1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Yeah yeah, 2 00:00:23,835 --> 00:00:29,835 Speaker 1: I get it. I want my MTV motion to vacate. 3 00:00:30,035 --> 00:00:35,355 Speaker 1: That is, Gates is fundraising, Gates is running for governor Florida. 4 00:00:35,355 --> 00:00:37,835 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if McCarthy says bringing on and Gates 5 00:00:37,835 --> 00:00:40,995 Speaker 1: says I just did, or the other way round hours 6 00:00:41,075 --> 00:00:43,875 Speaker 1: before he filed the motion last night to aust McCarthy, 7 00:00:43,915 --> 00:00:47,515 Speaker 1: Gates's father came out of retirement so he can run 8 00:00:47,555 --> 00:00:50,675 Speaker 1: for the Florida Send it again. It's a stunt. It 9 00:00:50,715 --> 00:00:55,315 Speaker 1: doesn't matter which Russian Republican runs their spit show. The 10 00:00:55,435 --> 00:01:00,715 Speaker 1: point is Jack Smith is goddamn serious about the gag order. 11 00:01:01,195 --> 00:01:04,635 Speaker 1: The country is goddamn serious about disqualifying Trump under the 12 00:01:04,715 --> 00:01:10,395 Speaker 1: fourteenth Amendment, and it's polling surprisingly well. And Trump inadvertently confessed, 13 00:01:10,635 --> 00:01:13,395 Speaker 1: and Trump said he'd rather be electrocuted than eaten by sharks. 14 00:01:13,395 --> 00:01:15,435 Speaker 1: So I have one simple request, and that is to 15 00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:18,875 Speaker 1: have sharks with freaking laser beams attached to their heads. 16 00:01:18,955 --> 00:01:22,795 Speaker 1: Throw me a bone here. I will go through all that, 17 00:01:23,275 --> 00:01:28,515 Speaker 1: especially the inadvertent confession, which is mind boggling presently, but 18 00:01:28,675 --> 00:01:34,355 Speaker 1: newest story first, and our strongest defense against Trump and four. 19 00:01:34,555 --> 00:01:39,115 Speaker 1: Democracy remains not our own efforts to preserve it, but 20 00:01:39,195 --> 00:01:43,035 Speaker 1: the stupidity of those who would destroy it, specifically the 21 00:01:43,115 --> 00:01:48,035 Speaker 1: stupidity of Donald freaking laser beams Trump but. 22 00:01:48,155 --> 00:01:50,875 Speaker 2: Not entitled to a jury, which is pretty unusual in 23 00:01:50,875 --> 00:01:54,395 Speaker 2: the United States. As America's hope, we think it's very 24 00:01:54,435 --> 00:01:55,475 Speaker 2: unfair that I don't. 25 00:01:55,275 --> 00:01:58,635 Speaker 1: Have a jury. Trump didn't get a jury at his 26 00:01:58,675 --> 00:02:01,355 Speaker 1: New York fraud trial because his lawyers didn't ask for 27 00:02:01,395 --> 00:02:05,235 Speaker 1: a jury. At his New York fraud trial, Alina Haba, 28 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:08,315 Speaker 1: the Trump I'm not a lawyer, but I play one 29 00:02:08,355 --> 00:02:11,675 Speaker 1: on TV spokesmodel who sat next to him at the 30 00:02:11,675 --> 00:02:13,795 Speaker 1: defense table and looked like she had never seen a 31 00:02:13,915 --> 00:02:17,555 Speaker 1: table before, let alone the inside of a courtroom. Last night, 32 00:02:17,595 --> 00:02:21,395 Speaker 1: she repeatedly denied that she and Trump's other call one 33 00:02:21,515 --> 00:02:24,955 Speaker 1: eight hundred and five million injury attorneys screwed it up, 34 00:02:25,355 --> 00:02:28,355 Speaker 1: and obviously she would do that, and the crowd she 35 00:02:28,475 --> 00:02:30,635 Speaker 1: was talking to is not likely to ever hear that. 36 00:02:30,755 --> 00:02:34,355 Speaker 1: The source for the Trump forgot to ask for a 37 00:02:34,475 --> 00:02:39,715 Speaker 1: jury story was Judge Arthur Engern, who said that in 38 00:02:39,835 --> 00:02:44,915 Speaker 1: court that nobody asked for a jury. Trump was smart 39 00:02:44,995 --> 00:02:48,235 Speaker 1: enough also to make another threat this time on tape, 40 00:02:48,555 --> 00:02:53,075 Speaker 1: this time with the authenticity of his blind, moronic rage 41 00:02:53,475 --> 00:02:56,755 Speaker 1: against the Attorney general and the judge, the judge who's 42 00:02:56,915 --> 00:02:58,995 Speaker 1: judging the case by himself. 43 00:02:59,115 --> 00:03:01,795 Speaker 2: Now I have to go before a rouge and judge 44 00:03:02,515 --> 00:03:06,755 Speaker 2: as a continuation of Russia, Russia, Russia, as a continuation 45 00:03:06,875 --> 00:03:08,195 Speaker 2: of the greatest witch. 46 00:03:07,955 --> 00:03:08,995 Speaker 3: Hunt of all time. 47 00:03:09,475 --> 00:03:12,075 Speaker 2: And I don't think the people of this country are 48 00:03:12,115 --> 00:03:15,275 Speaker 2: going to stand for it. This is a disgrace, and 49 00:03:15,315 --> 00:03:17,155 Speaker 2: you're going to go after this Attorney General. 50 00:03:17,235 --> 00:03:21,115 Speaker 1: Trump is an idiot when there is rage involved, the 51 00:03:21,275 --> 00:03:24,475 Speaker 1: rage element, and Trump actually only has something akin to 52 00:03:24,555 --> 00:03:28,115 Speaker 1: human emotion when it comes to money, his money. This 53 00:03:28,155 --> 00:03:31,915 Speaker 1: should be a reminder to anybody debating him, or preparing 54 00:03:32,075 --> 00:03:36,795 Speaker 1: somebody else to debate him, or interviewing him to get 55 00:03:37,195 --> 00:03:41,875 Speaker 1: him angry, because then when he's angry, he says not 56 00:03:41,995 --> 00:03:46,675 Speaker 1: just stupid things, but stupid self incriminating things. 57 00:03:47,155 --> 00:03:47,875 Speaker 3: It's a scam. 58 00:03:47,915 --> 00:03:48,915 Speaker 2: It's a sham. 59 00:03:49,315 --> 00:03:52,595 Speaker 1: It's a scam. It's a sham. It's a scam. It's 60 00:03:52,595 --> 00:03:57,515 Speaker 1: a sham. Scam. Sham reminds me of something, Hi, it's 61 00:03:57,555 --> 00:03:58,355 Speaker 1: Vince with sham. 62 00:03:58,395 --> 00:03:58,635 Speaker 4: Wow. 63 00:03:58,795 --> 00:04:01,195 Speaker 1: You'll be saying wow every time you use this towel, 64 00:04:01,235 --> 00:04:04,435 Speaker 1: because you know, I can't do this all day. What's 65 00:04:04,475 --> 00:04:08,315 Speaker 1: the value of the New York trial. Oh, it's simple. 66 00:04:08,875 --> 00:04:15,515 Speaker 1: This genuinely enrages him. The money genuinely enrages him. And 67 00:04:15,715 --> 00:04:21,875 Speaker 1: everything that breaks him financially breaks him psychologically. As much 68 00:04:22,235 --> 00:04:26,595 Speaker 1: damage as possible, as many blows to the head, the body, 69 00:04:27,195 --> 00:04:32,715 Speaker 1: wherever as possible. Keep hitting him the Muhammad Aldi theory, 70 00:04:33,315 --> 00:04:38,275 Speaker 1: keep hitting him. Apropos of the financial stuff. The new 71 00:04:38,315 --> 00:04:42,275 Speaker 1: Michael Lewis book on Sam Bankman Freed says the cryptocon 72 00:04:42,395 --> 00:04:45,555 Speaker 1: man claims he approached Trump's camp with an offer of 73 00:04:45,755 --> 00:04:48,755 Speaker 1: cash if Trump would agree not to run in twenty 74 00:04:48,795 --> 00:04:53,675 Speaker 1: twenty four. Five billion dollars makes me hate Sam Bankman 75 00:04:53,755 --> 00:04:57,155 Speaker 1: Freed a little less and at the same time a 76 00:04:57,275 --> 00:05:00,595 Speaker 1: little more. It also would have encouraged Trump to do 77 00:05:00,675 --> 00:05:03,555 Speaker 1: this again in twenty twenty eight for another five billion, 78 00:05:03,875 --> 00:05:07,995 Speaker 1: and it would have opened up a new market. Hell 79 00:05:08,355 --> 00:05:11,635 Speaker 1: five billion. I won't run for president for five hundred dollars. 80 00:05:12,795 --> 00:05:14,795 Speaker 1: A late story of no doubt of CNN. All the 81 00:05:14,835 --> 00:05:18,435 Speaker 1: anonymous stories attributed to General John Kelly, one of Trump's 82 00:05:18,475 --> 00:05:22,475 Speaker 1: chiefs of staff, They're not anonymous anymore. He confirmed them 83 00:05:22,515 --> 00:05:26,035 Speaker 1: on the record five years too late, but he confirmed them, 84 00:05:26,475 --> 00:05:31,275 Speaker 1: insulting McCain, calling American War dead at Bellowwood suckers, telling 85 00:05:31,315 --> 00:05:35,195 Speaker 1: Millie to keep the wounded veterans away from him. Kelly concludes, 86 00:05:35,515 --> 00:05:38,555 Speaker 1: there's nothing more than can be said. God help us 87 00:05:38,875 --> 00:05:44,275 Speaker 1: unquote yeah, God help you, Pal. You could have said 88 00:05:44,315 --> 00:05:50,915 Speaker 1: something in real time to help stop this. Now to 89 00:05:50,995 --> 00:05:53,835 Speaker 1: the issues of import its earlier, Judge Chuckkin will convene 90 00:05:53,955 --> 00:05:56,635 Speaker 1: hearing on October sixteenth, two weeks from yesterday, on the 91 00:05:56,755 --> 00:05:59,675 Speaker 1: Jack Smith gag order request, and Smith is even more 92 00:05:59,795 --> 00:06:03,715 Speaker 1: damned serious about it than I had dreamed. His late 93 00:06:03,795 --> 00:06:07,115 Speaker 1: night answer to Trump's late night answer pointed out that 94 00:06:07,155 --> 00:06:10,715 Speaker 1: the newest threats Trump made the post about the death 95 00:06:10,795 --> 00:06:14,755 Speaker 1: penalty for what Trump considered treason, were not directed at 96 00:06:14,875 --> 00:06:18,035 Speaker 1: General Millye. They were directed at other potential witnesses who 97 00:06:18,075 --> 00:06:21,435 Speaker 1: might want to avoid those kinds of threats, let alone 98 00:06:21,475 --> 00:06:26,395 Speaker 1: anything more serious. Moreover, the Special Counsel's Office noted it 99 00:06:26,435 --> 00:06:29,675 Speaker 1: does not really matter whether Trump did or did not 100 00:06:30,075 --> 00:06:33,955 Speaker 1: buy a luger at a white supremacist gun shop in 101 00:06:34,075 --> 00:06:37,515 Speaker 1: South Carolina. A purchase would obviously be a violation of 102 00:06:37,555 --> 00:06:39,715 Speaker 1: his bail, and there would be no way for the 103 00:06:39,835 --> 00:06:41,835 Speaker 1: judge not to revoke the bail and not to put 104 00:06:41,875 --> 00:06:44,595 Speaker 1: them behind bars until the trial starts. But the other 105 00:06:44,795 --> 00:06:48,955 Speaker 1: option was also an abuse of the terms under which 106 00:06:49,035 --> 00:06:52,035 Speaker 1: Chutkin did not end Trump's freedom in the first place. 107 00:06:52,355 --> 00:06:57,355 Speaker 1: Quoting the Smith retort, the defendant either purchased a gun 108 00:06:57,355 --> 00:07:01,355 Speaker 1: in violation of the law and his conditions, or seeks 109 00:07:01,355 --> 00:07:04,555 Speaker 1: to benefit from his supporter's mistaken belief that he did so. 110 00:07:05,835 --> 00:07:09,635 Speaker 1: Even lying about Trump buying a gun is a way 111 00:07:09,675 --> 00:07:12,795 Speaker 1: in which Trump has exploited the absence of a gag 112 00:07:12,915 --> 00:07:17,595 Speaker 1: order and allowed himself to remind his cult and potential 113 00:07:17,635 --> 00:07:21,875 Speaker 1: witnesses that he is a man dedicated to personal violence 114 00:07:22,475 --> 00:07:29,075 Speaker 1: and the fomenting of civil violence. Quote. No other criminal 115 00:07:29,155 --> 00:07:32,555 Speaker 1: defendant would have been permitted to issue public statements insinuating 116 00:07:32,715 --> 00:07:35,395 Speaker 1: that a known witness in his case should be executed. 117 00:07:35,675 --> 00:07:39,915 Speaker 1: This defendant should not be either as a side note 118 00:07:39,955 --> 00:07:42,155 Speaker 1: to that they are thus confirming Mark Milly is at 119 00:07:42,235 --> 00:07:46,995 Speaker 1: least on the witness list. Special Counsel also went out 120 00:07:46,995 --> 00:07:49,435 Speaker 1: of its way to go after one of Trump's subtler 121 00:07:49,475 --> 00:07:53,115 Speaker 1: but more consistent tricks, repeatedly recasting the charges in his 122 00:07:53,155 --> 00:07:56,635 Speaker 1: own favor or flat out lying about what the charges 123 00:07:56,675 --> 00:07:59,675 Speaker 1: are and what they mean. Quote. The indictment does, in fact, 124 00:07:59,715 --> 00:08:02,315 Speaker 1: clearly link the defendant and his actions to the events 125 00:08:02,355 --> 00:08:06,235 Speaker 1: of January sixth. In short, the indictmental ledges that the 126 00:08:06,235 --> 00:08:09,875 Speaker 1: defendant's actions, including his campaign of knowingly false claims of 127 00:08:09,915 --> 00:08:13,875 Speaker 1: election fraud, led to the events of January sixth. Unquote, 128 00:08:15,115 --> 00:08:18,875 Speaker 1: Jack Smith wants Chutkin to not just speed up the 129 00:08:18,995 --> 00:08:23,155 Speaker 1: trial start as punishment for all this. He wants her 130 00:08:23,275 --> 00:08:28,955 Speaker 1: to circumscribe Trump's ability to write or say whatever he 131 00:08:28,995 --> 00:08:35,475 Speaker 1: wants just because he's running for office. He wants a 132 00:08:35,635 --> 00:08:41,155 Speaker 1: gag order of some width and breadth. And if she 133 00:08:41,595 --> 00:08:47,955 Speaker 1: imposes it on Trump, you know, you know, Trump will 134 00:08:48,235 --> 00:08:52,715 Speaker 1: violate it. He has to anything less than violating it, 135 00:08:53,115 --> 00:08:55,875 Speaker 1: anything that says he is giving in to the judge. 136 00:08:55,915 --> 00:09:00,235 Speaker 1: And he breaks the spell over the victims in his 137 00:09:00,475 --> 00:09:06,475 Speaker 1: world record length shell game. And I'll ask this again, 138 00:09:06,915 --> 00:09:12,315 Speaker 1: and I'll keep asking it. What happens when he breaks it? 139 00:09:13,715 --> 00:09:16,395 Speaker 1: When he breaks the gag order for the fourth time 140 00:09:16,515 --> 00:09:18,755 Speaker 1: or the fifth time, or the forty fifth time, and 141 00:09:18,835 --> 00:09:23,475 Speaker 1: Chuckkin finally says enough and revokes his bail, whether that's 142 00:09:23,555 --> 00:09:28,595 Speaker 1: next month or next year, what happens, then we reenact 143 00:09:28,595 --> 00:09:34,395 Speaker 1: the gunfight at the OK Corral on another front in 144 00:09:34,435 --> 00:09:38,075 Speaker 1: the war against Trump and four democracy. Politico polled on 145 00:09:38,115 --> 00:09:40,395 Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment, and I hope every news editor in 146 00:09:40,435 --> 00:09:42,675 Speaker 1: this country read the story and we can stop the 147 00:09:42,955 --> 00:09:47,235 Speaker 1: political media industrial complex conventional wisdom that continues to insist 148 00:09:47,475 --> 00:09:51,675 Speaker 1: that disqualifying Trump under the insurrection clause is a non starter, 149 00:09:51,955 --> 00:09:56,435 Speaker 1: A fringe theory, as I've heard it repeatedly described the 150 00:09:56,475 --> 00:09:59,995 Speaker 1: Beltway reporters consider it that because they consider everything they 151 00:10:00,035 --> 00:10:03,875 Speaker 1: have not actually seen happen before, everything they cannot shove 152 00:10:04,275 --> 00:10:08,195 Speaker 1: into one of the twelve or thirteen cubby holes story 153 00:10:08,235 --> 00:10:11,395 Speaker 1: templates that they can process and understand, they consider it 154 00:10:11,435 --> 00:10:18,715 Speaker 1: the rest of the universe. Fringe theory. Politico asks, specifically, 155 00:10:18,795 --> 00:10:21,875 Speaker 1: based on how he behaved after the twenty twenty election, 156 00:10:21,995 --> 00:10:26,795 Speaker 1: does the fourteenth Amendment prohibit Trump from ever again running 157 00:10:26,795 --> 00:10:31,915 Speaker 1: for office? And fifty one percent said yes, thirty four 158 00:10:31,995 --> 00:10:38,075 Speaker 1: percent said no, fifteen percent undecided. The undecided they're not 159 00:10:38,155 --> 00:10:42,435 Speaker 1: all breaking for no. The fourteenth Amendment is a factor 160 00:10:42,595 --> 00:10:45,555 Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four campaign, and the media and 161 00:10:45,595 --> 00:10:48,755 Speaker 1: the state's secretaries of state, damn well better start treating 162 00:10:48,755 --> 00:10:52,475 Speaker 1: it that way. Oh, and generically the fourteenth Amendment is 163 00:10:52,515 --> 00:10:56,395 Speaker 1: doing even better. Before introducing Trump's name into the equation, 164 00:10:56,515 --> 00:11:00,755 Speaker 1: the Politico pollsters asked if the respondents quote support or 165 00:11:00,795 --> 00:11:05,675 Speaker 1: oppose the disqualification clause in the fourteenth Amendment, and they 166 00:11:05,755 --> 00:11:08,915 Speaker 1: read it to them, and sixty three percent said they 167 00:11:08,995 --> 00:11:13,555 Speaker 1: strongly or somewhat support it, and only sixteen percent said 168 00:11:13,715 --> 00:11:17,235 Speaker 1: they did not, Meaning there is twelve percent of that 169 00:11:17,595 --> 00:11:20,955 Speaker 1: undecided fifteen percent from the Trump question who agree that 170 00:11:20,995 --> 00:11:26,315 Speaker 1: the fourteenth Amendment applies is Legit is not just about 171 00:11:26,315 --> 00:11:31,235 Speaker 1: the Civil War but matters today. Twelve percent of the 172 00:11:31,355 --> 00:11:34,875 Speaker 1: undecided fifteen percent agree with it. In theory, they just 173 00:11:34,955 --> 00:11:38,155 Speaker 1: have to be convinced Trump is guilty of the violations. 174 00:11:39,275 --> 00:11:43,515 Speaker 1: Its cites that twelve percent is nearly halfway towards supporting 175 00:11:43,755 --> 00:11:50,075 Speaker 1: disqualifying Trump under the fourteenth Amendment. We cannot push that 176 00:11:50,155 --> 00:11:56,475 Speaker 1: pedal to hard. Of course, he may beat everybody to 177 00:11:56,595 --> 00:12:01,155 Speaker 1: disqualifying himself. As I said, Trump has inadvertently confessed quote, 178 00:12:01,155 --> 00:12:05,435 Speaker 1: will Congressman Jamal Bowman be prosecuted and imprisoned? He posted 179 00:12:05,475 --> 00:12:09,035 Speaker 1: about the door alarm skirmish in order to stop a 180 00:12:09,075 --> 00:12:12,235 Speaker 1: congressional vote that was going on in DC. His egregious 181 00:12:12,235 --> 00:12:14,675 Speaker 1: act is covered on tape. A horrible display of nerve 182 00:12:14,715 --> 00:12:17,555 Speaker 1: and criminality. It was a very dangerous obstruction of an 183 00:12:17,595 --> 00:12:21,035 Speaker 1: official proceeding. When will his trial begin? This, of course, 184 00:12:21,195 --> 00:12:24,395 Speaker 1: is as close as Trump can actually get to trolling, 185 00:12:25,115 --> 00:12:27,755 Speaker 1: and he's not human enough to realize that a key 186 00:12:27,915 --> 00:12:33,075 Speaker 1: object in trolling is not to confess to the crimes 187 00:12:33,115 --> 00:12:37,995 Speaker 1: you are accusing the others of in order to stop 188 00:12:38,035 --> 00:12:41,155 Speaker 1: a congressional vote. Well, yes, Trump did that. Act is 189 00:12:41,235 --> 00:12:44,155 Speaker 1: covered on tape. Well yeah, there's tape a Trump doing that. 190 00:12:44,515 --> 00:12:47,635 Speaker 1: Nerve and criminality, well yes, Trump did both of those things. 191 00:12:48,115 --> 00:12:53,155 Speaker 1: Obstruction of an official proceeding. That was very dangerous. This 192 00:12:53,235 --> 00:12:57,035 Speaker 1: is Trump acknowledging that the charges against him are legit 193 00:12:58,275 --> 00:13:01,315 Speaker 1: as surely as those poll respondents are acknowledging that the 194 00:13:01,395 --> 00:13:08,755 Speaker 1: fourteenth Amendment applies. And then, lastly, the latest sign that 195 00:13:08,835 --> 00:13:15,315 Speaker 1: Trump's cheese whiz is sliding off his ritz cracker. This 196 00:13:15,515 --> 00:13:20,395 Speaker 1: is about, believe it or not, alternative fuel vehicles, in 197 00:13:20,435 --> 00:13:26,795 Speaker 1: this case boats, or at least it's started there. Come 198 00:13:26,875 --> 00:13:29,315 Speaker 1: on over for Trump explaining how he would prefer to 199 00:13:29,435 --> 00:13:33,755 Speaker 1: die and then stay for the little Freudian slip. 200 00:13:33,915 --> 00:13:36,435 Speaker 2: If I'm sitting down and that boat's going down and 201 00:13:36,475 --> 00:13:40,115 Speaker 2: I'm on top of a battery on the water starts 202 00:13:40,115 --> 00:13:43,355 Speaker 2: floating in how I'm getting concerned. But then I look 203 00:13:43,435 --> 00:13:45,955 Speaker 2: ten yards to my left hand. There's a shark over there. 204 00:13:46,515 --> 00:13:49,195 Speaker 2: So I have a choice of electrocution or shark. You 205 00:13:49,195 --> 00:13:52,115 Speaker 2: know what, I'm going to take electrocution. I will take 206 00:13:52,195 --> 00:13:56,795 Speaker 2: electrocution every single time. Do we agree, Yeah, I will 207 00:13:56,835 --> 00:13:57,915 Speaker 2: take electrocution. 208 00:13:58,235 --> 00:14:02,515 Speaker 1: He will take electrocution, Actually, he said, and it's been 209 00:14:02,515 --> 00:14:06,275 Speaker 1: dismissed as slurred speech, and it really isn't that is it? 210 00:14:06,515 --> 00:14:15,195 Speaker 1: He said, elects rocution. Doctor Freud elects rocution. Still on 211 00:14:15,235 --> 00:14:20,315 Speaker 1: the premise of it, no sharks, He'd rather die by electrocution, 212 00:14:21,315 --> 00:14:30,995 Speaker 1: to which I say, you have a deal. Also of 213 00:14:30,995 --> 00:14:33,875 Speaker 1: interest here, Fox News is crushed by the new senator 214 00:14:33,955 --> 00:14:38,155 Speaker 1: designate from California because they had their money on. Now. 215 00:14:38,195 --> 00:14:43,035 Speaker 1: You will not believe who they thought, Kavin Newsome was 216 00:14:43,155 --> 00:14:47,395 Speaker 1: going to a point to replace the late Diane Feinstein. 217 00:14:47,555 --> 00:14:52,475 Speaker 1: But I am betting that you will guess which. Congressman 218 00:14:52,955 --> 00:14:58,395 Speaker 1: announced that the appointment is unconstitutional by citing an article 219 00:14:58,635 --> 00:15:07,275 Speaker 1: in the Constitution that does not exist, which Congressman would 220 00:15:07,355 --> 00:15:12,115 Speaker 1: quote a fictitious article. That's next. This is Countdown. 221 00:15:13,595 --> 00:15:17,515 Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. 222 00:15:30,515 --> 00:15:33,075 Speaker 1: Still ahead on Countdown Sports and the death of Tim 223 00:15:33,115 --> 00:15:36,115 Speaker 1: Wakefield and the firing of Buck Showalter and Phil Nevin, 224 00:15:36,195 --> 00:15:41,875 Speaker 1: and the forty fifth anniversary of Bucky Effing Dent, including 225 00:15:42,675 --> 00:15:47,555 Speaker 1: my report from the game. This just in first time 226 00:15:47,555 --> 00:15:49,955 Speaker 1: for the daily roundup of the miscreants, morons, and Dunn Kruger, 227 00:15:49,915 --> 00:15:54,795 Speaker 1: Effets specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world Lebrons. 228 00:15:55,915 --> 00:16:00,355 Speaker 1: Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas, It's impossible to believe 229 00:16:00,355 --> 00:16:04,235 Speaker 1: that you could get yourself caught in a scandal by 230 00:16:04,275 --> 00:16:09,355 Speaker 1: spending nineteen thousand dollars of taxpayer money on a podium 231 00:16:09,795 --> 00:16:12,355 Speaker 1: and then not just take the humiliation and the laughter 232 00:16:12,435 --> 00:16:16,475 Speaker 1: and move on. Trump's former liar in chief keeps making 233 00:16:16,475 --> 00:16:18,795 Speaker 1: it worse somehow. First it turned out she bought it 234 00:16:18,835 --> 00:16:21,755 Speaker 1: from a company that was not based in Arkansas. Now, 235 00:16:21,795 --> 00:16:24,875 Speaker 1: the investigative reporter who broke the story says Huckebye ordered 236 00:16:24,875 --> 00:16:27,675 Speaker 1: a state department to not comply with his Freedom of 237 00:16:27,715 --> 00:16:32,395 Speaker 1: Information Act request and had somebody alter the request. Doctor 238 00:16:32,435 --> 00:16:36,675 Speaker 1: the guy's Foia form. This was a nineteen thousand dollars 239 00:16:36,675 --> 00:16:39,875 Speaker 1: podium scandal. Now it is a nineteen thousand dollars podium 240 00:16:39,875 --> 00:16:44,835 Speaker 1: scandal that could cost Governor Lady huck her governorship. Attude 241 00:16:45,355 --> 00:16:47,315 Speaker 1: the runner up. You may have heard that Governor Newsom 242 00:16:47,355 --> 00:16:50,515 Speaker 1: of California has appointed the activist Lafonza Butler to succeed 243 00:16:50,555 --> 00:16:55,915 Speaker 1: the late Senator Dianne Feinstein. Congressman George Santos of New York, 244 00:16:56,435 --> 00:17:00,835 Speaker 1: the human lie factory, still supported by every Republican, is 245 00:17:00,915 --> 00:17:04,635 Speaker 1: not happy that the new senator had been working in Maryland, 246 00:17:04,995 --> 00:17:09,755 Speaker 1: so he tweeted his gotcha quote. There is this annoying 247 00:17:09,875 --> 00:17:14,475 Speaker 1: thing DEM's hate called the Constitution. Article five, Section three 248 00:17:14,595 --> 00:17:17,275 Speaker 1: stated every member of the Senate shall be, at the 249 00:17:17,275 --> 00:17:19,715 Speaker 1: time of his election, a resident of the state from 250 00:17:19,755 --> 00:17:25,475 Speaker 1: which he shall be chosen. Cool, George, There is no 251 00:17:25,675 --> 00:17:32,195 Speaker 1: section three of Article five of the Constitution. George made 252 00:17:32,235 --> 00:17:37,755 Speaker 1: that up. But our winner Fox Ninny Rachel campost Duffy 253 00:17:37,835 --> 00:17:40,995 Speaker 1: talk about making stuff up. She co hosts the Kids 254 00:17:41,075 --> 00:17:44,795 Speaker 1: Table at Fox and Friends, the weekend edition. She got 255 00:17:44,795 --> 00:17:50,435 Speaker 1: her start on MTV's Real World Stupid City. Arizona Senator 256 00:17:50,475 --> 00:17:53,995 Speaker 1: designate Butler means that Ms Campos Is Duffy's reporting on 257 00:17:54,035 --> 00:17:57,595 Speaker 1: the appointment was incorrect. Saturday and Sunday, she went on 258 00:17:57,675 --> 00:18:00,555 Speaker 1: Fox and announced that sources had told her that the 259 00:18:00,555 --> 00:18:02,995 Speaker 1: new senator from California, since Newsom had said it would 260 00:18:02,995 --> 00:18:06,915 Speaker 1: be a black woman, was going to be, was likely 261 00:18:06,955 --> 00:18:13,795 Speaker 1: to be You ready, Meghan Markle? No, I'm not kidding, 262 00:18:13,835 --> 00:18:17,195 Speaker 1: she claimed. Meghan Markle had campaigned for the post, had 263 00:18:17,235 --> 00:18:21,355 Speaker 1: called Jill Biden to arrange it, and Miss Campos Duffy 264 00:18:21,395 --> 00:18:24,595 Speaker 1: did a victory lap when the ever reliable Daily Mail 265 00:18:24,675 --> 00:18:29,035 Speaker 1: of London reported a rumor about it. Fox is Rachel 266 00:18:29,155 --> 00:18:33,235 Speaker 1: Campos Duffy. I may be mispronouncing that it may be 267 00:18:33,395 --> 00:18:39,635 Speaker 1: Rachel Campos Doofy, Today's worst parson in no world. 268 00:19:01,195 --> 00:19:10,035 Speaker 3: This is sports Senate. Wait, not anymore, this is Countdown 269 00:19:10,715 --> 00:19:12,115 Speaker 3: with Keith Alberman. 270 00:19:12,355 --> 00:19:16,675 Speaker 1: In Sports. You will recall that Kurt Shilling, scumbag ex 271 00:19:16,715 --> 00:19:19,875 Speaker 1: picture of the Boston Red Sox, made the Worst Person's 272 00:19:19,915 --> 00:19:22,915 Speaker 1: List last Friday. He broke a confidence and revealed that 273 00:19:22,955 --> 00:19:25,995 Speaker 1: his former teammate Tim Wakefield and his wife were battling cancer. 274 00:19:26,155 --> 00:19:28,915 Speaker 1: He even acknowledged that he did not know whether the 275 00:19:28,955 --> 00:19:31,875 Speaker 1: Wakefields wanted that fact known, he put it on his 276 00:19:32,035 --> 00:19:38,275 Speaker 1: podcast Anyway. Sunday, Tim Wakefield died brain cancer. The baseball 277 00:19:38,315 --> 00:19:41,355 Speaker 1: world is stricken and in mourning. Anybody else who did 278 00:19:41,435 --> 00:19:44,595 Speaker 1: what Shilling did would retire from all public life and 279 00:19:44,675 --> 00:19:48,675 Speaker 1: maybe change his name and try to repent. Not Shilling, 280 00:19:48,675 --> 00:19:51,635 Speaker 1: because he barely qualifies as a human being. I hope 281 00:19:51,675 --> 00:19:54,515 Speaker 1: his maker can forgive him. The rest of us never 282 00:19:55,075 --> 00:19:58,595 Speaker 1: ever will. The day after the New York Mets fired 283 00:19:58,635 --> 00:20:02,555 Speaker 1: manager Buck Showalter, the Los Angeles Angels fired manager Phil Nevin. 284 00:20:02,595 --> 00:20:05,275 Speaker 1: I know it doesn't say that in the news media. 285 00:20:05,915 --> 00:20:08,035 Speaker 1: It says one of them parted ways and the other 286 00:20:08,075 --> 00:20:11,275 Speaker 1: one didn't have option renewed. But when the general manager 287 00:20:11,275 --> 00:20:12,835 Speaker 1: of the Mets tells you you have your choice of 288 00:20:12,875 --> 00:20:15,515 Speaker 1: resigning or being fired, you've been fired. Or when the 289 00:20:15,515 --> 00:20:18,195 Speaker 1: general manager of the angel says they're not picking up 290 00:20:18,195 --> 00:20:22,075 Speaker 1: your option, you've been fired. The option thing. I've been there. 291 00:20:22,795 --> 00:20:26,075 Speaker 1: As to the Mets, this better be a precursor to 292 00:20:26,155 --> 00:20:29,715 Speaker 1: letting show Hey Otani pick his own manager as part 293 00:20:29,715 --> 00:20:32,675 Speaker 1: of the Mets offer to him, or owner Steve Cohen 294 00:20:32,675 --> 00:20:37,155 Speaker 1: has made a huge mistake. Can O'tani's translator managed anybody know? 295 00:20:37,795 --> 00:20:40,955 Speaker 1: The premise is the team's new head of baseball operations, 296 00:20:41,035 --> 00:20:44,435 Speaker 1: David Stearns, gets to choose his own baseball people. Now, 297 00:20:44,475 --> 00:20:47,795 Speaker 1: if I'm general manager Billy Eppler, who told Showalter he 298 00:20:47,875 --> 00:20:53,035 Speaker 1: was out, I'm thinking, Wait, I'm in baseball and I'm 299 00:20:53,075 --> 00:20:56,755 Speaker 1: a people. Am I going to get fired too? Wait? 300 00:20:57,435 --> 00:21:08,395 Speaker 1: What's that odd look on Billy's face? Thank you, Nazi 301 00:21:08,435 --> 00:21:11,475 Speaker 1: Faust my favorite Buck show Alter memory coming up in 302 00:21:11,515 --> 00:21:14,395 Speaker 1: Things I promised not to tell. I'd love to give 303 00:21:14,395 --> 00:21:19,235 Speaker 1: you a full baseball playoff preview, but frankly, I don't care. 304 00:21:19,755 --> 00:21:22,035 Speaker 1: The baseball postseason used to be the matchup between the 305 00:21:22,075 --> 00:21:24,635 Speaker 1: champions of the American and National Leagues in the World Series. 306 00:21:24,995 --> 00:21:27,475 Speaker 1: The regular seasons had determined the top two teams with 307 00:21:27,595 --> 00:21:30,835 Speaker 1: rare exceptions, and then they fought for the championship. That 308 00:21:30,995 --> 00:21:33,835 Speaker 1: was the point of the season. An increase in teams 309 00:21:33,875 --> 00:21:37,355 Speaker 1: necessarily meant an increase in playoff teams. I happily embraced 310 00:21:37,395 --> 00:21:42,275 Speaker 1: that division winners. This is a joke. The wildcard teams 311 00:21:42,315 --> 00:21:46,635 Speaker 1: in the National League are all terribly flawed pretenders, and 312 00:21:46,715 --> 00:21:49,275 Speaker 1: one of them could, like last year, get hot for 313 00:21:49,275 --> 00:21:51,115 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and get into the World Series, 314 00:21:51,555 --> 00:21:53,835 Speaker 1: not being one of the best teams in baseball and 315 00:21:53,915 --> 00:21:58,675 Speaker 1: then get humiliated as the Philadelphia Phillies did. I've expounded 316 00:21:58,715 --> 00:22:01,515 Speaker 1: on this before. There are many reasons the TV audience 317 00:22:01,515 --> 00:22:05,315 Speaker 1: for each World Series game dropped from forty three a 318 00:22:05,435 --> 00:22:09,355 Speaker 1: night in nineteen eighty to fifteen million a night last year. 319 00:22:09,395 --> 00:22:12,235 Speaker 1: But one of the reasons is this, we cannot have 320 00:22:12,915 --> 00:22:16,675 Speaker 1: any confidence that those will be the two best teams 321 00:22:16,675 --> 00:22:22,315 Speaker 1: in the game. It's just a tournament now, like basketball. 322 00:22:23,315 --> 00:22:25,835 Speaker 1: If it's not your team involved, why would you watch 323 00:22:27,075 --> 00:22:29,275 Speaker 1: at the risk of being one of those Hey, you kids, 324 00:22:29,275 --> 00:22:32,795 Speaker 1: get off my et cetera guys. Forty five years ago, 325 00:22:32,835 --> 00:22:34,635 Speaker 1: the two best teams in the American leagues spent one 326 00:22:34,715 --> 00:22:37,835 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two games beating each other's brains in 327 00:22:38,595 --> 00:22:41,075 Speaker 1: and tied over one hundred and sixty two games, then 328 00:22:41,115 --> 00:22:43,395 Speaker 1: had to meet in a one game playoff. The winner 329 00:22:43,435 --> 00:22:46,555 Speaker 1: went on to the American League Championship Series. The loser 330 00:22:46,915 --> 00:22:51,595 Speaker 1: went home. It was the Bucky Dent Game Red Sox Yankees, 331 00:22:51,955 --> 00:22:55,675 Speaker 1: October two, nineteen seventy eight, and before the anniversary slips 332 00:22:55,755 --> 00:23:00,995 Speaker 1: back further into obscurity, I was there and on the 333 00:23:01,035 --> 00:23:02,275 Speaker 1: air from there. 334 00:23:03,115 --> 00:23:08,195 Speaker 4: Again with surprise out of the boom to everybody here 335 00:23:08,475 --> 00:23:10,915 Speaker 4: in a three run home run over the westfield wall 336 00:23:10,915 --> 00:23:13,995 Speaker 4: at Fenway Park, and see the Green Monsters plays no favorites, 337 00:23:14,035 --> 00:23:16,235 Speaker 4: as they say, And the Yankees have just added a 338 00:23:16,315 --> 00:23:19,075 Speaker 4: fourth run on a base at my Thurman Munson that 339 00:23:19,155 --> 00:23:21,395 Speaker 4: scored Mickey Rivers from second. He had gotten there on 340 00:23:21,395 --> 00:23:24,155 Speaker 4: a walk and a stolen base the second of the game. 341 00:23:24,515 --> 00:23:26,435 Speaker 4: I have to tell you something about Den's home run. 342 00:23:26,635 --> 00:23:29,035 Speaker 1: I saw it, Keith do no, don't you didn't hear this? 343 00:23:29,515 --> 00:23:31,675 Speaker 4: You know. I'm sitting here with Jim Berger, who is 344 00:23:31,715 --> 00:23:34,195 Speaker 4: a member of our staff. The Red Sox just got 345 00:23:34,195 --> 00:23:36,875 Speaker 4: the Yankees out of the five ball left. Jim Berger 346 00:23:36,915 --> 00:23:39,515 Speaker 4: is a member of our staff, and a Red Sox 347 00:23:39,555 --> 00:23:42,435 Speaker 4: fan turns to me with gent up and chillman on 348 00:23:42,595 --> 00:23:45,475 Speaker 4: and says, well, at least he's not a home run stretch. 349 00:23:46,435 --> 00:23:49,595 Speaker 4: I thank you for saying that, and promple he hit 350 00:23:49,635 --> 00:23:50,995 Speaker 4: the home run over the west field wall. 351 00:23:51,195 --> 00:23:53,555 Speaker 1: Yeah, well just made it over. We saw the replay 352 00:23:53,595 --> 00:23:57,035 Speaker 1: on television and the ball was going down and almost 353 00:23:57,075 --> 00:23:59,075 Speaker 1: hit the top of the wall, just missed the top 354 00:23:59,115 --> 00:24:01,115 Speaker 1: of the wall, made it into the what is that. 355 00:24:00,915 --> 00:24:03,435 Speaker 4: That's known as the Perny Carbo special if. 356 00:24:03,315 --> 00:24:05,355 Speaker 3: I remember it, well, Bernie Carbo, Well, it isn't on 357 00:24:05,395 --> 00:24:06,795 Speaker 3: the Yankees or the Red Sox now, so. 358 00:24:06,755 --> 00:24:07,715 Speaker 1: Well leave came out of here. 359 00:24:07,755 --> 00:24:10,995 Speaker 4: That was years to hit. Okay, well, Key, if your 360 00:24:11,035 --> 00:24:12,235 Speaker 4: Yankees are up four to. 361 00:24:12,195 --> 00:24:15,035 Speaker 1: Two, it will were d bottom of the seventh and I. 362 00:24:14,995 --> 00:24:15,835 Speaker 4: Have to say something else. 363 00:24:15,915 --> 00:24:16,235 Speaker 1: Okay. 364 00:24:16,315 --> 00:24:18,715 Speaker 4: Looking at the respective earned RUD averages of the pitchers 365 00:24:18,715 --> 00:24:21,675 Speaker 4: who were starting this game. Before the game started, Jim Berger, 366 00:24:21,715 --> 00:24:24,195 Speaker 4: our ace Red Sox fan on the sports staff said 367 00:24:24,195 --> 00:24:26,315 Speaker 4: this figures to be a four to two game. So 368 00:24:26,315 --> 00:24:28,435 Speaker 4: so far he is one hundred percent correct and wishes 369 00:24:28,475 --> 00:24:31,115 Speaker 4: he words Okay, I'll talk to you a little later, okay, 370 00:24:31,115 --> 00:24:32,075 Speaker 4: can Wright when the game's over? 371 00:24:32,155 --> 00:24:32,395 Speaker 2: Correct? 372 00:24:32,515 --> 00:24:32,715 Speaker 4: Yeah? 373 00:24:32,755 --> 00:24:32,955 Speaker 2: Bye? 374 00:24:33,515 --> 00:24:36,275 Speaker 1: Some notes and yes the host there was a Red 375 00:24:36,315 --> 00:24:38,715 Speaker 1: Sox fan too. Bucky Dent rightly notes that if the 376 00:24:38,795 --> 00:24:41,875 Speaker 1: Yankees had not fired Billy Martin as their manager three 377 00:24:41,915 --> 00:24:44,915 Speaker 1: months before that game, he would not have even come 378 00:24:44,955 --> 00:24:47,555 Speaker 1: to the plate then, let alone hit that game leading 379 00:24:47,635 --> 00:24:49,955 Speaker 1: home run that eventually put the Yankees over the Red 380 00:24:49,955 --> 00:24:53,795 Speaker 1: Sox into the playoffs. Martin had pinch hit for Bucky 381 00:24:53,875 --> 00:24:57,595 Speaker 1: Dent five times in seven games at Fenway Park, Boston 382 00:24:57,595 --> 00:25:00,115 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy seven alone. He had pinch hit for 383 00:25:00,195 --> 00:25:03,955 Speaker 1: him eight times overall in Dent's first sixty three games 384 00:25:03,955 --> 00:25:07,395 Speaker 1: in nineteen seven. Then he got fired. His successor, Bob Lemon, 385 00:25:07,515 --> 00:25:11,235 Speaker 1: did not pinch it for Bucky Dent, and back then, 386 00:25:11,875 --> 00:25:15,315 Speaker 1: Eastern Airlines flying out of LaGuardia Airport in New York, 387 00:25:15,355 --> 00:25:18,795 Speaker 1: guaranteed you a seat on its hourly shuttle flight to 388 00:25:18,835 --> 00:25:21,915 Speaker 1: Boston if you got to the gate on time. It's 389 00:25:21,955 --> 00:25:25,035 Speaker 1: about one hundred and twenty people maybe per plane. For 390 00:25:25,195 --> 00:25:28,635 Speaker 1: the nine AM to Boston on October second, nineteen seventy eight, 391 00:25:28,635 --> 00:25:31,195 Speaker 1: they were about one hundred and twenty eight people at 392 00:25:31,235 --> 00:25:33,435 Speaker 1: the gate, so sure enough they rolled out a second 393 00:25:33,475 --> 00:25:38,035 Speaker 1: plane for the remaining eight of us, among them Dick Shapp, 394 00:25:38,195 --> 00:25:41,675 Speaker 1: the sportscaster, his nine year old son Jeremy now an 395 00:25:41,915 --> 00:25:47,715 Speaker 1: ESPN sportscaster, American League President Lee McPhail, and me, nineteen 396 00:25:47,795 --> 00:25:49,915 Speaker 1: year old Yankee fan, meeting up with my two friends, 397 00:25:49,915 --> 00:25:51,715 Speaker 1: the Red Sox fans, who had gone to Boston that 398 00:25:51,755 --> 00:25:53,635 Speaker 1: weekend and had bought all of his tickets to that 399 00:25:53,675 --> 00:25:57,315 Speaker 1: playoff game. The Yankees would win fifty two of their 400 00:25:57,395 --> 00:26:00,155 Speaker 1: last seventy three games that season, while the Red Sox 401 00:26:00,515 --> 00:26:03,395 Speaker 1: were just one game over five hundred in their final 402 00:26:03,475 --> 00:26:07,715 Speaker 1: seventy three in Fenway in September, where the Yankees had 403 00:26:07,755 --> 00:26:11,115 Speaker 1: lost thirteen of their sixteen previous games, New York had 404 00:26:11,155 --> 00:26:14,755 Speaker 1: swept four from Boston by a combined score of forty 405 00:26:14,795 --> 00:26:18,355 Speaker 1: two to nine and four and a half decades later, 406 00:26:18,475 --> 00:26:21,955 Speaker 1: members of the seventy eight Yankees will still insist that 407 00:26:22,155 --> 00:26:25,275 Speaker 1: August ninth was as important as any other day of 408 00:26:25,315 --> 00:26:30,115 Speaker 1: that year. Pre Internet, pre ESPN, pre talk radio, the 409 00:26:30,155 --> 00:26:33,875 Speaker 1: New York newspapers were the dominant media, and the ones 410 00:26:33,995 --> 00:26:37,635 Speaker 1: then made the ones today look like a stack of 411 00:26:37,715 --> 00:26:42,515 Speaker 1: Valentine's Day cards. On August ninth, nineteen seventy eight, all 412 00:26:42,715 --> 00:26:46,235 Speaker 1: of the New York newspapers were shut down by a 413 00:26:46,315 --> 00:26:51,155 Speaker 1: strike that lasted until November, and the Yankee players basically 414 00:26:51,155 --> 00:26:55,195 Speaker 1: didn't have to answer a question snide, tough, or otherwise 415 00:26:55,795 --> 00:27:00,595 Speaker 1: again until spring training. I was told back then that 416 00:27:00,675 --> 00:27:04,235 Speaker 1: several of the players proposed making a donation to the 417 00:27:04,235 --> 00:27:08,395 Speaker 1: newspaper strike fund as part of their winnings from winning 418 00:27:08,435 --> 00:27:24,355 Speaker 1: the World Series out of pure gratitude. Finally, to our 419 00:27:24,435 --> 00:27:26,915 Speaker 1: number one story on the content and my favorite topic, 420 00:27:27,035 --> 00:27:30,635 Speaker 1: me and Things, I promised not to tell. The New 421 00:27:30,715 --> 00:27:33,995 Speaker 1: York Yankees were in their first Pennant race in five years. 422 00:27:34,035 --> 00:27:36,555 Speaker 1: They had reeled off eight wins in ten games to 423 00:27:36,595 --> 00:27:39,755 Speaker 1: reach a first place tie with the defending world champion 424 00:27:39,835 --> 00:27:43,835 Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays. It was Sunday, August twenty second, nineteen 425 00:27:43,915 --> 00:27:47,675 Speaker 1: ninety three, and I was at Yankee Stadium just cuz 426 00:27:48,555 --> 00:27:50,835 Speaker 1: we were about to start a month of intensive preparations 427 00:27:50,835 --> 00:27:54,675 Speaker 1: for the launch of the ill fated ESPN. Two. Good evening, 428 00:27:54,755 --> 00:27:56,395 Speaker 1: and welcome to the end of our careers that one. 429 00:27:56,875 --> 00:27:59,075 Speaker 1: And this was probably going to be my last chance 430 00:27:59,115 --> 00:28:01,715 Speaker 1: to go to the city, visit my folks, see a ballgame, 431 00:28:01,795 --> 00:28:06,515 Speaker 1: whatever till further notice. And here was my childhood team, 432 00:28:06,555 --> 00:28:09,355 Speaker 1: the Yankees, with a lineup that now included friends of 433 00:28:09,395 --> 00:28:13,235 Speaker 1: mine like Danny Tartable and Mike Diego and Don Mattingly 434 00:28:13,755 --> 00:28:16,115 Speaker 1: against the Royals, for whom my friends while he Joiner 435 00:28:16,115 --> 00:28:19,235 Speaker 1: and David Cohne played, and a seat awaiting me in 436 00:28:19,275 --> 00:28:22,715 Speaker 1: the press box on a beautiful late summer Sunday afternoon 437 00:28:22,715 --> 00:28:25,595 Speaker 1: with just the earliest hint to fall in the air 438 00:28:25,675 --> 00:28:30,595 Speaker 1: and Bobby Darren singing on the PA system, and the 439 00:28:30,715 --> 00:28:35,995 Speaker 1: Yankees got crushed Kansas City started a pitcher named Chris Haney, 440 00:28:36,475 --> 00:28:39,955 Speaker 1: who was much less successful than his mediocre five point 441 00:28:39,995 --> 00:28:43,555 Speaker 1: four to seven Era implied he would somehow last for 442 00:28:43,635 --> 00:28:47,715 Speaker 1: eleven seasons and become statistically one of the worst pitchers 443 00:28:47,795 --> 00:28:51,475 Speaker 1: of a generation. And that day, the Yankees got at 444 00:28:51,555 --> 00:28:54,275 Speaker 1: least one base runner on in eight of the nine 445 00:28:54,315 --> 00:28:58,075 Speaker 1: innings against Chris Haney, and he still shut them out 446 00:28:58,115 --> 00:29:01,635 Speaker 1: seven to nothing. And you could sense right then that 447 00:29:01,795 --> 00:29:04,555 Speaker 1: whatever it was that a team needed to have to 448 00:29:04,875 --> 00:29:08,315 Speaker 1: hold its own down the stretch, the nineteen ninety three 449 00:29:08,435 --> 00:29:12,995 Speaker 1: New York Yankees did not have it. Still, it was 450 00:29:13,035 --> 00:29:15,475 Speaker 1: fun to visit with reporter friends, some of whom I'd 451 00:29:15,555 --> 00:29:18,435 Speaker 1: known since i'd broken in fourteen years earlier, and some 452 00:29:18,555 --> 00:29:22,275 Speaker 1: I hadn't seen since then. The only oddity was that 453 00:29:22,315 --> 00:29:24,435 Speaker 1: at some point during the game, one of the kids 454 00:29:24,435 --> 00:29:27,955 Speaker 1: from the Yankees media relations department came over and asked 455 00:29:27,995 --> 00:29:31,515 Speaker 1: me for my ID, and when I showed him my ID, 456 00:29:31,635 --> 00:29:33,555 Speaker 1: he asked me if I was planning to go into 457 00:29:33,555 --> 00:29:37,035 Speaker 1: the Yankee clubhouse afterwards. I said, funny, you should to 458 00:29:37,115 --> 00:29:40,075 Speaker 1: ask that I am headed downtown for dinner. But I 459 00:29:40,155 --> 00:29:43,075 Speaker 1: missed my friend Danny Chartable before the game for some reason, 460 00:29:43,235 --> 00:29:44,915 Speaker 1: and I just want to pop in and say hello, 461 00:29:44,955 --> 00:29:47,115 Speaker 1: and the kids said thanks, sorry to trouble you, and 462 00:29:47,155 --> 00:29:50,955 Speaker 1: he left, and the radio reporter I was sitting next 463 00:29:51,035 --> 00:29:53,675 Speaker 1: to Don Gould, said that that was one of the 464 00:29:53,715 --> 00:29:56,315 Speaker 1: strangest things he had seen in that press box. And 465 00:29:56,395 --> 00:29:59,195 Speaker 1: he added, and nowadays all you see up here is 466 00:29:59,235 --> 00:30:03,835 Speaker 1: strange things. As the Yankees went out limply in the ninth, 467 00:30:03,915 --> 00:30:08,275 Speaker 1: leaving Bernie Williams stranded on first, naturally, I waited until 468 00:30:08,315 --> 00:30:11,115 Speaker 1: all the reporters with real deadlines had taken the first 469 00:30:11,155 --> 00:30:13,675 Speaker 1: couple of elevator trips down to the Yankee Clubhouse in 470 00:30:13,715 --> 00:30:17,395 Speaker 1: the basement, and then I leisurely made my way downstairs. I 471 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:20,715 Speaker 1: navigated the catacombs of the stadium basement as I had 472 00:30:20,715 --> 00:30:23,955 Speaker 1: since it had opened in nineteen seventy six, and felt 473 00:30:23,995 --> 00:30:28,315 Speaker 1: warm and nostalgic and at peace. I showed my pass 474 00:30:28,395 --> 00:30:30,875 Speaker 1: to the guard at the clubhouse door and walked into 475 00:30:30,915 --> 00:30:34,795 Speaker 1: the clubhouse to find the Yankee Clubhouse lacking the one 476 00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:37,595 Speaker 1: thing it had literally always featured in each of the 477 00:30:37,675 --> 00:30:41,595 Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of times i'd previously entered it since 478 00:30:41,635 --> 00:30:48,075 Speaker 1: I was seventeen years old. Players There were no Yankee 479 00:30:48,355 --> 00:30:53,555 Speaker 1: players in the Yankee Clubhouse. No Yankees, no Yankees still 480 00:30:53,595 --> 00:30:58,315 Speaker 1: in uniform, no Yankees half dressed, no Yankees not dressed, 481 00:30:58,475 --> 00:31:01,235 Speaker 1: No sounds of other Yankees in the showers off to 482 00:31:01,275 --> 00:31:08,315 Speaker 1: the left. Nothing. Well, that wasn't quite right. I realized 483 00:31:08,475 --> 00:31:11,715 Speaker 1: something after about a minute of walking slowly from locker 484 00:31:11,755 --> 00:31:15,555 Speaker 1: to locker, thinking, isn't this where they used to be? 485 00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:20,315 Speaker 1: Maybe Maddingly is crouching out of sight over here, and 486 00:31:20,355 --> 00:31:23,555 Speaker 1: maybe Tartarbule is hiding behind his suit. After that, zero 487 00:31:23,635 --> 00:31:27,315 Speaker 1: for three, I realized that while there were no Yankees 488 00:31:27,355 --> 00:31:30,875 Speaker 1: in the Yankee Clubhouse, there were reporters in the Yankee Clubhouse, 489 00:31:31,035 --> 00:31:35,835 Speaker 1: and they were all staring at me, and angrily staring 490 00:31:35,915 --> 00:31:39,075 Speaker 1: at me. I said to them, might have been my 491 00:31:39,115 --> 00:31:41,595 Speaker 1: friend from upstairs, Don Gould, what the hell's going on? 492 00:31:41,755 --> 00:31:44,835 Speaker 1: And he said testily, I don't know. Why don't you 493 00:31:44,915 --> 00:31:49,555 Speaker 1: tell us? The reporters around him, who had never taken 494 00:31:49,595 --> 00:31:53,035 Speaker 1: their eyes off me, now murmured quietly, but with a 495 00:31:53,075 --> 00:31:59,595 Speaker 1: subtext of threat and menace and vengeance in their indistinct gurgling. 496 00:32:01,595 --> 00:32:04,475 Speaker 1: Just at this point, Arthur Richmond, who had been the 497 00:32:04,475 --> 00:32:06,835 Speaker 1: men It's public relations man forever and was now a 498 00:32:06,915 --> 00:32:10,995 Speaker 1: Yankees vice president of something for some reason, and more importantly, 499 00:32:11,075 --> 00:32:13,995 Speaker 1: was the surviving brother of the great baseball reporter Milt Richmond, 500 00:32:13,995 --> 00:32:15,795 Speaker 1: who had so helped me at the start of my 501 00:32:15,955 --> 00:32:20,875 Speaker 1: career at UPI. Arthur tapped me on the shoulder and said, U, 502 00:32:21,035 --> 00:32:24,795 Speaker 1: Keith Aberman, right, And I said, yes, we've met before. 503 00:32:24,915 --> 00:32:27,435 Speaker 1: I used to work with your brother. And he did 504 00:32:27,435 --> 00:32:30,595 Speaker 1: not look happily at me. And I asked him if 505 00:32:30,595 --> 00:32:33,235 Speaker 1: he wanted to see my pass or my ID or 506 00:32:33,235 --> 00:32:38,035 Speaker 1: my identifying birthmarks. Arthur did not smile. The manager would 507 00:32:38,075 --> 00:32:40,595 Speaker 1: like to see you in his office. I still didn't 508 00:32:40,595 --> 00:32:43,515 Speaker 1: have the faintest idea what was going on? Have I 509 00:32:43,595 --> 00:32:47,595 Speaker 1: been sent down to the miners, Arthur, I asked jauntily. Yes, 510 00:32:48,195 --> 00:32:54,395 Speaker 1: yes you have, Richmond answered with utter seriousness. Arthur Richmond 511 00:32:54,475 --> 00:32:56,515 Speaker 1: escorted me to the little room on the home plate 512 00:32:56,595 --> 00:32:58,435 Speaker 1: side of the clubhouse, in which I had once seen 513 00:32:58,475 --> 00:33:00,875 Speaker 1: the late Billy Martin shout at a coach, two pitchers, 514 00:33:00,915 --> 00:33:03,155 Speaker 1: three writers, and a clubhouse attendant who had been with 515 00:33:03,155 --> 00:33:06,555 Speaker 1: the team since nineteen twenty seven. The current occupant of 516 00:33:06,555 --> 00:33:09,915 Speaker 1: that tiny office, the manager rose from his desk, Keith 517 00:33:09,995 --> 00:33:13,115 Speaker 1: hi Buck Showalter. I'm the manager here. I reminded him 518 00:33:13,115 --> 00:33:15,755 Speaker 1: that we had done a lengthy interview for ESPN Radio 519 00:33:15,835 --> 00:33:19,035 Speaker 1: the year before. That's right, I'd forgotten. I apologize. Listen. 520 00:33:19,035 --> 00:33:21,475 Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you. I think you brought something 521 00:33:21,515 --> 00:33:23,675 Speaker 1: refreshing and fun to Sports Center. I watch you all 522 00:33:23,715 --> 00:33:26,395 Speaker 1: the time, especially when we're on the road. You know 523 00:33:26,475 --> 00:33:28,555 Speaker 1: the game too, That's important. But I have to tell 524 00:33:28,595 --> 00:33:31,835 Speaker 1: you my players have a problem with what you do. 525 00:33:33,155 --> 00:33:36,075 Speaker 1: I wasn't that surprise. Players were like that In nineteen 526 00:33:36,155 --> 00:33:39,875 Speaker 1: ninety three. Very few sportscasters said anything negative about players. 527 00:33:39,955 --> 00:33:43,755 Speaker 1: They certainly did not make jokes or puns about them. 528 00:33:44,195 --> 00:33:46,155 Speaker 1: I saw you on the field before the game. I 529 00:33:46,235 --> 00:33:50,195 Speaker 1: heard some of our guys, Showalter continued, like Paul O'Neil 530 00:33:50,315 --> 00:33:53,915 Speaker 1: and Wade Bogs and Joe Girardi. They were talking about 531 00:33:53,955 --> 00:33:55,555 Speaker 1: how they were thinking about going out there on the 532 00:33:55,555 --> 00:34:00,275 Speaker 1: field and punching you in the head. I flashed back 533 00:34:00,395 --> 00:34:05,595 Speaker 1: suddenly to nineteen eighty nine when Bogs went on Heraldo 534 00:34:05,675 --> 00:34:08,875 Speaker 1: Rivera's show and announced he was a sex addict, and 535 00:34:08,915 --> 00:34:10,835 Speaker 1: how after checking with a few of his Red Sox 536 00:34:10,835 --> 00:34:13,075 Speaker 1: teammates whom I knew from the year I worked in Boston, 537 00:34:13,075 --> 00:34:14,995 Speaker 1: who said that was nonsense. I went on the air 538 00:34:14,995 --> 00:34:17,795 Speaker 1: on my sportscast in the local station in LA, having 539 00:34:17,835 --> 00:34:22,995 Speaker 1: intercut Boggs's weepy comments to Heraldo with the music video 540 00:34:23,035 --> 00:34:26,915 Speaker 1: from Robert Palmers Addicted to Love. I have to say 541 00:34:27,835 --> 00:34:31,395 Speaker 1: it was pretty funny and also might have been the 542 00:34:31,395 --> 00:34:35,595 Speaker 1: meanest thing I ever did on TV. Boggs wanted to 543 00:34:35,635 --> 00:34:38,515 Speaker 1: punch me in the head on the field at Yankee Stadium. 544 00:34:39,075 --> 00:34:43,155 Speaker 1: That checked out? Go on, I said to Buck Showalter. 545 00:34:43,995 --> 00:34:45,835 Speaker 1: In fact, the players are all staying in the training 546 00:34:45,915 --> 00:34:48,475 Speaker 1: room in the back until they've been assured you've left 547 00:34:48,515 --> 00:34:52,115 Speaker 1: the clubhouse and you won't be returning. They voted unanimously. 548 00:34:53,315 --> 00:34:57,075 Speaker 1: I thought about this, When did they vote unanimously while 549 00:34:57,115 --> 00:34:58,875 Speaker 1: they were getting shut out by the worst picture of 550 00:34:58,915 --> 00:35:02,315 Speaker 1: a generation that did not check out? Now, Like I said, person, 551 00:35:02,395 --> 00:35:04,355 Speaker 1: I like what you do, but I think you may 552 00:35:04,435 --> 00:35:07,075 Speaker 1: want to consider the implications of what not having any 553 00:35:07,515 --> 00:35:09,755 Speaker 1: access to players ever again we'll have on your career, 554 00:35:09,835 --> 00:35:12,275 Speaker 1: especially on such a high profile program as Sports Center. 555 00:35:12,995 --> 00:35:15,475 Speaker 1: I thought about it briefly, and I smiled at Buck Showalter. 556 00:35:15,915 --> 00:35:18,835 Speaker 1: None whatsoever. Actually, I'm a studio guy. I never have 557 00:35:18,915 --> 00:35:21,115 Speaker 1: to go to games and more to the point I've 558 00:35:21,235 --> 00:35:24,595 Speaker 1: just left Sports Center for this new ESPN two network 559 00:35:25,195 --> 00:35:28,115 Speaker 1: because my boss has said it's basically going to be 560 00:35:28,155 --> 00:35:32,555 Speaker 1: a network that's designed around my sense of humor. Buck 561 00:35:32,595 --> 00:35:34,795 Speaker 1: Showalter was thirty seven years old then, and at the 562 00:35:34,875 --> 00:35:36,875 Speaker 1: end of his second year as a major league manager, 563 00:35:37,035 --> 00:35:39,515 Speaker 1: his team, having just achieved a tie for first place, 564 00:35:39,515 --> 00:35:41,475 Speaker 1: had just gotten the air let out of its balloon 565 00:35:41,515 --> 00:35:44,195 Speaker 1: by an epically bad pitcher on a not so good team. 566 00:35:44,435 --> 00:35:47,755 Speaker 1: Plus they were due on a flight for Chicago, and 567 00:35:47,795 --> 00:35:50,715 Speaker 1: the bus was supposed to leave in an hour, but 568 00:35:52,115 --> 00:35:55,555 Speaker 1: Paul O'Neill, Wade Bogs, and Joe Girardi were worried about 569 00:35:55,595 --> 00:36:02,315 Speaker 1: some dumb sportscaster making jokes. I knew they were doomed. 570 00:36:03,475 --> 00:36:07,635 Speaker 1: And if manager Buck Showalter actually let Paul O'Neill, Wade Bogs, 571 00:36:07,635 --> 00:36:10,675 Speaker 1: and Joe Girardi worried about some dumb sportscaster and his jokes, 572 00:36:11,515 --> 00:36:14,875 Speaker 1: Buck showalter io was doomed. And sure enough they would 573 00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:17,355 Speaker 1: lose twenty of their last thirty seven games after that 574 00:36:17,475 --> 00:36:19,315 Speaker 1: day and not make the playoffs for two years, and 575 00:36:19,355 --> 00:36:22,435 Speaker 1: not actually get anywhere in the playoffs until after Showalter 576 00:36:22,555 --> 00:36:26,635 Speaker 1: was fired and replaced by my friend Joe Tory. Right 577 00:36:26,635 --> 00:36:28,875 Speaker 1: around then after the firing, I was part of the 578 00:36:28,915 --> 00:36:33,235 Speaker 1: annual ESPN Awards show The Spies. It was the post 579 00:36:33,435 --> 00:36:35,515 Speaker 1: SPI's party, and I went to get a drink and 580 00:36:35,555 --> 00:36:39,275 Speaker 1: turned a corner and they're coming toward me were Paul O'Neill, 581 00:36:39,355 --> 00:36:42,915 Speaker 1: Wade Bogs, and Joe Girardi. I was just about to 582 00:36:42,995 --> 00:36:47,955 Speaker 1: gulp when O'Neill shouted, there, he is our favorite ESPN guy. 583 00:36:48,955 --> 00:36:54,395 Speaker 1: Handshakes all of them. Girardi said he was amazed every 584 00:36:54,395 --> 00:36:56,315 Speaker 1: time I ripped a player, he said it was somebody. 585 00:36:56,395 --> 00:36:59,515 Speaker 1: He also didn't like. How did I know? Bog said, 586 00:36:59,555 --> 00:37:02,035 Speaker 1: somebody told me that you put my Heraldo appearance into 587 00:37:02,035 --> 00:37:04,075 Speaker 1: that Robert Palmer song. If you got a tape of that, 588 00:37:04,115 --> 00:37:06,275 Speaker 1: I'd like to say see it. I told them the 589 00:37:06,275 --> 00:37:11,595 Speaker 1: Buck Showalter story immediately. Ah, God, I remember that, said O'Neil. 590 00:37:11,795 --> 00:37:13,635 Speaker 1: He was pissed you were in the ballpark and we 591 00:37:13,715 --> 00:37:15,715 Speaker 1: got shut out, and he made us stay in the 592 00:37:15,755 --> 00:37:17,835 Speaker 1: trainer's room and not come out till after you left. 593 00:37:17,875 --> 00:37:21,315 Speaker 1: And god, it was terrible. The smile vanished from Joe 594 00:37:21,315 --> 00:37:24,675 Speaker 1: Girardi's face. Buck did stuff like that all the time. 595 00:37:24,835 --> 00:37:26,915 Speaker 1: We should all have a drink and talk about it. 596 00:37:27,835 --> 00:37:29,875 Speaker 1: We all had a drink and we talked about it. 597 00:37:31,715 --> 00:37:34,755 Speaker 1: Years later, I was telling my late friend Pedro Gomez 598 00:37:34,795 --> 00:37:37,195 Speaker 1: of ESPN the story, and he said, Showalter used to 599 00:37:37,275 --> 00:37:40,635 Speaker 1: do this to him when Showalter was managing the Arizona 600 00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:44,035 Speaker 1: Diamondbacks and Pedro was a beat reporter for a newspaper 601 00:37:44,035 --> 00:37:47,475 Speaker 1: in Phoenix. You know, Colbran wants to beat you up, 602 00:37:47,475 --> 00:37:52,195 Speaker 1: but I stopped him. He quoted Showalter as saying Greg 603 00:37:52,235 --> 00:37:54,595 Speaker 1: Colbran was a six foot one hundred and ninety pound 604 00:37:54,675 --> 00:37:59,075 Speaker 1: weightlifter from California's Inland Empire who seemed to play baseball 605 00:37:59,115 --> 00:38:03,115 Speaker 1: in his spare time. So Pedro said, I confronted him 606 00:38:03,115 --> 00:38:05,075 Speaker 1: one day and he said, dude, what are you talk about. 607 00:38:05,155 --> 00:38:09,075 Speaker 1: You know, Buck just makes this crap up. The Yankees 608 00:38:09,155 --> 00:38:11,835 Speaker 1: fired Buck Showalter in nineteen ninety five, as I mentioned, 609 00:38:11,875 --> 00:38:15,155 Speaker 1: and won the World Series in nineteen ninety six. The 610 00:38:15,195 --> 00:38:17,875 Speaker 1: Diamondbacks fired him in two thousand and won the World 611 00:38:17,875 --> 00:38:20,435 Speaker 1: Series in two thousand and one. Then he went to 612 00:38:20,475 --> 00:38:24,755 Speaker 1: work in of all places, the studio at ESPN for 613 00:38:24,835 --> 00:38:27,755 Speaker 1: two years. Then he got another managing job in Texas, 614 00:38:27,795 --> 00:38:30,755 Speaker 1: got fired from there, went back to ESPN. For three 615 00:38:30,795 --> 00:38:33,755 Speaker 1: more years and then became the manager at Baltimore in 616 00:38:33,835 --> 00:38:37,795 Speaker 1: twenty ten. I was at the Baltimore spring training camp 617 00:38:37,835 --> 00:38:41,275 Speaker 1: one day that March and I see walking toward me 618 00:38:41,315 --> 00:38:43,195 Speaker 1: from the other side of the field, trying to capture 619 00:38:43,195 --> 00:38:47,515 Speaker 1: my attention. Buck Showalter. I am now fifty one years old. 620 00:38:47,555 --> 00:38:50,115 Speaker 1: He is now fifty three years old. It is nearly 621 00:38:50,235 --> 00:38:54,275 Speaker 1: seventeen years since the day he locked his entire team 622 00:38:54,355 --> 00:38:56,595 Speaker 1: in the trainer's room in the middle of a Pennant 623 00:38:56,675 --> 00:39:00,115 Speaker 1: race in a complicated ritual that would have been too labyrinthine, 624 00:39:00,155 --> 00:39:03,395 Speaker 1: a plot for Tom Clancy just to express some cheesy 625 00:39:03,435 --> 00:39:08,275 Speaker 1: grudge against the way I did sports guests, Hey, Joe 626 00:39:08,315 --> 00:39:11,035 Speaker 1: Walter said when he finally reached me, when I pulled 627 00:39:11,075 --> 00:39:13,075 Speaker 1: that stunt on you at Yankee Stadium, was that ninety 628 00:39:13,075 --> 00:39:16,595 Speaker 1: three or ninety four? We shook hands as I laughed, 629 00:39:16,595 --> 00:39:19,195 Speaker 1: and I told him it was August of nineteen ninety three. 630 00:39:19,235 --> 00:39:20,915 Speaker 1: I can get you the exact date if you needed. 631 00:39:21,515 --> 00:39:24,395 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I had not been in television yet. I 632 00:39:24,435 --> 00:39:27,435 Speaker 1: didn't get any of it. I just thought you guys 633 00:39:27,675 --> 00:39:30,235 Speaker 1: came in and shouted your heads off and then went home. 634 00:39:31,515 --> 00:39:34,355 Speaker 1: I didn't get it. Obviously. Why didn't you tell me 635 00:39:34,435 --> 00:39:37,995 Speaker 1: off or something? He asked. I shrugged. I said, well, 636 00:39:38,115 --> 00:39:41,075 Speaker 1: there was you. There were six coaches, twenty five players 637 00:39:41,115 --> 00:39:44,635 Speaker 1: there versus me, plus all the reporters who were angry 638 00:39:44,635 --> 00:39:46,795 Speaker 1: at me, who were on deadline. What if you were 639 00:39:46,795 --> 00:39:52,395 Speaker 1: telling the truth now? Buck laughed and apologized again. We 640 00:39:52,515 --> 00:39:55,835 Speaker 1: have been professional friends ever since. Whenever I have seen him, 641 00:39:55,835 --> 00:39:58,595 Speaker 1: we compare the cruelties of aging and talk about politics 642 00:39:58,675 --> 00:40:03,115 Speaker 1: and television. I saw him two Saturdays ago, after four 643 00:40:03,155 --> 00:40:05,475 Speaker 1: more years in TV, when it looked like his managing 644 00:40:05,515 --> 00:40:07,475 Speaker 1: career might be over. He is back running the New 645 00:40:07,515 --> 00:40:10,035 Speaker 1: York Mets at the age of sixty six and doing 646 00:40:10,035 --> 00:40:11,955 Speaker 1: a damn fine job of it. And every once in 647 00:40:11,995 --> 00:40:14,435 Speaker 1: a while I bring up the trainer's room full of Yankees, 648 00:40:14,475 --> 00:40:18,155 Speaker 1: and he flinches and says, you know, there's one last 649 00:40:18,155 --> 00:40:22,835 Speaker 1: thing about it that now I cannot possibly understand that 650 00:40:23,075 --> 00:40:29,275 Speaker 1: trainer's room that was really tiny. How did the players 651 00:40:29,395 --> 00:40:44,955 Speaker 1: all fit in there? I've done all the damage I 652 00:40:44,995 --> 00:40:47,075 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown has come 653 00:40:47,115 --> 00:40:49,275 Speaker 1: to you from the Vin Scully Studios at the Older 654 00:40:49,275 --> 00:40:52,995 Speaker 1: Woman Broadcasting Empire in New York. 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