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Go White and Moran Master Melvin Robbie Annam McGraw talking' b a subwis series in
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New York. That's right, it's a time of year. It's the Subway
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series in New York City Tonight between the Yankees and the Mets. I would
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like to say there's two editions. It's the City Field edition this week,
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and boy oh boy, if the Yanks ever needed to beat up on the
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Mets, it's right now. They've lost three straight series, really in rough
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fashion. But personally, this series just means a lot because over the last
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thirty years, it feels like I've just got to know so many people,
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and you get that heightened sense when the man behind the mic for the Mets
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tonight on WCBS is one how he Rose And maybe you don't know if you
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haven't listened before, but how He Rose and I have a connection when it
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comes to announcing, because of course I did play by play for Queen's College.
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He was one of the first guys to ever do play by play for
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Queen's College when he announced women's basketball against the Macchiolata and whatnot. But I
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had the special honor of sitting down with him in the WQMC studios about fifteen
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years ago. Fourteen years ago in fact, at a b sporty event on
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campus, and he spent some time on me in the WQMC studios and in
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his fifty years. I want to start here because what Howie Rose told me,
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and replaying this actually made me a little emotional. Hopefully will inspire other
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generations of Queen's College and broadcasting hopefuls take a listen. Prinsically, I find
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radio much more rewarning from a creative standpoint, and I think most people do.
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Now you've come to Queen's College, since you've got her, and obviously
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what's it like every time you come back here? It's great. I get
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such tremendous flashbacks. In fact, I was just telling David de Motto,
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whom I met at Kylie Hall, that you know here it is thirty three
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years I guess since I graduated or something like that, right, yeah,
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thirty three years since I graduated. And Kylie Hall used to be called back
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to the olden days when I was here Academic two. I don't know why
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there was no Academic one, but that building was called Academic two and it
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has a scent I wouldn't call it a stench. It's not a smell,
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it's not an aroma, it's a it's not anything negative, but it's amazing.
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I walked into that place today and it literally transported my senses back to
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nineteen seventy three. Was wild. So I always think when I'm back on
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campus of people I knew then, what I was doing then, what I
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aspired to do then, and what I'm doing now, and is a very
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humbling experience because I think what I'm doing now even exceeds, to some extent
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my wildest dreams back then. But I think back to how wide eyed and
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how ambitious we all were back then, just as you are now. And
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you know, one of the reasons I'm here today is to convince you and
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anybody else, regardless of what their passion is or what their interests long term
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are, that just put in the work and don't ever let anybody tell you
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that you can't do it, and you'll get there. You'll make it.
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Interestingly enough, seven years after that interview took place, I happen to be
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a prep member of the press or doctor Dan Miller and the Queen's Gazette,
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and I talked to how he again He actually stopped by before first pitch in
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the press box in twenty seventeen, and we shoot the breeze a little.
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Betty was finding out how I was doing in radio, and I email in
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time to time, and I'm probably gonna email saying congratulations on fifty years.
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And so I have that connection with how He Rose, not just I've known
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him from Queen's but even before that. I mean, there was a time
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when he would have us up in the press booth before batting, you know,
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during batting practice at Chase Stadium. That's how long he and I and
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my dad and I have known Howie Rose. And of course my dad loved
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talking with how He Rose whenever he got the chance. And then that same
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night that he stopped by the press box in twenty seventeen, I talked with
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Brandon Nimmo, who, yes, is obviously still a Met and he's doing
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pretty good. But we talked about a former Yankee and Met, Curtis Granderson,
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because this was the day Granderson was actually traded from the Mets, and
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a young Brandon Nemo stopped talking to me on the field at City Field.
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So Brandon, you're starting tonight at part you know, you're in the leadoffs
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at tonight, but it's gonna be a lineup without Curtis. All about that,
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and how do you feel. You know, we all loved Curtis,
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but you know it's part of the business, and so you have to inter
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realize that, h and that you know, I think we all just have
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to go about our business the same way. Remember how you went about his
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kidnas. He was an incredible guy. He really led my example, So
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just trying to you know, keep his work ethic and his unblest all live.
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And now having back up a little while now, so once you like
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being back up here, and what do you as you said, what are
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you working on? You know, just just really having fun and and you
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know, swinging the bat, you know, working on the defense. It's
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it's, you know, working on all of it. It can all be
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improved anything of the days you stopped working, days stopped playing. So you
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just keep working on on your whole game, trying to improve. Soll hi,
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Brannon, well good luck to the rest of us. Question got it?
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Thank you? I was Brandon Nemo and of course he'll be in the
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lineup tonight. And actually Gabby and I were at the game where he hit
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the game winning hit last year against the Yankees at City Field. And I'm
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sure you know that it is funny people talk about Grimace being the big turnaround.
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I look at that throwing the crowd, throwing the glove in the crowd,
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tantrum that led to a closed door meeting. And the Mets have really
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excelled since Lindor brought the crew together, and now they're one game out of
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a playoff spot heading into play today for a team that was zero and five
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to start the year, and I'm looking pretty bad at April wan a turnaround.
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Meanwhile, the Yankees, by the way, two and a half up
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on the O's now or two games up on the O's now, And that's
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fascinating too, because they've been losing three straight series. They were three and
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seven their last ten, and yet here they are two games up because the
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Astro swept the ools right after that seventeen to five jumping up the Yankees.
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Baseball is funny, is it not. Now I want to get to a
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couple of active players that have also joined me. In fact, you might
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have heard this media for playing this up and for promoting it and whatnot.
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And thanks to Woodbridge Brewery remaining has happened, of course thanks to Gabby for
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i'ves get in there as well at the Woodbridge Brewery. But yes, we
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had the chance to talk with one Nestor or Tests all right, tests starting
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touching the Yankees Small you started the key today? Tell us what that was
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like? Yeah? Wow for Miami, so this is we're used to similar
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weather to to what I'm used to. So it was it was I mean,
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it was high, was I was funny, but it was uh comfortable
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for me. Now obviously you come to Woodbridge. What was today like for
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you being around all these people? I love you man, Yeah, it
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was awesome. It was a good experience. This face looks amazing. Staff
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was really great to me. Uh just how on a funnel? All?
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All right, you guys got a really good season so far. What do
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you guys gotta do to take it to the next level? Yeah, I
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think kind of be more consistent on what we're doing. I feel like we've
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been pitching and hitting great, but sometimes we've been pitching more than we'll be
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hitting. So I think when we grew it out together and it's gonna be
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fun, call back in the rotation. Really boost and talk about what that
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means to you guys. Yeah, I mean, Garrett's one of the best
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pitching in the big weeks, if not the best. He's got out there
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and help us every five days. We're gonna be happy that he's gonna be
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on the mound and he's gonna help us one game. All right, Well,
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thank you so much. Next thing, nice joining the care podcast.
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That way an interesting time in Garrett Cole gets the ball tonight and you know,
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his first start, he was okay, he was a little shaky,
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but I was a little pissed they took him out after a few weeks.
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I mean he only pitched I'm four and a third or whatever, and they
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took him out. There was a chance to keep him in there for five
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but Boone and the analytics department kept it safe. That being said, it
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was awesome to see Garrett Cole And actually in my wallet there's a hope week
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pin that he with that right room? Is that right handed? Is that
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won this young handed me at the Today Show plaza where I got to meet
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Anthony Rizzo and BOFE as well, And to be honest, I didn't want
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to whip out the recorder because they were about to go on air. I
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didn't want to really get their thoughts before they were going on there, so
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so be it. At least I got to meet them and have that story
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of getting to meet Anthony Rizzo Cole and Anthony Bobie who were out there Hope
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Week a great community initiative. By the way, now, another active player
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I've gotten to meet me and talk with was Glaber Taurus at the Thurman Monthson
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dinner. I'miro Glaber tourists for it's the Yankee screen off here the Thurmon Monthson
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Awards dinner or the anniversary. By the way, he wantson like to be
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here. What's it means her to be here tonight? Get feel proud to
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be here? Say over for me to be far off gray uh people here?
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And I just want to jolly him and be continued to do what I
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do. I'm excited to feel and that's happening soon. So spring training coming
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up, I think I thought on twit trip excited to vote to the string
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I'm white to we'll say my favorites. I am going to write to flavorally
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well all right, thanks Flavor bless you and so very humble guy. And
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a very big player all on the shanky team as you well know. You
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know you can't go without. How about Therma Munson and not talking about the
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great Diana Munson, the woman who of course is the widow of Therman Munson,
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but more importantly she also keeps alive the legacy of Thurman through this foundation
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and it was very special to get to talk to her at that event four
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years ago. Coach has dinner like two every year. Well, first of
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all, I'm so proud of this. Dinners lasted for these forty years.
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They bring over sixteen million until tonight it's very close to seventeen million. And
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the fact that it continues and we can remember Jarman and we do wonderful for
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HRC just means that we're all doing and rede growing a connecting me to your
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story through bad Boy. First of all, what was the in fact that
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mister Steinbrener has had on your lives? No, mister Steinwrin is responsible for
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everything good in our lives. He's just he was the man, and he
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loves his Yankees. He loves his former Yankees. He has passed that on
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to his children. And the Yankee Organization is number one and they bring you
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back every year, which has to be a they choked up all at that.
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I guess it's hard. It's been hard, but they don't ever forget.
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And I'm always part of the Yankee family, which means so much to
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me. And Ray's continued the legacy of Thurmery in Georgia and you guys have
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grown close to that as well. Well. Ray is a special, special
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young man in our lives. He was with Thurman through the good times and
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the bad times, and he means a lot to us. And as you
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see his dinner, bro, that's got a really your heart. He does.
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So they told me when only last for two or three years, and
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that's going wrong at forty And how can people get involved if they haven't yet,
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Well, the AhR Seat Foundation of New York City, if you just
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contact them, they will give you a lot of pointers on how to be
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involved in how to help the organization. And that's great your partner with them
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as well. Thank you so much. You're welcome. And then of course
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on the managerial side of things, I've gotten to know Bobby Valentine over the
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years. When I saw him at CITDPLD, he was like, oh,
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you're still rolling around here. Well, I got him and Susan Wollman at
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that same dinner. I take a listen, it's been in twenty years since
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Subway series. Yeah, I'm talking with Bobby Valentine. Bobby, I've seen
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all around the stadium. How you doing on? What's like? I'm always
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good. Thanks. I can't believe it's been twenty years, and I can't
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believe that Susan Wolman's still here doing what she does and looking like she's only
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twenty years old. She does she do that? Yeamn? What's it like?
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We're both going to be at this event tonight. Yeah, Susan,
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Well, this is something I think it's remarkable that Winterman has been gone over
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forty years and look at this turnoff and his legacy. Every time you have
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this dinner and people like Bobby Valentine come out and I'm like, oh,
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the Giant says it's a great rat event about Yeah, you know, I
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have to look it up, but I might have been honored at their twenty
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of you for years. Wow celebration here. And you know Thurdmane and I
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did a thing in nineteen sixty seven when I played with him in the Cape
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coble Wow. And he was a junior college I as a junior in high
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school, and he called this shock the first time I ever got in the
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box against them, and the next inning you hit a ball over the left
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center the offense for the facts, I believe him. And I wrote home
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to one of my buddies, Joe Japett, and you can look it up
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chi app ttaka, and he has the letter that I said to him from
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Cape Cod say these college kids are amazing. So we missed you years,
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all right, And then a couple of more pieces before we're wrapped up here
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on the Subway Series edition of the Alex Garrett Podcast Network. Uh, you
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might remember Jay Horowitz. You might know Jay Horowitz or know of him.
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He's mister Met, I believe. And he wrote that book, Mister Met.
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And he had a few minutes to join my podcast just a few years
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ago as the book was being released. Uh, and of course he's always
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been welcoming to my family and I at City Field. Jay, thanks for
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joining my show, and uh, let's replay what you had what we talked
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about, all right, Jay Horwich, as we're talking about he's written the
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book Mister Met, and uh, obviously there is a mister Meda City Field
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and Chase Stadium, and he's beloved as much as you know, as much
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as you are, Jay, So I guess that's where his his inspiration was
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was the naming of the book, obviously, right like his inspiration. Well,
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you know that was kind of a funny story how that happened, uh,
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that I had when I did this book. You know, I was
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dealing at the time with those the players, and he wanted to develop them.
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You are seeing who had a card team who had a good relationship with
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and that probably was right was Jacob to Gram. So Jacob and I had
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a pretty cool relationship. When I asked to do an interview, he would
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never say yes right away. He would say, Jay, I'll do the
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interview for you if you can come out in the field and the fun goes
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to Stephen Maxon myself. Or he would say we have a little basketball the
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card bass. He would say, I'll do an interview for you if you
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make two baskets. And I never again, not much of the last day,
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but Jacobs always take the interviews. So the author said, you think
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Jacob to Gard would help write it forward for the post that I asked to
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be very kind. He did, and the course of that interview, he
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said to the author, you know what, in my eyes, he's the
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real mister Rip. And we got the permission to use the time for the
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book, you know, and you know it's good at you know, don't
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remember, you know, Jacob came up here in two thousand and fourteen.
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He came up as a relief pitcher. He never pitched it anything the goalpan.
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He pitched seven shut he seven and against the Yankee Simon one run and
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the rest is history. Rookie the Year Award too, SI and it's none
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down in my mind, and he can wind the other side Year War two.
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But he was kind enough to sit out and I just followed from my
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book and he used to turn mister met and they kind of went from there.
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Well, let's talk about Jacob. You know everybody talks about right,
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and we're gonna get to him too, because that was a special connection too.
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But with Jacob, I mean, the guy is a winner. He
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wants to win. He pitches like he wants to win. And it's great
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that you have that friendship with him. Now, were you his pr person
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at the time when he first came up. Yeah, I came up,
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and I came up with two. He came up in many of twenty and
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fourteen, and you know we worked together for the Rookie of the Year award
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and his first s. You know, I was, I was was with
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it. And he had said he played so many games where he get to
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the rule and won one runs a loss never ever, ever, what's his
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composure he interviews, He kept his calls always about team, team, team,
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team. That's really cared about. That's what separates from me from the
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other people, other people who really cares about you know, we can win
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one thing that he's great. You know, he doesn't care, you know
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when how many runs the other team courses always rewin. I mean, he's
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really just cares about the team, and that's why he's successfuls who really focused
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on one thing, who comes to the park watch the win and wants to
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have the team wins. Jay, I think it's important that you have this
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conversation with you know, about the book and about the team, because quite
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often the headlines aren't kind to the Mets, and yet there is an organization
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that cares, that's always there, and that message should be brought out too.
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Yeah. We you know, I've been through one of these things about
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our organizations. We give back and the will punts of you know party Jeffer
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Calby at every hospital boy As charity board in the city, and there are
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two giving people like I'll get back to nine to eleven when we did feel
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for nine to eleven. It is just remarks what we did. And even
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in the color you know, virus crisis, you know, we're constantly giving
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full to hospitals and supplies and floor and sealcus with a Trip White team in
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Saint Lucy where we're singing a TV. So we're constantly giving back and uh,
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you know, I mean answer to make We called with the Wepton over
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the lation like that we understand this one that goes down the fields and we
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really should get back to the community of the beach streak way. Jay,
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I saw that first head at the Henry Viscardi School. You guys always came
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out and still do to the Henry Stard School with mister met and a few
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of the guys. And you remember in two thousand and seven with Joe Salonica
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arranging and Joe Lee and you as well in Iris and we had this huge
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with football game for three innings and Tom Glavin pitched to our kids it was
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the most surreal thing you'd ever seen. Yeah, I mean it's that's a
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great stout. I never forget when I used to go into premous with mister
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Kats and those kids are remarkable kids, and just be a part of seeing
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him. What you're doing is just really remarkable. And archives always got a
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picture Kademy and a part of that. And then of course, then of
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course that's I'm thinking about this. Oh my god, if you missed the
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last time I played this, we haven't gotten the full edition of it.
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But a man who was part of the Subway series World Series in two thousand
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and we got to see just about a month ago join me on the stage
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of the Viscardi Center one Bam, Tino Martinez. Well and my first line
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here and slim all of it is not in advanced approval and latinas approval and
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the city for about a mons serion, but I don't want to play.
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You're doing to love Jane Stadium. I love Ernie Born. I was like
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one started to the Fall run and Dragon runs, and more importantly that he
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started winning right and then stands this year, and I didn't ask him about
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what it was like to win those World Series ninety eight, nine and two
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thousand and you know, in ninety six and the man who was the pr
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guy behind all of this twenty five year run, Rick Sarone, did join
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me after Derek Jeeter's induction. We need talk a little bit about New York
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baseball and New York Inkee baseball. The great thing about Derek Alex was that
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he always did more than was expected, and that's what made him special.
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And that is so true. He went beyond them and above, didn't he
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Yeah, and you know that yourself. But like you know, I'll tell
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you a story real quick about a young lady because who was eight years old
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in two thousand and two, nine years old, and you know, the
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family wanted to bring her to spring training because her father was tragically killed on
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nine to eleven, and you know, of course we said yes, and
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she wanted to meet Derek Jeter. And you know, I told Derek and
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of course he says, yeah, no, probably knew what it was.
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You didn't have to remind him. So we brought her down. When she
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arrived at Legends Field and she's sitting in the first row of an empty ballpark,
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next to the dugout, and I think I'm going to be the good
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pr guy and kind of walk over to Derek, who's on the field on
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his back stretching with you know, with those rubber bands and everybody. Yeah,
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yeah, And I kind of walked so she can't see, and I
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say, you know, you know, not moving my lips, Derek,
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the little girl that you're going to meet is sitting over there, you know,
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with the blue Yankee jacket on and the Yankee at So whenever you're done,
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you know, that's who she is. So he can kind of acknowledge
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her without having to be well, I don't even get two feet away from
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him, and he yells out from behind me, Hey, Kate, get
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over here. You're late. We're stretching. Come on, let's go.
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She runs out on the field, They lift her over the stand. She
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runs out. She get down here and he gives her a rubber band and
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now, hey, this is Mariano, and this is Roger, this is
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Wre and it was it was an unbelievable experience. And then he sits with
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her and he talks to her and he says to her, you go to
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Yankee games. Oh yeah, go all the time and start kind of tearing
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up because she went with her dad, and he goes, well, listen,
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I don't want you to ever come to a Yankee game and not let
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me know you're there. So you tell mister Sharone here when you're coming,
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and he'll let me know, and I'll know you're there, and I'll try
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to see you if I can. And you know, that's what happened.
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And other people did what was expected. He always did more than was expected.
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How be making your job easy in a way as a pr manager for
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the the best franchise world, Well yeah, because other people, you know,
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there were others that were a little higher maintenance, so you could even
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out a little bit. But I'll tell you a funny thing, Alice.
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People ask me all the time when they know why you worked with the Yankees
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at that time, you know, tell me about Tark Cheter, and I
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would kid and I'd say, well, he really had no use for me.
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And they say, whoa, whoa, whoa. You didn't get along
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with him? I said, no, we got along great, we're friends.
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But he didn't need the services of what I did. You know,
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he never really needed my counsel. He never needed me to remind him.
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I mean that was kind of a funny thing because you know, a guy
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who's doing the Sunday Conversation, you know, and the visitors the football locker
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room and met the Metrodome in Minnesota at three o'clock. Well, you know,
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you put a reminder there. You call the guy at the hotel,
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leave him a message. He didn't need to do that with Derek, and
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he didn't want you to do that. I mean, he was he was
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so responsible. I mean he was. I mean, Alex, think about
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it. I'm the PR director of the Yankees and one of my players is
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Derek Jeter. Does it get better than that? Well? Do you miss
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it now? Do you wish you were back here now that he's back in
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the hall, or what's life been like for you after the age? Well?
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No, you know, yeah, you missed certain things about it.
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But you know, I'm the editor in chief of Baseball Digest. How great
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is that to me? You know? You know, I mean, so
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you know, I went from one dream job. You know, when I
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was a kid and I was in high school, I told my high school
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guidance counselor when He asked me, what do you see yourself doing when you
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were growing up? Because I was literally flunking out of school. And I
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said, well, that's easy. I'm the public relations director of the New
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York Yankees. I mean, that was my dream since I was like fourteen.
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But if he had said to me, okay, well let's just say,
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what's your fallback plan? What's the second thing you'd wanted me? I
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might have said to him, I'm the editor of Baseball diejest and so to
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have this collection, this collection of interviews, means a lot. And I
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am so thankful to all of those. How we mentioned Dave Demono, Sarah
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Khan for making that Howie Rose interview happened, Jay Horowitz for coming on the
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show, Rick Sarone, doctor Dan Miller w when he was on WVOX scoring
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me that press pass to talk with Brandon Miller, Brandon Neimo, and Wilmer
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Flores. Actually I got to find that as well. But and of course,
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Reine grown you actually help to educate George stein Brenner and g and you
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have no idea how do you? I don't. When he first met you,
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and he was a young boy, he saw you with one leg,
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and he said to him show and later to me, this poor boy,
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he has a handycap. Let's be good to him. He found out that
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you were stronger than most. You felt like, hey, I can be
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here, I can do here. I don't have to be ashamed that I
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only have one leg. And I cry right now because you may have given
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him his strongest education. All these pieces I've fall into place so far,
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and of course to Gaby for coming me in recent years to different events as
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well, and of course to meet Nestor on Sunday and all together here we're
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still growing this show. We're growing this podcast and what Howie Rose said earlier
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in the show is, you know we're on this path and I'm excited to
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be on it, and I'm excited to grow more in the sports media world.
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And of course thanks and our media and Jake and the Bronx Zoo for
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encouraging me every step of the way, and of course my family for always
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being there as well. Subway series has basically been in my blood since I
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was six months old, and so when Itever rolls around, it means a
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hell of a lot more. And we miss you, Pop, and I
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know you're looking down at us and thanks for taking me to all those games.
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And of course we remember walking the Shay Stadium leftfield line when Derek Jeter
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hit that leadoff homer against the Bets in two thousand. We also were there
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in two thousand and one when Piazza hit that late innings, eighth inning homer
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against the Braves the first game back after nine to eleven. So we've been
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there for some very special moments. And of course mister Steinberger welcoming us and
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the Steinmann Firman will always be welcoming into that stadium. Even today, it's
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been a blessing. Well, enjoy the Subway series. Don't get too rowdy.
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Who am I kidding? As New York reports are gonna get rowdy at
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Yankees at City Field, and we'll see how it goes. Lou Terminello and
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Terminella's take will come up later today on the Alex Garrett Podcast Network