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Speaker 1: today Cubbs broadcaster Jim Desha's, former major league pitcher is

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Speaker 2: And he made us laugh so many times about the

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Speaker 2: Andy Griffiths show, about what a terrible hitting pitcher he was,

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Speaker 2: and he struck out the first eight batters of a game,

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Speaker 2: first guy in the modern era to do that. He

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Speaker 2: got a Hall of Fame vote. Jim Deshay's covered a

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Speaker 3: And all of it was hilarious.

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Speaker 2: Our special guest this week is my dear friend, Jim Desha's,

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Speaker 2: former major league pitcher, former really good major league pitcher,

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Speaker 2: and now the color broadcaster color analyst on Cubs games

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Speaker 2: with our dear friend Boog Shambie. Jim, this is my

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Speaker 2: son Jeff. We do a podcast together.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, how about that? Hi, Jeff? How are you fellas right?

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Speaker 2: Jim? Before we get to the US, before we get

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Speaker 2: to baseball, you are from Messina, New York.

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Speaker 3: I know all about this.

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Speaker 2: Can you explain another one of the famous people who's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, perhaps the most famous Messinian ever, if a Messinian

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Speaker 3: is even a word. It's the great House Smith, who

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Speaker 3: had a long career in Hollywood and radio, but most

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Speaker 3: well known as Otis the Drunk on the Andy Griffith Show.

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Speaker 3: People of a certain age will remember the lovable drunk

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Speaker 3: And we got to be buddies many many years ago

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Speaker 2: That's amazing that Jim tell us about. Tell us about

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Speaker 3: Tell the club. Yes, these fan clubs, they apparently they

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Speaker 3: But so I'll try. I try to get to that point. Initially,

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Speaker 3: and that's that's how this relationship started, and we end

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Speaker 3: and they'd catch up on all things baseball and Andy Griffith.

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Speaker 2: And who was there that day? Wasn't there a Barney

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Speaker 2: But Jim, when Hal Smith called you in the in

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Speaker 1: That's like today's sliding into DMS. Right, that's like hitting

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Speaker 1: somebody up on Instagram and being like, hey, Jim, saw

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Speaker 2: A big it was a big time note for me

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Speaker 2: Peter Carey, who was number two in charge at Sports Illustrating,

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Speaker 2: Well, Jim, this is not my observation. I heard it

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Speaker 2: He spends every night in jail, and he's the only

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Speaker 3: He's the only one living there full life. The rest

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Speaker 2: First guy in modern history to strike out the first eight.

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Speaker 3: Would imagine they talked behind my back. They probably went

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Speaker 3: So here's here's how that went down. I didn't even

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Speaker 3: That would be fun. So Chuck Pool, who you know,

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Speaker 3: They called it one Man, one Vote. They set up

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Speaker 2: Jim, do you have like a memento of John Lopez's column?

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Speaker 3: It's probably the columns, probably in a box somewhere with

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Speaker 3: and it kind of trickled in the left field. But I,

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Speaker 3: you know, head down running. I wasn't smart enough to think.

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Speaker 3: I was just you know, pumping my legs and the

437
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Speaker 3: side was like halfway to the right field by the

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Speaker 3: time I realized that the third baseman didn't didn't feel

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Speaker 3: the ball. And then maybe maybe the biggest highlight of

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Speaker 3: my hitting career is in spring training one time I

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Speaker 3: hit a ground ball at the second base off Ramone Martinez,

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Speaker 3: and that might be the only time I ever pulled

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Speaker 3: the ball against a big league pitcher. So that was like,

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Speaker 3: that felt really cool. It felt like a normal hitter

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Speaker 3: kind of out.

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Speaker 2: And Jem and his paper. Martine is his brother, and

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Speaker 2: he was almost as filthy as his brother when it

448
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Speaker 2: came to Grendtoff and Jim Descha's pulled a ground ball

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Speaker 2: against Ramon Martinez. That's pretty impressive.

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Speaker 3: I turned in around. It's probably a change up and

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Speaker 3: the closest.

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Speaker 2: You ever came to hitting a home run, Jim in

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Speaker 2: the big leagues anything anything even close.

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Speaker 3: No, I never I'd never hit a home run in

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Speaker 3: batting Proctor. No, I mean, you know, I will say

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Speaker 3: in my defense. Nineteen ninety two, I spent half a

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Speaker 3: year at the Padres and Jimmy Snyder was the coach there,

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Speaker 3: and he worked us pretty good. He get us into

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Speaker 3: the cage like the day before you were to start

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Speaker 3: and he throw me some good VP with you know,

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Speaker 3: and I felt like I swung the bat pretty well

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Speaker 3: that year. I got a couple of hits. I had

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Speaker 3: one year where I got nine hits, and on the

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Speaker 3: final day of the year, I had a bet against

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Speaker 3: Mike Scott that I would get ten and I had

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Speaker 3: a pretty decent line drive to left field and I

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Speaker 3: think Joel Youngblood was left fielder for an out, so

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Speaker 3: I didn't get my tenth hit. But I also had

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Speaker 3: a year I think I went two for fifty two

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Speaker 3: one year, yeah, which I mean, come on, I could

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Speaker 3: probably go two for fifty two.

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Speaker 1: Jim, you may have gone two for fifty two, but

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Speaker 1: you also were able to draw a decent amount of water.

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Speaker 2: You walk twenty three times with an eighty eight average.

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Speaker 2: That's pretty impressive, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: I said, you know, I think early one of my

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Speaker 3: first games, I drew a basis loaded walk against David

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Speaker 3: Palmer and drove in a run and I think he

479
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Speaker 3: got released like the day after, which I felt like

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Speaker 3: that that's on me. I think I think that was

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Speaker 3: my fault. But it wasn't like I had this great

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Speaker 3: eye and I was working at bats, you know, I

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Speaker 3: probably fouled a couple of pitches off and just you know,

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Speaker 3: happened to end up walking. Wasn't my plan him.

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Speaker 2: I've said many times though, hitting in the big leagues

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Speaker 2: and hitting in high school is a completely different thing.

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Speaker 2: They have nothing in common. Were you a good hitter

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Speaker 2: in high school or were you not even a great

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Speaker 2: hitter in high school?

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Speaker 3: I was, you know, I hit in the middle of

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Speaker 3: that in order. In high school. You know, I probably

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Speaker 3: hit for a good average. My claim to fame is

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Speaker 3: I took I hit a home run off my good

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Speaker 3: buddy Tom Browning future made leaguer. Again comes with some context.

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Speaker 3: Sinking line drop to the left field at the left

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Speaker 3: field and misplays in a no fence. This in northern

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Speaker 3: New York. The ball rolls down a hill, so I

498
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Speaker 3: had the leg out. I had the leg, you know,

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Speaker 3: so left field is like fighting cows for it to

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Speaker 3: get the ball shield back here and I circled the basis.

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Speaker 3: But that was always my claim to fame because Tommy

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Speaker 3: and I we had we had a fun rivalry with

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Speaker 3: that stuff. Jim.

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Speaker 1: I was a little league umpire, and some of my

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Speaker 1: favorite things that I had to do was established ground

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Speaker 1: rules and.

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Speaker 2: We I feel like I umpired it so many ballparks. Okay,

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Speaker 2: if it hits the.

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Speaker 1: Stream that's only a hundred yards in right field, it's

510
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Speaker 1: an automatic double. If it hits the house in center,

511
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Speaker 1: it's a trip. Like we had to come up with

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Speaker 1: the most obscure rules just so we can play little

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Speaker 1: league baseball.

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Speaker 2: And that sounds like one of those rules. If it's

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Speaker 2: down the hill.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked like like when you're playing you know,

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Speaker 3: kids and playing, Yeah, hitting a tennis ball up against

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Speaker 3: the school, and if it hits this high on the wall,

519
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Speaker 3: it's a double. If it hits this high, it's a triple.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, one of those deals. We had a game

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Speaker 3: and we had a team in college. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if it was Kuts down state, some some school in

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Speaker 3: Pennsylvania where the baseball field back down to the football field,

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Speaker 3: and it was so short to right field, like from

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Speaker 3: the foul pole to you know, right center. You could

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Speaker 3: hit it six hundred feet and it's going to be

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Speaker 3: a double because it was so short to begin with,

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Speaker 3: you know, it was like one and then it would

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Speaker 3: you know, flare out. So if you hit it out

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Speaker 3: that way, it was a legitimate home run. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: you have to kind of make do Jim for all of.

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Speaker 2: Your pitching and your terrible hitting. You you also joined

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Speaker 2: the Chris Berman nickname club. And I'm wondering if you

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Speaker 2: remember Chris Berman, who had the greatest nicknames ever for players, Bruce,

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Speaker 2: I mean Bert b home blid Levin. You remember yours,

536
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Speaker 2: of course, right?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Sure, yeah, Jim. Two silhouettes on the shades on

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Speaker 3: the chase based on the Herman hermits too, silhouettes on

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Speaker 3: the shades, right, yeah, that was reach.

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Speaker 2: We didn't most of them, but I love that one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that took it. That was the next level. And

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Speaker 3: He's so People Magazine did an article on Chris and

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Speaker 3: his nicknames and at the time, they asked him to

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Speaker 3: lift his top five or ten or whatever it was,

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Speaker 3: and and he listed that one among them. And and

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Speaker 3: you know, my wife was like, hey, you made People magazine.

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Speaker 3: And I was like, well, Chris, I actually made People

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Speaker 3: magazine stories about him. My name just happens to be

549
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,239
Speaker 3: in there. It's like, you know that she was more

550
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 3: fired up about that than had I been on the

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Speaker 3: cover of s I or something like look at that.

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Speaker 3: You know you're you're a crossover sensation.

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Speaker 2: But Jim, that was kind of an honor to be

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Speaker 2: in the top ten of Chris Burman's nicknames, right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and I still I still Every now and

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Speaker 3: then people will refer to it, you know, people of

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Speaker 3: a certain generation, remember, we'll you know, refer to me.

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Speaker 2: As to Oh really they still do after all this time.

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Speaker 3: People, Yeah, yeah, people will still you know, bring it up.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, Boomer was famous, Mike Aldretty was was Mike

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Speaker 2: enough Aldretty? What's his nickname? There were there were ri right, Oh,

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Speaker 2: there were so many good ones.

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, so.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't there one that was like innocent until proven gosh, gilt.

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Speaker 2: Gilky, innocent until proven guilty. Very good, Jeff, you're way

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Speaker 2: too young to remember that. I was in fifty doubles

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Speaker 2: one year. That's pretty darn good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The Internet is a beautiful thing where it brings up

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. Now, Jim, obviously we're talking broadcasters. You

571
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Speaker 1: are a broadcaster with former guests of the show and

572
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Speaker 1: dear friend of ours, boog Shambie. You guys get to

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Speaker 1: do these games together there tell us. I think the

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Speaker 1: art of calling a game and the relationship as a

575
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Speaker 1: radio guy myself not a Baseball play by play guy.

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Speaker 1: But that relationship is so important, and there's so much

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Speaker 1: time spent together. There's so many conversations that go in

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Speaker 1: different directions.

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Speaker 2: What is it like being in the booth the two

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Speaker 2: of you together.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a dream. I mean, he's really

582
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 3: easy to work with. We have the same sensibility, you know,

583
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 3: when it comes to the game. We're into the modern analytics.

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Speaker 3: You know, we'd like to have fun. We'd like to

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Speaker 3: play around, probably more so than some people would like,

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Speaker 3: you know, I imagine, I imagine if there's you know,

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Speaker 3: if there's people grousing about our show, it's we go

588
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 3: off the rails, probably a little more than they would like.

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Speaker 3: But you know, it's just it's who we are and

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Speaker 3: it's always been my position, and I think you guys

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00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 3: would agree. We play one hundred and sixty two games,

592
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 3: so this isn't football, and a lot of goofy things happen,

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Speaker 3: and so we're just we're trying to create an atmosphere

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Speaker 3: where we're drawn people into our world and we're sharing

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Speaker 3: you know, it'd be like if you're hanging out with

596
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Speaker 3: some buddies watching the game. There are times when you're

597
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 3: gonna be locked in on the action because that's what's

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Speaker 3: captivating you. And there are times you're going to be,

599
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,479
Speaker 3: you know, spitballing about something else that's going on over here,

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Speaker 3: because at that particular point, the game isn't all that exciting.

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Speaker 3: So you know, you speak to so many different masters, right,

602
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Speaker 3: people have people if they want to hear the modern analytics,

603
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Speaker 3: they don't want to hear it. They want you to

604
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 3: goof around. They don't want you to go around. So

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Speaker 3: all you can really do is just be yourself and

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Speaker 3: hope it's good enough for most of the people.

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Speaker 2: And one time you went off the rails, Jim, You're

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Speaker 2: gonna have to fill in a bunch of blanks here.

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Speaker 2: But Jeff, this was twenty twenty one, and I hope

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Speaker 2: I got this right. Boog is doing the game and

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Speaker 2: Jim's sitting right next to him, and Boog goes like this,

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Speaker 2: and Jim says what And Boog says, Ryan Tapara picture

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Speaker 2: for the Cubs. He he looks like someone take it

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Speaker 2: from here, Jim, what happened?

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Speaker 3: Then? Yeah, So they get a tight shot of Ryan

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Speaker 3: and I go kind of looks like my other Randy

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Speaker 3: Boom Boo's lost his mind. It just didn't It just

618
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 3: tickled him. And uh, in that moment anyway, the shot

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Speaker 3: we had of him, he looked a lot like my

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Speaker 3: cousin Randy was. You know, I grew up in the

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Speaker 3: see in New York A you're older than me. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's just sometimes the stuff that comes into the head

623
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Speaker 3: and you don't filter and it comes out and and

624
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 3: like later on at night you're going to bed. Did

625
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Speaker 3: I really say that that I really choose to sing

626
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 3: at that point in the telecast? You what an idiot?

627
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I'd rather swing and miss a

628
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 3: few times trying to have fun then then just play

629
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Speaker 3: it straight down the line. But and Books Books such

630
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 3: a great partner because he knows, you know, he just

631
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Speaker 3: he loves to laugh and he gets it.

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Speaker 1: Jim, you're in good company because swinging and missing is

633
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: what our podcast is all about.

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Speaker 3: Swings and chokes all the time. Right.

635
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Speaker 2: We have more reaches here than more stretches here than

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Speaker 2: William mc he believe me, Jim. Yeah, but didn't you

637
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Speaker 2: say about Ryan to Para he's got a better slider

638
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Speaker 2: than my cousin Randy.

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00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 3: Yes, Randy the slider.

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Speaker 2: That's so good. So I remember Boog telling me. A

641
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Speaker 2: couple of years later, he goes to do a basketball

642
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Speaker 2: game and Matt Painter is there. Matt Painter does broadcasting,

643
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,760
Speaker 2: and Matt comes up to him goes, look, I'm like

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Speaker 2: the biggest Cubs fan in the world. I'm legit, and

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00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 2: he says to Boog, I know who cousin Randy is, So, Jimdy,

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Speaker 2: cousin Randy talked to you about all this that you

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Speaker 2: kind of made him famous just because he looked like

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Speaker 2: Ryan to Para.

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Speaker 3: I think I've probably seen cousin Randy once since then

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Speaker 3: and it didn't come up. And I have no idea

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00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 3: Cousin Randy is aware of the impact that he had

652
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 3: on on our broadcast. You know people back then. I'm

653
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 3: sure somebody has mentioned it to him, but I've never heard.

654
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 2: All Right, Well, before we before where we get to

655
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 2: the final part of this, just tell us about the Cubs, Jim,

656
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 2: and what you've seen this year. I mean, they're a

657
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: pretty darn good team. Just give us a quick scouter

658
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 2: report on what you're seeing from the Cubs.

659
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been really impressive, scoring a ton of runs.

660
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 3: The schedule early on was really tough with a lot

661
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:26,719
Speaker 3: of Dodgers anddres Diamondbacks. When the season started the August

662
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 3: kind of of the mind, if this team is five

663
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 3: hundred at the end of April, bully for them, and

664
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 3: they've far out played that. They went up against that

665
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 3: tough schedule and played very well despite injuries to Justin Steele,

666
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 3: who's done for the year, Showdy Monaga, who's out right now.

667
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 3: Ian has got a little blake thing, but I think

668
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 3: he'll be back soon. The starting pitching has been really good.

669
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 3: The bullpen has kind of had to fight through some issues,

670
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 3: but the lineup is dynamic. They steal a bunch of bases,

671
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,719
Speaker 3: they hit home runs, they slug, they walk. Picrow Armstrong

672
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,040
Speaker 3: has been unbelievable. Kyle Tucker has been in a little

673
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 3: bit of a funk here for the last two three weeks,

674
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 3: but he started lights out, was, you know, one of

675
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 3: the best players in the league for an extended period

676
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 3: of time. So they'll they'll continue to score. There's no

677
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 3: doubt in my mind there'll be one of the highest

678
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 3: scoring teams in the league when all of a said

679
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 3: and done, and if they can avoid any more big

680
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 3: injuries to their pitching, staff. They're going to be in

681
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 3: great shape.

682
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 2: And Jeff, my favorite baseball name is on the Cubs.

683
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 2: Do you want to explain that to Jim Deshay so

684
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 2: he can learn something from us.

685
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: Carson Kelly is my dad's favorite name. Can't say favorite player,

686
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: can't play favorites here, but his grandson, his first these

687
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: three grand kids, the very first one named Carson, and

688
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: my dad's my sister, my dad's daughter.

689
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 2: Carson's mom is Kelly. Carson Kelly.

690
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 3: Oh wow, so that's an easy thing he has to.

691
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 2: Carson Kelly hit for the cycle out of the nine

692
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 2: spot this year, first guy to ever do that in

693
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 2: the month of March, and then he had a couple

694
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 2: of other amazing games. This is what tickles me. Every

695
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 2: time we see Carson Kelly have a big day, I'm thinking.

696
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 3: Well, he's been unbelievable too. He's you know, he's a

697
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 3: thirty year old player, so there's a track record of

698
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 3: who he is as a player, and all of a

699
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 3: sudden he's turned into you know, Albert Poohole's at the plays.

700
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.

701
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:22,880
Speaker 2: Jim, isn't this the beauty of baseball? Kidding aside that

702
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 2: the light seems to have gone on for him after

703
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 2: ten years in the league and age thirty, that he's

704
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 2: doing things he's never done before. Is that not one

705
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 2: of the great beauties of baseball?

706
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 3: Right? And it's contrary to what we always say, right,

707
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 3: we always say, well, the back of the baseball card

708
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 3: is going to show up. Usually we say it when

709
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 3: a player is scuffling and we know him to be

710
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 3: a good player. Sooner or later, the numbers are going

711
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 3: to be there. And that does hold true most of

712
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 3: the time. What makes the game so much fun is

713
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 3: it doesn't happen all the time. They are all liars.

714
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 3: Guys figure something out, or they just the way they're used.

715
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,959
Speaker 3: They get on a roll, they getucked in mentally, whatever

716
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 3: it is. Guys have outlier seasons and then and you know,

717
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 3: win a championship. You need that. But it is one

718
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 3: of the one of the really fun things about baseball.

719
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 3: And that that's the other thing too, is when you

720
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 3: play one hundred and sixty two games, you have to

721
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 3: have a bit of humor, right, You have to be

722
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 3: able to roll with the ups and the downs. And

723
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 3: I was thinking about this the other day. In our sport,

724
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 3: when you're getting beat eighteen to two in the ninth inning,

725
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 3: You're going to bring in an outfielder to pitch and

726
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:33,720
Speaker 3: everybody on your team is going to have a belly

727
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 3: laugh watching him pitch, even though you're getting your butt kick. Now,

728
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 3: can you imagine a football game where you're getting beat,

729
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 3: you know, sixty three to seven. Hey, let's take the

730
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 3: center and put him at quarterback, and that'll be a riot,

731
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 3: you know, and the coach is over there with the

732
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 3: heads of that on's going to be yucking it up.

733
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 3: And you know, that's just that's it's it's only baseball

734
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 3: that that that happens.

735
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 2: You met, well, I mean if Garret your premian suddenly

736
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 2: was putting it as a quarterback, I mean, it's just

737
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 2: not gonna look right.

738
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, yeah, It's just yeah, it's And I think

739
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 3: that's the beauty of the game, the everyday opportunity for nonsense.

740
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 3: This is one of the great things about the game.

741
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 2: And then you have games like that, Jim.

742
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: And then you have games like Game seven of the

743
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 1: World Series in Cleveland.

744
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 3: I was there watching the game, and yeah, you ride

745
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 3: the highs and lows and the interesting start from that game.

746
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 3: I was in a suite with some people from the

747
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 3: Cubs front office, my wife and I and you know,

748
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 3: there was a lot We ate the Lucky Cake before

749
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 3: the game, and you know, there's obviously a lot of excitement,

750
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 3: and then Cleveland takes the lead. We have the rain delay. THEO,

751
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 3: THEO Epstein, had been sitting in the stands watching the

752
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 3: game from behind home play. THEO comes into the box.

753
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 2: We ran.

754
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 3: Nobody wanted to talk to THEO. It was like, there's

755
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 3: so much tension. Everybody's like, you know, when you don't

756
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 3: want to get called on by the teacher. Yeah, he

757
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 3: came in. He was human and we're all trying to

758
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 3: not make eye contact with him. But thank god things

759
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 3: ended up.

760
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: Jim, we could keep you all day, but we have

761
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,759
Speaker 1: to leave with Since we started with The Andy Griffith Show,

762
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: and since we have a team tim during every broadcast

763
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: that we do, you saw the All Pope team.

764
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 2: Apparently you've got to kick.

765
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 4: Out of that.

766
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 2: So in your honor and in honor of Hal Smith,

767
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 2: Otis the Drunk, I came up with the All Andy

768
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 2: Griffith Show team from major leaguers, using their first names only,

769
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 2: because that's how they're always identified in the show. So

770
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 2: We'll start out in the outfield, of course, with Otis Nixon.

771
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 2: After Otis the drunk, we have Andy Van Slight after

772
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 2: Andy Taylor, Sheriff Andy Taylor. And by the way, a

773
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 2: few years ago in the playoffs, Jim, that guy Sheriff

774
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 2: the picture Sheriff faced Chris Taylor.

775
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 3: So we had a Sheriff.

776
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 2: Taylor at bat, which tickled me to know Ryan Sheriff

777
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 2: against Chris Taylor. And our third outfielder is John Mayberry Junior. Oh,

778
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 2: so we've got in the city. Our catcher is Emmett Rogers.

779
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 2: Jeff Emmett Clark was the fixed guy. I couldn't find, Jim,

780
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 2: anyone named Goober who played in the Major League, so

781
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:32,279
Speaker 2: I pivoted to Gomer Hodge after Gomer Pile, who was

782
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 2: Goober's cousin. Am I doing okay so far?

783
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Gomer? Yeah? He to Goober out down at walls.

784
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And then they spun off the Gomer Pile

785
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 3: show out right.

786
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,919
Speaker 2: The second baseman is Barney Kotch. And by the way, Jim,

787
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 2: I will never I will never forgive former Cubs manager

788
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 2: Dale Swain because Steven Feife was pitching one day for

789
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 2: the Dodger and he was pitching against the Cubs at

790
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 2: Wrigley and Yes, and for some reason, Dale Swain gave

791
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 2: Darwin Barney the day off, preventing the greatest batter picture

792
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 2: matchup ever, the Barney five matchup. I've been Kim, I've

793
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 2: been waiting my whole life for this, and he decided

794
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 2: to give Darwin Barney arrest. How could he do that?

795
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I would have.

796
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 4: I would have gotten into if I'd known that, I

797
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 4: would have gone into the office and mentioned that I

798
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 4: don't know if Dale was in the mood to take

799
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 4: any advice as to what his lineup should be, So

800
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 4: I don't want I don't want to know if you're

801
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 4: flowing Mayberry.

802
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 3: But one of the highlights of my broadcasting career was

803
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 3: in the Astrodome early on in my career. We were

804
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 3: playing the Reds and Jack McKeon was the manager and

805
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 3: he had an outfield of Dimitri Young Michael Franks and

806
00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 3: Chris Stein had a young Frank from Stein's outfield, And

807
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,799
Speaker 3: when I was running on my line off that day,

808
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 3: I was like, this is the greatest moment of history

809
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 3: of the sport. This is this will never be surpassed.

810
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 2: I can't believe I got scooped by a left handed picture, Jim.

811
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 2: Those are the things I died to recognize, Young Frankenstein.

812
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that.

813
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 3: Is yeah, it was magic. And there's no way Jack

814
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 3: right this poor manager. Oh my gosh.

815
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,320
Speaker 2: Well, I can't complete the list, but I'm gonna The

816
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,279
Speaker 2: third basement is Howard Johnson. Howard Sprague, of course, was

817
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 2: the nerdy guy who worked in one of the one

818
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 2: of the front offices there. I really had trouble at shortstop, Jim.

819
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 2: Ernest Ryles is my shortstop, and get this so so

820
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,720
Speaker 2: jeff Ernest t Mass is one of the great characters

821
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 2: in the history of the Andy Griffiths Show. And I

822
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,399
Speaker 2: kept looking for someone named Ernest in Major League history

823
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 2: who had a middle initial TEA, and I couldn't find him.

824
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 2: And Ernest Ryles does not have a middle name. His

825
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 2: name is Ernest Ryles. And so from now on he's

826
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 2: going to have a middle name. It's going to be

827
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 2: the letter T, so he could be Ernest t Ryles.

828
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 2: And last, and this is the biggest stretches of all,

829
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 2: Floyd Banister is our pitcher, named after Floyd Lawson, the

830
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 2: barber who Jim loved because Floyd was a wildly underrated character,

831
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 2: and this guy didn't play in the big leagues, but

832
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 2: he pitched somewhere. I'm not sure where. Opie Pace was

833
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: our pitcher after Opie Taylor. So, Jim, I heard Opie.

834
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 2: I got such a kick out of this. I heard

835
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 2: Ron Howard, who played Opie Taylor, talking on a talk

836
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 2: show once and they were asking him how much money

837
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 2: he made as a child actor in the mid sixties,

838
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 2: and he looked it up and one year Opie Taylor

839
00:42:56,120 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 2: made more money than Sandy Kofax. Oh wow, credulous. He goes,

840
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 2: I'm just a little kid playing Opie Taylor and I'm

841
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 2: making more money than the Greatest Picture of.

842
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 3: Seen. That's amazing.

843
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 2: If this is what I do in my spare time,

844
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 2: I come up with the All Andy Griffith Show TVV.

845
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 3: Well, good, pull on. I was wondering, if you're gonna

846
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 3: get an ernest Ty Bass in there.

847
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 2: Good, We'll finish with this in that bunk Showalter loves

848
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 2: the Andy Griffith Show more than anyone, and he knows

849
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 2: each episode number, Jim, so if you say citizens arrest

850
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 2: that one, he'll go that was episode one hundred and twelve.

851
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 2: That's how well he knows that show.

852
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 3: So good, it's amazing. Yeah, that's so good.

853
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 2: But but Bunk Showalter did not get a join the

854
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 2: Andy of Mayberry fan club with Aunt b presenting him

855
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 2: a book with a Barney person understanding right there on

856
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 2: the field of the astronoe. Only Jim to Shay's got a.

857
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:09,720
Speaker 3: Magical moment.

858
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: This was so great.

859
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,919
Speaker 1: Thank you for taking your time to be a part

860
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: of our family. As we say so, thank you again.

861
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 3: This was a blast, my pleasure. And by the way,

862
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 3: you know, the Dolphins of Lamoine almost took Syracuse down

863
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:23,399
Speaker 3: in basket. That's right.

864
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 2: Thanks for bringing up.

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Speaker 3: I got and I'm a huge Shue fan though, So yeah, Jim.

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Speaker 2: We had Jim Beheim on the podcast in April and

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Speaker 2: he he could not have been funnier, more charming. When

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Speaker 2: we talked about golf, we talked about baseball, we talked

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Speaker 2: about basketball. He grew up loving the Milwaukee Braves. Hank

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Speaker 2: Aaron was his guy, Warren's mad was this guy. Sandy

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Speaker 2: Kofax was his guy. Even though Opie Taylor made more

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Speaker 2: money than he did.

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Speaker 3: A lot of guys that generation, right basketball guys were

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Speaker 3: huge baseball.

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Speaker 2: It was just so nice to meet a basketball guy

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Speaker 2: and recognized he had such a wonderful love of baseball.

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Speaker 2: Also that's because, of course, Jim, it's the greatest game

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Speaker 2: in the world.

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Speaker 4: As we know.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us. Thanks thanks for making

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Speaker 2: us lappen so many times my pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Guys, Thank you to Jim Dechase for being our excellent,

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Speaker 1: hilarious guest today on is this a great game or

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Speaker 1: what He's fantastic? Dad, Everything you had told me fit

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Speaker 1: is advertised you. You hit the nail on the head

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Speaker 1: when you told me how great he was.

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Speaker 2: Jeff, I will never watch the movie Young Frankenstein again

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Speaker 2: without seeing about Jim Decha's one of the funniest movies ever,

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Speaker 2: and Jim Deschase made it even funnier with the story.

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Speaker 3: That he told.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to subscribe wherever you're listening right now, Share

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