Tony Reali

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · The Long Goodbye: Tony Reali and the End of “Around The Horn” · 20 May 2025 podcast

Look at this guy.

That is amazing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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