Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkshin. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkschen and Dad,
Speaker 1: your passport must be worn out with all of those
Speaker 1: Canadian stamps.
Speaker 2: You're back in Toronto, right.
Speaker 3: This is great. As we said last week, what a
Speaker 3: great town this is. We have relatives here. It's great.
Speaker 3: But most important, Jeff, we're in the final four of baseball.
Speaker 3: You know, we talk about the final four in basketball.
Speaker 3: All great it is. Well, we're down to the Blue Jays, Mariners,
Speaker 3: Dodgers and Brewers. And I love our series here. The
Speaker 3: Mariners and the Blue Jays, who, as you know, were
Speaker 3: expansion teams the same year, nineteen seventy seven. They came
Speaker 3: in at the same time. And as I told you,
Speaker 3: when the Blue Jays played their first game ever against
Speaker 3: the White Sox that day in nineteen seventy seven, they
Speaker 3: had to use a zamboni or whatever it's called to
Speaker 3: get the snow off the field. That's how much it's
Speaker 3: snow before opening day in Toronto. And remember, Jeff, they
Speaker 3: didn't sell beer at Exhibition Stadium at least that first year,
Speaker 3: and the fans were chanting, we want beer. Well, they
Speaker 3: didn't get their beer, but they got a victory that day,
Speaker 3: and it was so cool. And again, the Mariners opened
Speaker 3: at the same time, same year. And if Jeff the
Speaker 3: Mariners and the Brewers advanced to the World Series. If
Speaker 3: you know, the Mariners have never been to the World Series.
Speaker 3: The Brewers have only been there once and they've never
Speaker 3: won it. And this would be if they were to meet.
Speaker 3: I'm way ahead of myself here, this would be the
Speaker 3: Seattle Pilots facing the Seattle Mariners in the World Series.
Speaker 3: Because remember, and you were not even close to being born.
Speaker 3: The Seattle Pilots played one year in Seattle nineteen sixty
Speaker 3: nine and then moved to Milwaukee. So the Brewers beginning
Speaker 3: started in Seattle, and then eight years later the Mariners
Speaker 3: came along and started their franchise. So it would be
Speaker 3: a fascinating series. We're not rooting for anything here. If
Speaker 3: the Seattle Pilots played against the Seattle Mariners in the
Speaker 3: World Series, it would be beautiful.
Speaker 1: And I mean both of these have never won a
Speaker 1: World Series championship, So I mean, I think that's what
Speaker 1: a lot of the country he is rooting for. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have the Dodgers obviously who won last year or
Speaker 1: storied franchise. Then you have the Blue Jays, who haven't
Speaker 1: won since nineteen ninety three, so they haven't won since
Speaker 1: the year I was born. They won back to back
Speaker 1: ninety two ninety three. And then you have the Mariners,
Speaker 1: never won, the Brewers never won, so it's refreshing, even
Speaker 1: though of course the dollars are in the major markets
Speaker 1: in the LAS and the New York's, but I would
Speaker 1: love to see a Seattle Milwaukee because then there are
Speaker 1: no losers. Dat It reminds me back of twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: when it was the then Cleveland Indians against the Chicago Cups.
Speaker 2: There really was no losing there.
Speaker 1: Indians long drought at that point still continues on to
Speaker 1: this day for World Series drout and then, of course
Speaker 1: the Cubs hadn't won famously over one hundred years.
Speaker 2: So I love the way this is setting up.
Speaker 1: And even if the Dodgers advance, it will still be
Speaker 1: a great AL team who needs a World Series championship
Speaker 1: because it's been a long time or not at all, And.
Speaker 3: We're not rooting for anything here, Jeff, except for a
Speaker 3: good story, and there are so many good stories in
Speaker 3: this final four. But Jeff, Game one. The takeaways begins
Speaker 3: with the game one, and you know we're gonna be
Speaker 3: a little late on this because we're a two man
Speaker 3: show here. We just don't have time to keep completely
Speaker 3: up to date. But game one of our series blue
Speaker 3: Jays and Mariners, took a major turn. Remember Bryce Miller
Speaker 3: was starting for the Mariners. He had a five to
Speaker 3: six to eight ERA this year and was starting on
Speaker 3: short rest against Kevin Gossman, who's the best pitcher starting
Speaker 3: pitcher that the Blue Jays have, and Gossman had a
Speaker 3: one nothing lead and retired sixteen consecutive batters when cal
Speaker 3: Raley hit a home run off him in six inning
Speaker 3: to tie that game. Bryce Miller was the star of
Speaker 3: this game by giving them six really good innings on
Speaker 3: short rest, and cal Raleigh, of course, along with Jorge Planco,
Speaker 3: was the star of the game. But so now that
Speaker 3: gave him going into Monday's game, cal Raleigh had played
Speaker 3: fourteen games at the Rogers Center in his career and
Speaker 3: had nine home runs in fourteen games in that stadium,
Speaker 3: and off of Kevin Gosman, who's impossible to hit when
Speaker 3: he's right, he ran his numbers off Kevin Gosman to
Speaker 3: eight for seventeen with four home runs with that big
Speaker 3: home run that he hit in Gay one. So as
Speaker 3: always with this unbelievably unpredictable season, we're off to a
Speaker 3: really surprising start. That Bryce Miller would win that game
Speaker 3: against the team that was fifty four and twenty seven
Speaker 3: at home this year in the regular season, it was
Speaker 3: a tremendous beginning to the lcs's in the major leagues.
Speaker 1: To quote you, Dad, I will give you one thousand
Speaker 1: dollars if you tell me the connection between Kevin Goussman
Speaker 1: and Emily Kirkchin my wife. One thousand dollars and the
Speaker 1: blank stare on your face makes you want to double
Speaker 1: it to two.
Speaker 3: There it's no idea where you're going here.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think I've told you this before on
Speaker 1: the podcast. This is how it feels to be on
Speaker 1: the other end of the quist who This is nice?
Speaker 2: This is really nice. I know. Something that leads the
Speaker 2: connection is this up quoting remember National Treasure? Is this
Speaker 2: how you feel all the time, all the time.
Speaker 3: I just like to feel this one. This is how
Speaker 3: you feel all the time, Like, come on, have that movie?
Speaker 3: Another another realty pleasure. Agree, all right.
Speaker 1: So the connection is Dad, years and years and years ago,
Speaker 1: when Kevin Gossman played for the Baltimore Orioles, you got me.
Speaker 1: You went to some game and they give away free
Speaker 1: stuff all the time. You got me an Orioles T
Speaker 1: shirt that had his name and number on the back.
Speaker 2: It's like a free giveaway. You came home and you
Speaker 2: gave it to me.
Speaker 1: Kind of didn't really think twice about it, right, well,
Speaker 1: it stayed in my system of clothing, and then Emily
Speaker 1: adopted it as one of her what we call in
Speaker 1: our household sleepy shirts, sleep in you know, comfortable shirt.
Speaker 1: So she commonly will wear a T shirt it's an
Speaker 1: Orioles shirt.
Speaker 2: How funny is that? That's the connection.
Speaker 1: And so I told him the other night, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, he's stupidest thing ever, but he plays for
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3: I love it. That is so great. And I think
Speaker 3: you told me that before and I already forgot it.
Speaker 3: That is that is terrible, but that's great. Emily wearing
Speaker 3: number thirty four for Kevin Gossman. Soay, all right, Jeff,
Speaker 3: couple other takeaways here again we're laid on the Brewers
Speaker 3: and Dodgers. But the Brewers starting pitchers Jeff. In beating
Speaker 3: the Cubs in five games, went a total of thirteen
Speaker 3: innings and won a postseason series in five games, in
Speaker 3: part because their bullpen had a one twenty ERA in
Speaker 3: thirty innings. Pitch just another reminder, Jeff, how we've lost
Speaker 3: the value of our starting pitchers. It's not a complaint,
Speaker 3: it's not a criticism. This is just the way the
Speaker 3: game works. If you have a deep versa the bullpen,
Speaker 3: you're going to have a chance. And that's how the
Speaker 3: Brewers got through against the Cubs. Their bullpen carry them.
Speaker 3: Similarly the Dodgers, Jeff, beat your Phillies. The Dodgers hit
Speaker 3: one ninety nine in the series against the Phillies. The
Speaker 3: Phillies are a really good team and they beat them
Speaker 3: in four games. This is again how crazy baseball is.
Speaker 3: It makes no sense, and it made absolutely no sense
Speaker 3: during the regular season, and the same thing is happening here.
Speaker 3: And the last takeaway, Jeff, so Trey Savage' is pitching
Speaker 3: Game two. We're not going to be able to cover
Speaker 3: that on this podcast. But Cam Schlittler of the Yankees,
Speaker 3: Troy Melton, and Connolly early are all starting pitchers in
Speaker 3: the postseason, and in the postseason, the five starting pitchers
Speaker 3: posted a one ninety eight ERA five rookie starting pitchers
Speaker 3: one ninety eight ERA Jeff twenty seven and a third innings,
Speaker 3: three walks, and thirty five strikeouts. This is incredible that
Speaker 3: young pitchers come to the big leagues and they're they're
Speaker 3: ready to go. Not only is their stuff ready to go,
Speaker 3: but their command, their poised, their presence, their confidence. It's
Speaker 3: amazing to me how ready these young pitchers are, especially
Speaker 3: when they get to the big leagues. Those are staggering numbers. Agreed.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dad, I looked back at the box scores
Speaker 1: for the Brewers and in this order, these are the pictures.
Speaker 1: The amount of pitchers they used in each game four
Speaker 1: was the least amount, and they use that in game one, seven, six,
Speaker 1: five to five. So the average of that, Dad, is
Speaker 1: just an unbelievable amount of usage from their bullpen. And
Speaker 1: they always say pitching wins championships. But back to the
Speaker 1: rookie thing, Dad, and I have a question for you
Speaker 1: and your expertise. Don't you feel as if there are
Speaker 1: times and I'm not going to put you on the
Speaker 1: spot for examples where rookies and or young players succeed
Speaker 1: in the most difficult times because they don't really know
Speaker 1: how important this is yet, right, because they haven't spent
Speaker 1: ten years of the majors waiting for their first postseason appearance.
Speaker 2: Right, They're just here.
Speaker 1: Because and this is what they think. Everything is so
Speaker 1: almost the nerves are null and.
Speaker 3: Void, right, Right, there's an expression, jeff, ignorance is bliss.
Speaker 3: And these guys aren't don't even know that. They're supposed
Speaker 3: to be scared to death of this stage and they're not.
Speaker 3: And I think it's part because they don't even know
Speaker 3: where they are. But I think these kids are much
Speaker 3: more worldly. They're much more polished than they've ever been.
Speaker 3: And when they get here, thanks to the Internet and
Speaker 3: other they have a better understanding of how the world
Speaker 3: works and better understanding of how baseball works. When they
Speaker 3: get here, because some of them have played big time college,
Speaker 3: they've been in front of people, they've been interviewed, they've
Speaker 3: played in front of tons of fans. They get it
Speaker 3: when they get here. It's really impressive.
Speaker 2: All right, Dad, what kind of quirk gins do you
Speaker 2: have for us today?
Speaker 3: All Right? A little short on this, but I really
Speaker 3: got a kick out of this. Ernie Clement is the
Speaker 3: second baseman for the Blue Jays and he's a great
Speaker 3: defender at second base, shortstop, third base. If you could
Speaker 3: pick your goal glove utility player in the major leagues,
Speaker 3: it would be Ernie Clement. He can catch it at
Speaker 3: any position. But he's not a utility players, an everyday
Speaker 3: player who had nine hits in the LDS against the Yankees.
Speaker 3: But Jeff, you know how much I love baseball gloves, right,
Speaker 3: So I go up to Ernie Clement before game one
Speaker 3: and just casually I'm at his locker and he's got
Speaker 3: a rather old looking glove on. So I said, is
Speaker 3: that your gamer, because you know, people use a game
Speaker 3: glove separated from you know, any other glove that they
Speaker 3: have in their locker, and he goes, yeah, this is
Speaker 3: my gamer. I said, well, what's the story behind it?
Speaker 3: Just casual, naive question, and he said, yeah, I got
Speaker 3: it on eBay a few months ago. He bought a
Speaker 3: baseball glove on eBay and now he wears it in
Speaker 3: a major league game. And he doesn't just wear it,
Speaker 3: he's a magician with it. He used, it's the same
Speaker 3: glove at second base, shortstop, and third base, which is unusual.
Speaker 3: Usually use a bigger glove at third than you do
Speaker 3: in the middle infield. But he bought a glove on
Speaker 3: eBay and now he wears it in a major league
Speaker 3: game and he's great with it. So he told me
Speaker 3: has to wear a glove underneath his glove because there's
Speaker 3: no padding at all in this glove, and so he
Speaker 3: needs something to wear underneath it. Jeff, there's somebody out
Speaker 3: there who put a glove up on eBay, who probably
Speaker 3: used it when he was eight years old or ten
Speaker 3: years old or fifteen years old, and now a major
Speaker 3: leaguer is wearing it. Am I overdoing this or is
Speaker 3: this one of the most interesting stories you've ever heard?
Speaker 1: I think this is fascinating. I mean, because you're exactly right, Dad.
Speaker 1: I mean, imagine if you found out that was your
Speaker 1: glove and you just put it up there trying to
Speaker 1: score a couple extra bucks.
Speaker 2: Have you ever bought anything off of eBay?
Speaker 3: Dad? Never. I wouldn't know how to buy anything on
Speaker 3: eBay if I had a flashlight and a map. I mean,
Speaker 3: I have no idea how to do this. But Jeff,
Speaker 3: the beauty of this is how just particular I've told
Speaker 3: you all about this particular our players are about their gloves.
Speaker 3: You know, no one was ever allowed to touch Roberto
Speaker 3: Alomar's game No one was allowed to touch Brandon Phillips's
Speaker 3: game glove. They would be furious if anyone even picked
Speaker 3: it up. I remember a terrible mistake by me as
Speaker 3: a very young writer, as Mark Blander, great shortstop for
Speaker 3: the Orioles, Can I try your glove on? And he
Speaker 3: looked at me daggers in his eyes and he said,
Speaker 3: And I don't think he was kidding. I would kill
Speaker 3: you before I would allow you to put my glove
Speaker 3: on your hand. That's just the way it works. But
Speaker 3: here Ernie Clement just picks up a glove on eBay
Speaker 3: and now wears it in a big league game. I
Speaker 3: told you the Darwin Barney story. Jeff. He was a
Speaker 3: really good second baseman for years with Cubs and others.
Speaker 3: He wore He had five different gloves that he broke
Speaker 3: in systematically. Each one was in line to someday be
Speaker 3: his gamer. Okay, and he only used his game guard
Speaker 3: his gamer in the game, meaning he didn't even play
Speaker 3: catch before the game with his game glove because he
Speaker 3: didn't want a little indentation forming in the pocket. Therefore,
Speaker 3: when he reaches in to make the double play, he
Speaker 3: can't find the ball. So he told me once that
Speaker 3: he made an error one night in Washington on a
Speaker 3: backhanded play and he was so angry that he threw
Speaker 3: the glove away and replaced it with his next glove
Speaker 3: that was in line to become his gamer again, five
Speaker 3: gloves systematically being broken in. I said, Darwin, you just
Speaker 3: threw it in your locker. He goes, no, no, no, I
Speaker 3: threw it in the trash can because there's no way
Speaker 3: that I'm going to use the glove the next game
Speaker 3: if I made an error on it in this game.
Speaker 3: That's how particular they are.
Speaker 1: Well, my favorite story is the one you wrote in
Speaker 1: your book and years ago on ESPN dot com. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Renegan Zales used to put his glove in a
Speaker 1: wonderbag right because their slogan was no he.
Speaker 3: Carried his exact Jeff, I am so proud of you.
Speaker 3: You have been listening for your entire life, but for
Speaker 3: the two years on this podcast. You the first time
Speaker 3: I ever met Renegan zalas he walks in with a
Speaker 3: glove in a wonder bag and I said, Gonza, what
Speaker 3: is that? He goes, Well, that's that's my game glove.
Speaker 3: I carry it in this wherever I go slogan wonderbread,
Speaker 3: no holes. Great last thing with the corkchin step. I
Speaker 3: was talking to Chris Bassett the other day of the
Speaker 3: Blue Jays. He's a really funny guy and a really
Speaker 3: smart guy, and he was a great basketball and football
Speaker 3: player in high school. We were talking again about how
Speaker 3: players are. You know, it's so important to play multiple sports.
Speaker 3: So he says to me that Max Scherzer, who we
Speaker 3: know of course as a Hall of Fame pitcher, but
Speaker 3: also the pitcher that Ryan Zimmerman told us last year,
Speaker 3: is a maniacal pickup basketball But you remember that story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was saying, we only played Max rules.
Speaker 3: Where we played by the Max rules, we shoot free
Speaker 3: throws in between baskets of the pickup game because you
Speaker 3: only can tell if you're a good free throw shooter
Speaker 3: if you shoot them when you're fatigued. And then after
Speaker 3: the pickup game was over, they shot more free throws.
Speaker 3: This is how Max does everything. So Chris basket I
Speaker 3: told Chris Bassett this story and Chris Bassett said, yeah,
Speaker 3: Max found out, you know, their teammates on the Blue Jays.
Speaker 3: Max found out that I love basketball and I used
Speaker 3: to be a good player. And he came up to
Speaker 3: me and he said, we're playing one on one. You
Speaker 3: and I are playing one on one basketball. And then
Speaker 3: Chris Bassis and he goes and Max plays one on
Speaker 3: one only one way, full court, one on one. So
Speaker 3: I wonder why Max Scherzer is a Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: pitcher is because he demands that we're gonna play basketball.
Speaker 3: We're gonna compete, and when we play one on one,
Speaker 3: we're gonna play full court one on one. At Bassett
Speaker 3: looks at Max and says, we're not playing full court
Speaker 3: one on what that's the end of the discussion.
Speaker 1: Next on is this a great game or what we've
Speaker 1: got on this state in Baseball history? Another team ten
Speaker 1: and we'll tell you who our guest is gonna be.
Speaker 1: And by guests, I mean guests for this week.
Speaker 2: It's coming up next.
Speaker 1: All right, on this state in Baseball history? Dad, what
Speaker 1: do we got for October the fourteenth?
Speaker 3: Right? Well, on this date in eighteen ninety six, Oscar
Speaker 3: Charleston was born Okay, now he is one of the
Speaker 3: great Negro League players of all time. And I remember
Speaker 3: talking to Buck O'Neill, Hall of Famer about the greatest
Speaker 3: players he's ever seen, and he said, Willie Mays is
Speaker 3: the greatest major league player I've ever seen, but Oscar
Speaker 3: Charleston is the greatest player I've ever seen. And again,
Speaker 3: if we ever saw him in the big leagues, there's
Speaker 3: no telling how many records he would have broken or
Speaker 3: how great he would have been. But we cannot forget
Speaker 3: how great he was. Born on this date in eighteen
Speaker 3: ninety six.
Speaker 1: And fun fact about him, Dad, what is Oscar Charleston's
Speaker 1: middle name?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 3: Take it again, Oscar MIAs.
Speaker 1: No, his legal name Oscar McKinley Charleston.
Speaker 3: Really really my daughter's name. My granddaughter's name is McKinley. God,
Speaker 3: I love these little connections. Jeff, Hi, Jeff. On this
Speaker 3: date in nineteen o eight, the Baseball Writers Association of
Speaker 3: America was basically began the formation because the sports writers
Speaker 3: were not pleased with the way they were treated the
Speaker 3: seating and everything during the World Series that year, and
Speaker 3: they got together and said, we have to do something
Speaker 3: about this. And as you know, Jeff, I'm one of
Speaker 3: the proudest members ever, proudest members of the BBWAA when
Speaker 3: I joined in nineteen eighty one, when I got my
Speaker 3: first card, my number, Jeff, and I'm not being self serve.
Speaker 3: I'm trying not to be self serving here. My number
Speaker 3: was eight hundred and eighty one and now my number
Speaker 3: is twenty two. So they're only twenty one people who
Speaker 3: are still writing about baseball or members of the Baseball
Speaker 3: is still alive who have a lower number than me.
Speaker 3: So when I tell you how proud I am to
Speaker 3: be a writer with the BBWA, I can't stress enough
Speaker 3: how great that is for me. On this date in
Speaker 3: nineteen forty one, Art Shampsky was born now Ark. Champsky
Speaker 3: was a really good hitter, had an amazing nineteen sixty
Speaker 3: nine season, but on August twenty second, nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 3: playing for the Reds, he was a rookie, he hit
Speaker 3: three homers in one game, Jeff, and he didn't even
Speaker 3: enter the game until the eighth inning, So he's the
Speaker 3: only player ever to hit three homers in a game
Speaker 3: having not played for the first seven innings of the game.
Speaker 3: He came in as a defensive replacement hit homers in
Speaker 3: the eighth, tenth, and eleventh inning. The Reds lost the game,
Speaker 3: fourteen to eleven to the Pirates, but he made major
Speaker 3: League history. And one more time, Jeff, give me three
Speaker 3: five hundred home run hitters who never hit three homers
Speaker 3: in a game, and Ark Schampsky did it.
Speaker 1: Starting from the eighth inning off David Ortiz never hit
Speaker 1: three homers in a game?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 2: Is that a good start? Okay?
Speaker 3: Correct? Are you stalling now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I always forget the other two Dad, Gary Sheffield, Gary
Speaker 1: Sheffield and Al palmerrow right.
Speaker 3: Okay, Jeff, And also last one on this date in
Speaker 3: nineteen forty six, Al Oliver was born. Al Oliver played
Speaker 3: for the in spring training. At least for the eighty
Speaker 3: two Rangers. Al Oliver was one of the best hitters
Speaker 3: I've ever seen. They traded him to Montreal in spring
Speaker 3: at the end of spring training, which was probably a
Speaker 3: deal that they regretted because Al Oliver was such a
Speaker 3: good hitter, but they got Larry Parrishon and Dave Hosteedler
Speaker 3: in return. Never forget that, and Al was one of
Speaker 3: the most confident hitters ever. One year, I don't know,
Speaker 3: seventy nine let's say he started off twenty for four,
Speaker 3: twenty for forty. So Jim Reeves, one of my dear
Speaker 3: friends who was in mom and Dad's wedding, Rebo asked
Speaker 3: him jokingly, tongue in cheek, Al, you're twenty for forty.
Speaker 3: Do you think you could hit five hundred for the
Speaker 3: whole season? And Al looked at at Rebo and said,
Speaker 3: five hundred. That would be hard. That's what he said.
Speaker 3: He had to think about it because he was actually
Speaker 3: debating whether he could hit five hundred for a full seat.
Speaker 3: That's how confident a hitter that Al Oliver was. So
Speaker 3: Al Oliver, of course wore number zero. So what leading
Speaker 3: into our team tim this week? What I haven't told
Speaker 3: you what it is? What Al Oliver wore number zero?
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: All number zero team?
Speaker 3: Right? The all number zero or double zero? Because not
Speaker 3: everyone if you wore zero or double zero, you're a zero. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's for sure, all right? So our catcher is Junior Ortez,
Speaker 3: one of the funniest guys I ever covered in the
Speaker 3: major leagues, and in nineteen ninety one, I hope I
Speaker 3: don't offend anyone with this. The Twins won fifteen games
Speaker 3: in a row in nineteen ninety one, and Junior Ortiz
Speaker 3: was on that team, and he didn't play much because
Speaker 3: Brian Harper and others were the primary catchers on that team.
Speaker 3: But they won number fifteen in a row in Cleveland,
Speaker 3: and Junior Ortiz came in like as a defensive replacement
Speaker 3: and a double switch in the ninth inning and caught
Speaker 3: the tenth inning and they won the game. And after
Speaker 3: the game, again, I hope I don't offend anyone. Junior
Speaker 3: had a terrible stutter. But after the game, I said, Junior,
Speaker 3: sixteen fifteen games in a row, and he said, and
Speaker 3: I can't believe that we won a Gabe that they
Speaker 3: put me in. I thought for sure we were going
Speaker 3: to lose as soon as they because he was very
Speaker 3: self deprecating. He was always making fun of himself, and
Speaker 3: then he did the lou Garrett today, I consider myself
Speaker 3: the luckiest man on the face of the earth. He
Speaker 3: did that in a terrible stutter to say, this is
Speaker 3: like the greatest, the luckiest thing ever is that I
Speaker 3: got to play this game and we didn't lose. And
Speaker 3: the witting street continues. Junior Ortiz one of my favorite people. Ever,
Speaker 3: and he wore number zero. All right. Our first baseman
Speaker 3: is Tony Clark, who briefly wore double zero. Tony Clark,
Speaker 3: of course, runs the Players Association. And Tony Clark, who
Speaker 3: you know, six' seven and hit a whole bunch Of
Speaker 3: Major league, homers told me he became a switch hitter
Speaker 3: in his. Career, jeff he was a Switch he became
Speaker 3: a switch hitter because as a kid he was so
Speaker 3: much bigger and stronger than the rest of the kids
Speaker 3: in the neighborhood that they made him bat left handed
Speaker 3: because it wasn't fair when he batted right. Handed that's
Speaker 3: how he became a switch. HITTER i love how players
Speaker 3: become switch. Hitters That's Tony clark's. Story second base Is Andres,
Speaker 3: jimenez who plays for The Blue, jays who were covering
Speaker 3: in this series last. Year Steven, vote the manager of The,
Speaker 3: guardians told Me jimenez is the greatest defensive PLAYER i
Speaker 3: have ever seen at any. Position how about? THAT i
Speaker 3: Press Stephen, vote who's been around a long, time and he,
Speaker 3: Said i'm telling, You i've never seen anybody play defense
Speaker 3: like this guy. Did and he played second base last,
Speaker 3: year but with the injury To Bob. Bashett here he's
Speaker 3: playing an exceptional shortstop in the major, leagues just showing
Speaker 3: how great a defender he. Is and he wears number,
Speaker 3: ZERO a. Zero Ray ordonia's worn number, zero great defensive
Speaker 3: shortstop for The mets in his. Day Bobby, valentine then
Speaker 3: the manager of The, mets told, me, nobody no shortstop
Speaker 3: has ever gone back on a pop up ever better
Speaker 3: Than Ray, ordonio's which is a really difficult play to
Speaker 3: make for a. Shortstop that was his superpower going back
Speaker 3: on an infield pop. Up third base Is Paul, dade
Speaker 3: who played multiple years for The indians at the. Time outfielders,
Speaker 3: again Al oliver OD. B, McDowell WHO i covered with
Speaker 3: The rangers in the, Eighties war number, Zero Jeffrey Leonard
Speaker 3: war number double. Zero Jeffrey leonard was a really good
Speaker 3: hitter in his. Day SO i HOPE i don't offend
Speaker 3: anyone with this, either. Jeff But Hank greenwald was the
Speaker 3: play by play guy for The yankees and for years
Speaker 3: and every day he went To Yankee, stadium the security
Speaker 3: guy asked him for HIS id, pass his press pass
Speaker 3: to get. In he sees him every. Day he knows
Speaker 3: he's the play by play guy for The, yankees but
Speaker 3: he makes him show his press pass every. Day, Finally
Speaker 3: Hank greenwald got a little bit tired of, this and
Speaker 3: one day he came in with a picture Of Jeffrey
Speaker 3: leonard taped on his press. Pass, okay and, again not
Speaker 3: to defend, Anyone Jeffrey leonard is a black. Man hank
Speaker 3: Green wald is not a black, man. Okay so he
Speaker 3: puts a picture Of Jeffrey leonard's face on his and
Speaker 3: the security guard looks at it and, says, okay go,
Speaker 3: ahead like he didn't even look at. It and then
Speaker 3: the next, game next, Game hank Grey wald is so
Speaker 3: insulted that he has to keep showing. This he shows
Speaker 3: up the next day with his press pass and he's
Speaker 3: got a picture Of secretariat a, horse a horse over his.
Speaker 4: Face so on this press pass he has a horse's
Speaker 4: head instead of his, face and the security guy looks
Speaker 4: at it goes, okay go. Ahead that's that's how it
Speaker 4: worked At Yankee stadium back.
Speaker 3: Then So Jeffrey letter number double zero is our third.
Speaker 3: Outfielder our starting pitcher Is Marcus, stroman who wore number
Speaker 3: zero and still does still Pitches Adam, Ottavino Adam, ottavino
Speaker 3: pretty darn good reliever in recent. Years here pitched this,
Speaker 3: year and he told me once it's not A it's
Speaker 3: not a zero that he's got on his. Back it's
Speaker 3: an oh because his last name Is, ottavino so he
Speaker 3: wears like an oh instead of a. Zero and Then, omar,
Speaker 3: right and the last one Is Omar oliveris who pitched
Speaker 3: for several, teams including The, Cardinals and of course he
Speaker 3: wore double zero because his initials are zero. Zero so
Speaker 3: and let's see how good your memory. Is Here jeff
Speaker 3: who is the baseball player who wore his number on
Speaker 3: his back and had his birthday on his. Back his
Speaker 3: last name was a month of the, year and his
Speaker 3: number was his birthday in that. Month do YOU i.
Speaker 2: Give your fast sl TWO? V how's how'sel twove?
Speaker 1: Is his height is his birthday are the?
Speaker 3: Same? Right may the, sixth and he's five ft SIX
Speaker 3: i gonna remember, This, Jeff i'm gonna give it to you.
Speaker 3: Anyway Carlos may was born On may the, seventeenth and
Speaker 3: his last name Is may and he wore number. Seventeen
Speaker 3: so on the back of this, jersey wasn't just his
Speaker 3: name and his, number it was also his. Birthday how
Speaker 3: great is? That?
Speaker 1: Well and one of my Favorite jersey, Stories, dad is
Speaker 1: When Johnny damon was standing out in the outfield and
Speaker 1: then he's standing there and he wears number eighteen and
Speaker 1: he's standing next to number.
Speaker 2: Nineteen of that team and it's nineteen.
Speaker 3: Eighteen Gabe, kapler, Right it was A Gabe Kapitler kapler.
Speaker 3: Right ninth, inning two thousand and Four World series clinching,
Speaker 3: Game Red sox haven't won since nineteen, eighteen AND i
Speaker 3: look out in the outfield and before the bottom of
Speaker 3: the ninth, begins those guys are standing back to. BACK
Speaker 3: i mean they're standing with their backs to home plate
Speaker 3: and there it is nineteen. Eighteen and then The Red
Speaker 3: sox won that and won The World series for the
Speaker 3: first time since nineteen. Eighteen it's so.
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow two, guests in, Fact Eduardo perez And Carl ravits
Speaker 1: are going to be joining, us AND i yours, truly
Speaker 1: am going to interview the two of, them along with my,
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