June 2, 2025 • 7 mins
Warner Wolf talks to Mendte in the Morning about the Knicks being knocked out of the playoffs and his gripe with the save in MLB.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I want to get right to legendary sportscaster Warner
Wolf because it was a busy week in sports. Not
so great for the Knicks, but it was a busy
week in sports, Warner all.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right, Larry Well, First of all, history was not on
the Knicks side. Two hundred eighty three times in the
playoffs one team has led three games to one. Of
the two hundred eighty three times, do you know how
many times that team trailing three games to one came
back to win a series?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
In thirteen, it's not many out of two hundred eighty.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Three thirteen on the nose, oh lucky thirteen.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, ninety five percent of design the team and leads
three games to one wins. And the reason you got
to figure it's a pretty good team to get that far,
and a good team is not likely to lose three
in a row. Oh and don't forget, you know, if
the Celtics don't blow those two straight twenty point third
(01:03):
quarter leads games one and two, the Knicks don't go
that far. All right? Now, talk about letting a pitcher
stay too long before a cellout crowd in your town
of Philadelphia. Forty three thousand fans. They watched Phil's left
handed starter Haesus Lozardo give up twelve hits and twelve runs,
(01:28):
three walks, and a book before the manager, Robbie Thompson
finally took him out after three and a third. The
question is when did Thompson realize Lozardo was having a
bad game? And you got to figure, Larry, if it
was a home game in Philadelphia, can you imagine the
booing what the Philadelphia fans, especially when Thompson came out
(01:55):
to the mound to take him out. It broke the boom.
I think.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I don't think he has it today.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now do you remember the old TV show Have Gun
Will Travel? Yes? Remember that?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, instead of have gun will travel, how about have
ball will Travel. Forty five year old Rich Hill has
pitched for thirteen different major league teams, and last month
he signed a minor league contract with Kansas City's Triple
A farm club. If the Royals bring him up, he
(02:32):
will tie Edward Jackson's all time major league record of
pitching for fourteen different teams.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Wow, yeah, that a record.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
One more time about this watered down bogus save rule.
I mean, this is ridiculous. The Orioles. Felix Batista came
into a ball game last week, two nothing Baltimore lead
in the ninth, and he gave up two doubles of
run and put the tying in winning runs on bass
and he gets a save. He did a lousy job.
(03:08):
Just change the role. You come into a game in
the last inning and you give up one or more
runs and then put the tying in winning runs on bass,
you don't get a save. It's it's ridiculous. All right
time now full the three stooges, All right stage. Number
one Brooklyn College professor Eric Alterman, whose New York Times
(03:29):
headline read, Springsteen will never surrender to Trump, Never surrender, surrender?
What he's a singer? What's he gonna surrender his guitar stauge?
Number two, buyer beware Met's one. Soto signed for seven
(03:50):
hundred and sixty five million dollars. He hit his first
home run in almost a month yesterday. He's hitting only
two thirty three. You remember Soto blaming it on not
having Aaron Judge hitting behind him. Right well, Pete Alonso
hitting behind Sodo is having a pretty good year. Two
(04:10):
eighty eight, twelve homers, forty six RBIs. And speaking of
guys batting behind each other, in nineteen twenty seven, Rufe,
when he hit his sixty home runs, had one hundred
and sixty five RBIs. Lou Garrigg, hitting behind Ruth had
one hundred and seventy three RBIs. Now, wait a minute,
(04:34):
Ruth must have left a lot of minimum base for
Gary to be able to hit have one hundred and
seventy three RBIs hitting behind Ruth. I think that's really interesting, right,
all right? Excuge number three, all those New Yorkers who
(04:54):
have voted for Zoan Mamdani and anti Semite, who does
not I believe in the Holocaust, putting him in the
second place in the New York Memorial race. If he
wins New York, you deserve him, and it's not the
New York. I knew those are the threes, all right. Earlier, Larry,
(05:17):
I heard you talk about Don Manningly and Billy Martin
setting you up.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
About forty years ago, Billy Martin was an advisor to
George Steinbrenner, and he was upset and publicly that George
did not ask his advice on a trade. So I
called Billy for a TV story. He said, sure, meet
me at Mickey Mannele's restaurant, Central Park South. I don't
know if you remember that. So I go there. There's
(05:46):
Mickey sitting in the back of the restaurant with his drink.
And I said, Biggie, where's Billy. He says, oh, he'll
be here in a minute. With that, I hear a
mean barking dog behind me. I must have jumped ten.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Feet in the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yes, it was Billy hiding behind a pole making the
sound of the dog. I'm Tony. I jumped out of
my skin. They were like kids.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
They sat on my gosh. Yeah, that was a great restaurant, by.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The way, it was.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, I remember it too. Did you did you get
the interview?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh? Yeah, yeah. Billy was always a great interview. Yeah.
He didn't hold anything back.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And he didn't get into a fight in that bar, right.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
No, that I know of.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No, at least it wasn't with you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah. No, you pick on small guys. Finally, here's a
quick book review, really quick, okay uh. Excerpts from Bill
O'Reilly's book, Confronting the President's Yes talk about a rough childhood.
Bill Clinton's father, William Jefferson blythe a traveling salesman, was
(07:10):
a bigamist. Clinton was conceived while the father was away
in the service overseas, Wow, putting suspicion on who was
the real father. And then Clinton's mother then married an
automobile salesman named Roger Clinton, who was a gambler, an alcoholic,
(07:33):
and a wife beater, and Clinton had to protect his
mother as he grew older and bigger. So my point
is it's amazing that Bill Clinton turned out as he
did and became president with that kind of background.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Absolutely, it does explain a little bit about him. But
you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Absolutely, Thank you so much, the great water Wolf. I've appreciated, Warner.
Talk to you again next week.
And I want to get right to legendary sportscaster Warner
Wolf because it was a busy week in sports. Not
so great for the Knicks, but it was a busy
week in sports, Warner all.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Right, Larry Well, First of all, history was not on
the Knicks side. Two hundred eighty three times in the
playoffs one team has led three games to one. Of
the two hundred eighty three times, do you know how
many times that team trailing three games to one came
back to win a series?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
In thirteen, it's not many out of two hundred eighty.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Three thirteen on the nose, oh lucky thirteen.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, ninety five percent of design the team and leads
three games to one wins. And the reason you got
to figure it's a pretty good team to get that far,
and a good team is not likely to lose three
in a row. Oh and don't forget, you know, if
the Celtics don't blow those two straight twenty point third
(01:03):
quarter leads games one and two, the Knicks don't go
that far. All right? Now, talk about letting a pitcher
stay too long before a cellout crowd in your town
of Philadelphia. Forty three thousand fans. They watched Phil's left
handed starter Haesus Lozardo give up twelve hits and twelve runs,
(01:28):
three walks, and a book before the manager, Robbie Thompson
finally took him out after three and a third. The
question is when did Thompson realize Lozardo was having a
bad game? And you got to figure, Larry, if it
was a home game in Philadelphia, can you imagine the
booing what the Philadelphia fans, especially when Thompson came out
(01:55):
to the mound to take him out. It broke the boom.
I think.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I don't think he has it today.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now do you remember the old TV show Have Gun
Will Travel? Yes? Remember that?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, instead of have gun will travel, how about have
ball will Travel. Forty five year old Rich Hill has
pitched for thirteen different major league teams, and last month
he signed a minor league contract with Kansas City's Triple
A farm club. If the Royals bring him up, he
(02:32):
will tie Edward Jackson's all time major league record of
pitching for fourteen different teams.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Wow, yeah, that a record.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
One more time about this watered down bogus save rule.
I mean, this is ridiculous. The Orioles. Felix Batista came
into a ball game last week, two nothing Baltimore lead
in the ninth, and he gave up two doubles of
run and put the tying in winning runs on bass
and he gets a save. He did a lousy job.
(03:08):
Just change the role. You come into a game in
the last inning and you give up one or more
runs and then put the tying in winning runs on bass,
you don't get a save. It's it's ridiculous. All right
time now full the three stooges, All right stage. Number
one Brooklyn College professor Eric Alterman, whose New York Times
(03:29):
headline read, Springsteen will never surrender to Trump, Never surrender, surrender?
What he's a singer? What's he gonna surrender his guitar stauge?
Number two, buyer beware Met's one. Soto signed for seven
(03:50):
hundred and sixty five million dollars. He hit his first
home run in almost a month yesterday. He's hitting only
two thirty three. You remember Soto blaming it on not
having Aaron Judge hitting behind him. Right well, Pete Alonso
hitting behind Sodo is having a pretty good year. Two
(04:10):
eighty eight, twelve homers, forty six RBIs. And speaking of
guys batting behind each other, in nineteen twenty seven, Rufe,
when he hit his sixty home runs, had one hundred
and sixty five RBIs. Lou Garrigg, hitting behind Ruth had
one hundred and seventy three RBIs. Now, wait a minute,
(04:34):
Ruth must have left a lot of minimum base for
Gary to be able to hit have one hundred and
seventy three RBIs hitting behind Ruth. I think that's really interesting, right,
all right? Excuge number three, all those New Yorkers who
(04:54):
have voted for Zoan Mamdani and anti Semite, who does
not I believe in the Holocaust, putting him in the
second place in the New York Memorial race. If he
wins New York, you deserve him, and it's not the
New York. I knew those are the threes, all right. Earlier, Larry,
(05:17):
I heard you talk about Don Manningly and Billy Martin
setting you up.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
About forty years ago, Billy Martin was an advisor to
George Steinbrenner, and he was upset and publicly that George
did not ask his advice on a trade. So I
called Billy for a TV story. He said, sure, meet
me at Mickey Mannele's restaurant, Central Park South. I don't
know if you remember that. So I go there. There's
(05:46):
Mickey sitting in the back of the restaurant with his drink.
And I said, Biggie, where's Billy. He says, oh, he'll
be here in a minute. With that, I hear a
mean barking dog behind me. I must have jumped ten.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Feet in the restaurant.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yes, it was Billy hiding behind a pole making the
sound of the dog. I'm Tony. I jumped out of
my skin. They were like kids.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
They sat on my gosh. Yeah, that was a great restaurant, by.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
The way, it was.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, I remember it too. Did you did you get
the interview?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh? Yeah, yeah. Billy was always a great interview. Yeah.
He didn't hold anything back.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And he didn't get into a fight in that bar, right.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
No, that I know of.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
No, at least it wasn't with you.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah. No, you pick on small guys. Finally, here's a
quick book review, really quick, okay uh. Excerpts from Bill
O'Reilly's book, Confronting the President's Yes talk about a rough childhood.
Bill Clinton's father, William Jefferson blythe a traveling salesman, was
(07:10):
a bigamist. Clinton was conceived while the father was away
in the service overseas, Wow, putting suspicion on who was
the real father. And then Clinton's mother then married an
automobile salesman named Roger Clinton, who was a gambler, an alcoholic,
(07:33):
and a wife beater, and Clinton had to protect his
mother as he grew older and bigger. So my point
is it's amazing that Bill Clinton turned out as he
did and became president with that kind of background.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Absolutely, it does explain a little bit about him. But
you're right.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Absolutely, Thank you so much, the great water Wolf. I've appreciated, Warner.
Talk to you again next week.
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