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RUSH: Yogi Berra passed away at 90. You know, you\u2019re always surprised — I am, anyway, you may find this tough to believe, but I\u2019m always surprised to find out who listens to this program. I remember the first year I was at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, first year I was invited to play, there\u2019s always a dinner that the organizers throw. It\u2019s actually a heavy hors d\u2019oeuvres cocktail reception, around 5:30 or 6 p.m.<\/line><\/p>\n

The tournament starts on a Wednesday, it\u2019s a five day tournament, or was, and it\u2019s always a Tuesday night, and this was the tournament I first met Arnold Palmer, Fuzzy Zoeller\u2019s guest. And Yogi Berra was in there, and, folks, please, you must understand why I tell you this, it was such an honor. His eyes lit up, he walked over to me and grabbed my hand and shook it. I was just stunned. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m always surprised to find out who listens. And he said, “Let me ask you a question. Are you walking or are you riding a cart?” <\/p>\n

And I said, “They told me I had to walk.”<\/p>\n

He said, “You don\u2019t. I\u2019m in a cart. They\u2019re letting me ride. If you want to ride, I\u2019ll put in a word for you.” <\/p>\n

And I said, “Well, I\u2019ve already committed to walking and, you know, Yogi, I mean, this isn\u2019t even golf for me. It\u2019s hit a shot, then sign 50 autographs on the way to the next shot, hit the shot.” <\/p>\n

He said, “Yeah, I know, I know, in a cart you won\u2019t have to do that much.” <\/p>\n

I said “I know, but I\u2019m committed to it.” And every time I saw him after that he was same way. Now, when I worked for the Royals, I saw him all over the place when the Yankees were in, but I never went up and spoke to him. I was a peon. I was in the room, but I wouldn\u2019t dare go up and talk to him. But he was one of those people that\u2019s famous that you meet them and they\u2019re exactly what you want them to be.<\/p>\n

Everybody loved Yogi Berra. You know, Hanna-Barbera to this day maintains that Yogi Bear was not named after Yogi Berra, and he believed them. He originally wanted to get in on the action or sue them or something, his advisors did. But they maintained throughout his life, “It\u2019s just a coincidence, Yogi.” And he ended up believing them. He didn\u2019t fight it much after his first effort. <\/line><\/p>\n

He was 90 years old. You know what Yogi would have probably said if you\u2019d have told him yesterday he was going to die? “You know what? If I\u2019d known I was gonna live so long, I probably wouldn\u2019t have gotten so old.” He really said these things. The New York Post today has a collection of 35 of them<\/a>. You\u2019ve heard the famous, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Well, he meant it because he was giving somebody directions to his house in New Jersey, and either road you took would get you to his house. So “if you come to a fork in the road, take it,” was “you can\u2019t make a mistake here, take either one you want, that\u2019s how you\u2019ll get to my house.” <\/p>\n

“Nobody goes there anymore. It\u2019s too crowded.” They asked him once, he had a couple streakers at a baseball game, a man and woman streaking across the outfield nude. And they said, “Yogi, did you notice it was a man and a woman?” “No, they had towels over their heads.” He was checking out of a hotel and he couldn\u2019t get his suitcase closed. Somebody called a bellman. “What\u2019s the problem?” <\/line><\/p>\n

“Your towels are too thick.” He was stealing towels from the hotel. (laughing) Ah, jeez. I met Joe DiMaggio, too, one night at 21 in New York. Those are people from a bygone era. I\u2019ve always said that one of the greatest perks of the success I\u2019ve had here is the people that it has afforded me the opportunity to meet. So I had to tell that little story just because Yogi was everything you thought he would be if you ever had a chance to meet him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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