Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray w Bzy Constance video.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone. Sorry about that glitch. We had a
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Speaker 2: were back. I apologize to the guest last hour. We
Speaker 2: will get Kimberly, my girl back from back on in
Speaker 2: the next few days. But I am now delighted and
Speaker 2: honored to have on Nightside a guy who I've been
Speaker 2: a big fan of for a long time. And thank
Speaker 2: all of you know I like baseball and I listened
Speaker 2: to a lot of Red Sox games, pull for the
Speaker 2: Red Sox for a lot of reasons that you folks understand.
Speaker 2: The great joke A stick leone joins us, Joe, welcome
Speaker 2: to Nightside. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 3: Thank Dan, great to be with you. About three days
Speaker 3: in the retirement here.
Speaker 4: So house in bid to be retired. I'm pretty good, pretty.
Speaker 3: Comfortable answer text and emails and cards and letters and
Speaker 3: it's it's gotta be nice. And the Red Sex is
Speaker 3: still keeping me on as an ambassador of sorts and
Speaker 3: maybe even filling in in a game or two. But
Speaker 3: I'll still be around the ballpark, but not on a
Speaker 3: regular basis.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I'll tell you, uh, you've had the dream job.
Speaker 2: Most Red Sox fans think if they could trade places
Speaker 2: with Joe Castiglione. What I want to do is give
Speaker 2: folks an opportunity. You're gonna stick with us till about
Speaker 2: nine thirty.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And if folks would like to call in and say hello,
Speaker 2: remember where they were at one point, maybe when they
Speaker 2: were listening to you, either in the backyard or in
Speaker 2: the car, and the Red Sox did something great. They're
Speaker 2: more than welcome to share a memory. They they all
Speaker 2: know the number six, one, seven, two, four, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: My first question is you're a hand in Connecticut guy
Speaker 2: originally and went to Syracuse, uh and and have spent
Speaker 2: the vastment you worked for the UK, Cleveland Indians baseball,
Speaker 2: Milwaukee Brewers baseball, just for you know, two or three
Speaker 2: years early in your career forty two years.
Speaker 4: Has anyone ever been the radio voice of the Red
Speaker 4: Sox for that length of time. We've had great broadcasters, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Kurt Goudi and Ned Martin and of course yourself.
Speaker 4: But I can't remember anyone who even comes near to
Speaker 4: forty two years.
Speaker 3: Well, Ned Martin had thirty two years Dan and Ken
Speaker 3: Coleman had twenty, interrupted by four or five years when
Speaker 3: he went to Cincinnati, so I guess it was ten
Speaker 3: years more than that. And yeah, I'd probably seen more
Speaker 3: Red Sox games than anybody because the owners didn't go
Speaker 3: on the road.
Speaker 2: I got to ask you this question, and I'll be
Speaker 2: very curious, and you probably have been asked this question before, but.
Speaker 4: Do you remember, at some point in everyone's life in
Speaker 4: New England they make the journey to the mecca Fenway Park.
Speaker 4: How old were you when you first walked into that ballpark.
Speaker 3: I first walked into Fenway when I was nineteen, Actually
Speaker 3: I was twenty. I was twenty was the oh ok,
Speaker 3: it was August of nineteen sixty seven. I may not
Speaker 3: have to tell you the truth. I went to the
Speaker 3: Yankee Stadium as a kids.
Speaker 4: Well, the New York at a little closer right.
Speaker 3: And soccasion Aliche Stadium and even the Polo Grounds. But
Speaker 3: my first Fenway was nineteen sixty seven, and I actually
Speaker 3: sat on the wooden benches in the center field bleachers
Speaker 3: to watch the Red Sox play the Washington Senators in
Speaker 3: August of that year.
Speaker 2: Wow, do you remember the result of the game or
Speaker 2: anything that was memorable about about that game?
Speaker 4: Sixty seven?
Speaker 2: Obviously the Red Sox were playing pretty good baseball in
Speaker 2: sixty In August of sixty seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I possible dream and the entire region was fired up.
Speaker 3: I was working that summer as a senior at Kolga University.
Speaker 3: I was at wde W and Westfield, Massachusetts, and for
Speaker 3: some reason we carried Yankee games, which made no sense
Speaker 3: in the Stringfield market. But I came in that particular game.
Speaker 3: I looked it up, so I do remember that Karli
Speaker 3: Stretsky had a home run and that Washington won it.
Speaker 3: And I later rediscovered that a good friend of mine,
Speaker 3: Hank Allen, the older brother of Dick Allen, to the
Speaker 3: double in the ninth inning to win it for Washington.
Speaker 2: I think he's a a trivia question. They say, you
Speaker 2: know what, two brothers have combined the most home runs
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball, And obviously Hank Hank well you're
Speaker 2: talking Richie Hank Aarons. But did you say Hank Aaron's brother.
Speaker 2: Is that who you are?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hank and Tommy Era. I think Tommy gets thirteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's seven fifty five.
Speaker 4: But together they had seven sixty eight. And I'm sure.
Speaker 4: And so he was playing for the Senators at that.
Speaker 3: Point, Yes, yes, Washington Senators. He sided with it pays,
Speaker 3: just like Dick Allen did and had a younger brother,
Speaker 3: Ronnie Allen, whom I knew when I worked in Youngstown, Ohio,
Speaker 3: who had one hit in the big leagues. I think
Speaker 3: he was one for twelve or one for thirteen and
Speaker 3: hit was a home run.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's funny. I was really rooting for
Speaker 2: this young guy, Mickey Gasper.
Speaker 4: You know he's oh yeah, and I think you were too.
Speaker 2: I was watching the listening to the game on Sunday,
Speaker 2: and he's still looking for that first hit. I know
Speaker 2: he hit the ball, hit a bunch of line drives,
Speaker 2: but right at people. So what was it like, Joe,
Speaker 2: I know a little bit about baseball, don't know nearly
Speaker 2: as much as you know about baseball, obviously because of
Speaker 2: all that.
Speaker 4: You've done over the years. But how was it traveling
Speaker 4: with a team.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if in all the forty two
Speaker 2: years if you were always on the charter or at
Speaker 2: different times you weren't. But you get to know these
Speaker 2: guys and you can't help but start to pull for
Speaker 2: people you know. At the same time, you got to
Speaker 2: call the ball game. How tough is that to have friendships?
Speaker 2: You know, your friendships met with guys on every teams
Speaker 2: get traded and all that. Then how tough is it
Speaker 2: to call the game and maintain some modicum of objectivity.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you have to realize Daniel reporter first
Speaker 3: and foremost, and you have to describe what happens and
Speaker 3: to be forth right about it, because if you don't
Speaker 3: have the trust of your audience, you have nothing. So
Speaker 3: you really need that credibility. And if a guy makes
Speaker 3: an error, I mean, you got to say it, or
Speaker 3: he doesn't cover first base and it costs this team.
Speaker 3: You have to point those things out. And yeah, you
Speaker 3: don't know every player as well as you know the other.
Speaker 3: But I think that I think I was able to
Speaker 3: separate it for the most part, even though I certainly
Speaker 3: had my personal favor which guys I knew better than others,
Speaker 3: but travel with the team was It was almost always
Speaker 3: on the charter. Although you don't really see a lot
Speaker 3: of players on the planes because there was one section.
Speaker 3: The broadcasters are in another section, and the manager and
Speaker 3: the coaches are in the third section. But you do
Speaker 3: get to know them around the batty cage, in the
Speaker 3: clubhouse and in the dugouts. So it is something that
Speaker 3: you have to just be objective about, really, or you
Speaker 3: lose your audience.
Speaker 2: And also people I don't think appreciate the schedule. You know,
Speaker 2: people think you got the winters off, but during the
Speaker 2: season you got an extra any game. Of course, extra
Speaker 2: any games have been shortened a little bit because of
Speaker 2: the new ghost runner rule. But in the old days,
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a fourteen to fifteen exhibition game in
Speaker 2: Seattle and have to fly across the country, and yet
Speaker 2: maybe the next night I'll be back.
Speaker 4: At the ballpark.
Speaker 2: The travel note is tough for the players, but it's
Speaker 2: also tough for the broadcasters.
Speaker 3: Well, it is, especially when you get home at five am.
Speaker 3: The last couple of years I cut back the ninety games.
Speaker 3: I tried to avoid those night games on getaway when
Speaker 3: you come home and get home at five, because you know,
Speaker 3: when you're you're young, the player's age, you can sleep
Speaker 3: most of the day. At this age, the body clock
Speaker 3: goes off. You try to live with those then it
Speaker 3: is it is difficult.
Speaker 2: When did you decide you wanted to be a broadcaster
Speaker 2: when you you know, I know that you WoT Colgate
Speaker 2: and did you also do some academics at Syracuse?
Speaker 3: I did a master's program one year at Syracuse, and
Speaker 3: I worked there my first TV job at Channel three.
Speaker 3: But I decided to be a broadcaster probably when I
Speaker 3: was about ten, because at that stage I knew I
Speaker 3: wasn't good enough to be a player. So that's best thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, But you also are in the Baseball Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame, and of course that has that's the ultimate honor,
Speaker 2: which you know, I mean there's some great baseball players,
Speaker 2: some great baseball players who can only go to the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame as a visitor. You go there as
Speaker 2: a member real quickly. That has to have been, you know,
Speaker 2: the achievement of a lifetime, the thrill of a lifetime
Speaker 2: to think that you're there in the Hall with the
Speaker 2: baseball immortals, not only the guys you covered, but the
Speaker 2: men on whose shoulders this game was built from the
Speaker 2: late eighties, the late eighteen.
Speaker 4: Hundreds through the first half of the twentieth century.
Speaker 2: What does it feel like to be a Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame Baseball Hall of Fame member?
Speaker 3: That has to be We're not technically in the Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame. We win the Broadcast Award, but we have
Speaker 3: certainly plots in the Hall of Fame, not where the
Speaker 3: players are, but in a different section along with the
Speaker 3: baseball riders who have their own.
Speaker 4: But you're still in the building. You're still in the building, Hey, Bill,
Speaker 4: You're still You're still in the building, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're not going to make any of those
Speaker 2: distinctions on this show, that's.
Speaker 3: For sure, thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But to think that your grandchildren, your great grandchildren, your
Speaker 2: great great grandchildren will always know that, you know, whatever
Speaker 2: your nickname, Pops, Pops or Papa or whatever, they can
Speaker 2: go to Cooperstown and they can look up and say, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, that's one of my ancestors.
Speaker 4: That's a forever thing. Joe. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 4: if you ever thought about it.
Speaker 3: That way, well, not really. You really underscore it there,
Speaker 3: I think. And it makes me feel great because you
Speaker 3: would try to achieve this, and I was a forty
Speaker 3: eighth recipient. The first was my broadcast hero as a kid,
Speaker 3: Male Alan, the voice of the Yankees. Actually he and
Speaker 3: Red Barbera went in the first year in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 3: And so many of my good friends have been inducted,
Speaker 3: like Ernie Harwell or the Tigers. Primarily it was a
Speaker 3: great manner of mine. Others have not yet been elected
Speaker 3: who certainly deserve it, like my men are in Boston,
Speaker 3: Ken Coleman, certainly, Ned Martin, I certainly have the credentials
Speaker 3: and they still have a chance to get in when
Speaker 3: one of the years the vote is for pre expansion.
Speaker 3: So I think that that could happen. But it really
Speaker 3: is a great thrill, and I never thought it would happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't get into this thinking of Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame or personal honors. You get into because you
Speaker 3: love baseball and you love broadcasting. But it really was
Speaker 3: a great thrill, and it was maybe the five most
Speaker 3: outstanding days of my life, other than the wedding and
Speaker 3: the birth of my kids. Because you get there and
Speaker 3: they roll out the right carpet for you. The president
Speaker 3: of the Hall of Fame. Josh Rowitch was there the
Speaker 3: greatest at the door, and every time you turned around,
Speaker 3: there was a Hall of Famer at your elbow. And
Speaker 3: they were also welcoming. The players really were welcoming, those
Speaker 3: who have been in for many years, and those who
Speaker 3: were elected enshrine this past year. One of the great
Speaker 3: calls I got was December, about two weeks after I
Speaker 3: found out I was elected, and we're in between my
Speaker 3: granddaughter's basketball games and I see five one three number.
Speaker 3: I know it's Cincinnati, but I didn't the call. I
Speaker 3: didn't pick it up. They went to voicemail was Johnny Bench.
Speaker 3: So I called Johnny back and he said, and Johnny's
Speaker 3: taken on this role himself. He said, just if this
Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer calling me, I want to welcome
Speaker 3: you to Cooper's town. And he does that with players,
Speaker 3: he does that with the writers. So he's taken that
Speaker 3: role on and by that made you feel so great.
Speaker 2: Johnny Bench is a great guy. I've had the opportunity
Speaker 2: to be in his company. And he played for the
Speaker 2: wrong team in terms of the Red so the Reds,
Speaker 2: but a class act is his son went to school
Speaker 2: up here at Boston university as a kid, was about
Speaker 2: six foot eight and I think had real operations to
Speaker 2: be a sportscaster. Really nice, nice young guy, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: One other quick thing, you called basketball NBA games, which
Speaker 2: I did not know in nineteen seventy nine. I think
Speaker 2: I could call baseball again. Baseball not as well as you,
Speaker 2: but basketball has got to be tough to call.
Speaker 3: Well, it was TV, so that was a lot easier.
Speaker 3: The tough thing was our team one fifteen and lost
Speaker 3: sixty seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, no rings that year, Joe, I want to
Speaker 2: take a quick break. I got a bunch of folks
Speaker 2: who would like to call and just speak to you
Speaker 2: before we'll let you go. At nine thirty, my guest
Speaker 2: is Joe Costiglion, Hall of Fame broadcaster forty two years
Speaker 2: he was. He's the voice of Summer in New England.
Speaker 2: Because I on ty you how many times you're on
Speaker 2: the road and you're listening on the car radio or
Speaker 2: in your backyard listening just to the to the pace
Speaker 2: of a baseball game. There's there's nothing better and more
Speaker 2: relaxing than listening to a pace for a baseball game,
Speaker 2: particularly one that's being done by Joe Castiglion.
Speaker 4: We'll be back with.
Speaker 2: Joe and a few callers if you like to try
Speaker 2: to get in. There's still a couple of lines at
Speaker 2: six one, seven nine three, one ten thirty. The main
Speaker 2: line is full up, so try six one seven nine
Speaker 2: three one ten thirty. Coming back on night Side.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios. I'MBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: My guest is broadcasting Hall of Famer Joke Isstig Leon
Speaker 2: Voice radio voice of the Boston Red Sox for over
Speaker 2: four decades, forty four years. Joe, you've got the lines
Speaker 2: lit up. We're going to try to move as many
Speaker 2: people as quickly as I can. We have Idaho, Rhode Island,
Speaker 2: and Minnesota. So let's start with Laurie and Idaho. Laurie,
Speaker 2: you're on with jokestigle on.
Speaker 3: Go right ahead, Laurie, I joke. As you know, there
Speaker 3: is an honor of my lifetime just to talk to you.
Speaker 3: So thanks for thank you. Lry. I got to get
Speaker 3: bio on my bucket list. Well, I've been out here
Speaker 3: for about three years and the thanks to that satellite
Speaker 3: service that we have now suspended their channels, I listened
Speaker 3: to every single game with you calling it obviously because
Speaker 3: I can get the home radio broadcast. Well, thank you
Speaker 3: very much. I appreciate it. And yeah, it really has
Speaker 3: opened up a new world for us, expanded the audience greatly.
Speaker 2: By the way, Joe, and she takes her passion for
Speaker 2: the Red Sox with her across the continent.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Laurie. Didn't mean to interrupt.
Speaker 3: No, that's okay. Just even when I was in the
Speaker 3: Boston area, I'd still listen to the radio. If it
Speaker 3: were the playoffs, if we made it, I'd have the
Speaker 3: TV on with no sound. But so just thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you for being as they say, the soundtrack, and
Speaker 3: I just do have one little for all the great
Speaker 3: soundbites you have. You have a new favorite of mine
Speaker 3: which happened this year when you were in the booth.
Speaker 3: Was trying to have done it, I think, and the
Speaker 3: relief picture came in and kind of got lit up
Speaker 3: for the first three batters, and he said, wow, boozers
Speaker 3: getting hammered out there. John couldn't stop laughing, and I
Speaker 3: didn't realize what I said until he started laughing. I
Speaker 3: do remember it clearly.
Speaker 4: Great, dear you boys, that's a funny story. That's a
Speaker 4: funny story.
Speaker 3: Thanks. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 6: Bye, all right, Laurie, talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Arthur in Providence, Rhode Island. Arthur,
Speaker 2: you're on with a great joke. Go ahead, Arthur.
Speaker 3: Hi, good evening, Dan. Thanks for having Joe on. Joe,
Speaker 3: it's an honored us to speak with you. Always listened
Speaker 3: to the radio, load TV, and I just wanted to
Speaker 3: get your thoughts on You're welcome. I wanted to get
Speaker 3: your thoughts on how social media has a change since
Speaker 3: you affected the game, since you've first started. I don't
Speaker 3: know how much social media has affected other than more
Speaker 3: information out there, some of it not always true. But
Speaker 3: I think the Internet has certainly affected it because there's
Speaker 3: so much more information out there, and we can look
Speaker 3: things up and get answers to questions that you know,
Speaker 3: used to be barroom arguments, we can settle them right away.
Speaker 3: So I think the proliferation of information has been the
Speaker 3: biggest change, and for the most part it's very good.
Speaker 3: But again, you have to filter and real and research
Speaker 3: what's true and what may not be. Great question I got, Hey, Thank.
Speaker 4: You, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Ar A lot of people listen on the radio, and
Speaker 2: some of my listeners are blind, and the radio means
Speaker 2: even more to than one of them is Glenn and
Speaker 2: Bright and Glenn, you're next one.
Speaker 7: Nice I with chocus a hi job. This is a pleasure.
Speaker 7: I'm seventy one years old, I'm blind to live alone,
Speaker 7: and I don't have a computer. And I've noticed that
Speaker 7: the station you're on a bust and no longer carries
Speaker 7: play offfs in World Series twenty nineteen was the last
Speaker 7: and baseball.
Speaker 2: Let's let's not talk about other stations on WBZ, please, Glenn,
Speaker 2: no one know.
Speaker 4: I didn't got a question for you, got a question
Speaker 4: for Joe. Go ahead.
Speaker 7: Don't get me juding what's going on with baseball and
Speaker 7: radio because I don't have other ways to hear baseball.
Speaker 3: I mean, in the series, always think that people people
Speaker 3: who are elderly, are disabled or blind, and that's a
Speaker 3: it's an important part of our audience. And I think
Speaker 3: baseball is still the same on radio for the most part.
Speaker 3: The networks are there. There's more coverage really with US
Speaker 3: Shadow right XM. The reason that the young lady could
Speaker 3: hear US in Idaho, and it's still a primary source,
Speaker 3: especially in New England, because New England is so rural
Speaker 3: in some areas, certainly not always the case. It's metropolitan too,
Speaker 3: but I think it's an important part of it. And
Speaker 3: we try to think of our radio listeners all walks
Speaker 3: of life, and I think that's very, very important. And
Speaker 3: you can drive anywhere in New England and here are games.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Glenn, thank you. I got to keep rolling because
Speaker 2: they got a couple more folks. I want to sneak in, buddy.
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon. Okay, be well, I got your message
Speaker 2: the other day.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Glenn. Let me go to vic in St. Paul.
Speaker 4: I assume that's Minnesota.
Speaker 3: That's Minnesota, Dan, Joe, could you please talk about your
Speaker 3: memories of your days in Cleveland, especially filling in on
Speaker 3: the sports line for Pete Franklin, and your memories of
Speaker 3: the leyton NEB. Chandler as well, two great friends of mine.
Speaker 3: Pete like what I filled in for because he knew
Speaker 3: I didn't want that job on a permanent basis. I
Speaker 3: wanted to do play by play. He always told me
Speaker 3: he should be a play by play guy. But in
Speaker 3: those days, anything to make a living, including work in
Speaker 3: the all night shift on the news desk at the
Speaker 3: NBC I want To TV station. But Pete was a
Speaker 3: great character. I think he was the first sports radio
Speaker 3: talk show host anywhere, and he did it at first
Speaker 3: a smaller station in Cleveland than he went to the
Speaker 3: fifty thousand Water and eventually went to San Francisco and
Speaker 3: New York. But a great guy who had his own style,
Speaker 3: and that Chandler was a very close friend of mine.
Speaker 3: We both started out doing weekend sports in Cleveland, me
Speaker 3: at Channel three, Channel five, and we'd always compare notes,
Speaker 3: and you know, we were always on the back end
Speaker 3: of the news that they needed extra time, they'd cut
Speaker 3: us and we wouldn't get the camera. Then we wanted
Speaker 3: because he was always had the first crack at it,
Speaker 3: and you know that's the way TV works sometimes. But
Speaker 3: he was a very good friend of my were lost
Speaker 3: and far too young.
Speaker 2: Good question, Vic, how did you know Joe was going
Speaker 2: to be with us tonight?
Speaker 3: Well, I listened to your show on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much. What I was hoping you
Speaker 4: were going to say, but thank you very much and
Speaker 4: free to call it any night.
Speaker 3: Joe, did you do all five hours of Peach Show?
Speaker 3: When you filled in for him. I did if there
Speaker 3: were no game on the night. I remember most was
Speaker 3: I went to the ballpark by the night off. I
Speaker 3: was called the last moment, and I went down to
Speaker 3: the park at the old Municipal Stadium, and that night
Speaker 3: Lenny Barker pitched a perfect game, the only perfect game
Speaker 3: I've ever seen. And I went back to the station
Speaker 3: and did the postgame show after that Peach Show, and
Speaker 3: that was that was quite a thrill because that was
Speaker 3: probably the only one I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Right back, Joe, there was one that you came close to.
Speaker 2: And I was sitting there that night behind the Yankee
Speaker 2: on deck circle when Musina, just before nine to eleven,
Speaker 2: the sun not the Sunday before, but about ten days
Speaker 2: before nine to eleven, was twenty six up and twenty
Speaker 2: six down, and never saw Musina. Uh as effected a
Speaker 2: great pitcher, obviously, and uh Carl Everett blooped a little
Speaker 2: bloop into into left field and broke up knowing no
Speaker 2: hitter but a perfect home.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: In September of two thousand and one, just before our
Speaker 2: world change, Hey, Vic, thank you very much for the call.
Speaker 2: I want to get at least one more in Okay,
Speaker 2: thank you if you called some night on any any topic.
Speaker 4: You know, Joe, I thought that maybe guy Manila.
Speaker 2: Who started you know, sports talk here at WBZ way
Speaker 2: back in the sixties. But if your guy beat him,
Speaker 2: then I'm going to stand corrected on that one.
Speaker 3: Well, I know the guy was a pioneer and I
Speaker 3: used to listen to him whenever I get to the
Speaker 3: Boston area. He was great, and he might have been
Speaker 3: right around the same time as Pete Sue Pete, he
Speaker 3: called himself, and they were They were certainly both pioneers.
Speaker 3: But a quick story about your listener in Saint Paul,
Speaker 3: our Joe Morgan, Joseph Michael Morgan, our manager, great storyteller,
Speaker 3: and when he played in the American Association, the Louisville
Speaker 3: and Atlanta and others. Uh, they would have morning and
Speaker 3: afternoon doubleheaders in Minnesota Saint Paul. They played Minnesota in
Speaker 3: the morning and Saint Paul in the afternoon. They piled
Speaker 3: into the cab going to the ballpark in Minnesota and
Speaker 3: uh Nicolette Park, I think it was called. And they
Speaker 3: get out of the cab and they tell the cabby, uh,
Speaker 3: they wouldn't pay him, and said We'll catch you in
Speaker 3: Saint Paul. So that was the favorite Joe Morgan quote.
Speaker 4: Catch it, Sat Paul. Let me get one more.
Speaker 3: Wither the ball Paul, Joe Morgan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god, my goodness. Yeah. Let me go to another.
Speaker 6: Joe.
Speaker 4: Joe is in Lynn, Joe, I'm going to get you
Speaker 4: in here, go right ahead, Joe.
Speaker 5: Great, Joe, glad to meet you.
Speaker 8: I'm seventy seven years old and I'm blind too. I've
Speaker 8: noticed that the play by play has changed. I used
Speaker 8: to hear Mel Allen. He would say up on the
Speaker 8: pictures mounds for the socks in the every time a
Speaker 8: ball would he would say who threw it? And you know,
Speaker 8: he had a way of letting you know, how do
Speaker 8: I say who threw it, what team it was?
Speaker 5: On everything. I've noticed that it's changed, and maybe you
Speaker 5: can comment on and make sure your predecessors, because we
Speaker 5: as blind people need to know everything as much as
Speaker 5: you can. As I called video description for the games,
Speaker 5: because I love baseball and I remember Mel Allen in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: I'm from Philadelphia and New Jersey. He was excellent.
Speaker 3: Always try to paint the word picture Joe as best
Speaker 3: we can and describe every play as that happens, and
Speaker 3: h you know, we do what They get some commercials
Speaker 3: in there during the course of the action, and that's
Speaker 3: always tricky to fit it in, but I think we
Speaker 3: try to do that as much as we can sometimes,
Speaker 3: you know, the pace of the game. Every game is
Speaker 3: different at the pace because it's the only game where
Speaker 3: defense controls the ball. The picture controls the ball. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I know you have to you haven't had a way
Speaker 3: of doing.
Speaker 2: Hold on, Joey, please, Joe and Lynn, let Joe Castig
Speaker 2: finish the answer to your question.
Speaker 3: Glad Joe, Yeah, but I think you're right. I mean,
Speaker 3: Mel was the greatest and he really painted that word
Speaker 3: picture and he was my hero. Try to model myself
Speaker 3: after his style.
Speaker 2: Well you, you and hell are the same in the
Speaker 2: same location. Joe and Lynn, thank you very much for
Speaker 2: your call.
Speaker 7: Joke.
Speaker 2: I promised i'd let you go by nine thirty and
Speaker 2: I broke my promise. It's nine thirty five. Okay, Thank
Speaker 2: you so much. Say hello to our good mutual friend
Speaker 2: Steve Fryer. I think we're both blessed to have him
Speaker 2: in our corner.
Speaker 3: If you get my draft, I do, yes, he's been
Speaker 3: wonderful to me, and I know he's been to so
Speaker 3: many broadcasts. We cherish his friendship.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I guess he was there.
Speaker 2: He and Susan might have been at the ballpark on
Speaker 2: Sunday for your for your curtain call, if you will,
Speaker 2: U and I watch. I watched it all real closely
Speaker 2: on TV, and I wanted to have you on the show.
Speaker 2: And you ever wanted to sit in some night, you know,
Speaker 2: if you get tired this winter or whatever, you get
Speaker 2: a little answers, We're always available.
Speaker 3: Thanks job all right, Well, we love we love to
Speaker 3: listen to you, Dan and watch you on TV for
Speaker 3: many years and and it's it's a thrill to be
Speaker 3: on with you right.
Speaker 4: Back at you. I'm totally on it. Thanks Joe.
Speaker 2: Please say hi to Mississ Castiglione into all the Castiglians,
Speaker 2: including your song. Who's doing such a great job at
Speaker 2: Channel five. I enjoy watching this, all right, Joe, talk soon,
Speaker 2: have a good one. All right, we're gonna stick with
Speaker 2: this theme. Uh And if you're on the line, loved
Speaker 2: to talk to you. Who was your favorite broadcaster and
Speaker 2: tell us your Joe castigli Own's story. I hate to
Speaker 2: break a good conversation, so I'd like to just talk.
Speaker 4: A little bit of baseball.
Speaker 2: I know baseball is over for the year, but I'd
Speaker 2: like to talk a little bit of baseball right after
Speaker 2: the news here.
Speaker 4: It's no longer the bottom of the hour. I stole
Speaker 4: extra five minutes.
Speaker 2: From jokistig Leo, and so I get everybody in six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty six, one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty
Speaker 2: let's talk some baseball coming back on the other side.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: So baseball is over for the Red Sox, and by
Speaker 2: the way, I just want them again.
Speaker 4: Thank Joe Castiglion.
Speaker 2: I mean, the enthusiasm, the passion that he has for
Speaker 2: the game comes through during the interview, also comes through.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Forty two years here in Boston, and he was very
Speaker 4: fortunate to work for the same organization, you know, one
Speaker 4: of the original Major League Baseball teams for forty two years.
Speaker 4: And he did a tremendous job, a tremendous job. And
Speaker 4: I know there are people who try to imitate him.
Speaker 4: You know, you'll be at a bar and someone who
Speaker 4: try to imitate Joe Castiglio, and there's only one.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's get to some folks here and we'll talk
Speaker 2: a little baseball. We'll yeah, we're going to change topics
Speaker 2: at ten o'clock. We got about seventeen minutes. Let's have
Speaker 2: some fun. Baseball season may be over for the Red Sox,
Speaker 2: but they'll still be playing for another month in other
Speaker 2: cities around around the country.
Speaker 4: Joe and Dorchester. Hi, Joe, how are you?
Speaker 9: Good Bye?
Speaker 8: Dan?
Speaker 9: Thanks for let me speak to you, and thanks again
Speaker 9: to Joe, of course, a lot of his work.
Speaker 4: Unbelievably want able gentlemen, Do I right ahead?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Uh, what I wanted to talk about. It's a baseball story,
Speaker 9: but it's also a little piece of history. Do you
Speaker 9: remember the year in the playoffs? Yeah? Can you hear me?
Speaker 4: I can hear you perfectly, right ahead, I can.
Speaker 5: Hear you good.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 9: Do you remember the year and baseball playoffs in San
Speaker 9: Francisco when they had the earthquake?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 9: And I just want to say that I always admired
Speaker 9: Al Michaels as a broadcaster. He's very enjoyable, he was knowledgeable.
Speaker 9: He was working with Tim I believe was Tim McCarver
Speaker 9: that night, and he made the transition in that moment
Speaker 9: from being a sports broadcaster too. He was the network
Speaker 9: anchor on the ground covering a natural disaster, and he
Speaker 9: did it with grace, professionalism. He was calm. He was
Speaker 9: sitting in a booth weaving together all the feeds that
Speaker 9: a network anchor would have if he were covering a
Speaker 9: presidential election or a war. The guy was brilliant. Why
Speaker 9: they didn't make him an anchor that night, I don't know,
Speaker 9: but so I always wanted to by half to him.
Speaker 9: So it's a baseball story, but it's also a little
Speaker 9: piece of history. So al Michaels right at the top
Speaker 9: of the list as far as prodster.
Speaker 2: Was a great It was a great piece of history.
Speaker 2: And you remember the big earthquake. The big one was
Speaker 2: the earthquake that hit San Francisco near the turn of
Speaker 2: the century that destroyed large portions of the city. And
Speaker 2: so when you're watching a ballgame, it was not during
Speaker 2: the game when the earthquake struck. It was before the game,
Speaker 2: and obviously people were in the ballpark ready to watch
Speaker 2: a baseball game, and they had no idea, you know,
Speaker 2: what was going on. Obviously they knew it was an earthquake,
Speaker 2: and they certainly in San Francisco were aware of it,
Speaker 2: and I just looked it up here. This earthquake, it
Speaker 2: killed sixty three people, and people forget, you know, because
Speaker 2: no one died at the ballpark, but it killed sixty
Speaker 2: three people and there were thirty eight hundred people who
Speaker 2: were injured in about six billion dollars in damage. And
Speaker 2: it really brought home what an earthquake really was like
Speaker 2: because it occurred in a city where a World Series
Speaker 2: game was going on.
Speaker 4: So great reminder, right, thanks for the whole world was
Speaker 4: looking in on it.
Speaker 9: You know, they came for a ball game and on
Speaker 9: earthquake broke out. Who knows?
Speaker 4: You got it? You got it, hey, Joe, great story.
Speaker 2: I wish you could have got through earlier and reminisced
Speaker 2: with them with another Joe Joeistiglell.
Speaker 4: Thanks Joe, appreciate it very much.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Dan, have a great night.
Speaker 2: Let me go too from Joe and Deutsches. They're going
Speaker 2: to go to Sean and Fitchburg. Shawn, you were next
Speaker 2: on NIGHTSAG go right.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Hey man, thanks for taking my call. I've always
Speaker 3: been a fan of Joke Tostick all these years, but
Speaker 3: I'd like to bring up a story about my favorite broadcast.
Speaker 6: In Ned Martin.
Speaker 3: Sure, I loved watching him for years. His style, his grace,
Speaker 3: his signature phrase mercy, which is very catchy, but an
Speaker 3: interesting tragic thing I want to bring up real quick.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and two, Ted Williams had passed away.
Speaker 3: In July two thousand and two, my sister and I
Speaker 3: and my nephew decided to go on to the memorial
Speaker 3: that the Red Trocks were having it way.
Speaker 4: Pack was okay, yes, I was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was a great uh like the great festivities.
Speaker 3: And I noticed Ned Martin there and uh, he was
Speaker 3: walking around. He finally came over and we talked to
Speaker 3: him for a minute or two and got his autograph
Speaker 3: and it was great to see him, and he was delightful.
Speaker 3: And about fifteen minutes later he was walking around where
Speaker 3: we were sitting, and he just seemed out of sorts.
Speaker 3: He seemed confused. I told my sister maybe he's looking
Speaker 3: for his family and the stands or whatever. And anyways,
Speaker 3: we left that that was that was that. And the
Speaker 3: next morning she called me and said he had passed
Speaker 3: away that night.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe. I believe he passed away at the
Speaker 4: airport if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was interesting that we were talking to
Speaker 3: him and that was his last day on earth. So
Speaker 3: he was my favorite broadcaster, Yeah, along with Joe and
Speaker 3: the Red Sox.
Speaker 4: Yeah, great memory.
Speaker 2: You know what I remember about that night was they
Speaker 2: it was about seven o'clock, seven point thirty or maybe
Speaker 2: it was a quarter of eight, and darkness was about
Speaker 2: to settle over the ballpark and they brought the lights
Speaker 2: up really low, and they they they had many of
Speaker 2: Ted Williams's teammates, Bobby door and and my friend Ed
Speaker 2: Let and they were all introduced and they walked out
Speaker 2: in you know, civilian clothes. There was no wearing a
Speaker 2: baseball uniforms. But it was very I thought, a very
Speaker 2: majestic tribute to Ted Williams. And I remember being at
Speaker 2: the ballpark that night, and it was it was not
Speaker 2: a ticketed event. Anybody could have gone, and it meant
Speaker 2: a lot to be there. I'm glad to know you
Speaker 2: were there as well, Sean. I appreciate your call so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: Thank you a great night.
Speaker 4: Okay, same right back at you.
Speaker 2: Take a quick break, get a couple more in here
Speaker 2: before we got to break away. At ten o'clock, coming
Speaker 2: back on nights Side.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray from the Window World night
Speaker 1: Side Studios on w b Z, the news radio.
Speaker 2: Talking a little baseball here on a Thursday night, four
Speaker 2: days after the Red Sox season of twenty twenty four ended.
Speaker 4: Let me go to John and Blackstone. John, you were
Speaker 4: next on Nightside.
Speaker 6: Welcome Dan, Thank you very much, it's great to be here.
Speaker 6: Thank you for taking my call. I just wanted to
Speaker 6: acknowledge that Joe costigleone and the great work that he did,
Speaker 6: especially in identifying and you know, helping prop up the
Speaker 6: minor leagues. I was the radio voice of the Lowell
Speaker 6: Spinners for ten years.
Speaker 4: Oh and I've been to many Spinners games.
Speaker 6: Absolutely. I know we've talked in the past before, Yes,
Speaker 6: And you know, Joe was always great in acknowledging the
Speaker 6: miners and there were so many great calls him for
Speaker 6: him over the years. And I remember the Johnny Damon
Speaker 6: Grand Slam in New York that put the Red Sox
Speaker 6: over the top in Game seven and two thousand and three.
Speaker 4: But that was the proverbial dagger in the heart, wasn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sure was it, sure was. And that was magical
Speaker 6: and Joe was a part of so many great calls.
Speaker 6: He was a great influence on me during my time
Speaker 6: in Lowell, and I'm sorry I missed him, but I'm
Speaker 6: happy to have the opportunity to share these thoughts with you.
Speaker 2: And John, You've got that great set of pipes.
Speaker 4: What are you doing now? You're still in the.
Speaker 6: Business, Well, baseball not so much. I lost the spinner's
Speaker 6: job because of the COVID pandemic. But I'm actually I'm
Speaker 6: actually doing UMass Lowell hockey now. So after nineteen years
Speaker 6: at Merrimack, I'd moved on to Lowell and it's great
Speaker 6: to still have those opportunities the river Hawks, right, yes, indeed, yes,
Speaker 6: all right, have.
Speaker 2: A great season, okay, and get a couple of those
Speaker 2: guys up to the NHL.
Speaker 4: The Bruins could use them.
Speaker 6: Okay, Thanks Josh, and I appreciate it. Thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Keep in touch, will you please? I recognize the voice
Speaker 2: that I recognize the face. Please keep in touch.
Speaker 6: Thanks John, I sure well. Thanks Dan about it?
Speaker 4: You soon look good?
Speaker 2: Anight, let me go to Steve and me Steve, you're
Speaker 2: next the nights. I got to wrap it up here
Speaker 2: fairly quickly. Steve, how are you tonight?
Speaker 10: All right, I'll be quick for you. Can you believe it? Catchphrase?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 4: When I spoke with him yesterday, I invoked that catchphrase.
Speaker 4: I hope you just thrilled them with me.
Speaker 10: You two would definitely Boston's iconic men. You've been a
Speaker 10: big fixture of the city, so we respect both of you.
Speaker 10: And you and I and Joe and everybody else just
Speaker 10: loves baseball and box scores. So I tried to get
Speaker 10: in to talk to Joe, but I wasn't able to.
Speaker 10: But this is my baby, I'm calling. I'd like to
Speaker 10: hear that audio.
Speaker 4: You bet you're going to get deep, boss. I think
Speaker 4: we've had one of the first time calls tonight.
Speaker 2: I think that Vic and Minneapolis was the first time
Speaker 2: CALLO though I thought he might have been a fan
Speaker 2: of joke Joe Instiglione, but she was obviously. But he
Speaker 2: also said he listens. So Steve, do me a favorite
Speaker 2: comeback soon, Okay? I want to make time call her
Speaker 2: a third and a fifth and a tenth time caller.
Speaker 2: Thanks Steve.
Speaker 4: Where abouts in Mayo? Walk are you at? Where are
Speaker 4: you up in Maye?
Speaker 10: Well, I'm in Prepool that's where I live. I originally
Speaker 10: from Western Maine. I told you Tangwy is two towns
Speaker 10: away from me. He's from Mexico and I'm from Dicksfield, Maine,
Speaker 10: Gary Tangley. So I have texted you the post game
Speaker 10: so that Dan, thank.
Speaker 3: You for having Joe on.
Speaker 10: He's a pleasure and you are also.
Speaker 4: You know, Steve, Steve, I appreciate that whole lot.
Speaker 2: I guess i'd like to end this hour and thank
Speaker 2: you very much with a quote about the great and
Speaker 2: glorious game of baseball, the baseball writings of Art Bartley Giamatti,
Speaker 2: the former president of Yale. He wrote a poem, a story,
Speaker 2: not a poem, the green Fields of the Mind, and
Speaker 2: Joe always ended the season reading, uh, this excerpt from
Speaker 2: The green Fields of the Mind. And I would like
Speaker 2: to do it again in Joe's honor tonight. So I
Speaker 2: don't know if he's still listening, but this is in
Speaker 2: honor of Joke Astiglion. There's no way I can do
Speaker 2: it as well as he did. But this was the
Speaker 2: thoughts of the great bart Giamatti. It breaks your heart.
Speaker 2: It is designed to break your heart. The game begins
Speaker 2: in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it
Speaker 2: blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and
Speaker 2: then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops.
Speaker 2: It leaves you to face the fall alone. You count
Speaker 2: on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time,
Speaker 2: to keep the memory of sunshine and high sky is alive.
Speaker 2: And just then, when the days are all twilight, when
Speaker 2: you need it most, it stops. It stopped for the
Speaker 2: Red Sox on Sundays.
Speaker 4: Joe's career as the voice of the radio voice of
Speaker 4: the Boston Red Sox ended, but of forty two glorious years.
Speaker 2: So glad he joined us tonight. I hope we can
Speaker 2: get it to come in. Maybe some come in and
Speaker 2: do an hour with us over the winter, in the
Speaker 2: midst of the winter when all of us are beginning
Speaker 2: to think about baseball anew because the good thing about
Speaker 2: baseball is that even when it stops in the fall,
Speaker 2: you know that come February, that Fenway Park Red Sox
Speaker 2: baseball truck will drive to Florida and it will be
Speaker 2: spring here in New England.
Speaker 4: Be back right after the ten o'clock news on Nightside