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Lundy Mar 24 2006 06:51 AM

I was invited to be in the studio audience of Quite Frankly, a talk show on ESPN2 hosted by Stephen A. Smith. Mike Schmidt was the guest (and the reason I was invited--he's an alum of the college I attended.) I was fortunate enough to get picked to ask a question to Mike--and appeared on camera! My segment aired this past Wednesday:

MFS62 Mar 24 2006 07:04 AM

Nice. What question did you ask? What was his answer? Later

ScarletKnight41 Mar 24 2006 07:54 AM

Very cool Lundy! Was your daughter all excited about seeing you on tv?

Lundy Mar 24 2006 08:12 AM

I asked him his thoughts on the World Baseball Classic. He did color commentary for XM for a few games, so I knew he had an opinion on it. Which is probably why the producers picked my question in the first place. I must have caught my daughter in a bad mood. She recognized me, but then said "I wanna watch Dora." Oh well.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 24 2006 08:15 AM

She sees you all the time. And in this age of video cameras, seeing Daddy on TV is probably no big deal. Pretty cool, though. Did Schmidt like the WBC?

Lundy Mar 24 2006 08:41 AM

He said that going into the torunament, he didn't think it was going to be a big thing. But he changed his mind when he got to Arizona and saw how enthusiastic the players and fans were about it. He was impressed with the way they marketed the tournament. Schmidt mentioned that he probably wouldn't have participated in the WBC if they had it back when he was playing. He really liked the relaxing atmosphere of Spring Training.

Elster88 Mar 24 2006 08:43 AM

You saw Stephen A in person? Have you experienced any hearing loss? BTW, very cool. I hope you keep the tape.

SwitchHitter Mar 24 2006 09:06 AM

Very cool that you got to do this. I've heard similar sentiments on the WBC from others. It's caused me to change my opinion of it.

Edgy DC Mar 24 2006 09:11 AM

I'd've asked him about Pete Rose what it's like to be the best player of the only championship team in Phillie history and have Pete Rose cast a shadow over it, and if he's ever punched Pete in the nose. They wouldn't have gone with my question.

cooby Mar 24 2006 09:13 AM

Youd' have to do the old switcheroo. Submit one question but ask another on camera! Nice job Lundy!

Lundy Mar 24 2006 09:32 AM

I honestly had never heard of Stephen A. Smith before this. And I don't have a tape of the show, but I have a TiVo file saved on my computer. Such is life in the 21st century.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 24 2006 09:48 AM

I only recently learned that Smith had a TV show. (He's been a guest on David Letterman's show.) I mostly know him from his column in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Lundy Mar 24 2006 10:13 AM

They actually talked for quite a bit about Pete Rose. Schmidt says that Rose didn't show enough remorse after he admitted he bet on baseball to Bud Selig. It was like, okay, we had the meeting and I came clean, now where is my reinstatement?

Edgy DC Mar 31 2006 08:55 PM

That has been my impression. I assume they had an understanding (probably brokered in part by Morgan and Schmidt) that any road to reinstatement start with him coming clean, which he heard as "Admission of Guilt"="Hall of Fame." It's like the guy needed some sort of MLB parole agent to walk him through rehabbing his character. Very disappointing.

Frayed Knot Apr 01 2006 06:31 AM

From the bits I've picked up here and there, Schmidt's been more in Rose's corner than most of his contemporaries and ex-teammates - to the point of trying to broker an agreement w/Selig to get Pete re-instated. Steven A. Smith started to jump off the newspaper pages and onto TV via ESPN's coverage of basketball. Once the suits there realized that he talked really loud and had the ability to annoy numerous quantities of people they knew they had struck on the answer to "who can we put on the air to follow Jim Rome"?

HahnSolo Apr 06 2006 01:17 PM

Good job getting the QT quality time, as Dick Vitale would say. I'm sure others have told you that you look like Curt Schilling.

Edgy DC Apr 06 2006 01:26 PM

Lundy has a much finer booty.

Lundy Apr 07 2006 08:31 AM

I haven't gotten that, but it's funny cause my wife's maiden name is Schilling.

*62 Apr 08 2006 01:54 PM

="Lundy"]I asked him his thoughts on the World Baseball Classic. He did color commentary for XM for a few games, so I knew he had an opinion on it. Which is probably why the producers picked my question in the first place. I must have caught my daughter in a bad mood. She recognized me, but then said "I wanna watch Dora." Oh well. swiper no swiping swiper no swiping swiper no swiping i can't help it ....... I'm an old guy with a two year old notice that, in sharp contrast to my finished work pics, my own bathroom is not quite finished :) whaddayagonna do

Edgy DC Apr 08 2006 02:04 PM

First thing I noticed. Beautiful kid and all, but that was the first thing I noticed.

soupcan Apr 08 2006 09:19 PM

Edgy DC wrote: First thing I noticed. Beautiful kid and all, but that was the first thing I noticed. Yup.

Lundy Apr 10 2006 09:04 AM

] swiper no swiping swiper no swiping swiper no swiping *snaps* Oh maaan! I ride the Long Island Rail Road to work, and whenever I hear the announcement "Backpacks and other large containers are subject to search" the "Backpack, Backpack" song from Dora pops into my head. I can't get away from it!

Lundy Apr 13 2006 11:03 AM

If anyone wants to see the episode I'm in, it is scheduled to rerun tonight on ESPN2 at 11pm.