00:00 We were talking before we came on too, and you had mentioned that obviously there are
00:03 some similarities in specific calls.
00:09 People think "Got it."
00:10 They think of Mike.
00:11 They think of you.
00:12 They think... and so you had mentioned that there's been a years-long process of discovery
00:18 to finally find out kind of how that all happened and how you guys overlapped a little bit.
00:23 I remember, this is a conversation of many, many, I don't want to say a thousand pregame
00:28 dinners with Mike, right, like in media rooms around the NBA, but it feels like that after
00:32 all those years.
00:33 Tommy tended to dominate a lot of those conversations, which was awesome.
00:38 But I remember when it first came up, because we both do use it, and what was interesting
00:45 to me was I didn't... because I mentioned Mike only did the games on cable.
00:48 This is going to sound absolutely archaic, but when I was at BU in the early '90s, we
00:54 didn't have cable.
00:55 You didn't have cable to...
00:56 I know, college students didn't have cable TV.
00:59 Oh my God, that's so primitive.
01:00 Yeah, well, there was no Starbucks either, right, when we were in college.
01:03 So there was no cable TV.
01:05 I didn't hear Mike until like mid '90s, like after I'm out of school.
01:11 And I had already been doing basketball games at that point, and it had already been used.
01:15 You know, I don't...
01:16 Not like use it every time, but got it.
01:18 To me, it has consonants.
01:19 I don't want to get too far down this 500 level play-by-play class.
01:23 It has consonants in it, so it's a stronger thing.
01:25 There's always a big debate about, in hockey, you say score or a goal, because it is a goal.
01:33 A goal is actually what's happened.
01:35 I never liked that because shot and a goal is coming down to me.
01:40 The cadence comes down.
01:41 Where you want to say shot, score, and it gets higher and louder.
01:45 You know, it's a different sound to it, and I think it draws people's attention, particularly
01:48 on radio, even though it is a goal.
01:50 So you can have these kind of debates.
01:52 The got it thing was interesting, so I couldn't figure out why was I saying got it when I
01:57 never heard...
01:58 You know, Mike will tell you that he talked to Johnny Most about that when he came up
02:02 with it, or I don't remember Mike's origin story for got it.
02:06 But that Johnny Most told him, "Yeah, you should use that because nobody else does."
02:10 And the funny thing was, I was using it before I heard Mike.
02:13 And I finally...
02:14 I don't know why, I think I was maybe watching his show one day, and it occurred to me as
02:19 a kid, college kid of the early 90s, high school, college kid, you're watching SportsCenter
02:24 all the time.
02:25 The 18...
02:26 Who was the number one guy on SportsCenter, late 80s, early 90s?
02:30 Dan Patrick.
02:32 Dan Patrick, when he would do highlights and would narrate home runs, what'd he say?
02:39 Got it.
02:40 Was it got it?
02:41 It was a got it.
02:42 And it wasn't a big, loud got it.
02:44 It was a down cadence.
02:47 Got it.
02:48 And I'm 99% sure that's where it sunk into my head.
02:52 When he was narrating a highlight, and Fernando Valenzuela on the mound and Tony Gwynn at
02:56 the plate, got it.
03:00 You narrate a highlight to say that as the bat hits the ball.
03:02 It's just sort of the art of doing highlights.
03:06 But I feel with great confidence, as watching Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann every night,
03:12 almost assuredly, this is 30 years ago now or more, where I got that from.
03:19 And two people have both of you's got it have been the Celtics.
03:22 So that's the one thing that will continue, right?
03:24 The Celtics, we know that.
03:25 Is that you'll always have, you'll have got it.
03:27 You'll always have got it.
03:28 That will live on.
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