XM MLB Chat: Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo: Joe Torre-Larry King interview 'a disgrace'

Neil Best Watchdog provides script of Mad Dog on Sirius XM Saturday morning. Russo will interview Torre on Wednesday at 4:45pm (XM 144, Sirius 123, last heard):

""I was not able to sleep last night, so I saw this at about 3:15. Let me tell you, Larry King's got to retire. Let's start with that. Larry King is lost, lost, lost. And CNN was so bad last night with its presentation with Torre,
it was a disgrace.

"First off, they have two bars in operation here. They had a New York bar, and they had an L.A. bar. So they thought it would be a great idea, for some ungodly reason, to have fans in New York ask Joe questions and fans in L.A. ask Joe questions.

"Now, we all want to know about the book. I don't care about what some 18-year-old in L.A. wants Joe to do with Manny Ramirez. I'm not interested.

Today's not the day for that. It's Jan. 30. I don't care if Manny Ramirez plays for the Royals, I'm not interested right now. In two weeks I'll get into it. Right now I can't get into it.

"So Larry, fumbling around, goes to New York and goes to Mickey Mantle's and some lady or kid or whatever might ask Joe about the book, might ask Joe, you know, what do you think about A-Rod, but also might say, 'Joe, we love you, hope you come back some day.'

"It was so absurd that CNN decided - and CNN with sports, you don't pay any attention to anyway, they know nothing about sports.

If you watch sports in this world - with news, they do a nice job - but if you watch sports, you don't go to CNN. We all know that. I know that. You know that.
You don't go to Atlanta.

"You know what you don't do? You don't go to Atlanta for sports, whether it's TBS, TNT, they stink for sports.

Their announcers are awful.

They're awful. Awful.

They've been awful, they are awful, they will always be awful.

"How could you be the executive producer at CNN last night and say to yourself, OK, we've got Joe Torre in our studio, he's gotten a lot of publicity with this book, SI this week and everything else, big exclusive interview, you know, Joe is a big guy in sports. It's a Friday night, so people are thinking sports with the Super Bowl. And you know what we're going to do?

"We are going to put a camera in a bar in New York and a camera in a bar in L.A. and we're going to go back and forth to have the fans ask Joe a question.

No fan of which has bought the book. You can't buy it until Tuesday, so nobody can get the book. The book is embargoed.

You can't buy this book if you're Doubleday.

My editor couldn't buy this book!

Jason Kaufman hasn't got the book yet! And he's the editor of the Da Vinci Code.

You can't get any bigger than that guy. He hasn't read it! So that was a dumb idea.

"Then they've got that dopey anchor, whatever his name is, I don't even know, I've seen him a couple of times,

and he's sitting there on the blog in New York reading blogs, i-blogs. He's got Joe we love you, Joe how can you do this,

Joe how about Manny Ramirez, Joe what'd you think about Game 4 of the 2001 World Series? I mean, it didn't make any sense.

"And then you've got Larry doesn't pace the show right. It's ridiculous. I don't care how many spots you have. Listen, I did a radio show with another person for 18 years, 19 years, with 19 to 20 minutes of commercials every day, not to mention news, sports, weather and traffic and Wall Street. There's a way to pace a program. Larry, learn, please.

"And then Larry, all over the map, asking more questions about Ramirez, we both are from Brooklyn, how about that? I mean, nobody cares. Then Joe chimes in by giving him a Dodger cup.

"And to top the disaster all off, what's King do at the end of the program? He's been married 30 times. What's he do at the end of the program?