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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Is this a great game or what

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Speaker 1: with the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkshin, I'm his son,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Kirkshin, And Dad, it's good to see your face.

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Speaker 1: You look good today, you look handsome, you look well rested.

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Speaker 1: That makes one of us.

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Speaker 2: But yefinitely I am not well rested. But I must

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Speaker 2: say we've had an interesting week because your niece and nephew,

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Speaker 2: Carson and Emma, aged five and three, went to a

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Speaker 2: new schools, a summer school, basically starting this week. And

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm sorry this has nothing to do with baseball.

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Speaker 2: But Kelly, your sister and the second co host on

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Speaker 2: the show, called me and said, Dad, I need a

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Speaker 2: lunchbox for tomorrow because they need a lunchbox for summer schools.

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Speaker 2: So Kelly didn't have one on a Sunday night, so

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Speaker 2: I said, don't worry, I have one. So I went

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Speaker 2: in my closet and got my Get Smart lunch box,

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Speaker 2: brought it over in the morning, and they put Emma,

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Speaker 2: age three, her lunch into a Get Smart lunchbox with

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Speaker 2: Maxwell Smart, my all time favorite sitcom character with the

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Speaker 2: phone to his ear, and a three year old carried

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Speaker 2: that into school. On Monday. It was one of the

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Speaker 2: greatest pictures taken in the history of the Kirchen family.

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Speaker 2: I sent it to a few people who I know

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Speaker 2: love gets Smart and love Emma, and they thought it

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Speaker 2: was the funniest thing they've ever seen. But jem, the

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Speaker 2: preschool has a bunch of little kids there. The teachers

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Speaker 2: are all twenties and thirties, okay, and the moms are

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Speaker 2: all twenties and thirties. So I'm sure not one person

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Speaker 2: a single understood who gets smart.

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Speaker 1: Was not a single person knew what was going on.

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Speaker 1: But as you told me back in the days of

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Speaker 1: you know, one AM, Sports Center and Baseball Tonight's mostly

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Speaker 1: when you would make a joke on a highlight reel,

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Speaker 1: you said, as long as one person gets it out

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Speaker 1: there at one o'clock in the morning, when you make

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Speaker 1: a miracle Max reference and only one person gets it,

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Speaker 1: and that's worth it. And you know what, in my

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Speaker 1: broadcast career, I've learned one thing that is a terrible

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Speaker 1: way of thinking of it. But when it's one AM

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Speaker 1: and you say no one's watching and nobody cares, who cares?

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Speaker 1: Why not? So I love that I saw that photo

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Speaker 1: come in and it was absolutely adorable and hysterical.

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Speaker 2: Right, And I explained to Emma that this was the

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Speaker 2: lunchbox that I used when I was a little kid,

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Speaker 2: which is actually not the truth, but I didn't want

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Speaker 2: her to feel like I mean, she's supposed to be

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Speaker 2: going to school with an Elsa lunchbox, not a Maxwell

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Speaker 2: Smart lunchbox, so that made it easy. Then we got

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Speaker 2: her a real lunchbox for day number two, so it

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Speaker 2: was really good. So like two people at the entire

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Speaker 2: preschool summer school got it, Me and Kelly, and that

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Speaker 2: was it. I don't even think Mark got it because

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Speaker 2: he didn't grow up watching Get Smart like I did.

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Speaker 2: And then I passed along to you and Kelly as

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Speaker 2: I corrupted your childhood so badly.

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget to tie this to baseball.

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Speaker 2: Dad.

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Speaker 1: We had a Honda Odyssey with a DVD player that

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Speaker 1: was the size of most iPhones these days, by the way,

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Speaker 1: now crazy is right, it's not even close to the

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Speaker 1: size of an iPad. It's like an iPhone. But you

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Speaker 1: and I drove up to Cooperstown and I sat in

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Speaker 1: the back because you told me to. I would love

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Speaker 1: the way up and you said, no, I brought something,

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Speaker 1: and you brought your DVD Get Smart with you and

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Speaker 1: you punched it in and Dad, it was And now

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Speaker 1: it's a Dad, I understand. You were like, I felt

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Speaker 1: So I'm being entertained in a way, which is kind

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Speaker 1: of funny. So I am having a full circle moment here, Dad,

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Speaker 1: and I remember Get Smart very.

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Speaker 2: Well, right, And as I've said way too many times,

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Speaker 2: I only know three things in life baseball, basketball, at

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Speaker 2: sitcoms from the sixties, So there is a connection here.

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Speaker 2: And Jeff speaking of the show, Kent Merker in Tuesday's

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Speaker 2: episode was just hilarious and the stories that the stories

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Speaker 2: told about five to ten stories. I'm not sure I've

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Speaker 2: ever heard so Joe Austemeyer, who's our dear friend now

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Speaker 2: It's been a long long time, but he said after

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Speaker 2: listening to Kent Merker, he sent in this email that

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Speaker 2: Kent Merker and he, when Joe is a journalist in

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Speaker 2: and Kent Merker used to have daily talk seemingly about

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Speaker 2: he gave this book, which was called Case Close, to

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Speaker 2: Kent Merker, and then like three days later, Kent Merker

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Speaker 2: him and gives it back to Joe. Austemyer, does that

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Speaker 2: not speak pretty highly of Kent Merker? He kept that

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Speaker 2: bringing it to him. And he did pretty cool, hunh yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Kent Merker is just an all around stand

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Speaker 1: up guy, absolutely fantastic. That doesn't surprise me at all.

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Speaker 1: And Dad, ironically, I just started a show on Netflix,

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Speaker 1: as if I have any time to watch TV these days,

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Speaker 1: I just started a show on Netflix called eleven. What

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Speaker 1: is it called eleven twenty two sixty three, right, And

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Speaker 1: it's based upon the Stephen King novel. It's a show

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Speaker 1: starring James Franco. It came out like ten odd years ago, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm late to it, but it's on Netflix. And I've

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Speaker 1: always been fascinated with them, the Lone Gunman theory and

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Speaker 1: the Texas Book Depository. I know it sounds weird, but

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely into it. And I'm bombed because I didn't

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Speaker 1: have Kent Merker. I didn't know that in my head

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Speaker 1: and his thoughts on that. I know you have, sorry, respectfully,

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Speaker 1: no interest other than baseball, but this is one thing

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Speaker 1: not a conspiracy theorist, but I definitely love diving into,

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Speaker 2: Right, and Jeff, please, I'm not poking fun or making

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Speaker 2: fun at one of the worst days in American history.

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Speaker 2: But Archie, speaking of speaking of sitcom characters, Archie Bunker

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Speaker 2: to be TV not anymore. All right, enough of get smart,

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Speaker 2: enough of Kent Burker, who was fabulous. If you haven't

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Speaker 2: listened to it, go listen to it. You will laugh

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Speaker 1: It was great, Right, and Dad, I think it's important

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the takeaways. What do you have for us?

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Speaker 2: Well, it was a fascinating week in baseball, But the

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Speaker 2: Yankees look really good again. They've been up and down.

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Speaker 2: They went like oh for twenty three runners in scoring position,

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Speaker 2: So in the last seventy five years, the twenty twenty Dodgers,

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Speaker 2: They are the team to beat, certainly in the American League.

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Speaker 2: But in this crazy American League where at this taping

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and partially thanks to lollipop Jazz Chisholm. You see

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Speaker 2: But Zach Geiloff hit in twenty four straight games for

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Jeremy. Tasha was very very pleased with

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Speaker 2: We're not making fun of Adam Silver. He's a great

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Speaker 2: All right, last thing, Jeff Pete crow Armstrong has ten

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Speaker 2: That's the rule. That's the umpire's rule. You umpired, I umpired.

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Speaker 1: Very very clear? And I love that Buck show Walter.

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Speaker 2: He wrote a paper on it. Jeff, I just love it.

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Speaker 2: It's this how Buck, Oh, that's how he does everything.

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Speaker 1: Let's go over right now, dad, to our game. Changer

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Speaker 2: Well, the game changer of the week is Kyle Schwarber

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Speaker 2: call it, walks, strikeouts, homers. Kyle Schwarber at this tag

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Speaker 2: would be the most in one season by any player

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Speaker 2: in Major league history. So and he's got a chance.

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Speaker 2: Sho Heotani holds the record for fewest RBIs at the

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Speaker 2: time of their thirtieth homer. Schwarber has twenty nine homers,

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Speaker 2: fifty two RBIs. Sho Heotani last year thirty homers, fifty

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Speaker 2: five RBIs once he got to thirty homers. But the

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Speaker 2: point about all this is Jeff is Kyle Schwarber is

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Speaker 2: a really, really good player. So people say, oh, he

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Speaker 2: walks too many times, he strikes out too much. No.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three, Jef he batted under two hundred

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Speaker 2: and got votes for the MVP. Not the first place

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Speaker 2: vote or anything like that, but he was put on

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Speaker 2: an MVY ballad batting under two hundreds. My understanding, he's

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Speaker 2: the only one ever to do that as a position

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Speaker 2: player in the major leagues. And you know, he's having

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Speaker 2: a much better year this year, but it just goes

445
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Speaker 2: to show you this is the change baseball has made

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Speaker 2: ten twenty years ago. Hit the ball out of the ballpark,

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Speaker 2: get on base, if you strike out in between, it's

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Speaker 2: not that big of a deal. And Kyle Schwarber is

449
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Speaker 2: like the poster boy for this. He is changing the

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Speaker 2: game because he's playing on really good teams. He's one

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Speaker 2: of the great team leaders. So all these things that

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Speaker 2: Dave Kingman did many years ago, and then to a

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Speaker 2: lesser degree, Joey Gallo and then Adam Dunn who hit

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Speaker 2: nearly five hundred homers, Kyle Schwarber is doing all of that,

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Speaker 2: but he's doing it for Champion or for really really

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Speaker 2: good teams, and he's an exceptionally effective player. And Jeff

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Speaker 2: he's thirty three years old, he's got three hundred and

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Speaker 2: sixty nine. What do you think his chancell of hitting

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Speaker 2: five hundred are?

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Speaker 1: I mean, with that big contract he just signed in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: that would be really really neat to see a five

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Speaker 1: hundred homer club. I mean, the real conversation has to be,

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Speaker 1: is he Hall of Fame caliber at the end of

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Speaker 1: his career? If he keeps up at some sort of pace,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be having a real conversation about Kyle Schwarber

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Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. And I know I'm showing

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Speaker 1: a little bit of my bias being that I live

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Speaker 1: in the Philadelphia area and I cheer for the Phillies,

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Speaker 1: So don't come at me for that. But if he

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Speaker 1: hits five hundred homers, there's a real conversation about him

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Speaker 1: being in the Hall of Fame without a doubt. At

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Speaker 1: five hundred home runs will he get There's gonna be.

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Speaker 2: A fascinating process. So he is our game changer because

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Speaker 2: he has taken the three true outcomes and turned it

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Speaker 2: into something really really important for his team and for

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Speaker 2: Right, Absolutely, he's going to get a hit off of

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Speaker 2: what you know, Nick Pucks. He's going to get a

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Speaker 2: hit off of Nick Puck's son, Is that.

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Speaker 1: Right, Nick Pack? But we'll go with that son, right right?

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Speaker 1: Nick Pack was the kid everybody had one in their

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Speaker 1: town that was bigger than every other kid before every

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Speaker 1: other kid grew And he was a hard throwing, hard

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Speaker 1: throwing kid, left handed kid. Yeah. And I like that

495
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Speaker 1: he was lefty because it was a little less scary.

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Speaker 1: But I mean I took him over the third baseman's

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Speaker 1: head at Darnstown park Man, Good times, Goode.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Swing of your life.

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Speaker 1: Jeff, Yeah, only swing of my life. Let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: all right, Dan, let's go into the court Gins. What

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Speaker 1: do you have for us.

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Speaker 2: All right, So, Jake McCarthy of the Rockies the other

503
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Speaker 2: day hit a walk off three run triple. That is

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Speaker 2: the twenty first such walk off three run triple since

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Speaker 2: in the live ball era nineteen twenty on, and the

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Speaker 2: first since Grady Sizemore did it in two thousand and six.

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Speaker 2: And the interesting part about both of those guys, Grady

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Speaker 2: size More and Jake McCarthy, two tremendous high school running backs. Tremendous.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they broke all sorts of records, and here

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Speaker 2: they're the last two guys to hit a walk off

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Speaker 2: three run triple. So, Jeff, the interesting part about this

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Speaker 2: is that you know, the the Rockies were behind two

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Speaker 2: to nothing going to the bottom of the ninth inning,

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Speaker 2: and then Jake McCarthy won it with one swing a

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Speaker 2: hard ground ball over third base, and since he runs

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Speaker 2: so well, everybody scored. So only two other players have

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Speaker 2: ever had a walk off three run triple when their

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Speaker 2: team was down two to nothing. In nineteen fifty three,

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00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 2: Harry Haynebrink did that for Milwaukee, and in nineteen thirty two,

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00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 2: Charlie Barry did that for the White Sox. So that

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Speaker 2: was a very interesting play. And obviously one that we

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Speaker 2: don't see very often because it is hard to hit

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Speaker 2: a walk off triple on any level. This was a

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Speaker 2: walk off three run triple.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't see that too often. But it sure

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Speaker 1: got the crowd fired up, that's for sure. I saw

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Speaker 1: the replay, it was like, that's exciting. I wish I

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Speaker 1: was there.

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Speaker 2: Pretty cool. Yeah, So the Yankees have had a lot

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Speaker 2: of trouble scoring runs lately. Jeff can't get a big

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Speaker 2: hit with runners in scoring position. The other day they

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Speaker 2: stole six bases in one game and only scored one run.

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Speaker 2: You would think if you steal six bases in a game,

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Speaker 2: you can manufacture more than one run. But it was

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Speaker 2: the first time since twenty fifteen in Cleveland at Kansas

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Speaker 2: City that any team stole six bases in a game

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Speaker 2: and only scored one run. Do you find that interesting?

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Speaker 1: You would think with that kind of base path movement,

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Speaker 1: they'd be just circling the bases all day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Right, that's frustrating. I wonder what Aaron Boone was saying

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Speaker 1: former guests of the show.

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Speaker 2: You right, right, Okay, So the other day the Braves

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Speaker 2: us Joey Bart, who they just acquired in a deal.

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Speaker 2: He is their eighth catcher that they've used this year.

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Speaker 2: That's the most catchers that any team has used through

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Speaker 2: seventy five games of any season since nineteen one hundred

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Speaker 2: and the record for most catchers used in one season

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Speaker 2: is nine by the nineteen eleven Phillies, the nineteen fourteen Pirates,

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Speaker 2: and the twenty twenty one Cubs. So they are one

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Speaker 2: short through seventy five games of having the most catchers

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Speaker 2: used in one season. And it hurts that Drake Baldwin,

553
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 2: their everyday catcher, you know, just came off the injured list,

554
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Speaker 2: and you know they have a bunch of other catchers

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Speaker 2: who've been hurt all year. Eight catchers, Jeff through seventy

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Speaker 2: five games, that's pretty hard to do. Agreed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got almost ninety to go and they're only

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Speaker 1: won away from the record this point. But being coached,

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Speaker 1: let's get it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Pretty cool. Well, speaking of nothing nothing, the Diamondbacks

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Speaker 2: and the Cardinals were nothing nothing through eight innings the

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Speaker 2: other day and the Cardinal the diamond The Cardinals scored

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Speaker 2: three in the ninth and the Diamondbacks scored four in

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Speaker 2: the ninth, so it was nothing nothing through eight and

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Speaker 2: then four to three in the ninth and that was

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Speaker 2: the final score. It was first time since twenty fourteen

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Speaker 2: Toronto against Detroit that a game was scoreless through eight

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Speaker 2: innings and then each team scored at least three runs

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Speaker 2: in the ninth inning. So we've had a bunch of

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Speaker 2: those games this year, Jeff, where just these incredible you know,

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Speaker 2: it's nine to five after one inning, or you know

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Speaker 2: in the extra innings and the Phillies. The Phillies just

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Speaker 2: had one of these games, you know, Tuesday night against

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Speaker 2: the Nashals. You read about that, right, you were watching that, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I mean they scored i think eight runs

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Speaker 1: in the bottom of the eighth and the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the ninth inning, and it was just insane their ninth inning,

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Speaker 1: and they in the ninth inning they scored all their

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Speaker 1: runs with two outs.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy, right, So, Jeff, it was the first

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Speaker 2: time and the Elias checked this for us, first time

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Speaker 2: since nineteen sixty one, and they couldn't go back any further.

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Speaker 2: So who knows how long this went back. Phillies became

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Speaker 2: the first team since at least nineteen sixty one to

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Speaker 2: enter ninth inning behind the first two guys. Make it out,

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Speaker 2: so now they're two outs. Then ten consecutive batters reached

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Speaker 2: base and the team leaves the ninth inning ahead. That's

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Speaker 2: what happened to the Phillies, first time that's happened in

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Speaker 2: you know, sixty five years. And you watch that game

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Speaker 2: unless you're asleep because you got to get up at

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Speaker 2: four thirty every morning. It's just so so many of

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Speaker 2: these crazy games have happened where there's this incredible score

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Speaker 2: in the first inning, or nothing happens until the ninth inning,

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Speaker 2: or a team gets ten runs as the Giants did

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Speaker 2: against the Nationals this year late in the game. All

596
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Speaker 2: sorts of wacky things have happened. So that was that

597
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Speaker 2: was a keeper that game right there. And you know

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Speaker 2: how much I love Jeff, You know how much I

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Speaker 2: love names. But I'm sure you didn't notice this. Who

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Speaker 2: started that game for the Phillies. Jesus Alzardo started.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about Brad Lord, Yes, Jesus and Lord.

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Speaker 2: Right, Jesus Lizardo started the game and Brad Lord got

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Speaker 2: the loss in the game. So we had Jesus and

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Speaker 2: Lord pitching in the same game. And him, that's Jesus,

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Speaker 2: he's the other one.

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Speaker 1: Zus salute Dan Patrick got had to do, Dan Patton

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Speaker 1: to do it.

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Speaker 2: And Jeff. In that game, Jesus Lizardo pitched six and

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Speaker 2: two thirds innings, gave up five earned runs, walked three,

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Speaker 2: and struck out thirteen. The last pitcher to do all

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Speaker 2: three of those things in any start was Randy Johnson

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety. So that game was a gigantic courtchain

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Speaker 2: finishing with Jesus Lozardo the starter and Brad Lord the

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Speaker 2: losing pitcher for the Nationals.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dad, let's jump into on this state in

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Speaker 1: baseball history. Today's June twenty fifth. You got anything fun

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Speaker 1: for us?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I remember this game, Jeff, because I was a

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Speaker 2: hopeless San Francisco Giants fan even though I lived three

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Speaker 2: thousand miles away. In nineteen sixty eight, I was eleven

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Speaker 2: years old and Bobby Bonds came up, played his first

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Speaker 2: major league game, and in his first major league game,

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Speaker 2: he hit a grand Slam. So he joined Bill Duggleby

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Speaker 2: of the Phillies in eighteen ninety eight as the only

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Speaker 2: two players to hit a grand Slam in his major

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Speaker 2: league debut. And just understand, Jeff, the Bonds father and

627
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Speaker 2: son are the greatest father son combination ever to play

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Speaker 2: better than the Griffies, better than anyone. And I watched

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Speaker 2: Bobby Bonds a lot growing up. He was a great

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Speaker 2: defensive outfielder. He could fly, stole a million bases, hit

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Speaker 2: a lot of homers. And so anyone who wonders where

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Speaker 2: did Barry Bonds get most of his ability, or at

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Speaker 2: least some of his ability from it was from his dad,

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Speaker 2: Bobby Bonds. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Also, I think I got this great voice from We

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Speaker 1: all passed down different things, right.

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Speaker 2: Talk about strikeouts, Jeff, Bobby bod struck out a lot. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you struck out with your voice thanks to me.

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Speaker 1: Sorry about That's all right, body sounds like a man.

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Speaker 1: That'd be great.

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Speaker 2: All right, there'll be a quiz after this one, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: But in nineteen seventy six, Toby Harrah became the only

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Speaker 2: shortstop in Major league history to not have one fielding

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Speaker 2: chance in a doubleheader. So he played both ends of

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Speaker 2: the doubleheader, played all nine innings in both games, and

646
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 2: had no fielding chances as a shortstop. So, Toby Harra,

647
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 2: what is what is the question I'm going to ask

648
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 2: you about Toby Hara.

649
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: Toby Harra, is have I ever been to Hara's in

650
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: Las Vegas.

651
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 2: No, he's a palindrome. Jeff oh hr Ah. I covered

652
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 2: Toby Harra many years in Texas, got a big kick

653
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 2: out of him. Really fun guy and a really good player.

654
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 2: But that day in seventy six, the ball was never

655
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 2: hit to him at short stup in a doubleheader. That

656
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 2: is absolutely amazing to me. This is amazing too. In

657
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 2: twenty ten, Edwin Jackson of the Diamondbacks beat the Rays

658
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 2: one to nothing in a no hitter. And Jeff, seriously,

659
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 2: do you think anyone's going to finish a no hitter

660
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 2: these days when it's one to nothing? Hard to imagine that, right,

661
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 2: But this is the kicker, Edwin Jackson twenty ten through

662
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty nine pitches. Oh my, May left

663
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 2: him in there because history was to be made. But

664
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 2: it's one thing to keep him in there for one

665
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 2: hundred and forty nine if you're up ten to nothing.

666
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 2: It was one to nothing, and aj Hinch the manager

667
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 2: left him in there. I love that he did, and

668
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 2: so does Edwin Jackson because he ended up with a

669
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 2: no hitter. Also on this date, in twenty twenty one,

670
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 2: your boy, Aaron Nola are kind of a friend of

671
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 2: the show given our ties to als. Sadly, he tied

672
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 2: Tom Severs' record by striking out ten consecutive batters. So

673
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 2: just give me the great kicker to the Tom sever

674
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 2: striking out ten consecutive batters. What is the great note

675
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 2: out of that?

676
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: He did it to finish the game?

677
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 2: Yes, the last ten batters he faced he struck out. Now, look,

678
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 2: ten batters in a game is consecutive batters is pretty amazing,

679
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 2: But the last ten you face pretty darn good.

680
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: Let's go to the alphabet, Dad, we're going through the alphabet.

681
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 1: We're on N. Do you want to start pitcher or batter?

682
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 2: Well, we always start with the batter everyday. Players always

683
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 2: go first, and our end is Greg Nettles, who was

684
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 2: one of the best defensive third basemen I've ever seen.

685
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 2: He hit three hundred and ninety home runs, most ever

686
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 2: by a player whose last name starts with an end

687
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 2: one A couple of goal gloves at third base. There

688
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,760
Speaker 2: are no third basemen, and there's nobody with a last

689
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,800
Speaker 2: name N Jeff position player in the Hall of Fame.

690
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 2: Do you find that surprising?

691
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 1: Really?

692
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 2: It's kind of weird, kind of weird, right.

693
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: Is there. Yeah, I mean that that that does strike

694
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: me as odd because in the past in alphabet you've

695
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: had to say, oh, yeah, well he's the only whatever

696
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 1: letter in the Hall of Fame. So we start there,

697
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: but no end. It's interesting, pretty surprising.

698
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, really good player. And in retirement he became a coach,

699
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 2: and he was a coach, the first base coach briefly

700
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 2: for Buck Showalder's team in New York. And I have

701
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 2: to tell this story. Mel Hall, who was on the

702
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 2: Yankees at the time, runs through first base after making

703
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 2: it out and is so angry that he throws his helmet.

704
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 2: Throws his helmet not to hurt him, but he throws

705
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 2: it at Greg Nettles, who was one of the great

706
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 2: Yankee players, on one of the great Yankee third basemen

707
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 2: of all time. And it was so disrespectful that Buck

708
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 2: show all Or had a word with Mel Hall. But

709
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,280
Speaker 2: great Nettles, who is now a coach, not a star

710
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 2: third baseman, goes into the dugout with Mel Hall's helmet,

711
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 2: takes out a bat, puts the helmet on the floor

712
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 2: of the dugout and smashes it into a thousand pieces

713
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 2: and says, Mel here's your helmet right here, Jeff. The

714
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: lesson there is we are teammates. We do not show

715
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 2: up anybody on our team. We do not throw anything

716
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 2: at anybody at our team, no matter how frustrated you are,

717
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 2: and you certainly don't throw it at the greatest number en,

718
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 2: I mean, letter N of all time.

719
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: Agreed, Agreed, Let's go to pitcher Dad. What do you got?

720
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 2: All right? I got Phil Nicro. Phil Nicro very underrated

721
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 2: because he threw a knuckleball, which I've always objected to.

722
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 2: People think he's like any knuckleball or is some kind

723
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 2: of circus act, which is ridiculous. He won three hundred

724
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 2: and eighteen games, He had a three thirty five era,

725
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 2: He threw forty five shutouts in his career. And I

726
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,399
Speaker 2: love the Philnicro story. When he won his three hundredth game,

727
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 2: it was on a Sunday in Toronto, and he told

728
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 2: me the story that he said, let's understand, the Blue

729
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 2: Jays had just clinched the division title. So the next day,

730
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 2: the Sunday, he said, I'm sure, and I'm quoting here,

731
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: they were all hungover. So but the night before Phil

732
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 2: and his brother Joe, who was also on the Yankees

733
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 2: made a pact that Joe would pitch in the game

734
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 2: because he would be if Phil wins. He's in the

735
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,439
Speaker 2: same box score as Phil Nicro went. Phil wins number

736
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 2: three hundred. So Joe goes to the mound in the

737
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 2: ninth inning of the game, and Phil has a shutout going,

738
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,439
Speaker 2: and by the way, has not thrown a knuckleball the

739
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 2: entire game, even though he threw ninety five percent Alcoho

740
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,959
Speaker 2: ball's right. So Phil looks at his younger brother, Joe

741
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,240
Speaker 2: and says, what are you doing out here. You're supposed

742
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 2: to pitch in the game. You're not the pitching coach.

743
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 2: And Joe says, well, I just wanted to deliver the

744
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 2: news that if you pitch a shutout today, you will

745
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 2: be the oldest pitcher ever to pitch a shutout in

746
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 2: Major League history. And Phil Nicro looks at his younger

747
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,760
Speaker 2: brother and says, well, get the hell off the mountain.

748
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 2: I gotta throw a shutout now. So the guy at

749
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 2: the plate is Jeff Burrows, and they're runners at second

750
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 2: and third, and the shutouts in doubt. Not really, the

751
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 2: game is in doubt, but they're still thinking about walking

752
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 2: Jeff Burrows to load the bases and Jeff Burrows, who

753
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 2: is a teammate of Phil Necro's in Atlanta, looks at

754
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 2: Phil Nicro while in the batter's box and motions to him,

755
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 2: pitch to me, meaning don't walk me intentionally. So they

756
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 2: pitched to Jeff Burrows, and again this is Phil Necro's story,

757
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 2: he told it to me verbatim. Jeff Burrow swung at

758
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 2: strike three, which was a knuckleball that was like three

759
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 2: feet outside of the strike Joe, and it was the

760
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 2: only knuckleball that Phil Nicro through in that game. So

761
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 2: no matter what you hear about Phil Nicro, always remember

762
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 2: he's an underrated pitcher, not an overrated picture.

763
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 1: Well, and we can't talk about the Negros without my

764
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 1: favorite maybe ever Quirkchin, which was Joe Nicro hit one

765
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: career home run in his great career, and it was

766
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 1: off of his brother Phil.

767
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 2: Right like twelve hundred plate appearances, he hit one homer

768
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 2: and it was off his brother Phil. Again, this is

769
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 2: the beauty of baseball, the symmetry, how things just line

770
00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:55,720
Speaker 2: up so perfectly. So that's our alpha best n which

771
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 2: you know, the end was a little easier to come

772
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 2: up with, and we had Maze and Maddock. This week

773
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 2: was pretty good Nettles and Nicro, but some number some

774
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: letters are a little harder than others.

775
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure you get your guesses in a little

776
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: bit early. Here for oh, we want to hear from you.

777
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,360
Speaker 1: Great game or dot Com? You can go on right now,

778
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 1: if you scroll down, you can hit a button, hit

779
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: a box and message us directly. When we talk about

780
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 1: guys like Joe Ostermeier we talked about at the top

781
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: of the show, all he does is go online great

782
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: game or dot Com. That's how he gets in touch

783
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: with my dad. That's how he gets in touch with me.

784
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: So you can do the same, Great Game or what

785
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: dot com? Is how you do it? Three cards in

786
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: the bathroom, Bampa Penampha. I don't know why I went

787
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: into that theme song, but what do you got? Three

788
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: cards in the bathroom?

789
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,919
Speaker 2: Let's see them right. So the first one I picked

790
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 2: out today was Walt Weise, who is the manager now

791
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 2: of the Atlanta Braves. He's doing a terrific job with

792
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 2: that club despite all of these injuries. Walt Wise, of course,

793
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 2: won a World Series as the shortstop for the eighty

794
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 2: nine Oakland A's switch hitter Incredibly reliable defensive player baseball

795
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 2: iq off the charts. And he used to use a

796
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 2: glove I'm sure I told you this, Jeff, that was

797
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 2: so old it was basically falling apart in his hand,

798
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 2: but it felt perfect on his hand, so he wasn't

799
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 2: about to break in a new glove. He wore that

800
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 2: glove for like his entire major league career. He called

801
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 2: it the Creature, which I just love that a guy

802
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 2: would name his own glove and call it the Creature.

803
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 2: And you know, he went to North Carolina and was

804
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 2: a great college baseball player, played for Mike Roberts there,

805
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 2: and Mike Roberts does some interesting things in teaching people

806
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 2: how to run the bases and everything else. When they

807
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 2: were in college, bj Seroff and Walt Wise, those guys

808
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 2: they used to learn how had to steal bases and

809
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 2: run the bases while running in their bare feet, and

810
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 2: they used to take infield sometimes without using a ball.

811
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 2: And Mike explained it to me. He said, by doing

812
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 2: it without a glove, you know, without a ball, without

813
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 2: a glove on, and without your shoes on, it helps

814
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 2: you get in the flow, kind of like yoga. I'm

815
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:26,600
Speaker 2: quoting here. Mike Robertson. Mike learned from Hal Smeltzy, who

816
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: was the baseball coach at Florida Southern, how to do

817
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 2: these drills. And they they really seem to work out.

818
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 2: They really worked out for Walt Weisse as a player,

819
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 2: very good player and now a very good manager for

820
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 2: the Braves. All right, Next number two, Number two is

821
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 2: Dave Steve. If you remember last year we named when

822
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 2: we did Team Tim, you know, best of all Tim.

823
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 2: We had him as the best Toronto Blue Jay ever,

824
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 2: the second best, second best era of any starting pitcher

825
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 2: in the eighties, second most wins to Jack Morris of

826
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 2: any pitcher in the eighties for in a three month

827
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 2: in a twelve month period, Jeff he had three no

828
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 2: hitters broken up in the ninth inning, three in a

829
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 2: twelve month period, and then eventually nineteen ninety he did

830
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 2: throw a no hitter. He had great stuff. He had

831
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 2: a tremendous slider. And I don't know why I remember

832
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 2: stupid things like this, but he told me once that

833
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 2: he you know, he's handed, bat's right handed, throws right handed.

834
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,280
Speaker 2: Of course he shoots a basketball with his left hand.

835
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 2: I mean, is that how weird is that I've given

836
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 2: you all the weird ambidexterities. But here's one of the

837
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 2: better right handed pitchers of the last fifty years, and

838
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:46,760
Speaker 2: he shoots a basketball left hand.

839
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: We realize he was amphibious. That's incredible, all right.

840
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 2: Last one is Ron Hassey. Ron Hasse was a really

841
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 2: good dude and a still a good dude, and a

842
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 2: very good catcher. The only catcher to catch two perfect

843
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:07,879
Speaker 2: games in his career. He caught Len Barker's perfect game

844
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 2: for Cleveland in nineteen eighty one, and then ten years

845
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 2: later caught Dennis Martinez's no hitter for the Expos. And

846
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 2: I got a kick out of this, Jeff. And I'm

847
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 2: not poking fun at Ron Hassey. He'll be the first

848
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 2: to tell you he's one of the slowest runners baseball

849
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 2: has ever seen. And what is he doing in this

850
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:31,439
Speaker 2: baseball card picture, Jeff? What does it look like he's doing?

851
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: Is he laying down a bunt?

852
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 2: He's dragging a bunt, it looks like to me. And

853
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 2: I forgot to double check how many bunt singles Ron

854
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:43,839
Speaker 2: Hassey had in his career. I'm sure there weren't too many.

855
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 2: That just struck me as odd. A guy who doesn't

856
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 2: run very well. Instead of having he's a good hitter,

857
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 2: instead of having him swing the bat he was a

858
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Speaker 2: good catcher behind the plate, they have him with a

859
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 2: drag butt, you know.

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Speaker 1: Pretty cool, not exactly fitting of his character. It'd be

861
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 1: like your professional headshot and what you're You're holding a

862
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: power drill. You're like, that's not what Tim Kirkchen's known for.

863
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: The oil on his car, which you did. I'm not disputing.

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Speaker 1: Oh you've done it before.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, many times. And last thing, Jeff on this, what

866
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Speaker 2: is my little pet peeve about the drag bunt? Do

867
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Speaker 2: you remember this. I don't want to overdo this, but

868
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Speaker 2: this is the pedantic, you know, little twit. Tim Kirchen

869
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 2: saying that I think the only drag bunt that there

870
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Speaker 2: is in baseball is when a left handed hitter drags

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Speaker 2: the ball with him down to the right side of

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Speaker 2: the infield, you know, in between the pitcher and the

873
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 2: first baseman, towards the second basement, because he's dragging the

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Speaker 2: ball with him. If a left handed hitter bunts down

875
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Speaker 2: the third baseline, to me, that's a push bunch. You

876
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Speaker 2: can call it whatever you want, but I don't think

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Speaker 2: it should be called a drag bunt, and anytime a

878
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Speaker 2: right hand handed hitter buns for a hit, he's either

879
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 2: pushing it up the first baseline or he's dropping it

880
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Speaker 2: down the third baseline. The verbs are very important here,

881
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Speaker 2: but I think the only time that you have a

882
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,840
Speaker 2: drag bunch, it can only be accomplished by a left

883
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Speaker 2: handed hitter. Am I being way too much of a

884
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Speaker 2: pedantic little twit here? Well?

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Speaker 1: You always are, But I think in this case we

886
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Speaker 1: need to ask members of the family let us know

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Speaker 1: in the comments Great Game or what dot com. And

888
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: I'm also going to send a note over to Mike Sure,

889
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Speaker 1: the commissioner, to see and maybe I'll get a voice

890
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: note from him for next week and we can see

891
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Speaker 1: what he thinks about this whole drag bunt fiasco. I

892
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: will say, I haven't heard this from you in the

893
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Speaker 1: history of the pod three seasons, so we'll we'll see

894
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Speaker 1: what people have to say. Great gamer dot Com again,

895
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: you can chime in there and I'll reach out to

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Speaker 1: the commissioner and see what he has to say.

897
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Speaker 2: And Jeff, speaking of that, many many many years ago,

898
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 2: Mickey Mantle was in Yankees camp as an instructor and

899
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 2: a much aged instructor, and he was teaching all the

900
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 2: young players in Yankee camp how to do a successful

901
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 2: drag bunt. And I always thought that was like the

902
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 2: coolest thing. Here's a guy who hit over five hundred homers,

903
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 2: won a triple Crown, but because he ramps so well

904
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 2: and because his baseball IQ was off the charts, he

905
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 2: knew how to do a drag bunt better than anyone

906
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 2: and he hit over five hundred homers. Do you find

907
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 2: that cool?

908
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: It's so special when you're great, you're great at everything.

909
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:36,919
Speaker 1: And there's no doubt about that one.

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00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 2: All right, pretty much, Mickey Mantle team.

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00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: Tim wrapping up the show today, I don't even know

912
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: what it's about. What do you got?

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00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 2: All right? So Joe Ostemeyer, who started the show with

914
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 2: his great story about Kent Merker and a book and

915
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:53,280
Speaker 2: all that stuff, he said, Tim, and this is controversial,

916
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 2: this is hard, this is not my style, but he said,

917
00:51:56,760 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 2: come up with the all Hall of Fame team of

918
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 2: active players, guys that you think are going to or

919
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 2: have the best chance at each position to end up

920
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame. And I changed it to

921
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 2: you know, we're not going to pick anyone who is

922
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:19,760
Speaker 2: under thirty years old, because we don't want mass statistical

923
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:24,399
Speaker 2: projections for Paul Skins and Bobby Witt Junior and all

924
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 2: these other young guys who have come up and just

925
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 2: taken the game by storm. So you have to be

926
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Speaker 2: at least thirty years old to be on this list.

927
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Speaker 2: But Jeff, this just proves again the great spot that

928
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Speaker 2: baseball is in right now. You look around almost any

929
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 2: night and you're going to see a future Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm right about that. I'm not saying all

931
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Speaker 2: these guys are in now, but if you look at

932
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 2: where the trajectory of their career, I think you can

933
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 2: project that they have a really good chance or a

934
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Speaker 2: good chance to make it to the Hall of Fame.

935
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Speaker 2: All right, you understand the rules, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Understand the rules. Future Hall of Famers that are playing

937
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 1: now over thirty.

938
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Speaker 2: Go right. Salvador Perez is our catcher, one of the

939
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Speaker 2: better defensive catchers ever and just past George Brett for

940
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 2: the most home runs in the history at home of

941
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Speaker 2: the Kansas City Royals. And you know he played on

942
00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 2: a World championship team, so he's my catcher. There are

943
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Speaker 2: several first basemen, including Paul Goldschmidt, but I'm going with

944
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman, who has a pretty good art going towards

945
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,840
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame, although Paul Goldschmith's numbers are pretty

946
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 2: darn good too. Jose Altuve is my second basement. If

947
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 2: he keeps up this pace, he's going to get really

948
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 2: darn close to three thousand hits with a bunch of steels,

949
00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,879
Speaker 2: a Gold Glove batting average above three hundred, a bunch

950
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 2: of homers, and one of the best postseason resumes you'll

951
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 2: find on hardly any player. It's ridiculous. Third base is loaded.

952
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,959
Speaker 2: We've got Manny Machado, Nolan Era, Orado have a shot,

953
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Speaker 2: but I'm going with from the Cleveland Guardians, Jeff. Jose

954
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Speaker 2: Ramirez agreed there. Right, that's a really hard choice because

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Speaker 2: you know, all three of those guys are really good.

956
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Speaker 2: But Zany Ramirez has a chance, Jeff to someday, you know,

957
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: replace Bob Feller as the greatest baseball player in Cleveland history,

958
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,959
Speaker 2: and that that is really saying something given how long

959
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 2: the Indian Slash Guardians have been around. I'm playing Mookie

960
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 2: Betts at shortstop because I'm not sure I could find

961
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 2: another shortstop, but he you know, he's won an MVP

962
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Speaker 2: and finished second three different times, hits home runs. You know,

963
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 2: he's really closing in on three hundred homers now, an

964
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,439
Speaker 2: amazing career for mookie bets, and I think someday he'll

965
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 2: be in the Hall of Fame. We've got him as

966
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 2: our shortstop. So outfielders, Mike Trout, he's already in despite

967
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 2: all of these injuries. Bryce Harper, We're gonna play him

968
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 2: in the outfield because the majority of his games have

969
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 2: been in outfield as opposed to first base. Aaron Judge

970
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 2: certainly on the fast track to the Hall of Fame,

971
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Speaker 2: given with all the home runs that he has hit

972
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:13,399
Speaker 2: and the other amazing things that he has done. Show

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Speaker 2: Heyo Tani of course, is our DH who we could

974
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Speaker 2: also use as a pitcher. And we have also got,

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Speaker 2: speaking of pitchers, Justin Berlander and Max Schurzer, our two

976
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,759
Speaker 2: guys who I'm pretty certain right now are going to

977
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 2: be Hall of Famers. So this is a Joe Austermeier list.

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Speaker 2: These are the guys that I picked. Again, some difficult

979
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Speaker 2: choices here. I left some really good people off. I repeat,

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00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 2: I'm not saying all these guys are in now, or

981
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 2: all of these guys are gonna be in. I'm just saying,

982
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 2: these are the players at each position that have the

983
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:54,240
Speaker 2: best chance eventually to get in. Have I explained that properly? Jeff?

984
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Speaker 1: Absolutely? I only have one question because we talked about

985
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarverer's home run count and his current Do you

986
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: think Aaron Judge will reach six hundred home runs three

987
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five as of taping? Will he reach

988
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: six hundred home runs? What do you think?

989
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 2: Well, he's thirty four years old, so he's gotta hit.

990
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 2: He's gotta hit two hundred and fifteen more homers. All right,

991
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,959
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say no, but that's certainly.

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00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:24,840
Speaker 1: My five five sixty.

993
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,399
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, he'll be in the mid fives. He'll hit. Yeah,

994
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 2: he'll he'll hit two hundred more home runs, but you know,

995
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty more homers, that's going to be

996
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 2: hard to do.

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00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: We'll see, all right, Well, we will follow up in

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Speaker 1: five years, six years with this podcast, right, I'll have

999
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: two elementary school kids at the time. It'll be crazy.

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00:56:46,360 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Dad, a great team, Tim, Thank you

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Speaker 1: to everybody for always chiming in great Game or what

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00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 1: And of course if you take a minute, do us

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Speaker 1: our podcast get discovered to do baseball fans. All right, dad,

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Speaker 1: Well i'll talk to you soon. I know you got

1010
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: to go pick up your other grandkids, so I'm gonna

1011
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:13,800
Speaker 1: let you go. Thank you so much for listening, and

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Speaker 1: as always, thanks for being a part of our family.