WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.560 --> 00:00:07.400 It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio. 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:10.759 Thanks very much to call over a kind introduction tonight. 3 00:00:10.839 --> 00:00:13.880 Thank you. My name is Dan Ray. We have lots 4 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:16.079 of guys. We got both Rob Indian back in the 5 00:00:16.079 --> 00:00:20.800 studio tonight, so they're double teaming with two control room producers, 6 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:23.079 which is always very nice. We have some good guests 7 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:25.359 coming up in the first hour. No phone calls in 8 00:00:25.399 --> 00:00:27.960 the first hour. So as I say, my name is 9 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:30.039 Dan Ray and this is Nightside. You're listening if you 10 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:32.240 happen to be listening on a car somewhere anywhere east 11 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.200 of the Mississippi River and you're picking us up on 12 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:38.079 our ten to thirty am signal, this is WBZ in Boston. 13 00:00:38.159 --> 00:00:41.560 Then we're every weeknight from eight until midnight. Coming up tonight, 14 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:44.840 we're going to talk about a very interesting number statistic 15 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:47.799 that has been released by the Colwalth of Massachusetts without 16 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.320 the number of EBT cards that are in our state. 17 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:55.719 Two point six million EBT cards in a state that 18 00:00:55.840 --> 00:00:58.560 is a population of a little less than seven million. 19 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:01.079 That's a pretty big number. But we'll talk about that. 20 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:03.240 I think we'll also talk about the life and times 21 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:05.400 of Louis Tiant a little bit later on tonight, the 22 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:10.319 great Red Sox pitcher who was born in Cuba but 23 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:13.760 made Boston his home after us spending some time with 24 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:16.519 several Major League teams. We'll do a little tribute to 25 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:18.359 Louis Ti on tonight, and who knows what else we 26 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:20.959 will get into a little bit later on. I will 27 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.000 tell you that we do intend to give away later 28 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:30.400 tonight two two sets of tickets to see the Tina 29 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:38.159 Turner musical that is happening next week on October eighteenth 30 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.159 at eight o'clock. Let's see, today is the nine. So yeah, 31 00:01:42.159 --> 00:01:44.959 it's going to be next week out at the Henover 32 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:47.959 Theater in Worcester. So if you're interested, stay with us. 33 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:51.159 We will give away two sets of tickets, four tickets 34 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:54.280 in all, one set of two, another set of two. 35 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:59.840 Pretty easy to remember. This is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, 36 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:01.359 as they think all of you know. We're going to 37 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:05.239 also be giving away some nightside pink t shirts courtesy 38 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:10.159 of our friends at College Hype to emphasize the importance 39 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.039 of this month and with us to specifically talk about this. 40 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:18.879 From the Dana Cancer Fober Institute is doctor Harold Burstein. 41 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.639 Doctor Burstein welcome to nightside. How are you. 42 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.360 I'm good, I'm glad to be with you tonight. 43 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:30.120 Yeah, I've seen these trends and we've talked about them before. Women, 44 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:35.080 more young women are getting breast cancer earlier in their lives. 45 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:41.840 Is there any I know it's early, but what's going 46 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:45.599 on with that trend? If it is indeed a trend? 47 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:50.560 Well, for several years now, there has been a slow 48 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:56.159 increase in the diagnosis of breast cancer amongst both younger 49 00:02:56.199 --> 00:03:01.560 women and amongst postmenopausal or older women. The usual age 50 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:06.120 cut point there is around fifty, so the rate of 51 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:09.560 breast cancer in younger women less than age fifty has 52 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:12.840 gone up by about one percent a year over the 53 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:17.240 past few years. The rate of breast cancer diagnosis in 54 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:20.759 older women has also gone up by about zero point 55 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:25.759 seven percent per year now, because there are way more 56 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.080 cases of breast cancer in postmenopausal women than there are 57 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:33.039 in younger women. Actually, the number of women who were 58 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:37.199 postmenopausal getting diagnosed with breast cancer in absolute terms has 59 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:40.360 gone up quite substantially higher compared to the number of 60 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.479 younger women. But both groups are showing this small, steady rise. 61 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:50.159 So look, most of us, I think have eliminated things 62 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:55.280 like cigarettes. Never was a smoker, but very few I 63 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:57.800 think younger people are smoking. I guess they were doing 64 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:02.599 some vaping for a while. Is this because of foods 65 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:06.240 that were eating. Is it something to do with chemicals 66 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:08.719 that were being exposed to just in our day to 67 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:13.639 day or I guess there's an increase, but it probably 68 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:18.560 is not significant enough to trace it to one specific cause. 69 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:21.160 That's what I'm sensing. I'm gonna you're gonna tell me. 70 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:25.800 I think you're on track there. So breast cancer is 71 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:29.639 not a disease linked to smoking particularly, but there are 72 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:35.079 other environmental and lifestyle factors that probably do increase the 73 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:38.560 risk at the population level. So one of them is 74 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.120 just much better nutrition. So people are able to eat 75 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.360 more than they were in generations past. They are often 76 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:48.240 heavier or more likely to be obese than they were 77 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:53.160 in years past, and those are risk factors for developing 78 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:58.079 breast cancer. And the American Cancer Society believes that at 79 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:02.040 the core of all of this, this kind of weight 80 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:06.959 change and some other lifestyle factors are the contributing cause 81 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:10.079 for the slow rise in the diagnosis of breast cancer. 82 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:15.160 Also on that list, go ahead. 83 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:18.319 Related to that related to that. So young girls are 84 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.240 starting to menstruate at earlier ages than they did in 85 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:26.160 the past, and they are having fewer pregnancies than in 86 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:29.079 years past, they are having those pregnancies later in life 87 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:33.160 again on average, and they're nursing their children for shorter 88 00:05:33.240 --> 00:05:38.000 durations of time on average. All of those are well 89 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:42.680 known population risk factors for developing breast cancer, and so 90 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:45.839 that sort of describes a lot of what's happening, you know, 91 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.920 in the United States right now, and the American Cancer 92 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:54.720 Society thinks that's those kinds of reproductive factors, nutrition factors 93 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:57.680 are driving the slow increase that. 94 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:00.920 Would be under sort of a behavioral umbrella. I realized 95 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.680 that that smoking causes lung cancer primarily, but I also 96 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:10.360 thought that introducing guitar and nicotine and those carcinogens into 97 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:13.800 your body had an impact on other levels of cancer 98 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:15.759 as well. It sounds to me like it's much more 99 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:22.319 behavioral at this point. Are the rates of breast cancer 100 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:28.519 amongst women rising at a similar level in other countries, 101 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:31.319 either countries in the West or countries around the world. 102 00:06:31.360 --> 00:06:34.839 Are their studies that have even looked at that question yet. 103 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:39.759 Yeah, that's a really great question, and so actually, rates 104 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.639 of breast cancer worldwide are going up, particularly in areas 105 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:49.639 that have historically been economically quite disadvantaged. So areas of 106 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:54.759 Southeast Asia and Sub Saharan Africa are seen substantial rises 107 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.279 in the rates of breast cancer, probably for very similar 108 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.360 reasons that we just outlined in the United States, which is, 109 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:05.600 people are better nourished, they are having longer periods of 110 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:10.680 menstrual cycles, they are having fewer pregnancies. Women are having 111 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:14.040 fewer pregnancies as they have had economic gains in those 112 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:16.319 parts of the world, and they are less likely to 113 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:19.319 be nursing their children than in years past. And again, 114 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.759 all of those are well known factors that relate to 115 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:24.680 the population risk of breast cancer. 116 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:30.399 Okay, let's not leave the subject, and I appreciate your time, 117 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:35.439 But have not the ages when women should start to 118 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:39.759 get mammograms as recommended by you an I age and 119 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.319 CDC and all of the alphabet soup agencies. Have not 120 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:49.360 those ages or recommended ages been lowered recently? Could that 121 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:51.800 contribute to it? Or I mean, obviously i'd hope that 122 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:55.639 would prevent it in the long run, But is that 123 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.720 something that is concerning or is it something that's that's 124 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:04.800 actual good news that cancers are getting detected earlier. I'm 125 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.759 trying to look at a positive here in this dark cloud. 126 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:10.839 Well, let me give you two really important positive. So 127 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:14.000 the first is you're correct. We are encouraging women now 128 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:18.040 beginning at age forty to get screening mammograms, and the 129 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:22.480 US Preventive Health Services Task Force this past year joined 130 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:26.519 many other organizations that had already lowered the age for 131 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:31.199 starting mammography to around age forty, So most women should 132 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:34.840 begin getting screening mammograms at around age forty and typically 133 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:38.240 continue until age seventy or later. So a little bit 134 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:42.120 of this is greater detection in women ages forty to 135 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:46.080 fifty who might not have had early detection before. But 136 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:48.759 the other really important piece of news is that while 137 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:52.159 the rate of diagnosis has been going up for breast cancer, 138 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.279 the actual mortality rate, the death rate from breast cancer 139 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:01.519 continues a steady thirty year decline, and that is because 140 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.200 of much more widespread utilization of mammograms. So there's early 141 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:09.120 detection and much improved treatment for breast cancer in the 142 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:16.080 way of endocrine therapies, targeted drugs, immunotherapy, traditional chemotherapy, so 143 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:19.960 there's more breast cancer being diagnosed, but there actually are 144 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:23.879 fewer deaths from breast cancer, and that's because of early 145 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:25.240 detection and better treatment. 146 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:29.360 It's always great to end on a positive note, doctor Bursty, 147 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.000 thank you very very much for all the information to 148 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.919 provide it with us in this breast cancer Awareness month. 149 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:39.080 And I hope many folks will listen to this interview 150 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:41.360 and they if they missed it, they can listen to 151 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:45.960 it on Nightside on demand as early as sometime tomorrow morning. 152 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.000 So if you have a loved one who happens to 153 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:53.320 be in any of those age categories, make sure she 154 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:55.799 listens to it. And I guess men should be checking 155 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.519 for this as well, not doing mammograms per se, but 156 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.080 certainly be being aware of their own bodies and reactions. 157 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:05.080 Thank you so much, doctor Burstay, thank. 158 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:07.320 You, thanks for having me. 159 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:07.639 Good night. 160 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.240 You're welcome. Okay, when we get back, a sad note, 161 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:14.799 but a great career and a great guy, Louis Tillan. 162 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:17.360 We'll remember Louis Tillan right after this. 163 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.200 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 164 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:26.600 night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 165 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:31.279 Want to welcome back Alberto Vassallo, President, and CEO of 166 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:33.960 Telemundo in Boston, and we want to talk just for 167 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:38.200 a little bit here about a great baseball player, and 168 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:42.679 I think a greater human being, Louis Tiant. Eldionte. I 169 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:44.600 had a chance to get to know Louis pretty well 170 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:48.639 after his career. I know Alberto knew him as well. Alberto, 171 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:50.679 I don't think we're ever going to see the likes 172 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:52.480 of a Louis Tiant in this town again. 173 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:57.799 Agree or disagree, Oh, agree on so many different levels 174 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.399 just on the ball field, but austin field too. And 175 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:06.480 I think oftentimes those across the country don't realize, you know, 176 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:09.320 what an important role Louis played in kind of the 177 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:12.080 history of Boston when he came here in seventy one 178 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.440 and seventy two. So he was he was a mighty 179 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:18.799 tall figure off on and off the field. 180 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:25.559 Yeah, he really fell in love with the community, with Boston, 181 00:11:25.759 --> 00:11:30.600 and Boston fell in love with him at a time 182 00:11:31.559 --> 00:11:36.279 when you know, interracial relations in Boston were really at 183 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:42.720 a very low point. But I think everybody loved Louis tillant. 184 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:44.759 The fact that it was a Red Sox helped that. 185 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.759 But he he was just someone who was always willing 186 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:50.279 to meet people, talk to people, spend time with people. 187 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:53.000 Very different from a lot of ballplayers who want to 188 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:57.000 go to the ballpark, go home and and kind of 189 00:11:57.120 --> 00:11:59.240 stay away from people. Louis was just the opposite. He 190 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.320 was he was excited, I think by the fans as 191 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:04.279 much as they as much as they were excited by 192 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:06.080 his on field performances. 193 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:10.039 Absolutely, you know, I've known Louise my whole life. He 194 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:13.039 was the reason why I got involved with the Red Sox. 195 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.399 My father knew him from Cuba, so when al Mundo 196 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:19.200 started in seventy two, Louis had just been here one year, 197 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:22.399 and he taught me a lot of life's valuable lessons 198 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:27.360 over the years. He was a great father, faithful husband, 199 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:31.240 but also a teacher in a very subtle way. He 200 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:34.120 was a stickler for doing things like he called it 201 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:38.480 the right way. So I admire Louie. I said, I 202 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:42.080 was proud that I was probably being Cuban American because 203 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.840 of Louis the ballplayer, but I was prouder to be 204 00:12:44.919 --> 00:12:48.639 Cuban American because of Louis the person. If you ever 205 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:51.639 get a chance, and you would have that chance, Dan 206 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:55.440 at some point to touch to accountant fisk A, Yeah, 207 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:58.960 Jim Rice, any of his teammates. I mean, they love 208 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:03.679 Louis so much because for exact those reasons you just 209 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:06.639 talked about, he got along with everybody. And I can 210 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:10.759 assure Red Sox Nation that as much as Red Sox 211 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:14.720 Nation loved Louis, Louis loved Boston. He said it was 212 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:17.960 his second He wouldn't say second his second country. 213 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:20.679 I would always say, we're a city where you say no, no, 214 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.399 Boston is my second country. 215 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:27.679 Yeah. I mean there are so many stories. I remember 216 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.879 I would see Louis often at breakfast as a breakfast 217 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:35.759 place in Milton that he and I both went to Newcomb's, 218 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:39.720 which is I forget the major road, but it's a 219 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:43.759 major road right off of one twenty eight. And you'd 220 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.679 walk in there and he would be with Maria. Uh, 221 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.519 and she was the most beautiful woman in the place. 222 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:54.320 I mean, she's just there was something about Maria that 223 00:13:55.120 --> 00:13:58.039 at the you know, I don't care if she was 224 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:02.360 in her sixties, seventies or whatever, stunning. And Louis would 225 00:14:02.360 --> 00:14:05.039 be there and uh, you know, Louis would Louis would 226 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:06.600 try to pick up your tab and I mean, no, 227 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:08.679 Loly is my turn and then he would let you 228 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.840 pay for his breakfast. Most generous guy. And uh, just 229 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:18.559 in the community and available. And of course baseball, you know, 230 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.960 took him to other cities. He was in Cleveland first, 231 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:23.480 and then he spent a year in Minnesota, and then 232 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:25.960 he went to the to the Evil Empire for a 233 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:29.519 little while and finished up in Pittsburgh and uh in California, 234 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.000 and then he did some coaching, and he moved around 235 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:34.240 and all of that, and he was a baseball lifer, 236 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:37.480 as they say, but you always came back to Boston. 237 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.799 I got to know Louis a little bit through his biographer, 238 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.399 Joe Fitzgerald. He used to write was a sports guy 239 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:46.600 in Boston. And I'm sure Joe has interviewed you. Joe 240 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.440 fitz as we called them, loved Louis, loved Louis, and 241 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.039 he would tell and Joe off sadly has passed on, 242 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:55.919 but he would tell. He could tell Louis stories for hours. 243 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:58.639 And he did it in books too, By the way, 244 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.679 there was some great books that that he wrote. It included, 245 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:06.240 you know, a biography of Louis. And I just you know, 246 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:08.720 when when I read that story yesterday, I had no 247 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.759 idea he was sick. You know, I wasn't his closest 248 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:14.399 friend or anything, nor know what I expect to. But 249 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:19.120 I mean when I saw that that news flash yesterday 250 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:20.879 your hearts. 251 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:25.000 You're saying, it was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I really did. Yeah, 252 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:28.440 that was the feeling. Yeah, you're You're exactly right. I 253 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:32.200 didn't expect it to happen, so suddenly I knew he 254 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:35.720 was sick. He was at the ballpark the last weekend 255 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.840 of the season. I was trying to get my father 256 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:39.759 and him to seach other. I follow him at exactly 257 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.080 the same eighty three. Like I said, they came over 258 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:45.279 from Cube, my father and Louis. I think I told 259 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:48.639 you this once. They made a pact here in Boston 260 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:51.600 never to go back to Cuba until you know, Castro 261 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:56.120 was dead and there was no communism when Cute. 262 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.960 When when Louis went back with the family brothers to 263 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.480 do that documentary, he called me, he said, I'm going 264 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:01.919 to Cute. 265 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:06.120 Don't tell your father, don't kill your father. I'm going 266 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:06.960 to Cuba. 267 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.399 But then in the premiere he called my dad and 268 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:13.200 they sat next to each other and they both cried. 269 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:15.799 I mean, you know it was it was for me 270 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:20.159 to see my father and Louis crying was very powerful. 271 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:21.879 Well for him to escape as a young man and 272 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:23.919 end up pitching. I believe he was pitching in Mexico 273 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:29.679 City and trying to earn a memory and send money home. 274 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:36.919 And then obviously his talent was seen by Major League scouts. 275 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.840 And the next thing, at a very young age, at 276 00:16:39.919 --> 00:16:43.159 twenty four, he's pitching for the Cleveland Indians, and he's 277 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:46.279 having great seasons with them and winning twenty games, and 278 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:48.120 then all of a sudden, he's got the one down 279 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.120 year with Minnesota and the Red Sox, and he kind 280 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.639 of readjusted or whatever, developed a couple of new pitches, 281 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:57.519 and next thing, he's in the World Series with the 282 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:01.480 Red Sox in seventy five and the city falls in 283 00:17:01.519 --> 00:17:03.679 love with him. He had such a spirit. I mean, 284 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.799 he never lost the spirit of a young man. Even 285 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:11.319 as I aged gracefully. He was a young He's always 286 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:11.880 young at heart. 287 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:15.680 Yeah, And you know, one of the issues that is 288 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:20.039 going to come up Ineverabek is why isn't he in 289 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.839 the Hall of Fame? If you look at his numbers, 290 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:25.279 if you talk to people like Peter Gammons, who calls 291 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:29.240 him the absolute best player. Not in the Hall of Fame, 292 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:32.799 but you look at his numbers. I mean, if you 293 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:37.400 know baseball, one point six to earn one average, he 294 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:40.279 led the league several years in the era. He gave 295 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:43.720 us eight dominant years in baseball. And I would venture 296 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:45.880 to say I was tuck into a texting back with 297 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:49.400 ex Governor Charlie Baker who said in Alberto, I'm a 298 00:17:49.440 --> 00:17:52.200 little bit older than you, but when I was growing up, 299 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:54.799 if there was a clutch game to be won, I 300 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:57.839 didn't want anybody on the mound. But Louis Tian he 301 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.920 was clutched. And then I started looking at his wreck. 302 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.200 You know, I never lost a playoff game. 303 00:18:02.799 --> 00:18:07.200 And again we're talking about complete games. One hundred and 304 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:10.400 forty seven complete games in his career, and in the 305 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:13.200 World Series, I think it was Game one on one 306 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:16.039 hundred and sixty pitches, and he pitched three games in 307 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:19.440 the World Series. Three games his. 308 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:23.839 Lifetime walks, hits, innings pitched is an extraordinary number that 309 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:25.720 alone should put him in the Hall of Fame, you know, 310 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:29.480 having pitched nearly thirty five hundred innings, five hundred and 311 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:33.400 seventy games, and his whip, which is now a statistic 312 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:35.880 that they didn't used to keep, but now it is 313 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:39.079 probably the most important pitch statistic for a pitcher, even 314 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:44.079 more important than e RA one point two zero. No 315 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:45.960 one else comes even close to that. 316 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:50.079 Okay, So here's the thing, right, and his family is 317 00:18:50.119 --> 00:18:52.559 probably not going to talk about that now, But I'll 318 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:55.240 tell you something that he told me several times in 319 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:58.200 front of Danny dani is his younger son, and then 320 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:00.920 several times with me when when the whole issue of 321 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:03.720 the of the of the Hall of Fame would come up, 322 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:08.359 and he said, Alberto, you know, if they put me 323 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:11.440 in the Hall of Fame after I'm dead, I don't 324 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:13.240 want you going to the ceremony. I don't want my 325 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:15.640 family showing up, because what am I going to do 326 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.119 after dead? That makes you more more qualified? What am 327 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:21.079 I going to go back and pitch ten more innings 328 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.359 or ten more games. It's gonna put me over the line. 329 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:25.759 If they're gonna honor me, do it while I'm alive, 330 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:27.559 not while I'm dead. 331 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:30.079 So I mean, there's a lot of pictures in there 332 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.960 whose numbers are all virtually identical. You can read them 333 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:36.319 in the Boston Globe this morning, and I think Seanisy's 334 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:40.319 called him, Alberto. We should still get him in the 335 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:45.440 Hall of Fame. He belongs there. I know he's he's 336 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:48.119 playing baseball right now in heaven with Babe Ruth and 337 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:53.960 lou Gerriic and and and and other other great Willie 338 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:57.160 WILLI will he's probably walking around introducing me and everybody, 339 00:19:57.160 --> 00:19:58.920 because will he just went up there himself a few 340 00:19:59.160 --> 00:19:59.920 a few weeks ago. 341 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:05.599 And you know, he's recreating right now the iconic nineteen 342 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:09.440 seventy five World Series confrontation with Pete Rose because they 343 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:13.359 both died, you know, just the way very Louis and 344 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:17.279 Pete Rose up there recreating the seventy five World Series. 345 00:20:17.920 --> 00:20:19.960 That's not a bad place to be right now, that's 346 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:23.359 for sure. Alberto, I believe that. You believe that. Whether 347 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:25.759 others believe it or not, that's their their choice. But 348 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.559 it's a very company thought. Thank you, my friend, Alberto Maassalo, 349 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.240 the president and CEO of Telemundo Boston. 350 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:36.640 And Tellamundo people get mad. 351 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:39.480 El Mundo is elmund. 352 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:42.799 I'm all right, okay, I'm sorry. 353 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:45.279 I know we love each other, both we get along. 354 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:47.240 It's not it's not competitive, but al. 355 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:52.000 Elmund okay, what a difference a letter makes. Thanks Thanks Alberto. 356 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:54.880 All right, take care of the very well. 357 00:20:54.920 --> 00:20:59.240 Okay, well, okay. When we get back, we are going 358 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:03.599 to get the latest on Hurricane Milton, which looks like 359 00:21:03.680 --> 00:21:06.160 a nasty storm down in Florida. They are peeping in 360 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:09.160 Florida right now. Who say a prayer for them. We'll 361 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:10.480 be back on Nightside right after this. 362 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:17.559 It's Night Side with Ray on Boston's news Radio. 363 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:22.359 Delighted to be joined by Matthew Belk. He is a 364 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:27.200 meteorologist from the National Weather Service. I think you guys 365 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:29.480 who have the National Weather Service in our neck of 366 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:32.160 the woods down in Norton, Massachusetts. Is that correct? 367 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:35.000 My friend Matthew let us correct Dan. 368 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:38.319 Yeah, so welcome to Night's Side. I don't think you've 369 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:40.160 ever been with us before, but we got a big 370 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:45.480 story to talk about tonight. Hurricane Milton. Not named after Milton, Massachusetts, 371 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.720 but it's Hurricane Milton. It's ripping it up tonight in Florida. 372 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:51.400 How bad are the conditions down there in Florida? This 373 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:53.920 thing has now made landfall. Correct. 374 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:58.680 As of a thirty PM, the National Hurricane Center is 375 00:21:58.720 --> 00:22:01.759 indicated that Milton did make landfall as a category three 376 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:06.160 hurricane near Csta Keith, Florida. As far as what's specifically 377 00:22:06.160 --> 00:22:08.920 going on right down there in Tampa Bay right now, 378 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:10.880 it's just probably a lot of strong wind and some 379 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:16.240 very heavy rainfall. Earlier today, there were numerous widespread tornadoes. 380 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:20.319 Yeah, I read that. I saw that. I think they 381 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:23.319 said something like twenty tornadoes and some of them were 382 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:28.720 These weren't like waterspout tornadoes waterspouts. These were full blown 383 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:31.920 tornadoes like you'd see at Kansas in Kansas in August, 384 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:37.079 are Kansas in September? Is that abnormal for a hurricane 385 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:39.960 to spin off tornadoes or is that expected? 386 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:43.960 It's actually expected in the northeast quadrant, And in some 387 00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:47.079 cases the tornadoes don't even have to be right near 388 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:49.480 the circulation of the hurricane. It could actually be several 389 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:50.160 states away. 390 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:54.440 So is what is likely to happen tonight? Take us 391 00:22:54.480 --> 00:22:57.000 to the next twenty four hours. If this has made landfall, 392 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:00.160 it's going to go straight across Florida for more of 393 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.359 the projections I saw, so it's not going from Key 394 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:08.960 West up to Georgia. It's cutting across the state. It's 395 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:10.720 going to do a lot of damage. I get that, 396 00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:14.440 but it will be out back over the Atlantic Ocean, 397 00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:16.359 probably by this time tomorrow night. 398 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:21.680 Right, probably by sometime tomorrow morning, it's expected to be 399 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:24.559 at least the eye will be expected to be off 400 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.559 the coast to be fully done with the rain bands 401 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:29.480