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Speaker 1: Welcome to Is this a great game or what with

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer My dad, Tim Kirkshin. I am

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Speaker 1: his son, Jeff Kirkshin, And officially we have started season

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Speaker 1: two of our podcast, and in celebration of that, Dad,

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Speaker 1: we're bringing back the very first guest we ever had

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Speaker 1: on the podcast. Eduardo Perez is going to be joining.

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Speaker 2: Us today, right, our dear friend.

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Speaker 3: He will make us laugh today, I promise, And Jeff,

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Speaker 3: I'm still amazed we got through year one. You and

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Speaker 3: I had no idea what we were doing at this

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Speaker 3: time last year, but we did thirty five regular season episodes,

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Speaker 3: a bunch of off season episodes, and today starts our

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Speaker 3: first week in which we're doing two podcasts every week

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Speaker 3: for the baseball season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I look back to the time we recorded

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Speaker 1: with Eduardo little inside Baseball here. We recorded that interview

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Speaker 1: with him before we had even really recorded anything with

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Speaker 1: you and I. We were just kind of figuring it out.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to look back way back season one,

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Speaker 1: episode one, you can hear that interview.

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Speaker 3: But and we still have a lot to figure out,

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Speaker 3: Jeff here in year two. But we promise everyone what

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Speaker 3: we promised them all year where you're going to laugh

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Speaker 3: and you're going to learn when you listen to this show.

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Speaker 3: No heavy lifting now, no difficult stuff.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be fun and we're going to learn

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Speaker 2: something too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got a lot of great new segments we're

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Speaker 1: excited to share with you. We've been really excited to

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Speaker 1: expand to two days a week, as Dad mentioned, so

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Speaker 1: we're going to be releasing Tuesdays at midnight and Fridays

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Speaker 1: at midnight now. So Tuesdays was our original day. Now

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Speaker 1: we're also going to be releasing on Fridays at midnight

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Speaker 1: as well. And if you're listening right now, most likely

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Speaker 1: it's either midgame or already happened. The unofficial but official

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Speaker 1: first game of the baseball season in Tokyo.

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Speaker 3: And the Cubs are playing the Dodgers, and Jeff I

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Speaker 3: saw the Dodgers twice this spring in Arizona. It is

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Speaker 3: amazing how good they are.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 3: That doesn't guarantee that they're going to win the World Series,

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Speaker 3: but I can tell you the depth on their starting

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Speaker 3: rotation is ridiculous. If assuming everyone is healthy, which no

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Speaker 3: one is ever healthy for an entire season anymore, the

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Speaker 3: depth of the everyday lineup is equally ridiculous. The money

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Speaker 3: they spent to put this team together was absurd and

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Speaker 3: it's going to be examined at some point by Major

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Speaker 3: League Baseball. But there's no way around this. The Dodgers

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Speaker 3: are a great watch, whether you love them or hate them.

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Speaker 3: And it's so beautiful that they are opening the season

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Speaker 3: in Tokyo because Roki Sazaki, a rookie, is going to

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Speaker 3: be one of the pitchers of course, and Yoshi Yamamoto,

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Speaker 3: who had a great rookie year when he wasn't hurt

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Speaker 3: last year. They're going to be starting games one and

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Speaker 3: two in Japan against the Cubs. And Shoda Imanaga, who

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Speaker 3: had a terrific rookie year for the Cubs, he will

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Speaker 3: be starting one of those games also. Wow. So if

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Speaker 3: you're not gonna start with a parade in Cincinnati like

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Speaker 3: we used to when I was a kid and when

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Speaker 3: I first started covering baseball, I'm okay with opening in

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Speaker 3: Japan as we try to globalize the game, grow the game.

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Speaker 3: If you're going to do it, this is the year

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Speaker 3: to do it, and you have to do it with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an exciting time. For baseball. So opening day

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Speaker 1: for those who don't know, will be a week from Thursday,

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Speaker 1: so we'll obviously be releasing an episode the day after that.

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Speaker 1: We'll be able to react this Friday to the Japan series.

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Speaker 1: But as Dad mentioned, right, we're not that show that's

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Speaker 1: going to give you all the breaking news and all

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Speaker 1: the trades and all the things that happen. We want

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Speaker 1: to bring baseball to you, to the fathers, the sons,

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Speaker 1: the mothers, the daughters out there. That's what this show

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Speaker 1: is all about. So we're really excited. If you're new here,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank the person who said this

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Speaker 1: podcast to you, because we're really excited for an exciting

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Speaker 1: year this year. Now we're recording this on Saint Patrick's Day,

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Speaker 3: It's not the greatest list ever, it's not the All

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Speaker 3: So if anyone is listening at home and has less

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Speaker 3: Let's give it a whirl. But in the meantime, Jeff

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Speaker 3: I just got back from spring training. Of course, I

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Speaker 3: We had a really interesting conversation Eduardo Perez. Our guests today,

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Speaker 3: Carl Ravich and myself and Buster only because we did

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Speaker 1: Oh, when talking about how stacked the Visionary one in

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Speaker 3: you look at their rotation and it's really, really good.

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Speaker 1: Did you see how they told Zach Efflin that he

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Speaker 2: Why don't you tell him?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, just the cutest video, So Zach Efflyn,

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Speaker 1: girl dads, what's up, Zach Eflin? He actually Brandon Hyde

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Speaker 3: appreciated that tremendously. The other thing was we asked Brandon Hyde, like,

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Speaker 3: what a stupid question that is? He said, Alex Bregman

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Speaker 3: So the Red Sox have these three remarkable young players

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Speaker 2: So they could all learn from him.

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Speaker 3: He took a road trip just to be with those

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Speaker 3: such a difference in that team. And Jeff, I know

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Speaker 3: we're not into predictions here or hot takes or anything,

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Speaker 1: Did you also hear the story that Alex Bregman actually

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Speaker 1: bought suits, yes, for the prospects on in the Red

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Speaker 3: And on a completely different level. But this is what

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Speaker 3: But clearly Alex Bregman is the better defensive player. He's

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Speaker 1: You know, Alex Bragman, Willie May's Tim kirkshon all sharing suits.

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Speaker 1: You have bequeathed me many a suits in my time

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Speaker 3: I don't think Willy May has bought any thirty eight

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Speaker 3: I think those are just a few takeaways from spring training.

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Speaker 3: Although I must, I must share this with you, Jeff.

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Speaker 3: I went to see the Yankees. Yeah, this was before

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Speaker 3: Garrett Cole went down. It's a massive injury. Terrible for

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Speaker 2: So we've been over this.

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Speaker 2: And I said, no, no, no, that's a mint.

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Speaker 3: Eduardo is the greatest teammate ever. If you're ever in

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

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Speaker 3: It's Eduardo Perez and I have to ask.

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Speaker 3: I saw that Eddie did not dance with Jojo siwah,

437
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 3: but I did, so that put me way ahead Eddie. Hey, hey,

438
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 3: the worst dancer ever.

439
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:31,400
Speaker 2: We know that.

440
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 3: I refused to do it, and Jeffrey my Son said, Jim, Dad,

441
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 3: you gotta do this for the good of the show.

442
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,680
Speaker 3: And I made a complete fool of myself in front

443
00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,439
Speaker 3: of like nine million people because everybody watched that.

444
00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 5: I still don't understand why you know.

445
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,679
Speaker 1: And also, Eddie, you remember doing those games, and of

446
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 1: course you do this with Sunday Night Baseball as well.

447
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 1: The in game interviews. We had Jojo Sewah do an

448
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,760
Speaker 1: in game with us. She talked to us before the

449
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 1: first pitch, and when the first pitch was shown, she said, Okay,

450
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,200
Speaker 1: thanks guys, and we had to explain no, you're going

451
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: the whole inning.

452
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:14,879
Speaker 3: My gosh. So, Eddie, if you haven't realized yet, you

453
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 3: were the first guest on our first show last year,

454
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 3: our first podcast ever. This is our first podcast official

455
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 3: one of the twenty twenty five season. So we brought

456
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 3: you back as our first guest this year and we're

457
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 3: so proud to have you.

458
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Speaker 2: And Eddie.

459
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 3: Before we get to baseball, I'm sorry, we got to

460
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 3: talk about your ears.

461
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 5: Do you have the.

462
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 3: Smallest ears of any person ever? Any big person ever?

463
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 3: I just figured this out. I've known you for twenty

464
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,159
Speaker 3: five years, I've worked with you for fifteen years. I

465
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 3: finally recognized your ears are tiny.

466
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Speaker 5: Dad. First of all, we're starting the first show.

467
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Speaker 4: The twenty twenty five season was by Yes, that'll lock

468
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 4: me into twenty twenty sixth season.

469
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 5: Three as well, that'll lock me in.

470
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Speaker 4: You know what though, as my mom would say, and

471
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 4: I and I inherited these small ears from my mom,

472
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,200
Speaker 4: she goes embrace them as she covers hers with her hair,

473
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 4: she says, embrace theme, and she says, we don't miss

474
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Speaker 4: a lick. We hear everything because by it being so small,

475
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 4: we can hear behind us.

476
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:27,359
Speaker 5: Too, So it's great.

477
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Speaker 3: It's bray well.

478
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 4: In a running joke and a running joke since we

479
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 4: were little Hori Pozzata and I.

480
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Speaker 5: He was the opposite, right, he had the ears, and

481
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 5: I'm like, you can't hear that behind you, but I can.

482
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 5: So we would go back and forth. It was it

483
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 5: was great, and yeah.

484
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, is it a requirement of Yankee

485
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 1: catchers to have big ears? Because Yogi berra in his

486
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 1: prime big ears? And Dad, I don't want Eddie to

487
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: take offense because this is coming from our gene pool

488
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,600
Speaker 1: which you have headphones, but you can see my one ear.

489
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 1: I'm only thirty one and this dumbo ear is flying

490
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: out already. Every time I get a haircut, I feel

491
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna fly away in the wind. Thanks for that.

492
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Speaker 3: And he's got Jeffrey's got some big ears. That's that's

493
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 3: for sure.

494
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Speaker 5: So and while we're while.

495
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Speaker 4: We're there, while we're there, you guys got a discount

496
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Speaker 4: when you ear? What when when you when you watch

497
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 4: your ears?

498
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 3: Well, if you don't know the story. And Jeffrey and

499
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 3: I got our noses waxed last September during a wedding

500
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 3: we went to in Montana.

501
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Speaker 2: I told Eduardo about it.

502
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,400
Speaker 3: Because I thought we were the only two adult males

503
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,480
Speaker 3: ever to get our nose hairs waxed. And he says, oh,

504
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 3: I do it every two weeks. And then he said,

505
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 3: and I do my ears every two weeks also, and

506
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 3: that that still goes Eddie right.

507
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Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I can't wait to go

508
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 4: in to start the season in a couple of weeks.

509
00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 4: But I'll tell you right now, guys, this is usually

510
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 4: a picture.

511
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 2: He looks like a walrus.

512
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. He's got He's got popsicle sticks coming out

513
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,280
Speaker 3: of his nose. This is embarrassing. You're Eddie. You need

514
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 3: to pull favor, Eddie.

515
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: I need to put the video that you sent us.

516
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: He sent us a video from the barber chair having

517
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 1: his ears wax, saying this one's for you, Tim, this

518
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: one's for you.

519
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:38,120
Speaker 2: Jeff to there is look at him. Oh my, Eddie.

520
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 3: You have to tell this story because if you don't,

521
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 3: I will. When we went to Cuba, you were interviewing

522
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 3: the President of the United States, Barack Obama. Tell us

523
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,119
Speaker 3: the rest of that story. If you don't, I will.

524
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 5: Okay.

525
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 4: So I was second in line after Karl Ravitch to

526
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 4: be able to interview President Obama, and there had been

527
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 4: some headlines going on, non baseball related in Europe that

528
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 4: needed to be addressed. So Carl addressed it first with

529
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 4: President Obama. And as he's sitting to my left, I'm

530
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 4: to his right, and the President is listening to what

531
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 4: Carl has to say, and he's speaking to Carl and

532
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 4: the rest of us I could not take away as

533
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 4: I was nervous to ask the President of the United States,

534
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 4: the leader of the free world, in a country, in

535
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 4: an island that is not free at all. And I'm

536
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 4: sitting next to him, and let's not forget I'm full

537
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 4: blooded Cuban and my grandfather from my mother's side would

538
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 4: always tell me the stories of this ballpark that we're

539
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 4: sitting in. So I'm like hyper excited. And then all

540
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 4: of a sudden, I have no idea why I gravitate

541
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 4: straight to his right ear and there was a hair

542
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 4: this was.

543
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 6: Just protruding out of the ear, and I still wanted

544
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 6: to grab it and just say give me back. I

545
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 6: cannot believe that Michelle did not see this or the

546
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 6: Secret Service, and I always wondered what happens if I try.

547
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,639
Speaker 5: To pluck us?

548
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 4: And it actually called me down and I was able

549
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 4: to ask the question that I needed to, but I

550
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 4: was hyper focused.

551
00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 5: On that ear.

552
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: Eddie. That's unbelievable because it may probably humanized him a

553
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: little bit, But how can the president of the United

554
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 1: States leave any room? Because I've had that happen with

555
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: coworkers and friends and whatever, and you it's kind of awkward,

556
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: but they're not leaving and going on national TV. Somebody

557
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: has to be on ear duty for President Barack Obama.

558
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 5: I wanted to be that guy. I wanted to be

559
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 5: that friend.

560
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 4: You know, when you have something right in your mouth,

561
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 4: right your mouth, the person doesn't tell you, but your

562
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 4: true buddy, your true friend says, hey, right, your buddy,

563
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 4: right here, I got you.

564
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 5: That's where I wanted to say. I've got you. I've

565
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 5: got you right here.

566
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Speaker 4: I know this is your last term. God knows what's

567
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 4: coming after you here. I don't know what you're doing

568
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 4: was going to work, it was going to continue. But

569
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 4: I need to pluck that.

570
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, I needed to.

571
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 3: Jeff, you know you've heard this story before, but Eddie

572
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 3: was critical of President Obama's first like first pitch of

573
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 3: a game, the ceremonial first pitch.

574
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Speaker 2: He didn't have a very good effort.

575
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 3: And on National TV, ed Wardo went after the president

576
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 3: why it was so great.

577
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 4: And he came right back out and said, not all

578
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 4: of us are sons of Hall of famers. Right there,

579
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 4: I just raised my hands and I said, okay, you've

580
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 4: got you've gotten. If you guys have not seen it,

581
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 4: it was at Kamisky whatever they got and and right there,

582
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 4: and he threw the first pitch and it was not good,

583
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 4: and I let him know it wasnt well.

584
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: And you know he was going on the heels of

585
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 1: George Bush's presidency where he threw probably the most famous

586
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: first pitch of all time after nine to eleven Yankees

587
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: in the World Series, and he threw a strike from

588
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: the top of the mound. It signed find more than

589
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: just throwing a pitch. It was the country. And now

590
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: Barack Obama gets slammed at Comiskiper. But I mean he

591
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: doesn't have a really good jumper. We do say, yeah,

592
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: he has a really good I've seen his jumper and

593
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,200
Speaker 1: it's very impressive.

594
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 4: And it's amazing conversations that I have with your dad

595
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 4: all the time about you know, you put baseball players,

596
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 4: you put hockey players in other activities and they look

597
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 4: very athletic. You put a basketball player or a football player

598
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,360
Speaker 4: to throw a baseball, to feel the baseball to hit,

599
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 4: it doesn't look athletic. It's amazing how this sport baseball

600
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 4: and I include hockey in it because they're very graceful.

601
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Speaker 4: They you know, it's it's it's just a lot different.

602
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 3: It is, John wall it is I'm told Yea, Darrell

603
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 3: Reeves the best covered corner in the NFL, like ten

604
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 3: fifteen years ago, whatever I was the dugout reporter in

605
00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay one game and he comes up to me,

606
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 3: has no idea who I am, but I'm standing right

607
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 3: on the field and he's shrowing out the ceremonial first pitch.

608
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: Looks at me and he goes, how do you do this?

609
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 3: And I think he's asking me do I throw from

610
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 3: the front of the mound on the dirt or go

611
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 3: to the top of the mound. He was asking me

612
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 3: how do you throw a baseball? And he's an NFL player.

613
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 2: My whole point has always been.

614
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 3: Eduardo, we put a ball of any kind into a

615
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 3: big league baseball player's hands and he's gonna.

616
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 2: Know roughly what to do with it.

617
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 3: Shooting a free throw, throwing a football, He's going to

618
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 3: look athletic, but it doesn't work the other way, which

619
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 3: speaks again to the degree of difficulty of baseball.

620
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 2: Yeah.

621
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Speaker 1: John Wall with the Washington Nationals when he was drafted

622
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: by the Wizards, terrible Dad. When we did the celebrity

623
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: softball game, DK Metcalf couldn't swing a bap and he

624
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: he is known for being big, and we're thinking he's

625
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: gonna hit bombs and.

626
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 5: He's struck out.

627
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 3: Bob von Miller, who's the all time sack leader for

628
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 3: the Broncos, bunted in a celebrity softball be game because

629
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 3: he didn't know how to swing a back because he

630
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 3: never played before.

631
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 2: How can that happen?

632
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: When's your first ball, MVP?

633
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 4: But if your first basement and you see him running

634
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 4: towards the rides, you get out of the ways, all.

635
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 3: Right, Eddie, Let switch to baseball and get out of

636
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 3: this ridiculous conversation that you and I and Jeff always

637
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 3: get into.

638
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 2: Eddie.

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00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 3: Do you it's Opening Day today? Okay, this is the

640
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 3: day the Dodgers and the Cubs open. Maybe it's not

641
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 3: the real opening Day, but they played games. A game

642
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 3: today that actually mattered. Was there an opening Day for

643
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 3: you as a player, or even as an eight year

644
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 3: old kid with your dad Tony? That just stands out

645
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 3: above them all for you.

646
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,719
Speaker 4: Look as a kid, and I'll start there because I'm

647
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 4: going to go chronologically. As a kid in Cincinnati, opening

648
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 4: Day was for me the best because the Reds played

649
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 4: day games. They were the first ones to start the season,

650
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 4: and that was a tradition that broke probably twenty years ago.

651
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 4: But it was the Reds that would always start the

652
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 4: season off, and the parade, the whole thing, getting up early,

653
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 4: the excitement. My brother and I, you know, just getting ready,

654
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 4: were by the door. Come on, Dad, you're gonna be late.

655
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 4: Let's go, Dad, you can't miss Opening Day, and you know,

656
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 4: and just us waving, like the season cannot start with

657
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 4: us without us in that parade, seeing all the fans,

658
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 4: a sea of red headed towards at that time Riverfront Stadium.

659
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 5: That was awesome.

660
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 4: But then fast forward to my first opening day and

661
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 4: that was in nineteen ninety four as a first baseman

662
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 4: for the then California Angels in Minnesota. It was after Metrodome.

663
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 4: I would pinched myself and I'm like, I cannot believe

664
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 4: I am the first basement of a big league team.

665
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 4: This is in nineteen ninety four. I just had elbow surgery,

666
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 4: rehad through. Could not go to third base at the

667
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 4: time because my elbow wasn't ready, And that was a

668
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 4: really cool experience as well. And then being able to

669
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 4: do it opening Day as a Cincinnati Red later on

670
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 4: in my career just put the icing on the cake

671
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 4: because it was it was like the passing of a

672
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,919
Speaker 4: torch from having seen it as a kid. To a

673
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 4: player and then wondering why am I not in a

674
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 4: parade right now? I went straight to the ballpark. I

675
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 4: wanted so badly in that parade. But those moments they

676
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 4: never get.

677
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 3: Older any d They never Did you get a hit

678
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 3: that day at the Metrodome? I mean, what was your

679
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,879
Speaker 3: first day as a as a starting player on opening day?

680
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 2: How did you do? Did you get a knock?

681
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 4: You know what? What I do remember wasn't the base hit.

682
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 4: If I did get one, it was actually the pop

683
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 4: up that I caught in I was as a major leaguer,

684
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 4: The thing that gave me the most stress were pop

685
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 4: ups and everybody that was a teammate of mind. If

686
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 4: I was playing third base, I'd tell the shortstop, you've

687
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 4: got everything. Anything behind me, anything in front of me,

688
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 4: it's your ball. The catcher, don't give up on it,

689
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 4: because I'm not gonna call you off. We're not going

690
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:17,800
Speaker 4: to run into each other. Anything up the middle towards

691
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 4: the picture. If you think I'm coming after it, I'm

692
00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,919
Speaker 4: gonna take two steps back before I come after it,

693
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 4: so you I'm giving you time to call it. It's

694
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 4: I had zero death reception, and I was not comfortable

695
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,479
Speaker 4: with pop ups, and a lot of my errors were

696
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 4: balls that landed behind me because I would always get

697
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 4: under it instead of having the ball in front of me,

698
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:43,320
Speaker 4: And that was just a perception that I never could

699
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 4: get So instead of me saying I've got it, I

700
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 4: got it, I got it, I would say if I

701
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 4: instead of saying I've got it, I would.

702
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 5: Say, don't, Patty, don't Patty one. And if I don't

703
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 5: have it, I'm the only.

704
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 3: Patty you got it.

705
00:35:58,440 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 5: I don't.

706
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: It's a game of failure. So if you strike out, right, like,

707
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 1: it's not that big of a deal in the game,

708
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 1: But if you drop a pop up, that's a totally

709
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: different world.

710
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,760
Speaker 4: Right, it's terrible. And the pop ups in foul territory,

711
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 4: Tim oh Man, those are the worst because there's nobody

712
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 4: there to help you. The picture's not going after it.

713
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 4: That's a false hustle. I'm also false hustling towards the

714
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 4: ball's going after it, saying I can't wait for you

715
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 4: to call this, and I'm like, oh man, it's all me.

716
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 4: And even though this happens in a probably three second

717
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 4: three to four second period, it feels like a two

718
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 4: minute stress level. Anytime the ball goes up in the air.

719
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,439
Speaker 4: So when I caught that pop up in Minnesota, I.

720
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 5: Was like, what the roof?

721
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: You know, for baseball fans who are not obviously as

722
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: serious about the game as we are, there is no

723
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: foul territory that is the same between two ballparks. So

724
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 1: if you're playing a ballpark you're unfamiliar with, especially in

725
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: the days that Eddie's talking about before netting was all

726
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: the way, you don't know when you're gonna slide into

727
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: a dugout, or slide right into the stands, or have

728
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: all the room in the world. So that's what makes

729
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: baseball so unique, because every stadium is so different.

730
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,399
Speaker 5: So and not only this.

731
00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 4: The one time that Lupanella started me in left field,

732
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 4: I believe was Opening Day against Toronto Blue Jays at

733
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 4: the Trap and it was Carl Crawford playing center field

734
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 4: at the time. Rock Obaudelli was on the il and

735
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 4: that time the DL and then I was in left

736
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 4: field because there was a left e on the mound.

737
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 4: I believe it was Ted Lilly, I'm not sure. So Johnson,

738
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 4: the leadoff hitter for the Toronto Blue Jays, hits a

739
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:43,280
Speaker 4: fly ball, hits a fly ball to left field, maybe

740
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 4: six or seven, maybe like twenty feet away from me,

741
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 4: towards my left, towards towards center field. And I as

742
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 4: soon as he hit it, panic set in again. I

743
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 4: lost the ball and I'm like, where is it? And

744
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 4: Carl Craft, for those of you that don't remember, how

745
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 4: he spoke, it was a high pitched voice.

746
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 5: I could not hear it.

747
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 4: I'm like, what where next thing? You know, Johnson standing

748
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 4: at third base. He's standing at third base, and I'm like,

749
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 4: this is to start the game. Next ball hit hard

750
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 4: in the gap. Two runs end up scoring that inning.

751
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 4: And it was because the left fielder you'res truly right,

752
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 4: he could not see the ball off the bat and

753
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 4: up there. And I don't think Lue put me in

754
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 4: left field ever. Again that the last time you're doing.

755
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 2: Eddie speaking to ted Lily.

756
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 3: You told us a story on the game broadcast the

757
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 3: other day about and help me here, I forget about

758
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 3: looking for a curveball, like at some point in your career,

759
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 3: explain you stop looking or you stop swinging. And Ted

760
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 3: Lily had something to do with it, right.

761
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 4: Well, what happened was we were in Chicago. It was

762
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 4: at Wrigley field, and I just hit a ground ball

763
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,480
Speaker 4: to the third base again against the left handed pitch

764
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 4: that threw a curveball. I picked it up so well,

765
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 4: I said, I've got this. Oh my goodness, it's a

766
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 4: hanging breaking ball. Boom, I hit it, roll over to

767
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 4: third base. I get into the daga. Hal McRae, hitting

768
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 4: coach comes in, says, sit right here, says, what'd you see?

769
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 4: I said, curveball? I said, what'd you do with it?

770
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 4: I said, you saw it? I hit a ground ball

771
00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 4: a third He goes, okay, so this is what I've

772
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 4: noticed with your swing path. You recognize the curveball, you

773
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 4: don't do much with it, so don't swing at it.

774
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 5: Just don't swing at it.

775
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 4: Because the curveballs are designed, as we always hear it

776
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 4: on TV. That get me over curveball that means strike one.

777
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 4: You want to get it over in the zone. But

778
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 4: after you throw it for a strike, you don't have

779
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 4: to throw it for a strike anymore. It's a chase pitch.

780
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 4: It's a pitch to show you, so it's going to

781
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 4: be a ball most of the time. And he goes, so,

782
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 4: just don't swing at it. So Ever, since he told

783
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 4: me that, I never again swung at a curveball. That

784
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 4: was to me, did not matter what count. It's hanging curveball.

785
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 4: I see it right there. I would take fast forward.

786
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 4: We go to Toronto ted Linley. First pitch, he's got

787
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 4: a really good curveballs, strike one. I'm like, okay, I

788
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 4: saw it. Next pitch, curveball, strike two, Okay, I saw it.

789
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 4: He goes, he's going to try to give you to

790
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,439
Speaker 4: chase her again. Next pitch, curveballs, strike three.

791
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 5: I take your at it. Good morning, good afternoon, good night.

792
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 6: Next stop that literally, next stop that curveball, curveball, curveball.

793
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 5: Strike one, strike two, strike three, Good morning, after him,

794
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 5: good night.

795
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 4: I were over to six pitches, two strikeouts, but I

796
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 4: never swung at a curveball, and it works.

797
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 2: That's amazing, Eddie. You also told you know.

798
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 3: We had Keith Hernandez on the other day and he

799
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 3: was explaining where he got number seven in his jersey.

800
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 3: He was born on the same day as Mickey Mantle.

801
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 3: So Mickey Mantle wore seven, So Keith r. Nandaz wore

802
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 3: thirty seven. He wore seventeen, but he had to have

803
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 3: a seven in his number. And I just found out

804
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 3: that you had to have a three. Would you explain

805
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 3: that in your uniform number?

806
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 4: I had to have multiples of three. So my dad

807
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 4: was twenty four, right, and he was number twenty four

808
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 4: and everything. So when I first got to the big leagues,

809
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 4: my first number was actually twenty one. My first number,

810
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:31,919
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, was yes, it was forty eight, then twenty one.

811
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 4: Those are multiples of three. And then the next year

812
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 4: when I was with the Angels, they gave me twenty four,

813
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 4: which that was my dad's number. Great, I get traded

814
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 4: to the Reds. Obviously twenty four is retired, can't wear it.

815
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 4: So then I was thirty nine Dave Parker all in,

816
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 4: and then then thirty three with the Cardinals. And to me,

817
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 4: I was, you know, just multiples of three. Anything that's

818
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 4: multiple you can give me. You want to give me

819
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 4: number ninety, I'm all in. Just it has to be

820
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 4: a multiple three. I went to Japan number nine.

821
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 5: Uh.

822
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 4: And you know, so I coached with the with the

823
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 4: Houston Astros, number thirty three, a number, a number three.

824
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 3: Uh.

825
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 5: It's so I always wanted to be a multiple three.

826
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 5: I liked it.

827
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 4: I thought it was really cool. Clemente was a multiple three.

828
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 4: My dad was a multiple three. Alomar was a multiple three.

829
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 4: I thought it was just a really cool, cool way

830
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 4: to see in it.

831
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 2: That is so great.

832
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 3: This is what we learned when we asked questions to Eddie.

833
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:38,759
Speaker 1: Now, Eddie, you mentioned being in Japan and playing in Japan. Yeah,

834
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: and so obviously we've got this series in Tokyo right now.

835
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: I can't get over. It's so cool to see the

836
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,800
Speaker 1: rabid obsession that they have for baseball. We had Bobby

837
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 1: Valentine on last year. Obviously he is a huge proponent

838
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 1: of Japanese baseball and integration into the major leagues and

839
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,919
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. Tell us a little bit about

840
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: your experience playing in Japan and the culture and the

841
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: love of baseball there.

842
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 4: Okay, so I changed the name of baseball to battleball

843
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 4: in Japan because it did not matter what the score was.

844
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 4: The thing is, they are always going to play for

845
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 4: that one extra run. Doesn't matter if the score is

846
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 4: twenty one and nothing. They runners on first, no outs,

847
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 4: they're gonna but it's just part of the game. There

848
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 4: was one game in Japan and that our pitcher was

849
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 4: getting rocked, and all of a sudden, here comes our

850
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 4: manager and takes out the catcher. I'm like, okay, that's

851
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 4: putting down the wrong digits.

852
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 5: It must be that.

853
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 4: And our pitcher throws another four innings of great baseball

854
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,959
Speaker 4: and it was a catcher's fault. Unbelievable. Maybe two weeks later,

855
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 4: same thing, our pitcher or left. He is getting rocked

856
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 4: and at that time only had one error going into

857
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 4: a month and a half of the season at third base.

858
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 4: I was playing pretty solid third base, I thought, and

859
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 4: never was pretty because they would always yell at me.

860
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 4: Eddie's on, Eddie's on, Meggie Doddy. Doddy means left, MEGGI

861
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 4: means right. So it's like Meggie and I take a

862
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 4: step to my right and they're like, no, I to

863
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 4: my left. So I would play this game with them

864
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 4: and they would get frustrated with me. So here comes

865
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 4: the manager, tying run at third at second base, go

866
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 4: ahead and run at first base where there's two outs,

867
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 4: and our manager comes out. I'm like, what's he doing now?

868
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 4: And then here comes this other guy, a teammate of mine,

869
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 4: and he's running out towards third base and he's like.

870
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 5: You're out of the game. So I'm like, why would

871
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 5: you do this? Why would you take me out of

872
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 5: the game? I kid you not.

873
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 4: Next pitch, next pitch a hard shot down the line

874
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 4: at third base. My guy that came in for me

875
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 4: die towards the bag, gets it and throws up p

876
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 4: rod over the first base.

877
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 5: Game over. I'm like, I couldn't have done that.

878
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 3: You got taken out of a game with two outs

879
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 3: in the ninth inning as a defense. You've never heard of.

880
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 2: That in my life. You've never seen that in the

881
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:18,640
Speaker 2: big leagues ever.

882
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 5: No, no, But Japan is different.

883
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 4: So I called it.

884
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 5: I called it battleball.

885
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 2: Wow, it was, it was.

886
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 4: It was different. The way they taught was different. The

887
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 4: duck squats was the beginning of my knee injuries when

888
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,479
Speaker 4: I had its will herp up. But I really loved

889
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 4: the experience. They were unbelievable from uh through and through.

890
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 4: The food was phenomenal. The culture was our interpreter, who

891
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 4: now is the second in command of their league. It's

892
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 4: like he's like the vice commissioner there right now. He

893
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 4: would tell me, he goes, we grab everybody else's culture

894
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 4: and we try to make it better our own way.

895
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 4: A little bit harder if it's being a chef, if

896
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,320
Speaker 4: it's being a doctor, if it's being whatever it may be,

897
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 4: we just do it a little bit different our way,

898
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 4: and it doesn't get questioned. But I enjoyed it, and

899
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 4: I'm glad that the Guggenheim group took the Dodgers there again,

900
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 4: I'm glad Major League Baseball accepted it, and I'm glad

901
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 4: the Chicago Cubs, who relate to the Hanshing Tigers. That's

902
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 4: the team that they just play, both the Cubs and

903
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 4: the Dodgers, and they both and the Haunching Tigers. That's

904
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 4: the team I played for. They were known always as

905
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 4: the Lovely Losers and very much related to who the

906
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 4: Cubs were for many years. So for them to have

907
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 4: the Haunching Tigers play the Cubs was historic in its

908
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 4: own right there in.

909
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 3: Japan, Eddie, Look, we all know Japanese baseball is great.

910
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 3: The guys that come here are greater. The whole country

911
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 3: is amazing. But twenty years ago, Bobby Valentine Doldy, managing

912
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,760
Speaker 3: in Japan, he said there are two types of players

913
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 3: in Japan, those who smoke and those who smoke a lot.

914
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 3: You see that, Eddie, Bobby told me that guys would

915
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 3: would go down in the tunnel there if they weren't

916
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 3: on deck and smoke a cigarette in the middle of

917
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:10,759
Speaker 3: a game. Did you see that?

918
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 5: Did I see it? I lived it? I lived it.

919
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 4: I can I can tell you many of stories. So

920
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 4: we always had one bus that was a non smoking bus,

921
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 4: and there was there was probably like three players in there,

922
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 4: and then we had the smoking bus and the entire

923
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 4: team was out there. Windows were pulled down a little

924
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,800
Speaker 4: bit and it looked like a teaching Chong movie with

925
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 4: cigarettes and smoke was coming out through the sides getting

926
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 4: ready for the game. There was another game where Avon

927
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 4: Cruz and myself he was the other guy Jeing, as

928
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 4: they would call us, the other international player, And we're

929
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 4: out there. He's playing first base, I'm playing third. It's

930
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 4: the fifth inning, it's the going into the top of

931
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 4: the fifth inning. He gives me my glove. I made

932
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 4: the last out as usual while I was there, and

933
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 4: we're going and he throws me the ball and I'm

934
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 4: throwing it over to him, and I'm like, where's everybody?

935
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 4: Where'd everybody go? The other team, our team, the umpires,

936
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 4: they're all gone, And I'm like, what's going on here?

937
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,280
Speaker 4: And all of a sudden you can see the smoke

938
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 4: coming out of both sides, both dugouts, and everybody is

939
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 4: squatted down in a corner. It's a smoke break. In

940
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 4: the fifth inning was a smoke break inning. I kid

941
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 4: you not, there's no other way of explaining it. I'll

942
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 4: take it a step further. One of our guys gets

943
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 4: hit by a pitch boom and he just just almost

944
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 4: just curls up like a pretzel and he starts just

945
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 4: running into the dugout. He didn't run it first. He

946
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 4: ran into the dugout, and we're like, oh, that guy's

947
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 4: really hurt. So we just sit there and I'm like,

948
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 4: what's going on. Get a pinch runner might as well.

949
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 4: That same guy four minutes and twenty seconds later comes

950
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 4: out running towards first staking ovation he's okay, you can

951
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 4: get at that time five minutes from the time you

952
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 4: get hit. The picture asked to bow to you. You

953
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 4: bow to him back, saying you're okay, okay, great, but

954
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 4: you're going straight to the dugout. Yeah, five minutes to

955
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 4: get back to first base. So we would see that

956
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 4: a lot. It's just different. It's a different culture. It's

957
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 4: a wonderful culture. It's the one thing that I took

958
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 4: away from that is there's no shortcuts, and I love

959
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 4: that part. It taught me that in Japan and infield

960
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 4: is you cannot play a game. It's frowned upon if

961
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,919
Speaker 4: you do not take infield before a game. We would

962
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 4: have rain delays in Handshing. It was an all dirt

963
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 4: infield in Hanshion. And if there was a rain delay

964
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 4: and the game was supposed to start at six o'clock

965
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 4: and it said the forecast that it would, you know,

966
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 4: we're delayed thirty minutes. Were actually delayed an hour because

967
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 4: we had to take infield before the game. It was

968
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 4: a show for the fans. And if you did not

969
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 4: take infield, you did not play. That meant you weren't

970
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 4: ready to play. So I could have just said somebody

971
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 4: else take it for me, because if not, then I

972
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:05,719
Speaker 4: mean you're out of the line.

973
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: I dad, I'm sure you're freaking out at that one,

974
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: because that is something that's one of those things that

975
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: my dad always used to say to us, you know,

976
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: growing up and playing the game, and you know the

977
00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: art form of taking infield before that is so important.

978
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 2: To the game.

979
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: And we've lost that a little bit here and there, Dad,

980
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: How have you ever heard that before?

981
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 5: No?

982
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 2: I love that.

983
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 3: I grew up in an era where every team took infield.

984
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 3: What we learned as writers sitting in the press box

985
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 3: at six thirty five watching infield before seven o'clock mart

986
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 3: watching Jesse Barfield throw from right field to the plate.

987
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 3: That was as good as the game was to me,

988
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 3: and we missed it terribly in winter ball, I.

989
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 4: Told my players when I was managing, I managed three years,

990
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 4: won two championships there in winter ball. The only rule

991
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 4: I had the basic rules right, get on time, beyond time,

992
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 4: respect the game and no matter what. But it's not

993
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,240
Speaker 4: a punishment. But on Sundays we do not take batting practice.

994
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 4: But it's mandatory infield for all those that are in

995
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,000
Speaker 4: the lineup. No excuses. If you are if you don't

996
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 4: take infield, you don't start that game. And if you're

997
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 4: a bench player, if you're a role player, I don't

998
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 4: want you out there. I just want the starting lineup

999
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 4: out there. I want the starting lineup up there outfield.

1000
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 4: I want two throws a second, two throws to third,

1001
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 4: And if you're a left fielder, I want two throws

1002
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 4: a second, two throws to home. I want it done right.

1003
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 4: I want it done game speed, because one thing that

1004
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 4: I've noticed on Sundays, especially on Sundays, that teams do

1005
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 4: not take batting practice the show and go. You lose

1006
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 4: a lot of games in the first three innings. And

1007
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 4: in winter ball during those three years, I think our

1008
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 4: team only lost three games in those three years on

1009
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 4: Sundays because we came in, we were ready to play.

1010
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 4: The team was lathered up and they it was go time.

1011
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 4: It was go time, and the players embraced it. And

1012
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 4: I remember Pat Kelly, who is now with the Reds organization.

1013
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,719
Speaker 4: He would tell me, he goes, why do you what's

1014
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 4: the purpose here? And I said, I learned that in Japan.

1015
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 4: I learned that part in Japan of respecting to take infield.

1016
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 4: Plus there are scouts here that it benefits all these

1017
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 4: guys to see something different, right, something that they're not

1018
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 4: able to see in a regular season game. Right.

1019
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 3: And you said something else on the air the other

1020
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 3: day that I found interesting. It's about young players who

1021
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 3: make a club for the first time and they have

1022
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 3: a split contract. Would you explain to Jeffrey and anyone

1023
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 3: else what a split contract is? How many of them

1024
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 3: that you had, and what is the dynamic behind a

1025
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 3: split contract.

1026
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 4: So they're given to a lot of young players that

1027
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 4: you don't know if they're going to make the team

1028
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 4: or not. So let's take for example, Trey Sweeney right

1029
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 4: from the Detroit Tigers. He was his player last year

1030
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:55,320
Speaker 4: that came up right before the Little League Classic, and

1031
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,280
Speaker 4: then from that time on he was a starting shortstop

1032
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 4: for the Detroit Tigers, less than a year's service time.

1033
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 4: So if he starts the season in Toledo rightfully, so

1034
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 4: that Detroit Tigers want to protect themselves and they want

1035
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 4: he ends up not getting major league time, still on

1036
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 4: the roster, but when he's in Toledo, he could make

1037
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 4: let's say, for example, eighty five thousand dollars. Now when

1038
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 4: he gets to the big leagues, it's different. It goes

1039
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 4: to the league minimum salary because he's got less than

1040
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,320
Speaker 4: three year service time, and that way it's a split contract.

1041
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 4: Just in case he gets optioned down to the minor leagues,

1042
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 4: he gets the minor league salary. If he gets to

1043
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 4: the big leagues, he gets the big league salary. At

1044
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:40,240
Speaker 4: my time, I remember where I had a split contract.

1045
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 4: The league minimum back then was one hundred and nine

1046
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 4: thousand dollars. Wasn't seven hundred and plus thousand dollars. It's

1047
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 4: different today that the disparity is completely different. But at

1048
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,320
Speaker 4: one hundred and nine thousand dollars, the big league salary

1049
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 4: paying it in California where I played with the Angels

1050
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 4: actually made more money what they split contract.

1051
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 5: Making.

1052
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 4: I believe it was like seventy some thousand dollars in Canada.

1053
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,760
Speaker 4: In Vancouver, British Columbia. When I got sent over to Vancouver,

1054
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 4: I looked at my salary, I'm going, wait a second,

1055
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 4: after Texas, I'm better off playing in the minor leagues

1056
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 4: than I have in the big leagues. Up. Granted, I'm

1057
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,359
Speaker 4: not getting the big league time, but at that age,

1058
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 4: when I'm that young, I'm like, oh, I'll make that

1059
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 4: up later because this this I'm gonna kick butt over there.

1060
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 5: But in the meantime, let me make a little bit

1061
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 5: more money here.

1062
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 4: It's it's a really interesting thing that a lot of

1063
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,800
Speaker 4: players that have less, if it's than a year service

1064
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 4: or two year service, that's how their contracts are set up.

1065
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: Now, Eddie, this is not the first time that you've

1066
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: had a paycheck confusion. I guess you could say when

1067
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: you received a check for another Eddie Perez.

1068
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 2: Is this correct?

1069
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:55,359
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1070
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 4: Okay, so everybody knows that the dead looking Edward open

1071
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 4: Eduardo are Perez. I learned at Roedico Perez from the

1072
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 4: Atlanta Braves who Bobby Cox. I always told him, check

1073
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 4: your eyes. I need you to check your eyes through

1074
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 4: the Hall of Famer. Bobby Cox would always say, no,

1075
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,439
Speaker 4: he's the better looking one. I'm like, Bobby, he wears

1076
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:17,879
Speaker 4: a mask.

1077
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 5: I don't.

1078
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 4: I'm on TV, He's not. I mean, I'm like, come on,

1079
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 4: let's be real here. So I'll kidding aside. During the strike,

1080
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 4: during the lockout time we were from the Players Association.

1081
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 4: We were getting checks to make sure that we were

1082
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,880
Speaker 4: okay in the off season, so no one would, you know,

1083
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,839
Speaker 4: cross the line or whatever it may be. And all

1084
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 4: of a sudden, I get a check. He had more

1085
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 4: big league time than I did. I get a check

1086
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 4: considerably higher than what I was getting what I was

1087
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:53,439
Speaker 4: supposed to get. But I also got my check both

1088
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 4: of them. And I'm going Eduardo A Perez, Eduardo Are

1089
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 4: the conscience got the best of me and I contacted

1090
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 4: Eddie Perez. Now because my mother won't make me change

1091
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 4: my name to Eddie. So I'm Nuardo. He's Eddie Perez.

1092
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 4: I'm the good looking one.

1093
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,359
Speaker 5: He's not. But he had a lot more money back

1094
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:16,399
Speaker 5: then than I did.

1095
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 3: And by the way, Jeffrey, we're supposed to call Eduardo

1096
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 3: Eduardo because that's what his mother wants. His mother still

1097
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 3: doesn't like him being called Eddie. Correct Eddie.

1098
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 4: I can't wait for her to listen to this one too.

1099
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 4: She was a matter of fact, just calling me like

1100
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 4: five minutes ago.

1101
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 5: But it's a yes.

1102
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 4: One time, we're at the University of Miami. We're playing

1103
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 4: the Hurricanes, and she's sitting there and she's can't wait

1104
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 4: to see me. She's got two seats. It's her by

1105
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 4: herself and one for her purse because she always had

1106
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 4: that extract And and all of a sudden, we go, now,

1107
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 4: Baddie first base, first baseman, Eddie Perez.

1108
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 5: She's like what there she goes, grabbed the purse. I

1109
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:04,799
Speaker 5: made an out.

1110
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 4: I went to the dugout, told Mike Martin, the late

1111
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 4: Mike Martin, we used to call him eleven.

1112
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 5: She goes, excuse me, excuse me what you come over here?

1113
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 5: And I'm like, mom, what you don't come over here

1114
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 5: playing center field, not come over here. So I go,

1115
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 5: I go, yeah, and he goes. You thought, and you thought.

1116
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 5: Everybody else your name is has a lot of just

1117
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 5: walked out. Next time up now Thatt centerfielder. EDWARDO. Ever

1118
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 5: since I'm a Ward, all my friends, all my friends

1119
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:43,720
Speaker 5: call me Eddie. I get it. There was only one

1120
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 5: person that called me ed consistently, and it was Pete Rose.

1121
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 3: Pete Rose called you Ed all the even when you

1122
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 3: were an eight year old.

1123
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 5: Kid, even when I was as a newborn. It was

1124
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 5: always Ed.

1125
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 3: All right, There was always well speaking of which, Eddie,

1126
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 3: Pete Austin Rose in the last year, and you knew

1127
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:07,439
Speaker 3: him better than anyone. Just tell us of Pete Rose

1128
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:08,959
Speaker 3: story that we've heard.

1129
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 2: We haven't heard on how much.

1130
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 3: He meant to you and how much he taught you

1131
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 3: about the game.

1132
00:58:16,160 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, just a lot.

1133
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 4: I can go from the days that I was a

1134
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 4: little kid in Cincinnati too, when I was thirteen years

1135
00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 4: old for the first time in the dugout as a

1136
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 4: son of a major leaguer with instead of Perez twenty

1137
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 4: four on my back, I had a big BB on

1138
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 4: my back for bat boy, and I was discouraged by it,

1139
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 4: and I had to work as a ball boy and

1140
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 4: bat boy as well. But then I just sat in

1141
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 4: the dugout and I absorbed everything. And I absorbed everything

1142
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 4: because it was Pete that said, if you're going to

1143
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 4: be in the dugout in a big league uniform, you're

1144
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 4: going to have to watch. You're going to have to

1145
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,880
Speaker 4: watch the game and observe it and tell me what

1146
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 4: the pitch is coming and the whole thing.

1147
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 5: And he was the one that taught me.

1148
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 4: And at that age, it's such an age where you

1149
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 4: just are in awe of everything, but you're absorbing everything

1150
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 4: that happens around you, the osmosis or just the experience itself.

1151
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 4: And Pete talked to me so much about the intricacies

1152
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 4: of the game, the game behind the scenes during the

1153
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 4: game where a fan can see it, but if you're

1154
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 4: not paying attention to it, it goes right by you.

1155
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 4: And he taught me that it was a chess match.

1156
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 4: He taught me everything the picture and hitter.

1157
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 5: It was a battle. It was a grind.

1158
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 4: Try to take advantage of every little thing, every little

1159
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 4: detail a picture does. So when it comes to pitch tipping,

1160
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 4: it was Pete Rose. That ingrained that into me. Also,

1161
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 4: I remember the times where they had changed marrying wave

1162
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:44,280
Speaker 4: I'm not mistaken to Pete rose Way in Cincinnati, and

1163
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 4: he would, you know, he would drive his Porsche, his

1164
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 4: red beautiful Porsche, just if it's one hundred miles per

1165
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 4: hour down that road.

1166
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 5: He's like, it's my road where they're going to do.

1167
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 5: Take it on.

1168
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 4: My rose gets to take it on Pete rose Way

1169
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 4: and I'm like, but you know it's dangerous. He goes, yeah,

1170
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,400
Speaker 4: but it's more dangerous to staining the plate and try

1171
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 4: to hit a ninety mile per hour fastball. So if

1172
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 4: you're going one hundred and then you go slow at

1173
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 4: sixty in the highway, it feels like you're going really slow. Right,

1174
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 4: So if I'm going one hundred, now that ninety mile

1175
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 4: per hour pitch feels like it's going around fifty miles

1176
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 4: per hour, So it's not bad.

1177
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 5: I can hit it.

1178
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 4: His mind worked differently, but it was awesome to see

1179
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 4: how it did not matter how much noise was on

1180
01:00:30,320 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 4: the outside. Once he put that uniform on, and it

1181
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 4: was a uniform that even the back pocket had to

1182
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 4: be perfect. He would He even taught me how to

1183
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:45,480
Speaker 4: wear a big league uniform, you know, so it didn't

1184
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 4: have any creases. To make sure that the shirt was

1185
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 4: tucked perfectly, the back pockets were tucked neatly and precise,

1186
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 4: all those little things. It was, you know, one of

1187
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 4: my dads that would teach me. And I say one

1188
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 4: of my dads, because once I was in that club house,

1189
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 4: it was not only Pete. It was David Concepci, and

1190
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 4: it was Joe Margan, It was Johnny Bench, it was

1191
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 4: Ken Griffy, it was Cesar Geronimo, it was George the

1192
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 4: young George Foster. Back then, it was all those guys,

1193
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 4: Pedro Borbone, Jack Billingham, all those guys. Don gull I

1194
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 4: could keep going on and on and Sparky Anderson. That

1195
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 4: taught us the kids how to behave in a big

1196
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 4: league environment. And to me, that's the beauty of at

1197
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 4: least the way I was raised in this game.

1198
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 3: All right, So, Eddie, we did our game, you and

1199
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 3: Mike Monaco and me and Buster and Buster interviewed.

1200
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 2: A fan in the stands and Rabbi did that game.

1201
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 3: Sorry, what do you remember the interview with the eighty

1202
01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 3: four year old lady who's kept score of every game?

1203
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 3: Since nineteen fifty four. Do you remember?

1204
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 5: Not at all?

1205
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 3: Not at all, so, Jeff, if you did see it,

1206
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 3: Buster asked her, like, what your favorite story about cal

1207
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,000
Speaker 3: Ripken and Eddie? What did she say.

1208
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 5: That had to do with there? And I don't want

1209
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 5: to get involved in it. I don't want to talk

1210
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 5: about it. So that's what I am going to find

1211
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 5: out before the season is over.

1212
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 4: I will find out if we get to go to

1213
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 4: Camden Yards this year, I am looking for her and

1214
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 4: I am going to sit next to her with a

1215
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 4: little probably a little bag of pufpcorn, And I just

1216
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 4: want to hear the story. I want to hear the story.

1217
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 4: I want to know what's going on. I want to

1218
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:35,400
Speaker 4: I want to put a bug. I want to put

1219
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 4: a bug right there near her seat and just put

1220
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 4: one of one of the cameras, one of the cameras

1221
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 4: just on her the entire time.

1222
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 5: It's going to be great. It's going to be because

1223
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 5: I need to know what happened to cal Ripkins. Why

1224
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 5: why I'm with you Eddie? So, Jeff.

1225
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 3: We also took a trip Betty several years ago in

1226
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 3: a car Ravi, Eduardo and I drove between Texas and Houston.

1227
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:01,560
Speaker 3: We were doing a playoff playoffs here East on the radio.

1228
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 3: So we drove, you know, three and a half hours

1229
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 3: in the car, and I'm the guy in the back seat,

1230
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 3: like the annoying little eight year old ask you all

1231
01:03:09,480 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 3: of these ridiculous questions.

1232
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 2: So Eddie, you remember that what is no?

1233
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 5: That was?

1234
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 4: That was precise. And then we ended up stopping at

1235
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 4: buckets and never gone to a buckets.

1236
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 5: What's a bucket?

1237
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 4: Like, We're not even getting gas at the buckets, We're

1238
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:30,880
Speaker 4: just stopping at buckets.

1239
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:32,400
Speaker 1: It's an experience in itself.

1240
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:32,720
Speaker 3: It is.

1241
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 5: It's a it's a thirty minute away. It's a halftime show,

1242
01:03:36,760 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 5: That's what it is.

1243
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 4: And then and then the sad part was there was

1244
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 4: no diet mountain des right in the whole but and

1245
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 4: so your dad discarded it completely.

1246
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 5: It's like it's nice, but.

1247
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 4: Out of all the subtle machines out of there. It

1248
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 4: was like, this is really impressive, but no diet mountain

1249
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 4: dew Eddie.

1250
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: I have to say, I drove to Nashville to cover

1251
01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 1: one of the award shows in Nashville and we did

1252
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:03,240
Speaker 1: a whole bit on my radio station ninety two five

1253
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: XDU in Philadelphia, and I told Dad, Hey, have you

1254
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 1: ever been to a Bucky's, because that's one of the

1255
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 1: stops we're gonna make along the way. And he said,

1256
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: exactly what you said. Oh, Jeff, they're great, but don't

1257
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 1: expect diet mountain dew. Also, I don't know why I

1258
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: just went into Iago as an impression of my father,

1259
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 1: I want to do. I went into Gilbert Godfrey, No

1260
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 1: diet now, so, Jeff, among them among the many ridiculously

1261
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 1: stupid questions that I asked for the back seat, I asked,

1262
01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: Ravi and Eddie were in the front seat, give me

1263
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 1: a food or something that everyone loves to eat except

1264
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 1: for you.

1265
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 3: And they said, at the exact same time, the exact

1266
01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:48,920
Speaker 3: same thing.

1267
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 2: Eduardo and RAVI do not like what Eduardo peanut butter.

1268
01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 4: It's it's a thing. We do not mix peanuts with

1269
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 4: chocolate either, so I don't. I can't eat a Snickers bar,

1270
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:08,200
Speaker 4: Reese's pieces, all that stuff. I just I suffered as

1271
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 4: a kid when they would have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Really,

1272
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 4: because yeah, I just every time, you know, in the

1273
01:05:14,280 --> 01:05:16,600
Speaker 4: doubleheader of a game for kids and there are sandwiches

1274
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 4: over there, PB and j I'm.

1275
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: Like, oh, and you're not allergic to Eddie, You're not

1276
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:22,000
Speaker 1: allergic to them?

1277
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 5: Nope.

1278
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:25,640
Speaker 4: I just could not stand out. You give me peanuts,

1279
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 4: I'll crush peanuts. You give me jelly.

1280
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 5: I love jelly.

1281
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 4: You put a you put a Hershey's bar there just

1282
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 4: to milk choco. I'll crush that, but don't mix it.

1283
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: Is there any trauma associated with this, EDWARDO.

1284
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 4: No, the trauma is actually, now that you mentioned it,

1285
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:47,960
Speaker 4: the trauma is actually with Oscar Meyer Ham because I

1286
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:48,400
Speaker 4: had to do a.

1287
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 5: Commercial when I was younger with my dad and one.

1288
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:54,120
Speaker 4: Of the slices of Ham. I don't know why I

1289
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 4: fell and I saw it on the floor and then

1290
01:05:57,440 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 4: put it anyway. They picked it up and they put

1291
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 4: it in the sandwich, and they gave me that sandwich,

1292
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,760
Speaker 4: and I'm like, looking at it, I'm five years old,

1293
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:09,520
Speaker 4: and I'm already I'm not too comfortable with this at five,

1294
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 4: and they give it to me, and now they want

1295
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 4: me to chew on it and like I like.

1296
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 5: It, And I didn't like it.

1297
01:06:16,520 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 4: And not only did I not like it, it was

1298
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Speaker 4: like a little crunching from probably the dirt that fell

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Speaker 4: on it, so that the ham.

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Speaker 5: I don't crush it.

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Speaker 2: So to this day, Eddie, you're not gonna eat.

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01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 3: You're gonna hesitate at eating a ham sandwich because of

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Speaker 3: what happened when you were five.

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Speaker 4: If it's if it's that type of slice, I love

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01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 4: ham sandwiches and everything, but if it's that type of slice,

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Speaker 4: I don't.

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:43,400
Speaker 1: I don't crush Eddie. I don't think even Daniel day

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01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: Lewis could have sold liking a slice of ham that

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Speaker 1: fell on a floor and then eat it and enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you were five or fifty and

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Speaker 1: an Oscar winning actor. That's hard to sell.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it is, it is, but it is. It is

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01:06:57,920 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 5: what it is. But you know what, if you pay

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Speaker 5: me enough, I'll chew on it and I like you.

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Speaker 2: All right, Jeff, We're done with EDWARDO. This is so amazing.

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Speaker 3: I've known him forever and I learned five more things

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Speaker 3: on this podcast that I never heard before from Eduardo.

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Speaker 3: The favorite, of course is Momyelly, get the manager for

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01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:23,439
Speaker 3: calling you by the wrong nay Well.

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Speaker 1: I had this written out since the beginning of that story.

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Speaker 1: To say goodbye to Eduardo at Nacio Perez in honor

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Speaker 1: of his mother full name Eduardo. I don't want I mean,

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Speaker 1: your mom can get mad at my dad. I don't

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Speaker 1: want your mom getting upset with me. So Eduardo, mister Perez,

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Speaker 1: if you will, thank you for joining the podcast and

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Speaker 1: to mama, give her our best. Your family is always

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01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 1: We said it last year, but you are a Kirksheon

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Speaker 1: and you've given us some Latin blood as well as

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Speaker 1: some culture in our family.

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Speaker 3: Stress and oh, Eddie, Eddie is a Kirchain only he's

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01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:14,200
Speaker 3: got giant feet and tiny ears, but the rest of

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01:08:14,280 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 3: him is there's a lot of Kirchhain there, which is

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Speaker 3: not a good thing.

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Speaker 2: Eddie.

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Speaker 3: This was.

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Speaker 1: You're lucky.

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Speaker 2: You are lucky.

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01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 3: Jeffrey bought me a back shaver for my birthday when

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01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 3: I was an adult. Ones that's what I got. So

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01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:34,480
Speaker 3: I shave.

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01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:37,960
Speaker 1: And then showed him how to use it.

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Speaker 3: Eddie.

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01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: That's the embarrassing part.

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01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 2: I did it for him.

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Speaker 3: That is so bad. Can we please end this before

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01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:48,759
Speaker 3: it gets Eddie more embarrassing for poor pop pop poor pop.

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Speaker 1: Up new segment on the show this year. You called it, Eduardo, Eddie.

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Speaker 1: That was so much fun. That was Eduardo Perez and

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01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: Dad second year in a row. We had him as

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Speaker 1: our first episode of the season. It's gonna have to

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01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 1: be a tradition. You mentioned it at the end. We

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01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:09,320
Speaker 1: learned more about Eduardo in this forty minutes we had

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01:09:09,400 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: on with him than ever before. I had such a

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Speaker 1: blast talking to him.

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Speaker 2: He was great.

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01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,560
Speaker 3: Eduardo still tell stories I've never heard before and that

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01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:20,800
Speaker 3: makes it so great. And with the highlight for me

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01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:23,679
Speaker 3: when he said poor pop.

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Speaker 5: Pop because.

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01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,200
Speaker 3: Which is a new segment on the show, the show

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Speaker 3: poor pop Up and Edwardo's a part of it.

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Speaker 1: Now so good and don't forget to everybody listening, right,

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Speaker 1: We have another episode that will come out this Friday,

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Speaker 1: So we're now releasing episodes on Tuesdays and Fridays during

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Speaker 1: the week. Tuesdays will feature an interview with someone as

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Speaker 1: amazing and funny as Eduardo Perez hopefully every week and

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Speaker 1: then Friday we won't necessarily always have a guest, but

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Speaker 1: we'll have more great content for you. If you're a

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01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 1: baseball fan, this is the podcast We're so glad that

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01:09:58,000 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: you're part of. Share it with a friend or fan

1372
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 1: family member, follow us on social media at great game

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01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:05,240
Speaker 1: or what and thank you so much. For being a

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Speaker 1: part of our family,