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Opening Segment 10/8/26 · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now, Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: 710WOR.
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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
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  Speaker 1: Yankee fan, Larry, as I've been saying all along, Yankees
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  Speaker 1: really didn't deserve to win this series. You just watch
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  Speaker 1: Tampa perform the fundamentals on the baseball field. Good defense,
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  Speaker 1: good offense, helping one another, hitting the opposite way, hitting runs, punting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the basic fundamentals of baseball. Good pitching, just
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  Speaker 1: a solid baseball team. They beat us through most of
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  Speaker 1: the season. And there were brief moments that the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: might have made a comeback, especially last night. I want
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  Speaker 1: to get your impression. When the go-to guy that Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Boone decided he's going to play second base, Volpe, and
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  Speaker 1: not the hotshot and the malcontent Chisholm, who will probably
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  Speaker 1: end up leaving the Yankees. He's a free agent. He
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  Speaker 1: might land with another team and be a 40-40 guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's got that much talent, 40 home runs, 40 stolen bases.
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  Speaker 1: But he just doesn't seem to gel, at least with
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Boone, who I think has to go. But that
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  Speaker 1: moment when Volpe hits that ball.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they set it up a little bit because they're
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  Speaker 2: down two. This is in the bottom of the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 2: They're down two. There's a man on base. So a
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  Speaker 2: home run, that would tie it up.
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  Speaker 1: ABS talent system. High fly ball. Left field. Over is Mason.
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  Speaker 1: It's carrying back to the wall. It is up.
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  Speaker 2: It is out.
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  Speaker 1: It's a home run. Anthony Volpe has tied it.
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  Speaker 2: No, he didn't. No, it didn't turn out to be
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  Speaker 2: a home run. By the way, did you hear the
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  Speaker 2: length of that home run? That was a big, huge,
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  Speaker 2: looping home run. I've never seen a call go on
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  Speaker 2: for that long. Maybe, oh, I could be out of here.
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  Speaker 2: And then about eight seconds later, it was out. But
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  Speaker 2: it turns out it wasn't out.
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  Speaker 1: On review.
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  Speaker 2: After review, we have spectator interference. Oh! So they, they
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  Speaker 2: ruled that he wouldn't have caught it. The center fielder
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  Speaker 2: would not have caught it. It still would have hit
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  Speaker 2: the wall. And so they gave the Yankees, they gave
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  Speaker 2: Volpe a double and that forced a run to score,
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  Speaker 2: but that didn't tie up the game. And tragically, the
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  Speaker 2: game ended at four to three when a bit, Would
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  Speaker 2: have been 4-4 and who knows what could happen.
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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 2: You know, I know you're a real, true Yankee fan
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  Speaker 2: because just like every baseball fan across the country that
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  Speaker 2: loves their team, they go into every one of these
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  Speaker 2: series with excitement.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you know what? We're going to get them.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to go get Tampa Bay. And at the
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  Speaker 2: end of it, it's always, well, they don't do this
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  Speaker 2: well and they don't do this well and they don't
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  Speaker 2: do this well and they don't do this well. And
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  Speaker 2: that's the ride I watched you 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 2: Because it's not just the Yankees. Most teams play that way.
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  Speaker 2: There's most teams that just go for the long ball.
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  Speaker 2: And again, you know why it is? It's because of
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  Speaker 2: those ridiculous analytics. They believe the analytics tell them that
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  Speaker 2: hitting home runs is better than manufacturing runs because it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't always work. But We've seen time and time again.
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  Speaker 2: You know how we go through this cycle all the time?
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  Speaker 2: We had Moneyball and Smallball, and they showed us that
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  Speaker 2: this can work, and then they go back to hitting
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  Speaker 2: 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 was
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  Speaker 1: 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. And then all of a sudden, it's the
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  Speaker 1: eighth inning. It's against the Baltimore Orioles, the final American
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  Speaker 1: League championship before the World Series. Yankees went on to
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  Speaker 1: win the World Series, first in a month of Sundays.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy, Tony Tarasco, who had been a Met,
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  Speaker 1: gets under the fly ball on the right field line.
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  Speaker 1: And the kid, Jeffrey Meyer, reaches down with his glove.
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  Speaker 1: He's only 12 years old and snatches the ball. The umpire,
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  Speaker 1: Rich Garcia, called it a home run. It was not
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  Speaker 1: a home run. It was fan interference, but they had
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  Speaker 1: no video replay. And the Yankees went on to win,
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  Speaker 1: went into extra innings. And then the next game, the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles lost and the Yankees were in the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: But I was in the stands for that one. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the whole place went crazy. You could see. And Jeffrey
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  Speaker 1: Meyer became the star. He sold his glove 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, oh, great, great catch. Of course, Derek Jeter,
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  Speaker 1: great catch. Without that, right, the Yankees might have lost
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  Speaker 1: that championship to the Orioles. And then the bigger one.
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  Speaker 1: which is the Cubs were hurting for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: They hadn't even seen a World Series, never mind been
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  Speaker 1: in a World Series. They're five outs away from getting
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  Speaker 1: into the World Series against the Marlins. They're at home,
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  Speaker 1: Wrigley Field. There's a fly ball hit down the left
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  Speaker 1: field line. It's in foul territory. And all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: Moses Alou is getting under. He's ready to jump into
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  Speaker 1: the 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 2: Oh, that's world famous. Bartman was world famous. They were
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  Speaker 2: going to tar and feather him in Chicago. Yeah, no,
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  Speaker 2: 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. They were just... And that guy... Had to
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  Speaker 1: be in the witness protection program. But, you know, in 2016,
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  Speaker 1: when they finally beat their curse, the Chicago Cubs finally
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  Speaker 1: won a World Series. It did a very nice thing.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have expected this of them, especially if you
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  Speaker 1: know people in Chicago. You worked in Chicago. I love
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  Speaker 1: the people of Chicago. What are you talking about? Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: if 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. in 2016
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  Speaker 1: that's so cool he remained loyal he didn't move out
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  Speaker 1: of town because let's face it they were showing up
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  Speaker 1: outside of his apartment with pitchforks yeah yeah he had
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  Speaker 1: to have around the clock police security it was that
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  Speaker 1: intense he.
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  Speaker 2: Was a celebrity he was on talk shows for a
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  Speaker 2: while everybody everybody wanted to talk to him but here's
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  Speaker 2: the question i want to ask because we have a
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  Speaker 2: disagreement about this yes that i watched the replay i
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  Speaker 2: just watched it again seconds ago That ball, had there
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  Speaker 2: not been fan interference, because he had his hands out
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  Speaker 2: over the wall, and it didn't hit his hands.
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  Speaker 1: It hit his arm.
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  Speaker 2: It hit his forearm up near the elbows. Had he
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  Speaker 2: just let it go, it would have hit the top
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  Speaker 2: of the wall. Now, with the force of it going forward,
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  Speaker 2: you would think it would hit the top of the
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  Speaker 2: wall and then bounce into the stands. So my point is,
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  Speaker 2: it was a home run. it was going to be
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  Speaker 2: a home run. They made it a double because it
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  Speaker 2: was absolutely fan interference. There's no question it was fan interference.
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  Speaker 2: But what's ridiculous and what they didn't take into account,
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  Speaker 2: if it didn't hit his arms, it would have hit
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  Speaker 2: the top of the wall. Now, you could argue, and
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  Speaker 2: I think you did when we talked about this earlier,
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  Speaker 2: you could argue it would hit the top of the
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  Speaker 2: wall and bounce back. But I think 80% of the
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  Speaker 2: time it's going to hit that wall, a flat surface,
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  Speaker 2: and go forward. So I guess my point is the
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  Speaker 2: 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. By the way, later on, Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump suggested that Roger Clemens be given the United States
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  Speaker 1: Medal of Honor, the top citizen award, because he was
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  Speaker 1: being introduced by Roger Clemens yesterday in Texas. This guy
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  Speaker 1: is steroid. Anyway, I don't want to get all riled
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  Speaker 1: up about that.
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  Speaker 2: He really gets you. I got a feeling that Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump may listen just to see what you're upset that
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  Speaker 2: he said. Then he says something the next day just
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  Speaker 2: to get you going again.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the reason is even Roger Clemens was surprised. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: because they won't even let me in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: You want to give me the Medal of Honor?
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  Speaker 2: You 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 1: Me? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have no prejudice whatsoever. There's some really. There are
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