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"Talk of CNN": Baseball Strike and 3-D Sonograms
Aired August 20, 2002 - 06:40 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Every Tuesday morning we tap into the "Talk of CNN." It's a chance for us to explore the hot topics in talk radio.
And today, radio D.J.s from "The Bert Show" on Q100 right here in Atlanta join us by phone -- good morning.
BERT WEISS, Q100, "THE BERT SHOW": Hi, Carol, how are you this morning?
COSTELLO: You know I'm a little sluggish, but all in all fine.
WEISS: So you know what, we walked in here today and Jeff called in sick and Melissa here has no voice, so we know exactly where you're coming from.
COSTELLO: Oh good, so it's not just me.
WEISS: Not just you.
COSTELLO: So you guys are talking baseball.
WEISS: Yes, just a little bit about how we're all kind of just fed up with this strike talk, you know. I mean you've got billionaires arguing with millionaires here.
And the big argument seems to be over this luxury tax. You know the owners want to put $102 million luxury tax and tax themselves on their payroll anything over $102 million. And the players are saying that's not cool with them because obviously that influences their salaries. But when you're talking about such big figures, I mean when you talk to like nurses or you talk to construction workers and you're talking about a $100 million, these are people that can't understand those figures.
COSTELLO: Oh exactly, especially in these tough economic times. You know I was thinking, if the fans came up with a day right now and said we're going to strike on this day and not go to the ballgame all over the country, I think that would make a big difference.
WEISS: You know what, the fans almost are as much to blame here as the players and the owners because every time there's a strike, we say you know what, we're so fed up with baseball we're not going anymore. But if you look at the attendance numbers, they've increased since the last strike. So while we have -- you know we say we're fed up with it, we keep going year in and year out.
COSTELLO: Yes, and it just makes us whiners, doesn't it?
WEISS: It does, doesn't it.
COSTELLO: Hey, I like this topic, the 3-D sonogram.
WEISS: This is -- this is such a trip for me. My wife is seven- and-a-half months pregnant and yesterday we went to go get -- and get a sonogram. And now it's not like the -- in the old days when you had the sonograms where they were like those blurry black and white pictures.
COSTELLO: Yes, you couldn't tell what the heck it was.
WEISS: Well now you sort of can tell what it looks like, but you can -- I have this image of what my child looks like now.
COSTELLO: Can we put it up on the screen, because you sent us -- oh, we can't.
WEISS: Oh you can't.
COSTELLO: But you can actually see the baby in 3-D imagery inside the womb.
WEISS: To me when I looked at it yesterday, it almost looked as if it were one of the miners that were trapped last week.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Nice.
(LAUGHTER)
WEISS: Because it's...
COSTELLO: Well it's dark in there.
WEISS: It's dark and you really quite can't make out what's going on exactly. But if your wife is pregnant or you're pregnant and you can get this 3-D sonogram done, get it done because it really brings you close to a baby that's not even born yet.
COSTELLO: Oh it's just so bizarre looking. And the most bizarre aspect of this is you can actually put it online, babyhotornot.com, and get people's comments on whether your baby is cute or not.
WEISS: Yes, we were talking about this last week wondering if parents can really tell if their -- if their child is good looking or not or if they just say they're good looking even though they know they have an ugly baby, come on, because some parents know -- some parents know.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My 3-D baby is cuter than your 3-D baby.
WEISS: Well now there's a Web site you can go to called babyhotornot.com, and you post pictures of your baby and people can rank them from 1 to 10 based on its looks.
COSTELLO: That's just sick. It's like labeling the poor child before its old enough to like...
WEISS: Oh sure.
COSTELLO: ... be disturbed by it.
WEISS: Why wait until he's 5 or 6 years old to scar him when you can do it in the first year.
COSTELLO: You might as well start early.
WEISS: Sure.
COSTELLO: Hey, thank you very much, Bert, we enjoyed it as usual. And we'll check back with you next Tuesday.
WEISS: OK, Carol, bye.
MYERS: He's going to have a long day if he's talking all by himself.
COSTELLO: I know, the poor guy.
MYERS: He's not going to have a voice for tomorrow.
COSTELLO: Somehow I think he can manage it though.
MYERS: Hope somebody gets better. I suppose.
COSTELLO: Yes.
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