27:39,315 Speaker 1: throw the ball over the baseman's head, over the catcher's 414 00:27:39,355 --> 00:27:42,435 Speaker 1: head into the stands. Well, that's where we joined Chuck 415 00:27:42,475 --> 00:27:45,635 Speaker 1: naw Block. As it later turned out, Chuck naw Block's father, 416 00:27:45,715 --> 00:27:48,475 Speaker 1: who had seen every one of his games from little league, 417 00:27:48,715 --> 00:27:50,635 Speaker 1: who had gone to all his high school games, who 418 00:27:50,635 --> 00:27:53,155 Speaker 1: had traveled the country when Chuck naw Block played in 419 00:27:53,195 --> 00:27:55,715 Speaker 1: the minor leagues, who'd gone to all the road games 420 00:27:55,715 --> 00:27:58,275 Speaker 1: of the Minnesota Twins and the Yankees. Chuck naw Block's 421 00:27:58,275 --> 00:28:02,115 Speaker 1: father had Alzheimer's disease and was in the final stages 422 00:28:02,155 --> 00:28:04,555 Speaker 1: of it, and sometime early in the two thousand season 423 00:28:05,115 --> 00:28:08,795 Speaker 1: lost the ability to recognize the Yankee second basement Chuck 424 00:28:08,875 --> 00:28:12,275 Speaker 1: now Block. Well. That accelerated a problem that would later 425 00:28:12,755 --> 00:28:16,835 Speaker 1: or shortly thereafter make Chuck now Block an x second Basement. 426 00:28:17,795 --> 00:28:20,635 Speaker 1: And on this day in June of two thousand, I 427 00:28:20,755 --> 00:28:24,035 Speaker 1: was completing the second year of a two year, not 428 00:28:24,155 --> 00:28:28,515 Speaker 1: particularly happy stint as the host of Fox Baseball Game 429 00:28:28,555 --> 00:28:30,995 Speaker 1: of the Week on the Fox Television network. I was 430 00:28:31,035 --> 00:28:33,635 Speaker 1: based in Los Angeles, and every Saturday, I spent the 431 00:28:33,675 --> 00:28:36,635 Speaker 1: whole day from six o'clock in the morning till six 432 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:40,355 Speaker 1: o'clock at night in a studio in Los Angeles that 433 00:28:40,435 --> 00:28:43,995 Speaker 1: was kept down about thirty six degrees. Not my choice. 434 00:28:44,115 --> 00:28:46,555 Speaker 1: I had to wear a winter coat. Sometimes, when we 435 00:28:46,555 --> 00:28:49,195 Speaker 1: weren't on the air, we would do a pregame show, which, 436 00:28:49,235 --> 00:28:51,955 Speaker 1: because of the timing difference, started at ten am, and 437 00:28:52,035 --> 00:28:55,435 Speaker 1: they liked to rehearse their pregame shows madness. All the 438 00:28:55,435 --> 00:28:58,795 Speaker 1: good lines had been used and made stupid and not 439 00:28:58,955 --> 00:29:00,355 Speaker 1: funny by the time we got on the air. They 440 00:29:00,355 --> 00:29:04,235 Speaker 1: would rehearse this show two times, three times. An awful experience. 441 00:29:04,235 --> 00:29:06,555 Speaker 1: In my co was one of the worst persons in 442 00:29:06,595 --> 00:29:09,595 Speaker 1: the world, a man named Steve Lyons who made me 443 00:29:09,715 --> 00:29:12,395 Speaker 1: look like somebody who never complained once in his life. 444 00:29:12,435 --> 00:29:14,635 Speaker 1: That's the only good aspect of working with Steve Lyons. 445 00:29:14,755 --> 00:29:18,395 Speaker 1: He complained an average of three times a minute. All right, 446 00:29:18,435 --> 00:29:20,755 Speaker 1: So Lyons and I are there doing the game of 447 00:29:20,795 --> 00:29:22,955 Speaker 1: the week, and that day the broadcast was from Los 448 00:29:22,995 --> 00:29:26,435 Speaker 1: Angeles and it was a four pm Eastern start one 449 00:29:26,515 --> 00:29:29,875 Speaker 1: pm Pacific time, So the game and the show started 450 00:29:29,915 --> 00:29:33,675 Speaker 1: a little bit late, and we get there, started the 451 00:29:33,715 --> 00:29:36,395 Speaker 1: Dodgers and whoever. It was at Dodgers Stadium with Joe 452 00:29:36,435 --> 00:29:39,315 Speaker 1: Buck and Tim McCarver as the announcers and me in 453 00:29:39,355 --> 00:29:41,475 Speaker 1: the studio, and Lyons goes away and he won't be 454 00:29:41,515 --> 00:29:46,115 Speaker 1: back to the postgame show, so everybody's happier. Somewhere in 455 00:29:46,155 --> 00:29:48,915 Speaker 1: the middle of the game, I'm watching the bank of 456 00:29:48,955 --> 00:29:52,235 Speaker 1: televisions that's showing all the other games in progress, and 457 00:29:52,315 --> 00:29:55,115 Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox are playing at Yankee Stadium in 458 00:29:55,155 --> 00:29:58,835 Speaker 1: New York. This is the remodeled Yankee Stadium that operated 459 00:29:58,875 --> 00:30:01,595 Speaker 1: between the year's nineteen seventy six and two thousand and eight. 460 00:30:02,355 --> 00:30:05,915 Speaker 1: I essentially grew up in Yankee Stadi, the original original 461 00:30:05,995 --> 00:30:09,035 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, and then this modified, reconstructed one that reopened 462 00:30:09,035 --> 00:30:11,675 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six, and I knew not only every 463 00:30:11,755 --> 00:30:14,115 Speaker 1: nook and cranny of the ballpark, but I knew every 464 00:30:14,155 --> 00:30:18,035 Speaker 1: camera angle, And we had had since nineteen seventy two 465 00:30:18,195 --> 00:30:21,435 Speaker 1: my family Yankee season tickets, which I had been paying 466 00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:24,475 Speaker 1: for since about nineteen ninety two, even though I did 467 00:30:24,475 --> 00:30:26,595 Speaker 1: not live in New York. They were for my mother, 468 00:30:26,635 --> 00:30:30,555 Speaker 1: who went forty fifty times a year. So by this point, 469 00:30:30,595 --> 00:30:32,995 Speaker 1: my mother has been to since that first game when 470 00:30:33,075 --> 00:30:36,035 Speaker 1: she was greeted by Babe Ruth at the front door 471 00:30:36,035 --> 00:30:39,475 Speaker 1: of Yankee Stadium. Here, welcome to your future. Here's a 472 00:30:39,515 --> 00:30:43,115 Speaker 1: baseball for me, Babe Ruth. She has been to at 473 00:30:43,195 --> 00:30:45,515 Speaker 1: least a thousand games. She went to more games in 474 00:30:45,555 --> 00:30:49,795 Speaker 1: her life than I have, actually literally true. And she 475 00:30:49,955 --> 00:30:52,875 Speaker 1: is seated in the seats, in our seats, which have 476 00:30:52,955 --> 00:30:57,235 Speaker 1: been the same one box forty seven E since the 477 00:30:57,235 --> 00:30:59,475 Speaker 1: stadium reopened in nineteen seventy six, and this is the 478 00:30:59,555 --> 00:31:02,355 Speaker 1: year two thousand, so she is in essence, celebrating her 479 00:31:02,355 --> 00:31:06,875 Speaker 1: twenty fifth anniversary in those seats. The Chicago White Sox 480 00:31:06,875 --> 00:31:08,915 Speaker 1: are playing the New York Yankees. They would rout the 481 00:31:08,955 --> 00:31:11,035 Speaker 1: Yankees that day, and the Yankees were in the middle 482 00:31:11,075 --> 00:31:13,435 Speaker 1: of a funk in the middle of the season, do not, 483 00:31:13,635 --> 00:31:16,595 Speaker 1: in small part to Chuck nw Block's sudden inability to 484 00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:19,355 Speaker 1: throw the ball successfully from second base to first base. 485 00:31:19,515 --> 00:31:21,875 Speaker 1: He would throw it past the first basement, over the 486 00:31:21,875 --> 00:31:24,715 Speaker 1: first basement, he would drop the ball as he threw it, 487 00:31:24,715 --> 00:31:26,635 Speaker 1: it would fly out of his hand. And of course 488 00:31:26,715 --> 00:31:30,435 Speaker 1: later it proved this was a psychological protest from deep 489 00:31:30,475 --> 00:31:33,795 Speaker 1: within his mind against playing baseball anymore. It was too 490 00:31:33,835 --> 00:31:37,035 Speaker 1: painful because his father was so sick, and his father 491 00:31:37,155 --> 00:31:40,795 Speaker 1: was so intimately connected to the game. So now Greg 492 00:31:40,915 --> 00:31:43,915 Speaker 1: Norton of the Chicago White Sox hits a fairly tough 493 00:31:44,155 --> 00:31:47,715 Speaker 1: play towards Chuck naw Block, grounds the ball to the 494 00:31:47,875 --> 00:31:50,755 Speaker 1: right of the mound. Chuck naw Block has to charge in, 495 00:31:50,835 --> 00:31:53,875 Speaker 1: pick the ball up bare handed, and while slightly off balance, 496 00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:57,755 Speaker 1: throw it backwards towards the Yankee first basement. Tino Martinez, 497 00:31:58,235 --> 00:32:01,115 Speaker 1: not an impossible play, and not an impossible play for 498 00:32:01,155 --> 00:32:03,355 Speaker 1: a good second basement, as Chuck naw Block had been. 499 00:32:03,635 --> 00:32:06,955 Speaker 1: But under the circumstance, nance is a disaster in the making, 500 00:32:07,195 --> 00:32:11,755 Speaker 1: which we then saw unfold. Chuck Nablock throws the ball, 501 00:32:11,835 --> 00:32:15,315 Speaker 1: it leaves his hand, not straight, but an angle to 502 00:32:15,395 --> 00:32:18,235 Speaker 1: the right of about I don't know, fifty sixty degrees. 503 00:32:18,715 --> 00:32:21,955 Speaker 1: The ball shoots out of his hand and goes nowhere 504 00:32:21,995 --> 00:32:25,555 Speaker 1: near first base. It goes into the stands behind first base, 505 00:32:25,875 --> 00:32:28,635 Speaker 1: and in fact, it goes to box forty seven E, 506 00:32:28,955 --> 00:32:31,915 Speaker 1: where my mother is seated with my high school friend 507 00:32:32,315 --> 00:32:36,555 Speaker 1: and his two kids. And my mother is sitting where 508 00:32:36,595 --> 00:32:40,195 Speaker 1: the incoming throw has just been launched. I am seeing 509 00:32:40,235 --> 00:32:43,475 Speaker 1: this unfold on a monitor, one of like nine with 510 00:32:43,555 --> 00:32:45,955 Speaker 1: different games going on. But I know Yankee Stadium, and 511 00:32:45,955 --> 00:32:48,595 Speaker 1: as I said, the camera angles intimately, so I know 512 00:32:48,835 --> 00:32:51,675 Speaker 1: immediately where the ball based on where it left now 513 00:32:51,715 --> 00:32:54,875 Speaker 1: Block's hand, where it has likely gone, and I say 514 00:32:55,275 --> 00:32:57,995 Speaker 1: that may have hit my mother. They then cut to 515 00:32:58,075 --> 00:33:00,635 Speaker 1: a shot of a woman being attended to and I 516 00:33:00,755 --> 00:33:04,435 Speaker 1: say that hit my mother and everybody in the room 517 00:33:05,035 --> 00:33:08,515 Speaker 1: because they assume I'm joking, Because what are the odds 518 00:33:09,035 --> 00:33:11,995 Speaker 1: that while I am in the studio hosting the game 519 00:33:12,035 --> 00:33:14,155 Speaker 1: of the week and doing the highlights of the games 520 00:33:14,155 --> 00:33:16,315 Speaker 1: in progress. You know, when they say, now let's go 521 00:33:16,355 --> 00:33:18,755 Speaker 1: back to the studio for a Fox game break, I'm 522 00:33:18,795 --> 00:33:21,275 Speaker 1: the guy doing the game breaks. That was my job 523 00:33:21,315 --> 00:33:24,915 Speaker 1: for two years, and sure enough, I say, that's my mother, 524 00:33:24,995 --> 00:33:27,355 Speaker 1: and everybody laughs, and then they cut to a tight 525 00:33:27,395 --> 00:33:29,515 Speaker 1: shot of a woman holding her head with a little 526 00:33:29,555 --> 00:33:31,995 Speaker 1: blood and her glasses have been broken, and she looks 527 00:33:32,075 --> 00:33:34,795 Speaker 1: kind of dazed and confused and they are leading her away, 528 00:33:34,835 --> 00:33:37,355 Speaker 1: and I went, that's mom. And now I call her 529 00:33:37,395 --> 00:33:39,875 Speaker 1: on my cell phone and you see her while she 530 00:33:40,035 --> 00:33:42,795 Speaker 1: is on camera on the local broadcast of the Yankee 531 00:33:42,835 --> 00:33:46,915 Speaker 1: White Sox game. You see her answering the phone. That's 532 00:33:46,955 --> 00:33:49,315 Speaker 1: when they stopped laughing in the studio. That's when they 533 00:33:49,355 --> 00:33:53,195 Speaker 1: realized it was really my mother. So I talked to 534 00:33:53,235 --> 00:33:55,755 Speaker 1: her and she said, I'm okay, it broke my glasses. 535 00:33:55,915 --> 00:33:58,555 Speaker 1: They think maybe I should go home. And Georgia and 536 00:33:58,555 --> 00:34:00,915 Speaker 1: George's kids they want to go home after that, and 537 00:34:00,955 --> 00:34:03,835 Speaker 1: I said, did you get the ball showing where my 538 00:34:03,955 --> 00:34:06,315 Speaker 1: level of concern? No, I'm sorry. I was like, oh, 539 00:34:06,315 --> 00:34:09,515 Speaker 1: for Christ's sake, mom, So she's fine, And otherwise I 540 00:34:09,515 --> 00:34:14,835 Speaker 1: wouldn't have asked that question. Probably anyway, now we're predicting 541 00:34:14,955 --> 00:34:17,915 Speaker 1: this sort of situation, what do we do with it? 542 00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:19,835 Speaker 1: And is it going to be a controversy? And I said, 543 00:34:19,835 --> 00:34:21,675 Speaker 1: we have to put the highlight on and I have 544 00:34:21,755 --> 00:34:23,875 Speaker 1: to mention that it's my mother. It's not like we're 545 00:34:23,875 --> 00:34:25,555 Speaker 1: not going to show. If it with some other woman, 546 00:34:25,595 --> 00:34:27,675 Speaker 1: we'd show it, wouldn't we It would be the biggest 547 00:34:27,715 --> 00:34:29,595 Speaker 1: story in baseball today. We have to do it, and 548 00:34:29,635 --> 00:34:33,115 Speaker 1: I just happen to know who it is. So we 549 00:34:33,235 --> 00:34:37,075 Speaker 1: throw to or we are thrown to buy. Joe Buck 550 00:34:37,115 --> 00:34:39,555 Speaker 1: and Tim McCarver t I'm for a Fox game break. 551 00:34:40,195 --> 00:34:43,075 Speaker 1: Here's Keaith Olderman in the studio, White Sox and Yankees. 552 00:34:43,195 --> 00:34:46,795 Speaker 1: Joe and Chuck now blocks throwing problem is now getting 553 00:34:46,835 --> 00:34:50,075 Speaker 1: personally picks up the Greg Norton bounder from the White 554 00:34:50,115 --> 00:34:53,475 Speaker 1: Sox Yankees in the Bronx and throws it into the 555 00:34:53,595 --> 00:34:58,435 Speaker 1: stands where right on the edit it hits my mother. 556 00:34:59,595 --> 00:35:02,355 Speaker 1: Mom's okay, I called her. She's a gamer. She'll be 557 00:35:02,395 --> 00:35:05,675 Speaker 1: back tomorrow. She just got her lens is broken. Joe, 558 00:35:05,755 --> 00:35:11,195 Speaker 1: Tim back to you. Silence from Dodger Stadium. In the broadcast, 559 00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:14,435 Speaker 1: you just hear like birds in the background from Dodger Stadium. 560 00:35:14,595 --> 00:35:17,155 Speaker 1: For the first time in their lives. Joe Buck and 561 00:35:17,155 --> 00:35:20,595 Speaker 1: Tim McCarver have between them nothing to say. I don't 562 00:35:20,635 --> 00:35:24,275 Speaker 1: know what to say, says Joe Buck is Keith kidding? 563 00:35:24,355 --> 00:35:26,475 Speaker 1: Is that one of Keith jokes? Says Tim, who was 564 00:35:26,515 --> 00:35:29,075 Speaker 1: an old friend of mine, Keith, are you still there? 565 00:35:29,315 --> 00:35:32,955 Speaker 1: I'm still here, Timmy, Are you kidding? Why would I 566 00:35:32,995 --> 00:35:35,435 Speaker 1: kid about something like that? Was that really your mother? 567 00:35:35,795 --> 00:35:38,115 Speaker 1: What are the odds against that? And I said, well, 568 00:35:38,115 --> 00:35:40,235 Speaker 1: she's been going to game since nineteen thirty four, that 569 00:35:40,275 --> 00:35:42,115 Speaker 1: first game she ever went to, Babe Ruth gave her 570 00:35:42,155 --> 00:35:45,035 Speaker 1: a baseball. Nothing bad has happened in the ensuing years, 571 00:35:45,315 --> 00:35:47,395 Speaker 1: So I'd say the odds were probably about six to 572 00:35:47,435 --> 00:35:50,515 Speaker 1: five in favor. And he goes, I guess you're right. 573 00:35:50,555 --> 00:35:52,715 Speaker 1: I can't believe that was Keith's mother that got hit 574 00:35:52,755 --> 00:35:55,675 Speaker 1: by the throw by Chuck no Block. Well, give us 575 00:35:55,675 --> 00:35:59,755 Speaker 1: an update later on how she is. We'll do, Tim. So, 576 00:35:59,875 --> 00:36:02,595 Speaker 1: now the story is out. It's my mother who got 577 00:36:02,675 --> 00:36:09,635 Speaker 1: hit by the balloon seventeenth eighteenth, one of the two days, 578 00:36:09,635 --> 00:36:13,595 Speaker 1: the Saturday of that weekend two thousand. Only the kind 579 00:36:13,595 --> 00:36:16,155 Speaker 1: of thing that could happen to my mother. But again, truly, 580 00:36:16,235 --> 00:36:19,795 Speaker 1: the odds were not that impossible. The ball is thrown 581 00:36:20,115 --> 00:36:22,675 Speaker 1: behind first base. Here's a woman who's gone to an 582 00:36:22,675 --> 00:36:24,675 Speaker 1: average of forty to fifty games a year in that 583 00:36:24,715 --> 00:36:27,275 Speaker 1: stadium for twenty five years. The odds are pretty good 584 00:36:27,315 --> 00:36:29,315 Speaker 1: it's going to hit her. And if you're getting meta 585 00:36:29,755 --> 00:36:32,035 Speaker 1: and like, what are the universal odds, what are the 586 00:36:32,595 --> 00:36:35,795 Speaker 1: metaphysical odds that she gets hit? As I said, nothing 587 00:36:35,835 --> 00:36:38,115 Speaker 1: of interest has happened to her since nineteen thirty four, 588 00:36:38,355 --> 00:36:42,955 Speaker 1: she's due in any event. Just to add to this, 589 00:36:43,435 --> 00:36:45,555 Speaker 1: two of my best friends in the world worked for 590 00:36:45,595 --> 00:36:48,275 Speaker 1: the Yankees. One was the manager, Joe Tory. The other 591 00:36:48,675 --> 00:36:51,395 Speaker 1: was the head of publicity, Rick Sarone. Not the catcher, 592 00:36:51,475 --> 00:36:54,435 Speaker 1: Rick Serone, but the head of publicity, Rick Serone. So 593 00:36:54,515 --> 00:36:58,395 Speaker 1: I call Rick Sarone in the office at Yankee Stadium 594 00:36:58,475 --> 00:37:01,995 Speaker 1: in the press box, because I figure he's already figured 595 00:37:01,995 --> 00:37:04,035 Speaker 1: this out and I want to give him a heads 596 00:37:04,115 --> 00:37:06,195 Speaker 1: up that I had no choice but to mention that 597 00:37:06,235 --> 00:37:09,635 Speaker 1: it was my mother, since it was my broadcast. I 598 00:37:09,675 --> 00:37:11,235 Speaker 1: call him up. I said, did you see the now 599 00:37:11,275 --> 00:37:12,995 Speaker 1: block throw? Now? I heard about it. I've been here 600 00:37:12,995 --> 00:37:15,835 Speaker 1: in the back. I didn't see who it hit. I said, 601 00:37:15,915 --> 00:37:18,315 Speaker 1: do you have any idea who it was? He said no, 602 00:37:18,395 --> 00:37:20,995 Speaker 1: Why would I have any idea who it was? I said, 603 00:37:21,035 --> 00:37:23,155 Speaker 1: why would I be calling you? I don't know, Keith? 604 00:37:23,155 --> 00:37:25,075 Speaker 1: Why would you be calling me. I said, how many 605 00:37:25,115 --> 00:37:28,715 Speaker 1: times have you sat behind first base with me and 606 00:37:28,795 --> 00:37:32,115 Speaker 1: somebody else? And he goes, wait a minute, what are 607 00:37:32,155 --> 00:37:34,195 Speaker 1: you saying? I said, how many times did you and 608 00:37:34,235 --> 00:37:38,275 Speaker 1: I go as teenage friends in the seventies and sat 609 00:37:38,355 --> 00:37:41,555 Speaker 1: behind first bait? And he goes, oh god, no, I said, yep. 610 00:37:41,795 --> 00:37:44,835 Speaker 1: He said that hit your mother. I said yep, And 611 00:37:44,875 --> 00:37:47,115 Speaker 1: he said, First off, he said, did you get the ball? 612 00:37:47,195 --> 00:37:50,075 Speaker 1: And I went, no, she didn't. Oh for crying out loud, 613 00:37:50,595 --> 00:37:52,715 Speaker 1: Well what you didn't say anything about it, did you? 614 00:37:52,795 --> 00:37:54,475 Speaker 1: I went, of course, I said something they showed her 615 00:37:54,515 --> 00:37:57,955 Speaker 1: on your broadcast. And he goes, oh god no. I said, 616 00:37:57,955 --> 00:38:00,595 Speaker 1: what other choice did I have? He goes, no, you're right, 617 00:38:00,875 --> 00:38:03,035 Speaker 1: You're right, all right. I better get out there. We're 618 00:38:03,035 --> 00:38:04,915 Speaker 1: going to start getting phone calls about this, if we 619 00:38:04,915 --> 00:38:07,835 Speaker 1: haven't already. Thanks for the heads up, so now. The 620 00:38:07,875 --> 00:38:11,315 Speaker 1: next day, the newspapers of New York front and back 621 00:38:11,355 --> 00:38:14,035 Speaker 1: page of the New York Post, the New York Daily News, 622 00:38:14,115 --> 00:38:16,515 Speaker 1: and the Long Island Paper News Day front and back 623 00:38:16,555 --> 00:38:20,035 Speaker 1: page some reference to my mother. Photographs in the Daily 624 00:38:20,115 --> 00:38:24,635 Speaker 1: News of her being led away. Chuck Nablock hits sportscaster's mother, 625 00:38:26,035 --> 00:38:28,355 Speaker 1: and the day after that they're still telling the story, 626 00:38:28,395 --> 00:38:31,715 Speaker 1: and there are wire stories, and it is everywhere, And 627 00:38:31,915 --> 00:38:35,155 Speaker 1: of course we mentioned it maybe once or twice an 628 00:38:35,195 --> 00:38:38,275 Speaker 1: hour on Fox Sports and on cable and on broadcast. 629 00:38:38,755 --> 00:38:43,355 Speaker 1: So now Mom is a celebrity. And I must confess 630 00:38:43,395 --> 00:38:48,395 Speaker 1: to you. Mom really liked being a celebrity. Mom was 631 00:38:48,475 --> 00:38:52,195 Speaker 1: appreciative of my success in my career. But Mom had 632 00:38:52,235 --> 00:38:54,715 Speaker 1: wanted to be a ballerina. Apparently. She told me that 633 00:38:54,795 --> 00:38:57,115 Speaker 1: I don't really buy it, but that was her story. 634 00:38:57,835 --> 00:39:02,515 Speaker 1: And she was a little jealous, resentful, just in a 635 00:39:02,795 --> 00:39:05,635 Speaker 1: manageable way most of the time. But I don't want 636 00:39:05,675 --> 00:39:10,435 Speaker 1: to bore you with my developmental problems. Emotionally, Mom was 637 00:39:10,475 --> 00:39:13,075 Speaker 1: a little jealous of not being in the spotlight, and 638 00:39:13,395 --> 00:39:17,915 Speaker 1: she gloried in this, among other things. Mom wound up 639 00:39:18,875 --> 00:39:22,915 Speaker 1: being interviewed on the pregame show for the next Saturday's 640 00:39:22,995 --> 00:39:26,115 Speaker 1: Game of the Week, and for various reasons, we could 641 00:39:26,115 --> 00:39:29,155 Speaker 1: not do a live remote interview with her. So we 642 00:39:29,235 --> 00:39:32,435 Speaker 1: sat down and I recorded the questions in Los Angeles 643 00:39:32,515 --> 00:39:35,955 Speaker 1: and on the phone asked her the questions while she 644 00:39:36,155 --> 00:39:39,555 Speaker 1: was in our ancestral home in the suburbs of New York. City, 645 00:39:40,235 --> 00:39:43,715 Speaker 1: and Mom didn't really have any good answers, So I said, 646 00:39:43,795 --> 00:39:45,955 Speaker 1: why don't you just repeat the answers that I give you. 647 00:39:45,995 --> 00:39:48,835 Speaker 1: I'll give you good snarky answers, real quick ones that 648 00:39:48,875 --> 00:39:51,995 Speaker 1: we can do this and you can make fun of me. Okay. 649 00:39:52,595 --> 00:39:54,595 Speaker 1: She had a little trouble delivering the lines, and we 650 00:39:54,635 --> 00:39:57,195 Speaker 1: actually did several takes. So if anybody wants to call 651 00:39:57,235 --> 00:39:59,755 Speaker 1: the FCC and say that interview was not what it 652 00:39:59,795 --> 00:40:02,795 Speaker 1: seemed in two thousand, go right ahead. I don't know 653 00:40:02,795 --> 00:40:04,875 Speaker 1: what you're going to do to us about it, but gorite. Aha. 654 00:40:04,955 --> 00:40:07,395 Speaker 1: There were some elements of fakery to this, like I 655 00:40:07,435 --> 00:40:10,275 Speaker 1: wrote her answers for her, but there was one answer 656 00:40:10,355 --> 00:40:12,755 Speaker 1: to one of my six or seven questions that she 657 00:40:12,995 --> 00:40:17,035 Speaker 1: gave completely authentically and we did not need a second take. 658 00:40:17,075 --> 00:40:19,635 Speaker 1: And this may tell you the nature of the complicated 659 00:40:19,675 --> 00:40:23,995 Speaker 1: relationship between me and my mother and baseball and Chuck Knoblock. 660 00:40:25,515 --> 00:40:29,795 Speaker 1: I said, are you surprised that everybody's so interested in this? 661 00:40:29,955 --> 00:40:32,555 Speaker 1: And I wrote for her as an answer, No, but 662 00:40:32,595 --> 00:40:36,355 Speaker 1: I'm surprised they keep mentioning you. She had no trouble 663 00:40:36,435 --> 00:40:39,795 Speaker 1: giving that line whatsoever. She really bought into that answer. 664 00:40:40,115 --> 00:40:42,275 Speaker 1: You could see from the tape when I eventually saw 665 00:40:42,315 --> 00:40:46,075 Speaker 1: the tape that she was smiling during that one. So 666 00:40:46,275 --> 00:40:49,595 Speaker 1: in any event, Mom becomes a celebrity for several months. 667 00:40:49,635 --> 00:40:52,555 Speaker 1: This is June of two thousand. Come October, when the 668 00:40:52,635 --> 00:40:54,875 Speaker 1: Yankees and Mets played in the World Series and she 669 00:40:55,035 --> 00:40:58,555 Speaker 1: was in the stands number one. My employers had given 670 00:40:58,595 --> 00:41:03,995 Speaker 1: her a Fox Sports cap to where and they repeatedly 671 00:41:04,075 --> 00:41:06,235 Speaker 1: showed her during the games of the World Series at 672 00:41:06,315 --> 00:41:09,955 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. So Mom became a celebrity and became very 673 00:41:09,955 --> 00:41:12,475 Speaker 1: well known for getting hit in the head with Chuck 674 00:41:12,515 --> 00:41:15,915 Speaker 1: Knoblock's throw. Joe Tory, who I mentioned, was an old 675 00:41:15,915 --> 00:41:18,475 Speaker 1: friend of mine, the first person I ever interviewed in television, 676 00:41:18,475 --> 00:41:22,035 Speaker 1: and a colleague in local sports in television in LA 677 00:41:22,115 --> 00:41:24,475 Speaker 1: when I worked there in the eighties and nineties. Joe 678 00:41:24,475 --> 00:41:27,035 Speaker 1: Tory called me up right afterwards and asked how she was, 679 00:41:27,475 --> 00:41:30,515 Speaker 1: and I said, she's fine. How's your second basement? He 680 00:41:30,955 --> 00:41:32,195 Speaker 1: acts like he got hit in the head with a 681 00:41:32,275 --> 00:41:36,035 Speaker 1: throw too. He's very worried. You think he did it deliberately, 682 00:41:37,155 --> 00:41:40,475 Speaker 1: And I said, Joe, you have to tell him that 683 00:41:40,515 --> 00:41:43,675 Speaker 1: I'm confident he did not do it deliberately. If he 684 00:41:43,715 --> 00:41:46,155 Speaker 1: was aiming at my mother, he would have missed. Joe 685 00:41:46,155 --> 00:41:48,595 Speaker 1: Tory laughs, And later he tells me he told Noblock that, 686 00:41:48,675 --> 00:41:50,755 Speaker 1: and it was no Block's first laugh of the year. 687 00:41:51,595 --> 00:41:54,555 Speaker 1: All right, So moving ahead on this story, it continued 688 00:41:54,595 --> 00:41:59,195 Speaker 1: for many years, for at least ten years, Once or 689 00:41:59,235 --> 00:42:03,675 Speaker 1: twice a month, somebody in baseball would say, was it 690 00:42:03,795 --> 00:42:07,915 Speaker 1: your mother who got got hit by Chuck Knoblock's throw? Memorably, 691 00:42:08,035 --> 00:42:10,795 Speaker 1: in the year two thousand and five, the year that 692 00:42:10,835 --> 00:42:13,475 Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer Randy Johnson, the big left hander 693 00:42:13,475 --> 00:42:18,395 Speaker 1: of the mostly of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Seattle 694 00:42:18,435 --> 00:42:21,675 Speaker 1: Mariners in the Montreal Expos. He pitched one season for 695 00:42:21,715 --> 00:42:24,035 Speaker 1: the Yankees, and the Yankees got blown out in the 696 00:42:24,075 --> 00:42:27,235 Speaker 1: playoffs that year. And before the last game of the season, 697 00:42:27,475 --> 00:42:29,235 Speaker 1: and this is one of my favorite moments in the 698 00:42:29,275 --> 00:42:33,675 Speaker 1: history of baseball. Before that last game, I walk out 699 00:42:33,675 --> 00:42:36,475 Speaker 1: into the Yankee dugout and there is al Lighter who 700 00:42:36,555 --> 00:42:39,115 Speaker 1: was a friend of mine then and now he is 701 00:42:39,275 --> 00:42:42,915 Speaker 1: telling the story of my mother and Chuck Knoblock to 702 00:42:42,995 --> 00:42:47,675 Speaker 1: two other Yankee pitchers, Scott Proctor and Randy Johnson. And 703 00:42:47,715 --> 00:42:50,435 Speaker 1: I walk in and he goes and then Alderman's mother 704 00:42:51,195 --> 00:42:53,075 Speaker 1: gets hit in the head and he says on he's 705 00:42:53,075 --> 00:42:55,195 Speaker 1: doing the highlights on TV on the game of the week, 706 00:42:55,195 --> 00:42:57,115 Speaker 1: and he said, and I walk out, and he goes, 707 00:42:57,515 --> 00:42:59,675 Speaker 1: did you hear that I was telling the story about you? 708 00:42:59,755 --> 00:43:01,595 Speaker 1: And I said, well, only the last couple of steps. 709 00:43:01,595 --> 00:43:04,355 Speaker 1: This is a coincidence. Finish the story yourself. So now 710 00:43:04,395 --> 00:43:06,235 Speaker 1: I got the three of them, and they're all in hysterics. 711 00:43:06,555 --> 00:43:09,435 Speaker 1: Yankees lose that last game of the playoffs. I don't know, 712 00:43:09,475 --> 00:43:11,235 Speaker 1: it seemed like it was one hundred and fifty to nothing. 713 00:43:11,595 --> 00:43:14,555 Speaker 1: And I go into the clubhouse after the game to 714 00:43:14,635 --> 00:43:17,195 Speaker 1: say goodbye for the off season to the few players 715 00:43:17,235 --> 00:43:19,315 Speaker 1: that I knew on the team, including Al Lighter, and 716 00:43:19,395 --> 00:43:22,355 Speaker 1: to Randy Johnson and Randy Johnson in his own deep 717 00:43:22,395 --> 00:43:24,795 Speaker 1: voiced way, thank good to see you have a good winter. 718 00:43:25,115 --> 00:43:28,795 Speaker 1: And he leaves with his little carrying case with his 719 00:43:28,795 --> 00:43:31,515 Speaker 1: little wheels on it and looks like a toy. He's 720 00:43:31,555 --> 00:43:35,035 Speaker 1: six foot ten and he has a roller case designed 721 00:43:35,075 --> 00:43:39,035 Speaker 1: for maybe his daughter. It looks like a toy. And 722 00:43:39,075 --> 00:43:41,795 Speaker 1: he leaves, and about five minutes later, I see the 723 00:43:41,875 --> 00:43:44,875 Speaker 1: door to the Yankee clubhouse open up, and in walk 724 00:43:44,955 --> 00:43:48,435 Speaker 1: Randy Johnson, and he comes over to me and he said, 725 00:43:49,195 --> 00:43:51,715 Speaker 1: I forgot to say something. I was already out to 726 00:43:51,755 --> 00:43:53,635 Speaker 1: my car, and I thought I better come back in 727 00:43:53,675 --> 00:43:55,835 Speaker 1: and say goodbye to Keith and tell him, I mean, 728 00:43:55,875 --> 00:43:58,035 Speaker 1: this was a really bad week this last week, as 729 00:43:58,035 --> 00:44:00,075 Speaker 1: we've been losing and the season ended, and I just 730 00:44:00,115 --> 00:44:03,475 Speaker 1: wanted to say that telling that story about your mother 731 00:44:03,555 --> 00:44:06,555 Speaker 1: really was the highlight of the whole thing and made 732 00:44:06,635 --> 00:44:08,955 Speaker 1: me smile for the only time this month. So thank you. 733 00:44:09,195 --> 00:44:13,235 Speaker 1: Have a great winter. So that's my mother and Randy Johnson, 734 00:44:13,595 --> 00:44:15,915 Speaker 1: five years after she got hit in the head with 735 00:44:16,035 --> 00:44:18,955 Speaker 1: a throw by Chuck Knoblock the second basement of the Yankees, 736 00:44:19,235 --> 00:44:21,995 Speaker 1: one of the more remarkable moments in the history of 737 00:44:22,035 --> 00:44:24,275 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, at least as it pertains to the 738 00:44:24,275 --> 00:44:27,795 Speaker 1: Olderman family, and a kind of bookend. Mom stopped going 739 00:44:27,795 --> 00:44:31,035 Speaker 1: to the games about two thousand and five. She physically 740 00:44:31,035 --> 00:44:32,875 Speaker 1: could not do it, but she had a good run 741 00:44:32,915 --> 00:44:36,355 Speaker 1: as a Yankee fan of about seventy seasons that essentially 742 00:44:36,355 --> 00:44:39,515 Speaker 1: bookended by getting hit in the head with a throw 743 00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:44,715 Speaker 1: that made her famous within baseball circles and began with 744 00:44:44,835 --> 00:44:47,915 Speaker 1: her being handed to baseball at her first game ever 745 00:44:48,315 --> 00:44:50,715 Speaker 1: by Babe Ruth, who was charmed by the fact that 746 00:44:50,755 --> 00:44:54,315 Speaker 1: my mother's nickname was Babe punchline to this to me, 747 00:44:54,435 --> 00:44:56,955 Speaker 1: is one of the most avid collectors of sports memorabilia 748 00:44:56,995 --> 00:45:02,395 Speaker 1: and particularly game used baseballs. I didn't get either of 749 00:45:02,435 --> 00:45:18,795 Speaker 1: those baseballs from my mom. I've done all the damage 750 00:45:18,835 --> 00:45:21,755 Speaker 1: I can do here without hitting somebody in the head 751 00:45:21,795 --> 00:45:25,595 Speaker 1: with a baseball. Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors 752 00:45:25,595 --> 00:45:28,595 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and performed 753 00:45:28,595 --> 00:45:30,715 Speaker 1: most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, 754 00:45:30,755 --> 00:45:34,355 Speaker 1: bass and drums, and mister Shanelle handle orchestration and keyboards 755 00:45:34,595 --> 00:45:37,595 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the 756 00:45:37,595 --> 00:45:41,195 Speaker 1: Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group No 757 00:45:41,275 --> 00:45:44,555 Speaker 1: Horns Allowed Sports music is the Old Woman theme from 758 00:45:44,755 --> 00:45:48,515 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 759 00:45:49,035 --> 00:45:52,515 Speaker 1: And that reminds me the story is ongoing with my 760 00:45:52,595 --> 00:45:56,075 Speaker 1: mother and the baseball. In twenty and eighteen, I did 761 00:45:56,115 --> 00:45:58,795 Speaker 1: play by play of the New York Yankees New York 762 00:45:58,835 --> 00:46:03,355 Speaker 1: Mets game at Yankee Stadium, and needless to say, we 763 00:46:03,435 --> 00:46:06,075 Speaker 1: showed the highlight of my mother getting hit in the 764 00:46:06,115 --> 00:46:09,835 Speaker 1: head with the baseball thrown by Chuck Nablock, to the 765 00:46:09,875 --> 00:46:14,075 Speaker 1: delight of my fellow announcers Tim Kirkchin and Eddie Perez, 766 00:46:14,515 --> 00:46:16,835 Speaker 1: who could not stop laughing about it for about an 767 00:46:16,875 --> 00:46:22,235 Speaker 1: inning and a half. Mom is eternally part of baseball history. 768 00:46:22,835 --> 00:46:26,035 Speaker 1: This would please her greatly a little bit more if 769 00:46:26,035 --> 00:46:28,715 Speaker 1: my name were not connected to it. Our satirical and 770 00:46:28,955 --> 00:46:32,555 Speaker 1: musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium 771 00:46:32,675 --> 00:46:36,275 Speaker 1: organists ever was her. Chicago White Sox were there, although 772 00:46:36,315 --> 00:46:39,115 Speaker 1: she was not. Our announcer was my friend Larry David. 773 00:46:39,315 --> 00:46:42,235 Speaker 1: Everything else was pretty much my fault, Larry David, who's 774 00:46:42,275 --> 00:46:44,835 Speaker 1: mentioned the Yankees once and again and with whom I've 775 00:46:44,875 --> 00:46:47,355 Speaker 1: also conversed about my mother getting hit in the head 776 00:46:47,355 --> 00:46:50,315 Speaker 1: with a throw from Chuck Knoblock. Let's countdown for this 777 00:46:50,355 --> 00:46:52,515 Speaker 1: to one hundred and thirty fourth day until the twenty 778 00:46:52,595 --> 00:46:57,195 Speaker 1: twenty four presidential election, and vice presidential candidate Chuck Knoblock 779 00:46:57,235 --> 00:47:01,795 Speaker 1: has just now and sixty eighth day since convicted felon 780 00:47:01,875 --> 00:47:05,315 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the Democrat radically elected 781 00:47:05,355 --> 00:47:08,915 Speaker 1: government of the United States use the July eleventh sentencing hearing, 782 00:47:09,275 --> 00:47:12,955 Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity if it happens, 783 00:47:13,235 --> 00:47:18,995 Speaker 1: to stop him from doing it again while we still can. 784 00:47:20,195 --> 00:47:23,395 Speaker 1: A reminder will be live again on YouTube after the 785 00:47:23,435 --> 00:47:27,195 Speaker 1: debate Thursday night. Join me and send your link to 786 00:47:27,235 --> 00:47:31,515 Speaker 1: this podcast to somebody who does not already listen. Remember 787 00:47:32,155 --> 00:47:35,755 Speaker 1: it is free. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins 788 00:47:35,795 --> 00:47:38,435 Speaker 1: is the news warrants till the next one. I'm Keith Oldreman. 789 00:47:38,675 --> 00:47:42,275 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, avoid getting hit in the baseball, 790 00:47:42,755 --> 00:47:58,395 Speaker 1: and good luck to call adelf Filter Countdown with Keith 791 00:47:58,395 --> 00:48:03,475 Speaker 1: Oldreman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 792 00:48:03,635 --> 00:48:07,355 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio, your Apple, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 793 00:48:07,435 --> 00:48:08,595 Speaker 1: get your podcasts.