Back at the desk, Casey says, "Listen." Danny groans. "What?" says Casey. Dan says he�s known all day long that Casey wants to tell him something. Guess they cut that scene. Casey says, "You remember Pixley?" and it would have been funny if Danny said, "Pixley who?" But he didn�t. Danny says, "Date #1." "Yes." "You saw her last night." "Yeah." "You gave her your number." "Yes." "Can�t stop thinking about her and you want to call her." "Yes." "But you feel guilty about it because it�s an emotional abandonment of Dana," and Casey denies it�s an abandonment. Danny says he wants to be left out of it because he likes Dana and he knows how this is going to turn out, which Casey scoffs at as well. Casey explains he�s just having these feelings but it doesn�t mean he�s going to act on them. Whatever, Casey. You sure handled Dana pretty smoothly a moment ago for someone who isn�t abandoning her, buddy. Danny hands Casey a phone message from Pixley. "She called," says Casey, a little excited and not at all pissed off that Danny waited until just before airtime to give it to him.
So they go live and all they do is tease the top stories of the show with annoying puns like "Bruins get bearish" and "don�t bet on the Rebels" which is a Vegas reference because the Runnin� Rebels are the UNLV team. Then they throw to commercial and Casey takes out the Pixley message and stares at it and he holds it really close to his face like he forgot his glasses.
Isaac�s office. Dan knocks and enters and Isaac expresses surprise to see him. "Because I�m supposed to be on air?" says Danny. Yeah, says Isaac. Dan has "four minutes and twenty seconds." Isaac ponders the idea of Danny babbling on at him for four minutes and twenty seconds, yet his head doesn�t implode. He says, "Let�s see how long we can hold our breath," which I thought was pretty funny. Danny starts setting the scene of the game with, "It was 3-1 in the bottom of the ninth," and you�d think an obsessive like Danny would know it was 4-1, but Isaac is tired of this and tells him he doesn�t want to talk about it. Danny repeats, "Come on! It was 3-1 in the bottom of the ninth�" and this may have been an intentional mistake because Isaac corrects him: "It was 4-1. It was 4-1 in the bottom of the ninth." Danny shuts up. "The Dodgers� director of player relations came into the pressbox chewing on a cigar, telling us where we could pick up our credentials for the World Series." Danny sits down, enraptured and says, "Because he didn�t know the Giants were about to stage one of the biggest comebacks�" Yeah, Danny, somehow I don�t think he�d had the chance to listen to the Russ Hodges tape every night for a few years as a kid, but Isaac interrupts him to continue. "That�s right. There was no place to sit in the pressbox, I stood up the whole game. But then when he took Newcombe out, I ran to the men�s room. I knew I had time because Branca was notorious for taking his time on the mound warming up. �Cept he didn�t this time." And the sad music starts up and it dawns on Danny why Isaac didn�t want to talk about it. And Isaac admits he never saw the home run. "I was in the men�s room. I was washing my hands. Branca warmed up a lot faster." Danny: "You never saw Thomson�s home run." Good news, Isaac! Danny�s got it on tape in the production room! Danny says, "You were at the game." Isaac says, "I was washing my hands." "Never wash your hands!" says Danny. Yeah, that�s great, Dan. "If only you�d been my mother," says Isaac and Danny repeats "you didn�t see the home run" and "you were washing your hands" about 50 times. Then he asks Isaac if he was "bummed" and Isaac says he was, for a while, "but then you get older and it just shows all the other things in your life that happened while you were looking the other way." Danny, suitably chastened, pauses and says, "Did you see your daughter get born?" "Yeah," says Isaac. "Did you see her graduate college?" asks Danny. "Yeah," says Isaac. "You watching Sports Night tonight?" and I think someone has an inflated sense of his show�s importance but Isaac says, "Yeah." Danny says, "Then shut up," and Isaac laughs. Danny and Isaac smile at each other (special bond) and Danny leaves to get back to the show.