Larry Mendte goes over the war of words that developed very quickly between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani refusing to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state, and Letitia James calling out Andrew Cuomo for his intentions behind his Mayoral run. Rob Astorino joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Bill Madden talked to Mendte in the Morning about his new book ‘Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals, and Cooperstown.'
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, good morning, tell you the end of the week.
It's Friday, and a whole lot going on in the
Big Three today. Well, that escalated quickly. The bromance is
over and Donald Trump and Elon Musk engage in a
war of words and threats.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Elon Musk knows a lot, so to think that he's
now on the outside, and he has a war chest.
He's got more money than anybody. This is something that's
extremely concerning, just to insiders within Donald Trump's orbit.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Natalie Makeleori is going to ask New Yorkers about that
feud in her beat on the Street at eight point
fifty this morning. That should be fascinating my oral candidates
or in mom Donni is facing criticism for refusing to
acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Just we GUESSO know, do you believe in a Jewish
state of Israel? I believe Israel has the right to
exist as a Jewish state, as a state with equal rights.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
York Attorney General Letitia James says, the Mayor of New
York is just a stepping stone for Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
All of these issues that we are dealing with in
the City of New York is because of this one
man who basically wants to resurrect himself. And lastly, let
me say that Andrew Cuomo is not interested in serving
as the mayor of the City of New York. He
is only interested in running for the president of these
United States.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Harvey Weinstein does a phone interview from prison and admits
he has regrets. By have regrets that I put my
family through this, that I put my wife through this,
that I acted in Morley. That was an interview with
Rosanna Scatto and Fox five. We'll have more throughout the morning.
Prosecutors release alleged healthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangioni's manifesto to
(01:52):
prove his motive.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Well, this is quite a bombshell if you've been following
this case since the beginning. He said he wanted to
whack the CEO. He wanted to generate news headlines. He
said he had it coming. So now we have a motive.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And former Jet quarterback Aaron Rodgers has found a new
job as the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and the most famous
Steelers quarterback of all time. Terry Bradshaw doesn't like it
at all. That is just to me as a joke.
What are you gonna bring him in for one year?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They met? No man, that guy needs to stay in
California and go to Thank you. Jun't bark and risk
it to the.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Gods out there.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
All right, Now, let's get to the zorin Mam Donnie controversy,
because it had to start coming right, There had to
be something. There was always this undercurrent, people accusing of
of anti Semitism. But he basically skated, He skated his
way to second place. Nobody really went after him. You
(02:59):
know why because most of the people in the liberal
media in New York, most of the liberal Democrats that
run New York that are really socialist, want Zorin Mamdani.
But it was during the debate where he slipped up. Now,
(03:21):
Israel is self identified as a Jewish state has been
since nineteen forty eight. It's in the Israeli's parliament. The
Knesset passed the basic Law that Israel was a nation
state of the Jewish people in twenty eighteen just to
reaffirm that. So it really is given that Israel is
(03:44):
a Jewish state. It was founded for the Jewish people,
and eighty percent of the population is Jewish. But during
the debate this happened, just yes or no? Do you
believe in a Jewish state of Israel?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I believe Israel has the right to exist as your state,
as a state with equal rights.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And his answer was no, he won't visit Israel.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
No no, no, unlike you, I answered, unlike you, I answered directly,
I believe every state should be a state of equal rights.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay, thank you, Well, he just said I would. I
would answer every question directly. And the question that Cuomo
brought up, the question that started all of this, was
what would your first visit overseas as mayor be And
almost every one of them said Israel, and Zori Mamdani
(04:39):
would not say that. That's what brought up this whole discussion.
So what Cuomo said was he's not going to Israel,
and he said no, no, no, I can answer my
own questions, and then he didn't answer it. There there
is something going on here that is is dangerous for
the Mom Donnie campaign and dangerous for New York City
(05:00):
and especially for Jews in New York City because remember
he refused to sign onto a resolution year after year
denouncing the Holocaust. That's pro forma almost everybody signs onto it.
Only this little tiny handful of like four or five
people don't sign on to it, and one of them
is zur En Mom Donnie. He refused to sign a
(05:23):
resolution celebrating Israel's seventy seventh birthday. These are things that
you just sign. I mean, it's a no brainer, unless
unless you're an anti Semite, unless you're so afraid of
(05:43):
losing your Muslim support that you don't sign on to it.
There is something real here. For a while, it just
seemed like politics is normal, but now it is getting
awfully strange by the way. Rosanna Scotto has become like
(06:03):
the Barbara Walters of New York. Everybody goes to Rosanna Scottish.
They get every interview on Fox five. It's funny when
I when I started at WABC, she sat next to
me for like just a couple of weeks before they
let her go. I had started in the late nineteen
eighties and then a mid nineteen eighties, and she was
(06:24):
sitting next to me. And then it was a new
management that brought me in and they were clearing house
and she was one of the ones to go. So
I didn't get to know where that well, just to
say hi, just to say good morning in the mornings.
But man, that ended up good for her. That was
the best thing. She's like a star in New York
(06:44):
and so everybody goes there. I mean they did like
every interview. I told you, she has the Barbara she
has the Harvey Weinstein interview. We're gonna play a little
bit of that later and they're gonna be featured gun
on Fox this Morning. But here is mom, Donnie Lady.
After the debate one Fox five with Rosanna Scato.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Do you support Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I support Israel's right to exist as a state with
equal rights. I believe that every sata is a Jewish
state because I'm not comfortable supporting any state that has
a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or
anything else. I think that in the way that we
have in this country, equality should be enshrined in every
country in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's my belief. WHOA, He went a little bit further
with Rosanna Escotto, not only saying he just wants equal rights,
he's uncomfortable. He is uncomfortable with them being a Jewish state.
This is going to be an issue. This is not
(07:45):
going away. Absolutely. It would love to hear from you.
By the way, you can go to iHeartRadio app and
leave us a talkback. So you go to the iHeartRadio app,
you look for seven to ten wor and you click
the talkback feature. There's a my gryffone there. You leave
your message. Would love to hear what you have to
say on this. I was so concerned about Zorinmandani, not
(08:08):
because of this issue. Now I'm concerned with him over
this because I knew it was always a little underlying,
but it never really rose to the surface because he's
been very good about it. He's extremely polished, and so
I thought to myself, Okay, maybe this is just one
of those political attacks and there's nothing, you know, big
(08:29):
to it. I know that he didn't sign on to
the Holocaust thing, but you know, he's been pretty good
on the on the trail. Now they're going after him
and he's sounding bad. The fact that he is just
has a refusal to talk about this issue, to just
say yes, it's a Jewish state because it's been established
as a Jewish state is concerning. And Steve Kornaki has
(08:55):
been looking at this race as well. But AOC, by
the way, came out this is another I'm sure she's
now thinking, Wow, who did I endorse? She endorsed or
in Mom Donnie. But I don't think that's gonna really
have And Steve Karnaki doesn't either, And he is the analyst,
the political analyst, and the poll guy for NBC. He
(09:17):
doesn't think it's gonna have that big of an effect either.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Her appeal, Cosio Kortez's appeal, I think overlaps with what
Mom Donnie's has been so far, so I think it reinforces,
it doesn't necessarily expand he's doing best with younger voters,
self described very liberal voters, college educated voters. He actually
does better with white voters than non white voters, that
sort of progressive base of the Democratic Party. We talk
(09:40):
about a lot is with AOC, and it's increasingly with him.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
In this right. Yeah, everybody is so enthralled with AOC,
especially in the media. She doesn't carry any weight with endorsements.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
None.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's not gonna do a thing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
She endorsed in the last mayoral election Maya Wiley, who
finished third, So he's got a little bit of a problem.
Now he's going to have to answer for this and
somebody has to put his feet to the fire. It's
just started. It's got to continue. Rob Astorino is up
now host of The Rob Astorino Show on WOR from
(10:16):
Saturday is from four to five pm. He's host of
Saturday Agenda from one to three on Newsmax, and former
Westchester County executive.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Good morning Rob, Good morning Larry.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
What do you tell me what you think about this
feud between Elon and Donald Trump? Because we got several
people that have left messages that we played as talkbacks,
and every single one of them thinks, this isn't real,
this is all for show. What do you think?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
I think it probably started off that way and then,
like any fight between people who were friends, it can
get really bad. But there's got to be a stop
point here. I mean, it's sad, it's ridiculous, and it's
so counterproductive. These are two men who have done so
(11:11):
much for this country. They are doing so much for
this country, and you know, for them to be a
part instead of together, I mean it would be detrimental
because Elon Musk deserves a ton of credit for doge
and I know he's frustrated. I am too. Quite frankly,
there's not enough cuts. But the reality is trying to
(11:33):
get it through a House with a razor thin majority,
trying to get it through the Senate where you've got
some Republicans who don't want to cut anything. It's just
not the reality. So you take the good and don't
let it destroy the perfect. And Elon Musk wanted the perfect,
and you just don't have that right now. And I
think Donald Trump gets a enormous credit because he is moving.
(11:56):
He's moving that rock up the hill, and they both
deserve a ton of credit. Do I think that they'll
kiss and make up at some point, I do. I
just hope it doesn't become a reparable harm between the
two of them after these kind of nasty fights.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
He put out an interesting poll today on on X
asking if we really need a third party in this country,
if we need something. He claims it's eighty percent who
aren't really a Republican or Democrat. It's probably something like
less than twenty percent. But do you think he has
he wants to start a third party? I know he
(12:31):
can't run, but maybe he loves somebody else.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Good luck I mean it's been tried a million times.
Michael Bloomberg spent tens of millions of dollars to try
to run as a third party candidate or study that
to run for president. And he told me, he said,
you know, I could win votes. I could never win
one single electoral College vote. And it's just been tried
(12:56):
for decades. Now, I mean, go back to when John
Anderson ran in nineteen eighty as an independent. You know
it just the country, for whatever reason, is right left
Republican a Democrat. And yes, I'm sure there is frustration
people would like to vote independent at times or have
another choice, but I just don't. The reality is I
don't see it happening anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Let's talk about the mayoral debate. This Zorin Mamdani saying
that he will not acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state
seems to have some legs. It's carried on now a
couple of days.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Well, but you know what, any Jew that would consider
voting him for the last since, you know, since he
was introduced to the public, should have their head examined.
This guy is frightening, but he is a he is
an I don't think he's socialist. I think he's even
beyond socialist. But he has caught fire, you know, in
a very crowded race with a key component of the
(13:54):
Democratic Party that votes, and that is a frightening thing.
And I said months and months ago, I said on
my show, I said, on your show this, this is
the guy to watch because he presents well, he can
raise a ton of money, which he did small dollar donors,
and he caught fire at the right time, and that
scares That is scaring Clomo. Excuse me, Clomo. Clomo looked like,
(14:19):
I don't know, he looked pathetic, like he wanted nothing
to do with the debate, wanted nothing to do with
this race. He was just I don't it was not
the Andrew Clomo I debated in twenty fourteen when we
went head to head and like ready to punch each
other in the face. He just looked like he checked
out already, you know. And I don't think it's because
(14:40):
I just think his heart's not in this race, because
he just he wasn't even answering questions. And by the way,
NBC and their quote moderators were pathetic. The only one
that was really good was Melissa Russo. She actually pushed Cuomo.
But the other ones, I mean, the Telemundo questioner she
was she's an activist, what will you do to prevent
(15:03):
ice from arresting? Everybody does come.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
On an excellent, excellent interpretation of what you did? Impersonation
that was really really good. But the problem they had
with that is the format was awful. It was awful.
What did they have thirty seconds to answer? What do
you learn in thirty seconds? You don't learn anything from
(15:27):
an ad And and they'd cut them off constantly. As
a matter of fact, every time something was starting to
get good, they cut it off. They said they had
to move on. I don't know what they were doing.
It was You're right, Everything was awful about that debate
except the candidates because they actually went at it a
few times. I thought it was yeah, and I thought
it was more exciting than I thought it was going
(15:47):
to be.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Oh yeah, no it was. It was exciting. If you know,
you don't learn much. But and then I switched over.
I don't know how many other people did you know?
At eight o'clock and watch the rest of it online.
But I mean, this was perfect to Cuomo's advantage, right,
only an hour on TV eight other people, so everyone
only gets thirty seconds. He literally did not answer questions
(16:10):
period on bail reform, on these other things. He didn't
even answer them, and he wasn't pushed back to make
sure he did, so he got away with everything.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, I will say this, when you talked about the
Jewish vote, of course he wasn't get the Jewish vote,
but now Jewish voters in the city might get more
involved in this campaign to try to keep him out
in office. And that could mean some money. Not that
Cuomo needs any more money, but it could mean some money.
Thank you so much. Rob Astorino, host of The rab
Astino Show on WOR Saturdays from four to five pm.
(16:41):
What do you have coming up this weekend?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Now, I'm going to break down that debate because I
was in a debate with Cuomo, so I want to
take it from the perspective of these other candidates and
what he was going through. And then of course the
X stuff, I mean, the Twitter stuff with this is great.
It's going to get even better today.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Thanks a lot. He's also hosted Saturday Agenda. You can
watch him on Newsmax from one to three and of
course he's the former Westchester County executive. Thanks a lot ron, Thankulary,
and this is an interview I've been looking forward to
all morning. Bill Madden Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals and Cooperstown, a
baseball memoir. That's the title of his brand new book.
(17:20):
He has been covering New York baseball for over fifty
years and he has memories inside stories. He's covered everything
from the scandals to the huge successes of the New
York teams, and so Bill, thanks so much for spending
some time with us this morning. I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
My pleasure. Larry, good morning, Good.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Morning to you. Let's start out when you started out
as a baseball reporter and you had to go into
the clubhouse and you had to cover the team for
the first time, were you intimidated?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Well, uh, I guess somewhat. Before I really became the
actual beat writer, I was kind of a rookie on
the beat and my first introduction I was I wasn't
even working for the Daily News yet. I was working
for United president International Wire Service and they sent me
up to cover a Yankee game my first year there,
(18:20):
and my first experience was Ralph House was the manager
of the Yankees, and he was holding a scrum in
the dugout, and he kind of looked around at me
and the other writers, and then he looked at me again,
and during the course of his conversation with us, he
spit tobacco juice all over my shoes. And Phil Peppi,
(18:43):
it was, the Yankee beat writer for the Daily News
at the time, called me aside afterwards, he don't be
offended by that. That's just Ralph's way of saying welcome
to the clock, the way.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Of saying, now, I'm sure you've got to know Ralph
Holk o the years. Indeed, do you bring up that
story with him?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I never brought it up again because he didn't know
who I was at the time, and I figured it
was no point in letting him know years later, when
I was the actual beat writer that hey, I'm the
guy who you spit tobacco juice all over my shoes.
There was no point in doing that because Ralph out
had a volcanic temper when it came to sports writers anyway,
and I tried to stay clear of him.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Were you on the other side of that volcanic temper? Ever?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Not with Ralph, because when he was gone by the
time I came to the Daily News. Okay, so my
experiences were with Billy Martin five times.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Five times. Tell us about the worst one.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I guess the worst one was nineteen eighty three, when no,
I would say nineteen eighty five, when Billy got into
that famous fight at the cross Keys Bar in Baltimore
with Ed Whitson one of his pitchers.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
And with Billy.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
The problem with Billy when he was the manager all
the beat writers, we had to make sure that we
couldn't go to bed until Billy had left the hotel bar.
The good news was Billy usually only drank in the
hotel bar. The bad news was, as I said, we
never knew what was going to happen with Billy in bars.
And this particular night it started out. He'd had a
(20:27):
bad series in Baltimore to begin with. There's a lot
of things happened down there, and anyway, he was in
a mellow moon at the beginning. And then I was
sitting at the table with a bunch of writers, and
all of a sudden, across the room, we hear all
this commotion, and we get up and we go over there,
and there's Billy and Ed Witson duking it out, and
Witson was as pretty tough thunn boy from Tennessee, redneck,
(20:53):
and they were going at it and they were wrestling
on the floor, and then it spilled out into the
parking lot. And you know, as always with Billy, your
day is never over until Billy has gone to bed.
We've already filed our game stories and everything else, but
here we are back on deadline again. So what I
(21:14):
remember most about that was I went up to my
room to start dictating the story. I called the office
and I said, look, we we got a new story here.
This is going to replace the game story on the
back page. Billy and Ed Whitson just gone at it,
and I'm describing the whole fight, and all of a sudden,
I hear this commotion outside my door, and it's Billy
(21:35):
pounding on Wiston's door and the hotel lobby in the
hallway of the hotel. I said to the office, I said,
hold on a second, I got round three going on
right outside my door.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You know, most baseball players you can talk to and
you can say, what is the moment that defines your career?
Do you have such a moment. Do you have a
moment that you remember more than any other.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Well, I was involved in a lot of pretty big
stories for the Delis. I guess the one that stands
out the most from me is because it formed a
lifelong friendship. Was when I broke the story that Tom
Seaver had been left unprotected by the Mets in this
free agent compensation draft. This was after he had been
(22:25):
brought back to the Mets. They traded him to the
Reds back in nineteen seventy six, and now this is
a few years later and they had gotten them back.
Only there was this free agent compensation draft in which
all the teams had to protect only I think it
(22:46):
was fifteen players. So teams that lost a free agent
could pick from this pool. And it turned out that
the Chicago White Sox, who had the first pick in
this draft, found out they looked at the pool players
and they realized that Siver had been left unprotected. And
what happened. How I found out about it was a
good friend of mine who used to work in the
(23:07):
commissioner's office, was a big White Sox fan, and he
called me the day before the draft and he said,
you're going to be covering the draft on Friday, and
I said, no, it's not a New York story. The
Mets of the Yankees didn't lose any free agents. So
he said to me, I have to tell you Bill
who this is. Not only is it a New York story,
it's a huge New York story. I said why, and
(23:29):
he explained to me that he had seen the list
of players and he said the Mets did not protect
Tom Seaver. And he said not only that, but I
called the White Sox and they told me that they're
going to pick sever on Friday. So I had this
exclusive story. And this is long before Twitter and all
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social media and everything else was just deadline every minute,
and so I sat on the store we said the
DAILI is all day because hoping that nobody else was
going to get it. And at the same time, I
felt I had an obligation to sever to call him
and not blindside him with a story the next day.
(24:09):
So I did. I called him and he was First
of all, he was shocked, and secondly, he was very
appreciative of the fact that I gave him his heads up.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And that created a lifelong friendship after That's that's an
amazing story and you can read all of these amazing
stories in the book Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals and Cooperstown, a
Baseball Memoir. Bill Madden, good luck with the book. I'm
sure it's going to sell. And thank you so much
for your time today. The original Chachist recording. Thank you
Ah, good morning, tell you the end of the week.
It's Friday, and a whole lot going on in the
Big Three today. Well, that escalated quickly. The bromance is
over and Donald Trump and Elon Musk engage in a
war of words and threats.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Elon Musk knows a lot, so to think that he's
now on the outside, and he has a war chest.
He's got more money than anybody. This is something that's
extremely concerning, just to insiders within Donald Trump's orbit.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Natalie Makeleori is going to ask New Yorkers about that
feud in her beat on the Street at eight point
fifty this morning. That should be fascinating my oral candidates
or in mom Donni is facing criticism for refusing to
acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Just we GUESSO know, do you believe in a Jewish
state of Israel? I believe Israel has the right to
exist as a Jewish state, as a state with equal rights.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
York Attorney General Letitia James says, the Mayor of New
York is just a stepping stone for Andrew Cuomo.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
All of these issues that we are dealing with in
the City of New York is because of this one
man who basically wants to resurrect himself. And lastly, let
me say that Andrew Cuomo is not interested in serving
as the mayor of the City of New York. He
is only interested in running for the president of these
United States.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Harvey Weinstein does a phone interview from prison and admits
he has regrets. By have regrets that I put my
family through this, that I put my wife through this,
that I acted in Morley. That was an interview with
Rosanna Scatto and Fox five. We'll have more throughout the morning.
Prosecutors release alleged healthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangioni's manifesto to
(01:52):
prove his motive.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Well, this is quite a bombshell if you've been following
this case since the beginning. He said he wanted to
whack the CEO. He wanted to generate news headlines. He
said he had it coming. So now we have a motive.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And former Jet quarterback Aaron Rodgers has found a new
job as the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and the most famous
Steelers quarterback of all time. Terry Bradshaw doesn't like it
at all. That is just to me as a joke.
What are you gonna bring him in for one year?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They met? No man, that guy needs to stay in
California and go to Thank you. Jun't bark and risk
it to the.
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Gods out there.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
All right, Now, let's get to the zorin Mam Donnie controversy,
because it had to start coming right, There had to
be something. There was always this undercurrent, people accusing of
of anti Semitism. But he basically skated, He skated his
way to second place. Nobody really went after him. You
(02:59):
know why because most of the people in the liberal
media in New York, most of the liberal Democrats that
run New York that are really socialist, want Zorin Mamdani.
But it was during the debate where he slipped up. Now,
(03:21):
Israel is self identified as a Jewish state has been
since nineteen forty eight. It's in the Israeli's parliament. The
Knesset passed the basic Law that Israel was a nation
state of the Jewish people in twenty eighteen just to
reaffirm that. So it really is given that Israel is
(03:44):
a Jewish state. It was founded for the Jewish people,
and eighty percent of the population is Jewish. But during
the debate this happened, just yes or no? Do you
believe in a Jewish state of Israel?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I believe Israel has the right to exist as your state,
as a state with equal rights.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And his answer was no, he won't visit Israel.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
No no, no, unlike you, I answered, unlike you, I answered directly,
I believe every state should be a state of equal rights.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Okay, thank you, Well, he just said I would. I
would answer every question directly. And the question that Cuomo
brought up, the question that started all of this, was
what would your first visit overseas as mayor be And
almost every one of them said Israel, and Zori Mamdani
(04:39):
would not say that. That's what brought up this whole discussion.
So what Cuomo said was he's not going to Israel,
and he said no, no, no, I can answer my
own questions, and then he didn't answer it. There there
is something going on here that is is dangerous for
the Mom Donnie campaign and dangerous for New York City
(05:00):
and especially for Jews in New York City because remember
he refused to sign onto a resolution year after year
denouncing the Holocaust. That's pro forma almost everybody signs onto it.
Only this little tiny handful of like four or five
people don't sign on to it, and one of them
is zur En Mom Donnie. He refused to sign a
(05:23):
resolution celebrating Israel's seventy seventh birthday. These are things that
you just sign. I mean, it's a no brainer, unless
unless you're an anti Semite, unless you're so afraid of
(05:43):
losing your Muslim support that you don't sign on to it.
There is something real here. For a while, it just
seemed like politics is normal, but now it is getting
awfully strange by the way. Rosanna Scotto has become like
(06:03):
the Barbara Walters of New York. Everybody goes to Rosanna Scottish.
They get every interview on Fox five. It's funny when
I when I started at WABC, she sat next to
me for like just a couple of weeks before they
let her go. I had started in the late nineteen
eighties and then a mid nineteen eighties, and she was
(06:24):
sitting next to me. And then it was a new
management that brought me in and they were clearing house
and she was one of the ones to go. So
I didn't get to know where that well, just to
say hi, just to say good morning in the mornings.
But man, that ended up good for her. That was
the best thing. She's like a star in New York
(06:44):
and so everybody goes there. I mean they did like
every interview. I told you, she has the Barbara she
has the Harvey Weinstein interview. We're gonna play a little
bit of that later and they're gonna be featured gun
on Fox this Morning. But here is mom, Donnie Lady.
After the debate one Fox five with Rosanna Scato.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Do you support Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state?
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I support Israel's right to exist as a state with
equal rights. I believe that every sata is a Jewish
state because I'm not comfortable supporting any state that has
a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or
anything else. I think that in the way that we
have in this country, equality should be enshrined in every
country in the world.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That's my belief. WHOA, He went a little bit further
with Rosanna Escotto, not only saying he just wants equal rights,
he's uncomfortable. He is uncomfortable with them being a Jewish state.
This is going to be an issue. This is not
(07:45):
going away. Absolutely. It would love to hear from you.
By the way, you can go to iHeartRadio app and
leave us a talkback. So you go to the iHeartRadio app,
you look for seven to ten wor and you click
the talkback feature. There's a my gryffone there. You leave
your message. Would love to hear what you have to
say on this. I was so concerned about Zorinmandani, not
(08:08):
because of this issue. Now I'm concerned with him over
this because I knew it was always a little underlying,
but it never really rose to the surface because he's
been very good about it. He's extremely polished, and so
I thought to myself, Okay, maybe this is just one
of those political attacks and there's nothing, you know, big
(08:29):
to it. I know that he didn't sign on to
the Holocaust thing, but you know, he's been pretty good
on the on the trail. Now they're going after him
and he's sounding bad. The fact that he is just
has a refusal to talk about this issue, to just
say yes, it's a Jewish state because it's been established
as a Jewish state is concerning. And Steve Kornaki has
(08:55):
been looking at this race as well. But AOC, by
the way, came out this is another I'm sure she's
now thinking, Wow, who did I endorse? She endorsed or
in Mom Donnie. But I don't think that's gonna really
have And Steve Karnaki doesn't either, And he is the analyst,
the political analyst, and the poll guy for NBC. He
(09:17):
doesn't think it's gonna have that big of an effect either.
Speaker 8 (09:19):
Her appeal, Cosio Kortez's appeal, I think overlaps with what
Mom Donnie's has been so far, so I think it reinforces,
it doesn't necessarily expand he's doing best with younger voters,
self described very liberal voters, college educated voters. He actually
does better with white voters than non white voters, that
sort of progressive base of the Democratic Party. We talk
(09:40):
about a lot is with AOC, and it's increasingly with him.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
In this right. Yeah, everybody is so enthralled with AOC,
especially in the media. She doesn't carry any weight with endorsements.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
None.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
It's not gonna do a thing, nothing, nothing, nothing.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
She endorsed in the last mayoral election Maya Wiley, who
finished third, So he's got a little bit of a problem.
Now he's going to have to answer for this and
somebody has to put his feet to the fire. It's
just started. It's got to continue. Rob Astorino is up
now host of The Rob Astorino Show on WOR from
(10:16):
Saturday is from four to five pm. He's host of
Saturday Agenda from one to three on Newsmax, and former
Westchester County executive.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Good morning Rob, Good morning Larry.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
What do you tell me what you think about this
feud between Elon and Donald Trump? Because we got several
people that have left messages that we played as talkbacks,
and every single one of them thinks, this isn't real,
this is all for show. What do you think?
Speaker 7 (10:47):
I think it probably started off that way and then,
like any fight between people who were friends, it can
get really bad. But there's got to be a stop
point here. I mean, it's sad, it's ridiculous, and it's
so counterproductive. These are two men who have done so
(11:11):
much for this country. They are doing so much for
this country, and you know, for them to be a
part instead of together, I mean it would be detrimental
because Elon Musk deserves a ton of credit for doge
and I know he's frustrated. I am too. Quite frankly,
there's not enough cuts. But the reality is trying to
(11:33):
get it through a House with a razor thin majority,
trying to get it through the Senate where you've got
some Republicans who don't want to cut anything. It's just
not the reality. So you take the good and don't
let it destroy the perfect. And Elon Musk wanted the perfect,
and you just don't have that right now. And I
think Donald Trump gets a enormous credit because he is moving.
(11:56):
He's moving that rock up the hill, and they both
deserve a ton of credit. Do I think that they'll
kiss and make up at some point, I do. I
just hope it doesn't become a reparable harm between the
two of them after these kind of nasty fights.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
He put out an interesting poll today on on X
asking if we really need a third party in this country,
if we need something. He claims it's eighty percent who
aren't really a Republican or Democrat. It's probably something like
less than twenty percent. But do you think he has
he wants to start a third party? I know he
(12:31):
can't run, but maybe he loves somebody else.
Speaker 7 (12:34):
Good luck I mean it's been tried a million times.
Michael Bloomberg spent tens of millions of dollars to try
to run as a third party candidate or study that
to run for president. And he told me, he said,
you know, I could win votes. I could never win
one single electoral College vote. And it's just been tried
(12:56):
for decades. Now, I mean, go back to when John
Anderson ran in nineteen eighty as an independent. You know
it just the country, for whatever reason, is right left
Republican a Democrat. And yes, I'm sure there is frustration
people would like to vote independent at times or have
another choice, but I just don't. The reality is I
don't see it happening anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Let's talk about the mayoral debate. This Zorin Mamdani saying
that he will not acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state
seems to have some legs. It's carried on now a
couple of days.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Well, but you know what, any Jew that would consider
voting him for the last since, you know, since he
was introduced to the public, should have their head examined.
This guy is frightening, but he is a he is
an I don't think he's socialist. I think he's even
beyond socialist. But he has caught fire, you know, in
a very crowded race with a key component of the
(13:54):
Democratic Party that votes, and that is a frightening thing.
And I said months and months ago, I said on
my show, I said, on your show this, this is
the guy to watch because he presents well, he can
raise a ton of money, which he did small dollar donors,
and he caught fire at the right time, and that
scares That is scaring Clomo. Excuse me, Clomo. Clomo looked like,
(14:19):
I don't know, he looked pathetic, like he wanted nothing
to do with the debate, wanted nothing to do with
this race. He was just I don't it was not
the Andrew Clomo I debated in twenty fourteen when we
went head to head and like ready to punch each
other in the face. He just looked like he checked
out already, you know. And I don't think it's because
(14:40):
I just think his heart's not in this race, because
he just he wasn't even answering questions. And by the way,
NBC and their quote moderators were pathetic. The only one
that was really good was Melissa Russo. She actually pushed Cuomo.
But the other ones, I mean, the Telemundo questioner she
was she's an activist, what will you do to prevent
(15:03):
ice from arresting? Everybody does come.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
On an excellent, excellent interpretation of what you did? Impersonation
that was really really good. But the problem they had
with that is the format was awful. It was awful.
What did they have thirty seconds to answer? What do
you learn in thirty seconds? You don't learn anything from
(15:27):
an ad And and they'd cut them off constantly. As
a matter of fact, every time something was starting to
get good, they cut it off. They said they had
to move on. I don't know what they were doing.
It was You're right, Everything was awful about that debate
except the candidates because they actually went at it a
few times. I thought it was yeah, and I thought
it was more exciting than I thought it was going
(15:47):
to be.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
Oh yeah, no it was. It was exciting. If you know,
you don't learn much. But and then I switched over.
I don't know how many other people did you know?
At eight o'clock and watch the rest of it online.
But I mean, this was perfect to Cuomo's advantage, right,
only an hour on TV eight other people, so everyone
only gets thirty seconds. He literally did not answer questions
(16:10):
period on bail reform, on these other things. He didn't
even answer them, and he wasn't pushed back to make
sure he did, so he got away with everything.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, I will say this, when you talked about the
Jewish vote, of course he wasn't get the Jewish vote,
but now Jewish voters in the city might get more
involved in this campaign to try to keep him out
in office. And that could mean some money. Not that
Cuomo needs any more money, but it could mean some money.
Thank you so much. Rob Astorino, host of The rab
Astino Show on WOR Saturdays from four to five pm.
(16:41):
What do you have coming up this weekend?
Speaker 7 (16:43):
Now, I'm going to break down that debate because I
was in a debate with Cuomo, so I want to
take it from the perspective of these other candidates and
what he was going through. And then of course the
X stuff, I mean, the Twitter stuff with this is great.
It's going to get even better today.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Thanks a lot. He's also hosted Saturday Agenda. You can
watch him on Newsmax from one to three and of
course he's the former Westchester County executive. Thanks a lot ron, Thankulary,
and this is an interview I've been looking forward to
all morning. Bill Madden Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals and Cooperstown, a
baseball memoir. That's the title of his brand new book.
(17:20):
He has been covering New York baseball for over fifty
years and he has memories inside stories. He's covered everything
from the scandals to the huge successes of the New
York teams, and so Bill, thanks so much for spending
some time with us this morning. I really appreciate your time.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
My pleasure. Larry, good morning, Good.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Morning to you. Let's start out when you started out
as a baseball reporter and you had to go into
the clubhouse and you had to cover the team for
the first time, were you intimidated?
Speaker 6 (17:59):
Well, uh, I guess somewhat. Before I really became the
actual beat writer, I was kind of a rookie on
the beat and my first introduction I was I wasn't
even working for the Daily News yet. I was working
for United president International Wire Service and they sent me
up to cover a Yankee game my first year there,
(18:20):
and my first experience was Ralph House was the manager
of the Yankees, and he was holding a scrum in
the dugout, and he kind of looked around at me
and the other writers, and then he looked at me again,
and during the course of his conversation with us, he
spit tobacco juice all over my shoes. And Phil Peppi,
(18:43):
it was, the Yankee beat writer for the Daily News
at the time, called me aside afterwards, he don't be
offended by that. That's just Ralph's way of saying welcome
to the clock, the way.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Of saying, now, I'm sure you've got to know Ralph
Holk o the years. Indeed, do you bring up that
story with him?
Speaker 6 (19:04):
I never brought it up again because he didn't know
who I was at the time, and I figured it
was no point in letting him know years later, when
I was the actual beat writer that hey, I'm the
guy who you spit tobacco juice all over my shoes.
There was no point in doing that because Ralph out
had a volcanic temper when it came to sports writers anyway,
and I tried to stay clear of him.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Were you on the other side of that volcanic temper? Ever?
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Not with Ralph, because when he was gone by the
time I came to the Daily News. Okay, so my
experiences were with Billy Martin five times.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Five times. Tell us about the worst one.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
I guess the worst one was nineteen eighty three, when no,
I would say nineteen eighty five, when Billy got into
that famous fight at the cross Keys Bar in Baltimore
with Ed Whitson one of his pitchers.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
And with Billy.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
The problem with Billy when he was the manager all
the beat writers, we had to make sure that we
couldn't go to bed until Billy had left the hotel bar.
The good news was Billy usually only drank in the
hotel bar. The bad news was, as I said, we
never knew what was going to happen with Billy in bars.
And this particular night it started out. He'd had a
(20:27):
bad series in Baltimore to begin with. There's a lot
of things happened down there, and anyway, he was in
a mellow moon at the beginning. And then I was
sitting at the table with a bunch of writers, and
all of a sudden, across the room, we hear all
this commotion, and we get up and we go over there,
and there's Billy and Ed Witson duking it out, and
Witson was as pretty tough thunn boy from Tennessee, redneck,
(20:53):
and they were going at it and they were wrestling
on the floor, and then it spilled out into the
parking lot. And you know, as always with Billy, your
day is never over until Billy has gone to bed.
We've already filed our game stories and everything else, but
here we are back on deadline again. So what I
(21:14):
remember most about that was I went up to my
room to start dictating the story. I called the office
and I said, look, we we got a new story here.
This is going to replace the game story on the
back page. Billy and Ed Whitson just gone at it,
and I'm describing the whole fight, and all of a sudden,
I hear this commotion outside my door, and it's Billy
(21:35):
pounding on Wiston's door and the hotel lobby in the
hallway of the hotel. I said to the office, I said,
hold on a second, I got round three going on
right outside my door.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You know, most baseball players you can talk to and
you can say, what is the moment that defines your career?
Do you have such a moment. Do you have a
moment that you remember more than any other.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Well, I was involved in a lot of pretty big
stories for the Delis. I guess the one that stands
out the most from me is because it formed a
lifelong friendship. Was when I broke the story that Tom
Seaver had been left unprotected by the Mets in this
free agent compensation draft. This was after he had been
(22:25):
brought back to the Mets. They traded him to the
Reds back in nineteen seventy six, and now this is
a few years later and they had gotten them back.
Only there was this free agent compensation draft in which
all the teams had to protect only I think it
(22:46):
was fifteen players. So teams that lost a free agent
could pick from this pool. And it turned out that
the Chicago White Sox, who had the first pick in
this draft, found out they looked at the pool players
and they realized that Siver had been left unprotected. And
what happened. How I found out about it was a
good friend of mine who used to work in the
(23:07):
commissioner's office, was a big White Sox fan, and he
called me the day before the draft and he said,
you're going to be covering the draft on Friday, and
I said, no, it's not a New York story. The
Mets of the Yankees didn't lose any free agents. So
he said to me, I have to tell you Bill
who this is. Not only is it a New York story,
it's a huge New York story. I said why, and
(23:29):
he explained to me that he had seen the list
of players and he said the Mets did not protect
Tom Seaver. And he said not only that, but I
called the White Sox and they told me that they're
going to pick sever on Friday. So I had this
exclusive story. And this is long before Twitter and all
(23:49):
social media and everything else was just deadline every minute,
and so I sat on the store we said the
DAILI is all day because hoping that nobody else was
going to get it. And at the same time, I
felt I had an obligation to sever to call him
and not blindside him with a story the next day.
(24:09):
So I did. I called him and he was First
of all, he was shocked, and secondly, he was very
appreciative of the fact that I gave him his heads up.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
And that created a lifelong friendship after That's that's an
amazing story and you can read all of these amazing
stories in the book Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals and Cooperstown, a
Baseball Memoir. Bill Madden, good luck with the book. I'm
sure it's going to sell. And thank you so much
for your time today. The original Chachist recording. Thank you
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