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Speaker 1: Welcome to It's just a great game or what?

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Speaker 2: At our guests this week is my dear friend Harold Reynolds,

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Speaker 2: former Major league second baseman, former teammate of mine, and

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Speaker 2: now a guy who's all over the MLB network. Harold,

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Speaker 2: this is my son, Jeff.

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Speaker 1: You haven't seen him in a little while. I know, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: you've grown up so much. Actually, I got a chance

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Speaker 1: to see you at Tim's induction ceremony, which was really cool. Well,

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Speaker 1: we had our T shirts on go, We had it all.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you, though, I have to say, Harold,

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Speaker 3: I hope this doesn't embarrass you. We gave Harold a

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Speaker 3: shirt and it was it was if it was snug

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Speaker 3: on me, I would not look good. It was snug

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Speaker 3: on Harold, and I'm like, damn, this guy can go

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Speaker 3: size down and even still look great.

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Speaker 2: Well, Harold is an incredible shape. We were supposed to

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Speaker 2: have Harold on last week, but he broke a tooth. Harold,

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Speaker 2: what happened?

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Speaker 1: How did you break up? Right right here? It was crazy.

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Speaker 1: I was playing football my son, he's a quarterback in

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Speaker 1: high school now, and he decides he's gonna try to

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Speaker 1: like have me be defense and I'm gonna. I'm playing

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Speaker 1: the defender and I'm chasing him. So he's supposed to

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Speaker 1: keep running on a rollout and throw on the run. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm running after him and I stop, and he stops

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Speaker 1: and I run right into him my tooth. Oh you

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Speaker 1: gotta be kidding me. So that's how the whole.

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Speaker 2: Thing happened, right, Jeff. Look, Harold has the whitest teeth

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Speaker 2: of any person I've ever seen. Harold, You've been told

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Speaker 2: that many times, correct?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah. I got to credit my oldest sister, Sharon.

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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, she was she made us

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Speaker 1: all brush constantly. She was obsessed with teeth and so

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Speaker 1: she made us constantly brush. So I'd give her a

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Speaker 1: credit for having white teeth today.

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Speaker 2: Right, we're playing with your son football. You were a

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Speaker 2: great high school football player. You were a defensive back.

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Speaker 1: Do I have that?

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Speaker 2: Do I remember that properly?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, you know. I was more it's more on

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Speaker 1: the Dion Sanders side. I don't want to tackle nobody.

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Speaker 1: I'll guard you, but I don't want to get hit.

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Speaker 1: I'm just being honest. And my friends would call in

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Speaker 1: and say, come on, now, you know you didn't hit anybody,

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Speaker 1: So I'll just be honest with it. I could return

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Speaker 1: punts man guard guys, I've picked off a lot of passes,

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Speaker 1: but I wasn't trying to take on that full of

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Speaker 1: You can go ahead, Harold.

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Speaker 3: I always love asking you know former Major leaguers who

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Speaker 3: played multi sports, whether it's in high school or college.

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Speaker 3: Even was there also a part like my buddy was

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Speaker 3: the starting tight end in our football team and he

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Speaker 3: was so scared of breaking a collarbone because he loved

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Speaker 3: playing basketball. He was the starting center and that was

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Speaker 3: his key sport. He said, if I if I get

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Speaker 3: hurt in football, I'm dead for basketball season. So was

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Speaker 3: there ever a part of you that, because you didn't

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Speaker 3: want to be hitting people, was like, well, I got

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Speaker 3: to be ready for the spring for baseball season.

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Speaker 1: No, I wasn't. I never thought about getting hurt. I

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Speaker 1: just didn't like being hurt. That hurt like to my issue,

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Speaker 1: that hurts, man. That's things I wasn't thinking about an injury.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about I don't want to feel that pain.

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Speaker 1: So but no, all the sports, I encourage every parent,

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Speaker 1: every kid out there play multiple sports. I mean I

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Speaker 1: look at like even in baseball. I use baseball as

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Speaker 1: an analogy an example here, but a ball as an

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Speaker 1: infl of going over your shoulder. Catching it is no

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Speaker 1: different than catching a pass. You know, being able to

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Speaker 1: come up with a throw off balance is no different

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Speaker 1: than a bass in basketball, a bounce pass, or making

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Speaker 1: reads or leading people. All this there's some skill that

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Speaker 1: you can get that helps you apply to the sport

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Speaker 1: you're playing. And baseball and what we're talking about now,

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Speaker 1: because of all the other sports, may be a better baseball.

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Speaker 2: Player, right, and Harold, speaking of getting hit, I want

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Speaker 2: you to tell Jeff the story about when you get

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Speaker 2: did the takeout slide with Buck Showalter in the studio

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Speaker 2: in a three piece suit.

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Speaker 4: Both of you.

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Speaker 2: Tell the story about what Buck show Walter, the base

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Speaker 2: runner did to you the second basement.

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Speaker 1: Well, we were always trying to bring real baseball, which

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Speaker 1: Buck was not supposed to wipe me out. He's supposed

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Speaker 1: sliding in a suit at me. I'm jumping and he's

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Speaker 1: taking my legs from underneath me on a double play

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Speaker 1: pivot in the studio. What are you doing? But this

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Speaker 1: I should have known better because this is the same

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Speaker 1: guy that was showing everybody on national TV how to

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Speaker 1: cork your bat. He had a whole, he got the

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Speaker 1: whole leg, he drilled the hole, he got the super balls.

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Speaker 1: He showed everybody how to cork a bat. So it

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Speaker 1: was fun. He used to do some crazy things. Now

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Speaker 1: you think that was something. I go to MLB Network

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Speaker 1: and Eric Burns runs me over. So I'm sitting in

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Speaker 1: a chair and we're acting like like there was a

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Speaker 1: You don't do anything. You make it go around you.

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Speaker 1: We're going through you. And I'm like, all right, I'll

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Speaker 1: be you, Eric, and you show me what you would do. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not expecting him to clean my clock. I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: of my eye, like, come in full speed, and so

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Speaker 1: I rolled to take a bit of the blunt and

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Speaker 1: the blow. But he's just smoked me, knock me out

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Speaker 1: these guys don't know what they're doing.

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Speaker 3: And that's a fully ones full me twice kind of situation.

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Speaker 3: It seems, Harold, You're like, at this point, I'm done.

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Speaker 3: I'm not taking strike three.

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing.

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Speaker 3: Anymore demos where I'm gonna get wiped out on national television.

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Speaker 2: Right Harold, thinking about getting hit. Tell me, tell Jeff

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Speaker 2: what you used to think to yourself or say to

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Speaker 2: Bo Jackson in his prime when he used to get

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Speaker 2: what would you do?

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Speaker 1: I would turn the bow and I say, this is

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Speaker 1: me and I was serious. I was dead serious. You know,

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Speaker 1: I can share a couple. Since we're talking about Bo

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Speaker 1: the greatest feats, we're all talking about Otani what he

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Speaker 1: did last week, and it was incredible. I still think

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Speaker 1: one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. The

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Speaker 1: then hits the ball out of the stadium. Who does that?

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Speaker 1: It's incredible, but Bo Jackson, everybody asked me about the

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Speaker 1: me out in Seattle, catching the ball off the wall,

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Speaker 1: seen a million times. If not, you can google it.

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Speaker 1: So after that we bonded out of that thing, so

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Speaker 1: you get a chance to see him play. He runs

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Speaker 1: over Bosworth, he runs by Kenny Easley, he scores that touchdown.

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Speaker 1: So a year later later, we're taking early VP in

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Speaker 1: and he's international star. He's talking trash to me all

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Speaker 1: the time because he's telling me how he threw me out.

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Speaker 1: He's constantly bringing that up. And he's like, so I'm

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Speaker 1: And he hops in France to VP and he's hitting

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Speaker 1: and he's taking his swings and he's hammering balls in

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Speaker 1: the Kingdome just all over the place, and he goes

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Speaker 1: you know, switch hitter Rentolds, and I look at him

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Speaker 1: and he turns around left handed. I kid you not.

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Speaker 1: If I didn't see it, I wouldn't believe it. And

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Speaker 1: he hits the ball in the fifth deck in the Kingdome.

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Speaker 1: No lefty left handed I've seen in ten years. I

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Speaker 1: saw five balls go up there. I'm talking like Willie

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Speaker 1: Mays Akins moving forward and Bo hit the ball left

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Speaker 1: and goes Bo.

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Speaker 4: No, Harold, I have heard a thousand bow Jaccent stories

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Speaker 4: and you never told me that one.

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Speaker 2: That is absolutely amazing but not surprising. It's Bo Jackson, Harold.

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Speaker 2: He was the fastest guy and the strongest guy in

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Speaker 2: the game at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Do you agree?

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Speaker 2: And has that ever happened before?

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Speaker 1: He's definitely I've never seen anybody like him, Let's put

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Speaker 1: it that way. And I played in an era where

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Speaker 1: Ricky Henderson, Paul Mollinder. Yeah, I mean you name it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's unbelievable athletes. Ryan Samberg was the number one ranked

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Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about the athletes today, they're baseball

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Speaker 1: grew up with Danny. There's the number one draft pick

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Speaker 1: You know, I grew up playing against Danny. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Bo Jackson is the greatest athlete I've ever seen, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't come lightly. He was ridiculous. Another story of bow

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Speaker 1: real quick. So we played together with the Angels and

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Speaker 1: he used to get on the plane and he's stripped

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Speaker 1: down to his underwear, all right, and so the first

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Speaker 1: flight team flake we're there and this Bo Jackson, right,

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Speaker 1: and everybody's looking at this like guy, like man, this

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Speaker 1: guy's cut out, granted, and this is after him surgery

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Speaker 1: and everything else. I'm playing with the Angels. This is

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Speaker 1: of a sudden he starts taking off his clothes and

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Speaker 1: we're all like, what are you doing? And he's just

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Speaker 1: shiitz o'neels don't get jealous now, I know you guys

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Speaker 1: don't look like this. Every flight he stripped down his

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Speaker 1: think he wanted to show up. He was freaking chisel man. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Wait, he did that all the time on the flight.

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Speaker 1: Every flight, every flat and he said the same stuff.

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Speaker 1: Nobody talked more trash than Bo. He talked so much

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Speaker 1: trash constantly.

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Speaker 2: Well, Harold, you brought up switch hitting. So you told

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Speaker 2: me the story how the Mariners made you a switch

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Speaker 2: hitter in pro ball. Now tell Jeffrey what that was like.

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Speaker 2: That you, a really good high school baseball player is

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Speaker 2: now playing pro ball. Tell us what happened when they

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Speaker 2: made you a switch hitter?

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Speaker 1: Well, Jeffrey, Speaking of Jeff, I had a scout named

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Speaker 1: Jeff Malinoff who had worked me out Mareners had drafted me,

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Speaker 1: and he said, hey, you think you can play second

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Speaker 1: of a short stop. And I said, well, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: Strawberry all right, Darnell Coles, Darryl Strawberry, and myself. Darnell

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Speaker 1: Now we played every weekend, and after the games, we'd

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Speaker 1: This baseball thing is not gonna work. Every weekend, Straw

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Speaker 1: of the straw Daryl STRAWBERRYA what are you kidding me?

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Speaker 1: be kidding me. He were blowing away. How did that happen?

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Speaker 2: It's the hardest game in the world to play, and

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Speaker 1: How did that happen? Man? Once it clicks for guys,

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Speaker 1: it just clicks. And that's where the reps come in,

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Speaker 1: it clicks for him. Mike Trout. You know, you look

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Speaker 1: and we're looking at a legendary player. So hell Tani,

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Speaker 1: he couldn't hit his first spring. So let me tell

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Speaker 1: to the next subject. But I met spring training, it

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Speaker 1: you went down Tim as well. I was, and I

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Speaker 1: walk into Tempe Diablo and I trained there. That's where

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Speaker 1: the Mariners used to have spring training. That was our

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Speaker 1: spring training complex. So I'm used to seeing more balls

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Speaker 1: with land and things like that. And that's what I

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Speaker 1: love about the old ballparks. You can go somewhere and go, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's where a ball that Mickey Mantle hit ted Williams

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Speaker 1: but that's what's kind of cool about. That's what's cool

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Speaker 1: about Otani hitting one out of Dodger Stadium the other day.

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Speaker 1: Willie McCovey and I can't remember the other. Only three people,

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Speaker 2: Chet Willie, Willie Chargell did that right?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Yeah, that's been there since the sixties. Three

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Speaker 1: go back to spring training. So I walk in Otani's

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Speaker 1: Justin up the the Mike Trout meet me, and they

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Speaker 1: look like little kids at Christmas. They're like, harol, this

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Speaker 1: guy has hit the furthest balls I've ever seen hit

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Speaker 1: Justin's going I'm telling you, I'm like, holy you two

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Speaker 1: pointing to the rocks in left center field. Now, I've

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Speaker 1: never seen Old Taani, and Mike's going, he hit a ball.

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Speaker 5: Over the rocks in left center and I'm going, but

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Speaker 5: I heard he was left handed, and they're like he is,

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Speaker 1: Like, it's the greatest power I've ever seen. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: the first time I saw him, you know, he's six',

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Speaker 1: four he's, big and it's just like. Unbelievable and then

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Speaker 1: he's the fastest guy on The team's, amazing incredible. Stuff

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Speaker 1: SO i had to share those. Stories go, Ahead i'm.

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Speaker 3: Back oh my, God, harold WE i, mean, listen the

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Speaker 3: best interviews we do on is this a great? Game

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Speaker 3: or what is where we do a limited amount of.

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Speaker 3: TALKING i have been so entertained by these Stories Oh,

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Speaker 3: tani AND i don't want to get too technical, here

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Speaker 3: but the game he had In game? Four is that

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Speaker 3: the greatest performance of a Major league baseball player? EVER

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Speaker 3: i asked my dad this, Question so NOW i ask.

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Speaker 1: You, oh without a. DOUBT i, Mean i'm looking at

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Speaker 1: it like maybe historically in, sports because it's not you

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Speaker 1: we went through, statistics and we pulled Up Rick weiss

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Speaker 1: through a no hitter and hit two home runs as

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Speaker 1: a pitcher against the big red. Machine that's. Fantastic but

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Speaker 1: he had throw one hundred miles an. Hour he had

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Speaker 1: hit one out of the stadium in the same. GAME i,

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Speaker 1: mean you think about. It he struck out the first

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Speaker 1: two hitters of the game one hundred mile an hour,

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Speaker 1: fastballs and then he throws a ball that breaks across

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Speaker 1: then he runs in there and he puts on all

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Speaker 2: Unbelievable it's it is. Unbelievable take us. Back tell us

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Speaker 2: the story when you signed with The, mariner because The

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Speaker 2: mariners almost went to The World, series but you were

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Speaker 2: there when they weren't quite as.

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Speaker 1: Established so what was it like as a young.

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Speaker 2: Player In seattle where they're trying to figure out baseball

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Speaker 2: of The Great. Northwest tell us the story about when

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Speaker 2: you when you went jogging in the street one. Day

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Speaker 2: tell us what you.

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Speaker 1: Saw, WELL i tell, YOU i almost felt like crying

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Speaker 1: that The mariners didn't make. IT i THINK i would

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Speaker 1: have cried had they made, it, right because you, KNOW

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Speaker 1: i got drafted in nineteen. Eighty they came into the

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Speaker 1: league in seventy. SEVEN i remember watching them ON tv

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Speaker 1: growing up In oregon in The. Northwest and you, know

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Speaker 1: SO i get To seattle finally eighty, five eighty, Six

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Speaker 1: i'm getting more. ESTABLISHED i get called up in eighty,

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Speaker 1: Down So i'm working out in the winter In, seattle

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Speaker 1: And i'm feeling proud LIKE i managed The. Benglinggues i'm

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Speaker 1: with The. Mariners this is. AMAZING i still remember our theme.

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Speaker 1: Song by the, way The mariners are playing hardball again

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Speaker 1: and again and again and. Again i'm in the dome

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Speaker 1: looking at baseball, home all. Right that was the theme

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Speaker 1: song for The. Mariners we constantly played. IT i learned,

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Speaker 1: it all. Right So i'm in there working out in you,

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Speaker 1: know some fitness place when it was a twenty four

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Speaker 1: mind'm proud of My MARINERS t, shirt you, know and

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Speaker 6: Oh you're in The marine AND i, go, no this

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Speaker 6: is The. Mariners they're a major league team in. Town

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Speaker 6: i'm so proud of, You. Sonny The marines.

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Speaker 1: Great he had no idea The Marriage road baseball, team

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Speaker 1: no idea at. All that's how far they've.

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Speaker 2: Come right, Now, harold you also played For Dick. Williams,

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Speaker 2: Okay jeff Oh.

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Speaker 1: Man, wait as you.

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Speaker 2: Know, jeff the managerial job in the game has changed

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Speaker 2: as much as any job in the. Game Today's mariner

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Speaker 2: Time Dick williams helped me, Here harold was the exact.

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Speaker 1: Williams, WELL i hope you guys got some. Time, NO

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Speaker 1: i'm talking bad about him WHEN i talk about.

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Speaker 1: Going he helped me become An All star. Player but

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Speaker 1: he was tough. Man he was. Tough so my first

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Speaker 1: THAT i gotta give you the background of him to

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Speaker 1: tell you my. Favorite, so So dick would keep notes

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Speaker 1: in the corner of the, dugout and it was, like

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Speaker 1: you gave an effort, here you try to get a man.

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Speaker 1: Over it was so good at bat and good. Play

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Speaker 1: he used to, say the situation will dictate what. HAPPENS

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Speaker 1: i should never have to give you a. Sign so

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Speaker 1: if it was a butt, SITUATION i KNEW i had

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Speaker 1: to move that, runner AND i don't care IF i

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Speaker 1: Down that was my. JOB i better get that guy.

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Speaker 1: Over and there was many TIMES i bunted with two. Strikes.

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Speaker 1: so we're playing In. Chicago dick's just taking over The.

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Speaker 1: Mariners in eighty, Six i'm playing, Second Dave henderson's in,

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Speaker 1: all lived in this connected. Place So canzalosi is about

429
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,679
Speaker 1: five foot Six wiry wants to fight everybody all the.

430
00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:24,920
Speaker 1: Time so there's a ball hitting two Right. Phil it's,

431
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:29,479
Speaker 1: Raining it's nasty day In. Chicago Dave henderson's coming, In

432
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: alvin's going out of, first And i'm going into going

433
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 1: after the. Ball it falls, IN i, SLIDE i scoop

434
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,639
Speaker 1: it up AND i throw it the second because the

435
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: runner had to hold and it gets. There pop, up

436
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: slide bang, bang spike on and catch the. Ball he

437
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: hits him into jaw and when he pops up and

438
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: hits him And umpire calls him out and they start

439
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: swinging him And canty get off and they're. Swinging you know.

440
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 1: What those, days they didn't kick anybody out of the.

441
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: Game they just let him and these guys are just.

442
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: Swinging so actually they call him. Safe i'm, Sorry So

443
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,400
Speaker 1: kansie's safe and they're swinging back and. Forth they. Fight

444
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:12,160
Speaker 1: they break it. Up, Now kanzalosi's at second. Base, well

445
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: in between, PITCHES i sneak over the second AND i

446
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 1: go spike with a whip your, tail, boy And i'll

447
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: go back and there'd be a pitch And i'd come

448
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: back over between. IT i, go you're, LUCKY a little

449
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,119
Speaker 1: stripp in the. War you out go back and he's leading,

450
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,959
Speaker 1: off going you're lucky you pull him, off you. Know

451
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: and we're talking back and forth to each. Other and

452
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: so at the end of the, INNING i come in

453
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 1: And dick meets me at the top step and this

454
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: is the first ENCOUNTER i have with. Him i'm just

455
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,159
Speaker 1: happy to be in the big leagues and. Playing and

456
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,119
Speaker 1: he meets me at the top step and he, goes

457
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: IF i ever see you talking to a player on

458
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: the other, TEAM i will yank you out of the

459
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,199
Speaker 1: game so fast you won't know what. Happened and if

460
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 1: you weren't talking everybody out, there you would have had

461
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: that ball and right, field, Man i'm on my heels.

462
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 1: Now so we go To Kansas. City George brett hits

463
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: a double off the. Wall i've only been up a little.

464
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: Bit i haven't. Played i'm not, established And george slides

465
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: in the. Second he's standing there and he's getting his

466
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,199
Speaker 1: lead and he's, going how's it, going. Kid WHEN i

467
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: first broke, in we wore The royals out in Our

468
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,160
Speaker 1: Major league. Debut Phil, Bradley Darnell, coles, Myself Jim, presley

469
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: we all get called. Up we play against The royals

470
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: and we kill, them and they're like The royals that

471
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 1: are beating The yankees and going to the playoffs and all.

472
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: That So george had always been endearing to us and our.

473
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: Talent he's on. Second how's it, Going, Kit i'm not saying.

474
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: Nothing oh you're bigtime now on. Bedtime So i'd go

475
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: over and it's a dirt cutout In Kansas city consassitor

476
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: AND i act Like i'm picking up some dirt AND

477
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,439
Speaker 1: i kicked some dirt, Around Like skipper's all over. Me,

478
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 1: MAN i can't really, talk AND i go back to my.

479
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: Spot come in at the end of the. Inning Marty,

480
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: martinez our infield coach who brought me all the way

481
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: to the minor. Leagues now he's in the big leagues

482
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: on the, staff and he comes. Down i'm sitting at

483
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: the other end of the dugout and he comes down to,

484
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,199
Speaker 1: GO i don't know What skipper or, say But skipper

485
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: to say to tell YOU i saw. That i'm, like

486
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding. Me Reggie, jackson this is the

487
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: end of this, piece and they'll tell you my favorite.

488
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: Story So Reggie jackson hits the ball off the. Wall

489
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: my mom's favorite all time. Player he couldn't have been

490
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: nicer the night. Before Mister, jackson my mom's your Faf

491
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: you're my mom's fairy. Player can can you come into

492
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: our family room and say hi to? Her no, problem

493
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: It's Reggie. Jackson i'm just some kid in the big,

494
00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: leagues you. Know so he comes into the family room

495
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: the night, before meets my, mom takes. Pictures, oh it's.

496
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:08,159
Speaker 1: Fantastic he gets a. Double the next, night he's on.

497
00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 1: Second he turns to me and he's, goes, hey how's

498
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: your mom? Doing wasn't that great last? Night you, Know?

499
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,240
Speaker 1: Tim you Know, reggie wasn't that great last? Night in other,

500
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: words WASN'T i? FANTASTIC i came in there for you,

501
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: guys you, know And i'm, like got my head, down

502
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: And i'm, Like dick's watching EVERYTHING i. Do i'm not

503
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: even looking that. Way reggie's turned body actions Like i'm

504
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: talking to you And i've got my head. Down so

505
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: FINALLY i just, say, Hey skipper's all old. ME i

506
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: can't say. Anything, Well reggie played For dick for Three

507
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: world championship. Teams he turns to our dugout.

508
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 2: Leave the kid.

509
00:28:53,640 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: Alone i'm like you gotta be getting what are you?

510
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: Doing he's gonna kill. ME i was so scared to

511
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: death Of Dick Williams. Man so a year, LATER i

512
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: make The All Star team AND i get called into

513
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: his office and this has gone on for a, year

514
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: like he's on, me LIKE i couldn't do. ANYTHING i

515
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: get a butt. Down you, know EVERYTHING i, did he

516
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: was on me back. Up he loved his second, baseman

517
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: though they told. Me Ozzie vergil, said he loves his second.

518
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: Basement all you gotta do is catch the ball for this.

519
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: Guy you don't even have to. Hit he loves second.

520
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: Basements he Had Dick, green he had all these. Guys

521
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: he's listening to the. Guys he loves. You he may not

522
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: act like, it but he loves. You SO i just

523
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: went with. That the next, YEAR i make The All star.

524
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,959
Speaker 1: Team and HOW i made The All Star TEAM i

525
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: was an. Alternate SO i get called Into dick's office

526
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: And i'm, like you gotta be kidding. Me SO i

527
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: walk into the office And dick, goes you want to

528
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: go To. Oaklinton that's what we all start game, Was

529
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: And i'm THINKING i gotta spend my three days hangs

530
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: out with. Him but WHAT i, said, Yeah i'll go

531
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 1: watch the. Game i'll, Go i'll, go and he, goes,

532
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: No Johnny mack has something to, say And mac The

533
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: america came from around the corner and he goes head.

534
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: Graduations you deserve to go To oakland to The All Star.

535
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: Game And i'm convinced that Was dick that fought for.

536
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 2: Me that is so, good so, Good carold you told

537
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 2: me once and, again not critical Of Dick, williams great,

538
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 2: manager but you told me once he would go days

539
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 2: at a time without even speaking to you when you

540
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 2: were on the, team, right he would walk by you

541
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: like you were a total. Stranger DO i remember that?

542
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: Correctly? One now my last story is, YEAH i can

543
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: talk all day stories. Please but he got to a

544
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: point where in the second season he wouldn't talk to the.

545
00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: Picture he would walk down the aisle on the plane

546
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: and go three, innings that's all you. Got and just,

547
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: guys you got no. Guts put you in a situation

548
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: he's just going to chair the, chair ripping the. Pictures

549
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: and it got so bad that he would never come

550
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: out on the first. Visit we've gone like two months

551
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: without him coming to the mound on the first visit.

552
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 1: Ever so we're playing In. Detroit this is the, Final Dick.

553
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: Williams this is the crescendo that brings it all. Together

554
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: so we're playing a game In detroit and It's, Gibson, Whittaker,

555
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: trammel Those tiger. Teams and he comes, out brings in

556
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: the left. Hander and this kid comes jogging in who'd

557
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: just flown all night From calgary And TRIPLE a and

558
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: gets Into detroit. Early and we're playing that afternoon special

559
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: on This, saturday and it's like noon and it's, packed

560
00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: its Old Tiger. Stadium these guys are a playoff, team bases,

561
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: loaded no, outs and this low left hander comes into the,

562
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: game first time in the big leagues FOR, us and

563
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: he Walks whittaker on four. Pitches It's Whittaker, trammel Then,

564
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: gibson he Walks whittaker on four. Pitches here Comes. Dick

565
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: it's been two months since he came out on the first.

566
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: Visit so we all jog into The. Moulain what is

567
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: he gonna? Say he gets there And, jeff you're the

568
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: perfect target for me on this. Screen you're the, picture

569
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: and he says, him are your arms, tired and the kids, like,

570
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: no my, arm it feels. Good it feels, good. Nervous

571
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: Tiger stadium is going, nuts and he, GOES i didn't

572
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: say your. ARM i said your arms plurl because if

573
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: you don't go strike to the next, guy you'll be

574
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: flapping them all the way back to and he's stumping

575
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: him in his chest with every one of, those you'll

576
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: be flapping them all the way back To. Calgary and

577
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: he walks off AND i, go just throw a strike

578
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: And trammell hits a, triple clears the bass and next

579
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: thing you, know gives an ambersy and oh my, GOSH

580
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: i never saw the kid. Again they sent him. DOWN

581
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: i don't remember his, name and he never came.

582
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 2: Back That's i'm not surprised because that's the way That dick,

583
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: Was that's the way the game was run back, then

584
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: BEFORE i. FORGET i went To Shay stadium one day

585
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 2: And i'm walking Into Shaye. Stadium this is thirty years,

586
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 2: ago And John candelosi was on The. Pirates i'm walking

587
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 2: Into shae and a guy asks, me As i'm walking,

588
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 2: in Mister, candelosi CAN i have your? Autograph he THOUGHT

589
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 2: i Was John. Candlosi, WELL i thought this was really.

590
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 2: Funny SO i go To John candelosi and, say you're

591
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 2: not gonna believe he doesn't know me very. Well i'm

592
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 2: It's Sports.

593
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: Illustrated at the.

594
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 2: TIME i, said let's want to let you know some

595
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 2: guy asked me for your he's an, autograph THINKING i was,

596
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 2: you And John candelosi got furious and just walked away

597
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 2: from me like this dinky little midget sports. Writer he

598
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,399
Speaker 2: looked at some of the things THAT i am. Him

599
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 2: he was, Furious, Harold is that so right For John?

600
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: Candelosi is not? Him hundred and that's all? Thought was

601
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: not as good looking as a jack AS i beat him.

602
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: Out god's him, great that's why he got.

603
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: There that's so. Funny but it was really only about. Five,

604
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 1: yes he was.

605
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 2: Short he was taller than.

606
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: Me tell you about.

607
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 2: The time you Faced Nolan ryan as a young, player

608
00:34:54,160 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 2: and tell what happened when you faced the Great Nolan Ryan's.

609
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: So nolan had thrown two to one hitters against The

610
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 1: mariners one year In april and again In, september AND

611
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: i got both the one, hits and so the next

612
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: year we're facing him and his last throw he would

613
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: always lob his last pitch and they'd throw it. Down

614
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: and while they threw it, down he'd be on the,

615
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: mound you, know stopping the, mound making shrews the way

616
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: he wanted. It, Well i'm leading the game off and

617
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: he's now walked up towards the circle at home, plate

618
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: and he, says don't even think about. BUNTING i never

619
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: bunted Around, nolan you. KNOW i was, like you didn't

620
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: ask a question if it was a ball or. Strike

621
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: you just got in the box against. Him AND i

622
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: never bunned it. Ever so sure, ENOUGH i get to

623
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 1: a three to one count AND i hadn't hit many home,

624
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: runs But i'm standing right on the, plate like, okay oh,

625
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: man let's. Go And i'm standing Where i'm uncomfortably close

626
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: to the, plate But i'm making Mine you Think i'm

627
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: gonna bun, You i'm making my, stand you. Know i'm standing.

628
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,720
Speaker 1: There and the first pitch of the game he flipped

629
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: me with a, Fastball so NOW i got to stay

630
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: Where i'm. At SO i go to a three to

631
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: one count And i'm channeled my. Inner Reggie jackson throws

632
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: a fastball AND i hammer it and it's going fair

633
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,280
Speaker 1: and it's a home run And i'm standing there watching

634
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: it like, yeah and it goes. Foul now like he's

635
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: gonna kill. Me So i'm just, like if he throws a,

636
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: strike it's a. Strike but All i'm doing this thing

637
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: about getting out of the. Way three to, Two i'm

638
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: just thinking about getting out of the. Way ball. Four

639
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: he watchs. Me SO i still. Second he's screaming at.

640
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: ME i still. Third he's GOING i, mean he's just

641
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: cussing up and, down just going. NUTS i. Score so

642
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: the next day he's out running his sprints and he's

643
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: always running his sprints and getting ready for his training

644
00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: and all. That and we're out and there feeling now

645
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: playing catch and he judged by me AND i kind

646
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: of make eye contact with him and he, goes way

647
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: to compete, yesterday, kid AND i, went, Wow Nolan ryan told,

648
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: me way to. Compete it's the greatest thing. Ever So Randy.

649
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: Johnson So Randy johnson was, wild couldn't throw a strike to.

650
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: Anybody tell me probably someone first got called. Up. Amazing

651
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: so the true, story you, know he met With Nolan

652
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: ryan and that kind of flipped his whole career. Round

653
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: but What nolan told him Was randy was always, afraid

654
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,280
Speaker 1: at least AS i know that he would hurt somebody

655
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: because he threw so, hard so he didn't want to hit.

656
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 1: Anybody And nolan was, like it's their job to get

657
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: out of the. Way so the next time you go

658
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,479
Speaker 1: three and, oh you're probably gonna walk them, anyway throw

659
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: it at the bat and they'll get out of the

660
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: way and then you'll figure out they can get out

661
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 1: of the. Way so three old colties start throwing, again

662
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: they just get out and it gave me the confidence

663
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: to realize they're going to get out of the way

664
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: IF i threw a ball at. Him we go To

665
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: texas after meeting With, nolan strikes out seventeen and that

666
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: was the beginning of the.

667
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 2: Unit so it was it Was Nolan ryan saying don't

668
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 2: worry about hitting them that really turned The it's not, like,

669
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 2: hey you need.

670
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: To throw more.

671
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: Strikes he's, says you gotta throw fewer strikes and you

672
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 2: can hit a guy and that will make you.

673
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: Better, yeah Because randy had this fear he's gonna hurt,

674
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 1: him and it's like they'll get out of the. Way.

675
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 3: Amazing, Wow So harold you talked a little bit, about you,

676
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,840
Speaker 3: know the conversations you had as a second, baseman but

677
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 3: as a base. Stealer and the rules have change now in,

678
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 3: baseball how many times people can throw over and all this.

679
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 3: Stuff but as a base, Stealer i'm sure you had

680
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 3: a lot of, communication either like you Did Nolan ryan

681
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 3: from a distance or with a first baseman who's kind

682
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 3: of messing around with. You do you have any relationships

683
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 3: that you, created good or, bad or conversations that you

684
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 3: remember with either pitchers or first.

685
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: Basement. YEAH i got two quick. Stories so, ONE i

686
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: never really talked a lot of trash on the. Basis

687
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: But Ricky henders so used to tell me all the,

688
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: time you can't hold, me you can't stop, Reading and

689
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: he'd be leading off, Second i'd be holding like my first.

690
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: Patient you're getting ready to, go going right. Here you

691
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: can't stop and he would run on that. Pitch he

692
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: would do that all the, time talking. Trash the other

693
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: guy Was Robbie, alomar And robbie would always tell me

694
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: what guys Did hey look at his, glove look at his,

695
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: this look at. That So Jack morris had one bad

696
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: year where he lost like seventeen, games AND i remember

697
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 1: going Into toronto and then we'd go From toronto To

698
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: detroit And robbie'd be, like, hey you got his. Pitches

699
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 1: what were you talking? About he, goes he. Goes when

700
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: he brings the ball to his, belt it's a. Fastball

701
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: when he goes below his, belt it's a. Split AND

702
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: i was, like holy, smokes but don't tell, anybody because

703
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: we got to light this guy. Up and so the

704
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: whole league knew What jack was. Doing and that's kind

705
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: of how that got. Around. Wow So robbie used to

706
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: tell me things about. Pitchers so the only TIME i

707
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: really ever got any trouble Was i'm playing In baltimore

708
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: at the time for The orioles got the green light

709
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: And Johnny oates was, like we have one. Sign it's

710
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: a stop, sign and it's to cover The oriel. Bird

711
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: the third base coach would cover the ooral. Bird that

712
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: means don't. Run but Cal ripken had his own hit and.

713
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: Run tim you're familiar with, THIS i, AM i. Am.

714
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: Yeah he used to put on his own hit and run, Sign,

715
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: jeff and so it would be like reach, down grab some,

716
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: dirt go above the. Barrel he gets back in the.

717
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,760
Speaker 1: Box he, says hit and. Run So i'd be on first,

718
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: base hitting in front Of. COW i would have to

719
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,920
Speaker 1: look at the third base coach see what sign it.

720
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: Was Then i'd have to look At col and see

721
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: If cal puts something on because his sign was superseded

722
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 1: third base. Coach SO i get the don't run from

723
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: a third base. Coach cal puts on the hit and.

724
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: RUN i got, it run all. Right so here comes the.

725
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: Pitch he fouls it. Off now our dugout is on

726
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,919
Speaker 1: the first base side And Johnny oates is screaming at,

727
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: me it's the easiest sign we. Have now he's going like,

728
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: this it's the easiest sign we. Are he's screaming at me,

729
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: like how do you miss that? Sign SO i can't

730
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,959
Speaker 1: tell HIM i had to. Run so a pitch goes.

731
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,400
Speaker 1: BY i don't. Run he's still yelling And Cecil fielder's

732
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: playing first. Base he, goes, yes you're not going, anywhere are.

733
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 1: You so that's how loud he's. Yelling so Then cal

734
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 1: gets in a favorable count and puts on a hit

735
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: and run. Again, boom base hits. RIGHT i end up

736
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: at third. Base it's first and Third Harold baines comes.

737
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: UP i score on a sack. Fly johnny meets me

738
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 1: As i'm coming down the. Dugout it's the. Easies just

739
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: stop even though he scored a. Run and we go

740
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: down the tunnel and he is going off AND i,

741
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 1: Said kyle put on a hit and, run and he, goes,

742
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: oh that was, it that was?

743
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 2: It Oh, GOD i can only about.

744
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: It So kyle, Ripton i'll tell you this. One you've

745
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: heard of many Of cal. Stories i'm thinking Of Shoe

746
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: tani and the strength and all. That we're In oakland

747
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: And Frank robinson And Brooks robinson come out to work With.

748
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: Cal he's. Scuffling this is the beginning of nineteen eighty,

749
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: three and then he gets going after, that get in the.

750
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: Air we're In. Oakland Brooks, Robinson Frank robinson show up

751
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: in the. Clubhouse i'm, like this is gonna be. Awesome

752
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: these guys are here for early. Hitting get the chance

753
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: to hit with. Them so they go. Out they got

754
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: this big bucket of balls and they set the balls

755
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: between them And brooks And frank are standing in the

756
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: left hand battersby And cow's hitting in the right box

757
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: and they put a ball on the. Tee he'd take

758
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: a swing and they'd all talk amongst. Themselves it was

759
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: the coolest thing. Ever But cal starts getting into a

760
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 1: groove and he's hitting balls off of the tee into

761
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: the seats In. OAKLAND i mean it's like. Boom and

762
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: then you hear this And i'm like it. Smokes hit

763
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: the ball in the. Stands and pretty soon he's on this.

764
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: Roll he's hitting not, ten, fifteen twenty balls into the

765
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: seats and he must have taken about one hundred and some,

766
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: swings and they're talking in between, swings and he's taking the.

767
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: Swing boom, boom boom, boom left, center right off the.

768
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: Tee i'd never see anything like that in my. Life

769
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: so now there's balls scattered everywhere and we're all out their,

770
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: shagging and then they grab some, towels some, water and

771
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: they all walk in And i'm, like, WELL i need

772
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: to fix my. Swing they flew in this to work With, cal.

773
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 2: Jeff as you, know the reason you can hit a

774
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: baseball so far is the velocity helps propel the. Ball

775
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 2: that's far hitting a ball off the, Tee, harold that's.

776
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 2: Unbelievable guys try to do that with a fungo off

777
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 2: of tea and can't do.

778
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: It he did it.

779
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 2: Repeatedly that's how strong Cal ripken.

780
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: Was, yeah it's from a strength, Standpoint i've never seen

781
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: anything like that, ever, right.

782
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 2: Amazing, Now HAROLD T Mobile park In seattle is a beautiful.

783
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 2: PLACE i loved going, there AND i went to The

784
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 2: kingdome a thousand times for, games AND i always look

785
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 2: it was what was it like playing in The kingdome

786
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 2: for you and compare it to what it's like now

787
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 2: that The mariners get to play in that gorgeous.

788
00:44:52,920 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: Ballpark, well obviously The kingdome aesthetically was. Nothing are not

789
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 1: even close TO T. Mobile BUT i love The dome

790
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: because you knew what the temperature is going to be every, day,

791
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: RIGHT i, mean at the end of the, day it's

792
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: still The. Northwest the weirdest thing was in the summer In.

793
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: Seattle you, know it doesn't get dark till ten thirty

794
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: at night because we're up there close to that area

795
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: of the world and so it never gets. DARK i

796
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: actually played in the summer In alaska From fairbanks in the,

797
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: summer and we played a game start at midnight without,

798
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: lighting without artificial, lights, okay and it was light as

799
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: the afternoon used to put like you used to try

800
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: to put curtains upon curtains so you could sleep and

801
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: get some darkness because it never gets dark in the,

802
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: summer you. Know So seattle is an easy flight To,

803
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: alaska so we're not that far. Away So i'd walk

804
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: out of The kingdome after a game at ten thirty

805
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock at night and it's still be. Light it's

806
00:45:55,600 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: the weirdest. Thing so, now but T, mobile that park

807
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: is just. Gorgeous you get to see the, mountains you

808
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: get to see the beauty of The. Northwest it's. Incredible you.

809
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: Know we have a mountain out there Called Mount, rainier

810
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: and we used to call It Mount majestic because it's

811
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: just so it's so, beautiful and there's nothing Like seattle

812
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 1: in the summer In July. August no place On earth touches.

813
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: That it's. Incredible.

814
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 3: YEAH i talk a little bit about the, Fans, harold

815
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 3: AND i know this is hard given that, they you,

816
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 3: know just suffered A game seven. Loss and even though

817
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 3: you cover the game and we're not supposed to play,

818
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 3: favorites you played so many. Years you're From, oregon you

819
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 3: played for The mariners for years and years and. Years

820
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,479
Speaker 3: what message do you want to give the fans about

821
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 3: how they're feeling.

822
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: Today, WELL i was pulling for The mariners the whole,

823
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: way And i'm a, fan you, Know i've been a

824
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: fan for. Years as a kid to play there and

825
00:46:54,640 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 1: then as an adult to follow. It it was, Painful

826
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: BUT i, thought once we we won the first two In,

827
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: toronto went back To seattle and lost the first two,

828
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: games that was. Trouble you have to win those games

829
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: at home BECAUSE i knew going back To seattle To

830
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: toronto's gonna be. Difficult BUT i was on a talk

831
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: radio show with a bunch Of New Yorkers New York,

832
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: radio and they're, like, well can you even consider this

833
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,799
Speaker 1: a successful season In? Seattle AND i, said we're Not New.

834
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: Yorkers we were one game from The World. Series, yeah

835
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: it was a great, season you, know just. Perspective it

836
00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: was an amazing year and for that team to come that.

837
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: Far BUT i think WHEN i look, back it was

838
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: the ownership made a move at the trade deadline THAT

839
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: i hope changed the direction of the rest of the

840
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: organization that they, go, wow it really helps us to

841
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: benefit that it took them this close to possibly going

842
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 1: to The World.

843
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 2: Series, Right, Well i've kept you for fifty. Minutes you

844
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 2: have Told, Harold i'm so disappointed in myself because you

845
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 2: have told me ten stories today THAT i have never,

846
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 2: heard AND i collect stories for a. LIVING i thought

847
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 2: we were good friends and you.

848
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: Hadn't told me some of.

849
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 2: These it was absolutely. Priceless now ALL i can think

850
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 2: about is Bo jackson is underwear on an.

851
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: Airplane it's.

852
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 2: Unbelievable thank you so, Much harold for joining. Us you

853
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 2: were delightful AND i will see you at The World

854
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 2: series and hopefully we'll run Into jeff again somewhere along

855
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 2: the

856
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: Line no doubt about, It, Tim, jeff, guys thank you