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WFAN Daily

Mike Francesa with John Velazquez

WFAN Daily

Audacy

Sports

3.8794 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jockey John Velazquez joins Mike live at Saratoga to talk about his storied horse racing career.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mike's on. He's ready to go.

0:08.2

On the fan. New York Sports Radio.

0:11.2

Mike's on. Mike's on.

0:14.1

All right, a little after two here at Saratoga on a Friday afternoon.

0:18.6

As you can see, it's a good crowd here today.

0:20.6

Look, it's not like a normal race I come on this place I mean this is how

0:24.8

racing should be but unfortunately it's not I mean this place is absolutely

0:28.3

packed with young people with teenagers with people in their 20s people getting

0:33.3

out of work on a Friday coming out for an afternoon I mean this place is

0:36.1

absolutely jammed I mean this is how it should be's not, but there's no place like this.

0:40.1

This is very different.

0:41.5

For 40 days, it's like this every day.

0:43.5

If you've never been here, it's like a carnival, and it is an unbelievable place today.

0:48.8

We're going to have a bunch of people on coming up.

0:50.9

We'll also have Joe Girardi coming up at 5. We'll have Eddie C checking in for

0:54.2

the Mets's. The Mets open up a homestand against the Dodgers, then the Texas Rangers. Next week

1:00.0

you'll have the Yankees and the Mets, two at Yankee Stadium. Yanks play the Red Sox next weekend

1:04.2

home. Then they have two at the Mets at Yankee Stadium, then two at City Field, and then they go and play at Fenway Park,

1:12.1

so those 10 straight games against the Red Sox will be coming up.

1:15.3

But these are pressurized games right now,

1:17.5

as they have three more with the Indians, a day off Monday,

1:19.6

then they take on Toronto.

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