Joseph Gallo

When I was in college, I had a friend, his name was AJ, and the first time that we ever hung out, we went to see the movie Field of Dreams.

And at the conclusion of the movie, we ended up on the roof deck of this parking garage in a mall in South Jersey, and the two of us are crying our eyes out.

We barely knew each other and we were doing circles around my car, refusing to look at each other.

We're going, are you okay?

I'm okay.

Can you drive?

Yeah, I can drive.

And that's how the two of us became friends.

We bonded over baseball.

And after we graduated from college, we moved to Hoboken and we became neighbors.

And I had a TV and AJ didn't have a TV.

And he used to like to come over to my house and watch games.

He liked the Yankees, I liked the Mets.

But the one thing, the one thing that we both loved together was the Yankee announcer, Phil Rizzuto.

Now, Phil Rizzuto had a Hall of Fame career as a shortstop, and when he retired, he became the voice of the Yankees, or the Yankee broadcaster, for 40 years.

And he was known for his catchphrases.

Holy cow, did you see that?

Unbelievable!

And he became immortalized in the Meat Loaf song, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights.

He calls the game that takes place in the backseat of the car.