1
00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:06,880
Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall

2
00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:09,840
Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkshin. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon, and

3
00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:12,600
Speaker 1: we are officially into.

4
00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:14,120
Speaker 2: The second half of the baseball.

5
00:00:13,640 --> 00:00:17,119
Speaker 3: Season, right. It's so good, Jev. And you celebrated the

6
00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:20,840
Speaker 3: second half by redoing your unfinished basement. I am so

7
00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,040
Speaker 3: proud of you. This is exactly how I would have

8
00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:30,120
Speaker 3: done it. It is impeccable now in your unfinished incredibly organized.

9
00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,360
Speaker 3: I had to go in there with McKinley, your daughter,

10
00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:36,440
Speaker 3: my granddaughter this morning to find something, and everything was obvious.

11
00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,400
Speaker 3: She pointed at it knew exactly what she wanted because

12
00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,599
Speaker 3: everything is so organized. Way to go.

13
00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, So our basement studio, which we're coming to from

14
00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,479
Speaker 1: right now, is in one section of the basement. Then

15
00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:49,280
Speaker 1: there's like a whole section that's got a big couch

16
00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:50,120
Speaker 1: and a TV and.

17
00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:52,400
Speaker 3: A roller coaster explained.

18
00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:57,240
Speaker 1: And our friends London and Chris, they have two girls

19
00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,040
Speaker 1: themselves and they have this plastic little Tyke's roller coaster

20
00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,320
Speaker 1: that I guess their girls aren't playing with much anymore.

21
00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:05,160
Speaker 1: And McKinley loves it.

22
00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:07,880
Speaker 3: Well. I was down here this morning for an hour

23
00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,760
Speaker 3: with her. It was absolutely glorious. But she gets on

24
00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,440
Speaker 3: the roller coaster. Now it's just a small roller coaster,

25
00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,039
Speaker 3: and I haven't seen this before, but she gets on it,

26
00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,080
Speaker 3: and I keep thinking she's gonna fall off. Instead, it

27
00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,160
Speaker 3: was great. She loved it, and she has nothing. I'm

28
00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,560
Speaker 3: the worst of all time with roller coasters, as we know.

29
00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,680
Speaker 3: I'm afraid of them. Anything it's too high, anything that's

30
00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,520
Speaker 3: too fast, anything moves too quickly. I can't do it.

31
00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:35,240
Speaker 2: Well, dad.

32
00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,800
Speaker 1: And she also hit a milestone. She'll turn two on

33
00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,480
Speaker 1: August the tenth. She hit a milestone.

34
00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:42,800
Speaker 2: She knows her name.

35
00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,320
Speaker 3: Now, right, So she said today McKinley Kirchen today, and

36
00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,280
Speaker 3: I could understand the kirkchin. She said it better so

37
00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,680
Speaker 3: than some radio show hosts that I've been on have

38
00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,960
Speaker 3: said it over the years. So I'll take it. It

39
00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:55,400
Speaker 3: was great.

40
00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,320
Speaker 1: I have the very first time she ever said it

41
00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,880
Speaker 1: on video, and so I brought a clip with us today,

42
00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:01,640
Speaker 1: So let's play that.

43
00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:10,080
Speaker 3: And what's your name, Kenny Kirchen, Good Carol.

44
00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,359
Speaker 2: So that's McKinley Kirkchhin.

45
00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:13,959
Speaker 3: That's so cool.

46
00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,600
Speaker 2: McKinley kirchen. My daughter who you know?

47
00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,680
Speaker 1: Emily and McKinley did a podcast sitting in these very

48
00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,400
Speaker 1: chairs as well. Really yeah, I mean McKinley talks a

49
00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,320
Speaker 1: lot but doesn't really say much, you know what I mean.

50
00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:30,280
Speaker 3: It sounds like you, hey, hey, just kidding.

51
00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:31,120
Speaker 2: That was a good one.

52
00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:33,480
Speaker 1: But thank you for the compliments on the unfinished basement.

53
00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,440
Speaker 1: I get it from you are type, a overorganized type.

54
00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,480
Speaker 1: So that section of the basement is right next to

55
00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,960
Speaker 1: our studios, and you gotta be able to find your stuff,

56
00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:41,639
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.

57
00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So, Jeff, before we get to the second half,

58
00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,280
Speaker 3: I forgot to tell you this last week. Hunter Brown

59
00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,720
Speaker 3: of the Big Train, of course, Houston Astro's All Star pitcher.

60
00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,320
Speaker 3: I saw him at the All Star Game, and I

61
00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,040
Speaker 3: forgot to tell you this, but I'd love to ask players, like,

62
00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,760
Speaker 3: who did you meet here that you've always wanted to

63
00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,480
Speaker 3: meet And it's like the first time and it's always well,

64
00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,040
Speaker 3: they got to shake, you know, Sho Hay's hand, or

65
00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,080
Speaker 3: you know, I met Aaron Judge for the first time.

66
00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,200
Speaker 3: Hunter Brown looked at me and he said, Joe Tory.

67
00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,680
Speaker 3: Joe Torre is eighty five years old, and Joe Tory

68
00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,079
Speaker 3: was there as like the legendary manager who was in

69
00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,399
Speaker 3: the dugout with Aaron Boone for the All Star Game.

70
00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:23,919
Speaker 3: Actually went to the mound to make a pitching change.

71
00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,120
Speaker 3: It was so great. Joe Tory is one of my

72
00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:30,120
Speaker 3: favorite people ever. And Hunter Brown said, I said, Hunter,

73
00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:31,760
Speaker 3: you know he was a great hitter, and he looked

74
00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,040
Speaker 3: at me and he goes, I know like that, like

75
00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,000
Speaker 3: he didn't want to just meet him because he's this

76
00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,000
Speaker 3: decorated Hall of Fame manager. He also recognized that Joe

77
00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,920
Speaker 3: Tory was a great player in his day.

78
00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,440
Speaker 1: I think there's such a united effort between players and

79
00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,520
Speaker 1: former players. I mean, we've heard so many great stories

80
00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,400
Speaker 1: of Ted Williams, for example, nineteen ninety nine All Star

81
00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,120
Speaker 1: Game Fenway Park. Just wanting to talk to these players

82
00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,160
Speaker 1: about what do you see when you're up there? How

83
00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,160
Speaker 1: do you read the ball? Because they have something in common.

84
00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,560
Speaker 1: They can do something that ninety nine point nine percent

85
00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,120
Speaker 1: of the world can't do, and that's hit.

86
00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,880
Speaker 3: A fastball right. Absolutely. And speaking of the Hall of Fame,

87
00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,160
Speaker 3: Jeff Tomorrow's guest is Big Billy Wagner, Hall of Fame

88
00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,479
Speaker 3: relief pitcher. He will go in on Sunday. I will

89
00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:22,640
Speaker 3: be in Cooperstown this weekend. I will leave I will

90
00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,360
Speaker 3: go there Friday. Cannot wait. It's my favorite weekend of

91
00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,680
Speaker 3: the year. And Billy Wagner just told us all sorts

92
00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,840
Speaker 3: of stories, a couple which I've never heard before, and

93
00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,960
Speaker 3: he made us laugh and he made a smile, and

94
00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,800
Speaker 3: Billy Wagner insisted that he's five, 't ten. I still

95
00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,520
Speaker 3: question that. But for later on today, we'll have a

96
00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,840
Speaker 3: team tim where we're gonna have the shortest players at

97
00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:46,920
Speaker 3: each position in the Hall of Fame.

98
00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,120
Speaker 2: It's gonna make us feel very comfortable.

99
00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,599
Speaker 3: Right, Billy Wagner yelled at me. It was really funny.

100
00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,160
Speaker 1: He was hilarious. All right, So you'll get that interview

101
00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,560
Speaker 1: tomorrow on the feed. So make sure dad takeaways.

102
00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,320
Speaker 3: All right, million takeaways to start the second halb the

103
00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,960
Speaker 3: start of the second half, because everything is fresh and

104
00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,400
Speaker 3: you say, all right, we're going, we're moving, we're rolling. Well.

105
00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,360
Speaker 3: The second half is the same as the first half.

106
00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:12,360
Speaker 3: For Trek Schoopl, who had another great performance on Sunday

107
00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,479
Speaker 3: Night Baseball, no walks, eleven strikeouts, Jeff Now he's averaging

108
00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,520
Speaker 3: one point one walks per nine innings and eleven point

109
00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,400
Speaker 3: six strikeouts per nine innings. That leads the Major leagues

110
00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,200
Speaker 3: this year. No pitcher has ever led the major leagues

111
00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:32,560
Speaker 3: in both of those categories qualified pitcher in the same season.

112
00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:34,800
Speaker 3: That is where he is heading. And he did it

113
00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,799
Speaker 3: last night. Jeff wondering, is my wife gonna give birth

114
00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:42,000
Speaker 3: tonight during the game. That's how close they are to

115
00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,880
Speaker 3: having a baby? Which I mean, seriously, how does a

116
00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:49,400
Speaker 3: pitcher go out there knowing his wife might be giving

117
00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,760
Speaker 3: birth in the fourth inning of the game and he

118
00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:53,880
Speaker 3: goes out and throws a gem against the range?

119
00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,719
Speaker 1: Well, hold on, dad, I don't know if you know this,

120
00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:00,359
Speaker 1: but I played in a rec league kickball game just

121
00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:03,800
Speaker 1: hours before my wife was induced with McKinley, and I

122
00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:04,560
Speaker 1: had two hits.

123
00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:06,240
Speaker 2: So I mean, are we.

124
00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,680
Speaker 1: Talking about Sunday Night baseball rec league kickball?

125
00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:10,560
Speaker 2: I think they're the same.

126
00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,120
Speaker 3: Are they called hits in kickball? Also? Yeah, you called

127
00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:14,600
Speaker 3: it a hit?

128
00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hit one. I had two home runs in

129
00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:18,839
Speaker 2: my career and kick yeah.

130
00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,000
Speaker 3: I keep telling you you're a good athlete. I don't

131
00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,120
Speaker 3: want to hear about this anymore. But I still don't

132
00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,839
Speaker 3: understand how you kick a kickball with your left foot.

133
00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:26,760
Speaker 3: What is wrong with you?

134
00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,400
Speaker 1: I just had a conversation with somebody about this. Yesterday

135
00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,880
Speaker 1: we had some friends over and he my buddy Tom.

136
00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:36,360
Speaker 1: He's dominant right hand everything except for any stick sports,

137
00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:36,960
Speaker 1: so he.

138
00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:38,200
Speaker 2: Plays hockey left hand.

139
00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,280
Speaker 1: And he said, what about you, because we were talking

140
00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:44,080
Speaker 1: about both of our daughters, like McKinley, my daughter seriously

141
00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,479
Speaker 1: right handed and everything, throws a ball, coloring, whatever. But

142
00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:49,120
Speaker 1: I said, I do everything right except for I kick

143
00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,240
Speaker 1: a ball left footed. And he goes, how do you know,

144
00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,800
Speaker 1: I said, if you were to football, punting, kicking, soccer

145
00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,360
Speaker 1: left footed, I can't even kick with him. I couldn't

146
00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,840
Speaker 1: even try, probably tear an acl if.

147
00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:00,960
Speaker 3: I tried, right well, I was thinking about Derek Scuoble

148
00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,480
Speaker 3: last night. What happens if his wife has the baby

149
00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:05,440
Speaker 3: in the third inning? What does he do? I think

150
00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,040
Speaker 3: he stays and pitches the game wouldn't be fair to

151
00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,480
Speaker 3: the team, or the bullpen or anything else. Plus, I

152
00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:12,880
Speaker 3: think once you make the commitment I'm pitching tonight, you

153
00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,200
Speaker 3: have to finish. Never forget the story, though, Jeff from

154
00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,080
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety, I'm sure I told you this. Tom Browning,

155
00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,440
Speaker 3: late Tom Browning, reds pitcher at the time starting pitcher,

156
00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,720
Speaker 3: really good run through a perfect game in the big leagues.

157
00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,880
Speaker 3: He's in the bullpen because he's a starting pitcher, and

158
00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,840
Speaker 3: his wife is in Oakland with him for the World

159
00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,560
Speaker 3: Series in nineteen ninety Reds and A's and she goes

160
00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,800
Speaker 3: into labor and he's got to go to the hospital,

161
00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,560
Speaker 3: so he doesn't even tell anyone where he's going. He

162
00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,200
Speaker 3: goes to the hospital and full you to four. Okay,

163
00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,760
Speaker 3: the game gets late and it gets close, and suddenly

164
00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:49,880
Speaker 3: lou Panella calls down to the bullpen and says, you

165
00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:52,680
Speaker 3: better get browning up just in case we go to

166
00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,760
Speaker 3: extras and we might need some help. And they say,

167
00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:59,160
Speaker 3: he's not here. He's gone. So he was at the

168
00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,680
Speaker 3: hospital where his wife gave birth to a healthy child.

169
00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,240
Speaker 3: So I saw him the next day because he went

170
00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:08,400
Speaker 3: to the hospital in his uniform. I said, Tom, didn't

171
00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,120
Speaker 3: anyone say anything that you were in your uniform? And

172
00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,720
Speaker 3: he goes, no, he said, I think they just thought

173
00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,600
Speaker 3: I was like a big fan of the team.

174
00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:19,320
Speaker 2: That is incredible.

175
00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,119
Speaker 1: Well, you know you mentioned if she went into labor

176
00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,200
Speaker 1: in the third inning. At least my experience, I was

177
00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:27,640
Speaker 1: not involved at all in that baby being delivered.

178
00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,920
Speaker 2: Shout out to the nurses, Shout out to the doctor.

179
00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,840
Speaker 1: I was just there for moral support, that of which

180
00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,760
Speaker 1: I'm an overly optimistic guy, and even I broke down

181
00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:36,240
Speaker 1: at one point.

182
00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:37,280
Speaker 2: I said, I can't do this.

183
00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,880
Speaker 3: You need to stay strong. You're not doing anything, Jeff.

184
00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,400
Speaker 3: So I think she would get through it.

185
00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:46,840
Speaker 1: Women are mothers, are incredible, They're powerful. It's magic what

186
00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,439
Speaker 1: they can do, and us guys are just along for

187
00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:50,079
Speaker 1: the front.

188
00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,960
Speaker 3: Wait, Stan all right, Speaking of being great, though, the

189
00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,800
Speaker 3: Brewers have won ten games in a row through through Sunday,

190
00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:00,000
Speaker 3: they are now tied with the Cubs for the best

191
00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,080
Speaker 3: record in the National League, and they are just behind

192
00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,160
Speaker 3: the Tigers for the best record in Baseball. The Brewers

193
00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,640
Speaker 3: are dangerous, Jeff. Now that they've got Jacob Mazerowski for

194
00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:13,400
Speaker 3: the whole second half and Brandon Woodruff has come back

195
00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,600
Speaker 3: from major arm issues to join the rotation with Freddie Peralta,

196
00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,960
Speaker 3: they have a chance to be very dangerous. And I

197
00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,679
Speaker 3: tell you that, Jeff, because the first World Series I

198
00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,280
Speaker 3: ever covered was in eighty two and the Brewers were

199
00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,440
Speaker 3: in it against the Cardinals, and it was such a

200
00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,600
Speaker 3: thrill for me because I'm a beat guy covering the

201
00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,480
Speaker 3: Texas Rangers. But I'm going to the World Series and

202
00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,720
Speaker 3: I'm writing all the game stories. It was absolutely the best,

203
00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,520
Speaker 3: and so many of those Brewers I'll never forget how

204
00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,760
Speaker 3: much I enjoyed being around. One of them, of course,

205
00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,800
Speaker 3: was Jim Gantner, their second baseman. His nickname was Gumby,

206
00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,720
Speaker 3: and Gumby was like the most popular guy on the

207
00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,079
Speaker 3: team and a tough, hard nosed little guy. But in

208
00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,680
Speaker 3: the offseason he also had a lube business, like where

209
00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:02,840
Speaker 3: like you would like change somebody's so as part of

210
00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:07,959
Speaker 3: an auction item for the Brewers, Jim Gander would go

211
00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:12,439
Speaker 3: to your house and change your oil in the driveway,

212
00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:17,280
Speaker 3: and he is the second baseman for the Brewers. Gumby

213
00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,760
Speaker 3: would go to your house and change your oil. I

214
00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,760
Speaker 3: don't care what anyone says, Jeff, that is the greatest

215
00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,040
Speaker 3: auction item.

216
00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:24,880
Speaker 2: Of all time.

217
00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,000
Speaker 1: It's better than when Kevin Malone in the office offered

218
00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,280
Speaker 1: to do your taxes federal and state.

219
00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,959
Speaker 3: Oh God, it's so good, all right. Trade deadline's also

220
00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:36,640
Speaker 3: coming up, Jim.

221
00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,520
Speaker 1: I have never been this excited for a trade deadline.

222
00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:42,480
Speaker 1: I think with the expansion of the wildcard, Dad, it

223
00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,400
Speaker 1: makes a lot more people buyers, which I think makes

224
00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,880
Speaker 1: it difficult because there's more spots and more buyers. But

225
00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,360
Speaker 1: I'm ready for some big moves this season.

226
00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,800
Speaker 3: And Euhano Suarez of the Diamondbacks might be the biggest

227
00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,680
Speaker 3: name to move. He's got thirty five home runs, He's

228
00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:02,079
Speaker 3: an above average defensive third baseman, now team leader, Yankees, Mets, Cubs,

229
00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:04,640
Speaker 3: all sorts of teams are gonna want this guy. My

230
00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,040
Speaker 3: guess is he's gonna move. So he started this. He

231
00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,480
Speaker 3: just had two straight multi homer games. The record is

232
00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:17,000
Speaker 3: three straight multi homer games, and the last time it

233
00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:20,360
Speaker 3: was done was by Jeff Devannon, who was just like

234
00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:23,720
Speaker 3: a kind of a infielder in the big leagues. He

235
00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:28,240
Speaker 3: hit thirty three career homers. He hit twelve during the

236
00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,440
Speaker 3: two thousand and three season, but in two thousand and

237
00:11:31,440 --> 00:11:34,200
Speaker 3: three he got to June the first with two home

238
00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:37,600
Speaker 3: runs for the season, and then hit two home runs

239
00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:42,880
Speaker 3: in three consecutive games. Seriously, how does that happen? I mean, like,

240
00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:46,760
Speaker 3: Babe Ruth never did that, you know, Barry Bonds never

241
00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,120
Speaker 3: did that. Hank Aaron never did that. Jeff Devannon did that.

242
00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,560
Speaker 3: He was the last guy to do it.

243
00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,120
Speaker 2: So six of his thirty three home run.

244
00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,880
Speaker 3: Came in a three days fan two in each game.

245
00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,280
Speaker 3: This is why baseball is so beautiful. All Right, you

246
00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,240
Speaker 3: saw the Ronald Lacuna throw. It's several days late, but

247
00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:05,560
Speaker 3: you saw the throw right.

248
00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,680
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. It was it was shades of Roberto

249
00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:09,840
Speaker 1: Clemente in right field.

250
00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,360
Speaker 3: Right. So, Clemeny made so many great throws. He is

251
00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,319
Speaker 3: the greatest defensive right fielder ever and the greatest throwing

252
00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,240
Speaker 3: outfielder that I have ever seen. So he made this

253
00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,240
Speaker 3: famous throw in the seventy one World Series, which I

254
00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,600
Speaker 3: watched live and never forgot it. But I did apparently

255
00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,360
Speaker 3: forget it because Merv Retmand, who was a hitting coach

256
00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,000
Speaker 3: for the Rangers when I covered them in the early eighties,

257
00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,160
Speaker 3: I said, that throw from Clemenny, I can't And Merv

258
00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,360
Speaker 3: was the runner on the play. And I'm talking to

259
00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,400
Speaker 3: Merv and I had forgotten, sadly that Merv was the runner.

260
00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,079
Speaker 3: And I said, when Clemeny threw that guy out at

261
00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:48,240
Speaker 3: third and Merv Rehtman goes that guy that guy was

262
00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,400
Speaker 3: me and he said, and I was safe at third.

263
00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:54,800
Speaker 3: He was. The difference is irv Retmand knew that Clemeny

264
00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,839
Speaker 3: could throw it from there to third base in the air.

265
00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:01,040
Speaker 3: And make a great throw. The Yankee run for good.

266
00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:02,880
Speaker 2: He forgot he didn't even slide.

267
00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,480
Speaker 3: That can't happen, JEP. Doesn't take away from the amazing

268
00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,719
Speaker 3: throw by Acunya. Let's just be clear. Roberto Clemeny has

269
00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:13,240
Speaker 3: the greatest throwing arm ever. Acunya is amazing, but he's

270
00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:14,800
Speaker 3: not as good as Roberto Clemtty.

271
00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:15,760
Speaker 2: There's so many clips.

272
00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,959
Speaker 1: I love this of Roberto Clemene making throws to home

273
00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:22,360
Speaker 1: with nobody coming right, you know, because they just they're

274
00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:24,720
Speaker 1: just like, we're not going like so he's making this

275
00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,720
Speaker 1: beautiful throw right, catches it right here, right, and there's

276
00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,200
Speaker 1: nobody coming because it's like we're not running on you anyway, dude.

277
00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:34,400
Speaker 3: Why infield was such a great thing to watch when

278
00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,120
Speaker 3: I was growing up and when I was covering early on,

279
00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,920
Speaker 3: I would get to watch these great right fielders throw

280
00:13:39,960 --> 00:13:42,520
Speaker 3: to the plate without anybody running, but you could see

281
00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:45,480
Speaker 3: how strong their arms were. It was great, speaking a

282
00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:49,040
Speaker 3: strong Aaron Judge hit another first inning homer on Sunday.

283
00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,240
Speaker 3: That's thirteen first inning home runs this year. The record

284
00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,720
Speaker 3: is eighteen, set by Judge last year and Alex Rodriguez

285
00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:59,839
Speaker 3: in two thousand and one. So let's keep an eye

286
00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:02,440
Speaker 3: on that and we'll stay in New York. The Mets

287
00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,840
Speaker 3: retired David Writes number five on Saturday in a wonderful,

288
00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:11,600
Speaker 3: heartwarming ceremony at City Field. Did you watch any of it?

289
00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,359
Speaker 2: It was so beautiful.

290
00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,559
Speaker 1: I saw his whole family arrive for it. It was

291
00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:16,880
Speaker 1: a really really special day.

292
00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,160
Speaker 2: And I want to you to tell me this.

293
00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:24,840
Speaker 1: Where does he land amongst the greatest Mets of all time?

294
00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,680
Speaker 3: Well, you understand, Jeff, the Mets have never had an MVP,

295
00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,200
Speaker 3: which is still incredible. They've been there since nineteen sixty

296
00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,960
Speaker 3: two and have never had an MVP. So to answer

297
00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,560
Speaker 3: your question, and this is we're going to throw this

298
00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:39,320
Speaker 3: out there for all Mets fans. We need your help

299
00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,800
Speaker 3: because I find this to be really difficult to answer.

300
00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,640
Speaker 3: Tom severs number one. That's easy. I think Mike Piazza

301
00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,320
Speaker 3: is the second greatest Met of all time. I think

302
00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,160
Speaker 3: David Wright's the third greatest Met of all time, and

303
00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:56,440
Speaker 3: the fourth greatest is is very much up for debate,

304
00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,960
Speaker 3: as is number three. I think also Dwight Gooden, Darryl Straw,

305
00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,800
Speaker 3: Howard Johnson, Jacob de Graham. I mean, picking the four

306
00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,160
Speaker 3: best Mets players of all time. Not easy now, and

307
00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,080
Speaker 3: so let us know in the comments.

308
00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:10,720
Speaker 2: Let us know.

309
00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,680
Speaker 1: You can leave a review, you can comment on social media,

310
00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:15,320
Speaker 1: whatever you want to do. Message us at great Game

311
00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:17,320
Speaker 1: or what dot com if you're a met fan, or

312
00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:18,760
Speaker 1: if you're just a fan of the game and you

313
00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:19,720
Speaker 1: know the game well enough.

314
00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,480
Speaker 3: First time I met David Wright, chip rookie player, and

315
00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,520
Speaker 3: first time we meet him thirty seconds in, I think

316
00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,440
Speaker 3: this guy gets it. This guy understands exactly where he

317
00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,480
Speaker 3: is and what he's doing. And after his rookie year,

318
00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,000
Speaker 3: I'll be close on this story. He goes back and

319
00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:35,840
Speaker 3: lives in his parents' house where he grew up, and

320
00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,960
Speaker 3: he was sleeping on the top bunk with his little

321
00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,640
Speaker 3: brother in the lower bunk. He's a major League baseball

322
00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:44,360
Speaker 3: player sleeping on the top bunk. This is why we

323
00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,720
Speaker 3: have to love David Wright, and we have to love

324
00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,880
Speaker 3: what the Mets did with his number.

325
00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,560
Speaker 1: So if you are having your kids move in with

326
00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,200
Speaker 1: you right now in their twenties, you can ask them,

327
00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,360
Speaker 1: why aren't you playing major League baseball?

328
00:15:57,760 --> 00:15:58,280
Speaker 3: Good point?

329
00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,000
Speaker 1: All right, dad, Let's move on to thes What do

330
00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:01,600
Speaker 1: you have for us?

331
00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,240
Speaker 3: Remember, Jeff, we had the hit by pitch note earlier

332
00:16:04,280 --> 00:16:06,800
Speaker 3: this year that Frank from the Elias found for me

333
00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:09,040
Speaker 3: even though I told him, twenty nine hit batters in

334
00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,280
Speaker 3: one day sounds like a lot. First day in major

335
00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,520
Speaker 3: league history there ever been that many. So the other

336
00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,880
Speaker 3: day TJ. Friedel of the Reds got hit three times

337
00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,400
Speaker 3: in one game. Okay, it's thirty ninth times since nineteen

338
00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,160
Speaker 3: hundred that anyone has been hit three times in a game.

339
00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,400
Speaker 3: That ties the major league record. But the interesting thing

340
00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,280
Speaker 3: is this is the third time this year that a

341
00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,560
Speaker 3: player has been hit three times in the same game.

342
00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:38,040
Speaker 3: Tyler Freeman and CJ. Abrams also got hit three times

343
00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:40,840
Speaker 3: in a game, so we've already done it three times.

344
00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:45,280
Speaker 3: The only other season in which there were three times

345
00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,960
Speaker 3: one batter got hit three times in a game was

346
00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,840
Speaker 3: in two thousand and six. Nomar Garciapara and get this

347
00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:58,120
Speaker 3: reed Johnson got hit by a pitch three times twice

348
00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:02,240
Speaker 3: in the same season, including in the same month. It

349
00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,080
Speaker 3: was April of two thousand and six. He got hit

350
00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,440
Speaker 3: three times in a game, and like three weeks later

351
00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,680
Speaker 3: he got hit three times again. Now he got hit

352
00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:11,919
Speaker 3: a lot. He got hit twenty one times that year,

353
00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,119
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty four times in his career. But

354
00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,400
Speaker 3: I've always been fascinated by hit batters who gets hit

355
00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:19,320
Speaker 3: all the time. I've told you Mickey Mantle got hit

356
00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:24,240
Speaker 3: thirteen times in his entire career, Tony Gwynn twenty four

357
00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,680
Speaker 3: times in his entire career. Really great players fight away

358
00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,000
Speaker 3: to not get hit because they don't need to get

359
00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,280
Speaker 3: hit in order to get on base.

360
00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,040
Speaker 1: Well, Tony Gwynn famously was afraid to break his own

361
00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,520
Speaker 1: bat up there, right, So he's not one to crowd

362
00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,159
Speaker 1: the plate. I liked, you know, he's the one to

363
00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,399
Speaker 1: let the ball come to him, because every time he

364
00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:43,120
Speaker 1: break a bat, it was like losing a family brighter.

365
00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,879
Speaker 3: Absolutely, So I looked up eleven different guys have had

366
00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:52,359
Speaker 3: three thousand plate appearances in their major league career and

367
00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:56,960
Speaker 3: been hit less fewer than three times in their careers.

368
00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,400
Speaker 3: And these guys got hit three times in one game.

369
00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,720
Speaker 3: John Cruk, our all time hero Cruoky, he got hit

370
00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,480
Speaker 3: twice in four thousand, six hundred and three played appearances.

371
00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,639
Speaker 3: So TJ. Friedel got hit more times in one game

372
00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,159
Speaker 3: than Krucky got hit in four thousand, six hundred and

373
00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,000
Speaker 3: three played appearance. That's the most played appearances. For anyone

374
00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,080
Speaker 3: with fewer than three hit batters. And of course Mark

375
00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:24,199
Speaker 3: Lemke holds the all time major league record. He had

376
00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,679
Speaker 3: three thousand, six hundred and sixty four played appearances and

377
00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:31,080
Speaker 3: never got hit by a pitch. And the interesting part

378
00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:36,720
Speaker 3: is Krucky and Mark Lemke were absolutely fearless baseball players.

379
00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:38,720
Speaker 3: So if anyone ever says, oh, they were afraid of

380
00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:41,320
Speaker 3: the ball, they didn't want to get hit, complete opposite

381
00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,560
Speaker 3: with them. Lemke was a switch hitter, and it's just

382
00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,240
Speaker 3: incredible to me that you could bat, you know, three

383
00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:50,639
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty times a year for ten years and

384
00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,840
Speaker 3: not get hit by a pitch. That's what happened to

385
00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:53,480
Speaker 3: Mark Lemke.

386
00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I didn't play much ball in my life,

387
00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,040
Speaker 1: but I mean nine to you right when you start,

388
00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:01,240
Speaker 1: kid pitch, I got it five times in a game.

389
00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,399
Speaker 2: I think kids have no control.

390
00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:06,120
Speaker 3: Right of course, like the big leaders. And that's that's

391
00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,720
Speaker 3: part of the hit batter you know, crazy we got now, Jeff,

392
00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,880
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of guys with violent stuff who

393
00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,080
Speaker 3: don't really know how to command it. And that's why

394
00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:17,120
Speaker 3: the hit by pitch rate is where it is. Hey,

395
00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,720
Speaker 3: Elias Diaz had two squeeze bunths in one game the

396
00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,480
Speaker 3: other day? How about bad? So his batting line was

397
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:27,520
Speaker 3: one at bad zero hits, zero run scored two RBIs

398
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,800
Speaker 3: one zero zero two. But I checked Brett Wisely of

399
00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:34,320
Speaker 3: the Giants had two squeeze bunths already this year, so

400
00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,879
Speaker 3: he's not the first guy to do it. Just another reminder, Jeff,

401
00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,359
Speaker 3: when you're looking for first of all time or first

402
00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,919
Speaker 3: in a long time, baseball seems to make things happen

403
00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:47,479
Speaker 3: all the time. Did you check with Elias about Elias?

404
00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:52,159
Speaker 3: I called Frank from the Elias about Elias Diaz. I

405
00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:52,680
Speaker 3: did there.

406
00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:53,359
Speaker 2: You're well done.

407
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,600
Speaker 3: I love it. It's great, all right, all right. We

408
00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,399
Speaker 3: had some great pictures of record this week, Jeff. We

409
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:06,040
Speaker 3: had the Bailey Falter Jonathan Cannon picture of Record Falter Cannon, Falter, Cannon,

410
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,640
Speaker 3: cannon falter. Yeah, yeah, I would have been pretty bad

411
00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:12,240
Speaker 3: on what a pirate ship or something?

412
00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,040
Speaker 2: You can't have your cannon's faltering?

413
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 3: Right? Well, I found that one an interest.

414
00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 1: Jack Sparrow would not have been happy with that one.

415
00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,120
Speaker 3: We had a great one on Sunday, brought to us

416
00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,480
Speaker 3: by Steve Sparks, who for a former Major League picture

417
00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,760
Speaker 3: was on our podcast. He's definitely our boy. I am

418
00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:33,320
Speaker 3: now convinced he's the biggest seam head of any former

419
00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:36,199
Speaker 3: player that I have ever met. Because he sent me

420
00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:41,760
Speaker 3: this last night, I'd already recognized it. Caleb Ort and

421
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,640
Speaker 3: Brian Wu were the Pictures of Records, so we had

422
00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:48,240
Speaker 3: an Ort Wu. Now it doesn't form anything, but he

423
00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:52,119
Speaker 3: just wrote me a very few letters in the Pictures

424
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:52,800
Speaker 3: of Record.

425
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,600
Speaker 1: Well, if you put him together, you could say, hey,

426
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 1: can you look at this wart on my well.

427
00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,800
Speaker 3: I tried to make something out of Ort and Wo.

428
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,920
Speaker 3: But you know, we only had four letters that we're

429
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:04,840
Speaker 3: dealing with here, three o's.

430
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 1: We had a member of the family, as we call them,

431
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 1: people who listened to our show. Remember when Steve Sparks

432
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 1: gave us, he sent in an attendance, right, and I

433
00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 1: think it was Palin Dramer thirty three and three right, yeah,

434
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,960
Speaker 1: wrong here, yeah.

435
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 3: But somebody messages us and said, I can't believe you

436
00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 3: guys missed this. Three to three is the area code

437
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 3: in which they were playing in That is I'm telling you, Jeff,

438
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,040
Speaker 3: we have some very clever readers, and I'm bommed.

439
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,000
Speaker 1: I don't have it on me like this. Is just

440
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,400
Speaker 1: coming up because we brought Steve Sparks. So whoever you are,

441
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:38,919
Speaker 1: you know who you are, you messaged me.

442
00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 3: And I responded because Steve Sparks is our guy, right,

443
00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 3: So I looked it up the last time we had

444
00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 3: and this is a little surprising, a three letter last

445
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 3: name for the winning and losing picture last year, Luise

446
00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 3: Heel of the Yankees last year, and Brian wu And

447
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three we had Colin Ray and Drew Rahm,

448
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,239
Speaker 3: and we had Dylan Lee and Derek Laws. So it

449
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 3: wasn't nearly as unusual as I thought it was gonna

450
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 3: be three letters. I mean, no pitchers ever pitched with

451
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,159
Speaker 3: fewer than three letters in his last name, and we

452
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,200
Speaker 3: had two. So we've had four three letter matchups in

453
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:13,880
Speaker 3: the last three years.

454
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,880
Speaker 1: I always think three letters just kind of looks funny

455
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 1: on a jersey. But I would take that over Crow

456
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 1: Armstrong on a jersey any day of the week, right,

457
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 1: poor guy. I mean, he's got his letters down his

458
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 1: ribkekes right, a lot of letters, but there's there's a

459
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,600
Speaker 1: hyphen in there, right still, But I mean, right, it's

460
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,680
Speaker 1: not salta imachia. You're right, right, all right in speaking

461
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 1: of corkschinstad and speaking of members of our family who

462
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: are sending things in. Josh Rosen sent this and I'm

463
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 1: gonna I'm just gonna read it what he wrote, Hello,

464
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 1: Tim and Jeff. I immediately thought of you two after

465
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,320
Speaker 1: leaving today's July twentieth Angels Phillies game.

466
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,320
Speaker 2: At Citizens Bank Park.

467
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: First of all, awesome that he was thinking of us, right,

468
00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: and right means he's in the area and we're filming

469
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: and skip back Pennsylvania.

470
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 2: The Angels won eight to two.

471
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 1: In a thorough drum in every facet sounds like a

472
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: Phillies fan right there. But the most fascinating is that

473
00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 1: the Phillies made twenty seven outs as to all losing teams, right,

474
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 1: but not a single one was to the outfield. There

475
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: were twenty groundouts, including double plays, six strikeouts, and a

476
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: line out to third.

477
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:17,200
Speaker 2: To end the game.

478
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: My question is, when was the last time a team

479
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 1: made no outfield outs in a game?

480
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 2: If ever? Thanks thank you Josh for this great one.

481
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 3: Well, I called Frank from the Elias because I wouldn't

482
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 3: know how to find that on my own, and to

483
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 3: my astonishment, it's happened two other times this season an

484
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 3: a team did not have an outfield put out in

485
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 3: a game. Which do you find that odd too?

486
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 1: I was really hoping because I told you this on

487
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: my ride home. You called Frank in the matter of

488
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,160
Speaker 1: about five minutes.

489
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I told Frank, I said, our relationship might end

490
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 3: with this question, but I need your help very quickly.

491
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 3: Can you tell me? And like a minute later he

492
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 3: had the answer, That's what Frank is capable of doing.

493
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 3: I was hoping this would be not since the live

494
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 3: ball era have we seen it, right, seeing a team

495
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 3: go an entire game without an outfield put out?

496
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,360
Speaker 1: Well, it was interesting during I was watching the game

497
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,760
Speaker 1: that game, and you know the Tom McCarthy was saying, like,

498
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: nobody's really hit a ball hard today, Yeah, because nobody's

499
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 1: even gotten it out on the infield at that point. Now,

500
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,879
Speaker 1: they did end up having a solo homer, thank goodness,

501
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: but no no outs made by the outfielders.

502
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 2: They must have been pretty.

503
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 3: Bored out right, it must have been. Yeah. So on.

504
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 3: On June the twenty fifth, nineteen seventy six, Jeff Toby

505
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:33,360
Speaker 3: Harra played a double header for the Texas Rangers at

506
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 3: shortstop against the White Sox. And did not have a

507
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 3: put out or an assist in the game. So it's

508
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 3: the only shortstop stop. It's the only time in Major

509
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 3: league history that anyone's played a double header at shortstop

510
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:52,080
Speaker 3: without a putout or an assist. Travis Jackson, Hall of Famer,

511
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 3: had the previous record where he had one total chance

512
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 3: in a doubleheader and Toby Harra came along and broke it.

513
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 3: Toby Harra also so drove in eight runs in the doubleheader,

514
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 3: but defensively he had no chances. And what is so

515
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 3: special about Toby Harrah?

516
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 2: Toby Hara?

517
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 3: What's his last name?

518
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 2: It's a Palandra.

519
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,919
Speaker 3: There you go, look at that. Not too many of that?

520
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you better knock in eight runs if

521
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 1: you're not doing anything on the field, right, might be a.

522
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 3: Tea help defensively. So I asked Toby about that because

523
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 3: I covered it with the Rangers. I said, Toby, how

524
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 3: is that possible? And he just looked at me and

525
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 3: he goes, that was a weird day. Well, of course

526
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 3: it was. You're the shortstop. You should be involved in

527
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 3: every plight, right all right. Lastly, for the for the

528
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 3: Quirkschin Jeff Xander Bogart's hit his eighth Grand Slam of

529
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 3: his career, So he has many Grand Slams as Willy

530
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,199
Speaker 3: Mays eight Willie Mays, Xander Boguards. Xander Bogart is a

531
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,199
Speaker 3: good player. Willie Mays now has the same number of

532
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 3: Grand Slams as Xander Bogart.

533
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: Up next to is this a great game? Or what

534
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 1: on this state? In baseball history? Dad has a special

535
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: team tim for the shorties out there.

536
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 3: You know what A yeah, it's up shorty. Have you

537
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 3: ever said that to somebody? Hey shawty, No, I've been.

538
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 3: People have called me that, but not It's like a

539
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,120
Speaker 3: fun nickname to call someone. They mean it like literally

540
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 3: for me. Yeah.

541
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so we'll do that and then we're going

542
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:16,880
Speaker 2: to bring it back. It's in the cards.

543
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: We're going to open a deck of cards and talk

544
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: about the players. It's all coming up next on this

545
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: is a great game or what on this state baseball history?

546
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: Welcome back to is this a great game?

547
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:31,640
Speaker 3: Or what?

548
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 2: What do you have today? Dad? For July the twenty second.

549
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 3: Well on this date in nineteen thirty Philly's picture Phil Collins.

550
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 3: Phil Collins hit a home run in the fourth and

551
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 3: fifth inning of a game it's unusual for a picture

552
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 3: did two homers in a game, especially in back to

553
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 3: back innings.

554
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 2: Do you know what he said to the opposing picture.

555
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 3: No, he said I could feel it in the air tonight.

556
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 3: That's what he told me. When well, that's what I

557
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 3: heard he said before the game.

558
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: I thought he whispered to the opposing picture, come stop

559
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 1: your crying.

560
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 2: It'll be all right. Just take my hand, hold it.

561
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 3: Tight, right, Jeff. That's pretty all someome good Phil Collins

562
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 3: wrap And that's from Tarzan. Tarzan, and that's the song

563
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 3: that Kelly and I danced to at her wedding.

564
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a very emotional moment. That's one of

565
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: our favorite songs sometimetime.

566
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:27,360
Speaker 3: I cried all the way through that. By the way,

567
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 3: I took four dance lessons. Guy came into the house

568
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 3: to give me dance lessons just to prep for one

569
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,720
Speaker 3: dance with Kelly Kirkchin on the day she got married.

570
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 3: And I was really bad fourth lesson, so I've already

571
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 3: gone through three. He looked at me very politely, said

572
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 3: still little stiff, And I told him, I said, I'm

573
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 3: more wooden than Pinocchio. You know that I can't dance

574
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 3: and then the kicker is I Kelly criticism. Kelly actually

575
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:04,360
Speaker 3: made a minor mistake in the father Daughter dance, and

576
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 3: I was not the one that made the mistake. What

577
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 3: are the chances of that? I would have put a

578
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 3: lot of money down gambling wise, the dancing's not your future. Yeah,

579
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 3: I remember that he was a funny dance instructor, and

580
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 3: I was a terrible dancer and still am. And I

581
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:23,680
Speaker 3: don't think there's ever hope me getting better. Agree, Well, yeah.

582
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: Dad, you're sixty eight. Can't teach an old dog nu

583
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: dance moves?

584
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 3: All right? This date in nineteen sixty, Ted Williams stole

585
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 3: a base. So he stole He's one of four players

586
00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 3: to steal a base in four different decades. Ted Williams

587
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 3: stole twenty four bases in his career, got caught seventeen times.

588
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 3: But because how his career began, it began in thirty nine,

589
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 3: it ended in sixty he stole a base in four

590
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 3: different decades.

591
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 2: Do you have the other I do?

592
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 3: Can I?

593
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:53,080
Speaker 2: Can I take a game?

594
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 3: You can?

595
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:54,479
Speaker 2: Pete Rose?

596
00:28:54,800 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 3: No, no, try, Pete Rose didn't start till sixty three. No, no, Ricky, Yeah,

597
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 3: Pete Rose could have but he didn't. Rickey Henderson did.

598
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 3: Ricky Henderson did. Got to think of longevity. This guy

599
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 3: is a shortstop who has all the vowels in his name.

600
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 3: The one that you Marvis skel Yes, very good, and

601
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 3: the last one is on our all short Hall of

602
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 3: Fame team. He played first base when I played second

603
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 3: base for an inning in the celebrity softball game.

604
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 2: Tim Rains, there you go, there it is.

605
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 3: So it's Tim Rains, Omarvis skel Ted, Williams, Ricky Henderson

606
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 3: a stolen base in four different decades.

607
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 2: It's a pretty good lineup right there.

608
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 3: Yeah. And speaking of good lineups, on this date in

609
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty nine, Carlistremsky umpire, Al Barlick in field of

610
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 3: Red Shandy's and Johnny Bench all went into the Hall

611
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 3: of Fame. And I bring that up, Jeff, as we

612
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 3: think about the Hall of Fame coming up. And I

613
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 3: don't want to be corny about this, but the most

614
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 3: powerful part of any Hall of Fame weekend is when

615
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 3: so Johnny Bench gets to the guys who enter the

616
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame and takes him out on the veranda

617
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 3: and has him look at that beautiful lake and says

618
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 3: I want you to look at that lake for one minute.

619
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 3: I don't want you to say a word. I just

620
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 3: want you to think about where you are, how you

621
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 3: got here, and who helped you get here. It's the

622
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 3: most emotional thing. He He did this with me when

623
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:27,280
Speaker 3: I was honored by the Hall of Fame three years ago,

624
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 3: and it's still the most powerful thing professionally that has

625
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 3: ever happened to me. Johnny Bench and I sat out

626
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 3: on that verana and looked at that lake. It was amazing.

627
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: Another shameless promotion of tomorrow's interview with Billy Wagner, who

628
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: will enter the Hall of Fame this weekend. We're going

629
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: to dive more into the inductees of this weekend on

630
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 1: Thursday's episode. So make sure you keep listening. You subscribe

631
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: wherever you're listening right now. Follow, you know, share it

632
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: with a friend, all that good stuff. Leave us a

633
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: review too, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, all that stuff.

634
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 3: We're not done yet. I know I usually do that

635
00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 3: at the end, but I thought I would add it. Dad,

636
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 3: You've been tea The short Guy Team Tim. What do

637
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 3: you Got for Us? By Jeff One of my favorite

638
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,320
Speaker 3: things about baseball, as I've told you a million times.

639
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 3: It's open to all shapes and sizes as long as

640
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 3: you have the skill to play the sport. It really

641
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 3: doesn't matter how big or small you are, but you

642
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,560
Speaker 3: better have strong hands otherwise you're not gonna make it

643
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 3: in this sport. So I looked up and I think

644
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 3: I've got this right. The shortest guys at each position.

645
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 3: If not, we're really really close on this. Yogi Barra

646
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 3: is our catcher. He's five foot seven and he won

647
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 3: three MVPs and finished second twice. So let's not forget

648
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 3: how great a player Yogi Bear was. I a little

649
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 3: trouble at first base finding a really short first baseman.

650
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 3: Jake Beckley, who played a long time ago, is five

651
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 3: foot ten. He's our shortest second baseman. Joe's first basement. Sorry,

652
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 3: Joe Soole is our second baseman. He's five to six.

653
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 3: Joe Morgan is five to seven. Joe sull is the

654
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 3: guy who played an entire season and struck out three

655
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 3: times the entire season. And Jeff we've had had twenty

656
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 3: four now twenty four guys this year, twenty four times

657
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 3: as a leadoff hitter, struck out four times in a

658
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 3: game this season, and Joe Sewell didn't strike out four

659
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 3: times for an entire season. That's how much the game

660
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 3: has changed, all right, third base was hard to find

661
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 3: a really short guy. George Kell five foot nine is

662
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 3: our third baseman. Rabbit Moranville. They just don't have names

663
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 3: like that now they don't. He's our Hall of Fame

664
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 3: shortstop five foot five. Had a bunch of shorties, you know,

665
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 3: Phil Rizzuto five to six, that type of thing. We

666
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 3: Willie Keeler.

667
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: I mean, is there my favorite stratomatic card out there?

668
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 3: Right?

669
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 2: Eight plus plus stealing?

670
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 3: Right right? We Willy Keeler. What a perfect nickname for

671
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 3: a guy who is five foot four in the Hall

672
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 3: of Fame. Amazing Hack Wilson who drove in one hundred

673
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 3: and ninety one runs in nineteen thirty. He was five

674
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 3: foot six and he had a five and a half

675
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 3: size shoe. What yeah, I have a seven and a

676
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 3: half shoe, he wears he wore a five and a

677
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 3: half size shoe.

678
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 2: You're down to seven and a half.

679
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 3: I'm getting shorter, and my feet are getting shorter.

680
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: Your feet are getting smaller. Yeah, you know what is

681
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: the greatest pain in the world. Then, as we grow older,

682
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: the only things that continue to grow are your nose

683
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: and your ears.

684
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 2: It's a true story.

685
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: I'm not even being funny. Well, and you're a case

686
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: study for that. Yeah, obviously have you seeing my daddy

687
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: Pat's ears? God bless his heart. Him and I both

688
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: we have.

689
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 2: Very low hanging ears. And he's got sixty years on me.

690
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 3: Who's got the smallest ears of any guests we've ever had?

691
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 3: You remember the smallest ears? Remember this now our first guest,

692
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 3: each of the first two.

693
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 2: Oh, Eduardo Perez does have really small years. You've talked

694
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 2: to him about that.

695
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 3: I've known him for fifteen years. I finally looked at

696
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 3: his ears the other day and I said, oh my god,

697
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 3: look how smaller ears are, And he goes, you just

698
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 3: figured that out. I got the smallest ears ever.

699
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: I think him and Emily Kirkschen, my wife, probably similar

700
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: sized ears. But she's four foot ten and didn't play

701
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: Major League baseball.

702
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 3: Big difference, all right. Tim Rain's our third outfield, Yeah,

703
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 3: five foot eight. Clark Griffith is the shortest picture we

704
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 3: can find in the Hall of Fame. He's nineteen hundred

705
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 3: on he was five foot six. And Billy Wagner is

706
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 3: our relief pitcher just out of you know, because he's

707
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 3: just going in claims he's five to ten. I don't

708
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,479
Speaker 3: care if he's five to ten or six'. Ten he's

709
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 3: short and he's, great and he's going into The hall

710
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 3: Of fame On sunday and he. Will he was a

711
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 3: spectacular guest for us tomorrow.

712
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 2: Night check that.

713
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: Interview make sure to follow so it pops up on your.

714
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: Feed you can enable, downloads all that.

715
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 2: Stuff you. Know people always ask Us dad, like how

716
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 2: can we support the?

717
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 3: Podcast number one thing you can do just hit that

718
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 3: follow or subscribe.

719
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: Button and remember we're on, YouTube so if you.

720
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: Like watching YouTube, videos subscribe to us on YouTube full video.

721
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: Podcast everything you hear every week is actually videoed for

722
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: YouTube as. Well it's in the card Stat are you?

723
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,280
Speaker 1: Ready oh, Yeah And i'll rip them as they, SAY

724
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: i found this in cleaning out my unfinished.

725
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 3: Faces, yeah you did a great. Job and you found

726
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 3: my box score, book WHICH i need to take home

727
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 3: just as proof THAT i cut out every box more

728
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 3: of every game for twenty straight years like a fifth. Grader,

729
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 3: okay so we're gonna start off With we've Got Curtis

730
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 3: mead of The, Rays Curtis mead is From, australia SO

731
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 3: i asked, him, like how did you end up in

732
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,959
Speaker 3: the big? Leagues and he, said, well we didn't play

733
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 3: much baseball WHERE i was, from and he SAID i

734
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 3: routinely had to play against people who were older than.

735
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 3: Me so he, SAID i was like ten years old

736
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 3: AND i was playing against adults like twenty year old

737
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 3: because they didn't have enough, players AND i was pretty

738
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 3: good and all that. Stuff so his, his you, know

739
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 3: route to the major leagues was different than almost anybody.

740
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 2: Else what's the favorite toy of every girl In? Australia The?

741
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 3: Bobby, hey not, Bad it's pretty, good, RIGHT i just

742
00:35:58,640 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 3: made that up out of.

743
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: Nowhere thank, you Says suzuki of The.

744
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 3: Cubs still not sure how we didn't make The All star. Team,

745
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 3: SHOCKED i, mean with so many extra guys who made,

746
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 3: it with guys being dropped off and everything. Else but,

747
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 3: Look All Star, game win The. Pennant what's more? Important

748
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 3: cubs winning the Penn it's more important than that. Guy

749
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 3: if they, do will have a huge hand in that.

750
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: And they'll have to hold off the very Hot. Brewers

751
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: as we talked to you. Earlier, ABSOLUTELY i meant to

752
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: say this. Earlier how incredible would it be The brewers

753
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: make a run for the first full season after the

754
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: passing Of Bob.

755
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 3: Buker, well don't think That yuke isn't up in heaven

756
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 3: right now pulling some. STRINGS i. THINK i know it sounds,

757
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 3: corny BUT i believe in that. Stuff you, know your,

758
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,919
Speaker 3: grandfather my, Dad pop was pulling strings for The Red,

759
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 3: sox his beloved team in two thousand and. Four Remember

760
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 3: pop was born in nineteen. Nineteen he died in two

761
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 3: thousand and. Three he was alive for eighty four, years

762
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 3: and he was not alive during Any Championship World Series

763
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 3: championship season by The Red. Sox so when they won

764
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 3: in two thousand and, four we thought Maybe pops up

765
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 3: and having pulling some strings for The Red, Sox AND

766
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 3: i have no Doubt Bob buker is doing the same

767
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 3: for The, brewers, who LIKE i, said are really good

768
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 3: and are going to be a. Nightmare In, October.

769
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 2: Pete alonzo of The New York.

770
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 3: Mets Pete alonso had had played in three hundred and

771
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 3: fifty three consecutive games and then because of a right hand,

772
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 3: contusion did not Start sunday's game against The, reds but

773
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 3: he played in the, game so he extended his game

774
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 3: streak to three fifty, four which is the longest in franchise.

775
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 3: History Pete Alonzo, postman he shows up all the time

776
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 3: ready to, go and he had a Great All star

777
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 3: game and a three run homer that would have won

778
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 3: it if you, know The American league hadn't tied it

779
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 3: in the bottom of the ninth and.

780
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 2: Back to Back mets and this Pack Dad Brandon Nimmo.

781
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 3: Well is one of my favorite guys because he's such

782
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 3: a normal. Guy and of course he grew up In

783
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 3: wyoming and all the people in his family were, cowboys

784
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 3: and that was what he was going to be when

785
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 3: he was growing. Up he was going to be a.

786
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 3: Cowboy and then he started playing. Baseball they didn't even

787
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 3: have a high school baseball team where he played because

788
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 3: it's such a small. State but he, REALIZED i have

789
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,399
Speaker 3: some baseball, skills So i'm not going to go ride

790
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:27,319
Speaker 3: a horse for a. LIVING i did ask, him were

791
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 3: you really good on a? Horse he goes everyone in

792
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,479
Speaker 3: our family was good on a, horse but he chose

793
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 3: baseball as he should. Have.

794
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 2: Instead Billy wagner, tomorrow, right.

795
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 3: And then we have another podcast like we do Every,

796
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 3: Thursday and On, thursday we'll talk more About Billy wagner's.

797
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 3: Career we'll talk ABOUT Cc, Sabathia we'll talk about Each,

798
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,919
Speaker 3: Rosuzuki we'll talk About Dick. Allen we're going to talk

799
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 3: About Dave. Parker we're going to talk about all the

800
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 3: guys who are going into The hall Of fame On.

801
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 3: Sunday it is a, magical magical day In. Cooperstown that

802
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 3: town is, ludicrous charming AND i cannot wait to go

803
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 3: back On.

804
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: Friday and make sure that if you see my, dad

805
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: if you're going to The hall Of, fame if you're

806
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: going To, cooperstown if you see, him you just got

807
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 1: to tell, Him, Hey i'm part of the. Family, yeah

808
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: and he'll know that you're a podcast. Listener, well thank

809
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: you so much for. Listening, Dad thanks for coming. HERE

810
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: i know you got to get you got to get

811
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: home to that dog so you can clean up all

812
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: of the poop and pea spots on the.

813
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 3: Carpet rexy is doing better. Better her AND i have

814
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 3: had a nice. CHAT i told HER i was considering

815
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 3: changing her name To egypt because she keeps leaving pyramids

816
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 3: all over the. House BUT i think she got the

817
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 3: hint and we're doing.

818
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 1: Better thank you so much for, listening and as, always

819
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: thank you for being a part of our.

820
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 2: Family