Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkchen. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkschen. We're
Speaker 1: recording this on President's Day, So a happy President's Day
Speaker 1: to you, Dad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and to you Jeff. Four Team Tim today. It's
Speaker 2: one of our easiest team Tim's ever will have the
Speaker 2: All President's team. This was not They're usually difficult. They're
Speaker 2: usually a stretch, but it was pretty easy coming up
Speaker 2: with a team with players whose last name of that
Speaker 2: of a president. And I understand on President's Day, Jeff,
Speaker 2: you went to the circus today with McKinley Hope. Huh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My daughter and I we saw the Ringling Brothers at
Speaker 1: Exfinity Mobile Live. I believe it is. And ironically, Dad,
Speaker 1: while I was at Exfinity Mobile Live formerly the Wells
Speaker 1: Fargo Center in Philadelphia where the Sixers and the Flyers play,
Speaker 1: the Infinity guy was fixing my internet here at my
Speaker 1: house at the same exact time. So I walked in
Speaker 1: there and I said, hey, listen, I'm a customer. I
Speaker 1: would like access to the bathrooms early. I would like
Speaker 1: frontline on all of the prizes. Dat how much money
Speaker 1: do you think I spent on parking, food.
Speaker 3: And gifts for my daughter.
Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty bus tickets one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 3: I think I was at just over one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: The cotton candy was eighteen dollars. Nobody told me parenting
Speaker 1: would result in bankruptcy.
Speaker 2: Jeff, it's so expensive today. I love the circus. I
Speaker 2: took you kids to the circus a couple times when
Speaker 2: you were young. I'll never forget Stephen Wright, one of
Speaker 2: the great one line comedians of all times. He said,
Speaker 2: have famous clown died Twenty of his clown friends went
Speaker 2: to the funeral in one car.
Speaker 1: Dad, I'll never forget you Remember the time we went
Speaker 1: to go see Cirqua Sola, Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Yes, we were visiting.
Speaker 1: Family, and all of us were wearing matching Chuck Taylor's. Now,
Speaker 1: mind you, I believe I was a teenager at this time,
Speaker 1: meaning my sister was, you know, almost twenty and Dad,
Speaker 1: you told the parking attendant as we drove in, hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to the circus, right.
Speaker 2: And we were going to the she they're parking for
Speaker 2: the circus. She looked at me.
Speaker 1: Not even technically the circus at Surfu Alay it's a
Speaker 1: little bit different.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: She looked at me like I was cared less.
Speaker 2: All right. She didn't care, and I didn't care either.
Speaker 2: But here's what I care about, Jeff. My Baseball Writer's
Speaker 2: card arrived in the mail today. I started out in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty as number eight hundred and eighty on the
Speaker 2: Baseball Writer's list. I was number eight eighty and I'm
Speaker 2: down to number two, which means only twenty one people
Speaker 2: in front of me have covered the game for longer
Speaker 2: than I have. And I only bring that up because Jeff.
Speaker 2: I was number twenty two last year, so I'm twenty
Speaker 2: two this year, which means what Jeff.
Speaker 1: Means, you haven't had a chance to murder any of
Speaker 1: the twenty one in front of you.
Speaker 2: Nobody died in front of me. Is Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: baseball writer Joe falls on road. This is not a
Speaker 2: race that you want to win. So I got my
Speaker 2: card in the mail. It's as proud as I am
Speaker 2: of anything that I do being a part of the
Speaker 2: Baseball Writers and my card arrived. It's a means for celebration,
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 3: Very neat.
Speaker 1: Also, I want to let our listeners know just a
Speaker 1: little note we're having a deck built in our backyard.
Speaker 3: We moved to a new house. We're so excited.
Speaker 1: Guess where that deck connects to the home right behind me.
Speaker 3: So if you hear any.
Speaker 1: Knocking or trilling or any sorts of noise, it's not me.
Speaker 1: I'm not building a birdhouse over here. It is the
Speaker 1: deck being built behind me.
Speaker 2: Dad.
Speaker 1: I can't I can't even get my podcast studio together.
Speaker 3: I'm all stressed.
Speaker 1: I'm using a different computer now because my computer won't
Speaker 1: connect to the Wi Fi.
Speaker 3: I sound like you. What is going on with me, Jeff?
Speaker 2: When you have more technical issues than I do. We're both,
Speaker 2: We're both. We're in a lot of trouble, all right, Jeff,
Speaker 2: I really got a thrill. I'm writing a story. I'm
Speaker 2: not going to tell you what it's about because it's
Speaker 2: a secret. Even though it's not basying about baseball, it's
Speaker 2: a baseball story. And Wow, consecutive days I spoke to
Speaker 2: Johnny Bench and Paul Molitor, which was you know again,
Speaker 2: I love those guys. I've talked to him many, many,
Speaker 2: many times. I'm not dropping names. I just want you
Speaker 2: to know that, at age almost seventy, when I still
Speaker 2: get to talk to guys like that. It's still a
Speaker 2: big thrill for me because I learned so much when
Speaker 2: I talk to them. So so four years ago, at
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame, Jeff, our whole family is there
Speaker 2: and Jef Bench is walking by us, and I stopped
Speaker 2: him and I said, Johnny, can you can you take
Speaker 2: some pictures? My two brothers are here, there were both
Speaker 2: great college baseball players. Can you take some pictures? So
Speaker 2: he goes sure, So he pulls out his camera. I
Speaker 2: know you know the story, Jeff and starts to take
Speaker 2: pictures of all the Kirkchins at the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: And he's so good at it, and I'm just so
Speaker 2: honored that Johnny Bench is taking pictures of us. And finally,
Speaker 2: after ten minutes, I say, Johnny, look, this was great,
Speaker 2: but we want a picture with you in it with us.
Speaker 2: So he says okay. So he passes his camera to
Speaker 2: this other gentleman and said, can you take some pictures
Speaker 2: of me with the Kirkchins. And the man he passed
Speaker 2: it to was Paul Molitor. So the guy who got
Speaker 2: more hits than Willie Mays took the camera and took
Speaker 2: pictures of Johnny Bench with the Kirkchins, and I spoke
Speaker 2: to those guys on back to my days that is
Speaker 2: it okay to still get a thrill by that, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I just think it's hilarious that arguably the greatest catcher
Speaker 1: of all time wanted to take a picture of us. Normally,
Speaker 1: Normally it's the insult when you get handed the camera
Speaker 1: and you're the one that doesn't. And trust me, that
Speaker 1: is happening, right. I take pictures for you all the time.
Speaker 3: Dad.
Speaker 1: People are like, hey, Tim, it's great to meet you.
Speaker 1: Can we get a picture, And I say, yes, I
Speaker 1: would love to take a picture for you, right, and
Speaker 1: I take it for them with you. But for Johnny
Speaker 1: Bench to assume that we wanted just his camera skills,
Speaker 1: which are immaculate.
Speaker 3: By the way, Dad, I have a question kind of
Speaker 3: on this line though.
Speaker 1: What is it about photography and baseball players?
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a correlation here.
Speaker 1: Ken Griffy Junior, great photographer, Randy Johnson, amazing photographer, Johnny
Speaker 1: Bench loves to take photos. Is it, and I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to be kitchy or stupid or funny? Is it
Speaker 1: an eye thing?
Speaker 3: Is it a is it a capturing a moment, great
Speaker 3: eyes kind of It's.
Speaker 2: A good question, Jeff. And maybe it is. Maybe when
Speaker 2: you're you know, so visible like they are, and they've
Speaker 2: you know, grown up with pictures being taken of them
Speaker 2: in the greatest situations ever, World Series, everything else. They
Speaker 2: see what that, they understand what that means, and they
Speaker 2: want to capture it themselves because their likeness has been
Speaker 2: captured so many times. Very interesting question, Jeff. Al McGuire,
Speaker 2: the great basketball coach used to say, this guy has
Speaker 2: two hobbies, photography and taking pictures, which we always got
Speaker 2: to kick out al.
Speaker 3: McGuire, it's incredible.
Speaker 1: And Dad, you know, I thought you were just about
Speaker 1: a sneak us and say, darn it, Jeff, that's what
Speaker 1: my story was about, all right.
Speaker 2: Also, Jeff, a shout out to Sam Ravich, our dear friend,
Speaker 2: Karl Ravich's son. Sam is in the business. He's really
Speaker 2: good at this. He just had a child a year
Speaker 2: and a half ago or so, Jj, But he sent
Speaker 2: out something about his alma mater, pepper Dine, where a
Speaker 2: pitcher Colin Valentine pitched started a game the pitcher on
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day and according to Sam, he's the first college
Speaker 2: baseball pitcher with the name Valentine to ever start a
Speaker 2: game on Valentine's Day. And he sent that to me
Speaker 2: and said, he said, Tim, I thought you'd appreciate this,
Speaker 2: so Sam, thank you very much. You have no idea
Speaker 2: how much I appreciate your thing, way too much, but
Speaker 2: I love it. It was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Dad, that's a great little quirk chin
Speaker 1: which I can't wait to get into the quark chins
Speaker 1: when we start the regular season again.
Speaker 3: It's going to be really good. Dad. I do have
Speaker 3: a little bit of.
Speaker 1: A PSA that I wanted to share with our listeners
Speaker 1: for anybody who happens to be in and around the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia area. I meant to bring this up last week,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I guess it's never too late. We
Speaker 1: have I have an event called a Tasty Talk. It's
Speaker 1: coming up tomorrow February eighteenth, So Wednesday, February eighteenth at
Speaker 1: Mason Lotus in Wayne, Pennsylvania, right on the main line,
Speaker 1: and we're selling tickets to give back to ALS Research
Speaker 1: and ALS United mid Atlantic is going to be receiving
Speaker 1: the funds and we're going to do I have some
Speaker 1: Phillies tickets to give away some signed merchandise to give away. Dad,
Speaker 1: I actually wanted to ask you if you wanted to
Speaker 1: bring a couple of books to give away for the
Speaker 1: for the silent auction that I'm going to be doing
Speaker 1: for that to raise some money for als.
Speaker 3: Do you think I can get a book or two?
Speaker 2: Yes, you have plenty of books still, Jeff.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you want information about how to attend
Speaker 1: this event, it's open to the public, just have to
Speaker 1: get a ticket in advance. You can go to Great
Speaker 1: Game or what dot com. I'm going to put this
Speaker 1: up on our website, just a link. There's a number
Speaker 1: of seats still left. Dad, You're actually going to be
Speaker 1: driving up for it, which is really awesome.
Speaker 3: So and I'm going to be given a given a
Speaker 3: little speech.
Speaker 1: So I'm really looking forward to it. And Dad, I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you. I was going to try to involve
Speaker 1: you in the event, and then I kind of said,
Speaker 1: you know, when does my dad just go go to
Speaker 1: an event and just be able to eat and enjoy
Speaker 1: instead of having to get up there and dance, monkey
Speaker 1: dance and talk baseball for an hour. Instead, I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk for only fifteen minutes. Mind you and I'm
Speaker 1: so glad you're gonna make it. It's gonna be really special. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've been doing a lot of speeches lately, Jeff. As
Speaker 2: in a five day period. Recently, I spoke to my
Speaker 2: grandson Carson's class, age five. Then I spoke at a
Speaker 2: retirement home average age I'm guessing eighty five. That was
Speaker 2: a couple days later, and then I spoke at a
Speaker 2: banquet for the Israeli baseball team in the WBC. Talk
Speaker 2: about an eclectic group of speeches that I had to
Speaker 2: make during a five day period. They all turned out
Speaker 2: pretty well, I hope, and it was great. But Jeff,
Speaker 2: just relax on Wednesday. You'll be great and just be yourself,
Speaker 2: be spontaneous, be genuine, be real, and everything will be five.
Speaker 1: And the funniest part of that is the toughest crowd
Speaker 1: was the four and five year olds, right by far.
Speaker 2: The tough's crap six seventh jeez, they're like.
Speaker 1: Stop talking about bab Ruth, talk about show. Hey all right, dad,
Speaker 1: Well that thanks for the PSA giving me that chance.
Speaker 1: Go to great camera what dot com to get your tickets?
Speaker 3: Should you jump into the takeaways? My friend?
Speaker 2: Sure? Jeff, Okay, last week we kind of kicked off.
Speaker 2: Spring training has begun. This week's spring training games are beginning.
Speaker 2: And let's be clear about spring training games. I love
Speaker 2: spring training games, but you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: times that only four major leaguers are in the line
Speaker 2: of Some of them play two, three, four innings and
Speaker 2: then they're gone. That's just the way it works in
Speaker 2: spring training. Do you have a visitor, Jeff, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: We do have, Hope Hies. Whose house did you sleep
Speaker 2: at the other night?
Speaker 3: Whose house did you sleep at the other night?
Speaker 2: Popop's house? Love?
Speaker 3: Did pop Ups house? And did pop Up sleep with
Speaker 3: you in the bed? Because you had trouble falling asleep?
Speaker 2: And then she woke up and had a terrible nightmare,
Speaker 2: and but she went right back to bed and she
Speaker 2: was great.
Speaker 1: So all right, Sissy, well can you say I love you?
Speaker 3: Pop up right in the microphone? Wow, popap love.
Speaker 2: See you on Wednesday. Okay, see you see Wednesday.
Speaker 1: All right, Sissy, you can you can play down here,
Speaker 1: my love, but you have to you have to be
Speaker 1: quiet and let Daddy work.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can play though, you want to play down here. Okay,
Speaker 3: you can play down here. I love you, give me kiss. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you got some wipes.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3: That one is me.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can play down here, but you gotta you
Speaker 3: gotta play quietly. Okay.
Speaker 1: This is the joys of being a working from home
Speaker 1: father for this podcast. She and the dog just came
Speaker 1: down too. Have you ever seen that news clip, dad,
Speaker 1: of the guy who's doing like a live Yeah, both
Speaker 1: of his kids come dancing. She just scared the living
Speaker 1: heck out of me just by standing there. I didn't
Speaker 1: realize she was going to be here, So I know
Speaker 1: that any moment now, Emily is going to come sprinting
Speaker 1: down the stairs thinking that she is disturbed. And it's okay,
Speaker 1: we're going to be okay. So once it comes down,
Speaker 1: McKinley's going to play nice and quietly. She's got a
Speaker 1: skirt on because daddy's working right now.
Speaker 3: Good job.
Speaker 1: Okay, back to the takeaways, Dad, Sorry for the great.
Speaker 2: Distraction, all right, No worries, Jeff. Again, spring training games
Speaker 2: have begun and there's no telling what you might see
Speaker 2: at a spring training game. I'm going to tell you
Speaker 2: this story, Jeff. I think I've told you before, but
Speaker 2: since you're in you know country music. Garth Brooks, the
Speaker 2: Great Garth Brooks used to work out with the San
Speaker 2: Diego Padres in spring training and Bruce Bochie, Bruce Bochie
Speaker 2: put him into a game more than once, so he
Speaker 2: put him in as a pinch runner. And Garth Brooks,
Speaker 2: who like could hold his own believe it or not,
Speaker 2: gets picked off in a spring training game. He's out
Speaker 2: by five feet going back to first base, and Ed Montague,
Speaker 2: the umpire veteran, Ed Montague calls him safe. So like
Speaker 2: Mark Grace, the first basement is laughing out loud, like
Speaker 2: this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Garth Brooks
Speaker 2: hugs Ed Montague right there on the field, hugs him
Speaker 2: for still calling him safe. And Ed Montague said after
Speaker 2: the game, look, I can call Barry Mands out of first,
Speaker 2: I can call Mark Grace out at first, but I
Speaker 2: can't call Garth Brooks out of first. My wife loves him,
Speaker 2: and if I called about I couldn't go home after
Speaker 2: the game. So it just shows you these are the
Speaker 2: beautiful things that happen in spring training. Nobody's taking it
Speaker 2: that seriously. And we can have a country music store.
Speaker 2: Our pinch run in a major league game in spring training.
Speaker 2: You're okay, right, Jeff.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, of course that's the beauty.
Speaker 1: I mean, nothing is better in my opinion. Besides, you've
Speaker 1: got October baseball and spring training baseball. Listen, a summer
Speaker 1: game with a cold beer is the best thing ever.
Speaker 1: But spring training just it's like you're a kid at
Speaker 1: that ballpark because you're so close to the players, you have.
Speaker 3: So much access to them. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: You remember when Will Ferrell got traded mid game from
Speaker 1: one team to another on the same team, right.
Speaker 2: And it's hilarious. And every year in the last ten years,
Speaker 2: almost Jeff, we have miked up players in spring training
Speaker 2: and they're just so playful, they're having so much fun.
Speaker 2: We had Mookie bets On, Rabbi Eduardo and I did
Speaker 2: a game at spring training I don't know eight years ago.
Speaker 2: Moki's in Boston and there's a line drive down the
Speaker 2: right field line and we are having a conversation with
Speaker 2: him and he's run after the ball and he goes
Speaker 2: ain't getting to this one boys, the ball drops in
Speaker 2: for a double, and then we've got to talking about
Speaker 2: his golf swing and there he is in right field
Speaker 2: in the middle of an exhibition game, showing us his
Speaker 2: golf swing. Again, this can only happen in spring training.
Speaker 2: It is a really fun, joyful time of year, as
Speaker 2: long as you go there not expecting to see your
Speaker 2: team win every game, your your favorite players playing nine innings,
Speaker 2: and even your favorite players being great, Jeff, because it's
Speaker 2: not important to go there and run up big numbers. Show. Oh,
Speaker 2: Tony doesn't care if he gets a hit in spring training,
Speaker 2: just as long as he stays, you know, according to
Speaker 2: his plan, his body holds up and everything else. And
Speaker 2: to that end, Jeff, just keep in mind wins and
Speaker 2: losses for teams totally irrelevant in spring training. The eighty
Speaker 2: four Cubs, I remember this, went seven and twenty during
Speaker 2: spring training seven and twenty and ended up winning the
Speaker 2: division that year. And on the other side, the two
Speaker 2: thousand and two Orioles went twenty and nine in spring
Speaker 2: training and lost ninety five games this year. So there
Speaker 2: often is no correlation between a good spring training or
Speaker 2: bad spring training record and what's going to happen in
Speaker 2: the regular season.
Speaker 1: You know, before our anniversary show at our radio station
Speaker 1: every year, Dad, we have what's called the side stage
Speaker 1: where these young up and coming artists come befom on it,
Speaker 1: and we've had the likes of Luke Colmbs, the likes
Speaker 1: of Morgan Wallen Hardy. These are like the biggest names
Speaker 1: in country music right now. Dad playing on this tiny
Speaker 1: little stage before the big headliner goes on the big,
Speaker 1: big stage. And they're playing at like two pm. Dad,
Speaker 1: the show starts at seven.
Speaker 3: My point is what I.
Speaker 1: Love about country music listeners and baseball fans is they
Speaker 1: love investing in an artist or a player early on.
Speaker 1: You never know who you're going to see in a
Speaker 1: spring training game. That could be the next Mike Trout,
Speaker 1: that could be the next Bryce Harper, could be the
Speaker 1: next show Hey, whatever it is, because it's just magic,
Speaker 1: right and you see players make connections with fans, and
Speaker 1: you could say I saw him when he wore number
Speaker 1: eighty two in.
Speaker 3: Arizona's Cactus League. He was in nobody, and.
Speaker 1: Now he's starting as the everyday left field or whatever
Speaker 1: it might be.
Speaker 3: Jeff, I love those stories.
Speaker 2: That's why spring training is so good and so important.
Speaker 2: The stuff you see there in February and March, at
Speaker 2: least for me as a reporter, are still important. When
Speaker 2: October rolls around because you might see a guy and
Speaker 2: you say, wow, I saw him on a backfield in
Speaker 2: spring training, and now here he is playing in the
Speaker 2: World Series. Those things really matter. So and all sorts
Speaker 2: of like I said, Jeff, all sorts of crazy things
Speaker 2: happen in spring training. I did a game with the Orioles,
Speaker 2: Jeff Stone, this is the late eighties. Got thrown out
Speaker 2: at all four bases in one game. Now, I'm sure
Speaker 2: that's not I'm sure that's been done before. It just
Speaker 2: seemed a little bit odd to me. He got thrown
Speaker 2: out at first, second, third, and home in the same game.
Speaker 2: That's sounds pretty That sounds unique, does it not.
Speaker 1: It seems like he was trying to turn it on
Speaker 1: a couple of times with the wheels, and the wheels
Speaker 1: were not spinning in the right direction.
Speaker 2: Right. And I'm going to use a bad word here,
Speaker 2: we'll bleep it out. Jet. But Earl Williams was a
Speaker 2: really good power hitting catcher for the Braves, and the
Speaker 2: Orioles loved anyone that could hit the ball out of
Speaker 2: the ballpark, especially at a position where you're not used
Speaker 2: to getting great power. So they acquired Earl Williams, the
Speaker 2: catcher from the Braves, and Earl Weaver, the manager of
Speaker 2: the Orioles, told me years later that Earl Williams showed
Speaker 2: up and Earl Weaver started him the first three games
Speaker 2: of the exhibition season so he could get used to
Speaker 2: catching the four great starting pitchers that the Orioles had.
Speaker 2: But when the lineup was posted after the third straight
Speaker 2: game to start the exhibition season in which Earl Earl
Speaker 2: Williams is starting, he goes into Earl Weaver's office and says,
Speaker 2: don't we have any other bleeping catchers on this team?
Speaker 2: And Earl Weavers said, I knew right then we were
Speaker 2: in trouble. Needless to say, the Earl Williams experience from
Speaker 2: the Braves to the Orioles didn't turn out as well
Speaker 2: as we thought it would.
Speaker 3: Dad.
Speaker 1: And you're the only podcast host in the world that says,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say a bad word, but we'll bleep it out,
Speaker 1: and then you don't say the bad word, and then
Speaker 1: you just say bleep instead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got kids listening to the show once in
Speaker 2: a while. Don't read that.
Speaker 1: But I have the bleeping capability to bleeping bleep the bleep,
Speaker 1: so you can bleep.
Speaker 3: I mean listen.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time. This is a true story,
Speaker 1: honest to god. I remember the first time I was
Speaker 1: reading one of your books.
Speaker 3: It was it must have been is this a great game?
Speaker 2: Or what?
Speaker 1: It was your second book, because there were no bad
Speaker 1: words in the first book, America's Game, which is just
Speaker 1: like kind of like a history of the game to
Speaker 1: that point. And I remember reading a four letter bad
Speaker 1: word in that and immediately coming to you.
Speaker 3: Do you remember this? And I said, Dad, you wrote
Speaker 3: a bad word in your book, And.
Speaker 1: You said, I was quoting somebody, Jeff, that's what we
Speaker 1: have to do. And that was the first time I
Speaker 1: had ever heard in theory, I guess, not really heard,
Speaker 1: but heard you utter a curse word.
Speaker 2: Well, it was reading your book. Sometimes for the importance
Speaker 2: of the quote, you need to include all the words.
Speaker 2: It's like when al Pacino uses the F word, nobody
Speaker 2: uses it more powerfully and better than Albacina. All right,
Speaker 2: enough of that. That's enough of the takeaways. The point is,
Speaker 2: if you go to a spring training game, just sit
Speaker 2: back and enjoy it, and don't expect to be entertained
Speaker 2: by the best players for nine innings. Just sit back,
Speaker 2: enjoy the sunshine. And maybe, just like you said, Jeff,
Speaker 2: you'll see somebody who's going to make a difference, maybe
Speaker 2: not this year, but maybe two years from now, and
Speaker 2: you're gonna say I was there. That guy made his
Speaker 2: debut in an exhibition game in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: All right, Dad, on this date in baseball history, what
Speaker 1: do you have for us?
Speaker 2: Well, today is Michael Jordan's birthday. How cool is that? So,
Speaker 2: Michael j Michael Jordan, of course, played one year minor
Speaker 2: league baseball for the Birmingham Barons. Having all, he is
Speaker 2: the greatest basketball player of all time, we're not going
Speaker 2: to argue about this. This is not the reason we
Speaker 2: do this show. But after three championships, he goes and
Speaker 2: plays baseball for one year at Double A. And I thought, Jeff,
Speaker 2: let's just quickly tell the story again. I thought Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan was going to hit fifty in Double A. Okay,
Speaker 2: he wasn't a great high school baseball player. It takes
Speaker 2: fifteen years away from it and goes and plays at
Speaker 2: Double A. He hit two oh two, He drove in
Speaker 2: fifty three runs, stole thirty six bases, a miracle. He
Speaker 2: willed himself to hit two hundred in DOUBLEA, because there's
Speaker 2: no way he was hitting under two hundred. Tito Frankcona
Speaker 2: was his manager, and he told me hours and hours
Speaker 2: of stories about how great a teammate Michael Jordan was
Speaker 2: and how he would do anything to learn how to
Speaker 2: play the game properly because he recognized this is not
Speaker 2: my sport. I got to listen to the experts. Does
Speaker 2: any of this surprise you about Michael Jordan.
Speaker 3: No, not at all, not at all.
Speaker 1: And after watching his documentary, I think we learned a
Speaker 1: little bit more about him. But I loved the baseball
Speaker 1: stories and I love the Terry Francona stories we got about.
Speaker 2: Mj Right, well, Tito tells a bunch of them, but
Speaker 2: one of them, one of them, he says, they come
Speaker 2: back on a team bust, you know, the Jordan cruiser,
Speaker 2: and they stop and where they park there's an outdoor
Speaker 2: basketball court there, and everyone knows this is Jordan getting
Speaker 2: off the bus. He's playing basketball now, So they start
Speaker 2: chirping at him from a distance, like, come on over,
Speaker 2: old man, come on over, baseball player, see what you
Speaker 2: could do against us. So Jordan is now pissed that
Speaker 2: he's being challenged here. So he grabs four of the coaches,
Speaker 2: one of them Tito Francona, and says, we're going to
Speaker 2: play these guys and they and Tito said, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm the manager here, I'm in charge of you. We're
Speaker 2: not playing them, and Jordan says, yes, we are. So
Speaker 2: they go and play five on five against these guys
Speaker 2: on this outdoor sandlot court. Okay, first time down the court,
Speaker 2: Tito tells me he sets a pick. He sets a
Speaker 2: screen for Michael Jordan at the top of the key,
Speaker 2: as if Michael Jordan needs a screen to get by
Speaker 2: his guy and get to the rack, like it's the
Speaker 2: most ridiculous thing ever, screams out and get out of
Speaker 2: my way. So Jordan of course took over, and one
Speaker 2: guy was still chirping, and Jordan like dunked on the
Speaker 2: guy like bent the rim, literally bent the rim, and
Speaker 2: then stood over top of him and was screaming at
Speaker 2: him as he was lying on the ground. And at
Speaker 2: that point, Tito just called the game off, like, I
Speaker 2: can't allow anything bad to happen here. Michael, you're a
Speaker 2: baseball player. You're with us now. And Jordan of course
Speaker 2: did what the manager said and on all those bus trides. Jeff,
Speaker 2: I told you this. They used to play Yachtzi for
Speaker 2: money on every trip. So Tito told me, he said,
Speaker 2: I'm making twenty seven thousand dollars a year as the
Speaker 2: manager of the Birmingham Barons, and Michael's on our Team's
Speaker 2: greatest basketball player ever. He's got three rings and he's
Speaker 2: the richest man in America. And he said, and he's
Speaker 2: cheating at Yatzi because he cannot bear to lose because
Speaker 2: they're playing for money. This is who is how competitive
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan was. And all these years later, Jeff, he
Speaker 2: and Michael Jordan, Tito and Michael Jordan are like best friends,
Speaker 2: best friends, and it just shows you what a great
Speaker 2: manager Tito is, but more important, what a great teammate
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan was. Where he recognized, if I'm gonna succeed
Speaker 2: in the sport, even for one year, I have to
Speaker 2: do and listen to the people who know the game
Speaker 2: way better than I do. So Happy birthday to Michael Jordan.
Speaker 1: Well, Dad, that's funny that you brought that up, because
Speaker 1: for poor pop Op today, I have a quiz about famous.
Speaker 3: MJ's No way, isn't that insane.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, let's go.
Speaker 1: Each one of these answers, D it's a short one
Speaker 1: has their initials either their first and last name or
Speaker 1: their first and middle name to be MJ.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, so Dad, can you name me?
Speaker 1: The famous MJ who is a renowned American fashion designer
Speaker 1: celebrated for his blend of grunge nineteen seventies to nineteen
Speaker 1: eighties nostalgia with cool aesthetics. He was previously the creative
Speaker 1: director of Louis Vauton, but then created his own brand
Speaker 1: named after him, m j.
Speaker 3: Uh I starting with the harder ones, Jef.
Speaker 2: I hope this is the hardest one because I have
Speaker 2: no idea.
Speaker 1: It's your son in law's first name, Mark Mark Uh,
Speaker 1: and then another Mark Jacobs. Dad, I'm not even gonna
Speaker 1: make you go down this, Okay, I'll make it.
Speaker 3: A little easier from there.
Speaker 2: Ruinch, What are you crazy? How am I supposed to
Speaker 2: know that he's.
Speaker 1: The lead singer of the Rolling Stones and a rock
Speaker 1: icon MJ.
Speaker 2: Bick Jagger. I'm not that stupid.
Speaker 3: Okay, how about the King of Pop Michael Close? Come on,
Speaker 3: the King of Pop?
Speaker 2: Dad?
Speaker 3: Uh, try a different live.
Speaker 2: Name Jackson Michael Jackson, Okay, yeah, sorry about that.
Speaker 3: You got Jordan on the brain, that's all right.
Speaker 1: How about the queen of hip hop and soul, known
Speaker 1: for hits like Family Affair and Be Without.
Speaker 2: You of course, Dad an nj Uh Mary j Blige.
Speaker 3: Good job, Dad, did I get you? Got that one right? Shockingly?
Speaker 1: And that We're just gonna end the quiz there because
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I mean, I started with Mark
Speaker 1: Jacobs and that was that was a poor point for you.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe you had bought a Mark Jacob's bag
Speaker 1: in your past for mom or my sister.
Speaker 2: No, sorry, sorry, a fashion not not my strong suit,
Speaker 2: among many many many other things out there. Okay, so
Speaker 2: happy birthday to Michael Jordan. Also, happy birthday to Danny Patterson,
Speaker 2: not quite as famous. Danny Patterson pitching the big leagues
Speaker 2: for a bunch of years, Tigers and Rangers. I don't
Speaker 2: know why I got such a kick out of this jet,
Speaker 2: but I was talking to him one day. He used
Speaker 2: to throw a split. Look at my hands on the
Speaker 2: baseball jet. That's how you throw a split. I don't
Speaker 2: know how anyone throws a split. I got really long fingers,
Speaker 2: I got giant hands for little guy. But the thought
Speaker 2: of trying to control a split with your fingers split
Speaker 2: around the ball like that is amazing. So Danny Patterson
Speaker 2: told me that he used one night the Vulcan grip.
Speaker 2: So he put the script the baseball in between his
Speaker 2: fourth and third finger. That's the Vulcan grill. And I said,
Speaker 2: that's impossible. No one could control that pitch. And he's
Speaker 2: that's it, Jeff, And I said, how long did you
Speaker 2: work on it? He goes, I tried it before the
Speaker 2: game and then I brought it in and threw it
Speaker 2: in the game that night. How about that the Vulcan grip.
Speaker 2: I'll never forget Danny Patterson, just for that. Also on
Speaker 2: this state, in twenty twelve, Tim Wakefield retired. The late
Speaker 2: Tim Wakefield. What a terrible loss for baseball. One of
Speaker 2: the best guys I've ever met. And again, Jeff started
Speaker 2: more games than any pitcher in the history of the
Speaker 2: Red Sox, a pretty long history and storied history. But
Speaker 2: Tim Wakefield was very underrated, in part because he threw
Speaker 2: a knuckleball. Everyone thinks that some sort of circus act.
Speaker 2: Hey we're going to the circus. He was a really
Speaker 2: good pitcher, a great, great competitor, and he retired on
Speaker 2: this date in twenty twelve, died that long ago. Terrible
Speaker 2: loss for baseball so arrested peace Tim Wakefield, and on
Speaker 2: this date, fourteen years ago he announced his retirement.
Speaker 1: Dad, let's jump into from Burley to Behemoth. Now, you
Speaker 1: had mentioned that you are getting a little finn here,
Speaker 1: and I'm not.
Speaker 3: Talking about your physique.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about being able to name the greatest number
Speaker 1: sixty two of all time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't think we're gonna make it from fifty
Speaker 2: six to ninety nine. We may have to ditch this
Speaker 2: at some point, but look, number sixty two. We have
Speaker 2: a couple options. Jaba Chamberlain for the Yankees war number
Speaker 2: sixty two and with a hind darn good pitcher. They
Speaker 2: used to have a rule. They called it the Jaba rules,
Speaker 2: so they could protect him, like if he pitched one day,
Speaker 2: then he would have to take a day off before
Speaker 2: pitching again. They called him the Jaba Rules. But I've
Speaker 2: taken Jose Kintana above him. He certainly has a war
Speaker 2: much higher starting pitcher one one hundred and thirteen games
Speaker 2: is still pitching. Just got signed by the Rockies, So
Speaker 2: our great number sixty two Jose Quintana.
Speaker 1: Okay with that, Dad, Listen, I'm not going to complain
Speaker 1: because I'm with you. I looked up players wearing numbers
Speaker 1: between sixty three and ninety nine, and I would be
Speaker 1: okay with maybe putting this aside for the regular season
Speaker 1: once we get there.
Speaker 3: I know, I know the members of our family, our.
Speaker 1: Listeners have had amazing ideas on what we can take
Speaker 1: us through the year, and I know we have a
Speaker 1: lot of really good segments we want to plan and
Speaker 1: put out for you once we're back to three days
Speaker 1: a week during the regular season. So we'll be there
Speaker 1: for that, all right, Dad, Three cards in the bathroom?
Speaker 1: What do you have for us?
Speaker 2: Right? Let's make sure. Three Coins in the Fountain is
Speaker 2: an old song from many years ago. We have a
Speaker 2: ton of baseball cards down in the downstairs bathroom. This morning,
Speaker 2: I just went in grabbed a bunch. I didn't use
Speaker 2: the three that we're using, but I maybe picked ten
Speaker 2: and these are three. So number one is Bailey Ober,
Speaker 2: which I love. He's a pitcher of course for the Twins.
Speaker 2: And a couple of years ago I did a game
Speaker 2: in Minneapolis and He is six foot nine and he
Speaker 2: is the tallest player in baseball at the time, and
Speaker 2: he was facing Jose Altuve to start the game, and
Speaker 2: Jose l Tuova at the time was the shortest player
Speaker 2: in baseball. So the first batter of the game featured
Speaker 2: the tallest player in baseball at the time against the shortest.
Speaker 2: Does anyone. I just love baseball because it's open to
Speaker 2: all shapes and sizes, And the first batter was six'
Speaker 2: nine against against five. SIX i love.
Speaker 1: That you, know every once in a while you get
Speaker 1: a matchup in like of a jump ball in THE,
Speaker 1: nba involving a point guard in a center it rarely,
Speaker 1: happens but in baseball you get this all the, time
Speaker 1: and this is what makes the game.
Speaker 3: Great And, DAD i know you're not big into. Gambling
Speaker 3: neither AM i.
Speaker 1: Quite, FRANKLY i don't do it a lot when it
Speaker 1: comes to my, sports BUT i definitely think if if
Speaker 1: you're gonna bet On bailey, OVER i think he got
Speaker 1: to take the over and not the.
Speaker 2: Under at sixth, nine you better take the. Over better
Speaker 2: take the, over very very, Good jeff All. Right number
Speaker 2: two Is andrew, McCutcheon one of my favorite players That
Speaker 2: i've ever been. Around incredibly, Talented. Jeff As i've told you,
Speaker 2: before if we have a you, know a talent show
Speaker 2: in the major, LEAGUES i Think Steven vote would, win
Speaker 2: But andrew McCutcheon would be a very very strong. Second
Speaker 2: he can do, impersonations he can, Sing he's obviously a
Speaker 2: great baseball. Player he's hilariously funny when he wants to.
Speaker 2: Be And i'll never forget. This i've used this a few, Times.
Speaker 2: Jeff he won a batting championship in high school when
Speaker 2: he was in the eighth. Grade in the eighth, grade
Speaker 2: playing against twelve. Graders he told, me AND i pulled
Speaker 2: this out of, him that he went to he went
Speaker 2: to you, know he was at one of these schools
Speaker 2: where it was you, know like kindergarten to. Twelve so
Speaker 2: he goes out for the team and he's going over
Speaker 2: to THE jv field at the VARs. Coaches, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: son you're over here with us eighth. Grader AND i
Speaker 2: told you That Matt diaz who lived in the area with.
Speaker 2: Him Matt diaz was a professional baseball player who went
Speaker 2: on to have a pretty darn good major league, career
Speaker 2: but as a professional baseball, player a DOUBLE a. Player
Speaker 2: he worked With andrew McCutcheon when he was thirteen years.
Speaker 2: Old So andrew's thirteen getting hitting tips from a DOUBLE
Speaker 2: a baseball, player and after three, Lessons Matt diaz told, Me,
Speaker 2: ANDREW i can't help you. Anymore you're a better hitter
Speaker 2: THAN i. Am and he was thirteen years. Old So andrew,
Speaker 2: McCutcheon let's not A hall Of, famer but he's had
Speaker 2: an exceptional, career one of the Best Pittsburgh pirates.
Speaker 1: Ever maybe it's a humble, brag but WHEN i was
Speaker 1: in eighth grade At Ridgeview Middle school In, Gaithersburg, maryland Mister,
Speaker 1: indovina the high school choir, teacher came to our choir
Speaker 1: class and told, me you're not taking, Journalism you're taking.
Speaker 3: CHOIR i already enrolled you in my. Class no big.
Speaker 2: Deal kind of the same, thing, Right and MISTER i
Speaker 2: played nicely Nicely johnson in high, school and so did.
Speaker 2: You and he ACKNOWLEDGED i was really good at, that
Speaker 2: but you were better THAN i, Was isn't that? True?
Speaker 1: Yeah he did say that that role was, very very
Speaker 1: important to, him and he was very nervous to cast.
Speaker 3: It so after my freshman.
Speaker 1: Year first of, all if you think my voice is high,
Speaker 1: now you should have heard me freshman year of high.
Speaker 3: SCHOOL i went away And, dad that was.
Speaker 1: The famous summer where you CLAIM i went to camp
Speaker 1: for two weeks AND i came back AND i didn't
Speaker 1: look or sound the same at all after two weeks
Speaker 1: away from my. Family and it was freshman welcome And
Speaker 1: i'm a sophomore now AND i go see MISTER i
Speaker 1: and we're singing at the freshman. Welcome it's the first
Speaker 1: time he saw me after the, summer AND i, said,
Speaker 1: hey mister, iye and he, goes, oh thank, GOODNESS i,
Speaker 1: said what he, goes you finally grew up and your
Speaker 1: voice dropped a little bit because that year would have
Speaker 1: been guys and, dolls and that year would have been
Speaker 1: nicely Nicely.
Speaker 3: Johnson so you had me in mind for the, role
Speaker 3: but he, SAID i can't put squeaky Little Jeff gertschen up.
Speaker 3: There he needed a little bit.
Speaker 1: More and, Listen i'm still not a, man but a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a man up there on.
Speaker 3: Stage So i'm still really grateful to Mister.
Speaker 1: Indvina sorry totally going off, here BUT i think everybody
Speaker 1: has a teacher or a coach that they look back
Speaker 1: on that really means a lot to, them and for
Speaker 1: me that was MISTER. I the best, teacher choir, director
Speaker 1: theater director did all of our shows through high school the.
Speaker 3: Best so MISTER, i thank you so much for. Everything,
Speaker 3: okay back to the, car.
Speaker 2: Right last one Is Al bumbrie one of my favorite
Speaker 2: people That i've ever been. Around Former oriole and a
Speaker 2: really Good oriole center fielder in the. Seventies he was
Speaker 2: a little, guy but really strong and really. Determined you, Know.
Speaker 2: Vietnam vett played basketball in, college was a Good Major
Speaker 2: league baseball. PLAYER i should not tell you the, story
Speaker 2: But i'm going. TO i just want to make sure
Speaker 2: it's about. Him. OKAY i ended up in a gym
Speaker 2: in the, offseason many many years, ago And i'm playing
Speaker 2: basketball And Al bumbrae is guarding. Me i've never played
Speaker 2: against him, before AND i took him to the bucket
Speaker 2: first time and. Scored second, time second time down the,
Speaker 2: COURT i took him to the bucket and. Scored and
Speaker 2: he was so angry that this dinky little sports rider
Speaker 2: had taken him to the rack twice that he picked
Speaker 2: me up at the end line and guarded me the
Speaker 2: rest of the night as if it Was game seven
Speaker 2: of THE Nba. Finals so when we talk about the
Speaker 2: competitive nature of these baseball, players it's not just in,
Speaker 2: baseball it's in. Anything if there's a, competition they have to.
Speaker 2: Win and for two, possessions Al bumbrie did not, win
Speaker 2: and that was enough for, him and he shut my
Speaker 2: water down for the rest of the. Night it was very.
Speaker 2: WELL i was always impressed with how Competitive albumbrie, is
Speaker 2: which is and here's the competitive Nature Jet Mike flanning
Speaker 2: in the Late Great Mike flanning and told me the
Speaker 2: story once That Dennis eckersley Hit albumbrie with a pitch
Speaker 2: And bumbrie was certain that he hit him on. Purpose
Speaker 2: so he goes like three years without Facing Dennis eckersley,
Speaker 2: again And bumbray's on base when he, scores And Dennis
Speaker 2: eckersley is backing up home plate as the pitcher's supposed to,
Speaker 2: do and Al bumbrie crosses home plate and just steamrolls
Speaker 2: and Knocks Dennis eckersley into next, week making it look
Speaker 2: like it was an. ACCIDENT i didn't see him. There
Speaker 2: he was backing up the. Plate so he gets back
Speaker 2: to the dugout And mike flanningan goes b that was his,
Speaker 2: NICKNAME B what was that all? About and he, said
Speaker 2: he hit me with a pitch AND i had to
Speaker 2: get him back And Mike flanning goes ow that was
Speaker 2: three years. Ago Had be, SAID i don't, care it
Speaker 2: really hurt and he had to get back out of.
Speaker 2: Him that's how vengeful these baseball players. Are and it's
Speaker 2: that spirit and that competitive nature that Made, albumbrie A vietnam,
Speaker 2: veteran a really good high school college basketball player and
Speaker 2: a very Good major league baseball. Player surprised at, All, Jeff.
Speaker 1: NO i, mean and the game has changed so much
Speaker 1: you would never see that happen, today just with the
Speaker 1: rules of player safety and, fights and it's a different.
Speaker 1: World no one's getting beaned anymore like they used. To
Speaker 1: no one's knocking out catchers like they used. To no
Speaker 1: one's taking out second basement like they used. To the
Speaker 1: game has, changed and part of, me though it's safer,
Speaker 1: now part of me misses those, days.
Speaker 2: Right, Jeff and last thing about the word Bean we've
Speaker 2: been over this pet. Peeve, okay if somebody gets beaned
Speaker 2: in a, game it means he got hit Where jeff
Speaker 2: in the. Head in the, head it's called your. Bean
Speaker 2: if you get hit in the foot or hit in the,
Speaker 2: butt you weren't, beaned you were, plunked you were hit
Speaker 2: whatever you want to call. It but anybody who got
Speaker 2: beaned means he got hit in the. Head AM i
Speaker 2: being a pedantic little twit WHEN i say?
Speaker 1: THIS i thought it was because Mister bean always acted
Speaker 1: like he had just gotten.
Speaker 3: Hit in the.
Speaker 2: Head, right you were watching Mister bean WHEN i was watching,
Speaker 2: Baseball but he was he is was very very. Funny,
Speaker 2: Okay so that's the three cards in the.
Speaker 1: Bathroom all, Right, Dad let's wrap it up today with
Speaker 1: A Team. Tim given that today the day of filming
Speaker 1: Is President's, day you have an all Presidents Team. Tim
Speaker 1: NOW i want to add a little asterisk. Here we
Speaker 1: understand that my dad has done A Team tim Of president's.
Speaker 1: Before but this is where you come, in handy members
Speaker 1: of the. Family if you have A Team, tim you
Speaker 1: want to have red on the. Air we could use
Speaker 1: it because we're going to be doing this a lot
Speaker 1: more this. Season great game or what dot com? Message Ok?
Speaker 2: Right, Now, jeff let's also be clear. Here i'm not
Speaker 2: coming up with the greatest players at each position who
Speaker 2: have a president's. Name i'm not doing. That i'm doing
Speaker 2: this for the fun of the, team And i'll explain
Speaker 2: that as we go. Along catcher Is Gary. Carter Reggie
Speaker 2: jefferson is our first. Baseman Homer bush is our second.
Speaker 2: Baseman John, kennedy how great is? That is the third.
Speaker 2: Baseman and he played with The senators in the early,
Speaker 2: sixties like When John kennedy was the president and then
Speaker 2: finished his career with The Red. Sox like how fitting is?
Speaker 2: That Ron washington is the. Shortstop Louke clinton is one,
Speaker 2: Outfielder Trot nixon. Another Mooky. WILSON i could have gone
Speaker 2: With Hack wilson, there But mookey is a little more
Speaker 2: well known to our younger people. Today Craig munroe is
Speaker 2: the designated. Hitter and, Again, jeff this is Where i'm
Speaker 2: veering to try to make a. Point instead of Having Walter,
Speaker 2: JOHNSON i ever tell YOU i went To Walter Johnson High.
Speaker 2: School instead of Having Randy, johnson they are two of
Speaker 2: the five greatest pitchers maybe of all. TIME i Picked
Speaker 2: Pierce johnson who's still. Active Why Jeb Pierce johnson to presidential?
Speaker 1: Names, okay and if you recognize and if you've heard
Speaker 1: on the, show we named our daughter more or less
Speaker 1: after a. President president. McKinley McKinley kirkchen is her. Name
Speaker 1: AND i always like the Name pierce because it's a, president,
Speaker 1: Right but unfortunately my wife dated A pierce in high,
Speaker 1: school so we cannot will not be a boy Named
Speaker 1: pierce in The kirkchhen, family.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay i'm not Picking Reggie jackson on this team
Speaker 2: Because i'm. Pitching Picking Grant jackson as one of our. Pitchers,
Speaker 2: again a double presidential, Name Reggie. Cleveland always loved. That
Speaker 2: Jermaine Van, Buren Brad, lincoln and this is our specialty.
Speaker 2: Guest he's not a president. Name but, uh there used
Speaker 2: to be a little left hander who pitching the big
Speaker 2: leagues in the eighties Named len White. House he's on the.
Speaker 2: Team i'm breaking. Tradition it's not a presidential, name but
Speaker 2: his name Is Lenn. Whitehouse AM i allowed to put him?
Speaker 3: On you can put him.
Speaker 1: On i'm just a little disappointed That Grover Cleveland alexander
Speaker 1: did not make the.
Speaker 3: List, Here, dad.
Speaker 2: His last name Is. Alexander how many presidents are Named alexander?
Speaker 1: Zero, WELL i Mean Alexander hamilton Good, mention not a,
Speaker 1: president but nonetheless a founding.
Speaker 2: Father Grover Cleveland. ALEXANDER i told YOU i Got Reggie
Speaker 2: cleveland on the. List what else do you? Want? Ah,
Speaker 2: okay all, Right, LOOK i Know Grover Cleveland alexander is.
Speaker 3: And grover what okay is What grover?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 3: What Grover cleveland is the? President it is versus the last.
Speaker 2: Name you went just with last. Names, Okay, look it's my.
Speaker 2: List if you have a problem with, it Just i'm.
Speaker 3: Sorry email me.
Speaker 1: Directly i'll get back to you in three to seven business.
Speaker 1: Days all, RIGHT i don't have a problem with, You,
Speaker 1: Dad i've never had a problem with.
Speaker 3: You you're the.
Speaker 1: BEST i have to just end this, episode and you're
Speaker 1: gonna hate.
Speaker 3: Me you're gonna hate, me But i'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Anyway you took care of my daughter this past weekend
Speaker 1: AS i drove down To Kings, Mill virginia to celebrate
Speaker 1: my best Friend Alex parker getting engaged to its, amazing
Speaker 1: beautiful way better looking than him Fiance. Haley congratulations to
Speaker 1: the two of. Them you spent twenty eight hours taking
Speaker 1: care of my. Daughter you slept in a bed with
Speaker 1: her because she was having trouble falling. Asleep for those
Speaker 1: who don't, Know Tim kirkshin the, grandfather he's the best
Speaker 1: grandfather you could ever ask.
Speaker 3: For you Know Tim kirkschen the, writer you Know Tim kirkhin.
Speaker 1: Podcaster he's an amazing, grandfather an amazing, son a great,
Speaker 1: husband and a great.
Speaker 2: Dad so thank, You, jeff thank. You and the one
Speaker 2: STORY i didn't tell you IS i told McKinley, HOPE i,
Speaker 2: Said daddy is coming home today and she said. Who
Speaker 2: that's what she, Said come. On. No she was asking
Speaker 2: For bobby And daddy for most of the, weekend but
Speaker 2: we got her.
Speaker 1: Through so all of fu, well thank you so much for,
Speaker 1: listening and as, always thanks for being a partner of our.
Speaker 3: Family