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Mike Barnicle

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  1. “About baseball. Well, I'll tell you just one story about, you know, your dad took you to the game on weekends and everything like that after he arrived in the country, his love of baseball and all that. So I have like a disease about the Red Sox. I mean, I'm just hopelessly afflicted and addicted. In 2003, I took, well, 2003, Timmy Barnacle, our youngest boy in 2004, he missed a combination of the two falls, 2003-2004, 43 days of school, because I took him on road trips with the team. 2003, the horrific ending of the American League Championship series, the Aaron Boone home run in Yankee Stadium. We were all there.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “19 years of age can step into the plate and he can hit a 98 mile an hour fastball and the other aspect of it is that you go to a baseball game and you see the players and you say you know something they look like me they're not in helmets they're not 6'8 6'10 stuff like that they don't weigh 315 pounds and you think to yourself you know i want to play catch when i go home you know yeah just like them”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “But I would tell Susan and anybody else that if all the major sports we have, baseball is the most reflective sport we have. If you want to go with your husband or your son or you want to take your son or dot it to a game, you can actually talk to them while the game is going. You can have a conversation not about baseball, but about school, what's going on in their lives. You can talk about things and not really miss a moment of action. So you can do that. And it's also, I think, the most magical of games because of the design of the game and the geometry of the game, 90 feet in between the bases and all that stuff and everything like that. But the movement of players, I mean, they're so gifted. And the idea that, you know, some kid”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “So value, so relish. Well, what I value and what I relish isn't going to draw anybody to the ballpark, you know? Because, you know, I like to watch, you know, where's the shortstop movie? What is the second basement? Stuff like that. Yes.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Jimmy Pearsall with Center Fielder number 37 from Waterbury, Connecticut. It's much more than fear strikes out. Yeah, Jimmy Pearsall, Tommy Umflett, Gene Stevens, Dom DiMaggio, Dominic DiMagio. All of them. Sammy White was the catcher, number 22. George Kell, they got him from the Tigers in the trade. He was great.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Yeah, and we sat up in section sixteen up in the last row, but it didn't matter. But my uncle took us a couple of times when friends of his were in town with their teams like the White Sox and the White. And we'd sit on the bench. Watch banning practice, and it was, oh my God, this was heaven. And, you know, because of my age, the age factor, I can still give you the lineups of the Red Sox in like 1954, 1955, 56.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “And eventually one day he took us to Fenway Park, was probably the first time I was at Fenway Park, my dad took me to see Joe Diagio. He wanted me to see Joe DiMaggio. It was Joe DiMaggio's last year in baseball. And I have a vague, vague memory of it of seeing, I don't remember seeing Joe DiMaggio, but one thing I do remember is the startling green. Of the walls when we came up the ramp into the ballpark.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “So, my uncle used to take us out in the street, outside the house, and we would play stick ball, and he would throw. And he was a former Major League pitcher. He could still throw.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Well, it began before my first visit to Fenway, and an odd stroke of family fortune or whatever, my uncle George pitched for the Boston Braves in 1939, forty, forty one. He had several cups of coffee. With a major league team before the war, and after the He was not a baseball player. I'll leave it at that. But because of his experience in the major leagues, he knew many of the guys he played with and against in the early 50s were either coaches or managers like Al Lopez was the manager of the Chicago White Sox. He was a great pal of my uncle's.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Right. And if you look at the Democrats today, I mean, God love them. I mean, I sometimes wonder what they're doing. If you look around, if you walk around, if you go around the country today, these same people that we're talking about, there's an element of the Democratic Party that talks about them and looks at them is if they're a lab experiment. Know let's go to Ohio and tell working class people how bad Trump is. That's not going to get the job done. I mean, this is my view”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “So you've got millions of Americans who maybe lost their retirement savings. Many of them maybe lost their homes. Maybe many of them lost their sense of hope or faith in the country because of what happened to them economically. And I think, strangely enough, a lot of them, a huge percentage of them, were the same people, the same people, who risked losing a son or a daughter in the longest war we've ever fought. Their children are going to fight the war, and they're walking around with no job and no money. And he tapped into that”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I think how it happened is that Trump, for all that he is, and a lot of it's very ugly. He is an expert, I think, on resentment. I mean he knows instinctively how to tap that resentment cell in everyone, and I don't think the Democrats or many Americans have paid enough attention to what happened in this country from about 2006, 2007 on up until this day. So the economy collapses, right, in 2008 because so many people at the top of the pyramid confused the stock market with the economy. That's not the economy. You know, the economy is your weekly wage.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Paper mill Paper mills and machine shops. There was a company called Ivret Johnson in a strange twist of history. They made the handgun that killed Robert Kennedy. Strange, weird, but it was machine chops and paper mills.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Have a seven thirty mass there in the mornings, and on some mornings when I'm not working at morning, Joe, and I'm in New York, I go to the mass. Not because I'm religious, but because it's a place to sit and reflect, and it's not noisy, and you look around and you see the people at the mass, and you know just by looking at them, that they were not born here. They're from Haiti, and they're from the Dominican, and they're from Vietnam. And why are they here? They're here because this country is the same today as it was to my parents and everybody on the street I grew up on. They're here because America is an idea. You know, the idea of freedom, freedom to worship, freedom to think what you want, to say what you want, to go where you want.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Not only two immigrant parents, but again the street that I grew up on. Was Abe Snagg, the tailor who fled Poland. There was the Scopignado family who fled Mussolini. There were multiple numbers of Finnish Americans in the city who fled Europe. It was a city of immigrants built by immigrants. And the idea today that I look at our government injecting such a heavy dose of fear into the idea of immigration and immigrants themselves is offensive to me. It's offensive to me as an American citizen who know the value that immigrants bring to this country. And don't tell anybody, but occasionally a couple of times a week, I drop by this church over when I'm in New York, over in the West Side, St. Paul the Apostles. Beautiful church.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Yes, yeah, that they had the first letter that they had was missing an action, a telegram actually from George C. Marshall. And the metals were all lined up on like a little altar. It was an end table, but it looked like an altar to me as a kid with the purple heart in it, the distinguished service cross second highest award given by the military in this country next to the Congressional Medal of Honor. And so it was a household. The apartment was suffused with stories, endless stories about Ireland, about America, about the war, about Roosevelt, how he saved this country, about Harry Truman. I never knew what a Republican was growing up because of the ethos that they steamed. Oh, the Republicans.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “And they were both so in love with the idea that they were in America, the United States of America. And my uncle, my father's brother, who I never knew, was killed at Midway on June 4th, 1942. And my grandmother, we all lived together. My grandmother, my aunt, my parents, my brothers and I, and they would talk about the war, they would talk about missing Gerald. They would tell me about Midway. They had a letter, a signed letter from Franklin Delana Roosevelt hanging on the wall.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “They wanted to read them and they wanted to talk about the news and talk about what was going on not only in the country.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Well, you know, he died of a heart attack, it was his third heart attack, and given the way medicine and medical information was then, he thought when he had his second heart attack in nineteen fifty six, that that he would go on a health kick and change from lucky strikes to Kent Filters. So after he passed away, my mom went to the old state teacher's college system that they used to have in Massachusetts and got a BA degree. She was from Ireland, and ended up teaching parochial school for about 35 years. But growing up back to newspapers David, you can again link up with this. I bet we got five or six newspapers a day in our house. I mean, they were two cents a piece, five cents a piece. We'd get the New York papers the next day and read them as if they were that day's news.”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “You know, I was very fortunate as I suspect you were. I grew up in A poor mill town in central Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Which was closer than to Boston than it is today because of all the trains that ran between the two cities. Fitchburg was a city of about 55,000 people. My father worked for the public works department. My mother was a stay-at-home mom until my dad died in 1960 when we were all quite young. And she went back to school. Was that a”

    2018-06-28 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 255 — Mike Barnicle · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source