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

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.

That was the job all along, honestly. I've worked for ESPN for 25 years. And I feel in my bones, even...

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

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?

Good night, Seattle. And cheers, you know, we're closed, lights turn out.

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.

And I'm recognizing and people in my life are also worried about that. Or are you burning it too much right now?

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.

And that number is more than Jerry Springer. That means a lot to someone like myself.

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.

Let's say it again. You didn't pick up the phone. I was on a block in Williamsburg. There were...

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.

And your mom was going to be watching. Your pop was going to be watching.

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

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

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?

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.

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?

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.

The Celtics don't even qualify?

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