February 27, 2024 • 60 mins
SERIES 2 EPISODE 130: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Bob Costas has been my friend for 40 years. He has been one of my closest professional friends for a quarter century.
And now, bluntly, Bob Costas needs to shut the EFF up about Joe Biden.
He has launched this extraordinary campaign - first on HBO with Bill Maher, now on CNN with that toad Michael Smerconish - demanding that Biden and his "hubris" be "shown the door" off the presidential ticket. Bob not only has no idea that such a thing is impossible and even if it were justifiable or smart or legal, it would result in a different candidate who would lose to Trump by ten points.
Bob will hear none of this. I tried, behind the scenes, for two weeks. I failed. And I failed to make it clear to Bob that Trump is ALSO trying to get Biden off the ticket and so that all Bob is accomplishing is - he's doing Trump's work for him.
It's heartbreaking, I'll lose his friendship, but Bob Costas needs to shut the EFF up about Joe Biden (and that goes for Jon Stewart, Ezra Klein, and all the others who like Bob don't realize that we have lots of historical evidence of what happens when the Democrats try to do a Julius Caesar on a sitting president. There are two results: you LBJ him and you get Richard Nixon; or you DON'T completely LBJ him and you only wound him - and you get Ronald Reagan).
Bob. Shut the eff up.
B-Block (29:42) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Oh, nothing, just Joe Biden and his hubris about to get a Gaza Cease Fire while eating ice cream; James Comer's favorite Russian plant will stay in jail so it's "Smirnov on Ice." Kenny The Cheese didn't tell the truth about his plot to overthrow democracy in Michigan; Trump underperformed the polling by EIGHT POINTS in South Carolina (36:52) IN SPORTS: A new explanation for baseball's uniform fiasco; Peter King retires; one of the unheralded heroes of baseball - Jim Hannan - passes away. (42:07) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: It took FIVE NBC reporters to claim Trump is about to "pivot?" Van Jones speaks at CPAC; There's a price on Tucker Carlson's head and bluntly it's humiliatingly low.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Bob
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Costas has been a friend for forty years and one
of my closest professional friends and supporters and boosters for
a quarter century, and now it is time for him
to shut the up about Joe Biden. If you have
missed it, Bob has begun a public crusade on national
television urging insisting now demanding that the president withdraw from
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the twenty twenty four campaign, or quoting him be shown
the door, unquote. I do not question Bob's motives while
attacking Biden for hubris for running and the Democrats as
Feckley for letting him run, Bob has rightly called Trump
a threat to democracy. I do not question Bob's motives.
I question Bob's hubris and his fecklessness. Bob shut the up,
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because whatever Bob thinks he is accomplishing, whatever anybody else
doing stuff like this thinks they are accomplishing, they are
in fact accomplishing only one thing, helping Donald Trump period,
doing Donald Trump's work for him, just like John Stewart,
just like Ez Recline, just like Bill Maher, just like
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jenk Yuger, just like every other apparent liberal who has
decided he and he alone knows the terrible truth, and
he must remove the President of the United States from
the Democratic ticket, the president who, for some reason the
Republicans also want removed from the Democratic ticket. The president
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who for some reason Trump also wants removed from the
Democratic ticket. Bob Costas and Trump want Biden to be
shown the door. Coincidence, no doubt. I have previously war
gained what would actually happen if Democrats tried to remove
Joe Biden from the ticket now, and I will do
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it again in brief shortly, but I wanted to emphasize
that it's not as if we do not have history
to consult about what happens when somebody says something stupid
like this, or when you do this, or when you
just try to do this. What happens is when you
do this or you just try to do this, what
happens is you lose. In nineteen sixty eight, the Democrats
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successfully undercut Lyndon Johnson sharply enough and viciously enough and
anti Vietnam enough that on March thirty first, LBJ not
four years removed from what was then the biggest landslide
in presidential election history, withdrew biggest landslide in history, and
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after he withdrew six months later, instead of him the
guy with the biggest landslide in history against the genuinely
evil Richard Nixon, instead of Lyndon Johnson running for reelection
after a knife fight of a primary that ended with
the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, we ran Hubert Humphrey
instead of the incumbent with the biggest landslide in history,
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Hubert Humphrey, a dedicated and brilliant public servant with the
public personality of a guy who sold vacuum cleaner's door
to door in a straw hat. Thank god, we got
that albatross LBJ off the ticket. So instead we got
President Nixon and a larger war in Vietnam and Watergate
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and the template by which Trump presidented. It's not like
there's no history about throwing your president overboard.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Bob Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And it's not like that's all the history, Bob, because
we tried to LBJ another incumbent Democratic president. Anybody remember
that Jimmy Carter primaried by Ted Kennedy because Jimmy Carter
did not seem like a shoe in for reelection. Teddy
and a lot of the Democrats whom Carter had rubbed
the wrong way from the beginning, tried to cut Carter's
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legs off, and they failed. And even though it was
obvious by May that Carter was not going to get
his legs cut off, Kennedy kept running and trying to
cut his legs off. And Kennedy did not concede until
the second day of the convention. And every day he
remained in the race, he wounded Jimmy Carter a little
bit more in the general election campaign. And what did
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that get us? That got us Ronald Efing Reagan. Two
terms of Ronald Efing Reagan and his vice president George Bush,
vice president's idiot son, George W. Bush. Oh, and forty
years of even the most virulently anti Carter operatives realizing
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they had not only enabled Reagan, but they had also
sabotaged the most honorable man to hold the White House
in the twentieth century. So there it is, Bob, we
do what you keep going on television and demanding while
you insult Biden with charges of hubris, and the Democrats
who will not Julius Caesar him with fecklessness, and we
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have two possible outcomes. We successfully lbj Joe Biden and
run a Hubert Humphrey instead and guarantee Trump wins, or
we unsuccessfully LBJ Joe Biden and just damage him enough
every day for the next two hundred and fifty days
and we guarantee Trump wins. Your call, Bob, you want
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to run Joe Biden, who got sixty six percent of
the strong vote in New Hampshire even though he wasn't
on the ballot, who took the South Carolina primary by
ninety four points, who one Nevada by seventy eight points,
who is projected by all the actual Moody's analytics people
to almost certainly win the general, probably by seventy or
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more electoral votes without any improvement between now and November.
And it was so threatening to the Republicans that first
they embraced a Russian baked plot starring a now arrested
Russian asset to impeach and remove Biden from office, And
now they have segued to embracing a Trump baked plot
with a Congressional hearing starring a corrupt Special Council to
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portray him as infirm to encourage the Democrats to remove
him from the ballot. You and the Republican Trump Operative
Special Council are on the same side of this, Bob, So, Bob,
John Ezra, everybody else walking this tightrope. You're going to
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run Biden or you're going to stab him and the
eighty one million people who voted for him in the back.
So you can run who Kamala Harris whose approval numbers
are at Biden's levels or slightly lower, and who in
the latest Emerson poll trails Trump by three? Or are
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you going to knife the president and the vice president
and run Gavin Newsom instead, who in the same Emerson
poll loses to Trump by ten and who will oh,
by the way, won't do it anyway? Or how about
the promising Gretchen Whitmer who loses to Trump by twelve?
I know Michelle Obama, who wants nothing to do with
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this ever, Again, say Bob, I hear Dean Phillips is
interested and Jank Yuger. How feckless are the Democrats if
they realize this guy could possibly lose to Trump. Bob
Costas asked rhetorically, while I'm the Michael Smercanish Show on
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CNN Saturday. If you do not know the Michael smarcana Show,
it features a rock ribbed conservative schmuck who has part
of his act in which he tries to con people
that he's middle of the road. He never raises his
voice or says anything mean. He just attacks liberals and
democrats and minorities every day for the last twenty years.
And Bob went on his show, and Bob went on
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and on on his show, then get somebody else out there,
Bob explained, You don't go into the super Bowl with
a quarterback with a dead arm. You don't do it.
This is so obvious. Well, it's obvious if you don't
know politics in twenty twenty four, or if you don't
know political history, or if you don't know the law
or the polls or the electoral computer models, or just
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as importantly, if you don't know the processes that would
have to be invented to push Joe Biden off this
cliff you want to push him off of because they
do not exist. Even if this was somehow the right
move and guaranteed to succeed, rather than almost guaranteed to
give Trump four hundred electoral votes, there is no legal
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way to do it. When Costas first broached this while
he was on with Bill Maher, And by the way,
Bill Maher has now even given up pretending he knows
what the hell actually happens in the world outside of
his dressing room. They sort of skipped over the actual
procedure for presidential nomination usurpation that Bob favored and Bill favored.
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Oh is this an election here? All these guys Costas
mar Stuart the hapless Ezra Kleine who he bounced from
Countdowns guest list around two thousand and eight because he
wasn't just dull, he didn't actually seem to know anything.
All these guys approached that little trivial detail, just how
do you throw the sitting president of the United States
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off the ticket? They treated that kind of dismissively. The
most specific any of them have gotten is talk him
into standing aside. And what do you do then, Bob?
When Biden says no, everybody has a plan Bob until
they get punched in the face by Joe Biden. Quote.
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If Biden's hubris is such that he doesn't understand the
best interest of his party and more importantly his country.
Bob now says, then he has to be shown the
door period. Well, ah, that settles it, Bob. I'm sorry. Jill,
the President says to his wife, doctor Biden. I was
going to run and I was going to win, but
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then Bob Costas told me I can't run, and then
he showed me the door. There is no legal process
to do this. The last window to file for the
remaining democratic primaries closes in all but a handful of
states on who Bob Thursday. So you were going to
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remove him after he wins all the primaries and clinches
all the delegates. You're going to cut his legs off
at the convention, by which point he controls everything up
to and including the credentials and the tickets that could
get you into the convention. And even if there is
some hidden parachute mechanism, some other break glass, in the
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event of emergency process, if he wanted, Joe Biden could
take you to court. So now you are not only
doing Trump's bidding Bob by damaging Biden, and you are
trying to do Trump's bidding and Moscow's bidding and Putin's
bidding by getting Trump an easier opponent. Not only you're
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doing all that, but you're now going to split the
Democratic Party into two wings, the wing with the President
of the United States in it, and the other wing,
the Bob Costas, Ezra Kleine, Bill Maher, John Stuart, Dean
Phillips wing, which consists of five people Costas, kleinb Mar Stuart,
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and Dean Phillips. You know, Bob, Dean Phillips is a
really iffy attendance record for stuff like this. The cost
is kleinb Mar Stuart Phillips wing of five people may
only have four people in it. And then the two
wings are going to sue each other five months before
the election, so you can rally the nation behind checks
notes Democratic presidential nominee J. B. Pritzker. And we haven't
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even gotten to that recap of the war gaming that
I promised. You do it, Bob, You show Biden the door,
and what happens next. What happens next is Donald Trump
spends the rest of the campaign noting correctly. I might
add that he has already beaten Joe Biden and this
new guy, notes Democratic nominee JENK. Huger, he shouldn't even
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be allowed on the ballot. And oh, by the way,
Bob Biden is still on the actual ballot at every state.
And maybe Trump says, now that I've beaten Joe Biden
thanks to Bob costas, we don't actually need to hold
an election. I'll just take over now. And you know,
he is crazy enough to try a real coup with
tanks this time. Whether or not he does it, I
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don't know. Somebody has to show him the door. I
guess at minimum, Bob, he will not debate your Biden
replacement level presidential candidate, because if you knock Biden off,
sixty to seventy percent of the name recognition in this
election will belong to Donald Trump. He's running against Mary
Ann Williamson is the Democratic nominee. Incidentally, Bob, if you
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do oust Biden, are you assuming that only one Democrat
will try to replace him, or will there be so
many any of them rushing to get the nomination that
some of them will get stampeded at the front door. No. No,
I'm sure they'll be controlled and respectful of one another. Bob.
Instead of spending millions at their sudden manna from heaven
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gift of how to succeed to the presidency without really trying.
I'm sure they will be polite and unified, and they'll
operate only for the good of the party. That twenty
eight different Democrats vied to run against Trump last time
should not be considered a precedent. Plus, from what I
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can tell from your plan, they might even agree to
just let you choose, Bob.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And by the way, Bob, whoever you do choose your plan,
b replacement is now the untested, unproven, unqualified one. Suddenly
we do not have the president running versus the crazy
ex president, have the crazy ex president running against checks
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notes Bill de Blasio.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And also, by the way, Bob, you have also made
the President of the United States into a lame duck,
unless you are expecting him to outright resign, in which
case Kamala Harris is the president and the presumptive nominee
unless you're intending to shive her too. And regardless, new
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president lame duck, two lame ducks. What happens to the
Trump trials, Bob? Why would Trump bother to show up
in court for any of them? In in America run
by a lame duck or a caretaker president who is
going to lose by ten points, while every day Trump
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gets to boast about how he has already beaten the
deep state, and he has beaten the new Democratic dominee
checks notes, Roy Cooper or Bob Nightmare of all nightmares.
For the first time in his life, Trump says something
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that is not a partial or total lie. He finesses this.
He pretends to be sympathetic to Joe Biden. Poor Biden.
Look what the Democrats did to him. Look what Bob
Costas did to him.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Why why?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Trump says, it's an insurrection against the sitting president of
the United States. I empathize with you, Democrats. You have
been denied your choice. So I'd like to introduce my
new vice president on a unity ticket, Joe Mansion. So
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those are the things that happen if you get your
way lawsuits, a rookie presidential candidate who gets to start
campaign in March, a unity ticket on the other side,
a broker Democratic convention, or a wounded incumbent president still
on the ticket, and you have handed the dictatorship of
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the United States to Trump by fifty five forty five
sixty forty or maybe you have sent half the Democratic
voters to third party candidates. So Bob, now there's a
chance RFK Junior finishes second, and for the first time
since nineteen twelve, the incumbent president of the United States
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finishes third and a two man race. And if that
were not bad enough, the day after the election, the
opposition to Trump, which might be the last thing left
between us and absolute dictatorship in this country and the
end of democracy in this country. After the election, the
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opposition to Trump would be splintered because you, Bob, you
showed Biden the door. Not great, Bob. Incidentally, I do
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know this has ended my friendship with Bob, and I'm
sorry about that. I valued it and I tried for
several weeks behind the scenes to talk to him about
what he had said on Bill Maher, and he was
not listening, as evidenced by his appearance with Smirkanish. I mean,
the next step down from Smircanish is going on Fox News.
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I was going to leave one thing out of this,
but I just can't. And there's really no reason to not.
Now that sports analogy that he made quote, you don't
go into the super Bowl with a quarterback with a
dead arm, you don't do it. This is so obvious
that also does not work even as a sports analogy,
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because what Bob is proposing is Patrick Mahomes of the
Kansas City Chiefs has a dead arm before the Super Bowl,
so you replace him with Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers. Bob,
they don't let you take a quarterback from a different
team to replace your quarterback in the super Bowl. You
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can only use your already backup quarterback in that in
this scenario is Blaine Gabbert. So in the costas post
Biden world, the Democrat running against Trump and the momentum
of his madness and him being the only incumbent and
having all of the media and the Kremlin behind him,
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the Democrat who gets to run instead of Biden against
that is whichever Democrat you Bob think is Blaine Gabbert.
And lastly, on this, let me broaden this out. This
age and purported infirmity stuff, which by the way, has
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not been alleged in anything other than sound bites. There
is no allegation that the office of president is not
being fulfilled or is being fulfilled poorly in any way.
This age stuff is becoming the conventional wisdom on TV news,
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And why it is becoming the conventional wisdom on TV
news and why they keep saying this is sadly easily
explained Kristin Welker, the first in NBC, hired apparently to
make Chuck Todd look not quite that bad in retrospect,
asked Gavin Newsom Sunday if it was quote responsible for
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the Democrats to put Biden on the top of the ticket.
And of course when Bob costas self defense it was
on CNN about a month ago. One of the hosts
on CNN named Abby Philip, she's on four nights a week.
I know you don't know who she is, stated, quote,
nobody wants Trump, nobody wants Biden, as if it were
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fact and not the product of the Beltway bubble, in
which she and everybody who works on her show and
everybody who knows her lives and given the ratings, that's
not a lot of people. But the mentality here pre
dates this by decades. It is, in fact ancient. It
dates back to when TV news owned the nation. There
has always been a kind of fomo at every national
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TV news operation. Fear that the other guy will say
something that you did not say. Look, a presidential race
in which both candidates were enfeebled would be an easy
thing for stupid people like Kristen Welker and the NBC
News chairman Caesar Conde to digest, and thus easy for
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them to sell. It is also easy to use as
a promotional tool. It's an ongoing storyline, like Clinton Lewinsky was,
like the Iran hostages were for ABC and Nightline in
nineteen seventy nine. In nineteen eighty, the day the Clinton
Lewinsky story broke, one executive turned to another in the
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MSNBC control room, pointed to a monitor and shouted, we
have found our nightline and that guy is our ted couple.
Unfortunately he was pointing at me. TV newspeople, especially in Washington,
most of them are not smart, and they live in
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dread that somebody else will get and dominate the next
running story. So even if everybody else is saying the
same thing and the same thing is nonsense, especially if
everybody else is saying nonsense, they will hyperventilate at the
thought that they might not say it as well. It
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is the Emperor's new clothes. We have to report this,
they reported it. I always think back to a day
in nineteen eighty three when I was working in the
CNN Washington bureau covering the return to town after their
Super Bowl victory of what were then the unfortunately named
Washington Redskins. I had just finished producing my taped report
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when the bureau's chief assignment editor ran in, breathless with
a video cassette Reagan. She shouted, Reagan just congratulated the
team on camera. Here's your new lead. And I looked
at her and said, yeah, no, thanks, no offense. Politics
really doesn't fit into this. It's a sports story. She
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turned white. She called my boss, she called my boss's boss. Happily,
my bosses at CNN Sports trusted my judgment then, anyway,
and Reagan try, I had to turn a football game
into a campaign point. That didn't happen, not in my
story anyway. The next morning, when a CNN Washington anchor
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reported on the team's return to DC, she led into
my report, but first she played the Reagan SoundBite. This
is why you have heard this utter nonsense about Biden,
and you will continue to see this utter nonsense on
NBC because CNN said it. Because if CNN says it
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and NBC doesn't say it, and some ratings on some
show at NBC News are lower than executives expected. They
will decide it is because we at NBC did not
say this about Biden, and they say it because ABC
said it, and ABC said it because CBS said it.
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And the problem with this is that somewhere at the
start of this mechanism one of them said it because
Fox News said it, and Fox News said it because
Trump said it. And that's why Bob Costas and everybody
else needs to shut the f up about Biden's age.
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Also of interest here, yes, the subject is how with
it people are? And Friday I promoted the upcoming live podcast,
The Countdown with Keith Olderman State of the Union postgame show,
and I said it was on December seventh. That'd be
March March seventh. December seventh would be going back in time.
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I'm skilled, but not that skilled. As to today's news,
there is nothing big and new, but lots of follow
ups that are new, like Kenny the Cheese lying to
prosecutors about the Trump fake elector scheme and James Homer's
star Russian plant witness is not fleeing anywhere. And yes,
you are not crazy. If Trump lost forty percent of
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the Republican vote, in another primary. Yes, he is in trouble,
so much trouble that even Axio's Politico and Matt Drudge
noticed that he's in trouble. And there is reportedly a
price on Tucker Carlson's head and that price is four
thousand dollars. That's next. This is an all new edition
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of Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith album post scripts
to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark, some predictions.
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Dateline thirty Rockefeller Center, New York artists entrance on his
way in to record a guest shot with Seth Myers.
At NBC last night, President Biden was asked when a
Gaza ceasefire could start, and he answered that one is close,
hoping by monday.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
My not security advisor tells me that we're close, We're close,
not done yet, and I hope by next Monday will
have a ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Two options here. This is one hundred percent accurate and
in good faith, and there may be a ceasefire by Monday.
And Biden has adroitly walked the Middle East tightrope and
really will get that ceasefire, which would utterly undermine the
he's too old argument or it's enhanced a little maybe
sketchier than he lets on, but he said it just
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in time to make the network six thirty newscasts and
the Seth Meyers interview, and in plenty of time to
hit the pro Palestinian voting block in today's Democratic primary
in Michigan, which would also utterly undermine the he's too
old argument. By the way, o'biden said that while he
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was eating an ice cream cone. No comment yet from
Bob Costas Dateline Los Angeles Smirnoff on ice. US District
Judge Otis D. Wright the Second has ordered James Comer's
favorite putin plant, Alexander Smirnoff held without bail, apparently until trial,
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after he was re arrested for lying to the FBI.
His accomplices, clients and or victims the House Republican Caucus
and Trump have not been charged yet. Originally arrested in
Nevada and then ordered released by the judge, special counsel
David Weiss took the unusual step of refiling against Smirnoff
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in California, and he was arrested again at his lawyer's offices,
and Weiss was nice enough to hint that he thought
the lawyers were trying to help Smirnoff flee the country.
As it relates to the Republican's disaster attempt to smear
Hunter Biden and impeach his father based on Smirnov's lies,
you almost wonder if it would have been better to
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let him flee, maybe to Russia, but there are so
many windows in Russia. By the way, Hunter Biden testifies
behind closed doors to the House Oversight and we really
mean Oversight Committee tomorrow if things roll out honestly, next year,
James Comer will be testifying at his own trial Dateline
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and Arbor. Trump ambulance chaser Kenneth Kenny, the cheese chesbro
under indictment in the Georgia electoral subversion case, told investigators
in Michigan that he did not have a Twitter burner
account and he did not ever advocate any extra legal
means of stealing Michigan's electoral votes in twenty twenty and
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somehow getting them assigned to Trump. CNN reports, Oh yeah,
he actually did do that. His lawyer confirmed the account
Badger Pundit was Chesbrow's burner and from it. On November seventh,
twenty twenty, Chesbrow tweeted quote, you don't get the big picture.
Trump doesn't have to get courts to declare him the
winner of the vote. He just needs to convince Republican
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legislatures that the election was systematically rigged, but it's impossible
to run it again, so they should appoint electors instead.
That's Kenneth Chesbrow, and he is in a world of hurt.
Dateline South Carolina. Trump has declared the Republican primary is over,
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even though the polling average showed him leading Haley in
South Carolina by twenty eight points, but he wound up
only winning by twenty points. In New Hampshire. The same average,
which is compiled by five point thirty eight dot com,
was an eighteen point Trump lead and the only one
there by eleven in South Carolina. He can claim anything
he wants, but even Matt Drudge's headline was forty percent
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of Republicans vote against Trump up in South Carolina. Even
more shockingly, this headline Trump's demographic problem, which was a
Topaxios dot com and this one the warning signs in
Trump's South Carolina romp, a top Politico. Moreover, Politico's top
White House guy noted that slightly more than one out
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of five Republican primary voters told exit polling that they
will not vote for Trump, and if that number were
to hold, it would be Biden by one hundred electoral votes.
I understand everybody at Politico has now been fired for this.
A lot of often reliable political analysts have been noting
that Trump's support in the primaries is about where it
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was in twenty sixteen, around sixty percent in the Republican primaries.
But at this point in twenty sixteen, Trump was running
against eleven opponents, including four governors and three senators. He
was beating eleven people by sixty to they're combined forty.
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He is now beating one opponent by sixty forty. There
are no two ways about this. Trump is underperforming and
people should start reporting that and dateline Trump trials. Prosecutors
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in New York have preemptively asked Judge Juan mare Shaan
for a gag order against Trump to stop him in
advance from publicly disparaging witnesses in the Stormy Daniel's hutch
money case, which opens next month, and do not be
fooled in the other New York trial. Trump has not
filed the appeal of what is now with interest. Thank
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you for this data. Letitia James the four hundred and
sixty four million, eight hundred and five thousand dollars he
owes in the New York Business fraud guilty decision. He
has filed notice that he will appeal, giving him thirty
days to raise that amount and more and put it
into escrow or he can't file the appeal. And just
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for the sake of fairness, I am willing to buy
Trump Tower from Donald Trump. It has a nice view
of the park. I'll pay cash. My offer is twenty seven,
nine hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents.
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This is Sports Senate. Wait check that not anymore. This
is Countdown with Keith Alberman in Sports dateline. The Grapefruit
League in Florida and the Cactus League in Arizona and
baseball spring training. And we have a new explanation for
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why the new baseball uniforms look like they shrunk in
the wash, all three thousand or so of them. Shrunk
in the wash for all three thousand players. Tiny little
letters on the backs of the uniforms, tiny little numbers.
They look like you might have been able to buy
them at a discount store. Although the part about sea
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threw pants is a bit of an exaggeration. They've been
like that for a couple of years. Still, when somebody
tweeted about a home run in a spring training game
over the weekend and wrote another massive dog for the
Cubs and was sub tweeted with when you don't know
if the tweet is about a homer or the pants,
that's pretty funny. Still. The explanation for this sartorial disaster,
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it is not as much the fault of the manufacturers
Nike and Fanatics as it is the fault of Major
League Baseball itself. My old friend and play by play
booth mate at ESPN, Eddie Perez, revealed that Baseball asked
for its corporate logo to be moved and enlarged, taken
from the very top of the back up by the
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collar to lower down below the collar piping. That threw
off the whole back of the uniforms, and they had
to make the letters and numbers smaller as a result.
There is more hope than ever that the uniforms will
now melt during the first real rainfall. Dateline thirty rock again.
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Peter King, the NFL insider upon whom all the other
NFL insiders and the NBA insiders and the MLB insiders
and the NHL insiders are based, is retiring after forty
years on the beat at Sports Illustrated and later NBC,
where he wrote The Monday Morning Quarterback, which Sam Flood
at NBC moronically ordered renamed to Football Morning in America.
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Worked with Peter at Football Night in America, which was
a real thing, and he was a pleasure. Most insiders
make you adjust to their needs. It's understandable Peter worked
the other way around. Anybody mind if I take this
call from the commissioner, Okay, I'll be right back. Excuse me, guys,
dead series polite to the end. Peter's wife, Anne also
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was the best baker spouse I have ever met in
the industry. Carrot cakes, cookies, whatever, something new every week.
I gained one hundred and seventy five pounds in three
years on Football Night in America. Now it is Peter's
chance to eat all that food. Only Peter King would
note that he has attended forty consecutive Super Bowls. So
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when you talk about the commercials and the other fluff
and even the halftime shows. He really has never known
what you've meant, and he's now looking forward to finding
out next year. Godspeed and dateline and in Dale, Virginia,
former Major League baseball pitcher Jim Hannon has died. He
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won forty one games and lost forty eight games over
a ten year stretch with Washington, Detroit, and Milwaukee, ending
in nineteen seventy one. He was a pretty good pitcher
at Notre Dame before that, and what anybody who remembers
him for that does not know was that Jim Hannon
had a degree in business and his college research paper
was about the baseball pension plan. The paper was so good.
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When the first real head of the Baseball Union, Marvin Miller,
was seeking to shore up that pension plan, he relied
on Jim Hannon's college paper from Notre Dame. And then
in nineteen eighty two, Jim Hannon did something wonderful. He
founded and for fourteen years led the Major League Baseball
Players Alumni Association, advocating for ex players in need and
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their families and launching scholarships and programs for ex players
to give back. Jim Hannon was far more than a
pitcher who once won ten games in one season for
the Washington Senators. He was still chairman of the Major
League Baseball Players Alumni Association when he died earlier this month.
He was eighty five years old. Stell ahead of us
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on this all new edition of Countdown. It'll be time
for the first ever Countdown Baseball Spring Training preview. This
will be great if this is the year nineteen seventy eight.
I have gone deep into the vaults, and I will
present to you what I got and what I put
on the air. After my first trip to spring training
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as a reporter age nineteen scam forty six years ago.
This month, I had in things I promised not to tell.
My voice had almost completely changed. First, Yes, still more
idiots talk about the daily roundup of the miss Grins, Morons, Undunn,
and Krueger effect specimens, who constitute two days worse persons
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in the world, the bronze worse. It's a tie. Jonathan Allen,
Matt Dixon, Garrett hate Von Hilliard, Carol E. Lee, and
Kristin Welker of NBC News. Why so many of them?
I guess on the theory that they all decided, well, hell,
they can't fire all of us for this crap their
reaction to Trump losing forty percent of the vote in
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the Republican primary Saturday night, an article with all of
their bylines on at Alan Dixon, Ake Hilliard, Lee, and
Welker titled Fewer Grievances, More Policy, Trump Aids and allies
push for a post South Carolina pivot because we haven't
had a good laugh at Kristin Welker's expense in hours,
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or good laugh at the idea that anybody actually paid
to cover politics would fall for the idea of a
Trump pivot in year ten of Trump's insanity, a pivot.
This first ten years of him being baby Hitler and
trying to run a coup and telling his mobs to
kill people like NBC News employees, that was just prelude.
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Now he's gonna pivot. The real Trump's gonna come out.
In the thirty six hours after this NBC piece of
crap and Trump's insistence that he no longer cared about
Nicki Haley, Trump posted eleven different times about Nicki Haley.
Oh my god, NBC Saturday was the day Trump truly
became president? Is that right? Kristen Welker, A bunch of idiots,
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which reminds us of the runner up worser, the man
who put that moronic phrase on the map. Trump became
president of the United States in that moment period. Van
Jones guilty of premature jocularity yet again. The first time
he said something as stupid as that was on March first,
twenty seventeen. That was three years and ten months before
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Trump tried to overthrow the government. Van Jones is also
an idiot that is well established, but he's hit a
new high and low. Listen to this about Democrats and
Republicans working together, because otherwise the bird doesn't fly.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
I've never seen a bird fly with only a left wing.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
I've never seen a bird fly with only a right wing,
not even in Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
We need each other, We need each other.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Van The right wing doesn't want us to fly. The
right wing wants to kill us and eat us. And oh,
by the way, you know where Van Jones said that
he went to Sea Pack. Van Jones talked to Seapack
at that conservative convention where they all completely connect from
reality and where Trump compares himself to Nelson Mandela and
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Alexeynavali and Christy Nomes says Biden and Harris suck which
given her extramarital affairs as a curious verb to use,
and at least Stephanic referred to the Biden crime family,
and not one person came out of the crowd to
kick her squarely in the ass, and Matt Gates threatened
to aid to not just Ukraine but also Israel. What
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were you doing there, Van Jones? That is disqualifying. You
want to sit next to this guy, Schlap, take your
chances with that. You go join the Republican Nazi Party.
Go talk to them about bipartisanship. Talk by partisanship with
people who claim the plantation owners taught the slaves how
to become blacksmiths. But our winner the worst Tucker Conelson,
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somebody named Mario Naffel as in awful but with an
N who makes stuff up and claims he he's a
news operation. His scoop yesterday, quoting some site called intel Drop,
which itself claims to be a news organization based in
Iceland or something. Tucker Carlson assassination plot foiled. No, I
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know it's not what you're expecting. He wasn't going to
assassinate somebody apparently somebody was going to assassinate Tucker Carlson
and didn't I know what a sad day quote. Russian
forces reportedly arrested a man for a planned attack on Tucker,
allegedly orchestrated by Ukraine's intelligence. The plot allegedly involved an
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ied targeting Carlson's vehicle at the Four Seasons Hotel, wait
the Four Seasons Kremlin. Tucker Carlson didn't stay at the
Kremlin Motel six. Also, I thought Russia was perfect. They
have IEDs in the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow. But
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here is the real punchline quote. The suspect reportedly admitted
to receiving four thousand dollars for the attacks execution Tucker.
There's a price on my head. On that price is
four thousand dollars American Carlson two days, worst and cheapest
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person in the world. Four years, pretty much until I
left Los Angeles local news for ESPN in nineteen ninety two,
I tried to record every broadcast I did radio television. Well,
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it was just radio and television. I was going to
say something else, but it was just radio and television.
In nineteen ninety two, I was often mocked for this
because there was an element of ego to it, although
really I needed to see if I I was getting
any better or worse, and I had a vague sense
of if I don't record these who will the end result?
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Everybody now wants to hear my tapes and see my videos.
And if I did it, I got it on tape
somewhere somewhere, including whenever baseball spring training opens. This pretty
good series. I did the Spring Training Journal mostly my
own interviews. I did it for WVBRFM at Cornell and Anthica,
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New York, just before the start of the baseball season
of nineteen seventy eight. Nineteen seven d eight and now
part one of the report on Spring Training Via the
magic of tape, we take you to a place where
it is warm and sunny, Miami Stadium.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
Baseball people approach spring training from very different angles. Yankee
manager Billy Martin has described it as a waste of time,
an opinion that holds little weight with one of my
Martin's chief rivals, Earl Weaver of Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
I've been doing a lot of experimenting, playing people in
different positions so that when you get narth if for
some reason you have to get more offensive people in
the lineup, that I can maybe switch an Eddie Murray
from first to third base, which enables me to get
lee at first movie, hit her into the designated spot,
and different things. And you use spring training for that purpose,
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and sometimes you don't win a lot of games in
doing it, but at least you're.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Finding things out. Not winning a lot of games is
not necessarily a bad thing. However.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
In fact, too much success in spring training is feared
by MADI, including Philadelphia's Danny Ozark. His club started slowly
last year, and Ozark blames it on a hot spring training.
Speaker 7 (46:45):
I think we're like eighteen and six or something like
that in the spring, and now the season starts, and
that seems like everybody not complacent. But everybody feels like, well,
something's going to happen listening and we're going to get
some runs. It just didn't happen. So what we're trying
to do is kind of work up to this plan
day and not.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
All the players are happy with the way the camps work.
Speaker 6 (47:07):
Jim Rice of the Red Sox is a need for
a greater simulation of the regular season, especially for his
club's pitchers.
Speaker 8 (47:13):
To me, spring training is mainly getting shape, and now
guys are in shape, but I don't think they're millon
prepared because they go out and just only pitch four
or five innues. I think in order to be a
complete pitcher, you got to go out and go nine
and say, hey, I gotta go nine today. And I
think when a pitcher walked out of the mine, he's
you have in his mind, Hey, I want to go
nine innies tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (47:28):
In Part two of our series on spring training, a
look at the readjustment some ballplayers have to go through.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Now, let's go to part two of our spring training journal.
Speaker 6 (47:36):
For some baseball people, spring training is a time of readjustment.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Trades, hirings, firings, and now the free.
Speaker 6 (47:42):
Agent system make for strange faces in strange uniforms each spring.
For Bobby Bonds of the Chicago White Sox, it's almost
old hat. For the third time in four springs, Bonds
joins a new club, but this year, at least, he
says he's not uncomfortable in his new surroundings.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
What really helps out this year is that the guys
on the team are good individuus, and they really are there.
The atmosphere of the whole team is good with stems
from the front office, fields, back and through. Bob Lemon
comes right on down with the players. So I don't
feel like a stranger really anymore. I feel like a
complete part of the ball, the whole structure of it,
and I don't feel that there's one individual that I
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can go to talk to.
Speaker 6 (48:18):
Other players go from losers to winners. John Mattlack suffered
through six seasons with the New York Mets. Now he
is part of a major contender, the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 8 (48:26):
It's a good feeling to come from a team that
was once a contender and sort of want to slip
downhill a little bit to a team.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
That is now a contender. So you know, any time
a situation like that arises, you've got to feel good
about it.
Speaker 6 (48:35):
While matt Lack moves from the bottom to the top,
the root was reversed for Bobby Cox, first base coach
for the world champion New York Yankees last season, manager
of the dormat Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
This year, I.
Speaker 9 (48:45):
Enjoyed my first year in the big leagues where the
Yankees as a coach, and actually we went on to
win the Pennant and the playoffs and the World Series
and everything, and it was really an exciting year. And
I went to this club which finished dead lash last year,
but I've enjoyed every min of it.
Speaker 6 (48:56):
And then there's Fergey Jenkins who goes to a new
and old team in seventy eight as he returns to
the Texas Rangers. Jenkins was last at Texan in seventy five,
and he sees a difference this time around.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
The team is a little more experienced, They have a
little more depth, they have more experienced ballplayers. I think
that the biggest thing is that this team is a
contender now or maybe at the one year when I
was with Billy martin seventy four, we made a push
to jump on Oakland, but we.
Speaker 10 (49:21):
Came up short.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
But this year it looks like that the team could
do it. Tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (49:24):
In Part three of the Spring Training Series, a look
at a team that operates on a wing and a prayer,
Bill Vex's Chicago White.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
Sox, and now to Part three of the Spring Training Journal.
Speaker 10 (49:33):
The Chicago White.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Sox seem to have found.
Speaker 6 (49:35):
A new way to be competitive in these days of
millionaire free agents and discontented stars. The Socks go for
the low scale free agents, the comeback players, and the
rents a slugger system. Last year it was Eric Soderholm,
a third baseman recovered from the junk pile after a
season of inactivity due to a knee injury.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Solderholm is a student of.
Speaker 6 (49:52):
Psychological conditioning and he thinks if you put somebody on
the spot, he'll produce. Solderholm also thinks that the Chicago
owner feels the same way.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Well, Bill Riggs got that idea.
Speaker 6 (50:01):
Now this year's camp, because we has sixty players, they're.
Speaker 11 (50:03):
In the camp so many people battling for so many downs.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
It puts everybody on the spot that forces you to
for do it.
Speaker 6 (50:09):
This year, the recovery project is Ron Bloomberg, who has
come to back twice in two and a half years
due to recurring shoulder and leg problems. So far this spring,
Bloomberg is healthy. But don't remind him of his past
physical infirmity.
Speaker 10 (50:21):
Oh, don't talk.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
About injuries for me. I had enough in my career.
Speaker 9 (50:23):
I just go out there and do the best I can.
Speaker 4 (50:25):
I think I'm doing quite well for the amount of
time when I have been playing.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
I'm hitting the ball really well.
Speaker 8 (50:31):
I'm not swinging with a lot of power, but I'm
hitting a lot of line drives.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
I think for being out for two and a half years,
I think I'm doing a.
Speaker 2 (50:38):
Remarkable job so far.
Speaker 6 (50:40):
Last year, Chicago's here, Today, Gone tomorrow sluggers were Oscar
Gamble and Richie Zisk. This year it's Bobby Bods, who,
although he may be in Chicago for only one season,
promises to be a team player.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
My main concern each year is to go out and contribute.
Speaker 10 (50:53):
If I go out and I.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Can contribute to the team and I stay.
Speaker 4 (50:58):
Healthy, I will help the team and I will have
a good year on my own because I will be
doing what the team has expected me to do. But
to say that it's the most important thing for me
to hit forty homers and still forty bases and we
don't win, No, I want to contribute to a winning
cause and whatever that takes, that's what I want.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
To do the White Sox.
Speaker 6 (51:13):
The formula is cheap, efficient, unique, and most importantly, it works. Tomorrow,
as our five part series continues, a look at spring
training for a losing team, the Atlanta Braves. Now here's
part four of the Spring training Journal of All of
baseball's losers, probably the Atlanta Braves are the most unique.
Spring training for them has to have highlights other than
a view to a successful season, and such a highlight
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was presented this year by the appearance of Jim Bouten
in the club's minor league camp. Another highlight colorful owner
Ted Turner's tongue in cheek description of mister Boughton.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
He's got a lot of talent.
Speaker 11 (51:45):
He can play baseball, we can write, he can announce,
and he's twenty his month. We could use the guy
with a lot of talent on that well, who knows
one of our writers that's travel with the team. I'd
come down in a fluids I'm making to thrill in
in a lot of different pisations.
Speaker 6 (52:00):
Would Turner take advantage of Boughton's notoriety and call into
the majors? Is a publicity stunt.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
I don't know. It's Bobby Cox.
Speaker 11 (52:06):
There's a vantage this club and Bill Lucas all right,
do it to cry and play the bill.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
But the presence of a manager never stopped Turner.
Speaker 6 (52:12):
Last year, he temporarily took over the Braves ass skipper,
replacing Dave Bristol.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Bristol is gone. Now, Bobby Cox is the new man
in charge.
Speaker 6 (52:19):
He's running a camp of forty six players, only fourteen
of whom were major leaguers on opening day of nineteen
seventy seven.
Speaker 9 (52:25):
Really, we're just trying to give everybody a chance to
ply and see as much of them as we can,
because we do we're kind of unique in most spring
training and most spring training camps, and then we've got
a lot more decisions to make. Most camps have maybe
one change in our starting lineup or so. And you
know where our eyes and ears are open, and we
have meetings a lot with our coaching staff, and the
instructors are are in camp and evaluate all the talent
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that we have, and we're going to break North with
our twenty five best.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
It might only be the best twenty four. The Braves may.
Speaker 6 (52:54):
Not be able to afford that last player, which brings
us back to owner Ted Turner. All right, do it crime,
pay the bill, and that's believe me, that's a big
job too.
Speaker 11 (53:02):
I got I'm not sure that the Cavenge facing leaders the.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Well through the lighter.
Speaker 6 (53:07):
The Braves not the best, not even secure, but certainly
not dull. Tomorrow in the final part of our series
on spring training, Where were You When the Lights Went Out?
And now the fifth and final part of the Spring
Training Journal. The differences between spring training and the regular
Major League Baseball season come out in minor ways, subtly
like that one night in Fort Lauderdale, right here in
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the middle of the sixth thenny the bottom of the
six between the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves,
just after Mickey Klutz had hit a ball down the
first baseline, the lights suddenly went out. They remained out.
A lot of flash bulbs are flashing because the fans
are taking pictures of the darkness, which doesn't make too
much sense in itself, but anyway, the Yankees were leading
here six to two when the lights suddenly went out.
Some people are lighting matches here and there calls for playball.
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But the lights all the towers there, there are about
a half dozen of them.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
They're all out right now and hidden by the darkness.
Speaker 6 (53:58):
The evil that lurks in the hearts of men came
out into the open now.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
The players are all converging around the Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (54:05):
Dug out, while a group of fans is apparently run
out into the field in an attempt to get third base.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
I think they're fans. What are they out there? Yes,
they are. They're being led from the field. At this point,
a couple of fans.
Speaker 6 (54:16):
Went out to the field during the darkness here an
attempted to snatch third base, but a couple of security
officers called them there and stopped them. During all this,
Atlanta owner Ted Turner and Yankee president George Steinbrenner sat
helplessly in the dark.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Finally somebody found the light switch.
Speaker 6 (54:36):
That the aroar from the crowd as some of the
lights have gone back on, the lights in the press box.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
And now the field lights, and with the.
Speaker 6 (54:50):
Exception of the two field lights out in wet Field,
they're all back on now because two more and there
they go.
Speaker 2 (54:55):
It's almost like they'll be able to resume. Ah.
Speaker 6 (54:58):
Yes, spring training in the regular season just ain't the same,
But soon the change from exhibitions to the real thing
will take place. And starting more on World Report Sports,
we'll take a look at the divisional and league races
for nineteen seventy eight. And that's the early sports tonight.
I'm Keith Oberman. Have a very good weekend. Molly comings
back with more sports tonight on late edition at eleven Carol.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Thank you, Keith.
Speaker 4 (55:17):
It's five point fifty seven the stock report right after
this word from garage to France.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
When I found the cassette those were recorded onto in
March nineteen seventy eight, I was surprised to find on
it that I had done and completely forgotten, a live
promo for that series. I had done it by phone
from Miami Stadium, then the home of the Baltimore Orioles,
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and it was done live on our five thirty newscast
in Ithaca. And I was in Miami on the friday
that spring break ended, and the friday thus that my
trip to Florida ended. This was actually done. It suddenly
flashed back on me as well, about an hour after
I had been sitting in the stands at the beautiful
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old Art Deco ballpark in Miami, and I had recorded
all those narrations in that series you just heard. This
was the preview, and now Keith Olberman recording from the
Miami Stadium.
Speaker 10 (56:14):
Thank you, Mike. I'm parisally perched here in the press
box high a top Miami Stadium, a charismatic old place
that looks a little bit more like a metal barn
than it does a ballpark where the Baltimore Orioles and
Cincinnati Reds will play tonight. Yet, if there is one
thing that a week in the baseball spring training camps
teaches you, it's that appearances can be deceiving. The uniforms
are major league and so are the players, but what's
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been happening on the field certainly is not. And that
counts both before and during the actual games. For where
else but spring training would you hear thurman Munson singing
short people. Where else would a Yankee player apologize to
a sports writer? And where else could you see owners
Ted Turner and George Steinbriter sit helplessly by as the
game between their two teams is halted by a short
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circuit blackout. Nowhere else but spring training. Then there are
other things you expect, like contrasts. Why just day before
yesterday the Baltimore Orioles, Who's did Los Angeles? You guessed it?
Here's effervescence for you. Tommy Will, sort of, a manager
of the Dodgers.
Speaker 11 (57:11):
Feel great. I can't wait till the season begins. I've
told everybody I got a weight problem. I can't wait
till it all begins, and I'm just ecstatic about this
ball club and we're going to have a lot of fun.
And it's an honor to be associated with outstanding players.
But above all, they're outstanding young man and the contract.
Speaker 10 (57:30):
How about Earl Weaver who thinks everybody's on his own.
Speaker 11 (57:34):
This is an individual's boy. If you get enough individuals
out there on the field doing their job and doing
their job right, then it becomes a team that doesn't
happen out on the field no matter what happens in
the clubhouse. That didn't make any district fund.
Speaker 10 (57:47):
Two very opposite ends of the spectrum. Spring training means
a lot of things to a lot of people right now.
To me, it means a bad sunburn. But anyway, what
spring training means to certain people who will be the
subject of a five part series next week on World
Report Sports, and the week after we'll have a preview
of the upcoming season. That's it from here in Miami
and Keith Oberman back down of mic.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
What would will deport sports be without Keith Oberman.
Speaker 1 (58:21):
I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
you for listening. Countdown Musical directors Brian Ray and John
Phillip Schanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of our music.
Mister Ray was on guitars, bass, and drums. Mister Shanelle
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Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged
and performed by the group No Horns allowed. You know
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what occurs to me that that interview you heard, which
I did with Ted Turner on the field at spring
training in March of nineteen seventy eight. That's three years
before I went to work for Ted Turner, and it's
four years before I nearly had a fistfight with Ted Turner,
had a story about Ted Turner that I was covering
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for Ted Turner. The sports music is the Ulderman theme
for ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc.
Which didn't exist when I recorded those reports from Florida.
Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss,
the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was
my friend Larry David, and everything else was pretty much
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my fault. So that's countdown for this. The two hundred
and fifty second day until the twenty twenty four US
presidential election, and the one and forty eighth day since
dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected
government of the United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, use
the Insurrection Act, use the justice system, use the mental
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health system, use the election to stop him from doing
it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown
is tomorrow, do not forget our live YouTube special and
after the State of the Union on the night of Thursday,
March not December seventh. This is the news warrants till
next time. I'm Keith Aldremman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,
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and good luck. And now it is time for him
to shut the up about Joe Biden. Countdown with Keith
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Costas has been a friend for forty years and one
of my closest professional friends and supporters and boosters for
a quarter century, and now it is time for him
to shut the up about Joe Biden. If you have
missed it, Bob has begun a public crusade on national
television urging insisting now demanding that the president withdraw from
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the twenty twenty four campaign, or quoting him be shown
the door, unquote. I do not question Bob's motives while
attacking Biden for hubris for running and the Democrats as
Feckley for letting him run, Bob has rightly called Trump
a threat to democracy. I do not question Bob's motives.
I question Bob's hubris and his fecklessness. Bob shut the up,
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because whatever Bob thinks he is accomplishing, whatever anybody else
doing stuff like this thinks they are accomplishing, they are
in fact accomplishing only one thing, helping Donald Trump period,
doing Donald Trump's work for him, just like John Stewart,
just like Ez Recline, just like Bill Maher, just like
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jenk Yuger, just like every other apparent liberal who has
decided he and he alone knows the terrible truth, and
he must remove the President of the United States from
the Democratic ticket, the president who, for some reason the
Republicans also want removed from the Democratic ticket. The president
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who for some reason Trump also wants removed from the
Democratic ticket. Bob Costas and Trump want Biden to be
shown the door. Coincidence, no doubt. I have previously war
gained what would actually happen if Democrats tried to remove
Joe Biden from the ticket now, and I will do
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it again in brief shortly, but I wanted to emphasize
that it's not as if we do not have history
to consult about what happens when somebody says something stupid
like this, or when you do this, or when you
just try to do this. What happens is when you
do this or you just try to do this, what
happens is you lose. In nineteen sixty eight, the Democrats
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successfully undercut Lyndon Johnson sharply enough and viciously enough and
anti Vietnam enough that on March thirty first, LBJ not
four years removed from what was then the biggest landslide
in presidential election history, withdrew biggest landslide in history, and
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after he withdrew six months later, instead of him the
guy with the biggest landslide in history against the genuinely
evil Richard Nixon, instead of Lyndon Johnson running for reelection
after a knife fight of a primary that ended with
the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, we ran Hubert Humphrey
instead of the incumbent with the biggest landslide in history,
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Hubert Humphrey, a dedicated and brilliant public servant with the
public personality of a guy who sold vacuum cleaner's door
to door in a straw hat. Thank god, we got
that albatross LBJ off the ticket. So instead we got
President Nixon and a larger war in Vietnam and Watergate
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and the template by which Trump presidented. It's not like
there's no history about throwing your president overboard.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Bob Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
And it's not like that's all the history, Bob, because
we tried to LBJ another incumbent Democratic president. Anybody remember
that Jimmy Carter primaried by Ted Kennedy because Jimmy Carter
did not seem like a shoe in for reelection. Teddy
and a lot of the Democrats whom Carter had rubbed
the wrong way from the beginning, tried to cut Carter's
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legs off, and they failed. And even though it was
obvious by May that Carter was not going to get
his legs cut off, Kennedy kept running and trying to
cut his legs off. And Kennedy did not concede until
the second day of the convention. And every day he
remained in the race, he wounded Jimmy Carter a little
bit more in the general election campaign. And what did
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that get us? That got us Ronald Efing Reagan. Two
terms of Ronald Efing Reagan and his vice president George Bush,
vice president's idiot son, George W. Bush. Oh, and forty
years of even the most virulently anti Carter operatives realizing
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they had not only enabled Reagan, but they had also
sabotaged the most honorable man to hold the White House
in the twentieth century. So there it is, Bob, we
do what you keep going on television and demanding while
you insult Biden with charges of hubris, and the Democrats
who will not Julius Caesar him with fecklessness, and we
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have two possible outcomes. We successfully lbj Joe Biden and
run a Hubert Humphrey instead and guarantee Trump wins, or
we unsuccessfully LBJ Joe Biden and just damage him enough
every day for the next two hundred and fifty days
and we guarantee Trump wins. Your call, Bob, you want
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to run Joe Biden, who got sixty six percent of
the strong vote in New Hampshire even though he wasn't
on the ballot, who took the South Carolina primary by
ninety four points, who one Nevada by seventy eight points,
who is projected by all the actual Moody's analytics people
to almost certainly win the general, probably by seventy or
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more electoral votes without any improvement between now and November.
And it was so threatening to the Republicans that first
they embraced a Russian baked plot starring a now arrested
Russian asset to impeach and remove Biden from office, And
now they have segued to embracing a Trump baked plot
with a Congressional hearing starring a corrupt Special Council to
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portray him as infirm to encourage the Democrats to remove
him from the ballot. You and the Republican Trump Operative
Special Council are on the same side of this, Bob, So, Bob,
John Ezra, everybody else walking this tightrope. You're going to
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run Biden or you're going to stab him and the
eighty one million people who voted for him in the back.
So you can run who Kamala Harris whose approval numbers
are at Biden's levels or slightly lower, and who in
the latest Emerson poll trails Trump by three? Or are
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you going to knife the president and the vice president
and run Gavin Newsom instead, who in the same Emerson
poll loses to Trump by ten and who will oh,
by the way, won't do it anyway? Or how about
the promising Gretchen Whitmer who loses to Trump by twelve?
I know Michelle Obama, who wants nothing to do with
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this ever, Again, say Bob, I hear Dean Phillips is
interested and Jank Yuger. How feckless are the Democrats if
they realize this guy could possibly lose to Trump. Bob
Costas asked rhetorically, while I'm the Michael Smercanish Show on
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CNN Saturday. If you do not know the Michael smarcana Show,
it features a rock ribbed conservative schmuck who has part
of his act in which he tries to con people
that he's middle of the road. He never raises his
voice or says anything mean. He just attacks liberals and
democrats and minorities every day for the last twenty years.
And Bob went on his show, and Bob went on
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and on on his show, then get somebody else out there,
Bob explained, You don't go into the super Bowl with
a quarterback with a dead arm. You don't do it.
This is so obvious. Well, it's obvious if you don't
know politics in twenty twenty four, or if you don't
know political history, or if you don't know the law
or the polls or the electoral computer models, or just
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as importantly, if you don't know the processes that would
have to be invented to push Joe Biden off this
cliff you want to push him off of because they
do not exist. Even if this was somehow the right
move and guaranteed to succeed, rather than almost guaranteed to
give Trump four hundred electoral votes, there is no legal
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way to do it. When Costas first broached this while
he was on with Bill Maher, And by the way,
Bill Maher has now even given up pretending he knows
what the hell actually happens in the world outside of
his dressing room. They sort of skipped over the actual
procedure for presidential nomination usurpation that Bob favored and Bill favored.
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Oh is this an election here? All these guys Costas
mar Stuart the hapless Ezra Kleine who he bounced from
Countdowns guest list around two thousand and eight because he
wasn't just dull, he didn't actually seem to know anything.
All these guys approached that little trivial detail, just how
do you throw the sitting president of the United States
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off the ticket? They treated that kind of dismissively. The
most specific any of them have gotten is talk him
into standing aside. And what do you do then, Bob?
When Biden says no, everybody has a plan Bob until
they get punched in the face by Joe Biden. Quote.
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If Biden's hubris is such that he doesn't understand the
best interest of his party and more importantly his country.
Bob now says, then he has to be shown the
door period. Well, ah, that settles it, Bob. I'm sorry. Jill,
the President says to his wife, doctor Biden. I was
going to run and I was going to win, but
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then Bob Costas told me I can't run, and then
he showed me the door. There is no legal process
to do this. The last window to file for the
remaining democratic primaries closes in all but a handful of
states on who Bob Thursday. So you were going to
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remove him after he wins all the primaries and clinches
all the delegates. You're going to cut his legs off
at the convention, by which point he controls everything up
to and including the credentials and the tickets that could
get you into the convention. And even if there is
some hidden parachute mechanism, some other break glass, in the
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event of emergency process, if he wanted, Joe Biden could
take you to court. So now you are not only
doing Trump's bidding Bob by damaging Biden, and you are
trying to do Trump's bidding and Moscow's bidding and Putin's
bidding by getting Trump an easier opponent. Not only you're
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doing all that, but you're now going to split the
Democratic Party into two wings, the wing with the President
of the United States in it, and the other wing,
the Bob Costas, Ezra Kleine, Bill Maher, John Stuart, Dean
Phillips wing, which consists of five people Costas, kleinb Mar Stuart,
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and Dean Phillips. You know, Bob, Dean Phillips is a
really iffy attendance record for stuff like this. The cost
is kleinb Mar Stuart Phillips wing of five people may
only have four people in it. And then the two
wings are going to sue each other five months before
the election, so you can rally the nation behind checks
notes Democratic presidential nominee J. B. Pritzker. And we haven't
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even gotten to that recap of the war gaming that
I promised. You do it, Bob, You show Biden the door,
and what happens next. What happens next is Donald Trump
spends the rest of the campaign noting correctly. I might
add that he has already beaten Joe Biden and this
new guy, notes Democratic nominee JENK. Huger, he shouldn't even
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be allowed on the ballot. And oh, by the way,
Bob Biden is still on the actual ballot at every state.
And maybe Trump says, now that I've beaten Joe Biden
thanks to Bob costas, we don't actually need to hold
an election. I'll just take over now. And you know,
he is crazy enough to try a real coup with
tanks this time. Whether or not he does it, I
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don't know. Somebody has to show him the door. I
guess at minimum, Bob, he will not debate your Biden
replacement level presidential candidate, because if you knock Biden off,
sixty to seventy percent of the name recognition in this
election will belong to Donald Trump. He's running against Mary
Ann Williamson is the Democratic nominee. Incidentally, Bob, if you
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do oust Biden, are you assuming that only one Democrat
will try to replace him, or will there be so
many any of them rushing to get the nomination that
some of them will get stampeded at the front door. No. No,
I'm sure they'll be controlled and respectful of one another. Bob.
Instead of spending millions at their sudden manna from heaven
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gift of how to succeed to the presidency without really trying.
I'm sure they will be polite and unified, and they'll
operate only for the good of the party. That twenty
eight different Democrats vied to run against Trump last time
should not be considered a precedent. Plus, from what I
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can tell from your plan, they might even agree to
just let you choose, Bob.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
And by the way, Bob, whoever you do choose your plan,
b replacement is now the untested, unproven, unqualified one. Suddenly
we do not have the president running versus the crazy
ex president, have the crazy ex president running against checks
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notes Bill de Blasio.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And also, by the way, Bob, you have also made
the President of the United States into a lame duck,
unless you are expecting him to outright resign, in which
case Kamala Harris is the president and the presumptive nominee
unless you're intending to shive her too. And regardless, new
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president lame duck, two lame ducks. What happens to the
Trump trials, Bob? Why would Trump bother to show up
in court for any of them? In in America run
by a lame duck or a caretaker president who is
going to lose by ten points, while every day Trump
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gets to boast about how he has already beaten the
deep state, and he has beaten the new Democratic dominee
checks notes, Roy Cooper or Bob Nightmare of all nightmares.
For the first time in his life, Trump says something
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that is not a partial or total lie. He finesses this.
He pretends to be sympathetic to Joe Biden. Poor Biden.
Look what the Democrats did to him. Look what Bob
Costas did to him.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Why why?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Trump says, it's an insurrection against the sitting president of
the United States. I empathize with you, Democrats. You have
been denied your choice. So I'd like to introduce my
new vice president on a unity ticket, Joe Mansion. So
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those are the things that happen if you get your
way lawsuits, a rookie presidential candidate who gets to start
campaign in March, a unity ticket on the other side,
a broker Democratic convention, or a wounded incumbent president still
on the ticket, and you have handed the dictatorship of
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the United States to Trump by fifty five forty five
sixty forty or maybe you have sent half the Democratic
voters to third party candidates. So Bob, now there's a
chance RFK Junior finishes second, and for the first time
since nineteen twelve, the incumbent president of the United States
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finishes third and a two man race. And if that
were not bad enough, the day after the election, the
opposition to Trump, which might be the last thing left
between us and absolute dictatorship in this country and the
end of democracy in this country. After the election, the
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opposition to Trump would be splintered because you, Bob, you
showed Biden the door. Not great, Bob. Incidentally, I do
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know this has ended my friendship with Bob, and I'm
sorry about that. I valued it and I tried for
several weeks behind the scenes to talk to him about
what he had said on Bill Maher, and he was
not listening, as evidenced by his appearance with Smirkanish. I mean,
the next step down from Smircanish is going on Fox News.
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I was going to leave one thing out of this,
but I just can't. And there's really no reason to not.
Now that sports analogy that he made quote, you don't
go into the super Bowl with a quarterback with a
dead arm, you don't do it. This is so obvious
that also does not work even as a sports analogy,
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because what Bob is proposing is Patrick Mahomes of the
Kansas City Chiefs has a dead arm before the Super Bowl,
so you replace him with Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers. Bob,
they don't let you take a quarterback from a different
team to replace your quarterback in the super Bowl. You
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can only use your already backup quarterback in that in
this scenario is Blaine Gabbert. So in the costas post
Biden world, the Democrat running against Trump and the momentum
of his madness and him being the only incumbent and
having all of the media and the Kremlin behind him,
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the Democrat who gets to run instead of Biden against
that is whichever Democrat you Bob think is Blaine Gabbert.
And lastly, on this, let me broaden this out. This
age and purported infirmity stuff, which by the way, has
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not been alleged in anything other than sound bites. There
is no allegation that the office of president is not
being fulfilled or is being fulfilled poorly in any way.
This age stuff is becoming the conventional wisdom on TV news,
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And why it is becoming the conventional wisdom on TV
news and why they keep saying this is sadly easily
explained Kristin Welker, the first in NBC, hired apparently to
make Chuck Todd look not quite that bad in retrospect,
asked Gavin Newsom Sunday if it was quote responsible for
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the Democrats to put Biden on the top of the ticket.
And of course when Bob costas self defense it was
on CNN about a month ago. One of the hosts
on CNN named Abby Philip, she's on four nights a week.
I know you don't know who she is, stated, quote,
nobody wants Trump, nobody wants Biden, as if it were
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fact and not the product of the Beltway bubble, in
which she and everybody who works on her show and
everybody who knows her lives and given the ratings, that's
not a lot of people. But the mentality here pre
dates this by decades. It is, in fact ancient. It
dates back to when TV news owned the nation. There
has always been a kind of fomo at every national
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TV news operation. Fear that the other guy will say
something that you did not say. Look, a presidential race
in which both candidates were enfeebled would be an easy
thing for stupid people like Kristen Welker and the NBC
News chairman Caesar Conde to digest, and thus easy for
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them to sell. It is also easy to use as
a promotional tool. It's an ongoing storyline, like Clinton Lewinsky was,
like the Iran hostages were for ABC and Nightline in
nineteen seventy nine. In nineteen eighty, the day the Clinton
Lewinsky story broke, one executive turned to another in the
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MSNBC control room, pointed to a monitor and shouted, we
have found our nightline and that guy is our ted couple.
Unfortunately he was pointing at me. TV newspeople, especially in Washington,
most of them are not smart, and they live in
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dread that somebody else will get and dominate the next
running story. So even if everybody else is saying the
same thing and the same thing is nonsense, especially if
everybody else is saying nonsense, they will hyperventilate at the
thought that they might not say it as well. It
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is the Emperor's new clothes. We have to report this,
they reported it. I always think back to a day
in nineteen eighty three when I was working in the
CNN Washington bureau covering the return to town after their
Super Bowl victory of what were then the unfortunately named
Washington Redskins. I had just finished producing my taped report
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when the bureau's chief assignment editor ran in, breathless with
a video cassette Reagan. She shouted, Reagan just congratulated the
team on camera. Here's your new lead. And I looked
at her and said, yeah, no, thanks, no offense. Politics
really doesn't fit into this. It's a sports story. She
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turned white. She called my boss, she called my boss's boss. Happily,
my bosses at CNN Sports trusted my judgment then, anyway,
and Reagan try, I had to turn a football game
into a campaign point. That didn't happen, not in my
story anyway. The next morning, when a CNN Washington anchor
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reported on the team's return to DC, she led into
my report, but first she played the Reagan SoundBite. This
is why you have heard this utter nonsense about Biden,
and you will continue to see this utter nonsense on
NBC because CNN said it. Because if CNN says it
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and NBC doesn't say it, and some ratings on some
show at NBC News are lower than executives expected. They
will decide it is because we at NBC did not
say this about Biden, and they say it because ABC
said it, and ABC said it because CBS said it.
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And the problem with this is that somewhere at the
start of this mechanism one of them said it because
Fox News said it, and Fox News said it because
Trump said it. And that's why Bob Costas and everybody
else needs to shut the f up about Biden's age.
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Also of interest here, yes, the subject is how with
it people are? And Friday I promoted the upcoming live podcast,
The Countdown with Keith Olderman State of the Union postgame show,
and I said it was on December seventh. That'd be
March March seventh. December seventh would be going back in time.
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I'm skilled, but not that skilled. As to today's news,
there is nothing big and new, but lots of follow
ups that are new, like Kenny the Cheese lying to
prosecutors about the Trump fake elector scheme and James Homer's
star Russian plant witness is not fleeing anywhere. And yes,
you are not crazy. If Trump lost forty percent of
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the Republican vote, in another primary. Yes, he is in trouble,
so much trouble that even Axio's Politico and Matt Drudge
noticed that he's in trouble. And there is reportedly a
price on Tucker Carlson's head and that price is four
thousand dollars. That's next. This is an all new edition
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of Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith album post scripts
to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snark, some predictions.
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Dateline thirty Rockefeller Center, New York artists entrance on his
way in to record a guest shot with Seth Myers.
At NBC last night, President Biden was asked when a
Gaza ceasefire could start, and he answered that one is close,
hoping by monday.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
My not security advisor tells me that we're close, We're close,
not done yet, and I hope by next Monday will
have a ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Two options here. This is one hundred percent accurate and
in good faith, and there may be a ceasefire by Monday.
And Biden has adroitly walked the Middle East tightrope and
really will get that ceasefire, which would utterly undermine the
he's too old argument or it's enhanced a little maybe
sketchier than he lets on, but he said it just
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in time to make the network six thirty newscasts and
the Seth Meyers interview, and in plenty of time to
hit the pro Palestinian voting block in today's Democratic primary
in Michigan, which would also utterly undermine the he's too
old argument. By the way, o'biden said that while he
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was eating an ice cream cone. No comment yet from
Bob Costas Dateline Los Angeles Smirnoff on ice. US District
Judge Otis D. Wright the Second has ordered James Comer's
favorite putin plant, Alexander Smirnoff held without bail, apparently until trial,
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after he was re arrested for lying to the FBI.
His accomplices, clients and or victims the House Republican Caucus
and Trump have not been charged yet. Originally arrested in
Nevada and then ordered released by the judge, special counsel
David Weiss took the unusual step of refiling against Smirnoff
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in California, and he was arrested again at his lawyer's offices,
and Weiss was nice enough to hint that he thought
the lawyers were trying to help Smirnoff flee the country.
As it relates to the Republican's disaster attempt to smear
Hunter Biden and impeach his father based on Smirnov's lies,
you almost wonder if it would have been better to
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let him flee, maybe to Russia, but there are so
many windows in Russia. By the way, Hunter Biden testifies
behind closed doors to the House Oversight and we really
mean Oversight Committee tomorrow if things roll out honestly, next year,
James Comer will be testifying at his own trial Dateline
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and Arbor. Trump ambulance chaser Kenneth Kenny, the cheese chesbro
under indictment in the Georgia electoral subversion case, told investigators
in Michigan that he did not have a Twitter burner
account and he did not ever advocate any extra legal
means of stealing Michigan's electoral votes in twenty twenty and
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somehow getting them assigned to Trump. CNN reports, Oh yeah,
he actually did do that. His lawyer confirmed the account
Badger Pundit was Chesbrow's burner and from it. On November seventh,
twenty twenty, Chesbrow tweeted quote, you don't get the big picture.
Trump doesn't have to get courts to declare him the
winner of the vote. He just needs to convince Republican
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legislatures that the election was systematically rigged, but it's impossible
to run it again, so they should appoint electors instead.
That's Kenneth Chesbrow, and he is in a world of hurt.
Dateline South Carolina. Trump has declared the Republican primary is over,
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even though the polling average showed him leading Haley in
South Carolina by twenty eight points, but he wound up
only winning by twenty points. In New Hampshire. The same average,
which is compiled by five point thirty eight dot com,
was an eighteen point Trump lead and the only one
there by eleven in South Carolina. He can claim anything
he wants, but even Matt Drudge's headline was forty percent
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of Republicans vote against Trump up in South Carolina. Even
more shockingly, this headline Trump's demographic problem, which was a
Topaxios dot com and this one the warning signs in
Trump's South Carolina romp, a top Politico. Moreover, Politico's top
White House guy noted that slightly more than one out
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of five Republican primary voters told exit polling that they
will not vote for Trump, and if that number were
to hold, it would be Biden by one hundred electoral votes.
I understand everybody at Politico has now been fired for this.
A lot of often reliable political analysts have been noting
that Trump's support in the primaries is about where it
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was in twenty sixteen, around sixty percent in the Republican primaries.
But at this point in twenty sixteen, Trump was running
against eleven opponents, including four governors and three senators. He
was beating eleven people by sixty to they're combined forty.
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He is now beating one opponent by sixty forty. There
are no two ways about this. Trump is underperforming and
people should start reporting that and dateline Trump trials. Prosecutors
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in New York have preemptively asked Judge Juan mare Shaan
for a gag order against Trump to stop him in
advance from publicly disparaging witnesses in the Stormy Daniel's hutch
money case, which opens next month, and do not be
fooled in the other New York trial. Trump has not
filed the appeal of what is now with interest. Thank
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you for this data. Letitia James the four hundred and
sixty four million, eight hundred and five thousand dollars he
owes in the New York Business fraud guilty decision. He
has filed notice that he will appeal, giving him thirty
days to raise that amount and more and put it
into escrow or he can't file the appeal. And just
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for the sake of fairness, I am willing to buy
Trump Tower from Donald Trump. It has a nice view
of the park. I'll pay cash. My offer is twenty seven,
nine hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents.
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This is Sports Senate. Wait check that not anymore. This
is Countdown with Keith Alberman in Sports dateline. The Grapefruit
League in Florida and the Cactus League in Arizona and
baseball spring training. And we have a new explanation for
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why the new baseball uniforms look like they shrunk in
the wash, all three thousand or so of them. Shrunk
in the wash for all three thousand players. Tiny little
letters on the backs of the uniforms, tiny little numbers.
They look like you might have been able to buy
them at a discount store. Although the part about sea
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threw pants is a bit of an exaggeration. They've been
like that for a couple of years. Still, when somebody
tweeted about a home run in a spring training game
over the weekend and wrote another massive dog for the
Cubs and was sub tweeted with when you don't know
if the tweet is about a homer or the pants,
that's pretty funny. Still. The explanation for this sartorial disaster,
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it is not as much the fault of the manufacturers
Nike and Fanatics as it is the fault of Major
League Baseball itself. My old friend and play by play
booth mate at ESPN, Eddie Perez, revealed that Baseball asked
for its corporate logo to be moved and enlarged, taken
from the very top of the back up by the
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collar to lower down below the collar piping. That threw
off the whole back of the uniforms, and they had
to make the letters and numbers smaller as a result.
There is more hope than ever that the uniforms will
now melt during the first real rainfall. Dateline thirty rock again.
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Peter King, the NFL insider upon whom all the other
NFL insiders and the NBA insiders and the MLB insiders
and the NHL insiders are based, is retiring after forty
years on the beat at Sports Illustrated and later NBC,
where he wrote The Monday Morning Quarterback, which Sam Flood
at NBC moronically ordered renamed to Football Morning in America.
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Worked with Peter at Football Night in America, which was
a real thing, and he was a pleasure. Most insiders
make you adjust to their needs. It's understandable Peter worked
the other way around. Anybody mind if I take this
call from the commissioner, Okay, I'll be right back. Excuse me, guys,
dead series polite to the end. Peter's wife, Anne also
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was the best baker spouse I have ever met in
the industry. Carrot cakes, cookies, whatever, something new every week.
I gained one hundred and seventy five pounds in three
years on Football Night in America. Now it is Peter's
chance to eat all that food. Only Peter King would
note that he has attended forty consecutive Super Bowls. So
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when you talk about the commercials and the other fluff
and even the halftime shows. He really has never known
what you've meant, and he's now looking forward to finding
out next year. Godspeed and dateline and in Dale, Virginia,
former Major League baseball pitcher Jim Hannon has died. He
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won forty one games and lost forty eight games over
a ten year stretch with Washington, Detroit, and Milwaukee, ending
in nineteen seventy one. He was a pretty good pitcher
at Notre Dame before that, and what anybody who remembers
him for that does not know was that Jim Hannon
had a degree in business and his college research paper
was about the baseball pension plan. The paper was so good.
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When the first real head of the Baseball Union, Marvin Miller,
was seeking to shore up that pension plan, he relied
on Jim Hannon's college paper from Notre Dame. And then
in nineteen eighty two, Jim Hannon did something wonderful. He
founded and for fourteen years led the Major League Baseball
Players Alumni Association, advocating for ex players in need and
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their families and launching scholarships and programs for ex players
to give back. Jim Hannon was far more than a
pitcher who once won ten games in one season for
the Washington Senators. He was still chairman of the Major
League Baseball Players Alumni Association when he died earlier this month.
He was eighty five years old. Stell ahead of us
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on this all new edition of Countdown. It'll be time
for the first ever Countdown Baseball Spring Training preview. This
will be great if this is the year nineteen seventy eight.
I have gone deep into the vaults, and I will
present to you what I got and what I put
on the air. After my first trip to spring training
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as a reporter age nineteen scam forty six years ago.
This month, I had in things I promised not to tell.
My voice had almost completely changed. First, Yes, still more
idiots talk about the daily roundup of the miss Grins, Morons, Undunn,
and Krueger effect specimens, who constitute two days worse persons
(39:21):
in the world, the bronze worse. It's a tie. Jonathan Allen,
Matt Dixon, Garrett hate Von Hilliard, Carol E. Lee, and
Kristin Welker of NBC News. Why so many of them?
I guess on the theory that they all decided, well, hell,
they can't fire all of us for this crap their
reaction to Trump losing forty percent of the vote in
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the Republican primary Saturday night, an article with all of
their bylines on at Alan Dixon, Ake Hilliard, Lee, and
Welker titled Fewer Grievances, More Policy, Trump Aids and allies
push for a post South Carolina pivot because we haven't
had a good laugh at Kristin Welker's expense in hours,
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or good laugh at the idea that anybody actually paid
to cover politics would fall for the idea of a
Trump pivot in year ten of Trump's insanity, a pivot.
This first ten years of him being baby Hitler and
trying to run a coup and telling his mobs to
kill people like NBC News employees, that was just prelude.
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Now he's gonna pivot. The real Trump's gonna come out.
In the thirty six hours after this NBC piece of
crap and Trump's insistence that he no longer cared about
Nicki Haley, Trump posted eleven different times about Nicki Haley.
Oh my god, NBC Saturday was the day Trump truly
became president? Is that right? Kristen Welker, A bunch of idiots,
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which reminds us of the runner up worser, the man
who put that moronic phrase on the map. Trump became
president of the United States in that moment period. Van
Jones guilty of premature jocularity yet again. The first time
he said something as stupid as that was on March first,
twenty seventeen. That was three years and ten months before
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Trump tried to overthrow the government. Van Jones is also
an idiot that is well established, but he's hit a
new high and low. Listen to this about Democrats and
Republicans working together, because otherwise the bird doesn't fly.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
I've never seen a bird fly with only a left wing.
Speaker 5 (41:40):
I've never seen a bird fly with only a right wing,
not even in Mississippi.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
We need each other, We need each other.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Van The right wing doesn't want us to fly. The
right wing wants to kill us and eat us. And oh,
by the way, you know where Van Jones said that
he went to Sea Pack. Van Jones talked to Seapack
at that conservative convention where they all completely connect from
reality and where Trump compares himself to Nelson Mandela and
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Alexeynavali and Christy Nomes says Biden and Harris suck which
given her extramarital affairs as a curious verb to use,
and at least Stephanic referred to the Biden crime family,
and not one person came out of the crowd to
kick her squarely in the ass, and Matt Gates threatened
to aid to not just Ukraine but also Israel. What
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were you doing there, Van Jones? That is disqualifying. You
want to sit next to this guy, Schlap, take your
chances with that. You go join the Republican Nazi Party.
Go talk to them about bipartisanship. Talk by partisanship with
people who claim the plantation owners taught the slaves how
to become blacksmiths. But our winner the worst Tucker Conelson,
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somebody named Mario Naffel as in awful but with an
N who makes stuff up and claims he he's a
news operation. His scoop yesterday, quoting some site called intel Drop,
which itself claims to be a news organization based in
Iceland or something. Tucker Carlson assassination plot foiled. No, I
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know it's not what you're expecting. He wasn't going to
assassinate somebody apparently somebody was going to assassinate Tucker Carlson
and didn't I know what a sad day quote. Russian
forces reportedly arrested a man for a planned attack on Tucker,
allegedly orchestrated by Ukraine's intelligence. The plot allegedly involved an
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ied targeting Carlson's vehicle at the Four Seasons Hotel, wait
the Four Seasons Kremlin. Tucker Carlson didn't stay at the
Kremlin Motel six. Also, I thought Russia was perfect. They
have IEDs in the Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow. But
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here is the real punchline quote. The suspect reportedly admitted
to receiving four thousand dollars for the attacks execution Tucker.
There's a price on my head. On that price is
four thousand dollars American Carlson two days, worst and cheapest
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person in the world. Four years, pretty much until I
left Los Angeles local news for ESPN in nineteen ninety two,
I tried to record every broadcast I did radio television. Well,
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it was just radio and television. I was going to
say something else, but it was just radio and television.
In nineteen ninety two, I was often mocked for this
because there was an element of ego to it, although
really I needed to see if I I was getting
any better or worse, and I had a vague sense
of if I don't record these who will the end result?
(45:15):
Everybody now wants to hear my tapes and see my videos.
And if I did it, I got it on tape
somewhere somewhere, including whenever baseball spring training opens. This pretty
good series. I did the Spring Training Journal mostly my
own interviews. I did it for WVBRFM at Cornell and Anthica,
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New York, just before the start of the baseball season
of nineteen seventy eight. Nineteen seven d eight and now
part one of the report on Spring Training Via the
magic of tape, we take you to a place where
it is warm and sunny, Miami Stadium.
Speaker 6 (45:57):
Baseball people approach spring training from very different angles. Yankee
manager Billy Martin has described it as a waste of time,
an opinion that holds little weight with one of my
Martin's chief rivals, Earl Weaver of Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
I've been doing a lot of experimenting, playing people in
different positions so that when you get narth if for
some reason you have to get more offensive people in
the lineup, that I can maybe switch an Eddie Murray
from first to third base, which enables me to get
lee at first movie, hit her into the designated spot,
and different things. And you use spring training for that purpose,
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and sometimes you don't win a lot of games in
doing it, but at least you're.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Finding things out. Not winning a lot of games is
not necessarily a bad thing. However.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
In fact, too much success in spring training is feared
by MADI, including Philadelphia's Danny Ozark. His club started slowly
last year, and Ozark blames it on a hot spring training.
Speaker 7 (46:45):
I think we're like eighteen and six or something like
that in the spring, and now the season starts, and
that seems like everybody not complacent. But everybody feels like, well,
something's going to happen listening and we're going to get
some runs. It just didn't happen. So what we're trying
to do is kind of work up to this plan
day and not.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
All the players are happy with the way the camps work.
Speaker 6 (47:07):
Jim Rice of the Red Sox is a need for
a greater simulation of the regular season, especially for his
club's pitchers.
Speaker 8 (47:13):
To me, spring training is mainly getting shape, and now
guys are in shape, but I don't think they're millon
prepared because they go out and just only pitch four
or five innues. I think in order to be a
complete pitcher, you got to go out and go nine
and say, hey, I gotta go nine today. And I
think when a pitcher walked out of the mine, he's
you have in his mind, Hey, I want to go
nine innies tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (47:28):
In Part two of our series on spring training, a
look at the readjustment some ballplayers have to go through.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Now, let's go to part two of our spring training journal.
Speaker 6 (47:36):
For some baseball people, spring training is a time of readjustment.
Speaker 2 (47:39):
Trades, hirings, firings, and now the free.
Speaker 6 (47:42):
Agent system make for strange faces in strange uniforms each spring.
For Bobby Bonds of the Chicago White Sox, it's almost
old hat. For the third time in four springs, Bonds
joins a new club, but this year, at least, he
says he's not uncomfortable in his new surroundings.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
What really helps out this year is that the guys
on the team are good individuus, and they really are there.
The atmosphere of the whole team is good with stems
from the front office, fields, back and through. Bob Lemon
comes right on down with the players. So I don't
feel like a stranger really anymore. I feel like a
complete part of the ball, the whole structure of it,
and I don't feel that there's one individual that I
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can go to talk to.
Speaker 6 (48:18):
Other players go from losers to winners. John Mattlack suffered
through six seasons with the New York Mets. Now he
is part of a major contender, the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 8 (48:26):
It's a good feeling to come from a team that
was once a contender and sort of want to slip
downhill a little bit to a team.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
That is now a contender. So you know, any time
a situation like that arises, you've got to feel good
about it.
Speaker 6 (48:35):
While matt Lack moves from the bottom to the top,
the root was reversed for Bobby Cox, first base coach
for the world champion New York Yankees last season, manager
of the dormat Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 2 (48:44):
This year, I.
Speaker 9 (48:45):
Enjoyed my first year in the big leagues where the
Yankees as a coach, and actually we went on to
win the Pennant and the playoffs and the World Series
and everything, and it was really an exciting year. And
I went to this club which finished dead lash last year,
but I've enjoyed every min of it.
Speaker 6 (48:56):
And then there's Fergey Jenkins who goes to a new
and old team in seventy eight as he returns to
the Texas Rangers. Jenkins was last at Texan in seventy five,
and he sees a difference this time around.
Speaker 5 (49:06):
The team is a little more experienced, They have a
little more depth, they have more experienced ballplayers. I think
that the biggest thing is that this team is a
contender now or maybe at the one year when I
was with Billy martin seventy four, we made a push
to jump on Oakland, but we.
Speaker 10 (49:21):
Came up short.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
But this year it looks like that the team could
do it. Tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (49:24):
In Part three of the Spring Training Series, a look
at a team that operates on a wing and a prayer,
Bill Vex's Chicago White.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
Sox, and now to Part three of the Spring Training Journal.
Speaker 10 (49:33):
The Chicago White.
Speaker 2 (49:34):
Sox seem to have found.
Speaker 6 (49:35):
A new way to be competitive in these days of
millionaire free agents and discontented stars. The Socks go for
the low scale free agents, the comeback players, and the
rents a slugger system. Last year it was Eric Soderholm,
a third baseman recovered from the junk pile after a
season of inactivity due to a knee injury.
Speaker 2 (49:50):
Solderholm is a student of.
Speaker 6 (49:52):
Psychological conditioning and he thinks if you put somebody on
the spot, he'll produce. Solderholm also thinks that the Chicago
owner feels the same way.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
Well, Bill Riggs got that idea.
Speaker 6 (50:01):
Now this year's camp, because we has sixty players, they're.
Speaker 11 (50:03):
In the camp so many people battling for so many downs.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
It puts everybody on the spot that forces you to
for do it.
Speaker 6 (50:09):
This year, the recovery project is Ron Bloomberg, who has
come to back twice in two and a half years
due to recurring shoulder and leg problems. So far this spring,
Bloomberg is healthy. But don't remind him of his past
physical infirmity.
Speaker 10 (50:21):
Oh, don't talk.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
About injuries for me. I had enough in my career.
Speaker 9 (50:23):
I just go out there and do the best I can.
Speaker 4 (50:25):
I think I'm doing quite well for the amount of
time when I have been playing.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
I'm hitting the ball really well.
Speaker 8 (50:31):
I'm not swinging with a lot of power, but I'm
hitting a lot of line drives.
Speaker 4 (50:34):
I think for being out for two and a half years,
I think I'm doing a.
Speaker 2 (50:38):
Remarkable job so far.
Speaker 6 (50:40):
Last year, Chicago's here, Today, Gone tomorrow sluggers were Oscar
Gamble and Richie Zisk. This year it's Bobby Bods, who,
although he may be in Chicago for only one season,
promises to be a team player.
Speaker 4 (50:51):
My main concern each year is to go out and contribute.
Speaker 10 (50:53):
If I go out and I.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
Can contribute to the team and I stay.
Speaker 4 (50:58):
Healthy, I will help the team and I will have
a good year on my own because I will be
doing what the team has expected me to do. But
to say that it's the most important thing for me
to hit forty homers and still forty bases and we
don't win, No, I want to contribute to a winning
cause and whatever that takes, that's what I want.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
To do the White Sox.
Speaker 6 (51:13):
The formula is cheap, efficient, unique, and most importantly, it works. Tomorrow,
as our five part series continues, a look at spring
training for a losing team, the Atlanta Braves. Now here's
part four of the Spring training Journal of All of
baseball's losers, probably the Atlanta Braves are the most unique.
Spring training for them has to have highlights other than
a view to a successful season, and such a highlight
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was presented this year by the appearance of Jim Bouten
in the club's minor league camp. Another highlight colorful owner
Ted Turner's tongue in cheek description of mister Boughton.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
He's got a lot of talent.
Speaker 11 (51:45):
He can play baseball, we can write, he can announce,
and he's twenty his month. We could use the guy
with a lot of talent on that well, who knows
one of our writers that's travel with the team. I'd
come down in a fluids I'm making to thrill in
in a lot of different pisations.
Speaker 6 (52:00):
Would Turner take advantage of Boughton's notoriety and call into
the majors? Is a publicity stunt.
Speaker 2 (52:04):
I don't know. It's Bobby Cox.
Speaker 11 (52:06):
There's a vantage this club and Bill Lucas all right,
do it to cry and play the bill.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
But the presence of a manager never stopped Turner.
Speaker 6 (52:12):
Last year, he temporarily took over the Braves ass skipper,
replacing Dave Bristol.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Bristol is gone. Now, Bobby Cox is the new man
in charge.
Speaker 6 (52:19):
He's running a camp of forty six players, only fourteen
of whom were major leaguers on opening day of nineteen
seventy seven.
Speaker 9 (52:25):
Really, we're just trying to give everybody a chance to
ply and see as much of them as we can,
because we do we're kind of unique in most spring
training and most spring training camps, and then we've got
a lot more decisions to make. Most camps have maybe
one change in our starting lineup or so. And you
know where our eyes and ears are open, and we
have meetings a lot with our coaching staff, and the
instructors are are in camp and evaluate all the talent
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that we have, and we're going to break North with
our twenty five best.
Speaker 2 (52:51):
It might only be the best twenty four. The Braves may.
Speaker 6 (52:54):
Not be able to afford that last player, which brings
us back to owner Ted Turner. All right, do it crime,
pay the bill, and that's believe me, that's a big
job too.
Speaker 11 (53:02):
I got I'm not sure that the Cavenge facing leaders the.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Well through the lighter.
Speaker 6 (53:07):
The Braves not the best, not even secure, but certainly
not dull. Tomorrow in the final part of our series
on spring training, Where were You When the Lights Went Out?
And now the fifth and final part of the Spring
Training Journal. The differences between spring training and the regular
Major League Baseball season come out in minor ways, subtly
like that one night in Fort Lauderdale, right here in
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the middle of the sixth thenny the bottom of the
six between the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves,
just after Mickey Klutz had hit a ball down the
first baseline, the lights suddenly went out. They remained out.
A lot of flash bulbs are flashing because the fans
are taking pictures of the darkness, which doesn't make too
much sense in itself, but anyway, the Yankees were leading
here six to two when the lights suddenly went out.
Some people are lighting matches here and there calls for playball.
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But the lights all the towers there, there are about
a half dozen of them.
Speaker 2 (53:55):
They're all out right now and hidden by the darkness.
Speaker 6 (53:58):
The evil that lurks in the hearts of men came
out into the open now.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
The players are all converging around the Atlanta.
Speaker 6 (54:05):
Dug out, while a group of fans is apparently run
out into the field in an attempt to get third base.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
I think they're fans. What are they out there? Yes,
they are. They're being led from the field. At this point,
a couple of fans.
Speaker 6 (54:16):
Went out to the field during the darkness here an
attempted to snatch third base, but a couple of security
officers called them there and stopped them. During all this,
Atlanta owner Ted Turner and Yankee president George Steinbrenner sat
helplessly in the dark.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Finally somebody found the light switch.
Speaker 6 (54:36):
That the aroar from the crowd as some of the
lights have gone back on, the lights in the press box.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
And now the field lights, and with the.
Speaker 6 (54:50):
Exception of the two field lights out in wet Field,
they're all back on now because two more and there
they go.
Speaker 2 (54:55):
It's almost like they'll be able to resume. Ah.
Speaker 6 (54:58):
Yes, spring training in the regular season just ain't the same,
But soon the change from exhibitions to the real thing
will take place. And starting more on World Report Sports,
we'll take a look at the divisional and league races
for nineteen seventy eight. And that's the early sports tonight.
I'm Keith Oberman. Have a very good weekend. Molly comings
back with more sports tonight on late edition at eleven Carol.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Thank you, Keith.
Speaker 4 (55:17):
It's five point fifty seven the stock report right after
this word from garage to France.
Speaker 1 (55:21):
When I found the cassette those were recorded onto in
March nineteen seventy eight, I was surprised to find on
it that I had done and completely forgotten, a live
promo for that series. I had done it by phone
from Miami Stadium, then the home of the Baltimore Orioles,
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and it was done live on our five thirty newscast
in Ithaca. And I was in Miami on the friday
that spring break ended, and the friday thus that my
trip to Florida ended. This was actually done. It suddenly
flashed back on me as well, about an hour after
I had been sitting in the stands at the beautiful
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old Art Deco ballpark in Miami, and I had recorded
all those narrations in that series you just heard. This
was the preview, and now Keith Olberman recording from the
Miami Stadium.
Speaker 10 (56:14):
Thank you, Mike. I'm parisally perched here in the press
box high a top Miami Stadium, a charismatic old place
that looks a little bit more like a metal barn
than it does a ballpark where the Baltimore Orioles and
Cincinnati Reds will play tonight. Yet, if there is one
thing that a week in the baseball spring training camps
teaches you, it's that appearances can be deceiving. The uniforms
are major league and so are the players, but what's
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been happening on the field certainly is not. And that
counts both before and during the actual games. For where
else but spring training would you hear thurman Munson singing
short people. Where else would a Yankee player apologize to
a sports writer? And where else could you see owners
Ted Turner and George Steinbriter sit helplessly by as the
game between their two teams is halted by a short
(56:56):
circuit blackout. Nowhere else but spring training. Then there are
other things you expect, like contrasts. Why just day before
yesterday the Baltimore Orioles, Who's did Los Angeles? You guessed it?
Here's effervescence for you. Tommy Will, sort of, a manager
of the Dodgers.
Speaker 11 (57:11):
Feel great. I can't wait till the season begins. I've
told everybody I got a weight problem. I can't wait
till it all begins, and I'm just ecstatic about this
ball club and we're going to have a lot of fun.
And it's an honor to be associated with outstanding players.
But above all, they're outstanding young man and the contract.
Speaker 10 (57:30):
How about Earl Weaver who thinks everybody's on his own.
Speaker 11 (57:34):
This is an individual's boy. If you get enough individuals
out there on the field doing their job and doing
their job right, then it becomes a team that doesn't
happen out on the field no matter what happens in
the clubhouse. That didn't make any district fund.
Speaker 10 (57:47):
Two very opposite ends of the spectrum. Spring training means
a lot of things to a lot of people right now.
To me, it means a bad sunburn. But anyway, what
spring training means to certain people who will be the
subject of a five part series next week on World
Report Sports, and the week after we'll have a preview
of the upcoming season. That's it from here in Miami
and Keith Oberman back down of mic.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
What would will deport sports be without Keith Oberman.
Speaker 1 (58:21):
I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
you for listening. Countdown Musical directors Brian Ray and John
Phillip Schanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of our music.
Mister Ray was on guitars, bass, and drums. Mister Shanelle
handled orchestration and keyboards. It was produced by Tko Brothers.
Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged
and performed by the group No Horns allowed. You know
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what occurs to me that that interview you heard, which
I did with Ted Turner on the field at spring
training in March of nineteen seventy eight. That's three years
before I went to work for Ted Turner, and it's
four years before I nearly had a fistfight with Ted Turner,
had a story about Ted Turner that I was covering
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for Ted Turner. The sports music is the Ulderman theme
for ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc.
Which didn't exist when I recorded those reports from Florida.
Our satirical and fifthy musical comments are by Nancy Fauss,
the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer today was
my friend Larry David, and everything else was pretty much
(59:25):
my fault. So that's countdown for this. The two hundred
and fifty second day until the twenty twenty four US
presidential election, and the one and forty eighth day since
dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected
government of the United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, use
the Insurrection Act, use the justice system, use the mental
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health system, use the election to stop him from doing
it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown
is tomorrow, do not forget our live YouTube special and
after the State of the Union on the night of Thursday,
March not December seventh. This is the news warrants till
next time. I'm Keith Aldremman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,
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and good luck. And now it is time for him
to shut the up about Joe Biden. Countdown with Keith
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