1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,799 Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkshon, I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon, and 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: the Wildcard round has wrapped up, Dad, and we're doing 4 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: a special Friday episode. We pushed our Thursday back. We're 5 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 1: up late on a Thursday night to make sure we 6 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: locked everything in for everybody listening. What a great week 7 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: of October baseball. 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,159 Speaker 2: It was, Jeff. Usually this time of year we have 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: a bunch of sweeps. You know, teams win two in 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,080 Speaker 2: a row and that's it. Well, we had three that 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 2: went the maximum three games, and it was really good stuff. 12 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 2: I did the Reds at the Dodgers, which was pretty 13 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 2: much a one sided thing, but it was still a 14 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 2: fascinating series. So I loved every bit of it. And 15 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 2: now we push on to the division series. But before 16 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:53,479 Speaker 2: we get to these series, Jeff, and. 17 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: As I mentioned, Dad at the end of the last episode, 18 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: that I grew up rooting for sweeps so you could. 19 00:00:58,280 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 3: Come home quickly. 20 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: And one of the series was a sweep, and it 21 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: was your series. 22 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 3: You called in La. 23 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 2: And I did get home, Jeff. But I must say 24 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 2: I'm going to break the record this time. I'm going 25 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 2: to be home for probably eleven hours. 26 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: Eleven so you landed, you, you walked in your door 27 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: at five pm Eastern. 28 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 2: Six pm Eastern, and at six am Eastern, I will 29 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,040 Speaker 2: be off to the airport to fly to Toronto for 30 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 2: the next round. 31 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 3: And then you'll be in Toronto just like that. 32 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: But anything to sleep one night in your own bed, 33 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: do a quick wash of your own clothes, at your dog, 34 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:35,960 Speaker 1: kiss your wife, and then turn around and get going. 35 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 3: I love it, I respect it. 36 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, Jeff. So, but before we 37 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 2: get to the next round, Jeff, I just want to 38 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 2: congratulate again our really alert, really smart, really clever listeners 39 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,560 Speaker 2: and viewers of our podcast. All right, So, like Greg 40 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 2: Kelly wrote in He's done this multiple times. Okay, So 41 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 2: last week I mentioned that O Pignetano of the sixty 42 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 2: two Mets, in his final Major league at bat, lined 43 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 2: out into a triple play and then the season was over. 44 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 2: Like that was it? Okay, eighth inning, next hitting, the 45 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 2: season is over. What Greg Kelly wrote was that Sammy 46 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 2: Drake and Richie Ashburn Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn were 47 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 2: on base at the time that Joe Pignatano lined into 48 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 2: a triple play, and they never played another major league 49 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 2: game either. So the three people involved in the triple 50 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 2: play never played another game. How about that. 51 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,120 Speaker 1: The last time they stepped off a field they had 52 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: just hit inmpleted a triple play on the bad end 53 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: of it, right eighth inning. 54 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 2: The other played one more inning. Not the point. The 55 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 2: point is that was the last game they played in. 56 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,079 Speaker 2: The last at bat running the bases that they were 57 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: in was a triple play. How about that? 58 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: Wow, that's insane and great, great eyes from our our listeners. 59 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: Yes, very very good, Jeff. 60 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: Everybody's talking about this great wild card weekend. 61 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 3: What are your takeaways? 62 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to start with my series again. I 63 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 2: had the Dodgers and the Reds. The Dodgers scored eighteen runs. 64 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: They are playing better now. 65 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 4: Jeff, than they have all season. 66 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 2: Through two games of the wild Card, they won seventeen 67 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 2: of their last twenty two games. They have dominant starting pitching. 68 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 2: We saw Blake's now, we saw Yoshi Yamamoto. I don't 69 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 2: know how anyone ever gets a hit off of either 70 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 2: one of those guys. And of course they move on 71 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 2: to play the Phillies. Game one will be tomorrow Saturday, 72 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 2: and shoheo. Tani is going to make his playoff debut 73 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 2: as a pitcher, Jeff, Could it get any better for 74 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 2: Citizens Bank Park? The Dodgers are coming in, Otani's pitching, 75 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 2: and the Phillies are great? I mean, what do you 76 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 2: think of this series. 77 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: Of Coworker and I were talking about it this morning 78 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: when we found out that Otani was going to be pitching, 79 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: and he said, well, I mean he's never pitched in 80 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: an environment like like Citizens Bank Park during Red October. 81 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 3: You think it's going to really shake him up. 82 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: And he kind of paused and looked at me, and 83 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 1: I kind of looked at him and I. 84 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 3: Said, show, Hey, Otani is a robot. We know this. 85 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: I don't think he is going to be shaken up 86 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: by the crowd. If anything, I think he's going to 87 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 1: bear down even more so pitching in an environment like that, so. 88 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,799 Speaker 2: He rises on the occasion like few people I've ever seen, Jeff. 89 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 3: So it's going to be one. 90 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:41,280 Speaker 1: I think, honestly, Game one, Citizens Bank Park, NLDS Dodgers 91 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,360 Speaker 1: Phillies is going to be one for the books. 92 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 3: I think I'm so excited for this game. 93 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 2: I really it might and it might end up being 94 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: the best series that we play in the postseason. That's 95 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,280 Speaker 2: how good these two teams are. Both are fully capable 96 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 2: of winning the World Series. Just one little shout out 97 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 2: to the Reds, Jeff. They didn't play well in Los 98 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 2: Angeles and they only won eighty three games, but they 99 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 2: made the playoffs. They were under five hundred, Jeff, after 100 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty games. Third team ever to make 101 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 2: the playoffs after being under five hundred after one hundred 102 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 2: and fifty games, but they found a way to get in. 103 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 2: And I was so impressed with the clubhouse, the chemistry, 104 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 2: and of course with Tito Francona, who just made the 105 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 2: series so much fun to be around. So I'm not 106 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 2: sure we should use this, but we asked him how 107 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 2: many text messages he got after they clinched and got 108 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: into the playoffs, and Tito said, I can't even count 109 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 2: how many I got, he said, but my favorite one 110 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 2: came from my little granddaughter who wrote to him, Grandpa, 111 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 2: you said the F word. She's watching the celebration and 112 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 2: everyone is going crazy. And that was their observation, Grandpa, 113 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 2: you use the F word. And Tito just laughed out 114 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 2: loud at that as he should have. It was just 115 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: beautiful Reds are going places long term, Jeff. They were 116 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 2: not good enough to beat the Dodgers, and they should 117 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: not have beaten the Dodgers. Dodgers played better, Dodgers are better, 118 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 2: but they made the playoffs this year, and if you 119 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 2: make the playoffs, you deserve it, no way around. 120 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 4: It. 121 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: Got to give a shout out to my wife, Emily, 122 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: because you know, she is learning every day about baseball. 123 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: And we were watching the Guardians game today and I said, well, 124 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,360 Speaker 1: we're rooting for Cleveland and my mother in. 125 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 3: Law's in town. 126 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: And she didn't say why, because she knows I used 127 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: to live there for three years. So I always I 128 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: always love seeing the Guardians, Indians organization do great things. 129 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 3: I know a lot of people involved in it. 130 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: But you know, she kind of kind of looked at 131 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: me and and Emily goes, yeah, because of Tito, right, 132 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: and she she knows Terry Francona, and she even connected 133 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,479 Speaker 1: that he was the Guardians manager at some point. But 134 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: he yeah, I said, well yes, and no, I mean 135 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: he was the manager for the team, but now he 136 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: is the manager for the Reds and they already lost. 137 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 3: Dad's already back at home. Oh, okay, And I. 138 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: Said, but not a bad miss. That's a good miss. 139 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: I would say that, Jeff. 140 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 2: You also need to make sure that Emily knows that 141 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 2: Tito Francona also managed the Phillies long time ago. 142 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 4: She might not know that. 143 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 2: So what was how bad was it? Because the team 144 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: was really bad? He got fired because the team was 145 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 2: really bad. 146 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 4: But he took over. 147 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 2: He made it better. So I said, Tito. I once, 148 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: I said, Tito, how bad were the Phillies? So he said, 149 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 2: one night we've got a lead. And not only am 150 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 2: I teaching these young guys how to play, I'm teaching 151 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 2: them how to be professionals. So he said, one night, 152 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 2: we bring in Wayne Gomes, who was their closer and 153 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 2: a great kid, a great kid. But he comes to 154 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 2: the mound and he's got mustard all over his jersey 155 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 2: and he's coming into a major league gabe. Tito looks 156 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 2: at him and goes, gomzy, man, what are you doing. 157 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,679 Speaker 2: You can't come into a game with mustard all over 158 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 2: your jersey, It goes. He looks at Tito and says, sorry, Tito, 159 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: wasn't my fault when I opened the bullpen gate to 160 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 2: run into the game. The fans threw hot dogs at 161 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: me and hit me in the chest with a hot dog. 162 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 2: And then Tito looks at me and he says, and 163 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 2: we were at home. So that's how bad the Phillies were. 164 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 2: When the Phillies closer came in the game, the fans 165 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 2: threw hot dogs at their own closer, you know. And 166 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 2: you know they play this incredible music now for Joan 167 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,319 Speaker 2: Duran Duran when he comes in the game, it's like 168 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 2: they threw hot dogs at poor Wayne does that's how bad. 169 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 4: Oh my god, with the Phillies. 170 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 2: So good for Tito for getting them back to the 171 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 2: playoffs this year. And the Phillies just suffice it to say, 172 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 2: are way better right now than the one said Tito, 173 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 2: all right, truth right. The Tigers advanced Jeff and again 174 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 2: this is why baseball is so beautiful. The Tigers nearly 175 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 2: had one of the work if not the worst collapse 176 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: in baseball history. They were twenty five games over five hundred, 177 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 2: and they had a fifteen and a half game lead 178 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 2: in the division and lost no teams ever had a 179 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: fifteen and a half game lead and not won the 180 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 2: league or the division. But they made the playoffs and 181 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,719 Speaker 2: then they won two out of three from the Guardians 182 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 2: to move on and again, Jeff the common denominator of 183 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 2: all the wildcard games was overpowering pitching. So Trek Scoogle, 184 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 2: who I think is going to win Cy Young again 185 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: in the National American League. He struck out fourteen, which 186 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 2: was his career high. 187 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 4: Jeff. 188 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 2: So the great note out of that is he is 189 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 2: the fourth pitcher in the last thirty five years to 190 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 2: establish his career high for strikeouts in a playoff game. 191 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 2: Do you do you find that interesting? Kevin Brown did that, 192 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 2: Not Kevin Brown the broadcaster, and not Kevin Brown the catcher. 193 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 2: Mike Messina did it, and Levon Hernandez did it over 194 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 2: the last thirty five years. It just shows you what 195 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 2: a dominant pitcher Trek Skouoble is. The Tigers now go 196 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 2: play the Mariners who have been waiting. Its going to 197 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:19,120 Speaker 2: be a really fun series, as all of them are 198 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 2: going to be. But the Tigers advanced, and just an 199 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 2: amazing season for the Guardians to even make the playoffs. Okay. 200 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,319 Speaker 2: Also the Cubs, of course advanced by beating the Podres. 201 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:35,199 Speaker 2: They held the Padres to five runs total in three games. Again, 202 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 2: pitching was as always the dominant factor in as it 203 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 2: was during the regular season. It certainly was in the 204 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 2: first round. In the first day of the wild card games, Jeff. 205 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 2: The first day we played four games and there were 206 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 2: ninety two strikeouts four games that Jeff, that's twenty four 207 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 2: strikeouts per game for four games, strikeouts per game average 208 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 2: for four games. It was just overpowering. Not just Turk Schogle, 209 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 2: but Garrett Crochet was unhittable. Dodger pitchers were tremendous. Great 210 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 2: pitching everywhere. I say all the time, I don't know 211 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 2: anyone gets a hit anymore. But the Cubs pitching was tremendous. 212 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 4: And now we love this. 213 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 2: They play the Brewers and the Brewers and the Cubs 214 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,960 Speaker 2: are like ninety minutes away, fierce arch rivals in the 215 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:32,079 Speaker 2: NL Central, and now they get to play in the NLDS. 216 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 2: Do you love that or not? 217 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: No, I love it, And I think the Brewers are 218 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: kind of the vote if your team has gotten out 219 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: at this point, because everybody is everybody loves an underdog. 220 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: Now that the Guardians boom gone bummer for them, right, 221 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: all the major market teams, Boston, New York, LA, even Philadelphia, 222 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: people are like we've seen them before. We want we 223 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: want somebody new to win. I feel like the people's 224 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 1: vote is with the Brewers. If you don't have a 225 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:07,080 Speaker 1: dog in the race, would you agree, Yeah. 226 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 2: Brewers have only been to the World Series once nineteen 227 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 2: eighty two, lost in seven games to the Cardinals. This 228 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 2: might be the best Brewer team ever and I can't 229 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 2: wait to watch them play in the Division Series. But again, Jeff, 230 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 2: the Cubs have a really good offensive team, and they 231 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 2: didn't hit against the Padres because the Podres, like everyone else, 232 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 2: has great pitching. So it was very encouraging for the 233 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 2: Cubs to win a series without really hitting, but they 234 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 2: pitched so exceptionally well. James ty On in Game three 235 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 2: had a great start for them, and then of course 236 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 2: the final one, Jeff, the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 237 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 2: won the final two games at home to advance to 238 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 2: play and boy, what a great series this was to 239 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 2: play now against the Blue Jays, the team that they 240 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 2: tied for the regular season in the Al East. But 241 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 2: the Blue Jays advanced, of course because they won the 242 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 2: tiebreaker over the Yankees. And now the Yankees will go 243 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 2: to Toronto for Game one on Saturday. I will be 244 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:14,000 Speaker 2: doing that game on the radio with Carl Ravis and 245 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 2: Eduardo Perez and Jeff. There is nothing, and I mean 246 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 2: nothing better than October Baseball. But when you're doing the 247 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 2: game on the radio, which is so much fun, next 248 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 2: to your two best friends at ESPN, it is an 249 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 2: absolute blast. 250 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: All right, Dad, I know you didn't have much to 251 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: work with when it comes to quartchins because we don't have, 252 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: you know, fifteen games a day anymore, multiple days. 253 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:37,599 Speaker 3: So what kind of quarchins do we have? 254 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 2: Well? I was really struck by this. It was a 255 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 2: note out there, an incorrect note by the way, on 256 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 2: the internet somewhere that the Reds, the team I was 257 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 2: covering the in the Wildcard series in LA, was the 258 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:54,839 Speaker 2: first team ever to have no qualifying player for the 259 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: batting title that as high as two seventy and they 260 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 2: didn't have anyone with twenty five home I think it 261 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 2: said no team has ever done that. I think it 262 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 2: meant to say no playoff team has ever done that. 263 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 2: So I double checked. I did the Tigers series last 264 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 2: year against the Astros. The Tigers last year did not 265 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 2: have a guy who hit two seventy and qualified for 266 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 2: the batting title, and they didn't have anyone who hit 267 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 2: twenty five homers. And get this, Chef, the year before 268 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 2: the Twins had the same thing, they did. 269 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 3: Not have a two seventy. 270 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 2: So the note was out there that no team's ever 271 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 2: done this well. As it turns out, three years in 272 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 2: a row now a playoff team has gone to October 273 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 2: without anyone qualifying for the bat batting title hitting two 274 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 2: seventy and no one else who had twenty five homers. 275 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: Amazing, Dad, I really I ate that up. As the 276 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: kids would say, fake news. 277 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 3: I ate the fake news up man, but I thought 278 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 3: that was so true, and you fell. 279 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 2: I looked at it. I looked at it, and I said, 280 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 2: this is not right. I researched this note last year 281 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 2: because I looked at the Tigers and said, how are 282 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 2: they here with this offense? Last year I said the 283 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 2: same thing about the Reds, and I guess I should 284 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 2: have said the same thing about the Twins in twenty 285 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 2: twenty three. So that's the first one. Second, Jeb, you 286 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 2: brought this to my attention. Ben Rice, who hit twenty 287 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 2: five homers. 288 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 4: This year for the Yankees. 289 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 2: You remember he started the year as kind of a 290 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 2: you know, like a bench player, and has turned into 291 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 2: it really good player. But he made his postseason debut, 292 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 2: and what did he do in his postseason debut? 293 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:33,239 Speaker 3: Hit a homer on the first pitch. 294 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 2: Right, So he's the seventh Yankee ever to hit a 295 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 2: home run in his first postseason at bat. Roger Marris, 296 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 2: Elston Howard, you know, guys like that did it. But 297 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 2: he did it also, but he's the only Yankee ever 298 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 2: to do it on the first pitch. It's again, there 299 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 2: are just so many beautiful things out there about baseball now, Jeff, 300 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 2: I also love this. Chase de Lauder made his major 301 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: league debut for the Cleveland Guardians, and he made his 302 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 2: debut in a playoff game. So he is the seventh 303 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 2: player ever to make his major league debut in a 304 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 2: postseason game. And all of these things have happened in 305 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 2: like the last ten years because of crazy things. Twenty 306 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:21,119 Speaker 2: twenty had happened three different times because we were shuffling rosters. 307 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 2: But this was an elimination game. So Chase the latter 308 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 2: is the only player ever to make his major league 309 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 2: debut in a postseason game that was an elimination game 310 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 2: for his team. And this is the part that I 311 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 2: don't think even you know, Jeff, do you know what 312 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 2: high school Chase the latter went to. Don't say Walter 313 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 2: Johnson High School. Don't say Walter Johnson High School. 314 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 3: No, do you ever know he went to? 315 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 4: Ye? 316 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 2: No, get this, Jeff, he went to Hedgesville High School. 317 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: No way in Hedgesville, West Virginia. 318 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: Right, So tell our listeners who may not know where Hedgesville, 319 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 2: West Virginia is, what it means to our family. 320 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 3: So I'll tell everybody because nobody knows. 321 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 2: Right. Just so, West Virginia is. Uh. 322 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 1: We have a cabin in the woods of West Virginia 323 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,360 Speaker 1: on a couple. It's like a golf course kind of area. 324 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: And we've had this since I was a kid. And 325 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 1: we go up there and we play golf and we 326 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: stay in the little cabin and we've had this for 327 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: oh god, thirty years, probably close to thirty years. 328 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 3: And we drive got drive right by the high school together. 329 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 2: Every time I drive by that high school, I think, 330 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:30,360 Speaker 2: who goes to you know, to Hedgesville High School? How 331 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 2: many kids go there? I'm fascinated by it. And now 332 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 2: we find out a major league player went there and 333 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 2: he got a hit in Game three, So his first 334 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 2: major league hit came in a postseason game? How cool 335 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 2: was that? Last? Last court Jard Mason Miller, the great 336 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 2: reliever for the Padres. This was his first postseason and 337 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 2: the first eight batters he faced in his postseason career. 338 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 2: What did he do, Jeff? 339 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 4: They struck him out. 340 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 2: He struck him out, eight batters faced. He struck them 341 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 2: all all out. So Scott Oberg who did this between 342 00:18:04,560 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 2: twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, struck out the first six 343 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,399 Speaker 2: batters that he faced, but that was over two years. 344 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,040 Speaker 2: Mason Miller came in two games in a row and 345 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 2: struck out the first eight batters he faced. Like, how amazing? 346 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 2: Is that? 347 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 3: Incredible? 348 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 2: All right? 349 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 3: Incredible? 350 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 2: All right? 351 00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: Well coming up next here on is this a great 352 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 1: game or what we've got on this date in baseball history? 353 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 3: We've got another team, Tim Ozzie to oral and will 354 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,400 Speaker 3: wrap up the best of all. Tim. It's all coming 355 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 3: up next, all. 356 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: Right, Dad, on this date in baseball history, I bet 357 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: you got some great October dates, what do you ha? 358 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:48,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, we really do. Nineteen oh four, Christy Matthewson struck 359 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 2: out sixteen batters, and again, Jeff, in nineteen oh four, 360 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 2: there weren't sixteen strikeouts going around very often because back 361 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 2: then your job was to put the ball in play. 362 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 2: But he struck out sixteen Cardinals. And but the kicker 363 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,360 Speaker 2: to this game is he the game lasted an hour 364 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 2: and fifteen minutes. Major league game an hour and fifteen minutes. 365 00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 2: It took only an hour and fifteen minutes for Christy 366 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 2: Mathewston to strike out sixteen. What what was the shot? 367 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 2: What was the pitchclock like back then? Jeff, it must 368 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:27,399 Speaker 2: have been like three seconds. That's unbelievable. An hour fifteen Yes, okay, 369 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,479 Speaker 2: we're gonna get back to another one. But on this date, 370 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy six, Hank Aaron got his final hit 371 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:37,240 Speaker 2: of his major league career. It came in his final 372 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 2: at bat. And Jeff, tell me, if you remember the 373 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:45,359 Speaker 2: hit total for Hank Aaron. What's what's so impressive about 374 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 2: the hit total for Hank Aaron? 375 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: See if you can, he has I can't remember the 376 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 1: exact amount, but if you subtracted his home runs, it'd 377 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 1: still have three hundred, three thousand hits. 378 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, how about that? Take all seven to fifty 379 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 2: five away, and he still has three thousand hits. That's 380 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 2: how great a hit her Hank Aaron was and how 381 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 2: great a hitter George Brett was, because on this date, 382 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety, George Brett won a batting title. So, Jeff, 383 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 2: what is significant? Why would I bring this up that 384 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:20,120 Speaker 2: he won a batting title in nineteen ninety. 385 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: Is that the time where he used this putter to 386 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 1: hit the ball back on the green? 387 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:29,160 Speaker 2: That was last week and that was nineteen eighty. But Jeff, 388 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 2: he won a batting title in nineteen eighty, and he 389 00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 2: won because he won it in three different decades. Jeff, 390 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 2: I'm so proud of you. You are actually learning, You 391 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:45,480 Speaker 2: are listening. It's the most underrated skill out there, Jeff. 392 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 2: Is people don't listen very well, and you're actually listening 393 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 2: to pop up with all these ridiculous numbers that nobody 394 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 2: cares about. But you're remembering that George Brett won a 395 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 2: batting title in three different decades. 396 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: And it's also on our all both first names team right, 397 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 1: George Brett, George and Brett. 398 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 2: Way to go, hi, jeffing the last one on this 399 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 2: date in nineteen fifty one, of course, Bobby Thompson hit 400 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 2: the shot herd round the world. Remember the Dodgers and 401 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:21,720 Speaker 2: the Giants tied for the best record in the National League, 402 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 2: and they played a three game series, not a one 403 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:28,479 Speaker 2: game play into the World three games, and in Game three, 404 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,400 Speaker 2: Bobby Thompson hit a walk off, three run homer off 405 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 2: Ralph Branca to win the game for the Giants five 406 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 2: to four. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants Giannis 407 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 2: with one of the greatest calls in the history of baseball. 408 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 2: So in the spirit of Bobby Thompson, I came up 409 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:50,719 Speaker 2: with my team tim, which was not easy. Jeff, and 410 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 2: I am imploring our listeners if you see something that's 411 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,280 Speaker 2: better than the list that I came up with, please 412 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 2: send it our way. We're here to learn. So I'm 413 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 2: taking the best, the biggest, the best and biggest October 414 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,479 Speaker 2: home runs in baseball history, and we're gonna have a 415 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 2: player at each position with one of those. Meaning we're 416 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 2: not gonna use Hank Aaron's seven hundred and fifteenth homer 417 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:20,720 Speaker 2: because it came in April, not in October, and I 418 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 2: left out so many amazing home runs. But this is 419 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 2: the best list I could come up with. Our catcher 420 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 2: is Carlton Fisk, who hit the walk off in Game 421 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 2: six and nineteen seventy five World Series. You remember, you know, 422 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 2: and Goodwill hunting you. You didn't go to the game. 423 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 2: I had to go. I had to go meet a girl. 424 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 3: See about a girl? 425 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 2: Right? How about that? Yeah? All right? I struggle with this. 426 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 2: But my first baseman is Freddy Freeman. Freddy Freeman last year, 427 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 2: oh yeah, hit a walk off grand slam in Game 428 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 2: one of the World Series, the only walk off grand 429 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 2: slam in World Series history. And of course, Jeff, I 430 00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,360 Speaker 2: think maybe it changed the course of the entire World Series. 431 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 2: If the Yankees win Game one on the road, maybe 432 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 2: they win the World Series. But Freddie Freeman said not today, 433 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 2: and he hit a grand Slam off of Nestor Cortez 434 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 2: on the first pitch. So to me, that's the biggest 435 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 2: October home run by any first baseman. And there were 436 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 2: a few others, including Albert Pooholes. Oh my goodness, the 437 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 2: one I left off. The biggest home run of all 438 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:29,159 Speaker 2: time was hit by Bill Mazerowski second base in the 439 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 2: nineteen sixty World Series, beat the Yankees ten to nine 440 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 2: with a walk off homer off of Ralph Terry. I 441 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 2: think I think that's the biggest home run in baseball history. 442 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 2: Because it's a walk off homer in Game seven of. 443 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 4: The World Series. 444 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 2: It's hard to argue with that, right. 445 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: It's hard to beat that because all the pressure is 446 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: on Game seven, winner, go home. 447 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 3: It's got to be the number one right. 448 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,200 Speaker 2: And Jeff, remember we were talking earlier in the show 449 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 2: about how many strikeouts we had. We had ninety two 450 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 2: strikeouts in the first four games of the wild Card. 451 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,240 Speaker 2: What is the significance of Game seven of the nineteen 452 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 2: sixty World Series when it came to strikeouts? 453 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 4: There were zero, zero. 454 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 2: Ten to nine tryouts and nobody struck out in Game 455 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 2: seven of the World Series. I have used that note 456 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:21,199 Speaker 2: a thousand times and it's still stunning to me. And 457 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 2: there's still a lot of people that don't know that. 458 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 2: Which is it's just so beautiful. My third base was impossible, Jeff, I, 459 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 2: I'm not sure I did the right thing here, but 460 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:34,879 Speaker 2: I took David Freeze, who hit a walk off homer 461 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 2: for the Cardinals in twenty eleven to keep them in 462 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 2: the World Series. Meaning they lose that game to the Rangers, 463 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,920 Speaker 2: the World Series is over. But after tying the game 464 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,239 Speaker 2: with a triple in the ninth inning. He hit a 465 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 2: walk off homer in extra innings to win the World Series. 466 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 2: But Jeff, what third basemen did I leave off the list? 467 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 2: Who hit a pretty big home run? 468 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,479 Speaker 3: In tomer? 469 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:06,199 Speaker 1: Guest here on the show A game six, ALCS two 470 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 1: thousand and three, Game seven, Jeff, ALCS two thousand, Game seven, Right, Jeff, 471 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: it was tremendous Key Stadium. 472 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,520 Speaker 3: I remember, and he, I mean, we've heard from. 473 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: Him that he when he was running towards first base, 474 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:27,919 Speaker 1: he said, don't forget this moment, like every second, and 475 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: then hit first blacked out, just nothing, doesn't he told 476 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: me he does. He doesn't become the Yankee manager if 477 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: he doesn't hit that home run? 478 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 3: Am I wrong? 479 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:38,640 Speaker 4: Here? 480 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 2: You might be right there? 481 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 3: Do I think he could do the job? 482 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: Yes, but he becomes a Yankees legend, and then obviously 483 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:50,800 Speaker 1: with his father in his longtime in Major League Baseball, 484 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: he's a great candidate for the position. 485 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 3: And here we are three years later. 486 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 2: Okay. Our shortstop is Bucky Dent, who hit eight th 487 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 2: rerun homer of Mike Torres in the seventy eight playoff 488 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 2: game between the Yankees and the Red Sox. 489 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 4: Remember the Yankees were fourteen and. 490 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 2: A half games out that year, came back, caught the 491 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:15,959 Speaker 2: Red Sox, and Bucky Dent hit a home run. So 492 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest home run by a shortstop. 493 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 2: Ozzie Smith's in the playoffs was unbelievable because he had 494 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 2: never hit a home run left handed in his switch hitter, 495 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 2: never hit one left handed in his career, and he 496 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:33,479 Speaker 2: saved it for a playoff game. But Bucky Dent's was amazing. 497 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 2: So I ended up covering Bucky Dent when he played 498 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 2: for the Rangers, and I was the beat guy for 499 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 2: them in the eighties, So I asked him, of course 500 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 2: a million times about all that, and he used Mickey 501 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 2: Rivers's bat for that at bat, and he had a 502 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 2: home run with using somebody else's bat, which you usually 503 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 2: don't do, by the way, with Mickey Rivers, Bucky used 504 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 2: to say that he would go to Mickey, and he 505 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 2: would go to Mickey. Mickey was a good player, but 506 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 2: he would go to Mickey like every September first and say, Mick, 507 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 2: I need that playoff money. I need that playoff money. 508 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,479 Speaker 2: And Mick, who's one of the great guys ever, and 509 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,679 Speaker 2: I'm sure lost quite a bit of money at the 510 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 2: track along the way, Mick would say, yeah, yeah, I 511 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 2: need that playoff money too, and then Bucky would say 512 00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 2: that Mick played like crazy for the month of September 513 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 2: in order to get the Yankees into the playoffs. And 514 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 2: all it took was Bucky said, Mick, I need that money. Okay, 515 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 2: he needed money from you too, right. Mickey Rivers is 516 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,840 Speaker 2: the guy spring training of nineteen eighty two who asked me, Tim, 517 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 2: can I borrow two thousand dollars. I'm just telling Meg, 518 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 2: I'm making twelve thousand dollars a year. I'm twenty four 519 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,680 Speaker 2: years old. I don't have two thousand dollars to my name, 520 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 2: let alone on me right now, all right? Outfield home 521 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:56,199 Speaker 2: runs Bobby Thompson. We've already mentioned him. Joe Carter nineteen 522 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,679 Speaker 2: ninety three hit the walk off homer to win in 523 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 2: Game six, different then Game seven, not Joe, not Bill Mazeroski, 524 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 2: And you know that story, Jeff. I'm in the auxiliary 525 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 2: box at then the SkyDome and Joe Carter hits this 526 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 2: line drive, and I swear to God, two things go 527 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 2: through my mind. I'm in the aux box beyond the 528 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 2: left field fence. Okay, first thing, that comes to mind 529 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 2: is the World Series is over. This is a walk 530 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,479 Speaker 2: off home The second thing that came to mind was 531 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 2: this ball is going to hit me right in the 532 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 2: middle of my chest. I mean it was coming at 533 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 2: me at a million miles an hour and it landed 534 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 2: like three feet in front of me. So it didn't 535 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 2: make it like the desk at which I was sitting, but. 536 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 4: It was close. 537 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 2: Imagine that. Imagine if I had somehow caught, which I 538 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 2: would never do, Joe Carter's game winning walk off homer 539 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 2: to win the World Series. 540 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,920 Speaker 1: You know how much money I could have bought sold 541 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: that ball for. I could have retired years ago. Forget 542 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: this zone, like I'm gonna sell that ball. 543 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 2: That would be the most ridiculous thing ever. 544 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 1: Dad Worth asking though, in all of your years, No, 545 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: you've never caught a foul ball, never caught a home 546 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: run ball ever? 547 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 2: Now once never. Now, I've caught a bunch of foul balls, 548 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 2: but I didn't catch them. The balls came into the 549 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 2: press box rattling around, sitting on the ground, I picked 550 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 2: it up. I'm not going to catch a foul ball 551 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 2: hit at one hundred miles an hour without a glove 552 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 2: on and who wears the glove in the press box. 553 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: Jeff, Did you have to stiff arm other writers to 554 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: get the ball? 555 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 3: Or was it very casual when it. 556 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 2: Pops up there? 557 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 3: Nobody really cares. 558 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 2: The writers really didn't care about picking up a baseball. 559 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 2: What are they going to do? If I picked one up, 560 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 2: I would give it to a kid, if there were 561 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 2: a kid nearby, but they're usually in the press box. 562 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 4: That was not the case, all right. 563 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,440 Speaker 1: And when you started off your career, Dad, people gave 564 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: it to you thinking you were. 565 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 2: Here, You're gonna have a baseball. 566 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like, no, I'm the beat writer. 567 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 2: I'm good. Thank you though, good line, Jeff, And all true? 568 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 2: All right, the third outfield and there are a million 569 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 2: cases here Bay Bruce called shot all that. I mean, 570 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 2: I can't even start. But Kirby Pucket nineteen ninety one. 571 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 4: Game six of the World Series. 572 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 2: Remember after Game five, he told his teammates before he 573 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 2: left the clubhouse playing for the Twins, he said, boys, 574 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 2: get on my back, I'm going to take us home tonight, 575 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 2: meaning for Game six. And then he went out and 576 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 2: had one of the great games of all time, and 577 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 2: that included a walk off homer off of Charlie Lee 578 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 2: Brandt to get it to Game seven, and of course 579 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,520 Speaker 2: Jack Morris pitched the one to nothing victory in Game 580 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 2: seven and the Twins won the World Series. That's why 581 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 2: I have Kirby Pucket as my third outfielder with a 582 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,920 Speaker 2: home run. Now I have to have a I don't 583 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 2: have a designated hitter, Jeff, but I have a pinch hitter. Correct, 584 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 2: Why not have a D eight? 585 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 3: Well, there's a clear answer for D eight. 586 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 2: Well, David Ortiz is always the answer. Did you have 587 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,560 Speaker 2: a better one than David Ortiz? 588 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 3: No, I'm saying you gotta have Big Poppy in there? 589 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,120 Speaker 2: Is your DH? 590 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 3: Is it not your I mean, are you putting him 591 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 3: as your pinch hitter? 592 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 2: Are you putting out No? I have another pinch hitter. 593 00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 2: Who is my pitch? Jeff? 594 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 3: Big Poppy alone? I mean, David Ortiz hid. 595 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 2: So many big homers. We'll we'll just put him in 596 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 2: as the DH. No matter what. 597 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 3: Okay, we don't even need to name one of the hunters. 598 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 2: But answer the question, Jeff, who is the pinch hitter? 599 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 2: Kurt Gibson baby right nineteen eighty eight. I was there. 600 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 4: It was an amazing scene. 601 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 2: Couldn't even run, couldn't even jog it was And you 602 00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 2: know the story behind that. Bob Costa is one of 603 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 2: the great broadcasters of all time, is broadcasting the game 604 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 2: and he says, there is no way, and this was 605 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 2: the truth at the time, there is no way that 606 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 2: Kirk Gibson is going to be healthy enough to play 607 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 2: in this game. And Gibson hears it on TV and 608 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,880 Speaker 2: he's in the clubhouse and he gets so angry, even 609 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 2: though it was an accurate statement that he looks at 610 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 2: Ordeizer and says, I'm gonna get ready. Help get me ready. 611 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 2: So he took some swings and they sent the word 612 00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,239 Speaker 2: down to Tommy Laserda that Kirk Gibson is ready. And 613 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,640 Speaker 2: then Kirk Gibson went up and hit a home run 614 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 2: to win Game one of the World Series, and Jeff, 615 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 2: who did he hit it off of? 616 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 3: Oh that I don't remember, Dennis Eckersley. Eckersley, and remember it. 617 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 2: I was the Eck who had a different language than 618 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 2: anyone else. That's the first time I'd ever heard the 619 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 2: expression F bomb yeah, but also walk off Homer. That 620 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 2: night was the first night that I had ever heard it. 621 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,520 Speaker 2: And I looked at Eck after he said it in 622 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 2: the scrum at his locker and I said, walk off homer. 623 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 2: He goes, yeah, guy had a homer and everyone walked 624 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 2: off the field. First time I had ever heard it. 625 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,320 Speaker 2: Maybe it was a popular term before that, but I 626 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,280 Speaker 2: hadn't heard it. And get this jet on this date 627 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty four, who was born. 628 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 3: Dennis Eckersley. 629 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 4: Dennis Eckersley? 630 00:32:58,960 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 3: No way? 631 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 2: How cool is that? 632 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 3: That is self fitting? 633 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 2: All right? Dad? 634 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,640 Speaker 1: Well what a great team, Tim. You have to celebrate October. 635 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,720 Speaker 1: We still got Ozzie to oral, So let's rock into 636 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: that number fifty. We're going to fifty five or Harsheisers 637 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: number fifty five. 638 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 3: Spoiler alert, but that's what it's called. Who's number fifty? 639 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 2: Okay? Number fifty was difficult, Jeff, because I had to 640 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 2: go through Adam Wainwright Jr. Richard, Tom Hankes, Sid Fernandez, 641 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 2: and it's hard to pick an active player, but I'm 642 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 2: going with Mookie Betts. I think Mookie Betts has proven 643 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,520 Speaker 2: to be the best number fifty of all time. He's 644 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 2: a lifetime two ninety hitter eight eighty one ops, won 645 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 2: an MVP JEB and finished second three different times. That's 646 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 2: pretty hard to do. To be in the top two 647 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 2: four times, and he had a top five finish, made 648 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 2: eight All Star games, won six goal gloves, won a 649 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 2: batting title, and is still a really good player because 650 00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 2: I did as I said the Reds Dodger series and 651 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 2: in Game two he got four hits. Jeff. You know, 652 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 2: he had a bad season by Mookie Betts standards, but 653 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 2: he sure looked good in that series, especially in Game two. 654 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 2: So Mookie Betts is my greatest number fifty and that 655 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 2: was a tough call over Adam Waynwright, especially number fifty one. Jeff. 656 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave this up to you, but I'm gonna 657 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 2: make my pick each row, Suzuki Randy Johnson. How hard 658 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 2: is that? I don't think it any right. I think 659 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 2: it's really hard. I'm not going to disrespect each row 660 00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 2: by not saying that is a tough choice, but I'm 661 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 2: going with Randy Johnson. He won five Cy Young Awards, Jeff, 662 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 2: including four in a row. He won the ERA title 663 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 2: four times. He led the league in strikeouts nine times. 664 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 2: He struck out four and seventy five hitters, second most 665 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,440 Speaker 2: to Nolan Ryan in the history of the game. He 666 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 2: is arguably the greatest left hand of all time for 667 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:06,440 Speaker 2: career value. Most people, including me, would go maybe Lefty 668 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 2: Grove first, maybe Warren Spond right there. But anyone who 669 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 2: votes for Randy Johnson, it's hard to say no because 670 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,840 Speaker 2: of how Dominique was. I think he's the scariest, most 671 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 2: intimidating picture of all time. I remember Jeff Houston. It 672 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 2: was a really good guy and a pretty good player 673 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,759 Speaker 2: now broadcaster for the Rockies. We were talking about the 674 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:27,840 Speaker 2: fear of the ball. 675 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:28,399 Speaker 4: One day. 676 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,919 Speaker 2: I wrote a story about the fear of the ball, 677 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 2: my favorite story that I've ever written. It's in my 678 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,040 Speaker 2: second book that I wrote. And Jeff Houston looks at me, 679 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,840 Speaker 2: and he wasn't smiling, and he wasn't laughing. He goes, 680 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,880 Speaker 2: this is in the nineties. 681 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 4: We're talking about this. 682 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:46,800 Speaker 2: He goes, Really, what's the worst thing that Michael Jordan 683 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,080 Speaker 2: can do to you? He can dunk on you and 684 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,200 Speaker 2: embarrass you. What's the worst thing that Randy Johnson. 685 00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:54,400 Speaker 4: Can do to you? 686 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 2: He can kill you. That's the difference, Jeff, That's the 687 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,720 Speaker 2: difference between baseball. And you know how much I love basketball, 688 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 2: But the fear factor and the danger alone, and there 689 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,479 Speaker 2: was no more fear and no more danger than any 690 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,359 Speaker 2: other time than when Randy Johnson, six foot ten, went 691 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,759 Speaker 2: to the mound, because when he released it, Jeff, it 692 00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 2: was like he was twenty feet from home plate because 693 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 2: he had these incredibly long arms, long stride Andy's six 694 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,400 Speaker 2: foot ten. Rich Doney, my dear friend, once said Randy 695 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,880 Speaker 2: Johnson was so big he didn't even have a pickoff 696 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,040 Speaker 2: move to second base. He just reached out to tag 697 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:35,240 Speaker 2: the guy. All right, So Randy Johnson is my greatest 698 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,399 Speaker 2: number fifty one. Next week we're gonna have fifty two 699 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 2: and fifty three, and our last week we'll have fifty 700 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 2: four and fifty five. You've already blown it, oral hersheis, 701 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,920 Speaker 2: but we already knew that, Jeff. The name of the 702 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,640 Speaker 2: bit is from Ozzie. 703 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,560 Speaker 4: To Oral, so we don't have to worry about that. 704 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,840 Speaker 1: Well, Dad, speaking of Ezero, and I do respect your 705 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,839 Speaker 1: pick of Randy Johnson. I think that's the right pick. 706 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: Did you see that he played yes in the squad? 707 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 2: Guess how cool is that. I'm not surprised at all. 708 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,719 Speaker 2: When I saw that, I said, I bet he got 709 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,799 Speaker 2: two hits, because there's very few people that I've ever 710 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 2: met like each row in my life. I've seen him 711 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,400 Speaker 2: throw out the first ball recently and he threw it 712 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,399 Speaker 2: like eighty five miles an hour. And I saw him 713 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 2: throwing from right field, not in not in the intersquad game, 714 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,480 Speaker 2: but recently, and it looks like, you know, two thousand 715 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:29,480 Speaker 2: and one, he still has a cannon for an arm. 716 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:30,680 Speaker 3: He's still in the name. 717 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,040 Speaker 2: It's yeah, he looks the same. He's an amazing athlete 718 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,720 Speaker 2: and one of the greatest baseball players of all time. 719 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 2: I just think Randy Johnson was a little bit better 720 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 2: for number fifty one. 721 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,080 Speaker 1: All right, Dad, our final best of all tim We've 722 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 1: gone through every single franchise this season, and it's so 723 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,440 Speaker 1: fitting that, you know, well, here we are in October 724 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,839 Speaker 1: with the final one the Chicago White Sox organization. 725 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 2: Right, So I'm going with Frank Thomas. You know, Luke 726 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,600 Speaker 2: Appling had a makes a really good case so to 727 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,319 Speaker 2: a few other guys, big Ed Walsh, but I'm going 728 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 2: with Frank Thomas. He spent sixteen years with the White Sox, 729 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,719 Speaker 2: hit three oh seven during his time there, nine to 730 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 2: ninety five ops during his White Sox years, won an 731 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,920 Speaker 2: MVP in nineteen ninety four, So Jeff, as I quiz 732 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 2: you like every five minutes on this podcast. What was 733 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 2: the significance of Frank Thomas's MVP in nineteen ninety four? 734 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: He won it the same year as you're gonna have 735 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,040 Speaker 1: to Jeff Bagwell, yes, and they want did the same birthday. 736 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,040 Speaker 2: They don't just share a birth they were born on 737 00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,839 Speaker 2: the same day, same year, actual day. Right. That was great? 738 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 2: And if you get this, Jeff, I'll give you a 739 00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:50,480 Speaker 2: million dollars. What is the other significance of Frank Thomas? 740 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,080 Speaker 2: I think I used this earlier for the greatest number 741 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,399 Speaker 2: thirty five of all. Now I forget where I used 742 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:02,279 Speaker 2: Frank Thomas. What did Frank Thomas not get during one 743 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,800 Speaker 2: time during his entire career Jeff Remembory. 744 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:06,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, sacn zack bunt. 745 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,200 Speaker 2: He batted all those times and had no sacrifice bunts 746 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:11,920 Speaker 2: in his career. 747 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,719 Speaker 3: Why would you your name's the big hurt. What are 748 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:17,880 Speaker 3: you gonna do? Lay down a sack bunt. 749 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:22,600 Speaker 2: That's a little hurt, right, Absolutely, so very good, Jeff. 750 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,880 Speaker 2: I'm so proud of the way that you're listening and 751 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,319 Speaker 2: everything else. And I hope I'm not being condescending here, 752 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,880 Speaker 2: but you're picking up so much baseball just by hanging 753 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:32,719 Speaker 2: out with me. It's just like I'm learning a lot 754 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,960 Speaker 2: about music, Well, not much about music hanging around you, 755 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 2: but you know what I mean. 756 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,320 Speaker 1: You know, your go to thing on this podcast is 757 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,080 Speaker 1: giving me money if I remember things. I wonder if 758 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,560 Speaker 1: one of our listeners has ever truly tallied up how 759 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:49,040 Speaker 1: much money you technically owe me. Clearly you're not gonna 760 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 1: give me a million dollars for remembering that, but I 761 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,839 Speaker 1: think I'm owed quite a bit at this point because 762 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:56,680 Speaker 1: I've been scoring some serious points. You might want to 763 00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,399 Speaker 1: lower the dollar amounts to, like here's a dollar, here's 764 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,759 Speaker 1: ten bucks, here's a lottery ticket, something like that. 765 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,279 Speaker 2: And Jeff, with all the money that we make doing 766 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,239 Speaker 2: this podcast, that's a joke. Who has gotten all of 767 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:12,879 Speaker 2: the money you or me? Have? I gotten a guyme 768 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 2: from doing this podcast? 769 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,839 Speaker 1: Hey, hey, you got a Little League World Series sweatshirt 770 00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:23,160 Speaker 1: courtesy of the podcast. Jeff, I'll just see that microphone 771 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,400 Speaker 1: you're talking into podcast about it. 772 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,640 Speaker 2: We're not in this for the money. We're in this 773 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 2: because it's a father son relationship to show. We talk 774 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:35,400 Speaker 2: about baseball, we laugh, and we learn. We had Jeremy 775 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,840 Speaker 2: chappon last week and next week. Next week, we're going 776 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 2: to have Caleb Joseph, who's a former major league catcher 777 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,120 Speaker 2: and has been an analyst doing the Blue Jay games. 778 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 4: For the last few years. 779 00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:49,600 Speaker 2: He was the catcher Jeff, and he's going to tell 780 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,919 Speaker 2: us all about it in the fanless game that day 781 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,799 Speaker 2: in Baltimore. I covered that game and it was one 782 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,279 Speaker 2: of the eeriest, weirdest feelings ever to be at a 783 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,800 Speaker 2: major league game that mattered and there were no fans 784 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:05,560 Speaker 2: in the stands. 785 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,360 Speaker 1: Caleb Joseph just call out to the bullpen, did like 786 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:11,440 Speaker 1: call out, hey, let's get Jimmy up. 787 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,520 Speaker 2: That's exactly Buck show Waller told me. I didn't even 788 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,640 Speaker 2: need to use the bullpen pote. I just stood on 789 00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,200 Speaker 2: the top step of the dugout and said, get somebody ready. 790 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:24,200 Speaker 2: That's the way it worked. So Caleb Joseph will be 791 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,680 Speaker 2: our guest on Wednesday, and I can't wait, and I 792 00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:33,200 Speaker 2: really can't wait for the Division Series to begin to repeat. 793 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,080 Speaker 2: I will be in Toronto. Cannot wait. Nothing and I 794 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,800 Speaker 2: mean nothing is better than October. 795 00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,399 Speaker 3: Base Thank you so much for listening. As always, thanks 796 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:43,840 Speaker 3: for being a part of our family.