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Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what? And today our

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Speaker 1: at the end of this episode.

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Speaker 2: Jeff, of course you grew up in Maryland. I was

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Speaker 2: from Maryland, Montgomery County like you and I. So there's

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Speaker 2: gonna be a Maryland theme running through this show. Today.

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Speaker 2: We're even gonna have the all born in Maryland baseball team,

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Speaker 2: and believe me, we'll have whom Run Baker and Lefty

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Speaker 2: oh's because he's got a bunch of them in our interview.

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Speaker 2: But that's our theme for today. It's Maryland because our

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Speaker 1: I thought nothing could top the amount of laughs that

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Speaker 2: All right, Jeff, you know there's a person in your

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Speaker 2: life who can make you laugh if you just reads

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Speaker 2: the phone book, it doesn't matter. Scott Van Pelt is

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Speaker 2: one of those guys. And he and I grew up

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Speaker 2: just like you did, like fifty miles from Baltimore. And

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Speaker 2: yet and I love Baltimore. Don't get me wrong, but

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Speaker 2: they speak a different language and fifty miles from our

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Speaker 2: the master of all accents, all dialects, but the long

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Speaker 1: And also worth noting. Next week is our All Star

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Speaker 1: Game special. Dad will be at the All Star Game,

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Speaker 1: so we'll be hearing from him. We'll be doing a

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Speaker 1: podcast from there, and cal Ripken Jr. Is going to

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Speaker 1: be joining us. So make sure you're subscribed, follow wherever

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Speaker 1: that easy because it's going to be a great show.

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Speaker 2: What's the hat, Jeff, What does it say? Right? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the Fayetteville Peckers, the Woodpeckers, their minor

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Speaker 1: I went down there because I do a weekend country

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Speaker 2: I got this hat that that is so cool. Peckers.

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Speaker 1: I realized, you know, peckers. A lot of people look

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Speaker 2: This exactly why I asked a question. Right.

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Speaker 1: The Woodpeckers Fayetteville Baseball, so big, big shout out to them.

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Speaker 1: I just minor league baseball is amazing. I worked for

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Speaker 2: Jeff, how was July fourth for you? Was it great?

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Speaker 1: It was so nice and we got to spend a great,

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Speaker 1: great time in Lake Burton, Georgia. My aunt has a

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Speaker 1: man drink as many white claws. I'm here to tell you, Dad,

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Speaker 1: I recently introduced you to a white claw accidentally, because

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Speaker 1: this was, oh gosh, back last week. You were watching

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Speaker 2: Time maybe ever that i've because there was I can't

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Speaker 1: So we were putting our baby down, my wife and

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Speaker 2: So Johnny Kling did this in nineteen oh two, Pinky

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Speaker 2: To dunk it thirty five straight times is pretty impressed.

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Speaker 2: That is the beauty of the three homer game. But Jeff,

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Speaker 1: week's game changer, James Wood of the Nationals, because you

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Speaker 2: So, the Mariners have struck out ten or more times

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Speaker 2: And those guys have batted like a zillion times together,

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Speaker 2: and I'm with your mother and I'm at a party,

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Speaker 2: and now some guys got me in a headlock, and

432
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Speaker 2: he's like saying, let's see how many you can get.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know who he is, so maybe, and

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Speaker 2: the pathetic me, I have to try to get them all.

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Speaker 2: And I got some wrong, but I did get all

436
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Speaker 2: fifteen in the end. And the last guy got was

437
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Speaker 2: Wally Post at one o'clock in the morning. And I

438
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Speaker 2: can tell you, after the birth of you and Kelly,

439
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Speaker 2: that might have been the highlight of my entire life,

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Speaker 2: getting Wally Posts at one o'clock in the morning.

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Speaker 1: It's in the cards. And let's take a look at

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Speaker 1: what we've got here, starting with Jordan Westburg at the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Orioles.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really good player, third baseman. Every day, talk about

445
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Speaker 2: the guys who, at least through Sunday hadn't made the

446
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Speaker 2: All Star team. He's one of those guys you can

447
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Speaker 2: look at and say, maybe he should have been on

448
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Speaker 2: the All Star team. Trust me, he's gonna make a

449
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Speaker 2: bunch of All Star teams before he's done. Never gives

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Speaker 2: up a pitch, never gives up in a bat. Really

451
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Speaker 2: tough kid. Throw back here of Robin Ventura Robin Vncher,

452
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Speaker 2: one of my favorites, great defensive third basemen. We talk

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Speaker 2: about making the bunt play. Very few people made it

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Speaker 2: better than Robin venture And so Robin Mitcher was also

455
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Speaker 2: a really good hitter, and unfortunately and managed the White Sox.

456
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Speaker 2: But unfortunately too many people remember him for charging the

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Speaker 2: mound against Nolan Ryan famously and then Nolan Ryan like knocking,

458
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Speaker 2: you know, punching him out on the mound. So I

459
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Speaker 2: asked Robin Mitcher about and he's not he doesn't like

460
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Speaker 2: talking about this, but neither. Here's what he told me.

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Speaker 2: He said, Nolan hit me with a pitch. And he

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Speaker 2: said he throws so hard it hurts so much that

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Speaker 2: I couldn't even see straight. I lost my mind because

464
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Speaker 2: of the pain. That's how much it hurt. So he said,

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Speaker 2: and because I was seeing red, I ran to the

466
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Speaker 2: mound and he said, halfway to the mound, I realized

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Speaker 2: my senses came back to me. I realized where I was,

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Speaker 2: and now I'm halfway to the mound. And he actually thinks,

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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I'm charging the mound against Old Ryan.

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Speaker 2: But he said, so I couldn't turn around. You can't

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Speaker 2: run halfway there. So he went out there and got

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Speaker 2: his butt kicked, and that was the end of that.

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Speaker 2: Love Robin BITCHERA, we got Curtis The'scanic. Oh gosh, very

474
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Speaker 2: good relief pitcher in his day, really good stuff through

475
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Speaker 2: hard and had a great sense of humor. The one

476
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Speaker 2: year he played, maybe more years, but one year he

477
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Speaker 2: played for the Brewers. Gets pretty darn cold in Milwaukee,

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Speaker 2: especially before they built a dome stadium. So he once

479
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Speaker 2: described the weather in Milwaukee. He said, there's winter, then

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Speaker 2: there's July twenty seventh, and then there's the fall. Like

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Speaker 2: that was. That's how he described the other in Milwaukee.

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Speaker 2: Never forget Curtis lists can.

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Speaker 1: And did you know that his teammates actually would wear

484
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Speaker 1: T shirts It said, no need to panic, we have

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Speaker 1: less cannon.

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Speaker 2: Is that true? Did you know that no britten down.

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Speaker 1: In the back of the car.

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Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna try to sell that as my own

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Speaker 1: little and I did not know this.

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Speaker 2: My basic car cards are so great as they have

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Speaker 2: these great little nuggets on the back.

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Speaker 1: And not to mention that if you ever want to

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Speaker 1: see the cards we pull for it's in the cards.

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Speaker 1: You can go on YouTube and that's where we post

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Speaker 1: the full video of the show. Brandon Nimmo of the

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Speaker 1: New York Me he's on a.

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Speaker 2: Real hot streak. Mets are playing really well these days.

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Speaker 2: He's hit a bunch of homers here in the last

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks. And by the way, Jeff, he grew

501
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Speaker 2: up in Wyoming. They didn't have a baseball team in

502
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Speaker 2: Wyoming high school team, so he had to play wherever

503
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Speaker 2: he could play because there was And he grew up

504
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Speaker 2: in a family where like everyone in the family was

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Speaker 2: a cowboy, and he was planning on being a cow

506
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Speaker 2: boy like working on a ranch for his career, but

507
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Speaker 2: then he found out he was really good at baseball,

508
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Speaker 2: so he ended up being a baseball player instead of

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Speaker 2: a cowboy. By the way, the capital of Wyoming is

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh.

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Speaker 1: We did this on the car ride to get to

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Speaker 1: our July fourth trip.

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Speaker 2: Don't tell me you can't remember. After the discussion we had,

514
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Speaker 2: it's uh oh, Cheyenne, Cheyenne, Yeah, tell him the clue.

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Speaker 2: Here's the clue we got. It's a woman's it's a

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Speaker 2: long woman's name. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I looked it up because Dad couldn't figure it out and.

518
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Speaker 2: He wanted got the rest of them, but I couldn't

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Speaker 2: get Cheyenne. I'm embarrassed. My wife and my dad both

520
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 2: really good at this. Emily was really good at it. So, yes,

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Speaker 2: long woman's name, and what was your second clue?

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Speaker 1: I told Emily and Dad it is a person who's

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Speaker 1: not particularly outgoing, shy Anne.

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Speaker 2: That's the worst clue. Ever.

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Speaker 1: Let's go into a league in lidds. We put every

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Speaker 1: team into our lydds lid and let's see who're gonna

527
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: pull this sweak. Here we go right, and we've got

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 2: I've been around the Twins a lot in my career,

531
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Speaker 2: going way back to Harmon. Killer Brew's one of the kindest,

532
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 2: nicest people I've ever met in my life. The late

533
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 2: Harmon Killer Brew and a great power hitter, especially in

534
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 2: the fifties and sixties. Jim Cott, of course sixteen gold gloves,

535
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 2: Is Pitcher, one of the all time great athletes, all

536
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 2: the new guys. We talked about Ken Hurbeck multiple times.

537
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 2: Kirby Puckett and Twins have a pretty good team this year.

538
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: They're playing well. They got it. Even though the Guardians

539
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 2: are great, They're they're not out of the playoff race.

540
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 2: But I think my favorite twin of all time was

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Speaker 2: Michael Cadyer. Do you remember Michael Cadyer. You must have

542
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Speaker 2: heard his name, all right, So Michael Kadire, he is

543
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 2: an amazing magician. He did some card tricks and some

544
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Speaker 2: magic tricks for John Kruck and I on the SPN

545
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 2: bus many years ago. It was the most amazing thing

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Speaker 2: I've ever seen. Okay, Like a card that he took

547
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 2: out of, you know, out of the back of my

548
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 2: shirt is now like on the top level of the bus.

549
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 2: How it got there, I have no idea, but he

550
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 2: was such a great magician that Luis Castillo, I hope

551
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Speaker 2: I can say this. Luis Castillo joins the team and

552
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,679
Speaker 2: Michael Cardiyer is like an established player there, and Luis

553
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Speaker 2: Castillo is put right next to Michael Cadyre in the

554
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Speaker 2: clubhouse in spring training. So Michael Cadyre shows him a

555
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 2: magic trick one day, and it scared Luis Castillo so

556
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Speaker 2: badly that when Michael Cadyre came back to camp the

557
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Speaker 2: next day, Luis Castillo had moved his locker to the

558
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Speaker 2: other side of the clubhouse because he thought there was

559
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Speaker 2: some voodoo magic going on here or something like, how

560
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Speaker 2: could that guy do it? He's like a witch, he's

561
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Speaker 2: like a sorcerer. How could he do that? That's how

562
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 2: good a magician Michael Kadyre was.

563
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Speaker 1: Time for a Kirkchon quandary.

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Speaker 2: What do you have? All right? So we've got the

565
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Speaker 2: British Open coming of this week, so we're gonna have

566
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Speaker 2: another golf stupid hypothetical question. All right, God comes to

567
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 2: you and says, for the next five years, thirty year

568
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Speaker 2: old Jeffrey Kirchen, playing like your home course, the course

569
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Speaker 2: you usually play. This doesn't include Augusta or Pebble Beach,

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Speaker 2: your regular fifty five hundred and fifty eight hundred yards

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Speaker 2: from the White teas. For the next five years, you

572
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 2: will par every single hole and they will be the

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Speaker 2: exact same par par four drive in the middle, you know,

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Speaker 2: back of the green twuputt. That's it. Okay, every single

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Speaker 2: hole for the next five years on your home course.

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00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 2: You part. But it also means no birdies, no holes

577
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Speaker 2: in one, no great shots. Are you taking the bed?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's why What do you mean no great shots?

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Speaker 1: Might hit every ball in the fairway, that's all the

580
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Speaker 1: great shots.

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Speaker 2: But Jeff, the mystery of the game is gone if

582
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Speaker 2: you already know in advance, this is what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: Isn't golf in part because Hey, I might make a

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Speaker 2: forty foot putt under these rules, You'll never make a

585
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Speaker 2: forty foot putt.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you something unfortunate about my golf game?

587
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Speaker 2: You've never made a forty foot putt. No.

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Speaker 1: Last time I played golf, I made a thirty five

589
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Speaker 1: foot putt, Hand to God. But it was for par

590
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Speaker 1: all right. I was there in three and I chipped in,

591
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Speaker 1: But it was for par because I was there in three.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it kind of a thrill that you chipped in

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Speaker 2: or made a forty foot put Absolutely? Yes, every putt

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Speaker 2: you're gonna make from here is for eagle. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: be it. You're never gonna make another eagle. You're never

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Speaker 2: gonna make a birdie. You have zero chance to make

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Speaker 2: a hole in one and every drive is gonna be

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Speaker 2: the same distance, meaning you're not gonna crush one three. Well,

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Speaker 2: you can't hit three and either gonna I three hundred yards.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying I would not take the bet at

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Speaker 2: my age age sixty seven, I still want to have

602
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Speaker 2: the mystery of the competition, the mystery of the beautiful

603
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Speaker 2: game of golf that I want to see if I

604
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 2: can go out there and make an eagle, or make

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00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 2: three birdies in four birdies in a round, or you know,

606
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 2: just hit a shot that I've never hit before. You

607
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 2: will never get that over the next five years.

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Speaker 1: I think you're clinical. You don't want you would. We

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Speaker 1: have the Jones Lane open.

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Speaker 2: And we're gonna leave it open to the viewers and

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Speaker 2: the listeners. I promise you, everyone who's a five handicaper

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00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 2: better will say I want no part of that. Everyone

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00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 2: who's a twenty handicap or higher will probably say give

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Speaker 2: it to me.

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Speaker 1: Michael Kirkchin is very angry with you right now. As

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Speaker 1: the team captain for the Jones Lane, I will vote

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Speaker 1: on this great game or what dot com you can

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Speaker 1: let us know what you think. Now you mentioned Scott Vanpelt.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be our guest today. I'm so so excited

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Speaker 1: for this interview because he's a Maryland guy. Yes, but

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Speaker 1: you guys have spent so much time working together at ESPN.

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Speaker 1: The Baltimore accent had us both in stitches. He's just

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Speaker 1: this Our podcast is all about learning and laughing. Okay,

624
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: we're trying to teach people something. We're trying to educate them,

625
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: inform them about how beautiful this game is. We're also

626
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: here for a bunch of chuckles. And this is where

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00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: Scott Van Pelt is so good.

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Speaker 2: He loves to watch the games. He's not interested in

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Speaker 2: hot takes or how much money somebody makes, or like

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Speaker 2: tearing somebody down. He likes to watch the games and

631
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Speaker 2: celebrate the watching of the game. That's why I still

632
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 2: do what I do is I still love to go

633
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Speaker 2: to the games. I still love to watch the games.

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Speaker 2: I still love to talk to the players. Scott Van

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Speaker 2: Pelt has explained that ESPN is like a giant sports

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Speaker 2: bar where everyone's there for the same reason, but there's

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00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 2: just no beer and no food, but you're there to

638
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 2: watch the game. Everyone who goes to ESPN. That's essentially

639
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 2: the reason that they go there, and the long oh,

640
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,479
Speaker 2: of course is the funniest thing. I can't even remember

641
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 2: the guy's name, but I had Austin multiple times on

642
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 2: the show, and like the third year, he talked about

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00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 2: a linebacker who played for some NFLT. I think he

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00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 2: played at Nebraska. It doesn't matter where he's from, but

645
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 2: he's from the Conga. So Jeff, someday when I'm retired,

646
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 2: which is hopefully never, I'm gonna go to the Congo

647
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna laugh all the way through it

648
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 2: because of hearing Scott Van Pelt say that.

649
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 1: So we surprised Dad in the interview at the very

650
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: very end of the interview with something SVP and I

651
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: put together. So you're gonna want to hear that. But

652
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: with that being said, you have a little list because

653
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: SVP from Maryland, Dad and I Marylanders.

654
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 2: Right, what is your team? We have a team tim

655
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 2: every week we have you know, the all you know

656
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 2: clips team. We have the all fruits and vegetables teams.

657
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 2: Every week we have at least one list. So this

658
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 2: is the all born in Maryland team of all times.

659
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 2: So Jimmy Fox is the first baseman after Lou Garrick.

660
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 2: For me, he's the greatest first basement of all time.

661
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 2: He's from Sudlersville. Buck Herzog is the second basement played

662
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 2: you know, early nineteen hundreds home home run Baker, He's

663
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 2: a Hall of Famer third basement. Just to show you

664
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 2: how much home runs have changed, Jeff, he led or

665
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 2: tied for the league in home runs from nineteen eleven

666
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 2: to nineteen fourteen in a row. Wow okay, and his

667
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 2: home run totals were eleven, ten, twelve, and nine. And

668
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 2: all of those led the major leagues in homers or

669
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 2: led his league in home or tied for the league league.

670
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 2: Whereas you know, Airon Judges nine homers in two weeks.

671
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 2: That's the way it works today. Cal Ripken, of course,

672
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 2: is the shortstop from Aberdeen. He will be our guest

673
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 2: next week on our All Star Show. Can't wait for that.

674
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 2: We'll talk baseball, basketball, all sorts of things of course,

675
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 2: the outfield, get our outfield, Jeff. We have Harold Baines,

676
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 2: who is you know from He's from Easton, Maryland, Maryland,

677
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 2: Eastern Shore, all sorts of places down there. Alkyline is

678
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 2: from Baltimore and after well, al Ka Line's the second

679
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 2: best player ever to come out of Baltimore, will tell

680
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 2: you the first and minute, Al Kline, who won a

681
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 2: batting title at age twenty. It is one of the

682
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: three greatest defensive right fielders I've ever seen, and one

683
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 2: of the three greatest throwing arms from right field I've

684
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 2: ever seen. He hit three hundred ninety nine homers and

685
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 2: never hit thirty home runs in a season, so he

686
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 2: has the most career homers without a thirty homer season.

687
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 2: And al Caline told me that in high school he

688
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 2: was a better basketball player than he was a baseball player,

689
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 2: and he won a batting title in the major leagues

690
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 2: at age twenty. All right, Our right fielder, of course

691
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 2: is Babe Ruth, who was born like Alkyline, born in Baltimore.

692
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 2: Our catcher is Babe Phelps from Odenton, lifetime three to

693
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,720
Speaker 2: ten hitter. Did not know that our right handed pitcher

694
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 2: is Vic Willis from Cecil County, won two hundred and

695
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,480
Speaker 2: forty nine games. And of course tanded pitcher is lefty

696
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 2: groove and left to grow, won three hundred games. Is

697
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 2: arguably the greatest left handed pitcher of all time. So

698
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 2: those guys were all born in the state of Maryland.

699
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 2: We have multiple Hall of Famers here, pretty darn proud

700
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 2: of being from this state.

701
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna hear a lot from another Marylander. Scott

702
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: Van Pelt joins, is this a great game? Or what

703
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 1: coming up next?

704
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: And we are joined by my dear friend, Scott van Pelt. Scott,

705
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 2: this is my son, Jeff. He's thirty. He's a podcaster

706
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 2: with his dad.

707
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,839
Speaker 1: Most importantly, I'm a Montgomery County, Maryland kid.

708
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 3: That's right, gentlemen, Jeff, Sam, wonderful to see you. Greetings

709
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 3: from Dan. Look, I'm right, I'm literally fresh off the beach,

710
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 3: extra chrispy. It was an incredible day at the beat

711
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 3: So I'm Danna Asian and it's as good as it

712
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 3: could possibly beat out.

713
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 2: Did you have a beer? You're gonna have a beer tonight?

714
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: If so, what kind of beer you having down there?

715
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 3: I don't know if they make straight, but if they do,

716
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,399
Speaker 3: I'll find it. It's not that it'll be natty bad.

717
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 2: Scott. You're six seven, you look like you're seven seven.

718
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,439
Speaker 2: What are you like on the beach running all over

719
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 2: the place? What is that like?

720
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 3: I don't blend in well, But here's the thing about

721
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 3: that where we are. I mean, I've been coming here

722
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 3: most of my life, and I think that's the thing.

723
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 3: It's not specific to our part of the world. But

724
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 3: if you're from our part of the world, I think

725
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 3: everybody knows Ocean City, Benwick, beth Andy do we we're

726
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 3: hobos and if you're watching lots of generations like ours,

727
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 3: it's sort of been coming here forever. And so we've

728
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 3: got lucky to have a home in our family. It's

729
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 3: on a street, it's near where I am now, and

730
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 3: so it's like everybody's kind of whatever, like they know

731
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 3: who I am, but I'm just that guy with those

732
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 3: three kids that are in the water all day. I'm nobody,

733
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 3: and I'm just happy to be part of this little

734
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 3: beach community. It's fantastic out there.

735
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 1: Well, I mean as Maryland guys ourselves, we love going

736
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: down the ocean. And I live in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania now,

737
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 1: and unfortunately people call it montcu out here, which I

738
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: just don't think rings as well. I just moved to

739
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: Montgomery County. I was so excited.

740
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 2: Moco.

741
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't ring the same way now for you, Scott,

742
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: I need to know because the Baltimore accent right when

743
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: you grow up in the area, you know it well.

744
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 2: But how did this you two.

745
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: Doing this and laughing on the biggest sports network in

746
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:36,840
Speaker 1: the world. How did this start?

747
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 3: Well, your father, as you know and as LeBatard certainly

748
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 3: figured out, is just a great audience. There's a joy

749
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 3: that your father has naturally, and it isn't forced. He's

750
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 3: just he's a great teammate, he's a great colleague. And

751
00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,120
Speaker 3: he also has no chance if you hit him with

752
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 3: a really profound you know, John Dalk Camanian something, and

753
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 3: there's something about there's so many Oriole names through the years,

754
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,439
Speaker 3: and somewhere along the way I just started saying these

755
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 3: idiotic names to him. And really where it took off

756
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 3: was when Roscillo and I had the radio show SVP

757
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 3: and Mascillo and we'd have your dad on and we'd

758
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 3: talk actual baseball, and then at the end these non

759
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 3: sequitors I would just end every week, and he knew

760
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 3: they were coming, and it didn't make any difference because

761
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 3: I would ask him, I think one of my favorites ones.

762
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 3: I asked him, we had a good humor man come

763
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 3: to my party. I said, you know what every kid's

764
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 3: favorite was? And he waited and he's like, oh god, what,

765
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 3: I'm like shocking, And they made they made like a

766
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 3: rip like it was like a like an extended play

767
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 3: version of all the stupid stuff we did. And I mean,

768
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 3: as your father has no doubt explained to you, and

769
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 3: it's told on you know, a myriad of podcasts like

770
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 3: the poor Man was stopped in the grocery store. He's

771
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 3: trying to live his life and people are hackling him

772
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 3: wherever he goes. I feel badly that it took on

773
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 3: this life.

774
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, it did. Frozen food aisle at the Safeway, some

775
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 2: guy tackled me. He didn't even say hello, he just said,

776
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 2: please ask Scott who the female goalie is on the

777
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 2: US soccer team. And of course I take it on

778
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 2: the air that.

779
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 3: And I don't know why. I don't know why it

780
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 3: became this falsettle like I could just say low, but

781
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 3: I have to do it in this sing song. He whatever.

782
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just it became a thing, and

783
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 3: God knows, we like we beat it into the ground.

784
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 3: But here's here's how you know a bit's great if

785
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 3: it still somehow just stays funny. And so it's you know,

786
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 3: I succore to you if it reached the point where

787
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 3: I thought I did it and you just going yeah, okay,

788
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 3: I would just say never again. Right, But it's your fault.

789
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 3: I say, it's your dad's fault, Jeff, because you keep flapping.

790
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,439
Speaker 2: But it's now everyone's fault. I was waiting in line

791
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 2: to get a sandwich, I told Scott once, and the

792
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,280
Speaker 2: lady says, what would you like on your roast beef?

793
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 2: And the guy looks around at me, he doesn't even

794
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 2: say hello. He goes provolone, just because I was standing

795
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 2: behind him. He probably wanted Swiss, but because Provolone was better,

796
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 2: that's what he ordered on his sandwich.

797
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 3: And maybe light Mayo like mayo.

798
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 2: I think the first Oriole name that Scott got me

799
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 2: on and he didn't even mean to was keik au Garcia.

800
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 2: That was that's when it all started. But then we

801
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 2: had the all Oriole team, and when they came up

802
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,919
Speaker 2: with a new pitching coach, the guy who rocked back

803
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 2: and forth, that's when I think I completely lost it. It

804
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 2: never got through.

805
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 3: It, Liamzoni, and it's and it's Oreos and it's Natty

806
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 3: Bears and it's all that. Hey, and you know what's

807
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 3: fun is this year they're good. And then God knows

808
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 3: for oriole fans out there that endured those those years

809
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 3: when it was beyond grim and you know, Houston got

810
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 3: their payoffs after they were horrific, and I think oriol

811
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 3: fans were all fingers crossed it maybe you know, maybe

812
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 3: this is our summer or next. But I mean, I

813
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 3: think the good news is that we're in the week.

814
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 3: The Orioles are in the discussion. You know, they were

815
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 3: a good baseball team. They're about five or six really

816
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 3: good ones, I think, and they're clearly one of them.

817
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 3: So that's that's fun too, I think, isn't it right?

818
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 2: Of course? Now, Scott, where did your intense love of

819
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 2: the game come from?

820
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 3: Memorial Stadium? I'm too too young for the Senators, too

821
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 3: old for the Nationals. It would have been more geographically

822
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 3: convenient to have been a NAT's fan had they existed

823
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 3: when I was little, but they didn't, so Memorial Stadium

824
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 3: was a doable drive for my dad, and Dad started

825
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 3: taking me to games when I was a little kid,

826
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 3: and they were easy to root for, tim, weren't they.

827
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 3: I mean, you think of the Orioles of the seventies.

828
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 3: You know, they played it the Oriole Way, and they

829
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,040
Speaker 3: were good and it was so much joy. Three buck

830
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 3: night and I told this story. I know you know it,

831
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 3: but for your listeners it might not have heard it.

832
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 3: The old pa announcer in Memorial Stadium was a legendary

833
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 3: guy named Rex Barney, and if a great catch was

834
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 3: made in Memorial Stadium, Rex would punctuate that catch by saying,

835
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 3: give that fan a contract, and everyone would be excited. Well,

836
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 3: Brooks Robinson foul the ball off, and my dad made

837
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 3: a legitimately great catch. Give that fan a contract. Dad

838
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 3: catches the ball at the Brooks Robinson foul ball. I'm

839
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 3: over joy. Come home, I got a Brooks ball. Go

840
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 3: to school the next day, tell all my friends we

841
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 3: got a Brooks Robinson foal ball. Naturally, after school, what

842
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 3: are we gonna do? We're gonna have a catch with

843
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 3: the Brooks robinsonval ball. I got to snap off a

844
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 3: curve ball because I figured I could throw one like

845
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 3: Cake's palmer. Only I can't and my buddy can't catch it.

846
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 3: It rolls down the hill into a sewer and it's

847
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 3: gone and like gone gone, And people say, why don't

848
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 3: you just lift up the sewer. It went into a sewer.

849
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 3: That fan. Trust me when I say the ball is gone.

850
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 3: And I never told my dad when he was alive,

851
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 3: And at this point in the story, every time I

852
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,840
Speaker 3: always say Dad, I'm sorry. But it gets better because

853
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 3: I tell the story at an event in Baldemorok where

854
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 3: I'm speaking and it turns out that one of Brooks's

855
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 3: sort of pr folks is sitting at my table. A

856
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 3: week later, a box shows up at my house. This

857
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 3: is a true story in my Hand to God. A

858
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 3: box shows up at my house. It's rattling around, like

859
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 3: what is this. I open it up. There's a piece

860
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 3: of paper. I hope this makes up for the one

861
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,240
Speaker 3: in the stewer. I look at the ball Brooks Robin.

862
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 3: I'm not an autograph guy. I might have too an

863
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 3: autograph wer two in my life. The ball I have

864
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 3: signed by Brooks Robinson, which connects me to Memorial Stadium,

865
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 3: my dad, my love of the Orioles from decades ago.

866
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 3: Like it's it's a true treasure that I have. And

867
00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know what. I don't know how

868
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 3: I can even Capsule made it better than that, because

869
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 3: that's that's my youth in one story.

870
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 2: Well, and it just all. The great story about Brooks Robinson,

871
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 2: of course, is in New York they named a candy

872
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,359
Speaker 2: bar after Reggie Jackson. Here in Baltimore, we name our

873
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 2: children after Brooks Robinson. And it's true.

874
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 3: So my last son was my last son was very

875
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 3: nearly Brooks. It wouldn't have necessarily been Brooks Robinson. It

876
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,319
Speaker 3: was this close to being Brooks. Long story ended up

877
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 3: being the right name, but it was this close to

878
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 3: being Brooks. And I'm sure that there was some subliminal

879
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 3: part of my youth that was wrapped up in that.

880
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 3: I said when he passed away on social media, I said,

881
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 3: when I was a kid, I could never imagine anybody

882
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 3: being cooler than Brooks Robinson, and I still can't. You know,

883
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 3: just the odd blacks, the gloves, the hats, the whole bit, man.

884
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 3: I mean, that dude was that to me. If you

885
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 3: asked me to name a mount Rushmore of Orioles, it'd

886
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 3: be hard. But if you said one, I think you

887
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 3: start with him. I really do well.

888
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 2: I talked about that last week on the podcast.

889
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: Dad challenged our listeners to just pick one, and SVP

890
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: just said.

891
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 2: I broke when you got Junior and Eddie Murray and

892
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 2: Frank Robinson and Jim Palmer, It's impossible. But I went

893
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 2: with Brooks also because he spent longer time there was

894
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 2: great he was underrated offensively in the best defensive third

895
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 2: base foot of all time.

896
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 3: Eddie m my guy Stamper Steve asked me recently, he said,

897
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 3: who's your favorite? Oriole? I said, Eddie Murray and there

898
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 3: was just he his demeanor, the fear. I think he

899
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 3: struck into the proposition that chance, you know, Eddie, Eddie, Eddie.

900
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 3: He was my favorite. But if you're starting in a

901
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 3: list of Orioles, you look, if you sayd Tim and

902
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 3: I echo, then I feel like I'm more right because

903
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 3: you said it your opinion. It's makes me feel like

904
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,439
Speaker 3: I'm closer to being in the right lane. So I mean, look,

905
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 3: I get any of those names you just said, but

906
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 3: a lot of folks that would say number five.

907
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 2: Right, Scott, did you sit in the upper deck at

908
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 2: Memorial Stadium where you're near wild Bill Hagey? I mean,

909
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 2: what was that experience like being around those fans?

910
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 3: I sat in Section thirty four Friday nights and the

911
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 3: nights that They were three games behind the Milwaukee Brewers, who,

912
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 3: by the way, kids used to be in the American League.

913
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 3: East Oriels trailed by three games with four to play.

914
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 3: I went there Friday night. I sat in section thirty

915
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 3: four for game one. They had to win every game

916
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 3: for Sunday, no matter. They take game one of the

917
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:28,760
Speaker 3: doubleheader night the second game, I swear storm Davis picks.

918
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 3: By the time the game ends, I had worked my

919
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 3: way down to better speak, but we were in section

920
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 3: thirty four with while Bill Haagey selling outri l e

921
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,879
Speaker 3: S and by the nightcap I was down the lower level.

922
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 3: Orioles won that one. They won game three on Saturday

923
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 3: to force the winner take Alf Palmer versus Sutton. Robin

924
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 3: Yont hit two homers. This is not I'm meandering here,

925
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 3: but Andy North, my dear friend I do golf with,

926
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 3: has a charity event and Robin Yacht's there, and every

927
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 3: year I would all the dignitaries that were there robbing

928
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 3: me out there, and I'd say this guy, that guy,

929
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 3: and I would say that son of a bitch running

930
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 3: down Excuse my language, but that's the only way I

931
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 3: knew how to introduce the guy that hit two home

932
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 3: runs in the one hundred and sixty second game of

933
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,399
Speaker 3: the year to ruin the Orioles. But I would sit

934
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 3: in the upper deck for a three buck night. And

935
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 3: I used to love to sit in the left field bleaches,

936
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 3: right by the foul pole, which if you remember the

937
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 3: way that stadium was built, it was all concrete right

938
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 3: like it was a huge wall and was concrete just

939
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 3: beneath that. And I used to sit in the left

940
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 3: field bleachers when when I didn't sit in the upper deck,

941
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 3: but I mean I sat all every bit of that stadium.

942
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 3: I went over him. Remember the bullpen was in right

943
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 3: field for the opposition. I went and watched Nolan Ryan

944
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 3: warm up, and I was a little kid, and all

945
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 3: all I can remember is the sound the ball means

946
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 3: he threw it. And remember he would grunt. He would grunt,

947
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 3: and then you heard this thing go and then you

948
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,479
Speaker 3: heard a pop that sounded like an explosion. I thought,

949
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 3: my god, whatever that guy is, there's nobody else like him.

950
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:05,399
Speaker 3: So I'm just rambling. But you asked me what I did.

951
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 3: I went to Memorial Stadium, and you know, the memories

952
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 3: just come flooding out right.

953
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 2: So late eighties Scott I'm living in Columbia, Maryland. I'm

954
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 2: going to the airport. I'm working for Sports Illustrated. The

955
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 2: cab comes to pick me up, and the cab driver

956
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: is wild Bill Hagey. It was Unner, Yes, it was.

957
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 2: He gave me a ride to the BWI airport. And

958
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 2: I think I'm riding with a god here because he

959
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,759
Speaker 2: used to spell out Orioles with his name. Wild Bill

960
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:36,840
Speaker 2: Hagey was in my driveway and drove me to the airport.

961
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 2: How beautiful is that?

962
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 3: That's incredible. You should have told him if he had

963
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 3: to go to New York he could have got the help. Sports.

964
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 2: So, Scott, you pitched at Sherwood. You know, we went

965
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 2: to Montgomery County schools. I went to Walter Johnson. I

966
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,919
Speaker 2: got my Walter Johnson sweatshirt on stuffed there.

967
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: Every week, every week he has his Walter Johnson sweatshirt on.

968
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 3: Scott.

969
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: He is the proudest wildcat you've ever seeing here.

970
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 2: Right, But Scott, you pitched at Sherwood. I know you're

971
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 2: pretty good, but tell me what that was like to

972
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 2: be as tall as you were a high school kid

973
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 2: throwing baseballs.

974
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 3: My nickname was was Fungo or I would six four

975
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy, so they called me fungo or

976
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 3: if it would have been in Baltimore, fulm games. Yeah,

977
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 3: and I did not like Surewood. In the years after

978
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 3: I left, which was one hundred years ago, they've become

979
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 3: a power, like a Montgomery County power. They won a

980
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,879
Speaker 3: number of state titles in a row. When I was there,

981
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 3: we were good, we made the we were a win

982
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 3: away from the from the final four. And I was

983
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 3: pitching and I lost the wheatn I was. I was decent,

984
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 3: I wanted, I won. I won some games, but I

985
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 3: didn't throw hard. But what I could do is throw

986
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 3: strikes and throw curveballs for strikes. And in high school,

987
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 3: if you could throw strikes that changed planes, you'll get

988
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 3: dudes out. And my only claim to think as a

989
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 3: pitcher is that another Moco legend from Kennedy, Curtis Pride,

990
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 3: who of course made it to the major leagues, was

991
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 3: an incredible athlete. It was a three sport athlete, might

992
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 3: have been better at soccer than anything. Went to William

993
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 3: and Mary on a college basketball scholarship and made it

994
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 3: to the major league. I struck Curtis out in a

995
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 3: game what I beat Kennedy, And so I told Curtis

996
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:16,359
Speaker 3: how proud I was when he made the big because

997
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,280
Speaker 3: I got to say, I got to mix your leaguer

998
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 3: throwing like seventy three. But I was, you know, I

999
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 3: was like any decent picture. You know, it was part

1000
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 3: of my life. When I was probably like eight, I

1001
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 3: was sure I was going to be in the majors,

1002
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 3: and then pretty quickly you realize, Okay, I'm a competent player.

1003
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 3: I love the game, but you know my career will

1004
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 3: end when twelfth grade ends.

1005
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: And it did. SVP. I have to ask you, you

1006
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: did an incredible interview with Stuart Scott's Girls the other

1007
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: day on your show. It was fantastic. As a journalist,

1008
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,799
Speaker 1: as a broadcaster, I look up to you the way

1009
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 1: you interview people and the way you do your show,

1010
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: how relaxed it is, how you deliver your message, how

1011
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: you're able to be fun and then serious within Thank you,

1012
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: blink of an eye. That was a powerful moment. And

1013
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,320
Speaker 1: ten years since his sb's speech, which was just incredible,

1014
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 1: but it really got me thinking back to those days

1015
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: of you and him doing those This is Sports Center commercials. Specifically,

1016
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: one of my favorites being when you guys are in

1017
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: the warm up suits and you rip them off to

1018
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 1: then sit down and do the show, and you're just

1019
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: wearing another suit underneath. Those commercials were iconic. Was there

1020
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: one that you specifically remember filming that sticks out to

1021
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: you because of something great that might have happened, or

1022
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: a guest mascot or a guest athlete that was a

1023
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: part of it.

1024
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 3: I think the one that you bring up, the late

1025
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 3: great Stewart Scott and thank you by the way, that

1026
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 3: that was one of those things where I'd say this

1027
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 3: to you and any journalists out there, don't don't be

1028
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 3: afraid to allow your emotions to be what they are.

1029
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 3: You know that I don't think you need to. I

1030
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 3: literally thought about it during the day and I thought,

1031
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,240
Speaker 3: I hope, I hope I get through this without crying.

1032
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 3: And then they they their faces were on the screens

1033
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 3: as big as the wall, and they look just like

1034
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 3: their father, and I knew I had no chance, and

1035
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 3: I thought, that's okay, I'm going to be emotional and

1036
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 3: I'll make no apopagies for it then or now. But

1037
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 3: I didn't add with their dad, my man, the late

1038
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 3: great Stuart Scott where all we did was stand and

1039
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 3: watch Arnold Palmer make an Arnold Palmer. And he's in

1040
00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 3: the cafeteria and he lemonade. I see a little lemonade,

1041
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,439
Speaker 3: little iced tea, and we're off and he walks away.

1042
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:28,399
Speaker 3: All Stuart Scott and I do is at the end

1043
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 3: just say that was awesome, and he goes, I know,

1044
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,959
Speaker 3: and we shot it. We shot it over and over

1045
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 3: and over, and I knew him because I had worked

1046
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 3: with him. For him, I should say, it's a golf channel.

1047
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 3: And at some point he says to me, you know,

1048
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 3: I shot movies that didn't take this one. And I

1049
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 3: said to our director, I said, you probably need to

1050
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 3: need to wrap this up. I quite a bit.

1051
00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: He was.

1052
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 3: He's a legendary director. His name is David Shane. And

1053
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 3: he's like, he's like, is Arnold Anold? Fine? I said,

1054
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 3: it's just there's no dialogue. He made the Arnold Farmer

1055
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 3: next shot, you know what I mean? Yeah, And we

1056
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:10,720
Speaker 3: moved on from there. But that was awesome. The things

1057
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 3: that were so much fun was just that the athletes

1058
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 3: had such an appetite to be in them. Kevin Garnett

1059
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:20,239
Speaker 3: came and was so excited to be in an ad.

1060
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 3: It was he, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen and I

1061
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 3: was in it and they were looking for a nickname

1062
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 3: and I dubbed them the Boston three Party, and Kevin

1063
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 3: before the ad was just ecstatic. He's just like, I

1064
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 3: can't believe that. I said, weren't you the MVP? This

1065
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 3: Bristol man. It's really in the big deal. But they

1066
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 3: they had such a it was like a write of passage.

1067
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 3: I think to be in one of those ads, the

1068
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 3: lebron thing where I took his share, I think you

1069
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 3: know that they still run that all these years later.

1070
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 3: There they were all, they were all just a blast view.

1071
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 3: But that one with Me Stewart and Arnold Falmer's was

1072
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 3: tough to be just because it's just it's the brilliances

1073
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 3: that it required nothing, nothing to be said.

1074
00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: And my favorite part was that they had him. He

1075
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,920
Speaker 1: had a caddy who was walking through them.

1076
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 3: That that's the conceit that he ads is that the

1077
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 3: is that you know, you'd be in the newsroom and

1078
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,800
Speaker 3: you know these muppet map cuts as they just wander

1079
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 3: around right like, oh yeah, sure, you know there's the

1080
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 3: Western Kentucky hilltopper. Of course, so I think that one,

1081
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 3: that big red blob all due respect, has been in

1082
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 3: a million of them, and uh, I don't know they

1083
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 3: were all. They were all a blast to do, for sure, Scott.

1084
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 2: This is a great compliment, but you are a goofball

1085
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 2: of the highest order. If you weren't doing what you're

1086
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 2: doing right now, what are you trained to do in

1087
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:43,319
Speaker 2: your life?

1088
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 3: Not one, not one useful thing? Say you know this, Kim,

1089
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 3: you know this, I know this. You no, but you

1090
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 3: know our plate. Ours is a collection of people who

1091
00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 3: without ESPN would be a drift at sea. There would

1092
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:04,319
Speaker 3: be no meaningful place for us to do anything. It

1093
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 3: was suggested to me because of my personality. Oh, you

1094
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:09,919
Speaker 3: could say you'd be great in sales, and I always said,

1095
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 3: I don't want to hassle my friends to buy some

1096
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 3: annuity like I just know i'd be careful at that.

1097
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 3: I would not be I would not be useful in

1098
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 3: any way. And I'm sure there are people that wonder

1099
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 3: what I'm useful at now. But without ESPN, there's no

1100
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 3: on ramp for me in society. So I remain I

1101
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 3: remain profoundly grateful that I found some place to do

1102
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 3: what it is I feel like I was sort of

1103
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 3: created to do, which is watch games like you. And

1104
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 3: I mean this sincerely. I think you're a great great

1105
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 3: mentor for those of us that have a passion for

1106
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 3: something to see that we don't have to become cynical,

1107
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 3: we don't have to lose our love for what we

1108
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 3: love and to hold on to that love and the

1109
00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 3: minute that it's extinguished, I imagine you to pen down

1110
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:02,399
Speaker 3: and say that's it, right, I mean, and I feel

1111
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 3: the same if if I feel like it's a chore

1112
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 3: to go to work and I really don't care who

1113
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 3: wins the game, then time to shut it down. But

1114
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 3: I remain every day that you'd get to go in

1115
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 3: and do it. You think, hey, who's going to win

1116
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:17,919
Speaker 3: the game. What's awesome? Just like you always talk about,

1117
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 3: you'll see something that happened every day that's never happened,

1118
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 3: and you get to be the one that talks about it.

1119
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 3: So you know, somehow, I I stumbled into this place

1120
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 3: and here here I remain.

1121
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 2: And Scott, you started off at the golf channel and

1122
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:34,040
Speaker 2: god you love all sports. I know that. But tell

1123
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 2: me we've got the British Open coming up. Tell me,

1124
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 2: having never been to England, to play golf. What is

1125
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,280
Speaker 2: it like for you to cover the British Open and

1126
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 2: play golf over there?

1127
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: Don't you mean the British Open. I'm sorry, I think

1128
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: he misunderstood.

1129
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 2: You wouldn't.

1130
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 3: If you want to put in Baltimore eage, and you

1131
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 3: wanted to put it in a proper sort of lexicon,

1132
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 3: it would be the Open, the Open Championship. We don't

1133
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 3: need to say British, it's just the A. And playing

1134
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 3: golf there as opposed to here is entirely different because

1135
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 3: there everything here you play through the air, you landed

1136
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 3: and it stopped. Links Golf is a much different game

1137
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 3: where it's played lower to the ground, shots run up.

1138
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 3: It's hard to describe it unless you try to play it.

1139
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 3: But I can remember vividly one year and Truon was

1140
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 3: the first Open that I ever covered, in nineteen ninety seven.

1141
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 3: Justin Leonard won. That got him on. But we would

1142
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 3: go and play in the in the evenings and we

1143
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 3: were at this one course, there's like four or five

1144
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 3: of us from ESPN, and we're playing in front of

1145
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 3: this guy who looks like he's a hundred and he's

1146
00:58:44,120 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 3: got this like nine piece rickety swing and he can't

1147
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 3: follow through, but we keep looking back and the ball

1148
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 3: keeps being three feet from the hole and we're like,

1149
00:58:58,120 --> 00:59:00,959
Speaker 3: this is like the ghost of Ben Hogan. And we're

1150
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 3: watching and we're thinking, Mike, I don't know how he's

1151
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 3: doing this. And he's landing him thirty yards short of

1152
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 3: the green and then they roll up and then they

1153
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 3: curl in and then it's another birdie putt. So at

1154
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 3: the end we wait for this guy because just we

1155
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 3: want to just see what else. And he hits another

1156
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 3: close shot and he's got this little pole caddy and

1157
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 3: he's meandering very slowly, and he gets done and he

1158
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 3: walks past us and we're all sort of staring at him,

1159
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 3: and I said to the man, I said, that was incredible.

1160
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:36,400
Speaker 3: And he's wearing a Hogan cap and tim without breaking strides.

1161
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 3: He just slightly acknowledges and as acknowledges us and says

1162
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 3: it's not the first Summa played this course and keeps

1163
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 3: walking and it's like, I don't care if he plays

1164
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 3: this of course a hundred times. There's no way you

1165
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 3: play like that every day. But the idea that not

1166
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 3: the first Summa played this course is deep Scottish rogue.

1167
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 3: There is something to understanding the game. It's I've always

1168
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 3: said Augusta Nashal is my favorite place to go. But

1169
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 3: I feel the Open Championship is the best championship because

1170
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 3: they played for it longer than any other. They invented

1171
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 3: the game, and it just it's part of the fabric

1172
01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 3: of their whole society. And so for us to say

1173
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 3: that something we've done not nearly as long means something

1174
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,800
Speaker 3: more than that, I just feel as I just won't

1175
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 3: do it. And I've seen all of them, so I

1176
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 3: don't feel badly in saying that's my opinion, and I

1177
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 3: feel like it's an informed opinion because I've seen them all.

1178
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 2: They asked Ben Hogan once, He asked his caddy once

1179
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 2: how far tore the flag from here? And as Caddy

1180
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 2: said six, and Ben said, which one is it? Give

1181
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:46,800
Speaker 2: me Give me a story, Scott, of the precision that

1182
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 2: you've seen from our greatest PGA Tour players that just

1183
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 2: make you go I can't believe he's that precise.

1184
01:00:55,720 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 3: Look at the last major, the the the United and

1185
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 3: where Bryce and de Shamba got up and down from

1186
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 3: a bunker on a fifty five yard explosion shot. No

1187
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 3: one had gotten up and down from that bunker the

1188
01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:11,320
Speaker 3: entire week, and he was all only on Sports Center

1189
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 3: that night and he explained that he had practiced that

1190
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:17,479
Speaker 3: shot specifically, he said, I walked it off. He said,

1191
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 3: I knew exactly how far it had to be. I

1192
01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 3: had to land at thirty yards and he said, that's

1193
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 3: where I landed. So think about what I'm saying to you.

1194
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 3: He's hitting a ball out of sand in a bunker

1195
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 3: with a huge lift that no one's been able to

1196
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 3: get up and down from the entire week. He needs

1197
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 3: to do it to win the United States Open Championship.

1198
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 3: He needs to land the ball at a spot on

1199
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 3: the green thirty yards away, and he does it, and

1200
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 3: then it rolls to three feet then he knocks it in.

1201
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 3: It's I mean, I play the game. I enjoy the game,

1202
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,520
Speaker 3: but I mean it's the old thing. And it's true

1203
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 3: if they're playing golf, I don't know what we're doing.

1204
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 3: But we're not doing that. You know, we don't. We

1205
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 3: don't possess that type of it's just not that finally calibrated,

1206
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,600
Speaker 3: you know, in the same way that you know a

1207
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 3: gwin can foul it off and tell you if you

1208
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 3: hit a steam or not, you know what I mean, Like,

1209
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 3: there's just there's there's a level to this at the

1210
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 3: highest level that the mortals will just never comprehend.

1211
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 2: Scott, let's push this to baseball. You taking it back

1212
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:15,840
Speaker 2: in a major league game? Is that something that is

1213
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 2: just something that is inconceivable given how hard the guys

1214
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 2: throw in a major league game today?

1215
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 3: I mean I would remember Cruck, Remember Cruky when Randy

1216
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 3: buzz the tower, Yes, and he just like part creates

1217
01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 3: a hat on backwards a whole bit. I don't want it.

1218
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 3: Remember when Look, when I was young, Goust Goshich was

1219
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 3: this terrifying guy because he threw ninety something. Now every

1220
01:02:43,080 --> 01:02:47,479
Speaker 3: bullpen's got seven guys that throw that horse, every single one.

1221
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 3: Like a plus arm is you got to be ninety

1222
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 3: eight ninety nine to be like plus fastball. I would

1223
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 3: want nothing to do with any of that. I mean

1224
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 3: the different like a golf course. If I went and

1225
01:03:00,400 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 3: play Pinehurst, I know I'd embarrassed myself some, but I

1226
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:05,760
Speaker 3: know that I'm capable of I can hit a drive

1227
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 3: in a fair way, and I could hit a decent

1228
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:08,919
Speaker 3: iron shot. Who the hell knows I might get lucky

1229
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:12,360
Speaker 3: to make a burbie. I'm not getting a hit off

1230
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:19,560
Speaker 3: a major league pitcher ever never I'm old. Also, when

1231
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:20,840
Speaker 3: I was younger, I would have talked. I would have

1232
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 3: talked myself into it. I get that green East, I

1233
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,040
Speaker 3: get that green thirty four baby, and I'd be I

1234
01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 3: sway like a man. I swayed like Andehar, swing as

1235
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 3: hard as I can in case that my contact, but

1236
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 3: I'm holding feeble mouse. So those my days of being

1237
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 3: being boastful and long gone. As it relates to that.

1238
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 2: Right, speaking of that, skuy, when's the last time you

1239
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 2: dunked a basketball?

1240
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:47,920
Speaker 3: Dunked? Yes, it was within the last year, but it

1241
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 3: was with us. It was with a slightly underinflated soccer

1242
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 3: ball that I could easily palm. And I'm terrified of

1243
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 3: one thing right now, at this advanced stage, I'm terrified

1244
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 3: of a torn achilles. And I I'm convinced. I used

1245
01:04:01,640 --> 01:04:03,400
Speaker 3: to be able to jump pretty I was weird. I

1246
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 3: was a one leg jumper, like I couldn't. I did

1247
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 3: not have great lift off too, but off one leg

1248
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 3: I could get my arm like way above the ram easy.

1249
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 3: I'm sick six also, So I mean it wasn't like

1250
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 3: that was some great thing. But now when I go

1251
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 3: to jump my legs, my knees just gets straight. That's

1252
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:25,600
Speaker 3: all that happened. It's like extra gravity kissing. But I'm

1253
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,280
Speaker 3: trying to remember where I was. I think it was

1254
01:04:27,360 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 3: in the driveway of the house we were staying and

1255
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 3: I dun. I dunked in like slightly underinflated soccer ball.

1256
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 3: I don't think that counts, but that's as close as

1257
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 3: I've been.

1258
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 2: No, that's good enough, Scott, because I know you dunked

1259
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 2: in high school. That's good enough for me. But and

1260
01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 2: you're what fifty seven years old? Yeah, if you could

1261
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 2: still dunk a soccer ball in fifty seven, I don't

1262
01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 2: care if you're seven to six, that's pretty good.

1263
01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, dad, you did.

1264
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,600
Speaker 3: But again, again, it's been I don't know, I don't

1265
01:04:54,640 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 3: know when in the last year. I'm gonna claim it though,

1266
01:04:56,960 --> 01:04:57,720
Speaker 3: because it happened.

1267
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, you dunked on your grands on Carson's little tikes,

1268
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 1: who yees. Last year.

1269
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 2: That was pretty good. That's about it.

1270
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: And that's with one artificial hips guy, And it's pretty

1271
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: impressive when you think about it.

1272
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, look the guy you're sitting next to you

1273
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:15,840
Speaker 3: is pretty impressive across the board, but you will already

1274
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,560
Speaker 3: know all that. I hope you get to do the

1275
01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 3: things that he got to do, and hope you have

1276
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 3: the kind of career that he's had. You'll, I think

1277
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 3: you'll find that if you have, if you earn accolades,

1278
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Speaker 3: it becomes really difficult to accept them. I said recently

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01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:33,400
Speaker 3: about something that I've tried to get better and letting

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01:05:33,440 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 3: people be kind to me. I find it much easier

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01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 3: to blow it off as well. But I also think

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01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 3: that that it look, if you get in the Hall

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01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 3: of Fame, it wasn't an accident, you didn't. It wasn't

1284
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:46,439
Speaker 3: a scratch off ticket, you know. I mean, I hope

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01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 3: you do. I'm not trying to lecture here, but I'm

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01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 3: just here. I hope you allow yourself to satisfaction knowing

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01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 3: sitting around with your brothers and your cops talking baseball

1288
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 3: at the kitchen, like you know you got to you

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01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:00,760
Speaker 3: got to Cooperstown. That's that's insane, man, incredible.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Scott. But I will tell you, in

1291
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 2: all seriousness, the comment I get most from people on

1292
01:06:06,920 --> 01:06:10,360
Speaker 2: the street wherever I go is the SVP and you

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01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 2: laughing thing is my favorite thing. You're right, Scott, I'm

1294
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame and all they want to

1295
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 2: talk about is Hope, Solo and Leo Gomez. It's just

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01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 2: unbelievable to me. But it just shows Scott, it's okay

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01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 2: to have a hearty laugh once in a while. Is

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01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 2: that not correct?

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Speaker 3: A thousand percent? Look if we're if we don't allow

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01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 3: ourselves that right and baseball's joy. But if we don't

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01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:39,000
Speaker 3: allow ourselves the joy of a friendship and sincere laughter,

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01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 3: what the heck are we even doing about that? Can

1303
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 3: I I need to turn my phone sideways because I

1304
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 3: have to. I'm on my phone, I'm on Pee Paul Vision.

1305
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 3: Give me a second. I got to access a list

1306
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:49,680
Speaker 3: I got early. Can I get to that?

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01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah? Oh no? What what is this?

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01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 1: So SVP and I have conspired together to another ambush?

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01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:02,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure wrap up the interview. We put together what

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01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:06,560
Speaker 1: we're calling the All s VP All s VP Baltimore Team.

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01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:09,360
Speaker 1: He's ready to announce it.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, s VP, take it away.

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Speaker 3: At catcher. We have fifth Bow, First Base Radio, Second Basement,

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01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 3: Craig c Thursday at George Spoodrow and our outsfielders, Mini

1315
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:47,240
Speaker 3: Mana Yo, maggiore our starting pitcher for Cologne. We have

1316
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 3: Polico car Dame coach Leazony. Our manager is Lias hitting

1317
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:00,040
Speaker 3: in case of emergency. I added this with Jeffy. I

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Speaker 3: hope you don't mind. Thank you, Scott.

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01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 2: I'm crying and I'm not apologizing. Thank you so much

1320
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 2: for joining us, Scott, A good chuckle goes a long way.

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01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:24,240
Speaker 1: Absolutely, s VP, thank you so much and we appreciate

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01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: you joining. It's just a great game, all right.

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01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:28,840
Speaker 2: Now Gi down the ation.

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01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm going back down Asian. It's a great day

1325
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:36,160
Speaker 4: and I'm doing with the family. I appreciate your your

1326
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 4: family thing is awesome. Guys, don't take this for granted. Enjoyed,

1327
01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 4: enjoy the great game, enjoy each other's company. And Tim,

1328
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 4: I appreciate you having me and this is held.

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01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 3: A lot of fun, all right.

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01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:46,120
Speaker 2: Thank you, Scott, see you soon.

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01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:51,760
Speaker 1: Thanks SVP, dear boy, Scott van Pelt, amazing. Thank you

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01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 1: so much for joining us in his son hat and

1333
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: sunglasses right off the beach.

1334
01:08:56,760 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 2: Love s VP for coming in off the beach to

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01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 2: do a podcast.

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01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,040
Speaker 1: Our All Star Game episode is next week. Cowarken Junior

1337
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 1: is going to be joining us. Dad when I was

1338
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:08,600
Speaker 1: putting together that list of the All O team, you

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01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:11,200
Speaker 1: know with the best names, one of my favorite names

1340
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: was is Biff Pokaroba?

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01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:16,040
Speaker 2: Right, Well, where did you pull that one from?

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01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:17,200
Speaker 1: I don't think i've heard you.

1343
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've heard me. The great part about Biff Pokaroba

1344
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 2: is his real first name is Biff. No, that's not

1345
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:28,160
Speaker 2: his nickname. His real first name is Biff, just like

1346
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 2: Spike Owing, who played in the Major League's real first

1347
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:32,799
Speaker 2: name is Spike. That's beautiful.

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01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 1: And my other one is Joe Sharboneau.

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Speaker 2: Joe Sharboneau. I have to explain quickly. He won the

1350
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Speaker 2: AL Rookie of the Year in nineteen eighty he hit

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01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:45,560
Speaker 2: twenty three homers and drove in eighty seven runs. He

1352
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 2: only played two more years after that because of injuries

1353
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 2: and other he just stopped hitting. So for the next

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01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,560
Speaker 2: two years he hit six homers total and drove in

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01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:58,559
Speaker 2: twenty seven runs after hitting twenty three with eighty seven

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01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 2: in his rookie year. Just a other reminder, Jeff how

1357
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:02,720
Speaker 2: hard the game is to play.

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01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: And of all those successes, I think one of his

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01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,200
Speaker 1: largest ones would be a part of that team, the

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Speaker 1: All Baltimore Accent team right.

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01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:11,639
Speaker 2: He would love that and that was an addition from

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01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 2: Scott van Pelt. You came up with the list and

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01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:16,479
Speaker 2: he had to throw it in. That's how much Jew

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01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 2: Charbonneu meant to him.

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01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 1: Thank you SVP once again join us next week. Make

1366
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 1: sure to follow and subscribe wherever you're listening right now.

1367
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 1: It's completely free. Great game or what dot com to

1368
01:10:27,360 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 1: find other ways to listen as well, And thank you

1369
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: so much for watching it. As always, thank you for

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01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 1: being a part of our family.