Dan Roche from WBZ-TV // Mike Gorman Shares Heinsohn Stories (Hour 2)
Toucher & Hardy
Beasley Media Group
4.3 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS HOUR: Fred & Wallach are broadcasting from the Town Fair Tires Studios in Dorchester. Rich is broadcasting remotely.
- We continue to pay tribute to Tommy Heinsohn, who passed away yesterday at the age of 86. (00:00)
- Dan Roche, Sports Reporter for WBZ-TV and die-hard Red Sox fan, joins the show and shares his thoughts on the return of Alex Cora as Sox manager. (13:35)
- Mike Gorman shares a few Tommy Heinsohn stories. The two worked together for 39 years calling Celtics games. (31:26)
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | This is the home of the Bruins |
| 0:10.7 | the Celtics and these guys |
| 0:13.0 | Toucher and Rich |
| 0:14.0 | on Boston's home for sports |
| 0:15.8 | 985, the Sports Hub. |
| 0:18.2 | We had done maybe a total of four games together |
| 0:20.4 | or five games together for Providence College and that's where I first got a chance to work with Tommy. And Tommy was good on those games. But he was very much the kind of the guest analyst. He was there, but he wasn't the real Tommy. And then came opening night against the Indiana Pacers. And my first game as the Celtics broadcaster. And Kyle, know we all do the same thing we've got these |
| 0:38.5 | manila folders that we fold out we write down it's so much useless information we'll never |
| 0:42.7 | lead and it's multi-color it's everything you want everything you want is this I do my notes and I am |
| 0:48.6 | just prepared I am over prepared for this game I get every stat you could possibly think of every |
| 0:53.4 | story you could possibly think of I get keywords written down in different colors and everything else. |
| 0:57.8 | And I'm all set up and I spread myself out on the broadcast table, which was in the old |
| 1:02.4 | gondola and the old Boston garden that hung off the first balcony. Tommy's name in there smoking a |
| 1:07.4 | cigarette. And it was about three minutes from going on the air and he goes what's |
| 1:11.1 | this blank and he points to my notes and uh i said those are my notes and he goes we're not going to need |
| 1:17.7 | that this blank and he takes my notes and he crumbles him up in a ball and he throws them off the first |
| 1:22.4 | balcony okay this is Kyle you know you know what this is like Kyle this is this is 10 hours of work |
| 1:27.4 | right right right just some little kid is running around. Yeah, some little kid is |
| 1:31.9 | running around down there with this. Look at I found. Look at what I found you. It's multi-colored. Tommy looks at me. I'm in shock. I'm thinking like, well, this is good. Another part of the story was when Tommy got, Tommy got the job with Prism, and I think they gave him a four or five |
| 1:43.8 | year contract with me when I asked for a one-year contract. I think they gave him a four or five year contract. |
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