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will get her fired for insulting Trump's role model. It happened on CNN as the spokesperson Caroline Levitt began a day in which elderly first offender Trump and his henchman kicked open not one but two emergency exits to let him back out of Thursday's debate and blameing President Biden for it. Whether he actually chickens out or not, I'm sure even Trump does not know his brain, after all, is broken. Also, by the way, there's a small chance Jack's is trying to get Trump indicted in New Jersey.

I'll get to that. Adolf Hilter first. Yesterday morning, the dumbest of the idiot Trump spokespeople in an almost incomprehensible descent from the stupidity of Sean Spicer, who now appears to have been the Einstein of the group. Caroline Levitt, the one who thinks the word is dammoning, went on CNN and decided to try to fill the buster. Here the host Casey Hunt with attacks on debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. Hunt threatened to cut the interview off.

Hunt called Levitt, who claims to be twenty five, ma'am, She mammed her and then lost in the cross talk. Listen carefully to Levitt. Trump's spokesperson claims that quote, it takes someone five minutes to google Jake Tapper Donald Trump to see that Jake Tapper has consistently compared Trump to Adolf Hilter. What do you expect from Joe Biden.

Week outlet. Bannon said either CNN must apologize to her and MAGA, or Trump should bail out of the debate.

you get the point. So that's the number one in the event of full ad fear of losing a debate Raking Glass in the emergency for Trump some rage against CNN, which means he can cancel, which means he can say he's canceled because CNN is sowing the tank for Biden that had insulted his press secretary and wouldn't let her talk about Adolph Hilter. Hours later, three forty two Eastern Trump produced his second full lad emergency escape quote drug

test for Biden. I would come also immediately agree to one.

An oldie, but a goodie. Honestly, if you hired a spokesperson who went on national television and thinks the name is Hilter and said this, you needed the drug test back then, Sparky, there has been a second news leak about Trump's marri Lago espionage scandal, and I'm beginning to wonder, and it is a long shot if this is not some kind of laying of groundwork for a new prosecution of Trump on the document's charges, on the espionage charges,

on the stealing secrets charges, but a new prosecution in New Jersey. Yesterday's leak did not resonate among American news media, which can generally only barely handle one thing at a time, like the debate. The story itself about Trump making a special trip to Florida to make sure nobody had touched

the documents he stole from the White House. That may not be much more than another one of those threads that you pull on and maybe the thread just comes off in your hand, or maybe it unravels the entirety of Trump's size sixty two suit. I don't even think

the prosecutors know exactly what they have here. But the point is, in three business days there have now been two leaks about the prosecution of Trump for violations of the Espionage Act, and history teaches us that this almost invariably means somebody inside is trying to make something happen

and somehow make this case come alive again. The first, of course, was the leak that a year ago, a senior judge in Florida had gently tried to get Trump's concierge, Judge Eileen Cannon, to recuse herself from this case, and when that did work, the senior federal judge, Warren Cannon there would be held to pay if she stayed, and that a year later, all the judges in the state are still talking to each other about it, enough that

the New York Times got wind of the thing. The new leak is that nearly two years ago, early July, Trump stunned his own people by suddenly leaving New Jersey for a crash trip to Florida in the middle of the summer, and that his aid and chief marri A. Lago. Igor Walt Nauda flooded the phones of staff down there with texts about how Trump quote wants minimal people around Mary Lago and keep it discreet and in case none of that got the message across now to peppered the

messages with zippered mouthed emojis and shushing emojis. Apart from the geography, Trump can't stand being in Florida in midsummer. He never just goes there. Two years ago, his residence at Mari Lago was being remodeled. Staffers did not think there was any location at Mari Lago in which Trump would be willing to stay. Yet, leaving an Alaska fascist rally on July ninth, twenty twenty two, Trump directed he'd be flown not back to New Jersey, but to Florida.

He stayed there, according to this report, on the down low, for three days. Why did he go to literally check all the boxes? ABC News, quoting sources familiar with the matter, broke the story and says staffers say they were told Trump wanted to make sure the boxes full of White House documents, most of which were stolen and classified, were

still there. Remember this was in the middle of the negotiations between Trump and the Government Records Office about trying to get him to voluntarily return what he quote took unquote before they had to go and search for it and take it back involuntarily. It's important to consider the timeline and where this new information fits. In January seventh, twenty two, Trump returned fifteen boxes of documents. One hundred

and ninety seven of the documents had classification markings. May eleventh, twenty twenty two, a grand jury hits Trump with a subpoena for more material. It is convinced he is still concealing. June one, twenty twenty two, Trump tells his attorney, Evan Corkoran that all the remaining documents at marri Lago are in a basement storage room. Also on June first, literally minutes later, while Corkoran went to the basement and went into the storage room to look for the documents, Trump

has the locks on a closet in his residence. Changed. June three, twenty twenty two, the Feds come to pick up the documents they're voluntarily giving back, and another Trump attorney, Christina Bob, signs a document indicating that's it. That's all

we have also. June three to twenty twenty two, a twenty year veteran Trump employee named Brian Butler says Walt Nauda had him load a bunch of big white banker's boxes that had been in mariy Lago and put them on a Trump private jet headed for Trump's home at the Bedminster Crapshack golf course and Cemetery in New Jersey. Butler later reveals that when he saw photos of boxes photos included in the indictment of Trump, he said, Hey,

I know those boxes. I move those boxes. June twenty two, twenty twenty two, the surveillance video at mary Laga is subpoened, and now the new information comes. In July tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, twenty twenty two, Trump suddenly and almost secretly goes to mari Lago to make sure his boxes are okay, and as the tag to this. August eight, twenty twenty two, the FBI executes its search warrant of mari Lago and it finds eleven thousand, two hundred and eighty two more

government documents and photographs that Trump has stolen. One hundred and three of them have classification markings. Eighteen of them our top secret. So wait, after Trump claimed he'd given everything back to the Feds, he ships a bunch of boxes from mary Lago to New Jersey. Five weeks after that, we now know for some reason, he goes back to marri Lago from Alaska one of the hottest times of the year, to check on the boxes that are still at mary Lago that apparently only he knows still are

at Marrilago. Presumably he goes back there to check on what's still in the boxes at mary Lago. More obstruction of justice or could there be a geographical surprise in here. It's obvious now that no matter what the standard operating procedure at the Department of Justice might have been about how Custom dictated to Jack Smith that he had to indict Trump in Florida because the crime was not stealing the secret documents, it was refusing to give back the

stolen secret documents. That Florida could result in either the actual random assignment of the case to a compromise corrupt judge appointed by Trump, or the corrupting of the randomization process to make sure the case was assigned to her and that they should have indicted Trump instead, or also not in Florida, but in Washington and or New Jersey.

This newly discovered secret kind of crazy trip by Trump, after he's hidden thousands of classified documents from his own attorney, after he has shipped countless other boxes full of something to the golf course in Jersey. This crazy secret newly revealed by Trump back to Florida trip in July to

check on his boxes. This really really smells. Could be it smells of Trump's ever surprising insanity and paranoia, or it could be its smells of an opportunity for Jack Smith to break the Eileen Canon gridlock by indicting Trump in a new case that ties the private plane shipment from mary Lago and Trump's July tenth secret trip to Mari Lago and indicts him as a result in New Jersey.

That's if Biden is reelected and the cases continue, Because if the cases continue after January twentieth of next year, there's still the small matter of Aileen Cannons slow walking them in Florida. And even if it is not all that, even if those boxes he flew to Florida to check on were just full of I don't know. I think it's something good. Condolence cards from when Ivanna died. Yeah, that's it. Condolence cards from you know what's her name,

Zex's wife person her death. Between this story and last week's leak about the warning to Eileen Canon of judge not lest you be judged, somebody, somebody is clearly trying to awake the Trump espionage trial from its coma. I would say, to get it to come out of its grave at the Bedminster golf Course, but that probably would be in bad taste, like that ever stopped me before. Briefly back to the debate, but the usually on the

losing side. Political consultant Liz Mayer is selling debate bingo cards a pack of thirty for five dollars, which I guess would be a business strategy and a business model if she hadn't just tweeted one of the bingo cards out where you could screenshot it and print it at home for free. There are twenty five squares, and most of the events on the squares are pretty mundane or hackneyed, where they say more about the writer than the debaters.

Biden mentions, Trump indictments, no kidding, Trump says, black voters empathize with his allege criminality. Why alleged he's convicted on thirty four counts plus at the company fraud case in three e Gene Carrol cases. Ah is Mayor's nominally a Republican, but there are a couple of laughs on this. The center square on the bingo card is Millennia shows up.

There's also anyone talks about sharks and question about Missus Alito's flags and best of all, your dark horse big money payoff quote Trump farts un quote one of the twenty five squares ought to say. Debate actually happens, and one way or another, there is debate counterprogramming. Robert F. Kennedy Junior's running mate, Nikelle Nicole Many Nichols Nicole self funding a hand has confirmed their campaign will be holding its own debate at approximately nine o'clock Eastern Thursday night

and promises a few surprises. Kennedy is staging his own debate with only one candidate himself present. Oh oh, I get it. Robert F. Kennedy Junior is going to debate against reality. A reminder that I'll be live on YouTube for analysis. In a special live video edition of the Countdown with Keith Alderman podcast Thursday night. Sounds like about ten thirty pm Eastern or or Trump won't show up and blame Biden, and maybe we can talk about that live.

We really haven't discussed the backup plan. We will not be talking about Adolph Hilter. Also of interest here, By the way, Trump would never make that mistake, would he? Also of interest here on an all new edition of Countdown. It was the greatest joke I ever did at Trump's expense. It's thirty four or thirty five years old, and until this past weekend I had forgotten it. So at one end of the spectrum, I apologize for making you wait

so long to hear it. And on the other end of the spectrum, I apologize because I'm about to reuse material from early in the Bush presidency. The first Bush that's next. This is Countdown. This his Countdown with Keith Oberman. Oberman stell ahead of us on this all new edition of Countdown. There's a reason that I chose, of all of them, Larry David's impression of the Yankee Stadium announcing all time great Bob Sheppard as the intro for this segment.

June seventeenth, two thousand, so I missed the anniversary by a week for some reason. I have not told you this story previously. The people involved in today's new edition of Things I promised not to tell former New York Yankees second Baseman Chuck Knoblock, my mother and Babe Ruth stand by. But first, there are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two day's

worst persons in the world world the brons me. I don't know why it took me so long to remember this or to bring it back. I think it was my first on air joke and insult about Trump, probably my best, and it's either thirty four or thirty five years old, with the irony that even then, in nineteen eighty nine or nineteen ninety, Trump could not have gotten up on a bicycle if they'd used a forklift and

two winches. For those two years, Trump sponsored an attempt to make an American version of the Tour de France's bicycle race work. It was called the Tour de Trump. I showed highlights of the race on Channel two in Los Angeles, either in eighty nine or ninety and I said the race is called the Tour de Trump because it's ten laps around Donald Trump's ego. The runner up worser. I mean, that's pretty good. I was just a kid

of thirty at the time. The runner up worser the United Kingdom's Conservative Party, which is not only expected to get blown out of office on July fourth in a landslide, but which is the only known major party in any Western representative government to also have an apparent gambling problem. Two of its candidates in the July fourth election and one of the close aids to the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, have been investigated for placing bets on which date Sunak

would choose on which to hold the snap election. One of the candidates, Lauras Sanders, the Member of Parliament for Bristol, is married to Sunak's campaign chief, and she put a bet down, a legal bet down, on when they were actually going to have the election. Hubby was the campaign chief to the Prime Minister who would select it, so the campaign chief and the close aid might have known

when Sunak was going to call the election. Campaign chief Tony Lee has also taken a leave of absence after it turned out a police officer was also arrested for gambling. When it was revealed that cop was on Sunak's bodyguard detail, he put a bet down on what date it was going to be, And there was another candidate for office

who did the same thing. I mean, it's one thing to lose and get your party thrown out of office after fourteen years, but for people around you to try to cash in a few hundred bob by betting on which day you're going to lose and get thrown out of office. Also to reprise an old Monty Python joke with Sanders being investigated for gambling, the Conservatives won't hold Bristols. Google it, it's worth your time, and two Monty Python throwbacks in one episode of the show, mister Hilter, he

won't hold Bristols either, but our winner the worst. Remember Dylan Byers, the puck news media guy through whom executives everywhere get the coverage they would be happy to pay for. I mentioned last Friday that a year ago he had gratuitously trashed Howard Fineman's work as quote garbage, and then after Howard died Buyers called him a giant and said his funeral was a hero's farewell. Buyers may have topped himself in this continuing Washington Post scandal over the corrupt

new British publisher and editor. And by the way, the editor turns out, he's not leaving Blighty to go to DC after all. Buyers wrote of this stuff at the Washington Post quote inside the Post coup. Earlier this month, journalists on the Foreign desk discussed a plan to dig for unflattering information on their new publisher. Buyers has gotten fried NonStop for having written that, and with total justification.

Post reporters have been, you know, reporting on a scandal with the added degree of difficulty that the story is in their own building and their bosses have tried to bury that scandal and that story in this idiot, Buyers can't stop fellating management long enough to think, even for just a moment, that they deserve applause for their journalism and courage and the meetings they've had to share, the tips they have and how they're going to cover this story.

He calls that quote a plan to dig for unflattering information. Heh, boy, that's called journalism. As my friend of half a century, Will Bunch wrote, just wait until Dylan learns about the Washington Post reporters who discussed a plan to dig for

unflattering information on Richard Nixon. Dylan, I'd also like to point out that if any investigative reporters feel the need to dig for unflattering information on him, all they have to do is read his articles Buyers two days Worse, Parson and I told this story over the weekend to somebody, and it occurred to me for the first time on this all new edition of Countdown that I had never told this story on this podcast nearly two year years of it, and I have not told what may be

the most famous story about me in sports anyway, to the number one story on the Countdown at a story that begins a little bit in the past nineteen thirty four. I was not there for that part of it. But in nineteen thirty four, my mother, who was five years old, was sent over to her uncle's house or apartment for

the day. My grandparents needed the day off from her for some reason, and I'm not sure what it was, but her uncle, Willie, my great uncle Willie, took her to Yankee Stadium along with a kid that he knew who he used to push to Yankee Stadium because the young man was in a wheelchair, and often before the games in nineteen thirty four, the last season that the legendary Babe Ruth played for the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth would see this kid in a wheelchair and consistent

with the times, would come over and rub his back for good luck, which seems to us to be very crass, and also, if you're just looking at it from a superstition point of view, how in the world would that be good luck in any event. So one day, for the first time, when she was five years old and just turned five years old, her birthday was in June, she goes with her uncle Willie and the boy in the wheelchair to Yankee Stadium. They don't have the money

to go to the games. It's the middle of the depression, but they live in the Bronx. They're a few blocks away from the stadium, and they go to say hi to the players on the way in, and sure enough, Babe Ruth says hello to them and asks my mother, at the age of five, what her name is now. Her name was Marie, but because her mother's name was also Marie. The family often referred to her as Babe. I heard my grandmother referred to my mother as babe when my mother was forty five years old. It was

rather extraordinary. In any events, she says, my name is Babe, Babe, and Babe Ruth was so delighted by this that she went back inside and got her a brand new baseball, which he gave to my mother. The first day she went to Yankee Stadium, she met Babe Ruth. She talked to Babe Ruth, and Babe Ruth gave her a baseball. Needless to say, in the ensuing sixty six years that my mother was a Yankee fan, nothing of interest ever

happened to her at Yankee Stadium. She would eventually see the Yankees win a couple of World Series, and eventually she saw her own son reporting from the field after the World Series games on the World Series broadcast. But nothing like getting a baseball from Babe Ruth on your first day as a fan and meeting Babe Ruth occurred to her. There was a brawl once between Red Sox

and Yankees fans. I recall when I was ten or eleven years old, beer was thrown, and she may have gotten a few drops of beer on the shoulder of her dress. I seem to recall that happening. That was it. Nothing else of interest, Certainly, nothing difficult or untoward happened to my mother at Yankee Stadium until the middle of

June in the year two thousand. The Yankees on that Saturday afternoon had a second baseman named Chuck Knoblock, who had been a great star for them in an extraordinary addition to their team and set off the process by which they won three consecutive World Series and four in a span of five years, and almost five in a span of six years. In any event, Knoblock unfortunately had an issue throwing the ball to first base. Many second basemen,

many baseball players have developed this. It's somewhat consistent with the idea of the yips in golf, where you can't sink the putt even though it's two feet away. For baseball players, it turns out to generally be an expression of emotional distress. Your mind is sabotaging the most fundamental thing in the game. It's stopping you from throwing the ball, and the easier the play is, the more familiar you are with it, the more difficult it suddenly becomes. It

happened at Chuck naw Block. It happened to another second baseman named Steve Sachs, and they've all turned out. And there was a pitcher minor league pitcher who became a writer named Pat Jordan, and they all turned out. And another one named Rick ang Keel, a pitcher for the Saint Louis Cardinals, all of whom suddenly lost the ability to throw the ball in the easiest way possible, in the way in which they had the most control, couldn't throw the ball over the baseman's head, over the catcher's

head into the stands. Well, that's where we joined Chuck naw Block. As it later turned out, Chuck naw Block's father, who had seen every one of his games from little league, who had gone to all his high school games, who had traveled the country when Chuck naw Block played in the minor leagues, who'd gone to all the road games

of the Minnesota Twins and the Yankees. Chuck naw Block's father had Alzheimer's disease and was in the final stages of it, and sometime early in the two thousand season lost the ability to recognize the Yankee second basement Chuck now Block. Well. That accelerated a problem that would later or shortly thereafter make Chuck now Block an x second Basement.

And on this day in June of two thousand, I was completing the second year of a two year, not particularly happy stint as the host of Fox Baseball Game of the Week on the Fox Television network. I was based in Los Angeles, and every Saturday, I spent the whole day from six o'clock in the morning till six o'clock at night in a studio in Los Angeles that was kept down about thirty six degrees. Not my choice.

I had to wear a winter coat. Sometimes, when we weren't on the air, we would do a pregame show, which, because of the timing difference, started at ten am, and they liked to rehearse their pregame shows madness. All the good lines had been used and made stupid and not funny by the time we got on the air. They would rehearse this show two times, three times. An awful experience.

In my co was one of the worst persons in the world, a man named Steve Lyons who made me look like somebody who never complained once in his life. That's the only good aspect of working with Steve Lyons.

He complained an average of three times a minute. All right, So Lyons and I are there doing the game of the week, and that day the broadcast was from Los Angeles and it was a four pm Eastern start one pm Pacific time, So the game and the show started a little bit late, and we get there, started the Dodgers and whoever. It was at Dodgers Stadium with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver as the announcers and me in the studio, and Lyons goes away and he won't be

back to the postgame show, so everybody's happier. Somewhere in the middle of the game, I'm watching the bank of televisions that's showing all the other games in progress, and the Chicago White Sox are playing at Yankee Stadium in New York. This is the remodeled Yankee Stadium that operated between the year's nineteen seventy six and two thousand and eight.

I essentially grew up in Yankee Stadi, the original original Yankee Stadium, and then this modified, reconstructed one that reopened in nineteen seventy six, and I knew not only every nook and cranny of the ballpark, but I knew every camera angle, And we had had since nineteen seventy two my family Yankee season tickets, which I had been paying for since about nineteen ninety two, even though I did not live in New York. They were for my mother,

who went forty fifty times a year. So by this point, my mother has been to since that first game when she was greeted by Babe Ruth at the front door of Yankee Stadium. Here, welcome to your future. Here's a baseball for me, Babe Ruth. She has been to at least a thousand games. She went to more games in

her life than I have, actually literally true. And she is seated in the seats, in our seats, which have been the same one box forty seven E since the stadium reopened in nineteen seventy six, and this is the year two thousand, so she is in essence, celebrating her twenty fifth anniversary in those seats. The Chicago White Sox

are playing the New York Yankees. They would rout the Yankees that day, and the Yankees were in the middle of a funk in the middle of the season, do not, in small part to Chuck nw Block's sudden inability to throw the ball successfully from second base to first base. He would throw it past the first basement, over the first basement, he would drop the ball as he threw it, it would fly out of his hand. And of course later it proved this was a psychological protest from deep

within his mind against playing baseball anymore. It was too painful because his father was so sick, and his father was so intimately connected to the game. So now Greg Norton of the Chicago White Sox hits a fairly tough play towards Chuck naw Block, grounds the ball to the right of the mound. Chuck naw Block has to charge in, pick the ball up bare handed, and while slightly off balance,

throw it backwards towards the Yankee first basement. Tino Martinez, not an impossible play, and not an impossible play for a good second basement, as Chuck naw Block had been. But under the circumstance, nance is a disaster in the making, which we then saw unfold. Chuck Nablock throws the ball, it leaves his hand, not straight, but an angle to the right of about I don't know, fifty sixty degrees. The ball shoots out of his hand and goes nowhere

near first base. It goes into the stands behind first base, and in fact, it goes to box forty seven E, where my mother is seated with my high school friend and his two kids. And my mother is sitting where the incoming throw has just been launched. I am seeing this unfold on a monitor, one of like nine with

different games going on. But I know Yankee Stadium, and as I said, the camera angles intimately, so I know immediately where the ball based on where it left now Block's hand, where it has likely gone, and I say

that may have hit my mother. They then cut to a shot of a woman being attended to and I say that hit my mother and everybody in the room because they assume I'm joking, Because what are the odds that while I am in the studio hosting the game of the week and doing the highlights of the games in progress. You know, when they say, now let's go back to the studio for a Fox game break, I'm

the guy doing the game breaks. That was my job for two years, and sure enough, I say, that's my mother, and everybody laughs, and then they cut to a tight shot of a woman holding her head with a little blood and her glasses have been broken, and she looks kind of dazed and confused and they are leading her away, and I went, that's mom. And now I call her on my cell phone and you see her while she is on camera on the local broadcast of the Yankee

White Sox game. You see her answering the phone. That's when they stopped laughing in the studio. That's when they realized it was really my mother. So I talked to her and she said, I'm okay, it broke my glasses. They think maybe I should go home. And Georgia and George's kids they want to go home after that, and I said, did you get the ball showing where my level of concern? No, I'm sorry. I was like, oh, for Christ's sake, mom, So she's fine, And otherwise I

wouldn't have asked that question. Probably anyway, now we're predicting this sort of situation, what do we do with it? And is it going to be a controversy? And I said, we have to put the highlight on and I have to mention that it's my mother. It's not like we're not going to show. If it with some other woman, we'd show it, wouldn't we It would be the biggest story in baseball today. We have to do it, and I just happen to know who it is. So we

throw to or we are thrown to buy. Joe Buck and Tim McCarver t I'm for a Fox game break. Here's Keaith Olderman in the studio, White Sox and Yankees. Joe and Chuck now blocks throwing problem is now getting personally picks up the Greg Norton bounder from the White Sox Yankees in the Bronx and throws it into the stands where right on the edit it hits my mother. Mom's okay, I called her. She's a gamer. She'll be back tomorrow. She just got her lens is broken. Joe,

Tim back to you. Silence from Dodger Stadium. In the broadcast, you just hear like birds in the background from Dodger Stadium. For the first time in their lives. Joe Buck and Tim McCarver have between them nothing to say. I don't know what to say, says Joe Buck is Keith kidding? Is that one of Keith jokes? Says Tim, who was an old friend of mine, Keith, are you still there? I'm still here, Timmy, Are you kidding? Why would I kid about something like that? Was that really your mother?

What are the odds against that? And I said, well, she's been going to game since nineteen thirty four, that first game she ever went to, Babe Ruth gave her a baseball. Nothing bad has happened in the ensuing years, So I'd say the odds were probably about six to five in favor. And he goes, I guess you're right. I can't believe that was Keith's mother that got hit by the throw by Chuck no Block. Well, give us an update later on how she is. We'll do, Tim. So,

now the story is out. It's my mother who got hit by the balloon seventeenth eighteenth, one of the two days, the Saturday of that weekend two thousand. Only the kind of thing that could happen to my mother. But again, truly, the odds were not that impossible. The ball is thrown behind first base. Here's a woman who's gone to an average of forty to fifty games a year in that stadium for twenty five years. The odds are pretty good

it's going to hit her. And if you're getting meta and like, what are the universal odds, what are the metaphysical odds that she gets hit? As I said, nothing of interest has happened to her since nineteen thirty four, she's due in any event. Just to add to this, two of my best friends in the world worked for the Yankees. One was the manager, Joe Tory. The other was the head of publicity, Rick Sarone. Not the catcher,

Rick Serone, but the head of publicity, Rick Serone. So I call Rick Sarone in the office at Yankee Stadium in the press box, because I figure he's already figured this out and I want to give him a heads up that I had no choice but to mention that it was my mother, since it was my broadcast. I call him up. I said, did you see the now block throw? Now? I heard about it. I've been here in the back. I didn't see who it hit. I said, do you have any idea who it was? He said no,

Why would I have any idea who it was? I said, why would I be calling you? I don't know, Keith? Why would you be calling me. I said, how many times have you sat behind first base with me and somebody else? And he goes, wait a minute, what are you saying? I said, how many times did you and I go as teenage friends in the seventies and sat behind first bait? And he goes, oh god, no, I said, yep. He said that hit your mother. I said yep, And he said, First off, he said, did you get the ball?

And I went, no, she didn't. Oh for crying out loud, Well what you didn't say anything about it, did you? I went, of course, I said something they showed her on your broadcast. And he goes, oh god no. I said, what other choice did I have? He goes, no, you're right, You're right, all right. I better get out there. We're going to start getting phone calls about this, if we

haven't already. Thanks for the heads up, so now. The next day, the newspapers of New York front and back page of the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and the Long Island Paper News Day front and back page some reference to my mother. Photographs in the Daily

News of her being led away. Chuck Nablock hits sportscaster's mother, and the day after that they're still telling the story, and there are wire stories, and it is everywhere, And of course we mentioned it maybe once or twice an hour on Fox Sports and on cable and on broadcast. So now Mom is a celebrity. And I must confess to you. Mom really liked being a celebrity. Mom was appreciative of my success in my career. But Mom had

wanted to be a ballerina. Apparently. She told me that I don't really buy it, but that was her story. And she was a little jealous, resentful, just in a manageable way most of the time. But I don't want to bore you with my developmental problems. Emotionally, Mom was a little jealous of not being in the spotlight, and she gloried in this, among other things. Mom wound up being interviewed on the pregame show for the next Saturday's Game of the Week, and for various reasons, we could

not do a live remote interview with her. So we sat down and I recorded the questions in Los Angeles and on the phone asked her the questions while she was in our ancestral home in the suburbs of New York. City, and Mom didn't really have any good answers, So I said, why don't you just repeat the answers that I give you. I'll give you good snarky answers, real quick ones that we can do this and you can make fun of me. Okay. She had a little trouble delivering the lines, and we

actually did several takes. So if anybody wants to call the FCC and say that interview was not what it seemed in two thousand, go right ahead. I don't know what you're going to do to us about it, but gorite. Aha. There were some elements of fakery to this, like I wrote her answers for her, but there was one answer to one of my six or seven questions that she gave completely authentically and we did not need a second take.

And this may tell you the nature of the complicated relationship between me and my mother and baseball and Chuck Knoblock. I said, are you surprised that everybody's so interested in this? And I wrote for her as an answer, No, but I'm surprised they keep mentioning you. She had no trouble giving that line whatsoever. She really bought into that answer. You could see from the tape when I eventually saw

the tape that she was smiling during that one. So in any event, Mom becomes a celebrity for several months. This is June of two thousand. Come October, when the Yankees and Mets played in the World Series and she was in the stands number one. My employers had given her a Fox Sports cap to where and they repeatedly showed her during the games of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. So Mom became a celebrity and became very well known for getting hit in the head with Chuck

Knoblock's throw. Joe Tory, who I mentioned, was an old friend of mine, the first person I ever interviewed in television, and a colleague in local sports in television in LA when I worked there in the eighties and nineties. Joe Tory called me up right afterwards and asked how she was, and I said, she's fine. How's your second basement? He acts like he got hit in the head with a throw too. He's very worried. You think he did it deliberately, And I said, Joe, you have to tell him that

I'm confident he did not do it deliberately. If he was aiming at my mother, he would have missed. Joe Tory laughs, And later he tells me he told Noblock that, and it was no Block's first laugh of the year. All right, So moving ahead on this story, it continued for many years, for at least ten years, Once or twice a month, somebody in baseball would say, was it

your mother who got got hit by Chuck Knoblock's throw? Memorably, in the year two thousand and five, the year that the Hall of Famer Randy Johnson, the big left hander of the mostly of the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Seattle Mariners in the Montreal Expos. He pitched one season for the Yankees, and the Yankees got blown out in the playoffs that year. And before the last game of the season, and this is one of my favorite moments in the

history of baseball. Before that last game, I walk out into the Yankee dugout and there is al Lighter who was a friend of mine then and now he is telling the story of my mother and Chuck Knoblock to two other Yankee pitchers, Scott Proctor and Randy Johnson. And I walk in and he goes and then Alderman's mother gets hit in the head and he says on he's doing the highlights on TV on the game of the week, and he said, and I walk out, and he goes, did you hear that I was telling the story about you?

And I said, well, only the last couple of steps. This is a coincidence. Finish the story yourself. So now I got the three of them, and they're all in hysterics. Yankees lose that last game of the playoffs. I don't know, it seemed like it was one hundred and fifty to nothing.

And I go into the clubhouse after the game to say goodbye for the off season to the few players that I knew on the team, including Al Lighter, and to Randy Johnson and Randy Johnson in his own deep voiced way, thank good to see you have a good winter. And he leaves with his little carrying case with his little wheels on it and looks like a toy. He's six foot ten and he has a roller case designed

for maybe his daughter. It looks like a toy. And he leaves, and about five minutes later, I see the door to the Yankee clubhouse open up, and in walk Randy Johnson, and he comes over to me and he said,

I forgot to say something. I was already out to my car, and I thought I better come back in and say goodbye to Keith and tell him, I mean, this was a really bad week this last week, as we've been losing and the season ended, and I just wanted to say that telling that story about your mother really was the highlight of the whole thing and made me smile for the only time this month. So thank you.

Have a great winter. So that's my mother and Randy Johnson, five years after she got hit in the head with a throw by Chuck Knoblock the second basement of the Yankees, one of the more remarkable moments in the history of Major League Baseball, at least as it pertains to the Olderman family, and a kind of bookend. Mom stopped going

to the games about two thousand and five. She physically could not do it, but she had a good run as a Yankee fan of about seventy seasons that essentially bookended by getting hit in the head with a throw that made her famous within baseball circles and began with her being handed to baseball at her first game ever by Babe Ruth, who was charmed by the fact that my mother's nickname was Babe punchline to this to me, is one of the most avid collectors of sports memorabilia

and particularly game used baseballs. I didn't get either of those baseballs from my mom. I've done all the damage I can do here without hitting somebody in the head with a baseball. Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, and mister Shanelle handle orchestration and keyboards

produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed Sports music is the Old Woman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And that reminds me the story is ongoing with my

mother and the baseball. In twenty and eighteen, I did play by play of the New York Yankees New York Mets game at Yankee Stadium, and needless to say, we showed the highlight of my mother getting hit in the head with the baseball thrown by Chuck Nablock, to the delight of my fellow announcers Tim Kirkchin and Eddie Perez, who could not stop laughing about it for about an inning and a half. Mom is eternally part of baseball history. This would please her greatly a little bit more if

my name were not connected to it. Our satirical and musical comments are by Nancy Fauss. The best baseball stadium organists ever was her. Chicago White Sox were there, although she was not. Our announcer was my friend Larry David. Everything else was pretty much my fault, Larry David, who's mentioned the Yankees once and again and with whom I've also conversed about my mother getting hit in the head

with a throw from Chuck Knoblock. Let's countdown for this to one hundred and thirty fourth day until the twenty twenty four presidential election, and vice presidential candidate Chuck Knoblock has just now and sixty eighth day since convicted felon Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the Democrat radically elected government of the United States use the July eleventh sentencing hearing, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity if it happens,

to stop him from doing it again while we still can. A reminder will be live again on YouTube after the debate Thursday night. Join me and send your link to this podcast to somebody who does not already listen. Remember it is free. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins is the news warrants till the next one. I'm Keith Oldreman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, avoid getting hit in the baseball, and good luck to call adelf Filter Countdown with Keith

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