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

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkshon. I'm his son, Jeff

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Speaker 1: Kirkshon another episode back in person.

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Speaker 2: Thank goodness, right, And we just finished Labor Day. We

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Speaker 2: had a wonderful time. Who do we have on the

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Speaker 1: We have Pete Fairbanks and actually, for our first season,

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Speaker 1: this is our first active Major League baseball player that

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Speaker 1: will be interviewed on the show. He is a closer

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Speaker 1: for the Tampa Bay Rays. But we're not bringing him

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Speaker 1: in just because he's an active Major leaguer. No, he's

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Speaker 1: a really smart guy. And this Friday, September sixth, which

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Speaker 1: also happens to be my wife Emily's birthday, it is

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Speaker 1: National Read a Book Day.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: So this spring, Jeff, I did one of the most

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Speaker 2: fun stories I've ever done. I went to the Rays

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Speaker 2: spring training and Colin Poche, reliever for the Rays, and

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Speaker 2: Pete Fairbanks did the New York Times crossword puzzle while

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Speaker 2: I sat next to them badgering them with inane questions,

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Speaker 2: and they finished the whole thing by themselves in forty minutes.

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Speaker 2: I was completely dazzled. Have you ever tried to do

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Speaker 2: the New York Times Crossword. It's impossible. And they are

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Speaker 2: so good with words. They're both so well read, and

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Speaker 2: it begs to remind you, Jeff that Tom sever the

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Speaker 2: greatest Mets pitcher, greatest Met ever, there is not a

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Speaker 2: all time. He did the New York Times crossword puzzle

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Speaker 2: every single day. And if he was on the road,

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Speaker 2: you know, with the Mets or the Red Sox or

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Speaker 2: maybe two New York Times. This is a long time ago,

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Speaker 2: so he had to have the New York Times so

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Speaker 2: So we have a starter who did the New York Times.

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Speaker 2: And now we have a bullpen, the Ray's Bullpen, and

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Speaker 2: Pete Fairbanks is the ringleader of that group. And it

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Speaker 2: really bothers me that his vocabulary is way better than nine.

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Speaker 1: And I'm a writer, so he's going to be joining us.

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Speaker 1: Pete Fairbanks coming up at the end of this episode here,

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Speaker 1: but it we just celebrated Labor Day weekend, so we're

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Speaker 1: coming out the day after Labor Day, and I had

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Speaker 1: my fantasy football draft right here in our house, and

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Speaker 1: I thought you would love the way we came up

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Speaker 1: with the draft order. For years, we just did a

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Speaker 1: randomize where ESPN will randomize it for you. This year,

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Speaker 1: we went to the Phillies Braves game. All my buddies

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Speaker 1: live in Maryland. Guy came down from Connecticut, but we

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Speaker 1: got tickets for the Phillies Braves game. And what we

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Speaker 1: did was every player, all twelve teams. Every guy had

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Speaker 1: two Major League Baseball teams to watch on Saturday, and

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Speaker 1: whoever's teams scored the most total runs would get the

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Speaker 1: first pick.

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Speaker 2: That's great, So who got the first pick?

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Speaker 1: So my buddy Austin got the first pick because he

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Speaker 1: had the Rays, and if I'm not mistaken, they scored

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Speaker 1: like eleven runs on their thirteen runs on Saturday, and

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Speaker 1: everybody else kind of went into the aggregate middle. But

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Speaker 1: it was funny because two guys who aren't Phillies or

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Speaker 1: so they were rooting for these teams. The one who

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Speaker 1: had the braves, though, I have to say, was rather

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Speaker 1: quiet because we were in Susan's Bank Park, not a

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Speaker 2: So who was your number one pick?

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Speaker 1: So my number one pick in the draft? I got

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Speaker 1: CD Lamb with the fifth pick in the draft, right,

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Speaker 1: And who was the first overall pick, Christian McCaffrey. Okay,

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Speaker 1: And this is important, Jeff, because we've just finished with

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Speaker 1: the first weekend of the college football season, and of course.

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Speaker 2: The NFL starts on Thursday. So on is this great

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Speaker 2: game or what? Even though it was the baseball podcast,

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Speaker 2: we have to talk about what else is going on

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Speaker 2: in the world. So we'll talk about that. But I

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Speaker 2: want you to see if you can remember the only

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Speaker 1: Because you went to the draft one yet I was

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Speaker 1: at the draft of the umpire Fantasy Ejection League, held

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Speaker 1: by the members of the ESPN Stacks, right.

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Speaker 2: Well, wasn't just the members, It was by jud Birch.

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Speaker 2: Jud Birch has worked at ESPN forever, one of my

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Speaker 2: Ejection Fantasy League, where you would pick five umpires before

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Speaker 2: the season started, and whoever had the most ejections at

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Speaker 2: the end of the year out of year five, you

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Speaker 2: So I never won, but I did win one year

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Speaker 2: for the best nickname of a team. Judd, who was

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Speaker 2: so creative, is so creative it's so funny. His home

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Speaker 2: the Bible right right, so mine now a million years ago,

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Speaker 2: a great umpire. So I named my fantasy ejection Umpire

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Speaker 2: Ejection League team filled nine horn with oil and Vargo.

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Speaker 2: So I never won the league, but I won the

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Speaker 2: night Steve Berth Hume and I one of my favorite people,

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Speaker 2: Steve Berth Hume. He is doing it. We're doing the

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Speaker 2: one Ams Baseball tonight and like nobody's watching, but he

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Speaker 2: says on live TV in the middle of the show,

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Speaker 2: Dale Scott, umpire Dale Scott, whenever you want to in check somebody,

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Speaker 2: I'm ready for you, because he had Dale Scott on

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Speaker 1: Of a game.

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Speaker 2: So that is my history with Fantasy Sports of Eddy Guide,

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Speaker 2: and I love it. It's it's unique, say the.

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Speaker 1: Lead, let's get into the takeaways here on is is

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Speaker 1: a great game? Or what what he got that?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not real happy about this, but Sunday the

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Speaker 2: they set the club record for losses in a season,

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Speaker 2: and they did it on September the first, which is

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Speaker 2: just unbelievable. And Jeff, I'm sorry. They're going to break

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, the White Sox are going more than that,

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Speaker 2: and it's amazing to me. The Orioles in twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: So this is just another dubious record that the White

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Speaker 1: It's not healthy for the game at all. And it's

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Speaker 1: so sad to see this. And a lot of people

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles, who started off a horrendous year when you

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Speaker 2: That oriol team lost twenty one straight games to begin

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Speaker 3: Alright.

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Speaker 2: On the other side of town, the Cubs just finished

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Speaker 2: the eighteen ninety seven Boston Bean Eaters, which it just

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Speaker 2: amazed me, Jeff, how beautiful baseball is that something that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you say the turn of the century when

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Speaker 1: talking about baseball, you have to ask which one right?

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Speaker 2: Exactly? Baseball, as we've said, it's the beauty of the sport.

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Speaker 2: Is it's the only sport that defines the modern eras

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Speaker 2: On the good things, the Astros are really good, Jeff,

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Speaker 2: Well, I love this, Jeff, because Rich Hill, aged forty four,

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Speaker 2: It's his thirteenth different major league team he's pitched for. So, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: He'll be eighty next year.

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Speaker 2: but got all right. So wit Merrifield, former Philly you

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Speaker 1: So you can always submit anything at is this a

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Speaker 2: Well, Bill, we love you for coming up with something

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Speaker 1: No, we'll do to Gibson's one that game. Bob Gibson

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Speaker 2: do that, all right. Couple other things, Jeff. So, the

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Speaker 2: But this is my really stupid thing of the week, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: People with names, baseball names, baseball team names, right, so

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five. Bob Gibson, the aforementioned Bob Gibson made

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm just gonna be here to say I

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Speaker 1: Let's go into league in lids. We've taken every Major

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Speaker 2: Dad for League Leeds right now. The Nats are not

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Speaker 2: Dylan Cruz just got called up number two overall pick

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Speaker 2: behind Paul Skeens, both from LSU. That kid's going to

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Speaker 2: be great. So the Nationals have a chance to look

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Speaker 2: now for the next five, if not ten years, hopefully

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Speaker 2: it had James Wood and Dylan Cruz in their outfield

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Speaker 2: every day. That's crazy. How exciting is that? And of

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Speaker 2: course on Sunday, Darren Baker, son of the aforementioned Dusty Baker,

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Speaker 2: made his major league debut and and Darren of course

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Speaker 2: swung at the first pitch and hit a ground single

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Speaker 2: up the middle of Dusty was there, got a big

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Speaker 2: high five from all his friends, like how great is

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Speaker 2: that you go to watch your son and in his

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Speaker 2: first major league game, swings at the first pitch and

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Speaker 2: gets a hit, and you know who Darren Baker is from.

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Speaker 1: Little Missy when Dusty Baker was the manager of the Giants.

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Speaker 1: This was two thousand and two, two thousand and two

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Speaker 1: World Series, so long ago, but it makes sense because

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Speaker 1: he's now a major leaguer. But he's in the World

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Speaker 1: Series and JT. Snow is rounding third and Darren Baker

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Speaker 1: is the bat boy and he must have only been

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Speaker 1: three years old and he's getting the bat and JT. Snow,

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Speaker 1: while running towards home, grabs Darren Baker by the shirt

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Speaker 1: of his jersey and picks him up and carries it well,

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Speaker 1: touching home plate.

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Speaker 2: You know the interesting part there is nobody picked no

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Speaker 2: first basement picked the ball out of the dirt better

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Speaker 2: than JT. Snow. No one scooped the ball better than

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Speaker 2: j T. Snow. And here he scooped up Darren Baker

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Speaker 2: and saved him from what could have been a really

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Speaker 2: bad situation because he's literally on the field and he

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Speaker 2: scooped him up and brought away hit home plate. Dusty

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Speaker 2: had a little chat with the little tidy Darren about that, like,

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Speaker 2: so you gotta be careful where you're running around a

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Speaker 2: baseball field. Absolutely, just to finish with the Nationals. Jeb, So,

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Speaker 2: for me, the greatest nat ever. You know, you know,

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Speaker 2: Max Scherzer and Bryce Harper they're going to the Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame someday and Ryan Zimmerman isn't. But for me,

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Speaker 2: he's the greatest National ever. Okay. He came up as

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Speaker 2: a rookie out of the University of Virginia and they

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Speaker 2: just flipped him into the starting lineup and in third

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Speaker 2: in the order and said, you're in charge of this team.

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Speaker 2: Now twenty years old. It's incredible how good a player

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Speaker 2: he was for them. He hit eleven walkoff homers, Jeff

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Speaker 2: in his career. The record is thirteen. He hit eleven.

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Speaker 2: His first one he hit on Father's Day as a

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Speaker 2: rookie in two thousand and six, and then in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and eight. I love this, Jeff. He christened Nationals Park,

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Speaker 2: so it opened that night on Sunday Night Baseball, and

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Speaker 2: he hit a walkoff homer in the first game ever

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Speaker 2: played at Nationals Park.

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Speaker 1: I was at that game. Really, I was at that game.

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Speaker 1: I was at the first ever game that the Nationals

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Speaker 1: played as the Washington Nationals, right, and I was at

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Speaker 1: the first ever game at Nationals Park.

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Speaker 2: Is so cool and last thing with Ryan Zimerman. And

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Speaker 2: this is kind of sad, Jeff. But on this date

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Speaker 2: a year ago, or on Labor Day year ago, we

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Speaker 2: lost Uncle Matt to als, and we put together a

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Speaker 2: fundraiser to try to raise money because we thought he

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Speaker 2: would last a little longer. We needed to pay for,

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Speaker 2: you know, the exorbitant cost of taking care of an

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Speaker 2: als patient. So I called cal Ripken and I said,

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Speaker 2: can you help us with this? Took five seconds, I'm in.

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Speaker 2: I called Ryan Zimmerman. It took five seconds and he said,

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Speaker 2: I'm in. So I will never forget Ryan Zimmerman for

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Speaker 2: his willingness to step forward and help our family in

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Speaker 2: a time of need. We never ended up doing it,

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Speaker 2: because Uncle Matt passed before we ever got to the fundraiser,

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Speaker 2: but I'll never forget Ryan Zimoman for that.

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Speaker 1: It's in the cards. Let's rip them and see what

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Speaker 1: we've got here. We start with Corbyn Carroll.

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Speaker 2: All right, Corbyn Carroll. As you know, Jeff Diamondbacks outfielder

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Speaker 2: fifth in the MVP voting last year, got off to

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Speaker 2: a horrendous start, was not a good player, for three

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Speaker 2: to three and a half months this year, Well, he's

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Speaker 2: figured it out and he is tearing it up again.

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Speaker 2: And on Saturday, the same day that the Dodgers hit

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Speaker 2: the three home runs to start the game, he let

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Speaker 2: off the bottom of the first with an inside the

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Speaker 2: park homer. So here we are, like seven batters into

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Speaker 2: the game, we have four homers, three in a row

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Speaker 2: by the Dodgers, and then Corbyn Carroll becomes the first

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Speaker 2: diamondback ever to lead off a game with an inside

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Speaker 2: the park homer.

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Speaker 1: How about Bronson?

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Speaker 2: So, Bronson Royal was a really good pitcher, had great command,

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Speaker 2: and he was also a really good musician, not kind

519
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Speaker 2: of good, really good. And he played with a lot

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Speaker 2: of really famous people because his music was almost as

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Speaker 2: good as his pitching ability. And he once famously said

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Speaker 2: he said, I played with Ozzie Smith and I played

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Speaker 2: with Eddie Vedder. My life is complete. Wow. How cool

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Speaker 2: is that?

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Speaker 1: That's incredible? How about Tim Hudson?

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Speaker 2: All right, Tim Hudson's one of my favorite players, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: You know, we at one point we had only two

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Speaker 2: eighteen inning games in the history of the postseason, and

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Speaker 2: Tim Hudson started both of them, which I always found incredible,

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Speaker 2: how can baseball do this? He was also an outfielder

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Speaker 2: at Auburn. He was a pitcher center fielder at Auburn.

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Speaker 2: So I just casually, and he's a little guy, by

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Speaker 2: the way, I just casually asked him, Tim, what did

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Speaker 2: you do when you played center field the day after

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Speaker 2: you pitched and you had to cut loose and throw

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Speaker 2: a guy out at the plate. And he looked at

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Speaker 2: me and he goes, well, I cut loose and threw

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Speaker 2: the guy out at the plate. Like it didn't work.

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Speaker 2: It didn't bother me throwing one hundred and twenty pitches

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Speaker 2: the day before. And I'll never forget this. And this

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Speaker 2: is why I loved Tim Hudson. Back in the day

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Speaker 2: where they had to win a game with the Oakland A's. Okay,

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Speaker 2: he gave up two runs in the first inning to

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Speaker 2: the Mariners, and he came in the dugout and he

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Speaker 2: was snorting fire. He was so angry because he's so competitive,

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Speaker 2: and he looked at the entire team and said, you

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Speaker 2: get me three runs because I'm not giving up any

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Speaker 2: more runs in this game. And the A's scored three

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Speaker 2: runs and he beat the Mariners three to two.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Alex Bregman our final card.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, we talk about Walter Johnson High School

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Speaker 2: on every episode, Jeff. It's kind of a right of passage. Now, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I went. Yeah. So so Alex Bregman's uncle, Benny Bregman,

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Speaker 2: was a sophomore at w J when I was a

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Speaker 2: senior at WJ, and Alex's dad went. Sam Bregman went

556
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Speaker 2: to WJ also, and uncle Bill, Bill Chavodian is good

557
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Speaker 2: friends with Sammy Bregman. So every time I see Alex Bregman,

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Speaker 2: we somehow come around to baseball and WJ and all

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Speaker 2: that stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. Yeah, Best of All, Tim, So we do

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Speaker 1: this every week, Dad, You create amazing teams that we

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Speaker 1: can then learn more about the way your brain works.

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Speaker 1: Really from these what do you have this week for

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Speaker 1: best of All? Ten?

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Speaker 2: All right, well, Jeff, as we've mentioned before in the podcast,

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Speaker 2: Saturday was the opening of the college football season, and

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Speaker 2: it's you know, it's a such a cool thing that

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Speaker 2: first Saturday college football. Even though I don't know much

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Speaker 2: about college football, I love the pageantry and everything else.

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Speaker 2: So I came up with the All Major League Baseball

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Speaker 2: team of players who played college football okay, so Vic

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Speaker 2: Janowitz is our catcher. He's a Heisman Trophy winner in

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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty didn't catch much in the major leagues, but

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Speaker 2: he caught in the major leagues. Of course, Todd Helton

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Speaker 2: played quarterback briefly at the University of Tennessee and as

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Speaker 2: a Hall of fam first baseman. Jackie Robinson was a

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Speaker 2: great running back at UCLA. Drew Henson is the third basement.

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Speaker 2: I could have picked someone who was probably a little

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Speaker 2: more accomplished in baseball, but you know, he played quarterback

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Speaker 2: at Michigan and he played in the major leagues, and

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Speaker 2: I just love that Ace Parker. I wouldn't say I

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Speaker 2: know who Ace Parker is, sorry, but he's the shortstop.

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Speaker 2: And then our outfield is just beautiful Dion Sanders of course,

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Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, and Kirk Gibson is our

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Speaker 2: third outfield, who was a great wide receiver at Michigan State.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't put Darren Erstadt on this team because there

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Speaker 2: just wasn't enough room. And I also left Brian Jordan

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Speaker 2: off the team, which there just wasn't enough room. But

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Speaker 2: our DH is Frank Thomas played football at Auburn No. Surprise.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Samargia pitcher for the Cubs and Giants and others.

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Speaker 2: He was, of course a wide receiver at Notre Dame.

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Speaker 2: Steve Renko pitcher for several teams, was a quarterback at

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Speaker 2: Kansas when Gail Sayers was there. Ernie Nevers, Joe Vance,

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Speaker 2: Norm Bass, Garland Buckeye. A bunch of those guys. I

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Speaker 2: don't think I know who they are. That's not the point.

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Speaker 2: Every guy I mentioned played in the major leagues and

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Speaker 2: played college football, and I love that crosshome.

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Speaker 1: So we decided in spirit of the college football season

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Speaker 1: to take that team, Dad. We used our friends at Stratamatic,

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Speaker 1: the market leader in sports simulations. They are amazing and

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Speaker 1: we love getting your suggestions of great simulations. You want

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Speaker 1: our friends at Strata Maatic to do, Dad, So we

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Speaker 1: actually took that team your all college Football baseball team, right,

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Speaker 1: and then we put together in All College World Series

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Speaker 1: Baseball team. So these were players who played in the

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Speaker 1: College World Series who obviously became major leaguers, and all

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Speaker 1: of those guys in a seven game series right now,

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Speaker 1: and I'll run you through the College World Series team

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Speaker 1: real frost, you have, So.

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Speaker 2: All these guys played in the College World Series.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Posey at catcher, Schwarber's first baseman, DJ LeMay who's

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Speaker 1: the second baseman. Dansby Swanson is the shortstop, Alex Bregman.

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Speaker 1: Then you've got Ryan Brown, Jackie Bradley Junior Bell is

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Speaker 1: the right fielder. And then I mean the pitchers, Dallas Kichel,

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Speaker 1: Garrett Cole, Michael Waka, Sonny Gray, just to name a

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Speaker 1: few on the list, because there's a lot of pitchers.

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Speaker 1: You played in the College World Series, so that's your

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Speaker 1: College World Series. We put these two teams against each other,

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Speaker 1: who do you think would win?

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Speaker 2: Well, I've got Jackie Robinson and Todd Helton to start

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Speaker 2: with on my team. That's pretty darn good. But I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna say the College World Series baseball team wins this competition.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, in the first two games of the

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Speaker 1: seven game series that Stratomatic actually simulated for us, they

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Speaker 1: went to college football, the college football team really surprisingly, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Todd Helton actually led all batters five to twenty average

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Speaker 1: Because then the All College World Series team, while they

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Speaker 1: came back very strong. Alex Bregman ten runs in the series,

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Speaker 1: he drove in, which is just unbelievable. And you know,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you've got a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of great major leaguers on both side, right, but

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Speaker 1: they couldn't beat the pitching. Thank you so much, just

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Speaker 1: really good ideas that have been coming through by our listeners.

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Speaker 1: actually talked to my buddies for our fantasy football draft

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Speaker 1: about this Kirkshon quandary, and I think I'm really looking

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Speaker 1: forward to hearing what people have to say.

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Speaker 2: Jeff. We're a little football heavy this week, but it's

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Speaker 2: because people love football. I like football. I enjoy the

646
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 2: football season, I enjoy having it on in the background.

647
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 2: I just don't understand football anymore ever since they went

648
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 2: to the nickel package and the bubble screen whatever that

649
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 2: is called. By the way, Jeff, what is a skinny post?

650
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 2: I grew up where you ran a post pattern. Now

651
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 2: it's called a skinny post. Someone needs to explain to

652
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 2: me what a skinny post is as post to a

653
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Speaker 2: post pattern.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I would love for somebody to explain

655
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Speaker 1: that to me.

656
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 2: I think it's just an tighter, quicker, Yeah, a skinny post,

657
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 2: skinny post. Sorry, all right, all right, all right, So

658
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Speaker 2: this is our Kirkchin quandary of the weekend. Each week

659
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 2: it's more stupid than the next, but that's kind of

660
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 2: the point. All right. Uh, you get ten carries, you,

661
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 2: Jeff Kirkchin, aged thirty one with a broken thumb now

662
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 2: having played basketball in the rain yesterday on Sunday. Good

663
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Speaker 2: call on that one, Jeff, Thank you. All right, you

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Speaker 2: get ten carries in an NFL game behind any NFL

665
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Speaker 2: line that you want. Okay, how many yards are you?

666
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Speaker 2: What is going to be your net yardage before? Of

667
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 2: course in ten carries, or of course until they carry

668
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Speaker 2: you off the field because you are no longer it's

669
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 2: no longer possible for you to play. So what is

670
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 2: your answer? And what did your boys from the Fantasy

671
00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 2: Football League? What was their consensus on that?

672
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Speaker 1: My answer is minus twelve yards. I think I will

673
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: only carry the ball two or three times before I

674
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Speaker 1: end up getting hurt or I just quite frankly say

675
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: I do not have the spirit or the will to

676
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Speaker 1: continue on. Some of my buddies were saying, if you

677
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Speaker 1: can find the hole and catch the gap. Now, granted,

678
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: one of my buddies was a pretty pretty decent high

679
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: school football player, but he was a tight end, and

680
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: he was most Joey right. It's a big guy, good athlete,

681
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: great with a yeah, yeah yeah. So he's not dropping.

682
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I told my buddies, I said, I think

683
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: some of you aren't even receiving the ball before I

684
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: think I'm fumbling the ball.

685
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,479
Speaker 2: We determined last night that we're I don't know anything

686
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 2: about football anymore, but you start like seven yards behind

687
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage. So to hit the hole, okay,

688
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 2: assuming there is a hole, you got to get the

689
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 2: ball from the quarterback and get seven yard sprint, full sprint,

690
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 2: knowing that somebody who weighs three to twenty could be

691
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 2: waiting for you. I am, without a doubt, I'm sixty

692
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Speaker 2: seven with an artificial hit. There's no doubt I'm in

693
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: the minus yards and there is zero chance that I

694
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Speaker 2: am making it to ten carries without being carried off

695
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 2: the field either maybe dead but or mostly dead.

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Speaker 1: Let us know what you think, great game or what

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00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,959
Speaker 1: or on social media right there as well. Our guest

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Speaker 1: today is Pete Fairbanks.

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00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 2: Pete Fairbanks again is a really smart guy. One of

700
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 2: the smartest baseball players I've ever met, and that is

701
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 2: a compliment. I've always been fascinated by really smart guys

702
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 2: who play the game, like Doug Glanville, my dear friend

703
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 2: who was on the podcast earlier, went to Penn Wicket

704
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 2: smart and always bothered me that he writes better than

705
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 2: I do, and I'm a writer. That just isn't fair.

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Speaker 2: Chris Young, the general manager for the Rangers, went to Princeton.

707
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 2: Is one of the smartest people I've ever met in

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Speaker 2: the game, and yet you would never know that he

709
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Speaker 2: was the smartest guy in the game because he doesn't

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Speaker 2: present that image at all. He's so down to earth,

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Speaker 2: And so I want to ask him about Ross Ollendorf,

712
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 2: who was his teammate at Princeton, and Chris Young looked

713
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 2: at me and I said, Chris, You're like the smartest

714
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Speaker 2: guy I've ever met in baseball, and he goes, Ross

715
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Speaker 2: Ollendorf is on a different level than me and everybody else.

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Speaker 2: Ross Oldorf, I asked him once about the SATs or

717
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 2: whatever it was, and he got one wrong in the

718
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Speaker 2: math section, and it just it nearly killed him, much

719
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Speaker 2: like he killed Pete. Fairbanks says we'll learn from his interview.

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Speaker 2: And then Ross, who's the most humble guy in the world,

721
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Speaker 2: looks at me and he goes and then I took

722
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Speaker 2: another test, you know, kind of like the SATs, and

723
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Speaker 2: he goes, I'm pretty sure I got them all right,

724
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Speaker 2: which I'm not. So he played. He played in He

725
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 2: played poker at Princeton for the first time in his life.

726
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 2: He'd never played poker before, and he's playing with the

727
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Speaker 2: guys on the Princeton baseball team. He's never played cards before,

728
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 2: poker before in his life. And after about ten minutes

729
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Speaker 2: he's the best poker player. And they all said like,

730
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Speaker 2: how did you know when to play that card? And

731
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Speaker 2: he goes, well, I noticed that, you know, four, you know,

732
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Speaker 2: face cards were already out, So it really worked in

733
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Speaker 2: my favor that Dennis shan Yes, so he's counting cards

734
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Speaker 2: ten minutes into the first card game that he'd ever played.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Brad Ostmas, who's the bench coach for

736
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Speaker 2: Aaron Boone.

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Speaker 1: What is boon some swah for three? That's Brad Ostmas's

738
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Speaker 1: last name backwards, And we learned in the Aaron Boone interview.

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Speaker 1: My favorite moment of the entire show was when he

740
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Speaker 1: says he sees Brad Ostmas his bench coach, mind you

741
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Speaker 1: and says sumb swall.

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Speaker 2: For three right, which is the Marv Albert three point

743
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Speaker 2: shot thing, Only it's his name backwards. Brad Austmas went

744
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Speaker 2: to Dartmouth. Really smart guy and again you would never

745
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Speaker 2: know it by the way he presents himself. That's what

746
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 2: I not pretentious. Neither is Chris Young, neither's Ross Oldend.

747
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Speaker 2: That's what I love about these guys. And Brad once

748
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 2: used the word malevolent in a complete sentence when he

749
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Speaker 2: was a catcher for the Padres and I went, this

750
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 2: is unbelievable that he could do this. And he told me.

751
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Speaker 2: I said, Brad, does anyone on the team like ever

752
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Speaker 2: come up to you and just like want to know

753
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Speaker 2: what you know? And he goes, well yeah, and he goes.

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Speaker 2: Guys on the bus will say we'll be watching Jeopardy

755
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 2: like in the clubhouse or whatever. He and they would

756
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 2: say you know all the answers to these, right, because

757
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 2: it's Jeopardy. You have to know all the answers to

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Speaker 2: all the questions.

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Speaker 4: And brad alsins because I don't know any of the answers.

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Speaker 4: That's not that's just because you go to Dartmouth doesn't

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Speaker 4: mean you get every Jeopardy answer right. But Pete Fairbanks,

762
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Speaker 4: who's coming up, what's his favorite TV show? Jeff, Jeopardy, right,

763
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Speaker 4: and he's going to talk about that he got it

764
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Speaker 4: from his dad.

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Speaker 2: And again, I don't want to be corny about this, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: It is so refreshing to meet a baseball player who

767
00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: loves words. He does the New York Times crossword puzzle,

768
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 2: as we told you, every day, he reads one book

769
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Speaker 2: a day if he can. He's wicked smart, and we asked.

770
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Speaker 2: We talked to him for twenty five minutes. And I'm

771
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 2: not sure there's a baseball question in there, but you

772
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: will be fascinated by this discussion.

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00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're fascinated by sacrifice flies and as you

774
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: said earlier, you're fascinated by smart guys. So here we are.

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Speaker 1: Heate Fairbanks on the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Is this a great game? Or what

777
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 2: and we're joined by Pete Fairbanks of the Tampa Bay Rays.

778
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 2: One of the best closers in the game. He throws

779
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour, and way more impressive, he

780
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 2: is the most well read player in the game, has

781
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Speaker 2: the best vocabulary of the game. Pete, this is my son, Jeff.

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Speaker 3: How are we doing? I look, you're you are you know,

783
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 3: pumping my tires a little bit too much to start this,

784
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 3: So now I'm going to have to try and make

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Speaker 3: sure that I drop, you know, the widest range of

786
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Speaker 3: words that I can as we go throughout this.

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Speaker 1: You need to go into your sat vocabulary and be

788
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Speaker 1: able to do this.

789
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: You my dad. One of his favorite stories he's ever

791
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: written was about how you and the bullpen you do

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Speaker 1: the New York Times crosspork and this is everyday Pete.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So we've lost a couple of guys post Shay's been. Uh,

795
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 3: he's been. He's still been doing it a good bit.

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00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,880
Speaker 3: I haven't done it as much recently just because we

797
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 3: you know, we lost our last guy and Jason Adam

798
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 3: that really did it with us. But yeah, so we

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Speaker 3: actually Poe and I I just had my big turner

800
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Speaker 3: syndrome auction. It was silent auction day at the ballpark,

801
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 3: and we actually auctioned off a chance to do a

802
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 3: crossword puzzle with us, as your dad has done. So, Yeah,

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00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 3: we're gonna be doing I think it's gonna be a

804
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 3: Wednesday Times. We've got we had an auction winner do it.

805
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 3: I think he and his grandson are coming up. I'm

806
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 3: building a Lego set with his grandson, and then we're

807
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Speaker 3: doing the crossword after that.

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00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 2: Pete, look, Jeff and I could never do the New

809
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 2: York Times crossword puzzle correctly. How do you explain how

810
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 2: you and Poche and the rest are so good at

811
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 2: this practice?

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00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 3: Probably I would have to say so one practice to

813
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 3: my dad did it when. I don't know if he

814
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 3: still has a subscription now, but my dad did it

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Speaker 3: a ton, So I'd always try and throw one in

816
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Speaker 3: if I thought I could get one, which in my

817
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,919
Speaker 3: younger years was not as frequent as it is now.

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Speaker 3: And then I've watched a lot of Jeopardy, and it

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Speaker 3: turns out Jeopardy and crossword puzzles. I feel like there's

820
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 3: a pretty good overlap of both interest and ability to

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Speaker 3: find answers to obscure things.

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Speaker 2: Right, Pete, Like get Jeopardy if they have the baseball questions,

823
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Speaker 2: I'm in. But is there a non sports category where

824
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Speaker 2: you say I got this one even before you see

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00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 2: the answers.

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Speaker 3: There's Yeah, there's a few that I will go like

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Speaker 3: five or five on immediately would have put me in,

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00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 3: would have put me in a good spot to try

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Speaker 3: and double up with a daily double. I was actually

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Speaker 3: I was going through I was scrolling through my socials

831
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Speaker 3: the other day and one popped up of who Said It?

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00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 3: From the Harry Potter books, and I went, I think

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Speaker 3: it was the it was the first round of it,

834
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 3: so it was two hundred to one thousand, and I

835
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 3: was five or five immediately. But yeah, you know it's

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Speaker 3: it's I watched that with my dad a lot actually,

837
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 3: probably more recent post high school, just because I would

838
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,439
Speaker 3: be back at the house, you know, in early minor

839
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Speaker 3: leagues when you know it's on it four four thirty

840
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:39,280
Speaker 3: whatever it is. So yeah, done a lot of attempted

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00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 3: to play along with Jeopardy, and I've gotten stumped quite

842
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 3: a few times, and I've done well quite a few times.

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Speaker 1: Well, Pete, I'll tell you every night before my wife

844
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: and I go to bed. My wife Emily, we do

845
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Speaker 1: the mini Crossword on the New York Times app and

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00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: it's obviously a miniature version, and it's really hard. We

847
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: have trouble and we do it and we time each

848
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: other and we try to see you can finish first.

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00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: So for you to finish it pretty much every day,

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00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: it's really impressive.

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00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, the so I I don't do the many a ton.

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00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 3: One of my wife's cousins, Bella, we was in I

853
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,319
Speaker 3: was in Boston and she was like, have you ever

854
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 3: done the mini? And I'm like, well, no, I prefer

855
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 3: the real thing, right, So I raised her and just

856
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 3: blew her out of the water. So Bella was a

857
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 3: great effort, but that day was was not for you.

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Speaker 3: But I mean they have do you guys play the

859
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 3: other games on there? I think that in terms of

860
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 3: you know, literacy fun, I think that the New York Times,

861
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 3: with between strands, connections, et cetera, does a great job

862
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 3: of giving you a little bit of you know, a

863
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 3: little bit of mental stimulation.

864
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do connections every night's connections and the mini.

865
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: My dad does Whordle every single morning, but doesn't share

866
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: it with anybody. Pete I do wordle every day. He

867
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: doesn't share a score.

868
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 3: Hey, sometimes it's just he's just competing, and you're just

869
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 3: competing against yourself. Right, You don't need to don't need

870
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 3: to share your prowest. It's just competing with yourself.

871
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 2: Right. I totally agree, Pete. Have you ever seen a

872
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 2: word in a New York Times crossword puzzle that you

873
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 2: take and then use it with the media. That night

874
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 2: you told me a great Mark Topkins story.

875
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 3: No, I should, though, I think that would be a

876
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 3: great a great one. My favorite was a bit of

877
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 3: Midwest jargon when I dropped Caddy wampus on Trisha Whitaker,

878
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 3: who is our sideline reporter, And that is that is

879
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,359
Speaker 3: just a shout out to my mother. My mother used

880
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 3: that quite a few times when I was growing up,

881
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 3: So that one stuck with me.

882
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 2: Right, when you finish a crossword puzzle correctly, as you

883
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 2: did with me in forty five minutes, you and Colin Poche,

884
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 2: is there a celebration? Are hands raised in the air?

885
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 2: Do you keep the puzzles? How does that work? No?

886
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 3: I mean most of the times of our standard crossword

887
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 3: procedure is we finish, sign it real quick, throw it

888
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 3: right in the recycle and then start again the next day.

889
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 3: But right, yeah, you gotta sign the bottom. That's just

890
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 3: that's part of the you know, part of that. Did

891
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 3: you gotta get it done?

892
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: When when my dad did this story and covering the

893
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: two of you doing the crossword, did you make sure

894
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 1: he was there earlier in the week to do the interview?

895
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 3: Uh? I think it was a Tuesday. Yeah, it was

896
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 3: earlier in the week. It was not. We made the

897
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 3: executive decision that we were not going to mess around

898
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 3: with like a Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Just Saturday for

899
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 3: the trickiness of some clues and Sunday because nobody wants

900
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:37,239
Speaker 3: to sit down and try and do one hundred and

901
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,560
Speaker 3: twenty two clues or whatever it is that day. No.

902
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 2: Right, you told me the highlight of your life would

903
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 2: be what.

904
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 3: Fill in the blag if I answered this before.

905
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 2: Yes, it's about the New York Times crossword puzzle.

906
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,479
Speaker 3: I would like to I would like to be a clue.

907
00:47:57,480 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 3: I would like to be an answer in it.

908
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 2: You told it would be the highlight of.

909
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 3: Your entire book. Obviously, other than winning a world series

910
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 3: or you know, some other accolade. I think that you know,

911
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:11,480
Speaker 3: being the answer to a clue in the New York

912
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 3: Times would be just about as good as it gets.

913
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: I was going to say that, or a Jeopardy answer.

914
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 3: The Jeopardy answer also would be good.

915
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: That would be an the excitement I've seen on social media.

916
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: Celebrities will post like I was an answer, like that's

917
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: they won an oscar, but they got an answer on

918
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: Jeopardy and.

919
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 3: That's bigger, way, way bigger. You know, there's why not.

920
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 3: It's such like a one little snippet, but it's so

921
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 3: fun to you know, permeate into a different realm, right

922
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 3: and kind of you know, crossover.

923
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 1: So you mentioned the Harry Potter books. Friday, September sixth

924
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: is National Read a Book Day and also my wife's birthday.

925
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: By the way, I would be remissed if I didn't

926
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: mention that my wife, Emily.

927
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 3: Happy birthday to Emily.

928
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I'll let her know. And so

929
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: for you, reading was the very beginning of all of

930
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,360
Speaker 1: this love of wordiness, is that right?

931
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 3: Yeah? Far and away and yeah, it just goes back

932
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 3: as far as I can remember. And I think I

933
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 3: told Tim then my mother was reading me. We went

934
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 3: through the first Harry Potter book.

935
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 2: Right.

936
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 3: We read Sorcerer's Stone together. It was like my nighttime.

937
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 3: She would read it aloud. It took however long we

938
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 3: started the second one. We got to like the second

939
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 3: chapter and I'm like, mom, you're not reading fast enough

940
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 3: for menore. So I'm going to take this by myself.

941
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: How old were you?

942
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:44,919
Speaker 3: Uh, probably like first or second grade? I think maybe

943
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 3: second grade. Some were somewhere along those.

944
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 1: Lines, Harry Potter at that young of an age, that's incredible.

945
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, had I been older, I

946
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 3: might have picked up on some of more of the nuance.

947
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 3: And you know understand that all the spells are really

948
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 3: just Latin words that have and repurposed. But yeah, I

949
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 3: started that, and I remember, I don't I know I've

950
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 3: told this story before, but we So there used to

951
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 3: be a Borders right before Borders closed. There's the Brentwood Promenade.

952
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 3: It's in Saint Louis. You go down Brentwood Boulevard is

953
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 3: right there on your left. I think it's a I

954
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 3: think it's a Norse from Rack. Now if I'm correct,

955
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 3: which way better? Purpose is a Borders? If you asked me?

956
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 2: Right?

957
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 3: So we went in there we snagged the fifth Harry

958
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 3: Potter book order the Phoenix, and my mom had to

959
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 3: run errands, so I would we go to a store.

960
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 3: I think we went to the first stop was like

961
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 3: bed bath and beyond, and I like found a chair

962
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 3: like this first thing I did. Found a chair, just

963
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 3: sat down, read for the forty five minutes that she

964
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 3: was going throughout the store getting what she needed, got

965
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 3: back in the car, started reading again. Went to the

966
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 3: target that's right over there, found a spot to sit,

967
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 3: started reading. So yeah, it was I read a lot

968
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 3: as a kid. I've started to I've always continued to read,

969
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 3: but I kind of carve out some time now where

970
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 3: I'm doing. We got a machine called a Nubie, and

971
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 3: I'm micro currenting, which is basically using a very low

972
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 3: level stem on my arms just every day as part

973
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 3: of a nerve health. So I sit down, scrap the

974
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 3: micro current on, get whatever book I'm rolling through, and

975
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 3: then you know, pick it up, read for my thirty

976
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 3: and then continue that each day.

977
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 2: And Pete as a kid the Hardy Boys that God, yes.

978
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 3: I have another good Hardy Boys story. I think I

979
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 3: told you this one. So we're driving through like the

980
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,439
Speaker 3: Black Hills. Everything out west up the Dakotas. We're going

981
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 3: to Devil's Tower doing all this, and it's super scenic.

982
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 3: But I'm like nine, and I could care less about

983
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 3: what's out the window. I'm trying to read about. I'm

984
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 3: reading about them swishing themselves into the back of a

985
00:51:53,920 --> 00:52:00,919
Speaker 3: biplane as they're trying to solve you know this, because

986
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 3: I guess like the checks in this In this instance,

987
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,640
Speaker 3: checks were sent out through mail and people were trying

988
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 3: to steal said check order and they're stuck in the

989
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 3: back of a bioplane and I'm like, Mom, Dad, I

990
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 3: don't care about these hills, right, I'm trying to I'm

991
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 3: trying to read about, trying to read about this mystery.

992
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 3: But yeah, my dad had I don't know, I don't

993
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 3: think he still hasn't, but he had like the old schools,

994
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 3: like the tan hardbacks where it just had like the

995
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,919
Speaker 3: name on the front and the spine. So I had

996
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 3: like eight of them with me and was just reading

997
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 3: constantly instead of looking at all the lovely scenery of

998
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 3: you know, the Dakotas.

999
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 2: Right, but the reading mostly comes from your mother.

1000
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 3: Correct, Yes, Yes, my dad likes to read a lot too,

1001
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 3: so I'd say it's a it's a team effort. But

1002
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 3: my mom was a fourth grade teacher and then a librarian,

1003
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 3: so I think in terms of where the credit should

1004
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 3: be allocated, she's definitely definitely gets the lion's share of

1005
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 3: the reading love.

1006
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,759
Speaker 1: Pet I think you're in the minority for people of

1007
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: our generation who would probably prefer a good book then

1008
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: streaming a TV show. Have you ever had a teammate

1009
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: come to you and say, Pete, all right, I'm switching over.

1010
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: I need a great book. Who was it and what

1011
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: book did you suggest to them if that happened.

1012
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 3: I don't know if I've had that. Man, I've had

1013
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 3: discussions about because I'm a fiction I like fiction significant

1014
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 3: more than nonfiction, so I'll try and convince people that

1015
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 3: they should read fiction. Doesn't work that well. We've got

1016
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 3: a few Jalen Beek's big, big fiction fantasy, science fiction reader.

1017
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 3: Tyler Alexander also a big fishing reader, and that's like

1018
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 3: the minority. Boz Ashley was joined my book club the

1019
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 3: other day. I have been yesterday. I'm in the back

1020
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 3: reading doing a microcurrent and he plops down with it

1021
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 3: was a non It was non fiction, unfortunately, but plopped

1022
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 3: down in one of the massage chairs and was reading

1023
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 3: back there. So it was nice to have a you know,

1024
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:55,200
Speaker 3: a fellow member for a little bit.

1025
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 2: All right, now, don't be humble about this. Tell the truth.

1026
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 2: What did you do on your the verbal What score

1027
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 2: did you make? Tell the truth?

1028
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 3: I think you were. I think I had thirty four

1029
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 3: on the I mean it's all the act is all

1030
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 3: reading comprehension, right firs stuff for the math, so I

1031
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 3: was good at reading comprehension. I think I got a

1032
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 3: thirty four on that. I know that I only missed

1033
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 3: one question on the math section, and as you can tell,

1034
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 3: it still haunts me.

1035
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,879
Speaker 2: Now, Pete, you were you had a chance to go

1036
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 2: to an Ivy League school and tell us what one

1037
00:54:30,640 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 2: of your high school teachers told you, because if you don't.

1038
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 3: Tell it, I will oh man so and God lover.

1039
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,760
Speaker 3: Anne Marie Brewster was my English teacher for two years

1040
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 3: at Webster Gross High School, and I write some to

1041
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 3: preface this. My dad went My dad played baseball, missoo.

1042
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 3: My mom's two brothers played football, My mom's dad played football.

1043
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 3: My mom's dad's brother played football. Like the line of

1044
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 3: people that played sports, Atmazoo or went to Missoo. My

1045
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 3: family is so that was never going anywhere else. Dartmouth

1046
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 3: was pretty heavily recruiting me. And when I told her

1047
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 3: that I was not going to go to Dartmouth, she

1048
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 3: was like, I don't know if I'll ever forgive you

1049
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 3: for this. She held a drudge against me for at

1050
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 3: least a little while. She was not happy with me.

1051
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 3: But look, and what's funny is I have family that

1052
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:24,439
Speaker 3: I have. So my mom's other cousin and I think

1053
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 3: his wife and both of their kids all went to Dartmouth.

1054
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 3: So just was he who wants to play baseball in Connecticut?

1055
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know if that's exactly where Dartmouth is,

1056
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 3: but that doesn't sound like a great.

1057
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 2: Time, right. So Brad Austma's Yankees bench coach, went to Dartmouth,

1058
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 2: and he told me that he'd go on a plane

1059
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:46,279
Speaker 2: with the guys and the Jeopardy would be on and

1060
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 2: everyone on the team expected him to know every answer

1061
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 2: because he went to Dartmouth. Does that happen to you?

1062
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:55,719
Speaker 2: I know those guys, and you know how smart you

1063
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:57,879
Speaker 2: are and how well read you are. Do they come

1064
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 2: to you with like random questions, thinking he has to

1065
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 2: know this.

1066
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 3: No, not really, we do. Actually, I think SORCER's back

1067
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:08,359
Speaker 3: with us now. Cole Salzer went to Dartmouth, so we

1068
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 3: at one point, so in our Durham Bullpen, this is

1069
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:14,080
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen, we would take out where there's a

1070
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 3: book called what if, and it's basically a giant book

1071
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 3: of hypotheticals, and then like deep dive scientific explanations for

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00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,359
Speaker 3: these hypotheticals. So we would then take one and then

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00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 3: discuss it and see where we, you know, were right

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00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 3: or wrong compared to the actual scientific explanations of them.

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00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 3: What's it? We had one one was if you drained

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00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 3: all of the oceans on Earth like a bathtub, how

1077
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 3: long would it take basically to drain and fill up Mars?

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00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 3: Which was a pretty interesting hypothetical. I think we were

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00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 3: way off on both the volume of the ocean and

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00:56:48,760 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 3: how fast it could drain.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's way more science based than the Perchin quandaries

1082
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 1: we do here on our podcast.

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00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:58,839
Speaker 3: Oh oh good, I like it good. I like all

1084
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 3: sorts of puzz You know.

1085
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 2: Give me a movie that you love that maybe not

1086
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 2: everybody else loves, but you love that movie.

1087
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 3: I can't tell you the last time, I'll say I

1088
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,359
Speaker 3: will go for strictly for the fact that everybody else

1089
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 3: that I've talked to about it was confused by It

1090
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 3: was Tenant, which was Chris Nolan's Chris Nolan's two parallel

1091
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 3: timeline not timelines, but he had two sets of parallel

1092
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 3: events running in opposite directions as the movie went, which

1093
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 3: I loved and thought it was fairly easy to pick

1094
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 3: up on. But we from the people that I discussed

1095
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 3: it with, it was not as easy to pick up on.

1096
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 3: Apparently they're a little more confused than I was.

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00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: My first job out of college was in Cleveland, Ohio,

1098
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: and I lived with a guy that I went to

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00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 1: college with, and we had what was called Christopher Nolan Tuesdays.

1100
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: Every Tuesday, first Tuesday of every month, we'd watch a

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00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 1: different Christopher Nolan movie when we spend the next month

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00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: talking about it. It's a great example. If you don't

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00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: know what you're getting into with a Nolan movie, you're

1104
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: gonna be tricked. Yes, you gotta make sure you know

1105
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 1: what you're getting into.

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00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta do you have like that, you know,

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00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 3: to an extent, Interstellar, you gotta you gotta go in

1108
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 3: with at least a basic understanding of a concept that

1109
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 3: you might not have absolutely a big understanding you have

1110
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 3: to begin with.

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00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 2: So, but you have two children. Isaac is four two?

1112
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Speaker 2: Is that correct?

1113
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 3: We meet the teacher this morning?

1114
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 2: Oh and how did that go?

1115
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,000
Speaker 3: Once Isaac found the lego ben in his pre K class?

1116
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 3: He did not want to leave this morning. So I

1117
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 3: don't know how that's gonna It's gonna be great to

1118
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 3: get him there, and then I'm sure that there will

1119
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 3: be some fights to put up the legos and do

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00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 3: the math, science and reading study that he needs to do.

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00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 2: Right now, are you reading to him both children every

1122
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 2: night or every night you're home you're at the ballpark

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Speaker 2: a lot of night? Does that work?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Last night I did? We? I try, and you know,

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Speaker 3: read whenever I can to either of them, just because

1126
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 3: you know, we're gone for half the time we play

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00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 3: at night, et cetera. It's a little harder to to

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Speaker 3: get that done. So offseason, definitely, last night I did

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Speaker 3: we do? We? We read an eyewitness history book about

1130
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 3: ancient Rome because my son loves it. He told my

1131
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 3: wife that he wants to be a Roman fencer when

1132
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 3: he grows up, and I said, buddy that that's just

1133
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 3: a gladiator, and I don't think you. I don't think

1134
00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 3: you necessarily want to be a real gladiator, but you

1135
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 3: can do what you can try and do it Dad does,

1136
00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 3: and it'll be about as close as you can get

1137
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 3: besides the combat sports. Right. So I did that and

1138
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:54,880
Speaker 3: then read a couple read a read my daughter a

1139
00:59:55,040 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 3: which when did we read? Last night? She didn't want

1140
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 3: to read Mawana. I read her the she calls them books.

1141
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 3: So we got an advent calendar of like Disney stories,

1142
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 3: and they come with books that are like iPhone sized,

1143
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:11,200
Speaker 3: but they are like full pages of words as they're

1144
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 3: trying to tell the whole story in these tiny little books.

1145
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 3: So it leads to a lot of paraphrasing books. So

1146
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 3: I told a very paraphrased version of Peter Pan last

1147
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 3: night to my daughter after she got mad that I

1148
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 3: turned her light off to go to bed and yelled

1149
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 3: at me for about fifteen minutes.

1150
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,479
Speaker 2: Are you any good at legos? There must be great

1151
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 2: at the.

1152
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:36,440
Speaker 3: Right I like to build I have. I'm in the

1153
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 3: process of one build right now. It's a I guess

1154
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 3: it's like a three D picture frame from of the

1155
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 3: animated the Batman animated series from the nineties, and so

1156
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:52,720
Speaker 3: I'm about maybe an eighth of the way done. Because

1157
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 3: NCAA College football came out and I've been playing far

1158
01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 3: more Xbox than I have been building legos. That's been

1159
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 3: a pretty fun one. I just got. I picked one

1160
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 3: up yesterday as an impulse by when I was walking

1161
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 3: past the aisle. Since both of my kids are really

1162
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 3: into Peter Pan. There's like a little tiny diorama of

1163
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 3: Peter Pan, Wendy and Tinkerbell flying over London. So I'm

1164
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:19,960
Speaker 3: going to build that with my son at some point

1165
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,880
Speaker 3: coming up. Yeah, so I do it a decent bit

1166
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 3: of building.

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01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 1: I was a lego kid growing up, Pete, and I

1168
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: just bought my nephew. He's staying with us for a bit.

1169
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: He's seven, a lego of Rocket from Marvel.

1170
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 3: Yes, right and right.

1171
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: It was like ten and up right, and I'm thinking,

1172
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 1: I'm really going to have to help this kid out.

1173
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 1: So detailed and so incredible to see what the lego

1174
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: sets have become, because when we were growing up Pete,

1175
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,560
Speaker 1: it wasn't nearly as cool as what we're doing. I

1176
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 1: got this buddy of mine, his son just did the Titanic,

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01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 1: and it's legitimately huge.

1178
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 3: Yes, it's massive, and.

1179
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:57,720
Speaker 1: It's detailed, and you can open it up and you

1180
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: can see inside the state rooms and stuff. It's unbelievable.

1181
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 3: The three D when we were growing up, well, they

1182
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 3: could not three D print anything when we were growing up. Unfortunately.

1183
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 1: Good point, very good.

1184
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 3: But yeah, just the detail and the kind of like

1185
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:14,800
Speaker 3: new pieces that they were able to come up with

1186
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:18,640
Speaker 3: with the three D printer has really, uh pushed lego

1187
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:20,720
Speaker 3: building into a another level.

1188
01:02:20,800 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 2: I would say, you do legos, you do crosswords, you

1189
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:25,640
Speaker 2: read a book a day if you want to. Is

1190
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:28,800
Speaker 2: there anything else that you do that? Just be clear here,

1191
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 2: Not every major league player likes to do this. Do

1192
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 2: you have another hobby, another interest that guys on your

1193
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 2: team go like, what's wrong with you?

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01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say that. I mean they might think that

1195
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 3: I've been I like to collect cards, but not really,

1196
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:45,439
Speaker 3: but I don't really do sports cards. So I have

1197
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 3: good chunk of good chunk of modern Pokemon cards, some

1198
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 3: of the more vintage ones, but nothing that's too crazy.

1199
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 3: My buddies not actually run a bit of a side

1200
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 3: card store in our free time, so I'll collect those

1201
01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 3: I've big I really like, I'd say probably my favorite

1202
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 3: recently of stuff that's come out. There's somebody did a

1203
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 3: bunch of Marvel stuff in kind of an anime, which

1204
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 3: anime is like Japanese comics. So they did a Marvel

1205
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 3: anime and they came out with the second series through

1206
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 3: Upper Deck. And these cards are awesome, just the art

1207
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 3: on them, the different you know, interpretations that you get

1208
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 3: are fantastic. So I'm excited to delve a little bit

1209
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 3: more into those Voudamart cards. I'm deep into an Air

1210
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 3: Force rebuild with ncublea college football, which is a little

1211
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 3: more prevalent in the UH, a little more prevalent in

1212
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:41,640
Speaker 3: the sports world.

1213
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, everybody's playing nc doublea deck. They

1214
01:03:45,360 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 1: finally came out with a brand new Ncuba football game

1215
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,920
Speaker 1: after years and years of depriving us. How old are you.

1216
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 3: I am thirty. I turned thirty in this past December.

1217
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 1: Okay, so I just turned thirty one. So I mean,

1218
01:03:57,960 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 1: for us, this was like the one of the greatest

1219
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 1: made and then they just stopped making it. Now everybody

1220
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 1: like Pete and I who have young children are now

1221
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: saying to our wives, I need to go buy this

1222
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: and really my childhood.

1223
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 3: I told my wife, So I have I don't typically

1224
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:17,520
Speaker 3: play a bunch right now whenever I'm at home my son,

1225
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 3: so I in the interim, I have a switch, and

1226
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,920
Speaker 3: so I would play you know, Smash Bros, Mario Kart,

1227
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 3: all the Pokemon games, et cetera. My son is completely

1228
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 3: over the last two years, completely hijacked my switch. So

1229
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 3: I have had no no content that way. So I

1230
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:38,000
Speaker 3: finally said, you know what, I've had enough of this.

1231
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 3: We're going to set up We're going to get the

1232
01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:42,080
Speaker 3: dock out. We're going to set up Smash Bros. On

1233
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 3: the TV so we can play. And so nor recently,

1234
01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 3: if I've been playing, it's been with him. It's a

1235
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 3: little bit of Smash Bros. I was trying to play

1236
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 3: last night. But there's a new season of The Umbrella Academy,

1237
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 3: which is I think then this is I'm only this

1238
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:01,760
Speaker 3: is There's only been two instances where I have read

1239
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 3: something and thought that the adaptation was better, and I

1240
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 3: think The Umbrella Academy is one of those instances.

1241
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 2: Do you know what the Umbrella Academy is?

1242
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just had Diego. David Castanada, who plays Diego

1243
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: on my radio station here in Philadelphia. I'm a country

1244
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 1: music morning show host. Yeah, I've seen the show. It

1245
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,439
Speaker 1: is talk about shows that you really got to put

1246
01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 1: the phone down and focus on.

1247
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 3: You got a lock in it is.

1248
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:29,040
Speaker 2: I'm sixty seven years old. I haven't understood one word

1249
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 2: for the last ten minutes of this conversation.

1250
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 1: I am, I am.

1251
01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 2: I think it's great. Now, Pete, when you're in ten years,

1252
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 2: when your baseball career is over and you got three

1253
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:42,040
Speaker 2: hundred maybe four hundred saves, what are you going to

1254
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 2: do with your life? Because you are so well rounded

1255
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:48,640
Speaker 2: and so well read. What's the next step for Pete

1256
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 2: fair math?

1257
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 3: Hopefully sitting in front of a microphone and being on

1258
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 3: the other end of this discussion, I think would be fun.

1259
01:05:56,560 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 3: You know, maybe coaching, hopefully at Maszoo for a little bit. Yeah.

1260
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,440
Speaker 3: I think that there's a lot of there's a lot

1261
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 3: of avenues hopefully to explore in the uh not as

1262
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:10,840
Speaker 3: near future.

1263
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 2: Right, lastly for me, Pete, and we'll go We'll go

1264
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 2: back to the New York Times crosswords since that's where

1265
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 2: we started. What is the definition of I don't want

1266
01:06:20,440 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 2: to use the word cheating, but when I did it

1267
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 2: with you and Colin. You didn't look up a thing.

1268
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 2: No dictionaries, no cell phones, no Google, no nothing. I mean,

1269
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 2: at what point do you have to say, are we

1270
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 2: got to bring in a cell phone to look something up?

1271
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:38,000
Speaker 2: How often does that happen? And does that quality? Is

1272
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 2: that cheating?

1273
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:42,920
Speaker 3: I think so if you're like just strict, if you

1274
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 3: just like, I don't know this, I'm gonna do it. Yes,

1275
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 3: if you end up in a bit of a snaff

1276
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:51,600
Speaker 3: foo and you want to make sure something is correct,

1277
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 3: that might blur the lines, but not as bad as

1278
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:58,919
Speaker 3: strictly google, like just straight up googling something. I would

1279
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 3: say any any bringing in of an outside source is

1280
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 3: technically cheating. And if that makes me have to cheat

1281
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:08,479
Speaker 3: at times, I will happily do so because I would

1282
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:12,439
Speaker 3: rather make sure that I was correct on something than

1283
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 3: miss out on my preparation time for a game because

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Speaker 3: I'm stumped on a crossword.

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Speaker 1: Right, Pete really had a rough outing today. I think

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Speaker 1: he was struggling on the New York Times Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: But you also told me it really relaxes you, and

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Speaker 2: it potentially makes you a better baseball player because you

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Speaker 2: can go into a little zone that's different than throwing

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Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, anything to take the mind off of right, does

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Speaker 3: we for better or worse? The bullpens don't get the

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Speaker 3: love but the bullpens. You know. The only time that

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Speaker 3: you typically hear from us other than people that are

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Speaker 3: marginally interesting at times like I have the capability within

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Speaker 3: me to be is if we blow a game, right,

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Speaker 3: so we blow a game, cameras in your face, Hey,

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Speaker 3: how was it? And you're like, well, it wasn't great.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, anything to alleviate some of that stress, you know,

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Speaker 3: do some other stuff to take your mind off of

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Speaker 3: it where you're not just strictly preparing or thinking about baseball,

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Speaker 3: et cetera. You know, I think is a great avenue

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Speaker 3: for us.

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Speaker 1: Well, Pete, thank you so much for taking the time

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Speaker 1: to join us.

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Speaker 2: Pete, this has been a delight. I knew it would be,

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Speaker 2: and I appreciate you joining us. I appreciate you meeting

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Speaker 2: my son Jeff so good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Pete Fairbanks, thank you for being our guest this week

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Speaker 1: on is just a great game or what? He can

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Speaker 1: read a book at one hundred miles per hour? And

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Speaker 1: he can throw one hundred miles per hour. It's not

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Speaker 1: really fair for us guys for him to do both.

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Speaker 2: I know. So I asked him once, has he ever

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Speaker 2: found a word or done a word in New York

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Speaker 2: Times Crossword and then gone out and spoken to the

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Speaker 2: media and used one of those words in a complete sentence.

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Speaker 2: So he said, you know Mark Tompkins, the beat guy there.

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Speaker 2: Mark's one of my favorite guys. Will be a Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame baseball writer someday. And he said, Pete told

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Speaker 2: me that just for Topkin, he came out and dropped

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Speaker 2: a zeitgeist on it, like in the middle, in a

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Speaker 2: complete sentence. And then Pete looks at me and he goes,

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Speaker 2: you know, in the guys in the room like Taylor

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Speaker 2: Walls thing, what do you speak a German? Which of

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Speaker 2: course he is speaking German. This is why Pete Fairbanks

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Speaker 2: is so refreshing and so good to talk to, is

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Speaker 2: he loves words as much as he loves pitching, and

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Speaker 2: he really loves to pitch.

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Speaker 1: Pete Fairbanks, thank you so much. Next week a special

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Speaker 1: Roberto Clemente Show when it comes to one of the

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Speaker 1: most legendary outfielders who made such an impact on the

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Speaker 1: game of baseball. With Roberto Clementide coming up, we're going

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Speaker 1: to dive into that with all of our great things

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Speaker 1: as well. If there's a simulation you want from Stratamatic,

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Speaker 1: let us know at great game or what you can

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Speaker 1: follow us on all the and don't forget to share

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Speaker 1: this show with a friend. All right, Dad, wrapping up

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Speaker 1: this week, Thank you for listening and as always, thank

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Speaker 1: you for being a part of our family.