WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:06.040 It's Night Side with Dan Ray w Bzy Constance video. 2 00:00:07.639 --> 00:00:10.640 Welcome back everyone. Sorry about that glitch. We had a 3 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:13.240 problem with one of our lines. As you know, I'm 4 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:17.320 broadcasting remotely. There's nothing wrong with the equipment that I 5 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:20.679 have set up here. We have switched lines and Rob 6 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.039 is going to make management aware of that. We've been 7 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:25.239 on this line for years now and has never been 8 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:27.280 a problem. And as soon as we switched lines, we 9 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:29.920 were back. I apologize to the guest last hour. We 10 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:36.039 will get Kimberly, my girl back from back on in 11 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:39.280 the next few days. But I am now delighted and 12 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.880 honored to have on Nightside a guy who I've been 13 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:44.679 a big fan of for a long time. And thank 14 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.439 all of you know I like baseball and I listened 15 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:49.240 to a lot of Red Sox games, pull for the 16 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:52.399 Red Sox for a lot of reasons that you folks understand. 17 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.679 The great joke A stick leone joins us, Joe, welcome 18 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:57.320 to Nightside. How are you, my friend? 19 00:00:58.200 --> 00:01:00.759 Thank Dan, great to be with you. About three days 20 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:02.280 in the retirement here. 21 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:06.599 So house in bid to be retired. I'm pretty good, pretty. 22 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:13.079 Comfortable answer text and emails and cards and letters and 23 00:01:14.799 --> 00:01:17.239 it's it's gotta be nice. And the Red Sex is 24 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:21.040 still keeping me on as an ambassador of sorts and 25 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:23.079 maybe even filling in in a game or two. But 26 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:25.760 I'll still be around the ballpark, but not on a 27 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:26.959 regular basis. 28 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.879 Oh man, I'll tell you, uh, you've had the dream job. 29 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:32.319 Most Red Sox fans think if they could trade places 30 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:35.000 with Joe Castiglione. What I want to do is give 31 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:37.359 folks an opportunity. You're gonna stick with us till about 32 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:38.040 nine thirty. 33 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:38.719 Uh. 34 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:40.760 And if folks would like to call in and say hello, 35 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:45.159 remember where they were at one point, maybe when they 36 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:46.920 were listening to you, either in the backyard or in 37 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:48.719 the car, and the Red Sox did something great. They're 38 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:51.359 more than welcome to share a memory. They they all 39 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.760 know the number six, one, seven, two, four, ten thirty. 40 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:57.079 My first question is you're a hand in Connecticut guy 41 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.680 originally and went to Syracuse, uh and and have spent 42 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:04.439 the vastment you worked for the UK, Cleveland Indians baseball, 43 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.599 Milwaukee Brewers baseball, just for you know, two or three 44 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.520 years early in your career forty two years. 45 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.960 Has anyone ever been the radio voice of the Red 46 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:16.599 Sox for that length of time. We've had great broadcasters, you. 47 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.360 Know, Kurt Goudi and Ned Martin and of course yourself. 48 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.280 But I can't remember anyone who even comes near to 49 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:25.840 forty two years. 50 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:28.960 Well, Ned Martin had thirty two years Dan and Ken 51 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:32.840 Coleman had twenty, interrupted by four or five years when 52 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:36.439 he went to Cincinnati, so I guess it was ten 53 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:42.960 years more than that. And yeah, I'd probably seen more 54 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:45.360 Red Sox games than anybody because the owners didn't go 55 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:45.879 on the road. 56 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:49.759 I got to ask you this question, and I'll be 57 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:53.159 very curious, and you probably have been asked this question before, but. 58 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.840 Do you remember, at some point in everyone's life in 59 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:00.919 New England they make the journey to the mecca Fenway Park. 60 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:04.439 How old were you when you first walked into that ballpark. 61 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:11.319 I first walked into Fenway when I was nineteen, Actually 62 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:13.919 I was twenty. I was twenty was the oh ok, 63 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:17.479 it was August of nineteen sixty seven. I may not 64 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:19.120 have to tell you the truth. I went to the 65 00:03:19.199 --> 00:03:21.080 Yankee Stadium as a kids. 66 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:24.280 Well, the New York at a little closer right. 67 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:29.680 And soccasion Aliche Stadium and even the Polo Grounds. But 68 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:33.919 my first Fenway was nineteen sixty seven, and I actually 69 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.400 sat on the wooden benches in the center field bleachers 70 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:40.319 to watch the Red Sox play the Washington Senators in 71 00:03:40.360 --> 00:03:41.479 August of that year. 72 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:46.000 Wow, do you remember the result of the game or 73 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.199 anything that was memorable about about that game? 74 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:48.879 Sixty seven? 75 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:51.680 Obviously the Red Sox were playing pretty good baseball in 76 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:53.599 sixty In August of sixty seven. 77 00:03:54.479 --> 00:04:00.199 Yeah, I possible dream and the entire region was fired up. 78 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.479 I was working that summer as a senior at Kolga University. 79 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:08.639 I was at wde W and Westfield, Massachusetts, and for 80 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:12.680 some reason we carried Yankee games, which made no sense 81 00:04:13.159 --> 00:04:18.720 in the Stringfield market. But I came in that particular game. 82 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:21.240 I looked it up, so I do remember that Karli 83 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.120 Stretsky had a home run and that Washington won it. 84 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:28.120 And I later rediscovered that a good friend of mine, 85 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.959 Hank Allen, the older brother of Dick Allen, to the 86 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:33.399 double in the ninth inning to win it for Washington. 87 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:37.639 I think he's a a trivia question. They say, you 88 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.959 know what, two brothers have combined the most home runs 89 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:45.759 in Major League Baseball, And obviously Hank Hank well you're 90 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:49.399 talking Richie Hank Aarons. But did you say Hank Aaron's brother. 91 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:50.279 Is that who you are? 92 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.480 Yeah, Hank and Tommy Era. I think Tommy gets thirteen. 93 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:57.759 Yeah it's seven fifty five. 94 00:04:58.199 --> 00:05:01.839 But together they had seven sixty eight. And I'm sure. 95 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.040 And so he was playing for the Senators at that. 96 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:09.120 Point, Yes, yes, Washington Senators. He sided with it pays, 97 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:11.720 just like Dick Allen did and had a younger brother, 98 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:15.079 Ronnie Allen, whom I knew when I worked in Youngstown, Ohio, 99 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:17.240 who had one hit in the big leagues. I think 100 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:19.360 he was one for twelve or one for thirteen and 101 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:20.360 hit was a home run. 102 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:23.199 Well, you know, it's funny. I was really rooting for 103 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:24.639 this young guy, Mickey Gasper. 104 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.279 You know he's oh yeah, and I think you were too. 105 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.240 I was watching the listening to the game on Sunday, 106 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:35.199 and he's still looking for that first hit. I know 107 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.800 he hit the ball, hit a bunch of line drives, 108 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:41.600 but right at people. So what was it like, Joe, 109 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:44.720 I know a little bit about baseball, don't know nearly 110 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.920 as much as you know about baseball, obviously because of 111 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:48.319 all that. 112 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:52.519 You've done over the years. But how was it traveling 113 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:53.160 with a team. 114 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:55.600 And I don't know if in all the forty two 115 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.160 years if you were always on the charter or at 116 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.920 different times you weren't. But you get to know these 117 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.839 guys and you can't help but start to pull for 118 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:06.399 people you know. At the same time, you got to 119 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:09.560 call the ball game. How tough is that to have friendships? 120 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:12.759 You know, your friendships met with guys on every teams 121 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:15.800 get traded and all that. Then how tough is it 122 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:19.040 to call the game and maintain some modicum of objectivity. 123 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:23.120 Well, I think you have to realize Daniel reporter first 124 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.279 and foremost, and you have to describe what happens and 125 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.519 to be forth right about it, because if you don't 126 00:06:29.519 --> 00:06:31.800 have the trust of your audience, you have nothing. So 127 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.839 you really need that credibility. And if a guy makes 128 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:36.360 an error, I mean, you got to say it, or 129 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:42.000 he doesn't cover first base and it costs this team. 130 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:46.480 You have to point those things out. And yeah, you 131 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.360 don't know every player as well as you know the other. 132 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:52.040 But I think that I think I was able to 133 00:06:52.079 --> 00:06:55.560 separate it for the most part, even though I certainly 134 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:58.240 had my personal favor which guys I knew better than others, 135 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:02.600 but travel with the team was It was almost always 136 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:06.240 on the charter. Although you don't really see a lot 137 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:09.759 of players on the planes because there was one section. 138 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.319 The broadcasters are in another section, and the manager and 139 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:17.199 the coaches are in the third section. But you do 140 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:19.759 get to know them around the batty cage, in the 141 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:26.199 clubhouse and in the dugouts. So it is something that 142 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:28.959 you have to just be objective about, really, or you 143 00:07:29.000 --> 00:07:29.800 lose your audience. 144 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:34.680 And also people I don't think appreciate the schedule. You know, 145 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:38.279 people think you got the winters off, but during the 146 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.720 season you got an extra any game. Of course, extra 147 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.480 any games have been shortened a little bit because of 148 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:45.839 the new ghost runner rule. But in the old days, 149 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:48.079 You're gonna have a fourteen to fifteen exhibition game in 150 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.319 Seattle and have to fly across the country, and yet 151 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:52.439 maybe the next night I'll be back. 152 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:52.959 At the ballpark. 153 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:55.199 The travel note is tough for the players, but it's 154 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:58.160 also tough for the broadcasters. 155 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:02.160 Well, it is, especially when you get home at five am. 156 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:05.240 The last couple of years I cut back the ninety games. 157 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:08.560 I tried to avoid those night games on getaway when 158 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.160 you come home and get home at five, because you know, 159 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:13.639 when you're you're young, the player's age, you can sleep 160 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:15.800 most of the day. At this age, the body clock 161 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:19.360 goes off. You try to live with those then it 162 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:21.040 is it is difficult. 163 00:08:21.639 --> 00:08:24.120 When did you decide you wanted to be a broadcaster 164 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:27.920 when you you know, I know that you WoT Colgate 165 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:32.480 and did you also do some academics at Syracuse? 166 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:36.039 I did a master's program one year at Syracuse, and 167 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.519 I worked there my first TV job at Channel three. 168 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.080 But I decided to be a broadcaster probably when I 169 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:45.879 was about ten, because at that stage I knew I 170 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:49.320 wasn't good enough to be a player. So that's best thing. 171 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:53.440 Yeah. No, But you also are in the Baseball Hall 172 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:57.000 of Fame, and of course that has that's the ultimate honor, 173 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:02.639 which you know, I mean there's some great baseball players, 174 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:06.279 some great baseball players who can only go to the 175 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:08.799 Hall of Fame as a visitor. You go there as 176 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:13.000 a member real quickly. That has to have been, you know, 177 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:16.200 the achievement of a lifetime, the thrill of a lifetime 178 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:18.320 to think that you're there in the Hall with the 179 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:21.879 baseball immortals, not only the guys you covered, but the 180 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:26.759 men on whose shoulders this game was built from the 181 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.879 late eighties, the late eighteen. 182 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.960 Hundreds through the first half of the twentieth century. 183 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:35.679 What does it feel like to be a Hall of 184 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:37.639 Fame Baseball Hall of Fame member? 185 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:42.679 That has to be We're not technically in the Hall 186 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.200 of Fame. We win the Broadcast Award, but we have 187 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.919 certainly plots in the Hall of Fame, not where the 188 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:51.799 players are, but in a different section along with the 189 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:53.759 baseball riders who have their own. 190 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:57.080 But you're still in the building. You're still in the building, Hey, Bill, 191 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:59.440 You're still You're still in the building, you know. 192 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:01.440 I mean, we're not going to make any of those 193 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:03.120 distinctions on this show, that's. 194 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:04.600 For sure, thank you. 195 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:05.879 Yeah. 196 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.279 But to think that your grandchildren, your great grandchildren, your 197 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:12.200 great great grandchildren will always know that, you know, whatever 198 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:15.759 your nickname, Pops, Pops or Papa or whatever, they can 199 00:10:15.799 --> 00:10:18.679 go to Cooperstown and they can look up and say, yeah, 200 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:21.919 you know, that's one of my ancestors. 201 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:24.519 That's a forever thing. Joe. I mean, I don't know 202 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:25.639 if you ever thought about it. 203 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:30.200 That way, well, not really. You really underscore it there, 204 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:34.080 I think. And it makes me feel great because you 205 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:37.440 would try to achieve this, and I was a forty 206 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:42.720 eighth recipient. The first was my broadcast hero as a kid, 207 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:45.360 Male Alan, the voice of the Yankees. Actually he and 208 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:49.039 Red Barbera went in the first year in nineteen seventy eight. 209 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:53.120 And so many of my good friends have been inducted, 210 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:57.440 like Ernie Harwell or the Tigers. Primarily it was a 211 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:01.480 great manner of mine. Others have not yet been elected 212 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.159 who certainly deserve it, like my men are in Boston, 213 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:10.360 Ken Coleman, certainly, Ned Martin, I certainly have the credentials 214 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:12.919 and they still have a chance to get in when 215 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:19.399 one of the years the vote is for pre expansion. 216 00:11:21.039 --> 00:11:24.440 So I think that that could happen. But it really 217 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:27.240 is a great thrill, and I never thought it would happen. 218 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:29.559 I mean, you don't get into this thinking of Hall 219 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:33.919 of Fame or personal honors. You get into because you 220 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:39.279 love baseball and you love broadcasting. But it really was 221 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.000 a great thrill, and it was maybe the five most 222 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.679 outstanding days of my life, other than the wedding and 223 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:51.279 the birth of my kids. Because you get there and 224 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:53.840 they roll out the right carpet for you. The president 225 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:56.200 of the Hall of Fame. Josh Rowitch was there the 226 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:59.399 greatest at the door, and every time you turned around, 227 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:01.799 there was a Hall of Famer at your elbow. And 228 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:07.799 they were also welcoming. The players really were welcoming, those 229 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:11.480 who have been in for many years, and those who 230 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:15.120 were elected enshrine this past year. One of the great 231 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:19.679 calls I got was December, about two weeks after I 232 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:23.960 found out I was elected, and we're in between my 233 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:28.240 granddaughter's basketball games and I see five one three number. 234 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.480 I know it's Cincinnati, but I didn't the call. I 235 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:33.480 didn't pick it up. They went to voicemail was Johnny Bench. 236 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:37.879 So I called Johnny back and he said, and Johnny's 237 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:40.000 taken on this role himself. He said, just if this 238 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.120 a Hall of Famer calling me, I want to welcome 239 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:46.360 you to Cooper's town. And he does that with players, 240 00:12:46.399 --> 00:12:48.960 he does that with the writers. So he's taken that 241 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.200 role on and by that made you feel so great. 242 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:53.840 Johnny Bench is a great guy. I've had the opportunity 243 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:57.720 to be in his company. And he played for the 244 00:12:57.720 --> 00:13:00.360 wrong team in terms of the Red so the Reds, 245 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:03.759 but a class act is his son went to school 246 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.440 up here at Boston university as a kid, was about 247 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:10.320 six foot eight and I think had real operations to 248 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.519 be a sportscaster. Really nice, nice young guy, that's for sure. 249 00:13:13.879 --> 00:13:17.559 One other quick thing, you called basketball NBA games, which 250 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:24.279 I did not know in nineteen seventy nine. I think 251 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:27.159 I could call baseball again. Baseball not as well as you, 252 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:29.399 but basketball has got to be tough to call. 253 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.200 Well, it was TV, so that was a lot easier. 254 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:36.679 The tough thing was our team one fifteen and lost 255 00:13:36.679 --> 00:13:37.440 sixty seven. 256 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:42.360 Yeah, okay, no rings that year, Joe, I want to 257 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:43.960 take a quick break. I got a bunch of folks 258 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.600 who would like to call and just speak to you 259 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:48.919 before we'll let you go. At nine thirty, my guest 260 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:54.720 is Joe Costiglion, Hall of Fame broadcaster forty two years 261 00:13:56.080 --> 00:13:59.000 he was. He's the voice of Summer in New England. 262 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:01.600 Because I on ty you how many times you're on 263 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:04.759 the road and you're listening on the car radio or 264 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.759 in your backyard listening just to the to the pace 265 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:12.559 of a baseball game. There's there's nothing better and more 266 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:14.879 relaxing than listening to a pace for a baseball game, 267 00:14:14.919 --> 00:14:17.440 particularly one that's being done by Joe Castiglion. 268 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:18.120 We'll be back with. 269 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:19.960 Joe and a few callers if you like to try 270 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:21.879 to get in. There's still a couple of lines at 271 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:24.080 six one, seven nine three, one ten thirty. The main 272 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.279 line is full up, so try six one seven nine 273 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.799 three one ten thirty. Coming back on night Side. 274 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:32.919 Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 275 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:36.519 night Side Studios. I'MBZ News Radio. 276 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:40.480 My guest is broadcasting Hall of Famer Joke Isstig Leon 277 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:43.080 Voice radio voice of the Boston Red Sox for over 278 00:14:43.200 --> 00:14:45.559 four decades, forty four years. Joe, you've got the lines 279 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:47.120 lit up. We're going to try to move as many 280 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:51.080 people as quickly as I can. We have Idaho, Rhode Island, 281 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:57.240 and Minnesota. So let's start with Laurie and Idaho. Laurie, 282 00:14:57.240 --> 00:14:58.720 you're on with jokestigle on. 283 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.080 Go right ahead, Laurie, I joke. As you know, there 284 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:04.440 is an honor of my lifetime just to talk to you. 285 00:15:04.519 --> 00:15:07.000 So thanks for thank you. Lry. I got to get 286 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:11.600 bio on my bucket list. Well, I've been out here 287 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:15.480 for about three years and the thanks to that satellite 288 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.600 service that we have now suspended their channels, I listened 289 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.720 to every single game with you calling it obviously because 290 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.879 I can get the home radio broadcast. Well, thank you 291 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:30.159 very much. I appreciate it. And yeah, it really has 292 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:34.080 opened up a new world for us, expanded the audience greatly. 293 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.559 By the way, Joe, and she takes her passion for 294 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:42.279 the Red Sox with her across the continent. 295 00:15:42.399 --> 00:15:43.879 Go ahead, Laurie. Didn't mean to interrupt. 296 00:15:44.200 --> 00:15:45.759 No, that's okay. Just even when I was in the 297 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:48.759 Boston area, I'd still listen to the radio. If it 298 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:50.440 were the playoffs, if we made it, I'd have the 299 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:53.639 TV on with no sound. But so just thank you, 300 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:56.240 thank you for being as they say, the soundtrack, and 301 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:58.480 I just do have one little for all the great 302 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:00.879 soundbites you have. You have a new favorite of mine 303 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.919 which happened this year when you were in the booth. 304 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:05.799 Was trying to have done it, I think, and the 305 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.360 relief picture came in and kind of got lit up 306 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:12.279 for the first three batters, and he said, wow, boozers 307 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:22.639 getting hammered out there. John couldn't stop laughing, and I 308 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:26.360 didn't realize what I said until he started laughing. I 309 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:27.639 do remember it clearly. 310 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:34.480 Great, dear you boys, that's a funny story. That's a 311 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:35.200 funny story. 312 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:37.399 Thanks. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you, gentlemen. 313 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:39.440 Bye, all right, Laurie, talk to you soon. 314 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:42.080 Let me go to Arthur in Providence, Rhode Island. Arthur, 315 00:16:42.120 --> 00:16:44.320 you're on with a great joke. Go ahead, Arthur. 316 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:48.720 Hi, good evening, Dan. Thanks for having Joe on. Joe, 317 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:52.559 it's an honored us to speak with you. Always listened 318 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.000 to the radio, load TV, and I just wanted to 319 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.519 get your thoughts on You're welcome. I wanted to get 320 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.240 your thoughts on how social media has a change since 321 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:08.440 you affected the game, since you've first started. I don't 322 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:13.640 know how much social media has affected other than more 323 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:17.640 information out there, some of it not always true. But 324 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.279 I think the Internet has certainly affected it because there's 325 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:24.160 so much more information out there, and we can look 326 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.440 things up and get answers to questions that you know, 327 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:30.759 used to be barroom arguments, we can settle them right away. 328 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.359 So I think the proliferation of information has been the 329 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:38.279 biggest change, and for the most part it's very good. 330 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:43.079 But again, you have to filter and real and research 331 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:49.599 what's true and what may not be. Great question I got, Hey, Thank. 332 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.000 You, Thank you. 333 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:55.839 Ar A lot of people listen on the radio, and 334 00:17:55.920 --> 00:18:00.000 some of my listeners are blind, and the radio means 335 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:01.720 even more to than one of them is Glenn and 336 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:02.799 Bright and Glenn, you're next one. 337 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.400 Nice I with chocus a hi job. This is a pleasure. 338 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:09.440 I'm seventy one years old, I'm blind to live alone, 339 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:11.559 and I don't have a computer. And I've noticed that 340 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.559 the station you're on a bust and no longer carries 341 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:19.640 play offfs in World Series twenty nineteen was the last 342 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:20.799 and baseball. 343 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.640 Let's let's not talk about other stations on WBZ, please, Glenn, 344 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:25.440 no one know. 345 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.240 I didn't got a question for you, got a question 346 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:29.279 for Joe. Go ahead. 347 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:32.440 Don't get me juding what's going on with baseball and 348 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:37.680 radio because I don't have other ways to hear baseball. 349 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:43.039 I mean, in the series, always think that people people 350 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:47.599 who are elderly, are disabled or blind, and that's a 351 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:53.759 it's an important part of our audience. And I think 352 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:56.279 baseball is still the same on radio for the most part. 353 00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:59.640 The networks are there. There's more coverage really with US 354 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:04.240 Shadow right XM. The reason that the young lady could 355 00:19:04.319 --> 00:19:10.160 hear US in Idaho, and it's still a primary source, 356 00:19:10.279 --> 00:19:16.559 especially in New England, because New England is so rural 357 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:23.039 in some areas, certainly not always the case. It's metropolitan too, 358 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:25.680 but I think it's an important part of it. And 359 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:30.480 we try to think of our radio listeners all walks 360 00:19:30.519 --> 00:19:33.200 of life, and I think that's very, very important. And 361 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:37.160 you can drive anywhere in New England and here are games. 362 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:40.160 Absolutely, Glenn, thank you. I got to keep rolling because 363 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:42.079 they got a couple more folks. I want to sneak in, buddy. 364 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:44.039 We'll talk soon. Okay, be well, I got your message 365 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:44.519 the other day. 366 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:47.960 Thank you, Glenn. Let me go to vic in St. Paul. 367 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:49.200 I assume that's Minnesota. 368 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:53.640 That's Minnesota, Dan, Joe, could you please talk about your 369 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:57.400 memories of your days in Cleveland, especially filling in on 370 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:01.160 the sports line for Pete Franklin, and your memories of 371 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:06.200 the leyton NEB. Chandler as well, two great friends of mine. 372 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:09.079 Pete like what I filled in for because he knew 373 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:12.559 I didn't want that job on a permanent basis. I 374 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:14.400 wanted to do play by play. He always told me 375 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:16.440 he should be a play by play guy. But in 376 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:20.279 those days, anything to make a living, including work in 377 00:20:20.319 --> 00:20:22.160 the all night shift on the news desk at the 378 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:25.839 NBC I want To TV station. But Pete was a 379 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:28.759 great character. I think he was the first sports radio 380 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:33.720 talk show host anywhere, and he did it at first 381 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.039 a smaller station in Cleveland than he went to the 382 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:40.559 fifty thousand Water and eventually went to San Francisco and 383 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:43.599 New York. But a great guy who had his own style, 384 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:47.000 and that Chandler was a very close friend of mine. 385 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.160 We both started out doing weekend sports in Cleveland, me 386 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:55.960 at Channel three, Channel five, and we'd always compare notes, 387 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:58.319 and you know, we were always on the back end 388 00:20:58.400 --> 00:21:01.799 of the news that they needed extra time, they'd cut 389 00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:04.039 us and we wouldn't get the camera. Then we wanted 390 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.400 because he was always had the first crack at it, 391 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:10.480 and you know that's the way TV works sometimes. But 392 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:12.759 he was a very good friend of my were lost 393 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:13.559 and far too young. 394 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:18.759 Good question, Vic, how did you know Joe was going 395 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:19.759 to be with us tonight? 396 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:23.640 Well, I listened to your show on the iHeartRadio app. 397 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:26.400 Well, thank you very much. What I was hoping you 398 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:29.640 were going to say, but thank you very much and 399 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:31.079 free to call it any night. 400 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:35.759 Joe, did you do all five hours of Peach Show? 401 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:38.400