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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Is this a great game? Or what

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Speaker 1: with the Hall of Fame or Tim Kirkchen. I'm his son,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Kirchen and Dad. We're up early on a Sunday morning,

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Speaker 1: in between diapers and feedings and my daughter waking up

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Speaker 1: in order to get the podcast done because it's a

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Speaker 1: busy weekend with Hall of Fame weekend and Cooper's down.

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Speaker 1: I know, you got to see some people and have

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Speaker 1: some fun, but it's just a great time for baseball

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Speaker 1: because the trade deadline is looming. There's so much going on.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing, Jeff, I'm doing great. Last night

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Speaker 2: or Saturday night, your mother had her fiftieth high school reunion.

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Speaker 2: It's right Corning, New York, which is where I am

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Speaker 2: right now at an air b and me and I

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Speaker 2: But your mother, kak Kat, had a great time last

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Speaker 2: night at her high school. You know, star golfer, star swimmer,

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Speaker 2: straight a student, all that stuff. So she was the

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Speaker 1: And she married you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, good, good question about that, Jeff. So

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Speaker 2: it was great. Mom was really happy. That makes us

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Speaker 2: all really happy. So that was good. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think every husband out there can recognize.

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you got to do things with the

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Speaker 1: But Dad, I mean Courding, New York is I think

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Speaker 1: one of the most charming small towns in the United States.

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Speaker 1: I remember visiting as a kid thinking, there's no way

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Speaker 1: this looks like the set of a TV show. This

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's real, Jeff, and it's great. So we

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Speaker 2: spent some really quality time here in Corning, but most

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Speaker 2: of well, just as important I got at least I

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Speaker 2: got one full day in Cooperstown, Jeff, and it was

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Speaker 2: just the best. It's my favorite place on earth. We

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Speaker 2: talk about this every July, if not way more often

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Speaker 2: than that. So I had some great moments. First off,

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Speaker 2: the speeches were great, Joe Buck, Paul Hoynes, they were great.

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Speaker 2: That was the highlight of Saturday, on the highlight of

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Speaker 2: such a kick out of this I had. We had

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Speaker 2: dinner with my friends Jason Stark and Dan Shaughnessy and

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Speaker 2: So I go to the bathroom on Friday night at

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Speaker 2: the Oda Saga Hotel, and there are four urinals in

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Speaker 2: and a second later someone else comes in, looks at

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Speaker 2: it was John Smolts. So I've got John Smolts.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yes. So then there's another guy right next to me,

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Speaker 2: to my left, and it is Tom Glavin. At the

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Speaker 2: fourth urinal in the bathroom. Right behind me is Greg

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Speaker 2: Mannox No so yes, no, three yes, Jeff. We have

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Speaker 2: a segment here called three Cards in the Bathroom. We

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Speaker 2: do it every Thursday. This was three Aces in the bathroom,

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Speaker 2: three Hall of Favors in the bathroom, and I'm looking

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Speaker 2: the Atlanta Braves, all of whom I covered, I covered

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Speaker 2: just the funniest thing. Ever, how can that happen, jem

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Speaker 1: I think that's some fans dream. I'm like, I wish

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Speaker 1: imagine debt. I just hope because I know that some urinals,

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Speaker 2: So I whispered this to a couple of people at

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Speaker 2: thing was Jeff, and it occurred to me will Zlatrus,

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Speaker 2: So I told those guys that on the way out

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Speaker 2: The other two guys are scratch players. I mean they're tremendous,

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Speaker 2: a different level. And Maddox, the most competitive guy in

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Speaker 2: I have now contacted Maddox, Glavin and Smoltz. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: Is that great or what I think you need to

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Speaker 1: be Will Zalatoris's agent, because you told Barry Bonds that

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Speaker 1: You remember Will said he wanted to play golf with us,

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Speaker 1: So we need to set that up too, Dad. I

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Speaker 1: fantasy football draft weekend coming up where all we do

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Speaker 1: So I need to I need to sharpen it up. Dad.

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Speaker 1: You're playing with mom today, and you gotta make sure

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Speaker 1: you played the other day and played great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, all right, Jeff, let's get back to the drinks.

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Speaker 2: You had beers on the back nine.

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Speaker 1: Hard seltzers. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm over thirty now. Beer doesn't settle with me as

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Speaker 2: How many hard seltzers did you have?

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Speaker 1: I had two hard seltzers on the back nine and

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Speaker 1: I bought three, but I only drank.

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Speaker 2: Two, and you knew they were alcoholic beverages, unlike me

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Speaker 2: when I sat at your house. Okay, that's when you when.

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Speaker 1: You grabbed white Claws and had two of them while

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Speaker 2: Poor poop. All right, So again, Jeff, we had such

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Speaker 2: a great time at the Hall of Fame. I saw

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Speaker 2: I took a walk down Main Street in Cooperstown, which

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Speaker 1: That is so perfect? I can't wait to read those

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Speaker 1: Your favorite works that you've done as a writer to

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Speaker 1: me are yes, of course, you know when Tony Gwynn's

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Speaker 2: Well, Ken, Jeff, That's what makes Cooperstown so magical is

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Speaker 2: With a couple of people they said, first time here.

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Speaker 2: I had last thing from Cooperstown, Jeff, And I'm not

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Speaker 1: Well, Dad, it reminds me of even when Ted Williams

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Speaker 2: Well, we always everyone grew up with a guy, and

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Speaker 2: again to repeat, Jeff and absolutely, I only spent one

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Speaker 1: All right, Dad, are we jumping into the takeaways?

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Speaker 2: Yes? And we had a baseball trade, Jeff. On Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Curtis Mead, infielder for the Nationals, went to the Red

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Speaker 2: Like years ago, Pedro Martinez got traded for Delino Deshields

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Speaker 2: These things don't happen. But this was a really interesting

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really important. And speaking of trades, Jeff, I

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Speaker 2: make a deal, perhaps to trade Mason Miller, even though

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Speaker 2: we'll keep an eye on that, and the Terrek Schooble

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Speaker 2: And I just think as long as the Tigers think

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I just want to set the record straight.

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs in light years. So anyway, it looks

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Speaker 1: like the Sixers are gonna jump up a little bit

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Speaker 1: with Lebron James on their team.

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Speaker 2: All right, that that sounds cool?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, signing do you wanna no?

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Speaker 2: I just I just think it's great. And with Jalen

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Speaker 2: Brown now joining the Sixers, also from the Celtics. You know,

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Speaker 2: Dan Shaughnessy told me this while I was working or something.

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Speaker 2: He said, yeah, Lebron signed with the Sixers, and Dan,

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Speaker 2: who's the you know, just won the Redsmith Award. You

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Speaker 2: know what really appeals to him is how much better

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Speaker 2: this is going to make the Sixers Celtics rivalry Because

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Speaker 2: the Celtics traded Jalen Brown to the Sixers and now

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Speaker 2: the Sixers have signed Lebron James. It's just priceless. This

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Speaker 2: is why sports is so good, Jeff. It surprises us

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Speaker 2: every day, all Right's the last thing for the takeaways, Jeff,

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Speaker 2: Mike Toomey, our dear friend, our scout friend who's way

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Speaker 2: more than a scout. He sent me a text the

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Speaker 2: other day of him scouting Salvador Perez when sal was

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Speaker 2: sixteen years old. Sixteen years old, and he sent me

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Speaker 2: the video of Sal Perez really big, but much thinner

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Speaker 2: because he's gotten thicker as does everyone else in age

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Speaker 2: at age sixteen. And he sent it to me on

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Speaker 2: the day that sal Perez hit home run number three

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Speaker 2: eighteen to pass George Brett for most home runs in

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Speaker 2: the history of the Kansas City Royals. And I find

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Speaker 2: this interesting, Jeff, So, now, among primary catchers, only two

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Speaker 2: catchers primary catchers are their franchise leader in home runs,

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Speaker 2: Johnny Bench with the Reds and Sal Perez with the Royals.

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Speaker 2: Is that surprise you at all? Or you know catcher

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Speaker 2: is a mostly a defensive position, right, Good for both,

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Speaker 2: Good for both of those guys.

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Speaker 1: Right right. My only other guest would have been Mike Piazza,

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Speaker 1: but I know he's not the Mets leader, so I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that is a little bit surprising, But there's.

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Speaker 2: Right. Our team tim is going to get into home

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Speaker 2: runs by positions. We'll tease you a little bit on that,

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Speaker 2: but you're right, Pee Alonzo is the so Pete Alonso

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Speaker 2: and Perez are one or two of five active players

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Speaker 2: who are the who are a current franchise in home runs. Perez,

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Speaker 2: of course, Wait with the Royals?

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Speaker 1: Can I guess some others?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 1: I didn't want you to list him off. I want

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Speaker 1: to try to guess.

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Speaker 2: You already said one of them?

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Speaker 1: What? Oh uh? Pee Alonzo?

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Speaker 2: Right? Yeah? With the Mens?

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Speaker 1: With the Mens?

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: My favorite one is gian Carlos Stanton with the Marlins,

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Speaker 1: right right, because he hasn't played there in years.

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Speaker 2: Twenty seventeen, yes, all times?

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Speaker 1: Wow? Okay? And then isn't Mike Trout Angels?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Jeff, you're doing great on this. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how you know this. I the last one. This guy

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Speaker 2: hit home run of his career number three ninety one

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Speaker 2: the other day. He's going to hit four hundred and

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Speaker 2: way beyond that. Take a guess. This is this is

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Speaker 2: his well, this is his third team, third team. I

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Speaker 2: don't have it, okay. Manny Machado is the all time

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Speaker 2: pod so it Is Stanton, Alonso, Machado, Trout, and sal

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Speaker 2: Perez are the active players that lead a franchise in

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Speaker 2: home runs. Maybe not the franchise they're playing for at

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Speaker 2: the moment, like John Carlos Stanton, but yeah, so I

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Speaker 2: love that stuff. It's so good.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dad, let's go to the questions. What do

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Speaker 1: you have for us?

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Speaker 2: All right? So, Gavin Williams of the Guardians had an

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Speaker 2: immaculate inning the other day, and that is, of course,

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Speaker 2: nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts. We've talked about this before,

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Speaker 2: but some people think an immaculate inning should be just

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Speaker 2: what I said, but nobody makes contact with the ball.

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Speaker 2: So if you hit a foul ball, it's a strike,

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Speaker 2: but it's not an immaculate inning because the hitter actually

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Speaker 2: hit it. Do you I think that's a little too much.

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Speaker 2: Three batters, nine strikes, three strikeouts. That's good enough for you, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I think so.

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 1: That's the first one to really think of that as well.

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Speaker 1: Dad is like, oh, well, if they're foul tipping, foul tipping,

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Speaker 1: and then you know, but it's almost impossible, and I

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Speaker 1: don't even think we have the numbers on that, so

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Speaker 1: to speak. At least the statistics probably didn't start getting

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Speaker 1: foul tips, and you know, strike swinging for years, but no,

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Speaker 1: I think immaculate inning nine strikes or nine yeah, well

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Speaker 1: nine strikes yep, and three strike us round at.

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Speaker 2: Least twenty years ago, Jeff, I was in a cab

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Speaker 2: going to PNC Park in Pittsburgh and I had a cab. Well,

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Speaker 2: I was in Pittsburgh. I'm not sure where I was going,

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00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 2: not the point, And a cab driver said, I guess

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Speaker 2: he recognized me sitting in the backseat. He goes, I

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Speaker 2: got a great trivia question for you. Who did something

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Speaker 2: twenty eight times that nobody else has done more than once?

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Speaker 2: And I have no idea what he's talking about. So

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Speaker 2: I give up, and I said, what's the answer, and

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Speaker 2: he goes, Nolan Ryan had twenty eight immaculate innings and

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Speaker 2: no no one else has had more than one. At Jebre,

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Speaker 2: there was no way as great as Nolan Raye was

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Speaker 2: that he had twenty eight immaculate innings. But this is

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Speaker 2: just goes to show you how terrible sports trivia it

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Speaker 2: can be. And I wasn't about to tell the guy

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Speaker 2: you're so far wrong on this because the Elia Sports

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Speaker 2: Bureau can only go back forget it. I didn't want

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Speaker 2: to make fun of a cab driver who loves bas.

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Speaker 1: Like, oh wow, and then you kind of just move on.

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Speaker 2: Wow. You didn't know that, Thank you very much. I'll

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Speaker 2: get out here.

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Speaker 1: You know, but sir, we're not at your stop yet.

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Speaker 1: It's okay. I'll just I'll walk the rest.

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Speaker 2: All right. Couple things, Jeff, I keep telling you that

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Speaker 2: the hit by pitch rate is that basically a historic

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Speaker 2: high in the major leagues. And the other day we

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Speaker 2: had seven hit batters in the Astros White Sox game

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Speaker 2: last Friday, and that's first time since April thirteenth, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one, and the Padres and White Sox combined for

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Speaker 2: n hit batters. It happens all the time. It's an epidemic. Now,

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Speaker 2: guys with this incredible stuff that they can't always command,

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Speaker 2: and guys are getting hit at a historic rate. I

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Speaker 2: keep track of hit by pitches. I've always been fascinated

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Speaker 2: by hit by pitches. Maybe that's the name of my

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Speaker 2: next book, Jeff, I'm fascinated by hit by pitches either way.

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Speaker 2: Seven now, Jeff, just to finish the quirkchins, the commissioner

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Speaker 2: of is this a great game or what? Mike Sure

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Speaker 2: sent me a text message like in the middle of

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Speaker 2: the night the other night, and he is totally confused,

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Speaker 2: and I don't blame him. Okay, let me quickly set

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Speaker 2: up what happened. Giants are playing the Angels, bottom of

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Speaker 2: the tenth inning, and I think it's the tenth It

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Speaker 2: doesn't matter. It's the last inning of the game, and

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Speaker 2: six to six the bases are loaded, and Raphael Devers

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Speaker 2: of the Giants comes up and hits a ball that

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Speaker 2: bounces and goes over the fence for an automatic double.

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Speaker 2: Not a ground rule double. It's an automatic double. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to be a pedantic little twit about that,

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Speaker 2: but it should be referred to as an automatic double.

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Speaker 2: So the ruling was that Dever's got a single and

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Speaker 2: one RBI because the rules clearly state in the rule

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Speaker 2: book that you don't get credit for all the runs

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Speaker 2: you drove in there. Just as soon as the winning

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Speaker 2: run touches home plate, everything after that no longer matters.

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Speaker 2: So Mike Sure, one of the smartest baseball people I've

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Speaker 2: ever met and the commissioner of our show, says, I

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Speaker 2: don't understand this, he hit a ball that went over

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Speaker 2: the fence on one hop. It should be a double

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Speaker 2: and it should be two RBIs and they should win

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Speaker 2: the game eight to six, not seven to six. And

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Speaker 2: yet the rules clearly state that once that winning run

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Speaker 2: crosses home plate, nothing else everything is dead after that.

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Speaker 1: Are you in agreement here, Well, if you hit a

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Speaker 1: home run and there were three runners on, what's the

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Speaker 1: final score? But the final run across the plate first,

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Speaker 1: and if it were tied, it would be seven to six.

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Speaker 1: But if you hit a three home run, it's nine

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Speaker 1: to six. Right, So, like Jeff, to a certain degree,

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Speaker 1: I could make the argument since the ball left the

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Speaker 1: park even though it bounced, I would agree with that.

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Speaker 1: I understand if you hit a ball to the outfield,

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Speaker 1: the center fielder goes, uh, all right, it's over right,

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Speaker 1: and you shouldn't get a triple because you might have

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Speaker 1: made it to third, right, or you even ran a third.

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Speaker 1: The game's over when that run crosses. But with an

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Speaker 1: automatic double and a home run, I think they should

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Speaker 1: follow the same guideline.

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Speaker 2: No, well, that's a good point. So I checked with

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Speaker 2: two official scorer friends of mine who do this and

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Speaker 2: did or do this for a living and one said, yes,

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Speaker 2: it's seven to six. Rule book states clearly. And then

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Speaker 2: I talked to my friend Phil Wood, who used to

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Speaker 2: be an official scorer, and Phil was more about baseball

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Speaker 2: than just about any person I've ever met. He's intimidating

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Speaker 2: his logic, his memory is encyclopedic. But he was an

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Speaker 2: official scorer for years, and he had never dealt with

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Speaker 2: a situation like this where a ball bounces, goes over

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Speaker 2: the fence and you only give a guy one RBI.

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Speaker 2: He thought, logically he should get two RBIs on that

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Speaker 2: play because the ball went over the fence, but because

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Speaker 2: it bounced in the field of play, unlike a home

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Speaker 2: run that went over the fence, it's only a single.

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Speaker 2: So Jeff one of our great listeners viewers, Finn Joint,

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Speaker 2: what a great name that is, he writes in and

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Speaker 2: just like just like Mike, Sure, he's confused about this

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Speaker 2: and he finds this game on September seventh, nineteen fifty

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Speaker 2: one tie score National Senators and Yankees. Joe DiMaggio comes

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Speaker 2: up and hits a double to score or two runs

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Speaker 2: walk off double in the bottom of the ninth inning,

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Speaker 2: and he gets credit for a double and two RBIs

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Speaker 2: and they win the game four to two, not three

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Speaker 2: to two. And his question is, what happened? Why does

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Speaker 2: Samagrio get two RBIs there and Raphael Devers only gets one?

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Speaker 2: So he actually found a game that flies in the

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Speaker 2: face of the official scoring rule here. It was so interesting.

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Speaker 2: So I called Steve Hurt formerly of the Elias Sportsbureau.

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Speaker 2: Steve Hurt is one of my all time heroes in

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Speaker 2: his business, and he said, Tim, I just don't think

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Speaker 2: back then that they took it so seriously about an

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Speaker 2: RBI and the official scoring rules. Maybe they just laxed it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they changed the rule. I'm not sure. But just

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Speaker 2: one more time, Jeff, are you in favor of a

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Speaker 2: double and two RBIs for Devers or did they call

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Speaker 2: it right because the rule book says they called it correctly.

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Speaker 1: Well, we don't know what happened, right, We don't know

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Speaker 1: how many alps there were. So hear me out. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's just say the runners run second and third and

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Speaker 1: he reached second before. Well, no, but to RBIs, it

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Speaker 1: wouldn't matter because the first guy would pass right, So

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Speaker 1: I got nothing for you.

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Speaker 2: First guy would cross home plate. The second goal doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: According to today's rules. I just think it's a really

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Speaker 2: interesting question. And even though I'm going by the book

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Speaker 2: on this, but when Mike Sure is this adamant about

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Speaker 2: something and he's the commissioner of is this a great

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Speaker 2: game or what? I think we need to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any more fortunes?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I do, Jeff, and so does everyone who watches

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Speaker 2: and listens to is this a great game or what?

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Speaker 2: Because Saturday night we had the Bryce Elder Brandon Young

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Speaker 2: star pitching matchup with the Braves at the Orioles, and

648
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Speaker 2: every person who writes to us, and we have a

649
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Speaker 2: lot of people who write to us, say basically every

650
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Speaker 2: one of them started the same way. I know you've

651
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Speaker 2: seen this, but we've got an Elder versus Young matchup

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Speaker 2: in Baltimore. It's just it's just my favorite. And a

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00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 2: couple guys pointed out, of course, is that Young is

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Speaker 2: slightly older than Elder, which we I thought was kind

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Speaker 2: of fun. And you know, I keep track of these things.

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00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 2: You know, when I was covering the Rangers in the

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Speaker 2: early eighties, we had a Mike Mason Ken Dixon matchup,

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Speaker 2: not once, but multiple times. So the Mason Dixon we had.

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Speaker 2: We've had Thomas Diamond against Chris Sale, the Diamond Sale

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00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 2: and of course my favorite, you know, Yvan Nova against

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Speaker 2: Matt Cain. We had the Nova Caine matchup, So this

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Speaker 2: one is in there. We had a young young elder

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Speaker 2: and young was older than elder. You love that stuff too, right, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: I will say about our fans, Jeff, that they were

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Speaker 2: all over this and they just wanted to make sure

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Speaker 2: we didn't miss this. Isn't that great?

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Speaker 1: It's the best thing about members of the family. You

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Speaker 1: want to become a part of the family. Message us

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Speaker 1: great game or what dot com? Scroll all the way

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Speaker 1: down and also that's where you can find the link

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Speaker 1: to our YouTube. So if you're an audio only person,

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Speaker 1: we love you all good. But if you want to

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Speaker 1: subscribe to YouTube and watch us as well, you can

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Speaker 1: do that. On this date in baseball history, dab what

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Speaker 1: do you have?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? July twenty seventh, nineteen twenty seven, mel a Hall

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Speaker 2: of Famer, hit the first of his five hundred and

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Speaker 2: eleven homers, and it was an inside the park homer,

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Speaker 2: and he would hit five hundred and ten more homers

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Speaker 2: and never hit another inside the park homer again, only

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00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: in baseball? Can this happen? Right?

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Speaker 1: And he did it on seven, twenty seven, twenty seven,

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Speaker 1: which I just really like that.

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Speaker 2: That is so great, And I bring this up once

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Speaker 2: in a while, but Butch Henry, former major league pitcher,

686
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 2: hit one career home run and it was an inside

687
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Speaker 2: the parking run. I mean, Keev, seriously, how can that happen?

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Speaker 2: I can't happen all right? Happy birthday to Floyd Rayford.

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Speaker 2: He was born on this date in nineteen fifty seven.

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Speaker 2: And if I may personalize this, Rafe was one of

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Speaker 2: my favorite people I ever covered. Had a tremendous sense

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Speaker 2: of humor, was a really good hitter, but never took

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Speaker 2: himself too seriously. So when I went to cover the

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Speaker 2: Rangers for the Baltimore Sun in nineteen eighty six, I'm

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Speaker 2: with Richard Justice and I am on the plane going

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Speaker 2: to Florida to cover the Orioles in spring training, having

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Speaker 2: just covered the Rangers for the previous four years at

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Speaker 2: the Dallas Morning News. So Richard introduces me to Floyd Rayford.

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Speaker 2: Floyd Rayford takes one look at me, having never met

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Speaker 2: me before, and said Eddie, meaning Eddie Murray. He goes

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Speaker 2: Eddie's gonna hate you. I said, why Eddieburry's gonna hate me? Why?

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Speaker 2: He goes, your head is too big for the rest

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Speaker 2: of your body. That's what he said. So look, I

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Speaker 2: have a tiny body and I have a little head.

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Speaker 2: But I had to go into the bathroom at the

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Speaker 2: all the airplane to look at my head to see

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Speaker 2: if it was that much bigger than the rest of

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Speaker 2: my body. So that's that's how I met Floyd Rayford.

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Speaker 2: Eddie's gonna hate you. How about that?

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Speaker 1: Too good?

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Speaker 2: That's amazing, too good? All right? Last birthday. On this

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Speaker 2: date in nineteen seventy five, Alex Rodriguez was born. He

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Speaker 2: and Mark Reynolds hold the record for most home runs

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Speaker 2: hit on their birthday. Alex Rodriguez said, six homers on

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Speaker 2: his birthday. Mark Reynolds, who it? You know? Two hundred

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Speaker 2: and ninety nine homers. We got to get him as

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Speaker 2: a guest, Jeff. He's so funny, he's so smart. He

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Speaker 2: did so many things. Mark Reynolds had six homers on

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Speaker 2: his birthday. I asked him about it once. He goes,

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Speaker 2: you know, I hold a lot of weird records out there,

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Speaker 2: and that's you know, he strikeout records and everything else,

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Speaker 2: and I can't help but tell the story. I just

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Speaker 2: love Mark Reynolds so much. I did a story on

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Speaker 2: how difficult it is to hit in the major leagues.

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Speaker 2: And his mother is like the greatest baseball fan ever

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Speaker 2: and she knows exactly what she's watching when she watches

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Speaker 2: any game. And he told me, he said, he said,

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Speaker 2: I talked to my mother today and she asked me,

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Speaker 2: how did you miss that two oh slider last night?

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Speaker 2: And he had to say, Mom, It's not that easy.

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Speaker 2: It's not that easy, all right. So those are that

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Speaker 2: is this date in baseball history.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the wheel of Kirkchin and your suggestions

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Speaker 1: placed on the wheel. Dad riffs off on what we

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Speaker 1: got here. We go Cooper's Town Secrets.

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Speaker 2: Well, I love Cooper's I can't believe we ran onto that.

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Speaker 2: But I'm going to retell a story that of Tony

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Speaker 2: Gwinn who went in with Cal Ripken in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and seven. Best was the best induction I've ever been to.

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Speaker 2: You've been there too, So I see Tony Gwynn Junior

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Speaker 2: in the lobby of the Oda Saga Hotel at nine

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Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning on induction day so I say

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Speaker 2: to Tony Junior, who was on our podcast last year.

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Speaker 2: I said, Tony, how's your dad doing? He goes, he

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Speaker 2: sent me down here to get a beer for him

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Speaker 2: at nine o'clock in the mourning so isay. He said,

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Speaker 2: he's so nervous he needs a beer. And then Tony Jr.

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Speaker 2: Looks at me and goes, my dad doesn't drink, so

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Speaker 2: he was going to start drinking every day. So he

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Speaker 2: didn't have the beer. He absolutely crushed his speech. So

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Speaker 2: I told this story, this story to Andrew Jones in

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Speaker 2: the Odasaga lobby the other day, that if you're nervous

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Speaker 2: about your speech, it's okay. Tony Gwynn was nervous enough

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Speaker 2: to send Sundown for a beer and he ended up

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Speaker 2: crushing his speech. And then one of Andrew's you know

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Speaker 2: guys right there, said all right, I'll bring you a

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Speaker 2: beer on Sunday morning. I promise. He said that to

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Speaker 2: Andrew Joes. I'm sure Andrew didn't need it, but that's

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Speaker 2: one of my favorite Cooperstown secret stories.

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Speaker 1: All right, next spin here we go. Let's see yup,

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Speaker 1: that's blank one. Let's see oh video games? Baseball? Video games? Dad?

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Speaker 1: Can I take this one.

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Speaker 2: Yes, because Jeff, as we've acknowledged, I don't have the

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Speaker 2: patience for video games. I don't I have great hand

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Speaker 2: eye coordination. I don't care how bad that sounds, but

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Speaker 2: when it comes to fine little motor skills, terrible at it.

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Speaker 2: What is your video game story?

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Speaker 1: Well, two time guests of is this a great game

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Speaker 1: or what? John bog Shambi, who's a very close friend

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Speaker 1: of our family, right, he is the voice of MLB

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Speaker 1: the Show, and so funny. I couple years ago pre kids,

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Speaker 1: was playing MLB the Show and Emily walks by my

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Speaker 1: wife and says, is that boog talking about my video game?

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Speaker 1: Because we've heard her. We've heard him call Games with You,

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Speaker 1: among other games we've heard him call. And I said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's the voice. Well that was when members of the

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Speaker 1: family who listened to Great Game or What messaged us

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Speaker 1: Dad saying, oh my gosh, boog Shambi references your dad

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Speaker 1: multiple times in the video game. But as you know, Dad,

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Speaker 1: they record these hours and hours and hours on end

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Speaker 1: and then algorithms play them when it's supposed to happen.

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Speaker 1: And John Boog Shamby told the story on MLB the

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Speaker 1: Show of you running in the Milwaukee sausage race, and

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Speaker 1: our listeners were trying so hard. One person saw it

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Speaker 1: but said, I didn't get it on video, so they

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Speaker 1: were trying so hard to get that game back up.

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Speaker 1: A situation in which Boog would say that again playing

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Speaker 1: with the Brewers as the Brewers whatever they need to do.

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Speaker 1: And he told that story on the video. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not your brightest moment, but it was fun. That

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Speaker 1: was a fun brun Not going to.

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Speaker 2: Repeat that story because it takes ten minutes to say

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Speaker 2: it properly, and we're not going to do that. I

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Speaker 2: will just tell you that I finished so badly, so

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Speaker 2: poorly in that sausage race that day, that the woman

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Speaker 2: who was kind of running the thing, you know it's done.

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Speaker 2: In between innings, she was yelling at me get off

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Speaker 2: of the field, were ready to start the next inning.

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Speaker 2: That's how slow I was running in this giant hot

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Speaker 2: dog outfit. It was the worst thing ever. It was

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Speaker 2: hysterically funny because I failed so miserably. I did not

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Speaker 2: know that Boog Chambi had referenced that on a video

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Speaker 2: game error.

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Speaker 1: Anybody has a suggestion for the wheel of Kirchen, do

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Speaker 1: us a favor great game or what dot com? Send

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Speaker 1: us a suggestion and I'll add it to the wheel

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Speaker 1: for next week. All right, let's go to Team TIM

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Speaker 1: wrapping up today's episode, Dad, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 2: Right? So, this was a suggestion from Joe Astemeier, who's

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Speaker 2: from Saint Louis. The older guy like me, loves the game,

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Speaker 2: tremendous recall. He's been a great help to me and

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Speaker 2: others on this podcast. So he said, you know, do

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Speaker 2: a Team Tim based on, you know, the best of

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Speaker 2: all time at each position at some particular statistic. The

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Speaker 2: more arcane the better. But as a tribute to Jeff Kent,

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Speaker 2: who went into the Hall of Fame because he has

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Speaker 2: the most home runs as a second baseman of any

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Speaker 2: second base in history, the Team Tim this week is

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Speaker 2: most home runs at that position all time. So you know,

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Speaker 2: it's not the most home runs that a right fielder hit,

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Speaker 2: it's the most home runs hit as a right fielder.

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Speaker 2: Does that you understand the distorted league, right sense? Okay?

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Speaker 2: All right, So Mike Piazza is our catcher. He hit

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Speaker 2: three hundred and ninety six homers as a catcher. Mark

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Speaker 2: McGuire is the first baseman five hundred and sixty six

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Speaker 2: homers as a first baseman. Jeff Kent, who we said

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Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty run homers at second, Mike Schmidt

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Speaker 2: five hundred and nine homers at third. Cal Ripken hit

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Speaker 2: the most homers as a shortstop three hundred and forty five.

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Speaker 1: Well, and that's important, an important delineation talking about as

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Speaker 1: a shortstop because Alex Rodriguez, you would make the argument,

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Speaker 1: but he hit a lot of home runs at shortstop

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Speaker 1: and a lot at third base. So rambers get kind

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Speaker 1: of cut in half.

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Speaker 2: Right, and so did cal Ripkan some degree because he

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Speaker 2: moved to third base at the end of his career.

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Speaker 2: Barry Bonds predictably had the most home runs as a

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Speaker 2: left fielder seven hundred and twenty five. Willie Mays, who

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Speaker 2: hit six hundred and sixty homers in his career, hit

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Speaker 2: six hundred and forty as a center fielder, and I

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Speaker 2: was surprised by this. Jeff, Sammy Sosa hit the most

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Speaker 2: home runs ever as a right fielder five hundred and

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Speaker 2: thirty eight. Now, Sammy Sosa hit over six hundred homers,

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Speaker 2: but you would think Hank Aaron hit more. But he

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Speaker 2: hit some as a DH and obviously hit some as

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Speaker 2: a left fielder. And Babe Ruth you would think with

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Speaker 2: seven hundred and fourteen must have the most as a

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Speaker 2: right fielder, but he hit some of course as a pitcher,

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Speaker 2: and there were certain days when they played in certain

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Speaker 2: ballparks where Babe Ruth played left field instead of right field.

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Speaker 2: And Wes Farrell, who we've talked about several times on

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Speaker 2: this podcast, hit thirty seven homers as a pitch. Sure

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Speaker 2: that is the most home run. So this came directly

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Speaker 2: from Frank at the Elias, because this can these are

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Speaker 2: tricky numbers, and I went to the main source on

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Speaker 2: this and said, look, I think I've got the answer

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Speaker 2: to most of these, but you we need to really

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Speaker 2: make sure these are correct. So Frank looked them up

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Speaker 2: for me, and that's it. Piazza, Maguire, can't Schmidt, Ripken, Bonds, Mays, Sosa,

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Speaker 2: and West Ferrell. Surprises at all are pretty much what you.

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Speaker 1: Thought I think. Sosa, I mean you said it up front,

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Speaker 1: was definitely the biggest surprise for me. Again, hit over

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Speaker 1: six hundred in his career, But I mean, there's so

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Speaker 1: many other names I would have come up with. First

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Speaker 1: when they came to right fielders.

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Speaker 2: So interesting. So Jeff, that's the Team Tim, and I

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Speaker 2: have to say one more time. We get Team Tim

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Speaker 2: requests like every week now from our listeners and our viewers,

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Speaker 2: and people keep writing in with these great lists. We'll

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Speaker 2: get to all of them eventually. But that's one because

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Speaker 2: it's a Hall of Fame related list, because almost everyone

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Speaker 2: on that list, or most of the guys on that list,

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Speaker 2: Some of the guys on that list are Hall of Famers.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dad, let's run through some details as to

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Speaker 1: what's going to be happening over the next week. Okay

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Speaker 1: tomorrow on the podcast. You're already laughing. We have Jason Bennetti.

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Speaker 1: We have Jason Bennetti. If you don't know Jason, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh. So he is play by play broadcaster for

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers. But he also, now, Dad, has a

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Speaker 1: very big new job right.

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Speaker 2: Right at NBC Sunday Nights. He does a great job,

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Speaker 2: and it's just a warning to all of our listeners

883
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Speaker 2: and viewers. I'm not sure we asked him a real

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Speaker 2: baseball question until about minute number forty. The rest of

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Speaker 2: it was complete nonsense. But he is one of the

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Speaker 2: funniest and cleverest people I've ever met. So we had

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Speaker 2: a bunch of laughs with somebody who understands humor as

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Speaker 2: well as anyone I've ever met.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's incredible. And then Dad, of course, another episode

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Speaker 1: on the thirtieth of July. And I want you to

891
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Speaker 1: know you are always the one telling me what's in

892
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Speaker 1: the way of your schedule. I go to Maine this

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Speaker 1: weekend for a wedding. Austin Blast, who I grew up with,

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Speaker 1: is getting married in Maine, and I'm gonna be there

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Speaker 1: leaving Thursday all the way through to Monday. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out how to do the podcast.

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Speaker 1: But instead of you being on the road, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be on the road. And then Dad, get this next week.

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Speaker 1: Our next episode will be August the third, well not

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Speaker 1: our next one, but a week from today we'll have

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Speaker 1: August the third, which is the trade deadline, right, So

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be an exciting episode.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a lot of complications coming up. Jim,

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Speaker 2: might be time to call Kelly Kirchin again. What do

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Speaker 2: you think about that?

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Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, don't don't Wally pit me this or I

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Speaker 1: have a microphone. I can bring with me that episode

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00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: numbers did great. I can't lose this job. What am

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Speaker 1: I gonna tell my wife? What am I gonna tell

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Speaker 1: my kid? By lose the podcast I started with my dad.

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Speaker 2: If you're not going to lose your job to your sister,

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Speaker 2: she's great. But all right, we're going to handle all this.

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Speaker 2: And again, just one more reminder how magical Cooper's Down is.

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Speaker 2: If you've never been here, you got to come here.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's right, playing your visit for next year. Whether

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Speaker 1: you have somebody you love being inducted or not, it

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00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 1: is magical in itself. Highly highly recommend. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for listening or watching. If you're on YouTube, make

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Speaker 1: sure to like, subscribe, and comment. If you're listening on

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Speaker 1: the audio stream, of course, follow leaving a rating really

921
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Speaker 1: helps five stars. If you feel that way, let us

922
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Speaker 1: know what you like about the show because it's important

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Speaker 1: to us and important to introduce the show to other

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Speaker 1: baseball fans. Thanks for watching and listening, and it's always

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Speaker 1: thanks for being a partner of our family.