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Speaker 1: Do Do Do? Oh? Hey, Elizabeth Dutton, what are you

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Speaker 1: Do you know what's ridiculous? I do? And I was

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Speaker 1: going to say, it's ridiculous that we don't have more

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Speaker 1: What do you mean? Like they are little kids who

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Speaker 1: there's we don't need more research, And then I actually

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Speaker 1: looked it up. There's a lot of Definitely, that's what

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Speaker 1: to me and give it to me in a packet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Life After Life. I have a copy if you want,

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Speaker 1: you can borrow that. It's a good book. Well. I

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Speaker 1: types of statements a child who had a past life

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Speaker 1: might make. What do they make? What kind of statements

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Speaker 1: moody teen things. Um, when I was big, I used

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Speaker 1: research yourself, so ridiculous all around, stamped approved, ridiculous. Thank you. Well,

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Speaker 1: I've got something ridiculous to share with you. Actually, all right,

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Speaker 1: it's a story about crime in baseball and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: have anything to do with steroids. Oh well, my goodness,

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Speaker 1: that's new. This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd

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Speaker 1: and outrageous capers, heists, and cons. It's always urder free

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Speaker 1: and ridiculous. Elizabeth. I would like to tell you a

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Speaker 1: the ball players of the world, now, specifically the Kansas

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Speaker 1: You you would? Travis talked about the Oakland A's. Now

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Speaker 1: we may need to move past. The team finds out

424
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,160
Speaker 1: that the the ownership for the Seattle Pilots decided to

425
00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 1: give it up. They're like, you know what, we're not

426
00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 1: good at baseball, so they get out of it. They

427
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: put the team up for sale. That sounds like a

428
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: money laundering up. All these other teams are like, people

429
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: are like, what are we gonna do? Baseball has never

430
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: had this happen before. So then an owner's group comes

431
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: together in Milwaukee. They're like, okay, we'll buy it, because

432
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,160
Speaker 1: they've been trying to bring baseball to Milwaukee first oh completely,

433
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,720
Speaker 1: and then they bring over they buy them in spring

434
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 1: training and they say, okay, now you're the Milwaukee Brewers.

435
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: So they the name and then they go, okay, but guys,

436
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 1: keep the uniforms. We're just gonna just cut this off.

437
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,600
Speaker 1: And then they rip off the Seattle part and the

438
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,880
Speaker 1: pilot part and then they sew on Milwaukee and they

439
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: push them out onto the fielding and they go play,

440
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:38,439
Speaker 1: and they were like borrowed uniforms. They are still the

441
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,680
Speaker 1: same colors as the Seattle pilots because they never changed

442
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: from balloon. It just worked for him. That's crazy. Yeah,

443
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 1: that that is a kind of like, I just want

444
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: to get into the vibe, if you will, of the

445
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers uniform. They have like a very rare vibe

446
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,160
Speaker 1: in baseball. They aren't like if you talk about uniform stuff,

447
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers are just gonna keep coming up. If you

448
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,119
Speaker 1: look into the research, you're like, oh, they used to

449
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 1: be Seattle pilots. And now we'll get into the time

450
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: when they were part of the Kansas City Royals great

451
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,919
Speaker 1: uniform heist. Yes, this story goes down in seven Kansas

452
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: City Royals were on a road trip. They traveled Milwaukee

453
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 1: to face the Brewers, who are at this point a

454
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: seven year old team but a long standing tradition of excellence.

455
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 1: And the first game Royals go down four to three. Brewers.

456
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: When the first game of the home stand, second game

457
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: is a day game, really nice the Royals. They take

458
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 1: that one and now they beat the Brewers handily, this

459
00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: time six zero, so we're one to one in the

460
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 1: three game stand. Game three of this series is set

461
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: for Saturday afternoon, June twelve years, nineteen seventy seven. The

462
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: stadium was locked up from Saturday evening around six thirty

463
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,879
Speaker 1: that night, until the training staff and the ballpark staff

464
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 1: arrived the next day at nine am to prepare for

465
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: the day game. That's when the shock gets revealed. Elizabeth,

466
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,000
Speaker 1: I'd like you to close your eyes, and I'd like

467
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: you to picture it. I'm ready. It's June twelve seven.

468
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 1: You're high above Milwaukee, up in the clouds, or as

469
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,640
Speaker 1: they would say in Milwaukee, the beer foam of the skies.

470
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: And suddenly you start floating down this cloud beer foam

471
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: sky and oh look there's a brewery from the Vernon Shirley.

472
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: Oh and you just send quicker now. But it's not

473
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: like you're falling. You're gliding, or perhaps sliding down the

474
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: sky right, just like on an invisible slide. All of

475
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 1: a sudden boom, you get deposited at a beautiful baseball stadium.

476
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,000
Speaker 1: You land in the outfield. Two questions. I have the

477
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: gift of flight, now, no, just have the gift of

478
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: controlled falling? Or am I just high and I think this?

479
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: Am I in a mental institution somewhere. No, no, you're

480
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: in the outfield of Milwaukee County Stadium in Milwaukee, wiscmin

481
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: all right, I love how I got there. You like that?

482
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 1: What was I doing before? I don't know. You're an

483
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 1: interesting person, I don't I don't judge you. All right,

484
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,840
Speaker 1: I just picked up with you. Where you were in

485
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 1: the sky. I think I was with the Eagles. That

486
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: sounds like you. I can totally see that where he

487
00:25:54,760 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: I was composing a power ballad. Anyway, continue, So there

488
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: you are. It's an enormous mid century cement bowl of

489
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,159
Speaker 1: the stadium. Brutalist, very brutal list and it looks like

490
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: an enormous cement mixer truck just poured it just the

491
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: whole stadium. One thing, this cement salad bowl. It holds

492
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: fifty two thousand people. Big for a ballpark these days,

493
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: like you right? Good? So the baseball field of the

494
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: center is, uh, you know, very fit for the boys

495
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: of summer. Left field lines three or fifteen feet from

496
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: home plate, left center is deep threet. You look over

497
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 1: the right field now centers four hundred two right fields

498
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 1: three fifteen. Just a foot separates left field line and

499
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: right field line. You're like, I love the stadium, Yeah,

500
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: classic baseball. I do. And then I flew around, Yeah,

501
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,879
Speaker 1: you bounced around the grass, cooked on someone like a

502
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: bird with hovered there for a second and just looked

503
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 1: at him. What are you looking at? And then I

504
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: just came down screeching at him like an eagle. Yeah,

505
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 1: on my rabbit in the snood. So now you're, you know,

506
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: basically barefoot walking around in the grass of the outfield.

507
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: I have, I have a piece of work today. I

508
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: tell you you're quite the hippie. The seventies have been

509
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: hard for you. So this is You're in this it's

510
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: not quite a hitter's field, but you're in this cozy

511
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: little ballpark. Can you jog over toward the home team's dugout?

512
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: You want to go see what's what? Because there's nobody

513
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: in the ballpark. It's just you by yourself before the game.

514
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: And if you'd arrived three days later, you could have

515
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: caught Pink Floyd play a show as part of their

516
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: In the Flesh tour. What's to say I didn't I

517
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't even ever limit you. You don't know my life. No,

518
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: I don't, and I'm not asking question. I mean I'm flying, Yes,

519
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: exactly what I want. I wouldn't limit you. I'm a

520
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: grown as woman. You can move through time and space.

521
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 1: I do so. And also, if you'd arrived two months

522
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: later in September, you could have caught Fleetwood Mac on

523
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: their rumors tour. I did, oh big stadium, I was

524
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: Fleetwood Mac at that point. You remember the opening act

525
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett on his changes in Latitude, changes in Attitude tour.

526
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,719
Speaker 1: So now as you have so deep in seven right

527
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: now this is incredib You're like knee deep and coludes.

528
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: So as you jog in, you note the sudden difference

529
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: in sound between the footsteps and the grass. It's all

530
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: soften us, that scratchiness of the infield, right, and that's

531
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: a dugout. You pause for a second. There's still nobody there.

532
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: You take the few steps down the dug out and

533
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: you walk in through the dugout now into the actual

534
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: stadiums like bowels, and you start walking towards the locker

535
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 1: rooms or what will be the locker rooms the clubhouse

536
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: in baseball, and you start noticing there's like painted cement, bricks,

537
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: smells like dirt, mud, pine to all those great baseball smells, right,

538
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 1: And even though you know not where you're going, you

539
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: still head forward with the confidence of somebody. Who does.

540
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: You see at the end of the hallway a door open.

541
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: You're like, I should probably go over there, of course,

542
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: So you press over to the open door and you

543
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: notice there are these ball boys standing there and they

544
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:59,480
Speaker 1: look just forlorn, just heads down, confused. They look worried, sad.

545
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: This hurt. This is like the weirdest first person video

546
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: game I've ever been in. Just be glad you're not

547
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: in the first person shooter. You're just like the first

548
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: person hugger. You guys need to hug. Here needs to hug.

549
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: So you notice what the ball boys are looking. It's

550
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,720
Speaker 1: the equipment manager. Now, hold on, are they ball boys

551
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: are bad boys? Because I made a mistake before in

552
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: another episode. Well, in basketball they're ball boys, and baseball

553
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: they're bad boys. Are from basketball just happened to be

554
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: so the bad boys. If you will, if you won't,

555
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. They they're watching their boss,

556
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: the equipment manager, the manage. He's muttering to himself. He

557
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: looks it looks even more worried, right, And you don't

558
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: want to interrupt him because you've just flown into this.

559
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: You've got stuff you don't want to have to explain either.

560
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 1: I got lot going on. Everyone's got questions in the scene. Right.

561
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: So you're sitting there and inside the clubhouse, you notice

562
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: that there are these lockers for all the players. They're

563
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: just they look like a little tiny closets. Before them

564
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: is a little like stool, and you notice it looks

565
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: really neat, except for in the area where their personal

566
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 1: items would be there and Lucky Talisman's you know, because

567
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: it's ball players. There's the statue of Jobo, exactly the

568
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: statue Jobo the rum needed that. You noticed that the

569
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: lockers they're bare, and there's hangers on the ground and

570
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 1: you're like, wait a minute. Instead of freshly laundered uniforms,

571
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: you see nothing. There's just those hangers and it's like,

572
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: you know, what is it the porridge with the three

573
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: bears empty? Everything is empty. You're like, oh, this is

574
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: the problem. I can see the issue or is it

575
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: a uniforms? Now they're revamping all the uniforms. They've got

576
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: like clear and then loose sight shoes. The Emperor wears

577
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: no uniform. They're all pressed up against the plastics we

578
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,480
Speaker 1: like stripper heels, and they've got clear gloves with goldfish

579
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: in this. So there's no freshly laundered uniforms, no machine

580
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: washable uniforms. Nothing. And the hangers on the floor lets

581
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: you know that something bad has gone down and someone's

582
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: been a r You see the visiting team clubhouse manager

583
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: Jim Shazinsky, and he's on the phone with a reporter

584
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: from the Associated Press. And the reason you know this

585
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: is because you hear Jim Sazinski say, so, I put

586
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: my key in the lock and it wouldn't turn, and

587
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: then I pushed the door. So AP, AP guy, you

588
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: still there? Yeah, okay, so the door was open, and

589
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: I said right away there were no jersey's like, oh

590
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: my goodness, there's no jerseys. What are they gonna do?

591
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: And you don't know what exactly to say? Nobody knows

592
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: what they say. The bat plays are still forlorn. But

593
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: Jim Shazinski, he's still on the phone with the AP reporter.

594
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: He's got plenty more to say because he's got to

595
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: explain this crime. So Shazinski, he says, I could see

596
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: the shirts were missing at night, right after the game.

597
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: We hang them up in the proper order. Whoever pulled

598
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: this thing was awfully neat. The stools were right in

599
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: front of lockers the way they should be. The lockers

600
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: weren't all messed up. So it's a real neat crime

601
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: that these guys, criminals are It looks like it possibly

602
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: an inside job. Now, remember the Kansas City Royals are

603
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: the visiting team. It's their uniforms have been stolen. Why

604
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: would you steal the visiting team's uniforms. It's like a

605
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: hex Is it like, oh, to mess with them? Is

606
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,479
Speaker 1: it like they'll get them back after the game. Did

607
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: they steal their own uniforms because they knew they weren't

608
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: playing very well that day? I can't play unless you

609
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: just want us out there in those short shorts. They're like,

610
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: don't have to ask me tways. So in total, you

611
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: hear Shazinski toay that three uniforms have been sold, ten

612
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: pairs of cleats, fifteen warm up jackets, and twenty baseball

613
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 1: gloves have all been stolen from their locker room. So

614
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 1: nobody knows what to do right, because they even took

615
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: old the manager, Whitey Herzog. They even took Old Whitey's uniform.

616
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: Yeah right, poor fella, the nickname Whitey. Can we pause

617
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: for a second. This is something you don't hear much

618
00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: anymore right now, Like I sad of a gilst god

619
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: heron white he's on the moon and he's also he's

620
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: coaching the royals. He really thought that was about him.

621
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: I bet you think this song is about you. I

622
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: read his autobiography and it's called white Rat, by the way,

623
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: because that was his other nickname. Poor guys. God, yeah

624
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: guys great, I mean was not great. I don't know.

625
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: He's an interesting character from the mid century America. And uh,

626
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: like I just was wondering when I was reading the

627
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: research on this, could you still like give a dog

628
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: the name Whitey? Could you be in a dog park?

629
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: Come here, come here? Could I tell him that? Like,

630
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: is that something that'd be cool? Look? I named him

631
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: after Whitey Herzog, baseball manager. Let's try it. You get

632
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: a you get a white dog, and you go to

633
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: the park. Okay, In case you were wondering, and I

634
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: know you were the tops that they were wearing the

635
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: uniform tops. They were a cote a piece. That's seventies prices.

636
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: That's not not like at the Oh do you think

637
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: they went to just like the merch table, the merch

638
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: table in baseball they went to like the They're like,

639
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 1: how much how much just clean him up? Well that's

640
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: actually but wait, so how that's how much that it

641
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,320
Speaker 1: costs the team per Yeah, that was how much it

642
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: costs um They also, by the way they took the hats,

643
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: the hats were perhaps so they had to pay that

644
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: up in total, doesn't really matter. It was three thousand,

645
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,280
Speaker 1: far than seventy dollars worth of Kansas City Royals merch.

646
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: The Royals equipment manager Zich, he was He's your kind

647
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 1: of guy. I like this guy. He was on it

648
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 1: with the logistics. Normally, guys like I have two uniforms

649
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: packed for everybody, right, and this is because they're on

650
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: a road trip. But this time, you know, normally, I

651
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: mean they would have sixty uniforms it would be good.

652
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,239
Speaker 1: But he had brought all sixty and they stole fifty three.

653
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: He was like, I don't know what to do, guys.

654
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 1: I mean, like, I you know, I'm prepared for everything.

655
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: Prime So yeah, poor els. It salute didn't play so anyway, Well,

656
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: he did have a good quote. Do you mind if

657
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: I quote said, and this is a true seventies baseball

658
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: style producer's note, this is not a direct quote. Whatever,

659
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: let's get funky with it and just throw out the past.

660
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: Forget rules, tradition, clearly, the delineation between opposing teams, nothing

661
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: matters but the moment. Let's get funky with it. That's

662
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: his answer. You know what that means, We'll wear the

663
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: Brewers uniforms. We don't need You don't need our uniforms.

664
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: That was interesting. He's he's logistics. He's like, they got uniforms,

665
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 1: don't they will wear them. So they say, you guys

666
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: wear your home uniforms, will wear your away uniforms. Let's

667
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: go play my goodness. First of all, for the rest

668
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: of my life, if I encounter a problem, you know it,

669
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: let's get funky with Forget rules, forget tradition, Let's get

670
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: funk Let's just get funky with it. Everybody, come on now,

671
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: Milwaukee style guys. Yeah, if there's like a huge earthquake

672
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: and I'm like helping someone get out of it, reaching

673
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: a hand up broken building and they're like, my legs.

674
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, just get funky with it.

675
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: We're gonna need to get funky with it. So I'm sorry,

676
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: this is reach. The Royals they're into as just planned.

677
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: They're like, you know what, we wear powder blue, you

678
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: wear powder blue. Let's just keep it powder true. And

679
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 1: they're like they do. They're like, you're a recent expansion team.

680
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 1: We're a recent expansion team. We're just two kookie kids

681
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: trying to make it in basic. Let's just all slip

682
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: into something a little more. Yeah, we get you. Let's

683
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: make this happen. Huh So how about like, let's let

684
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: us slide into your your chonis and maybe we can

685
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,439
Speaker 1: make the same work for both of us. Huh Yeah.

686
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: Did all their under things get taken to um? Their jocks?

687
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: You mean? Yeah? Yeah, I'm trying to, like you want

688
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:46,280
Speaker 1: to say, trying to be delicate about their underclothes, their undergarments.

689
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: They're they're sporting undergarments, mentionable. They were left aside, possibly

690
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: because I don't know, they just didn't think they'd have

691
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: much value on the black market. Okay, duly not did,

692
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: I'll mark that down. So there we are. The Brewers

693
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: are like, look, if you want to be the shag carpet,

694
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: will be the barefoot. Let's make this happen seventies style.

695
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: And they decide we'll switch uniforms and after a little break,

696
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: we will get into the actual game and see how

697
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: this nutty seventies this plays out. Okay, Elizabeth's game time

698
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: are on the field wearing the same uniforms. You're just

699
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: having to pick him apart because home in a way uniforms.

700
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:44,399
Speaker 1: Can you do it? Can you? Are you with me?

701
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: And I think it's gonna be confusing, but yes, okay,

702
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: a Royal starting pitcher for the day is a twenty

703
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 1: game winner. Jim Colburn. He's something of a ham. He's

704
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: a kind of full of himself. He would later go

705
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: on to work in Hollywood as Kevin Costner's body double

706
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: in thee for the Love of the Game. Oh not

707
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: in the Durham, Oh no no. And he was also

708
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: joked that he was Kevin Coster's body double for the

709
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:10,720
Speaker 1: Love scenes like whenever you got interviewed, he was actually

710
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: the third base coach, that's what he was in the movie.

711
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: But he was a body double and your your query

712
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: about let's face it. He stole the uniforms. The cops

713
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: thought the same thing. Well, yeah, when you say, oh,

714
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: he's a ham, I'm like red flag right there. Yeah,

715
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: the cops who were later investigating it, they came up

716
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: and they actually asked him point blank, Hey, Jim, this

717
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,919
Speaker 1: isn't one of your jokes, is it. He's Jim most

718
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: likely to get funky with it. He's definitely familiar with

719
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: the funk. Yeah. He gets out there and he tells

720
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: the sports writers right before he's gonna go, like onto

721
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: the field. He's like, hey, I guess there's just no

722
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: way the Brewers can't win today. Like that. He's a card,

723
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: a cut up. He's a real clown. He should go

724
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: to Hollywood, as he really should. You know, there's an

725
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: interesting thing about baseball. It's the only sport where the

726
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: coaches where the uniform of the players. You know, like

727
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: every every other sport, you wouldn't imagine, like I don't know,

728
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: in basketball, guys sitting there on the shore, they're always

729
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 1: all men's warehouse. I I like it. They're down in

730
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: the trenches, they're all s wearing the little boys uniform too.

731
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: It makes it all they can easily confuse at the

732
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: bat point, Yes, exactly. Well, like Connie mac He's my dear,

733
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: the old Philadelphia Phillies owner manager. He would always wear

734
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,959
Speaker 1: a suit in the like dugouts. Everyone else be sitting

735
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: there spitting shaw and everything. He's looking like a banker.

736
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: That guy was amazing, right. But the reason why this

737
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: tradition comes about because all the original player managers back

738
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: in the like dead ball era of baseball, so the

739
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: nineteen teens and the early d like players like Frank

740
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 1: Chance of the Chicago Cubs, he was a player manager.

741
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: There was Roger Hornsby with St. Louis Cardinals, Eddie Collins

742
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: with the Chicago White Sox. So this was like how

743
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: they get started. But now it's just like a ridiculous tradition.

744
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: So I don't think so. I think that's when what

745
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: that they wear the uniforms too, they were the little costumes.

746
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: I don't think it's silly. I think it. You know why,

747
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: It's because baseball doesn't have the plantation mentality of other

748
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: professional sports, and that's clear delineation between owners and management

749
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: and players. Uh huh, that's an interesting point. I had

750
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: not thought about that. You will have to give that

751
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: point some consideration. Thank you. I take it back. Everyone

752
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: gets to wear a little costume. I like that. Well,

753
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: it's equitable. I didn't really realize the labor issues of this,

754
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: so thank you for correcting me on that the fabric labor.

755
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: Everything I do is all about my fellow working men

756
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,439
Speaker 1: and women. I respect that about you. So my dude,

757
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: Whitey herzog old white rat. He uh, he decides, and

758
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: he tells the sports writers because he doesn't he won't

759
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: go out there in a brewer's uniform. He's like a

760
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: true loyal man, a competitor. He's like, there's no way

761
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: I'm going out there in another team's uniform. Just give

762
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: me some sweats in a hoodie. I will be fine.

763
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,120
Speaker 1: So he goes out there and a royal pair of

764
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 1: sweats and like royal trainers jacket, and he insists that

765
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: he has to have the royal colors on. So he's

766
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,479
Speaker 1: out there and sweatpants and like a starter jacket. So yeah,

767
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: that's and before the game, he says the sportswriters and

768
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: I quote, that's the first time something has happened like

769
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: this in my career. But I was on some really

770
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: bad teams. Nobody wanted our shirts. He's down in the

771
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: trenches with his team exactly exactly. Now there's another guy

772
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 1: I think you'd like, center fielder, amos Otis. He was like,

773
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: you know, the like a lot of the players are

774
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,720
Speaker 1: having issues, like, hey, whose uniform I gonna be wearing?

775
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 1: Is that player? You know? Like it wasn't like how

776
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: big is? He was more like he is he on

777
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: a slump? Is? So he's like Amosotis, like can this

778
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: guy hit? This guy? Whose uniform you're giving me? They're like, oh,

779
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: this is the manager's uniform. He's like, well, could he hit?

780
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: And he's like they're like no, but it's still warm. Exactly.

781
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 1: We took it off of him, so if you want

782
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: it or not, we need to give it back to him.

783
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: He's over there in his underwear, like this guy wears

784
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: a lot of cologne. What is Alfo? So the man

785
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: Alex Grammis he was a two forty one hitter when

786
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: he was in the big So this is like, well,

787
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: I'll get some hits today. Maybe I can make him

788
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: look good. So he's like right before he gets out there, like, hey,

789
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: are you sure you're cool with the uniform? Amos And

790
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, yeah, I mean, Oh, he looks up

791
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: and he sees one he'd rather have. He's like, you

792
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: know what, I would like that number forty four Hankaron's

793
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 1: uniform that's on display in the window outside. Oh, he

794
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: wants to retired Jersey. Can I get that? Would just

795
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 1: break the glass? Right cleaned? When I'm done, what's the problem.

796
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: But the big loss for amos Otis and a bunch

797
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: of other players is their baseball gloves. They don't really

798
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: care about the uniforms doesn't mean anything that but the

799
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: exactly real value to me. So did you say that

800
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: their gloves were stolen or was? I just wasn't. But

801
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: it's fine, I'll repeat it for you. I think I

802
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 1: was really stuck on the whole jock strap thing. Yeah

803
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: you are. You were just thinking about Chinese an underwear.

804
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: I dream in a way as you do find me.

805
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: But what were you saying? So friend from imagining their haunches. Wait? So, okay,

806
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,280
Speaker 1: so they're ten gloves? Ten gloves are taken? Fred Attack,

807
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: he's one of the players, had a glove stolen. He

808
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: told the sportswriters, and I quote, why that glove? I've

809
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: used that glove in every big League game I've ever

810
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: played ten years with the same glove. I've got this

811
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: glove I've been breaking in for a couple of years,

812
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: but I've never used it after spring training. I can't

813
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: understand why they didn't take that newest glove. Right, another

814
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: player who loses a glove, my man amos otis the

815
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 1: center field's uniform. That's for some reason, there's so much

816
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 1: more heartbreaking than anything else, because it is it's something

817
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: that is, you know, so essential to them completely and

818
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: also often sentimentally doubly. So he told he told the

819
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: a p at the time. The first one my brother

820
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,319
Speaker 1: gave me in sixty five. That was that glove, right,

821
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: so he's all upset. And the other one he got

822
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: was from a Royals pitching coach, and he's like this

823
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: guy named Galen Cisco, so Otis tells the reporters Cisco

824
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: gave me. The other one is seventy three. If they

825
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: if they really have to steal it, I mean they

826
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: can have it. But it did have sentimental value. Wait,

827
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: so they stole ten and two of them were famous.

828
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: Amos Is. Yeah. Yeah. So also this is, by the way,

829
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 1: that not the first time he had a glove stolen

830
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: like he this was like, yeah, he's had some tough luck, right,

831
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for bad lucky to have no luck

832
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: at all. That my sister says all the time, I've

833
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: heard that expression. Yeah, I know exactly, Like it's like

834
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: a family one round here anyway, So ODIs amos, he says,

835
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: and that quote, This new one's four years old. Now

836
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: I'm going, oh for two. I had one that was

837
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:36,439
Speaker 1: eight years old, ripped off a couple of years ago

838
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: in Boston, and now this one, I'll just have to

839
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Speaker 1: try to get another old glove from somebody. I give

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00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: my new gloves away, someone who once offered him too

841
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,439
Speaker 1: grand for one of his gloves, and he turned down

842
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: the offer. Yea, his gloves are worth more to him

843
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: than money. Yeah. So the Royals, by the way, in

844
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: the game they lose, Royals lost four to zero because

845
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: they're all distracted. It was seven hits, shutout. Yeah, they

846
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: just didn't feel it. They didn't feel good. Yeah. After

847
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 1: the game, the Brewers manager Alex Grammas, the amazotis wearing

848
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: his uniform. That manager Alex Grammas, he says, it felt

849
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: like we were beating ourselves out there today. Everybody. Comedian

850
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: everybody funny. Everybody's funny. Now you're funny too. So of

851
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 1: these fifty three baseball uniforms, the hats, cleats, gloves, all

852
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: that's stolen, how much do you think they get back?

853
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: Nothing exactly. You know, who would steal it? And where

854
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: does it go that? The clown kids, clown kids? What

855
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: are you doing here with your hands? The clown kid?

856
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:36,359
Speaker 1: There's the cut up the card fellow Jim Colburn, Yeah, yeah,

857
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: the picture of the game. And then you go in

858
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: the off season and he's at one of those conventions

859
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: selling them at the table. Does it have a good guest?

860
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: I like the sporting press assumed it was collectors. There's

861
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: probably in the black market. You're never going to see

862
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: that again. A lot. Probably an insider job. Blah blah blah. Well,

863
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: you know, they checked the collector's market. Nothing really popped

864
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 1: up for a long time, but the baseball collectible black market,

865
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 1: the hard men of that market, they apparently were able

866
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 1: to move this merch without anybody else really finding it.

867
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: So maybe they already had buyers lined up. Who knows,

868
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: but the players were pretty suspicious that it was an

869
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: inside job from the Brewer's clubhouse and somebody thieves. They

870
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: never get named, never get caught and turned up, never

871
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: gets solved. But some of the team uniforms allegedly were

872
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: popping up on deep black markets. And one of the

873
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: Royals pitchers, Andy Hassler, back when he was with the Angels,

874
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: they had a bunch uniform stolen and he said that

875
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: a guy had come up to him and I quote later,

876
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: a guy came up to me with my uniform shirt

877
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,439
Speaker 1: and wanted me to autograph it for him. I asked

878
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: him where he got it. He said, he bought it

879
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 1: a souvenir auction. So that's where you have to check,

880
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: is all the super auctions, and at that time it

881
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: wasn't easy to do, so most likely the stuff, if

882
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,439
Speaker 1: it did get moved in public, got moved quick. So

883
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:53,359
Speaker 1: now you asked earlier about why didn't they just go

884
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: to the gift shop and get some new uniforms. Turns

885
00:46:56,239 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: out that actually would have been a good answer. Lou Whittaker,

886
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: I must even know him. Detroit Tigers played Baseball Player

887
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: All Star in the eighties All Star Game. Lou Whittaker

888
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 1: shows up to the All Star Game and he's like,

889
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta bring my own uniform. Guys, I

890
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 1: don't have it. What are we gonna do? So, like, Lulu,

891
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? He's like, I don't have

892
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: a uniform. Come on, I'll go to the gift shop.

893
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:20,800
Speaker 1: So he takes the Elizabeth plan, goes up to the

894
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: gift shop, gets himself a uniform, gets himself a sharpie,

895
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: writes on the back of number, and the guys like,

896
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: you want to put Whittaker. He's like, that's too much writing,

897
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: just put the number. He leaves his name off. He

898
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,600
Speaker 1: gets he buys a hat from the gift shop, goes out,

899
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: plays in it. This is what gives major League Baseball

900
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: the idea to sell replica jersey's. Up till that point

901
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 1: with Lou Whittaker at the All Star Game, they had

902
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,480
Speaker 1: never thought to sell to a T shirt. Yeah no,

903
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: he got caught like a jersey. But that's when he

904
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:50,400
Speaker 1: started selling like players just a generic Here's what because

905
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: now you can get it exactly with the player's name,

906
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: the number, and everything. And then if something happens, they

907
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: can run up and buy their own jersey exactly if

908
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,759
Speaker 1: they spill on it. That you reformed by the way

909
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: that he made is now in the Smithsonian. Smithsonian is like,

910
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: I respect a game, yah man, that's that's incredible. So

911
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,799
Speaker 1: since the Royals were on the road trip and they

912
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,320
Speaker 1: were not headed home, so now they have no uniforms

913
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: and they gotta go in the next team allowed them

914
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:20,760
Speaker 1: to wear their uniforms. Are they just going to keep? Should?

915
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: They hit up a good Will on the way and

916
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 1: they're like, what do you guys got? Well, what they

917
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: decided to do is they're like, we're going to the

918
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 1: Yankees and those guys are a pain. You know how

919
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: the Yankees are. Let's call back, they call Kansas City.

920
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: They're like, get us as many uniforms as you can,

921
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: just send them out. So they have a bunch of

922
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: uniforms all shipped out to the Bronx and they make

923
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: it in time for their game, their stretch, and they

924
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: managed to have their own uniforms. They're a little tight,

925
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:46,280
Speaker 1: little starchy, but they're at their uniforms. There's one silver

926
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,760
Speaker 1: lining I want to leave you within this story. Remember

927
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 1: my man famous amos Otis, Yes, okay, remember his glove. Yes, Well,

928
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: there is a happy ending to that story. And they

929
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: quote my baseball glove the only one I've ever you

930
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: have had a big hole in the middle. I was

931
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: leaving the clubhouse to go out to the dugout and

932
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: I walked by the trash can and my glove was

933
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 1: in it. They had thrown my glove in the trash.

934
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: The thieves. Thieves were like, this thing's got a hole

935
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: in it, so they through the glove away. If you

936
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: can believe it, this was not the first time that

937
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: famous amos Otis found a glove in the trash. In

938
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: spring training, he was down in Sun City, Arizona, and

939
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: thieves broke into the clubhouse. They stole all the Royals uniforms.

940
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 1: He was still in the Royals at that time. And

941
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:30,800
Speaker 1: this is, by the way, this is before or after.

942
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: This was after the original theft, So he now knows

943
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: like how this is going to go down. So when

944
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,240
Speaker 1: he's down in Sun City and they steal the thieves

945
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:39,759
Speaker 1: break in and you're like, hey, let's do like a

946
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: copycat crimes uniforms. Royals are punks, you can roll them easy, right,

947
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: So they go in steal their uniforms. Otis's glove gets stolen.

948
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: He knows what to do. He doesn't freak out, he

949
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: doesn't get worried, doesn't talk to sports writers. He just

950
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:54,879
Speaker 1: heads right outside. He got He looks and he looks

951
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: into dumpster and he finds his gloves sitting right on

952
00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: top of the track. For another time. I love it

953
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: as how you put it, I have said. So I

954
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: walk over to the trash can. It's sure enough my

955
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: glove was in there. Let's see. I love that. So, Elizabeth,

956
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: what's our ridiculous takeaway here? I think our ridiculous takeaway

957
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: is that we need more ridiculous energy in in entertainment

958
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: and sports. I think that it's very corporate and stilted

959
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,720
Speaker 1: these days, and I like when it gets it gets loose,

960
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: it's silly. I like that, let's get funky with it.

961
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: I just want to get funky with everything. Yeah, that's

962
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: always what you're saying. Like I reach over, I'm like, hey,

963
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: could you pass the pepper? And you're like, you want

964
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: to get funky with it? Let's get funky with it. Yeah,

965
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: my ridiculous takeaway, thank you for asking. I purposely never

966
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 1: ask you. And it's in part because I know you're

967
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: just going to say it whether I want to hear

968
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,320
Speaker 1: it or not. It's going to drone it into you.

969
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: But also I'm usually just like, you know, set a

970
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: drift on memory bliss thinking of something that you were

971
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: talking about earlier. Don't probably play coy with me, dotton

972
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:07,439
Speaker 1: so mine the Milwaukee Brewers I said it earlier. Yeah,

973
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers. Just take it and go Milwaukee Brewers.

974
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: It's a ridiculous name, right, Like, what are you? We're

975
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: the brewers of Milwaukee brew Beer. There, I get it.

976
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: I get it. I mean, like, I totally get it.

977
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: The Milwaukee famous for brewing. You're supposed to imagine that

978
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: they like they do the little Vernon Shirley Brewing and

979
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,399
Speaker 1: then they're like, oh the whistle, we gotta go play,

980
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: and then they all skip down the road to the

981
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: I guess yeah, I mean, I'm I'm with it. It's

982
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 1: and I like the whole blue collar aspect of it,

983
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,399
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, right, I mean there are sillier names,

984
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: and this is kind of my whole point. In Major

985
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: League Baseball, there are three teams named for underwear. There

986
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: is the White Sox, the Red Sox, and the Cincinnati Reds,

987
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: which were originally the Cincinnati red Socking three underwears, right,

988
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: But I'm not done. Then there are the Phillies. What

989
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: is a Philly. I'll give you five dollars if you

990
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: can tell me what a Phillies. Well that's yes, but

991
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: looks for the pH Philly. They're like fun little Philly,

992
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: philadelph Philadelphia people. I have no idea I want to

993
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: think I know about the Philadelphia Phillies. Is I bet

994
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: of Philly is something that will cuss at me? Probably

995
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: that's a Philadelphia. That's all I know. But you know, okay,

996
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: how about this Philadelphia Athletics. The Oakland Athletics were originally

997
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Athletics. What's an athletic? A bunch of athletics

998
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: go sports? And then they become the A's, So you're

999
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: just an I got another one for you, The Dodgers.

1000
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: They were named for the beloved New York tradition of

1001
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: dodging death in the streets. Yeah, the team's name was

1002
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. So it's like, oh, you made

1003
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: it to your destination. Which the greatest name at the

1004
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: Trolley Dodgers. Oh I forgot the most ridiculous. The mountaintop

1005
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,480
Speaker 1: is you can root for Catholic priests, the San Diego Padre.

1006
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: Like I said, the monks. You know, who paris Sarah.

1007
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: But still but you say, like the Priests, how you

1008
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:57,479
Speaker 1: doing exactly like? And we're gonna have people dare to say.

1009
00:52:57,719 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: I can't believe the Indians changed her name to the

1010
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: guard The whole league is ridiculous. Yeah, the Guardians at

1011
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 1: least a respectable name that is not offensive. I think

1012
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: we I think we can live. I take something sillier.

1013
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: That's a good point though, because their opponents are underwear

1014
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: Catholic priest and New Yorkers who live to see another day. Okay,

1015
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:18,879
Speaker 1: you see where I'm going with this. Totally see where

1016
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: you're going with this. So but what can I say?

1017
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 1: I love basics. That's a great takeaway. I love baseball too.

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00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. I'm Zaren Burnett, and over

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00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: there that is Elizabeth Dutton and also Zaron Burnett and

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Speaker 1: also Elizabeth Duddon. You can find us online at Ridiculous

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Speaker 1: you're a snitch. We just want to tell us about

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00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 1: ridiculous crime you'd like to hear about. We'd love those two.

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Speaker 1: but we're not living to do it, so email us

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Speaker 1: won't tell the cops. Thanks for listening. M Ridiculous Crime

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