WEBVTT - Hotdog!!! 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:11.720 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty, Armstrong and Getty 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:17.439 and He Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:26.079 We are live at Sutter Hell Park for opening day 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.120 of A's baseball. They take on the Cubs tonight. 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:30.520 First pitch, seven oh five. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.240 I'm looking at the American flag. 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.120 It looks like we've got a light wind blown out 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.320 to left center where it is four oh three. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:39.160 The wall. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.440 Tell me about the short porch again, you. 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:42.960 Got a short Do we have a short porch? 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.280 That sounds very what's the number on the right hand side, 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.400 so the left it's four twelve out there in the 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.040 left field three eighty there. How do they come up 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:50.280 with that? 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.120 What do you mean? How far to make it? 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.000 Yeah, because every stadium is different. Do you sit around 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.320 discuss let's have a like a really short right field. 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.240 That'd be kind of fun prices, No, I wouldn't. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.320 Perhaps we can discuss that with Ken Corrik, the A's 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.759 play by play announcer. Ken. First of all, welcome, it's 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.360 great to talk to you. How are you. Thanks, guys, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.000 it's great to be with you. So you have one 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.760 of the hardest jobs in the world to get every 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.440 major league ballpark, you've got, you know, eighteen guys starting 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.920 on the field, you got four to six umps, depending 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.160 on you know, whether it's the playoffs or whatever. You 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.800 have one play by play guy for the home team 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:31.959 and one for the away team. And I'm looking at 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.600 your your resume. You've been busting your butt a long 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.959 time to get this gig, haven't you. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.319 Well, thanks, I appreciate it, and I've been very fortunate, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:43.360 believe me, to do this. I never thought i'd have 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.399 one day in the big leagues, let alone thirty four. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.640 So it's you know, it doesn't get old, that's for sure. 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.400 I think tonight looking out on the field, when the 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.400 players get introduced, they come out on the baselines. I mean, 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.120 I buy into all those traditions of opening days. So 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.880 I've had a charmed career, that's for sure. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:03.360 What do you think the experience will be? 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.360 That's different from you know, your normal sized major league ballpark, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.440 which is like forty fifty thousand, compared to playing here 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:11.480 at Cutter Health, which. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.240 Is more like nineteen thousand. That's that's completely. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.600 Actually, it's a lot less than that. It's more like fourteen, 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.160 even with the lawn steely, so it is it is 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:20.079 less Yeah. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.560 So wow. I don't know. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.480 I don't know exactly. I think we're into a certain degree. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.919 We're venturing into the great unknown here. But I think 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.040 there's gonna be a lot of energy at the ballpark. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.280 I know it'll be packed, and I think the weather's 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.960 going to break and it'll be fine for the first 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.040 pitch at seven oh five. And I think once the 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:41.720 game starts, it's still baseball. It's still ninety feet to 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.160 first base, it's still sixty feet six inches from home 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.520 plate to the pitcher's mound. But it is certainly a 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.880 much more intimate atmosphere than what we're used to at 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.760 a big league ballpark. I think it's going to be fun. 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:56.800 Well, and Ken is a guy who's been going to 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.080 major league games in minor league games, and heck, I 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.720 stop and watch highst I love baseball so much, having 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:06.240 been to many Rivercats games in this very stadium. The 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.639 feeling of you are part of the game, and you 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.000 you just you're involved, you want to cheer, you want 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.440 to shout. It's not like you know you're a mile away, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.120 you're flipping through your phone it just isn't that way here. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.079 I'm thinking it might be really energizing for the players. 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.720 I hope the region turns out and supports the athletics, 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.280 and you know, I'd love to see that synergy going 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.240 where the fans and players feed off each other. I 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.000 think there's a good chance of it. I'm excited about it. Yeah, 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:32.680 I think you're right. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.800 I think you will see and I think the players 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.800 are looking forward to that, and I know they feel 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.480 they've been welcomed very warmly here. Many of our guys 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.680 have been to at least a couple of Kings games 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:45.840 so far. The Kings have been very gracious with that. 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.960 So I think you're right. I think there will be 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.920 that intimate feel. It's a little bit like a spring 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.840 training setup, although the games will be a lot more intense. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.440 So yeah, games don't mean anything. I mean, this is 0:03:58.480 --> 0:03:59.880 the real thing out here tonight. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.360 Well, we've been talking to We're on what is it, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.880 seventy stations across the country and been saying, hey, wherever 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.080 you live, if you got a favorite team and they're 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.240 playing the A's, fly out here to watch the game, 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.320 because I'm looking at the worst seat might be that 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:11.920 one right. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.040 There, and it's still a great seat. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.560 You'd be thrilling advance, right, get your tickets in advance 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.599 because they're going quickly. I can tell you that. 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.480 Here's my number one question is so A stands for athletic. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.520 You got an elephant from mascot? 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:29.040 What gives? 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.760 Well, that's it goes back to almost the beginning of 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.840 the American League, which was in nineteen oh one. The 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.680 A's were a charter member of the American League, and 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.920 the A's were considered because of the way they played 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.600 and the great players they had on their team early 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.120 in the twentieth century that they were considered kind of 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.200 a white elephant, And so I think that's where the 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.560 whole elephant thing came from. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.760 That's a good story. Yeah. So, Ken Cork, the A's 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.640 player by play announcer, is on the lines his thirtieth 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.040 season with the A's, which is just really really amazing. Ken. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.440 I know, like all baseball fans, you're a fan of 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.880 great play by play guys through the years. Can I 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.040 hit you with a couple of names and just give 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.280 us your impression, your take as a pro Would you 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.200 do that? Absolutely? 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.800 Let's start up my alley there, man, Yeah, let's start 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.200 with Vin Scully. Well, Vin Scully is on a pedestal. 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:29.720 He stands above everyone else. We're all kind of imitators. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.159 When anyone compares one of us to Vin Scully. I 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.760 grew up listening to him, so I grew up in 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.080 La So he's set the standard for us. One of 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.719 the great thrills of my life was getting to know him. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:45.520 So I think he is considered by far the god 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.960 when it comes to baseball play by play, by pretty 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.880 much every one of us in the business. I would 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.760 say it's unanimous in terms of how we all feel 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:54.440 about Vin. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.920 Yeah. I probably shouldn't have started with the Chuck Berry 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.479 of rock and roll asking about so where else you 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.600 can go? You can't go any higher than that. As 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.840 a Chicago guy, I gotta ask you Ken. How about 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:05.560 Harry Carey. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.960 Well, it's a very interesting story with Harry and I 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.599 spent four years working part time for the White Sox, 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:15.120 so when Harry was working for the Cubs, and Harry 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.479 was one of the great entertainers in the history of 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.640 the game. And one thing that people don't realize about Harry, 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.240 because I guess you could say that he was a 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.080 bit of a caricature. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:25.320 In his final years. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.760 He was a very good play by play guy in 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.280 his days with the Cardinals, so he was very solid, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:36.560 fundamentally great entertaining. Nobody sold baseball and nobody sold as 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.760 much beer as Harry. And the other thing I need 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.680 to mention you guys are probably aware of this, but 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.120 Chris Carey is part of our broadcast team on radio 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:50.240 and television again this year. And Chris is Harry's not grandson, 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.920 he is his great grandson. So we have ties in 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.320 Ara's family. And it's interesting that the Cubs, of course 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:59.839 will be here tonight with the tide to Harry. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.080 And you know, just as in a side can. I 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.920 grew up in Chicagoland, as I said, and I was 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.360 a big Cubs fan, but my dad and I would 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:12.440 watch Socks games because Harry Carey and Jimmy Piersoll were 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.960 so incredibly entertaining together. They really they were like David 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:20.800 Letterman was to late night TV in that they threw 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.240 aside some of the traditions and conventions of it and 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.200 would just talk about the game more like fans didn't. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.320 We found that really refreshing back in the day. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.120 Jimmy Pearsow was one of the all time baseball characters, 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.640 and it was a pretty good player in his own right. Yeah, 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.320 but Harry would broadcast from the bleachers that really at 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.840 Kimiski Park, Right, It wasn't it wasn't a shock when 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.960 you would see Harry doing the games out there with 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.960 his shirt off, broadcasting their games and shorts on a 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.440 nice summer day out there at park had thirty fifth. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.520 In shields down there, right, can I'll give you a 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:59.320 thousand bucks to do that, five thousand. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.320 That's the site that nobody wants to see. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.400 Hey, I'm a casual baseball fan. Are there any new 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:06.920 rules this year I need to know about? I heard 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.120 I'm talking about golden the bat or various clocks and 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:10.480 various anything I need to know? 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:12.800 Second? 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.120 This year, no, as a couple of new rules that 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.320 are very esoteric. So on, the game is pretty much 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.440 the same. The big change happened a couple of years 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.000 ago with the pitch clock, and that really has changed 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:25.120 the game for the. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.040 Better or the worst in your opinion. I know it 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:28.560 made the game shorter, so you think it was a 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:28.960 good idea. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.200 I think it's better, I really do. I think fans 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.559 like it. I think the tempo of the game has 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:34.240 gotten better. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:38.280 Yeah, I would agree. As a fan. I love it 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.280 partly because I think it's going to save the game 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.520 in this fast paced time we live in. And I've 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.719 talked to both players and umpires in particular, who are 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.800 just you can keep your energy up so much better 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:55.319 everybody and and fans. There's not interminable time between pitches. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:56.920 You start looking at your phone, you lose it. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.920 No, you're on the edge of your See, Derek Jeter 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.920 didn't need to loosen up every single padding thing he 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.360 had on his body every single pitch and tighten it 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:05.040 back up again. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:05.959 Right. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.960 It helps the broadcasters during those fourteen to two games too. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:16.680 I'll bet I bet Ken one more question, at least 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:20.120 for me? How did the A's look in spring training? 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.480 How do you feel about the team for twenty twenty five. 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.400 I think they're improved. 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:29.720 I certainly believe that, and they're embracing higher expectations. We 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.200 just flew back from Seattle last night and they split 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.640 the four game series against the Mariners, a team that 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.880 has the best starting rotation in the American League. They 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.080 could have won all four games. Every game was a 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.240 great game in the as. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.680 They have a lot of power. They've been seven home runs. 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.440 Tyler Sodism, who's from down in Turlock, by the way, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.720 one time is number one pick, had three homers up there. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.160 So I think they have a better ball club and 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.240 if things break right in the second half of the season, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.200 they could be in contention. 0:09:59.040 --> 0:09:59.880 For a wild card. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.240 Oh and there's no great prognosticator, but I'm enthused about 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:03.640 their club. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.280 And there's no better story in sports and especially baseball, 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.880 about an overachieving, smaller market team, maybe a lower payroll 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.400 that goes out there and whoops, a little butt can't 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.320 wait for it. Ken Correck, the legendary a's played by 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.079 play announcer Ken. Great to talk to you. I hope 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.320 we can do it again. That'd be a lot of fun. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.560 Thanks you guys, Thanks for having me our pleasure. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.880 So we're out at the ballpark. It's raining, yes, So 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:28.920 they just spent all this time working on the field 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.599 announce raining. They got to be thinking, we have to 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.160 do this again and we cover it back up. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.680 Yeah, you know what they're mowing right now. I'll bet 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.680 they drag that tarp out in a hurry. Depending on 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.640 the forecast. Is. You know, not to go all meteorologists 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.679 on you, but there are breaks in the clouds. I 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.240 have a feeling this is a brief squall. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:44.920 He gave one of the best answers there. I'm gonna 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.840 remember that forever for a variety of things. Yes, so 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.000 he's the announcer. You said, how's the team. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:50.160 Going to be? 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.120 He can't say, oh, suck. I don't have any idea 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:54.400 what they're gonna be like. But he's never gonna say 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:54.960 that no matter what. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:55.480 Right right. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.400 I like him saying they're embracing expectations, higher expectation. That's 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:01.280 what I'm gonna say about us from now on. How 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:05.120 you feel about things? I'm embracing higher expectations. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.640 Oh yeah, yeah, improved, definitely. How was the show today, honey? 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.120 My wife asked me usually if she didn't listen. Uh, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:12.560 definitely improved. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.080 We're embracing higher expectations. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:21.160 Yes, yes, you know, with all due respect to Dodgers fans, 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.319 you know it's a storied franchise. If you grew up, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.080 watch and listen to whatever that's good. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.520 For you, buy the championship. 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:31.079 Be true to your school. At the same time, though, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.679 I remember when the Kings had their their great playoff 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.520 runs and all to be the winning underdog is. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.280 The sweetest thing in sport. It's the best thing. 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.320 Yeah, I'm just really rooting for that. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.320 It's raining pretty good right now, Yes it is, yeah, Yes, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.560 pretty good rain right there. And you can't I could 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.280 use the most last couple of weeks, you haven't been 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:56.400 able to go by the weather forecast because I've I 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.360 don't know how many times my phone has been saying 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.439 zero percent chance of rain. Is the rain? We're down 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:00.880 on my head? 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.160 Here you go here? He goes about the meteorologist liars. 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.120 No, no, no, no, I was going to go there. I 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:08.240 just I don't know what it's going to be like 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.080 all day long. I hope it clears off. Anyway, we 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:12.520 got more on the way. Hey, you got any question 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.240 about any of this? Because we're out at the ballpark, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:15.959 we could answer for it. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.200 I've been trying to hot dog. 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:18.720 Oh jeesez he's loud. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.000 I'm hoping there's a hot dog somewhere I can eat 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.839 before before we leave here. Man, five o'clock somewhere more 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:31.800 on the way stay here is touring out here at 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:35.440 Sutterhill Park. That's where we are for opening day of 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.120 the A's in Sacramento. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:39.520 The tarp is back on the infield. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:40.320 It is. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.840 It's a brief band of showers. I've consulted the radar. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.360 We should be fine for tonight's festivities. 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:47.120 I hope you're right. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.600 It's fun talking to Ken Corrick. You know, I'd failed 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.920 to do the math to his thirty fourth year in 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:59.400 the major leagues doing play by play, and his first 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.840 gig was in the minor leagues in nineteen eighty four. 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.240 He's got some years under him. He sounds fantastic. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.920 Yeah, you brought up the fact that he's got, you know, 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.400 one of the hardest jobs to get in all of announcing. 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.280 That's true. I've known some hell in America. I've known 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:20.199 a few people that have those jobs and nobody ever 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.200 leaves them. So not only they are only how many 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.200 baseball teams are there, maybe you know Hunton thirty two 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.400 something like that, So there are thirty two of those 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.200 jobs in the country, right, and most people keep them 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.559 for decades, right, So there's like one opening per decade. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.199 Well, and it's somewhat like our gig, although there are 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.200 more jobs like this than there are that in that 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.959 it's a really cool thing to do for a living, 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.880 and if you're successful at it, you make pretty good money. 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.240 And so there are hundreds of thousands of people who 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.920 want that gig and are working hard to get it 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.920 all the time. So yeah, I can't even imagine. There are, 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:01.280 you know, thousands of guys who probably probably we're about 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.559 as good as Ken back in the day, who he 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.240 either out talented or out worked or outlasted. Yeah, so 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.000 you know, I kind of admire a guy who's gone 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:11.080 through the grind like that. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.080 So this is where the river Cats play. I assume 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:15.880 you know that I have not been to a Rivercats 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:21.760 game in years. I'm ashamed to say. Ah, I think 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.600 the last time I was here when we were riding 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.240 around in the cart shooting the hot dog cannon. Oh really, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:27.240 how many years ago was that? 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.520 Oh forever? Yeah, yeah, we were. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.000 Shooting the T shirt cannon at people and the hot 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.160 dog gan, which is really fun. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.920 Yeah. I used to bring my son Judy, and I 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:37.200 went to a head full of games. I used to 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:41.200 bring my son back when he lived here. Now and again, 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.360 it's our hours, you know, you start a game at 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:45.920 seven o five and we got to be up at 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.920 four o'clock in the morning anyway. But yeah, it's going 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.600 to be back. It's gonna be super exciting to have 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.520 the A's here. I hope it all works out. I 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.720 hope they have a good season because I think, you know, 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:02.160 the regional embrace him like crazy. But who knows. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:07.600 And somebody just told me that on stub Hub there 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.280 they bought a ticket for tonight. So they sent me 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.520 a picture of what what's the seat like? It looked 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.320 like for you'r And I sent him a picture what's 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:15.800 it look like for more sitting because we're up in 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.480 the broadcast booth. They bought a seat right underneath this. 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:22.240 Oh just now. But they said the stub Hub ticket 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.800 was one hundred and forty seven dollars to park the park. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.920 The ticket to get in one that bad. One hundred 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.080 and forty seven to park. 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:30.040 Wow. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.240 I said for the season. They said, no, just for tonight, 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:33.640 so they're going to try to figure some other way 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:33.880 to park. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.120 So I have no idea what the parking situation is 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:36.400 going to. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.720 Be, Like, yeah, wow, I'm blown away by that. I'm 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:45.080 used to getting screwed at certain NFL franchises. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.280 Games park far away and it's your chance to explore 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:48.840 West Sac. 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.880 Yes, you meet some interesting new people. 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:57.520 Exactly, make a friend, exactly. Hi, tell me about your life. 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.680 I want you to give me your phone in your wallet. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.360 It's like no, no, no, we'll get to the robbing me. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.040 I want to know about your life. It's like the 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.000 Norm MacDonald joke. A stranger is just a friend you 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.680 haven't met yet. Unless they have candy, then they're probably 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:14.240 a pedophile. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.040 Oh come on now, West Sac. It's a beautiful place 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.440 to live. Working shop Jack, come to us. Sure a 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.080 baseball game. I have a close ro cool lives in 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:27.400 a beautiful neighborhood in West Sex. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.040 Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Cool view from here though. We're 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.360 looking at the bridge, the bridge that raises up for 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.040 the boats to go on it Ice Street bridge you 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.800 call that, I guess, uh Tower bridge, Tower bridge, Okay, 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.200 And you can see the buildings and everything like that. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:41.040 Cool view from here. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.480 Yeah, So come on out. Support to your local team 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:45.200 for three years. 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.000 I hope it stops pouring. Three years, the A's are 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:48.840 going to be playing here. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:49.800 You man. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:51.440 It's going to kind of start to feel like it's 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:55.040 our team by then, isn't it with our team? 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:56.760 Why are you're taking our team away. It's gonna be 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.280 a bit of a band aid being ripped. Yeah, feeling 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:00.360 I think it. 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.880 Uh, we got more on the way. Is the rain 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.720 lighting up? I don't think so. 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:13.760 It will. It will have faith, armstrong and getdy. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.639 We're out of the old Ballpark Center Health for the 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.200 opening of the A's tonight and we're out here already 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:21.840 and it's pouring rain. 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.760 But it's supposed to stop and clear off and it'll 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.520 be fine tonight. But so that's take Me Out to 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:26.600 the ball Game? Want you to hear this. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.800 This is the first known recording of take Me Out 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:30.280 to the ball Game. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.840 Oh really, from nineteen oh eight. Here we go listen 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.200 take Me up to the Ball Game? 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:39.920 And record. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:48.480 Went bait. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.600 Okay, So there were verses oh wow, and they ended 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.440 up just using the course that caught off. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.080 I'd listen to the whole thing. How long is it? 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.520 I don't know. It's like it's like dark sided movement. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.560 It's like it's oh, it's concept album. 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:03.000 Anyway. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.040 What I thought was interesting that neither of the two 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.280 dudes who had written that had ever been to a 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:13.080 baseball game. They didn't know what they were doing. They 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.080 just threw it together. This songwriters and it says Saron Wikipedia, 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.720 it's comment at ballparks, a throw in your team's name. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:23.480 Oh wait a minute, seat of home team now. But 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.359