Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: You haven't been fired. I've been fired. I've been fired
Speaker 2: a lot. I've been fired. I've been fired from bakeries
Speaker 2: that I worked out. I've been fired from women's clothing stores.
Speaker 2: I was once fired by my brother. My brother fired
Speaker 2: me from a Wars. But one thing that's never I
Speaker 2: was fired by Stripogram once. One thing that's never happened
Speaker 2: to me is that I've been fired at three o'clock
Speaker 2: in the morning, three thousand miles away from where I lived.
Speaker 2: Willie Randolph, the New York Mets manager, my beloved Mets.
Speaker 2: This guy, Okay, the Mets suck fire, but they could
Speaker 2: have fired Willie ran off at any point over the
Speaker 2: last year. So what they do is they wait before
Speaker 2: he takes a trip to Los Angeles. They fly him
Speaker 2: all the way out to Los Angeles, he wins the game,
Speaker 2: and then they fire him that night at three o'clock
Speaker 2: in the morning. You don't get when you get a
Speaker 2: call at three o'clock in the morning, that's for sex,
Speaker 2: that's not for being fired.
Speaker 3: He did not preserve that it is classless.
Speaker 4: Here's how matters.
Speaker 3: This is the New York Post Tiger Woods.
Speaker 2: They don't even They don't even have time to put
Speaker 2: Willie Randolph being fired classless. I mean maybe they flew
Speaker 2: him out to Los Angeles because I thought, what we're
Speaker 2: gonna fire him, he should at least get his frequent
Speaker 2: flyer Miles. I don't know, bastardos. And this is the
Speaker 2: worst part. We have a tape of the call of
Speaker 2: him being fired. You cannot believe who they got to
Speaker 2: fire him.
Speaker 5: Hey, Willie, it's missed the Mets.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 6: Oh and just watch it fire.
Speaker 5: So back up your crap, get the pick out of
Speaker 5: the club outs give you boy, you want to meet
Speaker 5: the Mets, Why don't you be missed the Met.
Speaker 2: I'll meet you in a parking lot.
Speaker 7: You bump or another thing.
Speaker 6: Keep it dirty, Mits off of missus Met instead of
Speaker 6: a bitch, go disrespect all due respect forget about a Hyde.
Speaker 2: Not right.
Speaker 4: Willie didn't deserve this.
Speaker 3: I got right the third baseman for the New York Mets.
Speaker 2: His charitable organization, the David Wright Foundation, is hosting its
Speaker 2: third annual Do the Right Thing Gala, taking place right
Speaker 2: here in New York City on November fifteenth. Please welcome
Speaker 2: to the show, David Wright.
Speaker 4: Play great to see you always a pleasure.
Speaker 2: I was hoping, true Mets fan, a true Mets fan
Speaker 2: since nineteen forty eight or whatever. I was hoping that
Speaker 2: we would be doing this interview under more pleasant circumstances
Speaker 2: of the World Series having ended you being crowned World
Speaker 2: Series Champions. It was not to be next year, seriously,
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight, okay, and about to hear first.
Speaker 2: And if I put money on that, like I did this.
Speaker 4: Year, if I was allowed, I'd pay you back.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate that. What what you know the Mets?
Speaker 2: What does it feel like you're a great young player?
Speaker 2: My guess is you stay off the horse juice. You're
Speaker 2: going Hall of Fame for now? Are you on the
Speaker 2: horse juice?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not?
Speaker 2: Who's on the horse juice?
Speaker 4: On your team?
Speaker 2: You know this is the Mets were ahead by seven
Speaker 2: games with seventeen to go and didn't make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What are you still feeling that?
Speaker 4: Are you nightmares everyd you bounce back?
Speaker 2: If the next day do you still think about it?
Speaker 8: You know, it's one of those things where you know,
Speaker 8: it's tough to say right now, but I think in
Speaker 8: the long run, hopefully it helps us out. You know
Speaker 8: it built character. It learned how to deal with adversity.
Speaker 8: You know, throughout those last two weeks. I mean, we
Speaker 8: were getting ripped pretty good, and we learned to deal
Speaker 8: with that.
Speaker 2: Exactly, winning the World Series it would have been too
Speaker 2: easy this year.
Speaker 4: It would have been the wrong move.
Speaker 8: I'm twenty, twenty four years old.
Speaker 4: What would I had to look forward to? Exactly?
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. You're twenty four years old. You hit
Speaker 2: over three hundred, you hit thirty dangers, you stole thirty bases,
Speaker 2: you signed a huge contract. I want to be you.
Speaker 2: That's what makes me so angry.
Speaker 4: There's been some.
Speaker 2: Talk in the city and this has got to be
Speaker 2: hard because and entertainment. It's similar to that they talk
Speaker 2: about people taking over your job. Alex Rodriguez opted out
Speaker 2: of his Yankee contract, his third basement. They say, oh,
Speaker 2: maybe the Mets will go after him. You're the Mets
Speaker 2: third baseman. Do you call them up and go hello?
Speaker 8: You know, it's just seeing the way the Boston celebrated,
Speaker 8: seeing the winners of the World Series first and foremost,
Speaker 8: I want to win, So am I saying that I
Speaker 8: would change positions for a guy like Alex Rodriguez if
Speaker 8: the front office called me and said, hey, look, we
Speaker 8: want to make this team better, and you're involved. I
Speaker 8: would absolutely want to sit down and listen. But for
Speaker 8: right now, I am the third basement of New York
Speaker 8: Mets and I'm going into the two thousand and eight
Speaker 8: season prepared to be the third base.
Speaker 2: What if they call you when they say, hey, what
Speaker 2: about John Stewart may be playing third base?
Speaker 4: I'm all in. You're all in for that, Linn.
Speaker 2: I say, no, a Rod, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: He seems like bad medicine. He seems like a very
Speaker 2: good player, but when he gets on the team, it's like, uh,
Speaker 2: he weakens the team. He's like the Dick Cheney of baseball.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean that. I mean that he nobody
Speaker 1: seems to like what he's doing.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you don't have to comment on that.
Speaker 2: You just show no, no, he definitely doesn't. But no,
Speaker 2: it seems like he's a bad chemistry guy. And chemistry
Speaker 2: is important, is it not.
Speaker 8: Fifty two home runs are important too, last time I checked,
Speaker 8: that could.
Speaker 2: Be a lot of chemistry. Okay, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 2: Do you think the Mets end up signing a lot
Speaker 2: of these high profile free agents. Are you're happy with
Speaker 2: the way things?
Speaker 8: I think we got a good, young core group of guys.
Speaker 8: I love my job here, so I don't want to
Speaker 8: go anywhere, So no trade for me, hopefully, but I
Speaker 8: hope we go out and make some improvements. I think,
Speaker 8: you know pitching side obviously that that kind of fell
Speaker 8: apart down the stretch. We could use another big bat,
Speaker 8: so maybe through the outfield, but.
Speaker 2: You could use some pitching. Am I right?
Speaker 1: Let me show you something.
Speaker 2: I was at a playoff game, the New York Mets
Speaker 2: versus the Saint Louis Cardinals. Do we have tape of that?
Speaker 2: This is apropos to what we were?
Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, you see.
Speaker 5: I was one of the ones booing.
Speaker 4: Were you actually was one of the one's booing in
Speaker 4: the background.
Speaker 2: Have you had the experience yet of forty five thousand
Speaker 2: people booing.
Speaker 4: You in April this year?
Speaker 3: Did you really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I got off to a slow start this year. Derek
Speaker 8: Junior has been booed in New York. So it's kind
Speaker 8: of a rite of passage. So that's what I tell
Speaker 8: myself in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: When you look at that footage and you see the
Speaker 2: crowd booing me. You almost think to yourself, Wow, John
Speaker 2: Stewart is just like Derek Jeter and David.
Speaker 4: Right, correct, right, David Right, Derek Jeter, John.
Speaker 3: Stewart, thank you.
Speaker 2: Except I may be the only one of you guys
Speaker 2: who can't reach home plate with the ball.
Speaker 4: You didn't get to warm up.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, that's what it is, and I'm decrepit.
Speaker 2: Off season. Do you go out, do you start playing
Speaker 2: this scene, enjoy the fruits of your labor or is
Speaker 2: it all strictly business.
Speaker 8: We know, after the end of the year, the way
Speaker 8: it ended, you have a bitter taste in your mouth.
Speaker 8: You want to get going for next year, obviously, you know,
Speaker 8: being twenty four years old, I like to go out
Speaker 8: have a good time every now and then. But it's
Speaker 8: basically business. It's getting ready for next year. It's working
Speaker 8: out trying to hope that next year the same thing
Speaker 8: does a.
Speaker 2: Little bit better. Well, I really appreciate you coming by.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge messman. I wish it means you're a
Speaker 2: great player and a great guy, and you know, just
Speaker 2: take me with you.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, thank you, David right, everybody, Well, the night I
Speaker 9: got tonight for my money.
Speaker 2: He is the most exciting picture in the game today.
Speaker 2: He's the face of the New York Metropolitans walking to
Speaker 2: the program.
Speaker 3: Matt Harvey. Oh, for God's sake.
Speaker 10: So yes, So this is what seventeen seasons, this is,
Speaker 10: This is perfect.
Speaker 2: It's exactly my size and that it can function as
Speaker 2: a shirt and pants for me.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. I'm thrilled to have.
Speaker 2: You on the program. Thank you Jesus. Come on you,
Speaker 2: what are you doing this thing? Just get it on
Speaker 2: that you please.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 2: Just if it gets thirsty, just give it a little water. Perfect.
Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta protect you gotta protect the money maker.
Speaker 10: My friend.
Speaker 3: There you go, nicely done.
Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you a question.
Speaker 3: You're you're how old are you six?
Speaker 2: You're twenty six years old? You got in New York City.
Speaker 2: We have not seen a player of your ability in
Speaker 2: many years. Maybe you know, Uh, Doc Gooden is Doc Gooden?
Speaker 2: Daryl Strawberry back in you know, the mid eighties, the
Speaker 2: last time that we experienced I guess what some people
Speaker 2: would call it's been so long success? Uh what is that?
Speaker 2: Does it feel like a responsibility? What does it feel like?
Speaker 2: Is it just all excitement. Are you enjoying yourself?
Speaker 5: I think it's excitement. I think for for us and
Speaker 5: the whole staff. I think we're we're you know, excited
Speaker 5: about the future. We're excited about now and and I
Speaker 5: think the most important thing is to focus on what
Speaker 5: we're doing now. And you know, we're not looking to
Speaker 5: next year the year after. We're trying to.
Speaker 2: Win now in a moment. You haven't been hurt before
Speaker 2: like many Mets. Is it does it feel strange? Do
Speaker 2: you feel the pessimism of the Mets fan? The Met
Speaker 2: fan is a we are we are a beaten creature.
Speaker 5: I think I think I saw an article today about
Speaker 5: how I should be pitched till I'm be abused almost
Speaker 5: so I think your abused, Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 2: Why because they think you'll leave? Yes, because you're with
Speaker 2: the Mets. How do you think it is the Mets?
Speaker 2: Here's my thought. You dominate the league for like two years,
Speaker 2: and then they trade you for a milk and goat
Speaker 2: and some magic beans, because that is generally the way
Speaker 2: that they handle excellent ballplayers. You know, I would say,
Speaker 2: you know the team now is what a twenty seven
Speaker 2: to twenty one? If you tot a Met fan. The
Speaker 2: Inwyork Mets are going to be twenty seven to twenty
Speaker 2: one at the beginning of the season. At this point,
Speaker 2: I think anybody would have taken that. But the way
Speaker 2: the young arms have pitched, it almost feels like it
Speaker 2: could be more, It could be better. How's it feeling
Speaker 2: in the clubhouse?
Speaker 5: I think we definitely feel like we should have won
Speaker 5: a few games that we didn't, but you know, we're close.
Speaker 5: I think the Nationals obviously had a slow start and
Speaker 5: then came up. Oh they've been playing.
Speaker 2: They got some pretty diangers. Yeah. Is it frustrating for
Speaker 2: a pitcher? You auld a game, you get these a
Speaker 2: couple of times, you throw eight shutout innings something like that,
Speaker 2: and it's the offense maybe gets your run and then
Speaker 2: or they don't get you a run. Does that feel
Speaker 2: frustrating to put in that type of performance but the
Speaker 2: hitting lags behind. Is there a split between offense and
Speaker 2: pitching in the clubhouse or do you guys just kind
Speaker 2: of try and pick each other up and everybody's got
Speaker 2: patience with everybody else.
Speaker 5: I think it's a patient's thing. I think I could
Speaker 5: say maybe two years ago, I think I might have gotten,
Speaker 5: you know, upset.
Speaker 2: And twenty four now you're twenty six.
Speaker 10: Yeah, big, big difference, huge difference. It's a huge difference,
Speaker 10: especially with you know.
Speaker 2: Just please you don't know this, This loose like could
Speaker 2: very much damage that.
Speaker 5: OL.
Speaker 2: I don't want anything to happen to you. You're my future.
Speaker 2: But you know I'm leaving the show.
Speaker 3: You're all I have left.
Speaker 5: I know you gotta Well, we were talking. I was like,
Speaker 5: I gotta get you out and take some VP or
Speaker 5: something me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would in no way be a dream come true.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Is it competitive with the other young coutures. You got
Speaker 2: Cindergarte out there. This kid's a beast. He's what twenty
Speaker 2: three twenty two throws shut out ball and he hits
Speaker 2: a home run. Ridiculous, It's ridiculous.
Speaker 5: I think my face I saw it on Twitter a
Speaker 5: bunch of times. I think the face that I had
Speaker 5: after the home run was just shot. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: it was.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. You de gram Darnault. This is a really
Speaker 2: young core. Do you feel like you can change the
Speaker 2: culture of a team that suffered. It's a lot of
Speaker 2: pressure to put on. You know, you got the Yankees
Speaker 2: cross Town, you got all these other things. Do you
Speaker 2: guys talk about that or it really is just about man,
Speaker 2: let's go out, let's have fun, Let's remember why we
Speaker 2: love this game.
Speaker 5: I think I think our mindset and has been for
Speaker 5: you know, all of this year especially. I think coming
Speaker 5: into spring training, we had one goal and that was
Speaker 5: to win, and I think we all believe that. I
Speaker 5: think it was a lot different than in years past
Speaker 5: spring trainings, and you know, we've carried that to mostly
Speaker 5: every game. So I think for us, being a young staff,
Speaker 5: I think we, you know, try and bring a lot
Speaker 5: of energy to the clubhouse.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited. You know, I'm gonna bring my whole
Speaker 2: family down. We we we love going to the games,
Speaker 2: we love watching the team, and you guys have given
Speaker 2: us a reason to be very hopeful for the first
Speaker 2: time in a long time. And I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 2: And you're you're a beast out there. I look forward
Speaker 2: to seeing you pitch more and more. Thank you, very
Speaker 2: muche for coming on the.
Speaker 3: Everybody, let's saim watch yourself? What an I guess tonight on.
Speaker 4: New York Mets Legend.
Speaker 2: His new book is called Mookie Life Baseball and the
Speaker 2: eighty six Mets. Please welcome to the program, Mookie, where
Speaker 2: is it? And honor to see you here? All right, great,
Speaker 2: thank you for being here, Thanks for having me as
Speaker 2: really the last time in many years that I can
Speaker 2: actually say that to a New York Met, the rough.
Speaker 3: Times it's been, the rough time.
Speaker 2: This really was. You know, you're right about eighty six.
Speaker 2: There is something truly indelible about a championship season that
Speaker 2: makes it worthy of remembrance. What was it about the
Speaker 2: eighty six team when you guys won the World Series?
Speaker 2: Besides the dramatic fashion you wanted.
Speaker 3: It, I think it's the characters.
Speaker 7: I think that we're a group of individuals that weren't
Speaker 7: afraid to be themselves. And I think any more of
Speaker 7: that as sports and more of that.
Speaker 2: Yes, but you were you know, the eighty six team
Speaker 2: had Doc Gooden, Daryl Strawberry, Keith Hernandez, yes, Gry Curtry.
Speaker 2: But you were a beacon of maturity.
Speaker 7: And that's good.
Speaker 2: Don't you think you were the one guy everybody loved
Speaker 2: and nobody ever worried about. You always thought, Keith Hernandez.
Speaker 2: Some at some point six in the morning, somebody's gonna
Speaker 2: be like where's Keith Mookie Wilson never had that issue.
Speaker 7: Now, I think the team we had this group over
Speaker 7: here that was really outgoing a lot people called the
Speaker 7: scum bunch, you know. If we had this other group
Speaker 7: over here that was really you know, you know Gary Carter's,
Speaker 7: you know Ron Darlings, guys like that, didn't have those
Speaker 7: guys in the middle, you know, like myself and Raphael
Speaker 7: sa Antannadate kind of you know, kept it all together.
Speaker 2: And that chemistry.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it brings up an issue.
Speaker 2: So everybody is talking about this Donald Sterling, this relationship
Speaker 2: between queen a racist owner. Sports really is an unusually
Speaker 2: almost paternal situation with the owner. They can ship you
Speaker 2: out to another city. Do the players feel that relationship.
Speaker 7: I think it's always it's gonna be that weird relationship
Speaker 7: with between players, you know and management, knowing that management
Speaker 7: does have the last word. Sometimes it doesn't matter how
Speaker 7: well you play, it's all about the relationship between the
Speaker 7: player and ownership. Now this basketball situation is really really different.
Speaker 7: We have a lot of racist from Mars and here
Speaker 7: he owns a team that's of what eighty percent black?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 7: That's kind of weird? Is that is that's weird.
Speaker 3: Weird, that's weird.
Speaker 2: But it's always you find in these leagues. The owner
Speaker 2: is typically white, the athletes typically Africa. The athletes who
Speaker 2: are African American had to fight to be allowed to play,
Speaker 2: and even now still have to fight for rights. This
Speaker 2: idea that Okay, you know you're allowed to leave after
Speaker 2: seven years, but you have to put in this amount
Speaker 2: of time. Do you think this is could be a
Speaker 2: turning point in that relationship.
Speaker 7: I don't think so. I think that sports has survived.
Speaker 7: I mean, let's over the years. As much as we've
Speaker 7: tried to mess baseball up, we haven't with strikes and
Speaker 7: all that. The game will survive. I got thinking, you
Speaker 7: can make all the rules you want to, but until
Speaker 7: you change the attitudes of people, you're going to have
Speaker 7: this kind of idiocy. Right, no matter what you do,
Speaker 7: it's just gonna happen.
Speaker 2: As a player, how do you handle that? You know,
Speaker 2: these guys are in the midst of a playoff run.
Speaker 2: Now you've played in New York there was a tremendous
Speaker 2: amount of distraction, a tremendous amount of media. They're the
Speaker 2: same in Los Angeles. Is it even possible for an
Speaker 2: athlete at that high level to still compete with this
Speaker 2: type of emotion under the surface.
Speaker 7: Well, first and foremance is that athletes deal with pressure
Speaker 7: every day, every day to go out on the field.
Speaker 1: It's all about what you do that day.
Speaker 7: And this is no different. They're not playing for the honor,
Speaker 7: They're playing for their own self respect. And you know,
Speaker 7: I've heard things about, well, should have borrowed the team, boycott,
Speaker 7: you know, and not play. That serves no real purpose.
Speaker 7: I mean, it would defeat the purposes. You be there
Speaker 7: playing basketball at the NBA and level. That's a great,
Speaker 7: great honor. And to let some idiot, you know, not
Speaker 7: let you fulfill the potential that your team has. I
Speaker 7: think you be doing yourself for disservice in the league itself.
Speaker 4: Do you see what I mean about you having the maturity?
Speaker 2: Look at me, I'm ready to fly off the handle,
Speaker 2: just walk away from the game, and you brought me back,
Speaker 2: you know. And so here's what I think should happen. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 2: the Clippers rally around this, They play unbelievable basketball for
Speaker 2: the next month, they win the NBA Championship, and in
Speaker 2: the locker room, in the jubilation, the trophy is handed
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 3: Donald Sterling is.
Speaker 2: Right there and they get the tallest guy.
Speaker 3: Let's go with Blake Griffith.
Speaker 2: He's about six o' eleven and he just holds the
Speaker 2: trophy up like this and Donald Sterling, I.
Speaker 3: Can't get it and done.
Speaker 4: They don't let him have it.
Speaker 3: Are you still are you?
Speaker 2: Are you still able to get together with some of
Speaker 2: the fellas and reminisce about it? You know, tragically Gary
Speaker 2: Carter of Colls passed away, a great character guy. Are
Speaker 2: you able to get together and still sort of revert
Speaker 2: back to form from the eighties and have a great
Speaker 2: time together.
Speaker 4: We don't want to go back, No, I don't.
Speaker 7: We don't want to, we don't, but we do get
Speaker 7: together and when we do his this one big all
Speaker 7: reunion and we talk a lot and we lie a
Speaker 7: little bit too, you know.
Speaker 2: That's what reminiscing is all about all about, you know.
Speaker 2: And and who would have thought that that would be
Speaker 2: the last championship the Mets ever won. It? Well, it's
Speaker 2: an absolute pleasure to see it and to have you
Speaker 2: here on the show. Get yourself, Mookie, one of the
Speaker 2: one of the greats. Mookie Wilson. Ladies and John.
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