1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: Get Up, Get Up Up, everybody. 2 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 2: Welcome back to another great bonus episode of the Messed 3 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,680 Speaker 2: Up Podcast, one of the most excited I've been about 4 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 2: bonus episode to give you guys a great interview with 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: the voice of the Mets, Wayne Randazzo. 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: You guys probably know him very well. 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 3: Wayne, good to be here, Good to be with you guys, 8 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 3: and congratulations on your podcast. 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. 10 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Wayne. First question for you, gonna start 11 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,239 Speaker 2: you off with one of the probably the hardest ones. 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:40,640 Speaker 2: We're gonna give you, what is America's best built boiler 13 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 2: Peerless Boilers. 14 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 4: Just like the commercial says, that's a great question. 15 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 3: You know, Howie and I read a lot of things 16 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 3: along on the radio broadcast. We've got a lot of 17 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 3: great sponsors, Bigelot of course, proudly so it's right. So 18 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 3: that's a big one, and peerless Boilers and and many others. 19 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 3: Other's how he right there making faces at us through 20 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 3: his peerless boy. It's it's all good. Glad, Glad, Peerless 21 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 3: Boilers are getting a good, nice plug. 22 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: Get a nice plug of the podcast. 23 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 5: So as guys who were kind of like starting our 24 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 5: baseball talk journey a little bit here with the podcast 25 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 5: and stuff. We're interested to see, Like, how did you 26 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 5: get started? What made you really want to become a 27 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 5: baseball broadcaster? 28 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 4: Yeah? 29 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 3: I wanted to do this since I was a little kid. Really, 30 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 3: I mean I just loved watching baseball. I grew up 31 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 3: in Chicago and there were you know, two teams there too, 32 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 3: so get to see the National League when the Cubs 33 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 3: were playing whoever and the White Sox playing whoever in 34 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 3: the American League. So it was really a good baseball 35 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 3: education as a kid. I loved Harry Carey and he 36 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 3: just made the game so fun. I mean, it didn't 37 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 3: matter if the Cubs were thirty games on a first 38 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: which they often were, and the games are important because 39 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 3: Harry was calling him and making him sound exciting, and 40 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 3: the Cubs would win on a walkoff hit, He'd go crazy, 41 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 3: and it just seemed like a cool thing to do, 42 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: so I wanted to follow it as I got older. 43 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 4: You know, I really. 44 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 3: Probably couldn't do what Harry did, but you know those 45 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 3: other broadcasters I really liked, and and guys I tried 46 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 3: to embulate or be like, and you know, really. 47 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 4: Worked out to just follow that path. 48 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 3: Really, my whole my whole life was wanting to be 49 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 3: a baseball announcer and to be able to do it, 50 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 3: especially here in New York with the Mets, has been 51 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 3: has been awesome. 52 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: That's amazing. It also just like you so accomplished this 53 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,959 Speaker 2: fields for your age, like the amazing to see. 54 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 4: Like how he how he's old. 55 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 2: Guys, I mean, Gary's not Gary's in the spring trick anymore. 56 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 2: You mentioned Harry, and you mentioned wanting to emulate other 57 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 2: broadcasters growing up. Anybody else come to mind? 58 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, a lot of You know, Pat Hughes was 59 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:39,239 Speaker 4: still really good. 60 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 3: Is the radio voice for the Cubs, and a guy 61 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 3: who's been doing it since nineteen ninety six. 62 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 4: I think it was his first year doing Cubs games. 63 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 4: So yeah, that's how these jobs go. 64 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:49,880 Speaker 3: You know the thing about if you wanted to grow 65 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,559 Speaker 3: up broadcasting the Dodgers, I mean it was an impossible 66 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 3: task for a couple of generations until Vin finally retired 67 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 3: and Joe took over. But you know, I think it 68 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 3: was guys like Pat Hughes and if I could say 69 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 3: his name anymore because he's a bad boy. But Tom 70 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 3: Brenneman was somebody that I really like growing up and 71 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 3: a lot of guys you know that were that were 72 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 3: good broadcasters, John Rooney with the White Sox and even Tho. 73 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 3: As I got older, started listening more around the league, 74 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 3: listen to Howie and Gary and listening to Eric Nadel 75 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 3: it is the Texas Rangers and John Miller and Vin 76 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 3: you know a lot of guys that I tried to 77 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 3: steal little things from along the way. 78 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 5: What's it been like shear in the booth with Howie 79 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 5: and Gary, you know through radio and TV? 80 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's cool. I mean, they're they're just so good. 81 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 3: You know, people don't really understand what it takes to 82 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 3: put a major league broadcast together at a high level 83 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 3: like that. And Howie and Gary show up every to 84 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 3: every game they do, trying to make it the best 85 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 3: broadcast they possibly can make it on that particular day. 86 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 3: I've learned a lot from those two guys, you know. 87 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 3: I started here in twenty fifteen doing pre and post 88 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 3: and I would ask how we all sorts of questions, 89 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 3: and Gary too, and they were so good about giving answers, 90 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 3: but also just watching them every day, watching how they 91 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 3: approach an interview, or how they approach asking the manager 92 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 3: a question, or how they approach a serious situation. 93 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:16,919 Speaker 4: We've certainly had those over the years. 94 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 3: You know, we did the game right after Jose Fernandez 95 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 3: passed away in Miami, and watching how they went about 96 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:28,239 Speaker 3: approaching that kind of broadcast or a championship game or series, 97 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 3: or what playoff game type atmosphere, how they approach that. 98 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 4: So just the little things that you pick up along 99 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:35,360 Speaker 4: the way. 100 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 3: They it's like a master level class that I've gotten 101 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 3: over the years, and I've been really lucky to learn 102 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 3: from them the way I have. 103 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: I remember that Fernande's game very vividly. It was a 104 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 2: Monday evening, that game in Miami. I remember I was 105 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 2: in college. I used to be doing things at nights, 106 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 2: so I'd always put how We A my ears and 107 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 2: listened to the Mets game, and there was some not 108 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 2: so great Mets teams. So I remember the monologue he 109 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 2: gave that night, just about Jose Fernandez and about like 110 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 2: youth in baseball in general. 111 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: I got half a goose bump, but even just brought 112 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: it up. 113 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really it was like doing a game 114 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,479 Speaker 3: at a funeral, It really was. It was such a 115 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 3: sad atmosphere in Miami. The Marlins players were in tears 116 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,359 Speaker 3: most of the game. I remember doing an on field 117 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 3: interview after the game with Justin Bohrer and he could 118 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 3: barely focus on what I was asking. It was just 119 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 3: such a strange atmosphere to do a baseball game in. 120 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 3: But also, you want to do it justice from a 121 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 3: broadcast standpoint. You want to make sure that you're telling 122 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,920 Speaker 3: the story in a way that really resonates with our 123 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,039 Speaker 3: listeners or viewers on the TV side, and to do 124 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 3: Jose's life justice and to make people kind of feel 125 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 3: what they were feeling on the field. And I think 126 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 3: the way that we did it that night was really special, 127 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 3: and I think we did as much as we could 128 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 3: in that scenario. 129 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 2: Just to switch gears has been kind of sad. Now 130 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 2: what you mentioned changing from pre and post game to 131 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 2: getting into the booth, I believe I was twenty nineteen. 132 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 2: What was that transition like and then, and how was 133 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 2: it building rapport with Howie or did you have one 134 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,599 Speaker 2: anyway just from being a part of the Caio family anyway. 135 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it was really seamless. It was really an 136 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 4: easy transition. 137 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 3: I'd done a lot of games anyway, and I'd been 138 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 3: around with Howie anyway. So it was really fine. You know, 139 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 3: it was easy for me to slide in there and 140 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 3: do all the games, and it was fun. I mean, 141 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: it was a good It was kind of a fun year. 142 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 3: Twenty nineteen. Pe coming up the way he did, and 143 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 3: the team kind of went on a nice run and 144 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 3: made it an interesting second half. It's not quite like 145 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 3: this year where they're just you know, dominating a lot 146 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 3: of the time. 147 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 4: A little better, Yeah, this is a little better. 148 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 3: But you know, I really I remember doing some of 149 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 3: the playoff games in twenty fifteen, and I'd really like to. 150 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 4: Do some more. 151 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 3: I mean, that would be really fun to get an 152 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,679 Speaker 3: opportunity to call Division series and Championship Series and World 153 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 3: Series games here and this place. Even last night was 154 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 3: crazy and it's still August. So I hope that we 155 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 3: get some opportunities this year to do that. 156 00:06:58,080 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, team's been great. 157 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 5: How are you feeling about the Mets so far in 158 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 5: twenty twenty two? 159 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 4: Good? Yeah, feel really good. 160 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 3: You know, I think what we've seen is a team 161 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 3: that's really come together in the second half. They refine 162 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 3: the roster on the trade deadline. Uh, you bring in 163 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 3: voter back and Nate Quinn and you bring in Darren Ruff. 164 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,239 Speaker 3: I mean, these were guys that are established big leaguers, 165 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 3: not stars, but but good solid players, And they've really 166 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 3: refined the roster that this team already has. There was 167 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 3: already a lot of star power here, so I think 168 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 3: just kind of touching up the way that they did 169 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 3: was smart. I think this team has looked like a 170 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 3: championship level team. You know, you get into October. Who 171 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 3: knows what's gonna happen. You know, who knows what teams 172 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 3: are going to look like at that point, who's going 173 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 3: to be hot at that point. But you just want 174 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 3: to put yourself in the best position when you get there. 175 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 3: And I think to this point the Mets seem like 176 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 3: they are doing that. And you got you got to 177 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 3: finish up these last seven weeks or whatever and and 178 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 3: lock this division down because you don't want to get 179 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 3: stuck in that in that wild card round. I don't 180 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 3: think against the Padres or whoever else ended up having 181 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 3: to play the Dodgers early. So I think you can 182 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 3: kind of write your own ticket if you win the division. 183 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 2: It's funny think about you mentioned doing the playoff games 184 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen, but watching from television those games are 185 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 2: always national, like we don't get the same type of 186 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 2: mets or like your own local feel when you do that. 187 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 2: That's all different perspective with the radio. I think that 188 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 2: also like comes to a bit of a like a 189 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 2: broader understanding about baseball games on television versus the radio. 190 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: So is there is there anything else that you want 191 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 2: to like talk on about the difference in consumption between 192 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 2: baseball and TV baseball and radio like the Yeah, especially 193 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 2: now you've done both too. 194 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's another wrinkle with social media when 195 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 3: it comes to it too, because you have, you know, 196 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,319 Speaker 3: you have social media being such a large part of 197 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 3: the TV viewing experience. 198 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 5: Yep. 199 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 4: You know, you're. 200 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 3: Sitting there, You're kind of a captive audience. You're participating 201 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 3: in a way with the TV broadcast and your fellow 202 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 3: fans that are watching. And I think that, you know, 203 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 3: when it comes to TV, there's just more of a 204 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 3: focus on what you're watching in the game, whereas if 205 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 3: you're listening on the radio, usually doing something else, you know, 206 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 3: not often are you just sitting there listening to the radio. 207 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 3: You know, you're you're kind of in the car, or 208 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 3: you're in the backyard, you're grilling or whatever. You're in 209 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 3: the garage, so it's not as interactive as it was 210 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 3: with the audience. I don't feel like, but I do 211 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,439 Speaker 3: think that there is still a romanticism about baseball and 212 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 3: the radio that I think is different than on TV. 213 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 3: And I think it's, you know, really lucky to be 214 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 3: able to do the radio broadcast for the metscause I 215 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 3: think it's got it. It's a big fan base, there's 216 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 3: a lot of people driving around, there's always a lot 217 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 3: of traffic in New York. It's tons, we're keeping people company. 218 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 3: And I think on TV it's a of course, it's 219 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 3: a different call too. You know, it's TV you're really 220 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 3: just captioning what people are seeing, whereas radio you're you 221 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 3: need to tell them what you're seeing. So it's it's 222 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 3: it's a lot different, but you know, they're both fun 223 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,719 Speaker 3: and they both have a different type of audience, and 224 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 3: I think as an organization, the Mets are lucky to 225 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 3: have fans that really trust the broadcast and enjoy the 226 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 3: broadcast as much as they do, and we're glad to 227 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 3: give them. 228 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 5: How have you been able to handle social media? Because 229 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 5: I like coming from our side, like I'm basically social 230 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 5: media for a job to our social media. 231 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, James does social media. 232 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 5: So how do you guys, like in the booth, how 233 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 5: do you yourself handle using social media? 234 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, you know, I'm getting back to the age, 235 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 3: not to not to make a big deal about it, 236 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 3: but being younger, you know, is kind of grown up 237 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 3: in a technological way and and understanding social media a 238 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,440 Speaker 3: little bit differently. You know how he's kind of taken 239 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 3: over his Twitter account and made it a sounding board 240 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 3: for whatever. 241 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, he likes a banger yesterday. 242 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, he does that every once in a while, 243 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 3: you know, so he's he's been able to use I know, 244 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 3: Keith gets on it a little bit, but you know, 245 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 3: I think it's fun to just interact with the audience 246 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 3: and and just kind of take your opinion to a 247 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 3: written form a little bit. 248 00:10:58,840 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: You know. 249 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 3: Sometimes what we say and the radio just kind of 250 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 3: goes into the ether. It's forgotten as soon as it's said, 251 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 3: Whereas if you tweet it, you're kind of putting your 252 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 3: stamp on what your opinion is or whatever. 253 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 4: Thing about the Weather. 254 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 3: Channel, how he tweets about it, you know. You just 255 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,319 Speaker 3: so it's just a different way to connect with the audience. 256 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 2: And from a listener's perspective, it's fun that you guys 257 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:20,559 Speaker 2: are starting getting more into it. I remember, I think 258 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 2: it was two or three years ago and I've been 259 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:25,079 Speaker 2: your first year when that Mets booth account actually finally 260 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:26,960 Speaker 2: came to be, I was like, is this us? 261 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: Like, who's tweeting this? I didn't tweet this? Did you 262 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:29,240 Speaker 1: tweet this? 263 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:31,719 Speaker 2: I was just it's fun listening you guys in the 264 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 2: radio and hearing that. Has it been kind of a 265 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 2: different challenge this year going back and forth from TV 266 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 2: to radio. 267 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 4: No, I've done a little bit. 268 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:41,680 Speaker 3: Gary doesn't miss many games, first of all, so you 269 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 3: know some TV guys they'll miss thirty or forty games. 270 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 3: It will be it be a lot more of a 271 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 3: balance between TV and radio. 272 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 2: We kind of have a running joke that like the 273 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 2: Mets like back up broadcasting unit is better than like 274 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 2: most teams, like starting broadcasting it between you to TV, 275 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 2: than Jake or even the crazy Terry Collins already Coleman 276 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 2: drop ins on the radio. 277 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: Those games are always fun. 278 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. It's a deep bench nowadays. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, 279 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 3: Terry's Terry has been fun to have around ed, you know, 280 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 3: keeping his toes in is good. But yeah, doing the 281 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 3: the TV broadcast is really fun. And Keith and Ron 282 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 3: are an unbelievable analysts. 283 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 4: I mean, you know Keith. 284 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 3: I think people don't realize how good of an analyst 285 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 3: he is. You think about Keith, and he's just wayward personality, 286 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 3: and he's just got all these jokes and all these 287 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,359 Speaker 3: things that he wants to add on to the broadcast 288 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 3: from a humorous standpoint, and he's a wild card. You 289 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 3: never know he's going to say next. But also he's 290 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 3: a really good baseball animals. Really know, he really knows 291 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 3: the game. He really understands hitting and defense and even 292 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 3: how a pitcher is working. And of course Ron is 293 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 3: so articulate and so thoughtful in his analysis, but but 294 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 3: Keith is too. And doing games with the two of 295 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,959 Speaker 3: them together, it's like the easiest thing in the world. 296 00:12:58,400 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 4: Really it is. 297 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 3: You just you guide a little bit of the conversation, 298 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 3: they talk to each other, you call some plays, and 299 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 3: three hours later you go home. It's really really fun 300 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 3: and I enjoyed doing the games with them. 301 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 4: Whenever Gary needs a quick pinch hitter. 302 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 5: As we know, with everyone's broadcasting career, you kind of 303 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 5: go through some weird spots, weird jobs that you end 304 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 5: up having. What would you say is the weirdest job 305 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 5: that you had through yours? 306 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 4: Yeah. 307 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 3: I didn't have any weird broadcasting jobs. I did do 308 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 3: Ultimate Frisbee once. Oh, that's the one I did the ESPN, 309 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 3: I did Ultimate Frisbee. I did like a Fourth of 310 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,559 Speaker 3: July tournament and a Memorial Day tournament one year for 311 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 3: Ultimate Frisbee. 312 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 4: It's pretty cool. I mean it was different. 313 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,760 Speaker 3: Not like I wanted to be the Vin Scully of 314 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 3: Ultimate Frisbee or anything, but it was it was. 315 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 4: Still a good experience. 316 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 3: I had more weird jobs, like in the off season 317 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 3: because I did minor league baseball in Alabama for a while. 318 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 4: What's Mobile? 319 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 5: Wow? 320 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was good. 321 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 3: It was fun and it was it was not a 322 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 3: bad place to start in. You know, you feel like 323 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 3: you might start in like the smallest little town in 324 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 3: the country, and Mobile is a pretty mid sized town. 325 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 4: But it was like, you know, I. 326 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 3: Sold suits for a few weeks one off season. I 327 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 3: drove a cab for a couple of weeks one off 328 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 3: season here just now in the Chicago but just like, uh, 329 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 3: just stuff to get me paid for a few weeks 330 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 3: at a time before I couldn't take it anymore. Yeah, 331 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 3: those are tough jobs. Those are not those are not 332 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 3: jobs that are that are you know? I would take 333 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 3: lightly they they you needed to really pour yourself into 334 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,160 Speaker 3: like being a cab for it was like twenty hours 335 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 3: a day. I wasn't cut out for the good for 336 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 3: the people that are, but I am was absolutely not 337 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 3: cut out for. 338 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 2: Is it strange you mentioned your Chicago Cubs fandom and 339 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:39,800 Speaker 2: you do these games. You guys are animated. How he's 340 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 2: got to be one of the biggest Mets fans on 341 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 2: the face of the earth. 342 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 4: Is it? 343 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 2: Is it bizarre juggling like a like a childhood or 344 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 2: like a younger fandom with now the job not too much? 345 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 3: You know, I don't think it's any different for the 346 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 3: players either, you know. Point the players are Mets and 347 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 3: they want to win. When they win, they win the Mets. 348 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 3: They're excited that the Mets are winning. And I think, 349 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 3: as a Mets been, I'm excited when the Mets are winning. 350 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 3: I'm competitive too, and I want to see them win. 351 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:08,160 Speaker 3: And you know, I want to deliver these big moments 352 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 3: and calls and do them justice. You know, it's that 353 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 3: that day when Keith Hernandez had his number retired and 354 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 3: they had this weird, wacky win and against the Marlins, 355 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 3: and you wanted to deliver that, And you know, that's 356 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,760 Speaker 3: that's kind of where my heart is when it comes 357 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 3: to this stuff. 358 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 4: And if we're lucky enough to call playoff. 359 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,600 Speaker 3: Games and World Series games, it'll just be another example 360 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 3: of that. We just want to live up to the moment. 361 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 3: And you know, I don't think any fandom that I 362 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 3: might have had as a kid really is any reflection 363 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:41,240 Speaker 3: of that. 364 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 4: Now. Yeah, you know, it was weird a little bit. 365 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 3: In twenty fifteen in the Championship Series, Mets won the 366 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 3: pennant at Wrigley Field. Why, I spent a lot of 367 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 3: time as a kid, so it was it was just 368 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 3: odd being in that place, standing on the pitcher's mount 369 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,120 Speaker 3: watching the Mets celebrate winning the penny. 370 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 4: But it was it was good. 371 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 3: I was happy and I was glad that the Mets 372 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 3: were moving on the Cubs, weren't. 373 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,760 Speaker 5: You talked about some of the great calls. You mentioned 374 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:05,680 Speaker 5: the Nimo Wacki one. What call do you think in 375 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 5: your careers really stood out the most to. 376 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 4: You probably at this point. 377 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 3: You know, Alonzo's fifty third homer was probably my number one. 378 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 3: He was just happened to fall in my inning doing 379 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 3: the radio game. But TV was national that night, so 380 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 3: really I have the only Mets call of Peter Alonzo's 381 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 3: fifty third homer, which was a big moment. It was 382 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 3: setting the rookie home run record. You know, this place 383 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 3: was pretty anticipatory of that moment. And I remember a 384 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 3: few weeks before that he had set the Mets record, 385 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 3: he broke Todd Huntley and Beltron's Mets record, and I 386 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 3: asked how he to listen to the call, and you 387 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 3: know how he's really good about giving advice about what 388 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 3: he thinks was good about a call, or maybe what 389 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 3: could have been a little bit better. And he gave 390 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 3: me a little bit of advice about the home run, 391 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 3: the Mets home run, the Mets record home run. And 392 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 3: so I thought, well, you know, next time I call 393 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 3: milestone homer, which could be ten years from now, I'll 394 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 3: try to remember that. But it was only a few 395 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 3: weeks because Alonso had so many big home runs that year, 396 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,040 Speaker 3: and I took some of what how he said and 397 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 3: added it to that, and I thought it was. 398 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:08,439 Speaker 4: I thought it turned out pretty nicely. 399 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 2: Is there any other like little tidbits that how He's 400 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 2: given you? Because how He comes from this incredible Mets 401 00:17:13,960 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 2: lineage of broadcasters with Linday Nelson, Bob Murphy, Ralph Kiner, 402 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 2: how he rose and kind of we're dragging out to 403 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 2: the future. 404 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 1: So any other piece of advice stick out? 405 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:22,560 Speaker 4: You know? 406 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,959 Speaker 3: I think really the best thing that we do that 407 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,359 Speaker 3: comes from Howie and always says, really, the two years 408 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:31,879 Speaker 3: he spent doing radio with Gary was very educational for 409 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 3: him because Gary was. 410 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 4: So good at doing the radio. 411 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 3: But just knowing when to step on the gas on 412 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,640 Speaker 3: a broadcast, when we can we should really be focusing 413 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 3: on the game, and also when it's okay to be 414 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 3: more comical or have fun with something or whatever the 415 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 3: case may be. Just knowing when to pick your spots 416 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 3: on when to be more focused on the game, and 417 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 3: when to be more focused on whatever we're talking about 418 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 3: in the booth. I think those are the two things 419 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 3: that stand out to me the most about what works 420 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 3: with Howie and what works is with him. 421 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 4: As an announcer. 422 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 3: I think, you know, when I first started, I was 423 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,879 Speaker 3: probably too rigid, too focused on being good fundamentally and 424 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 3: not really showing personality or being fun on the broadcast, 425 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 3: and now I think that's all out the window, and 426 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 3: think how he's brought that out, because you know, as 427 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 3: fundamentally sound as he is, he's he's extremely good at 428 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 3: calling plays and highlights and giving details, but he's also hilarious, 429 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 3: and I think that there's it's not easy to do that, 430 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,320 Speaker 3: and if you listen around the league, you don't find 431 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 3: too many guys you can. Well. 432 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 5: It's funny because we actually had a little bit at 433 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 5: ourselves because we'd been doing the podcast for a year 434 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 5: on our own in my apartment in Astoria, and when 435 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 5: we got with the Mets, all of a sudden, not 436 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 5: that we tightened up, but you do, you kind of 437 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,360 Speaker 5: feel like a little bit of pressure of like, Okay, 438 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 5: now we have to be yeah, the lights around, we 439 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 5: have to be very professional. So it's really interesting to 440 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 5: hear coming from your perspective too, And I think that's 441 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 5: one of the things that Mets fans love about radio 442 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 5: broadcast with you guys, is that it just feels like 443 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 5: you're hanging out talking about the Mets game going on. 444 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 5: And I'm assuming that's something you guys really try to 445 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 5: emulate a lot. 446 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it comes naturally too. I don't know 447 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 3: that we're trying to make that convey that message. I 448 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 3: think we are just doing that. I think we're just 449 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 3: having a good time in the booth, and then when 450 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 3: it's crunch time, when it's really an important moment in 451 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 3: the game, we're hyper focused on it. And I think 452 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 3: just trying to match the emotion of the fans is 453 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 3: something that's important to us, but mostly organic to us. 454 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 3: You know, the only time we really probably had to 455 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 3: put it on at all was when we were sitting 456 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 3: in this very room doing road games in twenty twenty 457 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,640 Speaker 3: and twenty twenty one. I think at that point, you're 458 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 3: not really there and feeling what you should be feeling 459 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 3: to call the game, So we might have had to 460 00:19:48,119 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 3: put on a little bit of an act maybe for that, 461 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,160 Speaker 3: But otherwise I think what you hear is pretty much 462 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 3: how we feel, and it's coming out through the air. 463 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 3: And I appreciate you saying that because I think what 464 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 3: you said was is really what a broadcaster should strive 465 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 3: to make. 466 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:06,440 Speaker 2: It sound like, how was it doing those COVID games 467 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:07,360 Speaker 2: in an empty room? 468 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:08,439 Speaker 1: Empty ball? It sucked. 469 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, playing and simple, it was horrible. 470 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 2: You guys still talk about that like all the time 471 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 2: on the procast we have we have it's. 472 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 4: In our minds. 473 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 3: It's it's something that is UH where we have some 474 00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 3: trauma about because it was horrible. You know, it's not 475 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 3: the way that you should be broadcasting major League Baseball. 476 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 3: There's it's a it's a long season. Every day you 477 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,399 Speaker 3: have to be around, uh to really understand what the 478 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 3: players are going through and what the players are thinking 479 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 3: and what the manager's thinking. 480 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 4: You have to just be around. 481 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 3: So to not to not be around was tough, and 482 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 3: to not experience the atmosphere. And you know, we're talking 483 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 3: about Dodger Stadium. The Mets are playing at Dodgers team 484 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 3: we're not in it, so we're not feeling what it 485 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,479 Speaker 3: feels like to be at Dodger Stadium, which is an 486 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 3: incredible place. You know, I know John and Soon and 487 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 3: did sorry? 488 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:02,199 Speaker 4: I know that. 489 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:06,040 Speaker 3: The the the games in London off of a TV. 490 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: It's gotta be impossible. 491 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 3: How could you do that? Or no, it was not 492 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 3: the London game. Was the Iowa game. It is the 493 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 3: field of dreams. Yeah, how could you do that without 494 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 3: being at the None of us have ever been there 495 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 3: to do a Major League baseball and the first one 496 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,439 Speaker 3: they ever had, So how could you really have what 497 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,520 Speaker 3: the experience is like come across the air when you're 498 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 3: not there yourself. 499 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: It just is not the. 500 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 4: Way it should have been done. And I'm glad, really 501 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 4: happy that we are not doing it though. Being in 502 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 4: the ballpark obviously makes a huge difference. 503 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 5: And at home games we've started to interact with players 504 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 5: now and we start to get our own stories. 505 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: Is there any story with. 506 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,920 Speaker 5: The players, maybe even from the twenty fifteen team that 507 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 5: is like one that is kind of funny or sticks out? 508 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure there's been a lot over the years 509 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 3: that have stood out. You know. I know that some 510 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:53,120 Speaker 3: guys really like you know, Todd Frazier was somebody who's 511 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 3: always telling stories and talked about working as a carnie 512 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 3: at some the you know festival in New Jersey and 513 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 3: you know how he was giving t shirts out and 514 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:06,680 Speaker 3: getting yelled at. I mean, there's always weird stories that 515 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:11,120 Speaker 3: come through from the guys. It's it's whether whether they're 516 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 3: funny stories or just good baseball stories, you know, whatever 517 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 3: we're after. You know, some guys will try to tell 518 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 3: you how they feel about a certain situation without really 519 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 3: coming out and saying it. Some guys are very guarded about, 520 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 3: you know what they say. I remember Curtis Granderson would 521 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 3: always give answers that seem like he could you know, well, 522 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,119 Speaker 3: it's baseball, and sometimes you make it out, sometimes you 523 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 3: get a hit. 524 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, thank you Curtis for that. 525 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, Curtis is very smart and very 526 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,680 Speaker 3: good at even doing TV now. So but those answers 527 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,080 Speaker 3: are almost like, well, okay, that's I guess you don't 528 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 3: really want to say what you're thinking. 529 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 4: But some guys are really candid. Some aren't. But it's 530 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 4: it's just good to know. 531 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,239 Speaker 3: Even that you know what players are thinking and how 532 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 3: they're going about their business every day. And we were 533 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 3: just seeing Lindor taking backing practice out here twenty minutes ago, 534 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 3: four hours or more before the game in the middle 535 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,639 Speaker 3: of August, after he's played every single day so now, 536 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 3: and we've already asked him that this week, but just 537 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 3: to go up to him and say, hey, you know 538 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,920 Speaker 3: you're up there taking BP at two thirty for a 539 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 3: seven o'clock game. One hundred and fifteen games in like 540 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 3: Are you crazy or are you what is this? Why 541 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 3: do you do this? So I think having a curiosity 542 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,720 Speaker 3: for how they do their jobs is really the best 543 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 3: way to go about it. 544 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: That's great insight. 545 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 2: We don't really think about that as much because it's 546 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 2: our first fans too, No one, no, not many people 547 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 2: are here day after day after day. We've kind of 548 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 2: got a new found understanding of that being here and 549 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 2: like you guys as well, just like being a part 550 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 2: of this team's grind, like over and over and over again. 551 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 2: It's like, it's so unbelievably impressive that you guys are 552 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 2: able to do this and stay as consistently spectacular as 553 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 2: you did. 554 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate that, but I don't I don't know 555 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 4: how they do it. Yeah, yeah, I want to know. 556 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 3: You know, when you have a long night flying in somewhere, 557 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 3: you get in at four am, and then you got 558 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 3: to go broadcast the game the next day, that's tiring. 559 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 3: Like you you can you feel it after a few 560 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 3: months of doing it, especially, But I don't know how 561 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 3: they go out and perform, how they go out and 562 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 3: play and throw and hit and do it at such 563 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 3: a high level. I mean it really, these guys are 564 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 3: unbelievable athletes. 565 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 4: You know. 566 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 3: I know fans say, well, this player stinks or whatever 567 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 3: they but they really don't. 568 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 4: They are so incredible. 569 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 3: Athlete Mark Canna moves to third base for the first 570 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,479 Speaker 3: time in six years, has a one hop rocket hit 571 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 3: to them fields and throws it to first. 572 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 4: I mean, it's just. 573 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 3: Unbelievable how good these guys are at this sport and 574 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 3: just being athletes. 575 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 5: Last question, I'll ask you because we have now started 576 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 5: to indulge in the media food. So who do you 577 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 5: think around the league has the best food for media? 578 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 4: Phillies is pretty good. 579 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 3: Phillies have a good ice cream selection, you know, that's 580 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 3: Frank scoops our ice cream in Philly, and and that's 581 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 3: always fun. Who else has a really good one? I 582 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 3: feel like everybody's you know, about the same at this point. Nobody, 583 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,719 Speaker 3: nobody really puts out the great media spreads that I 584 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 3: that they always talk about. You know, this place used 585 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 3: to have you know, twenty five dollars stakes for eight bucks. 586 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 3: You know, who knows if that's even true. But I 587 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,360 Speaker 3: feel like the media spreads are okay in most places, 588 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,640 Speaker 3: and as long as they're edible, and if not, there's 589 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 3: always the. 590 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: Concession of a similar elk. 591 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,359 Speaker 2: Where is your favorite road say the travel to and 592 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 2: then where's your favorite road ballpark to watch to be 593 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 2: part of the game. 594 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll eliminate Wrigley in Chicago is a hometown bias, 595 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 3: even though I don't think I'm biased. I would say 596 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 3: the Giants have the best game presentation. Okay, you know 597 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 3: when you go to certain ballparks, the music is so 598 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 3: loud and blaring. In San Francisco just kind of a 599 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,360 Speaker 3: little bit more of a melodious tune there, and they 600 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:46,080 Speaker 3: kind of keep it on on a medium level of noise. 601 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 3: And their PA announcer who is really really good and 602 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:55,159 Speaker 3: understated like Marisol, marisol s great stress announcer, you know, 603 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 3: but they have a great game presentation San Francisco, plus 604 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,119 Speaker 3: the water and it's it's a beautiful ballpark. I do 605 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 3: love Dodger Stadium though it's uh. I wouldn't say their 606 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,640 Speaker 3: game presentation there's just kind of the opposite where it's 607 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 3: very low. But man, Dodger Stadium is cool. What a 608 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 3: great place to be at, so much baseball history. You know, 609 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 3: you really don't get all these ballparks are new. You 610 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 3: don't really get the feeling of nostalgia and history unless 611 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 3: you're at Dodger Stadium, Wrigley and Fenway. And I hope 612 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,800 Speaker 3: those ballparks are last forever because they're they're they're the 613 00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 3: only ones left like it. 614 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,120 Speaker 5: Definitely yeah, I mean so may great dames across the league. Wayne, 615 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 5: thank you so much. I know you have to run. 616 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 5: Hopefully we'll get to talk to you again soon. You're 617 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 5: next not even that long, you know, That's what they 618 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 5: tell me. Everybody who meets me says. My neck is 619 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,399 Speaker 5: about average size. When I was eighteen, it looked a 620 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 5: little bit differently. I guess I filled into my body. 621 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 5: But we really appreciate you coming out doing this episode 622 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 5: and hopefully we can talk soon. 623 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 4: Appreciate it. Thanks a lot for having me. 624 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 2: Get up, Get Up.