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On Thursday's edition of Felger and Mazz, with Matt McCarthy and Mark Dondero, the guys kept the tradition going with another edition of Mazz' Tiers. Mark Dondero tiered the best Boston sports soundbites.
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00:00Maz's Tears.
00:02Yeah, these are the tears of the cloud.
00:05Maz's Tears.
00:07The second tear.
00:08Hold on, let me get my pen.
00:09Maz's Tears.
00:11Dallas.
00:12Buffalo.
00:13Tennessee.
00:14Maz's Tears.
00:16Third tear.
00:17Okay, here we go.
00:17Hold on, let me get my pen.
00:19Maz's Tears.
00:21Tears.
00:22Tears.
00:23Tears.
00:25Mark Dondaro is a passionate guy.
00:27I don't know if I've ever seen him so fired up.
00:30For one segment.
00:30If you're not watching on NBC Sports Boston, he has the Terminator sunglasses going on.
00:36He took out a hockey stick we have here in studio and was playing the air guitar.
00:42Now, do you play guitar, Dondaro?
00:44No.
00:45Do you want to learn how to play guitar?
00:47I'll teach you.
00:48No.
00:48You don't want to learn.
00:49You know how?
00:50Yeah.
00:51I play guitar.
00:52No.
00:52I have other interests.
00:54Such as?
00:54Golf.
00:56It's a good interest.
00:57Strong interest.
00:58Like that.
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01:18The floor is yours, Mark.
01:19But I'm always interested in the origin of Maz's Tears.
01:22You texted me on Monday.
01:24You had your tears.
01:25You were ready to go.
01:25What is the origin and what is the topic for today's tears?
01:29So the topic is best Boston sports soundbites.
01:34Or Boston sports soundbites.
01:35I don't know if best is the word you want to have in there.
01:37The origin?
01:38I don't know.
01:38I just...
01:39It has to be a best.
01:40It's a tear.
01:40Yeah, best.
01:41Fine.
01:41The best or worst.
01:42The most notable, most notable maybe.
01:45A while back, years ago, I used to produce something on TikTok.
01:48It was like a top 10 type of list thing.
01:51Just content that I enjoy creating.
01:54It never really had a platform.
01:56This is the type of platform that I thought maybe people would enjoy in the tears format.
02:00I enjoy.
02:01I always like lists.
02:02So I thought this particular one would be a decent, especially if we were in here when
02:07the guys weren't in here on a Thursday.
02:08It's like, let's do a Maz's Tears.
02:10So we got Maz's Tears.
02:11The best or most notable sports, Boston sports soundbites.
02:16All right?
02:16So let's look at tier number three.
02:18We'll go from tier three up to tier one.
02:20Tier number three.
02:21Okay?
02:22Kyrie Irving.
02:24If you'll have me back, I plan on re-signing here.
02:27Now, I had some mixed emotions about this one.
02:29Feel free, Matty, to jump in at any point.
02:31I had some mixed feelings because it was so negative.
02:34But I felt like that comment was so outrageous for how he said it and the way he said it to
02:40the season ticket holders.
02:41And it sort of shaped the dynamic of the Celtics for a few years and opened the door for Tatum
02:46and Brown.
02:46It was so noteworthy up in front of everybody like that.
02:49I had to put it on here.
02:50Terry Francona.
02:51Okay?
02:51A couple on this list you might not remember.
02:54Frank Kona, I forget, 04 or 07.
02:56Do you remember this?
02:57I don't.
02:57When he was asked about Kevin Euclid being the Greek god of walks, Billy Bean dubbed him
03:03the Greek god of walks.
03:04He replied, I've seen him in the shower.
03:07He's not the Greek god of anything.
03:09Tito Francona on Kevin Euclid.
03:11I loved it.
03:11I just thought it was funny.
03:12It wasn't really noteworthy.
03:13I loved it.
03:14Tito, that showed his personality.
03:16I think it was 04.
03:17Might have been 07.
03:18The next one, Josh Beckett.
03:19Here's another one you might have forgotten about.
03:20Oh, I remember this one.
03:21Yeah, this was awesome.
03:22After game five, Red Sox were down 3-1 in the ALCS to the Indians.
03:26They brought in, Cleveland did, his ex-girlfriend.
03:29She was some country singer to sing the national anthem, try to mess with them or whatever.
03:34He goes out there.
03:34He shoves.
03:35He's asked about it.
03:36And his quote is, I don't get paid to make those bleeping decisions.
03:40She's a friend of mine.
03:40It doesn't bother me at all.
03:41Thanks for flying one of my friends to the game so she could watch it for free.
03:44I loved it.
03:45It kind of encapsulated what Josh Beckett was back then and the attitude.
03:49They won the game.
03:50They come back.
03:50They win the series.
03:51That was awesome.
03:52It was a great moment.
03:52Tom Brady.
03:53Here's another one you might have.
03:54It sort of goes under the radar.
03:56After the snowball game, I think it was Tom Curran in the press conference.
04:00He asked him, Tom, were you throwing the ball?
04:02And obviously the famous player of the tuck rule.
04:04And Brady said, yeah, I was throwing the ball.
04:07Looking to the left, I was going to throw it and he hit me.
04:09I was throwing it.
04:10How do you like that?
04:11With a smile on his face.
04:12Just savagery at that moment.
04:14And that's when you've sort of gotten the, you know, this guy is cool.
04:17This guy is him.
04:18All those different types of things were in play in that moment.
04:21Another one here.
04:24Joe Mazzula.
04:25Okay.
04:26Asked about Christoph Porzingis this past year when he was bleeding.
04:29There's a ton of Joe Mazzula, but I like this one.
04:31I like watching him bleed on the court.
04:33I think it's important.
04:34Who did important bleeding?
04:36I love it.
04:37Okay.
04:38I've never heard bleeding described as important.
04:41So that's what stood out to me.
04:42And a lot of Joe Mazzulas we could have had, but I had to narrow it down.
04:45Obviously, Rick Pitino not walking through that door.
04:48Wait a minute.
04:48Rick Pitino tier three?
04:50Tier three not walking through the door.
04:51This is not a tier with integrity.
04:54Doesn't matter.
04:55Out the window.
04:55That's a tier one.
04:57Not walking through that door.
04:58There was nothing associated with any type of substance.
05:02The only regret I have about that is it wasn't during the Felger and Maz era.
05:06I would have loved to have seen that exchange during the era of talk radio.
05:09We're still talking about that 25 years later.
05:12We're still referencing that.
05:13I don't think it didn't matter.
05:14That's in the sports lexicon.
05:16This is tier three.
05:17Oh, that garbage.
05:18All right.
05:18Get that out of here.
05:18Get that way up there.
05:20Way up.
05:20Tier one.
05:22Fine.
05:22Okay.
05:23And the last one on this list.
05:25Larry Bird's not walking through that door, fans.
05:27Kevin McHale's not walking through that door.
05:29And Robert Parrish is not walking through that door.
05:32And if you expect them to walk through the door, they're going to be gray and old.
05:35How is that not?
05:37Tier one.
05:38I don't know.
05:38Back me up on that.
05:39That has to be a tier one, right?
05:40Should it be higher, Jimmy?
05:41It should be a tier one because at the time Rick Pitino came in here, he kicked red out
05:47of the presidency spot.
05:49And then he failed and failed miserably.
05:52Okay.
05:52So that's a tier one.
05:53Fine.
05:53I'm not saying it's perfect.
05:54This might have been a misstep there.
05:56The last one.
05:56Might have.
05:57I guess this is Tim Thomas.
05:59After game four, I think it was in the Stanley Cup final 2011, when talking about Roberto
06:05Luongo made some comments.
06:06I guess I didn't realize it was my job to pump his tires.
06:09I guess I have to apologize for that.
06:10I love that in the moment.
06:12I love the mentality Thomas had there.
06:13All right.
06:13Let's go to tier two.
06:15Why don't we do it on the other side of the break?
06:17Yeah.
06:17We got to get a headline.
06:18There we go.
06:19All right.
06:1990 seconds, no commercials, a quick update for Mark Dondaro, then a tier two and tier
06:25one and the Maz's tears, the Dondaro's tears, Mark's tears, come up with something there
06:31on the greatest Boston sports soundbites of all time.
06:35I've been around and when Jim Rice was booed, I've been around with you.
06:38It's been booed and it stinks.
06:39It makes the greatest town, greatest city in the world lousy.
06:43And if you think I'm going to succumb to negativity, you're wrong.
06:47You got the wrong guy leading this basketball team.
06:49No, you're definitely not going to succumb to negativity, Rick.
06:53Nothing about that whole experience is negative at all.
06:56See, I think if it was a list on the best rants, obviously that, but I was thinking more
07:01of the quote.
07:01It should have been higher.
07:02It should have been at least a two.
07:04I'll own that one.
07:05All right.
07:06Next, tier two.
07:08Kevin Millar, don't let us win today because we got Petey in game five, Schilling in game
07:13six, and anything can happen in game seven.
07:15I didn't think it was, because it was sort of casual, that's why it wasn't higher.
07:21He was saying it to Shaughnessy outside of the batting practice line or whatever.
07:24So I could have made it higher, but it was too casual, so I didn't have it as high.
07:28Bill Parcells, if you want to cook the dinner, if they want you to cook the dinner, at least
07:33they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
07:35January 97.
07:36That was a noteworthy, all-time comment from Parcells.
07:39It encapsulated the relationship at the time and really was probably at the foundation
07:44of why he ended up going to the Jets and bolting after that Super Bowl, but he was great
07:48with the media and his bites were good.
07:49Both very strong.
07:51Very, very strong.
07:52Both those.
07:53I think it speaks to how strong tier one might be.
07:55They want you to cook the dinner.
07:57At least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
08:00Okay?
08:01I love it.
08:02January of 2023, at the town hall meeting, it's expensive to have baseball players.
08:09John Henry.
08:11I just, again, with the times that we're in right now with the Red Sox, that was an unbelievable
08:15thing to say to those people.
08:17They're booing.
08:18He's defensive.
08:19It just was crazy that that came out of his mouth based on what the Red Sox had become.
08:23That was on the list.
08:24Okay.
08:25I'm going to make the decisions that I think are the best for the team.
08:29T-E-A-M as in team.
08:30Bill Belichick, 2001, during the debate whether or not it should be Tom Brady or Drew Bledsoe.
08:38A very meaningful and important quote in the history of Boston sports when he said that.
08:44Obviously, the Pedro Martinez one.
08:48Which one?
08:48Okay.
08:49So this Pedro Martinez one.
08:50What can I say?
08:51Tip my cap and call the Yankees my daddy.
08:54So there's two Pedro on here.
08:55That's the first one.
08:56Because I thought when 2004 was going on, all the chants leading into the ALCS.
09:00I mean, you thought they might have owned Pedro.
09:03But the Red Sox were able to bounce back and win the series.
09:06I think that's got to be tier one.
09:08I need to see tier one first.
09:10But Pedro called the Yankees my daddies is so iconic.
09:13And led to that whole thing in the ALCS in that year.
09:17I mean, what can I say?
09:19Just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddies.
09:23It's so good.
09:24It's good.
09:25But I like the other Pedro one better.
09:28That quote, the full quote is,
09:29I don't believe in damn curses.
09:31Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him.
09:34Maybe I'll drill him in the ass.
09:36I don't believe in damn curses.
09:38Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him.
09:41Maybe I'll drill him in the ass.
09:42See, I like that one better.
09:43I love that.
09:44That spoke to the mentality that the team needed at that time.
09:49Screw this curse.
09:50We're cursed.
09:51This is how I feel.
09:52And he was perfect for that.
09:53How about Pedro's 10 years ago,
09:56I was under a mango tree without 50 cents to ride the bus.
09:59That's another classic.
10:01That's a good one.
10:01How about Kareem Garcia?
10:02That was a miss.
10:03I could have had that.
10:04Who are you?
10:05Who are you, Kareem Garcia, to try to test Pedro Martinez?
10:09If Gerald wants to cry, let him cry.
10:12There's the clubhouse one?
10:13The clubhouse is my house.
10:15If you sneak into my house and I don't know who you are, I will shoot you.
10:19I forgot.
10:22What a gem.
10:23There's this one too?
10:25Are you praying?
10:26How do you know?
10:28You better.
10:30Man, I forgot about how good he was behind the mic.
10:34The only other one, tier two, the Mona Lisa Vito, January 2015 when they were talking about the flake gate,
10:40and I'm not the Mona Lisa Vito, like she is in the car industry.
10:46All right.
10:46So that's tier two.
10:47We've got to see tier one.
10:48Tier one.
10:48There are a lot of good ones in there that I want to judge you for not putting in tier one, but I got to see tier one.
10:54Feel free to rip me to any snubs I want to hear about them, you know, but this is my tier one.
10:59All right.
10:59First one, and I think this is the top one of all.
11:02We are all Patriots, and tonight the Patriots are world champions.
11:05So well said in a moment where the nation was still grieving the Patriots, the improbable victory over the Rams in the Super Bowl,
11:14and it was just such an organic moment.
11:16I love that quote, and it was up there with meaning and not just sports meaning, but national meaning.
11:22I felt like it was just well-placed and well-placed.
11:25David Ortiz, kind of a similar vibe here.
11:27This is our bleeping city, and nobody going to dictate our freedom.
11:31Stay strong.
11:32Sometimes you just have to drop a good F-bomb, and that was the time.
11:36I know there was kids, everybody in the stands, they're alive.
11:39It doesn't matter.
11:40You had to do it right there.
11:41He had to get that point across.
11:42That was an iconic moment.
11:43The fact they went on to win the World Series made it even better.
11:47Speaking of winning, anything's possible.
11:50Kevin Garnett, so much emotion and passion and raw energy there after the championship.
11:55Right the minute they win it on the floor, Michelle Tafoya trying to get the mic up to his face.
12:00That was an all-time moment.
12:02And then, obviously, on to Cincinnati, because Bill Belichick's podium presence in his press conferences were so legendary.
12:09That was one of the iconic takeaways from not just his time behind the microphone as the Patriots head coach, but that season.
12:16How Brady, they were so bad, and you thought they might move on.
12:19And then Brady comes back, wins three championships, and it was all kind of the on to Cincinnati aura where it began.
12:25So that had to be on the list as a Tier 1 category.
12:29This jersey that we wear today, it doesn't say Red Sox.
12:33It say Boston.
12:34We want to thank you, Mayor Menino, Governor Patrick, the whole police department, for the great job that they did this past week.
12:41This is our f***ing city, and nobody's going to dictate our freedom.
12:48Stay strong.
12:49Undeniably Tier 1.
12:51Here's my objection to your tiers, Mark.
12:54There should have been more in Tier 1.
12:56Okay.
12:57Parcells belongs in Tier 1.
12:59How about Parcells?
13:00How's Terry Glenn?
13:01She's fine.
13:02Oh, I forgot about that.
13:03That's a good one.
13:03Okay, there's a snub.
13:05Pedro Martinez, call the Yankees my daddies.
13:08Has to be Tier 1.
13:09Okay.
13:09Maybe Wake Up the Damn Bambino is fine in number 2 because Tier 1 is the best.
13:15I don't believe in damn curses.
13:18Wake Up the Damn Bambino and have me face him.
13:20Maybe I'll drill him in the ass.
13:22I definitely, she's fine.
13:24I definitely wish I had.
13:25She's making progress, yeah, I think.
13:28Shouldn't be too much longer.
13:30And the Kareem Garcia one, I wish I thought of that one.
13:32That was one that was.
13:34Who are you?
13:34Who are you, Kareem Garcia, to try to test Pedro Martinez?
13:39Johnny Gomes fighting people in the supermarket.
13:42That feels like a Tier 3 type of one.
13:44I don't know.
13:45There's so many.
13:45I don't remember that one.
13:47Oh, Johnny Gomes said, basically he said, if somebody, you know, comes up to you in the
13:51supermarket and wants to fight you, you're just going to let him do it.
13:53I don't have much patience, nor do I have much time right now to be in an arguing match.
13:59I'm the guy you want to go to war with.
14:02What if you're at a grocery store and the guy right next to you in line is pointing at you
14:06and yelling at you?
14:07Are you going to go get security or are you going to do something right there?
14:12I didn't remember that one.
14:14So I knew there were going to be some that I forgot.
14:16I knew that I put myself at risk for some blatant snubs.
14:21The Patino one should have been higher.
14:23We miss any, Jimmy?
14:24Those are the ones that come to mind for me.
14:26I'm sure we did.
14:27I'm trying to go through all of my drops to find ones that historically over the years
14:32have cracked me up.
14:34You do have that advantage.
14:35And actually, I would say, Jimmy, you probably are one of the most qualified people in Boston
14:40to have an opinion on these tiers because you've been enhancing talent since 2000 and
14:44playing all these cuts.
14:47So as always, you know, should have been higher.
14:50I would have had more Pedro stuff, but that's my own Pedro bias because he's my favorite Red
14:55Sox of all time.
14:56He's arguably the greatest pitcher not named Roger Clemens to ever pitch for the Red Sox.
15:01So that's why I'm biased towards Pedro as much as I am.
15:05I'd have to think a little bit more about that.
15:06But I think you've got the basic generic Dendara.
15:10I would have had Patino tier one just because I've heard it over and over and over.
15:13I would have had more Pedro in tier one.
15:16What about this?
15:17This is the only other one I thought of, but I didn't know if it was a soundbite.
15:20Did Dan Duquette say out loud?
15:22More days in first place.
15:24Or what about...
15:26Dan Duquette was on the Ted Sarandis show, and he was going through the post-mortems of
15:31the Red Sox collapsing or whatever it was, and he had the legendary line.
15:35Well, we spent a lot of days in first place.
15:38In fact, more days in first place than any other team this year.
15:41I had another one said to me, it didn't get on here, but it was...
15:47Didn't John Farrell say something about we have five aces or five number ones or something
15:52like that?
15:52That was one.
15:53What about Dan Duquette in the twilight of his career?
15:56Was that a soundbite?
15:57Roger Clemens is in the twilight of his career.
15:59That could have probably been considered.
16:02I'm Bloom.
16:03We're going to do this.
16:03It's going to be awesome.
16:06So many.