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

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  Speaker 1: Well, belated happy birthday to you, Warner Wolf.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Belated? No, it hasn't been here yet.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at my calendar here.
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  Speaker 3: Don't push me. Don't push.
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  Speaker 2: Me. Wednesday, right? Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I'm so old that my birthday comes on
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  Speaker 3: what they call now Veterans Day. But it was originally
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  Speaker 3: Armistice Day. commemorating the end of World War I. And
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  Speaker 3: then Eisenhower changed it in 1954, so all wars could be,
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  Speaker 3: you know, honored all the veterans of all the wars.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for preemptively reminding all of us of that.
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  Speaker 1: But what about the war on the gridiron for the Giants?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, gosh, why don't they just show
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  Speaker 3: us the last play of each game each week? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: They go down to the wire every game. Certainly it
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  Speaker 3: was not their finest hour. Just four field goals, one touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: With a limping J.J. McCarthy and Jameis Winston, who may
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  Speaker 3: be the best relief pitcher in football. But keep in
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  Speaker 3: mind that the Giants are not playing Tom Brady. They
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  Speaker 3: face Joe Milton III. who was a household name only
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  Speaker 3: in his own household. But here's the question. The trading
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  Speaker 3: deadline is 4 o'clock tomorrow. Will the Giants increase their offer,
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  Speaker 3: which apparently they say they took off the table, a
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  Speaker 3: second round and a fifth round pick to the Colts
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  Speaker 3: for Jonathan Taylor? Apparently the Colts want more. But if
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  Speaker 3: you think it will be giving up too much, Remember
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  Speaker 3: the words of Redskin coach George Allen? Remember he traded
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  Speaker 3: away all his future draft choices and said, don't worry
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  Speaker 3: about it. The future is now. And then one year
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  Speaker 3: later went to the Super Bowl. As far as the
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  Speaker 3: Jets go, somebody forgot to tell the Jets, you're supposed
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  Speaker 3: to play two halves, not one. The Jets being outscored
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  Speaker 3: 21-0 in the second half, scoring only four field goals
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  Speaker 3: and no touchdowns. The question remains, how long does Wade
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  Speaker 3: Johnson and his Johnson & Johnson family go with Aaron Glenn,
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  Speaker 3: who's now 5-21 in his year and a half with
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  Speaker 3: the Jets, including 2-7 this year, and then the Bills
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  Speaker 3: coming up next Sunday, likely to go 2-8. The other
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  Speaker 3: concern has to be Aaron Glenn's fading one-time skills as
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  Speaker 3: a defensive genius. Calling plays, I mean, that's disappeared. As
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  Speaker 3: a sports writer once said, he was supposed to be
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  Speaker 3: a defensive guru. When does the guruing start? By the way,
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  Speaker 3: the NFL, the favorites this week, won 13 out of
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  Speaker 3: the 14 games. Only the Patriots were favorite and lost
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  Speaker 3: to Green Bay. And the favorites beat the spread nine
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  Speaker 3: out of 14. Well, it appears the college football officials
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  Speaker 3: blew another one, disallowing Miami's potential tying touchdown with three
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  Speaker 3: and a half minutes to go against Notre Dame, ruling
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  Speaker 3: no touchdown after he went out of the end zone.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what? Gentlemen, the rule is clear. It
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  Speaker 3: says right in the books, if a receiver, this is
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  Speaker 3: college ball, catches the ball and has complete possession and
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  Speaker 3: has at least one foot in the end zone, unlike
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  Speaker 3: two in the NFL. Even if he goes out of
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  Speaker 3: bounds after the touchdown, it's still a touchdown. But so what?
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  Speaker 3: Even if the NCAA comes out today and says, oops,
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  Speaker 3: we were wrong, unlike baseball, where you can pick up
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  Speaker 3: a point at protest, what are you going to do,
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  Speaker 3: bring back Notre Dame and Miami and play three and
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  Speaker 3: a half minutes? No, that's the way it's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Warner, are you attributing this call to the luck of
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  Speaker 2: the Irish.
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  Speaker 3: Players Oh, well, that's what the Miami coach said. He said, boy,
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  Speaker 3: you better find a way to win. Yeah, you're playing again.
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame in Notre Dame in South Bend, yeah. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: the sacrificial lamb of the week. Little Merrimack College played
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  Speaker 3: powerful Wake Forest so they can get bigger bucks for
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  Speaker 3: their athletic department, and they played them at Winston-Salem. They
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  Speaker 3: lost 77 to nothing. 77 to nothing. So, if you
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  Speaker 3: had Merrimack and 76 points, you lost.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hey, baseball. Two Cleveland pitchers, including two-time American League
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  Speaker 3: reliever of the year, Emmanuel Closset. They are now facing
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  Speaker 3: criminal fraud charges here in New York. for tipping off
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  Speaker 3: their pitches to the gamblers, including whether or not the
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  Speaker 3: first pitch would be a strike or a ball. And
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  Speaker 3: it worked, except for the time Class A purposely threw
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  Speaker 3: his first pitch into the dirt, as he had promised,
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  Speaker 3: but the batter swung at it and missed for a strike.
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  Speaker 3: But there's another problem. You know, when I was growing up,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know about you two guys who are younger,
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  Speaker 3: you bet on football with point spreads for football. That
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  Speaker 3: was it. Odds, baseball, it was odds or runs, depending
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  Speaker 3: on who the pitcher was that day, and point spreads
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  Speaker 3: for basketball. But now, with gambling outlets like DraftKings and
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  Speaker 3: Sportsbook and FanDuel, you can bet on anything. Anytime. And
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  Speaker 3: that's one of the problems here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they like to call it exotic bets.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as opposed to the mainstream bets that you
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  Speaker 1: described that everybody knows the degenerate gamblers were stuck by.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can bet, as you said, on everything.
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  Speaker 2: Everything. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and I've got the boo of the week.
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  Speaker 3: And this, man, this is horrible. This goes to Major
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  Speaker 3: League Baseball for continually trying out new changes in the
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  Speaker 3: minor leagues. to see if it will eventually work in
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  Speaker 3: the major leagues. You know, like the robot home plate umpire,
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  Speaker 3: the phony ghost runner at second base for extra inning games. Well,
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  Speaker 3: here's a new one. They tried it out in the
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  Speaker 3: Arizona Fall League. I can't believe this. In an effort
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  Speaker 3: to get more doubles and triples in the gap, the
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  Speaker 3: left and right fielders must play closer together to the
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  Speaker 3: fair line, or foul line if you wish, before each pitch.
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  Speaker 3: And the center fielder must play a shallow center field
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  Speaker 3: closer to the infield. And the new lines will be
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  Speaker 3: marked by green paint. Any breaking of the rule will
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  Speaker 3: result in the batter being awarded first base. What a farce. Man,
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  Speaker 3: this makes a mockery of the game. How about in
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  Speaker 3: the batting averages? Remember the, you know, Can you imagine
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  Speaker 3: what the great hitters of the past would have done
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  Speaker 3: with a rule like this? You know, Mays and Williams
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  Speaker 3: and Musial, Clemente DiMaggio. If this change had been used
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  Speaker 3: when they played, they all would have hit over 400
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  Speaker 3: every year. As you would say, say it, Curtis, Disgracia.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Disgracia.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 2: It's a shanda, a shanda on a wolf.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Thank you, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to blow out the candles for you,
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  Speaker 1: all 12 of them, coming up on your birthday.
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  Speaker 2: 12 of them.
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  Speaker 3: That's dignified.
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  Speaker 2: One for every decade. Oh, I get it. Wow, that's
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  Speaker 2: not right. That's not right. Well, November 11th, 1937. Is
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  Speaker 2: that 12?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Very good.
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  Speaker 2: Don't count on us for math and anything.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. How about this? Natalie's four days older
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  Speaker 3: than me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Well, she worked with all three. She worked
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  Speaker 2: with all three gamblings. The great-grandfather, grandfather, father.
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  Speaker 3: Come on. 1922. Yep. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Warner.