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Steve Somers | Sports Radio Legend | 06-16-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: God or you press up and immediately take a foul
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  Speaker 1: to backcourt. What's there? You don't even have to foul? Now,
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  Speaker 1: four point league. There comes Fox. Five seconds remaining, Fox
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  Speaker 1: to Wemby.
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  Speaker 2: Wemby tries a three, puts it off off the mark
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  Speaker 2: Ann and over the rebound.
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  Speaker 1: That's over. That's over, Nick fans, this is not a dream.
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  Speaker 1: Your A long long wait has ended. Go ahead and cry.
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  Speaker 1: After fifty three years, the.
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  Speaker 3: Next are finally NBA champions once again.
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  Speaker 1: The schmoozer on himself, the legend, great w an voice
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  Speaker 1: and a terrific guy. My friend Steve Summers.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, an honor id to be on with you once again, Sid,
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  Speaker 3: and thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on, the honor is ours. We love you.
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  Speaker 1: A legend. And I gotta tell you my friend Beningo
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  Speaker 1: up Run was on a couple of days ago. He's
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  Speaker 1: now on this show once a week. Beningo Court, They're
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  Speaker 1: all on once a week, and he said last year
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  Speaker 1: on this show, he said, Sid, my greatest fear is
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  Speaker 1: that I'm going to die, and none of my teams
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  Speaker 1: he roots for the Mets and mix the Rangers and
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  Speaker 1: the Jets and then never gonna win another championship. Nowbn Ingo,
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  Speaker 1: got it. See if you want to feel the same way.
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  Speaker 3: No, oh yeah. One thing though said, I'm not afraid
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  Speaker 3: of dying. I'm afraid of living, and all the things
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  Speaker 3: are gonna happen. I'll tell you this. I thought you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about a run in the postseason. You're talking magic,
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  Speaker 3: you're talking miracles, you're talking iconic, you're talking historical, and
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  Speaker 3: all of those boxes you have to check for the Knickerbockers,
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  Speaker 3: And I thought they really won. I began to really
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  Speaker 3: seriously think they're going to win it after Game four.
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  Speaker 3: They were down by twenty to seven at half, they
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  Speaker 3: were down by twenty nine in the third, they were
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  Speaker 3: down by twenty with nine thirty three to play, and
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  Speaker 3: then they got the most iconic Knickerbocker moment. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to figure out, and maybe you can help me
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  Speaker 3: with this, what other moments were similar to what og
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  Speaker 3: n Anobie did with that tip in And I can
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  Speaker 3: think of David Tyree with that helmet. I can think
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  Speaker 3: of Jeter with that flip to Pasada to nail Giambi
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  Speaker 3: at home plate. You could talk about Willis Reid, you
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  Speaker 3: can talk about Joe Namath. You can bring up Bill Buckner,
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  Speaker 3: Bobby Thompson his shot heard around the world in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: fifty one. I mean there have been some iconic, historical,
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  Speaker 3: magical New York sports moments. And OG's tip in, you know,
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  Speaker 3: with one point two seconds to go. Absolutely you know
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  Speaker 3: I was speechless. Yeah, I do a podcast now, I
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  Speaker 3: was absolutely speechless.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It just takes your birth away what they were doing,
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  Speaker 3: turning upside down, you know, gravity, everything down turned up.
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  Speaker 1: I think you nailed all the big moments. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you could ad se the fan Matoe's gold against the Devils,
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  Speaker 1: the great Howie Rose call, that's absolutely control that Leyritz
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  Speaker 1: wants his home run against the bravesen there. But at
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  Speaker 1: any rate, I think you named all of them. And
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  Speaker 1: it was because it was a Knicks and it's been
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  Speaker 1: fifty three years. You know, I learned this today. You
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  Speaker 1: would know this, actually, Steve. As we get set for
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  Speaker 1: the parade on Thursday. Now we know this is the
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  Speaker 1: third Nicobaccer Championship, but the first two in nineteen sixty,
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  Speaker 1: seventy and seventy three John Lizzy Lindsey was in charge
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  Speaker 1: here there was no parade. So even though this is
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  Speaker 1: the third Knick Championship. This will be the first time
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  Speaker 1: ever the Knicks will go down the canyon.
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  Speaker 3: The Euros, and you think the Confederate is going to fall.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what, I was also thinking, dorm might
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  Speaker 3: have been said more New York Knickerbucker watch parties than
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  Speaker 3: those attending the three games. The metsad was Saint Louis true.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm just thinking there were so many watch parties,
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  Speaker 3: even with the restrictions and the traffic, and some foolish
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  Speaker 3: people you know that showed up drug riddled or alcohol riddled,
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  Speaker 3: you know, getting themselves arrested. But for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: there were so many people, so excited at so many
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  Speaker 3: watch parties. I don't think too many people other than
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  Speaker 3: the die hard net band might have been paying attention
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  Speaker 3: or attending any of those three city Field games games
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  Speaker 3: that the Men's had.
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  Speaker 1: We say, no, nobody can now listen. I gotta tell
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  Speaker 1: you during this NICK run and I'll beat the Yankee
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  Speaker 1: game tomorrow night. Love Randa Levine and that whole organization,
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  Speaker 1: they really are terrific. During this NICK run, Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: got hurt and nobody talked about it. I mean, Yankees
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  Speaker 1: actually they're actually winning games without him. They had a
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  Speaker 1: great weekend against Toronto and when they beat up on
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Guardians before that. But think about that, Judge
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  Speaker 1: got hurt and really nobody was talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you make an excellent point, and you're talking about
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  Speaker 3: not just the best player on the Yankees, you're talking
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  Speaker 3: about arguably the best player in the game. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: you're right about that. And of course the Yankee fan
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  Speaker 3: right now is concerned about Wethers, you know, who can't
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  Speaker 3: get anybody out. But the bottom line is the Yankees
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  Speaker 3: are right where they should be, right at the job
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  Speaker 3: of their division. They'll win that division and they have
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  Speaker 3: a great, great chance about getting themselves stor where they
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  Speaker 3: want to go in October. And I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 3: a Halloween party.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, And the Dodgers are probably not as good,
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  Speaker 1: although we don't know it's still early in the season,
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  Speaker 1: not as good as we thought they maybe, so we
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  Speaker 1: thought the Yankees would get to the World Series and
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  Speaker 1: get their heads headed to them by the Dodgers. But
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  Speaker 1: who knows, maybe expectations should be even bigger for the Yanks.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see. So in the final sixty second Steve who's
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  Speaker 1: running out of time here again, You've been a legendary
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  Speaker 1: New York sports voice. Wherever you are, You're as good
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  Speaker 1: as it gets. Everybody loves you. This Nick moment, I
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  Speaker 1: know you called it iconic and historic, But in terms
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  Speaker 1: of comparing it to everything else you've seen in New
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  Speaker 1: York Giants super Bowls and Yankees World Series and a
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  Speaker 1: Ranger Cup in ninety four, where does this land.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's gotta be right there, number one, because of
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  Speaker 3: how resilient they were and are at Brunson. You know,
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  Speaker 3: now the argument is going to be who's the greatest
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  Speaker 3: point guard in Knickerbocker history, Fraser or Brunson. Well, Fraser
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  Speaker 3: was the best Knickerbocker point guard. Then Brunson the best
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  Speaker 3: New York Nickobacker point guard. Now, and I mean what
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  Speaker 3: he did with his forty five points in some quarters,
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  Speaker 3: he outscored the opposition.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, if i'm General Motors, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: rename my clutch the Brunson via Brunson.
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  Speaker 1: I love it the clutch. You're right, I'm still giving
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  Speaker 1: the edge to Clyde only because he won two and
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  Speaker 1: last I checked brunts in one one. I'm going Clyde
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  Speaker 1: one read two Brunts in three, but the book has
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  Speaker 1: not been completely written yet.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, I mean, and they're not even the favorites
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  Speaker 3: to win next year now number four, while.
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  Speaker 1: They should be. They're older. I think san Antonio should
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  Speaker 1: be the favorites next beat him this year. But that
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  Speaker 1: is a very good young team and Webin Yama's got
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  Speaker 1: to get his head together. He you know, he's a
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  Speaker 1: little wacky, that guy. But they're pretty good teams. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll see either way. This is we're still enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: Thursday is the big day and you, Steve Summers, are
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  Speaker 1: the greatest. We love you. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Well you know I feel the same way about you,
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  Speaker 3: and they still miss you at WTA, and thank you
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  Speaker 3: for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: Come on. It's always a big deal for us. It's
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  Speaker 1: an honor. That is the great Steve Summers. I love
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  Speaker 1: that guy.
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