WEBVTT - Duane Kuper breaks down the Giants improbable perfect game yesterday 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.360 There's no question we've got the best in the boot. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:08.960 That's why we all mimic his call timer Murfin Marcus. 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.160 Catch up with Kite on knd R one oh four 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.840 five Am. And Kype. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:20.119 We've joked so many Tuesdays through the year about you 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:22.480 gotta come on after a win, you gotta come out 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:26.479 after a win. You got and we got one Giants 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:32.880 five red zero with a wild lineup, Kype. So, good morning, 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:34.160 Hey morning Pipe. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.600 Yeah, good morning. I uh so I'm driving to the 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.760 park and uh, you know, look, I did not make 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.680 the trip to Cleveland or Boston, so I'm I can't 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.320 wait to get to the park. It's sitting next to 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.360 Mic for another month and a half, and you know, 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.199 and every once in a while the pops in my 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.120 head that, oh yeah, there's a Monday night game. I 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.720 have the show tomorrow. And then I looked at the 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:04.800 lineup and I thought, you know, this is really funny, nice, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:11.040 nice try, right, and uh and what do they do? 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:16.119 They play a perfect game? Uh, you know when we 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:21.160 fill out our scorecards before the game. And now, I mean, 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.080 we've done it together for the last thirty five years, 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.240 and it gives us a chance to talk and you know, 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.840 write some numbers down. So we always write down the 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:35.520 average home runs and RBIs and I started to look, 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:41.720 and I looked at the Reds from their cleanipitter down 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:49.040 at Stevenson swore as McLean the day, Travino Johnson, they 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:53.280 had sixty five combined home runs. And then I looked 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:59.200 at the Giants. Now Trent Hill is your cleanupitter, followed 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:07.400 by Kavanaugh, Furman, Whitcomb, McCrae, couse. They had three. So 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.240 here we go, sixty five big flies to three. And 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.480 what do they do? They play a perfect game. And 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.680 the one thing that you know, Mike and I realize 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.320 throughout the course of a game that you have to 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.600 be really careful that you don't I want to use 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.120 the word make fun, but that you don't make fun 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.400 of this lineup, because then you're taking credit away from 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.400 the guys that finally got to the big leagues like 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:44.160 these young players did and started last night. I mean, look, 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.360 when choey Otani gets up in the morning, he looks 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.400 in the mirror, he can say, look, I'm a big leaguer, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.480 and so can Nate Furman. And I think that's important 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:58.680 to realize that these guys did something, and maybe more 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.519 than something, a lot to get to where they're at 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.480 and deserve to be in that lineup. Now, it takes 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:09.720 injuries and trades and you know, other things sometimes to 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.320 give a guy a chance, but you have to take 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.880 advantage of that chance and be prepared, and these guys 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.040 have done that. So I mean, look after that game 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.880 last night, I mean, I'm looking forward to this game 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:27.040 as much as if all the regulars were healthy and 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:28.880 in the lineup. I mean, I want to see these 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:32.960 guys run around. And the other thing I thought of 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:38.440 is is this is the perfect lineup for my radio 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.560 partner on Tuesday mornings, mister Murphy, because this is what 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.520 he's been crying about for years. Play the young guys, 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.440 play him. And there you have it in that game 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:50.040 last night. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.560 Well, that is true to a degree, for sure. I'm 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.280 thinking a little bit more Joe swar Gonzalez, you know. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.160 But hey, listen, you're right, all these guys are. And 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.480 that actually leads to the question Dwayne that Marcus and 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.080 I were kicking around right before you came on, is 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:04.600 how many of these guys do you think are a 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.560 legit part of the story In twenty twenty seven. Now, 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.720 we all assume there's gonna be a twenty twenty seven, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.800 but you know, and we identified two. We identified Gilbert, 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.960 and I believe it or not, I extended an olive 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.800 branch to Ryan Walker with his pants down now, and 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:25.640 you know this, But there may be others take those 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.240 two and others that you think can be really a 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:29.960 part of the story in twenty twenty seven that we 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:30.640 saw last night. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:36.120 Well, I think he'll can be. I mean, I mean, 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.120 if you want to put a label on him and say, well, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.440 you know what is good at ball contact as he 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.240 makes and as good as he is at all three 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.920 optials positions, you know, he could be your perfect fourth 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:53.040 or fifth outfielder. But don't get me wrong, I mean 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:57.400 he may actually play into some people's minds that he 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.440 could play every day. So I think, I mean, I 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.320 really think that he's got a shot. And I know 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:07.720 that the catcher does for sure, you know, And I 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.919 don't know if he'll ever be a guy that's going 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.640 to catch one hundred and thirty games, but he certainly 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.799 could be a guy that could catch fifty or sixty 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.560 and do very very well. I mean, he's he showed 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.200 signs of being a good receiver and that he's act 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.360 and plus he's a left handed hitter. Every organization looks 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:28.520 for catching, that's that's where their hitter is left handed. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.680 I think of all this group, the guy that's probably 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.679 got the most overall talent is the kid in right field, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:42.200 Grant McCrae. But we've said this before about him, is 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.800 he just needs to make a little bit more contact. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.320 I mean, gosh, he's a fabulous defender, and he's got 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.640 a great arm, and he can run, and he's a 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:56.080 left handed hitter. So you have to be really careful 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.760 that you don't give up on these guys too soon 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.320 and then all the sudden you find them in another 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:06.640 organization and you go what we had him? And I 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.760 don't want Grant McCray to be one of those guys 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.760 where he goes off to the Washington Nationals and now 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.240 he's their starting center fielder. I think you have to 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:18.680 give some of these guys a long rope before you know, 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.120 you start to offer them to other teams. I think 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:26.080 Christian Koss is always going to be a guy that 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.080 you think about being on the roster because of his 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:33.000 ability to play short and he's a grinder, So I mean, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.359 I don't know that much about Whitcomb. I do know 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:41.840 that when we started looking into his past that you know, 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.800 he's played in the big leagues. He's got a couple 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.760 of home runs. It just doesn't look like he's taken 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:52.080 advantage of the seventeen games maybe that he's played in. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.599 So I'm sure I've missed a few, but I think 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.080 you might be surprised that the number of people. And 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.040 I agree with you with Walker. I think Walker figured 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:08.120 it out. And Mike actually said that before I did. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.960 When you saw him pitch in a triple A game 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:15.360 this past week, he said, Jesus didn't look like the 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.200 same guy even I mean, even forget about the haircut. 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.800 So yeah, I mean you might be surprised at the 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.880 number of people that are on this that was in 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.200 the lineup last night, that could dot at some point 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.600 the roster next year, given the fact that we're all 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:34.800 hoping there is next year. 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.520 Kai, what do you think the mentality or the approach 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.400 is for some of these guys that are trying to 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.200 make their name at the big league level. Because you 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.000 can look at it through the lens of oh, there's 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.640 additional pressure. They're fighting for their jobs, they're trying to 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.680 stay at the big league level. Or you could look 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.920 at it, hey, maybe this is a weight off their shoulder. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.560 There's not a lot of pressure to win right now, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.520 is it? Maybe give them more of a care free 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.200 attitude and approach at the plate. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.640 You better even have a care free attitude at all, 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.680 you know, and then care free. I get it. You're 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.440 not saying that these guys aren't taking it serious. But 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.040 you do have to play like this is the last 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.400 game you're going to play in, and you have to 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.560 play like your hair's on fire, you really do. And 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:23.840 because everybody's watching, not just mom and dad and brothers 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:29.440 and sisters and girlfriends and wives. Everybody's watching, and everybody's 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.920 going to have their own opinion. And one part of 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.680 the opinion you want people to have is this guy 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.280 busts his tail wherever he goes. And that's why you 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.000 have to take I mean, these guys that were in 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:45.040 the lineup last night, you may not have heard many 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.440 of them, but it's up to them that after the 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.880 game you might remember their name so that you can 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.000 cheer for him tomorrow. And that's what some of these 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.200 guys did last night. 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.520 You mentioned Turner Hill. I was in the car during 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.000 the third ending when Dave Fleming was he was kind 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.280 of making a case for the guy. He was like, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:07.439 I you know, it's on even thirteen at bats, all 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.320 these asterisks, and he's a little older. But he said, 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.760 you know, merrit Buster Posty says, it's a meritocracy. This 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.720 guy hid his way into the big They said. He 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.600 likes his approach. He had a double off the wall 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.160 last night Andrew walk He said he takes good angles 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.200 in the outfield, runs the base as well. And you know, 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.760 most fans roll their eyes. They want shohe O Tani, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.840 they want Kyle Schwarber. They don't want Turner Hill. But 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.680 I mean Giants put him down fourth in the lineup 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:36.080 last night. And is he a guy who's got a 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.280 chance to make a name. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.800 Yeah, he does. And I think you look at some 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.280 of the successful teams. You know, the Brewers are an example. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.320 I mean they're running out people I've never heard of, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.880 and and I'm doing a great job, and now they 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.840 have the best record in baseball. At times, the Dbecs 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.679 run out people that I've never heard of, and they 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.080 contribute and then the next year, they're more than just 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.400 a contributor. They're in the lineup all the time. And 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.200 I think he's one of those kind of guys. I mean, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:16.640 he's got think about this. He's got two months, the 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.679 past two weeks he's been here, and now what's coming up. 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:24.360 I think there's thirty one games left. He's got thirty 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:29.959 one games to already make a way better impression than 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.160 what he already has for those thirty one games, and 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.079 you have to take advantage of it. I mean, there 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.520 are second chances in this game, but that first impression 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.880 is so important, and I think he's made a really 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.760 good first impression. So I like him. I like to 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.559 see him in the lineup, and I like his bats, 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.040 although I don't think he's a cleanupitter. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.480 No, probably not Kip. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.680 Last night we saw Devers go deep for his twenty 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.920 seventh homer in the season. He went deep out in Boston, 0:10:57.960 --> 0:10:59.760 and I know you weren't at Fenway Park, but there 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.719 was a lot of reaction towards Rafael Devers, and there 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.240 was some criticism when he left the city of Boston 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.760 that maybe he's not the biggest leader in the clubhouse. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.040 But then there was a report yesterday that, without Willie 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.280 Domas and obviously without Matt Chapman and some of the leaders, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.760 that Raphael Devers actually spoke to a lot of the 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.640 team at the batting cages before yesterday's game, just your 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.080 reaction to everything that happened in Boston his past weekend, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.800 but also maybe Rafael Devers now stepping up here in 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.160 San Francisco in the leadership role. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:33.400 Well, every day the Guyans have a hitters meeting and 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.840 all the hitters are there and the hitting coaches and 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.360 they go over a lot of things. And I was 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.480 told by a couple of different people that Rapie Devers 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:49.760 stood up. I mean, remember Chapman's not there. I mean 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.400 Willia Domas might have been there, but your voice, definitely, 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.679 you know, is a little bit tuned out when you're 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.679 on the il, and you know, Rafie doesn't say a lot, 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:04.440 and we don't know how well he speaks English because 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.920 he just doesn't do enough interviews for us to know. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.839 And the report is that he got up and he 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:16.280 specifically talked to all the young guys about this is 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:20.280 your chance and you need to do whatever you can 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.360 to take advantage of it. And also by the way 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.080 along the way while you're doing this, you have to 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.360 have fun. Smile every once in a while, have some 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.920 fun because and he may have said this, probably not, 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.040 because when you smile on the field, people know it 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.040 and they notice it and they realize that, yeah, you know, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:45.680 this guy's having fun and he's pretty good. So good 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:50.680 for Raffie to stand up and say something. And I mean, look, 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:54.120 he's he had to wear three days in Boston, where 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.240 you know, Boston fans are not going to say, guy, 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.199 what a great guy he is. They're just not. He's 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.920 not one of theirs anymore. You know, forget about the 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.560 fact that he helped lead them to a World Series. 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.079 They're just not. I mean, that's not what they do 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.240 in Boston. So here he's wearing it for three days 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.840 in Boston, and he comes back and he stands up 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.559 in the meeting and he's talking to these young players. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.320 Good for him, and to me, that shows that, yeah, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.880 there is a sign that there's leadership in this guy. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.680 And he just let it out yesterday and then he's 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.079 a three run home run. And there's nothing better than 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.400 backing it up when you do that. I tried it 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:37.400 all those years and it only worked once, and I 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.840 know what it feels like, because you feel like, not 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:44.440 only did you make a point in the meeting, but 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.280 then you made even a bigger point after the meeting. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.600 I mean, he's been here a year and two months now, 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.520 maybe just getting more and more settled. Maybe the Boston 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.319 weekend changed something in him a little bit. Like I 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:58.240 don't know about Kype Boston fans. You said, yeah, they're 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.200 just not gonna you play there. You played at Yankee 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.480 Old Yankee Stadium too. You also then went to the 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.199 nationally and you went to Philly. So who where did 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:07.520 where was the rag? The most? 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:07.839 Like? Who? 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:08.800 What fans are you? 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:08.960 Like? 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.800 Man, these guys, these guys are just these guys are animals. 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:18.880 Yeah, probably Yankee fans. I mean yeah, I mean they knew, 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.120 they knew all about your family. I mean this is 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:26.440 before the internet, but they did all their homework about 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.000 being about your mom and dad and everybody else. I 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.760 actually thought about going in the stands one time. Uh 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:38.360 what true? Was really a bad idea? I mean, Okay, 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.480 this is skinny, this skinny little turd going into the stands. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:47.880 Are you kidding me? So? Uh, you don't think about 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:54.440 the Boston fans is they're like, they're like sarcastic, tough, 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.240 you know, and they got that accent. Look, I married one, 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:04.080 so I heard that act twice a week, and you know, 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:09.760 and there's always a moderate cuss word involved too. And 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.880 you know what I Look, my wife, Michelle, had four brothers, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:19.000 and and every one of those brothers was exactly like 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:23.720 all those those fans sitting in the stands. When they 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.040 got bored, they look for a fight, you know, stuff 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:30.000 like that. But you know what, they were fun. They 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.720 were all a lot of fun. And I think probably 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.880 that's what you could say about Red Sox fans. Look, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:42.800 I didn't play enough to not appreciate the fans in Philly. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:49.520 But from what I'm told from you know, our our 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.320 families that had to deal with the Phillies in twenty ten, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:58.600 they were really mistreated in Philadelphia and then that should 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:03.880 never happen. But you know, Philly's Philly so and I'm 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.120 sure there are probably some forty nine er families that 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.120 could probably tell you the same thing. Yeah, Philly's tough. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.720 It is tough. So the one time you thought about 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.840 going up was that at Yankee Stadium. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.400 That was it? Yeah, Yankee stature is yeah, I mean 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:23.960 the oddex circle. I mean, when you're getting loose, you 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.880 could take five steps in you by the front row. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.680 So if they have fans that lean over and they 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.720 want to get in your grill, you know they're not 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.320 that far away from you. I mean you just gotta 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.920 ignore them. But on that particular day, I don't know 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:40.680 what happened. Maybe I had too much coffee. 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.080 Yeah, his old Yankee Stadium. That's not the new Yankee 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.760 Stadium for sure, Kype. Last one is are you keeping 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.400 an eye at all on one of my favorite things? 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:50.680 The Little League World Series? 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:53.400 I don't tarn it. 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.360 I was gonna ask, you have granddaughters, you need to 0:16:56.400 --> 0:17:00.600 get on board with Kinley Rasmus. She's the the star 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.080 of the summer. She's a gal who wears a bow 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.600 in her hair and pitches for the Alabama team that 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.720 won the Southeast Region. And she's nasty. She just tied 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.480 Money Davis's record for strikeouts by a girl. And she's 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.480 got a curveball that falls off the table and she hits. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.680 And here's the catch. Her family bloodlines are crazy. Her 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.600 dad was Corey Rasmus, who played in the BIGS. Her 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.240 uncle was Clint Rasmus, who played in the BIGS. Her 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.040 other uncle was Kolby Rasmus, who had a fairly significant 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.879 playing career. Her mom played Division one softball at Southern 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.479 miss Her cousin is on the team with her Riker, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:41.240 and her grandpa coached the nineteen ninety nine Alabama team 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.720 that went to the Little League World Series. You gotta 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.600 check it out because you got granddaughters. You're a girl. Grandpa, 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:48.960 Kenlee Rasmus. 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.560 Murf, you know more about this young lady than you do. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:54.240 Jay Whitcomb. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.119 Well, the Twitter helps. I'm on a graphic they have 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:01.679 with a great little arrow of a relatives in her family, 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:02.000 you know. 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.240 And now that you brought all that up, and now 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.439 that you mentioned her, I definitely will. We'll keep an 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.600 eye on her. I always try to keep track of 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.680 what's going on with some of the local teams here 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.760 in California, and then also if there's anything going on 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:21.360 in the Midwest, and if that doesn't, you know, if 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.560 that's not happening, you know, then my brain wanders off 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.119 to other stuff. But I will keep an eye on 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:32.840 it now. Absolutely. I had a cousin, Murph, who lived 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.800 across the Streeter. It was the first cousin, and she 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.880 was a year older than I was. And her mom 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:43.720 was on the the the League of the Row and 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:49.919 the Racine Bells. Yeah, her mom, my aunt Ruth, was 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:51.760 one of the players on that team. And ended up 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:58.560 that Cindy was the best all around baseball player in 0:18:58.600 --> 0:18:59.440 our area. 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.960 Cindy, your cousin, hands hands. 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.640 Down first cousin. My dad and her dad are. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.680 Brothers and both farmers and Cindy Kuiper. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:13.920 Cindy Kuiper, they had a big backyard and and she 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:14.760 couldn't play. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.040 Because there's no league or they didn't letter. 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.920 No, we had a league. They let them play. And 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.680 so okay, so great, she can't play in our little league. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.000 Well where can she play? Right? I mean, they don't 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.560 have leagues for girls. Was this would have been nineteen 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:40.960 fifty nine, nineteen sixty and so when I hear about 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.240 girls that get a chance to play, I don't care 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.560 in what league and whether they're good or not. It 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:53.840 just it just, you know, it warms my heart because 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.800 here's of course Cindy, who was way more talented than 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:01.680 all of us, and she had to watch from the sideline. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.560 Well, Kelly Rasmus is doing it for her. That's a 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:10.680 crazy story. Yeah, she's Unfortunately they play today at noon. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.360 They're in the elimination bracket, so one loss and they're done. 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.679 She can't pitch unfortunately until Saturday, because she threw so 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:18.280 many pitches last night, so you don't get to see 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:20.800 her hurl. But they got a chance to fight their 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:22.639 way to Saturday and see if she can pitch again. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.560 She's just fun to watch because she chews gum. She's 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.439 you know, she wears the ribbon in her hair, and 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.320 Marcus as my pitching guru. Here the curveball. Oh, it 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.960 looks just like her dad's. They they so these days 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.640 on Twitter type they do a thing where they they 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:42.640 you can you can mimic two shadow figures against each other. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:44.840 So you're watching her pitch next to her. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:52.640 Dad, same mechanics type. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:51.840 Just like they did with tug Boat. They did it 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.480 with Tugboat with him as well. 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:57.160 They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.240 You know, it's usually father's son, right mother daughter? Well, 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:03.160 this is even better. 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.119 Yeah, it's awesome. You got to check her out. And 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.400 I know you have how many granddaughters too? 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.800 Two seven and five and then the little guy is 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:12.960 about to turn a year. 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.239 So, well, did they play any softball at all? 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:22.720 Or no? Well, I mean of the oldest one she played. 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:27.719 You know, they played softball, and it's it's probably the 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.720 most grueling two hours you're going to spend because you 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.960 got nine people chasing a ball, right right, right right. Yeah. 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:38.600 So I'll tell you one quick story. So I go, 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:42.720 I don't the last couple of months ago, and she's 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:46.000 on the mound. They actually don't pitch, but they positioned 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:51.080 somebody there. Yeah. Right, So she's at that spot and 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:55.240 and I'm second inning and I'm walking through the outfield 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:58.520 with my lawn chair and you know, coffee and whatever. 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.160 And she's on the mound and there's the pitch goes 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.879 and she turns her back on the hitter and she 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.359 looks at me and she goes, I want to go home. 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:14.040 Oh no, the love of the game. 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:21.560 I bust I bust out laughing. And however, my daughter 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:22.800 did not bust out laughing. 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.160 Yeah, oh god, Oh she was a little hot. 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:27.639 She got she got to beat the. 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:29.920 Yeah, you got to play. 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:30.439 You were out here. 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:32.960 You don't put on your team. Come on, we need 0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:34.000 you to make a play. 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.560 But I kept thinking, I wish there was a way 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:43.119 that at that age, somehow you can make things a 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.240 little bit more exciting. But there wasn't so much standing. 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.439 Around, right it is. That's the knock on baseball for 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:50.440 kids is that it's you know, the video game era 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:51.320 that's too slow. 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:57.080