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Speaker 2: Yeah. And I even have my shirt on correctly today

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Speaker 2: This is very appropriate too, little guys with a Little

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Speaker 2: The point is, you look, it looks great and this

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Speaker 1: We have paired up with our friends at the Foul

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Speaker 1: in order to continue to create great content for all

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Speaker 1: And the most important thing to realize before we get

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Speaker 2: And I'm thrilled because among the other people will be

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Speaker 2: And that was discouraging to me, because again, I covered

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Speaker 5: That is saying this.

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Speaker 1: I know both reasons from both sides as to what's

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Speaker 2: Yeah? What are we gonna talk to Gerlin country music?

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Speaker 2: We're in big trouble if there's no baseball next year.

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Speaker 2: So we'll figure this out, Jeff. We're gonna keep it.

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Speaker 1: You know what we could do, Dad, We could just

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Speaker 3: That was nineteen seventy seven?

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Speaker 3: Didn't go? Eh?

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Speaker 2: His always went well? Mine always went poorly. That's okay,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw the Dodgers, Jeff, and we all know

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Speaker 3: But it's very interesting.

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Speaker 2: This guy made a very clear point that this is

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Speaker 3: Right. I went to see the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: They just tie the score four to four. The Dodgers

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Speaker 2: Sox thinking that they're better than I thought they were.

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Speaker 2: I thought they were improved with their offseason. They made

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Speaker 2: the playoffs last year. But now they've got Roman Anthony Back.

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Speaker 2: They've got a really good starting rotation with your boy

444
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Speaker 2: Ranger Suarez in it, and with Garrett Crochet at the top.

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Speaker 2: They have three quality left handed starting pitchers. Their bullpens

446
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Speaker 2: a little thin, but with Anthony Back and Marcello Meyer's

447
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Speaker 2: going to play second base, and Trevor Story if they

448
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Speaker 2: can keep him healthy, and you know william or Bray,

449
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Speaker 2: who's gonna hit thirty homers if he's healthy. So I

450
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Speaker 2: left thinking, you know, I'm not saying they're going to

451
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Speaker 2: beat the Blue Jays and Yankees for sure and win

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Speaker 2: the division. But I liked what I saw and heard

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Speaker 2: from the Red Sox yesterday in Duneed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's really great. And I think if

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure everybody knows when we talk

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Speaker 1: spring training, if you haven't gone and seen your team

457
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Speaker 1: in spring training, you're missing out because whether you're in

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Speaker 1: dun Eden or Clearwater or Scottsdale, wherever it might be,

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Speaker 1: it is magical. And Dad, I have so much jealousy

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Speaker 1: and my only dream for this darn show of ours

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Speaker 1: is to do a show from spring training. I don't

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Speaker 1: care what park we're at. I just want to be

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Speaker 1: down there. I just want to see the people. When

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Speaker 1: Alex Coorr is walking around and just says, hey, Timmy,

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Speaker 1: and you guys talk, these are the things that only

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Speaker 1: really happened at spring training, Dad, And I'm sure, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to put you.

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Speaker 4: On the spot, but you can speak to it. With

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Speaker 4: the way teams have changed.

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Speaker 1: Over the years, with everything a lot more corporate, right,

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Speaker 1: Managers just aren't popping around, players aren't taking VP during

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Speaker 1: the regular season like they used to and sign in

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Speaker 1: autographs and hanging with the kids. But spring training still

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Speaker 1: has that appeal right right.

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Speaker 2: There is still time, Jeff to you know, as we

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Speaker 2: talked about two weeks ago, things happened in spring training

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Speaker 2: that just don't happen during the regular season. I believe

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Speaker 2: it was one of our great listeners. John Woodward wrote

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Speaker 2: in that he went to he was in there. He

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Speaker 2: lives I guess he lives in Arizona and he was

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Speaker 2: driving past I think it was a Chick fil A

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Speaker 2: and there were two players from the Mariners who were

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Speaker 2: in full uniform and they were in a golf cart

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Speaker 2: and they were drive through the.

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Speaker 3: Checkout window at the Chick fil A.

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Speaker 2: And so just when we were saying, only in baseball,

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Speaker 2: I mean only in spring training can things happen. Trust me,

488
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Speaker 2: that's not happening in the regular season in Seattle. So

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Speaker 2: he was listening to our podcast as we were explaining,

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Speaker 2: you know, you know, Jeremy Guthrie rode his bike in

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Speaker 2: full uniform to a game with his glove on his handlebars.

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Speaker 2: As we're talking about that, John Woodward is driving and

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Speaker 2: he sees two Seattle Mariners full uniform in a golf

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Speaker 2: cart picking up food from Chick fil A.

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Speaker 3: Is that not beautiful or what?

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Speaker 4: It's the most beautiful thing.

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Speaker 1: And it's the most beautiful waffle fry I've ever had

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Speaker 1: as well, not an ad but I'm telling you, nothing

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Speaker 1: can beat those fries with some Chick fil A sauce?

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Speaker 5: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 3: It's pretty good? Okay.

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Speaker 2: And then there's our pal Bill Chuck from Billy Ball,

503
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Speaker 2: who does loven stack that is just great. His baseball

504
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Speaker 2: knowledge is unparalleled. He is a really fun and hilarious guy.

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Speaker 2: You really need to read what he writes on a

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Speaker 2: daily basis.

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Speaker 4: And you using substack in a sentence that quickly and

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Speaker 4: that smoothly. I'm extremely impressed with you, Dad, right.

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Speaker 3: A complete sentence substack.

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Speaker 2: I learned that phrase about a month ago, and I've

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Speaker 2: used it about five times since. So Bill Chuck sends

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Speaker 2: me this and says, I bet you've gotten this from

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Speaker 2: at least a dozen people. Well, I didn't get it

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Speaker 2: from anybody except for him, because only he can see

515
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Speaker 2: things like this. But the Brewers used a picture named

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Speaker 2: Drew Rahm rom and against the White Sox used a

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Speaker 2: hitter named Drew Romo. So we had a Drew ram

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Speaker 2: against a Drew Romo. That would qualify as a quirk gin.

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Speaker 2: But we don't have them in spring training, but we

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Speaker 2: will once the season starts. I can't wait for that

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Speaker 2: because that's my favorite part of every podcast that we do,

522
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Speaker 2: the quirky, funny, weirdo things that happen all the time.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for that, Bill Chuck. And last thing,

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Speaker 2: Jeff Bruce Framing died the other day. He umpired the

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Speaker 2: third most games in Major League history, behind Joe West

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Speaker 2: and Bill Clem. Bruce Freming was one of my favorite

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Speaker 2: people umpires that I was ever around. He had a

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Speaker 2: great sense of humor and never took himself too seriously,

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Speaker 2: and he was in the middle of so many amazing

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Speaker 2: moments in baseball history. Just go google him. We don't

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Speaker 2: have time to go over all of them here, but

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget. In the eighty six All Star Game,

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Speaker 2: Jeff he was working the plate. Roger Clemens comes to

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Speaker 2: the plate for the American League batting in the All

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Speaker 2: Star Game, and he's facing Dwight Gooden, who's throwing, you know,

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Speaker 2: ninety seven miles now with a riding fastball.

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Speaker 3: That's just ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: And Clemens hadn't faced anybody since a real pitcher since

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Speaker 2: high school because of the d ah.

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Speaker 3: So the first pitch.

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Speaker 2: Comes in and Roger looks at it, ninety seven rioting fastball,

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Speaker 2: and he looks at Bruce Freming and goes, Bruce, do

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Speaker 2: I throw that hard? And Bruce Freming says, yes, Roger,

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Speaker 2: you throw that hard. And Roger went wow, And that

545
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 2: was an epiphanty for him that nobody can hit that pitch.

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Speaker 2: If it's thrown that hard, I know I can't anymore,

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Speaker 2: he said, but major league hit it. So that's when

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00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 2: Roger Clements really started throwing his fastball more often. After

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Speaker 2: facing Dwight Gooden and Bruce Freming was the homeplate umpire

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Speaker 2: in that game. Rest in peace, Bruce, one of the

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Speaker 2: best umpires of all time.

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Speaker 4: On this date in baseball history, Dad, what do you

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Speaker 4: have for us?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: On this date nineteen sixty, pitcher Chuck Carey was born,

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Speaker 2: and he pitched a little for the Yankees and White

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Speaker 2: Sox a few others, and he didn't pitch for a

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Speaker 2: long time, but I used this note for Sports Illustrated

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Speaker 2: a long time ago. I think just when he pitched

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Speaker 2: for the Yankees, he would leave a ticket for every

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Speaker 2: game for Joe Jackson, not the Joe Shoeless Joe Jackson,

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Speaker 2: but for Joe Jackson, the songwriter the brit I think

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Speaker 2: he's a British singer. I don't think Joe Jackson ever

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Speaker 2: showed up to get the ticket, but it was part

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Speaker 2: of Chuck Carrey's pregame. I'm leaving a ticket for Joe

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Speaker 2: Jackson just in case he comes to our game today.

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Speaker 3: How about that.

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Speaker 2: It's like it's like Cornbread Maxwell of the formerly of

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Speaker 2: the Celtics, he used to go into the airport and

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Speaker 2: every time he went to the airport, he would he

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Speaker 2: would page Dolph Shase because he loved that. Dolph Shase,

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Speaker 2: of course was a great, great college basketball player, a

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Speaker 2: really good NBA player, And every time Cedric Maxwell would

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Speaker 2: go into the airport, he would page Dolph Shase. And

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Speaker 2: one time Dolph Shase was actually in the airport and

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Speaker 2: he picked up the phone and then I think Cornbread

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Speaker 2: just kind of hug up the focus. He didn't know

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Speaker 2: what to say.

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Speaker 4: Oh God, so much shot in the dark and it

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Speaker 4: worked out that one time.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: A couple other things.

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Speaker 2: Matt Trenor, former catcher, was born on this date in

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six, and I've always got a kick out

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Speaker 2: of this, Jeff. He was part of a click of

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Speaker 2: backup catchers. They all kind of had this little camaraderie

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Speaker 2: between them because they all had the same job. Every

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Speaker 2: spring they go to spring training trying to make another team.

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Speaker 2: And Quirky Miller, what a perfect name for a backup

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Speaker 2: catcher told me once that he saw Matt Trainer and

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Speaker 2: they just looked at each other. They're on opposing teams,

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Speaker 2: and he said, you know, still hanging in there. And

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Speaker 2: Matt Trainer said, like, here we go again. We're trying

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Speaker 2: to make another club. And there's a special bond, a

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Speaker 2: special fellowship between career backup catchers.

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Speaker 3: I've always loved them. That's great.

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Speaker 2: And on this date in twenty twenty four, Jeff ed

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Speaker 2: Ott died, and Odd was one of the really tough

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Speaker 2: guy catchers, a pretty darn good player in his day,

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Speaker 2: a great wrestler in high school. So ed Ott died,

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Speaker 2: and in honor of him, even though I'm really fudging

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Speaker 2: it here, I'm going to test you on the team

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Speaker 2: tim for this week.

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Speaker 3: Jeff, what is today's date?

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Speaker 1: Today's date is March the third, three three three. Oh okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, now, remember last year on April the fourth,

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Speaker 1: we did the all four by four Teamjan Soto, Babe, Ruth,

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Speaker 1: Pete Rose, you understand. So poor pop Up flew from

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Speaker 1: Maryland to Phoenix the other day.

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Speaker 2: I was on a plane for like five hours. So

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Speaker 2: what do you think I did to pass the time?

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Speaker 2: I came up with the all three three three te Jeff.

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Speaker 2: That was way harder and It wasn't a very good team,

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Speaker 2: but it was way harder than the four by four.

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Speaker 3: But I kind of came up with it. You want

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Speaker 3: to hear it.

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Speaker 5: This is the team? Is corn?

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Speaker 4: It no relation to ed aforementioned?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, right now, I'm going to spoil everything Ed.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't find a catcher. I couldn't find a catcher,

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Speaker 2: So we're going to use Ed Odd because this is

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Speaker 2: we're recognizing him here as a real tough guy. And

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Speaker 2: it's a loss. It was a loss for baseball when

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Speaker 2: we lost ed Od. But yes, Lee May is our

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Speaker 2: first baseman. H Lee May is the first player that

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Speaker 2: I he was good hitter. Jeff hit a bunch of homers.

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Speaker 2: Led the league in RBIs nineteen seventy six with the Orioles.

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Speaker 3: He's the first player I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: Who broke a bat without making contact with ball, meaning

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Speaker 2: he checked his swing and his hands and wrists were

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Speaker 2: so strong that the torque he used he snapped the

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Speaker 2: bat in half without hitting it. That's how strong Lee

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Speaker 2: May was. And let's see Jeff, how well how good

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Speaker 2: your memory is? What is Tony Perez's daddy's dad's nickname?

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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame?

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, sorry, what is Eduardo Perez as our dear friend.

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Speaker 2: What's his dad?

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Speaker 3: Tony's nickname wasn't wasn't he big dog? Doggie doggy dog right?

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Speaker 3: And he got that nickname for two reasons.

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Speaker 2: Number one, everybody loved Tony Perez and a man a

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Speaker 2: dog is man's best friend. So that's number one. And

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Speaker 2: Lee May, the afore mentioned le May also called him

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Speaker 2: Doggie because he said when they would go out to

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Speaker 2: dinner and Tony Perez would order a steak, he would

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Speaker 2: eat it with his hands at the end, all the

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Speaker 2: way down to the boat. And that's why he called

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Speaker 2: him doggie, because he ate a steak like a dog

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Speaker 2: would eat a steak. Eduardo Perez told us that story

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Speaker 2: a year ago. Finally I asked him, why do they

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Speaker 2: call your dad Doggie?

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Speaker 3: And that's it. So Lee May is our first baseman.

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Speaker 3: Jim Cox is our second baseman. Cox of course, third.

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Speaker 2: Basement of course, Ron Say one of the great Dodger

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Speaker 2: nicknamed the Penguin. And I can never explain this, but

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Speaker 2: the late great Kirby Pucket. For some reason in the eighties,

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Speaker 2: when I would be at a lot of the gay

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Speaker 2: eighties and nineties with twins who were really good. He

658
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 2: used to call me ron Say. Every time I'd show up,

659
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 2: he goes, hey, Ron, say, how you doing. He called

660
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 2: me ron Say because Ron Say was short, and of course.

661
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 3: So am I.

662
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 2: But that's the end of the comparison between me and

663
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 2: ron Say. He weighed like he weighed like two hundred

664
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 2: pounds and was really strong and was a major league player.

665
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 2: But every time I walk in the clubhouse, Kirby walk

666
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 2: by and go hey, Ron say, how you do it?

667
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,479
Speaker 2: So sure didn't fit all right, I was looking for

668
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 2: a shortstop. I've never heard of this guy, but.

669
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 3: I love his name. His name is dud du d Lee.

670
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 2: He played shortstop in the twenties, I think partly for

671
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 2: the Red Sox.

672
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 3: Dud Lee.

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00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, he would also make your all unfortunate names team right,

674
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,040
Speaker 1: Bailey Walter.

675
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 4: Right, right, right, guys, I mean he's a dud out there.

676
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 2: Right right, dud Lee right, Okay. Mel Ott is one

677
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,479
Speaker 2: of our outfielders. This inspired me to do that because

678
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 2: Melott is a Hall of Fame player. And by the way,

679
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 2: Melott hit the most home runs in one ballpark of

680
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 2: any player in Major League five hundred and whatever eleven

681
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: home runs He had three hundred and twenty three of

682
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 2: them at the Polo Grounds, and nobody has ever hit

683
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 2: that many home runs in one ballpark, like Hank Aaron,

684
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 2: for instance, played in Milwaukee and Atlanta, so he had

685
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 2: to mix him up. Willie Mays played at the Polo

686
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 2: Grounds in a Candlestick park, and you know, Barry Bonds

687
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 2: played in Pittsburgh and all this other stuff. But Melott

688
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 2: has the record for the most homers, three hundred and

689
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 2: twenty three in one.

690
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 3: Ballpark, the Polo Grounds, all right.

691
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 2: I played two other guys out of position. Joe liss Ls,

692
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 2: mostly a first base, played some outfield for sure. One

693
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 2: of my favorites Joe Foy Foy, also mostly a third baseman,

694
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 2: but he played outfield and infield all over the place.

695
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 2: And he was traded in nineteen sixty nine from the

696
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 2: Royals to the Mets, and that's how the Royals got

697
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 2: Amos Otis, who became one of the better Royals of

698
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 2: all time, in a trade for Joe Foy. Our pitchers,

699
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 2: I have three of them, Jay Frye, Fry, Ron Law Law,

700
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,239
Speaker 2: and I finally one I'll never forget this, Jim Ray,

701
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 2: who I remember pitching for the Astros, and these are

702
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 2: the things you learn when you hang out with the

703
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 2: Doug Raiders of the world. He was the manager of

704
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 2: the Rangers eighty three eighty four, and he told me

705
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 2: once when he was Jim Ray's teammate with the Astros.

706
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 2: This is in the sixties, early seventies, Jim Ray, Doug

707
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 2: Raider told me would go to sleep at his hotel

708
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 2: room in New York and his door was wide open.

709
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 2: But when he goes to sleep in New York, I mean,

710
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 2: who would.

711
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 3: Do that, Jim Ray.

712
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 4: That's like the skin That's like my deepest fear.

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00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: When I was moving dad from Cleveland, Ohio to Las

714
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: Vegas for my second radio job, I don't know if

715
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 1: I've ever told you this.

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00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 5: I went.

717
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 1: I had to stay at a hotel the night before

718
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: my big flight because I no longer had a bed

719
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: in my apartment. So I stayed in the hotel and

720
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,479
Speaker 1: I dropped all my stuff off, and I went out

721
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: to the bar to see some of my friends before

722
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: I left the city that.

723
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 4: You know, was my first radio job.

724
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: When I came back, it was snowing like crazy in Cleveland, Ohio.

725
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: My motel door was open, so when I got back

726
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 1: to my hotel, dropped off by a friend.

727
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 4: I walk over to my.

728
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: Door and it is open in a snow storm. And

729
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: here I'm thinking, Okay, there's going to be a homeless

730
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: person living in there trying to keep warm, or I'm

731
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 1: about to get murdered, or I forgot to close the

732
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: door properly. Now, obviously, in those moments, you never think

733
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: that the most logical response. But I was so tired

734
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: and so cold, I said, you know what, I'm just

735
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: gonna see what's going on.

736
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 5: I'm going in, right, I'm going in.

737
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 4: And ultimately it was the ladder.

738
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: I forgot to close the door all the way and

739
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: it didn't latch in boom pal and there was a

740
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: snow in my hotel room and it was freezing cold.

741
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 4: But ultimately I ended up being Okay, thank goodness.

742
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: Thank goodness for that, Jeff. Okay, so that's my all

743
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 2: three by three team. I was proud of that, Jeff.

744
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 2: It took me five hours on an airplane to come

745
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 2: up with that team. It's not, like I said, it's

746
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 2: not a very good team, but to find a player

747
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 2: at each position was challenging, to say the least.

748
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: And if I taught you how to watch a show

749
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,959
Speaker 1: on Netflix on your phone. We wouldn't be getting these

750
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: Genius team tims. So I'm going to keep up with

751
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: not showing you how to download a podcast either, because

752
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 1: this is where the great content comes out, is when

753
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: you're on a plane.

754
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 2: Right, Still struggle on the plane, Jeff, with that Wi

755
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 2: Fi on American airlines, Still have a little trouble with that.

756
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 2: You're gonna have We're gonna have to take a flight together,

757
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have to show me how to do

758
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 2: that for.

759
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: No reason other than using the Wi Fi. We'll just

760
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: get on a return flight thirty minutes later, we'll have

761
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: dinner in the in the North Carol or in the

762
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: Raleigh airport or.

763
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 5: Something, and we'll we'll turn around and come back.

764
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 2: All right, Okay, now what are we finishing with here, Jeff? Oh,

765
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 2: I meant to tell you. I told you I left

766
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 2: I left home for this trip without going without going

767
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 2: to the bathroom. Well, I went to the bathroom, I

768
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 2: just didn't go to the bathroom downstairs with the three

769
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 2: cards in the bathroom, so I had you just reach

770
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 2: in and pull out some cards.

771
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 3: So what do we what do we got this week?

772
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: Well, Dad, I pulled out a box, a banker box

773
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: that says Jeffrey's Baseball cards. And within this box that

774
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: I've got quite the collection, mind you, that of which

775
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: I still need to go through in order to continue

776
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: to fund my wife's dreams of redoing this new house.

777
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: If I could sell a couple of these cards for

778
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: some money, maybe we could, you know, stay above, stay

779
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: in the in the in the black, if you will.

780
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: But so I have a box full of cards, and

781
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 1: I just pulled three random cards out, So we're going

782
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: to see how this goes.

783
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 3: Okay, all right?

784
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: The first one is Roberto Alomar. Interestingly a Diamondbacks card,

785
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: but he's wearing a white Sox uniform as you can

786
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: see from our video here.

787
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 3: Wow, that doesn't make any sense, all.

788
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 2: Right, Well, Roberto Alomar is one of the great second

789
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 2: basemen of all time and one of the great defensive

790
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 2: second basement I've ever seen, and I'll never forget it.

791
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 2: When he signed with the Orioles big contract, I went

792
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 2: to Porto Rico Sports Illustrated to write a story on

793
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 2: Roberto Alomar. So we go to a TGI Fridays for lunch,

794
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 2: and he's dressed in a sweatsuit. He looks very athletic

795
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 2: in a sweatsuit. He's not dressed like So we eat lunch,

796
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 2: we come out of the TGI Fridays and a lady

797
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 2: comes up to him and hands him her valet parking

798
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 2: ticket and says, could you go get my car? So

799
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 2: she thought Roberto Alabar, who just signed this ridiculously expensive

800
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 2: deal at least at the time to play for the Orioles.

801
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 3: And he just.

802
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 2: Chuckled and said, ma'am, I'm not the valet guy. And

803
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 2: then he whispered to me and he said, I could

804
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 2: buy this entire chain of restaurants now. So I have

805
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 2: a million on the field stories from Roberto Alamar. But

806
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 2: that was the story I got when I went to

807
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico to do a story on him, and he

808
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 2: was a very very gracious host for me.

809
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: The next guard, I'm pulling out of the box. Here,

810
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: Dad is a Sean Green card.

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00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 4: Here we go.

812
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sean Green hit four home runs in a Major

813
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 2: League game, had and he also had a double. I mean,

814
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 2: it was one of the greatest games that anyone's ever had.

815
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 2: And I repeated this story the other day. Jeff, I'm

816
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 2: going to tell it again about because it came up

817
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 2: when I was talking to Tyler Kepner of the Athletic.

818
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 2: He's one of the great baseball minds ever. He's like

819
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 2: the greatest. He knows stuff that nobody else knows. He's

820
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 2: so impressive remembering guys who played for certain teams and

821
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 2: things like that. So I told him the story about

822
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 2: the four homer guys because Mike Cameron came by. Mike

823
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: Cameron hit four home runs in the game for the Mariners,

824
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 2: you know, like twenty like twenty five years ago, almost

825
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 2: something like that. So and he almost hit a fifth.

826
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Speaker 2: The fifth one got caught at the right field wall.

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00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 2: So I told Tyler Kepner the story of when Juhanio

828
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 2: Suarez hit four homers in a game. And I'm driving

829
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 2: to Bristol, and I say, well, just to keep past

830
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 2: the time, I'm going to try to name all the

831
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 2: guys in baseball.

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00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,240
Speaker 3: History, like all twenty.

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00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 2: I think it was nineteenth time we'd hit four homers

834
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 2: in a game, and I got eighteen and I couldn't

835
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,720
Speaker 2: get the nineteen. So I decided, well, I'm gonna cheat

836
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 2: and call Siri Okay on the on the phone while

837
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 2: I'm driving, But of course I don't know how to

838
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,719
Speaker 2: do that on my phone, like Siri, who give me

839
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: all the guys who had four homers a game? I

840
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:20,320
Speaker 2: don't know how to do that. But if you remember, Jeff,

841
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 2: Pat Siri was the guy that I was missing, Pat

842
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,919
Speaker 2: Siri nineteen forty eight. I want to say, hit four

843
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 2: homers in a game, and I got it right because

844
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 2: I was going to call Siri on the phone and

845
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 2: ask her, and that's when it hit me. It's not

846
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: Siri that the answer woman. It's Pat Siri was the

847
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 2: last four homer guy that I couldn't get Sean Green,

848
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 2: great hitter four homers in one game and a really

849
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: good major league hitter for quite some time.

850
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm glad you didn't call Siri because she

851
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: might have made you leave a voicemail.

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00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 5: You don't really.

853
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 4: Call Siri, But we'll go over.

854
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 5: The verbiage of it later.

855
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 3: Don't worry.

856
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 4: Called Alexa or called chat GBT too, but we'll handle

857
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 4: that later, don't Yeah.

858
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:12,399
Speaker 3: We'll read about it in the substack or something, right, all.

859
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 1: Right, Last, certainly not least I pulled another card.

860
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 3: Roger Clemens.

861
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 2: Okay, I know he's much maligned for things and everything else.

862
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 2: But look, there is no questioning his work ethic that

863
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 2: he put in every single time he went out there.

864
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 2: And again I'm not going to defend him completely. I

865
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 2: voted for him for the Hall of Fame ten years

866
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 2: in a row.

867
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Speaker 3: Not the point.

868
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 2: The point is I was in New York once and

869
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 2: with the covered the Orioles, and Edward Bennett Williams was

870
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 2: the owner of the Orioles mid eighties. And I get

871
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 2: up early because I can't sleep or whatever. And Edward

872
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,959
Speaker 2: Bennett Williams is in the hotel lobby at like seven

873
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning and he looks at me and

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Speaker 2: he goes, I just saw Roger Clemens. He went out

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Speaker 2: for a run at seven o'clock in the morning, and

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Speaker 2: he had pitched the night before in New York, and

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Speaker 2: at seven o'clock in the morning went out and ran

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Speaker 2: the streets of Manhattan. Another time, Josh, I went to

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Speaker 2: see the Yankees on a Sunday, and I didn't realize,

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Speaker 2: at least back then, on Sundays you don't have to

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Speaker 2: get to the ballpark till eleven o'clock. Well I eleven am.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that, so I show up at seven o'clock.

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Speaker 2: The clubhouse is normally open at eight, and there is

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Speaker 2: Roger Clemens at seven o'clock in the morning throwing a

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Speaker 2: football in the parking lot with the trainer. So he's

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Speaker 2: he's strengthening his arm and doing baseball exercises at seven

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Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning with the trainer when he doesn't

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Speaker 2: have to be at the ballpark till eleven am. So

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Speaker 2: say anything you want about Roger Clemens, I get it,

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Speaker 2: but don't ever question how hard he worked to be

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Speaker 2: a great pitcher and he was a great pitch.

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Speaker 5: All right, Dad.

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Speaker 1: Well, that wraps up today's edition of Is this a

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Speaker 1: Great Game or what? And before we know it, we're

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Speaker 1: going to be in the throes of the season and

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Speaker 1: we're really looking forward to bringing you more episodes weekly,

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Speaker 1: so be on the lookout for that. We'll kind of

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Speaker 1: jump to we'll jump to two a week, and then

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Speaker 1: we'll get into full time three a week, and we'll

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Speaker 1: be adjusting our days a little bit, so we'll be

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Speaker 1: bringing you a Monday episode. So just be on the

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Speaker 1: lookout for how things are going to change in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. For your rhythm of listening to our show,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we'll go over that schedule when we

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Speaker 1: get there, but for now, we're really excited to be

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Speaker 1: taking you through this spring training and Dad, I hope

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Speaker 1: you get home safely.

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Speaker 4: You already look tan. Take some time for yourself, enjoy

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Speaker 4: spring training, all right.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk next week and go foul Territory Network.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, glad to be a part of it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening, and as always, thanks

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Speaker 1: for being a part of our family.

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