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Warner Wolf, legendary sportscaster Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, right on time. Sportsmeister extraordinaire, Warner Wolf. First, Warner,
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  Speaker 1: about the cardiac New York Giants. If you're a Giant
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  Speaker 1: fan like I am, you're on the verge of cardiac arrest.
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  Speaker 1: But you're happy, right? You're happy. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But let me say that I'm going to put an
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  Speaker 2: asterisk in you. When I was a sportscaster, I was
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  Speaker 2: always neutral. I didn't want to become a homer, so...
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  Speaker 2: I was never anybody's fan. Just show me the right play.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, get to the point. For the Giants, second
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  Speaker 2: straight week's a game-winning interception. One in the end zone,
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  Speaker 2: one at the two. Last week was 17 seconds left,
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  Speaker 2: and yesterday with 11 seconds left. So the Giants win. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: they would be 1-3 rather than 3-1. And as long
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  Speaker 2: as Jameis Winston can keep the Giants in the game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he had 250-yard street touchdowns, and Dominic Zavada
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  Speaker 2: can keep making field goals. This guy's now nine for nine.
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  Speaker 2: The Giants won't need Jonathan James McCarthy, otherwise known as J.J. Now,
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  Speaker 2: last week, you guys laughed at me when I said
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  Speaker 2: John Harbaugh would go after his old Super Bowl-winning quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: 41-year-old Joe Flacco. My source said he did, but that
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  Speaker 2: the Bengals wanted too much for him. Do you know
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  Speaker 2: who my source was?
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  Speaker 1: No, who?
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  Speaker 3: Joe Flacco. Me.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Geno Smith, man, if he continues to play like that,
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  Speaker 2: Just eight completions all day with just 119 yards. You
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  Speaker 2: can forget the one and three Jets now. The Jets
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  Speaker 2: were outgained by the Bears and backup quarterback, Bajan Tyson,
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  Speaker 2: who he 414 yards to only 157. And once again,
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  Speaker 2: I have to ask, can Aaron Glenn, can he handle
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  Speaker 2: being both a head coach and call the defensive signals
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  Speaker 2: at the same time. So far, he hasn't shown he can.
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  Speaker 2: And it was a huge week for the underdogs and
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  Speaker 2: the points. If you bet the 15 underdogs and took
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  Speaker 2: the points, you were 12-3. The underdogs beat the spread
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  Speaker 2: 12 out of 15 games. And the Falcons are 2.5-point
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  Speaker 2: underdog against the Saints tonight. All right, Rays and Yankees
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  Speaker 2: again tonight in Tampa game two. Cam Schlittler against Freddy Peralta.
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  Speaker 2: He's the guy that pitched for the Mets, and they
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  Speaker 2: traded him at the deadline.
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  Speaker 3: They gave up on him.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they did, and he's been great for the Tampa Rays. Gosh,
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  Speaker 2: here's the advantage of winning game one in the best
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  Speaker 2: three out of five, because the winner... only has to
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  Speaker 2: split the remaining four games. The loser of game one
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  Speaker 2: must now win three out of four. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: here's one for you. The Yankees' payroll is $ 342 million
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  Speaker 2: with taxes. The Rays' payroll is only $ 113 million.
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  Speaker 3: But I got to tell you, I got to tell you, Warner,
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  Speaker 3: I'm watching the tail end of the game. Austin Wells
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  Speaker 3: gets a double down the right field line. And he
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  Speaker 3: decides that you're going to stretch it into a triple.
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  Speaker 3: This guy is the catcher. There's two outs in the eighth.
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  Speaker 3: He should have stayed at second.
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  Speaker 1: The third base coach said, stay there, stay there.
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  Speaker 3: He runs right to him. He gets thrown out by
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  Speaker 3: Country Mile. What a dumb thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. With two outs, you know, a single scores
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  Speaker 2: you from second, period. You don't try and stretch it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: maybe with one out or no outs, okay, because then
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  Speaker 2: a sacrifice fly. But, no, you're right. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: you know what that proves with the payrolls? It's not
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  Speaker 2: how much you spend. It's how you spend it. That's
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  Speaker 2: for Steve Cohen. Now, he was the worst response trying
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  Speaker 2: to cover up a blunder. Mets incompetent general manager David Stearns,
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  Speaker 2: who when asked about giving away his all-star first baseman
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  Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo and without a replacement, said... I don't get
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  Speaker 2: a mulligan. Mulligan? Come on, man.
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  Speaker 3: This ain't golf.
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  Speaker 2: A mulligan is a do-over when everyone else agrees and says, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you can do it. No one agreed with you letting
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  Speaker 2: Alonzo go. And all Alonzo did was lead the American
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  Speaker 2: League in home runs with 43 and RBIs with 113.
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  Speaker 2: And unlike your injury-prone Mets, he never missed the game. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming you guys are old enough. This week in sports,
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  Speaker 2: October 3rd, 1951, it's the 75th anniversary of the Giants'
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  Speaker 2: Bobby Thompson's pennant-winning home run over the Dodgers. Here was
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  Speaker 2: the call by Giants radio announcer Russ Hodges. The Giants
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  Speaker 2: won the public! The Giants won the public! The Giants
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  Speaker 2: won the public! Okay, now you guys remember that, right? 1951?
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  Speaker 3: How old do you think we are?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know Curtis is 72. I don't know about you.
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  Speaker 3: What I do know is after that game, Bobby Thompson
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  Speaker 3: took the Staten Island ferry home to Staten Island. What
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  Speaker 3: a difference between now and then.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Now, let me ask you something. Here's my
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  Speaker 2: take on this. It's been looked upon as one of
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  Speaker 2: the most famous home runs in baseball history. But was it?
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  Speaker 2: Because 50 years after the home run, it was revealed
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  Speaker 2: that the Giants used a high-powered telescope from center field
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  Speaker 2: connected to a buzzer, stealing the Dodgers catcher's signs to
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  Speaker 2: the pitchers and then flashed to the Giants batters. So
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  Speaker 2: the Giants batters knew what was coming. Okay, yes, they
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  Speaker 2: did have to hit it, but they knew what was coming.
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  Speaker 2: Although Thompson always denied he didn't know the pitch. But
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  Speaker 2: here's something for you. You know, after the Giants installed
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  Speaker 2: that system, they won 37 games and lost only seven.
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  Speaker 2: And also keep in mind, the Giants didn't need a
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  Speaker 2: home run to stay in the game. There was only
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  Speaker 2: one out, not two outs. and they had runners at
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  Speaker 2: second and third. In other words, a base hit would
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  Speaker 2: have tied the score. With Willie Mays on deck, I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking maybe Kirk Gibson's two-run pinch hit homer, and I
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  Speaker 2: know you guys remember that, on one leg. Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Two outs, not one out like Thompson. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: just or maybe more impressive.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're a doubting Thompson.
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  Speaker 2: That's good. That's good, Curtis. That's good for you. All right,
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  Speaker 2: the stooge of the week has to go to New
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  Speaker 2: York Times columnist Lydia Polgreen, whose headline read, Mam Dami
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  Speaker 2: is showing the world how it's done. You've got to
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  Speaker 2: be kidding. Yeah, if you want socialism or communism, which
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  Speaker 2: has never worked anywhere for the people, and you want
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  Speaker 2: someone who has anti-Semitic views... and is ruining the city,
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  Speaker 2: then yes, you want Mam Donnie to show the world
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  Speaker 2: how it's done. Come on, Lydia, man, get real. And finally.
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  Speaker 3: Warner, Warner, Warner, stop for one second.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't you know that they have a special relationship, Mam
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  Speaker 1: Donnie and Curtis?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't you see them holding hands over the weekend?
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Oh, no, I missed it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm cutting you off, Warner. Because that was a shot
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  Speaker 3: at me.
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  Speaker 1: That was a shot below the belt.
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  Speaker 3: We'll hear from you same time, same place next week.