Friday, February 04, 2000
Marty speaks on ...
• Joe Nuxhall: We've had a love affair for 27 years. He led me down the path in a game where I didn't know nothing from nothing. I can't imagine any sport with two announcers get along better.”
• Being wrong: “I have been and I've admitted it. One game in '77 or '78 in New York, George Foster blew two fly balls. I was all over him. I buried him. I found out later he was playing with a temperture of 103. I apologized the next day on the air.”
• And this one belongs to the Reds ... “It was my second week. Davey Concepcion won a game with a hit in the bottom of the ninth and I just said it. I thought, "That ain't half bad.' In fact, it's the best thing I've ever come up with. In those days with the way the team was going, I used it a lot.”
• Turning the booth in an Elvis shrine in 1996: “That just happened. We were in the middle of a bad game. I just said if anyone had any Elvis stuff to send it in. It took on a life of its own. But I have to admit the booth looked good.”
• Who's Marty's boss? “I have to say it's John Allen. No, it is John Allen. John has only asked me to back off once. It was on my endorsement of Broadway Commons. I cooled it.”
• Advice: “Bob Prince (the old Pirates broadcaster) took me aside and gave me some dos or don'ts. He was the only one in this business who did. He told me, when a player came up and complained about something I said, to ask them the last time they thanked me for saying some nice about them. I've used that about four or five times. That always ends it.”
• Dick Wagner, the Reds GM who hired him: “We went toe-to-toe a lot. Our relationship was not good in the later years. But I had a chance to visit with him in Arizona last year. I said if i ever made to the Hall of Fame, I wanted Dick and his wife, Gloria, there. I still feel that way. He took a chance on me.”
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