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Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what? On Tuesday, December tenth,

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Speaker 1: and it is a very important day because we are

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Speaker 1: releasing our compilation episode of twenty twenty four, our highlight

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Speaker 1: moments from every single interview we.

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Speaker 2: Did in twenty twenty four. We're gonna get to that.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to the one Soto signing, which is massive,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to talk about the two new Hall

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Speaker 1: But most importantly, today is December tenth, which means it's

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Speaker 1: my dad's birthday.

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Speaker 3: Happy birthday, Papa, Well, thank you, Jeff. Share this birthday

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Speaker 3: with Carlos Rodan of the Yankees, Nestra Cortes of the Yankees,

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Speaker 3: Joe Burrow of the Bengals, and a bunch of others.

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Speaker 3: But today is my sixty eighth birthday. And I understand

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Speaker 3: you have a present for me?

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Speaker 4: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: I did?

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Speaker 1: I sent it to your house.

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Speaker 2: Did you get it?

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Speaker 3: Do you have it in front of you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? I do.

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Speaker 4: And I don't know what birthday.

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't like it.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, he's ruffling. It's a birthday for Tim Kirkshin.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's a Washington Commanders.

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Speaker 7: Jersey.

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Speaker 4: How about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a sweatshirt, right, a hoodie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a hoodie that sounds that looks great, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: They're playing really good this year. I thought I thought

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Speaker 4: In the spirit really great.

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Speaker 3: And I'm thrilled, thank you very much, Jeff, because, as

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Speaker 3: you know, a couple of years ago, for my birthday,

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Speaker 3: I got a hand vacuum, I got a broom, I

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Speaker 3: got a device to shave my nose hair, and you

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Speaker 3: was my birthday. I mean it kind of had a

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Speaker 1: It was all about cleanliness that year, sure, right and

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Speaker 1: after it it was the best birthday you've ever.

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Speaker 3: Had, right right. So all the stuff that falls off

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Speaker 4: So that was great. And thank you so much for

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Speaker 4: the gift, Jeff. That's really great.

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Speaker 2: Of course.

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Speaker 1: Well, for people who don't know, my dad grew up

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Speaker 1: in Darnstown, Maryland, So you grew up quite a tortured

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Speaker 3: I know I did.

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Speaker 2: And every time.

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Speaker 1: They'd win, like two games in a row, what would

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Speaker 1: we say, we're going.

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Speaker 2: To the soup?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: And then if they if they throw an interception in

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Speaker 3: Thank right, Jeff? Look, I used to love football growing up,

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Speaker 3: and I just don't understand it anymore. Ever since they

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Speaker 3: don't even understand. So I don't understand football. But your

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Speaker 3: brother in law, Mark Keenahan, and I I told him,

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Speaker 3: I don't think I can name ten quarterbacks in the

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Speaker 3: So how many quarterbacks do you think I could name?

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Speaker 3: What percentage of the quarterbacks?

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Speaker 4: Do you think I got?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 3: We had a quiz at Mark's house.

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Speaker 2: Starters right?

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Speaker 1: Yes, current starters? I think you could you could name

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Speaker 1: at least fifteen sixteen. You can name half of them

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Speaker 1: for sure?

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Speaker 4: I got twenty of them, correct?

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Speaker 3: I got oh good, Okay, I got twenty quarterbacks correct?

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's I think it's.

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Speaker 1: I think it's worth noting that on Sunday, despite my

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Speaker 1: Allen on my fantasy team, and he scored six touchdowns,

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Speaker 4: Happy, which is all that matters.

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Speaker 8: Jeff.

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Speaker 3: A lot of football here.

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Speaker 1: Let's go into baseball, Dad, right off the bat, Juan

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Speaker 1: Soto late Sunday night, December eighth, signs for an absurd

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Speaker 3: Your reactions, Well, first we got to go back to Thursday, Jeff.

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Speaker 3: I was at the Safeway in Darnstown. You've been there

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Speaker 3: many times. And I'm walking through the Safeway and this

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Speaker 4: She was walking so slowly. She came up to me,

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Speaker 3: Think she's so old that she's gonna like ask me,

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Speaker 3: This wonderful woman looks at me right in the eye

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Speaker 3: and says, where's Sodo gonna sign?

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Speaker 4: That's what she said.

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Speaker 3: She's like a one hundred years old. It was so adorable.

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Speaker 3: And then we carried on this high level conversation about

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Speaker 3: as long as he doesn't go to the Phillies. I'm

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Speaker 3: okay with that because her son is the biggest Phillies

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Speaker 4: She's laughing through this whole thing.

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Speaker 3: So I was just so pleased to carry on that

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Speaker 3: a great hitter for the next at least ten years,

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Speaker 3: Most Valuable Player, which still amazes me. They've been around,

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Speaker 3: so it's nineteen sixty two and they've never had an MVP.

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Speaker 3: But Jeff, I go back to and obviously this was

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Speaker 3: a tremendously competitive offer for Wan Soto, but he needed

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Speaker 3: another five million more on top of it, so he

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Speaker 3: the lesson here for me is when Steve Cohen took

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Speaker 4: I was talking to Bobby Valentine, who was one.

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Speaker 3: not finish second to the Yankees on anything. And here

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Speaker 3: Steve Cohen proved it. He needed to make a swift

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Speaker 3: and bold move, and boy did he ever. Is it

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Speaker 3: an overpay? Of course it is. Jeff seven hundred and

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Speaker 4: It's absurd.

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Speaker 3: But when you're the Mets, you haven't won the World

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Speaker 3: Series since eighty six, you're trying to seize the fan

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Speaker 4: This is what you do.

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Speaker 3: Whether it's good for baseball or not is irrelevant.

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Speaker 4: At least it is to the Mets.

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Speaker 2: Amiss all of this excitement around mon Soto.

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Speaker 1: Shortly before that announcement, we found out that the Hall

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Speaker 2: This is a really exciting announcement.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and Dick Allen is going into the Hall of

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Speaker 3: Fame along with Dave Parker. Dick Allen should have been

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Speaker 3: in years and years and years ago. To me, he

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Speaker 3: was a first ballot Hall of Famer Jeff. When you

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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty four for the next you know, seventeen years,

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Speaker 4: Depth of Dick Allen's career was Hank Aaron.

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable and for the prime years of Dick Allen sixty

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Speaker 3: Until Mike Trout came along in twenty twelve, no rookie

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Speaker 4: A great player.

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Speaker 3: And his brother, Hank Allen once told me he said,

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Speaker 4: In the grand game.

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Speaker 3: And not just a big power hitter, but he could run.

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Speaker 3: He was a great right fielder, had a tremendous throwing arm.

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Speaker 3: So the bottom line is the Hall of Fame is

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Speaker 2: Isn't that the truth?

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Speaker 1: And now I'm really excited before we get to our

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Speaker 1: compilation episode today featuring so many amazing moments from twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four. Each episode, each guest you're gonna get one moment.

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Speaker 1: It was really hard to narrow it down for each guest,

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Speaker 1: to announce though our friends at Game Changer invited us

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Speaker 1: to the ABCA, the American Baseball Coaches Association, Big Big

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Speaker 1: Conference in January in Washington, DC, and we're going to

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Speaker 1: be out there dad recording another offseason episode, and we're

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Speaker 1: going to be joined by Brandon Geyer, which is going

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Speaker 1: to be a great guest from the ABCA.

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Speaker 3: Right, And that will be on January the fourth, which

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Speaker 3: if I made Jeff, that's your late uncle Matt's birthday,

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Speaker 3: and we can.

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Speaker 4: Never forget that Uncle Matt.

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Speaker 3: It was a great college baseball player, was also a

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Speaker 3: Brandon Geyer is going to be great. Brandon Guyer is

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Speaker 3: Our guest on week one was our dear friend ed

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Speaker 16: Listen, guys, Mookie Betts is probably the best athlete on

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Speaker 16: I got you. Now I got a chance to play

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Speaker 1: they would say, obviously since we had him on. He

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Speaker 1: became the Cincinnati Reds manager for the twenty twenty five season.

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Speaker 1: Moving forward, but you got a lot of memories with Tito,

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Speaker 1: right He.

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Speaker 3: Worked at ESPN for one year, and I promise you,

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Speaker 3: I laughed repeatedly, for one year with Tito.

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Speaker 1: You had some interesting housing. Your first spring training with

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Speaker 1: ESPN with my dad?

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Speaker 3: Is that true?

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Speaker 17: It's so true? And and you know, normally stories get

453
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Speaker 17: embellished with time, this one didn't really need to. I

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Speaker 17: pull into Orlando and it's my first time with ESPN

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Speaker 17: in spring training, and I'm kind of nervous and have

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Speaker 17: some anxiety, and I pull into this log cabin type

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Speaker 17: type tim what was it called.

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Speaker 3: It was called Camp Wilderness.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is very apropos And I get

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Speaker 17: to my room and I just know somebody's playing a

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Speaker 17: joke on me, Like I keep waiting for somebody to

462
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Speaker 17: come out of the you know, out of the closet,

463
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Speaker 17: like hey, welcome to your new job, and I called

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Speaker 17: Tim in his place and I'm like, hey, man, let's

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Speaker 17: go cook some some morees. And I remember being hungry

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Speaker 17: and calling the lobby and the lobby was like, did

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Speaker 17: you see that that vending machine? I said, yeah, they

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Speaker 17: go that's our room.

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Speaker 4: Service, Jeff.

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Speaker 3: They had bunk beds in our room. It's like we

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Speaker 3: were in that cup Scouts. He won two World Series

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Speaker 3: with the Red Sox, and they put us in the

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Speaker 3: middle of the woods in a log cabin.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to go make some similar you know what?

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Speaker 17: Timber. One thing, there was one phone in my place

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Speaker 17: and it was on the opposite side of where the

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Speaker 17: bunk beds were, so if somebody called, which I'm sure

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Speaker 17: it was you, I couldn't get to the phone in time.

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Speaker 17: It was like, but you know what it was, it's

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Speaker 17: it kind of encapsulates our time there because everything we

481
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Speaker 17: did we had fun. And I think that's the way

482
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Speaker 17: it's supposed to be, right.

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Speaker 1: Mike Sure, the mind behind great shows like Brooklyn ninety nine,

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Speaker 1: Parks and rec the Office.

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Speaker 2: He was our guest.

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Speaker 1: But he's not just a TV Hollywood guy.

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Speaker 2: No, he loves.

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Speaker 3: Baseball and he told us Manny Ramiro's story that not

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Speaker 3: many people have ever heard.

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Speaker 18: I think it's Manny's rookie year. It's the year that

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Speaker 18: OJ Simpson goes on the run. Manny was on the

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Speaker 18: Cleveland Indians at the time, and one of the players

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Speaker 18: on the team was Chad Oj the pitcher O g

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Speaker 18: e A. So he's watching that. He turns on the

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Speaker 18: news and he hears that the police are after Oj,

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Speaker 18: that the plae are chasing OJ Simpson. But he all

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Speaker 18: hears is OJ. And he calls Chad OJ and says, Hey,

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Speaker 18: I don't know what you did, but looking for you.

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Speaker 2: You got Are you okay? Do you need help?

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Speaker 18: And Chad Oj was like, I think it's a different Oj.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 1: Our Mother's Day episode, we had two guests, including former

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Speaker 1: Major league Casey Kandell.

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Speaker 3: Whose mother Helen, played in the women's professional Baseball league

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Speaker 3: which inspired the movie A League of their Own, and

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Speaker 3: Casey told me, my mom had a better swing than

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Speaker 3: I did.

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Speaker 19: They tell a story where she got she actually got

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Speaker 19: kicked out of the mother, the mother the mother son

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Speaker 19: the league event. They were afraid he was going to

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Speaker 19: hurt somebody.

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Speaker 1: So that I mean, it's that the first time ever

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Speaker 1: because I'm sure dads have been told you can't be

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Speaker 1: a part of this, mister Griffin.

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Speaker 2: But I'm sure this is the first time ever.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 10: It was.

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Speaker 19: Yeah, it was a great, great and so yeah, it

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Speaker 19: was like days kind of asked, well, you know, could

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Speaker 19: you could you step back? Somebody could get hurt.

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Speaker 1: That is so funny now, you know naturally usually that

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Speaker 1: father son baseball bond throwing, you know, catch in the

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Speaker 1: backyard getting ready for a big game, or the pep

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Speaker 1: talks on the way to the game.

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Speaker 2: Did you have those with your mom? Was she teaching

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Speaker 2: you how to be a ballplayer?

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Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean a lot of the mental side. I

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Speaker 19: mean she she was really good with that. I mean

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Speaker 19: she she would play catch. I thought everybody's mom was

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Speaker 19: doing it, you know, hit ground balls, play catch. I

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Speaker 19: was like, oh yeah, but moms do, I guess, and

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Speaker 19: you know, not not until I got older that I realized,

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Speaker 19: oh that was very unique, and you know she was

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Speaker 19: she was a player. But yeah, she she would talk

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Speaker 19: to me as I was growing up, and you know,

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Speaker 19: just just about how to handle yourself and and how

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Speaker 19: to play the game and that you know, you can

539
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Speaker 19: never have a bad day of hustling. So you know

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Speaker 19: what you can. You don't have to take any It

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Speaker 19: doesn't take any talent to do that. So those are

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Speaker 19: the kind of things she had build in me growing up.

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Speaker 1: Our other guest for our Mother's Day episode was major

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Speaker 1: league infielder Christian Arroyo, whose mom didn't matter if she

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Speaker 1: was pregnant, didn't matter if she had kids running around.

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Speaker 1: She was making him into the major league player that

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Speaker 1: he became.

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Speaker 10: The very early stages of my of my baseball playing

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Speaker 10: days was all was all started by my mom.

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Speaker 1: That is so amazing because my mom helped me with

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Speaker 1: poster board projects and your mom was throwing VP is

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Speaker 1: hitting your grounders?

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Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, no, it gets better too. I mean

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Speaker 10: I've told this story before, but I think in the

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Speaker 10: postseason in twenty one I talked about this, But yeah,

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Speaker 10: she was. She was about seven or eight months pregnant

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Speaker 10: when she was doing that, So, you know, it's kind

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Speaker 10: of it's kind of hard to understand exactly what that means.

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Speaker 10: My wife and I just we just introduced our first

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Speaker 10: child into the world this last offseason, So getting to

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Speaker 10: see my wife go through that at the seven to

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Speaker 10: eight months, you know, period of being pregnant, I cannot

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Speaker 10: imagine hitting ground balls and throwing VP. Yeah. So I

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Speaker 10: mean in every sense of the word, like my mom

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Speaker 10: is legitimately my superhero. So yeah, I can't thank her enough.

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Speaker 10: It's cliche to say, but there really are no words

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Speaker 10: to express my gratitude for what she did for me

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Speaker 10: at such a young age and continues to do for

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Speaker 10: me throughout my life.

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Speaker 1: I love how many guests we got on the show

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Speaker 1: that worked with you dad at ESPN, whether it was

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Speaker 1: calling games or being in the studio of Baseball Tonight,

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Speaker 1: and former manager Buck Showalter was one of our guests, right.

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Speaker 3: And one of the great storytellers ever. Where do you

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Speaker 3: hear this one on Baseball Tonight when you had to

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Speaker 3: demonstrate a takeout slide of Harold Reynolds Now tell us

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Speaker 3: the story with all the details, Jeff, he was not

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Speaker 3: dressed in sweatsuit and sneakers. Tell us the story.

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Speaker 20: Well, you know, we kept talking about slides in the

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Speaker 20: second base and what's legal what's not, and Harold and

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Speaker 20: I are talking. I told the camera guys, I said, listen,

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Speaker 20: we're gonna do a demo this Carol wan do a demo?

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Speaker 20: And he didn't really, I told the camera guy off

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Speaker 20: the side. Listen, you got one take at this, don't

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Speaker 20: miss it. I'm gonna take him out, and they went

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Speaker 20: what I said, I'm gonna get him. So he put

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Speaker 20: an old burlap sack down there, and I didn't realize

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Speaker 20: that there was the still rivet screws on the on

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Speaker 20: the flour of the set. So Harold's getting a feed,

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Speaker 20: probably from Tim, and I'm coming in from first base,

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Speaker 20: and I got a I got a full suit on

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Speaker 20: tie the whole nine yards and I slide it's on

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Speaker 20: tape somewhere just because they turned it into the Emmy

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Speaker 20: Show thing. And I gotta tell you, Jeff, I smoke

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Speaker 20: it smoking. He was asshole up in the air to

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Speaker 20: tea kettles whatever you call it, and hit Tim.

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Speaker 7: He had his feet up in the air.

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Speaker 20: And uh, I ripped my pants from above my kneecap

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Speaker 20: to my cheek of my left rear.

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Speaker 7: But we got it on tape, and I don't know.

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Speaker 20: If he's forgiven me yet, has he Tim?

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Speaker 3: I don't know if Harold ever forget Harold is still

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Speaker 3: prize that he got taken out by a guy the

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Speaker 3: three piece suit. But who was surprised? It was fuck

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Speaker 3: if he's gonna do it.

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Speaker 4: He's going to do it properly, right.

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Speaker 3: And the next guest is my dear friend Steve Rushan,

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Speaker 3: who is the best writer for me in America. He's

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Speaker 3: the smartest and the funniest person that I've ever met.

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Speaker 1: And we got to let you know before we go

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Speaker 1: into our highlight from this interview. He's married to Rebecca Lobo,

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Speaker 1: one of the best WNBA players of all time, and

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Speaker 1: they're differing reactions in meeting Carlton Fisk.

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Speaker 14: Her experience of baseball is so she grew up a

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Speaker 14: Red Sox fan. She got Carlton Fisk's autograph on a

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Speaker 14: baseball and told me, you know, Carlton Fisky was such

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Speaker 14: a nice guy. And then she met Roger Clements and

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Speaker 14: he was such a nice guy and said, let me

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Speaker 14: tell you, I had very different experience for covering these guys.

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Speaker 14: The very first story I did for on the baseball

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Speaker 14: beat for Sports Ulster, they sent me out this week,

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Speaker 14: I went to cover the Brewers. I interviewed I think

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Speaker 14: everybody on the roster, and then they said, no, we

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Speaker 14: don't want to do the Brewers this week. We want

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Speaker 14: to do the White Sox on the Chicago. It was

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Speaker 14: the last year of old Kamiski and I was standing

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Speaker 14: on the field talking to our photographer Ron Madra and

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Speaker 14: Karl and fisk came over to Ron and said, Hey,

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Speaker 14: let's pictures she took me in spring training.

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Speaker 15: Could I get a copy? So I didn't come up

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Speaker 15: to his conversation. He came up to our conversation, and

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Speaker 15: so I introduced myself, mister fis con Steve Rushian from

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Speaker 15: Sports Illustrated. You know, I'm twenty two years old and

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Speaker 15: I'd love to interview you today. And he just turned

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Speaker 15: and walked away without a word and just started And

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Speaker 15: I said, did he not hear me? And so I

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Speaker 15: followed him, and he's going down into the dugout and

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Speaker 15: down the clubhouse tunnel, and he said, I got meetings

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Speaker 15: all day today. And I said, well, I'll be here

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Speaker 15: for the next three days, and he said, and he said,

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Speaker 15: I've got meetings for the next three days. So that's

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Speaker 15: that's when I knew that I was going to be

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Speaker 15: a very highly strung, stressed out guy for the next

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Speaker 15: three years.

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Speaker 3: On Memorial Day, our next guest was Lindsey Bearra, the

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Speaker 3: granddaughter of Yogi Bearra. One of the greatest players of

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Speaker 3: all and she.

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Speaker 1: Told us that Yogi didn't love talking about his service

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Speaker 1: despite being a military hero himself, and how this actually

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Speaker 1: got him in a little bit of trouble with one

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Speaker 1: of baseball's military.

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Speaker 3: Heroes, Grandpa.

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Speaker 21: There was a little bit when Grandpa was first in

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Speaker 21: the big leagues when Bob Feller wouldn't talk to him,

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Speaker 21: and he didn't understand what the problem was because Grandpa,

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Speaker 21: you know, he just he talked to everybody, and he

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Speaker 21: asked somebody, why didn't why doesn't Bob Feller like me?

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Speaker 21: Or why doesn't he talk to me? And he goes, oh,

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Speaker 21: he doesn't have respect for people who didn't serve their country.

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Speaker 21: And Grandpa was like, yo, hello, I was there. And

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Speaker 21: then Bob Feller eventually apologized to him, and then they

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Speaker 21: pay great friends. So a lot of even his uh,

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Speaker 21: you know, his counterparts in Major League.

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Speaker 16: Baseball didn't know he was in the service.

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Speaker 21: Grandpa was never one to toot his own horn, you know,

666
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Speaker 21: and you know, or to talk about himself at all,

667
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Speaker 21: be it you know, World War two or baseball or whatever.

668
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Speaker 3: You had to really ask him.

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Speaker 21: Pointed questions to get him to go into detail about anything,

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Speaker 21: So I guess you know that's what happen with bub Feller.

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Speaker 10: Two.

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Speaker 1: On Luke Garic Day, we had Sarah Langs on the show,

673
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Speaker 1: who is such a great baseball mind, credible statistician, great

674
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Speaker 1: storyteller who is also battling als. We lost my uncle Matt,

675
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Speaker 1: my dad's brother in the fall to als. We have

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Speaker 1: a lang star Als right here.

677
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Speaker 2: Above our set for is this a great gamer?

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Speaker 22: Right?

679
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Speaker 3: And we asked Sarah for her favorite stat her favorite

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Speaker 3: story ever.

681
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Speaker 4: Get a load of this.

682
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Speaker 5: So my absolute favorite of all time was in May

683
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Speaker 5: and one say twenty nineteen, there was a game the

684
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Speaker 5: Giants for playing in Cincinnati and Pablo san Valman had

685
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Speaker 5: a home run and he has so homemase. And then

686
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Speaker 5: Pablo pitching was always a huge thing among the Giants

687
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Speaker 5: fan base, and he came in to pitch and he pitches,

688
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Speaker 5: he pitches anything, and he was scoreless. I mean, he's

689
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Speaker 5: a position when I'm pitching. It's obviously very silly. He

690
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Speaker 5: did it, and he did it well, and I was

691
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Speaker 5: sitting there and I'm thinking, how many guys went a

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Speaker 5: home run has song based by the way pablaing his

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Speaker 5: tong base was obviously point in a moment as well,

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Speaker 5: and also had a scoreless pitching appearance, so we called

695
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Speaker 5: the Vice Sorcerer always say hey, can we look at this.

696
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Speaker 5: The only other guy to have done them at that

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Speaker 5: time was Chrissy Matthews, also for the Giants, also against

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Speaker 5: the Red and of course he threw a shutout, not

699
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Speaker 5: one scoreless setting, but that was for a long time

700
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Speaker 5: my absolute go too. And then last year show him

701
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Speaker 5: Tani when he had his first career shutout, his first

702
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Speaker 5: career complete game, did the same thing. So now we've

703
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Speaker 5: realized who've done that? And no Tani, Pablo Sandwal and

704
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Speaker 5: Christie marattheism whenever you Pablo Sandel and Christy Matthewson on

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Speaker 5: the same bless you know. It's amazing and that is

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Speaker 5: really my baseballs us.

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Speaker 14: That is what you get.

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Speaker 3: On Father's Day, we had my dear friend car Ravage,

709
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Speaker 3: the best play by play guy that I've ever worked with,

710
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Speaker 3: and his son Sam, and.

711
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Speaker 1: We talked about a prank that the folks on Baseball

712
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Speaker 1: Tonight and Sunday Night Baseball.

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Speaker 2: Pulled on you during a broadcast.

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Speaker 1: I recall one of my favorites and I hope I

715
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Speaker 1: don't steal your favorite story, which is when you guys

716
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Speaker 1: were at Fenway Park and my dad was wearing a

717
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Speaker 1: winter coat in the booth, mind you.

718
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Speaker 3: And gloves. But yeah, he had lost one.

719
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Speaker 1: Of his gloves and he was complaining, I can't find

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Speaker 1: my glove.

721
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Speaker 3: Can't find my glove.

722
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Speaker 1: And at every bump shot, you know when you come

723
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Speaker 1: back from a commercial or you're about to go to

724
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Speaker 1: a commercial, you had the whole camera crew in on

725
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Speaker 1: it putting his glove and different on the monster. It's

726
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Speaker 1: on a seed and Dad never noticed.

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Speaker 23: Play to play.

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Speaker 24: I mean, just genius.

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Speaker 1: I just love I had to because I know you

730
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Speaker 1: had to have been behind that front, right, you.

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Speaker 3: Know it's I was certainly a part of it.

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Speaker 25: I mean there was We were always trying to conspire

733
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Speaker 25: ways and unfortunately your dad, who I.

734
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Speaker 16: Know is in the room and can hear this.

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Speaker 25: He is one of the perfect targets for things like because.

736
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Speaker 10: Of the way he behaves.

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Speaker 25: And look, you know, there's a great story about getting

738
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Speaker 25: to a Yankee game when it's snowing seven hours early,

739
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Speaker 25: sitting in a parking garage that it wasn't even open.

740
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Speaker 25: Somehow he got the car in there. The game gets canceled,

741
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Speaker 25: he's got to go home. But he created so many

742
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 25: of those opportunities. You know, we we started this before

743
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 25: we came on to do the podcast The Heavy Side,

744
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Speaker 25: The Knees Plan.

745
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 24: There are so.

746
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Speaker 26: Many mannerisms that everybody, everybody, I mean Jeff and Sam.

747
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Speaker 25: You walk into a base all tonight, green room, and

748
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Speaker 25: as soon as he walks in it.

749
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Speaker 26: And then everything everybody's doing the Tim kirkshinak. So yeah,

750
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Speaker 26: the glove thing was great because and Wardo was in

751
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 26: on everybody was in on it, and there was this glove.

752
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Speaker 25: You know, it's like the TV over Sam's you know,

753
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 25: left shoulder there. Everybody can see it except the.

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Speaker 16: Glove there.

755
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Speaker 3: It's in the popcorn.

756
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Speaker 16: It's everywhere, right. It was wonderful.

757
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Speaker 3: Our next guest was my dear friend Doug Glanville, who

758
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Speaker 3: talked eloquently about the Rickwood game that was played in Birmingham, Alabama,

759
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 3: and he also told us about the game that he

760
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Speaker 3: played in.

761
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Speaker 2: He was not too happy. It was a little unfair, but.

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Speaker 27: You know, I hit and in the game I faced

763
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Speaker 27: Jose Contreras and Tyson Roth and we're always like, right

764
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Speaker 27: before the game, we were a little nervous because you know,

765
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Speaker 27: I was talking to Tony wyn Junior, and we were like,

766
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Speaker 27: how hard are you gonna go? How hard are you

767
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Speaker 27: gonna go? We were trying to gauge, like how much

768
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Speaker 27: we put on the accelerator, knowing that at one hundred

769
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Speaker 27: we're gonna blow out. So Tony and I are talking

770
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Speaker 27: and you know, so at some point, you know, we

771
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Speaker 27: try to figure out it, like a little bit of

772
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Speaker 27: a strategy, like all right, we're gonna go hard. So

773
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Speaker 27: Jose Contreras is pitching, and I got on one occount.

774
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Speaker 27: I hit a good, you know, nice line, drive a

775
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Speaker 27: little air under it, and right center. Now, of course

776
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Speaker 27: the guy who retired like last year is playing center,

777
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Speaker 27: so that's not really fair. I needed, like I needed

778
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Speaker 27: Jim Rice out there. All right, Jim Rice out there.

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Speaker 27: That's a triple. But no, we have Dexter Fowler out

780
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Speaker 27: there of course running it down like you know. I

781
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 27: was like, dude, like you played last week, I mean,

782
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 27: come on, you gotta let that drop. So he doesn't

783
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Speaker 27: let it drop. I get, you know, so I'm out.

784
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Speaker 27: But I did you know my walk rate, which was

785
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Speaker 27: like negative point five when I played, I actually walked

786
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Speaker 27: in this game and scored so I end up scoring

787
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Speaker 27: the second run, and then Ryan Howard here three run homers.

788
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 27: I felt like I did something. But it was great

789
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Speaker 27: that my kids and my wife got to see me

790
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Speaker 27: one last time, and my kids finally old enough to

791
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Speaker 27: appreciate it. So it was really incredible and we had

792
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Speaker 27: most importantly a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Our next guest was my friend Aaron Boone. You know

794
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Speaker 3: him as the manager of the New York Yankees, but

795
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Speaker 3: as we learned, he's the master of impressions for the Phillies.

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Speaker 28: Baseman, Mike Schmidt, catcher Ball Boom, right fielder, Bake McBride, Boody.

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Speaker 2: What what are you doing?

798
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Speaker 4: You're sending this to me in the middle of the night.

799
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Speaker 3: It's a cartoon in Moji and it's you doing a

800
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Speaker 3: perfect impersonation.

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Speaker 8: So that's Dan Baker, of course, the great PDA announcer

802
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Speaker 8: for the Phillies. And so one of the things, you know,

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Speaker 8: Brad oustmas now is my bench coach, and he sees

804
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 8: these quirks of mind every single day like it's a tick,

805
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Speaker 8: you know, Like I say full of the Phillies in

806
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Speaker 8: Damn Baker's voice.

807
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Speaker 4: One hundred times a day.

808
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Speaker 8: So my coaching staff all the people just like geez,

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Speaker 8: that's thirty, you know, the stupid stuff all the day,

810
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Speaker 8: you know, or or you know, we got Mike Harkey

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Speaker 8: on our staff, so I'll be hard for three, you know,

812
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Speaker 8: so like yeah, yeah, so, and I've turned it into

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Speaker 8: so Brad Austmas So his name backwards is some swath

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Speaker 8: so so I've turned it into when I see him,

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Speaker 8: I said, some swap for.

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Speaker 2: Dave z Incoff.

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Speaker 3: Give us at least a couple of guys please for

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Speaker 3: the starting lineup for the Sixers.

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Speaker 4: West Texas Day and mos, oh my god, now.

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Speaker 8: Andrew Stone, here's burs.

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Speaker 3: Oh boy, got doctor.

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Speaker 14: Philly.

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Speaker 1: Hank Zaria was our next guest. I mean he's a

824
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Speaker 1: voice on pretty much every Simpson's character. He's Brockmeyer. And

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Speaker 1: he joined us for the show.

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Speaker 3: Right and I made an appearance on Brockmeyer and he

827
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 3: walked us through everything that we needed to do, and

828
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Speaker 3: I still screwed it up.

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Speaker 1: Tell us about how he couldn't remember his one line, Hank.

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Speaker 10: This one line, just you know, one moment of one day.

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Speaker 29: I mean, he did great, but.

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Speaker 30: You know he had we threw him a line. I'll

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Speaker 30: tell you that.

834
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Speaker 8: Jim Brockmeyer.

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Speaker 30: He was supposed to say I love yentle he was

836
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Speaker 30: talking about Barbara Strassayer, and instead he proudly announced I

837
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Speaker 30: love Lentil, and uh. We said, well, now, Tim, we

838
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Speaker 30: didn't ask you what your favorite kind of soup is.

839
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Speaker 30: That would have been good, hawd We teed you up

840
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Speaker 30: that way, but but it was great.

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00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 3: Our next guest was ESPN's Scott Van Pelt, who is

842
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,439
Speaker 3: also the master of the.

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Speaker 1: Long a in the Baltimore accent, so we ambushed Dad

844
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Speaker 1: at the end of the interview.

845
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Speaker 2: For the all a team.

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Speaker 6: Catcher, we had fifth Quig George Spodrow and our outfielders

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Speaker 6: Minnie Yes to Maggio. Our starting picture coloon, we have.

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Speaker 29: Card coach Leony.

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Speaker 6: Our manager is Li hitting in case of emergency. I

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00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 6: added this with Jeff, I hope you don't mind.

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Speaker 31: Yay.

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Speaker 1: Thank you everybody.

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Speaker 6: It's always known Fordy.

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00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 3: I'm crying and I'm not apologized. Thank you so much

855
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 3: for joining us, Scott.

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00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: Our next two guests is when we get into our

857
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Speaker 1: murderer's row of is this a great game or what?

858
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 2: Cal Ripken Jr. Joined the show.

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Speaker 4: Right and cal Ripken Jr.

860
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 3: Got his toughness from his father, Cal Senior, who is

861
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 3: the single toughest person that I've ever met to wear

862
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 3: a Major league uniform.

863
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 4: And Cal Junior.

864
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Speaker 3: Describes his father, tell us the story about your dad

865
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Speaker 3: who played soccer in his mid fifties, and he came

866
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,399
Speaker 3: home that day with his young son, Junior, and he's

867
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Speaker 3: got a giant blood blister under his right big toe.

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Speaker 32: He covered the ground of the broken nose early and

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Speaker 32: me putting it back in place. And I'm thinking, where

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Speaker 32: did I.

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Speaker 33: Get that from?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 32: I get that from dad. Dad. Dad used to always say,

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Speaker 32: you know, when you got a little injury, you'd say,

875
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 32: rub a little tobacco juice on. It'll be all right tomorrow,

876
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 32: or it'll be all right before you're married.

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Speaker 7: Twice.

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00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 32: It was always like a downplay yet something that was

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00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 32: more serious. He'd be a little more serious about it.

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00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 32: But when we were kids and he took off his

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Speaker 32: socke and then there was a big blood bliss or

882
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 32: under his nail, on his big toe, And so he

883
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 32: went out in the garage and got a drill and

884
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 32: put a drill bit in it and drilled straight down

885
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 32: through the through the nail and relieved the pressure. And

886
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 32: then it started squirting out the top. But in the

887
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 32: process of doing that, you can't control it too well.

888
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 32: So then the drill went down a little further than

889
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 32: it needed to, and so he was cussing at it

890
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 32: and whatever else at that, and my mom looked at

891
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 32: him and he said, he said, that's what the doctor

892
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 32: would have done anyway. And then he said, yeah, but

893
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 32: the doctor would have done it a little bit more

894
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 32: precisely that he said. He said, it'll be all right.

895
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 3: In our Cooperstown episode, we brought in the greatest catcher

896
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,959
Speaker 3: of all time, Johnny Bench, for our Hall of Fame edition, and.

897
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: It was really special for him to talk about his

898
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: dad on a show hosted by a father and a son.

899
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 34: But my dad and I would watch the Game of

900
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 34: the Week every Saturday with Geene Kirby, Pee Wee Rees

901
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 34: and Dizzy Dean. But we would go down to Helm's Grocery.

902
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 34: We'd get a half gallon Neapolitan ice cream. We'd fill

903
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 34: her bowl up and we'd sit there and eat it

904
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 34: while we watched the game. Now, Dad, he had actually

905
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 34: batted against Satchel Page in Little Sandlot stuff. After he

906
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 34: did and I watched him play, and he could do

907
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 34: with lots of stuff. But he'd sit there and like

908
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 34: all every fan you know, how and.

909
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 23: Hell could he watch it?

910
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 13: How could he miss that? Hell?

911
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 34: I could hit that guy, good, hit him? How can

912
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 34: he Ralph thirty throwing Kurby? Hell, I cant hit that guy.

913
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 34: So it was embedded to me. And so I get

914
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 34: called up by the Reds to Saint Louis, up to Cincinnati,

915
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 34: and we go to Saint Louis and I called Mom

916
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:37,919
Speaker 34: and Dad. I said, I can get you tickets. I'll

917
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 34: get you a room. Come on up to Saint Louis

918
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 34: and watch. So I said, okay, So they up they come,

919
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 34: and so at first night, I'm going to really impress

920
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 34: the hell out of them. And but we faced a

921
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,320
Speaker 34: picture of the name of Bob Gibson that first time,

922
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 34: and I don't know if he's ra was one, one

923
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 34: two that year or what. But all of a sudden,

924
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 34: I'm up there and I strike out, and I go

925
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 34: up the second time, and I start and I go

926
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 34: up the third time and I strike out, and I'm

927
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,399
Speaker 34: coming back and I'm walking by the battery on deck

928
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 34: circle and just before I get to the dug and

929
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 34: our manager was Dave Bristol, Dave was kind of like

930
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 34: Sergeant Carter on Goomber Pile USMC. You didn't think of

931
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 34: anything but baseball. There was nothing but baseball. And I

932
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,720
Speaker 34: start to smile as I get to the on deck circle,

933
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 34: and by the time I reached the dugout, I'm grinning

934
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 34: and he's down here. It's took three or four steps in,

935
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 34: so he had to walk down the rail. He looked

936
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 34: up me and.

937
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,320
Speaker 2: Said, what hell, it's so funny.

938
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 34: I was just thinking, I don't think Dad can hit

939
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 34: this guy.

940
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 3: Our next guest was Eddie Alvarez, who won an Olympic

941
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 3: medal in speed skating and in baseball. The only person

942
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 3: that's ever played Major League baseball and wanted an Olympic

943
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 3: gold medal in anything else was Jim Thorpe, and he.

944
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: Talked a little bit about one of his teammates on

945
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,720
Speaker 1: that Olympic baseball team. Do you have any great Todd

946
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: Frazier stories are you guys playing on that I.

947
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 35: Have way too many, but I definitely have.

948
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 36: A couple that I would love to share.

949
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 35: The Todd Fathers I like to call him, or pretty

950
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:17,439
Speaker 35: much everybody loves to call him.

951
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 36: He's a characters, He's a one man show. That guy

952
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 36: needs his own show is what he needs. So we're

953
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 36: waiting to go to a practice. So we're waiting in

954
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 36: the in our like our bus stop or section.

955
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,800
Speaker 35: There was like a bunch of we had to walk

956
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 35: to this bus station almost and it was just I

957
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 35: mean a thousand stops.

958
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 36: That's what it felt like. And we were like one

959
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 36: of the last ones.

960
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 35: We had to walk one of the furthest and we

961
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 35: get to the bus stop and we're waiting.

962
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 36: I mean, we're bored.

963
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 35: We're talking smack, you know, you know how we baseball

964
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 35: players can get. And we're just sitting there and I like,

965
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 35: I put my phone up to do a selfie for

966
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,520
Speaker 35: for nothing, and you know, I put the phone Todd

967
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 35: sitting behind me, and I zoom in on Todd. The

968
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 35: next thing I know, he starts singing and he has

969
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 35: a voice of an angel.

970
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 4: I don't know. He's a great singer.

971
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 36: I have. It's great, it's incredible. Everyone's everyone's draws on

972
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 36: the floor. So I'm gonna blow him up right now.

973
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 36: He started singing the this Aladdin song.

974
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 37: All right, I have the video you guys ready, yes,

975
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 37: Oh my god, Oh.

976
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 3: He's so great.

977
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: Surrounding the Olympics of twenty twenty four, we had Olympic

978
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: manager Mike Soosha, who won a silver medal with the

979
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,919
Speaker 1: American team. Also obviously longtime Angels managed.

980
00:49:56,600 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 3: Right and he had some unique ways of bringing his

981
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 3: team together. During spring training.

982
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 24: Said Jared Washburn. A couple of guys out to the

983
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 24: Ostrich Ostrich Festival and out in Arizona, and so I

984
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 24: expected him just to take some pictures, take some interviews,

985
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 24: had a little.

986
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 7: Camera with him.

987
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 24: So wash comes in the next day and I said,

988
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 24: you're ready to give me a report, and he said, yeah,

989
00:50:20,960 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 24: I'm ready, And he said, well, we really do a

990
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 24: lot of things, but I think instead of giving you

991
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 24: a picture, we wanted to show you something else. And

992
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 24: incomes this Ostrich. I mean he was every bit of

993
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 24: ten feet.

994
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 38: I mean think as an exageration, this Ostrich ahead would

995
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 38: have hit a it would have hit a basketball hoop.

996
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 38: And so the Ostrich comes in and all the guys

997
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 38: are like, oh, yeah, Well, Ramon Ortez didn't quite understand,

998
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 38: and you know, they were talking about.

999
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 24: An Ostrich and he didn't know what it was. And

1000
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 24: he literally jumped on top of his locker and He's

1001
00:50:54,360 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 24: saying in Spanish, get that big chicken, and it was hilarious.

1002
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 24: I mean we laughed about that. We still laugh about

1003
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 24: it today. But we had the trainer came in told

1004
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 24: us about an Ostrich and we tried to get Ramon

1005
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 24: to go over and just pet it, and he had

1006
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 24: nothing to do with it.

1007
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 38: He was not going to go near that bird.

1008
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 3: Our next guest former Major League outfielder Jeff Francor, who

1009
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 3: told us about the first time he played golf with

1010
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:25,320
Speaker 3: Tiger Woods.

1011
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,399
Speaker 1: And we aren't able to play favorites, but this might

1012
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: be our favorite clip of the recap of twenty twenty four.

1013
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 2: What was it like play.

1014
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,280
Speaker 3: With arguably the greatest player of all time?

1015
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 29: I'll tell you, you know, I've never actually told this story

1016
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 29: on anything, and I think, y'all, this will be the

1017
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 29: greatest story I tell was. You know, I got a

1018
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 29: chance to play with him a couple of times. I

1019
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 29: was twenty two years old, and it was incredible. You know,

1020
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 29: I grew up my whole life watching this guy. And

1021
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 29: I'll never forget pulling into Alworth the first time in

1022
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 29: seeing him on the range, and it was probably the

1023
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 29: most surreal moment of my life. I've been lucky enough.

1024
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 29: I've met President Bush, President Obama. I was not nearly

1025
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 29: a star truck as I was when I met Tiger

1026
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 29: Woods for the first time. But what the coolest Bobby

1027
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:07,919
Speaker 29: Cox story is, guys, is you know Bobby during spring

1028
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:09,360
Speaker 29: training loved us to play golf.

1029
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 7: Love this.

1030
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 29: We were playing the Yankees at one o'clock on a

1031
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 29: day game and I was twenty two years old. I'd

1032
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 29: been playing for three months as a starter. I was

1033
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 29: not going to go up to Bobby and be like, hey,

1034
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 29: I need the day off, right like. But he comes

1035
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 29: out to stretch and goes Smoltze said, you had a

1036
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 29: chance to play with Tiger today. There was a one

1037
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 29: fifty te time and I'm like, Bobby, I'm fine, like

1038
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 29: I'm playing today. He goes, no, I'll make you a deal,

1039
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 29: he said, after your first about today, run through first

1040
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 29: base and kind of rub your ankle a little bit,

1041
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 29: like you hurt the ankle. And he's like, in two

1042
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 29: days we're going to Braydonon and you know, Tim, you

1043
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 29: have to have whatever three starters make a road trip. Sure,

1044
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:48,000
Speaker 29: And he's like, I hate Bradenton's infield. I don't want

1045
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 29: to get any of the guys hurt. So if you

1046
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 29: go to Bradenton, I'll let you go play with Tiger today.

1047
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,720
Speaker 29: So sure enough, man, We're playing the Yankees twelve thirteen

1048
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:55,760
Speaker 29: thousand people in Orlando.

1049
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 7: I ground out in.

1050
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 29: The first bat. I run through first. I start, you know,

1051
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 29: rubbing my ankle, and you know, Bobby, he waddles out

1052
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 29: there with his fleet and he checks on me. I

1053
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 29: run inside. I literally throw my golf clothes on it

1054
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 29: in shower. I get to the golf course and they're

1055
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 29: on the first fairway, so I hit my tea shot.

1056
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 29: We end up playing twenty seven holes and about four

1057
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 29: point thirty, my wife sends me a little thing that

1058
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 29: there was an update that said Frank Court day to

1059
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 29: day with a high ankle stant and I'm out there

1060
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 29: playing hours with Tiger and said the next The best

1061
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 29: part is the next day, I didn't have to do anything.

1062
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 29: I came in like ice my ankle and all that,

1063
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:30,839
Speaker 29: and Bobby let me go that day.

1064
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 3: And for our Little League episode, we had Todd Frazier,

1065
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 3: one of the all time heroes of Little League Baseball,

1066
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 3: and he's still the biggest twelve year old I've ever seen.

1067
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: We were live at William's Sport with our friends at

1068
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: Game Changer, and he gave us his impression, not so

1069
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: much his actual referee ability, and did it stood up

1070
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 1: from the table.

1071
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 2: It's one of our favorites.

1072
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 33: So my buddy Jim, it's me and him doing an

1073
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 33: older guy.

1074
00:53:58,080 --> 00:53:58,760
Speaker 7: He trips.

1075
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:03,399
Speaker 33: Now the biggest thing about I'm down below on the baseline.

1076
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:04,839
Speaker 7: It's a fast break.

1077
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 33: I got a book it, okay, so I go, Jim,

1078
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,879
Speaker 33: I got this. Jim's on the ground, I said, Jim,

1079
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 33: don't worry, I'm booking it.

1080
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 7: Here bang bang play.

1081
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 33: It was a charge, I said charge, it was player

1082
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 33: control or a block. I'm high stepping it block block.

1083
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:24,680
Speaker 33: I had the scream it because I didn't know if

1084
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 33: Jim was there or not. I said, there two one

1085
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 33: see the term body and now listen.

1086
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 7: The subs tried coming in.

1087
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 2: I said no, no, no, not yet.

1088
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 33: We got two here back can too, back, can too?

1089
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 33: This is two shots. Subs, hold your time, and Jim.

1090
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 33: I had the referee the rest of that game by myself.

1091
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 33: He rolled his.

1092
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 3: Our next guest is Dan Shaughnessy, who I believe is

1093
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 3: the best daily sports columnist in America and a mentor

1094
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:56,800
Speaker 3: of mine.

1095
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 2: In this business, and we talked to him.

1096
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: He told us some great story worries about Ted Williams.

1097
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 39: When my daughter was diagnosed in nineteen ninety three with leukemia,

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00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,240
Speaker 39: she was eight years old and she's in the hospital

1099
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 39: one day and I didn't know Ted I had, you know,

1100
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:13,879
Speaker 39: right here in this oda saga. One time I sat

1101
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 39: at his table. They'd have tables the day after the induction.

1102
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:19,359
Speaker 39: You could sit at Audio's table, Feller's table, and Ted

1103
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 39: I took the Ted table and no one dared say

1104
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 39: a word. He sat down at that table and everybody looked,

1105
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 39: and no one wanted to and he.

1106
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 12: Said, scared to death, aren't you?

1107
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 39: And we were, you know, And it was just so

1108
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 39: that's how you were around him. But when my daughter

1109
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 39: was sick, the phone rang in the hospital and she

1110
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 39: was in the early days of treatment. It was a

1111
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,280
Speaker 39: two year protocol for the treatment and knock on woochi,

1112
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 39: things came out great. She has three little boys now,

1113
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 39: but in those moments, everybody's scared to death and it's

1114
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 39: just a bomb of news. And she said, she said, Daddy,

1115
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 39: there's a loud man on the phone telling me I'm

1116
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 39: going to be okay. And she didn't know who he was.

1117
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 39: He identified himself and she passed the receiver to me. Yah,

1118
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 39: you're a little girl. You tell her I knew doctor Farber,

1119
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 39: and damn it, we're gonna We always said he could

1120
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 39: cure these kids, and he's gonna find a way, and

1121
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 39: damn it, he'll do it. And you tell her. I'll

1122
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 39: come up and see her, and and I hope she

1123
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 39: becomes a ballplayer. And I heard she likes to hit.

1124
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,960
Speaker 39: And after that, I just put a call through and

1125
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 39: I could always get him because he'd say, how's Kate?

1126
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 39: Can she hit? How's it going?

1127
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 37: And she did.

1128
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 39: She played high school softball, She walked on at BU

1129
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 39: played a little bit and she's been a coach ever since.

1130
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,959
Speaker 39: But she had this relationship. And the day he died,

1131
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:32,399
Speaker 39: she was working at the Twin souvenir shop because she's

1132
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 39: near Cross Street and Fenway, and she had a Ted

1133
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 39: authentic jersey and she wore it, not knowing that Ted

1134
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 39: was going to die that day, and then she was

1135
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:41,239
Speaker 39: wearing it in the shop when she learned that he died.

1136
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 3: Our next guest is raised closer Pete Fairbanks, who throws

1137
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 3: one hundred miles an.

1138
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 2: Hour and he reads at one hundred miles per hour.

1139
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 2: He's a smart guy.

1140
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,399
Speaker 9: My mother was reading me. We went through the first

1141
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 9: Harry Potter book right. We read Sorcerers Stone together. It

1142
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 9: was like my nighttime. She would read it aloud. However

1143
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 9: long we started the second one. We got to like

1144
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 9: the second chapter and I'm like, Mom, you're not reading

1145
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 9: fast enough for me afore, so I'm going to take

1146
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 9: this by myself.

1147
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 2: How old were you.

1148
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:19,840
Speaker 9: Uh, probably like first or second grade. I think maybe

1149
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 9: second grade.

1150
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 7: Some were somewhere along those lines.

1151
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: Terry Potter at that young of an age, that's incredible.

1152
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 3: Our next guest is Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Palmer,

1153
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 3: who famously never gave up a grand slam in his

1154
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 3: major league career in close to four thousand innings, but

1155
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 3: he did give up.

1156
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: A grand slam in his minor league career to a

1157
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: name I guarantee you're going to recognize.

1158
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 12: The day before, we played a day game and Johnny

1159
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 12: hit a jam shot to right field and I had

1160
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 12: just gotten near because I had the sore arm, and

1161
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 12: I said, who's that? You know, who's that guy?

1162
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 40: They got?

1163
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 12: Always a punch in juty hitter. He had like fifteen

1164
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 12: home runs in twenty one games for the Buffalo Advice.

1165
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 12: So they moved the game. They moved the game from

1166
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:13,120
Speaker 12: war Memorial Stadium to Niagara Falls. In a college football game,

1167
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 12: and I had a bad arm. I was warming up

1168
00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 12: on a burn mountain rights field. They didn't have a

1169
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 12: warm up mountain. And I, you know, the first time,

1170
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 12: I threw a high fastball, which is probably about eighty

1171
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 12: four miles per hour, and Johnny swung at it and

1172
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,760
Speaker 12: I struck him out. Not on purpose, I was just

1173
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 12: my arm was killing me. And I had a six

1174
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 12: to nothing. Leader's pitching against I think a left hander

1175
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 12: that eventually would pitch with the Red Sox, Dick Stigman Stigma.

1176
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 12: I walked the bases loaded with a six run lead,

1177
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 12: and to him, you were around ear Weaver when you

1178
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 12: think he was. So he runs out to the mound

1179
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 12: and says, hey, just throw them. I can't tell you,

1180
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 12: just throw them all down to the right right. I did,

1181
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 12: and Johnny hit it about four hundred and fifty feet

1182
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 12: towards Niagara Falls, and ear ran right out and took

1183
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 12: me out of the game and win.

1184
00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: So in twenty twenty four, I really only booked like

1185
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: two guests for our show, Jeff frank Core, who we

1186
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:10,919
Speaker 1: heard from earlier, and legendary broadcaster Dan Patrick Right.

1187
00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 3: And Dan is roughly the same age as me. We

1188
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 3: have similar interests. We grew up at the same time

1189
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 3: and some of the names that he dropped just made

1190
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 3: me laugh out loud.

1191
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:25,040
Speaker 22: I grew up in a baseball household got to see

1192
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 22: the Reds. First game I saw was Pete Rose. Our

1193
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 22: first autograph I got was Pete Rose. First game spring

1194
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 22: training in Scottsdale. I got to see the San Francisco Giants.

1195
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 22: I got to see Willie Mays. I was fascinated that

1196
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 22: there was a baseball player named.

1197
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 4: Jesus out there.

1198
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 22: My dad goes, it's Haesus. So I remember going to

1199
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 22: church and I was like eight, and I go, we

1200
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:57,360
Speaker 22: gotta go see Hayesus today, and he goes, no, he's Jesus,

1201
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 22: I said.

1202
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 1: Our next guest was one of our personal favorites, now

1203
01:00:02,440 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 1: with the MLB Network, ad Nan Verk, Right, and.

1204
01:00:04,840 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 3: I did the Levatar Show for years. Of course, my

1205
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 3: favorite segment of the whole show was the looks Like Game,

1206
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:15,320
Speaker 3: and the greatest looks Like game ever was ad Nan

1207
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 3: Verk so, of.

1208
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:19,000
Speaker 41: Course we always have fun with our buddy Dan Levatard

1209
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 41: and nobody locked hard on them. Tim when they finally

1210
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 41: got me, the looks like game and said that I

1211
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 41: looked like I think it.

1212
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 4: Was on the lines.

1213
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 41: It looked like James Bond is rescued by an undercover

1214
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 41: CIA agent.

1215
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 12: I'm like the guy who.

1216
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 29: Extends his hand to Tangier and.

1217
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 2: It's the best one by far.

1218
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 22: I have it.

1219
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 2: I have it verbatim. Here, ad Nan, are you ready?

1220
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:43,800
Speaker 3: Ad Nan?

1221
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: Verk looks like the undercover CIA agent who saved James

1222
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: Bond by killing a crime bosses. Henchman then smiles wide,

1223
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: extends his hand and says to double O seven, Welcome

1224
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: to Tangier, mister Bond.

1225
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:02,720
Speaker 41: So of course that audience is so popular and so

1226
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 41: rabid that I I was so fighttered by. I told Dan,

1227
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 41: and I mean, now, astmas, if I'll do it in

1228
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 41: a home run call. They okay, And so you know

1229
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 41: I couldn't just pick you know, the White Sox and

1230
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 41: the Twins in a sleepy August. No, it's me and

1231
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:17,919
Speaker 41: Tim and Eddie Perez and it's fourth of Jill Hyde

1232
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 41: is Aaron Judge.

1233
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 3: And it's in Baltimore, right right.

1234
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 31: At Baltimore, and on the home run call, very similarly

1235
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 31: to No Doubt, I said, you know, hit deep, welcome

1236
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 31: to Tangier and right away, Tim laughs and Eddie's doing

1237
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 31: the call, and then they disputed it on the show.

1238
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 41: They go, is Tim laughing at how hard Aaron Judge

1239
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 41: at the ball? Or is he laughing at at the

1240
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 41: end dropping.

1241
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 3: And welcome to go back and listen to the tape.

1242
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:47,919
Speaker 3: I was laughing because I laughed way before he made

1243
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:51,439
Speaker 3: the call because Aaron Judge hit a laser shot into

1244
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:54,520
Speaker 3: the center field seats. I went like this, huh, like,

1245
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,919
Speaker 3: how how hard does that ball hit? And then when

1246
01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 3: Adad delivered the line, I laughed a bit louder. Was

1247
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 3: the stupidest home run call in history, and yet the

1248
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:06,360
Speaker 3: greatest one.

1249
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 1: To kick off our October Baseball edition of Is this

1250
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: a great game?

1251
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 2: Or what we had?

1252
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 1: The greatest national ever World Series champion Ryan Zimmerman.

1253
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 3: Right, and he talked about playing basketball with Max Sures.

1254
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 3: You can only imagine how that went.

1255
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,360
Speaker 42: And when you play with Max, you know there's always

1256
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 42: Max rules, So explain so like we would, we would

1257
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,440
Speaker 42: go work out and then use that as our conditioning,

1258
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 42: so we are strength head strength. I used to live

1259
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,920
Speaker 42: in the area and he used to throw at Georgetown,

1260
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 42: so either the pitching coach or someone for Georgetown would

1261
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 42: let him into the facility to do that. So we

1262
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 42: would have sort of that kind of group, and then

1263
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 42: if the Georgetown basketball team was in there, maybe some

1264
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:55,440
Speaker 42: of their student you know, coaches and stuff would join. Sometimes.

1265
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,600
Speaker 42: Ewing was watching us play one time because it was

1266
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 42: before before their practice. But so Max would I think

1267
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 42: we would play to fifteen or gosh, I think it

1268
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 42: was fifteen or sixteen. I think it was sixteen because

1269
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,120
Speaker 42: when you got to to eight, you had to stop

1270
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 42: and you had to hit free throws because he said,

1271
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 42: I want people to shoot free throws where they're exhausted,

1272
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 42: so that they could mentally see what it's like to

1273
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 42: try and perform in the clutch. And then like the

1274
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 42: only way to the only way to win the game

1275
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 42: was to hit your free throws at the end of

1276
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,600
Speaker 42: the game. And then obviously whoever lost had to do

1277
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 42: suicides or something like that. It's just such a It

1278
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:42,800
Speaker 42: literally kind of just wraps Max up in a nutshell

1279
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 42: in a game of pickup off season basketball that he

1280
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:51,000
Speaker 42: then has seven weird roles that somehow ultimately probably.

1281
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 16: Help him win the game.

1282
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 42: He always had always had special rules for him, and

1283
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 42: we used to call him Max Madeoff because he would win.

1284
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 42: He would win everything he did.

1285
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 3: Our next guest was Jason Bennetti, one of the great

1286
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 3: broadcasters in sports today. He's currently the TV voice of

1287
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 3: the Detroit Tigers.

1288
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 1: And we obviously talked baseball with him, but we also

1289
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 1: talked Anchorman, one of my favorite movies of all time,

1290
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:22,880
Speaker 1: and something he got you to do during COVID it

1291
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: was so bad catch that you guys put together, was

1292
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 1: you instructed my dad to play the great one of

1293
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 1: the greatest comedy characters of all time, Brick Tamblin.

1294
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 2: I love Lamp.

1295
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 23: I thought it was gonna rupture our friendship for good,

1296
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 23: and I still think it may, and now we are

1297
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 23: in love.

1298
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 16: Nice say that out loud.

1299
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 3: I love desk.

1300
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 8: Rick.

1301
01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:52,760
Speaker 16: Are you just looking at things in the office and

1302
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 16: saying you love them?

1303
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 3: I love lamp.

1304
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 12: Do you really love the lamp or are you just

1305
01:04:59,000 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 12: saying it because.

1306
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 16: You saw I love lamp?

1307
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 4: Jason?

1308
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 3: How many times did I tell you I'm not doing this,

1309
01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 3: This will be the stupidest thing ever, and you coerced me.

1310
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 3: You talked me into that. How did you do that?

1311
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 23: I think Jeff had a part in it, because Jeff

1312
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 23: loves the movie, and so Jeff was like, well, Dad,

1313
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:21,920
Speaker 23: you know, good for your Q rating, right, That's kind

1314
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 23: of how it went up.

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Speaker 1: And I said, Dan, as your son, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if I could forgive you if you don't do this.

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Speaker 2: It's my favorite movie of all time.

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Speaker 3: I even combed my hair like Brick Tamblin and I

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Speaker 3: found a suit in my house, a brown suit.

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Speaker 2: It was hideous.

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Speaker 3: I am practicing my lines and I'm thinking, I love lamp.

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Speaker 3: What does that?

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Speaker 4: I don't even know what that means.

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Speaker 3: It was so bad.

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Speaker 23: It's brilliant script writing and it's a comedic genius and

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Speaker 23: you nailed all the marks.

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Speaker 3: Our next guest was former major leaguer Bobby Valentine. I

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Speaker 3: covered his first game as a major league manager in

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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty five. Decorated major league manager not just in

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Speaker 3: the United States but in Japan.

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Speaker 1: And decorated restaurant here. He owned restaurants and claims he

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Speaker 1: invented something that everybody eats.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, but he invented it years.

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Speaker 13: Ago, I started a restaurant business. I did it for

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Speaker 13: thirty eight years. By the way, for whatever it's where

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Speaker 13: they had seven of them open for twenty five years consecutively,

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Speaker 13: and at one time it was the only celebrity athlete

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Speaker 13: to have more than three restaurants opened at the same

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Speaker 13: time for more than twenty years. I said, I'll never cook.

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Speaker 13: I'm gonna own a restaurant. I'm never gonna cook. That's

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Speaker 13: for other people. They're gonna cook. And sure, one Friday lunch,

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Speaker 13: my guy doesn't show up in the kitchen and we

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Speaker 13: have a line out the door, and I say, oh,

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Speaker 13: I better go up flip the hamburgers. While I was

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Speaker 13: in there, the guy who gave me the loan to

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Speaker 13: my to open the restaurant, the banker from Crush Street,

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Speaker 13: came in and he always ate club sandwiches. We didn't

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Speaker 13: have club sandwiches on the menu, but for him, we

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Speaker 13: make a club sanwich. He was a guy I gave

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Speaker 13: you the thirty thousand dollars over the place. You got it,

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Speaker 13: mister Burke. Okay, Well, by number one, waitress Debbie comes

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Speaker 13: in and says, oh God, mister Burke's out there. I said,

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Speaker 13: what's the problem. She says, Oh, the toasters broke. You

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Speaker 13: can't make the clumb sandwich. And I said, holy cow.

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Speaker 13: And next to me, the guy was putting the tortillas

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Speaker 13: into the deep prior to make tortilla chips, you know,

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01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 13: cutting up the ten inch tortillashell. And I said, don't worry,

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Speaker 13: we'll send them out of a club sandwich in a second.

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Speaker 13: So I took a ten inch tortillashell, I put all

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Speaker 13: the ingredients to a club sandwich in it. I rolled

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Speaker 13: it up. I put a couple of American cheese slices

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Speaker 13: on the top. I put it undernath the salamander to

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Speaker 13: melt and keep the the tortilla from opening up. I

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Speaker 13: cut it in half. I gave it to Debbie with

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Speaker 13: some French dries out and I said, give it to

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Speaker 13: mister Burke and tell him it's a club sandwich Mexican style.

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Speaker 13: And two weeks later we had it on the menu

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Speaker 13: as they.

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Speaker 3: Our next guest is my teammate, Buster Only at ESPN,

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01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 3: one of the best baseball writers of all time, and

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Speaker 3: he grew up on a dairy farm in Vermont, and.

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Speaker 1: He was so bored he found a way to cross

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Speaker 1: cows and baseball.

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Speaker 2: Here's Buster.

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Speaker 40: He was so desperate on this farm. The closest house

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01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 40: is a mile and a half from our farm. When

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01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 40: I was a kid, I made up a baseball dice game,

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01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:27,120
Speaker 40: and I would never use the names of major player

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01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 40: of major league players, because it felt like sacrilege to.

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Speaker 4: Me to do that.

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Speaker 40: Like I was not going to put Fred Linn and

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01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:35,080
Speaker 40: Jim Rice and those guys in my game. Steve Garvey,

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01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 40: So I used all of our cows. Okay, it was

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01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 40: my first I realized looking back on it, it was

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01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:44,519
Speaker 40: my first experience in scouting because I could look at Rebecca,

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Speaker 40: who was our first cow, and say, she's got the

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Speaker 40: body of a third baseman, There's no doubt about it.

1388
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 40: A little bit of power, a lot of strength there.

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Speaker 40: And then we had some younger cows that had speed,

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01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:55,720
Speaker 40: you know, they were base steelers. I'd put them in

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01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:58,400
Speaker 40: the outfield on my dice game. That's how desperate I was.

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Speaker 4: Buster.

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Speaker 3: I always knew you were weird, guy, but you are

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01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:05,760
Speaker 3: even weirder than I thought. After hearing that Rebecca is

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01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:07,599
Speaker 3: the third baseman, Oh.

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01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got clearly, she's got the body of one.

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Speaker 3: Right, That's exactly right. Our next guest is former major

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01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 3: league catcher and former Major league manager David Ross, who

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01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 3: was my teammate for several years at ESPN.

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Speaker 1: And he actually described we all know, his final home

1401
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:27,400
Speaker 1: run in the World Series in twenty sixteen. He talked

1402
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:28,639
Speaker 1: about his first home run.

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01:09:29,080 --> 01:09:31,040
Speaker 23: I got my first hit in that game off Andy

1404
01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 23: or Pace's side arm lefty, a double on the gap,

1405
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 23: and then I got another at bat later in that game,

1406
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:44,040
Speaker 23: and lo and behold they bring in Mark Gray Pick. Okay,

1407
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:46,360
Speaker 23: so you know I'm the rookie.

1408
01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 29: I'm like, I need all the hits I can get.

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01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 23: I see him. He steps on the mound. The crowd's

1410
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:54,719
Speaker 23: going crazy and he this. I mean, you guys know Mark,

1411
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:57,800
Speaker 23: he is like just a character. And so he gets

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01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 23: up there and does the fetter. He comes set and

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01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 23: does the the fetter on there. It plays the rough.

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01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 23: It's going crazy, and I forget it was Tyler Houston

1415
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:15,120
Speaker 23: maybe was the first and bat he popped up and

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01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,000
Speaker 23: I remember him just laying it in there. It was

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01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:19,680
Speaker 23: like eighty miles an hour, and I'm like, that's right

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01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:20,440
Speaker 23: in my wheelhouse.

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01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 3: That's right, that's my bast peat.

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Speaker 23: You know, like I may I'll be able to hit

1421
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:25,719
Speaker 23: ninety two, but I can. I can catch up to eighty.

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01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 23: So he laid that thing right in there, and I'm like, well,

1423
01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:31,639
Speaker 23: if he lays that in there to me, I'm swinging.

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01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:35,759
Speaker 23: So sure enough, I get in there. I think Tyler

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01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 23: popped up. I get in there and I'm ready and

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01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 23: he lays that first, that first pitch in there, and

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Speaker 23: I hit it, almost getting that Friday's Front Road Restaurant

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01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:47,680
Speaker 23: and left field. I actually murdered that ball, and I'm

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Speaker 23: running around first. He's screaming at the whole streaming at

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Speaker 23: me the whole way.

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Speaker 43: You gotta be kidding, you're stealing my thunder. Come on, kid,

1432
01:10:55,479 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 43: you know you don't even know who I am. And

1433
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,719
Speaker 43: I meanwhile, I'm like, this is Mark Grayson on the mound.

1434
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 43: So I'm sprinting around the base as fast as I can.

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Speaker 43: It was a really real highlight.

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Speaker 23: But my favorite part of the whole story is the

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Speaker 23: next day we did a radio show together and I'm

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01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 23: you know, I'm a rookie. I hadn't done any radio shows.

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01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 23: He got on there and I think I priced had

1440
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 23: five words in the whole time. He had us laughing.

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01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 23: He had the radio host laughing. He was telling the

1442
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 23: story and I don't even know who this kid's is is.

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01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 23: He's given souvenirs to the restaurant up and left field

1444
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:29,040
Speaker 23: still this day. Every time he was he was doing

1445
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,960
Speaker 23: games for the Divondbacks and the Cubs, he always used

1446
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 23: to say, no matter where, I was a career two

1447
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:35,640
Speaker 23: twenty hitter, and he's saying, that's the best hitter on

1448
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:37,599
Speaker 23: their team. David Ross, that's the guy you gotta look

1449
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 23: out for.

1450
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:39,599
Speaker 2: And that wraps it. David Ross.

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01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 1: Our final guests of the twenty twenty four season. Many

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01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:45,759
Speaker 1: more to come in twenty twenty five, and I couldn't

1453
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 1: imagine a better day to.

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Speaker 2: Release this episode than today. Happy birthday, Dad.

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01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:50,719
Speaker 4: Right, Well, thank you, Jeff.

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01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 3: This is the best birthday present I've ever gotten is

1457
01:11:54,080 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 3: getting to do an entire year of podcasts with you,

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01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 3: and the highlight of the podcast, as were all of the.

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Speaker 4: Interviews that we did.

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01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed what we put together for you today.

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01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:08,680
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, and as always, thank you for

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01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 1: being a part of our family.