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Michael Don and Peter with you as we enter the 4 o'clock hour here on a Wednesday, which means one thing.

Our good friend, Mike Lupica, of the New York Daily News, and you could read him on MLB.com, and

obviously all of his bestselling books as well.

And he's nice to join us every Wednesday at this time.

Hi, Mike.

How are you?

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

I just, I love hearing V's voice. I knew

V very well, all the way back to Iona. I will tell you my two favorite V's stories. They've,

they've been told and retold, but I just love him because he was one of the funniest people.

I don't know if you ever saw him in person. He was as funny as any stand-up comic.

He was that good.

And, I mean, the first favorite is when he called, I forget what college rep it was.

He called him over one night, and he said, can you give me a technical foul for what I think?

And the guy says, no, Jimmy, I can't.

And Jimmy said, good, because I think you suck.

Okay, that was one.

But here's my favorite.

There was one year where they changed some sort of NCAA regulation.

And he came home and he said to Pam, this way he was coaching at NC State, he said, honey, they've changed the rules.

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