[ cheers and applause ] thank you for joining us right here on a special night. You join us on what is hands down our wettest show of the year. Our most beloved summer tradition happens tonight. Directly behind our theater we have erected this beautiful aboveground swimming pool. It cost us more than 40 million to build this. And it was worth every penny. [ laughter ] because tonight were going to grab random people off the street, ask them to disrobe and do a belly flop on television for you. It is our 11th annual [ cheers and applause ] it started back in 2006. And from time to time people ask me why a belly flop contest every year . And to those people i say, mom, go to bed, were doing this. [ laughter ] my cousin sal is out on hollywood boulevard right now. Sal, are the streets full of bellies and hopeful floppers there . Oh, weve got some big ones, some flat ones. Weve got everything for you. Jimmy good. Lets meet some of them, then. Heres a big one. Jimmy all right. Okay. [ appla
[ cheers and applause ] thank you for joining us right here on a special night. You join us on what is hands down our wettest show of the year. Our most beloved summer tradition happens tonight. Directly behind our theater we have erected this beautiful aboveground swimming pool. It cost us more than 40 million to build this. And it was worth every penny. [ laughter ] because tonight were going to grab random people off the street, ask them to disrobe and do a belly flop on television for you. It is our 11th annual [ cheers and applause ] it started back in 2006. And from time to time people ask me why a belly flop contest every year . And to those people i say, mom, go to bed, were doing this. [ laughter ] my cousin sal is out on hollywood boulevard right now. Sal, are the streets full of bellies and hopeful floppers there . Oh, weve got some big ones, some flat ones. Weve got everything for you. Jimmy good. Lets meet some of them, then. Heres a big one. Jimmy all right. Okay. [ appla
[ cheers and applause ] thank you for joining us right here on a special night. You join us on what is hands down our wettest show of the year. Our most beloved summer tradition happens tonight. Directly behind our theater we have erected this beautiful aboveground swimming pool. It cost us more than 40 million to build this. And it was worth every penny. [ laughter ] because tonight were going to grab random people off the street, ask them to disrobe and do a belly flop on television for you. It is our 11th annual [ cheers and applause ] pedestrian belly flop competition. It started back in 2006. And from time to time people ask me why a belly flop contest every year . And to those people i say, mom, go to bed, were doing this. [ laughter ] my cousin sal is out on hollywood boulevard right now. Sal, are the streets full of bellies and hopeful floppers there . Oh, weve got some big ones, some flat ones. Weve got everything for you. Jimmy good. Lets meet some of them, then. Heres a big
[ cheers and applause ] thank you for joining us right here on a special night. You join us on what is hands down our wettest show of the year. Our most beloved summer tradition happens tonight. Directly behind our theater we have erected this beautiful aboveground swimming pool. It cost us more than 40 million to build this. And it was worth every penny. [ laughter ] because tonight were going to grab random people off the street, ask them to disrobe and do a belly flop on television for you. It is our 11th annual [ cheers and applause ] pedestrian belly flop competition. It started back in 2006. And from time to time people ask me why a belly flop contest every year . And to those people i say, mom, go to bed, were doing this. [ laughter ] my cousin sal is out on hollywood boulevard right now. Sal, are the streets full of bellies and hopeful floppers there . Oh, weve got some big ones, some flat ones. Weve got everything for you. Jimmy good. Lets meet some of them, then. Heres a big
I dont know if we have baseball fans in the audience but this is the biggest night for Major League Baseball in a very long time. Not your usual world series. Tonight from cleveland, game one between the indians and the cubs. Two perennial losers. [ cheers and applause ] neither the cubs nor indians have won the world series since two months before jesus was born. Former indians allstar kenny lofton threw out the first pitch tonight. Some cleveland fans wanted to because he played an indian in the movie major league. Then they remembered its baseball, not an 8ball. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] emotions are running high in both cities, especially in chicago. After the cubs won their series with the dodgers, one fan had a truly spectacular reaction nervous breakdown. Hes 35 years old. Hes from indiana. Whole life for this moment. So those tears, he was crying like so many others tonight in wrigleyville. Crying tears of just unbridled joy. Jimmy notice hes there alone. [ cheers an