1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:00,480 Speaker 1: What is up? 2 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 2: Mets fans, Welcome back to a special episode of the 3 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: Mets Stuff podcast. We had an awesome interview with Felix 4 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 2: White and Izzy Wong over from England. 5 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 3: James tells a little more, yeah, a little different than 6 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,239 Speaker 3: most of the other interviews that we've done, because this 7 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 3: was more of just a conversation between the four of us. 8 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 3: Felix is a cricket podcaster and he announces MLB games 9 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 3: over in England. 10 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 4: Also in a band, also in a band. 11 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:23,479 Speaker 3: The current and former musician. That's kind of how we 12 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 3: started liking the Mets. You guys are hear that story. 13 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 3: And Izzy is a very talented young cricket there. She's 14 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 3: a bowler, which is cricket's equivalent of pitching, and she 15 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 3: has one of the hardest bowls throws in the entire 16 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 3: world for women, I think pushing about eighty miles an hour, 17 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 3: which is pretty incredible. Talks about her process there and 18 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 3: it was a great talk. Just learned about talk about 19 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 3: the Mets, talk about the Mets going to London next 20 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 3: year in London Series against the Phillies next June and 21 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 3: with the days mark June eighth and ninth June eighth 22 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 3: and ninth in London's Great Conversation and we hope you 23 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 3: guys enjoy it. 24 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, so, guys, if you have not yet followed us 25 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 2: on our social media, make sure you are at metstup 26 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 2: on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. If you want to see 27 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 2: the video version of the podcast that we do, go 28 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 2: subscribe to the New York Mets you channel. 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I saw you in the 39 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 4: catchers gear, did you. 40 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:26,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, she stung it right. I was gonna pitch everyone 41 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:31,400 Speaker 1: after we're walking through the concoursees, everyone's going, hey, good pitch. Yeah. 42 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: I did not expect to catch it as well. It 43 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: was actually like a small insight into how it feels 44 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: to doing that, Well, yeah, it must every time that 45 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: it's just like it's a really sweet feeding for the 46 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: soul to be Likeah, it's not about me, it's about 47 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: of course. 48 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 3: And that was a great first pitch and you took 49 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 3: your precautions wearing the mask. 50 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 4: Of course. 51 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: Well do you know what it was? We were we've 52 00:01:54,520 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 1: been shooting today and we met Adamavio and the interested 53 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 1: thing we wanted to do is but is he is 54 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: an amazing cricket bowler who bowls lots of variations and 55 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: bowls really fast. And so we thought it'd be interesting 56 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: if she met Adam and them not knowing anything really 57 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: about each other's skills, like sort of transferred it of 58 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: each other. Yeah, And Adam taught her fast ball and 59 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: the first ball she threw was like heat so quick, 60 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,240 Speaker 1: and I was I didn't have any gear on and 61 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: I just caught it. And I think, no, when she 62 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:27,839 Speaker 1: actually does that, I'm gonna have as much protective gear. 63 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:30,799 Speaker 1: And that's that's why I was in all that gift. 64 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 4: Did they get you a miles per hour reading on it? No, 65 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 4: I haven't. 66 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 5: I haven't seen one. I'm not sure it was. 67 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 6: I'm not sure it was too high, but I was 68 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,679 Speaker 6: I was pleased with the direction. The direction was what 69 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 6: I was worried about. 70 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: I think it was. Is he famous in England for 71 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: bowling fast? 72 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 4: Yes? 73 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, so she rushes people for the pace, so I 74 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: was not surprising she did that. Yeah, is he? 75 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 3: What were the main differences between throwing a base bar 76 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 3: and throwing a cricket bar? 77 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 5: Good question, great question. 78 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 6: The first difference was, like, actually, like a cricket the 79 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 6: floor is usually relatively flat, like some grounds on a hill, 80 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 6: so it's like not that flat, but obviously the mound 81 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 6: is like really quite steep. And then the other main 82 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 6: difference is that when you bowl in cricket, you are 83 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 6: mass to be straight, so we use like a run 84 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 6: up to generate the pace. 85 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 2: I like, yeah, little, We had like a friend that 86 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 2: like played cricket like in like elementary school, like in 87 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 2: like recess, but we don't. 88 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 4: Think we played the right rules. And then we watched 89 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 4: them visus videos before before you start basically. 90 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 6: In cricket you run in and then you've got to 91 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 6: keep your arms straight, whereas obviously in baseball you start 92 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 6: still and usual your leg to kind of generate that speed. 93 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 4: And there's no, there's no hills. 94 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 6: Well, some grounds have hills uniform. If there's a hill 95 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 6: in the area and they put a ground there, then 96 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 6: the grounds is hilly. 97 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 1: But there's not a mound. 98 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 5: But there's not a mound. 99 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: Speak. 100 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 3: That's so interesting because in baseball, the pitch where the 101 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 3: pictures pitch on the mound is so manicured. It's like 102 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 3: one of the most important things about the field they 103 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,839 Speaker 3: play on, like every single day, they're matting it down, 104 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 3: they're raking it over, and the pictures you'll see them 105 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 3: like some of them like a deeper thing in front 106 00:03:57,760 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: of in front of the mound, some of them like 107 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 3: a shallower one. When they're pitching and they step, some 108 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 3: of them will change with their hole. Is that's so 109 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 3: interesting here differents Yea. 110 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: I love the word manicured for that because it kind 111 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: of is that it's like a process. 112 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 3: And very particular every single. 113 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: Thing making your home. Yeah, Honestly, it's so fascinating how 114 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 1: similar the skills are, because I is he was going 115 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: through the grips of Adam and it's like a change up. 116 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: Is what's a fast bowl and cricket with bowl was 117 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: the slower ball. So it's exactly the same outcome with 118 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,359 Speaker 1: the same thing, where your fingers might go wider all 119 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: the other side of the same or that kind of thing, 120 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: And it's almost the same thing happens, but in cricket 121 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: the ball's bouncing once. 122 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 5: So yeah, it's kind of the same. 123 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 6: Like i'd say, it's the same process, but like we're 124 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 6: looking for a different outcome, obviously because we use the pitch. 125 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 6: So like when I bowl, I'm looking for the ball 126 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 6: to hit the floor, so and obviously when pitchers pitch, 127 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 6: they're so they're focusing on what it doesn't air. I'm 128 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,599 Speaker 6: looking for the output of the ball hitting the floor. 129 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 6: So the ball when you know, when they bill a cutter, 130 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 6: they're trying to get the ball to go that way, 131 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 6: whereas when I bowler cutter, the ball still going that way. 132 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,839 Speaker 6: But it's the bit when it hits the floor and 133 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 6: then it's going to grip. 134 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 5: That's the bit that we're looking for, the grip. 135 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: Interesting. 136 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, So like Adam Otovino has a great slider. Did 137 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 2: you show you like how to throw that? Is that 138 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 2: something that you would be able to. 139 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 4: Use in cricket. 140 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:20,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, So the slider was kind of what I got 141 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 6: from the slider. Was it similar to like trying to 142 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 6: swing the ball. So the fast yeah, like fades it. 143 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 6: Cricket our ball has like it just has one scene. 144 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 6: It just goes all the way around and if you 145 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 6: hold it, if you can bowl it and keep the 146 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 6: seams standing up, then you've got two sides of the 147 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 6: ball basically coming down like this. So we like we 148 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 6: keep the ball for the whole game so that it 149 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 6: scuffs up. And basically our job as players is to 150 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 6: like look after the ball, so we'll rub on our trousers, 151 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,920 Speaker 6: like you can get a bit of sweat stuff and 152 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 6: rub it on and you're allowed to do that. There's 153 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 6: some things that you're not allowed to do, so you've 154 00:05:57,600 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 6: got to kind of play with that. But you basically 155 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 6: want one one side to be really shiny, and that's 156 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 6: called the shiny side, right, So you get this shiny 157 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,239 Speaker 6: side and after about you know, a couple of overs, 158 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 6: the balls hit the floor a bit. It's been you know, 159 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,360 Speaker 6: you've been whacked into the car park. They've got it back, 160 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:11,720 Speaker 6: you've rubbed it on your trousers, sorted the one side out. 161 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 5: You get this really shiny side and the rough. 162 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 6: Side because the aerodynamics on the shiny side. It moves 163 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 6: through the air faster, so it comes through the air 164 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,080 Speaker 6: and it goes like that and it and then eventually 165 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:24,359 Speaker 6: it gets battered and it stops swinging. That's where we 166 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 6: go to the change up. That's where we bought the 167 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 6: cutters everything else. 168 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 3: That feels like such a funny difference in American and 169 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 3: English cultures as well, because for us, the bogus little stuff, 170 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 3: throw the away and get a new one. 171 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,919 Speaker 4: Clean it fixed, and make sure it's okay. You well, 172 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,360 Speaker 4: and we do. I heard you say when it goes 173 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 4: into the car park you get it back. 174 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you have to. 175 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 4: Get that's crazy. 176 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,159 Speaker 6: And then they add, yeah, we have a time limit 177 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 6: for like the whole game, so like if you get 178 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 6: hit into the car park. Sometimes some umpires are like, yeah, 179 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,799 Speaker 6: we'll add three minutes for ball collection. And then sometimes 180 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 6: they're really harsh and you've got to go up to 181 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 6: the part like come on. 182 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 5: Mate, I've just been hitting to the car park. 183 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 6: It's taken them twenty meters to go and get it, Like, 184 00:06:58,160 --> 00:06:59,679 Speaker 6: come on, you can add a minute or two there. 185 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: Or sometimes it will literally go into someone's pint and 186 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: the person will have to fish the ball out, throw 187 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: it back on and then the players will still playing 188 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:08,119 Speaker 1: with the ball. 189 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, fascinating and so different of Yeah, we also we 190 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 3: saw that you're playing a lot of different leagues, like 191 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 3: different countries England in the Australia. Are there differences in 192 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 3: rules in gameplay, like in fandom in those different leagues. 193 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 6: Yes, So in international cricket, it's one set of rules 194 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 6: all around the world. So you know, if you're playing 195 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 6: for England against India in India, the rules and the 196 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,119 Speaker 6: same as they are in England if you're playing against India, 197 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 6: but for the franchises there are there are some different rules. 198 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 6: So like the Big Bash League last year brought in 199 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 6: like a substitution rule, so you could like substitute a 200 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:40,960 Speaker 6: player at some stage. 201 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, effectively, Yeah, a designated hitter. 202 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 6: And then so the Hundreds is like our massive competition 203 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 6: at home in the UK, and they've like kind of 204 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 6: completely rewritten the rules, but like not it's like they've 205 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 6: kept it as cricket. But like so we we these 206 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 6: things called an over right, So yeah, six balls even that, Yeah, 207 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 6: six balls in cricket isn't over. So if I'm bowling 208 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:15,160 Speaker 6: our bol six balls and that'sn't over, and then Felix 209 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 6: so that way from one end, and then Felix will 210 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 6: bowl six balls from the other end, and that's called over. 211 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 6: So we do when we plate twenty twenty, that's twenty 212 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 6: overs and twenty. 213 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 5: Oversa yeah time. 214 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 6: But in the hundred they change it so it's five 215 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 6: ballovers and then you do two form each end. So 216 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 6: try and make the game yeah short. 217 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: Basically, in short, I think you'll understand this cricket is 218 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 1: in a perpetual state of how do we not die 219 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 1: and stay modern? So like this game that takes a 220 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: long time and has the essence of life in it 221 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: and takes forever, always trying to like match it up 222 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 1: against people with short attention spans. So we're trying to 223 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: make it in order to keep some of it but 224 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: also make it adaptable in the real world. And that 225 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: feels very much like what baseball is doing the pitch 226 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: clo It's the similar sort of mentalities. We're trying to 227 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: like mold it into the world so that we don't 228 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: get left behind. 229 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 2: If that makes it, Oh, I mean baseball's going through 230 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 2: the same thing. And like you said, you saw a 231 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 2: pitch clack today, that's something that's completely new this year. 232 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 4: From your guys perspective. 233 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 2: Like coming from England watching cricket, what does like the 234 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 2: pace of play? 235 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 4: Does it feel slow? 236 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 2: I know like some people sometimes think baseball's a little boring, Oh. 237 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: Baseball, No. 238 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 6: I think baseball's fast compared to cricket, really fast as 239 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 6: a seema, Like that's what we call people who tremble fast. 240 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 5: There's a sema. 241 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 6: My run up is twenty two meters, So every time 242 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 6: I bowl, I run in twenty two meters to the 243 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 6: crease bowl it. I then follow through like five five 244 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 6: metres ten meters from bowling well, because I'm like this 245 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 6: is great, keep going and now I've got it all 246 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 6: the way back. So I'm averaging like a ball a 247 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 6: minute if not if not slower yeah. 248 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, and our clock is fifteen seconds. 249 00:09:55,320 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: Now fifteen thirty. Yeah, I thought it was. Yeah. The 250 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: interesting thing in the pitch clock, I think from outside 251 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: perspective is when some if you're watching the games and 252 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,199 Speaker 1: you're locked in. If you're watching the game, I think 253 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 1: it works really well because it's like got a rhythm 254 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: and the metric. But if you go to baseball to 255 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: sort of drift and drink and hang out, which I 256 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: think a lot of people do, and kind of like 257 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: it's a life experience where you're not necessarily watching the game. 258 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: I think. Then sometimes it moves disturbingly quickly and you 259 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 1: don't get your time to be sort of in the 260 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: ballpark and in the experience. That's what my feeling is. 261 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,320 Speaker 1: But I like watching the game, so when you when 262 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: it's it's satisfying when it's at the pace, if you 263 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: know what I mean, That's what I would say about it. 264 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 3: It has felt like that too, because like the way 265 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 3: the baseball was, like the average time perpeture was between 266 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 3: thirty and forty seconds. So you could come to the 267 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 3: ball park of Santera, you can go get your snags, 268 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 3: go to the restroom, and that it's very much get 269 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 3: your beer. Yeah, but when you're watching out TV, that 270 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 3: would have a drag sometimes because the guy takes the 271 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 3: male bar, he walks aroun on the mound, he comes back, 272 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 3: he steps off and it takes a while. 273 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 5: Yeah, wandering back. 274 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 6: If you're bowling really well, you walk back. Really, I'm 275 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 6: only bowling badly. You're like almost running back, like get 276 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 6: me out of here. 277 00:11:12,480 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's kind of funny. Too, because then you're setting 278 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 3: the pace like you're bowling. Well, you're in control of 279 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 3: the game. And a lot of people thought with baseball 280 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 3: that the pitchers would be the ones very most affected 281 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 3: by this, but it turns out that the hitters are 282 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,280 Speaker 3: now the ones that are realizing the temple's quick. It's 283 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 3: kind of hard to keep track of that, Like, would 284 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 3: is there any way that you kind of take the 285 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 3: game over, like you said, like when you're on the 286 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 3: on the mound bowling. 287 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely, so when we're so if we're going really 288 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,280 Speaker 6: like if the team is doing really well and we're 289 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 6: like restricting their runs, we'll try and get through as 290 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 6: quick as possible. So you know, we'll be because obviously 291 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 6: our fielders have to move every over, so we'll be 292 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 6: like sprinting around in the field trying to almost rush 293 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 6: the batters. So if we can bowler overs really quick, 294 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 6: then suddenly we'll have bowled ten overs and they've got 295 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:54,800 Speaker 6: no runs and then they've you know, they've not got 296 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 6: long left rush and then at the end of the 297 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:59,959 Speaker 6: game we'll try and really take a step back because 298 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 6: at the end of the game basically is when the 299 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 6: batters in cricket are just trying to hit the ball 300 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 6: as far as they can. 301 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 5: So as bowlers, that's where there's just no margin for error. 302 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 6: So that's where we're trying to slow the game down. Really, 303 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 6: you know, talk to talk to your captain, Talk to you, right, 304 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 6: what do you think I should bowl? 305 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 5: You think I should bowl this? I think this? Okay, 306 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 5: let's do this. Let's set the field right? 307 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,880 Speaker 6: Is everything there really focusing and really kind of taking 308 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 6: your time and. 309 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: You're giving them more time to think about it as well. 310 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 6: But I think that kind of builds to the drama 311 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,839 Speaker 6: and cricket because that's the bit where it's like every 312 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 6: ball is kind of there's something on it and you 313 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 6: kind of get that. 314 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:38,079 Speaker 1: That's so true and that's so that's something that cricket 315 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: and base we both have. Is the thing of like 316 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: time contracting and then the expanding you know what I mean, 317 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: it kind of moves is the best part of it. 318 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: And you can feel when everyone's attentions on it. Time 319 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,840 Speaker 1: sort of it feels like time goes really slowly, like 320 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: in the key moments, and then sometimes it just moves 321 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: without you knowing it. Both games are really special for thats. 322 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:00,160 Speaker 6: Like when you're underneath the highball. That's when the time 323 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 6: it's slowest. I don't know what it's like when you 324 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 6: got a club, you haven't got a club and the 325 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 6: balls in there and you're like, oh my god, when's 326 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 6: it coming down. 327 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 2: I love hearing just like the differences and like you 328 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 2: guys like you call it a high wall, it's like 329 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,800 Speaker 2: a fly ball, or for us, like you like saying 330 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:18,719 Speaker 2: like you know, over it as opposedable call it like 331 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,239 Speaker 2: an inning. Yeah, so interesting to hear, like the differences 332 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,160 Speaker 2: and just like the words to essentially describe the same thing. 333 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, the language is that's the best thing as well, 334 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,160 Speaker 1: because it's this indecipherable fantasy language but you don't hear 335 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: anybody else anywhere else. But it's like really poetic and 336 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: you know, it feels like another world when you're entering it, 337 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: and cricket definitely has that. Then, I mean Google is 338 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 1: and what I don't know what Google giggle exactly what 339 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 1: it's like cricket. It's just words, but it just feel 340 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:48,839 Speaker 1: like they've come out of some sort of like like we. 341 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 6: Have a fielding position called cal corner, cal corner, cal corner. 342 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: We have it called cal corner. 343 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 5: I've got no idea. 344 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 1: What I think because when it was invented, the cow's 345 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: used to graze there is it sounds good. 346 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 5: It gets shorts cow. 347 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 3: That goes along with just some Some grounds just have 348 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 3: hills and now they just have a hell. 349 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 4: You have to play with the hill. 350 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 5: Some have trees. 351 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 4: Trees. 352 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 5: Hit the tree six. 353 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 4: It's a six. 354 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:13,599 Speaker 6: It'd be like having a tree in the middle of 355 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 6: in the middle of and then he can hit the 356 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 6: tree home run, even if the tree is like twenty 357 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 6: yards no matter. 358 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 4: What its home. Americans will have no patience for this. 359 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 3: Everything needs to be uniformed together. Ready, set go stuff. 360 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 5: We're having a new one. 361 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 3: We We had one stadium in baseball in Houston years 362 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 3: ago that did have a hill, and it was this 363 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 3: weird thing that just like for some reason we went 364 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 3: to this park. When you went all the way to 365 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 3: the center field, you have to go up a hill 366 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 3: the last second right before the fence. And I believe 367 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 3: someone there were a couple of beautiful catches made on there. 368 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 3: One player in the Mets cross Yeah, he made the 369 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 3: catch going back onto the hill. Another player, Jim Edmonds 370 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 3: from the Cardinals who were in London a few years ago, 371 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 3: did the same, and I believe someone might have got 372 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 3: herd on there or something. 373 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: He'll get steepid just go up. 374 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 3: It would just be like flat flast flight hill fence over. 375 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, we used we will use the hills and 376 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 6: like the dimension slide, there's a big uphill one side. 377 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 6: We'll be like, right, we need to try and get 378 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 6: hit up the hill, hit up the hill. But then 379 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 6: if you're like bowling and like they're hitting down the hill, 380 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:11,560 Speaker 6: you're thinking, right, I need to not let them hit 381 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 6: me down the hill. 382 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 5: I need to make them hit me like sideways. Almost. 383 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 2: Oh So, I mean like there's obviously a lot of 384 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 2: similarities between cricket and baseball. How did you guys even 385 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 2: get exposed to baseball in the first place? 386 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 4: Like, how do you ever find it in the UK? 387 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: Well, that's a good quate. 388 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 5: I mean, I cannot say, Felix. 389 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: My first exposure to baseball was in my past life. 390 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: I was in a band at tour all the time, 391 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: and in like twenty fifteen, we were on tour and 392 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: we were doing it well everywhere else, but we came 393 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: to America and it had dropped off for us in America. 394 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: So I was like, for some reason, I decided I 395 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: was going to not drink on this tour as well, 396 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: so I needed something to do while like our popularity 397 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: was declining a little bit in America. And I just 398 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: realized when I was going to every single state and city, 399 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 1: like baseball is always on, and it's like this sort 400 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: of fluorescent glow in cabs and in bars and in restaurants, 401 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: in hotel rooms, you flick it over. So I just 402 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: thought it just had this sort of glow to it, 403 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: and I ended up putting more time into it, just 404 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: firstly because it esthetically just looked beautiful to me, like 405 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: the greens against the browns and the Baltic nature of it. 406 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: And then when I've always been in love with cricket, 407 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: and when I got closer into it, I realized, like, oh, 408 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: this is so similar to cricket. The disciplines, the judgment, 409 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: the games within the game, the poetic nature of language, 410 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: you say, all that kind of stuff. But as that 411 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: tour I went through, the Mets were on a roll 412 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: and they got to the World Series that year, and 413 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,640 Speaker 1: the first thing that struck me was they all had 414 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 1: these cartoonish players. Granderson Cesperdes, David Wright, Bartolo Colon, Danny 415 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 1: Murphew's heid. 416 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 5: All those kind of you had a little fan wom 417 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 5: moment down Yeah, amazing. 418 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: Being close to him, Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean he 419 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: had that amazing in that run. So I was sort 420 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: of really I was drawn some because they looked like 421 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: cartoon characters but also like a very flawed people as well, 422 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: like maniacs and flawed. And so I got really into 423 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:21,360 Speaker 1: the Mets because I felt like, oh, there's this sort 424 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: of melancholic thing with Mets where it's definitely doomed, but 425 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: they're like they've got a flare to them, and so 426 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: there's just all this stuff inside this team. And then 427 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: eventually I flew home when they lost the World Series 428 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: and Matt Harvey that night finn in but tried to 429 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: go the whole thing, and I watched that from London 430 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,879 Speaker 1: as if the whole thing had been a distant dream. 431 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: And then from that moment on, I just thought, I'm 432 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: going to stay in such a baseball because it's got 433 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 1: magic to it. And then my life became more about 434 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 1: cricket because I love cricket. And then by some strange coincidences, 435 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,159 Speaker 1: they've asked me to come and cover baseball and stuff 436 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: like that. So I'm dragging along cricket and say, I 437 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: think you'll like this, Yeah. 438 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 4: Exactly, New York City Baseball. 439 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: He loves it. And there's a lot of other cricketers 440 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: back home as well. They're like, well this is really 441 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: But actually what I've just said just leads me to 442 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: something I want to ask you guys. Have I got 443 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,439 Speaker 1: that right? Is an essence of what would you say? 444 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:28,919 Speaker 1: Is there some a theme that runs across being a 445 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: Mets fan? 446 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:31,959 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like how much time do you have? 447 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, especially like that team itself was such a hodgepodge. 448 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 3: It was almost like the Island of misfit toys that 449 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 3: lineup you described, because there was guys who came from 450 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 3: different backgrounds. A lot of them did look like basically 451 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 3: cast off cartoon characters, but then they had this rotation 452 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 3: of pictures that come from the ground, all developed by them. Cinderbar, 453 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 3: Harvey de Gram, those three were like, along with Zach Wheeler, 454 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:55,360 Speaker 3: who didn't pitch in that World Series, but those were 455 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 3: like supposed to be like the next generation of Met's 456 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 3: great and pitching like bowling, like you control the game, 457 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 3: you're on the mound, and like that game, like Harvey 458 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,360 Speaker 3: like if you're on like you can win the game 459 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 3: almost entirely on your own, and it became. 460 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,720 Speaker 1: To receiving information. It's just too I can see flashbacks something. 461 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 2: H Yeah, I was there so like being able to 462 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 2: experience the World Series, going to like the World Series 463 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 2: with my dad, who is the entire reason I'm a 464 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 2: Mets fan. Like it was really cool to take in 465 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 2: that it would have been better if they won. But 466 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 2: like I remember when they beat the Royals in that 467 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 2: game in Cindergard, whiz one right by, I'll see his 468 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:28,159 Speaker 2: escobar's head for the first pitch of the game, and 469 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 2: we're like, oh, this is this is gonna be great. 470 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,719 Speaker 2: Like that, everybody immediately like started inching up on their seats, 471 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:35,479 Speaker 2: leaning in. David Wright haitting a home run, sesspad as 472 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 2: home runs, like just all the huge moments. It didn't 473 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 2: end up working out, but like Matt Harvey coming out 474 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 2: for that ninth inning, everybody was on their feet screaming 475 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 2: and yelling, and it's like something that as my first 476 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 2: experience being at a World Series game with the Mets, 477 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:49,359 Speaker 2: I'll never forget that. 478 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: It's like I'm reading a really good book at the 479 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:54,560 Speaker 1: moment about the Mets called so many ways to Lose 480 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: or something like that, and no, well it's so great 481 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: and of lines, but I underlined in it was that 482 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,680 Speaker 1: Mets isn't about being bad, It's about being good at losing, 483 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 1: and it's the feeling of anything can happen at any moment, 484 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,159 Speaker 1: good or bad at any moment. But that makes the 485 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 1: Mets endure as a sort of experience. 486 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 3: It's like the antithesis of Julia Child's like fifty five 487 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,439 Speaker 3: or whatever ways to make an egg, but it's like 488 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 3: just our nightmare version of that. Even the Strokes guy, 489 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 3: Julia Casta Blanco, Ye, he's a rabid Mets fan. Yeah, 490 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 3: And that he wrote that song the year after the 491 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 3: mess lost the World Series. They made it to the 492 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:36,240 Speaker 3: wild Card round, which Mark and I argue about whether 493 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 3: or not that counts of the playoffs or not because 494 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:38,639 Speaker 3: it's only one game. 495 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 4: I say it's not, He says it is. 496 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 3: Will greely disagree right now for to move this along, 497 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:46,560 Speaker 3: but that Mets lost that game and horrible fashion home 498 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 3: run the last inning after cindergar pitch. An amazing game 499 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,640 Speaker 3: through all the way, and he was on the seven train, 500 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 3: which you're seeing run right there leaving here and it 501 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 3: was jam packed, yeah right, and everything everything aware and 502 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 3: to pat train, everyone's upset. I'm sure he was rather 503 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,240 Speaker 3: drunk at the time, and he just said he got 504 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 3: out his notebook, his note pad, and he wrote the 505 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 3: lyrics to ode to the Mets on that train, just 506 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 3: disheveled and sad on the way home. 507 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:13,440 Speaker 1: YEA, oh my god, you break my heart. 508 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, I mean that's a that's what we are. 509 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: That's true that way that came from oh my God 510 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: into a medium piece. 511 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 4: But Dad's like being a memph. 512 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:29,480 Speaker 1: But that's interesting because from Afar it's been like Seinfeld 513 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 1: support the Mets, and so when you from a distance, 514 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 1: you kind of have that element of okay. So the 515 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: Yankees is about evil joining the military, being on the 516 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,239 Speaker 1: Death Star, and then the Mets is the opposite of that, 517 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: good and bad. So like all the stuff that can 518 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: unveil in a completely like negative way and all the 519 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 1: beautiful stuff that comes out of not being in that 520 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: uniformed structure. If that makes that, there's a way I could. 521 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,000 Speaker 3: There's a group bard from John Alva who was English 522 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:01,600 Speaker 3: and he came over and he was a comedian. Now 523 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 3: he has his show in America, and he said he 524 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,879 Speaker 3: came over and he fell in love of baseball immediately, 525 00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 3: and he said, I wasn't gonna like the Yankees because 526 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:09,359 Speaker 3: not evil. 527 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 4: So I decided to become a Mets fans steat. 528 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exu, I have a moral compass. 529 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, slight that sort. 530 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. 531 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 2: Well, it's like it's it's easy to be a fan 532 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 2: of the Yankees, it's easy to be a fan of honestly, 533 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,359 Speaker 2: other teams. Like being a Met fan like such a rollercoaster, 534 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,639 Speaker 2: Like you can't just you can't just join on, like 535 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 2: if you joined on twenty fifteen, okay, great, had a 536 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 2: great run. 537 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 4: Sixteen was fun. 538 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,720 Speaker 2: The next few years were tough, but that you stick 539 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:32,919 Speaker 2: around because whenever it's gonna hit, it's gonna be so 540 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 2: worth it. 541 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 4: It's gonna be amazing. It's gonna be such a great payoff. 542 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 2: And that's kind of like what Mets fans and body 543 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:39,920 Speaker 2: is like, it's gonna be up and down, it's gonna 544 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 2: be tough, gonna be like, you know, a little rough 545 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 2: around the edges, but when it, when it hits, it's 546 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 2: gonna be. 547 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 1: Incredible, which strikes me as I'm not sure I can 548 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,080 Speaker 1: say it's in an official Mets podcast, but there couldn't 549 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,439 Speaker 1: be a more Metsy things happened and to be heavily 550 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: invested in. Everyone say, okay, these are the big guns 551 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 1: now and it's weirdly not go that way. 552 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 4: It's tough. 553 00:22:58,560 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 3: Well, they won a lot last year and it was 554 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 3: a lot fun, but yeah, this one has been trying. 555 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 4: But it's just that's it, Like it's great. 556 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 3: And the big thing with Mets fans too, it's loyalty, 557 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,240 Speaker 3: like they we come back like we want it so bad, 558 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 3: we want to win, we want to be happen. 559 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's it. 560 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 3: And when it will happen, when it does happen, like 561 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 3: that is going to be the payoff of a lifetime. 562 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 3: Like going to be there hanging out Mark my dad, 563 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 3: his dad, Like there's going to be just like pure euphoria. 564 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 4: Probably cry yeah, oh yeah. 565 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: Okay, it's interesting what they just said there is is 566 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,199 Speaker 1: like with their parents, because I think like cricket's got 567 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,120 Speaker 1: that generational thing as well, where you get it gets 568 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: handed down in some ways, or like when teams like 569 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 1: the Mets who don't often win, when they do win, 570 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: it's like a more deeply emotional thing than you can say, 571 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,679 Speaker 1: because there are people there that didn't see it in 572 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 1: sixty nine or eighty six or all that kind of stuff, 573 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 1: so it's like kind of really rooted into you. And 574 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,240 Speaker 1: we had that when England men won the World Cup, 575 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: didn't we like people but had never seen it before, 576 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: and that sort of bursting of emotion which is about 577 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: more than just a cricket or if that makes sense. 578 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,679 Speaker 5: You know, neither of my parents played cricket. 579 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 1: Really. 580 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 5: I completely stumbled upon it by chance. 581 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 6: I went so my primary school or like, what did 582 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 6: you elementary school? So I was like six five or six, 583 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 6: and like after school, you know, they do like after 584 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 6: school clubs you can just sign up for. And I 585 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,880 Speaker 6: was already doing the football because my family like mad 586 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 6: so what you inherited? Inherited football like Liverpool fans like 587 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 6: the Liverpool through and through. But literally, by chance, I 588 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 6: took the leaflet home of the cricket. I was like, oh, 589 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 6: like this looks quite fun, like Mum, I want to 590 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 6: try it, and obviously Mom was like this is ridiculous, okay, 591 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,879 Speaker 6: and then yeah, fast forward, I guess fifteen years and 592 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 6: I'm doing pretty well. 593 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: But did you when you I've never never spoken about 594 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,320 Speaker 1: it when you first but hopeful the first time did 595 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:46,200 Speaker 1: it feel natural to. 596 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 5: Well, you didn't. 597 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 6: You didn't bowl at the start, So at the start, 598 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 6: obviously if you're teaching loads of kids, I guess right 599 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,199 Speaker 6: at the start, when you're teaching baseball, if you're like 600 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,480 Speaker 6: getting people to pitch people hitting, the pictures aren't gonna 601 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 6: be good enough for the hit us to hit it. 602 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 6: So we didn't bowl for like three years. But like 603 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,920 Speaker 6: I could, like, you know, that dirty slog that I've got. 604 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:14,240 Speaker 6: Dirtyug is like kind of a really technically bad shot 605 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 6: that just kind of goes a long way, but like 606 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 6: like in terms of technique. 607 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 5: It's awful, but it works, but it works. 608 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:25,399 Speaker 6: I always had one of them, and I could like 609 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 6: catch and I loved like getting muddy. We used to 610 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 6: like the competition went. But when we were this time's 611 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 6: a really bad. When we were like five and six, 612 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 6: like it wasn't really about the cricket. We'd turn up 613 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 6: on a Thursday and we'd because you wear whites and cricket, 614 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 6: you try and get your whites as covered like puddles, 615 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 6: and we'd be like swimming through them and it was 616 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 6: like all about that and I just loved it. And 617 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 6: then like a couple of years later we learned bowl 618 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 6: and I was like, I was all right. 619 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: That's still because when we came here, yes to film, Yeah, 620 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: it was going to be one soon for the whole week. 621 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: Yeah like that, and he just went, maybe we can 622 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: just dive across the outfield. 623 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,880 Speaker 4: We said, we were here on Thursday, the similar thing happened. 624 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 3: They had the tarpa of the field and they were like, 625 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,119 Speaker 3: hope they let us side across that tarp. 626 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 5: It looks like a wall slide. 627 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, well there's been somebody wants to get as as possible. 628 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,199 Speaker 6: I'm saying Rider Cup in Europe Versus America. But on 629 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 6: the wall slide across the Men. 630 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 2: There was a huge It's not like a huge moment, 631 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 2: but there's like a very memorable Mets moment with like 632 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 2: a tarp and sliding across. 633 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:26,360 Speaker 4: They were playing the Yankees. 634 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 2: There was a rain delay and Robin Venturo, who was 635 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 2: the Mets of their basement at the time, came out 636 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 2: and imitated my Piazza was one of the best Mets 637 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 2: of all time. Catcher Hall of Famer imitated like a 638 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 2: big home run that he hit and he ran around 639 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 2: and like slid into home with like the. 640 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 4: Tarp and the water and everything. 641 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 2: It was like there's no viral clips back in like 642 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,119 Speaker 2: two thousand, but if it was nowadays, I would be 643 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,679 Speaker 2: like everywhere. So that's like kind of funny to bring up, 644 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 2: like like I want to slide across that and the 645 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 2: Mets like have a weird story with that. 646 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 5: Incredible I want to find. 647 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 1: Watching me in lockdown. I decided just to take myself 648 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 1: out of that situation. But I was going to watch 649 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 1: the entire eighty six World Series all on YouTube. So 650 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: I watched the Mets win that World Series from game 651 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: one to I don't know if it's games it goes 652 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 1: to game seven, Games six, when game seven, I watched 653 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: every single one of those games in a week, every 654 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: night in lockdown. If you want to watch like old 655 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 1: World series, this. 656 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 5: Is what the museum earlier. 657 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,840 Speaker 6: And the ball that's where the balls from school that 658 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 6: is like that is like the baseball, like there was 659 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 6: one baseball in the world that you could preserve in 660 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:29,600 Speaker 6: an apocalypse. 661 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,720 Speaker 4: That one. It's the quinn essential piece of Netissy. 662 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 2: That's yeah, the ball that like I mean my dad 663 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 2: was a fan before that, but like I think if 664 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 2: they don't win eighty six, necessarily, like who knows what 665 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,439 Speaker 2: the next generation of Mets fans would look like without 666 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,520 Speaker 2: that Bob through Buckner's leg winning a world series. 667 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 4: It was pandemonium. 668 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: It's also quite, isn't it. I mean, tell me if 669 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but it's quite Mets e that it happened 670 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 1: with because I wanted the Mets to win that series 671 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: and was watching it back in retropect. But when it happened, 672 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 1: my heart broke into a one hundred billion pieces. That guy, 673 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 1: it was quite stitched into a sort of Met story, 674 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: but that would become almost as famous as the victory. 675 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 3: And even that player, like he was a fantastic player, 676 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 3: but he's now only remembered for that. 677 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 6: That's like your worst night, like you've got a ball 678 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 6: coming towards you. And like almost anything, if there's a 679 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 6: lot of people watching any everything that's going through your 680 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 6: mind is yes, don't go through legs, don't go through. 681 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 3: The funny thing is he was also all towards the 682 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 3: end of his career and they just wanted him on 683 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 3: the field for the for the celebration. 684 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 4: So he's someone who was often taking. 685 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 5: Off in the game for want for the celebration, and 686 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 5: then he. 687 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:38,320 Speaker 3: Had to make the player eventually that it's like second 688 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 3: hand embarrassing, happy for us, great for us. Yea, it 689 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 3: was almost like the last what thirty years. It's almost 690 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 3: like retribution in a way, because like you know, nothing 691 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 3: in the world just happens when nothing else happening, and 692 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 3: again return of it, so like something great happens, and 693 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 3: that's that's kind of problem. 694 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 5: We called that the cricket gods. 695 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what the cricket gods. 696 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,040 Speaker 5: Cricket gods mean it, cricket mother, cricket. 697 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 4: Mother, baseball gods. That's pretty yah, or just that's that's baseball. 698 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: Oh, yes, that's baseball. 699 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 4: Yeah. 700 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 6: I love how many times you've got out and just 701 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 6: like you sat down to change years, someone's gone the 702 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 6: host cricket. 703 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 5: Well, I want to hear may. 704 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 2: Of course, next year the Mets are going to be 705 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 2: coming to play the Phillies. You got to see them 706 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 2: play them here today in New York. But next year 707 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 2: they'll be in London for the London Series. I got 708 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 2: to make it out there this past year, did you 709 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 2: for the Cubs Cardinals had. 710 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 4: An awesome time? 711 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, you enjoy it. 712 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 4: It was so much fun. 713 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 5: I mean, the atmosphere, I thought it was really good, like. 714 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 2: I've so I've been to like a Chelsea soccer game 715 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 2: I've been to, Like that. 716 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 4: Atmosphere is crazy. 717 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,400 Speaker 2: The baseball obviously is not going to be like a 718 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,320 Speaker 2: Chelsea Champions League game. But I was like really impressed 719 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 2: with how into baseball all the fans were. And it 720 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 2: was a lot of English people. It wasn't like Americans 721 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 2: like me coming over and visiting. There were a few, 722 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 2: but like everybody like going to the store, buying the jerseys, 723 00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 2: buying the hats, eating the food, like at the culture 724 00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,960 Speaker 2: that I thought of for baseball. Seeing it in another 725 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 2: was fascinating. 726 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: You know what's really reassuring to hear you say that, 727 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: because that's exactly what I felt that. It didn't seem 728 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 1: like a tourism type event. It felt like really knowledgeable 729 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,920 Speaker 1: baseball crowd. It sort of swayed and moved like a 730 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: proper baseball game where the crowd of reading it rather 731 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: than just being there because it's a thing to be at. 732 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: And that was quite interesting, I thought, because again, as 733 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,320 Speaker 1: you say, it wasn't all Americans that live over as well, 734 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 1: So that's like an because I think in England we'd 735 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: be quite hesitant about Premier League football being played in 736 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,880 Speaker 1: American council, wouldn't it. I guess what's like is that 737 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: kind of a positive. 738 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,200 Speaker 3: It's almost just it's fun, Like it's fun to watch 739 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 3: the game grow, like we love baseball and like it. 740 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 3: Like we talked about at the beginning, is that like 741 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,120 Speaker 3: there is some like some people in the American especially, 742 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 3: I think the game is slowing down and not like 743 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 3: mother enough, but like to see you go across the 744 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 3: world and gain popularity, it's just kind. 745 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 4: Of beautiful for that. I'm going to go there next year. 746 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 3: I've never been to England. I planned to go in 747 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 3: the yeah, for the series, so we'll both be there. Yeah, 748 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 3: so tell me just about what to do, where they get, 749 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,640 Speaker 3: where they get the best food, where they go listening 750 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:01,880 Speaker 3: to the best music, anything like that. 751 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 4: Culturally, I've heard. 752 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 6: There's a there's a band like they're called like something TV, 753 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 6: like some number of eighty six maybe TV. 754 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 5: They're pretty good. 755 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, you can come and see what my band what's 756 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: going to do in London. How long you're gonna be there? 757 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 4: As long as we're as long as we can when 758 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:21,520 Speaker 4: is it June. 759 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 3: Yeah. 760 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: Second, well, firstly from a baseball spective, I think the 761 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: thing that you will be interesting to you is that 762 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: because most ballparks are cut out of the center, like 763 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: across the diamond, it's lorngally the airs cut out of it, 764 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: so it doesn't retain sound all the time. But football 765 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: stadiums London Stadium, Yeah, so I don't know if you 766 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: felt that bit. It kind of it holds the sound 767 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 1: in a different way, so there's a sort of it. 768 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: There was an intensity to the games, and even though 769 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: it's in the middle of like obviously normal season, it 770 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: kind of felt like there was a different sort of 771 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: postseason intensity to it. So I think you're like that. 772 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: And then in terms of London tours and you have 773 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: to hit me up nearer time. 774 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, that's fine. 775 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: I met. I met Hayden Weznski the Cubs picture. I 776 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: love him, So I did the thing out there with 777 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: him and Patrick Wisdom, and then they came to London 778 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: and when they were there, he came over to me 779 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: and he gave me hugly. He said, I got my 780 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: fish and chips first, so he was like doing it. 781 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: It was the first time i'd ever been to it. 782 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: I think for a lot of the players, they're doing 783 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 1: the sort of like oh wow, we're in the land 784 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: of fish and chips. 785 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 3: You know, I'm true, there's the truth for a lot 786 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,200 Speaker 3: of these players, like they have never been a grass 787 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 3: there before, so I'll take a huge opportunity for them as. 788 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: Well, exactly. Yeah, and they're going to be welcomed with 789 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: open arms. People love it and I've got a lot 790 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: of crickets into it as well. So if you like 791 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 1: the crickets, elite cricketers like is that you're going to 792 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 1: be there. And I think this is the start of 793 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 1: a trade off where more cricketers get to know baseball 794 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,200 Speaker 1: in a deeper way and like you know who knows where? 795 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I kind of even like we've kind of 796 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,760 Speaker 6: spoken about how similar they and I thought are like 797 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,480 Speaker 6: in terms of like, actually what's happening, Like they seem 798 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 6: actually like having been to a game, it is like 799 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:12,280 Speaker 6: going to watch a cricket game, Like that's the similarities 800 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 6: of just the event and from a fan's perspective, like 801 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 6: from a player's perspective, there are major differences. But actually 802 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 6: from a fans perspective, they're so similar. 803 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: That's what you should do. Come to the cricket, Come 804 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,719 Speaker 1: to the cricket, spend a little bit, even if it's 805 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 1: a day or two extra. Just come and see some 806 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 1: cricket because it'll be international cricket'll be happening, and I 807 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,200 Speaker 1: think that will be betrayed off watch baseball in England. 808 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: You watch cricket in England and come and watch it 809 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: with us. And we're talking for you. 810 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,240 Speaker 2: Got yourself a deal, were in London series, go to 811 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 2: a cricket game. Beautiful drinking tiships chemist that guys, thank 812 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:50,040 Speaker 2: you so much for coming on for. 813 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: This, appreciate it. 814 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and we'll see you guys in 815 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 2: London in a little bit hopefully. 816 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,960 Speaker 1: Let's let's