September 2, 2025 • 9 mins
Warner Wolf talks to Mendte in the Morning about the return of college football with Bill Belichicks return to coaching, as well as his boos of the week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, football is back and all is right with the world.
Let's get right to legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf and he's
gonna I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope he's
going to start with football water.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes. Great, Actually, Larry, you could play one of my
sportscasts for those Wolves.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That would be amazing. We need to suggest that we
should send it to them.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'll get rid of them. Well, Bill Belichick, right, not
a very good debut, losing forty eight to fourteenees to TCU.
But you know, you have to keep in mind North
Carolina is not a football school. It's a basketball school.
And he knows that. And if you look at the schedule,
(00:51):
the next three games, he plays University North Carolina, Charlotte
Richmond and University Central Florida, so they could be three
and one, but then they play eight straight ACC teams.
But he knows the deal there. The expectations are not
(01:11):
that great.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, And it isn't it getting him just for recruiting.
I mean, there is a hope, right, because he's Bill Belichick,
He'll be able to recruit some people that.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
They normally wouldn't get to that point. That's going to
take a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's why Saburn was so great. He was a great recruiter. Yeah,
that's the key for Alabama. Right, you're absolutely right, take
a bow.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I did, I already did all right?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Baseball? Another manager who just doesn't get it. Sunday, the
Phillies are ready to sweep the four game series with
the Braves. Phillies left hander hayesus Lozardo has a two
hit shutout, leading one nothing, two outs, man all first
and the seventh inning, and Phil's manager Rob Thompson takes
(02:01):
him out and the Phils go on to lose three
to one. Another robot manager who went with analytics and
the pitch count rather than what's the score and how's
he doing. On the other hand, just the opposite, Texas
beat the Angels twenty to three. Angel pitcher Jack Kohanowitz
(02:24):
gave up eleven runs on nine hits before the manager
Ray Montgomery took him out in the fourth n So
what's the question.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Larry, When did he know they didn't have it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's it? Yeah, you're on top of this.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I'd Booze of the Week one has to go to
the Yankees, who were off yesterday on Labor Day. You know,
I'm sure when you were growing up. Also, not only
was no one off on Labor Day, but every team
played a double her two for the price of one
and the other Bull of the week oh Man has
(03:06):
to go to Latvian tennis player Yolena Ostapenko, who said
to her her opponent, American Taylor Townshend, she had no
class and no education. That's after Astapenko lost in straight
sets and one of Townshend's returns hit the net and
dropped over in Townshend's favor for the point. Ostapenko was
(03:30):
upset that Townsend didn't say I'm sorry, which is an
unwritten rule in tennis. Why no tennis player is sorry
they won the point. They're happy? They would the ball
bounce that way? All right. I don't know about you,
but I am tired of hearing postgame reporters, no matter
(03:52):
what the sport, football, tennis, baseball, basketball, an athlete asking
an athlete right after a win, what does this mean
to you? What does this mean to you? I'm waiting
for the first athlete to say nothing, you bozo, What
do you think it means? How about asking a question
(04:16):
about the event all right, time now for the three stooges.
All right, Stage number one and maybe the stooge of
the year Polish paving company CEO Petras Suric, who stole
an eleven year old boy's hat giving to him at
the Open by Polish player Camille Marshak, who had just
(04:39):
lost his match and was signing autographs for the fans.
What a creep. And then he lies and says he
thought the hat was for him. Come on, Seric and
his wife who helped put the cap in her bag,
should be banned from all US tennis matches. A fan misconduct,
(05:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
They're looking at that, right, What are they looking at
that to try to ban the guy?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I hope so he should be gone. Period. Stuge Number two,
President Trump, who says Roger Clemens should be in the
Hall of Fame. No, mister, President Clemens is a cheater.
Even his own Yankee teammate Andy Pennett testified on the
roof that Clemens told him he used theroids at which
(05:33):
Clemens used the now famous phrase. Pettitt disremembered. No, just
the President. Unless the Hall of Fame suddenly puts in
a new wing called the Cheaters Wing. Clemens does not
belong in the Hall of Fame and stuge number three.
(05:57):
Those Vanity Fair workers who frittened to quit the magazine
if it put First Lady Milania Trump on the cover,
let him quit. The first lady who can speak five
languages is the first glamorous, classiest, smartest woman in the
(06:19):
White House since Jackie Kennedy. Sounds like somebody is jealous
of the first lady.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Who, by the way, was a model. I'm sorry, I
didn't mean to establish a model and she was. She's
appeared on Vanity Fair before.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh man, what's changed? Yeah, yeah, all right. Finally, on
this day in sports, actually it was yesterday, September one,
nineteen oh six, the Philadelphia Age beat the Boston Red
Sox four to one in twenty four innings. Both starting pitchers,
(06:56):
Philadelphia A's Jack Combs and Rich Sox Joe Harris went
all the way all fours. And what's the question, Larry,
what was the pitch cow?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That's incredible?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, yeah, I think about it. Then never analytics. What's
the score? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
No, robot managers.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Then hey, listen, we actually have a little bit of time.
Can you tell us about what you think about the
Giants and Jets this year.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, I like the Jets. I think I like Justin Fields.
I saw him play a lot last year, first with
the with the Bears, and then he was four and
two with the Steelers. I like him. As far as
the Giants go, I don't see an improvement. I mean,
(07:51):
at best, at best they would be seven and ten.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well that's an improvement.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, it's an improved Would they want four went four
and thirteen?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. I love this kid, Abdul Carter.
I just love him. I've watched him play in high school,
I watched him play in college, and he's special. I
haven't seen anybody play like him ever. He has the
quickest first step I have ever seen. So I'm excited
about that. And what about this quarterback Jackson Dart When
does he take over?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, you know, I'm not going to say, oh, after
what just exhibition games? No, let's see what he does,
you know against real players and nah, I mean, yeah,
it look good in their exhibition But like I've always
used the example nineteen seventy three, the New York Giants
(08:45):
went six and oh in the preseason. They used to
play six preseason games. Well you know what they were
in the regular season they won two games. Yes, I
mean you can't go at all from the exhibition games.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Alright.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You know, I was thinking, as long as we have
the time, I was thinking of something else about Roger
Clemons not belonging in the hall. You know, you might
as well put in Barry Bonds, whose heads looked like
a bowling ball at the end, right you remember that? Yeah? Yeah,
Or Sammy Sosu suddenly couldn't understand or speak English at
(09:28):
the at the hearing. Or Rafao Palmero, remember he testified
he never took steroids and then tested positive six weeks later.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, you'd have to I love your line. You'd have
to have a whole wing for the cheaters.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Water Wolf legendary sportscaster with us every Monday at seven
thirty five
Ah, football is back and all is right with the world.
Let's get right to legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf and he's
gonna I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope he's
going to start with football water.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yes. Great, Actually, Larry, you could play one of my
sportscasts for those Wolves.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That would be amazing. We need to suggest that we
should send it to them.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'll get rid of them. Well, Bill Belichick, right, not
a very good debut, losing forty eight to fourteenees to TCU.
But you know, you have to keep in mind North
Carolina is not a football school. It's a basketball school.
And he knows that. And if you look at the schedule,
(00:51):
the next three games, he plays University North Carolina, Charlotte
Richmond and University Central Florida, so they could be three
and one, but then they play eight straight ACC teams.
But he knows the deal there. The expectations are not
(01:11):
that great.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Yeah, And it isn't it getting him just for recruiting.
I mean, there is a hope, right, because he's Bill Belichick,
He'll be able to recruit some people that.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
They normally wouldn't get to that point. That's going to
take a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
That's why Saburn was so great. He was a great recruiter. Yeah,
that's the key for Alabama. Right, you're absolutely right, take
a bow.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I did, I already did all right?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Baseball? Another manager who just doesn't get it. Sunday, the
Phillies are ready to sweep the four game series with
the Braves. Phillies left hander hayesus Lozardo has a two
hit shutout, leading one nothing, two outs, man all first
and the seventh inning, and Phil's manager Rob Thompson takes
(02:01):
him out and the Phils go on to lose three
to one. Another robot manager who went with analytics and
the pitch count rather than what's the score and how's
he doing. On the other hand, just the opposite, Texas
beat the Angels twenty to three. Angel pitcher Jack Kohanowitz
(02:24):
gave up eleven runs on nine hits before the manager
Ray Montgomery took him out in the fourth n So
what's the question.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Larry, When did he know they didn't have it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's it? Yeah, you're on top of this.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Pretty good.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I'd Booze of the Week one has to go to
the Yankees, who were off yesterday on Labor Day. You know,
I'm sure when you were growing up. Also, not only
was no one off on Labor Day, but every team
played a double her two for the price of one
and the other Bull of the week oh Man has
(03:06):
to go to Latvian tennis player Yolena Ostapenko, who said
to her her opponent, American Taylor Townshend, she had no
class and no education. That's after Astapenko lost in straight
sets and one of Townshend's returns hit the net and
dropped over in Townshend's favor for the point. Ostapenko was
(03:30):
upset that Townsend didn't say I'm sorry, which is an
unwritten rule in tennis. Why no tennis player is sorry
they won the point. They're happy? They would the ball
bounce that way? All right. I don't know about you,
but I am tired of hearing postgame reporters, no matter
(03:52):
what the sport, football, tennis, baseball, basketball, an athlete asking
an athlete right after a win, what does this mean
to you? What does this mean to you? I'm waiting
for the first athlete to say nothing, you bozo, What
do you think it means? How about asking a question
(04:16):
about the event all right, time now for the three stooges.
All right, Stage number one and maybe the stooge of
the year Polish paving company CEO Petras Suric, who stole
an eleven year old boy's hat giving to him at
the Open by Polish player Camille Marshak, who had just
(04:39):
lost his match and was signing autographs for the fans.
What a creep. And then he lies and says he
thought the hat was for him. Come on, Seric and
his wife who helped put the cap in her bag,
should be banned from all US tennis matches. A fan misconduct,
(05:03):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
They're looking at that, right, What are they looking at
that to try to ban the guy?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I hope so he should be gone. Period. Stuge Number two,
President Trump, who says Roger Clemens should be in the
Hall of Fame. No, mister, President Clemens is a cheater.
Even his own Yankee teammate Andy Pennett testified on the
roof that Clemens told him he used theroids at which
(05:33):
Clemens used the now famous phrase. Pettitt disremembered. No, just
the President. Unless the Hall of Fame suddenly puts in
a new wing called the Cheaters Wing. Clemens does not
belong in the Hall of Fame and stuge number three.
(05:57):
Those Vanity Fair workers who frittened to quit the magazine
if it put First Lady Milania Trump on the cover,
let him quit. The first lady who can speak five
languages is the first glamorous, classiest, smartest woman in the
(06:19):
White House since Jackie Kennedy. Sounds like somebody is jealous
of the first lady.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Who, by the way, was a model. I'm sorry, I
didn't mean to establish a model and she was. She's
appeared on Vanity Fair before.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh man, what's changed? Yeah, yeah, all right. Finally, on
this day in sports, actually it was yesterday, September one,
nineteen oh six, the Philadelphia Age beat the Boston Red
Sox four to one in twenty four innings. Both starting pitchers,
(06:56):
Philadelphia A's Jack Combs and Rich Sox Joe Harris went
all the way all fours. And what's the question, Larry,
what was the pitch cow?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
That's incredible?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, yeah, I think about it. Then never analytics. What's
the score? How you doing?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
No, robot managers.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Then hey, listen, we actually have a little bit of time.
Can you tell us about what you think about the
Giants and Jets this year.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Oh, I like the Jets. I think I like Justin Fields.
I saw him play a lot last year, first with
the with the Bears, and then he was four and
two with the Steelers. I like him. As far as
the Giants go, I don't see an improvement. I mean,
(07:51):
at best, at best they would be seven and ten.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Well that's an improvement.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, it's an improved Would they want four went four
and thirteen?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. I love this kid, Abdul Carter.
I just love him. I've watched him play in high school,
I watched him play in college, and he's special. I
haven't seen anybody play like him ever. He has the
quickest first step I have ever seen. So I'm excited
about that. And what about this quarterback Jackson Dart When
does he take over?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, you know, I'm not going to say, oh, after
what just exhibition games? No, let's see what he does,
you know against real players and nah, I mean, yeah,
it look good in their exhibition But like I've always
used the example nineteen seventy three, the New York Giants
(08:45):
went six and oh in the preseason. They used to
play six preseason games. Well you know what they were
in the regular season they won two games. Yes, I
mean you can't go at all from the exhibition games.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Alright.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You know, I was thinking, as long as we have
the time, I was thinking of something else about Roger
Clemons not belonging in the hall. You know, you might
as well put in Barry Bonds, whose heads looked like
a bowling ball at the end, right you remember that? Yeah? Yeah,
Or Sammy Sosu suddenly couldn't understand or speak English at
(09:28):
the at the hearing. Or Rafao Palmero, remember he testified
he never took steroids and then tested positive six weeks later.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, you'd have to I love your line. You'd have
to have a whole wing for the cheaters.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Water Wolf legendary sportscaster with us every Monday at seven
thirty five
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