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Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkshin, I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshin. And

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Speaker 1: today we are at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 1: We are presented by Game Changer and Dick Sport and

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Speaker 1: good today with our two amazing guest dat.

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Speaker 2: Who did we have to?

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Speaker 3: All right, we've got the voice of Little League Baseball,

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Speaker 3: Carl Ravage, and we got his knucklehead, and we got

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Speaker 3: the best analysts that's ever done little League baseball, Todd Frasier.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 4: Look, if there's a circus in town, we're going to

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Speaker 4: be a.

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Speaker 3: Part of it. Before we get started, last year, Todd

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Speaker 3: made a pin Jeff for me and Rabbi and Todd.

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Speaker 3: It was like the coolest thing ever. So we made

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Speaker 3: a pin for Todd, okay, and for Ravi. So this

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Speaker 3: is your pin, and this is your pin Todd.

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Speaker 5: And look at this boy.

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Speaker 3: Right, So we called Steve Strauss, who is is Todd's

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Speaker 3: guy made Now look at that. Since not everyone's going

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Speaker 3: to be able to see this, imitate right. The inside

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Speaker 3: joke is that when when we used to do when

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Speaker 3: we did games together, Raby and I the count was

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Speaker 3: two and two, Jeff. I used to just go it's

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Speaker 3: two and two, and then I would lean so then

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Speaker 3: Rabbi would start doing it, and then Todd did it.

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Speaker 3: So now when there's a two two counter, we're all

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Speaker 3: doing again. We go like this, it's two and two

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Speaker 3: and that's what the pin looks like. This is amazing.

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Speaker 5: Your fingers are huge on this pen. Tim, you know what.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but he has

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Speaker 1: rather big hands for a guy his side.

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Speaker 3: I think I told you the.

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Speaker 6: Time, Tim, I gotta be honest. I got a pin

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Speaker 6: for you too as well.

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Speaker 3: No second, you did it again.

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Speaker 6: You guys can figure out what color you want there.

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Speaker 6: But there's another one. And look look at you, Timmy

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Speaker 6: on the top there you want to Actually you're on

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Speaker 6: my shoulders and then Tim's on your shot.

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Speaker 7: Stop it.

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Speaker 3: Two years in a row. I just looked like a

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Speaker 3: little monkey trying to get into the picture, like, please,

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Speaker 3: can I be a part of this, Todd? This is

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Speaker 3: so good, it's mine. Oh my gosh, it's so great.

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Speaker 4: I'm touched.

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Speaker 5: I am, really you should be.

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Speaker 4: I am.

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Speaker 6: I was gonna put you on the top top, but

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Speaker 6: I appreciate that, understood, Timmy Boyce.

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Speaker 1: Well, Todd, we we use your buddy at Infinity Pins,

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Speaker 1: Steve Strauss.

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Speaker 2: Steve shout out. He was great.

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Speaker 1: And let me just say, we got a little excited

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Speaker 1: for Williamsport this year, so we bought like a ton

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Speaker 1: of our pins. So you get one, Todd, but we're

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Speaker 1: gonna give you like like seventy.

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Speaker 2: Man, Yes, we're gonna Todd.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, Steve, I need like five of each.

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Speaker 5: Do you understand? Do you understand what I can get

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Speaker 5: for this pin?

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Speaker 6: Now everybody's gonna I want to I do want to

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Speaker 6: know what I'll make you. I mean five to ten

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Speaker 6: pins for sure, because there's only one of its kind.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, solid job by you and him. You make well.

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Speaker 3: We made so there are three different styles, different colors,

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Speaker 3: so there's a set. Yeah, we got fifty of each.

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Speaker 3: I was going to ask for like a total of six.

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Speaker 4: He said, I'm not doing that.

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Speaker 5: It takes care of you.

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Speaker 3: He knows, right, he and it was dirt chy, So

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Speaker 3: I don't care about your cause I just didn't know

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Speaker 3: how the processes were.

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Speaker 4: He didn't want to go limited edition off that limit.

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Speaker 5: Would have been He.

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Speaker 3: Was so helpful, but he sent us like the first

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Speaker 3: draft and we weren't leaning enough. And I explained, Todd

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Speaker 3: is upright here. He has to be leaning like RAVI

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Speaker 3: and I are are leaning. That's when we we ended

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Speaker 3: up with that.

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Speaker 6: Let me ask you here, the outfit I am, is

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Speaker 6: that like a mafioso.

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Speaker 3: Reference in there? It doesn't. It's like you're you're in

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Speaker 3: the mafia, like a Jersey guy who's just put a

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Speaker 5: Tell you what my day's made already?

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Speaker 4: Thank you and you being on the top. Wasn't there

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Speaker 4: some friends to your size in Williamsport in years past?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Every year there's a yes every year and one

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Speaker 3: hundred and thirty eight pounds this year? What I got here?

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Speaker 5: Those hands around your neck? The hands around the neck there?

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Speaker 4: Have you ever seen my hands? Because I actually have

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Speaker 4: the smallest hands in America? No, no, I do. No,

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Speaker 4: we've joked yes this one wow second Nuner.

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Speaker 1: Right, yeah, but that does. You don't need big hands

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Speaker 1: to be a pickleball.

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Speaker 3: Or golfer or golfer. Raby is like a five handicap

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Speaker 3: and he's a great pickleball player and everything else.

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Speaker 4: It's so, but you know how bats have different handles,

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Speaker 4: and I do have a smaller, thinner handle on my pi.

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Speaker 3: I love I love to look at guys anagrams. I

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Speaker 3: love anagrams. I did this the other day for you, Darvish.

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Speaker 3: This is ridiculous you. Darvish's anagram is Ravi you dish?

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Speaker 3: How about that that comes out of you Darvish's name,

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Speaker 3: So Ravi's the point guards coach would tell him, Ravi

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Speaker 3: you dish? And what does Raby do better? Todd than

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Speaker 3: anyone in the booth?

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Speaker 4: Look away dishes to.

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Speaker 3: Dishes to the analyst, right, nobody's better.

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Speaker 4: I've hit a few people in the head. They don't

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Speaker 4: know what's coming right now.

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Speaker 3: Rabbi, we put this out on Twitter the other day.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about the one handed catch that you may

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Speaker 3: and dope be modest about this. You made a one

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Speaker 3: handed catch in the booth last year. Correct left hand

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Speaker 3: or right hand? Which one? I'm serious?

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Speaker 4: I know, I hear you. I'll tell the story. It

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Speaker 4: wasn't one handed and it was two handed. So if

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Speaker 4: he's Kyle Peterson, the ball is shooting back up here.

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Speaker 4: He ducked and he's under the table. He's gone. I

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Speaker 4: catch it and all I hear from him is did you?

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Speaker 4: I don't know what do you mean? Did I? Did you?

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Speaker 4: Which means did you catch the ball? Are you dead?

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Speaker 4: Where's the ball? I said, yes, it's right here. So

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Speaker 4: he ducked, and then it became a thing like ripping

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Speaker 5: I caught the.

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Speaker 1: Ball right, move on here while calling a game with

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Speaker 3: Handed it?

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Speaker 4: I don't know what he thought that. I know what

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Speaker 4: he thought. He should have left. He should have been embarrassed.

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Speaker 4: This is a picture, right, I mean, you're not duck

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Speaker 4: at least you caught the ball right before and it

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Speaker 4: was coming at one hundred and two one hundred and

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Speaker 4: fifty miles in.

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Speaker 1: MLB comparison as we do, right, we also have an

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Speaker 1: exclusive great game or what pen that we did this year?

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Speaker 2: Look at Todd? His eyes got real big. Did you

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Speaker 2: see that?

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Speaker 3: So unique?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: A gold mine for coming on today. You're taking home

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Speaker 1: a couple of these six We got.

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Speaker 2: A lot of them as well.

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Speaker 1: You too, and you get a pin and you get

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Speaker 1: a pin, so good?

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Speaker 3: So is Steve Strauss did this for us? Also, this

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Speaker 3: is our thing that Kelly.

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Speaker 5: Kurkis it's like that, salid solid. You should have heard

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Speaker 5: you first.

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Speaker 2: My first pin.

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Speaker 3: Todd wasn't persuading me earlier when he was yelling for Jeffrey.

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Speaker 3: What did that say? Jeffrey Podcast.

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Speaker 4: He's the first one ever imitate Tim's voice, right.

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Speaker 5: The first ever?

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Speaker 3: Oh god, if that is.

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Speaker 4: Ravi, you dish, I've only heard Ravi. You are an idiot?

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Speaker 3: What This also came out on Twitter the other day.

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Speaker 3: Never a good idea to read Twitter, but somebody wrote,

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Speaker 3: if you close your eyes and listen, Chris Burke sounds

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Speaker 3: exactly like Tim Kirchen, sounds like on the air. I

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Speaker 3: told Chris Burke that and told him, this is the

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Speaker 3: worst thing that anyone has ever said about you, is

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Speaker 3: that your voice sounds like mine.

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Speaker 4: Agreed, right' I don't hear that.

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Speaker 3: I don't hear it either.

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Speaker 4: That's the point, and I want to try to spare

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Speaker 4: Chris that that description. I wouldn't have said anything. Leave

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Speaker 4: him alone. He needs, he needs positive reinforcements.

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Speaker 3: I agree, all right, So Todd, we have a second

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Speaker 3: present for you. Last year, eyes last happened. Last year

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Speaker 3: Todd started to bring a notebook. He started keeping notes

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Speaker 3: at a baseball game Jeff. It was so cool because

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Speaker 3: he watched the way that I was doing it and

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Speaker 3: he wanted to learn from me. So I got him

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Speaker 3: a notebook and I showed him how to do it.

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Speaker 3: You do it one page at a time. Try to

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Speaker 3: stay within yourself. Yeah, no front to back. You only

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Speaker 3: go on a nice clean page. So for the rest

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Speaker 3: of the League World Series, that's your sign.

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Speaker 5: I mean first, you got to sign it first.

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Speaker 4: You need that, right.

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Speaker 1: The great story about those notebooks is years ago they

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Speaker 1: got discontinued.

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Speaker 2: Dad couldn't find him at the local Staples and Carl

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Speaker 2: you probably remember this heartbreaking for a father's sake gift.

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Speaker 1: My mom was able to find like the manufacturer in

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Speaker 1: China and ordered directly from them, and they sent I

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Speaker 1: mean she ordered them all but maybe maybe a hundred.

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Speaker 2: Of these in the biggest box you've ever seen from

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Speaker 5: This is incredible.

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Speaker 3: You got to honest and two pins right, and you

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Speaker 3: need you need to just right on the front so

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Speaker 3: you know which notebook it is mine, like May twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty five, so I don't get anything confused.

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Speaker 4: Right, And even if you're not doing the game, he

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Speaker 4: still does that we had video of him down talking

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Speaker 4: to one of the coaches with his notepad. Right, the

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Speaker 4: only qualifier is he wasn't writing anything in the notepad.

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Speaker 3: Look the part well, we had one of the great

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Speaker 3: moments based on Little League last year when there was

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Speaker 3: a picture of me and Todd with our notebooks, the digging,

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Speaker 3: the sports writer and the run derby champions.

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Speaker 5: You're the mentor mine and I appreciate that, big dog.

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Speaker 3: Give me something, I would say.

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Speaker 1: The only other thing you have to add is you

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Speaker 1: have to use a hotel pen that he took from wherever, said,

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Speaker 1: my dad has so many hotel pens. He won't ever

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Speaker 1: buy a pen. He has all of these pens.

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Speaker 2: That's what he uses.

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Speaker 5: They probably said twenty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: The amount of notebook exactly.

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Speaker 6: So.

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Speaker 3: Brian McClintock of the Little League came up to me

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Speaker 3: yesterday and said, I listened to the Todd Frasier podcast

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Speaker 3: from last year. I listened to it every single week

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Speaker 3: and he goes the referee that he does is the

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Speaker 3: single funniest thing that I've ever seen. So, Todd, you

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Speaker 3: have to give us because because Mike Monico is here too,

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Speaker 3: just to watch to watch you guy. Mike is there,

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Speaker 3: it is the single funniest thing I've ever seen. You

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Speaker 4: By the way, three nights ago in a public restaurant,

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Speaker 2: And Chris had never seen it right, no, but he.

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Speaker 4: Knows how to poke.

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Speaker 1: He's like, like this happens, he's getting loose.

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Speaker 5: You bring the team.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 6: If you look at Bolton jumps going up, one bounce

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Speaker 5: You will be too bigger than the game.

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Speaker 6: You know. But if there is a call right all

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Speaker 5: You have to yell.

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Speaker 6: If you don't yell, you don't know. You're there too long.

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Speaker 6: Subs wait a seton.

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Speaker 3: So like you get a little ship, what what is

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Speaker 3: Like that control.

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Speaker 5: Player, control of you to go there and then you

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Speaker 4: What were you doing in the restaurant the other night

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Speaker 6: Like like a strike car? If you're not red, they

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Speaker 3: You're doing something wrong. And then Todd, you talked about

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Speaker 3: Ken Kaiser the umpire in the Big League too. I

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Speaker 3: I did a million of Ken games? So did you

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Speaker 3: growing up right? So show us what can only like

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Speaker 4: Videos in here?

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Speaker 6: Yes, Ken Kaiser, he's at first base, like he's got

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Speaker 6: his hand here, you know, just chill him?

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Speaker 5: Ken thered he go? Now a call?

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Speaker 3: If he went right?

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Speaker 5: Some guys did he go? Here? Did he go?

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Speaker 6: I'm the two handed spider man. You've got Ken here?

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Speaker 6: And if you want the elbow, so you take tits

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Speaker 3: Todd, where did this come from? Officials and referees? Where

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Speaker 4: And why did he come Yes?

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Speaker 6: Exactly, I honestly don't know. I umpired little league when

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Speaker 6: It just depends on how you're feeling.

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Speaker 5: That on one knee. Always too, you got to make

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Speaker 3: Zone so you're down on one one knee, no matter what.

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Speaker 3: When I was younger, yes, yes.

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Speaker 4: Now who's more animated Major League Baseball umpires or you

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Speaker 5: Oh, man, I.

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Speaker 6: I think the NBA passed. I honestly think because they

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Speaker 6: they get zoomed in even more. You know, people see

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Speaker 3: But n b A there's a bunch of Do you

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Speaker 5: And not no, not anymore?

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Speaker 3: What their names are?

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Speaker 6: No? I had my neighbor that's Kane Kane Fitzpatrick. Now

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Speaker 6: who do you who you just like, who's the guy

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Speaker 6: but I would ask him questions. I'm like, bang bang plays.

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Speaker 6: Are you getting into it? That's my time?

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm gonna get into that one.

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Speaker 6: So I'm like, you know what, I used to do

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Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm gonna do it too.

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Speaker 4: Now do you practice this at home? Do you do

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, don't be shy, right right, I got out

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Speaker 4: under her paws. In airports pause, it's another great thing.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you about him that we've learned this yet.

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Speaker 4: But in airports, yes, where Tim and I have spent

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, he's not talking to anybody. He will

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Speaker 4: you seen that ever before? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Gosh, long car rides as a kid Kelly and I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no game on it. We're not listening to

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Speaker 3: Trying to keep by. I'm just trying to keep active

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Speaker 5: So Routina.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Andermarkets, I've seen it. People look at them.

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Speaker 2: There's the golf swing.

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Speaker 1: Guys out in the aisle four like really trying to

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Speaker 2: That's him, but with an umpire.

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Speaker 1: We had to have a family meeting at one point

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Speaker 1: yeah when we say Tim, are you ready to go?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Right, And I started to do it and my mom

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Speaker 2: To be in an interview and I'm going to say

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: The golf swing is such a my wife Chris, when

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Speaker 4: I will in the kitchen either do this swing the

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Speaker 4: back or what stopped? Just stop? We are not doing

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Speaker 4: that here? Why are you stop?

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Speaker 3: I've seen your wife. She's beautiful. She makes you look

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Speaker 4: What is she thinking she.

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Speaker 5: Doesn't say anything?

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Speaker 4: Head shaking right now, that's it.

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Speaker 5: That's it. I know it's going to be a bad

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Speaker 2: I want to stay on officials for a second.

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Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, I officiated a wedding for

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Speaker 2: It's all sports. So I said, I officiated, and he says, wait,

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, you could say I performed a

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Speaker 2: You officiated a wedding or daines, yeah, and you're ordained.

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Speaker 2: So I told him I didn't say bride and groom here.

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Speaker 2: I didn't tell him where to stand, like, but I

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Speaker 3: Seems like an odd verb, It seems like And Mendy

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Speaker 3: Rudolph is the guy that and you brought up Mendy Rudolph.

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Speaker 3: Davey had the revery game in forty years, we brought

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well we're sixty. We saw Mendy right, we watched

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Speaker 4: Celtics games growing up. I mean that was Jess Cursey

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Speaker 4: was public enemy number one for a lot. JC O'Donnell

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Speaker 3: Bob Ryan wrote something about the officials once during the finals,

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Speaker 4: This is your fault.

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Speaker 3: This happened because of the story that you wrote today

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Speaker 4: Happens so quickly just to sort of pull the curtain

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so we now he says.

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Speaker 6: I said, phrase you know, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: If you hang it and I'm like, yeah, you bang it,

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Speaker 6: I'm like, you know, like you don't want.

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Speaker 5: To say bang it?

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Speaker 3: Venting stuff on the air, real hard pause.

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Speaker 3: The pins are so great, So tell us tell us

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The last we talked to you last year about this,

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Speaker 3: so there is a room in your house just for

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: So we got these big pin boards, these all black

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Speaker 6: And I have four left that you know for this

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Speaker 6: it's in my movie.

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Speaker 4: Is this an industry anywhere else besides like like literally,

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Speaker 4: where where else do people make straight Cooperstown? But is

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Speaker 6: Not necessarily? And I mean Disney World does a little thing,

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Speaker 6: pins are very collectible. The Olympics. When we went to

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Speaker 4: And then do you have one favorite pin? Is there

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Speaker 6: a police officer and a dog. Like there's really unique

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Speaker 6: ones and there's like a set of ten of them.

447
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,000
Speaker 6: I just got it yesterday finally, Yeah, and you trade

448
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:19,639
Speaker 6: for it here.

449
00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, trade for it here. So it was those kind

450
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:23,840
Speaker 5: of things are awesome.

451
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Speaker 6: There's probably fifty pins at least of myself that I

452
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Speaker 6: collected over the years that people have made, So you're

453
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Speaker 6: in fifty year at least at least fifteen.

454
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Speaker 4: Is it like an art collection? I mean, is that

455
00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:35,640
Speaker 4: how you look at it? Yeah?

456
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Speaker 5: Pretty much. I mean maybe it's a little crazy, you

457
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:40,520
Speaker 5: know about how many pins I.

458
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Speaker 4: Have, not when there's some significances behind it.

459
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Speaker 6: But it's only this time of year is when I

460
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,840
Speaker 6: do it. I don't go anywhere else to collect anywhere else.

461
00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,119
Speaker 5: It's only this time of year. So I'm not.

462
00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,040
Speaker 6: Overly crazy about him. But when this time of year

463
00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:54,679
Speaker 6: comes around, I try and get as many as I can.

464
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Speaker 3: Think grouping's on the wall? Are they systematically grouped? I mean,

465
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 3: do you have yeah, so it's it's artistically done right.

466
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,760
Speaker 6: So like there's like an Americano one like us say,

467
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 6: like twin tower stuff, police firefighters, that stuff. There's one

468
00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,879
Speaker 6: of just me. I'm still trying to fill up a

469
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 6: little bit. One's cartoon characters, one's Disney stuff.

470
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,440
Speaker 4: There's one of me, which well, We just got a

471
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,280
Speaker 4: new one for you to fill on one. This is

472
00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:26,760
Speaker 4: great one. So you now have a couple with you.

473
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:28,080
Speaker 4: You can start your knee.

474
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Speaker 3: The one that you gave us last year is it's

475
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Speaker 3: right next Jeffrey, and it's right next to my It's

476
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Speaker 3: on my desk, right next to the lamp that I

477
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Speaker 3: turn on my computer.

478
00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:40,680
Speaker 7: Now I've got two of them there, and I think

479
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,360
Speaker 7: my head is a little bit bigger.

480
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 5: In this one, just like where your hand placement is

481
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Speaker 5: on cas. That's all I made sure.

482
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Speaker 1: That's do you go back and forth with the designer

483
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,400
Speaker 1: saying no, Tim needs to be kind of caressing.

484
00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that took That took three tries. A little

485
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 5: bait took three tries. Yep. I didn't like the colors

486
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:57,720
Speaker 5: until they made a different colors.

487
00:21:57,880 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 4: You're hanging on to my ankle, so I don't follow.

488
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 4: I appreciate you doing it. By the way, it brings

489
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:08,359
Speaker 4: up our partie Chris Berman, who we love. But at

490
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 4: one point Berman was two story, two quick ones on Burman.

491
00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,680
Speaker 4: He's sitting on the set. He's like single of me

492
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 4: and then zoom in on me, which was wonderful. And

493
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 4: then the second one, I tell him this all the time.

494
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 4: You know this story, Kyle Losche, go ahead, finish it

495
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,680
Speaker 4: all right? So John Cruck is on, Oh he knows it.

496
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, So if you don't know it, Kyle, Kyle

497
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Speaker 4: os is a picture. And you've never heard this.

498
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Speaker 2: I don't know if I've heard this story.

499
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:40,720
Speaker 3: Chris Boomer is doing baseball tonight and John Kruck is

500
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Speaker 3: on with us, just two of them.

501
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Speaker 7: He looks at John Cruck and goes, Kyle Loche we

502
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 7: do we didn't know.

503
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,120
Speaker 3: And Kruck looks at him like, what does that mean?

504
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,200
Speaker 4: I don't even understand that. Is that a question? Is

505
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 4: it a statement?

506
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,960
Speaker 2: And so for years we knew, we didn't know.

507
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 4: Crock. Literally it's like, what do I do with Rabbi

508
00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 4: after the show?

509
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 7: What do I do with that?

510
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 4: What does that mean?

511
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 3: Do I now go? The next time you see John Kroc,

512
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 3: just look at him, go Kyle os at he'll know.

513
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 4: He remembers we knew, but we didn't know, and he

514
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 4: knows that.

515
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:27,880
Speaker 3: That's awesome, it's so good. So the other day, tell

516
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 3: tell the story about the coach that apologized to me

517
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 3: yesterday here at Colden League World Series. Yeah, this happens

518
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 3: all the time, and I have for.

519
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 4: Some reason, somebody told me the story. But this happens

520
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 4: all the time, and maybe it does to baseball players,

521
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it happens all the time to

522
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 4: ESPN personalities, you know, Sports Center anchors especially, and maybe

523
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 4: it happens now, but it certainly happened a lot. For instance,

524
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 4: when Steve Levy was working there, many times I would

525
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 4: walk somewhere and someone say, Hey, Levy, how you doing.

526
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 4: You don't really you kind of waved to it, and

527
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 4: so one of the literally coaches apparently went up to

528
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 4: Tim and said, hey, I love what you do. You

529
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 4: guys are great up there. Keep doing the good work, Carl.

530
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 3: Oh no, this happens all the time. So this was

531
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 3: at the regional so that team Braintree Masks made it

532
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 3: and then tell him what happened yesterday. The guy felt

533
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 3: so bad about this.

534
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 5: What happened?

535
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 3: Well, yesterday you went and talked to him, and oh.

536
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Speaker 4: I told him. I said, I heard that. It's a

537
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,119
Speaker 4: great story. I love this story, but you got to

538
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 4: go apologize to him. Yeah, I'm Carl.

539
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 3: So I was in the lobby of the hotel last

540
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Speaker 3: year and this guy comes up to me breathlessly he goes,

541
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's you. You are the best guy

542
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 3: of the league baseball.

543
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Speaker 7: Carl, you are my favorite guy, which is okay.

544
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Speaker 3: But before long, like twenty family members are over, come

545
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 3: on over to meet Carl. You can't. So for two

546
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 3: and a half minutes, I became Carl Ravage, which means

547
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 3: I was a four handicap and I had the smallest

548
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 3: hands of all time. Two and a half minutes.

549
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 4: But what else do you I asked you to sign

550
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 4: something at that point, what would you say?

551
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 3: Well, I would have to say, tell the truth, then

552
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 3: you sign all.

553
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 4: I've been called Mike Cherico, Craig Kilbourn, I've been called

554
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 4: all of them. Right, hey, TV guy, everyone a baseball guy.

555
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,040
Speaker 4: I know you, Jod.

556
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,840
Speaker 3: I went to the Braves clubhouse in spring training several

557
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 3: years ago and I take out my credential to show

558
00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 3: it to the guy, the older guy at the at

559
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 3: the gate, and he goes, you don't have to show

560
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Speaker 3: it to me.

561
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Speaker 7: I've been watching you and reading you for forty years.

562
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 3: I would know you anywhere. Peter, that's what he called Peter.

563
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 3: Oh the legends, the greatest baseball writer ever. It's the

564
00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:46,159
Speaker 3: greatest cop of But ever paid to be.

565
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Speaker 5: You'll take that.

566
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 3: I'll take it. It was so it was so funny.

567
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 4: I know who you are.

568
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 2: Don't worry that he didn't know.

569
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Speaker 4: And by the way, it does happen to players. Because

570
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 4: Ruben Tomorrow couldn't get into a World Series in which

571
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 4: he was like an assistant or GM of the team.

572
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 4: They wouldn't let him in. And Pa Drayer for the

573
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 4: Red Sox at Colorado after taking a left t d

574
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 4: Jeff Francis. We took Jeff Francis. The next day he

575
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 4: shows up and the security guard wouldn't let him in.

576
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 4: And his response was, go ask Jeff Francis who I am?

577
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 3: And that wasn't f word in there too. Reggie Jackson Jackson,

578
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 3: Reggie tried to get.

579
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Speaker 5: It, said, he said, what did he say?

580
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 3: The kid said, what what is your name? He goes,

581
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:27,200
Speaker 3: what is my name?

582
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 4: M R O C T T O B E R

583
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 4: spelled it out.

584
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Speaker 3: My god, It's so classic, Reggie. So, Rabbie, what I

585
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 3: learned last year from the million conversations with Todd on

586
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 3: the air was who we share a birthday with? Did

587
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 3: we go we went over this with you?

588
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Speaker 7: I don't think it was anybody really famous.

589
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 4: No, I know, I'm there is nobody famous, including myself

590
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 4: born on January nineteenth.

591
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 3: So I said that I know him. I said, Todd,

592
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 3: who do you share a birthday with? And he goes

593
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 3: like this, Abraham Lincoln?

594
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:04,880
Speaker 5: By Lincoln. I've been thinking, that's my guy.

595
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 3: I don't know why I get such a big kick

596
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 3: out of you and Abraham sharing the same birthday forty

597
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 3: years ago.

598
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 5: You know, I got the hat on the poon. Almost

599
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 5: we're almost.

600
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 4: There, almost, definitely as the impactful as Abraham Lincoln. Yes,

601
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 4: very much so, Todd.

602
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 3: When's the last time you sang in public for anybody?

603
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 5: Not for a long time, Bobby, for you?

604
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:28,199
Speaker 3: All right?

605
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 5: You could see my voice is a little rasp here.

606
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 4: That happens here, it does you.

607
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 5: You're still talking, right?

608
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 7: Can you do fly me to the moon just for us? Please?

609
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 3: Just Todd, you've made a complete fool yourself already. We

610
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 3: can go further.

611
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 4: Is that a real warm up?

612
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 6: No?

613
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 5: No, that was.

614
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 7: Jeffrey Carl.

615
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 1: We had Eddie Alvarez on the show last year, who

616
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 1: played on the same team as as as Todd did

617
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: for the Olympic team, and he told us, well, having

618
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: Todd on our team just made it one hundred times

619
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Speaker 1: more fun. And he sent us a video of him

620
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: singing Arabian Nights from Aladdin while they were waiting for

621
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Speaker 1: a bush.

622
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 4: Well, before you you warn your voice out, I'll say this.

623
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 4: I mean we we sit in that booth and William

624
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 4: Sport plays music from the from the eighties maybe, and

625
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,160
Speaker 4: there are not really any modern songs, but literally within

626
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 4: like you remember, name that tune of course, so people

627
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,959
Speaker 4: can name the tune in one note as soon as

628
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,359
Speaker 4: a song comes on. I think it's because his wife.

629
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Speaker 4: He's got daughters that they sing every He knows every

630
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 4: single song and he starts to sing. Honest to god,

631
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 4: I don't even hear the music up there, but I

632
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 4: hear him, and it is what's being played every song

633
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 4: he's singing in the boot.

634
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 3: Where does that come from?

635
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 4: But it's the daughter. It's you know, Jimmy Dike's our

636
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 4: buddy from college. He's got his daughter's a cheerleader. They

637
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 4: listen to these songs and justa it gets doune. You

638
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 4: have to pick up on. I have all boys. I

639
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 4: never was exposed to that. And as Chris, which I

640
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 4: know nothing about music and don't ever I'm the worst.

641
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 4: I would never even attempt to sing before he knows

642
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 4: every word.

643
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you a story I may have told

644
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 3: you about Jeffrey. He goes to a piano bar, dueling

645
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 3: piano bar in Cleveland, and he knows the host, so

646
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 3: the host has come on out and sing for us.

647
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 7: So he plays Guessperado, Gessperado after.

648
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 3: He's done, one of the great songs ever. After he's done,

649
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 3: Glenn Fry's brother, who was in the audience, came up

650
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 3: to him and tell him, tell Todd what he said.

651
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 4: Tell me.

652
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 2: He's always the l a.

653
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 4: We gotta we gotta make sure he's always whacking people.

654
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 2: Every time you go to baseball tonight.

655
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 3: You go ahead, sim.

656
00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: So he comes up to me and I did one

657
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: song because, as Dad said, the owner was like, get up,

658
00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: like do it as it now.

659
00:29:59,240 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 3: I'm here, I'm just.

660
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 2: Having a good time. I'll play one.

661
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: And he comes up and he tries to give me

662
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: a one hundred dollars bill and I say, no, I'm

663
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,720
Speaker 1: just I'm not. I don't like play here.

664
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 4: I'm just like you.

665
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: I'm just drinking here, and my wife wants you to

666
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: play another one. So I played another one, I played

667
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: something by Billy Joel, and then maybe one or two

668
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: more songs, of course, because I can't shy away from

669
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: the And then I come back and they try to

670
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: give me money again.

671
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 2: They end up just buying me another drink.

672
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,560
Speaker 1: And then he comes up and says, I'm Glenn Fry's brother,

673
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: and that is by far the coolest rendition I've.

674
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 2: Ever heard of that song.

675
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 3: And it was all the setting.

676
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: You know, here's this at the time, twenty four year

677
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,760
Speaker 1: old kid, close up and someone said, play the Eagles,

678
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: and that's my favorite Eagles song by far and so.

679
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 7: And g Fry had just died in the last year,

680
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 7: so at that point.

681
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I really probably meant something even more. Go ahead,

682
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 3: so rape do it any form you want, but you

683
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 3: have to do Arabian Nights for Eddie Alvarez.

684
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 5: They all started laughing. That might not even be the words,

685
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 5: but that's just what I thought.

686
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 3: Of course. So you're on the Olympic team and you're

687
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 3: making everybody laugh with you're singing. Edie said it was

688
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 3: the greatest you ever seen.

689
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 6: And it just was really random too. He was filming

690
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 6: and he just looked at me and I just blurted

691
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 6: it out right. It was.

692
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: It was not a setup.

693
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: He was just filming the guys waiting for a bus,

694
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: and he zooms in on Todd, and Todd just starts performing.

695
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 4: Was your mom, dad, any relative in theater? My cousin was,

696
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 4: because where do you get this done?

697
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 5: I have no clues.

698
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 4: You got brothers?

699
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 3: Has anyone else in the family scene?

700
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 5: No, nobody does. I don't. I'm in. I'm not in.

701
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 5: I was in the chorus for three years.

702
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 6: That was it?

703
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:45,480
Speaker 3: In high school?

704
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 5: Yeah? No, seventh, eighth, ninth grade. Really, yeah, I was.

705
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 5: I was in the choir at the church for a

706
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 5: little bit and then at school.

707
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 3: So you're the best athlete in the school and you're

708
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 3: singing in the church choir and you're singing in the choir,

709
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 3: it's okay to say.

710
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, yeah, I sang, and I sang with my home.

711
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 4: Allright, no tears nor podcast.

712
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: When you were speaking of what Karl was saying about

713
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: hearing these songs in between innings, when you were playing

714
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: and there's a walk up song.

715
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 2: Were you like singing out in the field or out

716
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 2: where you're like, this is.

717
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 5: Like I get a little little movement for sure.

718
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like lobby and dog stuff God and he does.

719
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 4: He knows every word.

720
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 7: All right, So, Todd, when you used to play for

721
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 7: the Reds, I wrote this story.

722
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 3: So you got to help me. I can't remember the words.

723
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 3: You would go to like the woman that is in

724
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 3: charge of the clubhouse or she's a trainer or something.

725
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 3: You would sing something to her.

726
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 5: Oh, so I would do roll call?

727
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 7: Would you would you please do that?

728
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 3: This is this is how. This was the last thing

729
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 3: he said in the clubhouse before going out on the

730
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 3: field to play a major league game.

731
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 5: Yeah.

732
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 6: Well, I would first walk in and do roll because

733
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 6: when I walk into the clubhouse, I'll go and all

734
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 6: the trainers be like, oht doing Like I'd be like

735
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,959
Speaker 6: like Thomas Vera was one of my Thomas Vera Tooma

736
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 6: and like they would play it off.

737
00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 5: They'd be like, and if they didn't give me acknowledgment,

738
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 5: I would keep going like he was one.

739
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 6: I'd be like Thomas Vera and I'm like Thomas. And

740
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 6: then if they give me acknowledgement, and then I go

741
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 6: to PAULI, then I go to this one. Then I

742
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 6: go to this one, and then and the massage therapist

743
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 6: is Mickey and right, and like Mickey, and then you

744
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 6: go and I'll be like, hey, Mickey, you so fine,

745
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 6: you so fine, you blow mind hey, and she'd be

746
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 6: like Mickey, and then I walked out, So we would

747
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 6: if she didn't say, Mickey, I'll have to do it again,

748
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 6: so we would make what is wrong with you absolutely everything.

749
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 6: If you're one hundred and sixty two games out of

750
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 6: the year, you gotta be some sort of kookie.

751
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 4: We were all red nose shy of a circus. That's

752
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 4: why we're that way.

753
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 5: That's a great quote. Write that down.

754
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 4: Eighteen billion times he said when he when he brought

755
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 4: up you know, your your wife, and then he brought

756
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 4: you up in a pile of two. That's four hundred

757
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 4: and seventeen thousand times. Jeffrey, I mean, jeff has a

758
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 4: roll index of the same, like look at the eye

759
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 4: roll like you can make a listen.

760
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 3: You know.

761
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought doing a podcast with my dad

762
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: would be the greatest thing ever, and it is. But man,

763
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: I should get an oscar for the amount of times

764
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: I laugh the.

765
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 4: Same Roddie Dangerfield jokes a hundred times.

766
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 3: But Todd, now it's running joke with being Rabby that

767
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 3: I tell the joke knowing he he gets so annoyed

768
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 3: by it.

769
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 4: I heard it.

770
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 3: He gets so annoyed by it that it's even funnier

771
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 3: that were two people are in on the joke.

772
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 6: But that's all going to be one time in the

773
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 6: next audios. He was like, I don't think I've heard

774
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 6: that one.

775
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then he'll announce after I do that to

776
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 4: irritate you.

777
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 2: You do know that, right, You're better with your irritate you.

778
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 3: Yes, I did tell you one in Philadelphia you hadn't

779
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 3: heard before, and you had a giant pause instead of

780
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 3: being discussed. Right, Never mind about that.

781
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 7: So yesterday I was talking to the Mariner guys.

782
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 3: I want to get your thoughts on this, both of you.

783
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 3: So Dylan Moore told me. I said, did you go

784
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 3: down the hill? And he said no, But I played

785
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 3: wiffle ball with the kids, and the Japanese kids, ten

786
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 3: of them all struck me out. Oh my god, he's

787
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 3: playing with the ball with a bunch of twelve year

788
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 3: old he's a big leaguer and they struck him out.

789
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 3: When you were have you have you been over and

790
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 3: played with the kids, ping pong, whiffle ball, anything?

791
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 5: I have to do that eventually maybe it's next year.

792
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 4: But this year we're going up there and we are

793
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 4: playing pickleball.

794
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 3: Right, kick everyone's butt.

795
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 7: Now, when you were twelve, did you play?

796
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 3: What happened when you were twelve?

797
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 6: The Japanese were great, right. I would go in there

798
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 6: and play against them, and we'd had some battles too.

799
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 6: People watching. They used to have the ping pong tables.

800
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 6: You know how the net it's like a flesh net.

801
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 5: It was wooden. Net was wooden, so you couldn't get

802
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 5: those thinkers that hit the net and go omer.

803
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 6: So they were battles. We had really good battles. I

804
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 6: ended up winning, of course, right, but they were really

805
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 6: really good. They would hold the paddle this way too, Yeah,

806
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 6: and it was just so hard to hit back.

807
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 4: Ironically, the Japanese kids are walking up the hill with

808
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 4: their bats. They must have they must have just come

809
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 4: from practice.

810
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 5: Yeah.

811
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 4: You know one thing about Little League as we're here

812
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 4: on this campus, which it is, It occurred to me

813
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 4: last night as we were driving home from the game,

814
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 4: because the major leaguers were here yesterday. You know, you're

815
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 4: always asked and they're always asked about the uniqueness of

816
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 4: being here, and we tend to fall back on the

817
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 4: communication between the major leaguers and the little leaguers, and

818
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 4: it allows the major leaguers to be kids again. And

819
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 4: it struck me, as people that are involved with sports,

820
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 4: I think sometimes we're so close to it. We also

821
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 4: miss a major component of the Little League World Series

822
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 4: and what makes this place and that day so special,

823
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 4: and it's really the place. It's the two ballparks, which

824
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 4: are nicer than any ballparks a kid at twelve is

825
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 4: ever going to see. It's the mountain range that frames this.

826
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 4: It's the hill that they slide down. It's a lot

827
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 4: like Augusta National, where it's the place. So we focus

828
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:17,360
Speaker 4: on Major League Classic Day, on that dynamic of just

829
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 4: getting young again, we ignore the uniqueness of this place.

830
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 4: And it struck me last night. We're missing a little

831
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 4: bit because there's no other place where if nobody was here,

832
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 4: you'd still be taken aback by what this looks like.

833
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 4: It is a work of art and there's no other

834
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 4: place like it, and we don't, I think, pay enough

835
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 4: attention to that.

836
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 3: I talked to the Northwest coach yesterday morning, Andy Audette,

837
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 3: and I said, what was it like when you walked

838
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 3: in here for the first time, and he said, I

839
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 3: cried like a baby.

840
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,840
Speaker 7: And he said, the first night I was here, I

841
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 7: didn't even go to sleep.

842
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 3: I stayed up all night just to sit and look

843
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 3: at where I was and make sure I understood that

844
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 3: we actually made it here. And he said the next night,

845
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 3: I woke up at three in the morning. The next

846
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 3: night at four in the morning, and I just sat

847
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 3: there and looked at the field. And then he and

848
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 3: he's the grown man now, he said, A bunch of

849
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 3: my friends called and said, you are living our childhood

850
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 3: dream right now.

851
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,919
Speaker 7: And that's how important it was to him. And Jeff

852
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 7: tell the story about who we saw on the street

853
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 7: last night.

854
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: So we're walking to go get dinner last night and

855
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: these four gentlemen walk right by, as Tim Love you

856
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: didn't call you Carl this time, that was guy Tim

857
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: love you all. Can we get a picture? Of course,

858
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: we stopped. We get a picture, and they said, this

859
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: is our little league coach. This is his seventieth birthday

860
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: and it's on his bucket list to come here. So

861
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,240
Speaker 1: we took our little league. These are men in their forties,

862
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: mind you, our little league coach to Williamsport and we're

863
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: coming back next year.

864
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 2: Right, that's the beautiful story.

865
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 5: Incredible, Right.

866
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 4: So I got a call.

867
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 3: I got to call.

868
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 4: You know, I have two boys who grew up and

869
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:02,280
Speaker 4: they had a pediatrician. His name was Rush Sylvester. Russ Sylvester.

870
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 4: Since I was taking them to get their shots when

871
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 4: they were two years old, had always said, I got

872
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 4: to get to the Little League World Series. I got

873
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 4: to get there this year, he texts me. He says,

874
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 4: I'm going up to the regionals in New England. Braintree,

875
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 4: mass is in the regionals. That's the Little League I

876
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 4: played shortstop on sixty years ago. I said, oh my god,

877
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 4: and he said, and if they make it, we're going.

878
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 4: And Russ Sylvester and his wife came here to watch Braintree.

879
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 4: And the beautiful part of it is a the text

880
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 4: message of thank you. Realize how important it is to

881
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 4: him and his wife at this stage of their lives.

882
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 4: But also it's better than what we thought it would be.

883
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 4: Like nobody has ever come and been disappointed by what

884
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 4: the place is and everything that goes with it. And

885
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 4: it just struck me last night like it's the place, right,

886
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 4: that's what it is. It's why it's so cool. Getting

887
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 4: here is a dream, but it's the place that you

888
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 4: go to.

889
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 7: And Jeff, tell us about your father in law.

890
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 3: He came two years in a row.

891
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 7: What was his story.

892
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, so my wife amazingly has all dads here. My

893
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: child was ten days old and she said, yes, Jeff,

894
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: you can go wow to Williams Sport two and a

895
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 1: half hours away, mostly because it was with her dad.

896
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 2: My father in law always wanted to go.

897
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,800
Speaker 1: He's seventy, always wanted to be here and seeing it

898
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,320
Speaker 1: in his eyes was like a child. I mean watching

899
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: him see this for the first time was the coolest

900
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 1: thing ever. And he is of Mexican descent, so he

901
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,959
Speaker 1: went up to Team Mexico and like went to every

902
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: game when we were here. Of them was searing them

903
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: on like they were big leaguers. These kids felt amazing.

904
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: And also he lives in Las Vegas and they had

905
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: a Las Vegas team from Henderson last year and they

906
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: supported them. And it's so neat because it truly is

907
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: a representation of you know, the name on the front,

908
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: not on the back, and representing your country, your town,

909
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: whatever it might be.

910
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 2: That makes this place so fantastic.

911
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: Speaking of we have a couple signs of and I

912
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 1: think we have one for each your dad, you're mid Atlantic,

913
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: I think we've got Metro of course New England area there.

914
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I love that, all right.

915
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: It's things like this, the jerseys, the shirts that like

916
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: I still have my mid Atlantic shirt from Media Pennsylvania

917
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: from two years ago cheering on that team.

918
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 4: Well shirts last night did yeah, we did? I have

919
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 4: that was a great addition to the New England shirt

920
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 4: on as a Needham mass kid that had Jacob's Shoe

921
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 4: Store on the back like we you know, back then

922
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 4: we had sponsors Little League and as Manfred Rob Manford said, yeah,

923
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 4: I remember the uniforms. They were wool uniforms. You know,

924
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 4: this is nineteen seventy six that I'm wearing that Part

925
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 4: two of It's the Place is. I'm glad that you

926
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 4: appreciate Little League because the Little League World Series and

927
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 4: the people that watch and it is by far the

928
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 4: most watched thing that I've ever done at ESPN Sunday

929
00:41:56,160 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 4: Night Baseball SEC. It's by far, and it's because of

930
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,280
Speaker 4: that connection that all the people have to their past

931
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 4: men women, they played baseball like baseball was the sport

932
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 4: for this country for so many years, and so many

933
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 4: people from age ninety five to five are encouraged to

934
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,800
Speaker 4: sit in front of the TV and watch because it

935
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 4: draws them into a more innocent time. People crave that,

936
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,120
Speaker 4: they want that. That's why this event works. So it's

937
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 4: the place, and it's literally for any reason you want

938
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 4: to watch. They may not care about Nevada or Connecticut

939
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,319
Speaker 4: or Japan as a Little League team, but we once

940
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 4: did that. And you sit in your living room or

941
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 4: on your iPad and you tell stories to the people

942
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 4: in the car about like Russ Sylvester who played shortstop

943
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 4: for the Braintreet. Literally, that's why this works, and that's

944
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 4: why when Bret Mussberger was doing it, I knew I

945
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 4: wanted to be a part of the Little League World

946
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 4: Series because it's timeless and that's you know, that's the

947
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 4: beauty and Todd.

948
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 3: When Tito frank ConA took a job for one year ESPN,

949
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 3: he had it written in his contract, I am not

950
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 3: taking this job unless I get assigned new wrote that

951
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 3: in And Joe Madden, who grew up in Pennsylvania, had

952
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 3: never been here. He comes here as the manager of

953
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 3: the Cubs and I'm standing on the field with him

954
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 3: and he goes, I cannot believe this field is at

955
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 3: the bottom of a mountain. Yea, Like you can't see

956
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 3: that on TV. You have to stand on the field

957
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 3: to appreciate how breath taking the mountain. It's just incredible.

958
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:31,280
Speaker 3: It's amazing.

959
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 2: How has this place changed since when you played here, Todd.

960
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 5: Well, I mean there was only one stadium.

961
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 6: Of course, there was only four USA teams, four internationals,

962
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,800
Speaker 6: so it was harder. But you know, Volunteer Stadium is

963
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 6: absolutely beautiful too. They made that really nice.

964
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 4: Uh.

965
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 6: The amenities here are really great for everybody. You know,

966
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 6: there weren't many things to do. The fan zone wasn't

967
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 6: here really, so you know, it's still the same. But

968
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 6: you try and remember every little detail. It's hard to do,

969
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 6: but I remember every game fifteen to twenty thousand, at

970
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 6: least at every because every game mattered.

971
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 5: You know, you had the four teams.

972
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 6: You know, you lose one game, you got to win

973
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 6: the next two games too, so it was the best

974
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 6: of the best of the best.

975
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 2: You keep in touch with your teammates here and there.

976
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 5: So like during this time, we have a group chat.

977
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 4: Oh that's so we still talk, of.

978
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 3: Course, and Tod, do you keep in touch with any

979
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 3: kid that you met, you know, thirty thirty years ago,

980
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 3: whatever it.

981
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 5: Was, there's one or two. There's a kid from Delaware

982
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 5: that still hits me up. I was really phrase.

983
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 6: I was really close with a kid from Saudi Arabia,

984
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 6: but I haven't talked to him in a while, long,

985
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 6: long time.

986
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 5: But yeah, man, the friendships we made there were great.

987
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 4: And remember Dan Wilson, of course, the Mariners manager, played

988
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 4: here in nineteen eighty one, so it's changed for him.

989
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 4: But as he said, you know, it's the connection. It

990
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 4: reminds us in a lot of ways that baseball is

991
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 4: important not only in this country, to the to the youth,

992
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 4: but all around the world. You know, we joked with

993
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 4: the commissioner last night, like we call the Major League

994
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 4: Baseball World Series or World Series, and that's partly because

995
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 4: there's people from around them. It ain't a world series.

996
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 4: This is a world series. The WBC is a world classic.

997
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 4: And he, like you could tell he knew that, Like,

998
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 4: you're right, I mean, in a semantic world, this is

999
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 4: a true world series, and that's what makes it phenomenal

1000
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,239
Speaker 4: and baseball is important. Little League baseball and all the

1001
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 4: stuff and the team and is important. That's huge.

1002
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 3: Love it so much. All right. We could keep you

1003
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 3: guys all day, but we're gonna let you go. Todd,

1004
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 3: thank you for coming over. Thank you for another pin.

1005
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 3: Will be on my desk. Thanks for coming over.

1006
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 4: Wouldn't miss it for us and Jeff.

1007
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 7: Way to go. We got the two best guys for

1008
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 7: Little League baseball with us on our podcast.

1009
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 3: It's a run on Wednesday. Can't wait.

1010
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 4: I'm not sure I can get up because these way

1011
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 4: like nine miles, so I'm not sure I can actually

1012
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:51,959
Speaker 4: get out of this seat.

1013
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 3: Thank you Carl, Thank you Todd, Thank you guys,