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Speaker 1: Why are we not surprised that that's the number one

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Speaker 1: to everybody who followed the show wherever you listen to.

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Speaker 2: Your podcast or watching on YouTube. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Because we were pretty overwhelmed with the amount of support

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Speaker 3: And what I heard most was you and your son

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Speaker 3: sound exactly alike on the air, which Jeff I don't

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Speaker 3: think is a good thing because I can say without hesitation,

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Speaker 2: But it's okay, we're together on this.

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Speaker 3: I did the Golic podcast Mike and Mike Junior, and

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Speaker 3: I think physically they have to be the largest father

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Speaker 2: He like tackled me, and he said, I listened to

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Speaker 2: Did he call me a dope? Or is that? Is

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Speaker 1: In fact, my daughter's name is McKinley Hope, middle name

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Speaker 2: McKinley Hope, You're so so dope.

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Speaker 1: It's stupid, but I'm glad I could inform you on that.

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Speaker 1: And it's funny because I was at the same Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: But this is what people do. They tailgate these exciting games.

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Speaker 3: So people were chugging beers while your tiny little infant daughter.

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Speaker 3: And again, that's the lesson for the first week of

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Speaker 3: For instance, I went into Phillies manager Rob Thompson's managerial

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Speaker 1: When he struggled with real rear wheel driving, my dad

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Speaker 3: The box scores have been a part of my life

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like the Elias Sports Bureau was like

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Speaker 3: Right, is that that was Tyler O'Neil hit a home

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Speaker 3: The other thing we love, Jeff about the first week

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Speaker 1: I'm glad because I could see your mouth making western

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Speaker 3: An automatic double means everyone it answers two bases by rule.

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Speaker 2: And I had to correct it's beat him right, all right.

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Speaker 3: Well, now you learned about beanballs and I learned about Beyonce.

442
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Speaker 3: Now pick up that glove and I'll give him my

443
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Speaker 3: third little, tiny, little ridiculous pet peeve.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you you do it for me. Jeff. What

445
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,560
Speaker 2: is this thing called called a glove? Why is it

446
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Speaker 2: called a glove because it has fingers? Oh?

447
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:49,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you put on your winter gloves, Jeff, have fingers. Okay,

448
00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 3: when you put on your winter mittens, it has a

449
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Speaker 3: thumb and no fingers.

450
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Speaker 2: So that is a baseball glove.

451
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Speaker 3: Everyone who's ever played in the major leagues calls that

452
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Speaker 3: a glove, except for the first baseman and the catcher.

453
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Speaker 3: They use a mint. The catcher's mitt. It's a first

454
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Speaker 3: baseman's mitt.

455
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Speaker 2: That is a glove.

456
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Speaker 3: So if you're buying your son his first mitt and

457
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Speaker 3: he's six years old, go ahead, It's okay. I'm just

458
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,600
Speaker 3: telling you that the higher you go in baseball, the

459
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Speaker 3: more this becomes a mint.

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Speaker 2: I mean a glove, not a mint. All right.

461
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Speaker 1: So this is an exciting new addition to the podcast

462
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Speaker 1: this week. It's called the League in the Lid. So

463
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Speaker 1: I've taken every single team, all thirty teams. I've cut

464
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Speaker 1: up pieces of paper. Dat I'm gonna put you to

465
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Speaker 1: the test here. I need one story. Every week, maybe

466
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Speaker 1: a different team will do a league in or the

467
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Speaker 1: league in the lid. And this week you need a

468
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Speaker 1: story about the Cincinnati Reds. Can you give me a

469
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Speaker 1: red story, your best story?

470
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Speaker 2: Well, I have a million red story. But there's an

471
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Speaker 2: important red story here, Jeff. And you might not even

472
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Speaker 2: know this twelve years old, but the ceremonial opener in

473
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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball for years and years and years was

474
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Speaker 2: always in Cincinnati. The first game of the season was

475
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Speaker 2: always played in Cincinnati. And even though they still do this,

476
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Speaker 2: they would run a parade down the streets of Cincinnati

477
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Speaker 2: to signify not just the red season is starting, Major

478
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Speaker 2: League Baseball season, it's starting. And look, I'm okay that

479
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Speaker 2: we're opening in Seoul, South Korea. We've opened in Japan,

480
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Speaker 2: and we've opened all over the place now. But being

481
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Speaker 2: a purist at heart, being sixty seven years old, I

482
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 2: still think it was really really cool that Cincinnati was

483
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Speaker 2: the place for the ceremonial first pitch for any game

484
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Speaker 2: in baseball every year. Well, I'm glad that was great.

485
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Speaker 1: I feel like you got nervous when I came up

486
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Speaker 1: with this bit to make you tell a story about

487
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Speaker 1: a team.

488
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Speaker 2: It was an easy first one.

489
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Speaker 3: If you call up something on the rays, I'm not

490
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Speaker 3: sure if I'm gonna have anything good for the first week,

491
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Speaker 3: but Cincinnati is really important in baseball history for that reason.

492
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Speaker 1: Yeah, your team could get pulled next week for the

493
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Speaker 1: league in the lid. You got to make sure to

494
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Speaker 1: follow wherever you are listening right now or wherever you

495
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Speaker 1: listen to your podcast, And coming up we're gonna do

496
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Speaker 1: it's in the card similar to what we just did. However,

497
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Speaker 1: we're gonna open a pack of tops baseball cards. We're

498
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Speaker 1: gonna rifle through see how many stories my dad can

499
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Speaker 1: get through. And then, of course Chris Young is going

500
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Speaker 1: to join us general manager of the Texas Rangers.

501
00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 2: He's taller than the both of us.

502
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Speaker 1: If he stood on my shoulders, we wouldn't be taller

503
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Speaker 1: than Chris Young. That's all coming up next. It's in

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Speaker 1: the cards, Tim and Jeff Kirkchin here on is this

505
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Speaker 1: a great game or what this is? Where we open

506
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Speaker 1: up a deck of cards and we just kind of

507
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Speaker 1: let my dad go off and tell some stories.

508
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Speaker 2: So here we go. All right, this is top see

509
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Speaker 2: what we've got. Is there any better sound than that?

510
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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I love it.

512
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Speaker 3: I used to love to open these up when I

513
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Speaker 3: was a kid. It was a thrill a six year

514
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Speaker 3: old couldn't get anywhere else.

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's take a look, all right.

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Speaker 1: First one, right out of the gate, we've got a

517
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Speaker 1: Tim Kirkshin Tops card available in your local tops that.

518
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Okay, real players down here.

519
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Speaker 2: Luis Castillo, Seattle A.

520
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Speaker 3: Yes, he has as good as stuff as there basically

521
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Speaker 3: is in the major leagues. I covered his playoff game

522
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Speaker 3: two years ago against the Blue Jays in Toronto, and

523
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,400
Speaker 3: he was so dominant for seven innings that the next

524
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Speaker 3: day Manny Act to the one of the coaches for

525
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Speaker 3: the Mariners.

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Speaker 2: So he's a coach.

527
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Speaker 3: On Luis Castillo's team told me we need to move

528
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Speaker 3: the mound back to sixty five feet because the stuff

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Speaker 3: today is too good. Those hitters last night had no

530
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Speaker 3: chance to react to Luis Castillo got to move the

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Speaker 3: mound back five feet, that's how good he was. How

532
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Speaker 3: about Josh low of the Tampa Bay Ray Oh love

533
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Speaker 3: Josh Lowe brother Nathaniel Lowe of the Rangers. So Josh

534
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Speaker 3: low during the postseason last year told me that he

535
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Speaker 3: loves to take batting practice without.

536
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Speaker 2: His shoes on.

537
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Speaker 3: He takes it with just his socks on. At Jeff,

538
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Speaker 3: he's taking BP inside and they're not using real baseballs,

539
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Speaker 3: but they're being shot out of the pitching machine at

540
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Speaker 3: one hundred miles an hour. But they're soft just in case.

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Speaker 3: He pounds one into his you know, his foot, which

542
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Speaker 3: doesn't have a shoe on.

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Speaker 2: So I said, what why are you doing that?

544
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Speaker 3: He goes, my feet are way more grounded when I

545
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Speaker 3: don't have my spikes on. I love hitting without my

546
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Speaker 3: shoes on. And if they would let me, he said,

547
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Speaker 3: I would take real batting practice every day in just

548
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Speaker 3: in my socks and not in my shoes.

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Speaker 2: Shoeless Joe Jackson. Well, now it's shoeless Low, shoeless Josh Low.

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Speaker 1: Next card Ooh, this is a only but a goodie.

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Speaker 1: Roger Clemens in a Blue Jay's uniform.

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Speaker 3: All right, Roger Clemens. Of course seven. Cy Young's one

553
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Speaker 3: of the greatest pitchers of all time, had two twenty

554
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Speaker 3: strikeout games in his career, and Jeff they were ten

555
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Speaker 3: years apart.

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Speaker 2: Think about that. How good you gotta be?

557
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Speaker 3: So after the first ten strikeout game nineteen eighty six

558
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 3: against the Mariners. He goes to Seattle for his next start. Okay,

559
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 3: he was in Boston, now he's going to Seattle. He

560
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 3: does a pregame radio show with the host from Seattle,

561
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Speaker 3: and the host starts the interview with tomorrow, Roger, you're

562
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Speaker 3: gonna face the Mariners. And the last time you face

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Speaker 3: the Mariners.

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Speaker 2: You struck out thirty. So Roger, who.

565
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 3: Had every right to punch the guy right in the neck,

566
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Speaker 3: said to the guy, yeah, actually it.

567
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Speaker 2: Was only twenty. And the guy pats Roger on his shoulder.

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Speaker 3: He goes, well, maybe thirty the next time, to which

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Speaker 3: Roger would have should have said, Yeah, I'm gonna pitch

570
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Speaker 3: ten innings and I'm.

571
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Speaker 2: Gonna strike out everyone. It's twenty, not thirty.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: I had a chance to talk to Cody Clements, his

574
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Speaker 1: son who's in the minor league system for the Phillies,

575
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Speaker 1: and I went down there for spring training for my

576
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Speaker 1: country radio station here in Philly, and he said that

577
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Speaker 1: when all of them get together, his dad, his brothers,

578
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: and they bet while playing golf, and he said the

579
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: only goal is to try to get into dad's wallet.

580
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,480
Speaker 1: But they're all really good athletes, so I mean it's

581
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Speaker 1: way better than when the Kirchens get together for a

582
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Speaker 1: golf tournament.

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Speaker 2: Not quite the same thing, all right, who's there? All right?

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Speaker 1: Last, but not least, this is the last one we'll

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Speaker 1: do for it's in the cards. And now, if you

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Speaker 1: go onto YouTube as well, if you're listening, thank you,

587
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Speaker 1: you can also see us opening these cards. This is

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Speaker 1: a Ken Griffy Junior card.

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Speaker 2: All right. Now.

590
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Speaker 3: Ken Griffy Junior is one of the five or sixth

591
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Speaker 3: greatest center fielders of all time. He did things that

592
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 3: no one's ever seen before, after Willie Mays, who was

593
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Speaker 3: the next guy to hit fifty homers.

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Speaker 2: In a gold glove season.

595
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Speaker 3: So about three years ago, I'm writing a story about

596
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Speaker 3: Willy Mays's ninetieth birthday. So of course I have to

597
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Speaker 3: call Ken Griffy Junior because he was the closest thing

598
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Speaker 3: we'd seen to Willie May. So it took me like

599
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Speaker 3: two weeks to find Ken Griffy Junior. Every time I called,

600
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Speaker 3: he wasn't there. He swears to me that he called

601
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 3: me back multiple times. I promise you he didn't. I

602
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 3: carried this notebook with me for two weeks just in

603
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 3: case Ken Griffy Junior called back, because when Junior calls,

604
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Speaker 3: you can't miss the call, especially when we're talking about

605
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Speaker 3: Willie may So, your sister, Kelly, your godson, Carson, and

606
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 3: I had gone to the Clarksburg Mall in Maryland.

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Speaker 2: So we are leaving the mall. We're just about ready

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Speaker 2: to go.

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00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 3: Ken Griffy Junior still hasn't called me, but I've got

610
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Speaker 3: my notebook in my hand. We get in the car

611
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Speaker 3: and Ken Griffy Junior calls me and I'm sitting in

612
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Speaker 3: the front seat and in the back seat, Kelly, your

613
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 3: sister has just begun breastfeeding her son, who's.

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Speaker 2: Four months old, in the backseat of the car.

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Speaker 3: While I'm interviewing Ken Griffy Junior about the greatest player

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Speaker 3: I've ever seen, Willie may So, I tell.

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Speaker 2: I said, listen, I'm so glad you called.

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Speaker 3: Just understand that in the backseat of my car right

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Speaker 3: now is my daughter breastfeeding my grandson. And he thought

620
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Speaker 3: that was the funniest thing ever. And it's the best

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Speaker 3: Ken Griffy Junior interview I have ever done. He was

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Speaker 3: so engaging, he was so great, mainly because we were

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Speaker 3: talking about Willie Mays, his hero, but also because he

624
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 3: recognized what's going on in the car and that image

625
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Speaker 3: just really tickled him.

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Speaker 2: I have no words. That is one of the best

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Speaker 2: sort of stopping right.

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Speaker 1: It's the one where you you did the interview in

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Speaker 1: the stall of the bathroom with your notebook.

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Speaker 2: Who were you talking to?

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Speaker 3: That was Tony Gwinn. Was supposed to call me back.

632
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Speaker 3: Tony gwyn didn't call me back. So finally he calls

633
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Speaker 3: me back. I'm at a restaurant and I've got my

634
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Speaker 3: notebook with me.

635
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Speaker 2: He calls, when Tony Gwynn calls, you take the call.

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Speaker 3: So the quietest place in the restaurant was the stall

637
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 3: in the bathroom, So I went in there and interviewed

638
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 3: Tony Gwynn in the bathroom. One of my friends from

639
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 3: the restaurant came in and he heard me interviewing somebody

640
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 3: on the phone and he said, what were you doing

641
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 3: in there? I said, I was interviewing a player. He

642
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 3: said who, I said, Tony Gwinn. He said, you interviewed

643
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 3: Tony Gwinn in the bathroom. I said, yes, when Tony

644
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Speaker 3: Gwynn calls, you take the call.

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Speaker 1: You know, my favorite, my favorite story. And I promise you, Dad,

646
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to make you look like some toity

647
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: toity guy when I tell this story. One rule growing up,

648
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,479
Speaker 1: like a lot of households, don't answer the phone during dinner, right,

649
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: that was a rule. And Dad got a call during

650
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: dinner and looked at us, and with his eyes you

651
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: could see I got to take this phone call, but

652
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: my mother.

653
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 2: Was not Please.

654
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: Runs upstairs, gone for fifteen twenty minutes, comes back down.

655
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Speaker 1: And now that I've been married almost two years, I

656
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: really understand the look she was giving you.

657
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 2: And she gave you.

658
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Speaker 1: The best question ever, Honey, who was so important that

659
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 1: was calling you right now that you had to leave

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00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: dinner with your family, And calmly you said.

661
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 2: Honey, that was the White House. And Dad had been

662
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 2: invited to be one.

663
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: Of the sports writers to join all the living Hall

664
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: of famers at the White House. George Bush, obviously a

665
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: huge baseball fan, had invited all and that was your

666
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: formal invitation. And that was the only time I think

667
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: I've ever seen a man get away with answering the

668
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: phone while at dinner.

669
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 3: Well, let's be clear, mister Bush didn't call me. One

670
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 3: of his aides called me and we went to the

671
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 3: White House and I didn't get in any trouble for

672
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 3: leaving the dinner table.

673
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: That's so amazing that you just brought up Tony Gwynn

674
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: in that story, because he was a great college basketball

675
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 1: player on top of being a Hall of Fame baseball player.

676
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: And it's March Madness week, right, We've got the Final

677
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: Four coming up, and that's why we have Chris Young

678
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 1: who's going to be joining US Texas Rangers general manager.

679
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: They won the World Series last year under his leadership,

680
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: and he's six with ten and he played for Princeton

681
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: back in college.

682
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 3: Tony Gwynn, by the way, had the littlest hands of

683
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 3: any great Major League I've ever seen my hands. I

684
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 3: got big hands for a little guy. My hands are

685
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 3: twice as big as Tony Gwin's hands. He couldn't palm

686
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 3: a basketball, no chance. And yet he was an all

687
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 3: time assist leader at San Diego State when he retired

688
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 3: when he stopped playing basketball. But I've always loved the connection, Jeff,

689
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:32,640
Speaker 3: between baseball and basketball. So many good players played both sports.

690
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 3: Dave de Busher, a million years for you, threw a

691
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 3: shutout for the Chicago White Sox and was a Hall

692
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 3: of Fame basketball player for the New York Knicks. And

693
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 3: in today's game, you know Chris Young, who we're gonna

694
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 3: have on. I mean, he's the center on our all

695
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 3: Active baseball team. He's six', Ten Tony.

696
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: Clark who leads The Players.

697
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 3: Association he averaged forty four points a game in high.

698
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 3: School and you Know Aaron judge would be on this,

699
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 3: team six' eight. Power forward, YOU know I Covered, delino

700
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 3: deshields who was going to go play Basketball, At VILLANOVA

701
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 3: and i once, ASKED him, i said if you hadn't,

702
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 3: played baseball do you think you could have played IN?

703
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 2: The nba and he looked, at me, he goes OF

704
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 2: course i. Could Have kenny Lofton.

705
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 3: Played kydie lofton is A borderline Hall, of famer great

706
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 3: player For. THE indians i asked he Played. AT arizona

707
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 3: i asked him the same, QUESTION once, i said do

708
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 3: you think you could have played IN?

709
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 2: The nba and he gave me that look, he said

710
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 2: OF course i could. Have played both of them had

711
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 2: the exact.

712
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: Same answer when are you going to learn your lesson

713
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: asking these guys?

714
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 3: That QUESTION so i played a lot of basketball, growing

715
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 3: up as, you KNOW and i used to play every

716
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 3: once in a While with mike flanneg and The Late,

717
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 3: mike flannagan pitcher For the orioles so and he was

718
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 3: one of the great. Shooters ever so one year he

719
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 3: goes home For The all star break and comes Back To.

720
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 3: Kansas city i'm covering, the TEAM so i just casually

721
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 3: asked him what'd you do during, the break and, HE

722
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 3: said i just kind of hung out with.

723
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 2: My nephew we shot some.

724
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 3: Free THROWS so, i said in a row did? You

725
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 3: make and he very sheep aitually looked at me and,

726
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 3: HE goes i made one hundred and four in. A

727
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: row this Is A major league baseball pitcher At The all.

728
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 2: Star break he made one hundred and four in. A

729
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 2: row so the team's on.

730
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 3: The ROAD so i write this In The baltimore sun the,

731
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:19,240
Speaker 3: next day and he gets a call from his wife

732
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 3: and he sees me the next day and, he, GOES

733
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 3: listen i just wanted to clarify something about.

734
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 2: What you put in the.

735
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 3: Paper today, HE said i didn't miss the one hundred and.

736
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 3: Fifth shot my nephew got tired of.

737
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 2: Feeding me so. We quit so he made.

738
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 3: One hundred and four in a row without missing During

739
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 3: The all. Star break the only free throw shooting that's better,

740
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 3: than that is, my opinion is, Your, sister kelly senior

741
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 3: year in, high school made fifty four out of fifty six,

742
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 3: free throws which is the greatest free throw shooting in

743
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 3: the history of. The SCHOOL and i love basketball, so

744
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 3: much and that's why this whole, You know final four

745
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 3: week is going to be. So good and The women's

746
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,919
Speaker 3: final four is The best i've.

747
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:05,399
Speaker 2: Ever seen.

748
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable Kate and clark is the greatest female. PLAYER

749
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 3: ever i think the final four for the women has

750
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 3: been equally as entertaining as that of, THE men i.

751
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: Would agree and how Many, did kelly my sister make

752
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: in a row during that fifty four to fifty.

753
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 2: So the school record was nineteen in.

754
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 3: A row she made thirty two in a row to start,

755
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 3: the season then she, missed one and then she made

756
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 3: twenty in, a row so she broke the previous record

757
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 3: twice within the.

758
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 2: Same Season and dad was paying attention, to that and

759
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 2: every dad can relate. To THIS and i have a,

760
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 2: baby girl she's almost eight. Months old And when.

761
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: Kelly first you know started talking about her, now husband

762
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: who was her first boyfriend, in, college right and they

763
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: dated all throughout and now they're married and have. Two

764
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: kids One of dad's first questions was not does he

765
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: treat you? With respect you know where's? He's from is

766
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: he from a? Good family it was can you shoot?

767
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,359
Speaker 1: The three and the answer, is yeah pretty.

768
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 3: Good, shot well only a couple things matter To be

769
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:03,959
Speaker 3: if you're, a boy can you throw?

770
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 2: A baseball and can you? Shoot three if you can

771
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 2: do both, of those you're good. With Me chris young is.

772
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 2: Joining us he can do both of.

773
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: Those things he's A former princeton, basketball player general manager

774
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: Of The. Texas rangers he's. Joining us next here on

775
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: is this a great game?

776
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 2: Or what is this a great game? Or what And It's, march.

777
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: Madness and we have a guy who played college basketball

778
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: but now is very much in the world of baseball

779
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: as the general manager of the World Champion.

780
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 2: Texas Rangers chris young is on.

781
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: With us standing at six, Foot ten daddy's taller than

782
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: the most of.

783
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 2: Us, combined chris thank you for.

784
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 4: Joining, us guys happy to, Be here thanks for.

785
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 3: Having me, All, Right, so chris you Won A world

786
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 3: series as. A player now you've Won A world series as,

787
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 3: An EXECUTIVE but i want to start with when you

788
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 3: played For the podres and you guys had a free

789
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 3: throw competition As A Major league. Baseball player tell us, that, Story,

790
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 3: well tim it's it's a great memory and it really

791
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 3: goes Back To bud black came over as manager Of

792
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 3: the padres in two thousand and seven and one of

793
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 3: his things for a team building during spring training was

794
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 3: to really get to know each player on. The team

795
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 3: he tried to find ways to connect and, with me

796
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 3: and we Also Had will. Vinnible there one of the

797
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 3: things that he wanted to do he.

798
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 4: Was curious about our, basketball background so he thought it

799
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 4: would be a great idea to have a free throw

800
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 4: competition or a shooting competition during, spring training and he

801
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 4: ordered the clubhouse attendants to get, a big portable, basketball

802
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 4: hoop set it up in the. Parking lot we made

803
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 4: it a huge deal where we had to, pick teams

804
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 4: And he buddy required that everybody had everybody in camp

805
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 4: had to place a bet on, a team and so

806
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,880
Speaker 4: every everybody had a vested interest in the outcome of the,

807
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 4: shooting competition and so over the course of. Spring training

808
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 4: it garnered a lot of in the team in the in,

809
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,080
Speaker 4: the clubhouse AND then i had probably two thirds of

810
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 4: the way, through camp we did. The competition we had weeks,

811
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 4: to practice and so it was one of these moments

812
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 4: where you had to really be selective and who.

813
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 2: You thought.

814
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 4: You know everybody said they played high, school hoops and

815
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 4: everybody in their mind was a great, basketball player and

816
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 4: so you really had to vet through and determine when

817
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,760
Speaker 4: you're selecting the team and this, clubhouse draft, who actually,

818
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 4: you know really. Could SHOOT and i remember the FIRST

819
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 4: year i picked my TEAM and, i thought, all right

820
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 4: we've got some. VETERAN players i trust their ability to.

821
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 4: SELF evaluate i trust that they were good athletes and

822
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 4: that they could could hold. Their own and what stood

823
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 4: out to me was one of my Favorite teammates i've

824
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 4: ever Had Was David. Boomer wells And when boomer got in,

825
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 4: this environment it wasn't like pitching in front of forty

826
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 4: Thousand a. Yankee stadium this was, more Pressure and boomer

827
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 4: felt it and his legs were shaking and he had

828
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 4: a few he had some trouble making, free THROWS and

829
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 4: i Don't think boomer fared too, well So and i'm

830
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 4: telling you. It was it was, so fun it was.

831
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 4: So memorable it brought the, team together, you Know With

832
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:13,720
Speaker 4: brian giles on. That Team and brian was a very

833
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 4: he was a great teammate and he was help bent

834
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 4: on distracting guys during. This Competition and brian may have

835
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 4: come out without clothes and a fire extinguisher at one

836
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 4: point in. The competition i'm. Talking about this was a

837
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 4: great pressure environment and a lot of fun and great.

838
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 4: Team buildings so.

839
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: Did you win Or did will's? Team?

840
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 4: WIN well i think there were, multiple Teams and buddy

841
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 4: was on a, team TOO and i my team that

842
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 4: first year did, not WIN and I remember i. WAS

843
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 4: mad i was really pissed at MYSELF and i, shot

844
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 4: okay but not. Well enough and as, a team we

845
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 4: didn't shoot. Well ENOUGH so i the, NEXT year i

846
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 4: DON'T think i went with the. VETERAN guys I think

847
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 4: i went with a. Younger, team well.

848
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: You were A seventy you were a seventy percent Shooter

849
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: at princeton and your two there from the free, Throw LINE.

850
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 2: So I mean i would put my money on.

851
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 4: Your, team well and not good enough. SEVENTY percent i

852
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 4: should have been better. THAN that i wasn't talented enough,

853
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 4: to miss, you know thirty percent of my free.

854
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 3: Throws, Right, right chris you are the rookie Of the

855
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 3: year IN The ivy league in both baseball. And basketball

856
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 3: what is your biggest takeaway from your basketball Experience.

857
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 4: At, Princeton, WELL tim i have so many great memories

858
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 4: of playing Hoops, at princeton AND really i think it

859
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 4: has shaped and even to, this day my view of

860
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 4: what a team. Should BE and i Think those princeton

861
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,760
Speaker 4: teams were known for maybe not being the most, talented

862
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,760
Speaker 4: teams but being able to compete on the biggest stage

863
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 4: against the best competition because of the way they played

864
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 4: and the way the team came together in the style,

865
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 4: Of play and, to me that really resonates even today

866
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 4: in terms of the. Team BUILDING and i just really

867
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 4: subscribe to this idea that it's not always the most

868
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,400
Speaker 4: talented teams that. Win championships it's the right group, of

869
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 4: guys the right teams that, come together and there's a

870
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 4: culture component. To that, and so, you Know my princeton

871
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 4: basketball days really taught, me THAT and i just have

872
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 4: so many. GREAT memories i still have great relationships with,

873
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,399
Speaker 4: my TEAMMATES but I loved there was nothing better than

874
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 4: going into a big time basketball environment and playing a top,

875
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 4: you know a top ranked team and knowing that you didn't,

876
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 4: you know you were the underdogs and that you didn't

877
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 4: really stand. A chance but we're gonna give it our

878
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 4: best and we're gonna go. Find out and that moment

879
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 4: just before the, TIP off i remember. The nerves it

880
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 4: was similar to pitching in a big, league game but,

881
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 4: those nerves and then all of, A sudden i'd walk

882
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,400
Speaker 4: out on the court and something would come over Me

883
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 4: and i'd, FEEL this i, got this we, got this

884
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 4: we can, do this and that inner belief and conviction

885
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 4: and it would come over me right before, tip off

886
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 4: and then once the, game started it just, you know

887
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 4: you gave it, your best and more often than not

888
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 4: against those big, time opponents we came. Up SHORT but

889
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 4: i love. Those environments college basketball.

890
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 3: Is, wonderful Chris The sacramento kings offered you a two

891
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 3: year deal to play IN. The nba how close did

892
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 3: you come to leaving baseball to go TO.

893
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 4: The, Nba, well tim first, OF all i thought they

894
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 4: were crazy for. DOING it i was two years removed from,

895
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 4: college basketball at, the TIME and, i thought why in

896
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 4: the world would they BELIEVE that i could leave baseball

897
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 4: right now and go play IN. The nba and one

898
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 4: of the assistant coaches For the kings at the times

899
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 4: was The legendary Princeton Coach. PETE carill i did not

900
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,879
Speaker 4: Play For coach Carill, at PRINCETON but i did have

901
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 4: a very good relationship, with HIM and I Asked coach

902
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 4: CARILL that, I, said coach why in the world do

903
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 4: YOU think i could come play professional BASKETBALL when i

904
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 4: haven't played even college basketball for the last couple. Of

905
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 4: years and, He, said chris because you have one thing

906
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,359
Speaker 4: that you, cannot teach and that. Is vision, he said you.

907
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 4: Have vision you know how to play, the game you

908
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 4: know which defender, to guard you know which path, to

909
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 4: make you see plays happening before. They happen and because,

910
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 4: OF that i believe that you will learn the skills

911
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 4: required because you. Have vision and that always stuck, with

912
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 4: ME and i think there's, you know aspects of that

913
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 4: that are applicable to baseball. As well that you see

914
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 4: players who just have instincts and vision that can anticipate

915
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 4: before the play. Actually OCCURS and i don't know if

916
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 4: that can. Be taught, you know it seems to be.

917
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,720
Speaker 4: Somewhat innate, it certainly, you know As coach, grill said

918
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 4: it was innate. In basketball but, you know at the

919
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 4: TIME when i had to make, A decision i was

920
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 4: A STRUGGLING double. A pitcher i'd gone from prospect, to

921
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 4: SUSPECT and i wasn't SURE if i was really going

922
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 4: to have, YOU know i wanted to be a major.

923
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 4: LEAGUE pitcher I thought i was capable, of IT but

924
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 4: i knew there was a lot of development that still

925
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 4: needed to, take place and so it was a very.

926
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 4: TOUGH decision i came very close to leaving baseball AND

927
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 4: going i think it at, the time a peace of

928
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 4: mind came over ME that I knew i've got a

929
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,720
Speaker 4: fallback plan a baseball, doesn't work and that actually freed,

930
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 4: me UP and i Went FROM double A TO. TRIPLE

931
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 4: a i made five Starts IN triple a and then

932
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 4: got called up to the, big leagues and at WHICH

933
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 4: point i FELT like i couldn't walk away from my big. League,

934
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 4: career well.

935
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 1: And speaking of that big, league career when we heard

936
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: we were going To Have, chris young general manager Of The, texas.

937
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: STRANGERS on i kindly asked, MY dad, i, said hey,

938
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 1: you know tell me a little bit, about him give

939
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: me some.

940
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:16,399
Speaker 2: Talking points and.

941
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: The thing first out of his mouth was the tallest

942
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: player ever to hit a Triple In major league. BASEBALL history, I,

943
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: SAID dad i was hoping for a little more, background

944
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: here not What THE alliance sportsmuroa is telling. You here

945
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: so tell us about what that hit in your major.

946
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 2: League career, was, like.

947
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 4: Oh, man well another, Great, story tim you do bring.

948
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 4: This UP and i knew you. Knew this so this

949
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 4: is a really funny moment in. My career and it's

950
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 4: self DEPRECATING because i was. Somewhat embarrassed but it was

951
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 4: two thousand. AND six i was playing For the padres

952
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 4: and we were Playing, the MARLINS and i think we

953
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 4: were winning five or six to nothing at. THE time

954
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 4: i think it was later in, the game maybe six or,

955
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 4: seventh INNING and i hit a sinking line drive to.

956
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 4: Right field the right fielder was already playing, me IN

957
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 4: knowing i probably couldn't hit it over, his head and

958
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 4: so he was came in and he dove for the

959
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 4: ball and it got under his glove and went to,

960
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 4: the wall and so, you know knowing that it's the

961
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 4: sixth inning of, The game i'm probably we're winning. THE

962
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 4: game i want to get through. THE seventh I think

963
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 4: i've got a stand. Up double BUT as i coast into,

964
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 4: SECOND base i take a look at our third, Base Coach,

965
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 4: glenn hoffman and he's waving me, to THIRD so, i,

966
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 4: think okay this must be a clear stand. Up, triple

967
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 4: Well as i'm coming into, THIRD base I see glenn

968
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 4: getting the slide sign, get down and he's doing it

969
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 4: with a look of panic in his voice in his

970
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 4: FACE that i can read there's going to be a close.

971
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 4: Play here AND so i make this terrible late slide

972
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 4: into third BASE and i Almost Kill miguel cabrera who

973
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 4: was playing. Third base and there is a picture of,

974
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 4: this Slide And miguel Cabrera is he's got this look on,

975
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 4: his face going like that trying to get out of

976
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 4: the way of my. Ugly slide SO fortunately i, was

977
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 4: SAFE and i do have a triple in, the books

978
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 4: but it's not one to to.

979
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 3: Brag about speaking Of, first, CHRIS yesterday i was Watching

980
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 3: fever pitch just, in REPLAYS and i was only on

981
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 3: for like, three minutes AND there i saw you throwing

982
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,919
Speaker 3: a pitch in The Movie, fever pitch and.

983
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 2: You told me the Story about explain, that, Story, yeah

984
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 2: tim it's a.

985
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 4: Great story it was my first major. League win it

986
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 4: was two thousand. AND four, i had, you know. Going

987
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 4: back that was the time Where The sacramento kings were

988
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 4: waiting on me to make a DECISION and i had

989
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 4: Gone FROM double A TO triple a AND then i got.

990
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 4: Called up it was my third major. League start it

991
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 4: Was In finway park against what we're going to become

992
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 4: the World Champion Boston. RED sox i think we were

993
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 4: on an eight game. LOSING streak i think they were

994
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 4: on an eight game, winning STREAK and i Got a

995
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 4: saturday Afternoon Start labor. Day weekend it was the most

996
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 4: perfect idyllic Setting In, new england and we won. The

997
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,439
Speaker 4: game but it was they were filming. The movie They

998
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 4: Recreated opening day, that day so They Had stephen king

999
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 4: throw out the. First pitch they had A huge american

1000
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 4: flag Over The, green monster, you know all the normal

1001
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 4: fanfare trying To Recreate opening day for. The Movie drew

1002
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 4: Barrymore And jimmy fallon were in. The stands it was

1003
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 4: just such a. Wonderful memory AND fortunately i got the win,

1004
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 4: that DAY so i never got to make an opening.

1005
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 4: Day START but i do SAY that i had a

1006
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,919
Speaker 4: memorable opening, day game which was for The Movie. BEAVER

1007
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,399
Speaker 4: pitch I think september fourth of two thousand, And four

1008
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 4: so pretty. Cool story and, you know, of course my

1009
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 4: wife she was in, the stands nervous as, could be

1010
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 4: and she they're filming a Movie And jimmy Fallon And

1011
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 4: drew barrymore in, the stands and, she's thinking is this

1012
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 4: is this how the big? Leagues are is is? This normal.

1013
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 3: That?

1014
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: Is?

1015
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 3: Beautiful chris when You Watch march madness or do you watch,

1016
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 3: college basketball do you still really? Enjoy it and do

1017
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 3: you ever put yourself into the situation as a six'

1018
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 3: ten former center playing against the Big kid from purdue or?

1019
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 2: Anything, LIKE that.

1020
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,000
Speaker 4: WELL i do. I love hoops i mean it's such.

1021
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 4: A great sport i, follow college HOOPS and Really i.

1022
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 4: Followed princeton hoops I'm a huge. Princeton hoops fan Their

1023
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 4: Head coach mitch henderson is a great friend and he's been,

1024
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 4: a GREAT supporter AND i just i root Like crazy

1025
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 4: for princeton men's, and women hoops and, so you know

1026
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 4: THAT'S probably where i. Follow the most BUT tim anytime

1027
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 4: i watch a, COLLEGE basketball game i see it through

1028
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 4: the eyes of, a big man, and SO yes when

1029
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 4: i see the produced center and how, BIG he is

1030
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:27,400
Speaker 4: i just think about what a what a challenge that

1031
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 4: would be to. GO up, Against i mean, i'm SIX'

1032
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 4: TEN but i would i would feel, very small GUARDING

1033
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 4: him and, so i, think about you know i'd have

1034
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 4: to play with my feet and really make sure constantly

1035
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 4: to have, the best positioning POSSIBLE knowing that physically i.

1036
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 4: Would be, OUT matched so yeah. I love the Game

1037
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 4: i love watching i've got three kids, who ALL play

1038
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 4: hoops and i try to share my knowledge, and WISDOM

1039
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 4: with them but i think they're more interested in me.

1040
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 4: Being dad, than COACH so ultimately but.

1041
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 2: I love the sport do you shoot around with? The

1042
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 2: kids at all when's the last time? You shot?

1043
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 4: A basketball you know i can still, shoot a little

1044
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 4: bit that's. The EXTENT of it but, I can't jump anymore.

1045
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 4: I can't run, anymore my knees, hurt my BACK hurts

1046
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 4: and so i can, still Beat the kids and i'm.

1047
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 4: NOT letting them win i don't give them any it's

1048
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 4: coming soon where. They're gonna smoke ME but right now.

1049
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 4: I HAVE bragging rights. But i can. Shoot, That's About

1050
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,760
Speaker 4: it physically. I'm i'm not there.

1051
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 2: When's the last time? You dunked a basketball oh it's.

1052
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,160
Speaker 4: Been a. Few years you know it was. IN my

1053
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 4: playing days i think it's, about five years ago. Maybe

1054
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,959
Speaker 4: six YEARS ago, RIGHT before i retired. I could still

1055
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 4: jump i was a little bit lighter. Than and more

1056
00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 4: athletic and since, i'm since you know, taking over this

1057
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 4: job the, stress of this job my body hurts more

1058
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 4: AS a as a gm than it ever. Did AS

1059
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 4: a player, SO i can't, run i can't, JUMP and

1060
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 4: you know i try my best, to STAY in shape

1061
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 4: but i don't have as many hours IN the day that.

1062
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 4: I used, to have you know the best part of

1063
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 4: BEING a player was i got to spend all day taking.

1064
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 4: Care of MY body and now i try to spend

1065
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,720
Speaker 4: all day finding an hour to fit in a workout

1066
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 4: so that. My body doesn't deteriorate my, Last.

1067
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 3: Thing for me chris jeff does. Music radio every morning he's.

1068
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 3: A country music guy and.

1069
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 2: There Is A. Singer name chris young are? You aware

1070
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,280
Speaker 2: of that have you met him and can? YOU sing at, all.

1071
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 4: I cannot sing and i'm not GOING to try, So

1072
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 4: i but yes i'm a big COUNTRY music fan and

1073
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 4: I Do, know who chris young the, Country music singer,

1074
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 4: is and in fact. This IS really funny when i

1075
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 4: was hired as General, MANAGER of the rangers i think

1076
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 4: he put out A tweet that said i am not

1077
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 4: the general manager. And country music singer that. Is a different,

1078
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 4: person and so. Anyway IT'S really funny but i do

1079
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 4: follow him as music is great and seems like. A

1080
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 4: really good guy SO at some point i. Hope to,

1081
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:53,399
Speaker 4: meet him.

1082
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,600
Speaker 1: You know it's funny my dad, called, Me and said

1083
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: hey i'm coming up record this podcast in the basement Of.

1084
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: My house in pennsylvania Dad drives up from maryland and we.

1085
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: Record these podcast, interviews and He Said. YOU got chris young,

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Speaker 1: i told My Wife. We've got, chris.

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Speaker 2: Young she says the country music star.

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00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: To the same degree but if you, were a singer

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00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: too on top of being a baseball and, basketball Former collegiate,

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00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 1: athlete former major Leaguer And a successful world series winning,

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00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: player and general manager it just wouldn't be fair to

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00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 1: us little guys for you to have another tool in

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00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 1: your toolbox.

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00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 2: With, a golden voice well.

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Speaker 4: You know the Funny There's, another the chris young. The

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00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 4: outfielder as well and. SO there were moments i think

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00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,800
Speaker 4: there was a time where he got TRADED mid season

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00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 4: and i had so many text, messages, From people saying oh,

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Speaker 4: I'm so you know i'm so excited for your, trade

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Speaker 4: And and anyway and i've had fans actually come up

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00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 4: to me and ask me to, sign his baseball card

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00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 4: which is so funny because we. Don't resemble each other

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00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 4: he's way more he's way better looking AND more. Athletic

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00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 4: than i, AM and but nonetheless i have had fans

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00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,759
Speaker 4: ask me to, sign the baseball card, unknowingly that you

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00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 4: know it's. It's a different person but he's also a,

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Speaker 4: tremendous guy as well and he's done. Great as a

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00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 4: broadcaster it's been following his. Post Career, as well.

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Speaker 2: Chris young General Manager. Of the texas rangers.

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Speaker 1: Good luck this season thank you for Joining Us for

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00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: our March Madness edition Of Is?

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Speaker 2: This A?

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Speaker 1: Great game or what we really appreciate. You joining The Podcast,

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00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: thank you chris young and. Thank you for listening make

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Speaker 1: sure to follow wherever you're listening and if you want,

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00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:25,720
Speaker 1: to watch as well you can. Find us on YouTube

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00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: just search is? This a great game or what you.

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00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: Can see it there we have. Great, guests lined Up

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Speaker 1: Actually we have john smoltz Next week because the masters,

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Speaker 1: will be revving up will be. Done with college basketball,

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Speaker 1: He's a Great golfer Hall Of fame pitcher john smoltz

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Speaker 1: is going to be.

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Speaker 2: Joining us next week.

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Speaker 1: But before we go one kind of looking back, at

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Speaker 1: the episode here you talked about a player who had

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Speaker 1: over a thousand RBIs and he had never HIT a

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00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: game winning rbi OR. A Walk, off rbi Norm Cash

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Speaker 1: Who is norm.

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00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 3: Norm cash was a tigers first base in the late

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Speaker 3: fifty through the. Sixties into the seventies, in nineteen sixty

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Speaker 3: one he, Batted three sixty one he, hit forty two

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Speaker 3: homers knocked in one hundred, and thirty two runs and

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Speaker 3: in no other season in his career did, he hit three,

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Speaker 3: hundred hit forty homers or drive.

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Speaker 2: In one hundred runs and he did them.

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Speaker 3: All in one season it's also one of fifteen guys

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00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 3: with four letters or fewer in his last name to

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00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 3: hit forty home. Runs in a, Season AND trust me

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Speaker 3: jeff i know ALL of these because i went to

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Speaker 3: a party one. Night with your mother talk about. GETTING

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00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 3: your mother ANGRY a guy who i don't even know.

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00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,439
Speaker 3: Doesn't even say hello he comes UP to me when

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00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 3: i walk in, the room and says fifteen guys with

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00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 3: four letters or less in their last name hit forty,

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00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 3: homers in A season and now i spend the rest

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00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:57,320
Speaker 3: of the party trying. To guess them all because the gauntlet.

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00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 3: HAS been thrown down i have no other life but

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00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:01,879
Speaker 3: to ant. Her questions LIKE this And When i got

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Speaker 3: wally post at one o'clock in the morning after the,

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Speaker 3: birth of my children it was the greatest moment.

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Speaker 2: Of My Entire, life.

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Speaker 3: And norm, cash by the way was The Guy who

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00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 3: faced nolan Ryan Once in, a Major league game and

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00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 3: ryan's stuff was so unbelievably good that.

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Speaker 2: For Wanted bet.

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Speaker 3: Uh norm cash brought the leg of a piano to

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Speaker 3: home plate, instead of a bat and of course he

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Speaker 3: had to bring a real bat bud they but he

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00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 3: told the, media, AFTER the game look i can't hit him.

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Speaker 2: WITH a REAL bat i thought i would try him.

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Speaker 2: With a piano, leg.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh the Stories You. Have on norm cash

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Speaker 1: we could do.

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Speaker 3: A Whole episode with jeff i'm. Sixty seven years old

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Speaker 3: this was. MY wheelhouse growing up i saw him In The.

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Speaker 3: Sixty eight world, series love baseball then love it even

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Speaker 3: more now and.

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Speaker 1: You love it too. We appreciate you listening is this a?

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Speaker 1: Great game or what wherever, you get your podcasts. Make

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00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 1: sure to follow we're going To, release every single. Tuesday

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Speaker 1: SO next week, As I said before john smoltz joins

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Speaker 1: us for a little bit of a Fun mixture between.

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Speaker 2: The masters and baseball thank you. So much for listening