Tony Reali

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521 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard May 2025 last heard 1 Jan

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

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.

I believe that in my heart. But in this first show, I'm definitely selling the show that we got.

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.

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.

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.

Guys, besides your animal instinct, what was your reaction to 2004's leading TiVo moment? Jay?

So that's the biggest story in the world at that moment.

It took decades. But I was there as a 25-year-old in my first show

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Okay. Yeah, this was, I think, did we still do trivia? I'm not sure. Let's see. Next topic.

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?

Come on. Point to Blaski. It's a sweep.

We're on a 23-and-a-half-hour break. See you Tuesday. Around the Horn. I told you that last week.

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.

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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