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Warner Wolf- Legendary Sportscaster · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Once again, it's Warner Wolf. The day after the passing
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  Speaker 1: of Tommy John, one of the great baseball pitchers of
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  Speaker 1: all time, and Warner right out the box. I just
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  Speaker 1: want to ask, how is it with this guy stellar record?
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  Speaker 1: He never made the Hall of Fame? Yes, hello Warner.
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  Speaker 1: I think Warner has fallen into the abyss. So as Natalie,
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  Speaker 1: what why is it Natalie with Tommy John stellar record?
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  Speaker 1: I remember him. He was pitching for the Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: I want to know the same, honestly, And he pitched.
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  Speaker 1: For the Dodgers, and I hated him when he was
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  Speaker 1: a white sock and Dodger, and then he became a
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  Speaker 1: Yankee and I loved him. And then he had that
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  Speaker 1: elbow surgery which was state of the art that it
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  Speaker 1: permitted so many other pitchers to continue their baseball career,
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  Speaker 1: But it all started with him. Cole On the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: now had to sit for the year. Generally you sit
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  Speaker 1: for the year, but this guy record was just outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty six seasons, he won two hundred and eighty eight games,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty four after he had elbow surgery.
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  Speaker 1: And you say to yourself twice he finished for the
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  Speaker 1: cy Young both in the American League and National League
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  Speaker 1: as a Yankee and then as a Dodger. It's say,
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  Speaker 1: my god, what more do you have to do to
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  Speaker 1: gain to the Baseball Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you mentioned the All Star four All Star selections.
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  Speaker 2: That's you know, it was incredible. And plus what he
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  Speaker 2: meant to the game by going through that surgery, that
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  Speaker 2: alone changed the game. I mean he was the first
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  Speaker 2: one and he came back almost better than he was
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  Speaker 2: before the surgery. It was astounding, by the way. Not
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  Speaker 2: for nothing, but my very first interview ever. Yeah, as
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  Speaker 2: a professional was Tommy John. Wow for a I know,
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  Speaker 2: and he was so disappointed. It was me. It was
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  Speaker 2: for a public affairs show. The regular guy was out.
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  Speaker 2: I had just gotten the job at wfil in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: and he was pushing a new book and it's me
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  Speaker 2: and him and I didn't read the book. I think
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  Speaker 2: we got good. Thank God.
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  Speaker 1: Wanna question, Yeah, how come Tommy John never was allowed
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  Speaker 1: to enter the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you why. And absolutely he got two hundred
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  Speaker 3: eighty eight games. Come on, man, that's more wins than
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  Speaker 3: any modern day pitcher not in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: And you're ready for this, he had more wins than
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  Speaker 3: six guys in the Hall of Fame. I asked him
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  Speaker 3: one time, Hey, Tom, why aren't you in the Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Fame, And he said, I'll tell you why. He said,
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  Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame is so impressed with strikeout pitchers
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  Speaker 3: they leave me out every year. He says, I was
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  Speaker 3: not a strikeout pitcher. I threw a singer ball and
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of ground doubts, he said. I figured
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  Speaker 3: it was easier and better to get a batter to
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  Speaker 3: ground out on one pitch or two pitches, then to
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  Speaker 3: try and strike him out. But there's no question this guy,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is a shame, shame on the Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Fame that should have been in there, absolutely one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: Now, over the weekend we saw Giants first exhibition, Jets
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  Speaker 1: first exhibition. One question though, Jason Dark the Giants Live
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  Speaker 1: or Die on his ability to quarterback. Yes, he had
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  Speaker 1: a goal for a concussion check. Yeah, in an exhibition game.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell is going on?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you something. You know, Joe Namath
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  Speaker 3: in an exhibition game nineteen seventy one, he hurt his knee,
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  Speaker 3: tore it up, and he was gone for half the season,
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  Speaker 3: he tried to make a tackle after an interception. This
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  Speaker 3: is ridiculous. And the other thing is what a joke.
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  Speaker 3: Both the Giants and Jets and actually all the teams.
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  Speaker 3: It's extortion or blackmail. They make the season ticket holders
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  Speaker 3: buy full price preseason game tickets or they'll take away
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  Speaker 3: your season tickets for the regular season. What a joke.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's a complete ripoff. But let me get back
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  Speaker 2: to let me get back to him for one second,
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  Speaker 2: to Jack Jason Jackson, Darr do you feel like he
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  Speaker 2: should have played at all in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the teams didn't play there. Now, why what
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  Speaker 3: was it? First of all, most of the time you're
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  Speaker 3: playing against guys on the other team who won't hven
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  Speaker 3: be around. What does it prove? I just I'm fed
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  Speaker 3: up with these exhibition gems. And you know who's dumberman?
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  Speaker 3: The dummies who bet on exhibition games. Can you get
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't know who's they're playing against, guys
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  Speaker 3: you'll never see again. By the way, twelve of the
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  Speaker 3: sixteen underdogs beat the spread this past weekend. That shows
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  Speaker 3: you how much they know. Oh. Changing the subject, Mets
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  Speaker 3: owner Steve Cohen, who has a payroll of three hundred
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  Speaker 3: and sixty million dollars for the last place Mets. Made
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  Speaker 3: a surprise visit to the Mets clubhouse last week, introducing
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  Speaker 3: himself to the team's new players. No official word on
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  Speaker 3: what was said, but a rumor has it that some
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  Speaker 3: of the players said to Cohen as he was leaving, hit.
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  Speaker 2: Through, don't you found that? No more?
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  Speaker 3: No more?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're absolutely right. It's like for all that money
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  Speaker 1: and Met fans, they get nothing in return.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's it's not how much you spend, it's how
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  Speaker 3: you spend. Oh, let me hit this day in sports,
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  Speaker 3: Larry Ole, appreciate this Philadelphia time sixty nine years ago today,
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  Speaker 3: August seventeenth, nineteen fifty seven. Philly's Hall of Fame center
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  Speaker 3: fielder Richie Ashburn.
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  Speaker 2: You remember him, right load, Sure, he's loved in Philly.
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  Speaker 3: Love. He hits a foul ball line drive into the
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  Speaker 3: third base stands, it broke a woman's nose. After a
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  Speaker 3: short delay while the medics were carrying out the woman bleeding,
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  Speaker 3: the very next pitch, Ashburn hit another foul ball into
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  Speaker 3: the third base stands, and it hit the same woman again,
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  Speaker 3: and this time broke a leg and he was the spot.
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  Speaker 3: He was the wife of the sports editor of the
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia Bulletin.
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  Speaker 1: Question. Back then, people weren't thinking of showing Could you
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  Speaker 1: imagine the lawsuit? Now?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well they have a sign that says we're not
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  Speaker 3: responsible for foul Every ballpark the responsible for foul balls
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  Speaker 3: hitting in the stands now.
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  Speaker 2: Richie Ashbourne might have the record for the most foul balls,
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  Speaker 2: because if you remember he had, he would go does
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  Speaker 2: he Yeah, he'd go deep in the count just by
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  Speaker 2: fouling the ball off constantly.
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  Speaker 3: Until and then ended his career with the Mets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: here's a new form of cheating. I've never heard of
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  Speaker 3: this before. Zach Holland, a former college golfer, told his
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  Speaker 3: golfing partners at this Wing Haven country club that he
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  Speaker 3: had to excuse himself because of an emergency and that
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  Speaker 3: he would meet them later on the next hole. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: he goes ahead of his group drops the ball into
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  Speaker 3: the hole two hundred five yard hole. So the group
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  Speaker 3: shows up and they see the ball in the hole.
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  Speaker 3: They say, hey must have been a hole in one. Well, okay,
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  Speaker 3: except security camera caught Holland placing the ball in the hole.
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  Speaker 3: He immediately resigned and was thrown out of the club
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  Speaker 3: and you, oh, by the way, you were mentioning Bayone before, right,
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  Speaker 3: h Well, of course the most famous guy is the
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  Speaker 3: Bayone bleeder, Chuck Webner. So Webner when he fought Muhammad Ali,
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  Speaker 3: and this is where Sylvester Stallone got his idea of
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  Speaker 3: Rocky because Webner went to almost fifteen rounds with Ali.
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  Speaker 3: So Wepner goes into says to his wife. The ad
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  Speaker 3: buyser a new negligee right before the fight and says, honey,
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  Speaker 3: you were going to be wearing the negligee of the
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  Speaker 3: next heavyweight champion of the world to the fight. Wait
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  Speaker 3: the fight ends, he comes back to the room. She
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  Speaker 3: looks at him and says, do I go to his
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  Speaker 3: room or is he coming here.
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  Speaker 1: That? No, warter Wolf, we gotta let you go because
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