1 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkshon. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon, And 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: here we are Dad. Another episode and another snowstorm. 4 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 2: We had to shovel out of right before recording. 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 3: How long did you shovel this morning, Jeff? 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: I mean, I did end up helping a couple of neighbors, 7 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: So I ended up being out there a couple hours, 8 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: just because I was the first. 9 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 2: One in my neighborhood to get done. 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: And then I saw some other people out there struggling, 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: so I walked around with my shovel. 12 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 2: I would say I was out there. Then McKinley came out, 13 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 2: wanted to have a snowball fight, and there was then 14 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,440 Speaker 2: she wanted to drive in her bike in her car 15 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: once I got everything cleaned off. So I was there 16 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 2: for two and a half hours, easily, right. 17 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 3: It took me two hours to do our driveway. Of course, 18 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 3: our driveway is longer than your driveway. Our driveway is 19 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 3: longer than certain runways at Washington Reagan Airport. So I 20 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,199 Speaker 3: was out there for two hours, and I'm feeling good. 21 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 3: You fell asleep, took a nap and fell asleep today 22 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 3: did I hear that properly? 23 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, you had to call me because we had a 24 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:18,120 Speaker 1: set time for recording. And all of a sudden, my 25 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: phone is buzzing and I look at it and it's 26 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: five minutes past our allotted recording time. And I have 27 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: fallen asleep in my daughter's bed during her naptime. 28 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: And keep in mind, I was so tired. 29 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: Dad, that I looked at the clock and I had 30 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: thirty minutes. I said, oh, I'm fine, I'm good, I'm 31 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: gonna I'll be fine. I won't fall back asleep, And 32 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's thirty five minutes later, and 33 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: I have been asleep for thirty five. 34 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 2: Minutes, and you called me, and I apologize. I don't 35 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 2: like being late for things. 36 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 3: Yep, it's OK, Yeah I'm late. When you were a kid, 37 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 3: I would lie down next to you on your bed, 38 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 3: like every night, well to make sure that you got 39 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 3: to sleep because you had such a difficult time. And famously, Jeff, 40 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 3: you you got really quiet, and I thought, great, I've 41 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 3: got it. This is it. He's asleep. He's not going 42 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 3: to say he's asleep. And then you looked at me. 43 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 3: You're like four years old, it said, my toe hurts. 44 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 3: What did that mean? My toe hurt? It was just 45 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 3: another stalling tactic by four year old Jeff Kirchen. And 46 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 3: now you're thirty two and you're still taking NAT. 47 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 2: My toe still hurts. 48 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, yeah, no worry. 49 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: But that's the that's the dreaded storyatic arthritis that I 50 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: was just diagnosed with at age thirty two. 51 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 2: So well, you know, I feel like. 52 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: I'm thirty two inside, but I walk like I'm fifty two. 53 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: So the new medication, Dad, is hopefully gonna make me 54 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: feel a little bit better. But I want you, Dad, 55 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to sound like you here. Are you ready, Jeff? 56 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: I want you to ask me about my hat? 57 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 3: Yeah? 58 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 2: What I want you to ask about my hat? 59 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 3: What is what is that? The Polar Express? Is that 60 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 3: the Tom No? What does that say? Polar Express is 61 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 3: Tom Hanks who played like everyone it was great? 62 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, this is this is the polar Plunge. This 63 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 1: past weekend, the Special Olympics Pennsylvania hosted and and polar 64 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: plunges across the country. Of course, it's uh for the 65 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: Special Olympics and those incredible athletes. And what we did 66 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: was we had pools set up outside Citizens Bank Park 67 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: in South Philadelphia, freezing cold. Me and a couple of 68 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: my coworkers were hosting the event, and I jumped into 69 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: a pool pool filled with water. 70 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 2: In the middle of the winter. 71 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 3: Now, what were you wearing, Jeff? Did you have a 72 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 3: sweatsuit on, a swimsuit, regular clothes? What did you have? 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: You know, some people they dress up, they have you know, 74 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: cool two two's or outfits, or they wear onesies with 75 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: animals on them or something. I just wore a bathing 76 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: suit and a longsleeve shirt and I jumped in and Dad, 77 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: you know me in water, we don't exactly get along. 78 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 2: Okay. 79 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: I didn't learn how to swim until I was fifteen 80 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 1: years old. 81 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: That's the story for another time. 82 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: And I don't even like being in water. If my 83 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 1: head goes under, I end up with an ear infection. Anyway, 84 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: the point is I did it because these brave, incredible 85 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 1: special Olympics athletes are doing it too, and I said, 86 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: I gotta do it. I gotta support the cause. And 87 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: I jumped in. And the air temperature outside Dad was 88 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 1: like forty five. 89 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 3: Oh, oh, that's okay, all right, twenty five fifteen, that's different. 90 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 3: You got lucky, right, forty five was not bad. Right. 91 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: We had the one decent day in like a month 92 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,799 Speaker 1: and a half in the Philadelphia area and it happened 93 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: to be the day of the polar plunge. And I 94 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: don't I don't know if I would have done it 95 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: if it was twenty five out there. 96 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 2: It was bad, but we did it and it was 97 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 2: a great time. 98 00:04:58,360 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 3: How long were you in the water? 99 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: I mean about as fast as it takes for the 100 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: pitch to be delivered from the pitcher. 101 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 3: Oh, so you jumped in, You did your job and 102 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 3: got right back out. Oh. 103 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: I jumped in, Dad, and I was running towards the 104 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: stairs of the pool immediately. 105 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 2: It was a It was not a here I am 106 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 2: splashing around. 107 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:24,600 Speaker 3: I'm proud of you for doing something for such a 108 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 3: good cause. And we all know you're not very good 109 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 3: in the water. You're not very good on land either, Jeff, 110 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,239 Speaker 3: but the water really bothers you. And I still don't 111 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 3: understand how you could have flown in a like a 112 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 3: jet that was going like a thousand miles an hour 113 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 3: and you you're not afraid of heights and all this 114 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,679 Speaker 3: other stuff, but you just have trouble in the water. 115 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 3: I don't blame you. We'll have to get that fixed 116 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 3: when you're you know, maybe fifty years old or something. 117 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're I had a chance to go on a 118 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: US Navy Blue Angel back in my time in Cleveland, Ohio. 119 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: They took a media member up before the Cleveland Air Show. 120 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, that was wouldn't do it again. 121 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: And the reason why is I would want somebody else 122 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,960 Speaker 1: to have that opportunity because it was so incredible, so invigorating, 123 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: but also so scary and so difficult. You're fighting the 124 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: laws of nature while you're up there, right, but it 125 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 1: was absolutely amazing. 126 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 3: All right, Well, speaking of amazing, Jeff, I'm going to 127 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,279 Speaker 3: spring training on Thursday. I'm usually the first guy in 128 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 3: spring training. This year, I'm going to be the last 129 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 3: guy in spring training, but not the point at least 130 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 3: I'm going. And forty five years ago was my first 131 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 3: spring training at the nineteen eighty two Rangers. I covered them. 132 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 3: I went in eighty one, but it really didn't count. 133 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 3: Eighty two really counted because it was it was my 134 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 3: first as a full time, full time beat writer. So 135 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 3: I get to Pompino Beach, Florida, and Jeff, I haven't 136 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 3: traveled a whole lot at this point, so I'm not sure. 137 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 3: I've never been to Pompino Beach. All sorts of things 138 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,000 Speaker 3: are going on. And I look on a map back 139 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 3: when we used to look at maps to figure out 140 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,479 Speaker 3: how to get places, and it said down in the 141 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 3: right hand corner Municipal Stadium, home of the Washington Senators. 142 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 3: They had moved ten years earlier to Texas, and they 143 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 3: were still on the map as the Washington Senator. So 144 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 3: I'm thinking right away, maybe the Rangers are not a 145 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 3: big deal here in Papaino. And boy did I ever 146 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 3: find that out, because the stadium, as quaint as it was, 147 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 3: was tiny. They only had one extra field, and it 148 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 3: was like a half field, like a little field, with 149 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 3: the left field fence was about a one hundred and 150 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 3: twenty feet away. You just took infield there. And this 151 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 3: is a terrible story, Jet, but I'm gonna tell you anyway, 152 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 3: and I'm gonna leave the guy's name out. One day 153 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 3: on that side field, one of the Rangers pitchers looked 154 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,679 Speaker 3: up in the air and there was a seagull flying 155 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,840 Speaker 3: and he's doing a pitching drill in the stretch to 156 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 3: please I don't want to offend anyone here, just want 157 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 3: to tell a story. And he looks and he says, 158 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 3: to everyone who cared to listen, I'm gonna wheel And 159 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 3: instead of throwing it to second base in a pickoff drill, 160 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 3: he said, I'm gonna hit that seagull. So he's fun. 161 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 3: He threw it. He threw the ball. This is awful. 162 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm telling this. He hit the seagull 163 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 3: and the seagull landed like right next to second base. 164 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 3: It was awful. And Charlie Huff, Charlie Up, one of 165 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 3: the funniest people of the world, just looked at us 166 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 3: and said, that's what happens when you don't wear a helmet. 167 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 3: So we had a dead seagull on the field in 168 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 3: spring training nineteen eighty two. Those are just a few 169 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 3: things that happened there. I've told you. Let's see if 170 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 3: you can remember the Mickey River story that I told 171 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,959 Speaker 3: you from spring training. Mickey River is making four hundred 172 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 3: and fifty thousand dollars a year, the everyday center fielder 173 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 3: for the Rangers. Asked me what three weeks into spring training, 174 00:08:59,040 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 3: He asked. 175 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:04,359 Speaker 1: You for what twenty thousand dollars two thousand dollars too, 176 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: as if he could borrow two thousand. 177 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,439 Speaker 3: I had to say, Mick, I'm making thirteen thousand dollars 178 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 3: a year. I don't have two thousand dollars to my 179 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 3: entire name. And Buddy Bell, who was the best player 180 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 3: on that team, just kind of whispered me Tim, like, 181 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 3: new guy on the beat, don't ever loan Mickey any 182 00:09:23,679 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 3: money because you're never never going to see it again. Yes, 183 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 3: that was a great spring for me. I got to 184 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 3: know Al Oliver really well, and they traded Al Oliver 185 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 3: at the end of spring training to the expos And 186 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 3: just to show you how the beat worked, I broke 187 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 3: that story. But I really didn't break it because Randy Galloway, 188 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 3: the great Randy Galloway, who I followed on the beat, 189 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 3: he broke the story. He gave me the story and 190 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 3: it went under my byline in the Dallas Morning News. 191 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 3: So my first breaking story as a beat guy at 192 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 3: the Morning News was was furnished by Randy Galloway, one 193 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,720 Speaker 3: of the great beat writers of all time. So I 194 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 3: had and at the end of that spring training Jeff 195 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 3: the Rangers traded Ron Darling, who was a guest of 196 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 3: ours last year on the podcast. Really Good Picture won 197 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 3: a World Series with the with the Mets in nineteen 198 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 3: eighty six, and Walt Terrell, also a Very Good Picture, 199 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 3: traded both of them for Lee Mozzilly right the end 200 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 3: of spring training because they needed a left fielder. So 201 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 3: it turned out to be a really bad trade for 202 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,560 Speaker 3: the Rangers. But I remember in reporting that story, I 203 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 3: called looking for Joe Klein, who was the farm director, 204 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 3: and I got his assistant and I said, I'm looking 205 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 3: for Joe. Is he there? And the assistant said, no, 206 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,559 Speaker 3: Joe is dead. He jumped off the roof of the 207 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 3: holiday and after hearing about the trade, So just shows 208 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 3: you how bad a deal that was. So that was 209 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 3: my first spring training as an everyday beat writer nineteen 210 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 3: eighty two. A completely different world than the one we 211 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,319 Speaker 3: live in today. 212 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: Well, Dad, I know we're approaching March madness. But one 213 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: of my favorite spring training stories of all time was 214 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: when we were in Arizona and we watched your alma mater, 215 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: University of Maryland win the National championship. And that was 216 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: during a spring training trip. 217 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 2: Is that right? 218 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 3: Do you remember that we're in Arizona and we watched it. 219 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: We were in a hotel room with a dinky TV 220 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: and we watched that game, and I remember it because 221 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 1: of the time change as well. The game was a 222 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 1: little bit earlier, so us kids were able to stay 223 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: up and actually watch it. And your team, your alma mater. 224 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 2: The Terps win, and that was with Oh my gosh, 225 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,439 Speaker 2: Steve Blake was on that team. 226 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: What a great, such a fun experience go into these 227 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: baseball games running home in order to see this game 228 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 1: with you, and we got to watch it with you. 229 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 2: It was great. 230 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 3: And Wan Dixon made the big three pointer that broke 231 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 3: that game open, and there was plenty of time on 232 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 3: the shot clock, and it was one of those things 233 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 3: like should you be shooting at this early? And he 234 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 3: just drills the three and wins the game. So it 235 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 3: was Yeah, that was great and good memory, Jeff. That 236 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 3: might have been your first spring training and so this 237 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 3: is my forty first and that was your first. Very good. 238 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 1: All right, Dad, Well let's jump into the takeaways right now. 239 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: What's going on across Major League baseball. Obviously we're in 240 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 1: spring training, but there's some big news we got to 241 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: address right now. 242 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, Bill Mazowski died. One of the great people I've 243 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,040 Speaker 3: ever met in the game. I believe he's the greatest 244 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 3: defensive second baseman of all time. Nobody, but nobody. Jeff 245 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 3: made the double play, the turn from second base, the 246 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 3: pivot from second base better than Bill Mazerowski. He's got 247 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 3: those short, stubby, really strong legs, and he would stand 248 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 3: right on top of the bag and anyone who wanted 249 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 3: to slide into him, he would say, go ahead, but 250 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 3: I'm not moving, and he didn't. Davy Johnson ended up 251 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 3: being a really good second baseman in his day, And 252 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 3: like so many others, they watched Bill Mazerowski play second 253 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 3: base and they patterned themselves after him. They watched him 254 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:38,839 Speaker 3: and said, that's who I want to be. And he's 255 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer. Of course, his offensive numbers are 256 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 3: not overwhelming, but Jeff, it's really important to remember what 257 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 3: the nineteen sixties was like offensively. Okay, you look at 258 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 3: Bill Mazerowski's numbers that they don't blow you away, but 259 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 3: back then those numbers as the second baseman were above average. 260 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 3: But you take that and then you just include the defense. 261 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 3: That's how he's a Hall of Famer. And I believe, Jeff, 262 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 3: he had the biggest home run in Major League history. Now, 263 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 3: we're not going to include Hank aaron here because there 264 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 3: was so much more involved there in the passing of 265 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 3: Babe Ruth. You know, racism, hatred, all that. Hank Aarons 266 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 3: is in a different category. But I think Bill Mazerowski's 267 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 3: Game seven leadoff home run against the Yankees to win 268 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 3: that game ten to nine is the biggest home run 269 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 3: in Major League history because there've only been two walk 270 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 3: off homers to in the sixth game or seventh game 271 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 3: of a World Series Joe Carter in ninety three, but 272 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 3: that was in Game six, and this was in Game seven, 273 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 3: and the Pirates, who just got pounded in their three 274 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 3: losses in that series, came back to win and beat 275 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 3: the Yankees ten to nine. Let's see if you can remember, Jeff, 276 00:14:58,440 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 3: the distinct. 277 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:04,640 Speaker 1: In the Pirates get massively outscored in that series and still, yeah. 278 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 3: I used to know it by heart, but yeah, they 279 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 3: got outscored by like thirty runs in seven games and 280 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 3: they still won the World Series, just proving again you 281 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 3: can you can win a game fourteen to nothing, fifteen 282 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 3: to another and it doesn't matter. You got to win 283 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 3: the next day. 284 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 2: So yeah, so that was fifty five to twenty seven. 285 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: Dad, that was the series nineteen sixty and they still won, 286 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 1: having been outscored by almost thirty run. 287 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 3: Let's see how good your memory is, Jeff. The ten 288 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 3: to nine final in Game seven, among other things. What 289 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 3: was the distinction of that game ten to nine? I 290 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 3: told you this before. 291 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: It was something it was there were well, okay, I 292 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: do remember that the Pirates of all four games they won, 293 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 1: they won each one by. 294 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 2: One or two. 295 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 3: No, no, I'm just talking about Game seven, Jeff. I 296 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 3: think this is important still, after all these zero strikeouts. 297 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 3: Zero strikeouts only that's the distinction. Zero strikeouts in Game 298 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 3: seven of the World Series. You know, Jeff, we average 299 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 3: eighteen strikeouts per game. Now, I've covered postseason games where 300 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 3: there were thirty strikeouts in the game zero. 301 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 2: It feels like we average eighteen strikeouts in it it. 302 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, the strikeout rate is out of control. The 303 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 3: pitching we see today, the stuff is just ridiculous. So yeah, 304 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 3: just but that was a historic series. Arguably that's the 305 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 3: greatest game in the history of the World Series. I 306 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,600 Speaker 3: think it's the biggest home run in Major League history 307 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 3: and it was hit by Bill Mazeroski. Who's again. I 308 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 3: met him a bunch of times, loved every second I 309 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 3: was with him. Really down to earth kind of guy. 310 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 3: And if you're remember Jeff at his Hall of Fame speech, 311 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 3: I think he only lasted about three minutes and thirty 312 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 3: seconds because he said a bunch of times, I'm not 313 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 3: going to get through this because he was so overcome 314 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 3: by emotion that he just started crying. He just started sobbing. 315 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 3: So if anyone ever wonders like how important the Hall 316 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 3: of Fame is to these players, go listen to that speech. 317 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 3: Sometime he was so overwhelmed he couldn't even finish it. 318 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 3: And no one had a problem with that, because that's 319 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 3: how important it was for Bill Mazerowski to make it 320 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 3: to Cooper's staff. 321 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 2: Well, Dad, in spirit of the late great, why not 322 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 2: bring back an old team Tim that he's a part 323 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 2: of it. 324 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, we've done this before. So if anyone complains that, hey, 325 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,600 Speaker 3: I've heard this list before, this team Tim before, it's okay, 326 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 3: we're going to do it again as a tribute to 327 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 3: Bill Mazarowski. 328 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 2: Well let the record show Dad. 329 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: I think of any podcasts and any group of people, 330 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: our listeners, members of our family complain the least I 331 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: have never experienced, in years of radio working for radio 332 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 1: stations across the country, experience people as kind and as 333 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: warm hearted as the people who listen to our show. Seriously, Dad, 334 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: it's incredible. How sweet the messages we get at Great 335 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: Game or what dot Com? 336 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 2: Wouldn't you agree? I mean, the messages we get are 337 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 2: just amazing. 338 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, they're really kind hearted and sorry, Jeff, that's what 339 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,879 Speaker 3: we're trying to get at here. We laugh and we 340 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 3: learn on this podcast. There's so much hatred in the world. 341 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 3: There's no reason to be spewed it here when it's 342 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 3: out there everywhere else. Agreed, Agreed, Okay, agreed about Jeff. 343 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 3: This is my team, Tim, my greatest defensive players at 344 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:43,199 Speaker 3: each position. I say this every time. This is not 345 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 3: the correct list, This is not the right list. This 346 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 3: is my list. If you have a better list than 347 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 3: I do, I'd love to hear it. Johnny Bench is 348 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:57,400 Speaker 3: the greatest defensive catcher of all time for me. Keith 349 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 3: Hernandez is the first baseman. And we had Johnny and 350 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 3: Keith as our guests right last year. How cool is that. 351 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 2: We're knocking out people on this list one after another. 352 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 3: Bill Mazerowski at second, Brooks Robinson at third, sixteen Gold Gloves. 353 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 3: Ozzie Smith is the shortstop, and I think you could 354 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 3: make the case that he is the greatest defensive player 355 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:29,119 Speaker 3: of all time at any position, given the importance and 356 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 3: the degree of difficulty of the position of shortstop. So 357 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 3: Ozzy's our shortstop. Carly Streemsky is our left fielder. I 358 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 3: grew up watching him play, not every day, but we 359 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 3: saw enough of him. Nobody played the wall better than him. 360 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 3: He was fabulous. Willie Mays is the greatest center fielder 361 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 3: of all time for me, and I saw him play, 362 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,800 Speaker 3: maybe not in his prime, but I saw enough of 363 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,160 Speaker 3: him to say I've never seen anyone play center field 364 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:02,280 Speaker 3: like him. And Roberto Clementi is our right fielder. And 365 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 3: our picture is Greg Maddox, who in a close vote 366 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 3: over Jim Cott, I think Maddox won sixteen Gold Gloves. 367 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:13,480 Speaker 3: And I'll never forget this story. Jeff walt Weiss played 368 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 3: with Greg Mannox in Atlanta. Walt Weiss was the shortstop 369 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 3: on Braves for at least a time when Maddox was there, 370 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 3: So what he told me was when Maddox would throw 371 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 3: to home plate, he never threw a ball straight unless 372 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 3: he really wanted to. He had natural movement on everything, 373 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 3: because that's what Greg Maddox could do better than anyone. 374 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 3: But on the one six' three double play where the 375 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:42,120 Speaker 3: pitcher catches it and fires it to the, shortstop who 376 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,399 Speaker 3: fires it to the first, Baseman Walt weiss told Me 377 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 3: Greg maddox threw the greatest four, seamer which is of 378 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 3: course a straight ball right to the, shortstop better than 379 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 3: any pitcher he's ever. Seen so pitches to the. Plate 380 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,120 Speaker 3: he had natural movement on. It he made it move 381 00:20:58,160 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 3: the way he. Wanted but when he caught a bow 382 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 3: and KNEW i have to throw to a, base he 383 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 3: threw a perfect four seam. Striketh that's how Great Greg 384 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,360 Speaker 3: maddox was as a fielding. 385 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:15,400 Speaker 1: Pitcher Brooks robinson had Sixteen Greg maddox eighteen eighteen. 386 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 3: EIGHTEEN i did a. 387 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 1: QUICK i did a quick fact check for, You, dad 388 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 1: just to make sure you had that. 389 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 2: Right you're absolutely. 390 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: Right we just talked About Greg maddox's glove and how 391 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: huge it, was how big it, was and when you 392 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: put it up in comparison to our LITTLE a two, 393 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: thousands it's a big, difference. 394 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 3: Right, yeah he was really, Good. Jeff and he once 395 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 3: yelled at one of his second basemen for playing too 396 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 3: much up the middle and a ball got through into 397 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 3: the outfield to the second baseman's. Left, okay the guy 398 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 3: was shading up the middle a little bit too, much 399 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 3: and when the ball went, Through maddox was furious and 400 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,760 Speaker 3: he yelled at his own second. BASEMENT i told YOU 401 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:00,560 Speaker 3: i got anything up the, middle which Which i'll allowed 402 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 3: the second baseman and the shortstop to play different in 403 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:09,199 Speaker 3: different areas Because maddox could cover so much ground on 404 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 3: balls hit up the. Middle that's how good he. 405 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:23,199 Speaker 2: Was all, Right, dad on this date baseball, history what 406 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 2: do you? 407 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 3: Have all? Right on this? Date Eddie murray was born 408 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,080 Speaker 3: in nineteen fifty. SIX i Covered Eddie murray with The. 409 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 3: Orioles he's one of the greatest Players i've ever, covered 410 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 3: one of the greatest switch, hitters maybe the second greatest 411 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:40,439 Speaker 3: switch hitter of all. TIME i THINK i told you, This. 412 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,959 Speaker 3: Jeff you, Know eddie didn't like a lot of sports, 413 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 3: riders and that included me for a long. Time that's 414 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,120 Speaker 3: hardly the. POINT i get on the airplane to go 415 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:54,919 Speaker 3: to spring training in nineteen eighty, six And Richard, justice 416 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,439 Speaker 3: who was with The Washington. POST i was With baltimore's. 417 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: Son he introduces me on thee To Floyd, rayford who 418 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,880 Speaker 3: is a member of The. Orioles AND i haven't Met 419 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 3: floyd yet Because i've been covering The rangers for four 420 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:11,679 Speaker 3: years and Now i'm covering The. Orioles So richard, Says, 421 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,000 Speaker 3: tim this Is Floyd, Rayford, floyd this Is. Tim he's 422 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,439 Speaker 3: going to be covering the. Team If Floyd rayford looks at, 423 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,400 Speaker 3: Me jeff and he, Goes eddie's going to hate. You 424 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:25,679 Speaker 3: AND i, SAID i said, Why he, goes your head's 425 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:27,679 Speaker 3: too big for the rest of your, body AND i, 426 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 3: went stop. IT i, MEAN i have a tiny little, 427 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 3: body BUT i got a pretty small head. Too SO 428 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 3: i actually went into the bathroom on the airplane just 429 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 3: to take a look at my head BECAUSE i just 430 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 3: had a guy tell me my head is too big 431 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 3: for the rest of my. Body and, Yes eddie did 432 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 3: hate me for several, years but we patch it. Up 433 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 3: it's all. Good it's not all, good but, yes everything's. Good. 434 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 3: Now happy birthday To Eddie murray born on this date 435 00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 3: in nineteen. 436 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 1: Fifty, now maybe if he said your nose is a 437 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 1: little too big for your, body because you AND i 438 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: both big. 439 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,480 Speaker 3: Noses Little, yeah WHEN i lean back like, this my 440 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 3: nose looks like a two car. Garage and it's always 441 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 3: been that. Way all, right that's really, bad. Okay Also 442 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 3: Birthday jef nineteen, Sixty Nick. Saski he was a good. 443 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 3: Hitter jet played for a bunch of. Teams and you, 444 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,000 Speaker 3: KNOW i wrote a. Book my third book is Called 445 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 3: I'm fascinated By Sacrifice, Flies Nicki. Saski in nineteen eighty, 446 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 3: Nine get, this drove in one hundred and eight runs 447 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 3: and did not have a sacrifice. Fly do you find 448 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 3: that almost impossible to? Believe one hundred and eight rbs 449 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 3: zero sacrifice? Flies Thereditive Chilie davis had one hundred and 450 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 3: twelve RBIs in the season nineteen ninety three without a sacrifice. 451 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 3: Fly so you, know The Eddie murray's of the. World 452 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 3: by the, Way Eddie, murray LAST i, looked holds the 453 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 3: record for most sacrifice. FLIES i think it's one twenty 454 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 3: eight In Major league. History and he never led the 455 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 3: league in any season in sacrifice. Flies how weird is 456 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,639 Speaker 3: that he has the most? Adds? Crazy the LAST i 457 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 3: Checked i'm. Checked in a couple of years he had 458 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 3: the most, ever but he never led the league in 459 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,439 Speaker 3: sacrifice flies in any. Season how weird is? 460 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 2: That you, know we have a. 461 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: Lot of seam heads, dad who listened to this. Show 462 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: MAYBE i could give a little. Assignment, right here's my, assignment, 463 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: Right why don't we do who has the most of 464 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: all TIME x who never led the league in? It? 465 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 3: All, right That's we'll come up with some possibilities for next. Week, 466 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 3: okay and. 467 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 2: It might the list might be one other. 468 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 1: THING i don't, know But i'll put a challenge out 469 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,760 Speaker 1: there to the steam, heads to members of the family. 470 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 2: That listen to is this a great game or? What 471 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 2: let us. Know you can message us great game or 472 00:25:58,600 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 2: what dot. 473 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: Com we're always responding to your messages right there on the. 474 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: Website will make it really. Easy so the assignment again 475 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 1: is find a record somebody who all time holds the 476 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 1: record for the most somethings but never led the league 477 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: in those in that. 478 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,280 Speaker 3: Category? Cool, Cool we'll try that next. Week, Okay happy 479 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 3: birthday To Bronson. Arroyo now let's see if you know 480 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 3: Who Bronson arroyo, Is, jeff because you messed up his. 481 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 3: Name you screwed this up, badly like like six months, 482 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:32,640 Speaker 3: ago you, remember. 483 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: Yeah AND i can't remember WHO i mistaken him. For 484 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: but he's the Former Red sox pitcher with the Corn. 485 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,440 Speaker 3: Rows, yes and. 486 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 1: Had the run in With Alex rodriguez at first base 487 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,120 Speaker 1: in The. Alcs correct, me that's, it you got. 488 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 3: It but what what is the distinction Of Bronson? Arroyo 489 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,560 Speaker 3: what is he also really really good at you should. 490 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 2: He's a great session so he? 491 00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 3: FAMOUS i know, that, yes, well he famously told me 492 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 3: ONCE i played With Eddie vedder AND i played With Ozzie, 493 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 3: SMITH i can die a happy. Man. Wow, So, jeff 494 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 3: who's more Talented Ozzie smith Or Eddie? Bedder is that 495 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 3: an impossible? Question is that the dumbest question? Ever? Dan? 496 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 2: YOU i remember our very first. Podcast you asked me 497 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 2: who's The who's The Mike trout of the music? 498 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 3: World? 499 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: Right AND i Said Ed Sheeran and you acted LIKE 500 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 1: i just insulted your, Mother AND. 501 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 2: I, Said, DAD i know, music, Right Ed. Sheeron he. 502 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,959 Speaker 1: Writes and at the, time he you, know he's kind 503 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: of on a hiatus right, now he's not, touring he's 504 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:37,400 Speaker 1: not making. 505 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:42,120 Speaker 2: Music but you got, All, heidi and you, said, no he's. 506 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,199 Speaker 2: Not AND i, said well then who is? It and you, 507 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 2: SAID i don't? 508 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 3: Know all, right all, RIGHT i don't know anything about, Music, 509 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 3: Jeff BUT i. DID i didn't. Remember it's hard to 510 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,399 Speaker 3: compare That ed And Mike trout in his. PRIME i 511 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,640 Speaker 3: found that very. Interesting also born on this, Date, JEFF 512 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 3: i love. This dennis Tankers lee pitching the major leagues 513 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,120 Speaker 3: for a few. Years so get, This. Jeff he won 514 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 3: his first major league game and he's a, pitcher hit 515 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 3: his first major league home run in the same. Game 516 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:14,239 Speaker 3: it was a really good hitting. Pitcher and get, this 517 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,919 Speaker 3: he never won another game and never hit another homer 518 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 3: in his. Career, now he didn't pitch very. LONG i 519 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 3: think his career record was one to. Ten that's hardly the. 520 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 3: Point he had a day where he got his first 521 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,879 Speaker 3: major league, win hit his first major league, homer and 522 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 3: before or after never won a game and never hit a. 523 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 3: Homer pretty, weird, right. 524 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 2: The best day of his, life never to be repeated. 525 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 3: Again and sad, News. Jeff on this, date in nineteen, 526 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:48,280 Speaker 3: Ninety Tony knniglierio. Died you're way too young to understand 527 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 3: What TONY. C was like in the. Sixties he hit 528 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 3: a one hundred home runs by like age twenty two 529 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 3: for The Red. Sox he was a. Star and then 530 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 3: he got hit in the face by a pitch From Jack. 531 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,440 Speaker 3: Hamilton and he came back and he played, more but 532 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 3: he couldn't see out of his front eye. Anymore and 533 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 3: that's ultimately the reason that he had to, retire is 534 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 3: he couldn't see out of his front. Eye and you, 535 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 3: know my favorite story That i've ever written in my, Life, 536 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 3: jeff is a story about fear of the. Ball because 537 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 3: everyone has a fear of the, ball even big leaguers 538 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 3: have a fear of the. Ball the differences they're courageous 539 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 3: enough and disciplined enough to get through, it where the 540 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 3: rest of us who get hit in the head say 541 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 3: that that's enough of. That but in doing that, Story, 542 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 3: Jeff i'll never. FORGET i talked To Ken, Harrelson Hawk, 543 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 3: harrelson really good player in his, time led the league 544 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 3: in RBIs one year and a, great, great great, broadcaster 545 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 3: and he told me for that, story he, said the 546 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 3: only player THAT i have ever met in my life 547 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 3: who didn't have fear of the, ball it Was Tony 548 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 3: knigliero and he got hit in the face and go 549 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 3: look at the pictures of the black eye that he. 550 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 3: Had oh my, god his face got. Destroyed and he 551 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 3: came back from, that AND i think he hit like 552 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 3: thirty six homers in a season for The, angels And 553 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 3: Ken harrelson told me he hit a home run like 554 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 3: every home runn he hit was on a ball up 555 00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 3: in the strike zone because he could see it with 556 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 3: his back. Eye but when the ball was down with 557 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 3: the front eye beach basically, blind he couldn't see. It 558 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 3: so no matter what you hear About Tony, conigliaro what 559 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,920 Speaker 3: a great young hitter he, was you can multiply it by. 560 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 3: Ten and that's how good he. Was and what a 561 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 3: career that ended as quickly as it. 562 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: Did you, Know, Dad we hear stories all the, time 563 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: the players taking you, know. Grounders you Know Eduardo perez 564 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: right had had vision. Problems the Late Ryan minor as, 565 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: well who famously replaced Cal Ripken. 566 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 2: Jr after his, long long. 567 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: Streak and you Know Ryan minor may rest in peace 568 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: was the manager of The Frederick keyes back WHEN i interned. 569 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 1: There incredible was the first MANAGER i ever got to work. 570 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: With when it came to being in minor league. Baseball 571 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,760 Speaker 1: but IT'S i think it's over or. Understated excuse me 572 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 1: that when your eyes aren't, working a slight delay with 573 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 1: a ball traveling that fast end's careers makes things. HARDER i, 574 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: Mean eduardo has said it a number of. Times he 575 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,160 Speaker 1: just never was the player he thought he was going to. 576 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 3: Be because couldn't. 577 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 2: See it's really. 578 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 3: Sad John lester was a terrible hitting, Pitcher jeff, terrible 579 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden he started to get some. 580 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 3: Hits SO i finally went to him and, Said, john 581 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 3: like you had a major league, homer you've got a 582 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,640 Speaker 3: bunch of hits. Lately he, goes, WELL i could see, 583 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 3: now he. SAID i didn't realize. IT i was at 584 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 3: the plate AND i couldn't, see AND i got my eyes, 585 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 3: CHECKED i got contact. LENSES i think it. Was and 586 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 3: he became not a good hitting, pitcher but a way 587 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 3: better hitting, pitcher but, better way, better and he actually 588 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 3: put he actually did some things in a game after 589 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 3: going like one for his first sixty three or something 590 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,880 Speaker 3: ridiculous like. That so, yeah eyes are really, important especially 591 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,320 Speaker 3: when it comes to trying to hit a baseball And. 592 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: I'm sure every guy who Faced John lester when they 593 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: heard that, said, wait you were throwing at me and 594 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: you couldn't see? Me? 595 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,800 Speaker 3: Right he can, see, Oh, blake he just couldn't. See 596 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 3: he can see the you can see the catcher's. Mid 597 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,600 Speaker 3: he just couldn't see the baseball when it was coming 598 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 3: in at ninety five miles an. Hour, okay three cards 599 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,479 Speaker 3: in the, Bathroom. JEM i went down there this morning 600 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 3: BEFORE i shoveled all. That, NOW i came up With Greg. 601 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 3: Harris Greg harris covered him with The. Rangers Greg harris 602 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,360 Speaker 3: was the a switch. Pitcher he told me as a 603 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,480 Speaker 3: right handed, pitcher he, said you KNOW i could throw 604 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 3: eighty miles an hour left, Handed AND i SAID i 605 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 3: didn't know. That he started and right there in spring 606 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,360 Speaker 3: training he started throwing left handed at eighty miles an, 607 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 3: hour and finally in nineteen ninety, five The expos let 608 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 3: him pitch in a game right handed and left handed 609 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 3: in the same. Inning it was amazing that he could do. 610 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,040 Speaker 3: That and he had this, Glove, Jeff it's like a 611 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 3: you can move the glove around and make it a 612 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,960 Speaker 3: left hander's glove and a right hander's. Glove So Greg, 613 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,880 Speaker 3: harris one of the very few guys who pitched left 614 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 3: handed and right handed in A Major league. Game number, 615 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 3: Two Dave, kingman how about a flashback on him back 616 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 3: when he Played jeff he struck out a, lot hit 617 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 3: for a low, average hit a ton of. Homers he 618 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:50,440 Speaker 3: would be he would be an even better player today BECAUSE. 619 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 2: I was going to say it sounds like he's playing 620 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 2: in twenty, twenty, right. 621 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 3: Right But Dave, kingman in nineteen eighty, Two jeff he 622 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 3: led the league in home runs with thirty, seven and 623 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 3: he batted two oh four that. Year and in nineteen eighty, 624 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,240 Speaker 3: Two Steve carlton won The National League Cy Young award 625 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:15,239 Speaker 3: and hit two. Eighteen so The Cy young winner had 626 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,319 Speaker 3: a higher batting average of that season than the home 627 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:23,280 Speaker 3: run champion from The National. League pretty, weird huh. 628 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 1: That Net, well obviously will never happen again because our 629 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,879 Speaker 1: pitchers are no longer. Battered, however, WELL i mean there's Show, 630 00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: hey that's a different. Story but, yeah that's, Incredible AND 631 00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,839 Speaker 1: i definitely Think Dave kingman could start on a major 632 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,799 Speaker 1: league team today and those stats would we wouldn't even 633 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 1: be looking at him like they were in the. 634 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,239 Speaker 2: Eighties probably you probably were looking at that, saying what is. 635 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 2: Happening you can't bat. 636 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: Close to two hundred and hit that many. Homers now 637 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: it happens all the, time, Right. 638 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 3: That's the way it. Goes this one was a real 639 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:55,440 Speaker 3: surprise and a real pleasant surprise for, Me Tim. Jones 640 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,800 Speaker 3: Tim jones did not have a very long major league, 641 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,760 Speaker 3: career But i'll never forg Get. Jeff in nineteen ninety, 642 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 3: FOUR i there was no there was No World series 643 00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,360 Speaker 3: because the work, stoppage the strike ended The World. Series 644 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,640 Speaker 3: So Sports illustrated sent me to cover The TRIPLE A 645 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 3: World series Between charlotte And. Richmond So i'm in The 646 00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,120 Speaker 3: i'm in The Charlotte clubhouse And i'm walking through and 647 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 3: since there are a bunch of minor, LEAGUERS i don't 648 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,800 Speaker 3: know a whole lot of, people BUT i walk past 649 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 3: this room that is for players, only AND i look 650 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,960 Speaker 3: in there and they're playing That jeopardy is on the, 651 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 3: television AND i just glanced and poetry was the Final jeopardy. 652 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 3: Category and out of, nowhere this guy comes flying, out player, 653 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 3: screaming putting his hands in the, air AND i looked 654 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,359 Speaker 3: At Tim, jones The Tim jones and, said did that 655 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,960 Speaker 3: guy just get the Final jeopardy answer correct in? Poet 656 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 3: And Tim jones looked to Be what a great, guy 657 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,640 Speaker 3: he laughed out, loud and he, goes, no, no, no we're baseball. 658 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 3: Players that's not how the game is. Played the way 659 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,640 Speaker 3: we play it is if you guessed the Final jeopardy, 660 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,600 Speaker 3: category you win. It so this guy, Said i'm guessing 661 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,440 Speaker 3: it's gonna be, poetry. 662 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,319 Speaker 2: And he was right and it. 663 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,520 Speaker 3: Was but he didn't know that no one could get 664 00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,799 Speaker 3: a poetry, answer. Right oh my, gosh that is so. Great, 665 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:30,920 Speaker 3: Yeah Tim, jones three cards in the? Bathroom how about? That? 666 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: DAD i love, it and we love this has become 667 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,799 Speaker 1: such a popular segment on the, show SO i hope 668 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,439 Speaker 1: we continue it through the regular. Season all, Right, dad 669 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,360 Speaker 1: let's wrap it with From burley To. Behemoth we're counting 670 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:45,360 Speaker 1: down the best players from fifty six to ninety, nine 671 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: and today we're on number sixty, three. 672 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,800 Speaker 3: And there were actually some pretty good candidates. Here Raphael 673 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,680 Speaker 3: bettencourt had a pretty darn good career as a relief. 674 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:58,200 Speaker 3: Pitcher so Did Sean. Doolittle i'll get to him in a, 675 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 3: minute But i'm gonna Go and this is very close, 676 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 3: voting And i'm gonna go With ryan mattson number sixty, 677 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 3: three who you, know did some pretty darn good, things 678 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,640 Speaker 3: mostly for The, Phillies So i'm gonna go with him 679 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 3: as the greatest number sixty. Three Although Sean doolittle is 680 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:16,719 Speaker 3: one of my favorite, People jeff really smart uva. Guy 681 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,480 Speaker 3: we used to joke the one spring he was teammates 682 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 3: with a picture Named Tony Sip, sipp so we used 683 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 3: to joke, that you, Know sip and Do, Little we're 684 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,480 Speaker 3: on the same. Team so like sounds like a pretty 685 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:39,359 Speaker 3: good day to Be sip Do, little you. Know so 686 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:42,160 Speaker 3: That's Sean. Doolittle he's doing some really good things in 687 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,520 Speaker 3: baseball these days because he's wicked smart and people should 688 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:47,480 Speaker 3: listen to him because he has a lot to offer 689 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,360 Speaker 3: and in his, prime pretty darn good left handed. Reliever, 690 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:53,839 Speaker 3: well we. 691 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,800 Speaker 1: Are so excited for you to be along this journey 692 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,359 Speaker 1: for is this a great game or? What because come next, 693 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,839 Speaker 1: week we're gonna have a very exciting announcement for everybody 694 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,560 Speaker 1: who either has been with us since day one when 695 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,880 Speaker 1: we started the, show or today is day one with. 696 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,239 Speaker 1: Us nothing will change for all of you, Listening so 697 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,759 Speaker 1: don't worry about. That but it's exciting news that we're 698 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,640 Speaker 1: really ready to share with. Everybody it's something we've been 699 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,640 Speaker 1: keeping under wraps for a. Bit, Dad Bobby, valentine thank 700 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,399 Speaker 1: you for creating the rap because we've been keeping it under. 701 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 2: Wraps right now. 702 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,080 Speaker 1: And next week we'll be able to tell everybody what's 703 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 1: going on and what's been happening in the world of 704 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 1: is this a great game or? 705 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,320 Speaker 2: What And, DAD i know we're gonna get more. Weather 706 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,759 Speaker 2: my phone is telling Me we've Got wednesday, Snow we've 707 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,919 Speaker 2: got weekend. Snow are you ready to keep? 708 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,400 Speaker 3: Shoving LIKE i, Said i'm going To arizona On, thursday 709 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 3: so there will be no and it's supposed to be 710 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 3: fifty degrees here On. WEDNESDAY i can't believe it's going 711 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,719 Speaker 3: to snow In. Philly MAYBE i read that. 712 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 2: Wrong, Well, ma shed was supposed to get delivered. Today 713 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 2: still not here. 714 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,960 Speaker 1: Obviously next date is This, wednesday and we're supposed to get. 715 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 2: Snow probably not gonna get it. 716 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,359 Speaker 1: Then So, dad this shed has been for me going 717 00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 1: on a, month, right five weeks of waiting on. DELIVERY 718 00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,759 Speaker 1: i JUST i just don't even feel like it's gonna. 719 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,120 Speaker 1: HAPPEN i already paid for, it sitting on a lot 720 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,319 Speaker 1: ten miles five miles from, here just waiting for it 721 00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:22,840 Speaker 1: to come to my. 722 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:27,400 Speaker 3: Backyard how about shed, Long, Jeff shed lung back and 723 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:33,160 Speaker 3: basement on our all like structure team shed long and 724 00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,400 Speaker 3: that really fits what you're waiting for a long time 725 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:37,319 Speaker 3: for the shed to show. 726 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,319 Speaker 1: Up speaking of, Waiting, uh probably hard to. See that's 727 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,640 Speaker 1: mom calling right, Now, Dad SO. 728 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,200 Speaker 2: I gotta go pick up your your. Wife my mother is, 729 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,120 Speaker 2: calling so let's wrap this right. Now it's a family, 730 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:49,719 Speaker 2: show isn't. 731 00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:49,759 Speaker 3: It. 732 00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 1: DAD i don't know what she needs from, me But 733 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 1: i'm gonna give her call, back SO i Don't. 734 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,320 Speaker 3: I'll talk to you next, Week. Jeff i'll talk to 735 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,880 Speaker 3: you before then talk to you, later, okay all, right. 736 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,399 Speaker 1: And thanks for, listening and it's always thanks for being 737 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:01,920 Speaker 1: a part of our. 738 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:09,680 Speaker 2: Family m