1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,715 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Donald 2 00:00:21,755 --> 00:00:26,795 Speaker 1: Trump fell asleep at his trial yesterday, first trial, first day, 3 00:00:27,275 --> 00:00:32,355 Speaker 1: first session. Fell asleep sitting upright at the trial. That 4 00:00:32,395 --> 00:00:35,395 Speaker 1: could end with him going to prison during the trial 5 00:00:36,195 --> 00:00:41,195 Speaker 1: day one in the morning. But it's Biden with the 6 00:00:41,235 --> 00:00:45,875 Speaker 1: stamina problem. It's Biden who's too old. Trump fell asleep 7 00:00:46,355 --> 00:00:50,435 Speaker 1: at the defense table. But we should be worried about Biden. 8 00:00:50,595 --> 00:00:53,955 Speaker 1: Trump fell asleep during discussion of his own tweets, his 9 00:00:54,035 --> 00:00:57,115 Speaker 1: own threats, his own lawyer's insistence that this is the 10 00:00:57,115 --> 00:01:01,195 Speaker 1: greatest witch hunting forever, and Abraham Lincoln got off easily 11 00:01:01,195 --> 00:01:04,115 Speaker 1: compared to this, and whatever else they said. In his 12 00:01:04,315 --> 00:01:12,355 Speaker 1: own defense, he fell asleep. Don't sleep on Donald Trump. 13 00:01:12,395 --> 00:01:15,675 Speaker 1: He'll do it for you. To quote The New York 14 00:01:15,715 --> 00:01:19,835 Speaker 1: Times at twelve ten pm EDT. Trump appears to be sleeping, 15 00:01:20,475 --> 00:01:25,475 Speaker 1: his head keeps drooping down and his mouth goes slack. Well, 16 00:01:25,555 --> 00:01:28,435 Speaker 1: who in the hell can blame him? God knows. That's 17 00:01:28,515 --> 00:01:33,715 Speaker 1: been my reaction to his bullshit for nine years. The 18 00:01:33,795 --> 00:01:37,275 Speaker 1: reporter who posted that, Maggie Haberman, shortly thereafter went on 19 00:01:37,355 --> 00:01:39,555 Speaker 1: CNN and said that at one point one of his 20 00:01:39,635 --> 00:01:41,955 Speaker 1: lawyers tried to hand him a note, and he was 21 00:01:42,035 --> 00:01:46,115 Speaker 1: so asleep he didn't know what was happening, his mouth 22 00:01:46,195 --> 00:01:51,275 Speaker 1: going slack and his head drooping onto his chest. She 23 00:01:51,395 --> 00:01:55,715 Speaker 1: added later in the paper, I'm just guessing here, maybe 24 00:01:55,755 --> 00:02:00,355 Speaker 1: Trump needs some adderall or something. If this had happened 25 00:02:00,755 --> 00:02:04,195 Speaker 1: to Biden, if this had happened to Biden at wherever 26 00:02:04,275 --> 00:02:08,395 Speaker 1: he might possibly be, that could be what one one 27 00:02:08,595 --> 00:02:14,595 Speaker 1: thousandth as serious as Trump's trial involving foreign stars and 28 00:02:14,755 --> 00:02:18,515 Speaker 1: payoffs and election interference and prison time. If this had 29 00:02:18,555 --> 00:02:22,315 Speaker 1: happened to Biden, it would be the only thing on 30 00:02:22,435 --> 00:02:26,595 Speaker 1: the news, the only thing on television, the only thing 31 00:02:26,715 --> 00:02:29,835 Speaker 1: on the internet, the only thing in all forms of 32 00:02:30,035 --> 00:02:37,195 Speaker 1: extrasensory communications. Instead, from the pool reporter at three forty 33 00:02:37,235 --> 00:02:41,315 Speaker 1: four pm, after the jurors leave the courtroom, Trump stares 34 00:02:41,355 --> 00:02:45,075 Speaker 1: at da Alvin Bragg. Then Trump turns his eyes to 35 00:02:45,155 --> 00:02:50,395 Speaker 1: the press pool. As he exits. He glares at New 36 00:02:50,515 --> 00:02:55,275 Speaker 1: York Times reporter Maggie Haberman for several seconds as he 37 00:02:55,355 --> 00:03:01,475 Speaker 1: walks out. Don't worry, Maggie. He'll probably decide he just 38 00:03:01,675 --> 00:03:04,515 Speaker 1: dreamt it all, and the media will go back to 39 00:03:04,515 --> 00:03:08,555 Speaker 1: telling voters that they should be worried about how with 40 00:03:08,675 --> 00:03:13,515 Speaker 1: it Joe Biden is Joe Biden and not, as he 41 00:03:13,635 --> 00:03:19,755 Speaker 1: was dubbed yesterday, Don's snore leone, who, by the way, 42 00:03:19,875 --> 00:03:24,035 Speaker 1: was not sleeping for himself. He was sleeping for the 43 00:03:26,475 --> 00:03:33,275 Speaker 1: sake of the January sixth hostages America. Who The ultimate 44 00:03:33,355 --> 00:03:37,435 Speaker 1: day one headline is Trump went to his first trial 45 00:03:37,555 --> 00:03:43,395 Speaker 1: yesterday and fell asleep and then unfortunately awoke, and then 46 00:03:43,395 --> 00:03:48,795 Speaker 1: they let him go home. Unfortunately, be dazzled by the 47 00:03:48,995 --> 00:03:54,395 Speaker 1: historic first an ex president on trial like that's top 48 00:03:54,515 --> 00:03:58,115 Speaker 1: one hundred among the norms Trump has urinated on in 49 00:03:58,155 --> 00:04:02,675 Speaker 1: the last decade. Be dazzled by that the media missed 50 00:04:02,715 --> 00:04:08,075 Speaker 1: the surprising, almost shocking, real headline. This trial will not 51 00:04:08,515 --> 00:04:11,595 Speaker 1: just be about Trump paying Stormy Daniels to keep her 52 00:04:11,715 --> 00:04:14,635 Speaker 1: quiet and thus interfering with the election. And this will 53 00:04:14,635 --> 00:04:18,995 Speaker 1: not just be about Trump's comically perfectly named pal, David Pecker, 54 00:04:19,635 --> 00:04:22,075 Speaker 1: playing catch and kill with every story that might hurt 55 00:04:22,115 --> 00:04:26,195 Speaker 1: defendant Jay Trump and thus interfering with the election. This, 56 00:04:26,995 --> 00:04:31,115 Speaker 1: the prosecution says, and the judge has confirmed he will permit, 57 00:04:31,515 --> 00:04:35,915 Speaker 1: will be about the entirety of the arrangement between Trump 58 00:04:35,995 --> 00:04:40,115 Speaker 1: and his Pecker to interfere with the election, including not 59 00:04:40,315 --> 00:04:44,515 Speaker 1: just true stuff that Trump got Pecker to keep out 60 00:04:44,515 --> 00:04:47,675 Speaker 1: of the public's flow of information, but also the fake 61 00:04:47,795 --> 00:04:50,995 Speaker 1: stuff that Trump got Pecker to put into that flow 62 00:04:51,035 --> 00:04:54,595 Speaker 1: of information, fake stuff that Trump got to read in 63 00:04:54,675 --> 00:04:59,235 Speaker 1: advance and to prove. To quote prosecutor Joshua Steinlass, here 64 00:04:59,315 --> 00:05:03,035 Speaker 1: is a list of National Inquirer headlines timed perfectly to 65 00:05:03,115 --> 00:05:06,995 Speaker 1: assist candidate Trump. They attacked Ben Carson. There will be 66 00:05:07,035 --> 00:05:09,795 Speaker 1: evidence that the defendant said he was particularly pleased with 67 00:05:09,915 --> 00:05:12,595 Speaker 1: this article. There will be the evidence of the stories 68 00:05:12,595 --> 00:05:16,635 Speaker 1: about Ted Cruz, including an alleged role of his family 69 00:05:16,995 --> 00:05:23,675 Speaker 1: in the assassination of jfk and against Marco Rubio. The 70 00:05:23,755 --> 00:05:26,995 Speaker 1: judge will also let Karen McDougall testify about her affair 71 00:05:27,155 --> 00:05:31,715 Speaker 1: with Trump and how Trump buried coverage of that. From 72 00:05:31,715 --> 00:05:35,275 Speaker 1: the moment the prosecution started talking, they were hammering home 73 00:05:35,595 --> 00:05:39,595 Speaker 1: the essence here. This is not a trial about Trump 74 00:05:39,715 --> 00:05:43,755 Speaker 1: paying off a porn star to keep their sex secret 75 00:05:43,795 --> 00:05:47,195 Speaker 1: from his wife or even from the public. This is 76 00:05:47,235 --> 00:05:52,595 Speaker 1: a trial about Trump interfering with the twenty sixteen election 77 00:05:52,795 --> 00:05:57,475 Speaker 1: outcome by illegally suppressing facts that the voters should have 78 00:05:57,555 --> 00:06:02,395 Speaker 1: known and evaluated for themselves, voters in the general election 79 00:06:02,595 --> 00:06:07,035 Speaker 1: and voters in the primary. Trump is not on trial 80 00:06:07,075 --> 00:06:10,115 Speaker 1: for hush money. Trump is not on trial for banging 81 00:06:10,155 --> 00:06:13,475 Speaker 1: a porn star. Stop putting that in your headlines. Trump 82 00:06:13,555 --> 00:06:15,955 Speaker 1: is on trial for his favorite crime, the one he 83 00:06:16,035 --> 00:06:21,955 Speaker 1: never stops talking about. Trump is on trial for election interference. 84 00:06:23,875 --> 00:06:27,755 Speaker 1: Every time this case is reduced to hush money or 85 00:06:27,835 --> 00:06:31,715 Speaker 1: hush money that was then illegally disguised as tax deductible 86 00:06:31,915 --> 00:06:36,595 Speaker 1: business expenses, and I've been guilty of reducing it myself, 87 00:06:37,195 --> 00:06:41,635 Speaker 1: it reduces its seriousness. It becomes yes, we deducted the 88 00:06:41,715 --> 00:06:45,195 Speaker 1: porn star under rule three point twenty one hyphen seven 89 00:06:45,715 --> 00:06:49,275 Speaker 1: parentheses a dash two three two eight six four two 90 00:06:49,355 --> 00:06:55,115 Speaker 1: banging porn stars. No, this allegation is as serious as 91 00:06:55,155 --> 00:07:00,315 Speaker 1: any evidence that Trump conspired with Russia or took Russian help, 92 00:07:00,675 --> 00:07:03,875 Speaker 1: or conspired with WikiLeaks or with Fox or with any 93 00:07:03,955 --> 00:07:08,595 Speaker 1: other media outlet to deliberately spread falsehoods or concealed truths 94 00:07:08,875 --> 00:07:12,795 Speaker 1: to deceive the electorate in twenty sixteen or twenty twenty, 95 00:07:13,035 --> 00:07:16,555 Speaker 1: or after the election in twenty twenty. Trump is on 96 00:07:16,675 --> 00:07:24,195 Speaker 1: trial for organized, systemic, illegal, and coordinated election interference. Call 97 00:07:24,435 --> 00:07:27,995 Speaker 1: it that the hush money is only part of the picture. 98 00:07:28,275 --> 00:07:31,755 Speaker 1: The attempt to deduct it all from his taxes is 99 00:07:31,875 --> 00:07:37,115 Speaker 1: only another part. To have his porn star cake and 100 00:07:37,315 --> 00:07:44,035 Speaker 1: eat it too. Apt, as the imagery might be. Amid 101 00:07:44,075 --> 00:07:47,835 Speaker 1: the Trump grandstanding and the procedurals that Shakespeare summed up 102 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:52,995 Speaker 1: as the laws delay, they seated exactly zero jurors yesterday 103 00:07:52,995 --> 00:07:55,835 Speaker 1: out of the first one hundred or so. There was 104 00:07:55,875 --> 00:07:59,795 Speaker 1: a subheadline and two other laugh lines besides him falling 105 00:07:59,835 --> 00:08:02,235 Speaker 1: asleep while you know, sitting upright at a trial that 106 00:08:02,275 --> 00:08:06,835 Speaker 1: could end with him going to jail. The prosecution noted 107 00:08:06,915 --> 00:08:11,595 Speaker 1: even before jury selection began, or attempted jury selection began, 108 00:08:12,155 --> 00:08:14,995 Speaker 1: that Trump has already repeatedly violated the gag order just 109 00:08:15,075 --> 00:08:19,835 Speaker 1: expanded by State Supreme Court Justice Juan Marshaan hell he 110 00:08:19,915 --> 00:08:22,915 Speaker 1: violated apparently while in the car on the way to 111 00:08:22,995 --> 00:08:25,875 Speaker 1: the courthouse at one hundred Center Street yesterday morning, with 112 00:08:25,915 --> 00:08:30,795 Speaker 1: more slanders and muddled threats against Michael Cohen. They want 113 00:08:30,875 --> 00:08:33,995 Speaker 1: Trump held in contempt of court, which would not result 114 00:08:33,995 --> 00:08:37,995 Speaker 1: in him having bail revoked and going to prison. The 115 00:08:38,075 --> 00:08:43,635 Speaker 1: first punishment would be a fine of three thousand dollars 116 00:08:46,715 --> 00:08:51,395 Speaker 1: three thousand dollars. Oh no, that'll keep Trump awake at 117 00:08:51,475 --> 00:08:55,275 Speaker 1: night or in the courtroom. Three thousand dollars is like 118 00:08:55,355 --> 00:09:00,915 Speaker 1: charging you or me a penny. It's ludicrous. Send him 119 00:09:00,955 --> 00:09:05,555 Speaker 1: to Rikers. Mershawn will conduct a hearing about this week 120 00:09:05,555 --> 00:09:08,875 Speaker 1: from today, underscoring that we are looking at may before 121 00:09:08,915 --> 00:09:12,635 Speaker 1: there is any testimony in this case. Now the other 122 00:09:12,795 --> 00:09:17,315 Speaker 1: laugh lines. At least two Trump whorees raced to his 123 00:09:17,355 --> 00:09:20,515 Speaker 1: defense by demanding something be done at the trial that 124 00:09:20,595 --> 00:09:25,475 Speaker 1: their side condemned while recounting another famous trial last week. 125 00:09:25,955 --> 00:09:30,195 Speaker 1: Not that moral consistency nor personal consistency means anything to 126 00:09:30,635 --> 00:09:35,755 Speaker 1: Congressman Byron Donald's or thug Fox News commentators Jesse Waters 127 00:09:35,835 --> 00:09:38,995 Speaker 1: or Clay Travis. Clay Travis, who has drifted over from 128 00:09:39,075 --> 00:09:43,315 Speaker 1: idiotic sports commentary to idiotic political commentary like a drunk 129 00:09:43,435 --> 00:09:47,955 Speaker 1: driving an eighteen wheel tractor trailer. Donald's first, he tried 130 00:09:47,955 --> 00:09:50,915 Speaker 1: to get prospective jurors to lie under oath to the 131 00:09:50,995 --> 00:09:54,275 Speaker 1: court about not having prejudged the case. I mean, what 132 00:09:54,395 --> 00:09:57,435 Speaker 1: a great idea this is if you want to go 133 00:09:57,475 --> 00:09:58,035 Speaker 1: to jail. 134 00:09:58,475 --> 00:10:02,555 Speaker 2: My plea is to the people of Manhattan that may 135 00:10:02,595 --> 00:10:05,235 Speaker 2: sit on his trial, please do the right thing for 136 00:10:05,315 --> 00:10:08,995 Speaker 2: this country. Everybody's allowed to have their political viewpoints, but 137 00:10:09,115 --> 00:10:12,235 Speaker 2: the law is supposed to be blind and no respect 138 00:10:12,395 --> 00:10:15,555 Speaker 2: of persons. This is a trash case. There is no 139 00:10:15,675 --> 00:10:18,995 Speaker 2: crime here, and if there is any potential for a verdict, 140 00:10:19,275 --> 00:10:20,875 Speaker 2: they should vote not guilty. 141 00:10:21,195 --> 00:10:25,875 Speaker 1: I'm in Manhattan, I could run right over Byron. Byron 142 00:10:25,915 --> 00:10:29,555 Speaker 1: Donald's is not a lawyer. Hell, he's only technically a congressman. 143 00:10:30,035 --> 00:10:34,075 Speaker 1: But that same idea poison the jury pool by lying 144 00:10:34,195 --> 00:10:36,755 Speaker 1: to the judge that you have not prejudged the case. 145 00:10:37,115 --> 00:10:41,155 Speaker 1: That was demanded by the fascist commentator Clay Travis, quoting him. 146 00:10:41,475 --> 00:10:43,635 Speaker 1: If you're a Trump supporter in New York City who 147 00:10:43,715 --> 00:10:46,275 Speaker 1: is a part of the jury pool, do everything you 148 00:10:46,355 --> 00:10:49,755 Speaker 1: can to get seated on the jury and then refuse 149 00:10:49,915 --> 00:10:52,875 Speaker 1: to convict as a matter of principle, dooming the case 150 00:10:52,955 --> 00:10:55,795 Speaker 1: by a hung jury. It's the most patriotic thing you 151 00:10:55,835 --> 00:11:00,835 Speaker 1: could possibly do. Travis apparently has not been able to 152 00:11:00,835 --> 00:11:03,115 Speaker 1: get a client in nearly twenty years, but he is 153 00:11:03,155 --> 00:11:07,795 Speaker 1: a lawyer, graduate from law school at Vanderbilt. He's a lawyer. 154 00:11:09,355 --> 00:11:14,355 Speaker 1: After encouraging prospective jurors to lie, he was a lawyer. Moreover, 155 00:11:14,875 --> 00:11:17,755 Speaker 1: on Travis's side of the political spectrum. Just last week, 156 00:11:17,795 --> 00:11:21,515 Speaker 1: In fact, just yesterday after OJ Simpson's death, they were 157 00:11:21,555 --> 00:11:25,715 Speaker 1: insisting Jesse Waters said this yesterday afternoon on Fox. They 158 00:11:25,715 --> 00:11:29,115 Speaker 1: were insisting that OJ Simpson was found not guilty because 159 00:11:29,315 --> 00:11:32,755 Speaker 1: a juror lied about not prejudging that case. Now they 160 00:11:32,835 --> 00:11:37,355 Speaker 1: want the same alleged illegality to be used to save Trump. 161 00:11:38,995 --> 00:11:42,435 Speaker 1: Nice job Byron Donald's nice job Jesse Waters, in particular, 162 00:11:42,635 --> 00:11:49,035 Speaker 1: a forging a comparison between Trump and OJ Simpson. Thank 163 00:11:49,075 --> 00:11:54,275 Speaker 1: you kids, last laugh? Was I the only one who 164 00:11:54,355 --> 00:11:57,835 Speaker 1: heard it? Trump's pre trial whining to the media when 165 00:11:57,835 --> 00:12:03,355 Speaker 1: he got drowned out by a dog barking. Doesn't anybody 166 00:12:03,435 --> 00:12:07,395 Speaker 1: notice this? Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm 167 00:12:07,435 --> 00:12:13,795 Speaker 1: taking crazy pills. This is nothing like this is nonsense 168 00:12:13,835 --> 00:12:17,755 Speaker 1: that you've never been royal. It doesn't serve anything like this. 169 00:12:18,475 --> 00:12:22,195 Speaker 1: There is no outgrads, and this case was brought. This 170 00:12:22,395 --> 00:12:25,795 Speaker 1: is political persecution. This is a persecution. I mean the 171 00:12:25,915 --> 00:12:29,395 Speaker 1: second and third times there sounded a little different from 172 00:12:29,435 --> 00:12:31,635 Speaker 1: the first, and it was more like a police radio 173 00:12:31,835 --> 00:12:37,515 Speaker 1: maybe echoing in a hallway, or a human barking like 174 00:12:37,595 --> 00:12:40,235 Speaker 1: a dog. But we are picking knits at this point, 175 00:12:40,635 --> 00:12:44,795 Speaker 1: Trump makes his big pre trial martyrdom statement, his weakly 176 00:12:45,035 --> 00:12:48,875 Speaker 1: norma Desmond moment, Watch me nail myself to the cross, 177 00:12:49,155 --> 00:12:52,235 Speaker 1: the thing he does just before falling asleep in the courtroom. 178 00:12:52,475 --> 00:12:56,395 Speaker 1: He does this again, and he gets drowned out by 179 00:12:56,475 --> 00:13:00,675 Speaker 1: a dog barking or something sounding like a dog barking. 180 00:13:01,995 --> 00:13:07,995 Speaker 1: This was a big day for American justice. They were 181 00:13:08,115 --> 00:13:12,235 Speaker 1: drowned out by a dog, or by not a dog, 182 00:13:12,675 --> 00:13:18,355 Speaker 1: but an incredible simulation. And then crazy old man falls asleep, 183 00:13:19,435 --> 00:13:35,915 Speaker 1: sitting upright. Only in America, Trump falling asleep in court 184 00:13:36,035 --> 00:13:39,955 Speaker 1: takes on almost allegorical proportions given what is now unmistakable 185 00:13:40,075 --> 00:13:43,715 Speaker 1: in this campaign. The poles have turned, and with them 186 00:13:43,875 --> 00:13:47,835 Speaker 1: the vibes. The media rats are not yet racing back 187 00:13:47,915 --> 00:13:51,275 Speaker 1: onto what turns out to be a not sinking Joe bidenship. 188 00:13:51,835 --> 00:13:54,515 Speaker 1: The front runners have yet to do a one point eighty. 189 00:13:54,875 --> 00:13:58,155 Speaker 1: The wind is blowing their own crap back into their faces, 190 00:13:58,555 --> 00:14:02,115 Speaker 1: the faces of the reportorial purveyors of the conventional wisdom. 191 00:14:02,595 --> 00:14:04,715 Speaker 1: And no, they won't admit it, but I think I 192 00:14:04,715 --> 00:14:10,075 Speaker 1: think it's coming. Jonathan Martin of Politico got so close. 193 00:14:10,275 --> 00:14:13,875 Speaker 1: Over the weekend, he wrote a column headlined Trump the 194 00:14:13,955 --> 00:14:17,915 Speaker 1: front runner. Not so fast as foreign leaders trek to 195 00:14:17,995 --> 00:14:20,915 Speaker 1: marri Lago to restore their ties to the once and 196 00:14:21,075 --> 00:14:24,515 Speaker 1: future president, they might be surprised to learn that the 197 00:14:24,595 --> 00:14:29,915 Speaker 1: election isn't as sealed as they seem to think, as 198 00:14:30,195 --> 00:14:35,675 Speaker 1: condescending and as self inflating and as egotistical as that 199 00:14:35,915 --> 00:14:41,035 Speaker 1: is who said the election was sealed. Mister Martin, do 200 00:14:41,195 --> 00:14:44,955 Speaker 1: you own a mirror? Do any of you own mirrors? 201 00:14:45,955 --> 00:14:50,755 Speaker 1: Martin almost made up for that by as remarkable a 202 00:14:51,075 --> 00:14:54,755 Speaker 1: near confession as I have seen from a Beltway insider 203 00:14:55,035 --> 00:14:59,115 Speaker 1: since I went into the news in nineteen freaking ninety seven. 204 00:15:00,635 --> 00:15:05,515 Speaker 1: Promoting his column on the Internet, declaring that, after all, 205 00:15:05,795 --> 00:15:10,555 Speaker 1: maybe they were all wrong to ignore reality. Jonathan Martin wrote, quote, 206 00:15:10,875 --> 00:15:15,155 Speaker 1: I'll say it, there's an elite tendency to assign Trump 207 00:15:15,235 --> 00:15:18,115 Speaker 1: a better chance to win than he merits to show 208 00:15:18,875 --> 00:15:28,435 Speaker 1: this time you're not out of touch unquote you think. 209 00:15:30,795 --> 00:15:34,635 Speaker 1: Notice Martin never specifies that the elite he's referring to 210 00:15:34,955 --> 00:15:41,035 Speaker 1: includes the American news media, which it does. His piece 211 00:15:41,155 --> 00:15:44,315 Speaker 1: was clearly inspired by British Foreign Minister David Cameron's visit 212 00:15:44,395 --> 00:15:47,595 Speaker 1: to see Trumpet. By the way, David Cameron, the man 213 00:15:47,635 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: who enabled the Brexit vote. Just because the four prime 214 00:15:51,835 --> 00:15:54,555 Speaker 1: ministers who followed him have been worse than him does 215 00:15:54,635 --> 00:15:56,555 Speaker 1: not make him a good choice to represent the UK 216 00:15:56,715 --> 00:16:02,115 Speaker 1: on the world stage. UK anyway, back to Jonathan Martin, 217 00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:04,035 Speaker 1: this is, after all, the same man who wrote last 218 00:16:04,075 --> 00:16:07,195 Speaker 1: November he's titled how Biden can Still Turn It Around? 219 00:16:08,035 --> 00:16:11,675 Speaker 1: Twelve paragraphs in, Martin noted, as if it were the 220 00:16:11,755 --> 00:16:14,475 Speaker 1: answer to a trivia question that Trump, quote, is an 221 00:16:14,555 --> 00:16:17,715 Speaker 1: exiled strong man who's taken over a traditional political party 222 00:16:17,915 --> 00:16:20,675 Speaker 1: and is attempting to reclaim office, to consolidate power and 223 00:16:20,755 --> 00:16:23,675 Speaker 1: punish his enemies with little regard for the constitution. Just 224 00:16:23,835 --> 00:16:27,515 Speaker 1: ask him. And then finally Martin got around to if 225 00:16:27,555 --> 00:16:30,075 Speaker 1: Biden thinks the country is on the line, he should 226 00:16:30,115 --> 00:16:33,795 Speaker 1: act like it and literally just that one sentence when 227 00:16:33,835 --> 00:16:36,715 Speaker 1: you think, oh, here comes this stuff about how Biden 228 00:16:37,195 --> 00:16:40,115 Speaker 1: and the Jonathan Martins of this world and all of 229 00:16:40,195 --> 00:16:43,555 Speaker 1: the media should be calling Trump out day after day, 230 00:16:43,955 --> 00:16:47,675 Speaker 1: hour after hour in ever more dire and knife edged 231 00:16:47,715 --> 00:16:52,515 Speaker 1: words like fascist and Nazi and would be hitler, we 232 00:16:52,755 --> 00:16:56,395 Speaker 1: find out what political cost Jonathan Martin thought Biden had 233 00:16:56,435 --> 00:16:59,955 Speaker 1: to change to save representative government in this country. He 234 00:17:00,075 --> 00:17:03,115 Speaker 1: had to, according to mister Martin last November quote, stop 235 00:17:03,275 --> 00:17:08,755 Speaker 1: calling David Axelrod apace Rick calling David Axelrod of prick 236 00:17:08,835 --> 00:17:10,555 Speaker 1: as a person who has heard Biden use the word, 237 00:17:10,595 --> 00:17:12,555 Speaker 1: says he does in private. It's not a strategy to 238 00:17:12,555 --> 00:17:17,195 Speaker 1: win two hundred and seventy electoral votes. Well, now you 239 00:17:17,275 --> 00:17:22,635 Speaker 1: know why I never got elected president. Then Martin complained 240 00:17:23,835 --> 00:17:27,515 Speaker 1: that Rob Emmanuel and Jennifer O'Malley, Dylon and Ron Klain 241 00:17:27,795 --> 00:17:30,155 Speaker 1: should be running Biden's campaign, that that was the key 242 00:17:30,235 --> 00:17:32,675 Speaker 1: issue here. That would be the Ron Klain who just 243 00:17:32,795 --> 00:17:35,315 Speaker 1: last week f bombed the Biden campaign in a speech 244 00:17:35,355 --> 00:17:37,275 Speaker 1: in publican did it on tape because he said a 245 00:17:37,395 --> 00:17:41,675 Speaker 1: genius he doesn't know enough to not pee inside the tent. 246 00:17:45,875 --> 00:17:48,435 Speaker 1: By the way that Martin complained about the elites, that 247 00:17:48,835 --> 00:17:55,835 Speaker 1: almost almost almost got to reality. It got thirty four retweets, 248 00:17:57,235 --> 00:18:01,795 Speaker 1: and and same weekend, Martin's employers at Politico were good 249 00:18:01,875 --> 00:18:05,075 Speaker 1: enough to bury their own poll showing that den now 250 00:18:05,195 --> 00:18:09,435 Speaker 1: leads Trump nationally by two Apparently they did this because 251 00:18:09,475 --> 00:18:11,515 Speaker 1: the poll was supposed to be about the election and 252 00:18:11,595 --> 00:18:14,795 Speaker 1: the Middle East, and the horse race number was just incidental, 253 00:18:14,995 --> 00:18:17,115 Speaker 1: and they didn't publish anything that didn't touch on the 254 00:18:17,155 --> 00:18:20,995 Speaker 1: Middle East, like ooh uh, who's ahead in the presidential polling? 255 00:18:20,995 --> 00:18:24,315 Speaker 1: After weeks and months and years of emphasizing that Trump 256 00:18:24,475 --> 00:18:26,915 Speaker 1: was ahead, who's ahead now? That doesn't matter in the 257 00:18:26,955 --> 00:18:31,315 Speaker 1: Middle East at all? The way, The New York Times 258 00:18:31,715 --> 00:18:34,195 Speaker 1: did the same thing when its poll in late February 259 00:18:34,275 --> 00:18:37,355 Speaker 1: had Trump up by five and its new pole Saturday 260 00:18:37,395 --> 00:18:40,995 Speaker 1: had Biden trailing Trump by only one, and it actually 261 00:18:41,075 --> 00:18:45,275 Speaker 1: published this subheadline, the president's popularity has ticked up slightly, 262 00:18:46,515 --> 00:18:49,755 Speaker 1: even though the simple reality of you know math is 263 00:18:49,795 --> 00:18:53,195 Speaker 1: that Biden, in going from five points down to four 264 00:18:53,275 --> 00:18:57,355 Speaker 1: points down, erased eighty percent of Trump's margin in six weeks. 265 00:19:00,195 --> 00:19:03,395 Speaker 1: The red Field and Wilton poll is out. It has 266 00:19:03,475 --> 00:19:06,035 Speaker 1: it tied at forty one. As they note their first 267 00:19:06,155 --> 00:19:10,075 Speaker 1: poll where Trump was not ahead since last July. I 268 00:19:10,155 --> 00:19:12,595 Speaker 1: would feel better if they weren't British pollsters, but they 269 00:19:12,635 --> 00:19:17,915 Speaker 1: did ask Americans, they assure us. Also, they find Biden's 270 00:19:18,035 --> 00:19:24,075 Speaker 1: approval number is now only six points underwater. The Associated 271 00:19:24,155 --> 00:19:28,435 Speaker 1: Press and Nork NRC did some deep diving based on 272 00:19:28,515 --> 00:19:32,195 Speaker 1: how frequently supporters have actually voted. You voted in the 273 00:19:32,235 --> 00:19:36,235 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen midterms. The twenty twenty presidential election. The twenty 274 00:19:36,355 --> 00:19:40,075 Speaker 1: twenty two midterms. Biden is ahead in your group fifty 275 00:19:40,155 --> 00:19:42,275 Speaker 1: to thirty nine. You voted in only one of those. 276 00:19:42,675 --> 00:19:45,835 Speaker 1: Trump is ahead forty five thirty three. You haven't voted 277 00:19:45,875 --> 00:19:47,955 Speaker 1: at all in any of them. It's Trump forty four 278 00:19:47,995 --> 00:19:51,315 Speaker 1: to twenty six. In other words, Trump's support largely depends 279 00:19:51,355 --> 00:19:54,715 Speaker 1: on him getting votes from non voters or rare voters. 280 00:19:56,675 --> 00:19:59,435 Speaker 1: Wagering on the election has swung wildly. It was all 281 00:19:59,595 --> 00:20:03,795 Speaker 1: Trump at the Polymarket betting site. Particularly now, at the 282 00:20:03,875 --> 00:20:07,075 Speaker 1: Polymarket bet it's Biden favored sixty two to twenty six. 283 00:20:08,435 --> 00:20:13,395 Speaker 1: Their official forecast is tied forty five forty five. That's 284 00:20:13,475 --> 00:20:17,315 Speaker 1: only for gambling purposes. But with all that as the backdrop, 285 00:20:18,395 --> 00:20:21,875 Speaker 1: the polls continue to break either showing Biden ahead where 286 00:20:21,915 --> 00:20:24,755 Speaker 1: he was behind, or just barely behind where he was 287 00:20:24,835 --> 00:20:27,635 Speaker 1: lots behind. With that as the backdrop, I will say 288 00:20:27,715 --> 00:20:31,075 Speaker 1: to Jonathan Martin and all the other cognocente who did 289 00:20:31,155 --> 00:20:33,315 Speaker 1: not do what I did, who did not leave the 290 00:20:33,395 --> 00:20:36,235 Speaker 1: media oligarchy and go out on their own and tried 291 00:20:36,395 --> 00:20:39,435 Speaker 1: thinking for themselves, for say a stretch of six and 292 00:20:39,475 --> 00:20:42,515 Speaker 1: a half minutes, I will say to them, just to 293 00:20:42,595 --> 00:20:46,395 Speaker 1: borrow a phrase I heard recently. Have you noticed, I'll 294 00:20:46,555 --> 00:20:49,435 Speaker 1: say it, there's an elite tendency to assign Trump a 295 00:20:49,515 --> 00:20:52,435 Speaker 1: better chance to win than he merits, to show this 296 00:20:52,675 --> 00:20:56,595 Speaker 1: time you're not out of touch, or to update it 297 00:20:56,795 --> 00:21:00,515 Speaker 1: just slightly in the wake of yesterday's in court developments, 298 00:21:01,155 --> 00:21:11,715 Speaker 1: to show this time you're not a sleep he fell 299 00:21:12,195 --> 00:21:19,275 Speaker 1: asleep at the defense table. If Biden did that, a 300 00:21:19,515 --> 00:21:23,435 Speaker 1: new network would be opened up today called the Biden 301 00:21:23,515 --> 00:21:29,275 Speaker 1: fell of Sleep Network. Also of interest here, the fallout 302 00:21:29,355 --> 00:21:32,915 Speaker 1: continues from as cynical a confession from an American politician 303 00:21:33,355 --> 00:21:40,835 Speaker 1: since Trump's fifth Avenue shooting boast, Governor Sanunu, I'm not 304 00:21:41,115 --> 00:21:44,595 Speaker 1: sure he's a human being. And speaking of that, the 305 00:21:44,715 --> 00:21:47,835 Speaker 1: right wing comedian who was too gross even for Senate 306 00:21:47,915 --> 00:21:51,995 Speaker 1: Republicans and their staffers. His set was supposed to go 307 00:21:52,155 --> 00:21:54,755 Speaker 1: thirty minutes. It only went ten minutes before they threw 308 00:21:54,795 --> 00:21:57,915 Speaker 1: him out. When you hear who it was, you will 309 00:21:57,955 --> 00:22:01,155 Speaker 1: be shocked it even went ten minutes. That's next. This 310 00:22:01,355 --> 00:22:07,395 Speaker 1: is Countdown, ladies and germs. This is countdown, with Keith 311 00:22:07,435 --> 00:22:31,395 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead of us on this all new edition 312 00:22:31,475 --> 00:22:34,435 Speaker 1: of Countdown. Statistically, he may have been the greatest pitcher 313 00:22:34,515 --> 00:22:39,075 Speaker 1: to ever call the original Yankee Stadium home. But fifty 314 00:22:39,195 --> 00:22:42,795 Speaker 1: years later, he's still known first for swapping wives and 315 00:22:42,995 --> 00:22:48,235 Speaker 1: swapping lives with a teammate. But I will always remember 316 00:22:48,315 --> 00:22:51,875 Speaker 1: the late Fritz Peterson because when I was a kid, 317 00:22:51,915 --> 00:22:54,955 Speaker 1: I cost him a no hit game. I really did 318 00:22:55,435 --> 00:22:58,795 Speaker 1: next in things I promised not to tell first. Still 319 00:22:58,915 --> 00:23:01,315 Speaker 1: more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of 320 00:23:01,355 --> 00:23:04,635 Speaker 1: the miscrants, morons and dunning Kruger fect specimens as usual. 321 00:23:04,715 --> 00:23:06,875 Speaker 1: Well at the start of the week, way too many 322 00:23:07,075 --> 00:23:13,835 Speaker 1: for just three trophies. Five five who constitute two days 323 00:23:15,315 --> 00:23:18,635 Speaker 1: Wor's persons in the world, crowd together so we can 324 00:23:18,675 --> 00:23:20,835 Speaker 1: get you all in the same picture. We start with 325 00:23:20,955 --> 00:23:25,835 Speaker 1: the Zinc Trophy fifth place, Elon Musk and Marjorie bitter Green. 326 00:23:26,835 --> 00:23:29,515 Speaker 1: A lot of people suck up to Musque online, But 327 00:23:29,595 --> 00:23:33,235 Speaker 1: according to the independent journalist Preston Stewart, a recent post 328 00:23:33,315 --> 00:23:37,195 Speaker 1: on Telegram reads, and it's translated from the Russian thanks 329 00:23:37,235 --> 00:23:41,155 Speaker 1: to Elon Musk for helping his Russian counterpart. It's on 330 00:23:41,235 --> 00:23:44,515 Speaker 1: the account of the Rusich Group, an arm of Putin's 331 00:23:44,595 --> 00:23:48,355 Speaker 1: army that is looked on with disgust by the Wagner Group. 332 00:23:49,275 --> 00:23:53,435 Speaker 1: The head of this outfit is a self avowed Nazi. Meanwhile, 333 00:23:53,555 --> 00:23:57,075 Speaker 1: Marjorie Green says, quote it's anti Semitic to make Israeli 334 00:23:57,275 --> 00:24:02,475 Speaker 1: aid contingent on funding Ukrainian Nazis unquote March March March. 335 00:24:02,875 --> 00:24:06,315 Speaker 1: The Nazis in Ukraine are Russis, sent there by your 336 00:24:06,435 --> 00:24:09,355 Speaker 1: boy Putin and helped to get there by your boy 337 00:24:09,795 --> 00:24:16,515 Speaker 1: Sleepy Trump, Dozing Jay Trump, your views of religion March 338 00:24:16,635 --> 00:24:18,355 Speaker 1: better be one hundred percent wrong, or you're going to 339 00:24:18,395 --> 00:24:25,195 Speaker 1: spend a long time in hell. Moving to Copper and 340 00:24:25,395 --> 00:24:29,995 Speaker 1: CNN and how dare the Network of Record cancel their 341 00:24:30,155 --> 00:24:36,235 Speaker 1: best news show, King Charles, The Gail King Charles Barkley 342 00:24:36,275 --> 00:24:39,275 Speaker 1: Weekly Show. It's going to save CNN? Don't you know 343 00:24:39,475 --> 00:24:42,915 Speaker 1: that the end has come for this last and most 344 00:24:42,995 --> 00:24:46,995 Speaker 1: bizarre of the memorials to the William Henry Harrison of 345 00:24:47,115 --> 00:24:51,795 Speaker 1: CNN presidents Chris Lick. King Charles was canceled after last 346 00:24:51,835 --> 00:24:55,395 Speaker 1: Wednesday's edition. Per The New York Post, it drew really 347 00:24:55,555 --> 00:24:58,675 Speaker 1: sad audiences of four hundred and twelve thousand total viewers 348 00:24:58,835 --> 00:25:01,795 Speaker 1: and eighty nine thousand in the coveted twenty five to 349 00:25:01,915 --> 00:25:05,595 Speaker 1: fifty four age demo, CNN will out. Let's replace it 350 00:25:05,955 --> 00:25:08,835 Speaker 1: by extending the Abby Phillip News Hour to five nights 351 00:25:08,835 --> 00:25:11,755 Speaker 1: a week from its current schedule of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 352 00:25:11,795 --> 00:25:15,835 Speaker 1: and Friday. At ten last Tuesday, Miss Phillips newscast drew 353 00:25:15,875 --> 00:25:19,035 Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty two thousand viewers, an eighty eight 354 00:25:19,115 --> 00:25:21,635 Speaker 1: thousand in the coveted twenty five to fifty four age devo. 355 00:25:21,875 --> 00:25:26,355 Speaker 1: That's right. The new show ratings are one thousand people 356 00:25:26,475 --> 00:25:32,035 Speaker 1: worse than the old show ratings. This is CNN, the 357 00:25:32,115 --> 00:25:35,995 Speaker 1: brons worse. Robert F. Kennedy Junior. If you're beginning like 358 00:25:36,115 --> 00:25:38,275 Speaker 1: me to get the sense that his campaign is there 359 00:25:38,635 --> 00:25:41,195 Speaker 1: to soak up all the people Trump thinks are too 360 00:25:41,355 --> 00:25:44,275 Speaker 1: crazy to work for him, yeah, you may be right. 361 00:25:44,875 --> 00:25:49,075 Speaker 1: Angelas Stanton King is the black voter engagement director for 362 00:25:49,155 --> 00:25:51,915 Speaker 1: the Kennedy campaign, and she has posted and then deleted 363 00:25:52,515 --> 00:25:55,995 Speaker 1: a homophobic attack against the founder of a black pro 364 00:25:56,275 --> 00:25:59,915 Speaker 1: Trump conservative group. His name is Deontay Johnson, and Angela 365 00:26:00,035 --> 00:26:04,395 Speaker 1: Stanton King called Johnson quote in this deleted tweet, an 366 00:26:04,435 --> 00:26:08,515 Speaker 1: open flaming feminine closet gay. How is he gonna lead 367 00:26:08,595 --> 00:26:12,395 Speaker 1: heterosexual black men to the Republican Party unquote. Now you 368 00:26:12,475 --> 00:26:18,475 Speaker 1: may notice the homophobia and the virulence. You may notice 369 00:26:18,515 --> 00:26:21,915 Speaker 1: that I noticed that she attacked this man because she 370 00:26:21,995 --> 00:26:24,675 Speaker 1: wondered how he could build support not for her candidate, 371 00:26:24,715 --> 00:26:29,835 Speaker 1: who is Kennedy, but instead how he could build support 372 00:26:29,955 --> 00:26:35,355 Speaker 1: for her, not her candidate Trump, Trump, who she supported 373 00:26:35,395 --> 00:26:38,835 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty who when she went to the White 374 00:26:38,875 --> 00:26:41,875 Speaker 1: House in February, she celebrated Black History Month with him 375 00:26:42,595 --> 00:26:45,275 Speaker 1: and who. Then a year later, Angela Stanton King, who'd 376 00:26:45,275 --> 00:26:47,755 Speaker 1: spent two years in prison after being convicted as part 377 00:26:47,795 --> 00:26:51,155 Speaker 1: of a car theft ring, she was pardoned by Trump. 378 00:26:52,435 --> 00:26:54,555 Speaker 1: This was just before she went on the Doctor Phil 379 00:26:54,635 --> 00:26:58,155 Speaker 1: Show to attack transgendered people like her own child, and 380 00:26:58,235 --> 00:27:02,115 Speaker 1: then unleashed an obscenity riddled video on social media attacking 381 00:27:02,195 --> 00:27:04,755 Speaker 1: her own child and Doctor Phil and the doctors. And 382 00:27:06,115 --> 00:27:09,395 Speaker 1: now she's working for Kennedy, then going full homophobe on 383 00:27:09,515 --> 00:27:15,475 Speaker 1: behalf of Trump. Hmmm, it's almost as if she's living 384 00:27:15,715 --> 00:27:20,155 Speaker 1: her real life as a closeted Trump supporter. Don't tell 385 00:27:20,195 --> 00:27:26,435 Speaker 1: anybody the runner up worser funny man Rob Schneider Politico 386 00:27:26,555 --> 00:27:29,915 Speaker 1: reporting that last holiday season, the Senate Working Group's annual 387 00:27:30,075 --> 00:27:34,035 Speaker 1: gala was headed by the former Saturday Night Live cast 388 00:27:34,115 --> 00:27:38,315 Speaker 1: member Rob Schneider, former as in thirty years ago, literally 389 00:27:38,435 --> 00:27:41,315 Speaker 1: left the show. In nineteen ninety four, one hundred and 390 00:27:41,435 --> 00:27:45,035 Speaker 1: fifty Republican Senate staffers, including forty chiefs of staff. Some 391 00:27:45,315 --> 00:27:49,475 Speaker 1: senators recoiled, according to Politico, as Schneider, who had promised 392 00:27:49,475 --> 00:27:53,115 Speaker 1: to keep it clean, made racially offensive and gross jokes, 393 00:27:53,395 --> 00:27:58,035 Speaker 1: many aimed at Asian people, including one about quote Korean whorehouses. 394 00:27:59,155 --> 00:28:02,595 Speaker 1: At ten minutes in, Senator Cindy Hyde Smith walked out, 395 00:28:02,995 --> 00:28:05,315 Speaker 1: and the executive director of the group stoped Schneider and 396 00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:10,395 Speaker 1: escorted him off stage. Do you realize how racially offensive 397 00:28:10,515 --> 00:28:14,195 Speaker 1: something has to be to get Republicans to walk out 398 00:28:15,635 --> 00:28:21,515 Speaker 1: of a free dinner? But the winner the worst, Governor 399 00:28:21,595 --> 00:28:25,755 Speaker 1: Chris Sanunu of New Hampshire. I suppose nothing should surprise 400 00:28:25,835 --> 00:28:29,235 Speaker 1: me anymore, But even nearly forty eight hours after the fact, 401 00:28:29,435 --> 00:28:32,755 Speaker 1: I have still never seen anything as brazenly cynical and 402 00:28:32,955 --> 00:28:36,675 Speaker 1: Unamerican as what this asshole did on ABC Sunday Morning 403 00:28:36,875 --> 00:28:40,595 Speaker 1: with George Stephanopolos. I mean, this was a loud, seemingly 404 00:28:40,875 --> 00:28:46,355 Speaker 1: principled Nicki Haley supporter, Remember Nicki Haley, and Sonu is 405 00:28:46,395 --> 00:28:49,635 Speaker 1: now not just backing Trump, but he's making no effort 406 00:28:49,675 --> 00:28:53,155 Speaker 1: to even rationalize backing Trump. Sonun who said, the criminal cases, 407 00:28:53,195 --> 00:28:55,795 Speaker 1: the prosecution quote has been going on for more than 408 00:28:55,795 --> 00:28:58,955 Speaker 1: a year, and his poll numbers never go down. George 409 00:28:58,955 --> 00:29:02,715 Speaker 1: Stephanoppolis countered, but you're going to politics. I'm asking about 410 00:29:02,795 --> 00:29:07,795 Speaker 1: right and wrong. Answered, this is about politics. If you 411 00:29:07,875 --> 00:29:11,955 Speaker 1: missed it, it gets worse. Please explain. Stephanopolos asked, given 412 00:29:11,995 --> 00:29:14,555 Speaker 1: the fact you believe Trump contributed to an insurrection, how 413 00:29:14,595 --> 00:29:16,075 Speaker 1: can you say we should have him back in the 414 00:29:16,155 --> 00:29:19,675 Speaker 1: oval office. Sanunu's answer, for me, it's not about him 415 00:29:19,715 --> 00:29:23,555 Speaker 1: as much as it is having a GOP administration. Stephanopolos 416 00:29:23,635 --> 00:29:26,235 Speaker 1: was dumbfounded. But he will be the president. That doesn't 417 00:29:26,235 --> 00:29:28,315 Speaker 1: make any sense to me. You believe that a president 418 00:29:28,355 --> 00:29:32,475 Speaker 1: who contributed to an insurrection should be president again? And 419 00:29:32,595 --> 00:29:36,035 Speaker 1: then the kill shot from this worm Sanunu, as does 420 00:29:36,195 --> 00:29:40,715 Speaker 1: fifty one percent of America. George, forget the math for 421 00:29:40,755 --> 00:29:42,995 Speaker 1: a second. Trump has never come close to having fifty 422 00:29:43,035 --> 00:29:45,795 Speaker 1: one percent of support in America. It was forty six 423 00:29:45,875 --> 00:29:49,115 Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, it was forty seven in twenty twenty 424 00:29:49,355 --> 00:29:52,995 Speaker 1: what Snunu is saying here is he and other Republicans 425 00:29:53,035 --> 00:29:57,755 Speaker 1: who know Trump is amoral, anti democracy, a thug, a criminal, 426 00:29:58,915 --> 00:30:01,835 Speaker 1: a madman. They will not let that stop them from 427 00:30:01,915 --> 00:30:06,235 Speaker 1: supporting him because they have all joined a What are 428 00:30:06,275 --> 00:30:09,475 Speaker 1: you gonna do about it, you lousy moral losers. What 429 00:30:09,555 --> 00:30:13,395 Speaker 1: are you gonna do about their mob? I don't give 430 00:30:13,435 --> 00:30:15,635 Speaker 1: a damn what happens to the Snuu news The father 431 00:30:15,795 --> 00:30:18,075 Speaker 1: was H. W. Bush's chief of staff said a hell 432 00:30:18,115 --> 00:30:20,155 Speaker 1: with a lot of them. But the more I listened 433 00:30:20,195 --> 00:30:23,675 Speaker 1: to this interview, the more I kept hoping, maybe Governor 434 00:30:23,755 --> 00:30:27,955 Speaker 1: Sinunu is drunk, maybe he's having some sort of brain episode, 435 00:30:28,635 --> 00:30:30,955 Speaker 1: because that would be a better explanation either one of 436 00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:35,115 Speaker 1: them than this explanation that Chris Sinunu is our Franz 437 00:30:35,235 --> 00:30:39,515 Speaker 1: von Poppen. You know, Franz von Poppen is we have 438 00:30:39,595 --> 00:30:42,435 Speaker 1: a bunch of them. Actually, now, he was the Conservative 439 00:30:42,555 --> 00:30:45,755 Speaker 1: Chancellor of Germany and it was he who made the 440 00:30:45,835 --> 00:30:49,555 Speaker 1: deal after Hitler lost the nineteen thirty two German presidential 441 00:30:49,635 --> 00:30:54,035 Speaker 1: election to appoint him Chancellor Hitler so that the weakened 442 00:30:54,115 --> 00:30:57,435 Speaker 1: winner of the presidential election would get the political and 443 00:30:57,595 --> 00:31:01,395 Speaker 1: parliamentary support of the Nazis in the Reichstag, and Hitler 444 00:31:01,435 --> 00:31:04,355 Speaker 1: would have to fall in line with a non Nazi 445 00:31:04,435 --> 00:31:09,315 Speaker 1: gut Men von Poppin. Had it all arranged, President Hindenberg's 446 00:31:09,355 --> 00:31:12,915 Speaker 1: eleven man cabinet would consist of Hitler and two other 447 00:31:13,035 --> 00:31:18,115 Speaker 1: Nazis and eight non Nazis. Within two months, Popin told 448 00:31:18,155 --> 00:31:21,315 Speaker 1: a colleague, We'll have Hitler in a corner so tight 449 00:31:21,715 --> 00:31:25,675 Speaker 1: that he will squeak. In point of fact, Within two months, 450 00:31:25,755 --> 00:31:29,595 Speaker 1: Hitler managed to suspend habeas corpus, suspend freedom of the press, 451 00:31:29,635 --> 00:31:33,755 Speaker 1: suspend public assembly, suspend freedom of speech, and he opened Dachau. 452 00:31:34,635 --> 00:31:37,915 Speaker 1: A year later, he put Poppin under house arrest, and 453 00:31:38,035 --> 00:31:41,155 Speaker 1: a decade later Franz von Poppen was one of the 454 00:31:41,235 --> 00:31:46,035 Speaker 1: defendants at Nuremberg. Governor Chris, what are you gonna do? 455 00:31:46,515 --> 00:31:49,915 Speaker 1: He's popular. Either we keep him or we keep democracy. 456 00:31:50,395 --> 00:31:55,035 Speaker 1: So I guess we keep him. Von Sanunu two days 457 00:31:55,795 --> 00:32:12,435 Speaker 1: worst person and the world squeak knew the number one 458 00:32:12,475 --> 00:32:15,115 Speaker 1: story on the countdown and things I promised not to tell. 459 00:32:15,795 --> 00:32:21,155 Speaker 1: And last Thursday fred Ingalls Peterson died. You probably do 460 00:32:21,275 --> 00:32:23,995 Speaker 1: not know that name. You probably do not know the name. 461 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:27,155 Speaker 1: He was better known by Fritz Peterson. He was a 462 00:32:27,235 --> 00:32:29,875 Speaker 1: pitcher for the New York Yankees from nineteen sixty six 463 00:32:29,955 --> 00:32:31,995 Speaker 1: until he was traded to the Cleveland Indians in nineteen 464 00:32:32,035 --> 00:32:35,355 Speaker 1: seventy four. He later also pitched for the Texas Rangers. 465 00:32:36,035 --> 00:32:38,515 Speaker 1: He was also a hockey announcer in New York. In 466 00:32:38,635 --> 00:32:42,075 Speaker 1: his pitching days with the Yankees, he worked with John Sterling, 467 00:32:42,595 --> 00:32:46,635 Speaker 1: who to this day does Yankee games. John Sterling and 468 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:50,395 Speaker 1: Fritz Peterson were the broadcasters for the New York Raiders 469 00:32:51,035 --> 00:32:54,035 Speaker 1: of the World Hockey Association in nineteen seventy two seventy three. 470 00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:58,635 Speaker 1: But Fritz Peterson, when he is remembered at all, is 471 00:32:58,715 --> 00:33:01,635 Speaker 1: remembered for one of the most spectacular off the field 472 00:33:01,755 --> 00:33:06,275 Speaker 1: incidents in the history of baseball, when in his eighth 473 00:33:06,395 --> 00:33:08,475 Speaker 1: year with the New York Yankees in spring training of 474 00:33:08,595 --> 00:33:11,835 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, he and his teammate Mike Kekech announced 475 00:33:12,235 --> 00:33:17,835 Speaker 1: they had swapped lives. That was their clean spin on 476 00:33:18,115 --> 00:33:20,915 Speaker 1: what had happened that they had been in the terminology 477 00:33:20,955 --> 00:33:24,915 Speaker 1: of the day wife swappers. Fritz Peterson had fallen in 478 00:33:24,995 --> 00:33:28,315 Speaker 1: love with his fellow Yankee pitcher, Mike Kekech's wife and 479 00:33:28,475 --> 00:33:31,555 Speaker 1: Mike Kekch had fallen in love with his fellow Yankee pitcher, 480 00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:35,555 Speaker 1: Fritz Peterson's wife, so the two men simply moved out 481 00:33:35,595 --> 00:33:41,875 Speaker 1: of their homes and into each other's the Peterson Kekech marriage, 482 00:33:42,115 --> 00:33:46,715 Speaker 1: which happened shortly thereafter after. Obviously the divorces. The Fritz 483 00:33:46,795 --> 00:33:51,235 Speaker 1: Peterson marriage to the former Suzanne Kekech lasted until the 484 00:33:51,315 --> 00:33:55,515 Speaker 1: day Fritz Peterson died last week, not so much for 485 00:33:55,595 --> 00:34:00,035 Speaker 1: Mike Kekech. Mike Kekech and the ex Missus Peterson broke up, thus, 486 00:34:00,075 --> 00:34:05,515 Speaker 1: of course, leaving to the impossibly bad taste joke that 487 00:34:05,995 --> 00:34:08,355 Speaker 1: Mike Kekech was left waiting for the wife to be 488 00:34:08,475 --> 00:34:11,635 Speaker 1: named later in the trade. I regret to tell you 489 00:34:12,195 --> 00:34:17,435 Speaker 1: that that was my joke. Fritz Peterson, though, was so 490 00:34:17,675 --> 00:34:22,915 Speaker 1: much more than that event. He was a great Yankee pitcher, 491 00:34:22,995 --> 00:34:26,075 Speaker 1: and in fact such a great Yankee pitcher that when 492 00:34:26,395 --> 00:34:29,235 Speaker 1: the old Yankee Stadium, which ran from nineteen twenty three 493 00:34:29,275 --> 00:34:32,515 Speaker 1: to two thousand and eight, when it closed, ESPN did 494 00:34:32,555 --> 00:34:35,355 Speaker 1: the calculations, and of all the pitchers who threw more 495 00:34:35,435 --> 00:34:38,915 Speaker 1: than nine hundred and fifty nearly one thousand innings inside 496 00:34:38,995 --> 00:34:41,155 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, all the Hall of famers who pitched for 497 00:34:41,155 --> 00:34:45,555 Speaker 1: the Yankees in all of that span of eighty six seasons, 498 00:34:46,195 --> 00:34:49,155 Speaker 1: the number one earned run average. The pitcher who gave 499 00:34:49,235 --> 00:34:52,635 Speaker 1: up the fewest earned runs per appearance in Yankee Stadium 500 00:34:53,475 --> 00:34:57,875 Speaker 1: was Fritz Peterson. He was a great pitcher. Just before 501 00:34:57,875 --> 00:35:00,635 Speaker 1: the Yankees traded him in nineteen seventy four, he injured 502 00:35:00,715 --> 00:35:03,075 Speaker 1: his arm. We did not know that at the time. 503 00:35:03,195 --> 00:35:06,075 Speaker 1: When the Yankees traded Fritz Peterson in nineteen seventy four, 504 00:35:06,675 --> 00:35:09,515 Speaker 1: a couple of friends of mine and I put together 505 00:35:09,635 --> 00:35:13,955 Speaker 1: a huge banner to hang at the ballpark, protesting the trade. 506 00:35:14,595 --> 00:35:17,155 Speaker 1: Fritz Peterson and a couple of other popular Yankee pitchers 507 00:35:17,155 --> 00:35:20,035 Speaker 1: to the Cleveland Indians for a first basement, like you 508 00:35:20,275 --> 00:35:23,635 Speaker 1: couldn't get a first basement anywhere. Well, Fritz Peterson's career 509 00:35:23,715 --> 00:35:28,435 Speaker 1: was eventually over, but the first baseman was named Chris Chambliss, 510 00:35:28,515 --> 00:35:30,955 Speaker 1: and he hit a home run that won the American 511 00:35:31,035 --> 00:35:33,395 Speaker 1: League Pennant for the Yankees in nineteen seventy six and 512 00:35:33,595 --> 00:35:38,395 Speaker 1: was the stalwart of their infield for seven seasons. In 513 00:35:38,475 --> 00:35:43,555 Speaker 1: any event, none of those none of those stories, none 514 00:35:43,595 --> 00:35:47,075 Speaker 1: of those bad jokes, none of those wife swapping tales, 515 00:35:47,755 --> 00:35:51,435 Speaker 1: is my Fritz Peterson's story. It is the story that 516 00:35:51,835 --> 00:35:56,035 Speaker 1: will always be remembered as long as I remember anything 517 00:35:56,035 --> 00:36:02,915 Speaker 1: about baseball, largely because my hand still hurts. Cast your 518 00:36:02,955 --> 00:36:06,515 Speaker 1: mind back to a time when things like this actually happened. 519 00:36:07,235 --> 00:36:10,155 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy three, my dad was in the second 520 00:36:10,235 --> 00:36:13,875 Speaker 1: season of being a season ticket holder at Yankee Stadium. 521 00:36:14,355 --> 00:36:17,275 Speaker 1: The cost for this, for four tickets to each Yankee 522 00:36:17,395 --> 00:36:21,475 Speaker 1: game was one thousand dollars, plus parking, which I think 523 00:36:21,555 --> 00:36:26,275 Speaker 1: was another fifty dollars. In any event, they didn't play 524 00:36:26,395 --> 00:36:29,035 Speaker 1: eighty one separate games. They played a lot of double headers, 525 00:36:29,115 --> 00:36:32,395 Speaker 1: so technically these were four tickets to about I don't know, 526 00:36:32,635 --> 00:36:37,555 Speaker 1: seventy days' worth of baseball. But there were four tickets 527 00:36:37,595 --> 00:36:39,675 Speaker 1: to every game of the season. It cost one thousand dollars. 528 00:36:39,755 --> 00:36:42,595 Speaker 1: By the time the new Yankee Stadium opened in two 529 00:36:42,635 --> 00:36:45,075 Speaker 1: thousand and nine, there were individual tickets that cost one 530 00:36:45,155 --> 00:36:48,955 Speaker 1: thousand dollars and more than that. But in those old 531 00:36:49,075 --> 00:36:53,555 Speaker 1: days we few season ticket holders. Seeing those last dreadful 532 00:36:53,675 --> 00:36:57,435 Speaker 1: Yankee teams before the renaissance under George Steinbrenner, we knew 533 00:36:57,515 --> 00:37:00,955 Speaker 1: each other, and so as a very long Fourth of 534 00:37:01,035 --> 00:37:05,195 Speaker 1: July weekend approached, in the year nineteen seventy three, the 535 00:37:05,275 --> 00:37:07,795 Speaker 1: folks who sat in the front row of the row 536 00:37:07,915 --> 00:37:11,195 Speaker 1: we sat in. We sat in the fourth box from 537 00:37:11,275 --> 00:37:14,155 Speaker 1: the field. This was just behind first base, just to 538 00:37:14,275 --> 00:37:17,315 Speaker 1: the far end, the outfield end of the Yankee dugout 539 00:37:17,715 --> 00:37:19,875 Speaker 1: the folks in the front row, who we'd come to 540 00:37:19,995 --> 00:37:21,915 Speaker 1: know because they went to a lot of games, as 541 00:37:21,995 --> 00:37:24,395 Speaker 1: did my father and my mother and my sister and I. 542 00:37:25,275 --> 00:37:28,675 Speaker 1: They said, as they were leaving during I think the 543 00:37:28,835 --> 00:37:31,075 Speaker 1: Sunday game before the fourth of July, which was a 544 00:37:31,275 --> 00:37:36,075 Speaker 1: Wednesday that week, so we're talking Sunday July first, they said, listen, 545 00:37:36,635 --> 00:37:39,315 Speaker 1: we're going to the Hamptons for the weekend. Would you 546 00:37:39,515 --> 00:37:42,595 Speaker 1: like to sit in our box? To me, knowing I 547 00:37:42,755 --> 00:37:46,075 Speaker 1: was a huge fan, and I said, of course, they said, okay, 548 00:37:46,475 --> 00:37:49,355 Speaker 1: let's fix that with the usher. There was an usher. 549 00:37:49,475 --> 00:37:52,115 Speaker 1: There were ushers at ballparks who showed you to your 550 00:37:52,235 --> 00:37:54,395 Speaker 1: seats and cleaned them off for you, and you were 551 00:37:54,395 --> 00:37:56,075 Speaker 1: supposed to tip them, and we did, and we knew 552 00:37:56,115 --> 00:37:58,395 Speaker 1: them all by name. There was Irving, who is a 553 00:37:58,555 --> 00:38:01,515 Speaker 1: great friend to my young sister. There was mister McCarthy, 554 00:38:01,555 --> 00:38:05,435 Speaker 1: who was in charge of the entire areas worth of ushers. 555 00:38:05,635 --> 00:38:07,635 Speaker 1: There was Frenchy. There was a whole bunch of them 556 00:38:07,715 --> 00:38:09,515 Speaker 1: who used to By the way, there were so many 557 00:38:09,595 --> 00:38:11,715 Speaker 1: empty seats at Yankee Stadium in those days that when 558 00:38:11,755 --> 00:38:14,195 Speaker 1: their days were done, they would come over and sit 559 00:38:14,355 --> 00:38:17,955 Speaker 1: down along with all the groundskeepers near our seats behind 560 00:38:18,035 --> 00:38:21,035 Speaker 1: first base because there was plenty of good seats available 561 00:38:21,275 --> 00:38:23,875 Speaker 1: for the ushers and the groundskeepers and everybody else who 562 00:38:23,875 --> 00:38:26,955 Speaker 1: worked at Yankee Stadium. I knew some of those people 563 00:38:27,395 --> 00:38:31,195 Speaker 1: literally until I was in my fifties, some of them 564 00:38:31,275 --> 00:38:34,155 Speaker 1: still working in some of them just friends. In any event, 565 00:38:34,675 --> 00:38:37,195 Speaker 1: So the folks from the front row, whose name has 566 00:38:37,315 --> 00:38:41,235 Speaker 1: been lost to time, they walked me over to where 567 00:38:41,275 --> 00:38:44,435 Speaker 1: mister McCarthy, the chief of ushers for I guess the 568 00:38:44,515 --> 00:38:46,995 Speaker 1: box seats on the first base side of Yankee Stadium 569 00:38:47,115 --> 00:38:50,395 Speaker 1: where he was. And they said, listen, mister McCarthy, we're 570 00:38:50,395 --> 00:38:52,475 Speaker 1: going to be away next week for the Red Sox 571 00:38:52,555 --> 00:38:54,835 Speaker 1: series on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday were going to 572 00:38:54,835 --> 00:38:57,755 Speaker 1: be out in the Hamptons. Would you let this young 573 00:38:57,835 --> 00:39:00,195 Speaker 1: man sit in our seats. Make sure he's okay down there. 574 00:39:01,075 --> 00:39:03,755 Speaker 1: This is the way this worked. They didn't think about 575 00:39:03,915 --> 00:39:08,635 Speaker 1: selling the ta's because after all, a season ticket was 576 00:39:08,835 --> 00:39:12,595 Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. Each ticket cost four dollars, so the 577 00:39:12,675 --> 00:39:14,915 Speaker 1: front row seats at Yankee Stadium for a Yankee Red 578 00:39:14,955 --> 00:39:17,315 Speaker 1: Sox series would have been sixteen dollars for a game. 579 00:39:17,675 --> 00:39:20,595 Speaker 1: Maybe if there were a pennant race involving the Yankees 580 00:39:20,595 --> 00:39:21,995 Speaker 1: and the Red Sox, you might be able to get 581 00:39:21,995 --> 00:39:24,035 Speaker 1: a little bit more for them, but there were all 582 00:39:24,075 --> 00:39:27,035 Speaker 1: sorts of rules against selling tickets for more than face value. 583 00:39:27,395 --> 00:39:29,195 Speaker 1: Maybe they could have gotten their money back. And if 584 00:39:29,275 --> 00:39:30,795 Speaker 1: they were going to the Hamptons for the week in 585 00:39:30,915 --> 00:39:34,115 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, they didn't need the sixteen dollars or 586 00:39:34,155 --> 00:39:36,275 Speaker 1: the thirty two dollars for two games, or the forty 587 00:39:36,315 --> 00:39:39,835 Speaker 1: eight dollars for three games. So I had one of 588 00:39:39,955 --> 00:39:42,915 Speaker 1: the great experiences of my life spread out in front 589 00:39:42,915 --> 00:39:44,835 Speaker 1: of me. Not only could I go and sit in 590 00:39:44,875 --> 00:39:48,595 Speaker 1: the front row by myself, without my parents, without my sister, 591 00:39:48,875 --> 00:39:51,075 Speaker 1: and concentrate on the game and see the game without 592 00:39:51,115 --> 00:39:53,755 Speaker 1: anybody in front of me, and everybody was always standing up, 593 00:39:54,155 --> 00:39:58,115 Speaker 1: no ushers, no fans, nothing but me and Yankee Stadium. 594 00:39:58,235 --> 00:40:01,075 Speaker 1: To concentrate on my future career as a sportscaster and 595 00:40:01,235 --> 00:40:04,275 Speaker 1: enjoy the Yankees, who I dearly, dearly loved then but 596 00:40:04,315 --> 00:40:08,555 Speaker 1: noe longer. Not only that, but it was the Yankees 597 00:40:08,595 --> 00:40:11,515 Speaker 1: and the Red Sox. Fourth of July, fourteen years old. 598 00:40:11,955 --> 00:40:16,915 Speaker 1: Pretty much ideal and pretty much the last idealized moment 599 00:40:17,555 --> 00:40:22,315 Speaker 1: in between being a kid, being a boy, and becoming 600 00:40:22,395 --> 00:40:25,395 Speaker 1: a young man. I'd be going to college in two years. 601 00:40:25,715 --> 00:40:29,435 Speaker 1: This was like it, that transitional moment, and I'd get 602 00:40:29,515 --> 00:40:31,875 Speaker 1: to sit in the front row and watch my Yankees, 603 00:40:32,115 --> 00:40:33,915 Speaker 1: and yet also in the back of my mind, think 604 00:40:33,955 --> 00:40:35,995 Speaker 1: about what it would be like to be announcing that 605 00:40:36,235 --> 00:40:38,915 Speaker 1: game without any of the distractions of the people walking 606 00:40:38,995 --> 00:40:40,995 Speaker 1: in front of you, or your sister needing to go 607 00:40:41,075 --> 00:40:44,315 Speaker 1: to the restroom, or anything else happening back in those 608 00:40:44,355 --> 00:40:47,435 Speaker 1: seats way in the back, four boxes from the front row. 609 00:40:48,515 --> 00:40:50,755 Speaker 1: So now the big day comes. The weather is lovely. 610 00:40:50,835 --> 00:40:53,875 Speaker 1: It's Fourth of July weekend, except Fourth of July weekend 611 00:40:54,075 --> 00:40:57,515 Speaker 1: runs from Monday through Friday, because the fourth of July 612 00:40:57,675 --> 00:40:59,915 Speaker 1: is on a Wednesday. So this is Monday, July second, 613 00:40:59,995 --> 00:41:02,835 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, and Fritz Peterson is going to pitch 614 00:41:03,195 --> 00:41:05,795 Speaker 1: for the Yankees again. It's the Red Sox, and Fritz 615 00:41:05,835 --> 00:41:08,675 Speaker 1: Peterson was I won't claim he was my favorite player, 616 00:41:08,755 --> 00:41:12,075 Speaker 1: but he certainly was top five. He was always reliable, 617 00:41:12,315 --> 00:41:15,875 Speaker 1: always pitched well at Yankee Stadium, as those later statistics proved, 618 00:41:16,475 --> 00:41:18,915 Speaker 1: And he was an affable guy. And he played a 619 00:41:18,955 --> 00:41:20,915 Speaker 1: bunch of pranks. And I understood what it meant for 620 00:41:20,995 --> 00:41:25,875 Speaker 1: him to have changed wives and traded wives with one 621 00:41:25,915 --> 00:41:28,555 Speaker 1: of his teammates, who, by the way, Mike Kekich. The 622 00:41:28,635 --> 00:41:31,395 Speaker 1: Yankees got rid of him almost immediately. They traded him 623 00:41:31,395 --> 00:41:33,555 Speaker 1: to Cleveland in nineteen seventy three. I think he was 624 00:41:33,715 --> 00:41:37,275 Speaker 1: gone by the time of this series. So Fritz Peterson's 625 00:41:37,475 --> 00:41:42,075 Speaker 1: kids went with the Kekitches to I don't remember it. 626 00:41:42,675 --> 00:41:45,115 Speaker 1: In any event, Kekitch's gone, Fritz Peterson has gone, and 627 00:41:45,195 --> 00:41:47,875 Speaker 1: I am in the front row, in the box by myself. 628 00:41:48,595 --> 00:41:51,195 Speaker 1: It's important to remember. I am in the front row, 629 00:41:51,635 --> 00:41:55,635 Speaker 1: I think for the first time, after seven seasons as 630 00:41:55,675 --> 00:41:57,635 Speaker 1: a fan in which I never sat in the front row, 631 00:41:58,195 --> 00:42:00,795 Speaker 1: close to it, but never in the front row, never 632 00:42:01,075 --> 00:42:05,675 Speaker 1: bordering on the field of play, never literally inches from 633 00:42:05,715 --> 00:42:09,555 Speaker 1: the warning track. That was the field, that magical line 634 00:42:09,675 --> 00:42:12,635 Speaker 1: defined by Burt Lancaster in the movie Field of Dreams. 635 00:42:12,915 --> 00:42:15,555 Speaker 1: You step over into it, and you are part of 636 00:42:15,635 --> 00:42:19,075 Speaker 1: the game. You step off of it and you are gone. Well, 637 00:42:19,075 --> 00:42:21,275 Speaker 1: I'm right on the line and I'm only fourteen, and 638 00:42:21,395 --> 00:42:24,835 Speaker 1: I think this is the big time. Yankees in the 639 00:42:24,915 --> 00:42:28,795 Speaker 1: Red Sox scoreless in the first inning. Top of the 640 00:42:28,835 --> 00:42:32,995 Speaker 1: second inning, Orlando Sepaida is the designated hitter. This is 641 00:42:33,035 --> 00:42:36,075 Speaker 1: the first year of the designated hitter in the American League. 642 00:42:38,075 --> 00:42:40,355 Speaker 1: Who knew what a bad idea it would be? He 643 00:42:40,515 --> 00:42:42,955 Speaker 1: strikes out. Fritz Peterson has retired the first four men 644 00:42:43,035 --> 00:42:45,075 Speaker 1: he's faced for the Red Sox, and then it happens. 645 00:42:47,995 --> 00:42:53,435 Speaker 1: Rico Petrocelli a New York born Boston Red Sox whose 646 00:42:53,555 --> 00:42:58,635 Speaker 1: brother was a policeman who often worked at Yankee Stadium 647 00:42:59,235 --> 00:43:03,555 Speaker 1: during Red Sox Yankees games and look just like Rico Petrocelli. 648 00:43:03,875 --> 00:43:07,875 Speaker 1: Rico petris the third basement of the Red Sox, a 649 00:43:07,995 --> 00:43:10,475 Speaker 1: member of their great nineteen sixty seven team who then 650 00:43:10,955 --> 00:43:14,195 Speaker 1: stayed with them through the nineteen seventy six season and 651 00:43:14,315 --> 00:43:17,035 Speaker 1: was on the nineteen seventy five American League championship team too. 652 00:43:17,435 --> 00:43:22,075 Speaker 1: Rico Petrocelli pops a ball up behind first base where 653 00:43:22,115 --> 00:43:25,035 Speaker 1: I'm sitting, and I don't mean near where I'm sitting, 654 00:43:25,835 --> 00:43:28,835 Speaker 1: the ball is hit to where I am sitting. In 655 00:43:29,195 --> 00:43:32,475 Speaker 1: those days, pop ups seemed to go far higher into 656 00:43:32,515 --> 00:43:35,675 Speaker 1: the sky than they do nowadays. At least that's the 657 00:43:35,715 --> 00:43:39,075 Speaker 1: way it looked. Maybe it was the steepness of Yankee Stadium. 658 00:43:39,355 --> 00:43:41,715 Speaker 1: Maybe it was the fact that I was sitting there 659 00:43:41,795 --> 00:43:45,675 Speaker 1: under these circumstances gifted the front row seat at Yankee 660 00:43:45,715 --> 00:43:48,475 Speaker 1: Stadium something I could never buy or achieve in any 661 00:43:48,515 --> 00:43:51,155 Speaker 1: other way. I don't know, but it seemed like the 662 00:43:51,195 --> 00:43:53,275 Speaker 1: ball was in the air for upwards of half an hour, 663 00:43:55,035 --> 00:43:57,515 Speaker 1: and you have to now see it the way I 664 00:43:57,675 --> 00:44:00,275 Speaker 1: saw it. I stood up. I knew the ball was 665 00:44:00,395 --> 00:44:02,835 Speaker 1: near me in a way that had never been near 666 00:44:02,915 --> 00:44:05,595 Speaker 1: me before. There had been foul that had come a 667 00:44:05,675 --> 00:44:08,755 Speaker 1: few inches away. One of those friends from Yankee Stadium 668 00:44:08,795 --> 00:44:12,115 Speaker 1: I mentioned the vendor, Al Marcus, caught a ball maybe 669 00:44:12,835 --> 00:44:15,235 Speaker 1: ten feet from me once during a Milwaukee Brewers New 670 00:44:15,275 --> 00:44:18,395 Speaker 1: York Yankee game in nineteen seventy, flipped it to me. 671 00:44:18,635 --> 00:44:21,315 Speaker 1: All that was captured on television. Apparently that was my 672 00:44:21,555 --> 00:44:24,595 Speaker 1: TV debut. He'd made a great catch and flipped it 673 00:44:24,675 --> 00:44:26,635 Speaker 1: to me. That was the closest a foul ball had 674 00:44:26,675 --> 00:44:29,075 Speaker 1: ever come to me. But this one, I knew was 675 00:44:29,115 --> 00:44:31,395 Speaker 1: going to be far closer than that. In fact, it 676 00:44:31,555 --> 00:44:33,995 Speaker 1: was coming right to my box. It was coming right 677 00:44:34,075 --> 00:44:36,635 Speaker 1: to my seat. And as I looked up and I 678 00:44:36,635 --> 00:44:39,555 Speaker 1: could see the steepness of Yankee Stadium, then fifty years 679 00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:43,155 Speaker 1: old and about to be closed for renovations, I could 680 00:44:43,315 --> 00:44:45,715 Speaker 1: see it still in the air, a little white dot 681 00:44:46,035 --> 00:44:49,515 Speaker 1: high up above the top of the lights, these built 682 00:44:49,595 --> 00:44:52,075 Speaker 1: in lights that were added to the stadium in nineteen 683 00:44:52,155 --> 00:44:55,715 Speaker 1: forty six, and thus they rose another story or two 684 00:44:55,795 --> 00:45:00,875 Speaker 1: on top of this gigantic, majestic Yankee Stadium. I can 685 00:45:00,955 --> 00:45:03,315 Speaker 1: see the ball getting larger and larger as it came 686 00:45:03,395 --> 00:45:05,595 Speaker 1: down towards me, and I know that I'm going to 687 00:45:05,675 --> 00:45:10,795 Speaker 1: adjust to try to use the railing behind me as 688 00:45:10,955 --> 00:45:14,395 Speaker 1: support as I reach up to catch the ball. And 689 00:45:14,595 --> 00:45:19,115 Speaker 1: again I'm now turning. I'm now turning with my back 690 00:45:19,315 --> 00:45:22,395 Speaker 1: not towards the stands, but my back is now going 691 00:45:22,475 --> 00:45:26,675 Speaker 1: to be towards the field because I'm reaching with my 692 00:45:26,955 --> 00:45:29,595 Speaker 1: arms in the air and I'm reaching with my butt 693 00:45:29,715 --> 00:45:32,555 Speaker 1: against this railing to try to get a good stance 694 00:45:32,635 --> 00:45:36,235 Speaker 1: to catch this ball bare handed. Now, common sense from 695 00:45:36,275 --> 00:45:38,355 Speaker 1: that point on in my life would have told me 696 00:45:38,475 --> 00:45:42,635 Speaker 1: to run to the nearest exit under any circumstances, get 697 00:45:42,915 --> 00:45:46,075 Speaker 1: under the overhang of the upper deck. To not try 698 00:45:46,115 --> 00:45:47,755 Speaker 1: to catch a ball that has been hit more than 699 00:45:47,795 --> 00:45:50,515 Speaker 1: twenty seven stories into the air. All you can do 700 00:45:50,675 --> 00:45:54,635 Speaker 1: is break your hand or your head. This may be 701 00:45:54,755 --> 00:45:57,035 Speaker 1: the last moment of your life. Fourteen year old Keith, 702 00:45:57,115 --> 00:46:00,435 Speaker 1: get the hell out of there. But this is not 703 00:46:00,635 --> 00:46:03,435 Speaker 1: even the most important part of this. Somewhere in the 704 00:46:03,515 --> 00:46:06,035 Speaker 1: process in which I turned my back to the field, 705 00:46:06,355 --> 00:46:09,715 Speaker 1: I forgot completely that I had been gifted these tickets 706 00:46:09,755 --> 00:46:13,595 Speaker 1: for the front row to me in that moment in 707 00:46:13,635 --> 00:46:17,155 Speaker 1: which my concentration was on making this catch, and I 708 00:46:17,355 --> 00:46:20,035 Speaker 1: was not a good baseball player. That's why I became 709 00:46:20,075 --> 00:46:24,875 Speaker 1: an announcer. The concentration to make this catch erased everything 710 00:46:24,915 --> 00:46:29,115 Speaker 1: else from my mind, including where I was. To my mind, 711 00:46:29,235 --> 00:46:33,475 Speaker 1: I defaulted back to my seats, and to some a measure, 712 00:46:34,035 --> 00:46:35,955 Speaker 1: my dad was not with us that night, just my 713 00:46:36,115 --> 00:46:39,195 Speaker 1: sister and my mother. I was trying to protect my 714 00:46:39,355 --> 00:46:42,355 Speaker 1: mother and my sister from this flying object. Plus I 715 00:46:42,395 --> 00:46:44,395 Speaker 1: wanted to catch it. I wanted my own foul ball 716 00:46:44,435 --> 00:46:47,395 Speaker 1: from a Red Sox Yankee game pitched by Fritz Peterson, 717 00:46:47,475 --> 00:46:51,075 Speaker 1: hit by Rico Petrocelli. I'm going to catch that ball, 718 00:46:51,155 --> 00:46:53,355 Speaker 1: and I am in my box and I am protecting 719 00:46:53,435 --> 00:46:55,635 Speaker 1: my sister and my mother. But I'm not in my box. 720 00:46:55,715 --> 00:46:58,235 Speaker 1: I'm in the front row with my back to the field. 721 00:46:58,475 --> 00:47:00,915 Speaker 1: I have no idea what's happening around me. I don't 722 00:47:01,075 --> 00:47:04,075 Speaker 1: realize that there's anybody there. I don't realize that they're 723 00:47:04,115 --> 00:47:07,555 Speaker 1: any fan. It's just me and this baseball. And I 724 00:47:07,715 --> 00:47:10,515 Speaker 1: reach up and I do not lean back. I do 725 00:47:10,715 --> 00:47:14,115 Speaker 1: not lean forward, I do not lean sideways. My arms 726 00:47:14,115 --> 00:47:17,315 Speaker 1: are above my head, and the ball hits my hand 727 00:47:17,955 --> 00:47:21,475 Speaker 1: and it feels like I have had a spike driven 728 00:47:21,755 --> 00:47:26,475 Speaker 1: through my palm, into my arm, through my arm, into 729 00:47:26,595 --> 00:47:29,595 Speaker 1: my torso, and down to my feet. It hurts a 730 00:47:29,675 --> 00:47:33,595 Speaker 1: lot immediately, but that really doesn't register for a few seconds, 731 00:47:33,955 --> 00:47:38,355 Speaker 1: because what I hear behind me is a grunted good 732 00:47:38,435 --> 00:47:42,515 Speaker 1: dummit like that, kind of like the words goddamn it, 733 00:47:42,635 --> 00:47:46,115 Speaker 1: but said with a Spanish accent. That's when I suddenly 734 00:47:46,195 --> 00:47:50,595 Speaker 1: realize I'm in the front row with my back to 735 00:47:50,675 --> 00:47:55,195 Speaker 1: the field. Therefore, the ball might have been catchable by 736 00:47:55,235 --> 00:47:57,875 Speaker 1: the Yankee first basement. And I turn around and there 737 00:47:57,955 --> 00:48:02,915 Speaker 1: is the Yankee first baseman Felipe Alou. Felipe Alou, the 738 00:48:02,955 --> 00:48:06,435 Speaker 1: future manager of the Montreal Exposed and San Francisco Giants 739 00:48:06,755 --> 00:48:09,835 Speaker 1: in what was the last season of his major league career. 740 00:48:10,995 --> 00:48:15,395 Speaker 1: Felipe Alou standing there, hands on hips, looking like he 741 00:48:15,475 --> 00:48:19,315 Speaker 1: could kill me, because whereas it's my ball, the ball 742 00:48:19,475 --> 00:48:21,795 Speaker 1: was in the stands. I did not interfere with him. 743 00:48:22,035 --> 00:48:24,315 Speaker 1: If I had gotten out of the way, he could 744 00:48:24,355 --> 00:48:28,955 Speaker 1: have leaned in and made the catch. My immediate thought, 745 00:48:29,715 --> 00:48:32,195 Speaker 1: which was not to apologize, but was to say what 746 00:48:32,315 --> 00:48:37,915 Speaker 1: I said, why didn't you say something? The ball bounces 747 00:48:37,955 --> 00:48:40,675 Speaker 1: off my hand. I realized now that my hand is 748 00:48:40,755 --> 00:48:44,715 Speaker 1: now six or eight times its normal size already. Felipe 749 00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:47,875 Speaker 1: Alou just looks at me like he could spit and 750 00:48:48,075 --> 00:48:51,395 Speaker 1: kill me with his spit and walks back towards the 751 00:48:51,515 --> 00:48:54,995 Speaker 1: playing field, and the ball bounces back into the stands 752 00:48:54,995 --> 00:48:57,035 Speaker 1: and somebody else gets it. Because the ball was hit 753 00:48:57,155 --> 00:48:59,915 Speaker 1: so hard and so high that when it hit my hands, 754 00:48:59,955 --> 00:49:03,115 Speaker 1: it bounded back at least twenty rows. So now my 755 00:49:03,275 --> 00:49:07,155 Speaker 1: hand hurts. I have interfered, not with a baseball still 756 00:49:07,155 --> 00:49:10,475 Speaker 1: in play, but almost I have cost the Yankees and out, 757 00:49:11,035 --> 00:49:15,595 Speaker 1: and on the next pitch, Fritz Peterson throws. Rico Petrocelli 758 00:49:15,675 --> 00:49:19,315 Speaker 1: swings and singles to left field, the first hit of 759 00:49:19,395 --> 00:49:26,555 Speaker 1: the ball game. Petrocelli would be retired a moment later 760 00:49:26,635 --> 00:49:29,915 Speaker 1: on a double playball to win the second inning. In 761 00:49:30,035 --> 00:49:32,995 Speaker 1: the third inning, the Red Sox went down to Fritz 762 00:49:33,035 --> 00:49:40,355 Speaker 1: Peterson one, two three. In the fourth inning, Appotio Fisk, 763 00:49:41,715 --> 00:49:46,275 Speaker 1: somebody else all outs. As the fifth inning began and 764 00:49:46,595 --> 00:49:50,515 Speaker 1: Orlando Cepeda came up again, it became clear to me 765 00:49:51,115 --> 00:49:54,875 Speaker 1: I had cost Fritz Peterson a no hitter because I 766 00:49:54,995 --> 00:49:57,475 Speaker 1: did not get out of the way of Felipe Alou, 767 00:49:57,555 --> 00:49:59,795 Speaker 1: because I did not remember where I was on the 768 00:49:59,875 --> 00:50:04,355 Speaker 1: field relative to the field anyway, because I forgot because 769 00:50:04,395 --> 00:50:08,795 Speaker 1: I turned my back. I had cost Fritz Peterson a 770 00:50:08,915 --> 00:50:10,835 Speaker 1: no hitter against the Red Sox, or at least the 771 00:50:10,955 --> 00:50:12,955 Speaker 1: chance of a no hitter. And now we were in 772 00:50:13,115 --> 00:50:15,555 Speaker 1: the fifth inning and there had not been another hit. 773 00:50:16,315 --> 00:50:25,155 Speaker 1: I was responsible for that, not a no hitter. Supina 774 00:50:25,195 --> 00:50:28,195 Speaker 1: grounded out, and up comes Rico Petrocelli, who has the 775 00:50:28,315 --> 00:50:35,355 Speaker 1: only Boston hit so far courtesy of me. He flies out, 776 00:50:35,435 --> 00:50:36,995 Speaker 1: and now there's two out in the fifth inning, and 777 00:50:37,035 --> 00:50:41,155 Speaker 1: the only hit is the one Petrocelli nominally got He 778 00:50:41,235 --> 00:50:44,075 Speaker 1: will get credit for it in the Baseball Encyclopedia, but 779 00:50:44,235 --> 00:50:47,435 Speaker 1: it's mine. Fritz Peterson lost a no hitter when an 780 00:50:47,515 --> 00:50:49,995 Speaker 1: idiot fourteen year old fan did not get out of 781 00:50:50,035 --> 00:50:53,355 Speaker 1: the way of Yankee first baseman Felipe Alou pursuing a 782 00:50:53,435 --> 00:50:55,715 Speaker 1: foul pop up, which he must have just given up 783 00:50:55,755 --> 00:50:58,595 Speaker 1: on because he saw this gigantic fourteen year old kid 784 00:50:58,675 --> 00:51:04,195 Speaker 1: in his way. Dwight Evans came up. I believe he 785 00:51:04,315 --> 00:51:06,155 Speaker 1: was still a rookie with the Red Sox that year. 786 00:51:06,275 --> 00:51:08,315 Speaker 1: He should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. He 787 00:51:08,435 --> 00:51:10,755 Speaker 1: is not. He had the best throwing arm I elvers 788 00:51:10,795 --> 00:51:13,515 Speaker 1: saw on any outfielder, and he played for the Red Sox. 789 00:51:13,635 --> 00:51:18,595 Speaker 1: I think until like last week, to some degree, I 790 00:51:18,755 --> 00:51:21,995 Speaker 1: was actually relieved when what happened next happened next. Dwight 791 00:51:22,035 --> 00:51:25,875 Speaker 1: Evans hit a home run. Dwight Evans hit a home run. 792 00:51:26,035 --> 00:51:31,115 Speaker 1: Of course, he shouldn't have been batting, I guess, or 793 00:51:31,435 --> 00:51:34,675 Speaker 1: maybe Fritz Peterson would have been pitching him differently if 794 00:51:34,715 --> 00:51:36,715 Speaker 1: he'd been carrying the no hitter he should have had 795 00:51:37,395 --> 00:51:40,355 Speaker 1: into the fifth inning in that other timeline. Who knows 796 00:51:40,515 --> 00:51:44,155 Speaker 1: what would have happened, but in any event Evans homeward. 797 00:51:44,915 --> 00:51:48,315 Speaker 1: I was not the cause of that directly, only indirectly, 798 00:51:49,275 --> 00:51:52,435 Speaker 1: and Fritz Peterson pitched the entire game, having give it 799 00:51:52,515 --> 00:51:55,995 Speaker 1: up only those two hits. The home run that beat 800 00:51:56,115 --> 00:51:58,595 Speaker 1: him one to nothing. Dwight Evans home run turned out 801 00:51:58,595 --> 00:52:01,595 Speaker 1: to be the only run scored in the game, one nothing, 802 00:52:02,635 --> 00:52:06,275 Speaker 1: and of course the Rico Petrocelli single that I caused. 803 00:52:09,795 --> 00:52:13,275 Speaker 1: I cannot tell you how badly I felt. It is 804 00:52:13,435 --> 00:52:16,355 Speaker 1: literally true that no matter what happened to my hand, 805 00:52:16,435 --> 00:52:19,235 Speaker 1: and it did not break, but it was swollen. For 806 00:52:19,515 --> 00:52:22,435 Speaker 1: let's see, that's July second, nineteen seventy three. I want 807 00:52:22,435 --> 00:52:24,675 Speaker 1: to say it was still swollen into the late eighties. 808 00:52:26,475 --> 00:52:30,355 Speaker 1: It hurt, but by no means did I feel that 809 00:52:30,635 --> 00:52:33,235 Speaker 1: pain compared to the pain of costing Fritz Peterson a 810 00:52:33,315 --> 00:52:36,635 Speaker 1: no hitter. My goodness, I never felt more guilt in 811 00:52:36,715 --> 00:52:43,515 Speaker 1: my life about anything before or since. And I wrote 812 00:52:43,555 --> 00:52:46,395 Speaker 1: Fritz Peterson a letter. I said, if you'd like to 813 00:52:46,435 --> 00:52:48,315 Speaker 1: come out and punch me before one of the games, 814 00:52:48,355 --> 00:52:50,555 Speaker 1: I'll be here. You can find me any day behind 815 00:52:50,595 --> 00:52:53,955 Speaker 1: the dugout. Just let me know when I'm sorry. It's 816 00:52:54,035 --> 00:53:03,795 Speaker 1: my fault. Years later, there was a play called the 817 00:53:03,875 --> 00:53:08,315 Speaker 1: Bartman ball play in a Chicago Cubs playoff game when 818 00:53:08,315 --> 00:53:10,395 Speaker 1: they were on the verge of going to the World Series. 819 00:53:10,475 --> 00:53:13,555 Speaker 1: This was when their nearly century old streak of never 820 00:53:13,635 --> 00:53:15,755 Speaker 1: having won the World Series since nineteen oh eight was 821 00:53:15,795 --> 00:53:19,635 Speaker 1: still in full flower. And they were playing the Florida Marlins, 822 00:53:19,755 --> 00:53:22,075 Speaker 1: and a fly ball was hit down the left field line, 823 00:53:22,195 --> 00:53:26,555 Speaker 1: and it was the legal play for the fans. It 824 00:53:26,715 --> 00:53:30,955 Speaker 1: was in the stands, and it was not interference, as 825 00:53:31,115 --> 00:53:34,115 Speaker 1: mine had not been interferenced. But this poor man, Steve Bartman, 826 00:53:34,235 --> 00:53:36,595 Speaker 1: reacted the way I did to my foul pop up 827 00:53:36,755 --> 00:53:39,795 Speaker 1: with Rico Petrocelli on July second, nineteen seventy three. And 828 00:53:39,875 --> 00:53:41,835 Speaker 1: he was in the front row down the left field 829 00:53:41,915 --> 00:53:44,075 Speaker 1: line at Wrigley Field, and I was in the front 830 00:53:44,195 --> 00:53:46,395 Speaker 1: row down the first base line at Yankee Stadium. And 831 00:53:46,475 --> 00:53:49,955 Speaker 1: we were joined through the decades by what happened next 832 00:53:49,995 --> 00:53:52,955 Speaker 1: to each of us. Bartman reached up for the ball. 833 00:53:53,235 --> 00:53:55,355 Speaker 1: It bounced off his hands, and he turned around to 834 00:53:55,435 --> 00:53:59,635 Speaker 1: see the Cubs left fielder looking at him, hands on hips, 835 00:53:59,675 --> 00:54:01,315 Speaker 1: as if, why didn't you get out of the way. 836 00:54:01,755 --> 00:54:06,315 Speaker 1: I could have caught that ball, And of course, the 837 00:54:06,475 --> 00:54:10,955 Speaker 1: Cubs lead in the game then collapsed utterly. They gave 838 00:54:11,075 --> 00:54:13,315 Speaker 1: the opportunity back to the Marlins, and the Cubs did 839 00:54:13,355 --> 00:54:14,955 Speaker 1: not go to the World Series that year, and would 840 00:54:14,955 --> 00:54:16,475 Speaker 1: not go to the World Series and would not win 841 00:54:16,555 --> 00:54:22,395 Speaker 1: the World Series for another what thirteen years, twenty sixteen, 842 00:54:22,555 --> 00:54:25,355 Speaker 1: and Steve Bartman to this day has to hide himself 843 00:54:26,195 --> 00:54:29,395 Speaker 1: so that people don't know it's him, because that left 844 00:54:29,435 --> 00:54:31,715 Speaker 1: fielder made a big deal about the play he did 845 00:54:31,795 --> 00:54:33,715 Speaker 1: not make. He kind of gave up on the ball too, 846 00:54:34,235 --> 00:54:36,515 Speaker 1: just as that Yankee first baseman did. And here's the 847 00:54:36,555 --> 00:54:38,755 Speaker 1: punchline to it, if you don't know it already. The 848 00:54:38,835 --> 00:54:40,995 Speaker 1: left fielder in the Cubs play in two thousand and 849 00:54:41,155 --> 00:54:45,235 Speaker 1: three with Steve Bartman was named Moys says Elu. He 850 00:54:45,435 --> 00:54:50,035 Speaker 1: was the son of Felipe Alu, my first baseman, who didn't, 851 00:54:50,835 --> 00:54:53,395 Speaker 1: as I suggested to him many years later in recounting 852 00:54:53,435 --> 00:54:58,315 Speaker 1: this story, he did not shove me out of the way. 853 00:54:59,675 --> 00:55:01,595 Speaker 1: Number one, he would have spared me the pain in 854 00:55:01,715 --> 00:55:04,115 Speaker 1: my hand, and more importantly, he would have spared me 855 00:55:04,275 --> 00:55:07,755 Speaker 1: the guilt. I don't think his son had that opportunity 856 00:55:08,235 --> 00:55:11,555 Speaker 1: to shove the guy who was in the stands, and 857 00:55:11,835 --> 00:55:14,875 Speaker 1: much higher up from the field than Moys's Alou was 858 00:55:15,395 --> 00:55:18,275 Speaker 1: the way the stands were configured at Wrigley Field. He 859 00:55:18,395 --> 00:55:22,035 Speaker 1: was maybe fifteen feet above the playing field, rather than 860 00:55:22,195 --> 00:55:24,715 Speaker 1: where I was level with Felipe Alu, where he could 861 00:55:24,715 --> 00:55:26,995 Speaker 1: have easily knocked me down and I would have gone, 862 00:55:27,555 --> 00:55:32,155 Speaker 1: nice catch, Felipe. In any event, I never heard back 863 00:55:32,195 --> 00:55:34,795 Speaker 1: from Fritz Peterson. But years after that, and in fact, 864 00:55:34,915 --> 00:55:38,755 Speaker 1: years after the Bartman play, sure enough, what happens. But 865 00:55:38,875 --> 00:55:41,635 Speaker 1: I am doing the Old Timers Day public address announcing 866 00:55:41,715 --> 00:55:43,955 Speaker 1: with my friend, the late Hall of Famer Bob Wolf 867 00:55:44,835 --> 00:55:47,515 Speaker 1: and Fritz Peterson comes back for Yankees Old Timer's Day 868 00:55:48,235 --> 00:55:50,435 Speaker 1: and I'm standing there before the game, and he introduced 869 00:55:50,515 --> 00:55:54,595 Speaker 1: himself and I said, we've kind of met before. I said, 870 00:55:54,635 --> 00:55:57,355 Speaker 1: do you remember a game in nineteen seventy three that 871 00:55:57,475 --> 00:56:00,115 Speaker 1: you lost to the Red Sox. He went, Dwight Evans Homer, 872 00:56:00,355 --> 00:56:03,355 Speaker 1: the one nothing game. I went yes, And I said, 873 00:56:03,395 --> 00:56:07,715 Speaker 1: do you remember the Rico Petrocelli hit earlier in the game. Yeah, 874 00:56:07,755 --> 00:56:09,795 Speaker 1: it was a base hit. I said, no, the foul 875 00:56:09,875 --> 00:56:12,475 Speaker 1: ball before it that Felipe Elu did not catch because 876 00:56:12,555 --> 00:56:16,755 Speaker 1: some kid did not get out of the way. He went, yeah, kinda, 877 00:56:16,835 --> 00:56:19,755 Speaker 1: I said, I was the kid, no kidding, And I said, 878 00:56:19,835 --> 00:56:21,675 Speaker 1: no kidding, I wrote you a letter offering you to 879 00:56:22,395 --> 00:56:25,355 Speaker 1: the opportunity to come punch me in the nose. Ha 880 00:56:25,435 --> 00:56:28,035 Speaker 1: ha ha, he laughed like anything. I said, you remember that, 881 00:56:28,075 --> 00:56:30,715 Speaker 1: he goes, No, I'd love to tell you it was otherwise. 882 00:56:30,715 --> 00:56:32,515 Speaker 1: I'd love to tell you that he'd harbor to grudge 883 00:56:32,555 --> 00:56:34,635 Speaker 1: all that year. I'd love to tell you that he 884 00:56:34,755 --> 00:56:37,035 Speaker 1: punched me in the nose on Old Timer's Day. He 885 00:56:37,155 --> 00:56:43,515 Speaker 1: did not. He did not. So there are many memories 886 00:56:43,555 --> 00:56:47,835 Speaker 1: of fred Ingeles Fritz Peterson, and most of the recollections 887 00:56:47,875 --> 00:56:51,755 Speaker 1: of him will always center around the Mike kekech exchange 888 00:56:51,835 --> 00:56:53,875 Speaker 1: and the wife to be named later and all the 889 00:56:53,955 --> 00:56:59,675 Speaker 1: rest or perhaps in another timeline, in another world of sports, 890 00:56:59,875 --> 00:57:02,355 Speaker 1: we remember the fact that his earned run average was 891 00:57:02,435 --> 00:57:05,115 Speaker 1: the lowest among all the pictures who ever pitched at 892 00:57:05,195 --> 00:57:09,235 Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium for a full time basis about a thousand 893 00:57:09,275 --> 00:57:12,115 Speaker 1: innings or so or more better than Whitey Ford and 894 00:57:12,195 --> 00:57:14,395 Speaker 1: Lefty Gomez and Red Roughing and all the other Yankee 895 00:57:14,435 --> 00:57:18,155 Speaker 1: Hall of famers. People will remember Fritz Peterson for a 896 00:57:18,275 --> 00:57:22,755 Speaker 1: variety of reasons, maybe even as the announcer, the color 897 00:57:22,795 --> 00:57:25,475 Speaker 1: announcer for the World Hockey Association team in New York. 898 00:57:26,435 --> 00:57:31,515 Speaker 1: And I will remember him because I cost him a 899 00:57:31,635 --> 00:57:52,875 Speaker 1: no hitter. Fritz Peterson was eighty two years old, and yes, 900 00:57:52,995 --> 00:57:56,595 Speaker 1: I assumed. I assumed he'd held a grudge all those years. 901 00:57:57,315 --> 00:58:03,755 Speaker 1: I really did hesitate to address him, but he introduced himself, 902 00:58:04,755 --> 00:58:08,235 Speaker 1: did not punch me as felife alou did not push 903 00:58:08,315 --> 00:58:12,555 Speaker 1: me out of the way. I wish he had. I've 904 00:58:12,595 --> 00:58:14,235 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 905 00:58:14,355 --> 00:58:17,115 Speaker 1: for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip 906 00:58:17,155 --> 00:58:20,715 Speaker 1: Schanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. Mister 907 00:58:20,875 --> 00:58:24,355 Speaker 1: Ray on guitars, bass and drums. Mister Shanelle handled orchestration 908 00:58:24,475 --> 00:58:28,075 Speaker 1: and keyboards. It was produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, 909 00:58:28,115 --> 00:58:31,195 Speaker 1: including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed 910 00:58:31,395 --> 00:58:34,275 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is 911 00:58:34,315 --> 00:58:37,355 Speaker 1: the Oberman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 912 00:58:37,435 --> 00:58:41,115 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical 913 00:58:41,155 --> 00:58:44,475 Speaker 1: comments are by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever. 914 00:58:44,715 --> 00:58:47,995 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Tony Kornheiser. Everything else, 915 00:58:48,435 --> 00:58:52,435 Speaker 1: including costing Fritz Peederson, his not editor, was pretty much 916 00:58:52,595 --> 00:58:57,475 Speaker 1: my fault. I mean I was looking for the umpire 917 00:58:57,555 --> 00:59:00,835 Speaker 1: to call fan interference on me. I may have even 918 00:59:00,955 --> 00:59:04,915 Speaker 1: said that, what about fed interference? Come on, let me 919 00:59:04,955 --> 00:59:08,995 Speaker 1: out of this. That's countdown for this the two hundred 920 00:59:08,995 --> 00:59:11,915 Speaker 1: and fourth day until the twenty twenty four presidential election. 921 00:59:12,035 --> 00:59:15,675 Speaker 1: In the one one hundred and ninety seventh day since dementia, 922 00:59:15,795 --> 00:59:19,435 Speaker 1: Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 923 00:59:19,515 --> 00:59:22,755 Speaker 1: of the United States, Use the fourteenth Amendment and the 924 00:59:22,915 --> 00:59:27,155 Speaker 1: not regularly given elector objection option, Use the Insurrection Act, 925 00:59:27,675 --> 00:59:31,555 Speaker 1: use the justice system, use the mental health system, use 926 00:59:31,835 --> 00:59:36,315 Speaker 1: fan interference to stop him from doing it again while 927 00:59:36,475 --> 00:59:41,835 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow bulletins. 928 00:59:41,875 --> 00:59:47,715 Speaker 1: As the news warrants, Fritz, I'll always be sorry til 929 00:59:47,755 --> 00:59:50,915 Speaker 1: next time. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 930 00:59:51,475 --> 01:00:01,195 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 931 01:00:01,435 --> 01:00:05,555 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit the 932 01:00:05,675 --> 01:00:10,155 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.