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🗓️ 28 March 2025
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0:00.0 | So yesterday, opening day for the Major League Baseball season, it's interesting. I played a highlight |
0:07.4 | from 1985. It was Gary Carter's first game as a New York Met, the Kid Carter, who was so instrumental |
0:17.3 | in the Mets winning the World Series in 1986, getting to the NLCS and eventual |
0:21.9 | loss to the Dodgers in 1988. And despite that great career in Montreal, one of the most |
0:26.9 | popular Mets of all time, Carrie Carter. So his first game as a MET opening day, 1985, he hits a home |
0:33.4 | run to win the game. And I'm thinking watching Juan Soto, but one is at the corners and the |
0:38.9 | match down by two with two out in the ninth, here is Juan Soto's Gary Carter moment. But the great |
0:47.7 | Brian Kilmead, who follows me every morning here at 10 a.m. on 77 W.A.B.C. The huge talent on Fox and Friends, Fox News every morning, |
0:58.1 | and the host of a great show on Fox News, 10 p.m. Sunday nights, One Nation, which I'm on every now and then. |
1:05.1 | Brian, of course, the big sports guy, too. There is Soto's Gary Carter moment, but not this time. |
1:11.5 | Well, look, I believe, according to reports, it's a long season. |
1:15.2 | But it was not there. |
1:16.2 | I do remember that, by the way, because the Mets had been, you know, they needed that extra piece. |
1:20.3 | And he did it and delivered it, and it was emblematic of what he would do. |
1:23.4 | Just a quick word about Gary Carter. |
1:25.8 | You know that kid in school that was ever that popular because he always did things right? |
1:29.2 | Yes. |
1:29.5 | Dress good. |
1:30.5 | You know, big smile and people like, oh, he's not cool. |
1:33.8 | You know, he's not one of the guys. |
1:35.4 | All he did was go home at night, not drink, stay with his family. got older and the Mets were brawling and they underachieved because they should have been great for 10 years. They all look back and say Gary Carter had it right and we needed to grow up. |
1:49.8 | And the guy that they used to mock for not being the cool kid on the block ended up being the |
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