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WOR Street Reporter Natalie Migliore interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, it's 710 WOR Speed on the Street with Natalie Migliore.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Natalie from the streets where it could be one
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  Speaker 2: and done. Tonight, Yankee Stadium, they're down two to Tampa.
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  Speaker 2: What was the responses from the Yankee cognoscente and also
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  Speaker 2: the non-Yankee cognoscente? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The Yankees head back to the Bronx in a do
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  Speaker 3: or die situation. ALDS game against the Tampa Bay Rays.
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  Speaker 3: The Rays are up 2-0 in the best of five series.
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  Speaker 3: So they really are going to have to make an
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  Speaker 3: impact tonight. Basketball preseason is underway. NHL is back on
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  Speaker 3: the ice with the Rangers beating the Islanders at MSG
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  Speaker 3: last night. So the question is, are fans, particularly in Queens,
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  Speaker 3: even if they're wearing Yankee hats.
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  Speaker 1: Are they?
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  Speaker 4: It's true.
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  Speaker 3: Because people are walking around with Yankee hats, and you're
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  Speaker 3: going to find out, are they paying attention to the
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  Speaker 3: MLB postseason?
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  Speaker 5: Sadly, no. I'm a total fake fan. I just got
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  Speaker 5: back from LA.
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  Speaker 4: And you live in Queens?
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  Speaker 5: And I live in Queens, which is even worse. I
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  Speaker 5: do have a Mets hat. I thought about wearing it,
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  Speaker 5: and of course, here I am, caught without it. So
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  Speaker 5: I deserve this. I deserve it. No, not at all.
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  Speaker 4: What's your sport? I don't like any of the athletes anymore.
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  Speaker 4: since some of them started taking a knee with the
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  Speaker 4: national anthem that's.
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  Speaker 3: It not this week no if they're just sort of
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  Speaker 3: like a sort of superstition surrounding it right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah they're playing a little embarrassing right now so i'd
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  Speaker 1: rather them.
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  Speaker 3: Get out of it on their own yeah they are
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  Speaker 3: gonna have to get out of it on their own
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  Speaker 3: because yankees fans are trying to stay positive after watching
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  Speaker 3: the team make three errors in just the first inning
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  Speaker 3: in game two you should have seen me on the
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  Speaker 3: couch clutching the.
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  Speaker 4: Blankets as I was like, what is going on? But
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  Speaker 4: it only got worse from there.
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  Speaker 3: Still, Yankees spirit is going strong, so strong that in
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  Speaker 3: the middle of Astoria, there are just as many Yankees
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  Speaker 3: hats as there are Mets hats.
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  Speaker 4: And I had to ask, what's up with that?
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had an answer for that. I'm from
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  Speaker 1: the Bronx and I've lived in Queens now for decades.
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  Speaker 1: 17 years but so that's home I grew up 10
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  Speaker 1: blocks away from the stadium but yeah this is home
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  Speaker 1: now and unfortunately the Mets have also been terrible so
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  Speaker 1: I mean people just.
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  Speaker 6: Wear Yankee hats because it's like the most popular thing
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  Speaker 6: I think but yeah like I think you'll see more
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  Speaker 6: Mets fans when there are actual games happening because they're
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  Speaker 6: always going to the bars especially right here on Broadway
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  Speaker 6: but yeah I feel like everyone is just wearing Yankee
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  Speaker 6: hats to say like oh yeah like I'm showing off
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  Speaker 6: that I'm living in New York you know Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The Mets fan just calling it like she sees it. Typically,
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  Speaker 3: I could stop somebody with a Yankee hat. And sometimes,
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  Speaker 3: especially if you're in the middle of Midtown, they have
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  Speaker 3: an accent. And they'll tell you they're not from... It's
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  Speaker 3: not a New York accent.
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  Speaker 4: They're like, oh, I'm from Germany. And you're like, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 4: So you feel like you're in New York. It's the
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  Speaker 4: feeling of New York. I don't typically see tourists wearing
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  Speaker 4: Mets hats. No, they don't want to be losers. And
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  Speaker 4: the funny thing.
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  Speaker 3: About going around asking people about this, you would think
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  Speaker 3: I was asking them like a hard-hitting political question.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks changed all that, like Africa.
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  Speaker 3: But the problem is, is that it's because Yankees fans,
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  Speaker 3: we're down. The Yankees are down. So they don't want
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  Speaker 3: to jinx it. There's just like sense of superstition. As
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  Speaker 3: I was talking to one of the guys, is it
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  Speaker 3: the sense of superstition? And the Mets fans, they just
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  Speaker 3: don't want to see anything good for the Yankees. I
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  Speaker 3: had to like masquerade. I had to be really neutral
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  Speaker 3: out there. No, but it's cool because sports are fun. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Max Reed will take the mound for the Yankees with
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  Speaker 3: Nick Martinez starting for the Rays. The last time the
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  Speaker 3: Yankees came back from a two-game deficit in the ALDS
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  Speaker 3: was in 2017 against Cleveland.
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  Speaker 4: So almost 10 years ago now.
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  Speaker 3: Yankees fans feel like any win for New York is
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  Speaker 3: a win.
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  Speaker 4: Not so much for the Mets fans.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks changed all that. After seeing the city win,
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  Speaker 1: I think my best case scenario is Yankees make it,
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  Speaker 1: Mets make it, and then the Yankees would come out
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  Speaker 1: on top. So no more animosity. The Knicks kind of
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  Speaker 1: changed that in the city. I'm good now. Because ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: we see the energy that's in the city now, and
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  Speaker 1: so I think what's best for the city first, and
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  Speaker 1: then you can root for your team after that. So
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  Speaker 1: New York over everything.
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  Speaker 4: Except for the Islanders.
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  Speaker 5: I support all New York teams. I just got caught
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  Speaker 5: in the middle of Queens without a Queens hat, so
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  Speaker 5: I feel like the fool.
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  Speaker 3: Eh.
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  Speaker 6: I don't really care, honestly, for the Yankees. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I don't really like seeing them win. I feel like
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  Speaker 6: they have enough wins.
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  Speaker 4: Do you see the difference? Yes, I hear you see
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  Speaker 4: the difference. Start some positivity with the Yankee fan. Get
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  Speaker 4: a match. They have too many wins. Too many wins.
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  Speaker 2: There's two things I pick up from this.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You were talking to a lot of millennials. I could
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  Speaker 2: tell from the voice.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Recent transports from probably other states. So they want to
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  Speaker 2: wear a Yankee cat because I'm a real New Yorker.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's like synonymous with New York. I get that.
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  Speaker 2: Then you heard the guy from the Bronx. Raised in
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  Speaker 2: the Bronx. I'm not giving up my loyalty to the Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: even though I've lived in Queens for 18 years. That's
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  Speaker 2: a real fan, unlike Sid Rosenberg over at WABC, who
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  Speaker 2: gave up the Mets and cursed the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: Don't bring none of that to my segment here. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't want the bad juju.
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  Speaker 3: The Yankees need this, okay? And I think.
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  Speaker 4: Look, sports is a great thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the crazy thing that I found yesterday
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  Speaker 3: or when I was talking to these people is like,
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  Speaker 3: the crazy thing is like, why are we taking it
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  Speaker 3: so seriously? But I think people feel like. They're so
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  Speaker 3: close to tasting a win again. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And they loved what they felt with the Knicks, and
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  Speaker 4: they want that again, you know?
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: The one guy you had that said that, what you
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  Speaker 4: just said, was brilliant. I love that guy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, he's great. The guy that said, he's just
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  Speaker 2: cheering for New York at this point, just like Curtis.
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  Speaker 4: He's a street philosopher.
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  Speaker 2: Hell no, I hate the Mets.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, Natalie Migliore will be back with us, same time,
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  Speaker 2: same place, tomorrow at 7.50.