1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:22,035 --> 00:00:28,075 Speaker 1: Trump Pecker Cornstar Sex Payoffs saga. We'll drag on until 3 00:00:28,115 --> 00:00:31,235 Speaker 1: at least tomorrow or probably next week, depending on whether 4 00:00:31,275 --> 00:00:35,955 Speaker 1: you believe The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. However, though, 5 00:00:35,995 --> 00:00:40,595 Speaker 1: like nature, political commentary abhors a vacuum and makes stuff 6 00:00:40,715 --> 00:00:44,195 Speaker 1: up to fill it, there is one good surmise to 7 00:00:44,355 --> 00:00:49,115 Speaker 1: offer here. The possible campaign finance and or business records 8 00:00:49,235 --> 00:00:53,595 Speaker 1: charges against Trump have almost certainly not been dropped from consideration. 9 00:00:53,675 --> 00:00:56,155 Speaker 1: And we know that again from the simple reality that 10 00:00:56,195 --> 00:00:58,835 Speaker 1: if they had, the Trump lawyers would know that, and 11 00:00:58,955 --> 00:01:01,435 Speaker 1: thus Trump would know that, and thus Trump would have 12 00:01:01,475 --> 00:01:03,715 Speaker 1: told everybody in the country that, even if he had 13 00:01:03,755 --> 00:01:06,675 Speaker 1: to stop passers in the street and tell them one 14 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:11,515 Speaker 1: by one. I keep getting asked, though, why this delay, 15 00:01:12,195 --> 00:01:17,715 Speaker 1: Why that delay, why that other delay? Over there? Okay, 16 00:01:17,835 --> 00:01:21,075 Speaker 1: I've done some work. I have some answers to those 17 00:01:21,115 --> 00:01:23,835 Speaker 1: of us squirming in our seats waiting for a mug shot. 18 00:01:23,915 --> 00:01:28,355 Speaker 1: Since while I met Trump in nineteen eighty three, some 19 00:01:28,475 --> 00:01:31,595 Speaker 1: other things to remember, the prediction that Trump was going 20 00:01:31,635 --> 00:01:34,795 Speaker 1: to be arrested a week ago Tuesday was made by 21 00:01:35,035 --> 00:01:38,155 Speaker 1: Trump and his predictions do tend to be about to 22 00:01:38,755 --> 00:01:43,275 Speaker 1: one hundercent wrong. The Times also offers the helpful reminders 23 00:01:43,275 --> 00:01:46,275 Speaker 1: that grand juries are not sequestered, that they do not 24 00:01:46,475 --> 00:01:48,995 Speaker 1: always work on only one case at a time, and 25 00:01:49,035 --> 00:01:51,835 Speaker 1: that this one is clearly looking at least two, and 26 00:01:51,915 --> 00:01:55,675 Speaker 1: that while this one usually meets Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 27 00:01:55,715 --> 00:01:58,395 Speaker 1: it was not expected to meet today, and The Wall 28 00:01:58,435 --> 00:02:00,755 Speaker 1: Street Journal said its sources said it would also not 29 00:02:00,835 --> 00:02:03,995 Speaker 1: meet tomorrow, and that this could easily have nothing to 30 00:02:04,035 --> 00:02:06,675 Speaker 1: do with the case or the other case, or Trump 31 00:02:06,795 --> 00:02:11,075 Speaker 1: or brag or anybody else. The grand jurors have lives, 32 00:02:11,515 --> 00:02:13,915 Speaker 1: and they are not expected to show up every time 33 00:02:13,955 --> 00:02:16,995 Speaker 1: the grand jury meets. There are twenty three grand jurors, 34 00:02:17,235 --> 00:02:21,395 Speaker 1: and sixteen must be present to conduct any business at all. 35 00:02:21,795 --> 00:02:24,995 Speaker 1: And when the district Attorney wants to vote on an indictment, 36 00:02:25,235 --> 00:02:28,235 Speaker 1: the jurors in attendance on the day of that vote 37 00:02:28,675 --> 00:02:32,675 Speaker 1: must have all heard all the testimony of all the 38 00:02:32,715 --> 00:02:38,115 Speaker 1: previous key witnesses. It's a scheduling issue. We all know 39 00:02:38,195 --> 00:02:41,035 Speaker 1: Trump believes the sun and the planets revolve around him, 40 00:02:41,035 --> 00:02:42,995 Speaker 1: but the delays are less likely to have anything to 41 00:02:43,075 --> 00:02:45,675 Speaker 1: do with him, and much more likely to owe to 42 00:02:46,515 --> 00:02:51,715 Speaker 1: Grand Jury number seventeen's responsibility as a dental hygienist or 43 00:02:51,995 --> 00:02:56,755 Speaker 1: brain surgeon, or conductor on the railroad whatever. If you 44 00:02:56,835 --> 00:02:59,835 Speaker 1: have never been on a jury of any kind in 45 00:02:59,875 --> 00:03:02,115 Speaker 1: New York City and you are expecting something out of 46 00:03:02,595 --> 00:03:05,795 Speaker 1: inherit the wind or the Verde or even the New 47 00:03:05,875 --> 00:03:10,395 Speaker 1: York City situated twelve, angry men, forget it. Navigating the 48 00:03:10,515 --> 00:03:13,315 Speaker 1: jury system in New York is like going to Grand 49 00:03:13,355 --> 00:03:16,875 Speaker 1: Central Station at rush hour, only more crowded and with 50 00:03:16,995 --> 00:03:19,995 Speaker 1: more people talking all at the same time over a 51 00:03:20,115 --> 00:03:26,315 Speaker 1: PA system. You cannot understand since Trump's arrest announcement, which 52 00:03:26,355 --> 00:03:29,395 Speaker 1: in retrospect looks more and more like just another of 53 00:03:29,475 --> 00:03:33,075 Speaker 1: his fundraising gambits number eight hundred seventy four thousand, two 54 00:03:33,115 --> 00:03:36,235 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six in his case. The only known 55 00:03:36,275 --> 00:03:40,155 Speaker 1: actual change to Alvin Bragg's schedule before this Grand Jury 56 00:03:40,635 --> 00:03:44,275 Speaker 1: was the Trump introduction of Robert Costello to rebut Michael Cohen, 57 00:03:44,515 --> 00:03:48,235 Speaker 1: and then the DA's introduction of David Pecker to rebut 58 00:03:48,315 --> 00:03:52,155 Speaker 1: Robert Costello and mister district attorney. Is that a pecker 59 00:03:52,235 --> 00:03:54,395 Speaker 1: in your pocket? Or are you just glad to see us? 60 00:04:04,355 --> 00:04:08,675 Speaker 1: Thank Q? Nancy Faust. There is one other relevant thought here, 61 00:04:08,715 --> 00:04:11,315 Speaker 1: but it is also speculative, and it has been touched 62 00:04:11,355 --> 00:04:14,635 Speaker 1: on by the former Obama Ethics Council Norm Eisen and 63 00:04:14,795 --> 00:04:18,315 Speaker 1: the former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirshner, and even the former 64 00:04:18,475 --> 00:04:22,235 Speaker 1: student in exactly one law class in college, Guy me. 65 00:04:23,115 --> 00:04:27,235 Speaker 1: It is possible that da Bragg has now asked his 66 00:04:27,355 --> 00:04:32,235 Speaker 1: grand jury to examine the possibility of additional charges against Trump, 67 00:04:32,635 --> 00:04:35,955 Speaker 1: particularly under New York Penal Code one ninety five point 68 00:04:36,035 --> 00:04:41,195 Speaker 1: zero five quote obstructing governmental administration in the second degree. 69 00:04:41,555 --> 00:04:44,835 Speaker 1: A person is guilty of obstructing governmental administration when he 70 00:04:44,875 --> 00:04:49,675 Speaker 1: intentionally obstructs a public servant from performing an official function 71 00:04:50,075 --> 00:04:56,635 Speaker 1: by means of intimidation, physical force, or interference, whether or 72 00:04:56,715 --> 00:05:01,675 Speaker 1: not physical force is involved. The code then has one 73 00:05:01,755 --> 00:05:05,155 Speaker 1: additional specific which I do not think apply, is here, 74 00:05:05,355 --> 00:05:08,195 Speaker 1: but who knows what's bouncing around in Trump's empty mind. 75 00:05:08,435 --> 00:05:13,075 Speaker 1: One ninety five point five also deems illegal quote releasing 76 00:05:13,115 --> 00:05:18,275 Speaker 1: a dangerous animal under circumstances evincing the actor's intent that 77 00:05:18,355 --> 00:05:24,595 Speaker 1: the animal obstruct governmental administration. I may have to spend 78 00:05:24,635 --> 00:05:29,595 Speaker 1: some time getting the backstory on that provision. Perhaps, Sir, 79 00:05:30,155 --> 00:05:32,555 Speaker 1: this Hyaena will remind you of what you did on 80 00:05:32,635 --> 00:05:36,555 Speaker 1: that night, or perhaps it's a reference to some of 81 00:05:36,595 --> 00:05:40,195 Speaker 1: Trump's creatures in Congress. CNN actually had a fascinating piece 82 00:05:40,195 --> 00:05:42,875 Speaker 1: on how Trump is manipulating Republicans in the House to 83 00:05:42,955 --> 00:05:45,755 Speaker 1: try to pressure the Manhattan DA, even though he can 84 00:05:45,835 --> 00:05:49,075 Speaker 1: rightfully ignore those Republicans, and so far, all these threats 85 00:05:49,075 --> 00:05:51,915 Speaker 1: got Jim Jordan was a note from the DA's general 86 00:05:51,955 --> 00:05:54,955 Speaker 1: counsel that basically said, mister Bragg is too busy to 87 00:05:54,995 --> 00:05:58,035 Speaker 1: deal with your nonsense himself, so I'm doing so moron 88 00:05:58,955 --> 00:06:02,555 Speaker 1: Trump's leading puppet, it is not Jim Jordan, but rather 89 00:06:03,115 --> 00:06:07,315 Speaker 1: Elise Stephanic, who sold her soul quite some time ago. 90 00:06:07,355 --> 00:06:10,315 Speaker 1: And to use a contemporary pop culture reference, quite a 91 00:06:10,435 --> 00:06:14,315 Speaker 1: rarity for me, is the Renfield to Trump's Dracula. Here, 92 00:06:14,875 --> 00:06:18,075 Speaker 1: CNN quotes three sources who say Stefanik reaches out to 93 00:06:18,115 --> 00:06:21,955 Speaker 1: Trump about once a week, and he also calls her irregularly. 94 00:06:22,315 --> 00:06:25,835 Speaker 1: They spoke several times last week and happily, quote, she 95 00:06:26,035 --> 00:06:29,315 Speaker 1: walked him through the GOP's plans for an aggressive response 96 00:06:29,355 --> 00:06:32,195 Speaker 1: to Bragg, which is sad on both ends because not 97 00:06:32,275 --> 00:06:36,835 Speaker 1: only did Republican after Republican ignore subpoenas from a Democratic House. 98 00:06:37,275 --> 00:06:40,115 Speaker 1: But this group would have to go to Merrick Garland 99 00:06:40,195 --> 00:06:43,475 Speaker 1: to get a contempt of Congress charge going against Alvin Bragg. 100 00:06:43,555 --> 00:06:45,675 Speaker 1: And as we all know, if you want to make 101 00:06:45,675 --> 00:06:48,515 Speaker 1: sure somebody is not charged with anything, the man you 102 00:06:48,595 --> 00:06:53,915 Speaker 1: want to see is Merrick Garland. The other Trump water 103 00:06:54,035 --> 00:06:57,995 Speaker 1: carriers Marjorie Green. Not a surprise Jordan, of course, though 104 00:06:58,035 --> 00:07:00,435 Speaker 1: a Jordan's spokesman tried to give him a climb down 105 00:07:00,475 --> 00:07:03,595 Speaker 1: by downplaying the idea that Jordan was talking to Trump 106 00:07:03,675 --> 00:07:07,755 Speaker 1: just about the storm. Daniel's case, Jamie Comer went even further, 107 00:07:07,795 --> 00:07:12,635 Speaker 1: insisting he has not talked to Trump since Trump's term ended. Trump, though, 108 00:07:12,715 --> 00:07:16,875 Speaker 1: has Henchman also reaching out to members of Congress. Joey Tax, 109 00:07:17,755 --> 00:07:21,435 Speaker 1: that's Joe Takapina to you who have not anchored shows 110 00:07:21,435 --> 00:07:25,515 Speaker 1: on MSNBC in this end of previous century. Joey Tax 111 00:07:25,675 --> 00:07:28,875 Speaker 1: wrote Jim Jordan a letter about Alvin Bragg, and Boris 112 00:07:28,915 --> 00:07:31,675 Speaker 1: Epstein talks to others in the House. Then there are 113 00:07:31,675 --> 00:07:34,515 Speaker 1: the nut jobs floating in the middle between Trump and 114 00:07:34,555 --> 00:07:37,995 Speaker 1: the House, outsiders like Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch and 115 00:07:38,075 --> 00:07:41,115 Speaker 1: Mike Davis of the Article three Project, who are tired 116 00:07:41,115 --> 00:07:43,395 Speaker 1: of all these pesky hearings and want to move directly 117 00:07:43,635 --> 00:07:47,755 Speaker 1: to Congress, burning people at the stake. No, sorry, I 118 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:50,835 Speaker 1: misread that last sentence. They are tired of all these 119 00:07:50,915 --> 00:07:54,075 Speaker 1: pesky hearings and want to move directly to subpoenas and 120 00:07:54,315 --> 00:07:59,635 Speaker 1: criminal referrals and staring daggers at Democrats. The news out 121 00:07:59,635 --> 00:08:02,835 Speaker 1: of the Special Counsel's grand jury. I presume you already 122 00:08:02,915 --> 00:08:07,155 Speaker 1: know a federal district yesterday ordered Mike Pence to testify 123 00:08:07,355 --> 00:08:10,675 Speaker 1: to that grand jury. He broadly turned down the Trump 124 00:08:10,715 --> 00:08:14,355 Speaker 1: attempt to invoke executive privilege to block the testimony, but 125 00:08:14,435 --> 00:08:18,315 Speaker 1: the judge did give Pence some wiggle room about testifying 126 00:08:18,355 --> 00:08:22,355 Speaker 1: specifically on his role in the actual congressional certification from 127 00:08:22,475 --> 00:08:25,355 Speaker 1: January six, twenty twenty one, the so called speech and 128 00:08:25,555 --> 00:08:28,755 Speaker 1: debate exception. Pence does not have to talk about any 129 00:08:28,795 --> 00:08:34,155 Speaker 1: of that. But whatever Pence witnessed Trump doing that, Pence 130 00:08:34,195 --> 00:08:37,595 Speaker 1: can be made to testify to. Lastly, don't know if 131 00:08:37,595 --> 00:08:40,995 Speaker 1: anybody remembers this, but a special grand jury in Fulton 132 00:08:41,075 --> 00:08:44,395 Speaker 1: County in Georgia took testimony on Trump's attempt to get 133 00:08:44,435 --> 00:08:48,555 Speaker 1: state officials there to falsify the election outcome. In twenty twenty, 134 00:08:48,835 --> 00:08:52,315 Speaker 1: the grand jury listened to seventy five witnesses and issued 135 00:08:52,315 --> 00:08:55,035 Speaker 1: a report and said some of its witnesses seemed to 136 00:08:55,075 --> 00:08:58,555 Speaker 1: be lying, and District Attorney Fannie Willis was deciding whether 137 00:08:58,635 --> 00:09:00,435 Speaker 1: or not to go use it as the basis for 138 00:09:00,595 --> 00:09:03,955 Speaker 1: convening a regular grand jury and go for indictments when 139 00:09:04,755 --> 00:09:07,315 Speaker 1: Trump filed a motion to quash the special report and 140 00:09:07,435 --> 00:09:10,035 Speaker 1: hold onto your hats. The judge in the case has 141 00:09:10,115 --> 00:09:13,675 Speaker 1: asked for the DA's response there in Fulton County no 142 00:09:13,875 --> 00:09:21,075 Speaker 1: later than May first, May first, because take your time. 143 00:09:21,235 --> 00:09:25,235 Speaker 1: It's not like Trump isn't exploiting the slow moving bureaucracy 144 00:09:25,315 --> 00:09:29,195 Speaker 1: in Atlanta, and the slow moving bureaucracy in Washington, and 145 00:09:29,235 --> 00:09:31,795 Speaker 1: the slow moving bureaucracy in New York at all the while. 146 00:09:32,195 --> 00:09:35,115 Speaker 1: It's not like he's running to regain power and turn 147 00:09:35,235 --> 00:09:38,915 Speaker 1: all of you courts into rubber stamps for whatever. Villainy 148 00:09:39,035 --> 00:09:42,835 Speaker 1: Stephen Miller and the rest of the Trump undead dream 149 00:09:43,075 --> 00:09:58,995 Speaker 1: up at night, still ahead of us. In this edition 150 00:09:59,035 --> 00:10:02,595 Speaker 1: of Countdown, Marjorie Taylor Green's congressional Twitter account has been 151 00:10:02,635 --> 00:10:06,995 Speaker 1: suspended for a week just because while the fascists like 152 00:10:07,115 --> 00:10:10,355 Speaker 1: Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. Wonder if they can charge 153 00:10:10,395 --> 00:10:14,115 Speaker 1: the dead shooter from Nashville with a hate crime because 154 00:10:14,155 --> 00:10:18,075 Speaker 1: it was at a Christian school. It's suspended just because 155 00:10:18,075 --> 00:10:25,435 Speaker 1: she referred to Antifa driven trans terrorism f her and 156 00:10:25,555 --> 00:10:28,595 Speaker 1: the head of the Chicago police union is blunt. If 157 00:10:28,635 --> 00:10:31,355 Speaker 1: you vote for the black guy for mayor, a thousand 158 00:10:31,355 --> 00:10:33,595 Speaker 1: of US cops will quit and there will be quote 159 00:10:33,995 --> 00:10:38,395 Speaker 1: blood in the streets. Seems like there already is in Chicago. 160 00:10:38,515 --> 00:10:40,915 Speaker 1: And the Chicago police are so bad nobody would notice 161 00:10:40,915 --> 00:10:43,715 Speaker 1: if a thousand of them quit. We'll examine in worse persons. 162 00:10:44,235 --> 00:10:46,435 Speaker 1: And on the eve of the new baseball season, all 163 00:10:46,635 --> 00:10:49,635 Speaker 1: the good old days when a team manager could order 164 00:10:50,075 --> 00:10:53,875 Speaker 1: all of his players into a tiny trainer's room at 165 00:10:53,875 --> 00:10:56,435 Speaker 1: the side of the clubhouse in order to teach a 166 00:10:56,555 --> 00:11:01,315 Speaker 1: lesson to some obnoxious anchor from Sports Center. That's next 167 00:11:01,435 --> 00:11:14,115 Speaker 1: this discountdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman I with 168 00:11:14,195 --> 00:11:17,275 Speaker 1: scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 169 00:11:17,275 --> 00:11:22,355 Speaker 1: some predictions, dateline, Twitter surprising blowback in Elon musk Land. 170 00:11:22,475 --> 00:11:26,275 Speaker 1: The congressional account of Marjorie Barney rubble Green has been 171 00:11:26,275 --> 00:11:29,875 Speaker 1: suspended for seven days she is livid. All she did 172 00:11:29,995 --> 00:11:33,035 Speaker 1: was described the mass shooting at the Nashville Covenant School 173 00:11:33,075 --> 00:11:38,275 Speaker 1: as quote, the threat of Antifa driven trans terrorism, and 174 00:11:38,395 --> 00:11:43,315 Speaker 1: she accused others of politically motivated violence. Green also demanded 175 00:11:43,355 --> 00:11:48,035 Speaker 1: that Musk restore her account immediately. As always with Twitter suspensions, 176 00:11:48,475 --> 00:11:50,835 Speaker 1: it is at the moment that you agreed to delete 177 00:11:50,875 --> 00:11:53,755 Speaker 1: the tweets that we're in violation of Twitter rules that 178 00:11:53,875 --> 00:11:57,715 Speaker 1: your account goes from on hold indefinitely to on hold 179 00:11:57,755 --> 00:12:00,995 Speaker 1: for seven days. But green thinks the rules don't apply 180 00:12:01,115 --> 00:12:04,075 Speaker 1: to her. You will remember, those are the rules that 181 00:12:04,115 --> 00:12:07,275 Speaker 1: applied to me. The rules not applying to her is 182 00:12:07,315 --> 00:12:11,595 Speaker 1: the story of Marjorie Barney Rubbell Greene's life. On Monday, 183 00:12:11,715 --> 00:12:14,915 Speaker 1: this was the first of her two anti American events 184 00:12:15,035 --> 00:12:18,635 Speaker 1: since that shooting. She tried to interfere with ATF agents 185 00:12:18,675 --> 00:12:22,195 Speaker 1: inspecting a murder store in Smyrna, Georgia, then claimed to 186 00:12:22,195 --> 00:12:23,915 Speaker 1: have the right to do so because she's on the 187 00:12:23,955 --> 00:12:48,075 Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee. Thank you, Nancy Faust Dateline Wilmington, Delaware 188 00:12:48,155 --> 00:12:51,675 Speaker 1: News from the Dominion Voting System's lawsuit against Fox quote 189 00:12:51,675 --> 00:12:54,515 Speaker 1: news unquote. In a filing this week, the plaintiffs in 190 00:12:54,555 --> 00:12:57,715 Speaker 1: the one point six billion dollar defamation suit submitted their 191 00:12:57,755 --> 00:13:01,635 Speaker 1: witness list. They want CEO Suzanne Scott of Fox and 192 00:13:01,715 --> 00:13:05,955 Speaker 1: network president Jay Wallace to testify. Also former politics editor 193 00:13:06,035 --> 00:13:09,795 Speaker 1: Chris Stirewalt and a former executive named Bill Salmon, Owen 194 00:13:09,875 --> 00:13:14,195 Speaker 1: anchor Brett Bear and Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram and 195 00:13:14,315 --> 00:13:18,235 Speaker 1: Maria bardar Romo and Tucker Carlson and the ex Carlson 196 00:13:18,235 --> 00:13:22,955 Speaker 1: producer who sued Fox, Abbey Grossberg, Owen, Lachlan Murdoch, and 197 00:13:23,275 --> 00:13:28,395 Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch. At a virtual trial hearing yesterday, Fox's attorneys 198 00:13:28,675 --> 00:13:33,395 Speaker 1: filed objections to every exhibit that dominion asked to use 199 00:13:33,555 --> 00:13:38,275 Speaker 1: at trial. The judge Eric Davis was outraged, quoting Davis, 200 00:13:38,315 --> 00:13:40,675 Speaker 1: if I think you're just trying to interrupt testimony out 201 00:13:40,675 --> 00:13:44,835 Speaker 1: of gamesmanship, you may have a problem. Be careful, people, 202 00:13:45,715 --> 00:13:49,195 Speaker 1: keep your powder dry on this stuff. This isn't a game. 203 00:13:49,275 --> 00:13:51,795 Speaker 1: This is a trial, and you're going to be presenting 204 00:13:51,835 --> 00:14:08,635 Speaker 1: to a jury still ahead. So Baseball's opening day is tomorrow, 205 00:14:08,675 --> 00:14:11,595 Speaker 1: and there's so much they've screwed up. I find myself 206 00:14:11,595 --> 00:14:14,435 Speaker 1: getting all nostalgic for the good old days, Like thirty 207 00:14:14,515 --> 00:14:17,995 Speaker 1: years ago this August when a current major league manager 208 00:14:18,075 --> 00:14:21,235 Speaker 1: forced all of his players, in the middle of a 209 00:14:21,395 --> 00:14:25,555 Speaker 1: tense pennant race to go and hide in the tiny 210 00:14:25,675 --> 00:14:29,275 Speaker 1: trainer's room adjacent to the team clubhouse, just to try 211 00:14:29,275 --> 00:14:34,635 Speaker 1: to teach me a lesson. I don't learn lessons. That's 212 00:14:34,675 --> 00:14:37,355 Speaker 1: next on things I promised not to tell first time 213 00:14:37,355 --> 00:14:39,155 Speaker 1: for the daily roundup of the miss grants, morons, and 214 00:14:39,235 --> 00:14:44,075 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's worst parsons in 215 00:14:44,115 --> 00:14:50,235 Speaker 1: the world. The Bronze Tommy Tuberville, the half wit football 216 00:14:50,315 --> 00:14:53,155 Speaker 1: coach we all continue to pretend is actually qualified to 217 00:14:53,195 --> 00:14:57,275 Speaker 1: be senator, even senator from Alabama. He is blocking more 218 00:14:57,275 --> 00:15:00,315 Speaker 1: than one hundred and fifty military promotions people who would 219 00:15:00,315 --> 00:15:03,235 Speaker 1: be in command positions in the Middle East, at NATO, 220 00:15:03,635 --> 00:15:07,995 Speaker 1: in the Indo Sific, some flag officers and such. Tuberville 221 00:15:08,075 --> 00:15:14,155 Speaker 1: is blocking them over abortions. Huh, Well, the Pentagon has 222 00:15:14,235 --> 00:15:17,715 Speaker 1: increased access to abortions for military personnel and Tuberville is 223 00:15:17,755 --> 00:15:22,595 Speaker 1: one of those theocrats. Yesterday he got slammed about this quote. 224 00:15:22,915 --> 00:15:25,075 Speaker 1: It's a tactic that he chose to use. He has 225 00:15:25,115 --> 00:15:27,515 Speaker 1: that right as a senator. It's not one that I 226 00:15:27,555 --> 00:15:30,755 Speaker 1: would use. Well, who said that Senator deb Fisher of 227 00:15:30,835 --> 00:15:35,115 Speaker 1: Nebraska Are Nebraska. She's a Republican. She's the number two 228 00:15:35,115 --> 00:15:38,875 Speaker 1: Republican on the Armed Services Committee, and she's pissed, so 229 00:15:39,115 --> 00:15:42,635 Speaker 1: is the lead Republican on that committee, Roger Wicker. And yesterday, 230 00:15:42,715 --> 00:15:49,315 Speaker 1: Defense Secretary Austin said Tuberville was undermining absolutely critical military readiness. 231 00:15:50,235 --> 00:15:53,115 Speaker 1: Tuberville is a religious zealot and he needs to get 232 00:15:53,115 --> 00:15:56,475 Speaker 1: the f out of the way. Speaking of which, our 233 00:15:56,595 --> 00:16:01,195 Speaker 1: runner up, John Cantanzara, president of Chicago's Fraternal Order of 234 00:16:01,355 --> 00:16:06,355 Speaker 1: Police katsan Zara is a racist and the January sixth denier, 235 00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:09,835 Speaker 1: and he's now decided to wade into the Chicago mayoral race. 236 00:16:10,515 --> 00:16:13,955 Speaker 1: Captain Zarah told The New York Times about candidate Brandon Johnson, 237 00:16:14,075 --> 00:16:16,395 Speaker 1: quote if this guy gets in, we're going to see 238 00:16:16,395 --> 00:16:19,635 Speaker 1: an exodus like we've never seen before, and there will 239 00:16:19,635 --> 00:16:22,835 Speaker 1: be quote blood in the streets unquote because as many 240 00:16:22,875 --> 00:16:26,795 Speaker 1: as a thousand Chicago police officers, he says, will resign 241 00:16:27,875 --> 00:16:32,555 Speaker 1: as a Chicago police officer. This scumbag canton Zara has 242 00:16:32,555 --> 00:16:37,035 Speaker 1: been named in fifty different misconduct complaints. He's been suspended 243 00:16:37,075 --> 00:16:39,155 Speaker 1: eight times, for a total of one hundred and thirty 244 00:16:39,155 --> 00:16:42,555 Speaker 1: one days in one stretch. Complaints were filed against him 245 00:16:42,595 --> 00:16:47,595 Speaker 1: in twenty out of twenty six years. He's posted on 246 00:16:47,595 --> 00:16:51,795 Speaker 1: social media calling Muslims quote savages. He's answered people on 247 00:16:51,795 --> 00:16:55,475 Speaker 1: Facebook by threatening them. He's called Senator Diane Feinstein of 248 00:16:55,555 --> 00:17:00,035 Speaker 1: California a quote bitch unquote. He's insisted Michelle Obama is 249 00:17:00,075 --> 00:17:03,275 Speaker 1: a man, and he's attacked trans and gay people and 250 00:17:03,355 --> 00:17:06,675 Speaker 1: ethnic minorities, and hosted a meme of a police officer 251 00:17:06,955 --> 00:17:10,275 Speaker 1: with the caption if we really wanted you dead, all 252 00:17:10,315 --> 00:17:13,555 Speaker 1: we'd have to do is stop patrolling your neighborhoods and wait. 253 00:17:13,955 --> 00:17:18,715 Speaker 1: And now he's threatening Chicagoans with bloodshed if they vote 254 00:17:18,715 --> 00:17:22,515 Speaker 1: for an African American for mayor. What the current mayor 255 00:17:22,555 --> 00:17:25,395 Speaker 1: should do is rush the training of a thousand new 256 00:17:25,475 --> 00:17:29,235 Speaker 1: Chicago cops and fire the thousand who canton Zara says 257 00:17:29,235 --> 00:17:32,275 Speaker 1: will quit, and then fire him and let them all 258 00:17:32,315 --> 00:17:35,555 Speaker 1: try to sue their way back onto the job. They 259 00:17:35,635 --> 00:17:38,675 Speaker 1: have fewer lawyers than the City of Chicago does this. 260 00:17:38,835 --> 00:17:41,715 Speaker 1: Canton Zara is as dangerous as any of the corrupt 261 00:17:41,795 --> 00:17:46,995 Speaker 1: Chicago cops of the Capone era. But our winner hard 262 00:17:47,035 --> 00:17:50,635 Speaker 1: to top these two losers. But Florida Congressman Byron Donalds 263 00:17:50,675 --> 00:17:53,955 Speaker 1: has done it. After the latest school shooting, Donald's not 264 00:17:53,995 --> 00:17:57,315 Speaker 1: only lived up to his reputation for imbecility and condescension, 265 00:17:57,715 --> 00:18:01,395 Speaker 1: but he literally scolded a reporter for having dared to 266 00:18:01,435 --> 00:18:05,315 Speaker 1: suggest a ban of the AR fifteen murder machine that 267 00:18:05,355 --> 00:18:08,915 Speaker 1: the Republicans treat as if it were the christ Child quote. 268 00:18:08,915 --> 00:18:11,075 Speaker 1: If you're going to talk about the AR fifteen, you're 269 00:18:11,115 --> 00:18:14,595 Speaker 1: talking politics. Now, let's not get into politics. Let's not 270 00:18:14,715 --> 00:18:18,915 Speaker 1: get into emotion, because emotion feels good, but emotion doesn't 271 00:18:18,955 --> 00:18:22,355 Speaker 1: solve problems. He then walked away from the interviewer. Well, 272 00:18:22,395 --> 00:18:27,755 Speaker 1: Byron Donalds doesn't solve problems either. This jackass latched onto 273 00:18:27,755 --> 00:18:29,755 Speaker 1: the tea party and wound up in the house two 274 00:18:29,795 --> 00:18:32,715 Speaker 1: years ago, even though he was arrested in nineteen ninety 275 00:18:32,755 --> 00:18:35,915 Speaker 1: seven for distribution of illegal drugs, and he got away 276 00:18:35,995 --> 00:18:39,915 Speaker 1: with it via a pre trialed diversion program. In two thousand, 277 00:18:39,955 --> 00:18:43,035 Speaker 1: Donalds was charged with felony bribery as part of a 278 00:18:43,115 --> 00:18:46,515 Speaker 1: scheme to defraud a bank. That record was later sealed 279 00:18:46,555 --> 00:18:49,835 Speaker 1: and expunged, and donald says he was just a young 280 00:18:49,995 --> 00:18:53,475 Speaker 1: kid who made mistakes. Back then, Donald's was twenty one 281 00:18:53,555 --> 00:18:56,755 Speaker 1: or twenty two at the time. Now he is forty four, 282 00:18:57,115 --> 00:19:00,875 Speaker 1: and he's just dismissed any talk about controlling AR fifteens. 283 00:19:01,635 --> 00:19:04,555 Speaker 1: AR fifteens are more important to Donald's and his death 284 00:19:04,715 --> 00:19:08,155 Speaker 1: cult than are the lives of kids, or, as the 285 00:19:08,235 --> 00:19:10,755 Speaker 1: right has kept emphasizing for the last three days, the 286 00:19:10,875 --> 00:19:16,795 Speaker 1: lives of Christian kids. He dismissed them as politics. Well, 287 00:19:16,875 --> 00:19:22,235 Speaker 1: politics is your job, asshole. Do it Start serving the country, 288 00:19:22,275 --> 00:19:27,275 Speaker 1: not just yourself and your bloodthirsty Republican Party. Congressman Byron 289 00:19:27,475 --> 00:19:53,035 Speaker 1: Donalds of Florida, Today's worst person in the world? Final ways, 290 00:19:53,035 --> 00:19:54,915 Speaker 1: who are Number One? Story on the count own and 291 00:19:54,995 --> 00:19:58,235 Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. 292 00:19:59,235 --> 00:20:01,875 Speaker 1: The New York Yankees were in their first Pennant race 293 00:20:01,995 --> 00:20:04,515 Speaker 1: in five years. They had reeled off eight wins in 294 00:20:04,795 --> 00:20:07,635 Speaker 1: ten games to reach a first place tie with the 295 00:20:07,715 --> 00:20:11,635 Speaker 1: defending world champion Toronto Blue Jays. It was Sunday, August 296 00:20:11,675 --> 00:20:14,475 Speaker 1: twenty second, nineteen ninety three, and I was at Yankee 297 00:20:14,475 --> 00:20:18,675 Speaker 1: Stadium just because we were about to start a month 298 00:20:18,675 --> 00:20:22,635 Speaker 1: of intensive preparations for the launch of the ill fated ESPN. Two. 299 00:20:23,195 --> 00:20:24,915 Speaker 1: Good evening and welcome to the end of our careers. 300 00:20:24,995 --> 00:20:27,435 Speaker 1: That one, and this was probably going to be my 301 00:20:27,515 --> 00:20:29,835 Speaker 1: last chance to go to the city, visit my folks, 302 00:20:29,835 --> 00:20:34,395 Speaker 1: see a ballgame, whatever till further notice. And here was 303 00:20:34,435 --> 00:20:37,235 Speaker 1: my childhood team, the Yankees, with a lineup that now 304 00:20:37,275 --> 00:20:41,155 Speaker 1: included friends of mine like Danny Tartibill and Mike Diego 305 00:20:41,235 --> 00:20:44,395 Speaker 1: and Don Mattingley against the Royals, for whom my friends 306 00:20:44,395 --> 00:20:47,915 Speaker 1: Whiley Joiner and David Khne played, and a seat awaiting 307 00:20:47,955 --> 00:20:50,515 Speaker 1: me in the press box on a beautiful late summer 308 00:20:50,715 --> 00:20:54,075 Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon with just the earliest hint of fall in 309 00:20:54,115 --> 00:20:57,635 Speaker 1: the air and Bobby Darren singing on the PA system, 310 00:20:59,115 --> 00:21:03,795 Speaker 1: and the Yankees got crushed. Kansas City started a pitcher 311 00:21:03,835 --> 00:21:07,515 Speaker 1: named Chris Haney, who was much less successful than his 312 00:21:07,595 --> 00:21:11,675 Speaker 1: mediocre five point four seven r A implied he would 313 00:21:11,755 --> 00:21:15,475 Speaker 1: somehow last for eleven seasons, had become statistically one of 314 00:21:15,515 --> 00:21:19,595 Speaker 1: the worst pitchers of a generation. And that day, the 315 00:21:19,675 --> 00:21:22,555 Speaker 1: Yankees got at least one base runner on in eight 316 00:21:22,675 --> 00:21:25,435 Speaker 1: of the nine innings against Chris Haney, and he still 317 00:21:25,475 --> 00:21:29,235 Speaker 1: shut them out seven to nothing. And you could sense 318 00:21:29,355 --> 00:21:32,675 Speaker 1: right then that whatever it was that a team needed 319 00:21:32,715 --> 00:21:36,035 Speaker 1: to have to hold its own down the stretch, the 320 00:21:36,195 --> 00:21:41,635 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three New York Yankees did not have it. Still, 321 00:21:41,675 --> 00:21:43,995 Speaker 1: it was fun to visit with reporter friends, some of 322 00:21:44,035 --> 00:21:46,835 Speaker 1: whom I'd known since i'd broken in fourteen years earlier, 323 00:21:47,075 --> 00:21:50,835 Speaker 1: and some I hadn't seen since then. The only oddity 324 00:21:50,995 --> 00:21:52,875 Speaker 1: was that at some point during the game one of 325 00:21:52,875 --> 00:21:56,035 Speaker 1: the kids from the Yankees media relations department came over 326 00:21:56,275 --> 00:21:59,635 Speaker 1: and asked me for my ID, and when I showed 327 00:21:59,715 --> 00:22:01,835 Speaker 1: him my ID, he asked me if I was planning 328 00:22:01,875 --> 00:22:05,395 Speaker 1: to go into the Yankee clubhouse afterwards. I said, funny 329 00:22:05,435 --> 00:22:08,435 Speaker 1: you s to ask that I am headed downtown for dinner. 330 00:22:08,755 --> 00:22:11,315 Speaker 1: But I missed my friend Danny Tartible before the game 331 00:22:11,355 --> 00:22:13,235 Speaker 1: for some reason, and I just want to pop in 332 00:22:13,235 --> 00:22:15,475 Speaker 1: and say hello. And the kid said thanks, sorry to 333 00:22:15,515 --> 00:22:19,275 Speaker 1: trouble you, and he left, and the radio reporter I 334 00:22:19,315 --> 00:22:22,275 Speaker 1: was sitting next to Don Gould, said that that was 335 00:22:22,315 --> 00:22:24,475 Speaker 1: one of the strangest things he had seen in that 336 00:22:24,515 --> 00:22:27,555 Speaker 1: press box. And he added, and nowadays all you see 337 00:22:27,675 --> 00:22:32,115 Speaker 1: up heerious strange things. As the Yankees went out limply 338 00:22:32,195 --> 00:22:35,915 Speaker 1: in the ninth, leaving Bernie Williams stranded on first, naturally, 339 00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:39,395 Speaker 1: I waited until all the reporters with real deadlines had 340 00:22:39,435 --> 00:22:41,715 Speaker 1: taken the first couple of elevator trips down to the 341 00:22:41,755 --> 00:22:44,795 Speaker 1: Yankee Clubhouse in the basement. Then then I leisurely made 342 00:22:44,795 --> 00:22:48,595 Speaker 1: my way downstairs. I navigated the catacombs of the stadium 343 00:22:48,595 --> 00:22:51,235 Speaker 1: basement as I had since it had opened in nineteen 344 00:22:51,315 --> 00:22:55,275 Speaker 1: seventy six, and felt warm and nostalgic and at peace. 345 00:22:56,235 --> 00:22:58,515 Speaker 1: I showed my pass to the guard at the clubhouse 346 00:22:58,555 --> 00:23:02,315 Speaker 1: door and walked into the clubhouse to find the Yankee 347 00:23:02,355 --> 00:23:05,915 Speaker 1: Clubhouse lacking the one thing it had literally always featured 348 00:23:05,915 --> 00:23:08,915 Speaker 1: in each of the dozens and dozens of times I'd 349 00:23:08,955 --> 00:23:14,395 Speaker 1: previously entered it since I was seventeen years old. Players. 350 00:23:15,195 --> 00:23:21,075 Speaker 1: There were no Yankee players in the Yankee Clubhouse. No Yankees, 351 00:23:21,595 --> 00:23:25,555 Speaker 1: no Yankees still in uniform, no Yankees half dressed, no 352 00:23:25,635 --> 00:23:29,355 Speaker 1: Yankees not dressed, no sounds of other Yankees in the 353 00:23:29,395 --> 00:23:35,235 Speaker 1: showers off to the left. Nothing. Well, that wasn't quite right. 354 00:23:36,395 --> 00:23:39,915 Speaker 1: I realized something after about a minute of walking slowly 355 00:23:40,075 --> 00:23:44,275 Speaker 1: from locker to locker, thinking, isn't this where they used 356 00:23:44,315 --> 00:23:48,235 Speaker 1: to be? Maybe Mattingly is crouching out of sight over here, 357 00:23:48,275 --> 00:23:52,515 Speaker 1: and maybe Tartible is hiding behind his suit. After that, oh, 358 00:23:52,595 --> 00:23:56,235 Speaker 1: for three I realized that while there were no Yankees 359 00:23:56,275 --> 00:23:59,835 Speaker 1: in the Yankee Clubhouse, there were reporters in the Yankee Clubhouse, 360 00:23:59,955 --> 00:24:04,915 Speaker 1: and they were all staring at me, and angrily staring 361 00:24:04,955 --> 00:24:08,035 Speaker 1: at me. I said to them, might have been my 362 00:24:08,075 --> 00:24:10,555 Speaker 1: friend from upstairs, Don Gould, what the hell is going on? 363 00:24:10,715 --> 00:24:13,795 Speaker 1: And he said testily, I don't know. Why don't you 364 00:24:13,835 --> 00:24:18,515 Speaker 1: tell us. The reporters around him, who had never taken 365 00:24:18,555 --> 00:24:21,955 Speaker 1: their eyes off me, now murmured quietly but with a 366 00:24:22,035 --> 00:24:28,555 Speaker 1: subtext of threat and menace and vengeance in their indistinct gurgling. 367 00:24:30,395 --> 00:24:33,435 Speaker 1: Just at this point, Arthur Richmond, who had been the 368 00:24:33,475 --> 00:24:36,275 Speaker 1: Mets public relations man forever and was now a Yankees 369 00:24:36,355 --> 00:24:39,955 Speaker 1: vice president of something for some reason, and more importantly, 370 00:24:40,035 --> 00:24:42,995 Speaker 1: was the surviving brother of the great baseball reporter Milt Richmond, 371 00:24:42,995 --> 00:24:44,755 Speaker 1: who had so helped me at the start of my 372 00:24:44,915 --> 00:24:49,155 Speaker 1: career at UPI, Arthur tapped me on the shoulder and said, 373 00:24:49,635 --> 00:24:53,195 Speaker 1: you a keith oldwoman, right, And I said, yes, we've 374 00:24:53,195 --> 00:24:55,955 Speaker 1: met before. I used to work with your brother. And 375 00:24:56,035 --> 00:24:58,995 Speaker 1: he did not look happily at me, and I asked 376 00:24:59,035 --> 00:25:01,435 Speaker 1: him if he wanted to see my pass or my 377 00:25:01,555 --> 00:25:06,675 Speaker 1: ID or my identifying birthmarks Arthur not smile. The manager 378 00:25:06,755 --> 00:25:09,315 Speaker 1: would like to see you in his office. I still 379 00:25:09,315 --> 00:25:12,275 Speaker 1: didn't have the faintest idea what was going on. Have 380 00:25:12,395 --> 00:25:17,395 Speaker 1: I been sent down to the miners, Arthur, I asked jauntily. Yes, yes, 381 00:25:17,435 --> 00:25:23,835 Speaker 1: you have, Richmond answered with utter seriousness. Arthur Richmond escorted 382 00:25:23,835 --> 00:25:25,755 Speaker 1: me to the little room on the home plate side 383 00:25:25,795 --> 00:25:27,435 Speaker 1: of the clubhouse, in which I had once seen the 384 00:25:27,515 --> 00:25:30,435 Speaker 1: late Billy Martin shout at a coach, two pitchers, three writers, 385 00:25:30,515 --> 00:25:32,315 Speaker 1: and a clubhouse attendant who had been with the team 386 00:25:32,355 --> 00:25:36,355 Speaker 1: since nineteen twenty seven. The current occupant of that tiny office. 387 00:25:36,355 --> 00:25:39,835 Speaker 1: The manager rose from his desk, Keith high Buck Showalter. 388 00:25:39,955 --> 00:25:42,755 Speaker 1: I'm the manager here. I reminded him that we had 389 00:25:42,755 --> 00:25:45,395 Speaker 1: done a lengthy interview for ESPN Radio the year before. 390 00:25:45,715 --> 00:25:48,315 Speaker 1: That's right, I had forgotten. I apologized. Listen, I wanted 391 00:25:48,355 --> 00:25:51,075 Speaker 1: to tell you. I think you brought something refreshing and 392 00:25:51,155 --> 00:25:52,995 Speaker 1: fun to Sports Center. I watch you all the time, 393 00:25:53,275 --> 00:25:55,955 Speaker 1: especially when we're on the road. You know the game too, 394 00:25:56,035 --> 00:25:59,235 Speaker 1: That's important. But I have to tell you my players 395 00:25:59,275 --> 00:26:03,115 Speaker 1: have a problem with what you do. No on that surprise, 396 00:26:03,195 --> 00:26:06,955 Speaker 1: players were like that. Nineteen ninety three, very few sportscasters 397 00:26:06,955 --> 00:26:09,955 Speaker 1: said anything negative about players. They certainly did not make 398 00:26:10,075 --> 00:26:13,795 Speaker 1: jokes or puns about them. I saw you on the 399 00:26:13,795 --> 00:26:16,395 Speaker 1: field before the game. I heard some of our guys, 400 00:26:16,555 --> 00:26:20,155 Speaker 1: show Walter continued, like Paul O'Neal and Wade Boggs and 401 00:26:20,315 --> 00:26:23,555 Speaker 1: Joe Girardi. They were talking about how they were thinking 402 00:26:23,555 --> 00:26:25,675 Speaker 1: about going out there on the field and punching you 403 00:26:25,755 --> 00:26:31,395 Speaker 1: in the head. I flashed back suddenly to nineteen eighty nine, 404 00:26:32,595 --> 00:26:36,075 Speaker 1: when Boggs went on Haraldo Rivera's show and announced he 405 00:26:36,155 --> 00:26:38,835 Speaker 1: was a sex addict, and how after checking with a 406 00:26:38,875 --> 00:26:40,955 Speaker 1: few of his Red Sox teammates whom I knew from 407 00:26:40,955 --> 00:26:43,115 Speaker 1: the year I worked in Boston, who said that was nonsense. 408 00:26:43,275 --> 00:26:44,915 Speaker 1: I went on the air on my sportscast on the 409 00:26:44,955 --> 00:26:49,155 Speaker 1: local station in LA, having intercut Boggs's weepy comments to 410 00:26:49,515 --> 00:26:53,955 Speaker 1: Haraldo with the music video from Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love. 411 00:26:55,075 --> 00:26:59,155 Speaker 1: I had to say it was pretty funny and also 412 00:26:59,715 --> 00:27:01,915 Speaker 1: might have been the meanest thing I ever did on TV. 413 00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:05,875 Speaker 1: Boggs wanted a hunched me in the head on the 414 00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:11,035 Speaker 1: field a Yankee stadium. That checked out, go on, I 415 00:27:11,075 --> 00:27:13,875 Speaker 1: said to Buck show Walter, In fact, the players are 416 00:27:13,915 --> 00:27:15,715 Speaker 1: all staying in the training room in the back until 417 00:27:15,715 --> 00:27:18,635 Speaker 1: they've been assured you've left the clubhouse and you won't 418 00:27:18,635 --> 00:27:23,955 Speaker 1: be returning. They voted unanimously. I thought about this, When 419 00:27:23,995 --> 00:27:27,035 Speaker 1: did they vote unanimously while they were getting shut out 420 00:27:27,035 --> 00:27:29,315 Speaker 1: by the worst picture of a generation that did not 421 00:27:29,475 --> 00:27:31,835 Speaker 1: check out? Now? Like I said, person, I like what 422 00:27:31,915 --> 00:27:34,195 Speaker 1: you do, but I think you may want to consider 423 00:27:34,235 --> 00:27:37,435 Speaker 1: the implications of what not having any access to players 424 00:27:37,475 --> 00:27:39,395 Speaker 1: ever again will have on your career, especially in such 425 00:27:39,435 --> 00:27:42,475 Speaker 1: a high profile program as Sports Center. I thought about 426 00:27:42,475 --> 00:27:46,035 Speaker 1: it briefly, and I smiled at Buck Show Walter, none whatsoever. Actually, 427 00:27:46,115 --> 00:27:48,515 Speaker 1: I'm a studio guy. I never have to go to games. 428 00:27:48,595 --> 00:27:51,235 Speaker 1: And more to the point, I've just left Sports Center 429 00:27:51,275 --> 00:27:55,275 Speaker 1: for this new ESPN two network because my boss has 430 00:27:55,275 --> 00:27:58,235 Speaker 1: said it's basically going to be a network that's designed 431 00:27:58,235 --> 00:28:02,475 Speaker 1: around my sense of humor. Buck Show Walter was thirty 432 00:28:02,515 --> 00:28:04,115 Speaker 1: seven years old then, and at the end of his 433 00:28:04,155 --> 00:28:06,715 Speaker 1: second year as a major league manager. His team, having 434 00:28:06,755 --> 00:28:09,115 Speaker 1: just achieved a tie for first place, had just gotten 435 00:28:09,115 --> 00:28:11,195 Speaker 1: the air let out of its balloon by an epically 436 00:28:11,235 --> 00:28:13,835 Speaker 1: bad pitcher on a not so good team. Plus they 437 00:28:13,835 --> 00:28:17,075 Speaker 1: were due on a flight for Chicago and the bus 438 00:28:17,235 --> 00:28:21,755 Speaker 1: was supposed to leave in an hour, but Paul O'Neill, 439 00:28:21,835 --> 00:28:25,195 Speaker 1: Wade Bogs, and Joe Girardi were worried about some dumb 440 00:28:25,675 --> 00:28:32,835 Speaker 1: sportscaster making jokes. I knew they were doomed. And if 441 00:28:33,115 --> 00:28:36,635 Speaker 1: manager Buck Showalter actually let Paul O'Neil, Wade, Bogs, and 442 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:39,635 Speaker 1: Joe Girardi worry about some dumb sportscaster and his jokes, 443 00:28:40,435 --> 00:28:43,595 Speaker 1: Buck show Walter two was doomed. And sure enough they 444 00:28:43,595 --> 00:28:46,195 Speaker 1: would lose twenty of their last thirty seven games after 445 00:28:46,235 --> 00:28:48,195 Speaker 1: that day and not make the playoffs, or two years 446 00:28:48,195 --> 00:28:50,875 Speaker 1: and not actually get anywhere in the playoffs until after 447 00:28:50,915 --> 00:28:53,515 Speaker 1: show Walter was fired and replaced by my friend Joe Tory. 448 00:28:55,395 --> 00:28:57,795 Speaker 1: Right around then after the firing, I was part of 449 00:28:57,795 --> 00:29:01,555 Speaker 1: the annual ESPN Awards show the SPS. It was the 450 00:29:01,795 --> 00:29:04,315 Speaker 1: post SP's party, and I went to get a drink 451 00:29:04,355 --> 00:29:07,075 Speaker 1: and turn into corner and they're coming toward me were 452 00:29:07,475 --> 00:29:11,355 Speaker 1: Paul O'Neill, Wade Bogs, and Joe Girardi. I was just 453 00:29:11,435 --> 00:29:15,475 Speaker 1: about to gulp when O'Neill shouted, there, he is our 454 00:29:15,555 --> 00:29:22,515 Speaker 1: favorite ESPN guy. Handshakes all of them. Girardi said he 455 00:29:22,595 --> 00:29:24,595 Speaker 1: was amazed every time I ripped a player, he said 456 00:29:24,595 --> 00:29:27,075 Speaker 1: it was somebody he also didn't like. How did I know? 457 00:29:27,835 --> 00:29:30,355 Speaker 1: Bog said, somebody told me that you put my Haraldo 458 00:29:30,355 --> 00:29:32,595 Speaker 1: appearance into that Robert Palmer's song. If you got a 459 00:29:32,635 --> 00:29:34,915 Speaker 1: tape of that, I'd like to see it. I told 460 00:29:34,995 --> 00:29:39,715 Speaker 1: them the Buck Showalter story immediately. Oh god, I remember that, 461 00:29:39,915 --> 00:29:42,355 Speaker 1: said O'Neill. He was pissed. You were in the ballpark 462 00:29:42,395 --> 00:29:44,435 Speaker 1: and we got shut out, and he made us stay 463 00:29:44,475 --> 00:29:46,395 Speaker 1: in the trainer's room and not come out till after 464 00:29:46,435 --> 00:29:49,875 Speaker 1: you left. And god, it was terrible. The smile vanished 465 00:29:49,875 --> 00:29:53,155 Speaker 1: from Joe Girardi's face. Buck did stuff like that all 466 00:29:53,195 --> 00:29:55,355 Speaker 1: the time. We should all have a drink and talk 467 00:29:55,435 --> 00:29:58,395 Speaker 1: about it. We all had a drink and we talked 468 00:29:58,395 --> 00:30:02,915 Speaker 1: about it. Years later, I was telling my late friend 469 00:30:02,915 --> 00:30:05,515 Speaker 1: Pedro Gomez of ESPN the story, and he said, Shoe 470 00:30:05,555 --> 00:30:08,435 Speaker 1: Walter used to do this to him when Shoe Walter 471 00:30:08,595 --> 00:30:11,795 Speaker 1: was managing the Arizona Diamondbacks and Pedro was a beat 472 00:30:11,835 --> 00:30:15,795 Speaker 1: reporter for a newspaper in Phoenix. You know, Colburn wants 473 00:30:15,795 --> 00:30:18,755 Speaker 1: to beat you up, but I stopped him. He quoted 474 00:30:18,755 --> 00:30:22,555 Speaker 1: Showalter as saying Greg Colburn was a six foot one 475 00:30:22,675 --> 00:30:27,235 Speaker 1: hundred ninety pound weightlifter from California's Inland Empire who seemed 476 00:30:27,235 --> 00:30:31,435 Speaker 1: to play baseball in his spare time. So Pedro said, 477 00:30:31,435 --> 00:30:33,195 Speaker 1: I confronted him one day and he said, dude, what 478 00:30:33,235 --> 00:30:35,155 Speaker 1: are you talking about. You know, Buck just makes this 479 00:30:35,235 --> 00:30:40,235 Speaker 1: crap up. The Yankees fired Buck Showalter in nineteen ninety five, 480 00:30:40,275 --> 00:30:42,155 Speaker 1: as I mentioned, and won the World Series in nineteen 481 00:30:42,195 --> 00:30:46,315 Speaker 1: ninety six. The Diamondbacks fired him in two thousand and 482 00:30:46,355 --> 00:30:48,955 Speaker 1: won the World Series in two thousand and one. Then 483 00:30:48,955 --> 00:30:52,555 Speaker 1: he went to work in of all places, the studio 484 00:30:52,715 --> 00:30:55,915 Speaker 1: at ESPN for two years. Then he got another managing 485 00:30:55,995 --> 00:30:58,435 Speaker 1: job in Texas, got fired from there, went back to 486 00:30:58,795 --> 00:31:01,755 Speaker 1: ESPN for three more years, and then became the manager 487 00:31:01,755 --> 00:31:05,835 Speaker 1: at Baltimore in twenty ten. I was at the Baltimore 488 00:31:05,835 --> 00:31:09,395 Speaker 1: spring training camp one day that March and I see 489 00:31:09,475 --> 00:31:11,395 Speaker 1: walking toward me from the other side of the field 490 00:31:11,475 --> 00:31:15,195 Speaker 1: trying to capture my attention, Buck show Walter. I am 491 00:31:15,195 --> 00:31:17,555 Speaker 1: now fifty one years old. He is now fifty three 492 00:31:17,635 --> 00:31:21,595 Speaker 1: years old. It is nearly seventeen years since the day 493 00:31:21,635 --> 00:31:24,595 Speaker 1: he locked his entire team in the trainer's room in 494 00:31:24,635 --> 00:31:27,555 Speaker 1: the middle of a Pennant race. In a complicated ritual 495 00:31:27,555 --> 00:31:29,995 Speaker 1: that would have been too labyrinthine, a plot for Tom 496 00:31:30,075 --> 00:31:33,675 Speaker 1: Clancy just to express some cheesy grudge against the way 497 00:31:33,755 --> 00:31:38,315 Speaker 1: I did sportscasts. Hey, Joe Walter said when he finally 498 00:31:38,355 --> 00:31:40,715 Speaker 1: reached me, when I pulled that stunt on you in 499 00:31:40,795 --> 00:31:44,315 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium was at ninety three, we're ninety four. We 500 00:31:44,395 --> 00:31:46,595 Speaker 1: shook hands as I laughed, and I told him it 501 00:31:46,635 --> 00:31:48,595 Speaker 1: was August of nineteen ninety three. I can get you 502 00:31:48,675 --> 00:31:51,235 Speaker 1: the exact date if you needed. I'm sorry. I had 503 00:31:51,795 --> 00:31:54,315 Speaker 1: not been in television yet. I didn't get any of it. 504 00:31:55,275 --> 00:31:57,955 Speaker 1: I just thought you guys came in and shouted your 505 00:31:57,955 --> 00:32:02,235 Speaker 1: heads off and then went home. I didn't get it, obviously. 506 00:32:02,315 --> 00:32:06,355 Speaker 1: Why didn't you tell me off or something? Yeah? I shrugged. 507 00:32:06,435 --> 00:32:08,715 Speaker 1: I said, well, there was you. There were six coaches, 508 00:32:09,035 --> 00:32:13,035 Speaker 1: twenty five players there versus me, plus all the reporters 509 00:32:13,075 --> 00:32:15,275 Speaker 1: who were angry at me, who were on deadline. What 510 00:32:15,355 --> 00:32:19,195 Speaker 1: if you were telling the truth now? Buck laughed and 511 00:32:19,275 --> 00:32:24,035 Speaker 1: apologized again. We have been professional friends ever since. Whenever 512 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:26,315 Speaker 1: I have seen him, we compare the cruelties of aging 513 00:32:26,315 --> 00:32:29,955 Speaker 1: and talk about politics and television. I saw him two 514 00:32:29,955 --> 00:32:33,515 Speaker 1: Saturdays ago, after four more years in TV when it 515 00:32:33,515 --> 00:32:35,675 Speaker 1: looked like his managing career might be over. He is 516 00:32:35,715 --> 00:32:37,955 Speaker 1: back running the New York Mets at the age of 517 00:32:37,955 --> 00:32:40,155 Speaker 1: sixty six and doing a damn fine job of it. 518 00:32:40,275 --> 00:32:42,035 Speaker 1: And every once in a while I bring up the 519 00:32:42,035 --> 00:32:44,515 Speaker 1: trainer's room full of Yankees, and he flinches and says, 520 00:32:45,515 --> 00:32:48,075 Speaker 1: you know, there's one last thing about it that now 521 00:32:48,475 --> 00:32:55,275 Speaker 1: I cannot possibly understand that trainer's room that was really tiny? 522 00:32:56,555 --> 00:33:13,155 Speaker 1: How did the players all fit in there? I've done 523 00:33:13,155 --> 00:33:15,715 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thanks for listening. 524 00:33:16,715 --> 00:33:18,955 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music was arranged, 525 00:33:18,995 --> 00:33:21,795 Speaker 1: produced and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Chanel, 526 00:33:21,835 --> 00:33:25,635 Speaker 1: who are the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards 527 00:33:25,675 --> 00:33:29,555 Speaker 1: by John Philip Channel, guitars, bass and drums by Brian Ray, 528 00:33:30,155 --> 00:33:33,795 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Another Beethoven selections have been arranged 529 00:33:33,795 --> 00:33:36,915 Speaker 1: and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports 530 00:33:37,035 --> 00:33:40,315 Speaker 1: music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two and it 531 00:33:40,355 --> 00:33:43,115 Speaker 1: was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 532 00:33:43,155 --> 00:33:46,435 Speaker 1: And that's right, I just kind of mispronounced my own name. 533 00:33:47,315 --> 00:33:50,515 Speaker 1: That OLB combination has been given me. Hell for like 534 00:33:50,595 --> 00:33:55,275 Speaker 1: sixty two years. Anyway, musical comments by Nancy Fauss. The 535 00:33:55,315 --> 00:33:59,515 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was Tony Kornheiser. 536 00:33:59,915 --> 00:34:05,435 Speaker 1: Everything else was pretty much my fault, me Keith. That's 537 00:34:05,435 --> 00:34:07,635 Speaker 1: countdown for this the eight hundred and thirteenth day since 538 00:34:07,675 --> 00:34:11,395 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 539 00:34:11,395 --> 00:34:14,955 Speaker 1: of the United States. Arrest him now while we still can. 540 00:34:15,515 --> 00:34:19,235 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith Olderman. 541 00:34:19,635 --> 00:34:31,155 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 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