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Hour 1: NY Gubernatorial Race · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, the Yanks got wiped out by Tampa Bay, the Rays,
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  Speaker 1: last night. And even though I'm a tried-and-true Yankee fan, Larry,
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  Speaker 1: as I've been saying all along, Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: Really didn't deserve to win this series.
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  Speaker 1: You just watch Tampa perform the fundamentals on the baseball field.
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  Speaker 1: Good defense, good offense, helping one another. hitting the opposite way,
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  Speaker 1: hitting runs, punting, you know, the basic fundamentals of baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Good pitching, just a solid baseball team. They beat us
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  Speaker 1: through most of the season. And there were brief moments
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  Speaker 1: that the Yankees might have made a comeback, especially last night.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get your impression.
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  Speaker 1: When the go-to guy that Aaron Boone decided he's going
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  Speaker 1: to play second base, Volpe, and not the hotshot and
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  Speaker 1: the malcontent Chisholm. who will probably end up leaving the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: He's a free agent. He might land with another team
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  Speaker 1: and be a 40-40 guy. He's got that much talent,
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  Speaker 1: 40 home runs, 40 stolen bases. But he just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to gel, at least with Aaron Boone, who I
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  Speaker 1: think has to go. But that moment when Volpe hits
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  Speaker 1: that ball.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it set it up a little bit because they're
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  Speaker 3: down two. This is in the bottom of the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 3: They're down two. There's a man on base. So a
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  Speaker 3: home run– That would tie it up.
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  Speaker 4: No, he didn't.
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  Speaker 3: No, it didn't turn out to be a home run.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, did you hear the length of that
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  Speaker 3: home run? That was a big, huge, looping home run.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen a call go on for that long. Maybe, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I could be out of here. And then about eight
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  Speaker 3: seconds later, it was out. But it turns out it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't out.
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  Speaker 5: On review.
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  Speaker 2: After review, we have spectator interference.
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  Speaker 3: Oh! So they, they ruled that he wouldn't have caught it.
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  Speaker 3: The center fielder would not have caught it. It still
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  Speaker 3: would have hit the wall. And so they gave the Yankees,
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  Speaker 3: they gave Volpe a double and that forced a run
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  Speaker 3: to score, but that didn't tie up the game. And tragically,
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  Speaker 3: the game ended at four to three when it was,
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  Speaker 3: Would have been 4-4 and who knows what could have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Correct. They would have had momentum. But in the last
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  Speaker 1: three innings, Yankees did nothing, you see. And they had
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  Speaker 1: the home crowd. You heard the home crowd. The last
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  Speaker 1: four years, going into Yankee Stadium when they were in
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  Speaker 1: do-or-die situations, they've never been able to take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: being the home team. So they have only themselves to blame.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I know you're a real, true Yankee fan
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  Speaker 3: because just like every baseball fan across the country that
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  Speaker 3: loves their team, they go into every one of these
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  Speaker 3: series with excitement.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get them. We're going to go get
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  Speaker 3: Tampa Bay. And at the end of it, it's always, well,
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  Speaker 3: they don't do this well and they don't do this
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  Speaker 3: well and they don't do this well and they don't
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  Speaker 3: do this well. And that's the ride I watched you
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  Speaker 3: take over the last week.
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  Speaker 1: Although, yeah, I was saying that part of this tradition
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  Speaker 1: now of if it ain't a home run, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. They strike out or they ground out. It's
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  Speaker 1: a very boring game. You wait for the homers, the homers,
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  Speaker 1: the homers. And with Tampa, you don't. You get good
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  Speaker 1: old-fashioned fundamentals. Same time, Milwaukee Brewers beat the San Diego Padres.
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  Speaker 1: San Diego Padres had three boomers right in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of their lineup. Again, if it ain't a home run,
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to win. And I'd like to see
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  Speaker 1: both these teams get into the World Series so that
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  Speaker 1: Americans can once again see the way baseball is supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be played. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's not just the Yankees. Most teams play that way.
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  Speaker 3: There's most teams that just go for the long ball.
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  Speaker 3: And again, you know why it is? It's because of
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  Speaker 3: those ridiculous analytics. They believe the analytics tell them that
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  Speaker 3: hitting home runs is better than manufacturing runs because it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't always work. But We've seen time and time again.
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  Speaker 3: You know how we go through this cycle all the time?
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  Speaker 3: We had Moneyball and Smallball, and they showed us that
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  Speaker 3: this can work, and then they go back to hitting
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  Speaker 3: home runs, and now they're going to come back again.
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  Speaker 1: Although when I saw what looked like a Volpe home
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  Speaker 1: run be called by the umpires after watching the videotape
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  Speaker 1: a double, it reminded me back to, oh, It.
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  Speaker 2: Was Jeter's first year. He was a rookie, a rookie phenom.
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  Speaker 1: Yankees hadn't been in a World Series in like almost
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  Speaker 1: 20 years.
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  Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, it's the eighth inning.
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  Speaker 1: It's against the Baltimore Orioles, the final American League championship
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  Speaker 1: before the World Series. Yankees went on to win the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, first in a month of Sundays. And this guy,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Tarasco, who had been a Met, gets under the
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  Speaker 1: fly ball on the right field line. And the kid,
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Meyer, reaches down with his glove. He's only 12
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  Speaker 1: years old and snatches the ball. The umpire, Rich Garcia,
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  Speaker 1: called it a home run. It was not a home run.
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  Speaker 1: It was fan interference, but they had no video replay.
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  Speaker 1: And the Yankees went on to win, went into extra innings.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next game, the Baltimore Orioles lost and
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees were in the World Series. But I was
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  Speaker 1: in the stands for that one. I mean, the whole
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  Speaker 1: place went crazy.
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  Speaker 2: You could see.
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  Speaker 1: And Jeffrey Meyer became the star. He sold his glove.
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  Speaker 2: For $ 23, 000.
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  Speaker 1: He went to Wesleyan College where he set a record
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  Speaker 1: for base hits, 189 hits in his scholastic season. He
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  Speaker 1: had pictures festooned all over his wall with Derek Jeter.
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  Speaker 1: It was all great.
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  Speaker 2: Great catch. Of course, Derek Jeter.
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  Speaker 5: Great catch.
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  Speaker 2: Without that, right?
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees might have lost that championship to the Orioles.
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  Speaker 1: And then the bigger one. which is the Cubs were
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  Speaker 1: hurting for a long time. They hadn't even seen a
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  Speaker 1: World Series, never mind been in a World Series. They're
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  Speaker 1: five outs away from getting into the World Series against
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  Speaker 1: the Marlins.
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  Speaker 2: They're at home, Wrigley Field.
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  Speaker 1: There's a fly ball hit down the left field line.
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  Speaker 1: It's in foul territory. And all of a sudden, Moses
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  Speaker 1: Alou is getting under. He's ready to jump into the
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  Speaker 1: stands to fetch it. But no, a Chicago Cubs fan,
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  Speaker 1: lifelong fan, he would say at every home game, Steve Bartman, remember?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's world famous. Bartman was world famous. They were
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  Speaker 3: going to tar and feather him in Chicago. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 3: that one is the most famous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were up 3-0 at that time, but
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  Speaker 1: it caused the team to collapse. They lost that game 8-3,
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  Speaker 1: and then they went on to lose game 7 because
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  Speaker 1: of that. And that guy had to be in the
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  Speaker 1: witness protection program. But, you know, in 2016, when they
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  Speaker 1: finally beat their curse, the Chicago Cubs finally won a
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  Speaker 1: World Series. They did a very nice thing. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have expected this of them, especially if you know people
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago. You worked in Chicago. I love the people
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  Speaker 1: of Chicago. What are you talking about? Yeah, well, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Cubs fan, you're pissed off at this guy.
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  Speaker 1: They presented Bartman with an official championship ring.
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  Speaker 2: In 2016 that's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: He remained loyal he didn't move out of town because
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  Speaker 1: let's face it they were showing up outside of his
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  Speaker 1: apartment with pitchforks yeah yeah he had to have around
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  Speaker 1: the clock police security it was that.
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  Speaker 3: Intense he was a celebrity he was on talk shows
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  Speaker 3: for a while everybody everybody wanted to talk to him
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  Speaker 3: but here's the question i want to ask because we
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  Speaker 3: have a disagreement about this yes that i watched the
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  Speaker 3: replay i just watched it again seconds ago That ball,
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  Speaker 3: had there not been fan interference, because he had his
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  Speaker 3: hands out over the wall, and it didn't hit his hands.
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  Speaker 5: It hit his arm.
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  Speaker 3: It is in his forearm, up near the elbows. Had
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  Speaker 3: he just let it go, it would have hit the
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  Speaker 3: top of the wall. Now, with the force of it
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  Speaker 3: going forward, you would think it would hit the top
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  Speaker 3: of the wall and then bounce into the stands. So
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  Speaker 3: my point is, it was a home run. It was
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  Speaker 3: going to be a home run. They made it a
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  Speaker 3: double because it was absolutely fan interference. There's no question
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  Speaker 3: it was fan interference. But what's ridiculous and what they
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  Speaker 3: didn't take into account, if it didn't hit his arms,
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  Speaker 3: it would have hit the top of the wall. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you could argue, and I think you did when we
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  Speaker 3: talked about this earlier, you could argue it would hit
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  Speaker 3: the top of the wall and bounce back. But I
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  Speaker 3: think 80% of the time it's going to hit that wall,
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  Speaker 3: a flat surface, and go forward. So I guess my
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  Speaker 3: point is the Yankees got robbed.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's put it to our listeners, some of whom
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  Speaker 1: were maybe watching it or watched it on the videotape,
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  Speaker 1: because that has become the lead story as they play
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  Speaker 1: it over and over and over again. Yankee fans basically
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  Speaker 1: want to take the shredded bat of Mike Piazza against
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  Speaker 1: Roger Clemens and impale themselves with that when they watch
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  Speaker 1: this over and over.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, later on.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, suggested that Roger Clemens be given the United
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  Speaker 1: States Medal of Honor, the top citizen award, because he
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  Speaker 1: was being introduced by Roger Clemens yesterday in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: This guy is steroid.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, I don't want to get all riled up about that.
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  Speaker 5: He really gets you.
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  Speaker 3: I got a feeling that Donald Trump may listen just
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  Speaker 3: to see what you're upset that he said. Then he
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  Speaker 3: says something the next day just to get you going again. Well,
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  Speaker 3: the reason is even Roger Clemens was surprised. He goes,
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  Speaker 3: they won't even let me in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: You want to give me the Medal of Honor? You
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  Speaker 3: should be recognized somehow.
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  Speaker 1: But I'd love to hear from our listeners if, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: they saw that possible home run the way Larry did
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  Speaker 1: or what I concur with the umpires, that it was
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  Speaker 1: a double.
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  Speaker 3: I got an email today from a very ticked-off listener
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  Speaker 3: who says he leaves talkbacks every single day. And he's
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  Speaker 3: they won't just get me a radio? I've had some
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  Speaker 3: great ones. You've said there's been some great ones. Do
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  Speaker 3: you have some prejudice against certain people? Me?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you take a part? Did you take part in
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  Speaker 3: this election process?
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  Speaker 2: I have no prejudice whatsoever.
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  Speaker 5: There's some really.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain allegations out there, Natalie, you need to
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  Speaker 1: be aware of. And people say you're censoring their ability
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  Speaker 1: to win a C-Crane radio.
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  Speaker 6: There are some people who have never won a T-shirt.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, he's one ahead of the game or
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  Speaker 2: she is one ahead of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Let us know if you've never won a T-shirt or
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  Speaker 3: take a tally of all the people that haven't won yet,
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  Speaker 3: if you feel like it.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, up next, there she blows. Humpback whales or Fire
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  Speaker 1: Island plus a chance to see the live stage performance
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  Speaker 1: of A Bronx Tale, the one-man show starring Chaz Palminteri,
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  Speaker 1: a tried-and-true Yankee fan, I might add, at 825.
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  Speaker 5: Well it's like.
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  Speaker 3: A real life version of free willy out in fire
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  Speaker 3: island well that didn't sound right free willy out in
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  Speaker 3: staten island doesn't go really that well but i'm talking
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  Speaker 3: about whales and i'm talking about two humpback whales that
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  Speaker 3: were stranded for some time hours and hours and hours
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  Speaker 3: and i thought to myself when i first heard the
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  Speaker 3: story well when the tide comes back in they'll be
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  Speaker 3: fine and how much damage can it be due to
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  Speaker 3: a whale? I mean, the whale breathes through its air hole,
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  Speaker 3: but no, apparently if they dry up, if it gets
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  Speaker 3: too hot, if they don't move around enough, it causes
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  Speaker 3: severe physical stress and can cause systematic failure, which means
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  Speaker 3: they could die. And so the people out there took
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  Speaker 3: it very seriously and they were stuck for hours. There
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  Speaker 3: was two of them, two very young, Very young orcas
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  Speaker 3: were out there.
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  Speaker 5: And it's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: All of the people that responded to this. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: NOAA responded. The Atlantic Marine Conservation Society.
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  Speaker 5: The U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Coast Guard. Suffolk Police. The New York State Department of
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  Speaker 3: Environmental Conservation. State Police. They had six organizations out there.
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  Speaker 3: And what they were doing was just trying to keep
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  Speaker 3: the whales wet. And a little cold until the tide
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  Speaker 3: turned around. They also were digging out sand from under
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  Speaker 3: the whales and the whales. Here's the happy ending of
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  Speaker 3: that story. They're free now. They're back.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, where were they found to be lodged in the sandbar?
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  Speaker 3: They said they're shifting sandbars, by the way, because of
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  Speaker 3: the weather we've been having. But it's right off Fire Island.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, right by Cherry Grove. So we can call these
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  Speaker 1: the Brokeback Whales. Definitely trying to make it to shore.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the gay enclave. But I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you this, for those that are interested in whales, because
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  Speaker 1: they're making a comeback along with porpoises and dolphins and
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  Speaker 1: all other sea creatures. You got to go to Cold
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  Speaker 1: Springs Harbor. They have the Whaling Museum, because they used
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  Speaker 1: to do whaling in Sag Harbor, in Greenport, where I
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  Speaker 1: actually spent two years with the Guardian Angels because they
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  Speaker 1: had a drug problem. And you hear the people would
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  Speaker 1: regale all these tales about it was a huge whaling location.
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  Speaker 1: So if you get a chance and you want to
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  Speaker 1: see what that end of Long Island was like, go
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  Speaker 1: to Cold Springs Harbor, the Whaling Museum. It is incredible
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  Speaker 1: because remember, That's how you lit up houses. That's how
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  Speaker 1: you saw at night. It was all whale oil before
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  Speaker 1: they hit the big geyser there.
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  Speaker 2: In Pennsylvania, remember?
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  Speaker 1: All that Earl was coming out and was no longer
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  Speaker 1: a need for whales in the same capacity.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's get to some talkbacks. Anyway, the whales
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  Speaker 3: are okay now. That's the end of that story.
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  Speaker 7: Curtis, the Jeffrey Myers story has a backstory. Bobby Alomar...
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  Speaker 7: Apparently wished the death upon the home plate umpires kids,
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  Speaker 7: one of which I believe had already passed. And Rich
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  Speaker 7: Garcia called that home run knowing that it was fan interference.
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  Speaker 7: I was in the upper deck behind home plate.
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  Speaker 2: Great game. Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: So apparently Alomar was using a little Santaria there, was
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  Speaker 1: throwing a curse out. That's plausible. If you understood the
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  Speaker 1: Alomar brothers. Yeah, that's very plausible to me.
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  Speaker 2: Larry, with regard to the home run, that wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: Even if it was a home run, it would have
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  Speaker 2: tied the game. There's no guarantee they would have gone
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  Speaker 2: on to win the game. Very disappointing series with the
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  Speaker 2: Rays after what they did to the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 3: I've been a Yankee fan for 70 years, and this
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  Speaker 3: is really getting tough every postseason.
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  Speaker 2: They're just not getting it done.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand that.
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  Speaker 3: But it looked like had the fan not put his
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  Speaker 3: arms out there, it wouldn't have hit his arms and
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  Speaker 3: it would have hit the wall and it would have
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  Speaker 3: been a home run. Then who knows what could have happened.
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  Speaker 1: They would have had momentum, which they hadn't had all
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  Speaker 1: series long. And remember, they lost the first game, only
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  Speaker 1: got one hit. Then they made errors galore in the
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  Speaker 1: second game. And now they actually had an opportunity because
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  Speaker 1: it seemed to be a level playing field.
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  Speaker 3: I want to get to this talk back because this
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  Speaker 3: is somebody responding to what I just talked about a
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  Speaker 3: second ago, a guy that's never won the C crane
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  Speaker 3: radio and sent some emails, not only to me, but
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  Speaker 3: other people at the station complaining about it.
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  Speaker 1: Larry Curtis, tell that guy that wrote that.
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  Speaker 4: Letter to go scratch because you guys picked.
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  Speaker 3: Me at least once a week and I don't even
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  Speaker 3: fill out the form for the, for the t-shirt.
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  Speaker 1: And if he wants to see crane radio, tell him
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  Speaker 1: to go buy one.
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  Speaker 4: Give me a break.
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  Speaker 2: Is that your husband there, Natalie? Is that your husband
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  Speaker 2: defending you? Some people were very kind.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not putting them on, but they were very kind
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  Speaker 6: about defending me in my honor.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 3: They thought, how did they think it was you that
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  Speaker 3: I was coming after?
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  Speaker 5: Did it sound that way?
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  Speaker 2: Did you think that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was a direct all-out attack.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no. I know you're a small part
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  Speaker 5: of the full committee here.
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  Speaker 3: The academy that gets to pick that every week. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure you fought for that guy. I'm sure you fought
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  Speaker 3: for him a couple of times.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I love all the talkbacks. Keep them coming. They keep
• 17:19
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• 17:22
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• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Let's get the Daria Alvinger with the 630 News.
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• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Sunny, warmer, and breezy today. We'll see a high of
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: 75 degrees.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Well, let's just say it wasn't that New York played badly,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: but Tampa played a lot better. The Yankees' season comes
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: to a close after they got beaten 4-3 in Game
• 17:41
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• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Bronx man is under arrest, accused of pushing his ex-girlfriend
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: and their infant daughter off of a balcony on El Carrasco,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: is charged with murder, attempted murder, and a number of
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: other offenses. The woman died in the incident. The baby
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: is in critical condition. There are some new allegations against
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: the leaders of Cornell University, lawyers for the woman known
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: as Jane Doe, say the school failed to stop her
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: sexual assault in the Chi Phi fraternity house.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: The lawyer for the woman at the center of the
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: Cornell case says the party where his client was allegedly
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: raped should never have been allowed because campus police made
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: a drug arrest at the same frat house the night before.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: A Cornell document shows a ketamine overdose at the frat
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: house the day before, but the school did not suspend
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: the fraternity, which its policy would have permitted.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: ABC's Hannah Bataa. Isaias is a Category 1 hurricane and
• 18:35
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• 18:38
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• 18:41
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• 18:44
  Speaker 4: would be the first Atlantic hurricane of the season. New
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection is reminding residents to properly
• 18:51
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• 18:54
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• 18:56
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• 19:00
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• 19:03
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• 19:06
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• 19:09
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• 19:12
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• 19:16
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• 19:19
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• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Liberty on the brink of elimination. They lost Game 2
• 19:26
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• 19:30
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• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Next news, 7 o'clock bulletins at once. I'm Daria Albinger
• 19:36
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• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Daria.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Well, Krista Pike, the woman that got two lethal injections
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: and is still alive, is now speaking. And her lawyer
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: wants her sentence commuted. and he has a really fascinating
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: argument as to why. We'll talk about it when we
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: come back.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: It was a fascinating hearing.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Yesterday for Krista Pike, who was under lethal injections. She
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: got two injections and lived, the only person in history
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: for that to happen to. And now she is awake
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: and she is talking. But the most fascinating thing that happened,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: because it's going to be a huge legal question at
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: this point, is was she brain dead for a while? Now,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: her defense attorney, Randy Spivey, says yes, she was. He
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: thinks she should be commuted anyway because nobody should have
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: to go through that twice. But if she was brain
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: dead for a while, under the law, she may not
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: be executed again, although we're in a strange legal area.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I'll explain it to you very in a second, but
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: I want you to hear from Spivey first.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: We continue to ask Governor Lee to commute Krista's death sentence.
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: After all we have seen and all that we still
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: do not know, it is unimaginable that the state would
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: try to execute her again.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: So he's saying even if she wasn't brain dead, they
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: shouldn't do this again. And I get that argument as well.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: But listen to this. Her lawyers believe she was brain
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: dead following that botched execution. but then unexpectedly woke up
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: and began talking, which is medically possible. So legally, if
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: an inmate is confirmed to be permanently brain dead or
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: lacks the mental capacity to understand why they are being punished,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: the U.S. Supreme Court prohibits their execution under the Eighth
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Amendment of protection against cruel and unusual punishment. However, because
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: she regained consciousness, The state of Tennessee is really in
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: uncharted legal territory. So this case may go to the U.S.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Supreme Court. Now, the question is whether with what she
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: went through, was it cruel and unusual? Did she actually die?
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Was she brain dead? They're the key legal questions. And
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: if either of those things, the Supreme Court finds that
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: she died or it was cruel and unusual punishment, can
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: she be executed again? So it sounds like this is
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: going to the U.S.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Supreme Court.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: So if I'm to believe this lawyer, she was brain dead.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: That meant when you look up on the screen, it's over.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: But somehow it was a miracle, or as Natalie was suggesting,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: because of her satanic past.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe she's a witch. Maybe she's a Wicca. My satanic past? No, her.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, her?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Obviously, because she's become a Buddhist saint.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: People are saying that all over the line.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: I get that. Let's hold off on the Satan stuff
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: for just one second.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Just saying.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: As we deal with really what's going on, there are people,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: there are definitely people that have been brain dead or
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: have been pronounced dead in the past that have come
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: back to life. They've been resuscitated. So what he's saying
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: is she was brain dead and she was brought back
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: to life. I don't know if there's any medical evidence
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: of that. But to me, this is, first of all,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: it's a great story, but it's a fascinating legal case.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Now, imagine if that didn't happen. You might hide behind
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: what people always hide behind, you know, HIPAA restrictions. You know,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: you can't know. What a person's medical condition. And this
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: you'd have to know in order to make a judgment. Now, meantime.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Plus, she gives up that right. Now she's under the
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: state care.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Well, put the juice in their caboose, Governor Bill Lee,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: because he had three others waiting to execute. Down in Texas,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott, who's in a neck and neck race.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Whoo!
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Who knew it would be so close in Texas for him?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: He had no problems giving the final okay to the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: execution of Jamal Howard, who had killed a convenience store clerk,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: shot him in the head, stole $ 114 and a carton
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: of cigarettes in Huntsville. Man, that is a nasty person.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: They swabbed his arm. They didn't seem to have a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: problem doing lethal injection with him. I guess Texas gets
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: it right and Tennessee just can't get it over. I
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: still can't get over the fact that they swabbed their arms.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: before they find the vein to put in the lethal injection.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: And by the way, we still, I must apologize to you, Natalie.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I haven't been able to figure out why it is
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: she objected to getting electrocuted and wanted to choose hanging
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: as the alternative because she said initially, my veins are small.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: You'll never find the vein. You know, it's going to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: cause all kinds of problems. The reason she couldn't be
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: put in the electric jail, which was an option in Tennessee,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: was she was a practicing Buddhist in jail.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I cannot fathom that.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, her having the small veins may
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: end up being the best thing that ever happened to
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: her because now they may commute her death sentence. It
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: really sounds like that could happen in this case for
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: many reasons. By the way, she went through cruel and
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: unusual punishment.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: She did.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: That's what the Eighth Amendment says. If you can't be
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: put through that, and if so, you can't be put
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: to death. So it's very possible. I'm not saying it's
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: going to happen, but it's very possible that they commute
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: her sentence on constitutional grounds.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And the other thing is, it's a political issue. Bill
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Lee is not running again. Marsha Blackburn stepping out of
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the Senate to run for governor is a Republican candidate.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: She goes, I'm governor. We're going to execute her. So
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: all these races are so close. They're grabbing on. All
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the candidates are grabbing on to every conceivable issue. I'll
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: electrocute her. The Democrat obviously would not.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: It is amazing at this time of year, and it's
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: going to get ridiculous as we get closer, that everything
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: becomes a campaign issue. Well, you know this. Anything that
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: you do wrong, anything that somebody stumbles on, anything that
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: happens in the news, suddenly that's going to affect your race.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Well, up next, we don't have Rob Astorino with us today.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: He's traveling, but we have the new Marist poll on
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the governor's race in New York. And I did the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: polls on it, Larry. It's not bad for Bruce Blakeman.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: He's really gaining steam. We'll give you some oversight before
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: his one and one and only debate that's scheduled for
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: October 13th with Governor Hochul up next. I got to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: tell you, if you're a supporter of Bruce Blakeman to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: beat Kathy Hochul, you got to be feeling good after
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: this Marist poll. Every poll that's of worthy viewing has
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: what you call pull tabs. That means they have extensively
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: bisected and dissected every conceivable angle of a potential election.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: They've made calls, texts, emails, because they know a lot
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: of people don't answer phones. And obviously they had the
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: way the registration goes. 30% independents, 31% Republicans, and about 38% Democrats.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: You know, just in and around what the registration rates are.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And this was a good poll, even though it tends
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: to lean left. So overall, they say he's 11 points behind,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: which is a better situation than Zeldin was in because
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Zeldin was pro-life and Blakeman is pro-choice. So that's not
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: going to hurt him in the final sprint. The only
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: problem he has is that if you are going to
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: win the governorship and he's doing well in the suburbs
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and upstate and he's winning the independents because they break late,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: he's got to get at least 30, 32 percent in
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the city of New York because the vote is weighted
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: so much in the city. Now, if you're looking at
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: that and you're a team Blakeman, you say we got
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to put more effort in New York City. We could
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: get a few more percentage points up. We might be
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: able to not only narrow the gap, we may be
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: able to beat Kathy Hochul because of her unlikability. Over
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: and over, you're seeing all these polls. People are not
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: happy with the direction of the state. They're not happy
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: with Kathy Hochul. In fact, Democrats statewide who do better
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: than she does, they're not even running for governor.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: First is Zorhan, two, AOC. The only one doing worse
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: is Schumer.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: That's true. That is very true.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Although I will say she still was up double digits
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: and she's still up over 50%. I do know when
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: you look into the independents and you look into upstate
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: and you look into some other things, some of the
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: polls that are underneath the polls, then you do see
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: an opening for Blakeman. But I'm a little disappointed that
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: he's still in a poll behind double digits and she
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: still gets over 50%. So he definitely has some work
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: to do. And look, I'm rooting for him. I want
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: him to win. I think it'd be good for the state.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: It's not just because I'm a Republican. I think it'd
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: be good for everybody if Blakeman were to win that.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: And he certainly is running on all the right things
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: on electric bills, on affordability, on crime. I mean, he
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: has a great story to tell. in the Long Island
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: on crime. I mean, he has a tremendous story to tell.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: So listen, I am pulling for him, but I don't
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: think the polling, I'm not as optimistic about the polling
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: at this moment.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: It can always change as you are.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, having been used to doing these poll tests,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and you can see the direction that some votes are going.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Because remember, a lot more independents are going to probably
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: break for him. They always break in like the last
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: two weeks. The independents are the last to break because
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: they don't have loyalties. Like if I'm a Republican, you're
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: generally loyal to Blakeman. If you're a Democrat, you're loyal
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to Hochul. Independents are up for grabs, so it's good
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: that they're starting to break for Blakeman. The other thing is,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: just looking at his campaign, you and I, we were
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: both laughing our tuchuses off at his initial TV commercials.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: All of it was AI. It was horrible. You know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: you say, how low budget?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: He was having a problem getting money because they had
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: denied him the matching funds that for the first time
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: are available in statewide campaigns. over what the Democrats did,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: which was stack the panel. So he had a late start.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: He's now surging in terms of his money. So I
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: think the TV commercials are sharp.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: He looks good.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Some of the people who are featured in the commercials
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: look like real New York State residents.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: They don't look like actors or actresses.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: And I just think if he can spend a little
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: more time in the five boroughs where his vote is
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and the independent vote is, he might be able to
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: pull an upset because the unlikability for Hochul is huge.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: In fact, we have the Halloween parade coming up in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Greenwich Village, which I'm always in with the Guardian Angels.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. The perfect Wicked Witch of
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the East with the broom and the witch garb would
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: be Kathy Hochul.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: I agree with you. And listen, I am rooting for
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Bruce Blakeman. I really like him personally, and I like
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: him as a candidate, and certainly he's a Republican. I
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: don't see what you're seeing right now. And listen, New
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: York all the time, I keep hearing this about people
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: that run in statewide races for the last decade. And
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: it's Charlie Brown's football. I hear all the good signs. Oh,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: this is going to happen. This looks pretty good. If
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: you really dig down deep in the polls, you can
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: see how this is going to change. And it never,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: ever does.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: His only problem in the poll, and you saw this,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: is Donald Trump. He is not popular in New York State.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: He's not popular in New York City. That's not his
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: only problem, by the way. No, but it's one of
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the few states where he actually loses some support from
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Republicans when you look at the breakouts, whereas in other
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: states he's very solid with the Republicans.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: And Bruce is loyal, as you see.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: He has not moved away, even though every ad we
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: see on TV is MAGA, TRUMP.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Bruce.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Bruce Blakeman.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Well, he can't move away. There's no way he can
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: move away. He can't lose Republican support.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: But the way he's navigating it, the way he started
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: very poorly, you know, it's all about momentum. And you
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: can close a gap if you have the momentum. I
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: don't see momentum for Kathy Hochul. I just see a
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: lot of unlike abilities in these polls.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: I know, and I hate to be on the other
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: side of this, but sometimes reality puts you in an
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: uncomfortable position, and I think the reality is, at this point,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: it would take a miracle for him to win.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Well, the one reality in this poll is Chuck Schumer,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the schlepper, the schmuck, the putz. He's dead on arrival.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Just imagine, hypothetically. The Democrats have the majority in the Senate.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And one thing I want to say is up in Maine,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: they have four debates for the U.S. Senate, four debates
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: in nine days. Remember, I'm the one saying you got
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to have debates. Iowa, two debates. There are debates all
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: over the country. Two is the limit, sometimes more. And
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: yet here in New York, one debate, one debate only.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: That's nonsense.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: But it's a democratic state and the Democrat is in
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: the lead and they get to call the shots. And
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: that happens in state after state after state. If the
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: race was closer, there'd be a push. for more debates.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: A real push for more debates.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Should be mandatory. The public is entitled to that.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, in some states there's no debates. In some
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: states there are absolutely no debates because the person in
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: front who is already in office is winning by a lot.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: So this isn't that unusual. I agree with you. I
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: agree with you 100%.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Well, up next, we're going to be talking to John Decker,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: our WOR White House correspondent. The president has spent now
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: three different trips... in Texas to help Paxton. But I
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: was shocked to see that Governor Abbott, that I thought
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: would at least be double-digit ahead, he's so popular, is
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: now in a neck-and-neck race against the Hispanic female Democrat
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: in Texas up next after the news at 7.