1 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkschen, I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshin. 3 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 2: Hey, Dad, good to catch up with you. Y. It's 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 2: great to see you. Jeff. 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:18,240 Speaker 3: You've shaved mustache and beard. You look like you're fourteen 6 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 3: years old now even though you're thirty two. 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 2: But it's quite all right. You look great. 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Dad. I've been our family has been 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: a little bit under the weather this weekend, and I 10 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: just feel like when I finally start to get better, 11 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 1: I just I take a long shower, I cut it 12 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: all off on the beard and just try to start anew. 13 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 1: And so I'm finally feeling a little bit better. But 14 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: I'm so stoked because of where we are in the 15 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,720 Speaker 1: playoffs right now. That's the only thing keeping my head 16 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: up every single evening. 17 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:50,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great. 18 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 3: So Monday night, I covered my twenty fifth Game seven 19 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 3: of my career, and again, Jeff, without being corny, am 20 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 3: I the luckiest guy in the world that I've covered 21 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,479 Speaker 3: twenty five game sevens. I went back and looked at 22 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 3: every Game seven I ever covered. I can vividly recall 23 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 3: every one of the twenty five and the latest one 24 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 3: was just the whole series was just so so great. 25 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 3: And again, Jeff, without being corny, what really strikes me 26 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 3: when I go to these huge games is I walk 27 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 3: through the crowd now after games I didn't get to 28 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 3: use to do that normally, and I see the fans 29 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 3: and I recognize again, Jeff, how important this is to 30 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 3: them that they went to a Game seven or a 31 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 3: Game six in Seattle. Jeff, when I walked through that 32 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 3: crowd in Game six at T Mobile Park in Seattle, 33 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 3: I walked past hundreds and hundreds of fans, and there 34 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 3: were fathers and sons there together, and fathers and daughters 35 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 3: seven years old, and they went to the game with 36 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 3: their dad or their mom, and they're never gonna forget 37 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 3: that the rest of their lives, that they were there 38 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,639 Speaker 3: the night that cal Ralely hit the home run, they 39 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 3: were there the night that Juhanio Suarez hit the biggest 40 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 3: home run in the history of the Mariners. And same 41 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 3: thing with Blue Jay fans. I mean walking through the 42 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 3: Rogers Center and seeing all those people, absolutely maniacal baseball 43 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 3: fans about the Blue Jays, it just warms my heart 44 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 3: that not just what I do for a living actually matters. 45 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 3: But this game is so great and it's so beautiful 46 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 3: that people cared deeply about their team. And Toronto is 47 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 3: a better place to live when the Blue Jays are 48 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 3: this good. Seattle is a better place to live when 49 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 3: the Mariners are this good. It was just breathtaking to 50 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 3: watch the entire series, as imperfect as it was, it 51 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,919 Speaker 3: was fascinating at every turn, and there were turns all 52 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:04,520 Speaker 3: the way through. 53 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: It ain't that the truth, Dad, I mean, I have 54 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: to admit having one series as a sweep and one 55 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: series go to seven games, it kind of messes with 56 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: your mind a little bit because now, heading into the 57 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,079 Speaker 1: World Series, you've got a team that's been hanging out 58 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: for a little while and a team that pretty much 59 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: just finished a very intense seven games. And I think 60 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 1: that's going to really play into the dynamic when the 61 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: Dodgers take over again the world on Friday during the 62 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: World Series. It's gonna be a really we. 63 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 3: Have a theory as baseball writers, Jeff, that if you're 64 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 3: gonna play six games, you know we're gonna take a 65 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 3: travel day and we're gonna travel again. They took a 66 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 3: red eye flight from Seattle to Toronto, if we're gonna 67 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 3: play six, then we have to play seven, Like those 68 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 3: are the rules. We've had some of the greatest game 69 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 3: sixes of all time, including Joe Carter in this ballpark 70 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 3: with the home run to end the ninety three World Series. 71 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 3: But if you're gonna go six, we got to go seven. 72 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 3: And we went seven in this series, and the series, 73 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 3: of course, was won by the Toronto Blue Jays. Jeff 74 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 3: and I can't even begin to tell you how impressed 75 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 3: I was by the Blue Jays in this postseason. You know, 76 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 3: keep in mind they finished in the last place in 77 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 3: their division last year. And John Schneider, they're really affable 78 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:28,159 Speaker 3: and smart. Manager told us that he walks to the 79 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 3: ballpark some days and other days he drives to the ballpark. 80 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 3: And he got a little superstitious that after losing, you know, 81 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 3: the two games here one and two, that he was 82 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 3: going to walk to the ballpark for Game six, and 83 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 3: he got a bunch of hey, good to see you, 84 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 3: good luck, and all that stuff. 85 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 2: He said. 86 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: Last year, I drove to the ballpark an awful lot 87 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 3: because I didn't want to come back. 88 00:04:56,880 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 2: I was going to be. 89 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 3: Happy, but the Blue Jays won for a bunch of reasons. 90 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 3: Number one, Jeff, they can really hit. And when I 91 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 3: say hit, Jeff, they batted two to sixty five as 92 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 3: a team during the regular season. That was the highest 93 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 3: average in Major League Baseball. And even though we don't 94 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,839 Speaker 3: pay attention to that, I do. I think it's important. 95 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 3: It means they put the ball in play. Unlike most teams, Jeff, 96 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 3: they scored more runs than they had strikeouts in their 97 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 3: eleven games. That's almost impossible to do in this day 98 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 3: and age where the strikeout rate is unbelievably high. They 99 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 3: put the ball in play. And of course, leading the 100 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 3: way is vlag Guerrero Junior, who had one of the 101 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 3: greatest postseasons at least leading into the World Series that 102 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 3: I know I've ever seen. It just included power. He 103 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 3: didn't barely struck out. It was remarkable. As Miles Straw 104 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 3: of the Blue Jays told me, he said, Vlattie has 105 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 3: power and Vladdie is a pest. Now it's hard to 106 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 3: be both, Jeff. You know, if you're five foot five 107 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 3: like me you or five six like you, your only hope 108 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 3: is to be a pest at the plate. But when 109 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 3: you're six two two forty like Fladdie, and you've got 110 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 3: great power and you're fouling off pitches and not striking out. 111 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 3: That's really impressive. And the other thing about him, Jeff, 112 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 3: is people look at him and still think that he's 113 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 3: some heavy set, overweight on athletic first baseman, and nothing 114 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 3: could be further from the truth. I watched him play 115 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 3: first base eleven straight games, and man, can he play 116 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 3: that position defensive. He's already won a Gold Glove. He's 117 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 3: a Goal glob finalist this year. He's also faster than 118 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 3: most people think he is, because I saw him scoring 119 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 3: from second on a single. And Jeff, if you think 120 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 3: you could beat him in a race. 121 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 2: You've got to be kidding me, because. 122 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 3: He can run, and he's a very instinctive player. He's 123 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 3: got a great feel for the game. Of course he 124 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 3: should because his father is Vlatim Mayor Guerrero senior, who's 125 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer. So and the famous throw that 126 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 3: Addison Barger made from right field to third base to 127 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 3: cut down Josh Naylor a critical out in Gay four. 128 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 3: That was Vlaguerreo pointing throw it to throw it to 129 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 3: third and not throw it to the plate. So he's 130 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 3: a very instinctive player. He's a really good player. And 131 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 3: yet I was taken even more by Ernie Clement, the 132 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 3: second baseman, third baseman, utility infielder, everyday player who was 133 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 3: didn't hit the homers that Vlaguerrero did, but was almost 134 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 3: as productive. Talk about a pest at the plate. He 135 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,600 Speaker 3: swings at pitches all the time. We asked him, like, 136 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 3: where does that come from? You swing it all the time. 137 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 3: Put the ball in play, and I think we can 138 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 3: all appreciate this. Jeff, he played coach pitch the first 139 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 3: year and the rules were you get three pitches, that's it, 140 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 3: and so you're up there to swing. His dad told him, hey, 141 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 3: you're only getting three, you got to swing. 142 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: It's something. 143 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 3: So Ernie Clement went up there hacking away, which I 144 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 3: just love, and we got to repeat youe Ernie. Ernie 145 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:11,560 Speaker 3: Clement plays with a glove that he bought on eBay. 146 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 3: We can't say that enough times because it still just 147 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 3: absolutely dazzles me that this is where he is and 148 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 3: he's someday he's going to make a lot of money 149 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 3: doing playing this game. But more important, he's getting a 150 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 3: lot of respect. It's a guy who can really hit 151 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 3: and really play defense. 152 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, Dad, I think that clip on social media blew 153 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,840 Speaker 1: up of you talking about him getting the glove off 154 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 1: of eBay, and a lot of people were saying, hey, 155 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: sometimes players don't want that stiff glove. They want they 156 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: want somebody to do the work for them and have 157 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: it already broken in. 158 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 2: I love it. That's so great. 159 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 3: So the Blue Jays go to the World Series for 160 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,560 Speaker 3: the first time since ninety three. They won back to 161 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,480 Speaker 3: back ninety two ninety three, and this is the fourth 162 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 3: team ever, fourth team ever in a full season to 163 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 3: win a best of seven series, having lost the first 164 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 3: two games at home. So congratulations to the Blue Jays 165 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 3: and they are. 166 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 2: Off to play the Dodgers. 167 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: It's an exciting time for all these fan bases and 168 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: I'm so looking forward to Friday for a World Series matchup. 169 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: It's going to be just amazing. Well, speaking of the 170 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: World Series matchup, dadd in our takeaways the series, it 171 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: seems to have ended months ago at this point. The 172 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,720 Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Brewers a sweep four games. Incredible pitching. 173 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: I won't take your thunder Dodger stake now. 174 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 2: I talked to it. 175 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 3: One of the Dodger guys at the beginning of the playoffs, 176 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 3: and he said, look, we didn't play very well this year. 177 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 3: We weren't the best team this year. But he said, 178 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 3: we have the best run value roster. That's a saber 179 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 3: metric term, a deep analytics turn, the best run. 180 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,439 Speaker 2: Value roster of all time. 181 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 3: In the history of baseball. And it's hard to explain that, 182 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 3: but I listen to him, and since then, they went 183 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 3: nine to one the Dodgers did in the playoffs. They 184 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 3: had a two point four or five ERA way lower 185 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 3: for the starting pitchers, who were virtually unhittable in three 186 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 3: rounds of the playoffs, the wild Card, the LDS, and 187 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 3: the LCS. Ninety two innings pitched Jeff in this postseason, 188 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 3: fifty six hits allowed, that's absurd, thirty eight walks at 189 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 3: one hundred and four strikeouts. This is some of the 190 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 3: best starting pitching that we've ever seen. And what they 191 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 3: did to the Brewers was just unfair. 192 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 2: Right. 193 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 3: The Brewers, Jeff, let's understand, had the best record in 194 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: Major League Baseball. They are gritty, they are grinders. They 195 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 3: ever get bat for them is a fistfight, and they 196 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 3: got absolutely overwhelmed by the Dodgers pitching specifically, in the 197 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 3: rotation four games, Jeff, the Brewers scored a total of 198 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,439 Speaker 3: four runs, they got a total of fourteen hits, they 199 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 3: struck out forty one times in four games, and they 200 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 3: batted as a team one to eighteen. That's how domb it. 201 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 3: The only comparable is the nineteen six hitless Wonders the 202 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 3: Chicago White Sox who played the Cubs in the nineteen 203 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 3: six World Series, and in their first four games it 204 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 3: was very similar to what the Brewers went through, but 205 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 3: miraculously the White Sox came back to win that World 206 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 3: Series in six games over the crossdown Cubs. The difference 207 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 3: is the hitless Wonders. Jeff for the season for the 208 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 3: season batted two thirty and hit seven home runs. Seven 209 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 3: home runs the whole year. So that explains how they 210 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 3: could get shut down in the early nineteen hundreds by 211 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,240 Speaker 3: good pitching. You go one hundred and twenty years later, 212 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 3: it's just remarkable what the Dodgers did to the Brewers. 213 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 3: And you were watching, Jeff, the team that beat your team, 214 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,760 Speaker 3: the Phillies. I mean, any Philly fan can look at 215 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 3: this and say, well, we got steamrolled, because they're steamrolling 216 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 3: Everyone agreed. 217 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: Pitching wins in October. We've heard this a million times, Dad, 218 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 1: and people are complaining, Oh, well, if the bats aren't, 219 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: it's you got can't think about it. Your team's bats. 220 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: You got to think about it. Your team's inability to 221 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: hit the pitchers. They're two different things, believe it or not. 222 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 1: And if we've said it one Dad, we said it 223 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: a million times on this podcast. Pitching is as good 224 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 1: now as it's ever been. 225 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 3: Well, stuff that we see now is just so unbelievably good. 226 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 3: And speaking of unbelievable, Jeff, what Shohei Otani did. We're 227 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 3: like five days late on this, so we're not going 228 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 3: to belabor this, but I think we have to say 229 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 3: without hesitation that his three homer game in Game four 230 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 3: of the LCS was the greatest game ever played by 231 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 3: a play in the history of the sport, because Jeff, 232 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 3: three homers in a game has only been done once 233 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 3: by a pitcher in the modern era. That's nineteen hundred nine. 234 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 3: Guy Hecker did this in the eighteen hundreds, but nineteen 235 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 3: forty two, Jim Tobin hit three home runs in one 236 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 3: game as a pitcher. He almost hit a fourth in 237 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 3: that game, by the way, and the game before he 238 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 3: hit a home run as like a pinch hitter, I believe, 239 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 3: so he almost hit like he almost hit five homers 240 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 3: in like six at bats. It was some absurd number 241 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,959 Speaker 3: that Jim Tobin did. But of course shohe Otani hit 242 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 3: three homers and more important, pitched six scoreless innings and 243 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 3: struck out ten. So you know, immediately you start wondering, 244 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 3: has there ever been a greater game played? And because 245 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:53,760 Speaker 3: it's the postseason, Jet, it's not just the postseason. This 246 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 3: was a pennant clinching game. Granted it was three to one, 247 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 3: it wasn't a game to nothing at the time, it 248 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:06,239 Speaker 3: wasn't a game seven, But my goodness, three homers, six scoreless, 249 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 3: ten strikeouts. You agree, it's almost, by definition, has to 250 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 3: be the greatest game ever played by anyone. 251 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: Dad. 252 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 1: You know how many text messages I got during that 253 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:21,800 Speaker 1: game saying, are you and your dad just exploding right now? 254 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: Including our friend John Gay. He he could not believe 255 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: what he was watching. And you know what I was 256 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: seeing that people were creating Mount Rushmore of sports. Right, 257 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: You've got Gretzky, You've got Brady, You've got Jordan, and 258 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: then you've got show Hey, Is that correct? 259 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 3: Well again, Jeff, I'm I'm in a slightly different camp here. 260 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 2: I'm an old man and I grew up the stories 261 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 2: of Babe Ruth. 262 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 3: So I'm still not ready to put show Hay over 263 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 3: Babe Ruth because Babe Ruth did it for twenty years. 264 00:14:55,440 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 3: It was a great pitcher. But what show Hay's doing, 265 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 3: He's the most remarkable player ever. He soon will be 266 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:03,840 Speaker 3: the greatest player ever. So I'm not going to get 267 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 3: into this debate because then I become a bitter, old, 268 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 3: cynical old man. I'm just saying, we've never seen anybody 269 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 3: like him, and we will never see anybody like him 270 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 3: again ever. So I got asked, is this the greatest 271 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 3: game ever played? Well, again, it's debatable, I guess. 272 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 2: I mean. 273 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 3: Rick Wise in nineteen seventy one pitched a no hitter 274 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 3: and hit two homers in a no hitter. 275 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 2: That's pretty hard to do. 276 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 3: Tony Klanger in nineteen sixty six pitched a complete game, 277 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 3: gave up three runs, but he hit two Grand Slams 278 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 3: and drove in nine runs in one game. That's pretty 279 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 3: hard to do. But to repeat this was done on 280 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 3: the highest level. The NLCS against a great Brewer team, 281 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 3: facing pitching that people have never seen before, and he 282 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 3: hit three homers, one of the longest home runs I've 283 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 3: ever seen in my life. So I don't think there's 284 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 3: any way around this show. Hey is he's the greatest 285 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 3: player I've ever seen. But in baseball history, you still 286 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 3: have to include Babe Ruth in this equation because of 287 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 3: the longevity for which he. 288 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,000 Speaker 1: Played, no doubt, Dad, And I was funny on Twitter. 289 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: I saw somebody, right, I don't like baseball. Maybe they're 290 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: just being funny or silly, describe this to me in 291 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: golf terms. And so somebody wrote back and said, shooting 292 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 1: sixty three at the Masters and the final Sunday twelve 293 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: holes right handed, six holes left handed, because I mean, 294 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: there's no offense defense, you know there. So the comparison 295 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 1: obviously doesn't make any sense. But in reality, basically they're 296 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: saying he's the best left handed and right handed golfer 297 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: in the game right. 298 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 2: Now, right, It's pretty amazing. You know. 299 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 3: I told you that Jim Cott Hall of Fame baseball 300 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 3: player shot his age. He shot like seventy eight at 301 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 3: age eighty twice in a week, once playing left handed 302 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 3: and one's playing right handed. I find that just astonishing. 303 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 3: But I've never thought of the golf comparison, but it 304 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 3: would be it's almost like the best of It's like 305 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 3: Phil Mickison and Tiger Woods like alternating shots and they 306 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 3: end up shooting like a fifty nine together. I mean, 307 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 3: that's what it would be like on the golf. 308 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 2: I don't know. 309 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 3: I don't know golf well enough, but that was absurd 310 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 3: what sho Hey did. 311 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 2: And you should have seen the players. 312 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 3: That I talked to on the Blue Jays, Kevin Gossman 313 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 3: and Ernie Clement, and asked them about show Hay, and 314 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 3: they just shake their head like he doesn't even count, 315 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 3: Like it's it's not even fair. It's like it's too 316 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 3: ridiculous to even be true. That's the kind of respect. 317 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 3: That's how revered show Hay is wherever he goes in 318 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 3: the big leagues. 319 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 2: It's just astonishing. 320 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 1: All right, Dad, Well, coming up next here on is 321 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: this a great game? Or what? We'll jump into the 322 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: court gins on this state in baseball history, and maybe 323 00:17:55,640 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: a couple team Tims coming up next. Welcome back to 324 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 1: is this a great game? 325 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:05,719 Speaker 3: Or what? 326 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 2: Dad? 327 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 1: What court gens do you have? 328 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 2: Throughout the l I. 329 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,120 Speaker 3: Got a lot of a mail on this one. Show Hey, 330 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 3: of course hit a first inning home run as a pitcher. 331 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 2: Can I just think about that for a second. 332 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 3: Since the picture when he used to bat, we don't 333 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:25,080 Speaker 3: bat pictures anymore except for Show Hey, but always hit ninth. 334 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 3: So it's the second time in the history of the 335 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 3: postseason that a pitcher has hit a first inning home run. 336 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 3: Lou Burdett did so in the nineteen fifty eight World 337 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 3: Series for the Milwaukee Braves. Was and show Hey has 338 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,920 Speaker 3: hit a home run as a pitcher in the first inning, 339 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 3: six at different times, and people were wondering, has anyone, ever, 340 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 3: how many pitchers have ever hit one in the first inning. 341 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 3: You know, you gotta bat around in order for the 342 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,040 Speaker 3: picture to hit a home run. So I remember, I 343 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 3: remember Randy Lurch did hit one in nineteen seven nine 344 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 3: for the Phillies. But then I called Frank from the 345 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 3: Alias to get the full list, and he they were 346 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 3: like a. 347 00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 2: Lot, a lot of them. 348 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 3: But since two thousand, Carlos Lombrano did it once and 349 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 3: Robert Person did it in two thousand and two, so 350 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 3: it's still rather odd, but it has been done. It 351 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 3: just doesn't sound right, Jeff, the pitcher hit a home 352 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 3: run in the first inning, but when it's showhy, it's 353 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 3: completely understandable. 354 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:29,800 Speaker 2: And of course he did it as a leadoff hitter. Yeah. 355 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 3: And then Julio Rodriguez really stuck out to me as 356 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 3: such way. He's a great kid. Everybody knows that. But 357 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 3: I met someone who works with him with Adidas, and 358 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 3: he has sixteen pair of baseball spikes in his locker, 359 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,720 Speaker 3: all of them different styles and colors. 360 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 2: Sixteen. 361 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 3: Jeff, I don't think you have sixteen pairs of shoes, greed, No, not. 362 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:56,120 Speaker 1: Even I don't even think I have half that, right. 363 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 2: He's got sixteen pairs of spikes. 364 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 3: That he wears, and in one of the games in 365 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 3: the LCS he wore he changed his spikes halfway through 366 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 3: the game, and he changed his glove halfway through the game. 367 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 3: I'm not sure I've seen too much of that, where 368 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 3: a guy changes his shoes and his glove during a 369 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 3: baseball game. Another guy that really stuck out for me 370 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 3: is Andres Jimenez of the of the Blue Jays, who 371 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 3: I believe, I hope I don't exaggerate here is the 372 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:29,159 Speaker 3: greatest defensive player at any position in the major leagues 373 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 3: right now. The way he has become a great defensive 374 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 3: shortstop when he was the best defensive second baseman in 375 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 3: the game is just amazing to me. And he hit 376 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 3: nineteen He started nineteen games this year Jeff as a 377 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 3: cleanup hitter and thirty four games, including a bunch of 378 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 3: the playoffs as the nine hitter. Does that strike you 379 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:53,880 Speaker 3: as odd? You hit fourth? 380 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: Odd placement? For sure, you. 381 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 2: Hit fourth and you hit ninth. 382 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 3: So I asked Frank and Frank our brother John seven, 383 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 3: it's one of seven players ever to have fifteen games 384 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 3: in the cleanup, start fifteen games in the cleanup spot, 385 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 3: and start fifteen games in the number nine spot. And 386 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 3: he was tremendously productive out of the number nine spot 387 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 3: for the Blue Jays. And that's kind of the secret 388 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,880 Speaker 3: of their team is just how they got production from 389 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 3: one through nine in that order. 390 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: So those are the quirk Jins. 391 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: Excellent, well done, Dad. What about on this state in 392 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 1: baseball history? October the twenty. 393 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 2: First, Well on this state? 394 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,160 Speaker 3: Carlton Fisk hit his famous stay fair, stay fair home 395 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,439 Speaker 3: run Game six of the seventy five World Series against 396 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 3: the Reds twelfth inning, off of Pat Darcy. Let's see 397 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 3: if you can remember Jeff. The movie that references more 398 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 3: than has a great reference to Carlton Fisk's home run, 399 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 3: famous home run. 400 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,919 Speaker 1: I mean, is it's not feeling dreams? It's not the 401 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: is it the is it the movie Billy? Oh my gosh, 402 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 1: that's right? Goodwill Hunt? 403 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 3: Yes, remember Robin Williams was had tickets to game six 404 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,679 Speaker 3: and seventy five and he met his future wife and 405 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 3: he gave up the tickets, and Will Hunting had a girl. 406 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 3: I understand, I gotta go see about a girl. He 407 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 3: stole my line? How about that? 408 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 2: All right? 409 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 3: On this date in nineteen ninety eight, the Yankees finished 410 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 3: their sweep of the Padres and I'll never forget. After 411 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,679 Speaker 3: two games, the World Series goes to San Diego and 412 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 3: I'm walking up the runway, just me and Tony Winn. 413 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 2: How lucky am I? 414 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 3: And Tony looks at me because he knows I've seen 415 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 3: the Yankees a lot and he hasn't, because you know, 416 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 3: Padre's Yankees. 417 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 2: And he just looked at me and asked. 418 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,439 Speaker 3: I think, rhetorically, are are they this good? And I 419 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 3: had to tell him, Tony, they are this good. I mean, 420 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 3: when you start thinking about you know, this is the 421 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 3: greatest teams of all time. You know, twenty seven Yankees 422 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 3: all this, you got to include the ninety eight Yankees 423 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 3: at least in the discussion. That's how that's how great 424 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 3: they were. I mean, Scott Brocius hit ninth droven over 425 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:13,439 Speaker 3: ninety runs. 426 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 2: It was. 427 00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,520 Speaker 3: It was an amazing team. And on this date, ninety eight, 428 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 3: they swept. And speaking of the Yankees, on this date 429 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 3: in nineteen twenty eight, Whitey Ford was born Whitey four. 430 00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 3: Jeff finished with a winning percentage of point six y 431 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 3: nine ozer, so he won almost seventy percent of his decisions. 432 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,480 Speaker 3: He has the highest winning percentage of any two hundred 433 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 3: game winner in the history of the game. He's the 434 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 3: greatest number sixteen of all time, which we pointed out 435 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,040 Speaker 3: in From Ozzie to Oral. 436 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 2: He won ten World Series games. 437 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 3: Jeff, you know a lot of franchises, a lot of 438 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,439 Speaker 3: franchises that have never won ten World Series games. 439 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 2: He won ten all by himself. He was really really good. 440 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 2: And finally, our. 441 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 3: Only birthday is nineteen eighty four, Daniel Herrera was born. 442 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 3: Now Daniel Herrera, Jeff, I get such a kick out 443 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 3: of this I should, but he's like five foot six, okay, 444 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,919 Speaker 3: and he weighed one hundred and forty five pounds, a 445 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 3: little left handed pitcher, and he got traded to the Reds. 446 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,399 Speaker 3: And Adam Dunn, who was one of our first guests 447 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 3: on the podcast this year, said, I said, Adam, when 448 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 3: you saw Daniel Herrera for the first time when he 449 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 3: walked in the clubhouse, what did you think? And he thought, 450 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 3: he said, well, I thought it's unfortunate that we're going 451 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,360 Speaker 3: to lose him for the weekend series because he has 452 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 3: to go race in the Kentucky Derby. That's how small 453 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 3: Daniel Herrera is, and yet he had a heart as 454 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 3: big as as can be. He's a very artistic kid, Jeff. 455 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 3: He does artwork now in retirement that is real, the 456 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 3: breathtaking to watch. And I want to ask him what 457 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 3: you know, like knowing all about being the littlest guy 458 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,040 Speaker 3: on the field and the little skuy in class and 459 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 3: the littlest guy anywhere. I said, what is the funniest 460 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 3: little guy thing that's ever. 461 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 2: Happened to you? In a major league uniform? 462 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 3: So he said, when I was in the minor leagues, 463 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,240 Speaker 3: our bullpen catcher like picked me up and put. 464 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 2: Me on his knee. We're both in uniform, get this. 465 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 3: And he put his hand up underneath my jersey in 466 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 3: the back and pretended that we were doing a ventriloquist 467 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 3: show and I was the dummy, and he was. 468 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 2: Oh my god, and he said. 469 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 3: Like everyone including Daniel Herrera, was laughing out loud, that 470 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 3: this guy was big enough to pick up a teammate, 471 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 3: put his hand up his back and pretend that he's 472 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:57,000 Speaker 3: the dummy in a ventriloquist act. And that's Daniel Herrera, 473 00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 3: who just you look at him and you think you're 474 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:00,720 Speaker 3: a man league player. 475 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:01,520 Speaker 2: How can that be? 476 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,160 Speaker 3: Another reminder, Jeff, game is open to all shapes and sizes. 477 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 3: Another reason it is so beautiful. 478 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: And dad, speaking of birthdays, I have a bit of 479 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 1: a Team Tim for you that I've put together and 480 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: I'm I'm actually really excited to share it with you. 481 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 2: Are you ready? 482 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 3: I am ready, Jeff, can't wait. This is a surprise. 483 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: So I put together a list of my all October 484 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 1: birthday World Series winning Team Tim. Really so, each one 485 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: of these players was born in October, hence the best 486 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: month of the year for baseball fans. If your team 487 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,879 Speaker 1: makes it and all of these players have won a 488 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 1: World Series. Are we ready? 489 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 3: Yes, Jeff, I love your creativity here. 490 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, here we go. I'm really excited to 491 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: share this with everybody. All Right, We're going to start 492 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: at catcher, and I put Jimmy Fox. 493 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 2: As my catcher. Okay, stay with Jimmie Fox. I know 494 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 2: more than one game in the major leagues. I got it. 495 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: Over one hundred games. I checked over one hundred games 496 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 1: behind the plate, not his primary position, understood, But I 497 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: got a little desperate because also my first baseman is 498 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: Mark McGuire. 499 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 3: All right, very good. And by the way, Jeff, when 500 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 3: we used to play APBA, Uncle Matt, Uncle Andy and 501 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 3: I Uncle Matt would always have the all time team, okay, 502 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 3: and we would all get advantages because we can't we 503 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 3: can't match up with the all time team. But he 504 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 3: used to use Jimmy Fox as his catcher. 505 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 2: And I used to say, Matt, you can't do that. 506 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 3: He wasn't a catcher, and he said, yes he was, 507 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 3: And I said, but he was a primary first baseman. 508 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 2: So yes, Jimmy Fox behind the plate, very much. I'm 509 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 2: all in. It's great. 510 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 3: And Mark McGuire first, Yes, great, postseason player. 511 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: It definitely got a little tricky from here, but anybody 512 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: with corrections please feel free to do so. I put 513 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 1: Robinson know as my second baseman, two thousand and nine 514 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,880 Speaker 1: World champion with the Yankees. I put Joe Sewell as 515 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 1: my third baseman, who won one hundred years ago in 516 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty and again in nineteen thirty two. 517 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 2: It's Joe Soule's distinction, Jeff and baseball. 518 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 1: Help me. 519 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't remember times one season in over. Oh, 520 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,679 Speaker 2: that's right, all favored Joe. Okay. 521 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 1: My shortstop is three time potential four time World Series 522 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: champion Mookie Betts. Oh, pretty good, came up into the 523 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: league as a shortstop then wasn't it now is again? 524 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 2: So uh? 525 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: And then my left fielder, This one was tough, and 526 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: you won't believe how hard it was for me to 527 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: find a left fielder born in October who won a 528 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: World Series. But I decided to go with Juan Soto, 529 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: who perhaps maybe had one of the best World Series 530 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: runs for a player of that age in history. So 531 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: he is a World Series champion born in October. Thoughts 532 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: on that choice. 533 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 3: I love it, and he hit clean up in a 534 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 3: World Series game at age twenty. 535 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 2: That's pretty hard to do. 536 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: Unbelievable, unbelievable, My center fielder dad, arguably one of the 537 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: best of all time. 538 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:22,600 Speaker 3: Uh, Mickey Mantle. Correct, good, Oh Mickey Mantle's birthday, But 539 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 3: I do know he shares it with. 540 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 2: One of our guests this year. 541 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 1: Oh gosh, help me, Steve Smarts. 542 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 3: Now, this sky wore number seven is part of his 543 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 3: uniform no matter what, because he shared a birthday. 544 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 2: Sky war number. 545 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 3: Oh, Keithnandez and his war number seventeen thirty seven because 546 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:48,959 Speaker 3: he couldn't get seven for either the Cardinals or the Mets, 547 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 3: so he took seventeen for the Mets thirty seven with 548 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 3: the Cardinals as a tribute to Mickey Mann. 549 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: And it was tough leaving our beloved Keith Hernandez off 550 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 1: the list he has. October twentieth is his birthday. But 551 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 1: you know, when you put Mark McGuire at first, it's 552 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: really hard. So I'm gonna put even though you know, 553 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,480 Speaker 1: designated hitter, maybe I put Keith Hernandez as my DH 554 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: because I don't have one I do. 555 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 3: Let's put Keith Hernandez at first and Mark McGuire as 556 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 3: the DH. 557 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: As the DH despite the National League. Yeah, good idea. 558 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: Keith Hernandez will be my first baseman. Right fielder is 559 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: Dave Winfield, and my designated hitter as of now is 560 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:38,360 Speaker 1: Mark McGuire slash Raphaele Devers. I have Raffie as my 561 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: designated hitter. I thought it was fitting given the drama 562 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: of not or possibly playing DH. 563 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 3: Yeh, I love it's pretty good. 564 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 2: You worked really hard. How long did it take you 565 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 2: to do that? 566 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not even done. We don't forget about my picture. 567 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 3: No, I wasn't implying you're done. I'm still impressed with 568 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 3: how you got to this point. 569 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,479 Speaker 1: It took me a long time. In fact, you can 570 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 1: see how many times I cross stuff out because I 571 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 1: had to double check somebody actually won a World Series 572 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: because I started with just October birthdays. But then I 573 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,959 Speaker 1: said that's too easy. I gotta make this more fun. Okay, 574 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: So in my pitching staff, I just listed a bunch 575 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: of pitchers, but Pedro Martinez one of my pitchers, Jim Palmer, 576 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 1: former guests of the show, three time champion there and 577 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: then the aforementioned You already listed his birthday in on 578 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: this not on this in Whitey Ford part of my 579 00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: pitching staff. I also put just because I grew up 580 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: a Boston Red Sox fan, because of my grandfather. I 581 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: put Keith Folk in there, perhaps one of the greatest 582 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: final outs in the history of that organization. 583 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 2: October World Series in Saint Louis was amazing. 584 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: Huge, and then Dennis Eckerson, that is my team Tim 585 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,800 Speaker 1: for October Birthdays, who also won a World Series. 586 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 3: Jeff, that is great, and that the risk of trying 587 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 3: to top you. I just have to use this now 588 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 3: just in case. 589 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 2: Okay. 590 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 3: Joe Ostermeier, one of our really good listeners and viewers 591 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,000 Speaker 3: from a sportswriter from Saint Louis Boyd does he know 592 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 3: a lot of stuff about baseball. He said, Tim, you 593 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 3: got to do the all Scrabble team. Okay, now, yeah, 594 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 3: So I and I came up with it because every 595 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 3: time I look at each row's name, I see a 596 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 3: scrabble board. Okay, because your mother, your grandmother, my mother, Nana, 597 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 3: loved scrabble. She was a great scrabble player. I used 598 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 3: to play with her until almost until the day she died. 599 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 3: That's how much she loved scrabble. So I looked at 600 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 3: each row and I looked at Julio Rodriguez, two Mariners 601 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 3: who I got to watch every day for seven games. 602 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,479 Speaker 3: I said, all right, there are a ton of points 603 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 3: in there for a scrabble game. 604 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 2: So Joe insisted that I do this. 605 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:01,440 Speaker 3: So now I'm not going for the most possible points, okay, 606 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 3: I'm just looking at names that kind of look like 607 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 3: something that you might see on a scrabble board, just 608 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 3: a collection of letters. My catcher is my favorite name 609 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 3: and my favorite nickname of all time in baseball history. 610 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 2: Doug Goose is my catcher. You remember the name Jeff. 611 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 2: I've used this before. It's g w O S d Z. 612 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 2: What is his nickname, Jeff? 613 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 1: Isn't he called the eye chart? The eye chart you 614 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,560 Speaker 1: put your hand over. 615 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:41,880 Speaker 2: Your eyes like looking at an eye chart. G WO DZ. 616 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 2: And there's some great name. 617 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 3: There are some great letters in there for scrabble, not 618 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,920 Speaker 3: the you know, not the biggest numbers. 619 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,720 Speaker 2: I think I have them later on on our list. Here. 620 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 3: The first basement is the long and you brought this 621 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 3: up to me. I think it's true. I'm not positive 622 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,959 Speaker 3: the longest name in baseball history. It's got a hyphen 623 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 3: in it. But you were the one that brought this 624 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:03,080 Speaker 3: up to me. 625 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:03,960 Speaker 2: Do you remember it? 626 00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:12,799 Speaker 3: Christian and Carnacion hyphen All right, yes, I used that 627 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 3: because there are that many letters in it. You know, 628 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,919 Speaker 3: played first base for the Reds. Not much this year, 629 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,400 Speaker 3: but yes, so he's my first baseman. Mark Gruslanic always 630 00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 3: loved that name. He's got a Z in it, and 631 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 3: you in it Gruzlonic, g r. 632 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 2: U, D c I E. Jose Ramirez. 633 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 3: You know, any any name that has a Z in it, 634 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,640 Speaker 3: it has a chance to really run up some points 635 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:36,560 Speaker 3: and scrabble because it's a ten letter. 636 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:37,840 Speaker 2: It's a ten point letter. 637 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 3: The Z Ozzy Smith is the shortstop because we got 638 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 3: double z's o Z z I E and then the 639 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:51,640 Speaker 3: aforementioned Ichiro Suzuki and Julio Rodriguez plus Carl Yastremsky. A 640 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:52,799 Speaker 3: lot of points in there with. 641 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,880 Speaker 1: They knew, I knew. And look, can you even get 642 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:58,719 Speaker 1: from left to right on the board? 643 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine doing that. 644 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:03,480 Speaker 3: And before I get to the two pictures, which is 645 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 3: my favorite part, some guy I looked up on the internet, 646 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,480 Speaker 3: so I cheated to some degree on this. I'm covering 647 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 3: the league championship series. I don't have all day to 648 00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,120 Speaker 3: come up with the all alphabet team, but some guy 649 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,719 Speaker 3: came up with the all scrabble team, in which the 650 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:24,160 Speaker 3: first and last name of the player is an actual 651 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 3: scrabble word. So the first one I looked at it, 652 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,799 Speaker 3: I stopped looking because I was too embarrassed that he 653 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,360 Speaker 3: had come up with something way. 654 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 2: Better than what I did. 655 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 3: But Mark Grace is his first basement. Grace is a 656 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,839 Speaker 3: word and mark is a word. Two words that could 657 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,200 Speaker 3: be used on a scrabble board. 658 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,440 Speaker 2: That was pretty darn clever. 659 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 3: I wish I remembered his name, but it was pretty cool. 660 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:50,279 Speaker 3: My first picture is Mark Zebchinsky and you spell it 661 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 3: rzep cz y n Ski. And according to my math, 662 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 3: he's got forty one points out of his name on 663 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,280 Speaker 3: a scrabble board. And my reliever and my other pitcher 664 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 3: he's also a reliever, is Strisney. You remember him, Jeff, 665 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,840 Speaker 3: Remember he pitched this year for the Brewers and is 666 00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 3: still a quality left handed reliever. Remember he's the guy 667 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,719 Speaker 3: that I talked to about his crazy and he's got 668 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,279 Speaker 3: thirty seven points with his scrabble name. 669 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:22,200 Speaker 2: Pretty darn good. 670 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,600 Speaker 3: But he's the guy who told me was that he 671 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 3: pitched in some like high school game or something like that, 672 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,800 Speaker 3: and they were on the road and the poor public 673 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 3: address guy had to keep announcing him, and he butchered 674 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,759 Speaker 3: his name so badly the first three times he came 675 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,239 Speaker 3: to the plate that the fourth time he just said 676 00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 3: it now batting Rob Smith because he wasn't about the 677 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:50,680 Speaker 3: best with Rob Strisney again. So that's my all Scrabble team, 678 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:56,360 Speaker 3: inspired by Iachiro Suzuki and Julio Rodriguez, who I got 679 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,560 Speaker 3: a good look at. I mean, each Row is there 680 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,920 Speaker 3: every day, Jeff running sprints in the outfield, stretching it. 681 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,040 Speaker 3: It was just amazing. 682 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:04,239 Speaker 1: This. 683 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,120 Speaker 3: He's already in the Hall of Fame, but it's still 684 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 3: part of his daily routine to stay in unbelievable shape 685 00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:15,080 Speaker 3: and run the run in the outfield and do all 686 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 3: sorts of stuff. It was really impressive watching each row work, 687 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,160 Speaker 3: you know, even. 688 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,520 Speaker 2: Though he's already in the Hall of Fame. 689 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 1: Each year Row October birth that this is where I 690 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:29,360 Speaker 1: had a lot of trouble. 691 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 2: Dad. 692 00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,239 Speaker 1: There were some really great October birthdays that didn't win 693 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 1: a World Series, and I was devastated to leave them 694 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 1: off my list. 695 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,560 Speaker 3: Team Jeff, I had a lot of fun putting back 696 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:39,439 Speaker 3: to Jeff this week. 697 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,560 Speaker 2: Pretty impressive, Jeff. I'm proud of you. 698 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 3: You're really developing some creativity learned from Pop pop. 699 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,240 Speaker 2: I just don't want you to go too far. 700 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,839 Speaker 3: And then just become a pathetic old man like me 701 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,800 Speaker 3: who spends all day looking up the all scrabble team 702 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:55,480 Speaker 3: in Major League history. 703 00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,440 Speaker 1: Well, Dad, I'm so so glad we had a chance 704 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,200 Speaker 1: to put this sh show together and we're so looking 705 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,840 Speaker 1: forward to a World Series that's coming up. This Friday 706 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 1: night will be the first and Dad, you will cover 707 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 1: your how many in. 708 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,000 Speaker 3: The first one was in I've covered them all since 709 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,799 Speaker 3: eighty one, so this will be this will be great. 710 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:22,719 Speaker 3: I can't wait. You know, the lcs's were my LCS 711 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,120 Speaker 3: was absolutely fabulous. And now we're onto the World Series 712 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 3: and I'll be working for Baseball tonight. We'll be doing 713 00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 3: pre and post every day. It's going to be great. 714 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:32,160 Speaker 3: I'll be all over the place. 715 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:33,880 Speaker 2: I'll be writing. It'll be so much fun. 716 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: You want to see something weird? Yeah, look behind me. 717 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,760 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you oh you're we're moving. You're moving. 718 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,040 Speaker 2: So you took all the stuff out of the office. 719 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, all of our set pieces here at the is 720 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 1: this a great game or what studios has been packed 721 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,160 Speaker 1: away and stored in the garage until we move the 722 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,200 Speaker 1: first week of November. We close on our brand new 723 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,759 Speaker 1: house on November six, and then we have two weeks 724 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: and we'll set up a brand new studio in the 725 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,399 Speaker 1: new basement, which is gonna be great. And I've heard 726 00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,719 Speaker 1: the heating is a little bit better than what I 727 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,480 Speaker 1: have in this house, so I'm sure you're more excited. 728 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:20,200 Speaker 1: And the best news, Dad, there's the basement bathroom, so 729 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,960 Speaker 1: you and I don't have to run upstairs and pee 730 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,839 Speaker 1: between the cork jans and on this state base. 731 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,439 Speaker 2: Just pausitve, Jeff. I'll be right back. 732 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,000 Speaker 1: If there's one thing I've inherited besides your voice, it's 733 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,000 Speaker 1: the size of your bladder. Unfortunately, you and I both 734 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,479 Speaker 1: interrupting records to go pee. 735 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:46,319 Speaker 2: Really terrible, absolutely terrible. All right, Jeff, we'll talk at 736 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:47,080 Speaker 2: the World Series. 737 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,720 Speaker 1: Okay, Yes, yes we will. Dad, I love you so much. 738 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: Keep traveling. I know it hurts being away from home, 739 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,399 Speaker 1: but you are so blessed to be calling these great games. 740 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,759 Speaker 1: She did an excellent job with Carl and Eduardo. Big 741 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,960 Speaker 1: shot to them for being our guest last week and 742 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,399 Speaker 1: just totally pummeling you interview style. But you guys did 743 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,239 Speaker 1: a great job on ESPN Radio and I'm just so 744 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: happy for what you're getting a chance to do and 745 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:11,719 Speaker 1: have fun at the world So. 746 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,120 Speaker 3: Great, Jeff, thanks so much, see you soon, and thanks 747 00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:16,840 Speaker 1: So much for being a part of our family.