The Michael Knowles Show - May 25, 2026


Memorial Day Special： Michael REACTS To Top 15 Baseball Clips


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As we commemorate Memorial Day, I wanted to shake things up a little bit. We re taking a look back at some of baseball s greatest moments, and then I ll scream at them if they don t include my favorite moments.

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00:00:16.880 As we commemorate Memorial Day, I wanted to shake things up a little bit.
00:00:20.740 We are going to take a look at America's greatest pastime.
00:00:24.580 You know, the news, it's sometimes a little rough, a little dark.
00:00:27.840 a little. So we'll do something here that's a little bit nicer. In recent years, people prefer
00:00:33.940 football to baseball. Or even worse, they prefer soccer. Football to baseball, which I just can't
00:00:39.560 get into whatsoever. So we're going to take it. The producers have compiled for me some of the
00:00:43.540 greatest baseball moments. We're going to take a look back, see why it's America's favorite past
00:00:48.500 time, and then I'll scream at them if they don't include my favorite moments. Take it away.
00:00:52.040 oh this is nice oh bro seriously yo what am i getting a breakfast hot dog today 0.77
00:00:58.960 no okay one last i don't want to beggars can't be choosers do we have any sauerkraut 0.75
00:01:04.220 bro i'm getting a wait is this this is cold is this even cooked let's see
00:01:09.640 yeah i think it's cooked but it's cold oh whatever i'm gonna have it let's say let's
00:01:14.400 play this moment while i put mustard on my hot dog
00:01:16.080 baez hits it on the ground to third gonzalez
00:01:20.960 love a good rundown oh my goodness
00:01:28.620 you've got to be kidding me you've got to be kidding me they stole the run you have got to be
00:01:35.900 kidding me hobby baez keep going go go you're invisible that was a great moment i never saw
00:01:44.020 that you know because that's the other thing some guys they like watch all the sports you know they
00:01:47.720 go to their man cave and they crack a beer and they watch all the sports all year long i don't
00:01:52.640 do that i i probably care about sports roughly as much as any other guy but it's all entirely
00:01:58.960 concentrated not just into one sport but into one team which is the new york yankees and so i know
00:02:03.300 a lot of the great moments from other teams maybe i've seen them but i had forgotten that's a great
00:02:07.380 moment okay next one that's pretty impressive i'm mostly interested in this hot dog right now
00:02:25.380 though if i'm being real this is a nice this is a tasty little morning treat
00:02:28.920 a politician once told me if i ever run for president when you're
00:02:36.040 At the Iowa State Fair, do not eat the corn dog because it creates very bad optics.
00:02:40.860 What do we got?
00:02:41.860 Is that beer?
00:02:44.760 What is this?
00:02:47.820 No, just a Diet Coke?
00:02:49.320 Eh, I don't do a Diet Coke at a game.
00:02:51.180 I'm not doing Diet Coke.
00:02:52.040 I think this mic stinks, by the way.
00:02:54.700 Okay, next one.
00:02:55.660 You say he gets away with a lot of those and it's hard for hitters to square him up.
00:02:59.380 We don't see that a whole lot.
00:03:01.540 But Judge was on it.
00:03:02.540 not only a yankee fan wearing a judge t-shirt
00:03:08.000 that's sweet look like a blue jay dad giving that yankee kid the home run oh good job by
00:03:15.980 everybody oh man that's cool oh man that's heartwarming that's real that's sweet i don't
00:03:23.960 have any cynical take on that you know one time my father was at a phillies game
00:03:27.220 well i didn't know that i just uh you're telling me now for the first time this is just michael
00:03:34.720 story hour he caught two foul balls in the same game not weird okay next one for the first time
00:03:41.840 in the history of major league baseball playing the world series during the month of november
00:03:46.860 everything pushed back one week after september the 11th as derrick jeter bats with two out
00:03:52.860 nobody on mr november jeter hits it into right back at the wall game over yankees win and this
00:04:02.060 series is tied yeah well look that's great that was a nice moment but i remember how that series
00:04:10.080 ended that was actually one of the pivotal moments in my childhood because it didn't really occur to
00:04:19.500 me that the Yankees could lose the World Series because they'd won in 96, 98, 99, 2000. I was at
00:04:25.360 the 2000 Subway Series game two when Clemens did not throw that bad at Piazza. He just, he thought
00:04:29.820 it was the ball. I remember I got down on the ground and I was like, I might've been crying
00:04:34.300 when they, I just didn't think they could lose because he was up to 9-11. That was bad.
00:04:37.860 That reminds me of that tragedy.
00:04:39.380 Anyway, next one. What do we got? Oh, bro. Oh, this is a great segment. This is a great segment.
00:04:47.940 We should do this segment every week.
00:04:49.420 This is awesome.
00:04:50.340 We even got that plastic little nacho cheese sauce.
00:04:53.040 Yeah, bro, this is great.
00:04:54.520 Where'd you get this?
00:04:55.440 It's from like a gas station.
00:04:57.660 Mmm.
00:04:58.880 The chips are all soggy.
00:05:00.280 I wonder if Professor Jacob got these last night.
00:05:02.600 Anyway, keep going.
00:05:03.680 2-2.
00:05:04.380 The runners go.
00:05:05.720 Wide fly.
00:05:06.400 Caught by Brunley.
00:05:07.380 Oh, wow.
00:05:07.960 Crazy. 0.71
00:05:09.260 He makes the tag. 0.96
00:05:10.680 Wow.
00:05:11.560 It's a triple play, and the ball game is over.
00:05:14.740 on unassisted triple play to end the ball game.
00:05:19.740 A line drive hit right to him at the bag.
00:05:22.540 He stepped on second for the second out
00:05:24.780 and tagged out Murphy to complete the triple play.
00:05:30.820 Man, at that point, you're the Mets runner.
00:05:33.580 You just got to marvel at it.
00:05:35.320 You got to give it to him.
00:05:36.520 Unassisted triple play.
00:05:37.540 I never made one of those in baseball.
00:05:38.920 You know, when I wasn't playing Little League,
00:05:40.940 I was very, very bad.
00:05:42.500 and so I could occasionally catch and throw the ball but I really was terrible base runner I was
00:05:48.740 terrible hitter I really couldn't hit I knew the only way I was going to get on the base
00:05:52.580 was if I walked luckily a lot of the pitchers are bad or you just kind of lean into the pitch a
00:05:59.120 little bit when you get on but then I'd screw it up when I got on base okay next one what other
00:06:02.760 treats are they going to bring look at that catch by that young fan down there let's check this out
00:06:10.180 again give this young fan some love oh yeah had it the whole way wow and that little boy's name
00:06:19.260 paul o'neill i'm getting fat what do we got oh yo is that peanuts or popcorn oh popcorn hey all
00:06:27.520 right okay next one yeah okay that's the one i was waiting for that's the one had you it's kind
00:06:36.840 of a grand, I've never seen this angle of it. Had you not included this video, it would be
00:06:41.140 incomplete. When Randy Johnson exploded a poor little bird on a pitch, the probability of this
00:06:47.160 happening is so low. Play it again. It's so crazy. Randy Johnson, who, you know, he got a kind of a
00:06:55.380 checkered moment on the Yankees, but when he just exploded that bird, man, I was impressive. Go to
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00:08:22.820 instead. Next one.
00:08:24.520 The Red Sox yawning.
00:08:27.800 Alex Rodriguez
00:08:28.840 is drilled and
00:08:30.040 he says something to
00:08:32.220 Bronson Arroyo.
00:08:35.040 What's he saying?
00:08:36.500 What's he saying?
00:08:38.760 Veritek and A-Rod
00:08:40.000 going at it.
00:08:46.400 A-Rod just got those
00:08:47.660 juice into his veins.
00:08:51.120 Down to the right.
00:08:53.220 Just roiding up, baby.
00:08:54.740 That was an era, wasn't it?
00:08:56.320 I was kind of toward the end of that era.
00:08:59.200 But I remember, oh, man, just, just, you got that high T just flowing through the veins.
00:09:06.120 Okay, next one.
00:09:07.480 What do we got?
00:09:08.420 We got something else?
00:09:10.280 Yo, don't do that to me.
00:09:12.460 Don't do that to me.
00:09:13.640 That's not a part of baseball.
00:09:15.400 Dip or chew would be a part of baseball.
00:09:17.780 Are you serious?
00:09:18.700 That's good, actually.
00:09:19.320 if I have one of these. I don't do these a lot. Not too much. But you know what? I might do one
00:09:24.880 of these now just to stop me from becoming a big fat and eating all this food. Okay. All right.
00:09:28.340 Next one. Wow. Is that AI? Did she really do that? It's the greatest female athlete ever.
00:09:49.100 Much better than the Williams sisters. 0.99
00:09:51.220 Barry Bonds comes up.
00:09:52.360 Let's listen in.
00:09:54.280 That was before his head swelled up to like three times his size.
00:09:58.680 There's a long one to right field.
00:10:00.540 Forget about it.
00:10:01.620 This one is headed for New Jersey.
00:10:03.500 High into the upper deck.
00:10:05.960 Barry Bonds with a spectacular three-run homer.
00:10:08.740 Spectacular three-run homer.
00:10:10.020 A needle sticking out of his arm.
00:10:11.580 Yankee Stadium.
00:10:14.100 Three-nothing Giants.
00:10:17.860 Yeah.
00:10:18.680 So that whole clip is just he hit a homerun off the Yankees.
00:10:23.740 Oh, wow.
00:10:24.580 Yeah.
00:10:26.320 I'd make more of a comment about how Bonds was, like,
00:10:29.100 juicing like a rhinoceros, but, you know,
00:10:31.720 that era of the Yankees, you know,
00:10:33.400 we had a little problem with that, too.
00:10:35.020 Okay, next one.
00:10:38.000 That's in the air to left field, 0.98
00:10:39.440 and that is going to fly out of here on a broken bat.
00:10:42.540 Oh, peanuts.
00:10:43.040 I don't think it was a broken bat.
00:10:45.460 I think he threw the bat at the ball.
00:10:47.520 It was a big swing on the first pitch.
00:10:50.100 It came up empty here.
00:10:51.200 This is a home run swing right here.
00:10:58.060 That's the first time I've ever seen that.
00:11:01.700 Wow.
00:11:02.860 No, it's not a broken bat.
00:11:04.820 He just threw it.
00:11:06.740 Yeah.
00:11:07.680 Next one.
00:11:10.340 High fly to center.
00:11:12.180 And if Ford sees it, he'll catch it.
00:11:14.620 That baby's up there.
00:11:16.360 He didn't see it.
00:11:17.520 Oh, man, that's giving me flashbacks to Little League.
00:11:28.340 Don't worry, guys, I got it.
00:11:31.560 I'm in right field, it's on left field.
00:11:33.320 Yeah, yeah, all right.
00:11:34.880 That makes me feel better.
00:11:36.220 Even the pros sometimes, you know.
00:11:40.020 Here's Ventura, RBI single in the first.
00:11:42.440 Watch out.
00:11:44.860 Look at this.
00:11:47.520 well you can see that no one was hitting robin right on the on the top bro do not pick a fight 1.00
00:11:58.720 with nolan ryan you stupid what are you doing on an uppercut greatest pitcher of all time 0.99
00:12:05.520 absolute tank you're gonna start a fight with nolan ryan that reminds me the time that i love 0.99
00:12:11.680 don zimmer yankees uh assistant manager but when he like at age 150 decided to go start a fist fight
00:12:18.700 with pedro martinez i was like that's not the greatest idea okay next one okay that you know
00:12:24.220 i never got one of these maybe i'll steal this one the dw bat this is a sweet bat because it's
00:12:29.680 made in that old style too that's cool we were selling these for like a billion dollars this is
00:12:34.940 good i'll start bringing it maybe i'll bring this back to the control room don't play my clips in
00:12:38.760 time. Yankees plate 19, the most in franchise postseason history. Bombers go for the sweep
00:12:46.060 Sunday, Orlando Hernandez. Red Sox at the base elimination here tonight. A pinch runner,
00:12:50.800 Dave Roberts, is going to come in for Boston. Roberts is going. Passada's throw. Roberts,
00:12:56.340 safe. Up the middle. Roberts will come to the plate. The throw by Williams. Bill Miller has
00:13:05.600 Tied it.
00:13:09.100 Ortiz in the deep right field.
00:13:12.120 Back is Sheffield.
00:13:13.460 We'll see you later tonight.
00:13:18.800 A five-hour, two-minute game and worth every second of it
00:13:23.240 for the Boston Red Sox.
00:13:25.560 This would be the fifth pennant for the Red Sox
00:13:29.420 since that 1918 season.
00:13:33.760 Here it is.
00:13:34.560 Ground ball to second.
00:13:35.600 The Boston Red Sox earned this celebration here at Yankee Stadium with the biggest
00:13:49.320 comeback in postseason baseball history.
00:13:54.780 Back to full.
00:13:56.740 Red Sox fans have longed to hear it.
00:13:58.940 The Boston Red Sox are world champions.
00:14:05.600 Yeah, boy.
00:14:08.120 For the first time in 86 years,
00:14:11.260 the Red Sox have won baseball's world championship.
00:14:14.600 Can you believe it?
00:14:18.200 He said he passed it.
00:14:20.120 I remember it.
00:14:21.560 I remember it well.
00:14:23.120 This was another moment, Big Papi.
00:14:24.720 You know, he once spit his wad of gum at me.
00:14:27.280 I was sitting on the third baseline, Yankees Red Sox, Yankee Stadium,
00:14:30.260 and my buddy and I were heckling him,
00:14:32.580 and he spit his wad of gum at me and my buddy.
00:14:34.940 that landed on the dugout, and it was like six pieces of gum. 0.68
00:14:39.120 It was like a baseball of gum in his big, giant mouth.
00:14:43.620 When the Red Sox won, you know, it was 04, right?
00:14:46.880 When the Red Sox won in 04, that was another—
00:14:50.580 when the Yankees lost in the 2001 World Series,
00:14:53.600 that was a pivotal moment.
00:14:55.820 And then 04, it really brought it home,
00:14:57.480 because it was another event that I thought couldn't happen.
00:15:00.220 I know that's not rational, but I actually thought,
00:15:03.640 Well, no, there's the curse of the Bambino,
00:15:05.380 and the Red Sox simply can't win.
00:15:07.220 And then the Yankee fans made these shirts after that said, 0.98
00:15:10.560 there was no curse, you just sucked for 86 years. 0.94
00:15:13.000 And that was like our cope kind of for it, 0.98
00:15:15.120 but that was a real devastating thing.
00:15:17.160 Now, hold on, you didn't include certain moments.
00:15:20.000 One that I was present for, which I alluded to earlier.
00:15:24.000 Game two of the Subway Series, Clemens pitching.
00:15:27.140 Mike Piazza, they had bad blood,
00:15:28.560 because Clemens allegedly kept throwing the ball
00:15:31.380 and trying to murder Mike Piazza,
00:15:33.460 throwing it right at him.
00:15:34.780 And anyway, Piazza breaks the bat.
00:15:36.780 The bat goes up to the pitcher's mound.
00:15:38.160 Piazza's running at first.
00:15:39.600 And Clemens just picks up the bat,
00:15:42.040 roided out of his mind,
00:15:43.100 and just throws the bat right at Piazza.
00:15:45.540 Piazza stops on the first base. 0.77
00:15:47.060 What maniac does that?
00:15:49.980 What are you doing?
00:15:50.440 The dugout's empty.
00:15:51.280 It was cool.
00:15:52.280 And then for months,
00:15:53.960 maybe years after,
00:15:55.260 I had to defend Clemens and say,
00:15:57.140 no, no.
00:15:57.580 And his excuse was,
00:15:58.640 no, I thought it was the ball.
00:15:59.820 So first of all,
00:16:00.400 a bat doesn't look like a ball second of all you wouldn't throw the ball at the runner what are you
00:16:04.280 talking about so anyway that that moment should have been in there i think it was in 98 i forget
00:16:10.740 if it was in the playoffs or if it was in the world series when paul o'neill climbed the wall
00:16:15.640 paul o'neill my favorite yankee player ever uh climbed the wall and stole a home run that was
00:16:21.140 a great moment two don zimmer moments one i mentioned when he went out to fight pedro
00:16:25.700 Martinez. And then the other moment
00:16:27.520 when he got clocked
00:16:29.660 by a ball sitting in the
00:16:31.640 dugout. Old Don Zimmer got
00:16:33.580 clocked by a ball and then he started wearing a
00:16:35.580 Yankee World War II helmet
00:16:37.440 just to protect himself. 0.94
00:16:39.580 That was a great moment. There's so many other great
00:16:41.620 ones though. You know, my grandfather
00:16:43.380 was at maybe the all
00:16:45.660 time greatest baseball moment
00:16:47.360 which was the 1956 World Series
00:16:49.720 Yankees-Dodgers when Don
00:16:51.680 Larson pitched a perfect game, the only perfect game
00:16:53.660 ever in the World Series.
00:16:55.700 What other moments did you fail to include 1.00
00:16:57.500 after that stupid Red Sox thing? 1.00
00:16:59.180 You got the bird exploding. 1.00
00:17:01.440 That was fun.
00:17:02.640 All right, you got a lot of good ones.
00:17:05.120 Then you ended...
00:17:06.100 All's bad that ends bad.
00:17:10.080 See you next time.