Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirchen. I'm his son, Jeff Kirchen and
Speaker 1: another episode Locked and Loaded, Dad, And I'm seeing you
Speaker 1: on TV a lot right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been doing a lot lately, Jeff. But before
Speaker 2: we get to that, listen, I need my watch back. Okay.
Speaker 2: I've gone now two weeks without my watch. I left
Speaker 2: it at your house. And Jeff, look, I'm not some
Speaker 2: anal retentive idiot who you know, has to know what
Speaker 2: time it is every second of the day. But I've
Speaker 2: gone two weeks without a watch, and I'm It's not
Speaker 2: like I'm useless without him, and I have a little
Speaker 2: trouble without it. Do you wear a watch every day.
Speaker 1: Every single day? But I wear an Apple Watch, so
Speaker 1: it also gives me like text notifications and calls, and
Speaker 1: it also alerts me if I were to be butt
Speaker 1: dialing somebody, which maybe that I could help you out there,
Speaker 1: because you have a tendency to butt dial everybody. My
Speaker 1: biggest fear is not that you butt dial me or
Speaker 1: my wife Emily, or your son in law Mark. Now
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna butt dial Johnny Bench or cow
Speaker 1: Ripken Jr. Ken Griffiths Jr. You know, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: butt dial one of them. They're gonna say, Tim, I
Speaker 1: heard your pocket for twelve minutes. You left me a voicemail.
Speaker 2: Right, What does this have to do with my watch?
Speaker 2: Does your ass to watch tell time? Also? Yes, it's
Speaker 2: a watch. I just want something to see what time
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it tells time, but you gotta charge it every night.
Speaker 1: And that's a lot of technology for you to handle.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The only reason why I would have known that you
Speaker 1: were missing your watch was I overheard a conversation. I
Speaker 1: was on the phone with Mom and you popped into
Speaker 1: her car and said, sorry, I'm looking for my watch,
Speaker 1: and you were looking, I guess in her car for
Speaker 1: your watch. And then I was cleaning your bedroom. We
Speaker 1: just call it Popop's bedroom, right, the one in the
Speaker 1: front of the house when you're here recording the podcast, right,
Speaker 1: And there it was hanging out underneath the bed. It
Speaker 1: was it had fallen off of the end table and
Speaker 1: bounced underneath.
Speaker 2: The bed right at Jeff, I am a bit of
Speaker 2: a stickler, as you know that if you have clocks
Speaker 2: in your house, they should work and they should be
Speaker 2: on the correct time. I mean, I don't have to
Speaker 2: be like within thirty seconds of every other clock. I'm
Speaker 2: not that stupid. I'm just does it bug you at
Speaker 2: all that in Kelly's house, Kelly and Mark have this
Speaker 2: gigantic clock and they haven't changed to to you know,
Speaker 2: eastern daylight time. It's still an hour off. Am I
Speaker 2: wrong about this? Dan? Dan?
Speaker 1: That's always I think they moved from Chicago. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure their clocks are still in Central.
Speaker 2: Time, but they moved here four years ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't even have the same oven they have
Speaker 1: here there, and that one's on Central Time too, all right.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious of our listeners and our viewers feel
Speaker 2: the same way that I do. Now Again, I can
Speaker 2: be a bit excessive, you know, when the clock's really
Speaker 2: whether clocks go forward or the clocks go back. The
Speaker 2: first thing I do when I wake up in the
Speaker 2: morning is reset the clocks. Do other people do that?
Speaker 2: Or is this is this something I need to stop doing?
Speaker 1: Now? Dad, I'm the same way, and I think it's
Speaker 1: the father son in me. And the other day we
Speaker 1: lost power and so it was only for like thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: I started resetting my clocks. My microwave my oven, and
Speaker 1: then we lost power again for thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: My wife looked at me and said, why didn't you
Speaker 1: just wait? Couldn't you wait? Like I mean, there was
Speaker 1: only two minutes in between, Dad. I went upstairs. I
Speaker 1: made sure everybody's safe. I had a flashlight and the
Speaker 1: boom they came on, and I.
Speaker 2: Went, beepep beepepeep peep.
Speaker 1: And I reset it because it was off by you know,
Speaker 1: twelve hours, because it was now reset to midnight. Dad,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. We're pathetic, all right. There's a decorative
Speaker 1: clock in my basement. I always set it to the
Speaker 1: right time.
Speaker 2: Jeff. We're both in a deadline business. I've been in
Speaker 2: one my entire life. I worked on deadline at the
Speaker 2: newspaper business for thirteen years. Story is due at ten pm,
Speaker 2: eleven thirty, twelve thirty. If it's not in, it's late
Speaker 2: and we've missed the addition, you can't be late now
Speaker 2: that I do also do TV. You know, Baseball tonight
Speaker 2: starts at six o'clock, not six oh five. You have
Speaker 2: to be ready to do the show. And yes, I've
Speaker 2: been on TV a lot lately, Jeff, you know, with
Speaker 2: the trade deadline and all that, plus we kicked off
Speaker 2: the Little League you know, regional tournament heading towards Williamsport,
Speaker 2: where you and I will be interviewing Carl Ravage and
Speaker 2: Todd Frazier. It's gonna be great. And I did double
Speaker 2: header last Saturday in Bristol and a doubleheader on Sunday,
Speaker 2: and I'm just captivated by these kids playing baseball. It
Speaker 2: is so cool. So I can't wait till Williamsport and
Speaker 2: it's just I just love this time of year, and
Speaker 2: so do you, right.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's my favorite time of year. In fact, just
Speaker 1: a couple hours ago, we're recording this episode a little
Speaker 1: bit later than usual per being busy on ESPN this afternoon,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, what is going to be
Speaker 1: on TV at noon? Because I'm home from the morning
Speaker 1: show and I'm editing our interview for tomorrow, which is
Speaker 1: Steve Phillips. We'll get into that in a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I was like, I just need some white noise.
Speaker 1: And I turn on my TV and thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have daytime talk shows, no Little League World Series.
Speaker 1: Regional games are on and it's the best thing ever had.
Speaker 1: And this sounds cheesy. This sounds corny, but I have
Speaker 1: such a core memory my daughter McKinley, your granddaughter will
Speaker 1: be two on August tenth, and I remember bringing her
Speaker 1: home from the hospital and sitting there watching game after
Speaker 1: game after game holding my newborn baby of wall to
Speaker 1: wall coverage on ESPN of the Little League World Series,
Speaker 1: and I will never forget that. It sounds silly. And
Speaker 1: then the greatest wife in the world let me leave
Speaker 1: with only a six day old in order to go
Speaker 1: up and see you, and I brought my father in
Speaker 1: law with me for his very first time. I mean
Speaker 1: talk about the greatest. The only thing greater was my buddy.
Speaker 1: His wife let him buy golf clubs with a two
Speaker 1: week old. That was by far the biggest win I've
Speaker 1: ever heard in my life. There's no better wife in
Speaker 1: the world than my buddy's wife, Meg. I was shocked, shocked.
Speaker 1: And then when my wife Emily found out how much
Speaker 1: he sold his current clubs for, she said, well, maybe
Speaker 1: we should just sell your clubs. And I'm like, and
Speaker 1: get new ones. And I had to let her know too,
Speaker 1: they're fitted, they're fit for me. I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: wants my clubs at all, they're going to be very disappointed.
Speaker 2: So, Jeff, the Little League was great. One of the
Speaker 2: games I did featured a Maryland team, and we, of
Speaker 2: course are from Maryland, Montgomery County, Maryland. I love it
Speaker 2: that you live now in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. What are
Speaker 2: the chances of that? So the town that is right
Speaker 2: next to us, Germantown. That team made it to Bristol,
Speaker 2: Connecticut for the regional and it was so cool because
Speaker 2: Grayson Greenbomb, the number twelve hitter for the Germantown team,
Speaker 2: is the great nephew of Bernie Greenbaum, who is a
Speaker 2: childhood friend of mine and my dentist. So we had
Speaker 2: such a purse. I was so familiar. All these kids
Speaker 2: go to school like five minutes from where we live
Speaker 2: or where you used to live. I mean, we had
Speaker 2: kids that go to Lakeland's Park and mary Nazareth. It
Speaker 2: was just like, I know, I don't know any of
Speaker 2: these kids other now than Grayson Greenbaumb, But it was
Speaker 2: really really cool to see kids from this close hit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably Kingsview kids where I went to middle school
Speaker 1: or Ridgeview, two different middle schools I went to. That's
Speaker 1: so neat to have that local shout out.
Speaker 2: And I talked to the coach, and you know, the
Speaker 2: coach went to Churchill right around the corner, and he said,
Speaker 2: my kids are going to Queen's Orchard, which is where
Speaker 2: you and Kelly went to school. So it was really
Speaker 2: really cool. Plus there was a Washington DC team in there,
Speaker 2: and they had a kid named Josh Morgan Junior. He
Speaker 2: is the son of Josh Morgan, who played eight years
Speaker 2: in the NFL. Josh Morgan Junior Jeff is five eleven,
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty five pounds, is the fastest kid
Speaker 2: on the field, and he is eleven years old. And
Speaker 2: I could say without hesitation, he is the biggest, strongest,
Speaker 2: most incredibly athletic eleven year old that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: And his first two at bats he hit two triples
Speaker 2: in which he ran around the basis so fast no
Speaker 2: one on the field could beat him in a race.
Speaker 2: And he's bigger by far than anybody else on the field.
Speaker 2: It was just stunning to see a kid who was
Speaker 2: that big. I said, who is that and one of
Speaker 2: the coaches said, that's my son. He's eleven, Jeff. He
Speaker 2: was way taller than the second base umpire. He's the
Speaker 2: short stop standing right next to the second's umpire, and
Speaker 2: it was like a man among boys. It was incredible.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 1: Alan barrassing. Was it when you were umpiring? I know
Speaker 1: this happened to me when I was umpiring. When the
Speaker 1: catcher would stand up in a twelve U game and
Speaker 1: you can't see what's going on on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all the time. It happens to me.
Speaker 2: It happened all the time to me. So yes, big kids,
Speaker 2: little kids are everywhere, and as you know, Jeff, at
Speaker 2: the Little League World Series and in the regionals. I
Speaker 2: just love to read the bios of all the kids.
Speaker 2: You know. My favorite bio is the kid who wrote
Speaker 2: years ago he wrote what dinosaur has the best vocabulary
Speaker 2: answer the fsaurus, which I still think is one of
Speaker 2: the funniest things I've ever heard. A twelve year old
Speaker 2: told that joke. So in these bios I found a
Speaker 2: kid named Kayden McCarthy who plays for the Massachusetts team,
Speaker 2: which is really good, and he is like an alpine skier, Jeff,
Speaker 2: like a very accomplished alpine skier who like competes all
Speaker 2: over the country. He's twelve years old, and it said
Speaker 2: in the bio. I didn't get a chance to ask him,
Speaker 2: but he practices by skiing on glaciers. Sounds a bit
Speaker 2: sounds a bit dangerous to me, but apparently he's great
Speaker 2: at it. So these little bios that that just tell
Speaker 2: you a little bit about these kids. I think is
Speaker 2: so cool. And one of his teammates was Logan Needle
Speaker 2: and Ee d l E. And his nickname and it
Speaker 2: took me a second to figure this out. His nickname
Speaker 2: is Haystack, which I needle in a haystack. I thought
Speaker 2: that was that was pretty clever. Now, Jeff, Harry Clever,
Speaker 2: I have a question for you. Each kid has to
Speaker 2: put down his favorite celebrity. Okay, so we have Kevin Hart,
Speaker 2: We've got a ton of Adam Sandlers. And I'm just
Speaker 2: asking for a ruling here, Jeff. I'm not trying to
Speaker 2: be critical or flippant or anything else. But one of
Speaker 2: the kids put down Joey Chestnut. Asked now, is Joee
Speaker 2: chesnut A Does he belong on that list?
Speaker 1: I'll give it to all.
Speaker 2: Is he a celebrity? Sixty five hot dogs?
Speaker 1: It's he is very talented, He's a record holder. I
Speaker 1: would say celebrity status for sure.
Speaker 2: Okay. Well I asked this on the air, and Mark Brown,
Speaker 2: the play by play guy, kind of looked at me
Speaker 2: and like I was an idiot and said, of course
Speaker 2: he's a celebrity. So nothing against Joey Chestnut. I just
Speaker 2: found it odd. You know, you got Jackie Robinson, You've
Speaker 2: got Adam Sandler, you got all these people that you love,
Speaker 2: and here comes Joey Chestnut. I got a kick out.
Speaker 2: But let's put it that way.
Speaker 1: Joey Chestnut, Adam to the list producers of the guests
Speaker 1: we want to get on, along with Lynn Manuel Miranda.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm looking at the hypothetical producer. I'm just
Speaker 1: writing down myself as we.
Speaker 2: Know, Jeff, you are the producer, the director too, here right,
Speaker 2: the creative, the technological wizard, everything.
Speaker 1: All right, So our board meetings, everybody thinks some schizophrenic.
Speaker 2: Anyway, right, okay, Jeff, So those are my quick you
Speaker 2: just thoughts about Little League. We're for regionals, We're going
Speaker 2: to the world series soon. It's going to be absolutely great.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's going to be Dad. I'm so excited. It's
Speaker 1: the most exciting time of the year. If you happen
Speaker 1: to be down at Williamsport and you're going to be
Speaker 1: a part of the weekend. Make sure to come see
Speaker 1: us at the game change or tent on Monday, August eighteenth.
Speaker 1: It's going to be an absolutely incredible week. But that's
Speaker 1: when we're going to be out there. We're going to
Speaker 1: be doing an exclusive pin drop and I have an
Speaker 1: example of that. If you're watching on YouTube right now,
Speaker 1: you can see that. And we'll also be giving you
Speaker 1: an opportunity if you can't be out at Little League,
Speaker 1: to win some pins as well. All right, Dad, the
Speaker 1: trade deadline now, granted it was last week, but now
Speaker 1: we're kind of seeing the chips all fall and I
Speaker 1: wanted to kick off the takeaways. Are you okay with that?
Speaker 2: Yes? And let's be clear, Jeff. Another reason that we're
Speaker 2: looking at the trade deadline. As our guest on Wednesday,
Speaker 2: Steve Phillips is a former general manager who told some
Speaker 2: fascinating and hilarious stories about what it's like being a
Speaker 2: general manager, especially at the trade deadline. So yes, we're
Speaker 2: gonna have you do the takeaways kick off.
Speaker 1: Well as a Philadelphia Phillies fan, and we don't hide
Speaker 1: that away because I think it's important to more or
Speaker 1: less root for the team of the city you live in,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't conflict with your childhood, right. And so
Speaker 1: my wife and I moved here in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: and we really embraced this team as our own because
Speaker 1: my wife had never lived in a city that had
Speaker 1: a team. And so that team made a run to
Speaker 1: the World Series kind of miraculously, and we jumped on
Speaker 1: the bandwagon, and we've been fans ever since. Their big
Speaker 1: trade to get closer Joan Duran Duran. The thing I
Speaker 1: love the most at is First of all, everybody including me,
Speaker 1: pronounces it a different way. But now everybody in Philly
Speaker 1: halls him John. Are you familiar with j A w n?
Speaker 1: So John is a is a slang term in Philly
Speaker 1: that means any literally anything. This John right here, Look
Speaker 1: at that John over there. Give me that John. It's
Speaker 1: just that thing, just any literally anything, right, And so
Speaker 1: now people are buying shirts that say John j A
Speaker 1: w N. Duran.
Speaker 2: Really, I had, Jeff, I have so little idea about
Speaker 2: so many things. I had no idea that was a
Speaker 2: slang term in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Look at this John exactly. Yeah, it's it's a big
Speaker 1: it's a big slang term, and people use it here
Speaker 1: all the time, and I've even caught myself using it occasionally. However, Dad,
Speaker 1: I have to say, he has had two appearances as
Speaker 1: of Monday as the Philadelphia Phillies closers. First was on
Speaker 1: the very first game he was eligible to play in.
Speaker 1: Came into the ninth inning. The Twins had given the
Speaker 1: PA wreckaging all of the audio, video elements and all
Speaker 1: that stuff to the Phillies to be able to use.
Speaker 1: He came in with an absolute insane crowd insane intro,
Speaker 1: the coolest intro in Major League Baseball, I believe, maybe
Speaker 1: next to Edwin diz Right, that's a really cool one too.
Speaker 1: And then he closes it out on four pitches. Then
Speaker 1: he comes up again on Sunday Night Baseball with our
Speaker 1: boy Kyl Ravitch on the call, Eduardo Perez David Cohne Buster.
Speaker 1: Only they get a Sunday night game in Philadelphia against
Speaker 1: the Tigers, who are crazy good this season too, And
Speaker 1: he makes another appearance and gets three outs, never giving
Speaker 1: up a hit. Unbelievable. And it's such a great move, Dad,
Speaker 1: because it's keeping fans in their seats and hoping, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I want to see him come up. I
Speaker 1: want to see the intro. I want to be there
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 2: Jeff, I'm all for it. And that Sunday night gave
Speaker 2: me through twelve pitches, ten of them at one hundred
Speaker 2: miles an hour or more. So he's not just coming
Speaker 2: in and firing, he's getting people out, and he's throwing
Speaker 2: at a rate of speed that almost nobody does. Remember
Speaker 2: Mariano riveris to enter, I mean to enter Sandman, which
Speaker 2: was great. And when Trevor Hoffman used to come in
Speaker 2: for the padres, he would come into Hell's Bells and
Speaker 2: it was like unbelievable. But Trevor Hoffman's best pitch was
Speaker 2: a change up. I was amazed that he would come
Speaker 2: in with this incredible music and then he would throw,
Speaker 2: you know something at eighty four miles an hour. Now
Speaker 2: Duran comes in throwing one hundred and two miles an hour,
Speaker 2: which makes the whole walk up even greater and more powerful.
Speaker 1: Agreed, Yeah, agreed, And you know the whole drama surrounding
Speaker 1: his number number fifty nine. Are you familiar with what
Speaker 1: happened here?
Speaker 2: No, I want you to tell me.
Speaker 1: So he came in and I'm sure you have a
Speaker 1: ton of stories about this, and I'm putting you on
Speaker 1: the spot. You don't have to have a story right now.
Speaker 1: But he wanted to wear number fifty nine for the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies because that's the number he loves to wear. However,
Speaker 1: when being traded, he was told, hey, number fifty nine
Speaker 1: is taken Rob Thompson the manager, and being of his
Speaker 1: culture and being the man he is, he said, well, no,
Speaker 1: like I too much respect for the manager. I don't
Speaker 1: want to take his number. Don't even worry about it. Well,
Speaker 1: Rob Thompson got w into that and gladly said he'll
Speaker 1: change numbers, but he did. Rob Thompson did say, I
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with it, but my wife has
Speaker 1: a problem with it because now she has to get
Speaker 1: all new clothing for when she goes to games because
Speaker 1: she has a bunch of jerseys with fifty nine on it.
Speaker 1: So as married men, I mean, I could just hear
Speaker 1: my wife saying, well, don't give it off, and Rob
Speaker 1: Thompson says, it doesn't mean anything to me, And then
Speaker 1: he said that. Durant said, I have fifty nine in
Speaker 1: the bottom of my pool. He has the number fifty nine.
Speaker 1: Dad in a pool at his house.
Speaker 2: Right, then he can't change that. Every manager in the
Speaker 2: world gives up his uniform number for a guy who
Speaker 2: throws one hundred and two miles an hour and it's
Speaker 2: closing down the ninth inning, it's a no brainer. Sorry
Speaker 2: to missus Thompson. Your husband did the right thing, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So what other takeaways do you have, Dad, that you
Speaker 1: want to bring up? Thanks for letting me go down
Speaker 1: my rabbit hole, right.
Speaker 2: Just a couple. The Brewers are really good, Jeff. Someone
Speaker 2: asked me today who's the best team in baseball? I mean,
Speaker 2: it's really hard to answer these days, but I think
Speaker 2: the answer is Brewers. They've outscored their opponents through Sunday
Speaker 2: by one hundred and nineteen runs, biggest run differential. They
Speaker 2: just played a three game series against the Nationals and
Speaker 2: in three games they scored thirty eight runs and got
Speaker 2: fifty six hits in three games. It's unbelievable. And their
Speaker 2: pitching is really good. Their manager is really good. They
Speaker 2: have some elite defensive players. Boy, I really like where
Speaker 2: the Brewers are right now. Again, they've never won the
Speaker 2: World Series. They have a team that might be good
Speaker 2: enough to do that. This year because I'm just not
Speaker 2: sure there's a great team out there. Phillies can win
Speaker 2: the World Series Matt's Cubs, Dodgers, Padres, but the Brewers
Speaker 2: are in that group and that that's really saying something
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: And did you see that in that series against the Nationals,
Speaker 1: every single starter in every single game reached base safely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is boy. You've been doing some nice research here, Jeff.
Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. You've been reading.
Speaker 1: About if you're going to have that or not.
Speaker 2: All right, last thing, Jeff, the Red Sox are hot too.
Speaker 2: Through Sunday. They won five games in a row, allowed
Speaker 2: eleven runs total in those five games, or only three
Speaker 2: games back up Toronto. And as Alex Corus said, this
Speaker 2: team is playing with an edge. Now you can see
Speaker 2: it now. We've heard that before. Remember this team won
Speaker 2: ten games in a row and then kind of fell
Speaker 2: off a little bit, and then people were all upset
Speaker 2: they didn't do anything at the trade deadline or didn't
Speaker 2: do enough at the trade deadline. But again, Jeff, the
Speaker 2: American League is wide open. There's no reason that the
Speaker 2: Red Sox can't win that division because all the races
Speaker 2: other than of course, the AL Central where the Tigers
Speaker 2: are running away, all all those races are wide open.
Speaker 2: It'll be really fine.
Speaker 1: All respect to the AL East leading Toronto Blue Jays,
Speaker 1: But how if the season ended right now, it would
Speaker 1: be the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees
Speaker 1: as wild card teams and the Blue Jays taking the division.
Speaker 1: I don't think very many people have that coming into
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Jeff.
Speaker 2: This has been one of the craziest years I've ever
Speaker 2: seen because it has made absolutely no sense, which is
Speaker 2: these are my favorite years, Jeff, when things happen and
Speaker 2: you just go, boy, I can't explain this, this is
Speaker 2: why baseball is so good, And onto the question chef
Speaker 2: talking about things that you can't explain. So Friday night,
Speaker 2: the first night after this trade deadline, it was one
Speaker 2: of the most It was one of the craziest nights
Speaker 2: in baseball history. I'm not sure there's a way around it.
Speaker 2: We had three games in which twenty five combined runs
Speaker 2: were scored. And there's only one other night June twenty third,
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty, in which there were three games with at
Speaker 2: least twenty five runs score. It was a crazy night
Speaker 2: and of course, the craziest night was the Rockies Pirates
Speaker 2: game that night. Okay, so the Pirates became This was
Speaker 2: all confirmed by Frank and John. I put both brothers
Speaker 2: on this one. First team ever, Jeff to score nine runs,
Speaker 2: get ten hits in the first inning, and in that
Speaker 2: first inning have a three run homer and a grand slam.
Speaker 2: So no first inning in the history of baseball has
Speaker 2: ever included all of those things. And of course the
Speaker 2: Pirates did all of that, and they lost the game.
Speaker 2: So the Rockies became the first team ever to allow
Speaker 2: nine runs in the first inning, allow a total of
Speaker 2: fifteen or more runs and still win the game.
Speaker 1: And of all teams to do it, the Rockies right,
Speaker 1: because we expect them to give up nine runs in
Speaker 1: the first inning to a certain degree, but we don't
Speaker 1: expect them to come back from giving up nine runs
Speaker 1: in the first size. So good on that, yes.
Speaker 2: And also in that game, Joey Bart, the Pirates had
Speaker 2: four walks and a hit batter in a nine inning game,
Speaker 2: which I found interesting. So I found the last player
Speaker 2: to walk four times and get hit by a pitch
Speaker 2: in the same game, so exactly that four walks hard
Speaker 2: to do. One hit by pitch, all in the same game.
Speaker 2: It was Bryce Harper in twenty sixteen against the Cubs, Jeff,
Speaker 2: that was the game he was walked six times and
Speaker 2: got hit by a pitch. How about that? Now that
Speaker 2: was an extra inning game, but still they refuse to
Speaker 2: pitch to Bryce Harper. And I certainly don't blame them
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 1: I love that. Oh right, all right, Collens.
Speaker 2: A couple of lot of things. Jose Al Tuove got
Speaker 2: his forty first four hit game, okay, and our pal
Speaker 2: Steve Sparks alerted me. I did not know this. He's
Speaker 2: never had a five hit game. So he's had forty
Speaker 2: one four hit games and has not had a five
Speaker 2: hit game. That does that find? And you find that odd?
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a great player.
Speaker 1: He's going to a four hit games.
Speaker 2: You figure out, you get forty one games with four hits,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get a five hit game, and he hasn't
Speaker 2: done that. Edgar Martinez Hall of Fame, are one of
Speaker 2: the great hitters I've ever seen, at twenty six four
Speaker 2: hit games in his career and did not have a
Speaker 2: five hit game, in part because he walked all the time.
Speaker 2: But I love that and Jeff, speaking of the Astros.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm repeating this. I think we used this
Speaker 2: last week, but I just love this so much. Carlos Korea,
Speaker 2: acquired from the Twins, is now the everyday third baseman
Speaker 2: for the Astros, and the shortstop now that he's healthy,
Speaker 2: is Jeremy Payna and they share the same birthday, September
Speaker 2: the twenty second, So the third baseman and the shortstop
Speaker 2: on the same team at the same birthday. I mean,
Speaker 2: what are the odds?
Speaker 1: Isn't it crazy too that it was Payina that replaced
Speaker 1: Korea in the starting spot right to begin with, and
Speaker 1: they left right. You don't see that too often.
Speaker 2: Okay, Two more strikeout notes, Jeff, because every week we
Speaker 2: have strikeout quirtchins because it's a strikeout ear and crazy
Speaker 2: things happen. So Cal Raley, who's you know, one of
Speaker 2: the two leaders for the MVP of the American League,
Speaker 2: had five to five strikeouts the other night. So he
Speaker 2: is the seventh player this year to strike out five
Speaker 2: times in a game. There were seven of them all
Speaker 2: last year, so we're going to get more, I'm sure
Speaker 2: than last year. The record is there were twelve five
Speaker 2: strikeout guys in twenty nineteen. This is a record that
Speaker 2: I still think is in peril, just because the pitching
Speaker 2: we see is absolutely ridiculous. And our last strikeout note,
Speaker 2: Ryan McMahon of the Yankees struck out four times in
Speaker 2: a game for the fifth time this season. The record
Speaker 2: is seven times by Dick Allen in nineteen sixty five.
Speaker 2: I want to say that's the record for most four
Speaker 2: strikeout games in the season. Ryan McMahon has like two
Speaker 2: months to make sure he doesn't strike out four in
Speaker 2: a game two more times.
Speaker 1: All right, dad, what do you got for On this
Speaker 1: date in baseball history today? August the fifth?
Speaker 2: Okay? On this date in nineteen ninety, Joe Morgan and
Speaker 2: Jim Palmer both were inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: I was there that day, and it was a biblical deluge.
Speaker 2: The rain was like nothing I have ever seen, and
Speaker 2: they had to move inside, so it really took away
Speaker 2: from the grandeur of the Hall of Fame. But I
Speaker 2: just love that those two guys went in because they
Speaker 2: competed against each other and all that. And Jim Palmer,
Speaker 2: you know, we've been over how great he is a
Speaker 2: million times, So we won't go over it again. But
Speaker 2: Jim Palmer once told me the Reds were not the
Speaker 2: big Red machine until Joe Morgan showed up. So let's
Speaker 2: be clear. As great as the red were in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy when the Orioles beat them, Brooks Robinson had one
Speaker 2: of the great series ever. When they won back to
Speaker 2: back in seventy five seventy six, the Reds Joe Morgan
Speaker 2: was the MVP both leagues and one of the great
Speaker 2: second basement of all time, at worst, one of the
Speaker 2: three greatest second basement of all time. And they both
Speaker 2: went in the Hall of Fame at the same time.
Speaker 2: On this date. In nineteen ninety nine, Mark McGuire hit
Speaker 2: home run number five hundred and Jeff I'll never forget
Speaker 2: being around for McGuire's chase for you know, Roger Maris's record,
Speaker 2: which people have chosen to no longer pay attention to. Look.
Speaker 2: I understand some things happened that we didn't know about
Speaker 2: at the time, but trust me, Jeff, I was there
Speaker 2: for sixty, sixty one and sixty two and it happened,
Speaker 2: and it was amazing how great that was. And in
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety eight he hit a Grand Slam in ninety eight,
Speaker 2: Jeff and David Howard was his team. And this is
Speaker 2: the focus and the zone that these great hitters get into.
Speaker 2: Mark McGuire hits a grand slam. He comes back to
Speaker 2: the bench and he's like still in this complete trance
Speaker 2: from this at bat, and David Howard looks at him
Speaker 2: and goes, wait to go, Mac grand slam, And Mark
Speaker 2: McGuire comes out of the trance and goes where the
Speaker 2: bases loaded. He didn't even know because it didn't matter
Speaker 2: to him. It was his job to do something big there,
Speaker 2: and he hit a grand slam and wasn't even aware
Speaker 2: that he had hit a grand slam. I love that
Speaker 2: all right. On this date in two thousand and seven,
Speaker 2: Tom Glavin, who was one of our guests on the
Speaker 2: podcast this year, made us laugh, told us all about hockey.
Speaker 2: He won his three hundredth game, and Jeff, he is
Speaker 2: one of six pitchers ever. No one cares about this
Speaker 2: but me since nineteen hundred to win three hundred games
Speaker 2: and walk one hundred times as a batter. That's hard
Speaker 2: to do for a pitcher to walk one hundred times,
Speaker 2: but only six pitchers have ever won three hundred games
Speaker 2: since nineteen hundred and also walked one hundred times. Tom
Speaker 2: Glavin in many ways an underrated pitcher, even though he
Speaker 2: was on those great Atlanta Brave staffs.
Speaker 1: I would say that people care about that. I thought,
Speaker 1: when you said, nobody cares about this except for me,
Speaker 1: you're gonna hit me with He's the only pitcher to
Speaker 1: strike out three hundred with a V in his last name,
Speaker 1: with at least six letters in his last name on
Speaker 1: a cold, sunny day in a domed state.
Speaker 2: Euam, I've had enough people make fun of me for that,
Speaker 2: all right, Jeff? Birthdays, Bobby, did I strike a chord? Noo?
Speaker 2: It's okay. Bobby Keelty was born on this date in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six. Jeff. This comes from Bill Chuck, by
Speaker 2: the way, who's a great one of our great friends.
Speaker 2: Listens to the podcast all the time as a statistical genius.
Speaker 2: You should read what he writes on the internet every day,
Speaker 2: Billy Ball. It's fascinating stuff. So I needed to pull
Speaker 2: from him what happened with Bobby Keelty in his career.
Speaker 2: So he played five hundred and ninety nine regular season games.
Speaker 2: He played three Division Series games, eight LCF games, but
Speaker 2: he only played in one World Series game in two
Speaker 2: thousand and seven. He pinch hit for Mike Timlin in
Speaker 2: the clinching game against the Colorado Rockies. So he pinch hit,
Speaker 2: he saw one pitch, he hit it for a home run,
Speaker 2: so he's and then that was the last played appearance
Speaker 2: of his major league career. Was a home run as
Speaker 2: a pinch hitter on the only pitch he saw in
Speaker 2: the two thousand and seven World Series and never took
Speaker 2: another played appearance in the big leagues. How amazing is that?
Speaker 1: Well that just blows David Ross right out of the
Speaker 1: exactly because the David Ross thing.
Speaker 2: You know, only guy ever hit a home run in
Speaker 2: Game seven of the World Series and then retire afterwards. Okay,
Speaker 2: well that's pretty cool, but Bobby Keelty had no interest
Speaker 2: in retiring. That just ended up being the last played
Speaker 2: appearance of his career. Jeff, I gotta be careful with this.
Speaker 2: It's Carl Crawford's birthday. Carl Crawford was born in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one. He was one of the best Tampa Bay
Speaker 2: Rays ever. Unbelievably fast, a really really good hitter, and
Speaker 2: just a dangerous man. So he was a he was
Speaker 2: a great high school quarterback. But he was a running quarterback,
Speaker 2: and there was a chance he was going to go
Speaker 2: play like Nebraska. That's how good he was. So this
Speaker 2: is I shouldn't tell this, but I'm going to anyway.
Speaker 2: So as part of a little piece we were doing
Speaker 2: in spring training back when I got to do all
Speaker 2: sorts of ridiculous stuff in spring training, Sean Fitzgerald, our producer, said, Tim,
Speaker 2: we want you to run some pass patterns and we're
Speaker 2: going to have Carl Crawford throw footballs to you because
Speaker 2: he was a great high school quarterback. So, Jeff, you
Speaker 2: know how much I love Look, I'm not a football player.
Speaker 2: I wasn't good enough and I was way too small.
Speaker 2: I would have gotten killed. But you know how much
Speaker 2: I love to run past kitty post right, skinny down
Speaker 2: out and down, corner routes, posts, all that stuff. So
Speaker 2: we do this. So I'm running around in the outfield
Speaker 2: on the baseball field in spring training and Carl Crawford
Speaker 2: and this is where I gotta be careful. He threw
Speaker 2: like six of the worst passes I've ever seen. I'm
Speaker 2: like five yards away from him and he throws it
Speaker 2: so hard that it just goes flying over my head.
Speaker 2: After like seven passes to me, he finally threw one
Speaker 2: that I could actually catch. I really don't think I
Speaker 2: dropped any of them before that jet, but we just
Speaker 2: couldn't connect on a pass. And I wasn't exactly running
Speaker 2: a deep route. I was just running something like a
Speaker 2: little square out or a little down and in. And
Speaker 2: finally I was able to catch a pass from Carl Crawford.
Speaker 1: He was a scrambling quarterback day.
Speaker 2: He was a running quarterback, there is no doubt, and
Speaker 2: I think he proved it that day while he was
Speaker 2: throwing to me in the OUTPHT and just maybe I
Speaker 2: was too small of a target for of.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 2: Elliott Johnson, our friend who did our podcast was Elliott
Speaker 2: Johnson somehow was watching all of this and he looks
Speaker 2: at me afterwards and he goes, Carl's arm was a
Speaker 2: little erratic today. Whether I'm thinking, thank God somebody else
Speaker 2: saw this. I took the blame for this one. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure it was my fault. So so yes, I
Speaker 2: thought passes from Carl Crawford pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's incredible. It's incredible. Well, Dad, before we get to
Speaker 1: your team, Tim, which we you have just been absolutely
Speaker 1: crushing it. We have one from a member of the family,
Speaker 1: someone who emailed us. We get so many of these.
Speaker 1: In fact, Dad, I've had people who just signed their emails.
Speaker 1: They'll email about something completely different and then they'll be like, Hey,
Speaker 1: here's my all condiment team, like just as their signature
Speaker 1: to the email, which I think is so endearing. John
Speaker 1: Schnitzer he wrote to us, he said, I love your
Speaker 1: all whatever teams, so I put together my all ranch
Speaker 1: slash farm team. So I'm going to read it for you.
Speaker 2: Dad.
Speaker 1: In the infield, you've got Kyle Farmer of the Rockies,
Speaker 1: you got Spencer Steer of the Reds. Love the first Toro,
Speaker 1: which is like a bull or you know, for me personally,
Speaker 1: I was thinking of like the lawnmower, right, isn't that
Speaker 1: a lot? Did we have a toro growing up?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We did, Yeah, I had. I had the lawnmowing
Speaker 2: responsibilities of the house taken away because I wasn't very
Speaker 2: good at it. I think the spin rate of the
Speaker 2: lawnmower wasn't very good, so I got replaced by the
Speaker 2: advanced metrics. Go ahead, Dan, I.
Speaker 1: Don't want to make fun of this moment, but A
Speaker 1: lot of people can relate to this. I know how
Speaker 1: hard it was for when we all had to, you know,
Speaker 1: tell your mom Nana, like, okay, you're no longer driving, right,
Speaker 1: we had to take the keys. But your wife, my mom,
Speaker 1: when she took the keys of the lawnmower, it was
Speaker 1: like that, She's like, timp, We're getting a lawn guy.
Speaker 1: See ya, right, she's a lawyer.
Speaker 2: She wanted me to be like Edward Scissorhands or something,
Speaker 2: you know, like do with a like all these kicks. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: all right. What's the rest of the team.
Speaker 1: Ben Rice of the Yankees, and then uh, Jose Cabalero,
Speaker 1: which is a horseman, right uh. And then the outfield
Speaker 1: Colton Cowser the Orioles, Mike Trout the Angels, Austin Hayes
Speaker 1: of the reds Hey, Miles Straw of the.
Speaker 2: Blue Jays, Hayes and Straw Okay.
Speaker 1: Logan oh Hoppy of the Angels, Player Cops farm Yt Pictures,
Speaker 1: Mike Burrows of the Pirates. Burrows A Burrow is like
Speaker 1: a yeah, it's a mule donkey bootle. Brian King of
Speaker 1: the Astro Astros King's Ranch, Tanner Biby of the of
Speaker 1: the Guardians like a hide Tanner.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Burrow, I can't not tell you the story.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever told you this, But Vicente
Speaker 2: Padilla pitched in the major leagues for a long time.
Speaker 2: Was a very good pictures from Nicaragua, and the Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: went to Nicaragua to sign him, and Buck Showalter went
Speaker 2: there to sign him, and they signed him like in
Speaker 2: the middle of a field, and they offered him this money,
Speaker 2: and he accepted the contract. But he said, because he
Speaker 2: came to the signing on a borough. Okay, he didn't
Speaker 2: come in a car. He came in a borough, and
Speaker 2: he said, I'm gonna I'm gonna need like fifteen hundred
Speaker 2: dollars more in my contract so I can get someone
Speaker 2: to take care of my borough. That that's how the
Speaker 2: signing went. He agreed to the contract, but he needed
Speaker 2: a little extra money to make sure his borough was
Speaker 2: well cared for. Is that great or what? Only?
Speaker 1: So is this a great game or what?
Speaker 2: Yes? Exactly? All right?
Speaker 1: Joe, all right, Dad, so big shout out, Thank you John,
Speaker 1: Thank you John for that great list. What is your
Speaker 1: team tim list about? To wrap up today's show?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we had a baseball game at a
Speaker 2: racetrack the other day in you know, the Bristol Motor Speedway.
Speaker 2: And you know Murray Cook is the guy who puts
Speaker 2: together these stadiums. It's unbelievable how they can build a
Speaker 2: baseball stadium inside of a motor track like that. You
Speaker 2: know he did everything in England. I've had many long
Speaker 2: chats with him. Whenever the Major League Baseball goes to
Speaker 2: a strange site, he comes in and builds a field
Speaker 2: there to make sure it's a perfectly manicured field so
Speaker 2: nobody gets hurt. So I know nothing about NASCAR, but
Speaker 2: I had to come up with the All NASCAR team
Speaker 2: from Major League Baseball as a tribute to playing a
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball game at a racetrack. So I looked
Speaker 2: up all the NASCAR drivers that I could and found
Speaker 2: baseball players with the same first or last name, Charles.
Speaker 2: Let's see how many of these you can get. Charles
Speaker 2: Johnson is my catcher, So who's the NASCAR with the
Speaker 2: last name Johnson? Jimmy Jimmy? Way to go? All right?
Speaker 2: Michael Bush is our first baseman. You fill in the blanks.
Speaker 2: Let's see how good you are? All right?
Speaker 1: Kyle Bus.
Speaker 2: Joe Gordon won the MVP in the American League one year,
Speaker 2: Jeff Gordon. Of course, Buddy Bell is the third baseman.
Speaker 2: I don't think you'll ever get this, but I because
Speaker 2: I don't know anything. But Christopher Bell is a NASCAR driver.
Speaker 2: Ken Hamlin is our shortstop. Who's the Denny, Jeff, I'm
Speaker 2: really happy. I'm really proud of you. I grew up
Speaker 2: watching a guy named Bob Allison play the outfield. You
Speaker 2: got that one Bobby Allison. So and Bob Allison went
Speaker 2: by Bob Allison, not Bobby Allison. But yes, there's a
Speaker 2: NASCAR driver, Bobby Allison. Randy Elliott played for the Giants
Speaker 2: in the seventies, didn't wasn't very good. But do you
Speaker 2: know an Elliott? Jeff, You're way better at this than
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a country music morning show host. I used
Speaker 1: to go to Las Vegas Motor Speedway all the time.
Speaker 1: I didn't event it Dover Motors Speedway last year. I
Speaker 1: know my races all right, Well, I don't.
Speaker 2: Josh Reddick is an outfielder. I've never heard of this
Speaker 2: guy either. Do you know a Reddick in the NASCAR world? Okay,
Speaker 2: Tyler Reddick is one of them. Dave Wallace is one
Speaker 2: of our two pitchers.
Speaker 1: Bubba Wallace.
Speaker 2: Jeff, you are really good at this.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to name if we had a son.
Speaker 1: We had a daughter, McKinley. If we had a son,
Speaker 1: I wanted to name him Bubba, and Emily said as
Speaker 1: a nickname. I said, no, as his legal name, and
Speaker 1: she about divorced me on the spot.
Speaker 2: She she should have if you gonna go that director. Look,
Speaker 2: Bubba's a great name. It's just not shouldn't be your
Speaker 2: It's a great nickname, nothing else. And our last one
Speaker 2: is Nick Mears. Picture Nick Mears, Casey Mears.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right. I wanted to end on a
Speaker 1: high note there.
Speaker 2: Right, Jeff, you did great. That is our all NASCAR team. Okay,
Speaker 2: we have another and we'll get all right. Here's what
Speaker 2: we'll do for for Thursday's episode. Jeff, there's a picture
Speaker 2: in the major leagues who made his debut this Year's
Speaker 2: name is Joe Rock. Okay, r O C K. Now,
Speaker 2: I've already come up with my team, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: leave it up to our listeners and our viewers. We're
Speaker 2: gonna have a competition on Thursday to see who can
Speaker 2: come up and you have to determine what the the
Speaker 2: you know what the category is. Joe Rock is the
Speaker 2: jumping off point for our uh. That will be Team
Speaker 2: Tim on Thursday. We'll also do from Ozzie to Oral.
Speaker 2: We'll also do Best of All Tim. We'll have our
Speaker 2: takeaways Quirk. But tomorrow, Jeff, who do we have? Tell
Speaker 2: us one more time?
Speaker 1: We have Steve Phillips tomorrow, former Mets general manager turned
Speaker 1: now into the morning show host on Sirius XM with
Speaker 1: our buddy Eduardo and also obviously a contributor and analysts
Speaker 1: to MLB Network and that one. I mean, so many
Speaker 1: things to look forward to, but talking about Eduardo with
Speaker 1: Steve Phillips, because Eduardo is as close to this show
Speaker 1: as you could possibly get. He was our first ever guest,
Speaker 1: before we even knew what we were doing. He was
Speaker 1: our guest, and he kicked off this season as our
Speaker 1: first guest of the regular season as well, him talking
Speaker 1: about Oh, it was so iconic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was right. And I don't want to ruin
Speaker 2: anything for anybody, but I'm certainly not making fun or
Speaker 2: anything or poking net. But Steve Phillips somebody wanted to
Speaker 2: kill him, but he was the general manager over a
Speaker 2: trade that he made. We're not going to tell you
Speaker 2: who the player was, but this was a legitimate thing
Speaker 2: they wanted to Somebody wanted to kill him, literally kill
Speaker 2: him based on fantastic a trade that E made. Just
Speaker 2: tune in tomorrow and he'll tell you the whole story.
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