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Quote: -- VITALE CAUGHT ON TAPE --

To be clear, I'm not one of those who is irritated by Dick Vitale. I find his enthusiasm refreshing and I've always known him to be a decent and pleasant human, on and off camera. So you can hate him if you like, but he's forever been nice to me, and that's all I really care about.

But this is too good to let pass!

Vitale was scheduled to appear on a radio show Monday morning in Knoxville in advance of Tuesday's game between Florida and Tennessee. When the hosts -- Mike Griffith and John Adams -- went to Vitale he was in a restaurant talking with some people, apparently unaware he was live on the air. The hosts kept trying to cut in, but Vitale wouldn't stop talking, and now Griffith and Adams must know how Dan Schulman feels.

Anyway, Vitale goes on to tell a story -- remember, he has no idea he's on the air even though he's actually on the air -- about how Florida's Billy Donovan told him "in confidence" NBA scouts were "making a mistake" if they took Joakim Noah over Al Horford, and if the Gators didn't already have locker room problems I'd imagine they might soon.

Honestly, it's wonderful entertainment. And to Griffith's and Adams' credit -- nice job, guys -- they played it perfectly, milking it for every quality moment. Vitale finally realized he was on the air and immediately went into Vitale-mode, enthusiastic and happy. Adams, in a stroke of genius, asked Vitale what he thought of Noah and Horford -- really nice job, John -- but the legendary color man just played it straight before getting off the air, which is when somebody from Florida told him how his "confidential" story was just made less-than-confidential over the radio in Knoxville.

Naturally, Vitale called back into the show.

And backpedaled.

But I couldn't possibly do this story justice. So just click this link and the audio clips from both phone calls are on the right side of the page. Enjoy. It's Awesome Baby with -- what else? -- a capital A.

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thats AWESOME BABY! go listen to the links...classic

THis on the same day that ESPN publishes a story of Coach Knight supporting Vitale getting into the Hall of Fame. I love the timing.

Did you notice that there was no mention made of this last night during his broadcast of the Florida-Tennessee game?

Grammar-Nazi Wrote:Did you notice that there was no mention made of this last night during his broadcast of the Florida-Tennessee game?

Of course not it was on ESPN... Any other channel and then maybe.