(Thanks to Nick who was there, too, for the great picture above)

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Last night, I had the good fortune to be invited to a special event hosted by ECV at the Gotham Comedy Club. It was a Q&A session featuring Don Mattingly and Brian Leetch, co-hosted by long-time NYC sportscaster Russ Salzberg and MLB Network’s Matt Yalloff.

I was joined by Will, the sometimes-contributor (zing!) from IIATMS as well as Scott Ham (of The Bronx View) and his father. Rather than take notes, I had my trusty Flip with me and took a bunch of the Q&A, as you can see below. The tone of the night was a lot of fun with some great questions and even better answers. One of Mattingly’s best answers, the one that drew a ton of applause was a response to a question about him managing in the NL instead of the AL:

“…One of the good things about being in the NL is playing the Mets instead of the Yankees!…”

Yes, Mattingly FTW!

In the videos after the jump, Mattingly talks about the treatment received by the Yanks during the process (“they handled everything the right way“), playing in Boston, the toughest pitchers he faced, the Hall of Fame, his favorite Steinbrenner moment, who were his coaching influences, where’s his mustache, ‘cocaine guys’, the famous ‘get your hair cut‘ incident, and other fun stuff.  

Most of these questions were thankfully phrased in a way to include both Leetch and Mattingly, so there’s plenty of hockey of stuff here as well.  But most of it is Mattingly related, because that’s what we do here. Most of all, enjoy. [And remember, this was done with a tiny hand-held Flip in a dark comedy club with photographers and servers walking thru my line of vision way too often.]

(click “view full post” for all of the videos)