September 5, 2025 ⢠34 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's cam If I am six forty and you're listening
to the Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio apps,
I am six forties. Conway's Tuesday. I mean, Mark Thompson
is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, bod you're Timmy love it, love it. Very excited tonight,
let's get oh man, this is very exciting for you
and I both, you know, both of us huge huge fans.
And I can't believe we got him to come on
this show.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He might this must have been a mistake.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
No, I thought it was something an error also, and
I wouldn't normally embrace a big booking like this that
would eclipse my own booking, you know what I mean.
But it's very exciting, all.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Right, ladies and gentlemen. One of the great announcers of
all time in the history of the universe is with us.
Bob Costas, how are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm good, Tim Hello Mark, and I heard your introduction.
Very gracious of you. And here's all it took your ace.
Producer Sharon somehow had my phone number. She left me voicemail.
I being a gentleman that turned her call. That was
maybe twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Five minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And since none of us are going anywhere during this lockdown,
I said sure, and.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Here I am Wow, who knew? Yeah? Is that the
way it's happened with most of your career? Like they
just called you literally ten minutes before, I don't know,
they new York met Stadium opened up and you or
Shay Stadium opened up, and you decided to go in
and then be the first announcer.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, when Shae Stadium opened, I was twelve, while I
was something of a prodigy, not to that extent in
nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I was thinking, Tim, it was so much about Bob Costas,
not really.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was trying to get through sixth grade without the
greasers beating me up. So, you know, not in that instance,
I knew.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I knew I'd pick a wrong stadium. But this is
so great for you to come on with us. You know,
early on in the pandemic, you were on with with
Fred Rogan and you had said something that stuck with
me and I've repeated probably fifty times on the air.
You said, there are only two types of people in
the United States right now, people who have to rearrange
their schedule because of the pandemic. And then people who
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are fighting to survive monetarily, physically and emotionally.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, I think there's probably more than two. I don't
think I said it exactly that way, but that's the
essence of it. I said. Some people, sadly are trying
to figure out how to get by, how to survive,
and we just have to figure out how to adjust.
So we're lucky enough to be in that second category.
And I've been able to adjust, and so have the
people I care most about, my family and my closest friends.
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So in that respect, we haven't been directly affected except
for a little bit of inconvenience here and there, but
nothing to speak of alongside what some other people have
been doing.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Sure, I imagine, and it really is. It is tough
for a lot of people. But I'm glad sports is
back because it does take a lot of our minds
off of it. Especially when you see a hockey game
go into a triple overtime time or quadruple overtime. It's
you know, it shows up five or six hours of
your day.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, you know the hockey and the basketball NBA in
the bubble are doing best. You don't feel uncomfortable about it.
You think they've got it figured out. They've each had
zero positives being in that bubble, And although obviously the
absence of fans changes the experience and makes it less
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compelling in some respects, it still looks like Stanley Cup
playoff hockey. It still looks like NBA basketball, Whereas with
other sports, I think, sure, it's great to have them back.
I've watched a lot of baseball because I'm a huge
baseball fan. But rather than taking your mind off of it,
sometimes it's a reminder of the pandemic because you hear
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about the Marlins, or you hear about the Cardinals and
so many guys sideline and the Cardinals have played five games,
that's all they played to this point. And you hear
about an fight between the Astros and the A's and
the suspensions that follow, and people completely forgetting the period
of time we're in and engaging in fights and scuffling
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with each other, and others forgetting the protocols. And then
you hear about college football doing the same thing. At
least most of the colleges and most of the conferences
postponing at least until the spring this college football season,
so it can be a reminder of the pandemic rather
than taking our minds off of it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Right, But don't when you get big conferences that have
decided to quit until spring, doesn't everybody have to follow
suit because there's no way you could have a national
champion without those conferences.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, no way you could have the bowl games. But
some just stubbornly they're going to hold out. Eventually, I
think they're going to have to wave the white flag.
But we hear Nebraska saying, for example, we'll play anybody
that wants to play us. So at last report, maybe
I missed something in the last hour or something. The
SEC still hasn't bowed out. Nebraska says, hey, we'll go
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play Clemson, We'll go play Alabama, whatever, Right, that makes sense?
You know you're dealing with. Yeah, they're athletes, but they're
not directly compensated. I believe the scholarship means a lot,
or should if it's a true student athlete situation. But
they're not directly compensated and they have no union to
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protect them. So is this really a responsible thing to do?
We know that beyond the fan experience and people like
us watching it on television, we know that most college
towns are relatively small, and the university is a big
source of economic It's an economic engine for those towns,
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and especially when you have college football games, it's a
big deal. It's a big economic boost. So I'm not
turning my back on that as a concern, But that
doesn't match the medical concern. The size of the rosters,
the youth of the participants, the travel that's involved, even
if you're playing only within your own geographic region, and
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Nebraska's basically declared, hey, you know, we'll go play anybody anywhere.
And we also know, and I've mentioned this on the
air several times, that the less high profile sports that
are still important to the participants volleyball, tennis, lacrosse, field, hockey, swimming,
whatever it might be, they are funded by the big
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revenue sports football and basketball. And those sports have to
be shut down, then there's a ripple effect throughout the
athletic department, and that's too bad too. But again, in
the name of the revenue, does it make sense to
subject people to the kind of peril you'd be subjecting
them to, no matter how much in their youthful exuberance
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they may want to play. I think it's a pretty
obvious answer, and everybody's got to come around eventually.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Not just the other programs that are you know, go orphaned.
If the football and basketball programs closed down, it's also
the rest of the university. I mean, these are engines
for the entire university. That's why these football coaches make
millions of dollars. And this is just such big money
that is going away from so many of these academic institutions.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah it is, but again, well the economy has taken
a very large hit in many areas. But the primary consideration,
no matter how imperfectly we try to navigate, this primary
consideration is public health.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Right, Hey, Bob, we got to take quick break and
welcome back. I want to talk about the Kentucky Derby.
I loved your coverage of the Kentucky Derby, sure, and
I want to obviously a bigger fan you are of
horse racing. I think you're huge. I think you're a
degenerate like I am.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Bob Costas is where that's one of the world's greatest announceers.
I really enjoyed the many many times you did the
Kentucky Derby. Were you at a horse fan growing up? Did
your dad or grandfather or degenerate uncle taking the track.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No, I had a couple of degenerate uncles actually, who
were at the track all the time. My dad was
a big time gambler, but he gambled on ballgames. He
wasn't a horse racing guy. So my knowledge of horse
racing was, you know, watching Secretariat in nineteen seventy three
win the Belmont. And it's an interesting story because after
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NBC lost Baseball in two thousand and then they lost
the NBA in two thousand and two, and they hadn't
yet regained football, and they looked around and they said,
what are we going to do with Costas the Olympics
come up only every two years, maybe we should have
him host the Triple Crown horse races. And it was
at that point that I had to begin to learn
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some racing. I couldn't even read a racing for him
in two thousand and one when I did my first
Kentucky Derby, but I came to appreciate it from a
generalist's standpoint. I never posed as an expert. We had
plenty of those, but I was the guy who brought
it on the air, provided the overview, did the historical pieces,
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narrated the background stuff on the trainers and the various
connections the jockeys and whatnot. And what NBC was particularly
good at and remains good at, was they took that
general Olympic philosophy, which is, look, this is a big
event that includes many times over the number of people
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who actually are very knowledgeable about it. Not that many
Americans are that knowledge of track and field with gymnastics
or whatever, but they're riveted by it during the Olympics.
So you have to take an approach that brings those
casual fans in and using that approach, especially on the
Kentucky Derby, NBC turned a two minute event into a
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four hour television extravaganza. Oh it was a ratings blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, it was great. And you know they say that
the only two people that lose money to track are
handicappers and people that don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well, the thing that always struck me the few times
I went to the track before I began covering the
Triple Crown horse races is the touts, not so much
the famous handicappers who have newspaper columns or whatever. But
there were always touts hanging around the windows and the rails,
and those guys were among the most poorly dressed people
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I've ever seen. If they were constantly picking winners, wouldn't
they have something other than sands, A belt slacks from
nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, you could afford a new shirt.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I forgot, well right.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Giveaway. Why would I listen to this guy?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I'll tell you a quick story along those lines. I
was at the bathroom at Santa in Edoth and my
dad was at the at the table, you know, handicapping,
And I came back to the table and I said, hey, Dad,
I said, you're going to believe this, but there was
a guy throwing up, and I believe he was all
so messing his pants. He was on his knees in
the public toilet at the bathroom there, and he was
still yelling to his friend, go bet this horse, Go
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bet this horse. And my dad said, who did he like?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Gum legs and the fourth of Hyaliah.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But I said to my dad, I said, Dad, the
guy's throwing up. His pants are down and around his ankles,
he's on his knees at a racetrack, I think he's
out of luck.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, so it would appear, so it would appear.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, But acostas I always felt, Tim and everybody, I
just felt this very thing that you talk about, Bob,
making horse racing approachable and making it sort of understandable
or accessible might be a better word to the general public.
I feel as though you brought that to virtually everything.
I say virtually just because maybe I've forgotten something, but
I mean, seriously, everything I've seen you in and one
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of the great virtues I think of your career is
that you've done so much. You know, you did Later.
I used to love that show Later And which I
had nothing to do with sports. I mean, you know,
generally speaking, was entertainment that kind of thing, and I
find that accessibility is a big deal, especially these days
with fantasy football leagues and all the rest. It feels
as though some of that is lost. Like, you know,
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the average fan really has to have some kind of
moderate knowledge of sports as they approach a lot of
these sports that are broadcast.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now, Yeah, I think that's true. Through the years, one
of the compliments that I valued most was people sometimes
would say to me, you know, I'm not that big
a sports fan, but I'm interested and I enjoy it
when I listen to you. Now, that doesn't mean that
we were insulting the intelligence of somebody who was really
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invested in it and really had followed it. I think
there's a way to travel both tracks, and also to
understand the difference in assignments. When you're hosting the Olympics,
it's the circumstances I just described, or the Kentucky Derby
on network television. But these days, when I do a
game on the Baseball Network, I know that by and
large i'm talking to close to hardcore baseball fans, knowledgeable
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baseball fans. Now that doesn't mean I want to, you know,
conduct an autopsy on every pitch the way some people do,
where you take all the humor and the the humanity
out of it and it all just becomes analytical. That's
the wrong approach to take. But I'm aware that the
people watching on the Major League Baseball Network are knowledgeable
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baseball fans, and I broadcast it accordingly.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, it really is. I really do enjoy it, and
I think one of the things that sells the Olympics
are are and I'm not kidding you here, I really do.
Are the graphics and that theme song?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh yeah, just like John Tesh's Round Ball Rock was
inseparable from the NBA at NBC, then you know and
you knew it was time for the game. John Williams
Olympic theme is synonymous with the Olympics on NBCIX.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah. And the way though it's played so loud, and
they and the circles that come all together and and
you know it's a big event. And then you know,
the sweeping views of of you know, whatever city it's in,
in Beijing or wherever it is, or in London, it's
just really it makes it a huge event.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Bob.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I know you have a story. We've got to take
a commercial break, a story that you want to share
about my dad. I hope you can stay for another segment.
Is that cool?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah? I can't stay much longer because my wife is
thinking about dinner. We're on the web cost.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Okay, thank you, all right, thank you. This commercial break
will be very quick.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
You'll barely know push back on Conway, Bob, because you'll
keep you here all night.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So well, yeah, I give a.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Figuring this out.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right, Bob.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty the.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Most amount of hits. And when you put in Bob
Costas and then you and then you filter it by
the number of hits, what comes up as is the
number one Bob Costa's video. Is your intricate system explanation
of Houston astros stealing signs?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I have no explanation for that. It must be some
intricate algorithm that spits that out.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Is that crazy?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That was on? Yeah, I was on CNN. I guess
that's January after the scandal broke with them stealing signs,
and I went on and spoke with them about it.
I don't know why that would be at the top
of the pyramid, but who knows why anything happens the
way it does these days.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It is odd. Do you think that will affect you
think COVID may may have saved the day here where
people have other things to worry about other than you know,
showing up and booing Houston for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, it saved them, at least for the time being,
from all that animosity raining down upon them when they
go on the road. But clearly opposing teams haven't forgotten
about it. Joe Kelly of the Dodgers through at or
behind two Astros a couple of weeks ago. And then
you saw what happened when an a's hitter was hit
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three times in a series by Astros pitchers. Now, that
was almost certainly not intentional. They were guys who hadn't
been in the major leagues prior this time, and they
were just trying to get their footing on a big
League mound and pitches got away from them. Probably was
not intentional. But then somebody from the Astros bench is
goading the a's player who charges the dugout completely forgetting
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all the protocols, and now you have a full blown
brawl in the middle of COVID nineteen. Now, maybe it's
just a coincidence that had involved the Astros, but I
think there is baseball wide resentment of Houston by players,
not just fans. And while it may simmer down a
little bit, and intervening events, especially the pandemic, have obviously
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changed people's focus even when they come back to playing
under normal conditions in twenty twenty one, and there are
fans in the stands when the Astros gone on the road,
they're going to hear it.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, you know, I think it was a lot of
baseball fans. I thought it was pretty unfair for Joe
Kelly to get an eight game suspension while none of
the players on Houston were suspended.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well, none of the players on Houston were suspended for
that specific situation because, as Rob Mannfer, the commissioner, explained,
he had to give them immunity in order to get
the kind of testimony that he needed to hand down
the penalties for the Astros. So it was the front
office people and the managers who took the brunt of that.
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He knew he would get pushedback from the players Association,
which in baseball is very, very strong. I wouldn't be
surprised if somewhere down the line there's a new collective
bargaining agreement coming up in the near future, if somewhere
down the line they didn't codify penalties for players in
cheating circumstances like this, if whatever happens again the way
they eventually codified penalties for performance and nancing drug use.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I see right, Hey, so Bob, you you would run
into my dad, Tim Conway at some point in your
life and had a story you wanted to share.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, you know, I did not know him well, but
like everybody from my generation and other generations, I watched
him on the Carol Burnett Show, and he and Harvey
Korman and Lyle Wagner and Vicky and of course Carol
Burnett herself were masters of something you just don't see
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very much on television anymore. They were sketch players. Saturday
Night Live does some of that, but it's a different
kind of thing. The Carol Burnett Show was a sketch
show essentially, and your dad was just a genius in
that context. And so he was one of the guests
only one time on the Late Night Show, which Mark
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mentioned a few minutes ago later. And I'm sure he
was this way with everybody. He was charming. He was
not presumptuous in any way a big star. He didn't
carry him self like a big star or real everyman quality. Uh.
He was very gracious towards me. And then we went
our separate ways and never saw each other again. But
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it was a good show because your dad was the guest.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah. We were up in Big Bear and one of
the very many times my dad got got stopped for
an autograph, and the guy says, I've been watching it
on TV for years and years. You know, I really
enjoy your work and especially you know your your call
of baseball games of the Kentucky Derby. Bob, can I
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have your autograph? And he know, yes, that's a true story.
In Safe Way, in Big Bear, he was asked if
he would sign an autograph and he thought he thought
my dad. He thought my dad was Bob Costas.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You know, I'm pattered because your dad was who he was,
but the resemblance is lost on me. By the way,
to get Michael I used to get Michael J. Fox
and a whole lot of times I got Mark Hamill
on his Star Wars day.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh yeah, okay. But so somewhere floating out there is
a guy with a Bob Costas autographed. It was actually
signed by my dad, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
One time not to play can you top this? One time?
I'm walking with my then young son Keith outside Camden
Yards in Baltimore prior to an Oriole game, and a
guy comes running up a big beaming smile on his face,
and he says, Bob, Bob, can I have your article?
But sure? How you doing? He goes, just sign it.
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Best wishes Bob Vilas like a home so sign. I
signed the guys. I signed the guy's score book. Fix
those rusty pipes. Best wishes Bob Dela. And then as
I saw him walking away, he glances down with this
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puzzle look on his face, looks back over his shoulder,
and I'm waving at him, like That's what I wanted.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
While my dad was signing this, We're in line checking out,
and I could see my dad sign Bob, and then
he sort of gave me a glance and I said,
cos t a s Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That that story. I've never heard that story.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, that's a truth story.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I have made night funny.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It was really great. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Bob.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
We really appreciate coming on. I hope you have a
terrific dinner with with your wife and uh and and
and and everybody listening right now. I'm you know, it
was thrilled that you decide to come on and spend
some time with us. I'm sure the pleasure.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Happy to do it. Thanks Tim, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
All right, Thank you Bob Costas. Oh that is great, man,
what a treat conversation.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
She's just so good.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, I mean, and so articulate, and so you know
every nothing's written down. You can tell that he's everything
is from the top of his mind. And he can
talk like Vince Scully for ten minutes without fumfering over
any words about any notes in front of him. And
and that is a man that is a skin I
don't think a lot of broadcasters have nowadays. You constantly
see people in the news business and especially in sports
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looking at notes while they talk. And you never saw
what Bob Consa's Every time you see him on TV,
he looks right in the camera and he never ever
looks at a note. Ever. It's great.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, he has a tremendous command of information. As you say,
he's so smooth and all those things. Also you mentioned him.
His knowledge base is terrific and he's just so good
at explaining things. Now I think that, I know you'll
take a break with just quickly. I'll say, I think
that the thing you were talking about, which was the
YouTube explanation of the astros cheating, the reason I watched
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it and I recommended it to others is because I
found it so accessible. You know, his explanation from a
baseball guy, you know, explaining how the whole thing worked,
all the dynamics. It was just so understandable. Really, I
really liked it. And then he was able to say,
because he's got the authority, because he's a baseball guy, Hey,
this is why this is really messed up what these
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guys are doing.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know. Yeah, And he also has a great interview
if you go to YouTube, where he interviewed Mickey Mantle,
and then he has another great interview where he got
into with Vince McMahon about the uh.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I didn't, Oh, that's great. I haven't seen that. I
saw the Mantle thing because he was really moved. That
was like interviewing his his idol or you know, his
boyhood's hero.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I sensed, yeah, And I know that Mantle later on
in life blew out his liver with you know, vodka,
you know, whiskey, whatever, and he got a liver transplant
from a nun, a Catholic nun who had never had it,
you know, a sip of anything in her life. And man,
can you imagine the shock when that liver had its
you know, its first double martini?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
He was I agree.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KF I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And NASCAR is gonna do something pretty cool. They're gonna
run a race at the LA Coliseum, right, I guess
according to who called us up, Belly, I think it
was Dave Koons, right, Dave Coons called us up and
said that they ran a race at the coliseum in
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I don't know, like nineteen sixty six or something like that.
Whatever ever, sixty six ninety nine potato batata, take sixty
six turn upside down? He got ninety nine boom. All right,
let's talk to Derek Shanks. He's the CEO of Fox Sports.
Everybody works for Fox Sports works under this guy. There's
nobody above him in Fox Sports. Do you tell people
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that every day or.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Same? What do you say, Demmy, you tell.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
People every day of the year. The big cheese there
that nobody works above you in Fox Sports.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Oh yeah, I have a sign when they come in
the door to work.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
That's great. Hey, before we get into NASCAR, that was
pretty cool. How the hell was that just a scheduling
fluke or did somebody think ahead to put the Yankees
and Mets together on nine to eleven?
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Oh that was definitely planned. You know the scheduling process, and.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
It was a great idea, you know, and I had
never heard you know that the a couple of pieces
you did before the game. One of them was Mike
Piazza's home run on the first game back after nine
to eleven in Chase Stadium. I was unaware of that
home run, you know, because there were so many things
going on, but that was what a great piece that
was as well. Who puts all those pieces together for
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you at at Fox?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah, look, I know you're I know you're a fan
of Tom Ornaldy. He's probably the greatest story teller of
a generation and now he works at Fox. And you know,
if you want to make somebody cry, you just give
the story to Tom Renaldi. He can even make a
home run, you know, make you cry.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's the best. It really was terrific. Anyway, that was
a great tribute. I'm glad that, you know, the people
over at Fox are like most of the people in
America where that was a big day and you know,
you don't sweep it under the rug. You know, you
tell everybody how important and that day was twenty years ago,
because you know, when you're watching like college football, I
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was watching college football day, and then I thought to myself,
every one of those guys on the field when I
was watching Ohio State play Oregon, not one of those
kids was alive for nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
And you know that's that's the key thing. And you know,
at Fox Sports, one of the responsibilities is to make
sure that we tell those stories right because not everybody
is learning it in school now, and you know, you
don't want to, you don't wanna. I think we find
the right tone to be able to tell the story
and not make it uh, you know, not make it depressing,
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but make sure that you know you can still be
proud of the country when when you those things.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I think it's a great idea, I really do. Anyway,
So football season is kicked off and and that's great.
You know that we got a lot of uh, you know,
great football games. I wanted to ask you, with Terry
Bradshaw's money that you're giving, way, is that really Terry's money?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
In one way or another? It is Finelitario's money, So
you could feel really good. And you know, we didn't
give it away this weekend, right, but we're definitely going
to give it away at some point in the next
year weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That's kind of cool. What do you have to do?
You have to pick six games?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yeah, you just got to pick the score of six games.
I mean, how hard can that be?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Right, It's like no brainer? But you do it. Yeah,
I do it all the time. Right, That's why you
know Vegas is built on guys like me. But anyway,
let's talk about this NASCAR. So NASCAR is coming to
the number one market for viewership of this sport. Is
that correct?
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Yeah? I mean last time I was on with you,
I hinted at it, right, and they they finally got
the deal done, and I'm glad that we're talking about
it tonight. They figured out away this genius at NASCAR,
Ben Kennedy. He found a way to actually put a
racetrack inside the LA Coliseum.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Wow, that's going to be terrific. And when is the
date on that? I know it's going to happen next year?
Do you have a date on it?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
It's the Sunday between the NFC Championship and the Super Bowl.
So it's that Okay, that off the NFL, which will
be great. We'll pack, we'll pack the coliseum and uh,
it'll it'll it'll be, it'll take over the town.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It'll be huge because you know, uh, Los Angeles, even
though there's a racetrack out at Fontana, that's still not LA.
And to have this here at the Coliseum is gonna
be a huge, huge event.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
It's gonna be huge. And it's actually I mean, I
can't even I can't even picture in my mind what
it's gonna look like when they they're actually like, this
is not a dirt track, they're not racing on the grass.
They're actually gonna build an asphalt track inside of the
LA Museum.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That that's gonna be fantastic. I imagine tickets are going
to go for a premium because everybody who's in the
NASCAR wants to go see that. I you know, just
to tell your kids. I guess the last time they
did anything like that was nineteen ninety nine, according to
one of our cool listeners. But that's gonna be that.
That's a really a great event and and NASCAR is huge.
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You know when by the way, was it you guys
that came up with the was it turn up the
volume or turn them what was that thing called? Yeah,
we do this, drink it up, crank it up, that's right. Yes,
crank it up. And that's one of the cool things
about nascars when when the announcers stopped talking, you turn
the volume up and you just see, you know, you
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can hear and feel the power of these cars. But
if you've never been to a NASCAR race, and I
know Eric is Shanks you have, but for people have
never been there. If you're standing near the you know,
one of the fences and these are cars all come by,
that wind can literally knock you off your feet because
they're so going so fast and they're so close together.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Yeah, it can literally suck you onto the track. And
you know what they do. They build these cars. I
didn't know this untill a few years ago. They build
the cars with the exhaust pipe handed out towards the fan,
so it's even louder when you're sitting in the stands
and if you're if you're on the infield, and yeah,
they want to they want to make sure that.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You get the full effective you're the stands, right, And
I didn't know this up until recently because I'm a
you know, I'm a couch fan of NASCAR. I don't
go to a lot of NASCAR races. But when you
do go to the race, you can buy headphones and
listen to you know, a specific crew and listen to
them talk to the driver and talk to the crew,
which is kind of cool.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Yeah, you can definitely do that. I wish we had
that for horse racing, don't you.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It would all be swearing by gamblers. Hey, move that
mother effer up, Move my mom. That's great. You know what,
maybe there's a maybe there's an idea there where you
can have maybe, uh, you know, one of the breeders
cups races at the coliseum. How about that for an idea.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Oh, that's an unbelievable idea.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Right, Hey, look, if you can put a paved track
in there, you can certainly put a horse or just
let them run on the regular track. They'll enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Hell yeah, that would be easy, much easier than what they're.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Doing, right, and get one hundred thousand people out there.
I'd sell you a great deal, all right, buddy, I
really appreciate you coming on. Congratulations. The football season. You know,
once football season comes up, everybody sort of forgets about
you know, COVID and about the you know the craziness
that's going on in this country. And you can literally
have something to do from the moment you wake up
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on Sunday until you go to sleep on Sunday. And
I'm speaking for a lot of guys out there, it
really does improve their life considerably on a Sunday. So
we really appreciate, you know, all the hard work that
goes into presenting these games.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah, thanks, Tommy, it's great talking to you. We're super
glad that football season is back. On this past Sunday Saturday,
on nine to eleven, we did sixteen straight hours of
sports on Fox and we had the research team look
into it. The most consecutive hours ever on a major
network of sports this past Saturday.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It was unbelievab Well, congratulations and it really does look good.
You got the a team there on football and also
with the NASCAR and Baseball as well. Watching the Yankees
and the Mets play on nine to eleven was a
really cool deal. And all the pregame ceremony stuff was
really moving. You know, the bagpipe guys that come out
onto the field, you know, recalling what happened twenty years ago.
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You guys really do it right, and I appreciate you
coming on all right, Hinked wlong with him. There he
goes Eric Shanks, the CEO of Fox Sports, and it
changes my life. When football comes on, it's an entire
Sunday from the moment I get up, I just sit
there and I watch those games. And you know what
crows like if during basketball, I can't watch a whole
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basketball game unless I got some money on it. But
with football, you can literally watch an entire game not
being from either one of the cities, yep, and not
having any money on it. Yep. It really is. It's
an amazing sports. It really is great. And you know
whatever they do with the you know, with uh you know,
with the COVID stuff and showing up with a mask,
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you know, at the stadium and all that crap. I
just like sitting at home and watching these games. Right,
I can pause them, I can eat my own food.
But I just I really enjoy watching these things on TV.
And I think most people do, except for Bello. Bellio
can't stand it because John sits there, I guess, and
goes over every play. You know, the x's and o's, right,
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every single one. That's great. Well, you knew he was
a coach before you married him. It's not his fault.
I didn't know I was going to get like in
the house play by play there, You didn't know that
before you got married? Did he did that right? No?
I didn't know that much ever toe him shut it down? No,
I don't know's he's in his glory? You allow him
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to be there?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Does he count his own stats when he watches it
on the sofa at home?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Of course, you got to do it all. Are you
cooking with an April in the kitchen while he enjoys
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, bod you're Timmy love it, love it. Very excited tonight,
let's get oh man, this is very exciting for you
and I both, you know, both of us huge huge fans.
And I can't believe we got him to come on
this show.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
He might this must have been a mistake.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
No, I thought it was something an error also, and
I wouldn't normally embrace a big booking like this that
would eclipse my own booking, you know what I mean.
But it's very exciting, all.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Right, ladies and gentlemen. One of the great announcers of
all time in the history of the universe is with us.
Bob Costas, how are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm good, Tim Hello Mark, and I heard your introduction.
Very gracious of you. And here's all it took your ace.
Producer Sharon somehow had my phone number. She left me voicemail.
I being a gentleman that turned her call. That was
maybe twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Five minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And since none of us are going anywhere during this lockdown,
I said sure, and.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Here I am Wow, who knew? Yeah? Is that the
way it's happened with most of your career? Like they
just called you literally ten minutes before, I don't know,
they new York met Stadium opened up and you or
Shay Stadium opened up, and you decided to go in
and then be the first announcer.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Well, when Shae Stadium opened, I was twelve, while I
was something of a prodigy, not to that extent in
nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I was thinking, Tim, it was so much about Bob Costas,
not really.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I was trying to get through sixth grade without the
greasers beating me up. So, you know, not in that instance,
I knew.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I knew I'd pick a wrong stadium. But this is
so great for you to come on with us. You know,
early on in the pandemic, you were on with with
Fred Rogan and you had said something that stuck with
me and I've repeated probably fifty times on the air.
You said, there are only two types of people in
the United States right now, people who have to rearrange
their schedule because of the pandemic. And then people who
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are fighting to survive monetarily, physically and emotionally.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, I think there's probably more than two. I don't
think I said it exactly that way, but that's the
essence of it. I said. Some people, sadly are trying
to figure out how to get by, how to survive,
and we just have to figure out how to adjust.
So we're lucky enough to be in that second category.
And I've been able to adjust, and so have the
people I care most about, my family and my closest friends.
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So in that respect, we haven't been directly affected except
for a little bit of inconvenience here and there, but
nothing to speak of alongside what some other people have
been doing.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Sure, I imagine, and it really is. It is tough
for a lot of people. But I'm glad sports is
back because it does take a lot of our minds
off of it. Especially when you see a hockey game
go into a triple overtime time or quadruple overtime. It's
you know, it shows up five or six hours of
your day.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, you know the hockey and the basketball NBA in
the bubble are doing best. You don't feel uncomfortable about it.
You think they've got it figured out. They've each had
zero positives being in that bubble, And although obviously the
absence of fans changes the experience and makes it less
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compelling in some respects, it still looks like Stanley Cup
playoff hockey. It still looks like NBA basketball, Whereas with
other sports, I think, sure, it's great to have them back.
I've watched a lot of baseball because I'm a huge
baseball fan. But rather than taking your mind off of it,
sometimes it's a reminder of the pandemic because you hear
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about the Marlins, or you hear about the Cardinals and
so many guys sideline and the Cardinals have played five games,
that's all they played to this point. And you hear
about an fight between the Astros and the A's and
the suspensions that follow, and people completely forgetting the period
of time we're in and engaging in fights and scuffling
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with each other, and others forgetting the protocols. And then
you hear about college football doing the same thing. At
least most of the colleges and most of the conferences
postponing at least until the spring this college football season,
so it can be a reminder of the pandemic rather
than taking our minds off of it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Right, But don't when you get big conferences that have
decided to quit until spring, doesn't everybody have to follow
suit because there's no way you could have a national
champion without those conferences.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, no way you could have the bowl games. But
some just stubbornly they're going to hold out. Eventually, I
think they're going to have to wave the white flag.
But we hear Nebraska saying, for example, we'll play anybody
that wants to play us. So at last report, maybe
I missed something in the last hour or something. The
SEC still hasn't bowed out. Nebraska says, hey, we'll go
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play Clemson, We'll go play Alabama, whatever, Right, that makes sense?
You know you're dealing with. Yeah, they're athletes, but they're
not directly compensated. I believe the scholarship means a lot,
or should if it's a true student athlete situation. But
they're not directly compensated and they have no union to
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protect them. So is this really a responsible thing to do?
We know that beyond the fan experience and people like
us watching it on television, we know that most college
towns are relatively small, and the university is a big
source of economic It's an economic engine for those towns,
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and especially when you have college football games, it's a
big deal. It's a big economic boost. So I'm not
turning my back on that as a concern, But that
doesn't match the medical concern. The size of the rosters,
the youth of the participants, the travel that's involved, even
if you're playing only within your own geographic region, and
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Nebraska's basically declared, hey, you know, we'll go play anybody anywhere.
And we also know, and I've mentioned this on the
air several times, that the less high profile sports that
are still important to the participants volleyball, tennis, lacrosse, field, hockey, swimming,
whatever it might be, they are funded by the big
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revenue sports football and basketball. And those sports have to
be shut down, then there's a ripple effect throughout the
athletic department, and that's too bad too. But again, in
the name of the revenue, does it make sense to
subject people to the kind of peril you'd be subjecting
them to, no matter how much in their youthful exuberance
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they may want to play. I think it's a pretty
obvious answer, and everybody's got to come around eventually.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Not just the other programs that are you know, go orphaned.
If the football and basketball programs closed down, it's also
the rest of the university. I mean, these are engines
for the entire university. That's why these football coaches make
millions of dollars. And this is just such big money
that is going away from so many of these academic institutions.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah it is, but again, well the economy has taken
a very large hit in many areas. But the primary consideration,
no matter how imperfectly we try to navigate, this primary
consideration is public health.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Right, Hey, Bob, we got to take quick break and
welcome back. I want to talk about the Kentucky Derby.
I loved your coverage of the Kentucky Derby, sure, and
I want to obviously a bigger fan you are of
horse racing. I think you're huge. I think you're a
degenerate like I am.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Bob Costas is where that's one of the world's greatest announceers.
I really enjoyed the many many times you did the
Kentucky Derby. Were you at a horse fan growing up? Did
your dad or grandfather or degenerate uncle taking the track.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
No, I had a couple of degenerate uncles actually, who
were at the track all the time. My dad was
a big time gambler, but he gambled on ballgames. He
wasn't a horse racing guy. So my knowledge of horse
racing was, you know, watching Secretariat in nineteen seventy three
win the Belmont. And it's an interesting story because after
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NBC lost Baseball in two thousand and then they lost
the NBA in two thousand and two, and they hadn't
yet regained football, and they looked around and they said,
what are we going to do with Costas the Olympics
come up only every two years, maybe we should have
him host the Triple Crown horse races. And it was
at that point that I had to begin to learn
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some racing. I couldn't even read a racing for him
in two thousand and one when I did my first
Kentucky Derby, but I came to appreciate it from a
generalist's standpoint. I never posed as an expert. We had
plenty of those, but I was the guy who brought
it on the air, provided the overview, did the historical pieces,
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narrated the background stuff on the trainers and the various
connections the jockeys and whatnot. And what NBC was particularly
good at and remains good at, was they took that
general Olympic philosophy, which is, look, this is a big
event that includes many times over the number of people
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who actually are very knowledgeable about it. Not that many
Americans are that knowledge of track and field with gymnastics
or whatever, but they're riveted by it during the Olympics.
So you have to take an approach that brings those
casual fans in and using that approach, especially on the
Kentucky Derby, NBC turned a two minute event into a
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four hour television extravaganza. Oh it was a ratings blockbuster.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, it was great. And you know they say that
the only two people that lose money to track are
handicappers and people that don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Well, the thing that always struck me the few times
I went to the track before I began covering the
Triple Crown horse races is the touts, not so much
the famous handicappers who have newspaper columns or whatever. But
there were always touts hanging around the windows and the rails,
and those guys were among the most poorly dressed people
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I've ever seen. If they were constantly picking winners, wouldn't
they have something other than sands, A belt slacks from
nineteen seventy six.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, you could afford a new shirt.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
I forgot, well right.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Giveaway. Why would I listen to this guy?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
I'll tell you a quick story along those lines. I
was at the bathroom at Santa in Edoth and my
dad was at the at the table, you know, handicapping,
And I came back to the table and I said, hey, Dad,
I said, you're going to believe this, but there was
a guy throwing up, and I believe he was all
so messing his pants. He was on his knees in
the public toilet at the bathroom there, and he was
still yelling to his friend, go bet this horse, Go
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bet this horse. And my dad said, who did he like?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Gum legs and the fourth of Hyaliah.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
But I said to my dad, I said, Dad, the
guy's throwing up. His pants are down and around his ankles,
he's on his knees at a racetrack, I think he's
out of luck.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, so it would appear, so it would appear.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yeah, But acostas I always felt, Tim and everybody, I
just felt this very thing that you talk about, Bob,
making horse racing approachable and making it sort of understandable
or accessible might be a better word to the general public.
I feel as though you brought that to virtually everything.
I say virtually just because maybe I've forgotten something, but
I mean, seriously, everything I've seen you in and one
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of the great virtues I think of your career is
that you've done so much. You know, you did Later.
I used to love that show Later And which I
had nothing to do with sports. I mean, you know,
generally speaking, was entertainment that kind of thing, and I
find that accessibility is a big deal, especially these days
with fantasy football leagues and all the rest. It feels
as though some of that is lost. Like, you know,
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the average fan really has to have some kind of
moderate knowledge of sports as they approach a lot of
these sports that are broadcast.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now, Yeah, I think that's true. Through the years, one
of the compliments that I valued most was people sometimes
would say to me, you know, I'm not that big
a sports fan, but I'm interested and I enjoy it
when I listen to you. Now, that doesn't mean that
we were insulting the intelligence of somebody who was really
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invested in it and really had followed it. I think
there's a way to travel both tracks, and also to
understand the difference in assignments. When you're hosting the Olympics,
it's the circumstances I just described, or the Kentucky Derby
on network television. But these days, when I do a
game on the Baseball Network, I know that by and
large i'm talking to close to hardcore baseball fans, knowledgeable
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baseball fans. Now that doesn't mean I want to, you know,
conduct an autopsy on every pitch the way some people do,
where you take all the humor and the the humanity
out of it and it all just becomes analytical. That's
the wrong approach to take. But I'm aware that the
people watching on the Major League Baseball Network are knowledgeable
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baseball fans, and I broadcast it accordingly.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yeah, it really is. I really do enjoy it, and
I think one of the things that sells the Olympics
are are and I'm not kidding you here, I really do.
Are the graphics and that theme song?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh yeah, just like John Tesh's Round Ball Rock was
inseparable from the NBA at NBC, then you know and
you knew it was time for the game. John Williams
Olympic theme is synonymous with the Olympics on NBCIX.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah. And the way though it's played so loud, and
they and the circles that come all together and and
you know it's a big event. And then you know,
the sweeping views of of you know, whatever city it's in,
in Beijing or wherever it is, or in London, it's
just really it makes it a huge event.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Bob.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I know you have a story. We've got to take
a commercial break, a story that you want to share
about my dad. I hope you can stay for another segment.
Is that cool?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah? I can't stay much longer because my wife is
thinking about dinner. We're on the web cost.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Okay, thank you, all right, thank you. This commercial break
will be very quick.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
You'll barely know push back on Conway, Bob, because you'll
keep you here all night.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
So well, yeah, I give a.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Figuring this out.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
All right, Bob.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from kf
I am six forty the.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Most amount of hits. And when you put in Bob
Costas and then you and then you filter it by
the number of hits, what comes up as is the
number one Bob Costa's video. Is your intricate system explanation
of Houston astros stealing signs?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I have no explanation for that. It must be some
intricate algorithm that spits that out.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Is that crazy?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That was on? Yeah, I was on CNN. I guess
that's January after the scandal broke with them stealing signs,
and I went on and spoke with them about it.
I don't know why that would be at the top
of the pyramid, but who knows why anything happens the
way it does these days.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It is odd. Do you think that will affect you
think COVID may may have saved the day here where
people have other things to worry about other than you know,
showing up and booing Houston for the rest of our lives.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Well, it saved them, at least for the time being,
from all that animosity raining down upon them when they
go on the road. But clearly opposing teams haven't forgotten
about it. Joe Kelly of the Dodgers through at or
behind two Astros a couple of weeks ago. And then
you saw what happened when an a's hitter was hit
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three times in a series by Astros pitchers. Now, that
was almost certainly not intentional. They were guys who hadn't
been in the major leagues prior this time, and they
were just trying to get their footing on a big
League mound and pitches got away from them. Probably was
not intentional. But then somebody from the Astros bench is
goading the a's player who charges the dugout completely forgetting
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all the protocols, and now you have a full blown
brawl in the middle of COVID nineteen. Now, maybe it's
just a coincidence that had involved the Astros, but I
think there is baseball wide resentment of Houston by players,
not just fans. And while it may simmer down a
little bit, and intervening events, especially the pandemic, have obviously
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changed people's focus even when they come back to playing
under normal conditions in twenty twenty one, and there are
fans in the stands when the Astros gone on the road,
they're going to hear it.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, you know, I think it was a lot of
baseball fans. I thought it was pretty unfair for Joe
Kelly to get an eight game suspension while none of
the players on Houston were suspended.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Well, none of the players on Houston were suspended for
that specific situation because, as Rob Mannfer, the commissioner, explained,
he had to give them immunity in order to get
the kind of testimony that he needed to hand down
the penalties for the Astros. So it was the front
office people and the managers who took the brunt of that.
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He knew he would get pushedback from the players Association,
which in baseball is very, very strong. I wouldn't be
surprised if somewhere down the line there's a new collective
bargaining agreement coming up in the near future, if somewhere
down the line they didn't codify penalties for players in
cheating circumstances like this, if whatever happens again the way
they eventually codified penalties for performance and nancing drug use.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
I see right, Hey, so Bob, you you would run
into my dad, Tim Conway at some point in your
life and had a story you wanted to share.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, you know, I did not know him well, but
like everybody from my generation and other generations, I watched
him on the Carol Burnett Show, and he and Harvey
Korman and Lyle Wagner and Vicky and of course Carol
Burnett herself were masters of something you just don't see
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very much on television anymore. They were sketch players. Saturday
Night Live does some of that, but it's a different
kind of thing. The Carol Burnett Show was a sketch
show essentially, and your dad was just a genius in
that context. And so he was one of the guests
only one time on the Late Night Show, which Mark
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mentioned a few minutes ago later. And I'm sure he
was this way with everybody. He was charming. He was
not presumptuous in any way a big star. He didn't
carry him self like a big star or real everyman quality. Uh.
He was very gracious towards me. And then we went
our separate ways and never saw each other again. But
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it was a good show because your dad was the guest.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah. We were up in Big Bear and one of
the very many times my dad got got stopped for
an autograph, and the guy says, I've been watching it
on TV for years and years. You know, I really
enjoy your work and especially you know your your call
of baseball games of the Kentucky Derby. Bob, can I
(19:32):
have your autograph? And he know, yes, that's a true story.
In Safe Way, in Big Bear, he was asked if
he would sign an autograph and he thought he thought
my dad. He thought my dad was Bob Costas.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
You know, I'm pattered because your dad was who he was,
but the resemblance is lost on me. By the way,
to get Michael I used to get Michael J. Fox
and a whole lot of times I got Mark Hamill
on his Star Wars day.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Oh yeah, okay. But so somewhere floating out there is
a guy with a Bob Costas autographed. It was actually
signed by my dad, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
One time not to play can you top this? One time?
I'm walking with my then young son Keith outside Camden
Yards in Baltimore prior to an Oriole game, and a
guy comes running up a big beaming smile on his face,
and he says, Bob, Bob, can I have your article?
But sure? How you doing? He goes, just sign it.
(20:35):
Best wishes Bob Vilas like a home so sign. I
signed the guys. I signed the guy's score book. Fix
those rusty pipes. Best wishes Bob Dela. And then as
I saw him walking away, he glances down with this
(20:55):
puzzle look on his face, looks back over his shoulder,
and I'm waving at him, like That's what I wanted.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
While my dad was signing this, We're in line checking out,
and I could see my dad sign Bob, and then
he sort of gave me a glance and I said,
cos t a s Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
That that story. I've never heard that story.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, that's a truth story.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I have made night funny.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
It was really great. I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Bob.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
We really appreciate coming on. I hope you have a
terrific dinner with with your wife and uh and and
and and everybody listening right now. I'm you know, it
was thrilled that you decide to come on and spend
some time with us. I'm sure the pleasure.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Happy to do it. Thanks Tim, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
All right, Thank you Bob Costas. Oh that is great, man,
what a treat conversation.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
She's just so good.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Yeah, I mean, and so articulate, and so you know
every nothing's written down. You can tell that he's everything
is from the top of his mind. And he can
talk like Vince Scully for ten minutes without fumfering over
any words about any notes in front of him. And
and that is a man that is a skin I
don't think a lot of broadcasters have nowadays. You constantly
see people in the news business and especially in sports
(22:06):
looking at notes while they talk. And you never saw
what Bob Consa's Every time you see him on TV,
he looks right in the camera and he never ever
looks at a note. Ever. It's great.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, he has a tremendous command of information. As you say,
he's so smooth and all those things. Also you mentioned him.
His knowledge base is terrific and he's just so good
at explaining things. Now I think that, I know you'll
take a break with just quickly. I'll say, I think
that the thing you were talking about, which was the
YouTube explanation of the astros cheating, the reason I watched
(22:36):
it and I recommended it to others is because I
found it so accessible. You know, his explanation from a
baseball guy, you know, explaining how the whole thing worked,
all the dynamics. It was just so understandable. Really, I
really liked it. And then he was able to say,
because he's got the authority, because he's a baseball guy, Hey,
this is why this is really messed up what these
(22:56):
guys are doing.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know. Yeah, And he also has a great interview
if you go to YouTube, where he interviewed Mickey Mantle,
and then he has another great interview where he got
into with Vince McMahon about the uh.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
I didn't, Oh, that's great. I haven't seen that. I
saw the Mantle thing because he was really moved. That
was like interviewing his his idol or you know, his
boyhood's hero.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I sensed, yeah, And I know that Mantle later on
in life blew out his liver with you know, vodka,
you know, whiskey, whatever, and he got a liver transplant
from a nun, a Catholic nun who had never had it,
you know, a sip of anything in her life. And man,
can you imagine the shock when that liver had its
you know, its first double martini?
Speaker 3 (23:37):
He was I agree.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on De Maya from
KF I am six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
And NASCAR is gonna do something pretty cool. They're gonna
run a race at the LA Coliseum, right, I guess
according to who called us up, Belly, I think it
was Dave Koons, right, Dave Coons called us up and
said that they ran a race at the coliseum in
(24:07):
I don't know, like nineteen sixty six or something like that.
Whatever ever, sixty six ninety nine potato batata, take sixty
six turn upside down? He got ninety nine boom. All right,
let's talk to Derek Shanks. He's the CEO of Fox Sports.
Everybody works for Fox Sports works under this guy. There's
nobody above him in Fox Sports. Do you tell people
(24:30):
that every day or.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Same? What do you say, Demmy, you tell.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
People every day of the year. The big cheese there
that nobody works above you in Fox Sports.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Oh yeah, I have a sign when they come in
the door to work.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
That's great. Hey, before we get into NASCAR, that was
pretty cool. How the hell was that just a scheduling
fluke or did somebody think ahead to put the Yankees
and Mets together on nine to eleven?
Speaker 5 (24:56):
Oh that was definitely planned. You know the scheduling process, and.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
It was a great idea, you know, and I had
never heard you know that the a couple of pieces
you did before the game. One of them was Mike
Piazza's home run on the first game back after nine
to eleven in Chase Stadium. I was unaware of that
home run, you know, because there were so many things
going on, but that was what a great piece that
was as well. Who puts all those pieces together for
(25:25):
you at at Fox?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Yeah, look, I know you're I know you're a fan
of Tom Ornaldy. He's probably the greatest story teller of
a generation and now he works at Fox. And you know,
if you want to make somebody cry, you just give
the story to Tom Renaldi. He can even make a
home run, you know, make you cry.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's the best. It really was terrific. Anyway, that was
a great tribute. I'm glad that, you know, the people
over at Fox are like most of the people in
America where that was a big day and you know,
you don't sweep it under the rug. You know, you
tell everybody how important and that day was twenty years ago,
because you know, when you're watching like college football, I
(26:04):
was watching college football day, and then I thought to myself,
every one of those guys on the field when I
was watching Ohio State play Oregon, not one of those
kids was alive for nine to eleven.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Exactly.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
And you know that's that's the key thing. And you know,
at Fox Sports, one of the responsibilities is to make
sure that we tell those stories right because not everybody
is learning it in school now, and you know, you
don't want to, you don't wanna. I think we find
the right tone to be able to tell the story
and not make it uh, you know, not make it depressing,
(26:37):
but make sure that you know you can still be
proud of the country when when you those things.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I think it's a great idea, I really do. Anyway,
So football season is kicked off and and that's great.
You know that we got a lot of uh, you know,
great football games. I wanted to ask you, with Terry
Bradshaw's money that you're giving, way, is that really Terry's money?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
In one way or another? It is Finelitario's money, So
you could feel really good. And you know, we didn't
give it away this weekend, right, but we're definitely going
to give it away at some point in the next
year weeks.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
That's kind of cool. What do you have to do?
You have to pick six games?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yeah, you just got to pick the score of six games.
I mean, how hard can that be?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Right, It's like no brainer? But you do it. Yeah,
I do it all the time. Right, That's why you
know Vegas is built on guys like me. But anyway,
let's talk about this NASCAR. So NASCAR is coming to
the number one market for viewership of this sport. Is
that correct?
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Yeah? I mean last time I was on with you,
I hinted at it, right, and they they finally got
the deal done, and I'm glad that we're talking about
it tonight. They figured out away this genius at NASCAR,
Ben Kennedy. He found a way to actually put a
racetrack inside the LA Coliseum.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Wow, that's going to be terrific. And when is the
date on that? I know it's going to happen next year?
Do you have a date on it?
Speaker 5 (28:01):
It's the Sunday between the NFC Championship and the Super Bowl.
So it's that Okay, that off the NFL, which will
be great. We'll pack, we'll pack the coliseum and uh,
it'll it'll it'll be, it'll take over the town.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It'll be huge because you know, uh, Los Angeles, even
though there's a racetrack out at Fontana, that's still not LA.
And to have this here at the Coliseum is gonna
be a huge, huge event.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
It's gonna be huge. And it's actually I mean, I
can't even I can't even picture in my mind what
it's gonna look like when they they're actually like, this
is not a dirt track, they're not racing on the grass.
They're actually gonna build an asphalt track inside of the
LA Museum.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That that's gonna be fantastic. I imagine tickets are going
to go for a premium because everybody who's in the
NASCAR wants to go see that. I you know, just
to tell your kids. I guess the last time they
did anything like that was nineteen ninety nine, according to
one of our cool listeners. But that's gonna be that.
That's a really a great event and and NASCAR is huge.
(29:06):
You know when by the way, was it you guys
that came up with the was it turn up the
volume or turn them what was that thing called? Yeah,
we do this, drink it up, crank it up, that's right. Yes,
crank it up. And that's one of the cool things
about nascars when when the announcers stopped talking, you turn
the volume up and you just see, you know, you
(29:26):
can hear and feel the power of these cars. But
if you've never been to a NASCAR race, and I
know Eric is Shanks you have, but for people have
never been there. If you're standing near the you know,
one of the fences and these are cars all come by,
that wind can literally knock you off your feet because
they're so going so fast and they're so close together.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
Yeah, it can literally suck you onto the track. And
you know what they do. They build these cars. I
didn't know this untill a few years ago. They build
the cars with the exhaust pipe handed out towards the fan,
so it's even louder when you're sitting in the stands
and if you're if you're on the infield, and yeah,
they want to they want to make sure that.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
You get the full effective you're the stands, right, And
I didn't know this up until recently because I'm a
you know, I'm a couch fan of NASCAR. I don't
go to a lot of NASCAR races. But when you
do go to the race, you can buy headphones and
listen to you know, a specific crew and listen to
them talk to the driver and talk to the crew,
which is kind of cool.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Yeah, you can definitely do that. I wish we had
that for horse racing, don't you.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
It would all be swearing by gamblers. Hey, move that
mother effer up, Move my mom. That's great. You know what,
maybe there's a maybe there's an idea there where you
can have maybe, uh, you know, one of the breeders
cups races at the coliseum. How about that for an idea.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Oh, that's an unbelievable idea.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Right, Hey, look, if you can put a paved track
in there, you can certainly put a horse or just
let them run on the regular track. They'll enjoy it.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Hell yeah, that would be easy, much easier than what they're.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Doing, right, and get one hundred thousand people out there.
I'd sell you a great deal, all right, buddy, I
really appreciate you coming on. Congratulations. The football season. You know,
once football season comes up, everybody sort of forgets about
you know, COVID and about the you know the craziness
that's going on in this country. And you can literally
have something to do from the moment you wake up
(31:26):
on Sunday until you go to sleep on Sunday. And
I'm speaking for a lot of guys out there, it
really does improve their life considerably on a Sunday. So
we really appreciate, you know, all the hard work that
goes into presenting these games.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah, thanks, Tommy, it's great talking to you. We're super
glad that football season is back. On this past Sunday Saturday,
on nine to eleven, we did sixteen straight hours of
sports on Fox and we had the research team look
into it. The most consecutive hours ever on a major
network of sports this past Saturday.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
It was unbelievab Well, congratulations and it really does look good.
You got the a team there on football and also
with the NASCAR and Baseball as well. Watching the Yankees
and the Mets play on nine to eleven was a
really cool deal. And all the pregame ceremony stuff was
really moving. You know, the bagpipe guys that come out
onto the field, you know, recalling what happened twenty years ago.
(32:22):
You guys really do it right, and I appreciate you
coming on all right, Hinked wlong with him. There he
goes Eric Shanks, the CEO of Fox Sports, and it
changes my life. When football comes on, it's an entire
Sunday from the moment I get up, I just sit
there and I watch those games. And you know what
crows like if during basketball, I can't watch a whole
(32:45):
basketball game unless I got some money on it. But
with football, you can literally watch an entire game not
being from either one of the cities, yep, and not
having any money on it. Yep. It really is. It's
an amazing sports. It really is great. And you know
whatever they do with the you know, with uh you know,
with the COVID stuff and showing up with a mask,
(33:08):
you know, at the stadium and all that crap. I
just like sitting at home and watching these games. Right,
I can pause them, I can eat my own food.
But I just I really enjoy watching these things on TV.
And I think most people do, except for Bello. Bellio
can't stand it because John sits there, I guess, and
goes over every play. You know, the x's and o's, right,
(33:29):
every single one. That's great. Well, you knew he was
a coach before you married him. It's not his fault.
I didn't know I was going to get like in
the house play by play there, You didn't know that
before you got married? Did he did that right? No?
I didn't know that much ever toe him shut it down? No,
I don't know's he's in his glory? You allow him
(33:50):
to be there?
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Does he count his own stats when he watches it
on the sofa at home?
Speaker 1 (33:56):
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