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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George

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Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty

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Speaker 1: and He Armstrong and Yetty.

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Speaker 2: We are live at Sutter Hell Park for opening day

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Speaker 2: of A's baseball. They take on the Cubs tonight.

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Speaker 3: First pitch, seven oh five.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the American flag.

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Speaker 3: It looks like we've got a light wind blown out

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Speaker 3: to left center where it is four oh three.

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Speaker 4: The wall.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the short porch again, you.

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Speaker 3: Got a short Do we have a short porch?

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Speaker 2: That sounds very what's the number on the right hand side,

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Speaker 2: so the left it's four twelve out there in the

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Speaker 2: left field three eighty there. How do they come up

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Speaker 2: with that?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean? How far to make it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because every stadium is different. Do you sit around

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Speaker 2: discuss let's have a like a really short right field.

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Speaker 2: That'd be kind of fun prices, No, I wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps we can discuss that with Ken Corrik, the A's

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Speaker 1: play by play announcer. Ken. First of all, welcome, it's

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Speaker 1: great to talk to you. How are you. Thanks, guys,

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Speaker 1: it's great to be with you. So you have one

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Speaker 1: of the hardest jobs in the world to get every

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Speaker 1: major league ballpark, you've got, you know, eighteen guys starting

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Speaker 1: on you know, whether it's the playoffs or whatever. You

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Speaker 1: have one play by play guy for the home team

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Speaker 1: and one for the away team. And I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: your your resume. You've been busting your butt a long

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Speaker 1: time to get this gig, haven't you.

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Speaker 5: Well, thanks, I appreciate it, and I've been very fortunate,

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Speaker 5: believe me, to do this. I never thought i'd have

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Speaker 5: one day in the big leagues, let alone thirty four.

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Speaker 5: So it's you know, it doesn't get old, that's for sure.

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Speaker 5: I think tonight looking out on the field, when the

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Speaker 5: players get introduced, they come out on the baselines. I mean,

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Speaker 5: I buy into all those traditions of opening days. So

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Speaker 5: I've had a charmed career, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the experience will be?

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Speaker 2: That's different from you know, your normal sized major league ballpark,

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Speaker 2: which is like forty fifty thousand, compared to playing here

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Speaker 3: Is more like nineteen thousand. That's that's completely.

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Speaker 5: Actually, it's a lot less than that. It's more like fourteen,

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Speaker 5: even with the lawn steely, so it is it is

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Speaker 1: So wow. I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know exactly. I think we're into a certain degree.

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Speaker 5: We're venturing into the great unknown here. But I think

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Speaker 5: there's gonna be a lot of energy at the ballpark.

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Speaker 5: I know it'll be packed, and I think the weather's

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Speaker 5: going to break and it'll be fine for the first

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Speaker 5: pitch at seven oh five. And I think once the

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Speaker 5: game starts, it's still baseball. It's still ninety feet to

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Speaker 5: first base, it's still sixty feet six inches from home

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Speaker 5: plate to the pitcher's mound. But it is certainly a

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Speaker 5: much more intimate atmosphere than what we're used to at

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Speaker 1: Well, and Ken is a guy who's been going to

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Speaker 1: major league games in minor league games, and heck, I

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Speaker 1: stop and watch highst I love baseball so much, having

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Speaker 1: been to many Rivercats games in this very stadium. The

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Speaker 1: you just you're involved, you want to cheer, you want

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Speaker 1: you're flipping through your phone it just isn't that way here.

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking it might be really energizing for the players.

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Speaker 1: I hope the region turns out and supports the athletics,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I'd love to see that synergy going

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Speaker 1: I think you're right.

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Speaker 5: I think you will see and I think the players

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Speaker 5: they've been welcomed very warmly here. Many of our guys

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Speaker 5: So I think you're right. I think there will be

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Speaker 5: So yeah, games don't mean anything. I mean, this is

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Speaker 2: Well, we've been talking to We're on what is it,

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Speaker 2: seventy stations across the country and been saying, hey, wherever

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Speaker 3: There, and it's still a great seat.

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Speaker 5: You'd be thrilling advance, right, get your tickets in advance

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Speaker 5: because they're going quickly. I can tell you that.

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Speaker 2: Here's my number one question is so A stands for athletic.

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Speaker 2: You got an elephant from mascot?

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Speaker 3: What gives?

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Speaker 5: the American League, which was in nineteen oh one. The

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Speaker 5: the A's were considered because of the way they played

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Speaker 1: That's a good story. Yeah. So, Ken Cork, the A's

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Speaker 1: player by play announcer, is on the lines his thirtieth

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Speaker 1: I know, like all baseball fans, you're a fan of

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Speaker 5: Let's start up my alley there, man, Yeah, let's start

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Speaker 5: with Vin Scully. Well, Vin Scully is on a pedestal.

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Speaker 5: He stands above everyone else. We're all kind of imitators.

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Speaker 5: When anyone compares one of us to Vin Scully. I

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Speaker 5: So I think he is considered by far the god

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Speaker 5: when it comes to baseball play by play, by pretty

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I probably shouldn't have started with the Chuck Berry

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Speaker 5: Well, it's a very interesting story with Harry and I

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Speaker 5: He was a very good play by play guy in

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Speaker 1: And you know, just as in a side can. I

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Speaker 1: watch Socks games because Harry Carey and Jimmy Piersoll were

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Speaker 1: Letterman was to late night TV in that they threw

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Speaker 5: Jimmy Pearsow was one of the all time baseball characters,

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Speaker 5: and it was a pretty good player in his own right. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: but Harry would broadcast from the bleachers that really at

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Speaker 1: In shields down there, right, can I'll give you a

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Speaker 5: That's the site that nobody wants to see.

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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm a casual baseball fan. Are there any new

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about golden the bat or various clocks and

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Speaker 1: Second?

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Speaker 5: This year, no, as a couple of new rules that

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Speaker 2: Better or the worst in your opinion. I know it

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Speaker 5: I think it's better, I really do. I think fans

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. As a fan. I love it

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Speaker 1: You start looking at your phone, you lose it.

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Speaker 2: No, you're on the edge of your See, Derek Jeter

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Speaker 5: It helps the broadcasters during those fourteen to two games too.

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Speaker 1: I'll bet I bet Ken one more question, at least

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Speaker 1: for me? How did the A's look in spring training?

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about the team for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: I think they're improved.

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Speaker 5: I certainly believe that, and they're embracing higher expectations. We

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Speaker 5: great game in the as.

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Speaker 1: They have a lot of power. They've been seven home runs.

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Speaker 5: So I think they have a better ball club and

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Speaker 5: if things break right in the second half of the season,

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Speaker 1: For a wild card.

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Speaker 1: And there's no better story in sports and especially baseball,

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Speaker 1: wait for it. Ken Correck, the legendary a's played by

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what they're mowing right now. I'll bet

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Speaker 2: He gave one of the best answers there. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: He can't say, oh, suck. I don't have any idea

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Speaker 1: Right right.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, improved, definitely. How was the show today, honey?

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Speaker 2: We're embracing higher expectations.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you know, with all due respect to Dodgers fans,

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Speaker 2: For you, buy the championship.

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Speaker 1: Be true to your school. At the same time, though,

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Speaker 3: The sweetest thing in sport. It's the best thing.

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Speaker 2: It's raining pretty good right now, Yes it is, yeah, Yes,

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Speaker 3: I've been trying to hot dog.

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Speaker 1: Oh jeesez he's loud.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping there's a hot dog somewhere I can eat

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Speaker 1: The tarp is back on the infield.

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Speaker 1: It's a brief band of showers. I've consulted the radar.

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Speaker 2: I hope you're right.

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Speaker 1: It's fun talking to Ken Corrick. You know, I'd failed

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Speaker 1: He's got some years under him. He sounds fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Well, and it's somewhat like our gig, although there are

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Speaker 2: So this is where the river Cats play. I assume

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Speaker 2: you know that I have not been to a Rivercats

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Speaker 2: how many years ago was that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I used to bring my son Judy, and I

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Speaker 2: And somebody just told me that on stub Hub there

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Speaker 2: Oh just now. But they said the stub Hub ticket

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I said for the season. They said, no, just for tonight,

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Speaker 3: So I have no idea what the parking situation is

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Speaker 1: Be, Like, yeah, wow, I'm blown away by that. I'm

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Speaker 2: Games park far away and it's your chance to explore

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Speaker 2: West Sac.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you meet some interesting new people.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, make a friend, exactly. Hi, tell me about your life.

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Speaker 2: I want you to give me your phone in your wallet.

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Speaker 2: It's like no, no, no, we'll get to the robbing me.

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Speaker 1: Oh come on now, West Sac. It's a beautiful place

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Cool view from here though. We're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So come on out. Support to your local team

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Speaker 1: for three years.

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Speaker 2: I hope it stops pouring. Three years, the A's are

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Speaker 1: You man.

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Speaker 2: It's going to kind of start to feel like it's

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Speaker 1: Why are you're taking our team away. It's gonna be

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Speaker 2: Uh, we got more on the way. Is the rain

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Speaker 1: It will. It will have faith, armstrong and getdy.

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Speaker 2: We're out of the old Ballpark Center Health for the

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Speaker 3: But it's supposed to stop and clear off and it'll

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Speaker 2: This is the first known recording of take Me Out

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Speaker 2: to the ball Game.

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Speaker 3: Oh really, from nineteen oh eight. Here we go listen

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Speaker 4: And record.

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Speaker 1: Went bait.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So there were verses oh wow, and they ended

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Speaker 1: I'd listen to the whole thing. How long is it?

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Speaker 3: I don't know. It's like it's like dark sided movement.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's oh, it's concept album.

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Speaker 2: What I thought was interesting that neither of the two

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Speaker 3: Any of the stuff we talk about.

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Speaker 1: So just a quick aside that that was like the

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Speaker 1: That's right, ben.

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Speaker 2: AnyWho, So so I did some research to figure out

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Speaker 2: And I figured that out and I listened to it

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Speaker 2: We certainly don't know what he looked like playing. There's

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, so none of us have seen Babe Ruth.

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Speaker 3: We've only seen the old fat man.

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Speaker 1: Right, It's like if you'd only seen pictures of Elvis

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Speaker 3: Is exactly right. Yeah, that is exactly right.

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Speaker 2: So they have to explain on what a just a giant,

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Speaker 2: Nobody could hit him. And then he'd go up to

442
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,879
Speaker 2: the plate and hit a home run, which nobody hit

443
00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:17,120
Speaker 2: home runs at the time, nobody even tried it. Wasn't

444
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,000
Speaker 2: a strategy, so they didn't have fences. They didn't even

445
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,240
Speaker 2: really have a leg for it. That wasn't it'd be

446
00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,280
Speaker 2: like if all of a sudden, you know, playing pool.

447
00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,680
Speaker 3: It was the point was to be to shoot the

448
00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:29,800
Speaker 3: cue ball off the table.

449
00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:30,520
Speaker 1: So I've done that.

450
00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 3: Okay, Well we're gonna have to change the rules and

451
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,160
Speaker 3: rethink this, right, Yeah.

452
00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 2: Because everybody they swung down on the ball to try

453
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:38,880
Speaker 2: to get it into play, and then you'd run around,

454
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:40,960
Speaker 2: and it was all the strategy of the game until

455
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,399
Speaker 2: he came along, and then he swung up and headed

456
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,760
Speaker 2: as far as he could and every single play. So

457
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 2: he becomes popular in these rec leagues. People got a

458
00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,480
Speaker 2: word of him. Scouts came to watch him, and he

459
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,040
Speaker 2: signed with the Red Sox I think when he's like seventeen,

460
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:57,840
Speaker 2: and they were mostly interested in his pitching. But he

461
00:20:57,840 --> 00:20:59,679
Speaker 2: did pitching end hitting, and he refused to do one

462
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,040
Speaker 2: of the because he liked doing both so much. But

463
00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 2: he would do both in lots of games, like Shoeyotani does. Now,

464
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 2: what do cyber metrics say about us pitching and hitting

465
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 2: back in the twenties, And he was just so dominant

466
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,160
Speaker 2: at both there's never been as great as show. Heyotani.

467
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,280
Speaker 2: As you know, the playing field is more leveled now

468
00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,800
Speaker 2: because there's so many talented players. There weren't that many

469
00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 2: talented players where there really weren't any practically other than him,

470
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,040
Speaker 2: So he just was so dominant on both ends. It

471
00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 2: was like a circus freak performance, right. So when he

472
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 2: would go around to different towns, everybody would come out

473
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:36,320
Speaker 2: to watch, and they would put markers out and it

474
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,199
Speaker 2: was usually like they started putting in fences later, but

475
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 2: they didn't even really have fences. You were just playing

476
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,159
Speaker 2: in a field and the ball would stop rolling at

477
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,679
Speaker 2: some point and then they'd put a stick in the

478
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:46,600
Speaker 2: ground and say, this is how far bab Ruth d it.

479
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,119
Speaker 2: And he had the right now at every park that

480
00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 2: there was because nobody had ever even tried to do it.

481
00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 3: Before, and he hit the ball so far as really

482
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Speaker 3: quite entertaining.

483
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 1: Wow, that is really cool. Yeah, I'd known that there

484
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,879
Speaker 1: weren't fences in the early days, but yeah, that's funny.

485
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 1: I don't know about Hanson behind us here, our executive

486
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:07,399
Speaker 1: producer also played baseball and coaches, but yeah, they always

487
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 1: taught us hit down, hit you don't want to swing

488
00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,679
Speaker 1: up on it. Oh no, opercot blah blah blah. And

489
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 1: now they've done all the physics experiments at all, and

490
00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 1: Babe Ruth had it right. Swing up. Interesting, You get

491
00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,000
Speaker 1: the right rate of spin on the ball and the

492
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,000
Speaker 1: rest of it to get out another All the guys

493
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:22,719
Speaker 1: have opercuts.

494
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,639
Speaker 2: Now, I remember hearing a least the home run Tommy,

495
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 2: let's sort of say it's very simple. You swing down.

496
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,480
Speaker 1: That is probably true. Swinging for the fences, yeah, because

497
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: the home run is just so much of a part

498
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,119
Speaker 1: of the game now, which I'm not a big fan of,

499
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 1: you know, the other just to get a little baseball

500
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,159
Speaker 1: y on you. As I watched this crew of what

501
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:47,439
Speaker 1: is that like a dozen people working meticulously manicuring the field,

502
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 1: I've always wondered what it's like to play on a

503
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 1: field this great, because we'd show up for high school

504
00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,400
Speaker 1: games and the first thing you did as an infielder,

505
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: you'd walk out there and look around and think, oh God,

506
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 1: I am going to catch a ball in the teeth.

507
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: Are the testicles one guaranteed today because they're rutted and

508
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: rocky and crappy, and look it sounds.

509
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 2: So smooth, which would you prefer.

510
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 1: It's tough to choose, really tough to choose.

511
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:17,080
Speaker 2: I like chewing.

512
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 1: I do like chewing. You can get a tooth replaced

513
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: more quickly or easily than a test Nobody can see

514
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,680
Speaker 1: testicle damage, right, and and generally, if you double over

515
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: clutching at your yards, I mean, that's a different look

516
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: than holding your hand up to your bleeding mouth. It's

517
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:33,879
Speaker 1: just a different thing. So I don't know that's a

518
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: good question, Jack various player of player.

519
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 2: Another.

520
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 3: I like this one. Now you got the window open.

521
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 2: Now got natural sound here from the ballpark. This is

522
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:49,600
Speaker 2: what it sounds like here.

523
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: You can't tell players that program. We'll close the window again.

524
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 3: Evidently, got you.

525
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,800
Speaker 2: They're starting to set up the concession stands and stuff

526
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 2: like that. But still I have yet to see a

527
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 2: hot dog, and I want to have a hot dog. No,

528
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 2: they're not.

529
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: They don't serve hot dogs out of stands to the workers.

530
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 3: I don't know.

531
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 2: I've had a lot of hot dogs that tasted to

532
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 2: me like they've been full. Boy. Yeah, that's not the

533
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 2: freshest hundred percent of beef hot dogs.

534
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:21,400
Speaker 1: I do you remember when it was I took Declan

535
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,679
Speaker 1: to a forty nine Ers game for a Christmas present,

536
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: and it was a getting back to work weekend, and

537
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 1: it took four and a half hours to get to Candlestick,

538
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: and uh, and we missed the first half except for

539
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:42,159
Speaker 1: the last play of the first and I said, all right,

540
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: that's all right, son, I said, well, let's get a

541
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 1: hot dog. And I wolf down a hot dog and

542
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: I was all stressed out and it gave me an

543
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:50,120
Speaker 1: upset stomach. And I talked about it on Monday during

544
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Speaker 1: the show, and the good folks at Alpine Meets heard

545
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 1: that segment and were.

546
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 2: Horrified by it. Oh and I do remember.

547
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: That, And and to punish me for that, they sent

548
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: me cases of Alpine meats that were so good, Oh

549
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: my god, hot links and the foot longs and brats

550
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: and stuff like that is absolutely fantastic. And I am

551
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: going to guard a gorge on the ballpark food tonight.

552
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat a fair amount.

553
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 2: So Sweitch to talk topic briefly, because we've gotten a

554
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 2: lot of texts on this. What I should say, Oh

555
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:34,360
Speaker 2: yeah to crazy weirdo progressive hippie nut jobs who get

556
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 2: angry because I drive a Tesla, Because I've seen a

557
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 2: lot of these videos. We played one early. Can you

558
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 2: grab that one? Michael?

559
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: You know what?

560
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 2: My one is a shame shame clip. This is some

561
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,280
Speaker 2: guy in a cyber truck who drove by one of

562
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 2: the anti Tesla rallies over the weekend. All right, So

563
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 2: if you sort of stuff that, I just decided how

564
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 2: you you should handle that. We have some different ideas.

565
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 2: I suggested maybe going with some sort of I care

566
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 2: about climate change to try to out progressive them, see

567
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 2: how they do it. A number of people suggested I say,

568
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 2: I say them trans right off the bat. Somebody says,

569
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 2: up the ant he sorry, I'd love to chat with

570
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 2: you about this, but I'm.

571
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,400
Speaker 3: Running late to meet my pastor at Chick fil a.

572
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:28,640
Speaker 1: I like that one.

573
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,479
Speaker 3: Put a Biden Harris sticker on the back. That's not

574
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 3: a bad.

575
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, I'd confuse them. Yeah, how about

576
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: what do they call it when you you talk your

577
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:45,479
Speaker 1: kid out of being gay? What's that called again? Instead

578
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: of meeting my pastor at chick fil a, you say, hey,

579
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: I got to get my son to gay conversion.

580
00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,120
Speaker 3: Oh god, that's horrible.

581
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just trying to be you know, trying to

582
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: inflame people.

583
00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 2: I think I actually need to have a set line

584
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 2: to go with.

585
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, have a line ready, because you

586
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: might get flustered in the moment or get really pissed

587
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: off or whatever. It might be good to have.

588
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 3: Well, the flustering part will be am I about to

589
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 3: be in a fight?

590
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, because some some some lesbian can scream up

591
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 2: bums at me all day long.

592
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 3: Yes, I want no if I'm actually gonna get.

593
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:32,439
Speaker 1: Well right, I don't think physical prowess and screeching like

594
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: a lunatic at Tesla's don't not not on mass. I

595
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: mean there might be some overlap. It's like when I

596
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:44,119
Speaker 1: said nobody owns an electric car. You were off that day,

597
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 1: and I was right and raving about there's nobody owns

598
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: an electric car who can lift one hundred pounds over

599
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: their head. And we and we did. We did get

600
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: a couple of calls or whatever it was, or emails

601
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: from from guys, but it was just that's a handful

602
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: of guys who said, yeah, dude, I was in Special

603
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 1: Forces and all, I just think it's cool technology. So yeah,

604
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,880
Speaker 1: there are a few out there, but I think mostly

605
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: it's gonna be angry. Senior citizen you know Granola's now

606
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: you get it from both ends from some people. Some

607
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: guy rolled coal on me over the weekend. I was

608
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: driving my Tesla. He's in a big Diesel truck and

609
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: tried to smoke me out his head my windows down.

610
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 2: I think I assume he was a truck guy that

611
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 2: hates electric cars as opposed.

612
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 3: To the hippies who hate elon.

613
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, that's an odd look for a

614
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: hippie talk about, you know, very small overlaps. But no,

615
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: that's probably it.

616
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, so.

617
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't look. I own just a gas hog

618
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: of a super powered suv. Okay, But I don't care

619
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 1: what your fuel source is. I don't care if you've

620
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: got a nuclear reactor under the hood, or it's electric

621
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: or hydrogen. I just I don't don't care at all.

622
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: And I don't quite get people or that into it.

623
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:10,360
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody's making anybody do anything much anymore. There

624
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: are subsidies and stuff like that. I just I don't

625
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: get that as a hill to fight somebody.

626
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 2: I don't get angry about what other people drive war

627
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 2: or listen to. But I guess that puts me in

628
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 2: a minority. No, I might not want to listen to

629
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 2: what you listen to, or wear.

630
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 3: What you wear.

631
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 2: But I don't care what you do. It makes I

632
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 2: certainly couldn't get mad about it. Yeah, I just it's

633
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 2: so hard for me to get in that headspace.

634
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 1: The closest I come to that is there is a

635
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: model of car that if you get behind it, you're

636
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: behind a bad driver one percent of the time. Let

637
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: me try to guess one hundred percent of the time.

638
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: And special Forces guys, you can write all the emails

639
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: you want. You are no exception. If you're driving one

640
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: of these, you're a terrible track. But I probably shouldn't

641
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: say it. Why not because they might like sponsor stations

642
00:29:57,960 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: or at all. I can't.

643
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 3: You're not knocking the car, You're knocking the drivers.

644
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, No, you gotta say it's not a great car.

645
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:11,239
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to know.

646
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: It's a very small car made by a very big

647
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 1: auto company based in Japan. I will leave it there.

648
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: Why would people who drive a Toyota Echo or whatever

649
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 2: it is not that? But why would they be worst drivers?

650
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 2: On average?

651
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 1: Then? I don't know why. I've just observed that it's

652
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: true science. I will exactly. I will leave it to

653
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: wiser men than me. You've more gifted in the ways

654
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: of science.

655
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: You've done the research, You've connected the dots.

656
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's one hundred percent correlation. You are driving

657
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: too slow, you're in the left lane. You don't use

658
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 1: your signal, you clog up traffic.

659
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 3: Is there a certain is there a certain nationality that

660
00:30:59,040 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 3: tends to drive this car?

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Speaker 2: Is nothing to do with it.

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Speaker 1: No, it's it's Wienie hood, which knows no national boundaries.

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Speaker 1: Only weenies drive that car.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we got more from the Oh yeah, we open

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Speaker 2: the windows again so you can hear the bull horn.

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Speaker 3: We're in the pronouncer. Oh man, new Organ's gone around.

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Speaker 4: It's fine.

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Speaker 3: There's a little kid over there a way after him.

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Speaker 3: He's happy. He's having a good time. Eat an ice

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Speaker 3: cream cone.

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Speaker 1: Oh look at they just got chocolate all over his

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Speaker 1: fast How there's the window clothes?

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Speaker 3: More on away next.

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Speaker 4: Armstrong Andy.

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Speaker 1: West.

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Speaker 2: Virginia has become the first state to ban artificial food dies,

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Speaker 2: which should make food healthier for the baby you had

678
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Speaker 2: with your cousin. New Yorker's making incest jokes about the South,

679
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: not cool, inappropriate, not digging it, not inaccurate, but inappropriate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't say it was inaccurate.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: We are alive at Sutter Health. If we decided we'd

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Speaker 2: come out here, somebody decided for us.

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Speaker 1: In the parking at the hospital, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The baseball park where the A's will be playing for

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Speaker 2: the next three years.

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Speaker 3: That's a long time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. It reminds me of the plot of like a

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Speaker 1: weeper movie that my wife would enjoy, but I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: so much. If I'm going to be here for three

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Speaker 1: years and I care about you so much, but I've

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Speaker 1: got to leave at the end of three years. And

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Speaker 1: then the three years comes and everybody cries a bunch

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Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Well, that's a joy. It Well

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Speaker 1: it lasts, though, Jack, That's the lesson here. Wow.

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Speaker 2: So for the people that work for the team, did

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Speaker 2: a lot of them get rid of their homes or

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Speaker 2: apartments in Oakland and move to Sacramento with the idea

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Speaker 2: that in three years will be moving again or did

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Speaker 2: most people quit and you get all new people owner

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Speaker 2: it's not.

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Speaker 1: A horrible commute depending, No, I could. I could picture

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Speaker 1: a lot of those people living in Fairfield or stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, you know, places like that.

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Speaker 2: And when they go to a city. Did they hire

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Speaker 2: all new people or did the I don't know, if

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Speaker 2: they give you the option.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably. What what is the total personnel count of

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Speaker 1: a Major League Baseball I don't know.

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Speaker 2: We're looking at what a wonder the rebosas have any nine?

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Speaker 5: Ten?

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Speaker 1: What is that? Ten?

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Speaker 2: Groundskeeper people down there with the with squeegee squeegering water

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Speaker 2: off the tarp. Are all those people making full time

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Speaker 2: like raise of family salaries? Is that a part time job?

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Or all the people around here and now most of

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Speaker 2: these people work for the stadium. Probably we're seeing around here, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: no matter who's here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember when, for instance, I can't answer the

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Speaker 1: full time part time question, but I remember when Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball made the terrible decision which I have harshly criticized,

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Speaker 1: to move Was it the All Star Game out of Atlanta? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: After Brian Kempton legislature made perfectly reasonable adjustments to voting. No,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't. After COVID J How that? How that costs

727
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Speaker 1: so many good, hardworking people so much money?

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Speaker 4: Strong, Strong, You're ready.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here's your host from the ballpark for final thoughts,

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Speaker 2: Joe Getty.

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Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew

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Speaker 1: to wrap up the show. There he is Michael Angelow

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Speaker 1: in the control room. Michael final thought.

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Speaker 2: I think you guys got to be the first people

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Speaker 2: to run across the field.

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Speaker 1: Uh for the new season, you know, for the athletics.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna strip down on the street. It's a small park.

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Speaker 2: You can probably get on TV.

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Speaker 1: So much of homiting Katie Green are esteemed to use

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Speaker 1: woman as a final thought.

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Speaker 2: Katie Jack, did you decide on a personalized plate or

742
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Speaker 2: said Cyberbeast.

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Speaker 3: I haven't yet.

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Speaker 2: I do like the idea of doge, but I feel

745
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Speaker 2: like at some point I'm provoking.

746
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Speaker 1: I'm just looking for a fight. Well, you've already gone

747
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: pretty far down that road. Commit completely.

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Speaker 4: Jack.

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Speaker 1: A final thought.

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Speaker 2: I have a feeling I'll be out here on a

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00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 2: handful of times, definitely for home games. To be able

752
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 2: to see major League Baseball this close to my house,

753
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: in a stadium this small, that's pretty cool.

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00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: My final thought. Having watched everything all at once, Everywhere

755
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: You Go or whatever that movie is about parallel universes

756
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: for the second time, if I could go to a

757
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: parallel universe, it'd be the one where I became a

758
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: baseball announcer. Oh cool, because I've always wanted to do that.

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Speaker 1: Love the game so much.

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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty rabit aboutnother grueling four hour workday.

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Speaker 1: So many people, thanks so little time. Go to Armstrong

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Speaker 1: in getdy dot com for the hot links, for the swag,

763
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Speaker 1: pick up an AMNG sweatsher for goodness sake, Let's keep

764
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Speaker 1: everybody on the crew and drop some note something we

765
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Speaker 1: ought to be talking about. Send us the link mail

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Speaker 1: bag at armstrong in Getty dot com.

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Speaker 2: I haven't decided if I'm coming tonight or not, but man,

768
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Speaker 2: I'm wanting a hot dog? Is that going to be

769
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Speaker 2: the determining factor? See you tomorrow? God bless America.

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Speaker 1: I'm Strong and Getty is the biggest posies game of

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Speaker 1: all time. It's a huge disaster, but nobody's ever done

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Speaker 1: anything about it. No, No, that's not what I was told.

773
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Speaker 1: And we do not have to live like this. In fact,

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00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 1: we cannot live like this. I'm ganna call my lawyer.

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Speaker 4: Garnjie Dantea's screaming stop.

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Speaker 1: It it is over. It is over, and when it's over,

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Speaker 1: it is over. It is over. Bye Bye, Armstrong and

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Speaker 1: Getty