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Speaker 1: and Jeff Kirkshin thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: And we are recording this episode from Citizens Bank Park.

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Speaker 2: So if you hear music or you hear.

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Speaker 1: Background noise, we are at the ballpark. Lou garreg Day

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, we did a live stream show here

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Speaker 3: Go and do so.

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Speaker 1: And lou Garrig Day has been such a great day

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Speaker 1: because we're raising awareness for als and we talked to

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Speaker 2: Right it was really important today Today. We spoke to

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Speaker 2: Phillies who lost his uncle in twenty twenty one. We

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Speaker 2: talked to Mike Piscotti who lost his wife in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 2: and we talked to Brandon Crawford, who's so close to

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Speaker 2: honored my brother Matt. And that's ultimately, Jeff, why you

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Speaker 1: Also during the live stream, we replayed the great interviews

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Speaker 1: last episode of this podcast, a bonus episode that was

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Speaker 1: Project main Street. So if you want to go back

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Speaker 1: and listen to those, you can. We've got a lot

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Speaker 1: for lu Geig Day. Let's talk about lou Gaig the player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the greatest first baseman of all time. Jeff,

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Speaker 2: If he hadn't gotten sick, he would have retired as

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Speaker 2: He stole home fifteen times. But more important than any

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Speaker 2: he was all about winning. The only player in Major

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Speaker 1: You can go to Great Game or what dot com

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Speaker 1: to see all the resources we've talked about for ALS

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Speaker 1: awareness and Luke Gerrig Day, And once again a big

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Speaker 2: In Major League Baseball. Well, given it's lou Gerrig Day

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Speaker 2: to do. There's a guy named Jeremiah Estrada who pitches

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Speaker 1: You remember you remember the story of course at Park

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Speaker 2: So, Jordan Romano is Canadian. So I always call him

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Speaker 1: Pack You were the sausages. I was the Taco Bell

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Speaker 2: watching him. He won the MVP in nineteen seventy in

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Speaker 2: the American League. Earl Weaver told me that Boog weighed

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Speaker 2: three hundred pounds the year he won the MVP. Boog

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Speaker 2: was an enormous man. But for as big as he was,

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Speaker 2: he had great hands and great feet. And of course

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Speaker 2: he runs Boog's Barbecue right now at Camden Yards. It's

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Speaker 2: the greatest barbecue in the American League. And I was

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Speaker 2: always told that after games Boog would go back to

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Speaker 2: his house in Baltimore playing for the Orioles, and he

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Speaker 2: would fire up the grill at one o'clock in the

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Speaker 2: morning and go out there and grill steaks and chicken

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Speaker 2: and hamburger is a drink beer until like four o'clock

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Speaker 2: in the morning, and people would come over and join him.

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Speaker 2: The first basement for.

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Speaker 1: The Orioles, that's amazing. And last but not LEAs Heraldo Perdomo.

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Speaker 2: He's the shortstop for the Diamondbacks who made it to

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Speaker 2: the World Series last year, and he hit ninth in

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Speaker 2: the order, and not many people know how good a

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Speaker 2: player is, but Tory Lavello, their manager, told me this year,

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Speaker 2: we funneled everything, all the signs, everything we do defensively

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Speaker 2: through Horado Perdomo. So when you look at the struggles

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Speaker 2: they've had this year and you say, how can they

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Speaker 2: miss their nine hitter that much? Not only was he

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Speaker 2: a really good nine hitter, but he ran the infield

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Speaker 2: and that is incredibly important on a major league team.

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Speaker 1: So it's in the cards now. We actually go through

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Speaker 1: all of the cards live on the show. Oh, meaning

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Speaker 1: like you can actually see them now. I know, if

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Speaker 1: you're listening to the podcast, then you can't see but

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Speaker 1: if you go onto YouTube then you most definitely can

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Speaker 1: see them. Now today our show is being recorded from

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Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park, which is so cool. But you texted

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Speaker 1: me on your way to the park saying, Jeff, I've

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Speaker 1: got a team I want to put together for the

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Speaker 1: best of all tim This team is all of the

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Speaker 1: greatest number fours in celebration of the greatest number four,

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Speaker 1: Lou Garet, right, because once you get.

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Speaker 2: You know, I know every from one to fifty five,

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Speaker 2: I know the greatest player of all time for each

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Speaker 2: uniform number, at least in my opinion, I call it

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Speaker 2: from Ozzy like Ozzie Smith to Oral Oral Herscheizer one

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Speaker 2: to fifty five. So you get to four and you

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Speaker 2: just give up because it's Lou Garrett. There is no

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Speaker 2: close second. So that's the end of the competition. But

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Speaker 2: I knew there were a bunch of guys who wore

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Speaker 2: number four who aren't on the list, so I made

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Speaker 2: up a team.

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Speaker 3: Well, I just have one question.

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Speaker 1: As a man who's been married just over two years,

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Speaker 1: my wife will get mad at me because I remember

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Speaker 1: the the iron shot I had on the seventh hole,

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Speaker 1: but I forgot to take out the trash. Does my mom,

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Speaker 1: your wife ever get mad that you remember these things?

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Speaker 1: But sometimes she slip up as a as a partner

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Speaker 1: and a husband.

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Speaker 2: Does she ever get mad? Is what you're asking me.

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Speaker 2: But married forty years, we go to a party and

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Speaker 2: I come home and I've had the most ridiculously pointless

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Speaker 2: conversation with half the people there, and then she says, uh,

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Speaker 2: what'd you think of the chandelier in the living room?

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Speaker 2: You know? And I don't even remember what the living

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Speaker 2: room looks like, let alone the chandelier. So yes, it's

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Speaker 2: selective retention, Jeff. You retain what you're interested in. And

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Speaker 2: I'm interested in uniform numbers and I always have been.

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Speaker 1: Or the best thing is is mom will be like,

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Speaker 1: how's how's his mom doing? Talking about the person you

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Speaker 1: talk to for an hour. Oh we didn't ask how's

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Speaker 1: his wife?

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Speaker 2: We don't know. We just talked about the eighty six

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Speaker 2: orioles or what right. Unfortunately for men, that's how it works.

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Speaker 2: All right, Oh, let's go to your list. So Yati

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Speaker 2: or Maline is the catcher, he's going to be a

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Speaker 2: future Hall of Fame or wearing number four. Luke Gerreic

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Speaker 2: is the greatest number four of all time. Bobby Gritch

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Speaker 2: is the best second BA baseman for me, he's a

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Speaker 2: borderline Hall of Famer. If you asked me should he

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Speaker 2: be in, the answer would be yes. Paul Molitor, who

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Speaker 2: began his career as a third baseman, he's my third baseman.

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Speaker 2: And to leave Carney Lanceford out, Believe me, that was

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Speaker 2: not easy. I had to put two shortstops on because

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Speaker 2: I couldn't pick between Joe Cronin and Luke Applin because

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Speaker 2: they're both Hall of famers. The entire outfield are Hall

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Speaker 2: of famers wearing number four, Melott, Duke Snyder, and Ralph Kiner,

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Speaker 2: and it's really hard to find a number four who pitched. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Kyle Drebek pitched for four years wearing number four, but

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Speaker 2: he wasn't great. Blake Snell won two Cy Young Awards

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Speaker 2: wearing number four. And my favorite part because I had

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Speaker 2: come up with the team, but I said, well, I

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Speaker 2: need a manager of what's the first thing in came

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Speaker 2: to my Earl Weaver, my favorite manager of all time

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Speaker 2: ward number four. So now I've got an entire lineup

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Speaker 2: and a manager to wear. Lou Garrick's number League in lid's.

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Speaker 1: We put all the major League Baseball teams in a

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Speaker 1: lid here and it.

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Speaker 3: Has every major league team on it.

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Speaker 2: Very cool is And today the New York Mets, oh boy,

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Speaker 2: bad bad timing. The poor Mets. They lost four games

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Speaker 2: in May that they led into the ninth inning, four

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Speaker 2: in one month. Most teams won't lose four of those

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Speaker 2: in one year. They did in one month. That's why

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Speaker 2: they're in a lot of trouble. But the good thing

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Speaker 2: happened is on Saturday they retired Darryl Strawberry's number eighteen.

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Speaker 2: And even though Darryl Strawberry got himself in his own trouble,

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Speaker 2: he should be in the Hall of Fame. He was

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Speaker 2: an amazing player, especially as a young player, and he

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Speaker 2: definitely belongs in the New York Mets Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 2: He won four rings as a baseball player. One of

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Speaker 2: the greatest power hitters I've ever seen. It's still amazing

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Speaker 2: me though after all these years, Jeff, the Mets have

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Speaker 2: never had an MVP. In all their years nineteen sixty

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Speaker 2: two on, they've never had a player win the MVP,

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Speaker 2: and Strawberry probably should have came really close a couple

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Speaker 2: times to win, but even he didn't.

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Speaker 1: So in a minute, you're gonna hear some of the

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Speaker 1: best moments of our interviews from our Lou Garrig Day

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Speaker 1: live stream, because we wanted to make sure if you're

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Speaker 1: listening on the podcast, you didn't have a chance to

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Speaker 1: catch the stream. It's still living on our social media

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Speaker 1: you can check it, but we wanted you to get it.

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Speaker 3: On the podcast feed as well.

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Speaker 1: But before we get to those best moments, and there

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Speaker 1: were quite a few incredible ones, I want another story

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Speaker 1: from you about Uncle Matt.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to try to do this without weeping.

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Speaker 2: But Uncle Matt was a great college baseball player and

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one he was diagnosed with ALS, and

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Speaker 2: in October that year, he was asked by Ross Natoli,

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Speaker 2: the baseball coach at Catholic University, to throw out the

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Speaker 2: first pitch at the only fall date of the season,

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Speaker 2: a doubleheader at Mount Saint Mary's. The Matt, because of

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Speaker 2: his als, could barely grip a baseball, but he relearned

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Speaker 2: how to throw a baseball and he went out there

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Speaker 2: that day and before he went to the mound, they

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Speaker 2: gave him a Catholic University jersey with M. Kirchin two

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Speaker 2: his number on the back, and he went to the

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Speaker 2: mound and threw an athletic strike. He turned to his

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Speaker 2: right and his immediate family to children others. We were

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Speaker 2: all wearing M. Kirkchin two jerseys. And then he looked

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Speaker 2: further to his right and all forty seven players on

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Speaker 2: the Catholic University team or wearing M. Kirkchin jerseys with

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Speaker 2: number two on the back. And of course they went

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Speaker 2: out there and swept a double header that day. Later

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Speaker 2: on that year, I threw out the first ball at

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Speaker 2: a Nationals game, and Matt, who could barely put a

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Speaker 2: glove on his hand, somehow figured out how to do

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Speaker 2: that because his hand no longer work, and he caught

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Speaker 2: the first pitch from me. It was just unbelievable how

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Speaker 2: an als patient could do that. And because of all

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Speaker 2: of this, Catholic University, led by Ross Natoli, named an award,

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Speaker 2: the Matt Kirchin Ultimate Teammate Award after my brother, and

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Speaker 2: that hangs in our house and it hangs at Catholic University.

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Speaker 2: And this is the kicker to it all. Joe at

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Speaker 2: York Pennsylvania this year, Kathy Ugh is in a playoff game,

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Speaker 2: and it's a really big game, and they're down seven

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Speaker 2: to nothing, they're down eight to three, they're down nine

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Speaker 2: to six in the bottom of the ninth inna and

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Speaker 2: they come back to win the game. And the two

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Speaker 2: biggest stars, the first one was Zach Burton, who is

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Speaker 2: the first winner of the Matt Kirchin Ultimate Teammate Award.

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Speaker 2: He was the first hero. The second hero was Justin

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Speaker 2: McCarthy who drove in two runs to win the game.

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Speaker 2: And Justin McCarthy wore number two, my brother's number, and

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Speaker 2: Ross sent me a text and said, Matt is still

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Speaker 2: with us. He was with us us today. How great

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Speaker 2: is that?

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Speaker 3: Amazing?

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Speaker 1: We're so excited to bring in multiple guests today. This

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Speaker 1: is not the first time we've done this. We did

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Speaker 1: this for our Mother's Day show. We brought in two

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Speaker 1: great guests with amazing moms. But today we're going to

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Speaker 1: bring in the guests we talked to at lou Garrig Day.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Nola of the Philadelphia Phillies, Brandon Crawford of San

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Speaker 1: Francisco Giants now Saint Louis Cardinals, and Sam Hilliard is

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Speaker 1: going to be joining us. Mike Piscotti is going to

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Speaker 1: be joining us. All of these moments are are kind

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Speaker 1: of our highlights, I guess from our live stream show

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Speaker 1: that we did this past week, right.

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Speaker 2: And they will make you laugh and they will make

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Speaker 2: you cry. These were powerful moments from people who have

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Speaker 2: experienced ALS firsthand. It's well worth a listen.

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Speaker 1: So today, in our interview portion of the episode, we

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Speaker 1: have a lot of interviews to go back and forth between,

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Speaker 1: so I thought to make it easier for you and

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Speaker 1: so you can get the most out of each one,

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Speaker 1: I would kind of take us between each and every interview.

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Speaker 1: So Sam Hilliard was the first one we spoke to

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Speaker 1: on our live ALS Lu Garrig Day show, and he's

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Speaker 1: a professional baseball player in the Rockies system and his

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Speaker 1: dad passed away from ALS and he had some incredible

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Speaker 1: stories to tell.

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Speaker 2: Sam, you and your dad grew up watching games in

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Speaker 2: Texas because that's where you lived, and then you came

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Speaker 2: back with the Rockies and played a game in Texas

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Speaker 2: and he saw you. What was that night like for you?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that night was incredible. You can't talk about that

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Speaker 6: night without talking about how amazing the Rangers organization was

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Speaker 6: for doing that. During the COVID year, nobody was supposed

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Speaker 6: to be in the state. Um, you know, at that

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Speaker 6: point the disease is progressing. We didn't know how much time,

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Speaker 6: you know, he had left, and they were like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: since you guys live in the area, they can come

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Speaker 6: and watch you play. It was opening day actually, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 6: so my dad and my mom and my fiance at

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Speaker 6: the time, you know, my wife were the only stands

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Speaker 6: in the stadium and just looking up there and seeing

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Speaker 6: my dad up there in his chair watching. He's usually

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Speaker 6: the dad that like paces around the stadium, goes and

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Speaker 6: stands in the outfield. I can't get still, so I

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Speaker 6: know it was probably killing him in that aspect, but

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Speaker 6: it was really cool. I think I struck out four

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Speaker 6: times that day, which is a sidelt.

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Speaker 2: But we don't need to talk about that, Sam, Sam.

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Speaker 2: When you meet someone, anyone that comes up to you

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Speaker 2: for the first time and says a family member has als,

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Speaker 2: what is your message? Your first immediate message to that person.

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Speaker 6: Probably give him a hug man, you know, just say

649
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 6: I'm sorry and we're in this together, because I know

650
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 6: that's kind of what you're going through. And they're all different, right,

651
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 6: everyone progresses at different speed. Everyone has a different journey,

652
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 6: but I just want to tell them like, hey, I'm sorry,

653
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 6: there's nothing I can say to help you. Just know

654
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 6: that I'm here for you. Give them a hug, I'm

655
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 6: praying for you, and hang in their type of message,

656
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 6: you know, something like that.

657
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: There's such relief though, Sam, And I'm sure you feel

658
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: this way too. There's almost like a barrier that's put

659
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: down when you're talking to somebody who's been through it.

660
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: And you could liken this to cancer, you could liken

661
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: this to so many terrible diseases. Right when you're in

662
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: front of somebody who knows right, there's almost there's a

663
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,240
Speaker 1: defense that you can let down because even though you

664
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: say there's nothing I can say, Sam, I would say

665
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: to you like, you know, like we don't need to

666
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 1: say anything. Just look at in your eyes. You know

667
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: what it's like firsthand. We know what it's like firsthand.

668
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: And so your comfort in your words to somebody they

669
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: do speak volumes and your work that your organization does

670
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: is incredible and for you to come onto the stream

671
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: today it really does mean.

672
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:01,719
Speaker 2: A lot to us.

673
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 3: We really appreciate it.

674
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 2: And last thing for me, Sam, And after your dad

675
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 2: was diagnosed. Were you did you become even more curious

676
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:16,720
Speaker 2: about who lou Garrig was and what happened to him.

677
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, you know, whenever I found out it was

678
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 6: also referred to as Luke Gregg's des Obviously, being in baseball,

679
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 6: I'm aware of the greatness that is Luke Geregg and

680
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 6: how amazing he was and what a great duty was

681
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 6: as well. But yeah, it made me a little bit

682
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 6: more interested in over the years kind of learning a

683
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 6: little bit more about him and the way he handled

684
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 6: it is just like kind of eye opening. He's such

685
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 6: an incredible man, and you know he's gone too soon,

686
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 6: but an incredible man. Incredible baseball players.

687
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: One player we had join us live was Aaron Nola

688
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: of Philadelphia, phil He's starting pitcher. His uncle passed away

689
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: from als and he was able to join us. It

690
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: was an off day for him, thankfully, so he had

691
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: the chance to swing by where we were live streaming,

692
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 1: and I think it's really amazing what he thinks the

693
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: purpose of a baseball player.

694
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 3: When it comes to off the field should.

695
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 2: Be take a listen, all right, Aaron. So we're obviously

696
00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 2: here on lou garreg Day and just tell us what

697
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 2: it's like having lost an uncle to ALS. What it's

698
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 2: like for you as a baseball player to play on

699
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 2: lou garreg Day with your uncle fast in your mind.

700
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's tough.

701
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 8: I mean I kind of got into he got diagnosed

702
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 8: in October twenty fifteen, and I really didn't know too

703
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 8: much about ALS. I had a girl I went to

704
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 8: high school with, or our sister school that I knew

705
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 8: her dad had got diagnosed with ALS when I was

706
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 8: early in high school. So I didn't really know too

707
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 8: much about it. And then my uncle get in diagnosed

708
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 8: in twenty fifteen, I started to learn about it a

709
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 8: little bit more.

710
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 7: And obviously it.

711
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 8: Was my dad's sister who was married to him, so

712
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 8: we were really close, and my dad's whole family's super close,

713
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 8: so it was obviously hard for all our family and

714
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 8: to be able to be with Philly and how much

715
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 8: they do with ALS. Here, we got to meet a

716
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 8: lot of them who have it, and they get were

717
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 8: able to come in the clubhouse and talk to us,

718
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 8: and we got to meet the ones that have had

719
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 8: it for you know, a couple of months, the ones

720
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 8: that it's only affected their arm for thirteen fourteen fifteen years,

721
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 8: which is crazy because you really don't know how long

722
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 8: or how quick it's going to affect the body, right,

723
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 8: So I think that's one of.

724
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 7: The hardest parts too.

725
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 8: So my uncle had it for several years and he

726
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 8: did good and you know, as best as he could.

727
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 8: But the biggest thing that I saw in him and

728
00:36:54,920 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 8: anybody who has the disease is their attitude was right.

729
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 8: So the determination that they're gonna beat this illness is

730
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 8: you know, second to none, and that's a common theme

731
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 8: that I see. And all the ones that get diagnosed

732
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 8: with it.

733
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 2: Tell us more about Uncle Allan. What kind of guy

734
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 2: was He?

735
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 8: Very smart, did finances, very very smart, very nice, loved.

736
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 7: His wife, loved his family.

737
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 8: It was obviously tragic that he come down with it,

738
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 8: and that's the hard part about als. You just don't

739
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 8: know who's gonna come down with it, and to see

740
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 8: him go through it, it.

741
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 7: Sucks, right, But.

742
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 8: He obviously handled it at Bessie he could, And it

743
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 8: was hard for Maya Maree and his wife to deal

744
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 8: with that because I can only imagine how hard it

745
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 8: is to be able to, you know, have to deal

746
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 8: with that as it goes. As the disease gets so worse, right,

747
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 8: it take over, the bioa took over his body, had

748
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 8: to be in a wheelchair and obviously losing losing words

749
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 8: that you have to get a monitor. But she she

750
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 8: is a rock star. She still is.

751
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 7: But it is stuff.

752
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: I think the attitude that you brought up that a

753
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: lot of ALS patients have, you're spot on it. I mean,

754
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: my uncle so resilient, and you know, you look at

755
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,919
Speaker 1: these you look at your uncle, you look at my uncle,

756
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: you look at these other patients, and you think to yourself,

757
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: I don't think I would have that within me. But

758
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: he always said, good pardon. He always said that, you know,

759
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: this is going to be harder on you guys than

760
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: it's going to be on us. And that always shocked

761
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 1: me because we're not the ones with this debilitating disease.

762
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 2: But he was always so.

763
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: Conscious of how he's going to be strong throughout this.

764
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: And it's amazing to hear that your uncle was that way.

765
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: And I hear so many patients that are just.

766
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, but can't we take some away from that? I

767
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 8: know of illness that doesn't have a cure, and were

768
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 8: we go to our day to day life and we

769
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 8: have a bad day or.

770
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 7: For us a bad game that doesn't.

771
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: I'm upset I stubbed my toe or only got five

772
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: hours of sleep us.

773
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 2: So, Aaron, when you do meet ALS patients and they

774
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 2: do come into the clubhouse, I mean it connects you

775
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 2: even more given what your uncle went thru.

776
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 8: Absolutely, Yeah, because I have a family tied to it.

777
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 8: I experienced them. My whole family experienced a loved one

778
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 8: that had it, So we were around it. We know

779
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 8: what it's like for them, we know what it's like

780
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 8: for family members, for friends. So meeting them and their

781
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,439
Speaker 8: family members and their friends, I kind of understand it.

782
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 9: Right.

783
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,479
Speaker 2: You're donating one thousand dollars for every strikeout this year.

784
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 2: Tell us about the people who want to help, what

785
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 2: they can do and where they can donate to help

786
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 2: this cause through you.

787
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 8: Yeah, So I do it through Bigly Impact. So I

788
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 8: had never done this before. I obviously donated. I've done

789
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 8: the ALS Room that chapter. I'm looking to get more

790
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 8: nationwide with it than the Big Chapter this this year

791
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 8: and coming years. So Kyle Gibson, when he was here

792
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty one, mentioned the Adam wagin Wright's Big

793
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 8: League Impact Organization and what we could do. And I

794
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 8: never really heard about it or knew about it. And

795
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 8: he said he donated to a couple of charity of

796
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 8: his from team wins and a.

797
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 7: Strikeouts kind of do it. You can do whatever you want.

798
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 8: So I just thought to myself, that's a really cool

799
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 8: way to give back to them and to raise awareness

800
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,439
Speaker 8: to raise the money for that kind of stuff. So

801
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 8: I started that in twenty twenty two doing that for

802
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 8: LS as well, so.

803
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 7: And up the money a little bit this year.

804
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 8: So I just think it's a really cool way for

805
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 8: you know, having for strikeaouts and for a team wins

806
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:53,640
Speaker 8: to raise.

807
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,880
Speaker 2: That when you punch you out eleven guys, do you

808
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 2: ever stop yourself? Sure? I really help today. Not only

809
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 2: do we win the game and I pitched really well,

810
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,240
Speaker 2: but I really helped a good gause.

811
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just think going back to.

812
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 8: The days that they have compared to the days that

813
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 8: we have, right, you know, yeah, eleven strike ten, eleven

814
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 8: strike God day is good, But it doesn't really matter

815
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 8: where does that? Where do I want to make more

816
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 8: of an impact than there? I want it to be

817
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 8: somewhere else or some other people in right, And so

818
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 8: that's als for me.

819
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 7: And I think that's more important for me to do

820
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 7: that and for us to do that.

821
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 8: We can use our platforms as baseball players to help

822
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 8: other people.

823
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: Thanks to Aaron Nola for taking some time to join

824
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: our live stream. Back on lou Garrig Day, Brandon Crawford

825
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: of the Saint Louis Cardinals formerly of the San Francisco Giants,

826
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 1: he also joined us. You're going to hear a bit

827
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 1: of that interview coming up, But right now we've got

828
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: Mike Piscotti. His son is Stephen Piscotti, a professional baseball player,

829
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: and Mike's wife. Steven's mom died of als, and there

830
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: was quite an incredible thing that happened after Steven came

831
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 1: back to the major leagues after his mom's succumb to als. Mike,

832
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: there was such an inspiring moment that happened after the

833
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: loss of your wife. When your son Stephen returned to

834
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: Major League baseball, he hit perhaps not just the biggest

835
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: home run of his career, but one of the biggest

836
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 1: home runs in.

837
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 3: History in the sense of what it stood for.

838
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: He hit a home run his first game back after

839
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: losing his mom.

840
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:33,760
Speaker 3: Can you take us back to that time?

841
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, it was, you know, clearly one of

842
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 9: those times seeming the scene you get back to work,

843
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 9: you know, and so they they sent him back. He

844
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 9: was on a playing to Boston and you know they

845
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 9: were playing the Red Sox, and uh, we just expected

846
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 9: to join the game kind of you knows, you know,

847
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 9: emotionally drained a bit, and uh, you have the.

848
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 4: Night off and maybe just playing the next day. And

849
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 4: it turns out there was a bit of a rain

850
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 4: delay in that game, and uh, Bob Meldoyne, We look

851
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 4: at Stephen says, hey, well, you know, how about you playing?

852
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:16,439
Speaker 4: He said, well, okay, so in a game he didn't

853
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 4: really expect to play. Bob just decided to put him

854
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 4: in there and get him.

855
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 9: Right back on the horse. And you know when he

856
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 9: when he hit that ball, you know we're watching on

857
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 9: the lives, right, and uh, it's just stune you right,

858
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 9: I mean you're just sitting there amaze. What do you

859
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 9: think you think maybe maybe there was a little extra

860
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 9: help there, right.

861
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,279
Speaker 6: Uh we called it.

862
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 9: We called it the Heavenly Homer. Right. And when you

863
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,360
Speaker 9: hit the ball and you don't hit it out of Boston,

864
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 9: you know you could have hit it out of the park, right,

865
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 9: it was fabulous that I did want to tell you.

866
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 9: You know, that game was delayed. It was delayed five innings.

867
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 9: And this gentleman in the game lay just from Detroit

868
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 9: working for some software company. He comes to a game, right,

869
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 9: he's standing in the garage. It costs from Fenway, and

870
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 9: that ball as it leaves Fenway goes into the garage

871
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,399
Speaker 9: and is rolling around, and he picked up the ball

872
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 9: and he had no idea about it.

873
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 6: Next day he goes to work and he's doing a presentation.

874
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 9: He leaves off the flight show with him in the ball, right,

875
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 9: and the people go, you know what, that ball?

876
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 2: Pretty cool story, right, Mike meant a.

877
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 9: Lot, big moment, and you know it's something that's always

878
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 9: still from a little bit further away.

879
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 2: Right, Mike, as a former player yourself and a coach

880
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 2: and the father of a major leaguer. I mean, that

881
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 2: story is unbelievable. But stories like that or similar happen

882
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 2: in baseball all the time. How can we explain, Lane,

883
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 2: how the game allows amazing things like that to happen.

884
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's funny. We had a we had a fundraiser

885
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 9: just recently out there. Jak Sell has gone through a

886
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 9: similar experience when he thought one of his parents, I'm sorry,

887
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 9: I don't remember his parents, I mean made his mom too,

888
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,959
Speaker 9: and it wasn't but one of the very first bets

889
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 9: he comes back to the home run and it happens.

890
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 9: Toby Morny, thank you. We opened our eyes and.

891
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks about the experiences every.

892
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: Going on our final of the live guests that joined

893
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: us for the live stream of Saint Louis Cardinals, Brandon Crawford,

894
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: and we also had Boog Shambi and Sarah Langs on

895
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: the show. But you might have heard those during our

896
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: bonus episode that we released this past Friday ahead of

897
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: lou Garrey Day to help raise awareness. So if you

898
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: miss those interviews, make sure to go back to our

899
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: most recent episode, which was published this past Friday as

900
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: a bonus episode. But Brandon Crawford, formerly of the San

901
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: Francisco Giants where you might know him a little bit better,

902
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: has a great connection actually with our last guests you

903
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: just heard from and the entire Piscotti family. Let's hear

904
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: from Brandon Crawford.

905
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 2: We just got off the phone with Mike Piscotti and

906
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 2: he made us laugh, but he made us cry. Also,

907
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: explain your connection to ALS, especially through the Piscotti family.

908
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 10: I mean, the Piscotti family is kind of the reason

909
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 10: we got started in the you know, fundraising and trying

910
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 10: to make some money for ALS research. So Steven and

911
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 10: the Piscotti's are from Pleasanton, so am I and my

912
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 10: dad had known them. I think through like maybe our

913
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 10: sisters softball or something like that. There's some sort of

914
00:46:55,640 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 10: connection where we got to know them. And when GRETCHENM.

915
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 10: Piscotti got diagnosed, we we just we're interested in trying to,

916
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 10: you know, make some money for for this research. And

917
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 10: we had started doing a golf tournament I think a

918
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 10: couple of years before that, and we decided to like

919
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 10: kind of designate the golf tournament for for fundraising efforts

920
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 10: for for ALS research.

921
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 2: Right well after my brother was diagnosed, I got a

922
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 2: call from Mike Piscotti, who I had never met in

923
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 2: my life. I got a call from Mike Crawford, your father,

924
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 2: who I had never met in my life. And this

925
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 2: is what it's all about, isn't it, Brandon, that people

926
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 2: recognize there's a connection here. I have to help. Is

927
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 2: that how you see this?

928
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:45,800
Speaker 5: Yeah?

929
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 10: Definitely, And I mean my dad is a big reason

930
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 10: for this. For the Louke Eric Day I think he was.

931
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 10: He was part of the committee to get this thing going.

932
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 10: And it's just the people that you meet once you

933
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 10: get into you know, any really any sort of fundraised

934
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 10: fundraising effort. But it's it seems like there's so many

935
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 10: connections in baseball with ALS, obviously Louke Gerrig being one

936
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 10: of the big ones. But then you know, once we

937
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,840
Speaker 10: once we started making like trying to make money for

938
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,439
Speaker 10: for the research for ALS, we just met so many

939
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:29,479
Speaker 10: more people that have connections through baseball and just made

940
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 10: some great relationships through that. So we've raised about nine

941
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 10: hundred thousand dollars between those two, between those two groups,

942
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 10: and so we're trying to we we don't have it

943
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 10: like seven stone yet, but we're planning on doing a

944
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 10: golf tournament in November to you know, get that get

945
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 10: that number over a million.

946
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, keep it wrong sounds great.

947
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 2: Do you play golf left handed.

948
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 5: Or right handed? Right handed?

949
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: And that this is beautiful, Jeff, I've asked him and Evance,

950
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 2: like John Grubb a million left good left in a

951
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 2: hitter from the past, play right handed? Is it because

952
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 2: it's a right handers game, it's hard to find left

953
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 2: handed clubs. I mean, it's odd you're a left handed hitter,

954
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 2: but you play golf right now?

955
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 10: If that would be a my cropper question, because when

956
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 10: I started playing golf when I was young, he gave

957
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 10: me right handed clubs. I don't know if it was

958
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 10: to not mess up my baseball slang or it was

959
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 10: just way easier to find right handed clubs. But but yeah,

960
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 10: since since I started playing as I was right handed

961
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 10: and playing golf is a broad a broad term.

962
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: Because I was gonna ask you, how do you perform

963
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:35,840
Speaker 1: at your own charity?

964
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 5: Hit I hit the golf ball. We don't know where

965
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 5: it's gonna go.

966
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 2: It's a diabolically difficult game. Brandon, thank you so much

967
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 2: for joining us today on such an important day in

968
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 2: baseball history, Luke Gerrig Day. We can't thank you enough

969
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 2: for bringing more awareness to this devastating disease.

970
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 5: I'm happy to be part of it. So thank you, guys,

971
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 5: Thank you.

972
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: Thanks for going out of your he was texting, He's like,

973
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: I'll jump ahead of the bus.

974
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 3: I'll make sure i'm there early.

975
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 2: So for going out of your way.

976
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 3: To be here on a game day, especially We appreciate you.

977
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,160
Speaker 2: Good vibes, good vibes.

978
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 3: Look at you, Dad, good VIBESU.

979
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 2: That's like it, That's what we need, especially today.

980
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 5: Yes, definitely, thank.

981
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: You to all of our amazing guests who joined us

982
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: at our livestream lou Garrick Show. If you want to

983
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: check out the whole show, you can on our social

984
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: media at Great Game or what. And I mean this

985
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: kind of concludes Dad and wraps up at least for

986
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 1: this season. We're always raising awareness for ALS, being that

987
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: it affected our family so much, but for this season,

988
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,240
Speaker 1: it has wrapped up our kind of three episode weekend

989
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: run for ALS. What was the takeaway for you throughout

990
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: Luke Garrick Day, Well, it.

991
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 2: Was just the stories that I heard. Sam Hilliard's story

992
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,879
Speaker 2: about his father being in the ballpark when he wasn't

993
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 2: even allowed in a major league park in twenty twenty

994
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 2: because of COVID, the Mike Piscatti story about his son Steven,

995
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 2: who hit the home run, you know, four days after

996
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 2: his mother died. I mean, these are the stories that

997
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 2: I will never forget the rest of my life. And

998
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 2: this is why baseball is the greatest game. It gives

999
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 2: us the best stories. That when you hear them, you

1000
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,720
Speaker 2: say to yourself, I know, I'll never forget that story

1001
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 2: as long as I live.

1002
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think for me sitting down with Aaron Nola

1003
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: and seeing in his eyes how much he missed his uncle,

1004
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:28,240
Speaker 1: and for me, you know, losing your brother, my uncle,

1005
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: I just I feel so connected with him, for lack

1006
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: of a better term. And he mentioned something that he

1007
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: noticed every time he talks to a patient who has als,

1008
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: their hope and strength and resilience is unbelievable. He says,

1009
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: their determination to beat it is something that he sees

1010
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 1: so commonly amongst these patients, and it really just it

1011
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: really just put a light bulb in my head to

1012
00:51:53,160 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 1: think about all the way back when lou Garrig retired

1013
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: and he said, I consider myself the luckiest man on

1014
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: the face of the earth. Had that resilience and strength,

1015
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: and even up until your brother, my uncle passed away,

1016
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 1: he had that strength and resilience.

1017
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 3: And it's a beautiful thing.

1018
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: I had such a great time putting these shows together, Dad,

1019
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,839
Speaker 1: it was it was probably in honor of my life.

1020
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 1: And for as long as we do this podcast, I

1021
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 1: will remember these episodes forever.

1022
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 9: Well.

1023
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 2: Thank you Jeff, it was an honor and to honor

1024
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 2: to do it on Luke Gerrit Day.

1025
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:27,320
Speaker 1: And thank you for listening as always, and we appreciate

1026
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,720
Speaker 1: you and thank you for being a part of our family.