In May, 1989 Mike Schmidt, the Phillies’ star third baseman for 18 years, retired. At a news conference, Schmidt, understandably, lost it, tearing up until his farewell words became truncated by sobs.
The next day on their morning drive-time show over two-year-old WFAN, station-maker Don Imus and his crew seized the tape of Schmidt’s emotional farewell and made — or tried to make — a fool of Schmidt, mocking and ridiculing his goodbye announcement as blubbering, hilarious unintentional comedy.
In March of last year, Imus, near the end of a farewell interview on CBS’s “Sunday Morning” following his retirement, was asked if he is going to miss radio. Imus had to cease talking a couple of times in order to sniff back tears and stifle sobs. Hmm.
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