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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Reading

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Speaker 1: the poll numbers just about now is like juggling flaming chainsaws.

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Speaker 1: But there in between dismemberment and conflagration are the late deciders,

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Speaker 1: and the late deciders are breaking for Kamala Harris. The

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Speaker 1: Emerson College poll is forty nine, forty eight Harris, and

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Speaker 1: two percent undecided. But Emerson reports that the late deciders,

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Speaker 1: those who have made their choice in the last month

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Speaker 1: or even the last week, have been breaking for Kamala

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Speaker 1: Harris sixty to thirty six. Sixty percent of those deciding

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Speaker 1: in real time right now are picking the vice president.

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Speaker 1: And the math after that is pretty simple. If you

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Speaker 1: have your own chalkboard. There's something like three and one

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Speaker 1: quarter million people who will vote by two weeks from

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Speaker 1: today who have not yet decided. If they break the

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Speaker 1: same way those who have decided in the last month have,

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Speaker 1: she gets a net of about six hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand votes. I'm not saying she gets six hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand more votes. I'm saying expect the probable Trump

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Speaker 1: votes from the probable Harris votes, and she will add

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Speaker 1: to her lead nationally by a net gain of six

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight thousand votes six forty nine, six fifty.

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Speaker 1: If they break this way in Pennsylvania sixty percent to her,

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Speaker 1: she will add another twenty seven thousand, six hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty votes to her lead in Pennsylvania. Trump one Pennsylvania

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Speaker 1: by a margin of forty five thousand votes. Biden won

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Speaker 1: Pennsylvania by eighty thousand votes. Do you see it now?

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Speaker 1: Sixty percent late breakers going to Harris, and her one

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Speaker 1: or two point leads in the swing states become victories,

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Speaker 1: states can become victories as well. A little bit more subtle,

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Speaker 1: the Emerson poll also says three percent of the decideds

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Speaker 1: Harris by five points, and the impact of that number

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Speaker 1: five points is a lot more dangerous to predict in theory,

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Speaker 1: I mean, all the undecided decideds, including those now supporting Harris,

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Speaker 1: extraordinarily unlikely, obviously, just as it is extraordinarily unlikely that

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Speaker 1: they would all go for her, But in any subset

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Speaker 1: like this, late deciders might change their minds. Left handed voters,

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Speaker 1: you want to be ahead today, not behind, and you

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Speaker 1: want to be ahead by more than the national lead.

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Speaker 1: If she's ahead in this group by five and leading

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Speaker 1: to be ahead by five points in the might change

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Speaker 1: their mind demographic. You are ecstatic to be ahead by

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Speaker 1: twenty four points in the late deciders. All right, stay

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Speaker 1: with me here a little bit further on the numbers,

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Speaker 1: because CNN has taken its average of polls and identified

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Speaker 1: a Trump damn break in his core group. In twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: Trump won non college white voters nationally by thirty three points.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, he won them by thirty one points.

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Speaker 1: Right now he is winning them by twenty seven points.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like a lot of a difference there. It's

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Speaker 1: still an extraordinarily large victory in this demographic. But once again,

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Speaker 1: as CNN did, apply that damn break just to Michigan, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 1: Likely voters in those three states are fifty one percent

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Speaker 1: a majority in those states. And again, the term likely

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Speaker 1: you produce any number that big that it's like half

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Speaker 1: Half the voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are non

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Speaker 1: And guess what. In Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, all other

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Speaker 1: The Associated Press and NORK did an issues poll, and

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Speaker 1: suddenly Harris is more trusted on economics, trusted by two

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Speaker 1: looking for Kamala Harris. The Washington Post, as I'm sure

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Speaker 1: those numbers look nicer, much nicer, much much nicer. They

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Speaker 1: baking us all apple pies for election Day. Also, Trump

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Speaker 1: is crazy, and he does keep saying crazy things. Assassination

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Speaker 2: Not doing their job.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think you have to let people know how

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Speaker 1: Yes, let them know they're doing a bad job with

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Speaker 1: which it is refusing to do. Trump encouraging North Carolinians

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Speaker 1: Chuck Edwards stands behind him at that news conference, hours

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Speaker 1: after Edwards's latest statement praising FEMA and the Biden administration

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Speaker 1: then says guns, threats, shootings, Edward's silence and tell me,

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Speaker 1: By the way, raised not this congressman Edwards. He lied

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Speaker 1: by omission because he owns a bunch of McDonald's. And

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Speaker 1: look now. The likeliest explanation for this whole thing at

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Speaker 1: Swannanoa is that Trump didn't hear or didn't remember the

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Speaker 1: that happened thirty seconds ago? Oh yeah, and as the

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Speaker 1: Trump endorsed, good old Mark Nude Africa Robinson. It is

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Speaker 1: difficult to hear, but you will hear Natalie Allison of

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Speaker 1: Politico asking Trump if North Carolinians should still support Mark Robinson.

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Speaker 1: Trump's answer is not Mark Robinson, Mark Robinson who? But

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Speaker 1: it might as well have been, because what he did,

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Speaker 1: Coincidentally, I believe quote I haven't looked, I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: it was Lieutenant Governor Robinson's first response when they discovered

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Speaker 1: DOS Politico headquarters, Trump strikes somber tone while touring storm

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Speaker 1: time co anchor, Sage Page Rage whatever her name was, Steel,

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Speaker 1: saying exactly the wrong thing to the people who matter

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Speaker 3: oh of seventeen ninety eight.

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Speaker 3: Think of that seventeen ninety eight. That's when we had

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Speaker 3: We have to go back to seventeen ninety eight.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, we have to go back to seventeen

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Speaker 1: at slavery endorsement adjacent And keep this in your heart

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Speaker 1: going forward the next two weeks. Trump is just crazy enough.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's going to I'm saying he's crazy

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Speaker 1: enough to maybe cross that street and come up upon

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Speaker 1: The only wild card is considering his base. Would that

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Speaker 1: hurt Trump or help him? Also of interest here on

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Speaker 1: this all new edition of Countdown, So Newsy got fired.

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Speaker 1: This is days after Cheryl Hines showed up at the

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Speaker 1: Ulberman and from the sports Ball Central Center newsdesk tonight, dateline,

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles and New York. We are on the eve

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Speaker 1: didn't just fight them, but he killed them anyway. Lots

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Speaker 1: of amazing things have happened in Yankee Dodger World Series.

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Speaker 1: Don Larson's perfect game for the Yankees in nineteen fifty six.

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Speaker 1: The Mickey Owen dropped third strike in nineteen forty one,

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Speaker 1: which should probably now be reclassified as the Hugh Casey

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Speaker 1: spitball broke so sharply nobody could stop it missed third

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Speaker 1: strike in nineteen forty one. There were Reggie Jackson's three

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Speaker 1: Kofax's fifteen strikeouts in Game one in nineteen sixty three.

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Speaker 1: But here are my favorite stats that you can actually

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty five. Today we rightly bellyate that starting pitching

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Speaker 1: hearted whirler stopping good hitting, especially in the World Series,

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Speaker 1: that is as forgotten and as lost as alchemy. In

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Speaker 1: the nineteen fifty five World Series, however, the first one

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers ever won, after five straight losses to the Yankees,

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Speaker 1: there were seven games, and the starting pitching was so

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Speaker 1: bad on both teams that the Yankees and the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: in those seven games used eleven different starting pitchers between them.

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers in a seven game World Series used six

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Speaker 1: different starting pitchers. They did not call them bullpen games then,

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Speaker 1: but that's what they were. Moreover six times in that

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Speaker 1: in the fifth inning, the second stat you can use this.

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Speaker 1: The famous Yankees and Dodgers are actually two of the

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Speaker 1: most disastrously underperforming franchises in sports. If you consider the

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Speaker 1: year two thousand as the last year of the twentieth

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Speaker 1: cente the Yankees have won won World Series in this century.

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Speaker 1: Even if you don't, they've won one World Series since

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Speaker 1: two thousand. The Dodgers have won one World Series in

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Speaker 1: a full season since nineteen sixty five. Yeah, they won

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty one when the season was only one

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Speaker 1: hundred and ten games long because of the player strike.

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Speaker 1: They won in nineteen eighty eight, which was the legit year.

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Speaker 1: Then they didn't win again until twenty twenty, the COVID year.

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Speaker 1: They're all championships, but those two are championships with asterisks.

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Speaker 1: Then again, all baseball championships have asterisks now because they've

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Speaker 1: so screwed up the point, which was that the long

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Speaker 1: regular season and the quick playoffs were designed to establish

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Speaker 1: which team was best that year. You played, and you played,

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Speaker 1: and you played from spring through summer into fall, and

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Speaker 1: you beat everybody in your league, and then you face

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Speaker 1: the team that had played and beaten everybody in their league,

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Speaker 1: and the result was a series that was always novel

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Speaker 1: and fresh and exciting, and faced pitchers against hitters they'd

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Speaker 1: never seen before. The number is somewhat conjectural, but it

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Speaker 1: is believed that about sixty million people watched Game seven

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Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighty six World Series on television. If

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Speaker 1: sixty million people watch the entirety of this World Series

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Speaker 1: on television, if that's the total audience for seven games,

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Speaker 1: they will hold two parades afterwards, one for the winning

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Speaker 1: team and one for all the TV and advertising executives.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, if they get sixty million total

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Speaker 1: audience on TV, the ad executives and the TV executives

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Speaker 1: will get drunker than the winning players do. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen in this World Series. I

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Speaker 1: loved working in Los Angeles. I loved going to Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 1: I loved working in New York. I grew up in

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Speaker 1: the Yankee Stadia and I covered Dodger Yankees World Series

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Speaker 1: when I was eighteen and nineteen years old, and I

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Speaker 1: own Reggie Jackson's third home run ball, and I own

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Speaker 1: two baseballs pitched in Don Larson's Perfect Game by Don Larson.

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Speaker 1: But baseball has gradually pissed away my love of it.

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Speaker 1: The new rules are stupid. This obsession with the forty

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Speaker 1: seventy club or the one point six two hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty nine b club, it's ridiculous. The game has been

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Speaker 1: dumbed down. The regular season is virtually as meaningless as basketball,

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Speaker 1: and this utterly tedious season goes on forever, and then

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Speaker 1: the teams that do best in it, they don't do

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Speaker 1: very well in the postseason. We're just amazed that the

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Speaker 1: two best teams on paper are actually in the World Series.

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Speaker 1: And how did they get there? They beat the wild

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Speaker 1: card teams. The athletes have never been better in baseball,

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Speaker 1: never been better, and their ability to actually play baseball,

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Speaker 1: to do what to do and when to do it

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Speaker 1: other than to swing or to throw, that has never

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Speaker 1: been worse. I asked a friend of mine, who covers

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Speaker 1: a major League team and has done so for nearly

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Speaker 1: all of his life, how many, I said, there's like

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Speaker 1: two or three guys on each team that actually could

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Speaker 1: play baseball without written instructions, And he said, you're exaggerating.

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Speaker 1: I went, no, I think it's only two or three.

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Speaker 1: He went, that's not what I meant. I think it's

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Speaker 1: only one or two per team. I did not go

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Speaker 1: to a game this year, and after forty years as

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Speaker 1: a Yankee season ticket holder, I long ago vowed to

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Speaker 1: never again pay my way into that ballpark until a

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Speaker 1: paternity test is produced proving that hal Steinbrenner is actually

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Speaker 1: the son of my friend George Steinbrenner. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: might go if somebody invites me and pays for the

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Speaker 1: ticket and covers the five dollars and eighty cent round

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Speaker 1: trip on the subway. I'd have gone if the Mets

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Speaker 1: had beaten the Dodgers and the Mets we're in it,

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Speaker 1: or if that Steinbrenner paternity test had come back. I've

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Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week,

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Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Follow me for the

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Speaker 1: and facetick. Once again, there is a Monday Countdown. Please

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Speaker 1: send this podcast to somebody who doesn't know that they

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Speaker 1: need to listen, but should. Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel,

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Speaker 1: the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced, and performed most

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Speaker 1: of our music. Mister Chanelle handled the orchestration and keyboards.

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Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. It

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Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical

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Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nance Faust.

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Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two,

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to listen to the Baseball World Series on

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Speaker 1: ESPN Radio, where the broadcast is likely to be better

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Speaker 1: than the game. Other music arranged and performed by the

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Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was by coincidence,

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Tony Korneiser. Everything else was pretty much my fault.

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Speaker 1: Let's countdown for today, two weeks until the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four presidential election. I think I have that right, and

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Speaker 1: the three and eighty six day since convicted felon dissociative

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Speaker 1: fugue j Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected

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Speaker 1: government of the United States. Use the election, use the

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Speaker 1: metal health system, use presidential immunity to keep him from

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Speaker 1: doing it again while we still have a chance. The

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Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bolton says, the news requires

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Speaker 1: till the next one on Keith Olderman good Morning, good afternoon,

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