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TOP 10 Most Iconic New York Sports Moments! · Ultimate Rewinds Podcast

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  So, with everything going on right now
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  in New York with the Knicks being in the
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  NBA finals, I thought it'd be a cool
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  podcast to talk about the top 10 best
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  sports moments in New York history. and
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  I have a good buddy of mine, Nick, who I
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  went to college with. We won't get into
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  all those stories that we had there, but
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  we're both big New York fans. Uh, we
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  definitely don't enjoy the same teams,
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  but I thought it was a good idea. What
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  did you think?
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  >> I I like it. It just makes me realize
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  how sad our franchises really are.
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  >> Yeah, 100%. Tell everybody a little bit
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  about yourself and and what what fans of
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  New York teams you are. All right. So, I
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  not so much into hockey anymore, but I
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  used to be a Devil fan. Um, Devils. I
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  mean, I don't know when I fell out of
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  hockey, but um I would say probably like
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  early 2000s or mid 2000s, I fell out of
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  hockey, but
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  um I'm a Dalton fan, but I do I do
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  support those Giants. I do. If if my
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  teams are always out, my team's always
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  out of it. So, I I do root for the
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  Giants because they're local. Um, I'm a
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  huge Mets fan. Huge Mets fan. Live and
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  die with every pitch. And, uh, Brooklyn
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  Nets, which were the New Jersey Nets,
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  were my, uh, were my team or still my
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  team, I should say.
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  >> So, yeah, we're both from Jersey, so I
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  like we both grew up in the area.
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  Obviously, he roots for a bunch of New
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  Jersey teams. I was a Devils fan growing
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  up as well. Not a huge hockey fan by any
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  means. I think when we got into hockey
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  for the most part, like it was it was
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  college years and the Devils are really
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  good. We'll talk about maybe a little
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  bit about the Devils in today's episode,
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  but uh to me, everybody knows I'm a huge
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  Jets fan. I'm a huge Knicks fan and I am
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  a Mets fan. I grew up a Mets fan as a
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  kid. Obviously, when you're a young kid,
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  baseball is like at the heart of
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  everything. So, growing up watching the
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  early Mets, I'm talking about the 1980s
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  when they were really, really good,
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  really dangerous. I'll put it that way
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  as well. Uh, that was a good time to be
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  a Mets fan. But the way I thought this
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  should work is like each of us are going
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  to give you like an honorable mention to
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  our top 10. Something that didn't make
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  our list, but the something that was
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  really close. So, I'm going to let you
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  start. What is your What is your
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  honorable mention here?
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  >> I got two.
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  >> Okay.
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  >> All right. First one. And I reason I put
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  it honorable mention is because
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  even though the moment
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  was epic,
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  it didn't amount to anything. And that
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  was game five 1999 NLCS,
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  the Robin Ventura Grand Slam single.
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  >> A DRIVE TO RIGHT BACK TO GEORGIA.
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  GONE. A GRAND SLAM.
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  So that's that's my honorable mention as
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  well. That grand slam single was so
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  memorable. It was such an iconic moment
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  and and I love those those Mets teams.
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  Mike Piaza to this day outside of Doc
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  Gooden is my is my favorite Met.
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  >> So that team I remember watching that
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  game. We were in our apartment in Philly
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  watching that game and it was just
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  something to behold. Like it was just
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  unreal. Great game and the way that game
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  ended. I I'll be honest and I'm a huge
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  Mets fan. I had given up on them and I
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  think I went to bed because it was 15
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  innings. I'm like, "This team sucks.
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  They're not winning it." And you guys
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  woke me up
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  >> screaming and yelling because he hit
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  that grand slam single. It was It was
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  incredible.
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  >> Yeah. Unbelievable. Uh that definitely
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  made my honorable mention. It was such a
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  great moment. Um if you're if you're a
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  Mets fan, that team uh you know, cast of
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  characters. Obviously, you had Piaz, you
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  had Alfonso, you had Robin Veter, but
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  Todd Zal, I believe, was on that team
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  still. Like
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  >> Zal was the next year. It was Rob um
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  what's his name with the helmet? John
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  Olarude played
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  >> Olarude.
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  >> It was okay.
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  >> But again, Al Lighter uh some
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  Yes. A great mix of of characters on
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  that team and and such a great iconic
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  moment. So, what's your other honorable
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  mention?
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  the other honorable mention and it I
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  mean like I kind of wanted to put it on
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  the list but
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  I took something else from that year and
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  put it on the list because it's like my
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  all-time favorite but game six October
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  15 1986
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  NLCS the 16 inning Mets Houston playoff
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  game
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  >> 32 bass
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  him
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  was epic. It was crazy. All the the the
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  most crazy game ever and still actually
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  regarded as one of the best playoff
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  games of all time. But that game, had
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  they not won that game, I don't think
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  they would have won the series because
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  they had no shot against Mike Scott. No
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  shot.
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  >> And they also almost lost the series,
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  too. That's the next thing. that that
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  did not make my list. The honorable
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  mention or or anything else. My other
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  honorable mention before we get into the
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  entire list was just one of the greatest
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  moments. I don't say moment, but
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  greatest catches that I have ever seen
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  in my life. And that's Andy Chavez
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  catch.
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  >> Edmonds at first and one out. And Perez
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  deals. Fast ball hit in the air to left
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  field. That's deep. That goes Chavez
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  BACK NEAR THE WALL LEAPING AND HE MADE
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  THE CATCH. HE TOOK A HOME RUN AWAY FROM
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  ROLAND TRYING TO GET BACK TO FIRST.
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  EDMONDS. HE'S DOUBLED OFF AND THE INNING
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  IS OVER.
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  >> I WAS going to put that on there, too.
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  Uh it was the NLCS against the
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  Cardinals.
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  >> Yes.
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  >> And at the time,
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  >> I went nuts because that saved the game.
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  >> It he doubled them up. It was the most
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  ridiculous cat. I mean, it was a snow
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  cone cat. I mean, I didn't even know how
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  he caught it. It was insane.
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  >> But what made it more memorable was one,
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  it's against the Cardinals. And if you
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  grew up a Mets fan, I hate to say it,
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  but the Cardinals always [ __ ] killed
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  us. What's that dude's name? Uh Willie
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  Willie McGee was the other one. Vince
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  Coleman absolutely [ __ ] killed us
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  every year.
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  >> Coleman killed us until he came to it
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  and then he killed us again because he
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  saw
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  >> he was the worst.
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  >> But that was the the announcer too. Uh
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  the dude now, what's his name? Gary
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  Cohen. The announcing on that catch was
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  something I will never forget. And that
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  we could do a whole episode just on
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  announcing because some of the iconic
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  announcing that's been gone on in New
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  York and New Jersey sports is some of
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  the best you'll ever hear. But him
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  making that call on that catch, I'll
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  never forget.
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  >> I uh small side note, I own that piece
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  of the wall from Shay Stadium where he
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  caught the ball. That little section
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  right above the glass. I have it.
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  >> All right, so let's get into the list.
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  I'm going to let you start again since
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  you're the guest. What is your number 10
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  New York sports moment? You're not going
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  to like this number 10 because you
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  probably have it as one of your top
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  ones. But Joe Nameoth guarantees victory
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  over the heavily favored Colts 1969
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  Super Bowl 3. I get up to the podium and
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  a guy in the back of the room yells out,
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  "Hey Nameoth, we're going to kick your,
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  you know what, and just, you know, it
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  was just wait a minute. I've been
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  hearing that all week long. I got news
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  for you, buddy. We're going to win the
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  game. I guarantee you." I think that
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  that moment has to be on any New York
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  sports list. Believe it or not, that's
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  my number eight. So, it didn't it didn't
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  make my top spot only because I wasn't
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  alive, right? I'm you know, I'm b I'm
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  born in 77, so my dad's a big Jets fan.
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  He remembers it, although he was, you
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  know, probably in his early teens.
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  >> I just it's a great moment. For anybody
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  who doesn't know the back the backstory
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  of that moment is that the AFL and the
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  NFL had not merged yet. They decided to
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  kind of two leagues that decided, hey,
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  let's let's do one game at the end of
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  the year. The winner of each league come
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  together and play a what they call the
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  Super Bowl. Now, Super Bowl one and two,
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  I don't want to say they're blowouts,
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  but it wasn't in hand. And everybody
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  thought the Jets were going to get blown
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  out and Joe Name comes out and says,
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  "You know what? I guarantee we're going
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  to win this game." They go on to do it.
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  Defense is tremendous in the game. So,
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  it just kind of shaped the NFL as we
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  know it. They they took the AFL as a
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  real league and then they eventually
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  emerged later on. I mean, and the other
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  thing too with that Super Bowl was I
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  don't think that I mean, I mean, I
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  wasn't around, but from what I
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  understand, it wasn't like, "Oh my god,
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  this game was great." It was just like
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  it was an okay game. I mean, the only
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  thing that that people remember from
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  that game is that he guaranteed victory.
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  >> Agreed. But, but what made it such a big
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  deal is one, Joe was such a polarizing
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  figure during that time.
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  >> Well, it made him a legend, too. It made
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  him I mean, like he didn't he wasn't
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  that great after that fact, too. It's
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  just like that's what's made him a
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  legend.
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  >> But uh that I think honestly a lot of
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  people would probably be shocked that
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  that that's so low on our list. But
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  don't forget again we're both in our
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  late 40s so we weren't alive for this
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  moment. But we are going to acknowledge
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  it. So I'm going to give you my number
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  10 and it's something that I remember
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  and it's sticking with the New York Jets
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  and that's the miracle at the Melands
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  which you probably want to forget. 76 is
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  eligible.
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  Big to it and it is jungle and caught by
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  Jungle Elliot.
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  >> Jumbo Elliot.
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  >> So for anybody who's listening who
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  doesn't know what that is,
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  >> obviously the Jets are playing
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  >> Yep. The Jets are playing the Dolphins
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  on Monday night 30 to7. The Jets are
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  getting killed in the fourth quarter and
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  they make one of the most miraculous
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  comebacks that the NFL has ever seen.
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  Might be the biggest. I I don't know
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  about that. I don't think it is. But the
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  way that game was going, the Jets were
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  awful. Vinnie Testy all of a sudden
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  starts lighting them up, going up and
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  down the freaking field. They come back.
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  Half the stadium had already left, if
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  not more, by the start of the fourth
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  quarter. And people were filing back in
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  once they found out what was going on.
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  So to me, I remember where I was during
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  that moment. I was in my my bedroom at
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  my parents house. My father was on the
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  couch downstairs watching the game,
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  flipping back and forth. He thought it
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  was over. And for some reason, I did not
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  turn off that game. And I couldn't
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  believe it when they came back and won.
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  My dad is screaming downstairs, I'm
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  screaming upstairs. It's just an
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  incredible memory for me growing up.
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  That just speaks volumes to how bad your
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  franchises are when you got to remember
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  one game that meant nothing. But it was
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  a good game. I'll give you that.
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  >> Yeah. I mean, I'm Did that make your
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  list at all or No.
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  >> No. No. No. Not even close. It
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  >> to me it's such a It's such a a moment
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  that I'll never forget. I had to put it
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  on there. So, it came in at my number
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  10. Bo, I'm going to start off now with
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  number nine. So, then we'll flip back to
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  you. My number nine moment was the Jeter
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  flip in the 2001 ALDS.
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  >> That is fair down the right field line.
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  Giani on his way to third and they're
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  going to wave him around. The throw
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  misses A CALL MAN SHOT INTO THE POINT OF
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  the plate. Derek Jeter with ONE OF THE
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  MOST UNBELIEVABLE PLAYS YOU WILL EVER
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  SEE BY A SHORTSTOP.
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  >> Doesn't get hit. He picks it up, throws
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  it to the plate, and nails G nail nails
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  Giani at the plate uh to get him out.
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  That That was such a huge moment. I
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  remember everybody talking about it. And
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  I'm not a Yankees fan. Neither are you.
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  So, but I had to put it on there.
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  Something Derek Jeter had to make a
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  list.
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  >> I'm I'm not going to I'm not going to
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  poo poo Derek Jeter because I think he's
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  awesome. But
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  I I don't know what everyone's so
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  obsessed with that play for. I mean, if
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  the ball goes through, he's still
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  getting the guy at home. I think I don't
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  think it was a big deal.
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  I don't know. Everybody says that, but I
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  rewatched the play before we did this
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  and the the throw was so far up the
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  first baseline. I'm not sure if the
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  catcher could get it, come back and tag
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  him out. I I don't know. But because
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  it's Derek Jeter and because he did it
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  and we we also see him make, you know,
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  falling into the third base, you know,
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  stands catching balls because it's Derek
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  Jeter, the captain, and all that he's
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  done for the franchise. I had to give
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  him something on this list. I just could
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  not. And that to me is his most
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  memorable moment. We could talk about
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  the home run in in 96 where the fan
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  catches the ball in the stands that they
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  called a home run, but this to me was uh
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  stood out to me more. What's your what's
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  your number nine moment?
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  >> So my number nine is has the game is not
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  significant. The season was not
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  significant, but the moment was and it
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  was April 22nd, 1970. Tom Siver strikes
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  out 19 batters
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  in a single game, including the last
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  nine to face him.
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  >> Here's the one, two pitch. Check him
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  out. SA has 19 strikeouts. Tied the
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  major league record. The game is over.
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  Cody's out there congratulating him. The
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  Mets are out there congratulating him.
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  What a day for Tom Siver.
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  >> Ridiculous. Tom Siver alltime best Mets
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  pitcher. All time. You know what?
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  probably the best right-hand pitcher
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  ever in baseball.
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  >> Not saying 19 batters is just insane.
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  >> Yeah. See, I I wasn't obviously wasn't
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  around for that moment, so I don't have
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  a a fondness for it, but I could
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  understand. Tom Siver is definitely the
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  greatest Met of all time. No question.
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  So, I understand how it how it's on the
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  list.
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  >> So, at at that time, he at that time
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  that 19 batters was a record
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  and his nine in a row was a record. And
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  I think somebody tied him recently, but
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  >> All right. So, what's Let's go to number
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  eight. Let's let's let you start off
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  with number eight because we already
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  talked about my number eight, and that's
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  Joe Nameoth guaranteeing Super Bowl
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  victory. So, what's yours?
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  >> So, I'm going to go number eight with
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  one of my favorite players of all time,
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  September 21st, 2001. Mike Piaza and the
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  911 home run.
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  >> Lopez wants it away. And it's deep to
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  LEFT CENTER. ANDREW JONES ON THE RUN.
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  THIS ONE HAS A CHANCE. HOME RUN. MIKE
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  PIAZA. AND THE KNICKS LEAD 3-2.
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  >> The most ridiculous home. I mean, like
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  the city was dead. The crowd was dead.
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  He hits this massive home run
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  against the Braves. Our arch nemesis,
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  the Braves. Huge home run. The Mets are
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  like, they're kind of in a pennant race.
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  They're trying to claw their way back.
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  That home run woke up the city. That was
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  a massive I mean, when I say massive,
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  this thing was a shot. Like, I'd never
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  seen a home run like that ever. It was
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  insane.
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  So, believe it or not, that's my number
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  two moment in New York sports history.
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  And I'm going to tell you why. It's
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  because of 9/11. It was the first
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  sporting event after the 9/11 attacks.
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  And growing up a Mets fan, like to be in
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  that spotlight, the president was there.
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  He threw out the first pitch. Everybody
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  was kind of on pins and needles if you
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  remember. How would this go? How would
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  people react after what had happened?
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  And for the Mets to be down, like you
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  said before, playing their arch rivals
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  in the Braves, who we couldn't stand.
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  Bobby Valentine hated Bobby Cox and vice
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  versa. They hated each other. To see
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  them come out, Mets down. When Mike
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  Piaza came to bat, it was like everybody
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  in the stadium was on their feet.
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  Everybody was anxious. And there was no
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  one else that you wanted in that spot.
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  Uh because it meant so much that moment.
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  And I'm getting like tearyeyed just
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  thinking about it. the emotion that came
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  back when he hit that home run. To me,
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  that's number two, and it's it's such an
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  iconic moment in New York sports
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  history.
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  >> I mean, you said the hatred. There was
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  pure hatred for the Braves and and and
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  the one guy, I don't know if you
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  remember this guy, John Rocker.
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  >> The guy was a lunatic, but he he just he
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  had a hatred for the New York, the fans,
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  everything. It was crazy.
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  >> Yeah. So, that's my number two. So, I'm
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  going to go now since I already gave you
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  my number eight and we're on number
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  seven. My number seven is something that
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  I think every Knicks fan growing up, uh,
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  whether you're alive at the time or not,
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  is going to be taught about this moment.
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  And that's Willis Reed walking back on
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  the court in 1970.
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  >> I think we see Willis coming out.
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  >> There he comes right now. 6' 10 from
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  Grembling, the captain of the Knicks,
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  the most valuable player of the NBA.
• 16:27
  Frasier then slows it down is picked up
• 16:29
  by Jerry West at the top of the post
• 16:30
  read
• 16:33
  >> to give the Knicks their first
• 16:34
  championship and he didn't play much
• 16:35
  after after coming back in the game. We
• 16:37
  played a little bit after that, but the
• 16:39
  Knicks went on to blow out the Lakers in
• 16:41
  that series, but it was such an iconic
• 16:42
  moment and for the Knicks to get their
• 16:44
  first title and unfortunately they got
• 16:46
  one in 73 as well, but it's been 53
• 16:49
  years after that. But just just you
• 16:51
  could see the how important just a
• 16:53
  leader of a team to come back and give
• 16:55
  anything he has in an important moment
• 16:57
  means to a sport, but also an entire
• 17:00
  city. So that was my number four
• 17:03
  actually because I I I mean you've I
• 17:06
  mean growing up you've seen that moment
• 17:08
  a million times. They show it so many
• 17:10
  times. You hear Marv Albert you know his
• 17:13
  voice just you know saying Willis Reeds
• 17:15
  come back onto the court. Um
• 17:18
  >> I think he scored the first two baskets
• 17:19
  actually.
• 17:20
  >> Yeah
• 17:20
  >> he won the he won the MVP even though
• 17:24
  probably Clyde should have won the MVP
• 17:25
  because his number he had like 36 points
• 17:27
  and like 19 assists. was crazy. But I
• 17:31
  mean, you forget the team. Who did they
• 17:33
  beat?
• 17:35
  >> The Lakers.
• 17:36
  >> Lakers. And the Lakers were ridiculous.
• 17:38
  So like I mean, and it's not only that
• 17:42
  they won, it's like they beat the
• 17:43
  Lakers. It's crazy. And you're right.
• 17:46
  53, we're talking about the Rangers.
• 17:48
  >> Rangers had like a huge drought.
• 17:52
  >> 54 years.
• 17:53
  >> Knicks are Knicks are right there. The
• 17:54
  Knicks are right there right now. 53.
• 17:56
  They got to win this If they don't win,
• 17:58
  forget it.
• 17:58
  >> Uh, that was my seven. What is your
• 18:00
  number seven?
• 18:01
  >> So, my seven is an alltime baseball
• 18:05
  moment.
• 18:07
  1961. We're going back to 1961. Roger
• 18:11
  Maris hit 61 home runs in a season.
• 18:14
  >> Here's the wind up. FAST HIT DEEP. THAT
• 18:17
  COULD BE IT. WAY BACK THERE. OH, SORRY.
• 18:25
  which nobody had even come close to. I
• 18:28
  think maybe Mantle hit 56 in 1956,
• 18:33
  but 61 home runs, which nobody thought
• 18:36
  anyone would ever beat Babe Ruth. Um,
• 18:39
  just the amount of pressure the guy had.
• 18:40
  It was just like one of the all-time
• 18:42
  moments in New York sports history. So,
• 18:44
  I had to put that on the list.
• 18:46
  >> You know, it's funny. I didn't even
• 18:47
  think of that moment. But, you're right.
• 18:49
  To this day, that that number 61 still
• 18:52
  stands. I know we had 70 when during the
• 18:55
  steroid power
• 18:56
  >> if that didn't happen
• 18:57
  >> even and and even and even Judge hit I
• 19:00
  think 62 right or something
• 19:02
  >> recently and and the catcher last year
• 19:04
  um Cal Rally hit 60 so I mean like that
• 19:07
  number now is means nothing but back
• 19:09
  then it was it was hu I mean nobody hit
• 19:12
  that many home runs now everybody hits
• 19:13
  home runs.
• 19:14
  >> Yeah.
• 19:14
  >> So like to have 61 home runs is just
• 19:17
  insane.
• 19:17
  >> All right so number six I'm going to let
• 19:18
  you have number six to start.
• 19:21
  >> All right. Uh, so number six is a
• 19:23
  hurtful one from May 27, 1994.
• 19:28
  Growing up a Devils fan. This is game
• 19:31
  seven of the Eastern Conference Finals.
• 19:34
  Double overtime. Stefon Mau wraparound
• 19:38
  goal on Marty Brod. For the Devils plays
• 19:41
  it across ice into the far corner. Metau
• 19:43
  swoops in to intercept. METTO BEHIND THE
• 19:45
  NET. SWEEPS IT IN FRONT. HE MET ME.
• 19:51
  DEFEND MENTAL
• 19:52
  >> and I still remember to this day cuz my
• 19:55
  brother was a Rangers fan him coming
• 19:57
  into my room and laughing at me and me
• 19:59
  beating the crap out of him because I
• 20:00
  was so pissed off. But that goal and and
• 20:03
  just the the iconic call from Howie
• 20:05
  Rose, Matteo, Mateo, Meto, dude, it it
• 20:09
  was one of the most stinging and the
• 20:10
  only thing that that cured it was the
• 20:12
  next year when they won the Stanley Cup
• 20:13
  finals because that was a crushing
• 20:17
  defeat. Crushing. And that was the I'll
• 20:19
  tell you what, that doesn't happen, they
• 20:22
  don't win the finals. They don't they
• 20:24
  don't, you know, they don't win the
• 20:25
  Stanley Cup because that game was huge.
• 20:28
  That those were two epic teams and the
• 20:31
  the Rangers came out that day and won
• 20:33
  that
• 20:34
  >> to me that series might have been some
• 20:36
  of the best hockey that that's ever been
• 20:37
  played.
• 20:38
  >> I'm telling you to this that's what made
• 20:40
  me a hockey fan. I'm telling you, I I
• 20:41
  that that series was phenomenal. It was
• 20:44
  just back and forth. Everything was just
• 20:46
  like, you know, like heart pounding.
• 20:48
  It's just like, it was insane. It was
• 20:50
  very intense.
• 20:52
  >> And don't forget, I mean, this could be,
• 20:54
  you got to look at it from the Rangers
• 20:55
  because the Rangers are New York and and
• 20:58
  what what they did in that game for for
• 21:00
  Mark Messi to come out and guarantee the
• 21:03
  win was just wild. So again, that
• 21:06
  guarantee thing is uh is part of New
• 21:08
  York lore right there. But incredible
• 21:10
  moment. I was going to put the guarantee
• 21:12
  on the list, but I figured the goal was
• 21:14
  more important because I he did he did
• 21:16
  come out and say we will win game seven,
• 21:19
  which was big, but you had to actually
• 21:20
  go out and win game seven, which stiff
• 21:22
  Amato just, you know, shoved it down
• 21:24
  their throats.
• 21:24
  >> So, speaking of number six, my number
• 21:26
  six is akin to the to the player I was
• 21:29
  just speaking about, and it's Larry
• 21:31
  Johnson's four-point play in the 99
• 21:33
  playoffs.
• 21:33
  >> 11 and n 10 seconds to go. Ward with a
• 21:36
  pass tipped, but handled by Johnson.
• 21:38
  Johnson is three-point territory, but
• 21:40
  guarded tightly. Johnson cuts left now.
• 21:43
  Fires a three. It is good. AND HE'S
• 21:45
  FOULED. It counts. AND HE IS FOULED. I
• 21:49
  I'M going to set a scene here. In 1999,
• 21:51
  I'm in my junior I'm sorry, in uh I
• 21:53
  we're in our our second to last year of
• 21:56
  college and to see that play, the Knicks
• 21:59
  down three, not playing well at that
• 22:02
  time. If for if for if for anybody
• 22:03
  doesn't know, you know, Patrick Euring
• 22:05
  had to get hurt right before the uh
• 22:07
  right at the at some point I think after
• 22:09
  the first series in the playoffs and
• 22:11
  obviously he was their leader who's
• 22:12
  their best player, but that team rallied
• 22:15
  around all the other players which spree
• 22:16
  well. They were the number eight seed
• 22:18
  that year. They beat Miami in the first
• 22:20
  round on another incredible moment that
• 22:22
  I didn't even mention on my list, which
• 22:24
  was Allen Houston's runner to beat
• 22:25
  Miami. But they just went into those
• 22:29
  playoffs hot, confident, and that play,
• 22:33
  why I had to put it at number six is
• 22:35
  because everybody always shows the
• 22:37
  reaction of the Garden when when he hit
• 22:40
  that four-point play. He hit the three
• 22:42
  and then of course then he had the free
• 22:43
  throw. It's it's to me it's the most
• 22:45
  electric moment that the Garden has ever
• 22:46
  had. The reaction to that crowd and what
• 22:49
  had happened, you know, pro I couldn't
• 22:51
  even remember another four-point play
• 22:53
  before him making that shot. So, I had
• 22:56
  your food on the list.
• 22:57
  >> I I don't remember any four-point play
• 22:58
  ever to to be exact. It was the most
• 23:02
  insane thing.
• 23:03
  >> Uh my cousin happened to be at that
• 23:04
  game. Keeps telling me he's like it was
• 23:06
  the most electric moment he's ever had
• 23:08
  in his life.
• 23:08
  >> All right. So, what's your number five
• 23:10
  moment?
• 23:12
  >> Okay, we got to go back. You know, I'm
• 23:14
  going back to back here. June 14, 1994.
• 23:17
  The Rangers erase 54 years.
• 23:20
  >> Boy is going to go ahead with quick
• 23:22
  hands. Mavis will have to nullify it.
• 23:24
  Here it is.
• 23:30
  THE WAITING IS OVER. THE NEW YORK
• 23:33
  RANGERS ARE THE STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS
• 23:36
  >> by winning the Stanley Cup finals, which
• 23:40
  was enormous at the time. I've New York
• 23:43
  was electric. The parade was electric.
• 23:46
  The town was just like buzzing. Um,
• 23:49
  listen, I'm not a Ranger fan, but it was
• 23:52
  it was a moment for New York. It was
• 23:53
  great. Um, if you remember, I remember,
• 23:57
  you know, like watching hockey games and
• 23:59
  whenever the Rangers were losing, you
• 24:00
  heard the chance 1940.
• 24:03
  >> Yep.
• 24:03
  >> 1940 when they won, when they were about
• 24:06
  to win and the New York crowd was
• 24:08
  chanting 1940 was like goosebumps. It
• 24:10
  was I mean, listen, I'm not even a
• 24:12
  Rangers fan, but you had to appreciate
• 24:14
  the moment.
• 24:15
  >> So, here's the thing. I'm not a Rangers
• 24:17
  fan either. Not a big hockey fan. And
• 24:18
  that was my number one New York sports
• 24:20
  moment. 94 Rangers and because
• 24:23
  everything you said leading up to it,
• 24:24
  the MTO goal, the guarantee from
• 24:27
  Messier, 54 years of the Rangers not
• 24:30
  going and winning a cup, everything that
• 24:32
  preceded it and for them to go through
• 24:34
  what they went through and finally win
• 24:36
  it. I mean, if you remember 1994 and you
• 24:38
  were a a New York sports fan, the Knicks
• 24:40
  had also made the NBA Finals. They
• 24:41
  didn't go on to win it. It's a whole
• 24:43
  different story. But what that era was
• 24:46
  like is unmatched to me in New York
• 24:48
  sports. So the Rangers winning the Cup
• 24:50
  in '94 was my number one moment. It's
• 24:52
  something that I think every fan will
• 24:55
  remember for the rest of their lives.
• 24:57
  And it it was just so long of a drought.
• 24:59
  I could not do it because so many great
• 25:02
  players that came through the New York
• 25:04
  Rangers organization during that time
• 25:05
  frame from Messier to Leech to to Van
• 25:09
  Beasbrook to all those guys. Mike
• 25:10
  Richtor was later on just unbelievable.
• 25:13
  And for them to finally do it after 54
• 25:15
  years, I could not put that number one.
• 25:18
  >> Well, think about when they won, how it
• 25:22
  was, how the parade was, how the how New
• 25:24
  York was. If the Knicks win this year,
• 25:29
  this is going to trump it. I'm telling
• 25:31
  you right now.
• 25:32
  >> So, we'll get into that later. I want to
• 25:33
  bring that up after we finish the list.
• 25:35
  But, I want to give you my number five.
• 25:37
  And I this might be your number one
• 25:39
  because I know you're a big fan.
• 25:40
  >> I have I have a feeling but go ahead.
• 25:42
  >> It's the 86 Mets. Bill Buckner with the
• 25:45
  ball going through his legs.
• 25:46
  >> Three and two to Mookie Wilson.
• 25:49
  >> Little roller up along FIRST BEHIND THE
• 25:52
  BAG. IT GETS THROUGH BUCKNER. HERE COMES
• 25:55
  KNIGHT. AND THE METS win it.
• 25:58
  >> How old am I? I'm I'm eight or nine
• 26:00
  years old at that point. And my dad was
• 26:02
  a big Mets fan. I was a Mets fan growing
• 26:04
  up and we'd go to games all the time,
• 26:05
  just me and him. And I was a huge Met
• 26:08
  fans growing up between Doc Gooden, Sid
• 26:10
  Fernandez, Keith Hernandez, Wally
• 26:13
  Backman, Tim Tuffel, Raphael Santana,
• 26:16
  Kevin [ __ ] Mitchell, Daryl
• 26:18
  Strawberry, Gary Carter. I can name
• 26:21
  probably the entire [ __ ] team.
• 26:22
  >> Yeah, I do was my favorite, but like
• 26:25
  >> that was such an alltime moment of the
• 26:28
  ball going underneath Buckner's legs and
• 26:30
  the Mets to go on to win that series
• 26:32
  because they were going to lose. There
• 26:34
  was no question in anybody's mind at
• 26:36
  that point they were going to [ __ ]
• 26:38
  lose. But to me, I had to put this at
• 26:42
  five only because I was only eight years
• 26:44
  old. And I while I have a fondness for
• 26:46
  it, to me, like I I don't think I could
• 26:49
  appreciate the moment at that time.
• 26:51
  >> I mean, I did appreciate the moment. I
• 26:52
  mean, I was nine. We were both nine, but
• 26:54
  >> yeah.
• 26:55
  >> Um,
• 26:57
  they were down. I mean, this was my
• 26:58
  number one. I This was my number one
• 27:01
  because this is the moment I I remember
• 27:02
  forever. And I'll never forget it.
• 27:05
  >> And that's how sad you said it before.
• 27:06
  This is how sadness is.
• 27:08
  >> If if any of these 86 guys like have an
• 27:10
  appearance, I'm there because it's that
• 27:13
  is the team. People remember that 86
• 27:15
  team because of moments like this
• 27:17
  because of game six in the playoffs.
• 27:20
  This team was insane. Dyster, all these
• 27:23
  guys. These guys were all lunatics. So
• 27:25
  they're down. It's two outs. Bottom of
• 27:28
  the ninth. They're losing. They're down
• 27:31
  to the last freaking strike. Nobody on
• 27:34
  base. And then they start a rally and
• 27:37
  each guy was like, "I'm not making the
• 27:38
  last out. I'm not making the last out.
• 27:40
  I'm not." And I'll tell you, there was a
• 27:41
  few times I'm I'm like, "Dude, Muki
• 27:42
  Wilson, he's going to strike out." I'm
• 27:44
  like, "Mookie Wilson, he's gonna strike
• 27:46
  out."
• 27:46
  >> But Muki, the game was tied already when
• 27:48
  Muki came up. So they had tied the game
• 27:50
  at that point.
• 27:51
  >> Yeah. On a on a wild pitch of all things
• 27:54
  >> and by a former Met. It it was just
• 27:56
  you're never going to see that. And I
• 27:57
  think that's probably the last time
• 27:59
  people rush the field was that 86 World
• 28:01
  Series. You might be right. Yeah,
• 28:03
  >> I tell you what, if they win again,
• 28:05
  people are rushing the field. Believe
• 28:06
  me,
• 28:06
  >> you get you get shot nowadays with
• 28:08
  everything that's going on in this
• 28:09
  world.
• 28:10
  >> So, let's get into number four. And to
• 28:12
  me, this this stands out in my memory as
• 28:15
  something that was wild. Not not only on
• 28:17
  one account, but by multiple,
• 28:19
  and it's for the New York Giants, and
• 28:21
  I'm not a New York Giants fan. Everybody
• 28:22
  knows I'm a Giants fan. But because this
• 28:24
  happened against an 18-0 Patriots team,
• 28:27
  it it it's number four on my list, and
• 28:29
  that's the David Tyrie helmet catch.
• 28:31
  Third down and five.
• 28:40
  Pressure from Thomas off the edge. Eli
• 28:42
  Manning stays on his feet. Airs it out
• 28:47
  down the field.
• 28:49
  It is CAUGHT BY TYRIE.
• 28:52
  >> UH, everybody hated the Patriots. You
• 28:54
  know, I've hated them my entire life,
• 28:56
  but everybody talks about the Old Dell
• 28:58
  Beckham catch being one of the greatest
• 28:59
  catches of all time. to me that David
• 29:01
  Tyrese's catch was a better catch
• 29:03
  because of the moment that it occurred
• 29:05
  in with, you know, the Giants down in
• 29:07
  the Super Bowl. That that to me was
• 29:09
  unbelievable. I think if you're a Giants
• 29:12
  fan, that's got to be in your top two or
• 29:14
  three moments ever. Uh against a team
• 29:16
  that was 8 and0 undefeated that
• 29:18
  everybody thought was going to have an
• 29:19
  undefeated season.
• 29:21
  >> So that was my number three. You've now
• 29:24
  nailed my number four, number three, and
• 29:26
  number one. So, um, yeah, that catch was
• 29:30
  absolutely insane. And nobody even talks
• 29:32
  about
• 29:33
  everyone talks about the catch. How
• 29:35
  about the throw? How about the fact that
• 29:37
  Eli eluded how many defenders
• 29:40
  and was like slipping away from guys and
• 29:43
  got that ball off and got it to him? It
• 29:46
  was the most insane play in Super Bowl
• 29:48
  history. The most insane. And it's got
• 29:51
  to be It's got to be up there. 2008,
• 29:55
  Super Bowl 42. I'm telling you, I mean,
• 29:59
  nobody thought anyone's nobody thought
• 30:00
  anyone was beating the Patriots.
• 30:02
  Patriots, as a Dolphin fan, I was
• 30:04
  waiting for the Patriots to go down
• 30:06
  because we're the only undefeated team
• 30:07
  ever. They went down at the hands of the
• 30:10
  Giants.
• 30:11
  >> I mean, just don't forget the Giants had
• 30:13
  gone down in that game. The Patriots
• 30:14
  just came back. They they took they took
• 30:16
  the lead
• 30:17
  >> and it was just everybody thought he was
• 30:19
  down. First of all, you know, there's a
• 30:20
  little bit of controversy because he
• 30:21
  escapes that pocket, but they could have
• 30:23
  blown that play dead. They didn't. He
• 30:25
  escapes, throws a dart. Tyrie catches it
• 30:27
  on his [ __ ] helmet, not in his hands
• 30:30
  just in between three guys to boot. It
• 30:32
  was just I remember where I was. I was
• 30:34
  at my dad's house watching that game and
• 30:36
  it was just like I couldn't believe that
• 30:38
  he caught that ball. I'm like, "What the
• 30:39
  hell? There's no way he caught that."
• 30:41
  And they they showed a replay and I was
• 30:42
  like, "What the hell?" Unbelievable.
• 30:45
  >> I don't know how he did it. It's just
• 30:47
  it's that that's what makes things
• 30:49
  legendary is like that the plays like
• 30:51
  that.
• 30:51
  >> So, this is one that that it still
• 30:54
  haunts me to this day. This was a good
• 30:55
  moment, but there are many bad moments
• 30:57
  that have occurred because of this team
• 30:59
  and because of, you know, where they are
• 31:01
  now. And that's Euing's putback to send
• 31:03
  the Knicks to the the 94 finals.
• 31:06
  >> Here's Snick.
• 31:12
  The New York Knicks headed to the NBA
• 31:15
  finals to go up against the Houston
• 31:18
  Rockets.
• 31:19
  >> The the Knicks again couldn't get over
• 31:21
  the hump of Michael Jordan. Obviously,
• 31:24
  he had retired, went to play baseball,
• 31:26
  and the Knicks finally had their chance
• 31:27
  to kind of make it to the finals. Now,
• 31:29
  the previous series, don't forget the
• 31:31
  Knicks played the Bulls and there was
• 31:32
  some controversy already with uh Scotty
• 31:35
  Pippen fouling Hubert Davis. Hubert
• 31:37
  Davis goes to the line after hitting
• 31:40
  like three free throws or the free
• 31:41
  throws and and to get them to the finals
• 31:44
  and again crazy game, incredibly
• 31:47
  physical with the Pacers. Euan comes
• 31:49
  flying in, puts it back, sends the
• 31:52
  Knicks to the first finals since since
• 31:54
  1973. They didn't win it. Uh, you know,
• 31:56
  that's a whole different story. But that
• 31:58
  moment, I remember watching that, being
• 32:00
  a huge Knicks fan, and and it's still to
• 32:02
  this day, one of the greatest New York
• 32:04
  Knicks moments of all time.
• 32:06
  >> I'm going to say this, I know it's going
• 32:09
  to hurt.
• 32:11
  The Knicks should have won that series.
• 32:14
  >> They They should have They should have
• 32:16
  won game six.
• 32:17
  >> This is This is what people don't
• 32:18
  understand. when you have like it's so
• 32:21
  hard to make it to a finals, World
• 32:23
  Series, Super Bowl, when you get the
• 32:26
  opportunity to go, you need to win
• 32:30
  because now look, how many years has
• 32:32
  this been since the Knicks made it to
• 32:34
  the finals?
• 32:35
  >> Uh, since the finals, 27 years.
• 32:39
  >> Exactly.
• 32:40
  >> Yeah. But that's
• 32:41
  >> 94 94 was their best shot. They had no
• 32:43
  shot in 99. They Noing, no shot.
• 32:45
  >> I I agree. I think if in 99 if Yuing had
• 32:48
  stayed healthy, they would have had a
• 32:49
  shot. Honestly,
• 32:51
  it would have been closer that 94. They
• 32:53
  were up 3-2. There was no excuse. They
• 32:56
  should have won it.
• 32:57
  >> Correct. Game six.
• 32:58
  >> Starks went cold.
• 32:59
  >> He They should have won it in They
• 33:01
  should have won it in game six. They
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  didn't. And then in game seven, it was a
• 33:04
  close game, but Starks couldn't hit a
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  shot. So,
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  >> yeah. Starks went cold. It was terrible.
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  I mean, I feel bad. Listen, I'm not a
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  Knicks fan, but when you have family and
• 33:13
  friends that are Knicks fans, man, and
• 33:14
  you just feel for them, because that is
• 33:17
  Listen, I I don't I mean, I'm a Nets
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  fan, but I don't have any beef with the
• 33:20
  Knicks. I could care less because when
• 33:23
  we've been good, you guys suck. When
• 33:25
  you're good, we suck. So, it's not like
• 33:27
  we've been competitive at the same time.
• 33:30
  Very, very seldom. The the problem is is
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  with with the Knicks especially is that
• 33:35
  they have been bad for so long until now
• 33:38
  that it's been it's been really brutal.
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  I'm going to say something right now
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  like out of all my teams I have one
• 33:44
  championship and that's a 1986 Mets when
• 33:46
  I was eight and a half years old or nine
• 33:48
  years old whenever it happened. To me
• 33:50
  that's not enough.
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  >> We had the Devils but you're not but
• 33:54
  you're not really watching hockey
• 33:55
  anymore so it's different.
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  >> Exactly. I'm not a huge hockey fan. you
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  enjoyed that moment. But for a team that
• 34:01
  I really cared about, the Knicks, the
• 34:02
  Jets, you know, the Mets, I only got the
• 34:05
  86 series. The Mets, you know, obviously
• 34:06
  went to World Series after the fact.
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  They didn't win it.
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  >> They should have won 15, too.
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  >> They should have won.
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  >> I know.
• 34:12
  >> They should have won000.
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  >> But that's to our point is that it's,
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  you know, it's really hard to either
• 34:17
  make it to World Series or NBA finals to
• 34:19
  the Super Bowl. And when you get there,
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  you have to win because the pain is
• 34:22
  unbearable. You don't have, especially
• 34:24
  my teams, they don't have that great
• 34:26
  player that's going to get you there
• 34:28
  year after year like the Chiefs with
• 34:29
  Mahomes or or Tom Brady with the
• 34:31
  Patriots. All right. So, what's what's
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  your number two?
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  >> Oh, number two. You're not going to even
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  I probably didn't even sniff your list,
• 34:38
  but it's an ultimate feat that very few
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  have accomplished in the world of
• 34:43
  baseball. One of the hardest things to
• 34:45
  do in baseball.
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  >> I think I know what it is.
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  >> It was done on the grandest stage of
• 34:49
  all.
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  October 8, 1956. Don Larson throws a
• 34:54
  perfect game.
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  >> Gets the sign. Two strikes. 4-1. Here
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  comes THE PITCH. STRIKE THREE. A no
• 35:01
  hitter. A perfect game for Don Larson.
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  YOGI VERA RUNS out there. He leaps on
• 35:06
  Larson and he's SWARMED BY HIS TEAMMATE
• 35:10
  in the World Series game five. And not
• 35:12
  only did he throw a perfect game, but he
• 35:15
  threw a perfect game against the
• 35:16
  Brooklyn Dodgers with that ridiculous
• 35:19
  lineup that they had. you know, everyone
• 35:22
  like perfect games are impossible,
• 35:25
  but especially back then there were so
• 35:27
  few teams that the teams were
• 35:29
  concentrated with talent. Don't look at
• 35:32
  baseball now with everything's watered
• 35:33
  down because there's so many teams that
• 35:36
  broken do Dodgers lineup had like five
• 35:38
  or six Hall of Famers easily and he
• 35:41
  mowed them down in the World Series.
• 35:43
  Biggest stage of all 1956 and it still
• 35:47
  stands to this day as the only perfect
• 35:49
  game throw in the World Series.
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  >> You can't say that. Yeah, it it it is it
• 35:54
  is I put it as number two because
• 35:56
  obviously number one for me was as a Met
• 35:58
  fan Mookie Wilson, but
• 36:02
  I I don't know how I mean like I mean
• 36:04
  listen I didn't witness it but
• 36:07
  just to see like you don't see perfect
• 36:09
  games. You just don't you don't see and
• 36:11
  and let alone in the World Series like
• 36:13
  it's hard to see a no hitter. Look how
• 36:15
  long the Mets went without a no hit. I
• 36:17
  was going to put that on the list but
• 36:18
  I'm like you know what? They sucked. I'm
• 36:20
  not putting on the list. This this feat
• 36:23
  is this will trump anything. That's why
• 36:25
  I put at number two because you you I
• 36:27
  mean on the grandest stage they won the
• 36:29
  World Series. On the grandest stage, you
• 36:31
  throw a perfect game. It just you can't
• 36:33
  you can't repeat that.
• 36:35
  >> All right. So my number two is the Piana
• 36:37
  911 home run.
• 36:38
  >> My number one is Mookie. I don't know
• 36:40
  what your number one is. Actually, you
• 36:41
  did mention your number one.
• 36:43
  >> Yeah, it was the Rangers winning the cup
• 36:45
  in 1994,
• 36:46
  >> which is which is a good one.
• 36:48
  >> No. Yeah. I mean, to me, it's just I had
• 36:49
  to put something that even though I'm
• 36:51
  not a Rangers fan, that that it meant
• 36:53
  something to to New York City when I was
• 36:55
  alive. I felt I find I find it hard to
• 36:57
  put something that I wasn't alive being
• 36:59
  number one. That's why I had the Jets at
• 37:01
  number 10 winning Super Bowl three
• 37:02
  because I wasn't around for it. But
• 37:04
  there will be other people who probably
• 37:05
  listen to this and be like, you know
• 37:06
  what, that that Jets Super Bowl should
• 37:08
  be a lot higher. You know, other things
• 37:10
  like that should be a lot lower. But
• 37:12
  regardless, we've covered all our list
• 37:15
  already. So, it I wanted to ask you this
• 37:18
  and and I think it's a good question
• 37:19
  with everything that's going on with the
• 37:20
  Knicks right now. If the Knicks go on to
• 37:23
  win this NBA Finals, where would you
• 37:25
  rank it on our list or would not would
• 37:27
  it not be on there?
• 37:28
  >> Um, honestly,
• 37:30
  I would have put it top three because
• 37:34
  number one, the the length of the
• 37:36
  drought,
• 37:38
  the streak that they had where they just
• 37:39
  mowed down
• 37:41
  every opponent. Honestly, if it wasn't
• 37:44
  for the refs, I think they they probably
• 37:46
  would have won last night. They just
• 37:47
  they would have won. The game was close.
• 37:50
  It just the dude I can't believe how
• 37:53
  dirty this team is. The Spurs. They just
• 37:56
  like punching. They're straight up like
• 37:57
  punching them down the throat and Nicks
• 37:59
  can't even Knicks like they'll barely
• 38:01
  touch them and they're calling flagrance
• 38:02
  against them. It's insane.
• 38:03
  >> Yeah, the Knicks have to win game four.
• 38:06
  If they don't win four, I think they're
• 38:07
  in they're in the world of trouble. But
• 38:09
  >> I bring I bring it up because I want to
• 38:11
  talk a little bit about the team is
• 38:12
  because I I I'm putting it number one or
• 38:14
  two if they're able to go out and win a
• 38:16
  championship. Now, I'm putting it one or
• 38:17
  two because
• 38:18
  >> if you look at how this team played the
• 38:20
  entire year and you look at how they
• 38:21
  played in the first series against
• 38:23
  Atlanta, something happened after game
• 38:24
  three where they just went on a tear and
• 38:28
  like you said were mowing down everybody
• 38:30
  they faced. They won 13 straight. Now,
• 38:32
  of course, they're going up a better a
• 38:34
  better opponent in the Spurs, but like
• 38:36
  being that this team is unsuspecting.
• 38:38
  Obviously, Jaylen Brunson is their best
• 38:40
  player, but there is no true guy. Like,
• 38:43
  he's that guy, but this team is like
• 38:45
  there's not full of stars. There's no
• 38:47
  Michael Jordan. There's there's no
• 38:48
  there's no Kevin Durant and Steph Curry
• 38:51
  and whatever on this team. There's not a
• 38:53
  bunch of guys. It's a team playing team
• 38:55
  basketball. And I think it's this
• 38:57
  unsuspecting run is so
• 39:00
  out of character. I would say that's a
• 39:03
  that's a good way to use it. So
• 39:04
  >> I I'll make a I'll make a a a comp to
• 39:07
  this. So where you have Brunson as your
• 39:09
  main guy,
• 39:11
  but basically everybody else is just
• 39:13
  like a cast of characters, right?
• 39:16
  The 2000 Mets, you had Piaza was your
• 39:18
  guy, but you look at that team, they had
• 39:21
  no business in in the World Series.
• 39:23
  Those guys, like dude, Bobby Valentine,
• 39:26
  hands down best manager of all time for
• 39:28
  the Mets. got that team to the World
• 39:30
  Series. They had a bunch of no-names. I
• 39:34
  mean, yeah, Robin Ventura, but he's not
• 39:35
  no superstar, right? Hgar Alonso, great
• 39:38
  player, not a superstar. Like all the
• 39:40
  guys they had, it was just like a
• 39:41
  hodgepodge of just like I mean, you look
• 39:44
  at that outfield, man. Benny Abayan, I
• 39:46
  mean, these guys like they were like
• 39:49
  gone after a couple years.
• 39:51
  >> Nobody ever heard of them.
• 39:52
  >> But that team is still beloved. Don't
• 39:54
  forget like because they made it. That's
• 39:56
  the whole thing like about New York
• 39:57
  sports is that if you have a team that's
• 39:59
  not destined to be great
• 40:02
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• 40:04
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