Rick Probstein interviews Bill Mastro

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

Sometimes the interviewees themselves just weren't very good no matter how much editing was brought to bear, and those were an easy choice to leave off the set.

Gibby didn't like that you omitted eight hours of Gibby!

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

It was Larry's son, Stevie, then in his mid-teens, who handled the tape recorder, incidentally.

"Tell us more!"

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by BillyCox3

Gibby didn't like that you omitted eight hours of Gibby!
"Tell us more!"

What about?
Gibby was "too much Gibby!"

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

What about?
Gibby was "too much Gibby!"

"Tell us more" was Stevie's go-to line to get the players to expand on a subject!

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by BillyCox3

"Tell us more" was Stevie's go-to line to get the players to expand on a subject!

That was Barbara's line, usually preceded by a sexy, "Ooooh," as in "Ooooh, let's hear more about that!" or some such. But it's usually intrusive, interrupting the player's story or train of thought, and doesn't help at all. Steve was very quiet and shy, as you can tell when the Goose turns the questioning on him briefly. His job was to operate the reel-to-reel recorder, and he seems to have handled that expertly.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Oh, really? I swore that was the voice of a youngish, teenaged boy. I've been under a false impression all these years. Wow. Thanks for the clarification.