1 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites the podcast. All right, thanks Jad, 2 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: Chad Milvin okay and joining me today, He's not done. 3 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 1: Are my beautiful baby boys, black Jack Fletcher and Paul Laduca. 4 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 1: Thanks for that intro, Chad, the first contact we've had 5 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: in quite a while. Um Uh, as Chad mentioned, joining 6 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: me today is the one and only in American original 7 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: Paul la Duca Pauly, how are we doing? Uh, We're 8 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: doing absolutely wonderful since I haven't want to bet since Vietnam, 9 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: but other than that, we're doing Okay. Wait, do you 10 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,160 Speaker 1: mean just since the time period of Vietnam or were 11 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: you betting on the Vietnam War? If I bet on 12 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: the Vietnam more, we would have lost? Did lose? Yeah, exactly, 13 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: I would have been on the United States ship. We're 14 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: off to a hot start ever since, like no exaggeration, 15 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: ever since that Purdue game. I just I you talk 16 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: about like are people in our company worldwide web? Uh? 17 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: Lauren Joffey, they love they love car chases. I love 18 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,119 Speaker 1: chasing and gambling and I'm chasing so bad right now, 19 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. I'm going and I love it. Oh, ship, Paulie, 20 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: We're off to a good start here, just started. My brother, 21 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: all right, well, why don't you tell us a little 22 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: bit about give me give me your take on the 23 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: national title game. We had Virginia and Texas Tech. Virginia 24 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: pulls it out, avenges their first round loss from last 25 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: year national champions. How do you feel about how everything 26 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: went down there? The worst National champions in the last 27 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 1: twenty years? What come on? Man? They got dead lucky 28 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: against against uh Perdue with a frigging rebound that went 29 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: all the way to the mascot and then it got 30 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: thrown back and a guy with white hair throws it 31 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: in and send it into overtime. Then they get a 32 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: bull craft foul whatever it is, it's been bleached and 33 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: he looks ugly. Uh. They lost against Auburn on a 34 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: joke of a foul with guy after a dribble. Well yeah, 35 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,239 Speaker 1: I mean they should have lost Auburn, And they lost Auburn. Okay, 36 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: the double dribble gone. And then it was literally one 37 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: of the worst, if not the worst officiated National title 38 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,840 Speaker 1: game in my life. I've ever seen guy traveled over 39 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: three times. Um, there was a phantom foul in that 40 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: game that CBS decided, You know, what. We don't even 41 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: want to show that because Bill Raftery and Grant Hill 42 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: were hanging from the officials nuts, which I could not 43 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: under fan. Um not one call, you tell me one call? 44 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,639 Speaker 1: I went Texas, texta away name it. Um. I mean 45 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 1: there was probably one or two down the stretch. Okay, 46 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 1: then how many went? How many went Virginia? It was 47 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: a joke the last two games. I mean Bruce Pearl 48 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: handled it. They both handled it, Chris Beard and Bruce Pearl. 49 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: But here's the deal. I've been in many situations and 50 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: I've never won a World Series. I've been in the 51 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: game seven. People know that we lost to the Cardinals. 52 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: I've been in tight situations. Yeah, exactly. I'm the one 53 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: that walked before that met fans. Remember that. Um Uh. 54 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: When you have tight games like what happened to you 55 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: have to get murdered at the end of the game 56 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: for it to be a foul. Like now, last case 57 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: in Virginia Auburn. You didn't have to get murdered there, No, exactly. 58 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: And how about last night, last game of the season, 59 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: and a guy in Indiana is playing Atlanta. Guy calls 60 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: a foul with one second left the game means nothing, 61 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: and the guy makes all three free throws in Indiana 62 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: wins the game. Like the officials have to make an impact. 63 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: The officials have to be known. It's just like the umpires, 64 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: Like we're having this issue with Ron Copa. How are 65 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 1: these guys still officiating? Oh no, but he incites riots. 66 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 1: He's out there to to show the fans. Hey, come 67 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 1: seeing me. No one gives a shit about Ron Colpa. 68 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: You know, he's a fresh Most of the umpires that 69 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: you get are frustrated athletes. I tweeted it out. He's upset. 70 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: He's not in the big leagues. That's the bottom line, 71 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: so he gets to umpire in it. So you're not 72 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: high on Virginia. I mean they were the number one 73 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: defensive team in the country, so I get that. But 74 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: you're trying to tell me they shouldn't have lost those 75 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: two games, PAULI whether they should or shouldn't have, they didn't, 76 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: but were they what? They were? Not assisted? But I'm 77 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: not gonna say they should have lost the Texas Tech. 78 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 1: Here's the problem is you're slanted because you had Virginia 79 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: and boasting. Yeah, I did exactly. And here's the thing. 80 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,359 Speaker 1: I even had Auburn to cover. I won that game. 81 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: I didn't want it to go into overtime. I wanted 82 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: the kid to make all three free throws. I had 83 00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: Under and I had Auburn. It was the best thing 84 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,840 Speaker 1: that could have happened to me. But Auburn should have 85 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,039 Speaker 1: won the game. But as a sportsman you were upset. Yeah, 86 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 1: I'm upset because it's not the right call. Auburn lost 87 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: their best player. They're on a run of a lifetime 88 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: and they got screwed. They got dead screwed. All right, Well, 89 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: that's college basketball. You mentioned Indiana Atlanta last night, the 90 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: final nine of the NBA regular season. I'm gonna ask 91 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: you a question, Pauli. It's I mean, it might wind 92 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: up being rhetorical. Can anybody beat Golden State? I just 93 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:44,600 Speaker 1: don't think so. It's what are they up to now? 94 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: And mine's two fifty? Is it gone up more? Does 95 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,359 Speaker 1: it matter what the number is? And they're the prohibitive favorite. 96 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 1: Let me throw something out at you and see what 97 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: you think about this. I think there's one team out 98 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: there that can beat them, and I think it's the 99 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventies six. And the reason I think that is 100 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 1: that sixers team reminds me a little bit of when 101 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: the Pistons played the Lakers team that had Karl Malone 102 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: and Gary Payton and they were stacked. Philadelphia has Ben Simmons, 103 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: JJ Reddick, Tobias Harris, Jimmy Butler, and Joel Embiid. And 104 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: what that means is they can play any style they want. 105 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: They can run if they want to run with Golden State. 106 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,080 Speaker 1: They've got excellent three point shooting. People don't realize to 107 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: Bias Harris is a fantastic three point shooter. I think 108 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: he was the biggest edition at the trade deadline that 109 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: nobody really talks about. One of the most underrated, was 110 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:38,840 Speaker 1: one of the one of most underrated. He and he 111 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: had his his coming out party in Detroit to tell 112 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: everybody and let's be honest here, Okay, as much as 113 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 1: people like Boogie Cousins, he's not going to be able 114 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 1: to stop Joel and bed down low. Now, the Sixers 115 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: are gonna have their hands full in the Eastern Conference, 116 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 1: but if they should make it to the finals, I 117 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 1: think that's a team that could be able to beat 118 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: Golden State. I think I would agree with you there. 119 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: And the reason why is Jimmy Butler, And I know 120 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: he's been a malcontent and in a lot of different places, 121 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: but he seems like that guy. He's the mini Duane 122 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: Wade that when the chips are on the table, he's 123 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: gonna show up. He's got that I don't care, step 124 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: on the throat attitude. He'll get on these guys. And 125 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: I think during playoff time he might make the difference 126 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: there in Philadelphia. And and like, how can you take 127 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: anybody out of the West. Why wouldn't you take somebody 128 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: out the East to at least get Yeah, And and 129 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: you know what, black Jack, you gotta take somebody out 130 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: of the East to try to beat him, because at 131 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: least you'll get to the finals. And shot Houston's shot 132 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: was last year. They pissed it away. They're not going 133 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: to beat them this year. The ro Listen, the Rockets 134 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: are not as good this year as they were last year. 135 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: So they're not winning that series. And I don't want 136 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: to hear about Denver. I like Denver. They're fun. They 137 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 1: can't be Golden State four out the seven? Who else 138 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: are we talking about? Portland's I mean, really, like, what 139 00:07:57,080 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: are we doing here? The Western is a joke? People 140 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: talk how great. It is, how stacked it is. You 141 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: know what, it is a foregone conclusion that the Golden 142 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: State Warriors are winning that conference. You know. The Brooklyn 143 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: and Philadelphia is starts on Saturdayturday. Yeah yeah, first game 144 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: of the day. Yeah. And I the way Orlando's playing, 145 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: I'd be a little scared. No, No, I'm I'm not 146 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: saying that. I'm not fucking Kawhi Leonard, Kyle Lowry. They're 147 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: one of the deepest teams in the league. They're not 148 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: getting beating by the Magic doesn't. I'm not saying that's gonna. 149 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: I'm saying you could play this game to go our 150 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: series to go a little longer. And Kyle Lowry needs 151 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: to mix in a salad. Okay, the chubbiest point guard 152 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 1: in the game, chubbies. I mean, if you've seen Raymond Felton, huh, well, 153 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: Raymond Felton is a hunter and eight we're in. Felton 154 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: was in the barbershop scene and coming to America. John 155 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: Wall got fat too, he did. Yeah No, not John 156 00:08:54,640 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: Wall with all that dedication. He has best backpard back 157 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: court of all time. And Bradley Beal Alright, So that's 158 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 1: our NBA talk We've also got n HL playoffs going on. Paulie, 159 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: tell me who who do you think should wins Stanley Cup. 160 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:13,319 Speaker 1: I have no clue but a team. All I know 161 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: is I heard the New York Islanders score from Century City, California. 162 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:22,359 Speaker 1: I mean it was real. I wish I was there. 163 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: They are hot. They are very, very hot, um, and 164 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: I'm gonna root for them, although I am rooting for 165 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: them in the Golden Nights, but I'll take Tampa Bay 166 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,880 Speaker 1: is rolling right now. They lost less, I understand, but 167 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: I think now you can take the value they lost 168 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: and I think now you can get me to be 169 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: plus value on them. And listen, they school still not 170 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 1: going to be plus money. They were. They were four 171 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: favorites coming into this, I know, so what would they 172 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:59,720 Speaker 1: be now? Yeah, maybe that's too much in hockey, but um, 173 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: you know one, I'm gonna what are the Golden Knights 174 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: at right now? They lost Game one last night at 175 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: their asses beat? Yeah, plus one sixty two. There's the value, 176 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: buddy right there. No, the Penguins can suck it. The 177 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: Island is gonna win that series. Um, the Golden Knight's 178 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 1: actually that that's telling you something right there. That the 179 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:22,719 Speaker 1: one team that lost that the Penguins, is one on nine. 180 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: That's just all public money because they're just expecting that. 181 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 1: They don't believe in the Islanders. They don't believe in 182 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,440 Speaker 1: the power of the Colosseum. They don't they don't believe 183 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: the powers of makeshift chairs and broken stuff that's going 184 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 1: on there in the Colosseum, though they fixed it up. 185 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: Like is it is it like okay to like jog 186 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: and walk around the coliseum? Is that a good area? 187 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I've never jogged around the Colosseum. Um. The 188 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: area around it is not a great area. It's Hempstead. 189 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: So um. Yeah. I used to stay at the Long 190 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 1: Long Island Marriott right next to it, right with what 191 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: was that champ Sports bar in there? Oh yeah, I've 192 00:10:57,679 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: been there a couple of times. I imagine you have. 193 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: Oh they got a great big salad. Yeah alright, alright, 194 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 1: So that's uh, we're making the rounds here in sports today, 195 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: so let's keep it going. Baseball says your bread and 196 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: butter brother. What are you noticing here in the second 197 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 1: week of the baseball season. What stands out to you 198 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: that I'm getting crushed? Alright? Other than your personal gambling, Paul, 199 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: what stands out to you? Runs? I've never seen anything 200 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: like it. Right, two days ago Black Check fourteen games, 201 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: twelve games went over and one of the games that 202 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: went under was the Colorado game that was set at 203 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: eleven and they scored eight runs or ten and a half, 204 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: and they scored eight runs. Yesterday calmed a little bit. 205 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: I think it was like eight and six. But the 206 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: bullpens are awful. Um. I know John Hayman, who I respect. 207 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: He tweeted out yesterday like, why isn't anybody signed Craig 208 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: kimbro Well, money's an issue. But and he was. He stated, 209 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,480 Speaker 1: like seven teams bullpens, like you could go over fifteen 210 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 1: teams bullpens. They are just atrocious, atrocious. And here's the thing, 211 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: it is that all these agents and all these teams 212 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: are we're so worried about collusion and so well. I 213 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,800 Speaker 1: told you from the beginning the ball has been juiced. 214 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: It's an absolute joke. There are balls. Dodger Stadium is 215 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: a launching pad. I watched Jake the ground. He gave 216 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:36,120 Speaker 1: up four home runs the dead center field at City Field. Shocking. Okay, 217 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 1: now let me get to the Minnesota Twins. Okay, this 218 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 1: is let me put things into perspective Byron Buxton. Dead 219 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: center field at City Field and SHA Stadium is about 220 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: the same. It's a graveyard that that was Carlos Delgatto Land, 221 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:56,439 Speaker 1: Sean Greenland, not Kiki Hernandez. And these kind of guys Lands. Okay, 222 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,880 Speaker 1: these there, there's guys heating balls five feet while guys 223 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: that were on rocket fuel back in the day weren't 224 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: even hitting the ball back far so, and they're scoring 225 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,720 Speaker 1: dead center in Shay or City in City one time, 226 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: and it was the best ball I ever hit in 227 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: my life. Who'd you hit it off of? Uh? Come on, 228 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: I'm digging in its um Bobby Jones, who threw the 229 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: gem in the World Series, which a lot of people 230 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: forget about at about seventy eight miles. Uh. I think 231 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,079 Speaker 1: was a trade. And I don't know who he came 232 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: up with, but I want to say Bobby Jones. He 233 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 1: was with the Rockies, the African American Bobby Jones, but 234 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: I want to say originally signed with all Right, let 235 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: the Mets, all right, so you hit one out there, 236 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: all right, let's move on here. Um, I'm gonna give 237 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: you three teams that have started the year out very poorly, 238 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: and I want you to tell me which one you 239 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: have the most concerns about. Right now we have least 240 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: hold on. I haven't given you the teams yet. These 241 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,320 Speaker 1: are all three win teams, the Colorado Rockies at three 242 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: and nine, the Chicago Cubs at three and eight, and 243 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox at three and nine. Which one 244 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: should I be most concerned about? H Well, I would 245 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: say probably the Cubs, um, because I think their toast anyway, Um, 246 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: when you look at well, listen, John Lester, how much 247 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: more can you get out of John Lester? I mean, 248 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: Jose Contenta has not thrown well. And the problem that 249 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: I have with all this usually in April it's cold. 250 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: It has not been a cold ab That's why you're 251 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: seeing a lot of runs. And the Cubs are still 252 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: struggling hitting wise, but they're pitching is just giving up 253 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: way too many runs their bullpens and mass and then 254 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 1: the Red Sox. Listen, Chris sale is I just Paul 255 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: I mentioned to ask you this in all seriousness. He 256 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: looks kind of shot right now, and like people have 257 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: compared it to previous springs in the past, it's not 258 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: the same. I mean, he's got nothing on this fastball. 259 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: How in the hell do the Red Sox give him 260 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: a five year extension when he's throwing nothing right now? Like, 261 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 1: what what is going on? I think he here's here's 262 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: what's going on. He went under the scope. Okay, for 263 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: you to sign a contract that big, you've got to 264 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: go through a physical. So he obviously went through the 265 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: m R. I there's no structural damage in his elbow, 266 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: or there's no structural damage maybe uh in his or 267 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: ear in his shoulder, or they wouldn't have give him 268 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: the money. The problem is he's now dealing with dead arm. 269 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: And then I see people, uh like Carabius who are 270 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: Red Sox saying, oh, Chris still hit you guys, shut 271 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: the funk up. Uh, let me give you a little secret, okay. 272 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:01,800 Speaker 1: Kevin Brown, towards the end of his career, when I 273 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: was catching him, he looked up at the miles per 274 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:07,920 Speaker 1: hour constantly because he would want to know how hard 275 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: he was throwing, how how this ball was sinking this 276 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: and that. And it used to bug the hell out 277 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 1: of me because when he would hit, he knew that 278 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 1: he just didn't have that extra ump anymore when he 279 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: was starting to get hit. So I went up to 280 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: the freaking guy that does the miles per hour thing 281 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: and said, listen, every time he throws it fastball, you 282 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: please put ninety six or ninety seven up there so 283 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: I don't have to. So let's keep his confidence up 284 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: and he thinks he's throwing that hard because if he 285 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: keeps wait a second, wait, that's the true story. You 286 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: actually manipulated the gun reading at the ballpark, my picture 287 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 1: would stop. Look at this because Kevin Brown was such 288 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: a delicate mental figure that you felt the need to 289 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: have that because I wanted I wanted the confidence in 290 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: his head that like, okay, and they did Yes, they 291 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: did it. Jeez. That's what you sometimes listen the mental 292 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: psyche of a picture, like it doesn't matter if you 293 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,919 Speaker 1: throw okay. I'm not gonna say that it matters if 294 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: you throw ninety nine, but like you can still get 295 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:12,080 Speaker 1: guys out. He had so much movement at sometimes when 296 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: the ball is throwing a little bit harder at nine, 297 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 1: the movement gets taken out of it. So when he 298 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: threw two, I actually sometimes liked him a little bit 299 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,199 Speaker 1: better because his split finger and his sinker moved a 300 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: little bit more, but he had such this mental block 301 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: that he had to throw ninety seven and he would 302 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,679 Speaker 1: look up after every pitch and then so then I 303 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: would find that what was the tick in his mind? 304 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you want to hit? He goes 305 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,239 Speaker 1: my fastball? If my fastball is at ninety six, my 306 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:42,000 Speaker 1: split finger is like around eighty five, eighty four, and 307 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: my sliders around eighty nine, I'm great. I literally wrote 308 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:47,919 Speaker 1: all those down and told the guy this is what 309 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,719 Speaker 1: you're gonna put every time he throws it. I just 310 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: I can't believe that this actually happened. Like well, I mean, listen, 311 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 1: it's kind of brilliant on your part. I mean to 312 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 1: just get inside his head and make him confidente. But 313 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: like I just I can't really believe any of it. 314 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: I don't believe it. But that that's you. Sometimes you 315 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,679 Speaker 1: have to do things like that to get your picture 316 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: to respond, because there's there's times you walk out in 317 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: the mount and you'll look at a picture and he'll 318 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: look right through you. Ever get that look where somebody 319 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 1: looks at you and they're not really looking at you, 320 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: They're just they're on an island. And before they're lost 321 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,639 Speaker 1: on an island. Maybe present company. Yeah, in your in 322 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: your your part. Psychiatrists. So I remember, like I went 323 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 1: to the mountain one day and he was like, God, 324 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: my fast ball is dead. Does it seem like? I said. 325 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, kybe, it's fine, it is fine. 326 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: Stop looking at the radar. And then I just like 327 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: it started bugging me so much that him paying attention 328 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 1: to that was not paying attention to the next pitch. Um. 329 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: So I just decided to do that. And I remember 330 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 1: I told I told Tracy, I told our manager. I'm like, listen, 331 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:03,439 Speaker 1: I'm telling the gun guy. So if it looks like 332 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: he's hitting nineties seven, he's not. But a right, So 333 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. In that vein you're 334 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: talking about playing psychiatrists a little bit, Chris Davis, What 335 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: in the hell does that guy have to do to 336 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: hit a baseball? Go down to the leagues? You think? So, 337 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: let me tell you something. If the guy was not 338 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 1: making what's his contract, I was making a ton of money, 339 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: he'd be in the minor leagues. If what do you 340 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: think that will really help him? Like, what how do 341 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: you start with? But Paul, how do you but but 342 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: at some point my daughter started this season over fifty 343 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 1: I could gotta get hit left hand, Paul. At some 344 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: point Chris Dave was able to hit a baseball at 345 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 1: a reasonably acceptable clip. And now he can't make contact. 346 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: What is what's wrong with him? He stinks he didn't 347 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: deserve Then his his bat stays in the zone for 348 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: maybe a second. People talk about flat bat or whatever. 349 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: He swings straight up, so basically his his swing path 350 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 1: is in the zone for maybe less than half a second, 351 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 1: so it needs to click. I'd have to show it 352 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: to you on video. But his swings offul. I understand 353 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: you going ruts this in that UM, but a rut 354 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: of oh for fifty five and you got a poor 355 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: kid in triple A. I don't care about the money. 356 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 1: That's what performance is called. He should not be in. 357 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 1: I think him going down to the minor leagues will 358 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 1: help him at all. Yes, he needs confidence. He needs 359 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:38,840 Speaker 1: to start hitting some home runs. People have done it, 360 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: people have been sent back down in the minor leagues. 361 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: He's not gonna go there forever go there for two 362 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 1: three weeks. But if he keeps streaking out in the 363 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: minor leagues, what the fund is he gonna do for 364 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: you in the big leagues? Yeah, it's it's it's a 365 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: historically bad start to a season. Send him back to 366 00:20:53,359 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: Abel at this point, I mean, how do you do? 367 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,359 Speaker 1: I mean, Paul, I mean, is there tell everybody how 368 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 1: hard that is? Like fifty one at bats without a hit. 369 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,679 Speaker 1: You don't just run into one by accident. It's almost 370 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: as bad as Jason Kendall one year had six hundred 371 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: at bats and didn't hit a home run. You would 372 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: think you'd run into one ball, right, I mean, and 373 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: it's like loop, I mean an infield single. Like, okay, 374 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,239 Speaker 1: so he's he's over fifty one. How many times has 375 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 1: he struck out? Hold on? Matt Ford's researching it right, now, 376 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:50,600 Speaker 1: come on up while he looks it up. Just gonna 377 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 1: kill the air time. Here's okay, Maddie's researching lowly. Chris 378 00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: Davis was the kid fifteen strikeouts this season? So how 379 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: many baths he had this season? And I mean, are 380 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: you fucking for a fucking reel? I struck out thirty 381 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: times in two thousand one, which it doesn't matter. fIF 382 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,959 Speaker 1: you are a major league player making that much money 383 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:33,400 Speaker 1: and you're striking out more than half the time. How 384 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: are you in the major leagues? And there's probably some 385 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:43,000 Speaker 1: poor kid sitting in Triple A going, uh, can I 386 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: get traded hundred seventy million? Somebody paid a hundred and 387 00:22:52,560 --> 00:23:03,720 Speaker 1: sixty million dollars. Holy shit. So he struck out seven 388 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: times over fifty one at bath So there you go. 389 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,920 Speaker 1: So the other twenty four times he's put it in play, 390 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 1: that's insane. So for him not to get lucky once 391 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: I get it. But for those twenty four times, for 392 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: him to get to basically two hundred, he's got to 393 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 1: get four hits. If you're the Orioles, do you like 394 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: all for this guy like fifty million dollars just to 395 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: fake his own death, like just cash? No no, no, no, 396 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 1: no no no, you like sever his achilles so that 397 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:44,919 Speaker 1: insurance can pay for it. So does he need to 398 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: be like careful in the clubhouse? I would be very 399 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: careful because like, um, I'm sure the Mets were praying 400 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 1: that David Wright didn't come back so he didn't have 401 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: to pay that they he came back for that one game, 402 00:23:56,320 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: they probably had to pay him. But I I wish 403 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 1: this upon nobody. But there you cannot tell me there's 404 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: somebody in that organization that wishes that he does not 405 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: get hurt, so insurance can pay for that contract because 406 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: I he might. I mean, like, I don't know if 407 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: they're gonna keep running him out there. This might be 408 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: worse than the Bobby even the contract. This is atrocious. 409 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: I just but it's baseball like, and that's what baseball is. 410 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: They don't care about the strikeout anymore. They've scored record 411 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: runs and you know what, the batting averages in the 412 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,719 Speaker 1: league still to forty PAULI all right, we're gonna move 413 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: on from baseball before we get to our favorite time 414 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: of the week. I've got one quick question for you, 415 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:45,399 Speaker 1: because we're covering all sports right here. Saturday, Arkansas Derby 416 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: down at Oaklawn. Who you got? Omaha Beach is gonna 417 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: be tough in there. Um, I know, I'm probably with 418 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: the other Bafford, but I probably can suck it. I'm on, 419 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: Omaha Beach. I'm with you two. I like the way 420 00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: he held off game Winner, and I thought Game Winner 421 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: might have hung a little bit in that race. I'm 422 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: not betting against Mike Smith in these races, no, but 423 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 1: you know what Game Winner was like five wide in 424 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: the santait To Derby, and then Mike Smith wrote grocious, 425 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: how that horse got a terrible Let me just say 426 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: this about Game Winner. Those of you are not interested 427 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: in horse racing, get interested because you can make more 428 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,239 Speaker 1: money there than anywhere else. Um, game Winner. I've been 429 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: more impressed with him and his two losses than in 430 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: the Winds. Yeah, and here's the pickle. Mike Smith needs 431 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: to be on that horse. Yes, yes, yes, if Mike 432 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 1: Smith was on that horse, But let me ask you this. 433 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: But then then Mike Smith beats him with roses because 434 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 1: Game Winner has been beaten twice by Omaha Beach and 435 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: Rhads are both written by Mike Smith. But if Omaha 436 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: Beach wins the Arkansas Derby, is Mike Smith really not 437 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,920 Speaker 1: taking that mountain? The Kentucky Derby given given maybe a 438 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 1: little bit of a middle finger to Bob Baffort, like, 439 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: hey Winner, fuck you, I don't think he can. Here's 440 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: the deal. Omaha Beach is trained by legendary trainer Richard Mandela. 441 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: And then Badfort has Roadster, and he has Game Winner, 442 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: and Mike has ridden Arrowgate. You know, um, justify um 443 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: you name it, like he's ridden everything there is to 444 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:26,719 Speaker 1: win for Bob. He doesn't have tied that much ties now. 445 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 1: He's ridden some great horses for Mandela in the past, 446 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,880 Speaker 1: but not as many for Bob. So I would think 447 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 1: the ties would go to Bob and and Richard would 448 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: probably understand that. Um. But also, if Omaha Beach blows 449 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,680 Speaker 1: out the Arkansas Derby, Mike's gonna have a tough decision 450 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,240 Speaker 1: because I know Roadster is the real Let me tell 451 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: some there's three horses that can, don't There's three horses 452 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 1: that can win the Kentucky right now. It's gonna be 453 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 1: oh mom, it's somebody tweeted out the other day there's 454 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: fourteen horses in the Bluegrass or whatever, and there's ten 455 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: horses in the wood Memorial the other way around, and 456 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: there's only six in the in the whatever, in the 457 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: Santa Ya Derby. I'll take to two in the Sanata 458 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,719 Speaker 1: Derby over those twenty four in Omaha Beach. Those three horses, 459 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: the horses first, Rhodes, there's not winning Kentucky Derby. Second, 460 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 1: you know Legendary, you know him, Yeah, he says, Omaha Beach. 461 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: I ran into mckinlan. No big deal, whatever, he says, 462 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: Omaha Beach is the finest horse he's ever laid his 463 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: eyes on. Alan Jerkins. Yeah, wow, Alan at Lan said, 464 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 1: Omaha Beach is the finest horse he's ever laid his 465 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 1: eyes on. And people don't know Alan Jerkins is as 466 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: a legend. So I think so. The reason why I 467 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: like Oman Beach because he he was never letting game 468 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 1: winner by where Game Winner fought the whole way. I 469 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,120 Speaker 1: thought Game Winner might be a little bit of a hanger. 470 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 1: He's not. Omaha Beach was not letting him buy and 471 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: then he ran. He ran his balls off in Santito 472 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: Derby just got a bad right, So I think om 473 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 1: On Beach is the real deal. On with you, all right? 474 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: So we're all on Omaha Beach in the Arkansas Derby 475 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,879 Speaker 1: on Saturday at Oaklawn. Now it's time for everyone's favorite 476 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,680 Speaker 1: part of their week, storytime with Paul Laduka. We've got 477 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: two for you today, PAULI uh, let's start with you 478 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: telling us about a little scam you used to pull 479 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: on your minor league teammates to make some bread. Yeah, 480 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,800 Speaker 1: this is a story my father reminded me of two 481 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: nights ago, which is pretty crazy. We were talking actually 482 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: about the Arkansas Derby. So, um, when I was in 483 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 1: the minor leagues in Bakersfield. Uh, you know, you're making 484 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: eight fifty dollars a month when you sign. You got 485 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: four guys in an apartment, so you had to try 486 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: to make some extra money. And I had pulled this 487 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: trick a couple of times in college and it was 488 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: called the swammy, sort of like you know Berman was 489 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: on ESPN. So what we would do is is the 490 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 1: trick was pretty simple. So we're playing I want to 491 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: say it was the High Desert at the time, they're 492 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 1: the High Desert Mavericks. I was in the Cow League. 493 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: Um um. One of the other guys on that team 494 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 1: I had played with in college. So they all came 495 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: over to my place to come, you know, a party. 496 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,600 Speaker 1: So there's like about eight of us in there, and 497 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: I always would wait until we all got really really salty. Well, 498 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: there was a Canadian pitcher on that team that was 499 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: a bonus baby, and he was doing all these card 500 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: tricks and he was popping off and we were playing 501 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 1: cards for money, this and that, and he you know, 502 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: he started to get a little bit you know, salty. 503 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: After he had a couple of beers talking a lot 504 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,719 Speaker 1: of crap. And he was a bonus baby um from 505 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: from Vancouver. So I said to him, I go, hey, 506 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: I bet you you know three hundred bucks. I can 507 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,520 Speaker 1: get a guy you pick out any card out of 508 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: that deck. I'll get a guy on the phone that 509 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: can guess the card without me saying anything for three 510 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: hundred bucks. And he goes, you're full of ship and 511 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: stop stop bamboozling me. And I'm like, I'm not full 512 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: of ship, bro, do you want to do this or not? 513 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: You've been talking ship all night and um, we're playing 514 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 1: poker basically for pennies. We're not making nothing. You've got 515 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: three dollars in your pocket and he goes, do you 516 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: have three in your pocket? I said no. I said, 517 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: I'll go to the A t M right now, ran toto, 518 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: the A T M got the three and I said, 519 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,479 Speaker 1: now do we want this on? He goes, yeah, So 520 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: who what happened was the guy picked the card? It 521 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: was in nine o'clubs. So now me and my father 522 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: is the swammy. So we we had this. Yes, it's 523 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: a family hustle. And what we would do is I 524 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: would call my father, didn't matter what time. So now 525 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 1: it's like three in the morning and I call. I'm 526 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: like hello, I'm remember calling and going swammy. And as 527 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 1: soon as I said swammy, my dad's half asleep. He's 528 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 1: like spade. He goes Ace two, three, four all the 529 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: way until he gets to nine, and I'm like, swammy, 530 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: is that you? And he goes spades, hearts diamonds clubs. 531 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 1: I'm like, swammy. There's a guy here that thinks that 532 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 1: you can't guess his card. So now my father has 533 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: given me the clock code. I have not said nothing, 534 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 1: and he knows it's the nine O clubs. Now here's 535 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: the key. This is I'm in the coll league. There's 536 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: no cell phones back then, and you're on a landline. 537 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: So for this to work, you you gotta you gotta 538 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,800 Speaker 1: hit another number before they hit re dial, because then 539 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:55,400 Speaker 1: they're gonna find out who Swammy is. So now I 540 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,440 Speaker 1: give the phone to the guy and my guy has 541 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: it on speaker phone now and my dad's telling him, hey, 542 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,320 Speaker 1: son him a bit. I can't see the card. Hold 543 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,000 Speaker 1: the card up to the phone to a landline phone, 544 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: to a landline phone, and he goes, it's the nine 545 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 1: of clubs. Pay the guy and hung up the phone. 546 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: So I grabbed the phone real quick dialed four one 547 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: one and he you know what I mean, So they 548 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 1: could they couldn't readal so that was part of the trick. 549 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: Well this one time I couldn't do it, and he 550 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: hit redial and he got the he got our family 551 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: answering machine. So now he knows. Oh shit, I got 552 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,560 Speaker 1: just bamboozled by him and his dad. Who's just swammy 553 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 1: that read the card through the phone, And I just 554 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: took the three hundars and we just I just booked. 555 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,400 Speaker 1: I booked on the lane. I was jumping fences. I 556 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,280 Speaker 1: was in back yards. I was coming back and forth. 557 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: Why don't you just give him the three d back 558 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 1: because he lost the bet? The guy gets the card, Yeah, 559 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 1: but you fucking rig did it didn't matter. He hit 560 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 1: read dial like he's like, oh, what the swami is 561 00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,480 Speaker 1: your father? I'm like, I don't know. That was the 562 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,520 Speaker 1: last thing I dialed yesterday morning when we came back 563 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 1: this and that I had to come back. You were 564 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:18,239 Speaker 1: just on the phone exactly. But I worked it all right. 565 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: So that's that story number one. Story number two involves 566 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: Kevin Brown and David Ross. If I'm not mistaken during 567 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:29,800 Speaker 1: your time with the Dodgers. Right, yeah, this is uh David. 568 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: I actually d M David and on Twitter and then 569 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: I texted him and he's gonna come on the program 570 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 1: either next week or the week after because I was 571 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,520 Speaker 1: asking about this story to make sure it was him, 572 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah, he remembers it vividly, and uh, 573 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 1: we were driving, Um, we had a road trip. I 574 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:55,320 Speaker 1: was like Toronto Detroit. We were driving from Toronto, UM 575 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,200 Speaker 1: to Detroit, and it was a family trip. So the 576 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: wives are on the first bus and all the players 577 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 1: were on the second bus. Well, the first bus with 578 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,959 Speaker 1: all the wives, it was very calm. The second bus 579 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 1: that the guys that didn't bring their was just getting 580 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,160 Speaker 1: pretty rowdy. They were getting drunk, and so Ken Brown 581 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:19,439 Speaker 1: calls the traveling secretary at the time, who was Sean 582 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,040 Speaker 1: Roschau and goes, hey, all of us are hungry on 583 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: this back bus. How much longer we got and he's like, 584 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: we got an hour and a half. He's like, all right, 585 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 1: we're stopping. Or there was a burger king in two miles. Um, 586 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,720 Speaker 1: We're gonna stop and I'm gonna buy everybody food. And 587 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,799 Speaker 1: Sean goes it's three in the morning and Kevin Kevin goes, 588 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 1: I don't care, stop the buses. So Kevin made the 589 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: busses stop. Now the rookies at the time were David Ross, 590 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:52,960 Speaker 1: So he said, David Ross in to a whopper. I 591 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,000 Speaker 1: don't even know where we were into a burking between 592 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 1: Toronto and Detroit. Don't even know where we're at. Do 593 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:08,240 Speaker 1: you know, no to order over two whoppers? Okay? David 594 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: Ross comes walking back out and says, um, they're heating 595 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,400 Speaker 1: up the grill, but it's gonna take them over an 596 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,760 Speaker 1: hour to an hour and a half to make two whoppers. 597 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 1: There's only two people there. There's no way they can 598 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,359 Speaker 1: get this done. So Kevin Brown's drunk and he's like, 599 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 1: we're staying reading well now, the traveling secretary is like, no, 600 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,479 Speaker 1: this is not happening. We are getting out of here. 601 00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 1: There's room service when we get back to we get 602 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 1: to the hotel. So the family bus takes off the 603 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,279 Speaker 1: player bus. There's guys outside of the player bus as 604 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,719 Speaker 1: they're supposed to be following each other. There's no such 605 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 1: thing as like you know, maps on phones at this time, 606 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: like you gotta like so now the players jump back 607 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,879 Speaker 1: on the bus and start following the family bus. And 608 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,879 Speaker 1: Kevin is pissed. He's calling, why didn't we why didn't 609 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: we eat? And you could I could hear roschau are 610 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 1: traveling secretary, going bro, we got to get to the 611 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:14,040 Speaker 1: hotel to get to sleep, right, So now we get out, 612 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: we get to the hotel. We're in Detroit now at 613 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 1: five in the morning or four in the morning, I 614 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 1: want to say. And Kevin Brown comes off the back bus. Now, 615 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,800 Speaker 1: when you get to a major league hotel, you're traveling 616 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,359 Speaker 1: secretary has all the keys, goes. So what he does 617 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,960 Speaker 1: is he goes straight to the hotel. He has his 618 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,200 Speaker 1: whole package with all the keys, and he lays them 619 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,239 Speaker 1: all out. Out of the corner of my eye, I 620 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,799 Speaker 1: see Kevin and he's raging, and he's got a butt 621 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,240 Speaker 1: light in one hand and a corps light in the other, 622 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 1: and the corps light is open and full, and Roscha 623 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: just starts running towards the hotel. Kevin Brown through a 624 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 1: nur fastball with that corps light and drilled him right 625 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,120 Speaker 1: in the straight in the back. What we kept the 626 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,040 Speaker 1: traveling secretary in the back where the courts light I 627 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,400 Speaker 1: mean smoked him. I mean it's like he got shot, 628 00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:13,839 Speaker 1: like literally from a tower down, goes phrase Jesus right. 629 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,759 Speaker 1: So he gets up. We're all dying laughing because we 630 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,640 Speaker 1: know what it's about. Because he didn't stop it, Burger can. 631 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: He didn't wait. So we all get our keys and 632 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,880 Speaker 1: I'm sitting there just waiting because I gotta see how 633 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:35,239 Speaker 1: this plays out. And um uh we always with Kevin 634 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,160 Speaker 1: would always get the sweet. So he was the last person. 635 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 1: So everybody goes up to the room and now room service. 636 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,280 Speaker 1: He goes, hey, his room service open, and the lady 637 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 1: goes no. And now he's even more human. He goes, 638 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:50,319 Speaker 1: what time does it open? And the lady goes, it 639 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,680 Speaker 1: opens at six o'clock? And it was I think at 640 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,680 Speaker 1: four or fifteen at this time. Um, and he goes, 641 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,320 Speaker 1: I'd like to order some breakfast from myself off because 642 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 1: obviously he was starving. Then he ordered breakfast at six, 643 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:11,200 Speaker 1: six fifteen, six thirty seven, seven fifteen, seven thirty eight, 644 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,800 Speaker 1: eight fifteen thirty all the way up to nine o'clock, 645 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 1: every fifteen minutes on the dial to the traveling Secretary's 646 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:24,440 Speaker 1: room to wake him up. Wow, he really did not 647 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,080 Speaker 1: like that guy, did he? Know he I mean it 648 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 1: was over I mean like it didn't matter what he 649 00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 1: was making, but he probably it was like over three 650 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:37,080 Speaker 1: in breakfast. He sent to his room and like they 651 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:40,759 Speaker 1: and he tipped. The lady at the front desk was 652 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:45,720 Speaker 1: like what, And he goes, where is the kitchen? People? 653 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 1: Are they here? She goes, No, He goes, He pulled 654 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 1: two hundred dollars out of the pocket and goes, give 655 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,839 Speaker 1: this to the lady and make sure she keeps delivering him, 656 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 1: because he was afraid they were just gonna stop delivering them. 657 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,880 Speaker 1: And like, if you went on his floor, there was 658 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 1: literally ten trades of breakfast sitting outside of his holy ship. 659 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,319 Speaker 1: How did he respond to that? The next day? You 660 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,919 Speaker 1: don't respond to Kevin Brown. You just take it. We'll 661 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,239 Speaker 1: let you just take it from Kevin Brown. Yeah, he 662 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 1: was the man. I didn't give a ship as long 663 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 1: as he wanted twenty games. You can throw beers at anybody. 664 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,360 Speaker 1: Do you ever throw a beer? You now? But he 665 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,520 Speaker 1: told me one time, I'll never forget. He kept shaking 666 00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,680 Speaker 1: me off and shaking me off and shaking me off. 667 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,319 Speaker 1: And then I went to the mountain one time. It 668 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:35,560 Speaker 1: was like I was a rookie and I I said, Uh, 669 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 1: what do you want to throw here? And he told me, 670 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:39,879 Speaker 1: why don't you just go back down there and throw 671 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,080 Speaker 1: it down the fingers and all the side. I'm like, O, 672 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,719 Speaker 1: came Mr Brown, Wow, so did you guys get a longer? 673 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: But but then after that, yeah, then like he was 674 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,839 Speaker 1: he he got sort of labeled as such a dick. 675 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,560 Speaker 1: Kevin Brown is a reputation of being kind of an asshole, 676 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,600 Speaker 1: and he's sounds kind of like an asshole from this story, 677 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,160 Speaker 1: but like he was such a good asshole. Like I 678 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,360 Speaker 1: can't explain it, Paul, What makes someone a good asshole? 679 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,800 Speaker 1: A guy that puts on his spikes, that's making a 680 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,520 Speaker 1: what he was making, puts on his spikes every day 681 00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,880 Speaker 1: at six thirty, even when he's not pitching. So he 682 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:25,680 Speaker 1: showed up for work, congratulations, stowed up for stretching every day. 683 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,600 Speaker 1: The two most professional guys I ever played with were 684 00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:33,680 Speaker 1: him and and Tom Glavin, two rock stars. Tom Glavin 685 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,640 Speaker 1: can suck it, Okay, I get it, it's the last 686 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,480 Speaker 1: you met. Fans with the last game forget it. But 687 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:44,840 Speaker 1: two guys that were dominant showed up for stretching. It 688 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,920 Speaker 1: was always out there for the first pitch. Kevin would 689 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,279 Speaker 1: have his his um cleats on and he would try 690 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,160 Speaker 1: to figure out if he could see if the pitchers 691 00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:56,640 Speaker 1: were pitching tipping their pitches. And you know what Elseide 692 00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,759 Speaker 1: loved about him. He was the worst hitter I ever saw, 693 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 1: and he would actually go down to the cage and 694 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,440 Speaker 1: work on his hitting day after day and became actually 695 00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:10,320 Speaker 1: a pretty good hitter. He was a an intense teammate. 696 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,400 Speaker 1: When he pitched, you did not talk to him, but 697 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,719 Speaker 1: he was a teammate you wanted because you want, you 698 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,080 Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's kind of guy you like 699 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,080 Speaker 1: on your team you hate if he's on another team. 700 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,640 Speaker 1: That's nail on head right there. All right. That feels 701 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,239 Speaker 1: like a good place to wrap this up. Thank you 702 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:31,680 Speaker 1: everybody for listening to the Favorites. Please download, subscribe, leave 703 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:36,040 Speaker 1: reviews on Apple. Podcasts were also available on Radio dot Com, Slash, 704 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,200 Speaker 1: the Action Network, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. 705 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,600 Speaker 1: For Paul Duca, I'm black Jack Fletcher. Until next time, 706 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:43,560 Speaker 1: I love you.