Speaker 1: And welcome back to another edition of Is this a
Speaker 1: Great Game?
Speaker 2: Or What?
Speaker 1: With the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkchen. I'm his son,
Speaker 1: Jeff Kirkchhen. Dad, we're in the basement because today's my birthday.
Speaker 1: You're visiting.
Speaker 3: That is so great. How old are you today? You're
Speaker 3: thirty three years old today, Jeff. I cannot believe. And
Speaker 3: I'm so proud of the of the young man you've
Speaker 3: turned out to be. This is We've had the greatest
Speaker 3: weekend here. Why don't you tell everyone while we're at it,
Speaker 3: let let's recall birthday number twenty one. You want to
Speaker 3: do it or you want to do it?
Speaker 1: Okay, So birthday twenty one, we were at the Outer Banks,
Speaker 1: as we do. It was a family tradition around this time,
Speaker 1: and uh, we went to a bar naturally, as one does,
Speaker 1: and amazingly, all the adults stayed up till midnight. Dad,
Speaker 1: I'm thirty three. I haven't stayed up till midnight in
Speaker 1: years at this point, but stayed up till midnight, went
Speaker 1: to the bar, and at eleven fifty nine turns midnight.
Speaker 1: We walk into the bar and my dad looks at
Speaker 1: me and goes, all right, Well, it's time, son, Can
Speaker 1: I buy you a beer? And I looked at you
Speaker 1: and I said, how about a shot? Well at that
Speaker 1: point I realized he's had a beer before. Right now,
Speaker 1: I was at a shot before. Now I found out
Speaker 1: he's had more shots in Steph Curry.
Speaker 3: But I didn't know that. But Jeff, yeah, that was
Speaker 3: a great night and your birthday. We had your big
Speaker 3: celebration on Friday night, which was great, even though they
Speaker 3: closed down your favorite Mexican restaur Listen.
Speaker 1: So there's this great Mexican restaurant in one town over
Speaker 1: from me that listen. It's just great food, great. It's
Speaker 1: not the most romantic place, it's not the most fancy place, but.
Speaker 3: You picked it.
Speaker 1: I love this place. And we did my birthday there
Speaker 1: two years ago. So here we are. We put my
Speaker 1: in laws, my parents, my two kids, and my wife
Speaker 1: and two different cars were driving down and we pull
Speaker 1: up and says its opening soon this other rest.
Speaker 3: Borge.
Speaker 1: But we did eat at a cool spot in skip Back, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: Basta Pasta. I've eaten there one hundred times and it
Speaker 1: is it was so delicious, so great. He had two
Speaker 1: bottles of wine like it was a very special evening
Speaker 1: to reminisce. And I'm so lucky because today Sunday, August ninth,
Speaker 1: is my birthday. Monday, August tenth, Day of Release is
Speaker 1: my daughter's third birthday. And so and I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to be funny and I'm not trying to play victim,
Speaker 1: but now because my daughter, you guys are gonna be
Speaker 1: in town for like every one of my birthdays, which
Speaker 1: as an adult, most adults can't say that their parents
Speaker 1: come into town when they're in their thirties or forties, right, right.
Speaker 3: And Jeff, yesterday, of course Saturday, we're taping here on
Speaker 3: Sunday for today's team. Tim has something to do with
Speaker 3: your birthday August the ninth, right, special little occasion there.
Speaker 3: But yesterday, August the eighth, we celebrated McKinley Hope's birthday here.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: How many people were here for her birthday? She's three?
Speaker 1: She's three.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, we just moved into a neighborhood with like one
Speaker 1: hundred families. I mean, it's like the greatest thing ever. So,
Speaker 1: I mean we had I think our number was like
Speaker 1: thirty adults and fifteen kids. There were like fifty people.
Speaker 1: He's like the size of some people's weddings.
Speaker 3: I think, yes, I think. I asked the question, is
Speaker 3: this their third birth? There is this a wedding. That's
Speaker 3: how much food we had and cakes and everything else.
Speaker 1: Well, just like every other wedding, we had Costco pizza
Speaker 1: and a blow up bouncy house. Every wedding has it.
Speaker 3: Giant castle of the backyard.
Speaker 1: It was cool.
Speaker 3: And Jeff built the whole swing set by himself, twenty
Speaker 3: man houts.
Speaker 1: You see how many kids were on that swing set.
Speaker 3: Jeff, was that not?
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never related to dad's more than when
Speaker 1: you have that moment when your hard work pays off, right.
Speaker 1: And I looked at kids climbing, jumping up and down,
Speaker 1: all of her friends on her playground, and I said,
Speaker 1: my wife was right. I didn't want a playground. We
Speaker 1: have a playground across the street in the neighborhood. So
Speaker 1: it's by across the street. I mean, it's one hundred
Speaker 1: yards away. And I said, why do we another one?
Speaker 1: And I found out yesterday why right?
Speaker 3: And then we set up a tent that took four
Speaker 3: adult males and set up a tent in the backyard.
Speaker 3: But it was great.
Speaker 1: We figured it out.
Speaker 3: And then when we closed up the tent and put
Speaker 3: it back and it's holder Chris from next door. We
Speaker 3: had a high five because we got it back.
Speaker 1: Into the It was a miracle, right, And then we
Speaker 1: played maybe the most intense game of cornhull Logged did
Speaker 1: the cornhole game last? I mean, I couldn't see. We
Speaker 1: had to turn our and I respectfully, Dad, listen, my
Speaker 1: eyes are not the same as they were ten years ago.
Speaker 1: You're going to be seventy this year. I had trouble
Speaker 1: seeing the board, so I recommended let's put in. You're
Speaker 1: my partner, so I said, I don't know how he's seeing,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't want to admit it, but I put
Speaker 1: the light, my phone light hovering over the board so
Speaker 1: we could at least see where the bag is going.
Speaker 3: Loggedd one game to twenty one teen. Keep in mind
Speaker 3: we went over twenty one. I didn't even know this
Speaker 3: was a rule yet in twenty one exactly. So we
Speaker 3: went back to thirteen.
Speaker 1: But that game to at least an hour, right, Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean it felt like it, that's for sure. And
Speaker 1: two resets back to thirteen, and then the most unceremonious
Speaker 1: win in the history of cornhole. We did the math
Speaker 1: incorrectly briefly, and we go, oh wait, we won after
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 3: We didn't even know.
Speaker 1: We didn't even know we won.
Speaker 3: Right, So then this morning, so again we're taping on
Speaker 3: August the ninth, your birthday. We opened up McKinley's presence,
Speaker 3: right and the president that well, Mom and I got
Speaker 3: her at several presents, but the one that came specifically
Speaker 3: for me was one of these little cameras that you
Speaker 3: could take a picture and then the print out comes
Speaker 3: out and all that. So that was the first present
Speaker 3: she opened up was a pink camera from pop Up.
Speaker 3: The second present she opened up was a pink camera
Speaker 3: for somebody else, one of the chances. There were twenty
Speaker 3: presents for her, the first two the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. I mean, great minds think alike. So
Speaker 1: that gift was great, Dad, and she's taken picture and
Speaker 1: it's one it's like what's old is new? It like
Speaker 1: prints out the photo for you, just like the old Polaroid.
Speaker 1: But then when you realize you can put an SD
Speaker 1: card in there and you got to charge it with
Speaker 1: a USB C charger, then the technology takes over. It
Speaker 1: was great and for my birthday today, what I'm planning
Speaker 1: on doing is adding garage storage to my walls, because
Speaker 1: that was a You're.
Speaker 3: Going to do that on your birthday.
Speaker 1: That's all I want, really, and that's what I got
Speaker 1: you music in my garage whilst hanging things, while keeping
Speaker 1: my garage more and more organized. That's what I want
Speaker 1: to do for my birthday. And then Phillies baseball Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: I said, I don't need the kids to be out
Speaker 1: of the house. I don't even need the kids to
Speaker 1: be off the couch. I just I just I want
Speaker 1: to be not taken away from the room that the
Speaker 1: Phillies are on. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: That's great, And Jeff, just stay inside today because it's
Speaker 3: going to be another one of those unbelievable, my gosh
Speaker 3: and human days. Jeff, Yesterday, yesterday it was so hot.
Speaker 3: Yesterday I saw a dog chasing a cat and they
Speaker 3: were both walking. That's how hot it was yesterday.
Speaker 1: It was bad.
Speaker 3: Stay inside, watch baseball on your thirty third birthday, and
Speaker 3: all kidding side, Jeff, I'm so proud of you. This
Speaker 3: has been such a great weekend and this is the
Speaker 3: first time we've done the podcast actually on your birthday.
Speaker 1: So there, I know, I know, and Dad, I mean,
Speaker 1: this really is special because this is our third year
Speaker 1: of the podcast. I'm now thirty three years old. My
Speaker 1: daughter turned three. Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball player
Speaker 1: of all time. He wore number three, and.
Speaker 3: Who's the greatest number thirty three of all time baseball?
Speaker 3: We went over this.
Speaker 1: Last we went over this, but I still have to.
Speaker 1: I meant to tell you a lot of people are
Speaker 1: still I put the social media clip up of Warren
Speaker 1: Spawn versus Vertical Mene and they're still angry, the people,
Speaker 1: but they're angry for other reasons. They said, how could
Speaker 1: you ever consider anybody but Warren Spawn? And then some
Speaker 1: people were saying it's vertical mane you moron right.
Speaker 3: I told you it is a great question that all
Speaker 3: it does is anger people, and that's.
Speaker 1: What our show is all about. Oh no, it's not
Speaker 1: what our shows. What we're here, That's what I have
Speaker 1: to say.
Speaker 3: Dad.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a bunch of neighbors and we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna end. We're gonna go into baseball. I promise,
Speaker 1: I promise, I promise, our promise. But we had a
Speaker 1: bunch of neighbors over for my my daughter's birthday, and
Speaker 1: a lot of baseball fans, right, Dad, A lot of
Speaker 1: fans of baseball were over at our house. And the
Speaker 1: funniest part is half of them didn't even know my
Speaker 1: dad was Sim Kirkshon, which makes for a very funny
Speaker 1: conversation when they walk in and go, happy birthday. Mckinn
Speaker 1: Is that Sim birksh What is going on here? But Dad, nonetheless,
Speaker 1: you know this podcast. I'm so proud to tell people
Speaker 1: about it. Not that I'm not proud to tell them
Speaker 1: about the radio show I work for or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but because you know, we're gonna have this for the
Speaker 1: rest of our lives. Like we're not planning on going
Speaker 1: anywhere anytime soon. Let's make it known. But like Dad,
Speaker 1: this is something really special. We're creating these memories on
Speaker 1: YouTube and on on our social media and all of that,
Speaker 1: and I think that makes a very, very big difference
Speaker 1: for people because we get to share our love of
Speaker 1: the game and our love of being a father and
Speaker 1: son together, which is really really great.
Speaker 3: It was a great party yesterday. I want you to
Speaker 3: have the greatest birthday ever today, and we just move
Speaker 3: on from there.
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Speaker 1: All right, dad, let's jump in to the takeaways across
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. What do you have for us?
Speaker 3: Well, the Red Sox won the other night, twelve to
Speaker 3: eleven in thirteen innings, Jeff, and that gave them twenty
Speaker 3: seven wins in their last thirty games, twenty seven and three.
Speaker 3: This is a team that I've said many times was
Speaker 3: thirty two and forty six with no hope of making playoffs,
Speaker 3: and then they reeled off twenty seven out of thirty wins.
Speaker 3: That's the seventh team since in the last one hundred
Speaker 3: years to have a twenty seven and three stretch. The
Speaker 3: last team to do that was the two thousand and
Speaker 3: seventeen then Indians. And then the interesting part, Jeff, is
Speaker 3: I find this fascinating. The next day they lost to
Speaker 3: the Age, who had lost nine games in a row
Speaker 3: and the Red Sox had won nine games in a row. No,
Speaker 3: and the last since two thousand, five times has a
Speaker 3: team that's lost nine in a row faced a team
Speaker 3: that's won five in a row nine in a row,
Speaker 3: and all five times the nine losses in a row
Speaker 3: team won. No. Yes, how about that?
Speaker 1: Wait, that's incredible. So since nine game winning streak, nine
Speaker 1: game losing.
Speaker 3: Streak five times since two thousand, every single.
Speaker 1: Time it becomes no winning streaks and no losing streaks
Speaker 1: five and zero. What, that's incredible. That never happens. Never happens,
Speaker 1: because you see the stats too. Of course, it's like
Speaker 1: when you're in the playoffs, it's like teams that lead
Speaker 1: two to zero or three to zero, one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty two and oh or whatever. So that's crazy, right.
Speaker 3: So, Jeff, that twelve to eleven game. I remember when
Speaker 3: I used to do the beat, Jeff. I used to
Speaker 3: tell you when I would you know, I've covering a
Speaker 3: team every day, and if a game happened that I
Speaker 3: knew might lead to something really big or really bad,
Speaker 3: it was called a circle game. Well, this is the
Speaker 3: ultimate circle game for the Red Sox. I mean, they
Speaker 3: were already in a position now, but you circle that
Speaker 3: twelve to eleven game because they became the first team
Speaker 3: in history to score in five consecutive innings in the
Speaker 3: ninth inning or later. Oh my god, Jeff, look, we
Speaker 3: all understand, and we're not going to rain on that
Speaker 3: parade because it was one of the greatest games I've
Speaker 3: ever seen. But it really helps. Since you get a
Speaker 3: runner on second base to start with nobody out to
Speaker 3: start all those innings, Does that take away from it.
Speaker 3: We have to mention that, But does that take away
Speaker 3: from it at all for you? Given what the Red
Speaker 3: Sox are doing, what's happening at Fenway.
Speaker 1: No, it's so special. And a good friend of mine,
Speaker 1: Austin Pollock, who who currently lives in Nashville as a reporter,
Speaker 1: he went back to Boston He's from the area, and
Speaker 1: went to a Boston Red Sox game because he had
Speaker 1: to go. He said, the energy surrounding this team right now,
Speaker 1: he planned a trip just to go to a Socks game.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, I guess his White's bridal shower
Speaker 1: was there too, But he made it sound like, right,
Speaker 1: I gotta go see the Socks because the energy surrounding
Speaker 1: that team in Fenway Park is I mean, I'm hearing
Speaker 1: from friends and family it's next level because of this
Speaker 1: exciting run.
Speaker 3: Right, it is so good. It's so good for baseball
Speaker 3: because you know, East Coast buys all that stuff. Look,
Speaker 3: any team that wins twenty seven out of thirty, that's
Speaker 3: pretty darn impressive. But when it's the Red Sox and
Speaker 3: when they were that bad, really, and I don't think
Speaker 3: I've ever seen an in season turnaround quite like this one.
Speaker 3: It has been absolutely fat.
Speaker 1: It's been very fun to watch.
Speaker 3: All right. So, Jeff, Max schus Are struck out for
Speaker 3: yesterday on Saturday. So what happened to mac shuers are
Speaker 3: Now that he struck out four more batters?
Speaker 1: Who did he pass on the list?
Speaker 3: Well you got to figure that out, Jeff, Jeff.
Speaker 1: I can't remember, Jeff, Come on, Walter Johnson? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: stop it, Jeff.
Speaker 3: Really, three thousand, five hundred and sixteen strikeouts. Max Schurzer
Speaker 3: just passed Walter Johnson into tenth place all time on
Speaker 3: the strikeout list. I ever tell you I went to
Speaker 3: Walter Johnson High School? You know how many people wrote
Speaker 3: in this week? We had two. I think we had
Speaker 3: two different people who wrote in they went to a
Speaker 3: high school or a middle school named after somebody named Johnson.
Speaker 3: I think, sorry, I should have looked this up. I
Speaker 3: think I think one of them was Fletcher Johnson Junior
Speaker 3: High and the guy wrote, did I ever tell you?
Speaker 5: I went to.
Speaker 3: Fletcher Johnson Junior High? So Max Schurzer has finally replaced
Speaker 3: Walter Johnson all time strikeout lists. Pretty cool, that is
Speaker 3: pretty He gotta get w J And I've just decided, Jeff,
Speaker 3: we have to get into every show that we do.
Speaker 3: It's now a requirement, agreed.
Speaker 1: Well, Dad, we actually redid our set here and I
Speaker 1: can't help but notice, I mean, who's the old man
Speaker 1: behind you. That's just like kind of like an old
Speaker 1: timey baseball guy. We need to get a Walter Johnson
Speaker 1: thing here in this studio, Joe.
Speaker 3: I know books, I got hats. Well, I'll have to
Speaker 3: bring this up for the next one.
Speaker 1: We'll find a hat. Yeah, I mean, we've got plenty
Speaker 1: of Syracuse out of the orange and our brand new
Speaker 1: great game or what hats by the way, Dad, our
Speaker 1: great game or what Grab that one up there really
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Speaker 1: keeping in mind while I have a minute, Dad. The
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Speaker 1: two pm. Interesting I named it not thinking, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: me do that. Aside, I'm sorry, Okay. A couple other things.
Speaker 1: Jeff Jordan Walker hit his first home run since winning
Speaker 1: the home run Derby.
Speaker 3: He'd gone eighty three at bats Jeff without a home
Speaker 3: run after winning the home run Derby. So that is
Speaker 3: that sets a record for the longest streak without a
Speaker 3: home run after the derby by. The Derby winner, Vladimir
Speaker 3: Guerrero Senior had seventy five at bats without a homer
Speaker 3: after he won the home run Derby. Jordan Walker finally
Speaker 3: hit the first one, and people always odd it's a
Speaker 3: ridiculous excuse. I think there's something to it. James Wood
Speaker 3: went through a very similar period. Kyle Schwarber has one
Speaker 3: home run since the home run Derby. So you know,
Speaker 3: you say, now, it's just baseball. It probably is, but
Speaker 3: there are too many situations where the home run derby
Speaker 3: guy has a difficult time hitting homers after the home
Speaker 3: run Derby.
Speaker 1: Makes sense, it's not quite the Curse of the Man
Speaker 1: and cover, but there's a little something there because you
Speaker 1: kind of get your mindset different and then you feel
Speaker 1: the pressure on the back end and the season to
Speaker 1: still be that home run hitter.
Speaker 3: Right, Okay. Matt Olsen of the Braves played in his
Speaker 3: eight hundred and ninety sixth consecutive games. Wow, it's now
Speaker 3: the eighth longest of all time. He passed Stan Musial
Speaker 3: on that list. And anytime you can bring up Stan Musial,
Speaker 3: you do it because it's one of the great players ever,
Speaker 3: the most underrated superstar for me ever, and one of
Speaker 3: the great people I've ever met in the game. And Jeff.
Speaker 3: A lot of honorees this week. Number one Chase Utley
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame for the Phillies. We watched the tribute
Speaker 3: that the Phillies do a really good job on this.
Speaker 3: You were riveted, correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I really think it's so important for
Speaker 1: these teams to honor their legends, right because Chase Utley, Dad,
Speaker 1: you and I have discussed this will be a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer one day, right, Maybe not next.
Speaker 3: Year, maybe two years. I would say in two years.
Speaker 1: That's your prediction. And I totally agree but you know
Speaker 1: these when when Eachi Ro went in with Seattle, Randy
Speaker 1: Johnson and all the it's just so cool because it
Speaker 1: gets those teams a chance to honor them. Not every
Speaker 1: fan can travel to Cooperstown, New York. Okay, they don't
Speaker 1: have a major airport around there. Yeah, no kidding, but
Speaker 1: you know everybody wishes they could be there for their
Speaker 1: favorite players inductions, but when you do it at the ballpark,
Speaker 1: it really really means a lot. And listen, I'm biased
Speaker 1: because now I'm a fan of that organization because I
Speaker 1: live outside and I'm raising Philly fans kids. But they
Speaker 1: do a really good job honoring those players. And no
Speaker 1: matter what you want to say about the Philadelphia fans,
Speaker 1: they're rough, they're tough, but they love their team and
Speaker 1: they know their baseball.
Speaker 3: They're passionate and they're sophisticated. So one of those fans, Colin,
Speaker 3: who cut your hair? I went to see you get
Speaker 3: your hair cut the other day. It was like you
Speaker 3: were six years old again, right, So Colin, your barber
Speaker 3: is like a huge baseball fan and he's twenty five
Speaker 3: years old. And I said to him, I said, so,
Speaker 3: who was your guy growing up? And he went like this, Well,
Speaker 3: who do you think it was? Jay Sutley? Like it's
Speaker 3: almost like a given, that's how important he was. I'll
Speaker 3: just say one thing about Chase Sutley. Nobody played the
Speaker 3: game more correctly than he did, meaning he understood the
Speaker 3: competition of the game, and really important, he understood what
Speaker 3: playing in Philadelphia is all about. Get tough place to play,
Speaker 3: tough fans, sophisticated fans, passionate fans, and he played to
Speaker 3: them beautifully because that's how he did everything. He did
Speaker 3: it properly, he did it correctly, and he did it
Speaker 3: one hundred percent. So that's Chase Utley for you, absolutely,
Speaker 3: all right. A couple other things. Ozzie Gean's number thirteen
Speaker 3: was retired by the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 1: Oh very cool.
Speaker 3: Ozzie was a great shortstop for the White Sox, tremendous defensively.
Speaker 3: He managed the White Sox in two thousand and five
Speaker 3: when they won the World Series, and he started his
Speaker 3: career with the Padres, and he his best friend with
Speaker 3: the Padres was John Kruk, who we love so much.
Speaker 3: So Kruky kind of taught him the ways of things
Speaker 3: getting in the big leagues and all that, and as
Speaker 3: Ozzie once told me with that incredibly great accent, he's
Speaker 3: so funny. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, crook. He taught
Speaker 3: me how to swear. I think Krunky taught him a
Speaker 3: lot more than that. But good congratulations to Ozzie Gan,
Speaker 3: and congratulations to Mike Cruco, who is a broadcaster for
Speaker 3: the Giants. He and Dwayne Kuiper do an absolutely fabulous
Speaker 3: job broadcasting games for the Giants, and he is retiring
Speaker 3: at the end of the year. He announces retiring. Mike
Speaker 3: Cruco was a good Major league pitcher, he's been an
Speaker 3: even better broadcaster. And he's he you know, he's always
Speaker 3: has a baseball with him. Jeff, give me that baseball
Speaker 3: up there. I just love that when he's on the
Speaker 3: air and he's broadcasting a game, he's always got a
Speaker 3: ball in his hand because he's more comfortable when he's
Speaker 3: got a ball in his hand. He's talking. He's not
Speaker 3: even doing any he's not like explaining anything, like here's
Speaker 3: how you throw a four steamer. He just loves feeling
Speaker 3: of having a baseball in his hand. Can you appreciate that,
Speaker 3: knowing he's a pitcher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I think It definitely helps him feel and
Speaker 1: me might subconsciously be of his curveball outside and he's
Speaker 1: holding it in his curveball grip. I was forcing fastball
Speaker 1: and he's not doing it, but he's probably subconsciously doing it.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's like kind of like a fidget spinner, right,
Speaker 1: you know what the kids are using. It's just something
Speaker 1: to kind of keep your mind occupied, so you don't
Speaker 1: you might need something like that because you and I
Speaker 1: both have wrestless leg syndrome. We're just bouncing legs all day,
Speaker 1: all day and we have restless wives because of its
Speaker 1: Damn Jeff, stop it right.
Speaker 3: You've heard that a few times. Yeah, Mike Krugo also
Speaker 3: has a great sense of humor. I've told you the
Speaker 3: story before, Jeff, But years and years ago with the Giants,
Speaker 3: Terry Mulholland caught a comebacker one hopper back to the
Speaker 3: pitcher and he couldn't get the ball out of his glove.
Speaker 3: So since he couldn't get it out of the webbing
Speaker 3: of his glove, he threw his glove to space for
Speaker 3: Bob Bradley for the out. At first, he threw the
Speaker 3: whole glove and the out was made so Kruco after
Speaker 3: the game tells Bob Bradley, you blew it. You should
Speaker 3: have chucked it around the infield, should have taken the
Speaker 3: gliging a wall in and it's rolled it around the infield.
Speaker 3: So yeah, So congratulations at the end of the year
Speaker 3: to Mike Croukul for retiring.
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Speaker 1: And this is a.
Speaker 3: Little trickier, Jeff. But Tommy John one of the one
Speaker 3: of the most underrated pitchers for me in baseball history
Speaker 3: and a guy who has really changed baseball because they
Speaker 3: named the Tommy John injury after him. He was the
Speaker 3: first one to have the surgery. It extended his career.
Speaker 3: On how many guys have had Tommy John. Oh my
Speaker 3: gosh s him. But he was supposed to be well.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he was supposed to go, but
Speaker 3: he did not go to the Yankees Old Timers game,
Speaker 3: and he left a note for everyone just saying I
Speaker 3: will never for get you. I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3: And I'm not even gonna go there in case something
Speaker 3: bad is on the way. I'm not going there because
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna believe that for anything. I just want
Speaker 3: everyone to know how good Tommy John was. He won
Speaker 3: two hundred and eighty eight games. He started exactly seven
Speaker 3: hundred games in his career. Jeff, he had a career
Speaker 3: era of three point three four. He was one of
Speaker 3: the great control artists that we've ever seen. He didn't
Speaker 3: throw hard, but he really knew what he's doing, and
Speaker 3: he threw forty six shutouts Jeff forty six shutouts. His
Speaker 3: first shutout was on May Or nineteen sixty four, and
Speaker 3: the game lasted an hour and thirty four minutes.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's a commissioner's dream right there, and.
Speaker 3: That's without a pitch clock. But he threw strikes. And
Speaker 3: just like we talked last week about two weeks ago
Speaker 3: about the three pitch, three out inning, I'm sure Tommy
Speaker 3: John had a few of those, but best to Tommy John.
Speaker 3: He should be in the Hall of Fame. Two hundred
Speaker 3: and eighty eight wins. And let's hope everything is okay there.
Speaker 1: All right, Dad, let's jump into the court gins across
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3: What do you has?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: Big birthday weekend, McKinley, hope you and Mike Trout just
Speaker 3: celebrated his thirty fifth birthday. Wow, and what did he
Speaker 3: do on his thirty fifth birthday? Jeff head a homer, right,
Speaker 3: So he's now got six home runs on his birthday,
Speaker 3: which ties Alex Rodriguez and Mark Reynolds for the most
Speaker 3: home run six on a player's birthday. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's pretty neat.
Speaker 3: Mark Reynolds at two hundred ninety nine homers. Really funny guy,
Speaker 3: University of Virginia. Really smart guy. And I what's asked
Speaker 3: about his bizarre career. So many homers, you know, gold gloves,
Speaker 3: a lot of teams, a lot of homers. And he said,
Speaker 3: I hold a lot of weird baseball records, and he
Speaker 3: sure does. But he and Alex Rodriguez and Mike Trout,
Speaker 3: now most homers on their birthday was six.
Speaker 1: And Dad, I mean, I know it's a little bit
Speaker 1: disappointing for you because you'd have at least three of
Speaker 1: them if you weren't born in December.
Speaker 3: It's the off season. You know what I got on
Speaker 3: my birthday? I got about twenty trips to the Winter
Speaker 3: meetings on my birthday, maybe thirty. I mean almost every
Speaker 3: year December tenth is my birthday. Yes, okay, all right.
Speaker 3: So Kyle Harrison of the Brewers came back Jeff the
Speaker 3: other day from a you know, a tightness in his forearm.
Speaker 3: Never a good thing, and he pitched absolutely great. But
Speaker 3: The kicker was he struck out the last eight batters
Speaker 3: that he faced in the game. So he only pitched
Speaker 3: five innings. He struck out ten. Guys only pitched him
Speaker 3: five because they don't want to overwork on him first
Speaker 3: game back from an injury. But he's the third pitcher
Speaker 3: ever to strike out the last eight batters that he
Speaker 3: faced in any game. Kyle Harrison, Ron Davis, a reliever
Speaker 3: in nineteen eighty one and the only other guy to
Speaker 3: strike out eight guys.
Speaker 1: Walter Johnson.
Speaker 3: No, you know this, Jeff. I've used this Strasburg.
Speaker 1: Strasburg.
Speaker 3: Help make Jeff. He's nineteen seventy. You've met him before,
Speaker 3: Jim Palmer. Can I finish the times? He struck out
Speaker 3: the last ten batters of the game. Ten Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3: You met him in the plack room. He wanted to
Speaker 3: go to camp with you. Jeff helped me.
Speaker 1: Gus Rams, Ramsey and I met now. I always I
Speaker 1: always get it messed up.
Speaker 3: Tom Sever, So he was the first guy ever to
Speaker 3: strike out ten consecutive batters. It's been tied several times
Speaker 3: since Aaron Nola did it, Corn Burns did it. Tom
Speaker 3: sever struck out the last ten guys of a start
Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 1: That's incredible.
Speaker 3: That's incredible. That's pretty good. All right. So the Tigers
Speaker 3: have had a really interesting year. They're so good and
Speaker 3: then sometimes they're not. But they just on Saturday had
Speaker 3: their eighth shutout victory in which they won by eight
Speaker 3: or more runs. So they've won eight games this year
Speaker 3: with a shutout, and each an eight of them have
Speaker 3: come by eight that or more run. Crazy, so who knew.
Speaker 3: But the record is nine of those in one season,
Speaker 3: held by the Phillies in eighteen ninety nine and by
Speaker 3: the Orioles in nineteen sixty nine. So that is just
Speaker 3: totally bizarre. And by the way, in the sixth inning
Speaker 3: of that game, I was looking at that game real
Speaker 3: closely that the I know this happens not all the time,
Speaker 3: but once in a while. The Tigers did not put
Speaker 3: a ball in play in the hold inning and scored
Speaker 3: a run. They had four walks, and they struck out
Speaker 3: three times, so the whole three true outcome, no ball
Speaker 3: went and play, but they scored a run. Now, they
Speaker 3: struck out three times, had four walks, one of which
Speaker 3: led to a run. So pretty crazy inning that that's baseball.
Speaker 1: Well, I hate to put you on the spot here,
Speaker 1: but like, would that be considered a no hitter if
Speaker 1: the only run you gave up was you know, errors,
Speaker 1: And like.
Speaker 3: Of course it's a no hitter if there's no hits.
Speaker 1: Even if you gave up two runs because you walked
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys.
Speaker 3: And gave no hitters where teams lost, right and one
Speaker 3: early nineteen hundred, yeah, one zero no hitter for both teams.
Speaker 3: Crazy crazy, all right? Speaking of picture chef, Miles Michaels
Speaker 3: is a little old, but this was deadline issue. Last
Speaker 3: week we had a pitcher pinch hit in a game.
Speaker 3: Miles Michaels of the Nationals pinch hit. They put him
Speaker 3: in there to bunt on a squeeze bunt. He got
Speaker 3: the runner home and since they threw it to the plate,
Speaker 3: he reached first base safely, and then he scored in
Speaker 3: the inning. So a pitcher gets in a bat, gets
Speaker 3: an RBI and scores a run. And I think it's
Speaker 3: great because they put a pitcher into the game to bunt.
Speaker 3: A pitcher, especially a guy who's pitching the National League
Speaker 3: for a good portion of his career, should understand how
Speaker 3: to bunt right.
Speaker 1: We got a ton of messages about that. People were
Speaker 1: freaking out when they saw that happen. Because there's nothing
Speaker 1: us Kirkschtens love more than Pitcher's batting. We need more of.
Speaker 3: It, right, I agree, so on held Janeau of the
Speaker 3: Janal of the Guardians, he's one of their top prospects.
Speaker 3: Made his major league debut. Jeffy got four hits in
Speaker 3: his major league debut. First member of the Guardian slash
Speaker 3: Indians to get four hits in his major league debut.
Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable. It's a very very short list of
Speaker 3: guys who've gotten four hits in their major league debut.
Speaker 3: But I found an interest. He also made two errors
Speaker 3: in his major league debut. I mean he's a third baseman.
Speaker 3: He made a couple of errors. Who cares, you know? Whatever?
Speaker 3: So I called Frank from the Alias because no one
Speaker 3: else would know this. Ray Janssen in nineteen ten was
Speaker 3: the only other guy in history to get four hits
Speaker 3: in his major league debut but also make two errors.
Speaker 3: He actually made three errors. He had four heads and
Speaker 3: three errors in his major league debut. I love that.
Speaker 3: And last one, Jeff, I don't know why I'm intrigued
Speaker 3: by this, But I saw this note the other day
Speaker 3: and ESPN notes stats and trends that Shoheo Tani grounded
Speaker 3: into a double play with the bases loaded and it
Speaker 3: was only the second time in his career that he's
Speaker 3: done that, So I got curious. So he's played nine years,
Speaker 3: he's only grounded in a double play with the bases
Speaker 3: loaded one other time, so now it's two. But the
Speaker 3: answer is Bobasheed has forty three at bats in his
Speaker 3: career with the bases loaded and less than two outs
Speaker 3: and has no grounded in double plays in that situation,
Speaker 3: and that's the most among most played appearances basses loaded
Speaker 3: less than two outs without grounding into a double play.
Speaker 3: Did any of that make sense? Now?
Speaker 1: I totally followed all of it, and nothing's more upsetting.
Speaker 1: I think the worst stat you can get at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, besides leading the league in strikeouts,
Speaker 1: is leading the league in GIDP. That's a bad feeling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But Jeff, as I've explained to you about gidps, all,
Speaker 3: if you look at the top ten GIDP leaders of
Speaker 3: all time, like every one of them is a Hall
Speaker 3: of Famer except for Julio Franco, who is a really
Speaker 3: good player and a really good hitter. Meaning you play
Speaker 3: enough games and you hit enough hard ground balls, you're
Speaker 3: going to ground into your share of double plays.
Speaker 1: You know, I went down a rabbit hole because I
Speaker 1: was talking to a Phillies friend of mine about Alec Bohm,
Speaker 1: who hits into a lot of double plays. All right,
Speaker 1: and do you know that the leader with the most
Speaker 1: GIDP in a single season, Jim Rice is first and
Speaker 1: second thirty six in one season, thirty five in another season. Right,
Speaker 1: clearly among all the other ones, he has the most, right,
Speaker 1: not crazy, he's a.
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, Cal Rupken, Eddie Murray.
Speaker 1: There all, you play a lot of games, and if
Speaker 1: you play for good teams, like, there's part of it. Listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's the worst thing in the world, right,
Speaker 1: but you know if your team puts runners on, you
Speaker 1: have a high percentage chance of making that happen, right, right.
Speaker 3: Right, A lot of Hall of famers in that top
Speaker 3: ten list. Okay, that's enough for the quirk jins on
Speaker 3: this stage in baseball history, So on this state. In
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy one, Harmon Killerbrew.
Speaker 1: Who is a what a double double unique unique?
Speaker 3: I who knew Doctor Bruce Brown of Saber he started
Speaker 3: this whole thing about He's come up with the Listen,
Speaker 3: we've used this before, Jeff. Of guys whose first name
Speaker 3: and last name had never been duplicated in the Major League.
Speaker 3: I'm still amazed there's never been someone first name of
Speaker 3: Harmon Harmon Harmon Killerbrew is a double unique. He had
Speaker 3: his five hundredth homer on this date. He hit five
Speaker 3: seventy three in his career. He led the league in
Speaker 3: homers six times. He hit forty or more seven times.
Speaker 3: One of the great people I've ever met, one of
Speaker 3: the kindest men I've ever met, and one of the biggest,
Speaker 3: strongest power hitters of all time. All right on this state.
Speaker 3: In nineteen eighty one, Pete Rose passed Stan Musial for
Speaker 3: most hits in the history of the National League. Now,
Speaker 3: what is the second time State Musical comes up in
Speaker 3: this podcast?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 3: What is his distinction with his hits? He has the
Speaker 3: same amount of hits.
Speaker 1: At at home and then away eighteen fifth barons at
Speaker 1: home eighteen nineteen on the road.
Speaker 3: And so interesting that Pete Rose passed him, which is
Speaker 3: not so. Dan Shaughnessy, our dear friend went to a
Speaker 3: baseball card show. One he's getting on the elevator, on
Speaker 3: the escalator leaving this card show, and there are two
Speaker 3: like high school aged kids on there, and they're both
Speaker 3: like they're really grousing and they're kind of cussing, like
Speaker 3: they couldn't get Pete Rose's autograph. I understand the disappointment
Speaker 3: not getting Pete Rose auto right, so, but they're really
Speaker 3: upset because Pete had to go and they were too
Speaker 3: late or whatever. So Dan is standing right there with
Speaker 3: these two high school kids and he says to them, well,
Speaker 3: whose autograph did you get? And they said, well, we
Speaker 3: got this guy Stan Measil Missile, and Dan shunning goes,
Speaker 3: that's Stan Musical. He got thirty six hundred hits. So
Speaker 3: they have to set him straight. I might have missed
Speaker 3: on Pete Rose, but but you got.
Speaker 1: Stan musical for goodness sake for goodness.
Speaker 3: Sign is right all right, Jeff. On this date in
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, Prince Fielder announced his retirement. So on your
Speaker 3: and we're doing this on August the tenth. These are
Speaker 3: all August the tenth, so on on McKinley Hope's third birthday.
Speaker 3: In twenty sixteen, Prince Fielder announced his retirement at age
Speaker 3: thirty two because of back issues. Prince Fielder is one
Speaker 3: of my favorite people I've ever been around. And his dad,
Speaker 3: Cecil Fielder, used to bring him into the clubhouse and
Speaker 3: he would travel with the team. And I saw Prince
Speaker 3: Fielder at like age eleven hit home runs over Major
Speaker 3: League because he was so big and so strong, bigger
Speaker 3: than Nick pack right, and and I think Prince would
Speaker 3: be okay with this, but Bobby Valentine told me on
Speaker 3: one of the trips to Texas, Bobby Valentine and had
Speaker 3: a restaurant where they It was called Bobby Valentine's and
Speaker 3: they would serve all you can eat spaghetti and meatballs.
Speaker 3: And they had to cancel the promotion after Prince Fielder,
Speaker 3: who was like twelve years old, and he cleared him out.
Speaker 3: But Jeff, he was unbelievably still is, but he was
Speaker 3: unbelievably strong. I once asked Prince Fielder, I said, how
Speaker 3: much weight can you bench? How much weight can you lift?
Speaker 3: And he goes, I don't know. I said, well take
Speaker 3: a guess. He goes, I don't know. If you put
Speaker 3: it on there, I can lift it. I don't care
Speaker 3: how much it is, I can lift it. And Ryan Braun,
Speaker 3: his teammate, told me that Prince is the strongest person
Speaker 3: he's ever seen. And he said, this strongest man contest
Speaker 3: we have, you know where guys like walk around with
Speaker 3: giant logs on their back. He says, I promise you
Speaker 3: Prince Fielder could compete in any one of those competitions, wow,
Speaker 3: and win because he's just so powerfully build, short, stocky.
Speaker 1: But unbelievably strong.
Speaker 3: So Phil Coke, who was his teammate in Detroit, Ontz,
Speaker 3: told me that Prince brought in Jeff, he brought in
Speaker 3: a video when Prince Fielder took a trip to Japan
Speaker 3: and during in the video he went in and like
Speaker 3: wrestled as sumo wrestler. And I'm quoting here Phil Phil
Speaker 3: Coke told me, he said, I swear to you the
Speaker 3: video we saw Prince Fielder just chucked in one of
Speaker 3: these sumo wrestlers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, crossed the ring.
Speaker 3: It was just great and he had such a great
Speaker 3: sense of humor and everything else. And what's the distinction.
Speaker 1: Jee, I got it, I got it. You knew.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you, you have.
Speaker 1: The same amount of home runs in their career?
Speaker 3: How many? Just take again three nineteen nineteen, Yes, Jeff
Speaker 3: who hey nineteen Wait a god? All right, very good
Speaker 3: on Prince Fielder, all right. This day in nineteen thirty three,
Speaker 3: Rocky Colorado was born. Not a Hall of Famer, but
Speaker 3: some really really good numbers. Had one of the great
Speaker 3: throwing arms ever, three hundred and seventy four homers, hit
Speaker 3: four home runs in one game, And little did I
Speaker 3: know until today he died on my birthday December tenth, wow,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. So that's a bit saying.
Speaker 1: You know who also died on your birthday? Yeah, Walter
Speaker 1: Johnson ten years early, nineteen forty six, and ten years
Speaker 1: later you were born in nineteen fi fifties.
Speaker 3: The same day. You ever tell me last one, We'll
Speaker 3: do a good one here. Chuck Carr was born on
Speaker 3: this date in nineteen sixty seven. He was a fast,
Speaker 3: little outfielder that played for several teams, including the Florida
Speaker 3: Marlins in their first year. So I did a story
Speaker 3: for Sports Illustrated on the Marlins, like who's on this team?
Speaker 3: Who are these guys? So I saw Chuck Carr. I
Speaker 3: never really didn't know much about him, so I said, so,
Speaker 3: and I was talking to him in spring training. I said,
Speaker 3: how did you get to spring training? Because I drove here?
Speaker 3: And he said, and I brought my pool queue with me,
Speaker 3: And he said, I stopped at as many pool halls
Speaker 3: as I could on my drive to spring training. And
Speaker 3: I said, how'd you do it? He goes, I want
Speaker 3: a lot of cash in those pool So here's a
Speaker 3: baseball player who would stop in a pool hall in
Speaker 3: his drive to spring training, like, beat a bunch of guys,
Speaker 3: win a bunch of money, and continue the trip. Wow,
Speaker 3: how great is that?
Speaker 6: Is?
Speaker 1: So beautiful?
Speaker 3: Dad?
Speaker 1: I love that? All right, Dad, let's go to the
Speaker 1: wheel wheel off of.
Speaker 3: Jeff. Let's be clear again what this is. People call
Speaker 3: in rite in and say talk about this or this
Speaker 3: should be on the wheel of Kirchen. So let's spin
Speaker 3: it and see if we can have a little fun
Speaker 3: with the wheel of Kirkchin.
Speaker 1: Make sure to follow us on YouTube because I have
Speaker 1: the wheel up here. It's an actual wheel.
Speaker 5: Dad.
Speaker 1: From the angle I'm at, I can't really read it,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna need you to read it after I spend.
Speaker 3: What do we got?
Speaker 1: What does it say?
Speaker 3: Uh? It says Cal Junior, Cal Ripken Junior. Wow. I
Speaker 3: wish I had a story about Cal Ripken. I only
Speaker 3: have fifty thousand other ys, all right, I have to
Speaker 3: pick the one that I'm all right, I'll just tell
Speaker 3: you this again, Jeff, He's the most competitive person I've
Speaker 3: ever met in my life. All he cares about is competing.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what the competition is. He's gonna compete
Speaker 3: and he's gonna win, and he's gonna play the game
Speaker 3: properly no matter what. And I rage in conflict of interest.
Speaker 3: But I played basketball with him for years and I
Speaker 3: saw that competitive nature in him many times. So many
Speaker 3: years ago, baseball players took a trip to Japan and
Speaker 3: there was some strange game that is played inside of
Speaker 3: a cage. It's like a combination of roller ball and basketball,
Speaker 3: and who knows what. I can't even describe. But Ripkett
Speaker 3: had never played the game before, all right, But he
Speaker 3: watched the game, and then he got Brady Anderson, who
Speaker 3: was his best friend and his teammate, and they picked
Speaker 3: up a team and they figured out before they went
Speaker 3: into the cage how to play the game and how
Speaker 3: to win the game, and they ended up going in
Speaker 3: and beating everyone at a game that everyone had been
Speaker 3: playing for years and he had never played it before.
Speaker 3: Had just figured out a way.
Speaker 1: To win this game once he knew what the rules,
Speaker 1: because that's how competitive he is. He has to win,
Speaker 1: has to win. He'll find a way to win.
Speaker 3: And Joe Worslac was also a teammate of his for years,
Speaker 3: and Slack I didn't know this was a ping pong
Speaker 3: like champion in high school in like three different states.
Speaker 3: So he told me years just not that long ago,
Speaker 3: ten years ago or so, he said. I once played junior.
Speaker 3: This is deep into retirement in ping pong, and I
Speaker 3: beat him twenty four games in a row, and he
Speaker 3: was so mad he would not leave my house until
Speaker 3: he beat me. And he beat me in the twenty
Speaker 3: fifth game at two o'clock of the boarding, and then
Speaker 3: he went home. And oh, this is the common denomenar.
Speaker 3: I told you this a million times of all the
Speaker 3: great players in every sport. They have to compete no
Speaker 3: matter what it is, they have to win, and they
Speaker 3: have to play the game properly. I've never met anyone
Speaker 3: in my life more competitive than cal Rupken Junior.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go down next spin.
Speaker 3: Mascots. How about that, Jock? Wow? Well, and this is
Speaker 3: I'm in the right place because let's show him here
Speaker 3: he is Auto the Orange. I spent fifty grand a
Speaker 3: year to send Jeffrey to Syracuse for four years that
Speaker 3: I found out I was paying for him to.
Speaker 1: Be Auto the Orange.
Speaker 3: How about that? Let me make sure I got this right, Jef.
Speaker 3: The way you became Auto the Orange, was you one
Speaker 3: of the autos who didn't tell you he was Auto
Speaker 3: the Orange. He saw you. You were athletic, you were competitive,
Speaker 3: you are energetic, and you were really small. He said,
Speaker 3: you're perfect for Auto the Orange. Is that right?
Speaker 1: I don't know where you heard that story, because I
Speaker 1: was not recruited. I found a piece of paper at
Speaker 1: the carrier dome. Oh and I emailed you you apply
Speaker 1: with my height and my weight and yeah. Then they
Speaker 1: interviewed me, and all of a sudden I got kidnapped
Speaker 1: and was told your Auto now with a team of autos.
Speaker 1: It was like the coolest thing ever. But we would
Speaker 1: be remiss if we didn't bring up the greatest mascot story.
Speaker 1: When you were in Milwaukee running as a sausage in
Speaker 1: the sausage Race.
Speaker 3: I'm not going through this again, Jeff. It is too painful,
Speaker 3: long story. I'm in the sausage race. I'm running as
Speaker 3: a hot dog. I finished dead last. It was so bad.
Speaker 3: It takes twenty minutes to tell the story properly. It
Speaker 3: was awful. But my favorite mascot story, which I just
Speaker 3: used recently, I did a live shot on the field
Speaker 3: at in Philadelphia at Citizens Bank, and I'm doing a
Speaker 3: live shot before a game, so it's a bit of
Speaker 3: a pressurized situation, even for someone who's done as many
Speaker 3: as I have. And the Philly fanatic comes up next
Speaker 3: to me on camera while I'm doing the open and
Speaker 3: he's got a microphone and he gets down on his
Speaker 3: knees so he's by and he's faking to do the
Speaker 3: live shot while I'm doing the open to a game.
Speaker 3: It was I couldn't help it. I started to laugh
Speaker 3: right in the middle of a live shot, and it
Speaker 3: was necessary because it was really fun.
Speaker 1: One more, here we go for the Wheel of Kirkchin.
Speaker 3: All right, if someone wrote in John Woodward wrote in
Speaker 3: the Senators from the Sixties, which I could not believe
Speaker 3: that somebody would be interested in the Washington Senators from
Speaker 3: the sixties.
Speaker 1: I know you were a Giants fan, but you grew
Speaker 1: up outside DC and the Senators in the sixties.
Speaker 3: I love the Senators. They were terrible, but they were
Speaker 3: my team. And again I've told you all about Eddie Brinkman.
Speaker 3: And by the way, a friend at a new friend
Speaker 3: of mine who is a dad of one of the
Speaker 3: kids that goes to Carson and Emily's new school. He's
Speaker 3: listening to the podcast and he gave me a tape
Speaker 3: of Eddie Brinkman being interviewed stop I like forty years ago,
Speaker 3: and I listened to it and it was fascinating. Eddie
Speaker 3: Brinkman was a dinky little shortstop who could really catch
Speaker 3: and throw. Had one great offensive here when Ted Williams
Speaker 3: was the manager, but Frank Howard was my guy. Frank
Speaker 3: Howard was six seven, three hundred pounds, hit balls to
Speaker 3: places that nobody has ever hit. Then.
Speaker 1: That was crazy. It'll be that size at that era.
Speaker 3: And Jeff, I've told you all about six six and
Speaker 3: above hitters. There aren't many of them who were really good.
Speaker 3: Frank Howard and I told you when RFK Stadium opened
Speaker 3: in two thousand and six when the Nationals came back.
Speaker 3: When the Nationals came back, yeah, they're playing at RFK Stadium.
Speaker 3: And Tom Glavin, really smart guy, comes in. He's never
Speaker 3: been to RFK. I've been there a million times. And
Speaker 3: he goes, what are those red seats painted up there for?
Speaker 3: And I said, well, those are the seats where Frank
Speaker 3: Howard hit home runs. And he goes, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: nobody can hit all up there. And I said, well,
Speaker 3: Frank Howard hit him up there during the games. And
Speaker 3: he goes, well, home plate could not have been where
Speaker 3: it is now. And I said, Tom, this is home plate.
Speaker 3: It's right here. They haven't moved it. And he was
Speaker 3: absolutely astonished that someone, you know, forty years earlier was
Speaker 3: hitting balls up there. So that's the Senators from the sixties.
Speaker 1: And we have time for one more. Yes, okay, ready,
Speaker 1: that's how we don't get to redo.
Speaker 3: What do we got haircut? Hey, second time haircut? You
Speaker 3: just got a haircut. It looks great, Jeff, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure all right, I only have one haircut.
Speaker 1: Well, tell the story my favorite story about what they
Speaker 1: did a promotion surrounding a haircut.
Speaker 3: Jay Buner Yeah, that's a great story Jay Buhner had.
Speaker 3: Jay Buner used to play the outfield for the Yankees
Speaker 3: and then went to the Mariners. Jay Buner hit a
Speaker 3: lot of home runs, was a really good right fielder,
Speaker 3: could really throw, but his hair he was losing his hair,
Speaker 3: so he got a buzz cut. So they had Jay
Speaker 3: Buner buzz Cut night at the ball at the Kendome,
Speaker 3: and like four hundred and twenty six people I'll be
Speaker 3: close on that number came and got their hair buzzed
Speaker 3: because because Jay Buner did also. And Jay Buner told
Speaker 3: me later, he goes, I blew it. I should have
Speaker 3: just collected all of the hair and then got buzzed
Speaker 3: and then I would add enough to have a weed.
Speaker 3: So this is back in the time, Jeff, where it
Speaker 3: was really fun to do those things cal milking contests
Speaker 3: on the field, you know, bullpen cars, blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: gum blowing contest and guys who got their hair shaved
Speaker 3: as a promotion for at the ballpark. We don't do
Speaker 3: enough of that, No we don't, and I miss it,
Speaker 3: so that's a shame.
Speaker 1: Two of our favorite things on the show are the
Speaker 1: Wheel of Kirkchin because you can add your suggestions great
Speaker 1: game or what dot com and also Team Tim because
Speaker 1: people send us Team Tim. So if you have something
Speaker 1: on your mind to Team Tim. A wheel of kirkchin Entry.
Speaker 1: We just did four of those, so we're gonna need
Speaker 1: to fill this wheel up. Let us know great game
Speaker 1: or what dot Com? What you want to add to
Speaker 1: the wheel of Kirksham. But Dan a very very special
Speaker 1: day because you've got a special Team Tim.
Speaker 3: Right, the special Team Tim is all about you, Jeff.
Speaker 3: We're filming on your birthday, August ninth, So what better
Speaker 3: thing to do than look at all the baseball players
Speaker 3: who were born on your okay birthdays. I love this.
Speaker 3: We're gonna start with probably the number one, well, certainly
Speaker 3: the only Hall of Famer on the list. Ted Simmons,
Speaker 3: one of my all time favorite people in the game.
Speaker 3: Wicked smart. Every time I talk to Ted Simmons to
Speaker 3: this day, I always say, you better be ready for
Speaker 3: this because he's going to use some words that you're
Speaker 3: not familiar with. And I'm a writer. That's how smart
Speaker 3: Ted Simmons is. So he's our catcher. Mike Lamb is
Speaker 3: our first baseman, second basement. I was going to go
Speaker 3: with Hulian Javier because he was the second baseman for
Speaker 3: the Cardinals when I was growing up. But we're going
Speaker 3: to go with Xavier Edwards, oh, active player for the Marlins.
Speaker 3: Junior Kennedy is our third baseman, Brendan Rodgers is our shortstop,
Speaker 3: and to the surprise of both of us, our first
Speaker 3: outfielder is Dion Sanders. You're born on the same day
Speaker 3: as Dion Sanders. How could I not know that? And
Speaker 3: how could you not know that?
Speaker 1: I can't believe I didn't know that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: thought I knew all of my famous birthday days. Annah
Speaker 1: Kendrick born on the same day as me. I've got
Speaker 1: a number of great Dion Sanders August ninth. How did
Speaker 1: I not know? Hey, Happy birthday, Dion. I hope you
Speaker 1: have a great day.
Speaker 3: Right Primetime Prime Time Lebron Jay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did show Dad the little kid Lebron James video,
Speaker 1: and that's all we've been doing all week, Even though
Speaker 1: that video came out.
Speaker 3: Twelve years ago.
Speaker 1: We just got Dad to see it. So let's do it.
Speaker 1: Do it right into your camera. I'll do mine. Ready
Speaker 1: one to your camera, your camera. Ready a ready, right
Speaker 1: ready Lebron.
Speaker 3: James so bad all right. The rest of the outfield,
Speaker 3: Tom Age, who was on the Mets nineteen sixty nine
Speaker 3: championship team that just stunned the Orioles in the World Series.
Speaker 3: He made a couple of really great catches in that game.
Speaker 3: So Tommy Age and Jason Hayward recently retired. Pretty darn
Speaker 3: good players. Championship Team twenty sixteen. Claude O'stein, who was
Speaker 3: once traded even up for Frank Coward. That's why I
Speaker 3: put him on this feeling. Coward was a great player.
Speaker 3: Claude O'stein was a really good pitcher, and I think
Speaker 3: his nickname. I'm pretty sure his nickname was Gomer because
Speaker 3: people thought he looked like Gomer Pile from The Gomer
Speaker 3: Pile Show, which I hope I've got that right, but
Speaker 3: we'll figure that out later. Pat Mahomes, who is Patrick
Speaker 3: Maho Mahomes dad. Patrick Patt Mahomes was a good pitcher
Speaker 3: Wow Minnesota Twins and other teams, So he has the
Speaker 3: same birthday. Troy Percival, who was up for one of
Speaker 3: the greatest number forties of all time closer on the
Speaker 3: championship team for the Angels in two thousand and two,
Speaker 3: born on your birthday, and our manager is Ralph Howke,
Speaker 3: whose nickname was the General. He used to he was
Speaker 3: a catcher. I was gonna make him the catcher on
Speaker 3: the team. Then I found Hall of Famer Ted Simmons.
Speaker 3: So our manager is Ralph Houk. So all of those guys,
Speaker 3: Jeff are born on August the ninth, your birthday, So
Speaker 3: happy birthday from Team Tim.
Speaker 1: Now I will say Dad has never kept a secret
Speaker 1: in his life in this show, and sometimes he'll go
Speaker 1: I got a surprise for Team Tim. I said, okay,
Speaker 1: and then two minutes later, okay, So I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you it's your birthday. Everybody who's born on your birthday,
Speaker 1: great surprise. Dad really love getting surprised on the show.
Speaker 1: But I came up with the idea that your birthday,
Speaker 1: December tenth, should go up against my birthday August ninth.
Speaker 1: So the best players born on December tenth and the
Speaker 1: best players born on August the ninth. So in the
Speaker 1: off season, do your Team Tim of December tenth, and
Speaker 1: I'll talk to our friends. It's stratamatic and we'll have
Speaker 1: them run that simulation seven game series to see who
Speaker 1: would win?
Speaker 3: Right, And one of our listeners, readers, viewers, whatever sent
Speaker 3: in a Team Tim with everyone whose first name is
Speaker 3: Tim in baseball history, which we've already done because we
Speaker 3: had the Team Tim against the team Jeff. I think
Speaker 3: he had a better Team Tim that I came up with.
Speaker 3: But somebody sent that in just the other day, and
Speaker 3: I loved it. The people loved this ridiculous thing that
Speaker 3: we do every week, and I, frankly, I really love
Speaker 3: it too. But I said, what am I going to
Speaker 3: do for Jeff's birthday? Well, let's find August and ninth.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 1: We did run the Team Tim against the Team Jeff
Speaker 1: with our friends at Stratamatic. But now Jeff Kent is
Speaker 1: now a Hall of Famer, would that improve his numbers?
Speaker 1: Because I lost that seven game series. It was close
Speaker 1: over by a hair it was. It went I think
Speaker 1: it went six or seven games. I mean it was close, yes,
Speaker 1: But your pitching staff was hard to beat. I mean
Speaker 1: you had some Tim Hudson, Tim Linsecam. You had some
Speaker 1: good Tim's on your team.
Speaker 3: Very good and good memory there, Jeff. Thank you. That
Speaker 3: is Team Tim for this week. One more time, Jeff
Speaker 3: Greatest weekend ever at your house. The McKinley Hope birthday
Speaker 3: on Saturday was fabulous. Your birthday has been great so far.
Speaker 3: And you're gonna stay home on Monday celebrate McKinley Hope's
Speaker 3: birthday together while I go move furniture on Monday at home.
Speaker 1: But all as well, All as well, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: clean my garage right. I have never been so excited, Jeff.
Speaker 3: Jeff, I'm gonna ask you one more time on your birthday?
Speaker 3: Are you sure you're related to me? Because there is
Speaker 3: nothing in the world that I would be worse at
Speaker 3: than going out and putting up panels in my garage,
Speaker 3: hooks and everything else so I can hang everything. You're
Speaker 3: a genius at this. The way you put that backyard
Speaker 3: together for McKinley Hope's birthday was just amazing. And you
Speaker 3: needed help because putting up the tent, but everything else
Speaker 3: you did by yourself.
Speaker 1: What you don't realize is you made me this way
Speaker 1: because nobody else in the house could do it. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for listening to us always. Thanks for
Speaker 1: being a part of our family.