Tony Reali
Appearances
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Can you give us a dateline? Yes, February 1, 2004. Now, this will be my first time hosting as full-time host. I think that's what you have, not knowing what you have. But I had appeared seven times as a panelist. and won two shows. Good winning percentage. It's up in the high 20s. Oh, you're on the Wikipedia page. And then I hosted it probably four times in those first 200 episodes as well.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Season one, Max had a sty in his eye one day. I literally wore his clothes on TV. So that happened once. There may have been two or three other opportunities that I hosted the show. So this is not the first first, but this is definitely February 1, 2004, the day after a Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl. Very good game. Won in the last minutes, as the Patriots did for all their Super Bowls.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Panthers scored a late score. John Casey, the kicker, left-footed kicker for Carolina, kicked the ball out of bounds, which is a terrible thing to do in that instance, and then enabled Brady to have a short field play. and lead to yet another game-winning Patriots Super Bowl. So that happened, but of course, it's also known for the halftime.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
These four things I know are true. Make no mistake. Super Bowl 38 was the best Super Bowl ever. I know Joe Montana and Tom Brady is. Well, he's Joe Montana. The Super Bowl MVP might have been Justin Timberlake. And I'm Tony Reale. JT saved me 20 bucks on the lingerie bowl. How about that?
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And then they show me this video of the guy outside hanging up, you know, doing the sign thing and good morning America, Today Show type thing. It's got my name written all over it and hearts and all these things. Thank you, Tony, around the horn. That's my cousin. No. This literally happened today. I just left him. His name is Eric Ingram.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
It's funny you say that. I don't hear that. I hear a little bit of television talk that people try to drill into me to lose what was my accent, right? Okay, so I'm from Jersey, and I had a Jersey accent. My parents are from Staten Island and Brooklyn, and I took on some of that accent. I've been thrown off radio in the Bronx recently. which is an incredible... I put that on my Wikipedia page.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
WFUV. It wasn't necessarily... I just wasn't polished enough. And in the near future, for this young man here, he's going to be working with a voice coach brought in by Bristol. to work on his accent or delivery or just polish. But I'm hearing a little bit of this, you know, which is what a 25-year-old is trying to do to sound like other people want someone in that position to sound.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
So this is the first window of imposter syndrome. I'll say second is I don't wear suits. I'll wear it at your wedding. Yeah. But I'm not going to wear suits. I mean, the job dictated that. Dress for the job you like. You did wear black leather pants for the record. I will wear your wedding. Your wedding specifically and other weddings.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I wanted to be on air for a living, Pablo. I've said this as far back as I can remember. I always wanted to be a sportscaster.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Yeah, yeah. And are getting, I think... It's the highest rated show we'll do all year. They're getting a new host who they will know from the show after because I really nail 15 seconds a day. So I'm about to do 30 minutes of the highest rated show that we're going to have at 5 o'clock on a network with... I could go through the list now, but you know the list. Why isn't Stu Scott sitting there?
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Why isn't Linda Cohen sitting there? Why isn't Kenny Mayne sitting there? They would have been phenomenal hosts because it was the Super Bowl. Everybody was either in Miami or in Connecticut, and it came very quickly that somebody needed to be in D.C. and couldn't get there, and now I'm hosting around the horn. That's how it happened.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
This is sneaking in through the fire escape, but you're telling me I sound like somebody who at least was faking it? Then I'll make it. If I'm watching this show, my first thought is, okay, yeah. I grew up very late. And you know this about me, Pablo. But I was 5'90", well into junior to senior year.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Right. I hope some people post those in big glasses. But the whole, you know, still having acne and that sort of thing, you know, that was me at 25. I'm at 28-inch waist. I barely was filling out, you know, those shoulders in that suit, I'm sure.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
After 24 minutes of painfully scoreless football, the Pats and Cats turned it on. Jake DeLome and Tom Brady led two supposedly vanilla offenses back and forth like Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson, out-toughing, out-gunning, and out-cooling each other until Brady and the Pats were the conquering heroes and DeLome and Carolina the valiant but beaten runners-up.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Guys, was Super Bowl 38 the greatest Super Bowl of all time? Around the horn, we go to Woody Page.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And I said to him, could you get a few more fantasy touchdowns for everybody? But I don't know if that landed. And this was a day, again, Kay Fagan and Jamel Hill are on the show. All my attention is making. Get to a place where they kind of... Yeah, you're bringing back some of the old cast members. Yeah, and they have to be in a position to win.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Three 80-yard drives by the Panthers in the fourth quarter. You can't beat that. Next topic.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I want to run through a wall right now. I know about you. I mean, I feel... Yeah, so these are maybe things... That fits me. That feels natural to me, what we just witnessed. Absolutely. That is probably close, except for the reality. I'm going to make my ruling at the end based on my opinion. This was the greatest Super Bowl ever, which I can't imagine I felt at that time.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And I was probably thinking make TV or I was probably thinking it needs an exclamation point at the end of it. But put that to the side. That's my pace. That's my energy. At that stage in my life, that was enough conflict for me. That's something I would be craving.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Because if you went back and I've done interviews for the last month, if I went back and thought about it, I would have said I needed to evolve the show to fit me a little bit better because I didn't want to be as abrasive or I didn't want the show to be around these four things I know are true, which is how we started. I want it to be about these four sports writers. And I believe that.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I believe that in my heart. But in this first show, I'm definitely selling the show that we got.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
It was important. It is important. We're on in 120 countries. This is a pep talk I give everybody. We're on in 120 countries right now. And I could have said at any point, I don't really ever focus on ratings.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
For 23 years. But yeah, but I never made it about that. But I just made it about this. Somebody said six months ago, they told you the show's getting canceled. You know, are you going to, you know, walk away or something? I got a chance to do international television for the next 100 episodes. I'm still going to do that. I mean, I like that.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Out of bounds, where it's all inbounds, and today all nude. Easy, Woody. Janet Jackson made every jaw in America drop when she allowed Justin Timberlake to unbear her right breast as the halftime show ended. Yowza! The NFL and CBS were quick to run from the incident. Timberlake called it a wardrobe malfunction.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And by the way, again, a scripted thing that is so well planned and sweetly thought out. And then what do you see? I see a guy holding that sign out there that they just dropped on me. I had no idea. And I said... And the sign says... Yeah, what does it say? Thank you, Tony. I love you. Around the horn, A-T-H. So... On white poster board. On white poster board.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Guys, besides your animal instinct, what was your reaction to 2004's leading TiVo moment? Jay?
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
So that's the biggest story in the world at that moment.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
It took decades. But I was there as a 25-year-old in my first show
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
parroting things that you know maybe i would not want to say right now sure but that was the point being that there is something closer to a representative conventional wisdom in what it was like to react to that at the time i remember it at the time it's impossible for me to to kind of not win set that i'm okay with it of course because i said it on a national tv i think it was such a big story and there would be no way to avoid it i mean that that is the dawn of youtube
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
The dawn of YouTube came about because on the Super Bowl on international television, we had that moment. And then the next day, people were like, how can we see it? How can we see it? And they literally invented YouTube out of it for that one clip. So now I'm on TV in my first show talking about it. I was happy to say we evolved out of that. It's the time capsule dynamic. It's a time capsule.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
You got to live with it. You did it. I hear my voice doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I did hear and see some Seinfeld in that. Yeah. I also can't believe how mean I was to Plaschke over and over again. The mutes were firing in fast and furious.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
37 points in the fourth quarter. What a finish on a kick. Oh, outstanding. Wait, hold on, hold on. You hold on, you know. There was a lot of traffic cop. I'm proud of that. I can bring that back for the last episode if we want. I can go like that. I mean, why did I evolve as a host who went a different way? The scoring changed to not be as high scoring.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
People got more time to cook instead of less time. I don't know. A lot of it was intentional. I wanted more space to breathe, you know. Ugh. I always say it's not just having an opinion. It's proving why your opinion is the right opinion in that moment. That's the actual way I think of the show and what I would tell somebody if they were going to appear for one day.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Well, look, I always considered the mute button to be a love language. Yeah, me too. The mutes come with smiles, just like the murderers come with smiles. You know, there's a man who walks around, raise the phone case. Yeah, yeah. I got this after he died. Felt very sad. You know, how people's lives touch you. I got hats, T-shirts, and cell phone covers of Ray Liotta. Man.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And the O is a target for our logo, which is well thought out. He's holding this like John Cusack. He is. You're right. So it's a say anything type feeling to it. My say anything, I said something. I said, can you give me five minutes? I'll run down there and get it. And this is one minute before we were ostensibly about to go on air for a live to tape show. I mean, we're not on any time.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Okay. Yeah, this was, I think, did we still do trivia? I'm not sure. Let's see. Next topic.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Even after scoring 36 points on Sunday, evidently Shaq was not happy with the way officiating was in the Lakers' win over the Raptors. Meanwhile, LeBron James went for a career-high 38 points Sunday against the Wizards. What was the most overlooked performance this weekend?
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Come on. Point to Blaski. It's a sweep.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
We're on a 23-and-a-half-hour break. See you Tuesday. Around the Horn. I told you that last week.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
No paper toss. No paper toss. Oh, that's fine. I grew into that one a little bit. I am stunned. That's watchable. I would put that on a YouTube page right now.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I want to go to a place where there's a community reach as well, where I'm talking to the people who saw this show for 23 years and have always told me, I want to do Around the Horn with you. Well, I want to do it with you. Couldn't do it on ESPN because I could understand why they would want professional sportscasters.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
But wherever I'm going next, there'll be a community forum where I'll go Around the Horn with you guys. I'd love that. I would love that opportunity.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
That was the job all along, honestly. I've worked for ESPN for 25 years. And I feel in my bones, even...
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
despite or maybe they've tweaked the company line now meet sports fans anytime anywhere or something like that used to be on like the business cards on the business cards and then every five years you get a new company slogan i was doing that before that's in my heart that's who i am that's the only way i want to do whatever it is i do meet people absolutely where they are and when you find me there i'm going to be exactly who i was on tv
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Now, I was not Maybe I pitched it in a way that I was asking for permission. I wasn't asking for permission. I was going to leave no matter what. And I was going to go hug this guy. And I was going to go invite him back to the show. Tony, I'm releasing you, but make it five. No more than five, okay? All right. This is a great moment. All right. I'm coming down, and I'm hugging that guy. Ew.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I have. I've thought about it. I've written scripts starting five months ago. Is it possible I'm going to bring a call back to one of my favorite things I've ever done on television? It's a surreal feeling. So how do you say goodbye to a show? I've watched how shows have said goodbye. You're studying game tape?
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Good night, Seattle. And cheers, you know, we're closed, lights turn out.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I think there's beauty in finale. I'm almost too actively thinking about it. But I've been a little bit strapped because I've said this before, dad's got to find a job. And I'm taking all the opportunities now to imagine what the future is and not, you know, I want to go out on my terms on Horn, but I'm Red Panda right now. I'm spinning plates. I am spinning multiple plates at one time.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And I'm recognizing and people in my life are also worried about that. Or are you burning it too much right now?
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
the scale the accumulated tonnage of people who got truly welcomed into a community yeah that was every weekday for yeah and i and i felt that more than anything i valued going to work every day and putting in the number i love that number 4 953 is where we sign off that that number is more than the oprah winfrey show And that number is more than Late Night with Letterman.
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And that number is more than Jerry Springer. That means a lot to someone like myself.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Look at this guy.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I'm walking out of the set of PTI. I am. Just had Kornheiser and Wilbon probably complaining about something. And then I'm like, oh, let me call Pablo.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Let's say it again. You didn't pick up the phone. I was on a block in Williamsburg. There were...
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
That is amazing.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And it's his 40th birthday, and he's from Birmingham, Alabama. Oh, my God. Let me introduce you here. This is the most special day. He already knew Jamel and Kate were on, so he's already prepared for this. We got some great pictures. I set him up with some good slice afterwards. And I think he had a good day. I think he had a good birthday.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Yeah, we all have those calls in our life. It's amazing that you have it saved. I don't have the call during the Super Bowl, you know, that I got. And that's a wonderful thing that you do have that time capsule. I think, you know, one thing I always want to be aware of is that That was going to be a moment for you, right? You were going to be on TV. You were going to be on ESPN.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And your mom was going to be watching. Your pop was going to be watching.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
have taken and been inspired by which is to take the show seriously but not yourself i think every show likes to like to feel that it does that right it was a big part for me self-deprecating you know in some ways but that was also built into the
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
pti fabric as well wonderfully you know tony's getting dressed up so we didn't invent any of that but i i definitely pushed it i wanted to push it you know again so so that's part of it and that will also be evident in the next place i am uh gonna briefly bring it back to ricky
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Well, that stuff is the other part of it, right? Kalasho had the great line where he said, I'm still not familiar what show he's doing, but we're doing Around the Horn. And that's great, you know?
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And I always appreciated that we had, you know, somebody who wanted to be a little performative in a cartoon character and somebody who wanted to be a professor of journalism or, you know, is now like Blackstone and somebody who was as dry and hilarious as Kalash. I loved him and I loved him.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And if we can have a good birthday or we can have a good day, that's a good start. We thought you were a paid actor. We are thankful for that. We thought you were my cousin for the first few minutes of that. So we do have a couple of drifters staying in the studio at the moment.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
How I was doing. I know. People are just checking in and being like, how are you? I mean, it's so, so I know I put myself out there in ways and I've shown, you know, you know, the ability to be vulnerable on camera, which, you know, I don't even mean to say on camera, just vulnerable in life, right? And people, you know, are just like, yeah, how you doing?
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
You know, I'm going to be surprised about how I am on TV that day, I think. I am because I have no idea. I don't think I'm going to be a mess, but my kids are going to be there and I'm going to be You know, trying to have the best moment possible. How do you say goodbye to something that is your heart outside of your body? I'm about to be showing people that in real time.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
The Celtics don't even qualify?
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
There's been more what? There's been more discourse. Yes, more discourse. Well, I recognize what that is, too, because Woody is now viewing the last two weeks of Around the Horn, I think, in a existential life sort of way. And I need to be there for somebody who I care about in that way.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
We're going to find out together. So if that is the overarching Poblatory finds out, we're going to have to say he finds out that day, May 23rd. Which is a hell of a tease.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
You are not the first person to say we've never encountered this before with something that I do.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
So I've known we were going to be saying goodbye for now eight months or so. And maybe the first report I didn't know was coming. So then I'm on vacation and I read it. And then, you know. That's a fun vacation. And, you know, and it was terrible because Courtney or Frank were hosting the show, Cronin and Isolan.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And, you know, that's the job of the host to be the one out there to say, I know there's stuff coming out about our show. We don't know anything, but we're happy to be here today. That's the job. That's my weight that I should carry. So I felt bad about that.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
But even with that, I operated for months thinking, well, We'll do good shows. We're still on in 120 countries. We're going to perform and we'll change their mind. I'm a, we'll change their mind type of guy. The pace has not abated. It's been, I think, undeniable how you've hosted. I mean, I'll tell you this.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
The day I got the meeting, the meeting now, and I'm being told to my face that, you know, the show is going away. It was an hour before I went on air. You think you could see it in that one? No, absolutely not. And that's my point. And the next day was career day at Enzo's school. What does Enzo want to be? A sportscaster. Not just a sportscaster. The host of Around the Horn. Okay?
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And then that night, I'm hosting an event for the network. Big event, conference, people, paid money, tickets, whatever. Super well-coordinated by everybody involved. And this is the timing of it all. And this is life. This is what I mean to show everybody. This is life. And you got to still do the job. You got to perform. So I think then I found out.
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Set the scene for me because you just finished. So we just finished and we've got Cade on, who I haven't seen in five years. We got Jamel on, who I haven't seen in three years. And I want them to be able to have the experience that they want on this show. I want them to, I want to play Remember When.
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And I still don't think the press release came out. So then you go back to another day when a press... So now I've known for months. And now, you know, we're still doing the show. We were... Doing good things, and there were a number of times when we went viral for certain things. And the show was rated, by the way. There were days where our ratings were better than every show but PTI. Yes.
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You know, and... As has been the case often for 20 years. But so it was nothing new, but I just made them... Somebody's got to change their mind here. You know, right? I mean, that would only stand to reason we're doing good stuff. And then, you know, the press release comes out. And now, you know, it's... It's really out there. But this is where it got me.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
How do you say goodbye to something that is your heart outside of your body? I'm about to be showing people that in real time. Right after this ad.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
Just inundated with just love and nostalgia and six million views on an ESPN PR release. You know, Timothee Chalamet is doing something amazing on College Game Day, and it's getting a great number, six figures, whatever. And we're at six million because the show, which had already been out there, rumored, but it is now official.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And that made me think, this is a long way to tell you that there is gas in the tank. There is a place, even for old videos and old shows people ask me about. Wherever I go next, and this is still TBD, dad's got to find the job.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I want them to feel the love because a big part of what the last couple of months have been for me is being able to say goodbye. You don't always get the chance to say goodbye. Life will not give everybody the chance to say goodbye. That's a very sad part of people's lives. Certainly not on air. That too.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I talked about how we just feel for the elders in our life. But I interviewed Bob Ryan when I was at Fordham, 20 years of age, on a radio call-in show that had no business being broadcast past the five meters of the studio. But it was a 50,000-watt station in New York. And Bob... was magnanimous with his time and came out and did an interview with a kid.
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
And I got to work with him thousands of times after that. And pay it forward, I did that for Clinton Yates. I was on his radio show when he was at Miami of Ohio. And then I got to work with him thousands of times on television. You have been elbow to elbow in probably locker rooms and clubhouses or press boxes with some of the people then you got to work
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
You know, you shared bylines, not maybe the same story, but in Sports Illustrated with Jackie McMullen, and then there you are. You're on the show with her. It's an amazing part of this industry, and it's something that I think this show, more than any other show, really put in the forefront. We celebrated what that was.
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affirmed it I was intentional about how I affirmed it you know Tony and Mike would have worked with their five good minutes guests on any occasion but I was wanting to show how the thread of something we believe in sports journalism won't go away even if newspapers are going away I marvel at a lot these days in retrospect including the fact that somehow I have done this show 604 times yeah
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The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
ELO is a band I kind of dig, though. I'm down with that. I don't mind Star Trek. I like the Chris Pine ones more recently, but ELO I can get down with.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
you know, recipes. Good. This conveys. This works for me. That absolutely works for me. I think that's a wide breadth. Food, music, theater, and the art form of Around the Horn. It's really something that... I say that because people laugh when I say that. This is how I've dealt with it in my head for 23 years, Pablo. I was...
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
So a big thing I'm feeling right now is tell the people in your life what they mean to you, right? And apply this to everybody across the world. Do this at home. These are homework assignments I'm passing out in the middle of our little sports banter show, right? So we had all this stuff going on and I've, you know, put in the work to make the show work for Kate and Jamel today.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I elevated it to something that it clearly wasn't for some people in my head. It was, it absolutely was. Every day was a movie. Every day was something that I was trying to give, turn it up to 11 on. And that's not my energy. I have to lower my energy to do TV. This is one of the things I learned early on. Yeah. But every show I was trying to have an imprint and
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
elevated to more than just what it was the day before, whatever that was.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn”
I have not watched my first episode. I don't think I even allowed myself to stay in the room when it was taken in for the 10th anniversary. Right. And then the 20th anniversary, I was not in D.C. So, no, I have not watched my first episode. You're going to play it now, and I'm going to watch it with you. Let's do this together.