>> I SAID TO BARNACLE THAT ITS
BLASPHEMY TO COMPARE ANYBODY TO
PEDRO.
AND HE SAID, NO, HES FAR BETTER
THAN EVEN PEDRO THAT YEAR.
LETS BRING IN OUR GOOD FRIEND
AND UJ AUTHOR OF "ROBERT B.
PARKERS PAYBACK: A SUNNY RANDOM
NOVEL."
WE CAN TALK YANKEES AND METS.
FIRST OF ALL WITH deGROM, ITS
OBSCENE WHAT THEMETS HAVE DONE.
HES LOST GAMES WHERE HES GIVEN
UP JUST ONE RUN.
IF HE WERE PLAYING ANYWHERE
ELSE, HIS WIN TOTALS WOULD BE
OFF THE CHARTS.
>> YEAH, IMAGINE IF HE GOT TO
PITCH AGAINST THE METS, HOW MUCH
BETTER HIS NUMBERS WOULD BE.
WILLIE, THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT
FOUR-YEAR STRETCHES ANY PITCHER
EVER HAD.
THROW HIS ONE LOSS OUT BECAUSE
THEY DIDNT ZOR HIM ANY RUNS.
LAST WEEK HE GAVE HIM ONE RUN TO
THE RED SOX AND HIS EARNED RUN
AVERAGE JUMPED TO 0 .51.
WERE AT A PLACE IN HIS CAREER,
PEDRO, 99/2000, HES A
RIGHT-HANDED KOUFAX, WHERE
KOUFAX WAS IN THE 1960s AND ITS
AN UNBELIEVABLE PRIVILEGE AND
PLEASURE TO WATCH THIS GUY PITCH
NOW.
>> IT REALLY IS.
TONIGHT IN THE BRONX IN YANKEE
STADIUM, THE ASTROS ARE COMING
TO TOWN.
WHY IS THIS SIGNIFICANT?
ITS THE FIRST TIME SINCE WE
FOUND OUT THEY CHEATED ALL OF
THOSE YEARS AND STOLE THE ALCS
FROM THE YANKEES IN 2017.
YANKEE FANS, SMALL AS THEY MAY
BE BECAUSE OF COVID
RESTRICTIONS, GET TO FINALLY IN
PERSON BOO THE HOUSTON ASTROS.
>> YES, YANKEE FANS ARE ALWAYS
GOING TO BELIEVE THAT 2017
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES WAS STOLEN
FROM THEM BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE
SIGN STEALING THE ASTROS WERE
GOING TO DO.
I DONT WANT TO SOUND
BLASPHEMOUS TO YOU, WILLIE
GEIST, YANKEE FAN, EXCEPT TO
REMIND YOU WHEN YOU DO GO BACK
TO HOUSTON FOR GAME SIX AND
SEVEN THAT YEAR, YOUR TEAM
SCORED A GRAND WHOPPING TOTAL OF
ONE RUN.
>> YEAH.
>> THE FACT IS, NOW THEY HAVE TO
COME AND FACE THE MUSIC AND THE
TRASH CAN BANGING.
IT WILL BE TRULY A JOY TONIGHT
AT YANKEE STADIUM.
>> SO WHAT YOURE SAYING IS THE
ASTROS CHEATED EVEN WHEN THEY
WENT BACK HOME.
LETS TALK ABOUT YOUR NOVEL.
IM GOING TO SAY, MIKE, ITS
REALLY A PAGE TURNER.
AND ITS ALSO TALK ABOUT TIMELY,
ITS AS IF YOU WROTE IT
YESTERDAY.
IT TAKES PLACE POST COVID.
ITS REALLY A GREAT BOOK.
TALK ABOUT IT.
>> JOE, THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR
READING IT.
AS I SAID IN THE DESCRIPTION
WITH MIKA, SUNNY RANDALL DOES
KNOW HER VALUE.
YES, ITS A POST COVID WORLD AND
HE PRACTICALLY HAD HIS
RESTAURANT STOLEN FROM HIM.
HE WAS DESPERATE.
MADE A BAD DEAL WITH A BAD HEDGE
FUND GUY.
THAT STARTS THE ACTION OF THE
BOOK.
AND THEN THERES A GAMBLING SUB
PLOT.
I HAD TO LEARN A LOT MORE ABOUT
POKER THAN I EVER KNOWN IN MY
LIFE, JOE.
THIS IS MY SIRD SUNNY RANDOM
NOVEL.
IM SO HONORED TO BE WITH MY OLD
FRIEND ROBERT B. PARKER AND THE
EXCEPTION TO THESE BOOKS, ITS A
BLAST WRITING ABOUT THESE
CHARACTERS.
YEAH, THE POST COVID WORLD
BECAUSE I DIDNT KNOW HOW TO SET
IT IN THE COVID WORLD.
SO I SAID, OKAY, LETS MOVE US
PAST THAT.
AND ITS JUST A CHANCE FOR
READERS WHOLWAYS LOVED THIS
CHARACTER THAT ROBERT B. PARKER
CREATED, TO HANG OUT WITH HER
AGAIN FOR ABOUT 2,500 PAGES.
>> TALKING ABOUT "PAYBACK" AND
WHY PEOPLE WILL LOVE THIS ONE IN
PARTICULAR, THERES SO MUCH YOU
GIVE READERS.
>> YEAH, AGAIN, ITS THE
RELATIONSHIPS IN THIS BOOK.
THIS IS HER BEST FRIEND WHO GETS
HIS RESTAURANT STOLEN AND SUNNY
IS NOT JUST GOING TO LET THAT
HAPPEN.
AND ANOTHER FRIEND OF HERS, HIS
NIECE GETS ASSAULTED ONE NIGHT
AT HER SCHOOL AND THEY CAN TELL
SHES NOT TELLING THE TRUTH, AND
ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH, JOE, AS
YOU KNOW, THE TWO PLOTS
INTERSECT.
IT JUST HAPPENS ONE DAY AND IT
MAKES THE LAST 150 PAGES OF THIS
BOOK FEEL LIKE A SPRINT.
>> THE WORLDS DO COLLIDE.
YEAH, AGAIN, ITS A PAGE-TURNER
AND IT IS A SPRINT TO THE END.
MIKE LUPICIA, THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR BEING WITH US AND FOR
WRITING THESE BOOKS.
THEYRE GREAT.
>> WE LOVE THEM.
THE NEW BOOK IS "ROBERT B.