Buck Showalter bothered by Pete Alonso’s f-bomb: ‘I don’t think you’ll see it happen again.’
"I don’t want somebody’s day at the ballpark to be less than it could be because of something someone heard that shouldn’t hear it."
"I don’t want somebody’s day at the ballpark to be less than it could be because of something someone heard that shouldn’t hear it."
"He’s drinking his hot tea and he’s gargling and he’s giving himself a throat massage."
"It was embarrassing, it was terrible. I hated that it happened."
"People suck! Everybody is out for somebody’s throat. The world sucks!"
"After much deliberation, sleepless nights, talking with my family, back and forth, I don’t want to give this up."
"Was it weird? A little bit. Because I think it’s only human nature to go, ‘Nobody can survive if the great Joe Buck isn’t there.’ But everything moves on."
"That’s where I owe him so much. Because had he been that way, I might have retreated."
"That’s a classy moment, a classy guy, and a classless thing to say."
"And for someone to be in the business as long as he has…to pull that kind of lie and bullcrap was embarrassing"
"It was performative, because I’m such a good performer on the air"
"I am really, really sitting on the fence right now about getting you canned, opening your mouth when you shouldn’t have."
Rick DiPietro and Dave Rothenberg move to the 6 – 10am timeslot, giving ESPN New York a local show that competes directly with WFAN for the first time ever.
"If we were baseball players, we’d all know what we make and we could all go to management and negotiate based off that information"