Peter Sagal

Go ahead, Bob.

What are they going to do?

Now, if everybody clapping could give $5,000, that would be really wonderful.

Go ahead, go ahead.

All right, so here's the deal.

My first job out of Syracuse, I did minor league hockey my first, my senior year at Syracuse, $30 a game.

But I was lucky enough right after that, at age 22, to go to St.

Louis, big station, KMOX, 50,000-watt station, to broadcast the games for the spirits of St.

Louis in the old ABA.

The first night they play on a Friday night, they have a big lead with about two minutes to go, and the game slips away.

They're up by seven, and somehow the game slips away.

Two nights later, they're playing at home again, and they're ahead by five with like a minute to go.

And I turned toward the analyst, who was a wonderful gentleman named Bill Wilkerson, and I said the following.

Bill, it appears as if the Spirits have this game well in hand, but Coach Bob McKinnon, taking a timeout here, wanting to take no chances, because the last thing he wants to see is a repeat of Friday night's flow.

I actually said that.

I actually said that.

You know, they blew the game, and, you know, the syntax just got kind of mangled, right?

Well, I mean, if you think about it, I mean, it is his job, and if he blew the game, it just sort of comes naturally to that phrase, doesn't it?

My thought is I looked at Wilkerson, and he looked at me, and his eyes got as wide as saucers.

And the engineer just made that circular thing with the index finger like, keep on going, keep on going.