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Mike Barnicle

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“She takes a couple of courses a semester. It's difficult, but she'll graduate next year. She reads, she writes. She just went to work. She has a part-time job. She still lives with us at home, but she's been cheated out of a lot. And when you're the parent of a child like that, as you know, one of the things you are really acutely aware of is the losses that your child suffers, especially compared to other children, not children now, they're young women. Approximately the same age, and you walk in home from work here in New York or walking around Boston, you'll see some other young woman, approximately the same age as your daughter or my daughter, and for a second you'll say oh wow, it could have been Julie but then you know.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's it. That's it. I mean, you pay a price for progress. Medical progress, any kind of progress. I mean, you pay a price. And Julia paid a price. We were told on her birthday, her fifth birthday, we were told by a doctor that they used the word retarded then. And you've got to live with it. And, you know, both of us, my wife and myself, he said, no, no, no, that's not true. No, no. You know, maybe operating in somewhat denial back then, no, we're going to show you. She's not. Then we were told when she was six that, well, you know, she's better, but she's never going to be able to read. No, no, no. She'll be able to read. And my wife, God love her. I mean, you know, you'd follow her anywhere. And so today Julia is a junior in college.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so because of my wife, like your wife, there was no giving up in terms of helping Julia Barnacle combat this. And we went everywhere. We went, you know, to St. Louis. We went out to, what's the hospital in Chicago? We went out there multiple times.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first of all, thank God for Susan Axelrod for raising the awareness of this basically silent illness disease that affects so many and changes and alters the lives of families, entire families. Our daughter is challenged on several fronts because of the seizures that she suffered and still suffers to a certain extent, but not as much as she suffered during a period of time when she was three, four, five, seven, eight years of age, very little way to measure it.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sorry, you know, Uncle Jerry killed at Midway on June 4th, 1942. But look at unemployment today is really roaring. You know, you lost your brother, your uncle, your father, an Omaha Beach in 1944. But look at what I've done. The guy is clueless about who we are and about our story, which is the story of America.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, sure he's shaking things up. But again, we mentioned earlier, you know, who are we? You know, if you ask kids about what they learn in high school history, they don't learn much. They're not really taught the story of America. They're not taught about how did your dad, my parents, and millions of others come here and carve out the lives that they carved out, that we prosper. Because of it. I mean, who are we? Memorial Day tweet, the guy issues, you know. Happy Memorial Day thanks to everybody who ever served in the economy. Look at it because of what I've done. It's booming. Nice.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, too much it blocks out the sun. It blocks out what's going on in the country and to the country, which bothers me deeply. I mean, I have a deep love of the idea that is America, and I am offended at much of what's going on, and I'm worried about the losses to us. I mean, does anybody know What has happened to the children's health program This country Does anybody know what's going to happen to them now that the Affordable Care Act has been pretty much erased? Does anybody know that the bounce that you got with the tax bill, that's going to disappear? And certain prices are going up because he thinks he can win a trade war. Does anybody know or think about the internal damage done by the assault on institutions of this country”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I can remember everybody who called and said, you know, what do you need? I'm here to help you. You're getting screwed. I can remember every single person like that.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What changed me, and I fight the negative way it changed me, my attitude toward some elements of the media. It changed me in the sense that. You know, I find myself being much more sympathetic To others caught in various plights, personal or political or public, I want to know, well, you know, what's the real deal? What really happened? You find out that it's like baseball. You get knocked down, you know, you got to get back, you got to get back in the box. You cannot give up. You cannot quit. So it reinforced that in me. In the end it made me stronger it made me more aware of my weaknesses. I mean, I can still remember where I was and what I was doing on the Saturday morning, a summer Saturday morning, when I was writing that column, you know, reworking the Carlin jokes. I can remember it to this day.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, one of my kids had his birthday on one of the days. There was a fever, it seemed to me, like an obsession with me. Camera crews following around, following me around. It was horrendous.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was awful. It was awful. It was awful. I mean, TV crews camped outside of your house front page of the New York Times, an editorial in the New York Times. And you got to remember back then, 1998, there was no Twitter, there was no texting. There was no real internet to speak of. So in terms of defensive tools, explanation tools, none of that existed. The thing that I remember the most, the thing that I remember the most to this day that sits internally in me each day is that all the people writing about it, what happened, what went on, what's the story? I never got a single call. You know, David Broder writing about it, he never called me. I used to call people or go see people. What's your side of the story? It struck me then and it strikes me now. But it was crushing.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, because clearly he was talking about, you know, my God, if this was a serious charge, he says, I would have been in jail 30 years ago”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Changing names and locations or whatever, but the idea of the joke, yeah, sure, that was in my mind from George Carlin's routines. The funny part about it is I immediately hurried from George Carlin, who I had met a couple of times, and he said, I'm sending you my new book. He had a book out in the summer of 1998. He said, in order to eliminate the middleman, I still have a copy of the book with his autograph. I got a call when the charges were leveled and it was in all the papers. I got a call.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. Well, you know, this is me speaking, right? So my defense is probably going to be suspect because it's me defending it. I began writing a column in 1973, the charges that you're referring to are from 1998. How come I wasn't caught before 1998 if indeed I did anything? I'll tell you the root of the plagiarism thing in retrospect 20 years later. It's kind of funny. It was tragic to me then. It's kind of funny today. The root of it is I used to do occasionally about twice a month a Sunday column. I was just thinking and it would be a series about 84 lines, different topics, different lines, try to be funny and halfway half of them. And it was rewriting a couple of George Carlin jokes. That's the root of the plagiarism, that I was copying jokes. Was I copying jokes? I was copying the root of a joke.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, yeah. I mean, but you talk to the various governors who worked with them, and Bill Well, the Republican, former U.S. attorney in Boston, who knew far more about the Whitey Bulger story than I think he's ever led on, Got along famously with Bill Balger, Paul Salucci, his successor, Republican, got along famously With Bill Belcher.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, too. His brother had better contacts than Bill did. But, you know, Bill was a very smart guy, is a very smart guy, and he ran the Senate the way any tough-minded, skillful, internal, politically-minded senator, congressman, whatever it would do.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because he had contacts in the FBI who told him that his brother had nothing to do with it. Well, we found out about the contact. Yes, brother.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“UMass system, yeah. And I knew Jimmy Whitey Bulger sort of didn't really know him because he was a sociopath. But I would see him occasionally at this liquor store that he used to own partially, silently, a rotary, a traffic rotary in South Boston. And there was a time, a period in the 1980s, probably 1985 through about 1988 and 1989, where Bill Bulger would not speak to me because I had written that nothing moves, cocaine trafficking, heroin trafficking, nothing moves in South Boston without the tacit consent and knowledge of Whitey Bulger. And looking back on it, it began not speaking to me by him, arguing violently with me that it wasn't true, that he knew more about what was going on than I did with regard to drugs and his brother.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I knew all three brothers, Jackie Bulger, the third brother, was a clerk in Boston Juvenile Court. I knew him. I knew Bill Bulger, who was a state senator, became. I know the state senate. He became Senate president.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I would tell their stories. I was making more money than they were, but they were still me. I mean, you can change your zip code, but your soul, I don't think, changes when you change your zip code. You know, you can move to the suburbs with your family, and you can be making a good living and you can still write about people who struggle because you know them. You grew up with them. You are. A part of you is them still. Still today. I live, you know, I'm making good money today as you are, but I have a fear of the absence of money still today.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know, I mean, the answer is I don't know. I mean, it was just in me. But I know what I used to do. It was the greatest job I ever had. And I used to love it. I used to love, you know, just driving around. And I had several stops that I'd make daily to talk to people what was going on in different neighborhoods. And I used to enjoy meeting people and hearing their stories. And you're right.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, because the basis of it Really, I mean, it becomes race, you can't ignore that, but the resentment factor is so enormous, you know, that, you know, the idea that a lot of people had, you know, blacks are all on welfare, blacks live for free in public housing. You know, I work hard. My wife's a waitress. And I'm an iron worker. And this is what they're doing to us. Yeah, Trump would have thrived on that.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he ran against her. He won the Merrillty the first time. He ran against Louise Day Hicks, whose campaign slogan in 1967, running against Kevin White, was You Know Where I Stand. And the school committee back then in Boston was led by a guy by the name of John Carrigan, who did everything he could every day that he could to inject race into the whole issue of the public schools. You know, they're going to take your schools away from you. They're going to give it away to black kids. And the level of resentment, a healthy dose of racism into the idea of busing, busing continued and raged for three or four years from about 1973 to 1976. And the remnants of it, I think, are still there. I mean, there's a whole generation of people now in their 50s and 60s who remember being moving to the south shore of Boston, Quincy to get away from the city of Boston because of busing. And there are people who black and white, you know, who are robbed of...”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The poor whites in South Boston and Dorchester, white Dorchester was White Dorchester and Black Dorchester, neighborhoods in Boston, against poor blacks for the same small share of an increasingly shrinking economic pie. And the schools, back then, I mean, you graduated from South Boston High School or Dothigh, Dorchester High. I mean, Harvard wasn't going to come knocking on your door. If you were lucky, maybe your father had a union card, you know, would get you into a union shop? Maybe you could get on the fire of the cops? But I mean, you know.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so busing began, and I guess because of my, well, I know, because of my background, because of the way I grew up, the way I was raised, you know, there's something wrong here. You know, I mean, they're labeling these people who fear their whole future is gone, their children's future is gone, because they got to put them on a bus. How about the rich kids in Brookline? How come they're not on buses? What's going on here? And what happened, and I used to write this, is that they have pitted.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wrote a lot about it. And again, one of the things you learn as a copy boy, actually, you learn it running quotes for Dave Gilmartin from the Northwest County Bureau of the Telegram. Nothing ever happens in a newsroom. You know, you got to go out. You got to, you know, climb the stairs of tenement. You got to go to the second floor. You got to knock on the door. There's nothing better than eye contact.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, write the column writing. And I get paid. I started out at $75 a column. I was writing for my life because I had two little kids. And I used to write, I started writing three a week. And then four a week, then five a week because I needed the money. I wrote a sports column every other week and it worked out.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Boston Evening Globe. Well, I had known Bob Healy, who was the executive editor of the Globe since 1967, sixty eight, because he used to go to all Tip O'Neill's parties because he was covering the White House then for the globe. And I just instinctively, internally, I knew that's where I wanted to go. And so after the Muskie campaign in 72, I called Healy. This is awful now when I think about it. I'm so embarrassed that I did this. I asked Healy, who was a great, he loved skiing. I don't ski. I never went skiing. I said, hey, I'm going out to Sundance, Utah. He said, I was doing some work for Redford then. And I said, you want to come go skiing? He said, yeah, absolutely. I'd love to. So we went out to Sundance. And that's when I put it. I said, Bob. I said, yeah, come on. I want to work for the globe. Oh, yeah, sure.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And castigating his handling of the Department of Justice. He could write maybe a lot of it today. And he was looking at the draft of the speech in the hotel. George Mitchell was there. Remember that. And he ripped it up and threw it down and turned to me. He said, God damn it. I can't give this speech. He says, what the hell would the people in Maine think about something like this? He says, this is far too harsh. And I said to him pretty much, you know, Senator, come on. The people in Maine gives a fuck about the people in Maine. You're running for president. You know, this is a Democratic primary. Come on. And that was basically it for me.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think it went just like that, but the way it went in my memory is that I had written a draft of a speech castigating Dick Kleindings, who was the Attorney General.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“with Barbara Redford. And after the campaign was over, he gave me a call one day and said, hey, Redford is thinking of making a film about politics. And he had a draft of a screenplay written by Jeremy Larner, who used to work for Gene McCarthy. And so he asked me to take a look at the screenplay. He said, oh, this is great. I didn't know screenplays from anything. And I got to know Redford through Richie. Redford, I still know Bob very, very well all these years later. And so I started hanging with him and making the movie. And he said, You should be in the movie. I said, of course I should. And yeah, so he put me in the movie. We used to rewrite the thing. I think the film was made for a total of, I think it was under $5 million. The film was made for, and it's still resilient, it still looks good today.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What do we do now? What do we do now after the Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a funny kind of a funny story. California campaign for the United States Senate, naturally you get all sorts of celebrities drawn to the campaign, a Democrat running against old George Murphy, Republican senator, former actor, friend of Ronald Reagan's. And so we had a whole bunch of celebrities doing spots and raising money Gregory Peck and everything like that. And I met One guy during the course of the campaign, his name was Michael Ritchie, really good guy, smart guy. He had directed a film called Downhill Racer. Yeah.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Poor and I have a sense of Well, that's a completely different topic. The fact that we don't know our own history in this country. But yeah, on the day that Robert Kennedy... Was buried on june eighth, on the day he died actually june sixth, nineteen sixty eight one hundred six. Young Americans were killed in Vietnam. In the week that he died, three hundred and twenty two was the total killed in action in Vietnam in the month of june sixty eight. I think it was like over a thousand.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I agree with that. It's on tape now. Filmed that day Moticade through Chinatown in the San Francisco or Los Angeles during the California primary when there was a series of firecrackers set off as the moticade passed and the look on his face, just a momentary look on his face was, you know, is this it?”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think in retrospect, once he announced after back and forth and Lyndon Johnson as president, Lyndon hadn't announced that he wasn't going to run again. So finally he announces on March 17th, St. Patrick's Day in the Senate caucus room where his brother had announced for the presidency in 1960. He announces and he runs, and after I think a very brief period of time he became a truly free man. You know”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But he had a sense that when you'd see him on the campaign trail when he was up on that stage talking to a crowd, whether it was in Indianapolis or Gary, Indiana or wherever or down south during the Senate Nutrition Committee hearings where he took a tour of Appalachia talking about hunger. They sense people seem to sense that he was vulnerable, that he had a vulnerability about him, that made him more human, more approachable.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think at that stage in his life, I obviously don't know. I don't think anybody really knows he more than any other politician then or since then understood something that I think the average American, the ordinary American really gets to know during the course of a lifetime. He understood loss. He understood damage. He understood what it means to be personally damaged and hurt by an event in your life, and he was able even without talking about it, and I think he only spoke about it really once in Indianapolis.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hemingway is sort of boxing around and throwing punches, and he's missing Tony's duck. And finally, Gene Tunny told me the stories, he says, I finally got tired of it. He says, he was a great guy. He said, I gave him a little snap of a left hook and boom.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and as a matter of fact, at the beginning of the campaign, I spent more time with his father, with Gene Tunney, than I did with John, because I couldn't believe the stories he was telling me. Just incredible stories about going to Cuba and hanging with Hemingway. And Hemingway always wanted to fight him. And he had a ring. And Gene Tunney said, no, no, I don't want to do that. So finally, he was telling me, one day he gets in the ring.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ryan, Kenny O'Donnell and his aide then Paul Kirk, who was later appointed to the United States Senate many, many years later, they helped me get a job as sort of an advanced man in the Kennedy campaign. And so I did some advanced work for Robert Kennedy. I got to know during the course of the campaign, Ted Kennedy, and John Tunney, who eventually I ended up going to California and working for John Tunney in his campaign, Senate campaign.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had met Kenny O'Donnell at one of Tip's parties. And, you know, you're growing up, you're always looking for something. Maybe this guy can help me. Maybe that guy can help me. Kenny O'Donnell.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which still exists. William Fitz Ryan from New York, a really good guy. Bob Dole. He was on the third floor, a really good guy. Dominic Daniels from New Jersey, kind of a cranky guy. I remember all those guys, but the guy I met who had the most impact on my life at that stage was Tip O'Neill because I got a part-time job bartending at his parties in the Rayburn building. And I ended up after a very short period of time driving him home every once in a while after the parties. He lived with everyone.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I remember everything. I remember everything. I was an elevator robert in the Cannon House office building in the corner right across in the Library of Congress. And I can clearly recall who were good guys and who were bad guys. And they were all guys in the Congress back then. Jim O'Hara from Michigan, he was a great guy. I think he founded something called a Democratic Study Group.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, I went to Washington wanting to get a job in Congress because I couldn't get a job in Congress because I didn't know anybody. So I ended up getting a job. The only job I could get in Washington was running an elevator.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And everything like that, and take it down, put it in a tube, and send it down to the composure. But I couldn't believe it. These guys get paid for doing this. And they had so much fun. They're always laughing and smoking and drinking And talking about ball games, I said, geez, I'd kind of like to do this. And I finally got to it about five or six years later”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I take the quotes back and give them to Dave Gilmartin, and Dave would tell me, you know, yeah, he's crazy, Gilmartin, right? And it was fun. I enjoyed it. And then, you know, I get to go to Boston University. I get into Dartmouth. And I got into BU, and my mother wouldn't let me my father was dead, my mother wouldn't let me go to Dartmouth because she didn't really know where it was and what it was about. I went to BU, and I got a part time job working at the old Boston record as a copy boy in the old sports department that they had, and I couldn't believe the fact that they paid these guys to go to ball games. You know, and they all had a bottle of whiskey and the drawer of the desk and the old, you know, underwood typewriters click, click, click, and I'd take the, rip the carbon.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I think I sort of did. I didn't really know. I mean, I'm like 15 years of age. It was fun. I used to run quotes from city council meetings. There was a crazy mayor of Fitchburg, a guy born in Britain, Hedley Bray was his name. And he was nuts. And he used to say these crazy man.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A year later I called them all up. They were in different places. Timmy was home with us, obviously calling a knicker in Washington at school, and I said, Boys, we're all going back. We went back, and after game seven in Yankee Stadium in two thousand four, I have a picture of Tim Barnacle running the bases in Yankee Stadium five minutes after the game is over. He runs right into the arms of Trotnixon.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ten years of age is in his seat with his favorite faded green reds cap that he got at St. Patrick's Day at Spring Training, and he has tears as big as manhole covers coming down his face, and I look at him and I say to myself, oh my God, what have I done? I've passed this on to him a year before he was.”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Antimy was seated next to me, and we had good seats. We were right behind John Henry, the owner banned by the Red Sox dugout in Yankee Stadium. The game is over. And Colin Barnacle, my middle son, pokes me in the arm, and he says, Dad, he says, you better take care of Tim. And I look down and Timmy”
2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source