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Jim Leyritz | New York Yankees Legend | 06-16-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 3: Game six would have been tonight, but the Knicks got
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  Speaker 3: it done in five, and that og tip. That very
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  Speaker 3: next morning, I was on with Craig Carton and he
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  Speaker 3: and I were both getting texts at the same time
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  Speaker 3: from another New York postseason hero. And that's a word
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  Speaker 3: we use often, but it does apply here. The great
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  Speaker 3: Jim Layers with all those monster Yankee postseason home runs,
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  Speaker 3: all starting of course in ninety six to beat the
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta Braves. But we talked about the Mookie Wilson ground
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  Speaker 3: ball that went under the legs of Bill Buckner. We
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  Speaker 3: talked about Jimmy's home runs against Atlanta hit about four
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  Speaker 3: of them, you know, And then Jim texted me and
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  Speaker 3: Craig with the same thing, like, Wow, I think what
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  Speaker 3: I saw last night belongs in the same category as
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  Speaker 3: what I did. I love that about Jimmy is what
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  Speaker 3: did I said the same thing and these other great
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  Speaker 3: moments New York playoff history. So we had to get
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  Speaker 3: him in. He's on this show a lot Anyway, my
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  Speaker 3: dear friend and all time New York Yankee great Jim Layretz,
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  Speaker 3: you're on the way that morning to a golf tournament.
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  Speaker 3: I forget whose it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it was what I can't remember oj anderws Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl twenty five MVP for the Football Giants.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, yeah, it was funny.
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  Speaker 4: I had no idea Craig was coming on the show,
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  Speaker 4: so I texted both of you just so you guys
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  Speaker 4: could use it for your shows. Yeah, and then all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden, I hear the next guest is Craig
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  Speaker 4: Cart and I'm like, oh God, here we go, Here
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  Speaker 4: we go.
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  Speaker 3: But the truth is, you're right because your home runs
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  Speaker 3: and look, the Yanks have a lot of big postseason
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  Speaker 3: home runs dating back to Bucket Debt. That was really
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  Speaker 3: a regular season game. They categorized it as that that
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  Speaker 3: last game against the Red Sox. But Yogi hit a
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  Speaker 3: ton of big home runs in the postseason. Mickey Joe.
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  Speaker 3: But in the modern era, you go to Reggie that
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  Speaker 3: big light against the Dodgers in seventy seven, and you
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  Speaker 3: so when you said it, we already said it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we agreed with you. I think you're right that
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  Speaker 2: og tip goes.
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  Speaker 3: Down as one of the iconic moments in the history
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  Speaker 3: of Jimu lay What's of New York sports.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean all I could think about, like I
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  Speaker 4: texted you, is if if they don't win, it's a footnote.
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  Speaker 4: And I just told you before ninety five home run
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  Speaker 4: I hit against the Mariners. We thought that was going
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  Speaker 4: to get us to the next round. Yeah, and it
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  Speaker 4: was great, but we didn't win, and so it became
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  Speaker 4: a footnote. And I was kind of comparing our ninety
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  Speaker 4: five ninety six teams to the next the last two years,
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  Speaker 4: where they had Jalen Brunson shirts already printed before we
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  Speaker 4: played Indiana, and we didn't get past Indiana, you know, and.
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  Speaker 2: So Halliburton hit that shot that was killed.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly so, and then all of a sudden they come
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  Speaker 4: back this year and it really reminded you of the
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  Speaker 4: ninety five and ninety six and then of course that tip,
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  Speaker 4: and now the fact that they won. I can just
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  Speaker 4: imagine og I keep saying telling them, I hope I
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  Speaker 4: get a chance to meet this guy, because all I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna tell him is listen, enjoy it. And when you're
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  Speaker 4: sixty two years old like me, You're still going to
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  Speaker 4: come back here and people are going to talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: One, no doubt, and they still.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm at many Yankee games, in fact, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be back tomorrow night. And ran these box for the
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  Speaker 3: Yankees and White Sox with the family, And you're up
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  Speaker 3: there and people come up to you every game thanking
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  Speaker 3: you for all the things you did both the Yanks.
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  Speaker 3: But you laid out a bunch of things before he
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  Speaker 3: came on the air. That really struck me as Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Between the ninety five ninety six Yankees and this Nick team,
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  Speaker 3: even show Walter the Tory here we had Tibbadau to
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  Speaker 3: Mike Brown, but a lot of similarities.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean one of those things where in ninety
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  Speaker 2: five we had no big names, Nobody led the league
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  Speaker 2: in pitching, nobody led the league in hitting. All these
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  Speaker 2: different things that happened.
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  Speaker 4: We come back in ninety six, They fired Bucks show author,
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  Speaker 4: They bring in a new manager who no one called it.
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  Speaker 2: They called him clueless Joe. When he first came in,
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  Speaker 2: I was the back of the New York posts.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he had unsuccessful stints in Saint Louis with
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  Speaker 3: the Mets. They were n'tfair about Atlanta, though, because I
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  Speaker 3: want to remind people that when Joe Tory coached or managed,
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  Speaker 3: I should say the Braves, he had three guys in
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  Speaker 3: particular that were very good, Dale Murphy, Bob Horner, and
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  Speaker 3: a guy you know, Chris Tambliss. Yes, and the Braves
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  Speaker 3: won the division that year. They never gave Tory credit
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  Speaker 3: for that. So he did have one good year in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: But for the most part, yes, he had some night
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  Speaker 3: marriage stage.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So for me it was it was a very
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  Speaker 4: similar thing where Mike Brown comes in and he knows
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  Speaker 4: how to react with the players, he knows how to
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  Speaker 4: get the most out of him. And the fact that
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  Speaker 4: he played all ten guys consistently throughout the whole year. Said,
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  Speaker 4: I was never much of a a Knicks fan, but
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  Speaker 4: one of my best friends has tickets at the Towe
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  Speaker 4: suites at the stadium at the MSG.
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  Speaker 2: I went to twenty five games of the Knicks this year.
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  Speaker 2: He did, of course. Yeah, but I set up in
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  Speaker 2: the suite. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't do that in the suite or in the
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  Speaker 4: blue seats. No, up in the it's the tow the
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  Speaker 4: restaurant town, oh, tow the restaurant. Yeah, they have their own.
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  Speaker 2: Suite friends with Sam. Is that does he's still the owner.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yes, chef Sam's Sam's the chef. Yeah, right, and
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  Speaker 4: but you know John and those guys that work up there.
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  Speaker 4: I go to all the events, and this year, my
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  Speaker 4: buddy's like, listen, I think the Knicks got something going.
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  Speaker 4: And so we went to every game and it was
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  Speaker 4: just like the whole time. During the playoffs, I'm sitting
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  Speaker 4: with Wally Szrbiak because he sits there and beause he
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  Speaker 4: does the pre in the post game, so he walks over,
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  Speaker 4: and he walks over, sits upstairs with us in the suite.
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  Speaker 4: We get to talk and yeah, he's a great dude.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, it was just really cool. And the really
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  Speaker 4: cool thing was my wife is not a baseball She
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  Speaker 4: was my after baseball wife. She knows nothing much about
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  Speaker 4: what we did in the World Series and everything. I
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  Speaker 4: brought it here last week for Game one in Game
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  Speaker 4: two of San Antonio and we went to Tracks or
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  Speaker 4: O'Brien's right across the street from MSG to watch.
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  Speaker 2: The gameside Penn station.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they moved it across the street, made it
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  Speaker 2: bigger and nice. Yeah, my buddy Mike owns it. So
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  Speaker 2: we got down a nice place.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we went down there to watch Game one and
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  Speaker 4: Game two, and my wife is sitting there going, is
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  Speaker 4: this what it was like when you were in the
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  Speaker 4: World Series?
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  Speaker 2: These fans are nuts?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, and she's like, I think we should
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  Speaker 4: go back to our side of the streets when the halftime,
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  Speaker 4: because it's gonna get crazy down here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And you know, as crazy as it was with
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  Speaker 3: you guys, with the Yanks, and look the Knicks one one.
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  Speaker 3: You guys won four. I mean Tory won four, he
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  Speaker 3: got the six. Of course he lost in two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and one to Arizona, in two thousand and three the
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  Speaker 3: Shaker to the Marlins. But the Yankees were in the
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  Speaker 3: World Series at that time. Every year, it seemed like
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  Speaker 3: every year and again you won four World Championships. But
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  Speaker 3: as I've been saying all week, there are more Yankee
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  Speaker 3: fans than met bands, but they still split the city.
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  Speaker 2: It's close.
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  Speaker 3: There are more Giant bands than Jet bands, but they
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  Speaker 3: still split the city. It's close. Even Rangers and Islanders,
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  Speaker 3: there are no net bands in this city. There's like
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  Speaker 3: eight Black guys and eight Cassidic Jews and that's about it.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's a Nick fan. So when you guys had your
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  Speaker 3: your big parades on the Canyon of Heroes, you may
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  Speaker 3: have drawn two point two million, you're gonna see three
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  Speaker 3: and a half.
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  Speaker 4: Oh easily, rightly, this is gonna be one of the
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  Speaker 4: craziest was I've I've got some of my nypds.
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  Speaker 2: Are working on a credential for me because I want
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 4: I want to go see this thing at City Hall
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  Speaker 4: I just watched because it's not the best.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny you say that because Danielle asked me last night.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to.
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  Speaker 3: Israel, of course on Thursday, so I won't be here,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not upset about it, but I may want
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  Speaker 3: to send my wife and son, and I thought the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. I would call all my buddies at the
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  Speaker 3: NYPD because that's the easiest way to go to pndential
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  Speaker 3: and get there, right right, that's the easiest way.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Yes, that's what I'm trying to do. And then
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  Speaker 2: what do you mean trying to do your world series?
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  Speaker 2: Hero you gotta be there. Hopefully it happens. Hopefully it happened.
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  Speaker 4: What this is the Knicks time called Jim Dolan Come
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  Speaker 4: on now, yeah, I don't have that kind I'm not
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  Speaker 4: Derek Jeter. I don't have that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you know, Craig may be setting up outside wa
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  Speaker 3: n you're right there. I would look into that as well,
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  Speaker 3: just in case. Yeah, it's just what Jessica Tiss you
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  Speaker 3: got to come through for Danielle Rosenberg and Jimmy Layer.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming on.
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  Speaker 4: But it's just really cool because I mentioned to you
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  Speaker 4: before when when we went A ninety six, we brought
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  Speaker 4: a city together, not just not just Knicks fans, but
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  Speaker 4: the city. And I'm hoping that this is what happens.
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  Speaker 2: We bought a city together.
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  Speaker 3: Met bands were furious. Millions and millions of Met bands
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  Speaker 3: were furious. We hated every second of it back then.
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  Speaker 3: This is really going to bring the city together. You
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  Speaker 3: may even see Muslims and Jewish dancing on the screen.
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  Speaker 4: You never know, right, never know. No, it's an exciting time.
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  Speaker 4: And I you know, I told you I sent you
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  Speaker 4: a picture of a Facebook thing that I posted when
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  Speaker 4: Karl Anthony Towns got chair so he got traded October third,
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  Speaker 4: October six, He's at Yankee Stadium. I walk into a
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  Speaker 4: suite and I said, what are you doing here? And
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  Speaker 4: he goes, you know, it's funny. My dad's a Yankee fan.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a bunch of Yankee hats, and so he
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  Speaker 4: asked me to pick out a hat to wear today,
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  Speaker 4: you know, because we're Kentucky alum. And he said, look
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  Speaker 4: what I picked out, and he shows me the ninety
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  Speaker 4: six World Series hat. So I signed it for him
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  Speaker 4: and said, I want a jersey when you win your championship,
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  Speaker 4: because you're bringing a championship here and in two years,
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  Speaker 4: boom they do it, So you got to get the jersey.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna get Cat. I'm in a corner cat one
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  Speaker 4: of these days and say I need a jersey. Bah,
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  Speaker 4: that's a great story.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't people realize you went to Kentucky Obviously basketball,
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  Speaker 3: we know, big deal Calibati you know was there when
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  Speaker 3: I was there. He won the Slam dunkan yes, and
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  Speaker 3: was awful for the next Yes. That was part of
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  Speaker 3: all the pain we talked about, the years and years
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  Speaker 3: of pain for the nick of Bokra's Kenny Sky, who
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  Speaker 3: was a nice guy again.
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  Speaker 2: He won the slam Dunk contest.
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  Speaker 3: Was didn't go all that well, Jim, but look, this
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  Speaker 3: has been an incredible run for New York and fifty
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  Speaker 3: three years. You know the Yanks, what are you going
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  Speaker 3: seventeen years now?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, seventeen years.
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  Speaker 4: It couldn't be like, you know, like it wasn't from
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  Speaker 4: seventy eight to ninety six, right, Yeah, same type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Seventy eight we beat the Dodgers. Yeah, ninety six we
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  Speaker 3: beat the Braves. Got there in ninety five, got swept
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  Speaker 3: by the Cincinnati Reds. That's when stein Baner went. He
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  Speaker 3: went nuts. He's like, I don't want to get to
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  Speaker 3: the World Series just to get swept. Yeah, no, that
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  Speaker 3: would be seventy six I'm sorry, seventy six nuts by
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  Speaker 3: my Cincinnati Reds. Right, and then he went out and
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  Speaker 3: he got Reggie and Buckie deat your Cincinnati Reds.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you grew up with Cincinnati Reds fans. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: you grew up, So you grew up in Kentucky or Ohio.
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  Speaker 4: You know. I grew up in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, and went
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  Speaker 4: to junior college in Georgia for two years and then
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  Speaker 4: Kentucky for a year, and then I signed with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome, Yeah, you didn't want to play with the Reds
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  Speaker 2: back home. You know what I did.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I would have loved that, but it just
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  Speaker 4: wasn't in the cards. You know, Barry Larkin and I
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  Speaker 4: were teammates, so Barry.
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  Speaker 2: Was the player. He was the best shortstops ever.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so now you know what, It's just it's like
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  Speaker 4: I said, this is this is a really exciting time
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  Speaker 4: for New York. It's something that you know, I got
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  Speaker 4: the experience that from the fans side for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Different, right, and it was really cool. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Now, so what were you when when the clock went
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  Speaker 3: to zero on Saturday night?
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  Speaker 4: I was I might live up on fifty eight right
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  Speaker 4: here on fifty eighth. And second, there's a little bark
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  Speaker 4: on blooms, blooms, blooms. Popcuse.
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  Speaker 3: You texted me Saturday afternoon and said, we are you
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  Speaker 3: going to be tonight? Yeah, And I'm like, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like them.
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  Speaker 3: With a lot of people for big games, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not into that. Like I got to sit there.
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  Speaker 3: I remember, in fact, the Super Bowl, No, the NFC
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  Speaker 3: Championship game. I was living in Boca and you're on
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  Speaker 3: Florida at the time. Felt Laudadale. Yeah, and the Giants
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  Speaker 3: were playing the Packers, Eli Manning versus Brett far freezing
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  Speaker 3: cold temperatures. We won the game on a late Lawrence
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  Speaker 3: Times field goal, if you remember correctly. And Leonard Marshall,
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  Speaker 3: the former great New York Giant, many many Pole Bowls
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  Speaker 3: defensive line, him and Lte.
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  Speaker 2: He lived in Boca.
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  Speaker 3: We were pretty friendly and he wanted to come over
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  Speaker 3: and watch the game, and we said sure. We must
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: have called the Wing place about three times that night,
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  Speaker 3: I swear to got. We went out of like a
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  Speaker 3: hundred wings. By halftime. They said, who the hell's at
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  Speaker 3: your house? I said, one guy, one guy in number seventy,
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  Speaker 3: Leonard Marshall. And it was fine. It was one person,
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  Speaker 3: you know. But even at points with him, I was like, Leonard.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta be quiet. I gotta watch the game.
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  Speaker 3: So when there's like big moments, I try to surround
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  Speaker 3: myself with as little people as possible. Like I can
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  Speaker 3: never go to a watch party. I'm not the type
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  Speaker 3: of sports fan. I'm just not that type of guy.
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  Speaker 3: So I told you I was going to be home,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why I.
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  Speaker 4: Was on Yeah, And I experienced that the first two
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  Speaker 4: games being over at tracks in that MSG circle. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, you know what, I'm not going
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  Speaker 4: back there. If they do win, it's gonna be nuts.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be nuts.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be nuts on Thursday. Yeah. And it was
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  Speaker 2: even nuts up here. I mean people were running through
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  Speaker 2: the streets up here on fifty eighth Street. I really
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 4: It was crazy, and it was really cool to see
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  Speaker 4: because I couldn't imagine what you know, what the fans
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  Speaker 4: were doing when we won, you know, you don't You
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  Speaker 4: don't ever get to see that as a player, right,
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  Speaker 4: And that's the cool thing about you know, these guys
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  Speaker 4: are going to experience something on Thursday that they're never gonna.
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  Speaker 3: For Well, do you know that the Niko Bokers have
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  Speaker 3: never had a ticket tape parade really, even when they
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  Speaker 3: won in nineteen seventy and nineteen seventy three. John Lindsay
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  Speaker 3: didn't like the idea.
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  Speaker 2: Really, I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the Knick's third championship, but it'll be
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  Speaker 3: the first ticket tape parade for you when you're doing
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  Speaker 3: your first if you beat the Braves in ninety six,
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  Speaker 3: you were there, obviously, What was that morning like getting
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  Speaker 3: up that morning getting ready. What'd you feel like? Well,
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  Speaker 3: that's another great story because we were up. I was
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  Speaker 3: on sixty fourth and second Jeter was on seventieth. We
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  Speaker 3: were supposed to meet each other in the morning and
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  Speaker 3: take the bus. Was going to come by and pick
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  Speaker 3: everybody out. Yeah, yeah, back then, all you guys were
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  Speaker 3: on the upper east side, right well, Tino Mention ends
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  Speaker 3: up in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Posada was there too.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, it was just me and Jeters, you and
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  Speaker 4: Derrek okah pretty much. And so Derek comes over and
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  Speaker 4: he goes, hey, you know, he goes, it's eight thirty.
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  Speaker 4: He goes, where were we supposed to be on the
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  Speaker 4: bus at eight? I go, yeah, we missed it. Well,
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  Speaker 4: how are we going to get down there? And there
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  Speaker 4: was a bunch of cops standing there because they were
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  Speaker 4: putting up the barriers and everything. And I said, I
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  Speaker 4: asked one of them, I said, hey, can you guys
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  Speaker 4: give us a ride down? They're like, Jimmy, the only
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  Speaker 4: way you're getting down now is the subway. And I
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  Speaker 4: took the subway every day to the stadium. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I said, Geet, I go, Geet. I had my two
• 13:16
  Speaker 4: year old son and my wife, and I said, let's go.
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: We're going on the subway. And he's like, dude, I've
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: never been on the subway. I'm like, it's okay, don't
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: worry about it. So you and took the subway. Yeah,
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: he tells you, guys want to get mobbed. Well, you
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: know what, it was crazy, but it was. There was
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: no cell phones back then, so people weren't trying to
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: get picked. They were taking pictures with little those little.
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: Cameras, port of the cameras.
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: But but it was really kind of cool because we
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: were going down with them and it was the joy of.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: Everybody, even doing not something as big as up but
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: even doing some of those Yankee Interleague Series games when
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: they had.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: One game with Shay same as seven.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: Piazza would take the train and Clemens would take the train,
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: and yeah, it was very cool.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: But Jeter never took the train. Effort again another again,
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: that was it.
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  Speaker 3: That was you could I bought the whole upa to
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: be honest with you. He was sitting right there with
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: Eli Manning on the court.
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  Speaker 4: You were there that night, yeah, I was, yeah, yeah,
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: I was up in the towsk Yeah. Yeah, what's wrong
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: with that?
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: I'd be bad that. Yeah, they're and they're great. You know,
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: they become good friends.
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: In matter of fact, John who runs the Tows Suite,
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: he was back in the Brother Jimmy days when I
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: was a player and I used to go out.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: And Upper East sign you're drinking drinking times rank that
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: many times myself. Yeah, Brother Jimmy's named after you. Yeah, Jimmy.
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: So what do you got going on the rest of today?
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: I'm going to the airport right now. I gotta go
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: throughout the first pitch at the Rochester Red Wings games.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's cool. League Baseball, that's cool.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah. With the thirtieth anniversary this year, they got me
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: doing a bunch of things, and it's kind of a
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: really cool.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: Time for me.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: Anniversary of that Rochester baseball ninety six the Yankee's you know,
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: I know that. Yeah, because it's the forty year anniversary
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: of the eighty six Mets. Yeah, isn't that crazy. Yeah,
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: we had Wally Bakman in these studios yesterday. You know,
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: we owned the baseball team with the Yankees, the Saten
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Island Hawks. That's our team. John owns it, and uh
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: we had Bally Backman here. You had a press conference
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: I ran it here at the station yesterday and he's
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: our new manager.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: How about that? I saw that. I saw, yes, I
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: saw you make the announced.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Pretty cool, right, yeah, it is cool. You get along
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: with Bally Well maybe not, you know, I remember one
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, Strawberry called them a redneck d on the
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: team picture. They were going to fight actually but they
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: didn't fight.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: So yeah, no, no, doesn't it Like I said, it's
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: it's pretty pretty cool time right now here. It is.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, we'll we'll see you later on this week.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: I have a safe trip to Rochester. Thank you for all
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: your amazing moments. You had more than o G of
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: the rest of these guys, you had like five of them,
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: and you're mean an iconic figure in New York sports,
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: but even more importantly one of my best friends and
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: a great guy.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: So thank you so much.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've been there through everything with me, and I've
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: been through everything with you, and you know what, we
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: always come out on top always.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're both four beautiful men. Jim Larrets and Sid
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Rose were good to see you. My friend Jim Larrets
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: right there, OG's tip with l Rich and MOOKI all
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: those great New York Moments.
• 16:03
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