1 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what an offseason Hall 2 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: of Fame celebration edition? Because we have three new Hall 3 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: of Famers joining in Cooperstown, New York this summer. I'm 4 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: Jeff Kirkshon with my Hall of Famer Dad, Tim Kirkshin. 5 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 1: We're talking each euro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. 6 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: We're going to get to those amazing careers shortly. 7 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: But Dad, how are you? 8 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 3: I'm great, Jeff. I love the Hall of Fame induction day. 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 3: I know how important this is for these players. I've 10 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 3: been a voter for thirty four years. It's the greatest 11 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 3: honor and the greatest privilege I have to be a 12 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 3: part of the process of getting players into the Hall 13 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 3: of Fame. It is a remarkably difficult exercise. However, I 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 3: love it. It drives me crazy because all all I want 15 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 3: to do is get it right. But when I see 16 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 3: three guys go in like this, it's a great day 17 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 3: for baseball, especially when it's three guys of this high 18 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 3: of a character. 19 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to dive into their careers and some 20 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: great stories, But Dad, I just want to show you 21 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: something really fast. This is This is it right here. 22 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 1: This is the Oh I. 23 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 2: Dropped it, I almost broke it. 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: This is the Fantasy Football Championship ring, and I have won. 25 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, first time ever winning a fantasy football championship. 26 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: I've been in the same league since I was in 27 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: the seventh grade. 28 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 2: I'm thirty one years old. Do the math. That's my 29 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: career as a fantasy football player. 30 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: Is a legal adult of eighteen years and I've never 31 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: won a championship until. 32 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: Now, and I have the ring to prove it. 33 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: I just needed to show it up because I'm so 34 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: gosh darn prown yev. 35 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 3: What was the ceremony like when they awarded you the 36 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 3: championship ring? Was it a big ceremony or tell me 37 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 3: about it? 38 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: I think you know the answers to that. 39 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: When do us men ever do anything big if there 40 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: aren't women involved to help plan it. So we were 41 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: sitting around watching college football and my buddy who won 42 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: it last year, Tyler, was like, oh, hold on, and 43 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:20,880 Speaker 1: he like reached. 44 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:21,519 Speaker 3: Around into his pocket. 45 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: He was like, igo man, congrats and everyone's like, yeah, 46 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 1: good job, and then we just kept watching that was it. 47 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 3: Did you win any money? Yeah? 48 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's one hundred dollars buy in. 49 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: So after all it was said and done, after the 50 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: buy in, I think I won like four hundred and 51 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: eighty bucks. 52 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 3: Bad. That's great, Jeff, So glad to hear that. Hey, 53 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 3: I have a question for you, Jeff, before we get 54 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:47,239 Speaker 3: to the Hall of famers, talk about pointless questions. So 55 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 3: Carson Keenahan's fourth birthday was the other day, and he 56 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 3: had like four different birthdays. You were at one of them, 57 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 3: the family birthday. This was a birthday to allow his 58 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 3: friend from school and others to come over. There were 59 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 3: probably thirty people in the house. Two of them and 60 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 3: I was one wore shoes during the birthday party. Everyone 61 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 3: else took their shoes off when they entered Kelly's house. 62 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 3: My question to you, Jeff, and believe me, I just 63 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 3: want to understand, is it now protocol that when you 64 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 3: enter somebody's house you take your shoes off? Because I 65 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 3: grew up at a time where we never took our 66 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 3: shoes and socks off. Never. My father, God bless them, 67 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 3: used to say, hey, you got a game tonight. We 68 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 3: don't want you to break a toe slamming it into 69 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 3: the couch. Keep your shoes on. And again there was 70 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 3: one guy, a grown up father and me. We were 71 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 3: the only two in the room in the big house 72 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 3: that had shoes on. 73 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: Explain please, Well, I think you know, I grew up 74 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: in your home as a shoes on family. That's upstairs, 75 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:06,240 Speaker 1: that's downstairs, that's on carpet. And I married my wife Emily, 76 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: who was a shoes off family growing up because they 77 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: didn't want to track in anything from outside into their 78 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: rugs and their carpets, right. 79 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 2: And sometimes it's. 80 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: A cultural thing, like you know, my buddy punk Osh, 81 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,719 Speaker 1: she's an Indian guy, shoes off at the door. You 82 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,479 Speaker 1: do not walk around our house with shoes on. In fact, 83 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,799 Speaker 1: a lot of them, a lot of my buddies bare 84 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: feet around their own home. 85 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 2: And it's shocking to me. 86 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 1: But I don't know if this is a now thing, Dad, 87 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: I think this is more a cultural thing that us 88 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: Kirkshin's were just not accustomed to in your home growing up, 89 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 1: in my home growing up, obviously, and now I take 90 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: a lot of heat from my wife if I ever 91 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: bring my shoes upstairs on my feet, I have to 92 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: bring them downstairs so the carpet will last longer. And 93 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: you know, as a fiscally responsible adult. Now, I kind 94 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: of understand it. And so to that point, Kelly and 95 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: Mark made the sweitch recently to going from a shoes 96 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: on in the house to now a shoes. 97 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: Off, and I think you got to follow the rules of. 98 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 3: The home, Dad, Jeff, I understand also, and I would 99 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,160 Speaker 3: be mortified if I went into somebody's house and they 100 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 3: were angry at me for not taking my shoes off. 101 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 3: I'll take my shoes off. I have no problem with it. 102 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,280 Speaker 3: But if I have the choice, I'm going to keep 103 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 3: them on. And if someone comes into my house and says, 104 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 3: do I have to take my shoes off? The answer 105 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 3: is a emphatic no. You can do whatever you want. 106 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 3: But so I was just wondering what protocol was. It 107 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 3: just seems like the older I get, more people do 108 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 3: not wear their shoes in the house. 109 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:43,799 Speaker 2: Can we put it on the pole? 110 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 3: Can we put it on the pole? Do you yes? 111 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 3: I would like our listeners and our viewers to chime 112 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 3: in on this, And again, I'm not upset. I'm certainly 113 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 3: not angry. I'm just a little bit confused as to 114 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 3: when this changed. And people I've been doing this their 115 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 3: entire lives. I've never done it for the. 116 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: Reasons I told you we're gonna have to get Dan 117 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: Lebotard on this too, because this is borderline in LeBatard question. 118 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 2: Following up, do you pee sitting down or standing up? 119 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:17,799 Speaker 3: Stop? We're not doing that, Jeff, I have a second question. Okay. 120 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 3: So we talked about the loss of Bob Buker, one 121 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 3: of the greats of all times wet in a separate 122 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 3: you know, in a separate show in between our regular 123 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 3: podcast so. 124 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: People can see the great stories you told on our 125 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: social media at Great Game or what. 126 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 3: So. I got asked maybe fifteen years ago by Ryan 127 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 3: Roscillo on the Scott Van Pelt Show, who's your favorite 128 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 3: MC of all time? So there's no doubt it's Bob Buker. 129 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 3: I told you I went to the Brewers Midwinter banquet. 130 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,040 Speaker 3: He was the MC as far as I know, that 131 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 3: means the master of ceremonies, and he completely put on 132 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 3: a show for three hours, entertained and amused everyone, and Ryan, 133 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 3: who's my friend, kind of chuckled in the background. And 134 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 3: then when Bob Yucker died, a couple of people came 135 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 3: out on Twitter and said, do I remember correctly that 136 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 3: Tim Kirkchen called the greatest EMC ever, Bob Ucker. I'm 137 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 3: being serious here, Jeff, and I'm not upset. I'm trying 138 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 3: to learn what am I missing here? 139 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: So MC can also be a term for like a rapper, right, 140 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: and so like what some would consider ice cube and 141 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 1: MC right, like MTV used to do MTV's Hottest MC's, right, 142 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: jay Z would be considered one of the best MC's. 143 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: You know, it's short for Master of Ceremonies, but it's 144 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: it's also used to describe musical artists who have like 145 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: really great skills as performers. So it kind of I 146 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: understand because I host events and I'm asked to be 147 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: an MC all the time. 148 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 2: But trust me, I'm. 149 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: Not spitting any fire rhymes on a track anytime soon. 150 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 2: Okay, you understand what I'm saying. 151 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 3: I didn't understand one word of that. I still think 152 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 3: that I am in the right. When they asked me 153 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 3: who's the greatest MC ever, I think it's Bob Bucker 154 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 3: and I'm sticking with it, and I'm not upset. I'm 155 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 3: just trying to learn, last thing. 156 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 2: Which one? 157 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: Which one are you willing to give up? First shoes 158 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: in the house that you're right about? 159 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:36,080 Speaker 3: What an mc mc. I'm keeping my shoes on unless 160 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 3: the host says take your shoes off, then they're coming 161 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 3: off immediately. 162 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 1: All right. 163 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 3: Last thing, Jeff, I made a speech in Williams Sport 164 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 3: the other night for the Crosscutters Midwinter Banquet. It's five 165 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 3: years in a row. I've spoken to Williams Sport in January. 166 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 3: It's one of my It's one of the great nights, 167 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 3: you know, freezing cold out and all these people show 168 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 3: up and we talked baseball for three hours. It was 169 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 3: absolutely fantastic. Again. But at the end of my little segment, 170 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 3: I was asked, you know, five questions like just answered quickly. 171 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 3: So one of the questions was what app have you 172 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:15,959 Speaker 3: added to your phone lately? That has really been great? 173 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 3: And I really had to a hubb it. I wasn't 174 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 3: quite sure what he was talking about. But get this, Jeff, 175 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 3: I got an answer. I had the right answer. I 176 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 3: got the Amazon app on my phone. Kelly, your sister 177 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 3: added the Amazon app on my phone. So with her help, 178 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 3: now still with her help, I can call up the 179 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 3: app on my phone and order something from Amazon in 180 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,640 Speaker 3: forty five seconds. But I think I think that the 181 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 3: kicker here, Jeff is. Every one in the room looked 182 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 3: at me and said, you're sixty eight years old and 183 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 3: you just figured out how to use the Amazon app. 184 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 3: Am I really that far behind? Yeah? 185 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Amazon has been taking over the lives 186 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: of so many people's shopping habits for years and years 187 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: and years. 188 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 2: And you have to share with our listeners. 189 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: What was your ever first purchase on Amazon this past 190 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: Christmas season? 191 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 3: Uh? Well, I bought a little Tyke's Adventure Rocket for 192 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 3: Carson Kinahan h four and it showed up in a 193 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 3: box about the size of a buick and I dragged 194 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 3: it over to Kelly's house. So typical of me. Kelly 195 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 3: put it together while I was out, because it would 196 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 3: have taken me four hours to put together a little Tykes. 197 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 3: You know how bad I am with that stuff. 198 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: Jack, I thought your first I'm wrong here, that's a 199 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: great first thing to order on Amazon. But I thought 200 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: you ordered the dice in vacuum as well. 201 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 2: For my daughter Mcia. 202 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, and now because my wife Emily loves our 203 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: Dyson and vacuums up all the time because her and 204 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: I are neat freaks. After every meal, we vacuum after 205 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: every dinner. I should say, and McKinley now has a 206 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: mini one, a mini diceon vacuum that actually has a 207 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: little motor in it. And every time Emily vacuum, she 208 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,800 Speaker 1: runs and gets that vacuum in back. Tonight for dinner, Dad, 209 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: she went and got her vacuum first and said, Mama, Mama, 210 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: time time. 211 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:33,719 Speaker 2: She was saying, it's time to vacuum. 212 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 3: All right, Dyson and the Adventure Rocket pretty much came 213 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 3: on the same day. All Right, I'm gonna call it 214 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 3: a tie because I bought a vacuum cleaner for my granddaughter. 215 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 3: How about that? 216 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 2: And a rocket for your grandson? 217 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 3: Right? And I had already bought a vacuum for my 218 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 3: grandson two years ago. So I have three grandchildren. Two 219 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 3: of them have gotten a vacuum cleaner from Pop Pop. 220 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 1: We won't tell poor little Emma that she hasn't gotten 221 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: one yet. She'll get one, sin right, get two in March. 222 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:06,880 Speaker 3: She'll get her own vacuum. Yes. 223 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: Shall we dive into the three incredible new members as 224 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: of this July when they get inducted into the Cooperstown 225 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Three new members going in? Can we 226 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: start with each ye Row Suzuki. 227 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, Jeff one of the greatest defensive right fielders 228 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 3: I've ever seen, and a guy that could get a 229 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 3: hit as as easily or as well as almost anyone 230 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 3: that I've ever seen in all the years I covered 231 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:42,520 Speaker 3: baseball lifetime three eleven hitter. He got three thousand hits 232 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 3: in his major league career despite a late start. Only 233 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 3: player ever to get two hundred or more hits in 234 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 3: each of his first ten major league seasons, including two 235 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 3: hundred and sixty two hits in two thousand and four. 236 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 3: That is a record for one season. And Jeff, remember 237 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 3: his rookie year. He won the Rookie of the Year 238 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 3: and the MVP for the Mariners, a team that won 239 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,920 Speaker 3: one hundred and sixteen games. And you talk about a 240 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 3: guy who made an impact right away. But I'll never 241 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 3: forget that first spring, Jeff, I was talking to Lou Panella, 242 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 3: not the most patient man in the world and the 243 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 3: manager of the Mariners. So it was about three weeks 244 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 3: in and each row had just hit a lot of 245 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 3: soft singles to left field. So finally, Lou, impatient, said 246 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 3: to each row, can you do anything other than hit 247 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 3: soft singles to left field? And each row points to 248 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 3: right field and says, well, I can hit it really 249 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 3: hard over there if you want me to. So Padella goes, well. 250 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 2: Go ahead, hit it really hard over there. 251 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 3: So each Row, of course, started to turn on the ball, 252 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 3: and before you knew it, he had one of the 253 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 3: great rookie seasons ever. And again, Jeff, we talk about 254 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 3: his defense. He won ten goal gloves. He's one of 255 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 3: the greatest throwing outfielders I've ever seen. And I've told 256 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 3: you this before, Jeff. Bobby Valentine, who knows everything about 257 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,760 Speaker 3: Japanese players, once told me that each Row is a 258 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 3: mathematical genius. That's how his mind works. Like he can 259 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 3: get on an elevator and look at the numbers on 260 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 3: the left side of the elevator and count him up 261 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 3: in his head in like two seconds. He can do 262 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 3: stuff like that. And Bobby always claims that because of 263 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 3: his mathematical mind that helps him as a baseball player, 264 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 3: especially in the outfield, that he can see the angles 265 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 3: better than anyone else. And he runs to a ball 266 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 3: in right center field and just is standing there when 267 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 3: it drops in his glove. It's because he can see 268 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 3: the angles of the field better than anyone and Jeff. 269 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 3: But beyond that, he was an amazing, amazing hitter. I 270 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 3: remember his rookie year he hit a ball that bounced 271 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 3: before it got to home plate and hit a line 272 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 3: drive single up the middle. So he hit a bouncing 273 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 3: ball for a single. The next day I called Pat Gillick, 274 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 3: the general manager of the Mariners, and I said, Pat, 275 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 3: what was that? And Pat just nonchalantly said, oh, he 276 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 3: he used to practice that all the time in Japan, 277 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 3: practice hitting a bouncing ball just in case maybe a 278 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 3: hit and run comes up. You got to put the 279 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,560 Speaker 3: ball in play. And I talked to Mike Messina at 280 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 3: that Williamsport function and we asked him, like, you know, 281 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 3: give us some guys you really had a hard time with. 282 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 3: And among the three he mentioned, each row was one. 283 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 3: And he said it was maddening because he would just 284 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 3: foul off the pitch until he could get a ball 285 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 3: that he could hit hard, and then he would hit 286 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 3: it hard. That's how good each row was. And I 287 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 3: love it, Jeff, that he treated his bats like gold. 288 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 3: You see guys who make it out, they break their 289 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 3: bat over their you know, their knee, or they'd throw 290 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,239 Speaker 3: it to the ground, or they slam it into the batrack. 291 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 3: Each row would take his bat and gently place it 292 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 3: into the area where his bats were stored, because, as 293 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 3: he once told me, he said, you know, a good 294 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 3: carpenter never throws around his hammer. He always treats it with, 295 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 3: you know, with great integrity. And remember on our first podcast, 296 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 3: Eduardo Perez, when we asked him this question, he said 297 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 3: he stole one of each row's bats and used it 298 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 3: in a game, and each row was furious, like, those 299 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 3: are my bats. You're not supposed to be using those. 300 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 2: That's incredible. 301 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: It gives me that story, that last story about his 302 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: bat kind of gives me shades of Tony Gwynn. 303 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 2: Am I wrong with all that comparison? 304 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 3: Tony Gwynn was the best. Tony once told me that 305 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 3: he went to the bat company and went to the 306 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 3: place where the bats were manufactured so he could pick 307 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:18,919 Speaker 3: out the billets of wood and watch his bat being made. 308 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 3: That's how precise he was. And just to finish with 309 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,679 Speaker 3: each row. Jeff, I'll never forget that first spring training. 310 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:27,719 Speaker 3: You know, we're all trying to figure out who is 311 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:30,919 Speaker 3: this guy? And I did one of the first interviews 312 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 3: with him in spring training. We're sitting in chairs on 313 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 3: the field in Arizona at their spring training facility, and 314 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 3: with the help of an interpreter, I asked each Row, like, 315 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 3: what is it about the United States that he really likes? 316 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:51,679 Speaker 3: And he goes, Hamburgers, Hamburgers love him. And then I said, well, 317 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 3: what is it about the United States that you don't like? 318 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 3: And he said, everything breaks here, It's like nothing is built. 319 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,200 Speaker 3: Well then he pauses and he looks at me and 320 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 3: he goes, be careful that chair you're sitting in might 321 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 3: collapse any second. That's what Eachiro told me. So for 322 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 3: even though I don't think he needed an interpreter, it 323 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,640 Speaker 3: was good that he used one. He understands the language 324 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 3: exceptionally well. And this has always fascinated me, Jeff, is 325 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 3: that each Row has been to the Hall of Fame 326 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 3: many times before being inducted, okay, because he just loves 327 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 3: the history of the game. And he didn't go there 328 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 3: thinking I'll be here one day. He just loves the 329 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:38,399 Speaker 3: history of baseball. And what better place to diagram the 330 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 3: baseball of the history of baseball than Cooperstown, New York. 331 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: And I want to just take a quick second to 332 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: note that speaking of baseball bats. We are planning an 333 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 1: episode with our friends at Victis Sports, the new official 334 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 1: bat of Major League Baseball. 335 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 3: Dad. 336 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 1: We're going to be doing a podcast from their location, 337 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: their headquarters in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, which happens to 338 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: be just twenty minutes from where we normally do the 339 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:08,919 Speaker 1: podcast in my basement in Pennsylvania, and so we're going 340 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,120 Speaker 1: to be doing an episode from there. 341 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:11,600 Speaker 2: So we're going to be able to get a lot 342 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:13,360 Speaker 2: more great bat stories. 343 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: I know you just told that great Tony gwinn one 344 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,639 Speaker 1: and of course Eachie Row a great number of. 345 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 2: Bat stories on him. 346 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: So save more bat stories for our next episode when 347 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: we're at Victisports in February. 348 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 2: Let's move on to our. 349 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: Next inductee, set to join Eachi Row and the other 350 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 1: Hall of Famers in July. 351 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,959 Speaker 2: It's CC Sabathia. 352 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 3: Yeah, so I wasn't sure. I voted for him, of course, 353 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 3: but I wasn't sure if he's going to make it 354 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 3: on the first ballot. But when you win two hundred 355 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 3: and fifty one games with a winning percentage above six 356 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 3: hundred and more than three thousand strikeouts, that's a pretty 357 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 3: good list. In fact, Sabathia is one of only six 358 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 3: pitchers ever to have all three of those numbers two 359 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 3: hundred and fifty wins, six hundred winning percentage, three thousand strikeouts. 360 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 3: The others are Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, Tom sever Justin Verlander, 361 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 3: Greg Maddox, CC Sabathia. That is quite and again, only 362 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 3: Randy Johnson and Steve Carlton struck out more batters among 363 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 3: left handed pitchers in the history of the game. And Sabathia, 364 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 3: you know, one of the things that really separated him 365 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 3: was his willingness to take the ball. The year he 366 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 3: was traded to the Brewers for the stretch run and 367 00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 3: then went, you know, eleven and two with an ERA 368 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 3: under two. Then pitched on short rest in a free 369 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 3: agent year, meaning he's risking his health anytime you pitch 370 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 3: on short rest. He said, just give me the ball. 371 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 3: Our goal is to win the World Series. And even 372 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 3: though they didn't, he pitched like crazy. So he was 373 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 3: he was a huge man, is a huge man, you know, 374 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 3: seven at his best around three hundred pounds. And by 375 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 3: the way, Jeff, one year he lost a lot of 376 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 3: weight and he pitched poorly, and he whispered to me 377 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 3: a couple of years later, he said, you know, I'm 378 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 3: a big guy. I pitch better when i'm big, not 379 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 3: when i'm light. And also, Jeff for a guy that big, 380 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 3: he's great athlete, great basketball player, played tight end in 381 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,000 Speaker 3: high school on the football team. And I did a 382 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 3: demo with Aaron Boone once in spring training about the 383 00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 3: third baseman what he's supposed to do on a ball 384 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 3: bunched down the third base line when there are runners 385 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 3: on base. So Boonie's explaining, you have to know who 386 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 3: your pitcher is to know if you're going to charge 387 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 3: the bunch and you make the players to the third 388 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 3: baseman throw to first, or you stay at your bag 389 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 3: because you know the pitcher is going to be able 390 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 3: to cover the third base line. So I said, give 391 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 3: me the pitcher who you never had to worry about. 392 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 3: You could always stay at the back because you knew 393 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 3: he was going to get to that bunp And the 394 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 3: first guy he said was CC Sabathia, which I found 395 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 3: interesting because people look at him and say, oh, he's 396 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 3: a big, heavy guy. He can't be quick, he can't 397 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 3: be athletic. Both of those are not true. He's quick, 398 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 3: he's athletic. He's a tremendous athlete, and that's one reason 399 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 3: why he's in the Hall of Fame. And Jeff, he's 400 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 3: also the greatest player ever to go by his initials. 401 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 3: You know, we got some other ones, JT. Real Muto, 402 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 3: you know, JD. Martinez, Martinez, JJ Hardy, We've got a 403 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,560 Speaker 3: lot of them. But the greatest player ever to go 404 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 3: by his initials is CC Sabathia. 405 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 1: Well, maybe later in the season. I don't want to 406 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: put you on the spot. Now, we'll do a best 407 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: of all tim only initials team. 408 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 3: Oh, I've got that. I could give it to you 409 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 3: right off the top of my head, but we're not 410 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 3: going to do yet tonight. 411 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:06,320 Speaker 1: Yes, okay, JJ Hardy starting short, we won't get into yes, okay, 412 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,000 Speaker 1: all right, all right, and go ahead. Last, but certainly 413 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: not least joining the Hall of Fame this summer, it's 414 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 1: Billy Wagner and. 415 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:21,159 Speaker 3: He made it, Jeff in his last his final year eligible. 416 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 3: And I'm so happy for Billy Wagner because he say 417 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 3: came so close in year number nine that if he 418 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 3: didn't make it in ten, that would have been a crushing, 419 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,840 Speaker 3: crushing blow. Look, he saved four hundred and twenty two games. Jeff, 420 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 3: that's the eighth most of all time. He had a 421 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 3: two point three to one ERA. That's exceptionally low for 422 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 3: that many innings. He struck out eleven point nine batters 423 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 3: per nine innings for his career. But the note, the 424 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 3: number you need to know is he averaged if you're 425 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 3: not rounding up, five point ninety nine hits per nine 426 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 3: innings in his career. That is the lowest hits per 427 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 3: nine innings of any pitcher in the history of the 428 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 3: game with at least nine hundred innings pitched. Billy Wagner 429 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 3: was absolutely unhittable at his best. And Jeff, as you know, 430 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 3: he's like five foot ten, even though he's really closer 431 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 3: to five foot eight, and he used to throw the 432 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 3: ball like it looked like it was, you know, he 433 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,400 Speaker 3: short armed. It was like it came out of his jersey. 434 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 3: All sorts of hitters say they could never pick up 435 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 3: the ball when Billy Wagner was throwing it. And again 436 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 3: at five eight, let's say, I remember when Randy Johnson 437 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 3: got traded to the Astros in mid season one year 438 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 3: and Billy Wagner is on the Astros and the first 439 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,080 Speaker 3: Ivy beats Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson, who's course six', ten, 440 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,520 Speaker 3: Says i'm a foot taller than that, guy and he 441 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 3: throws harder THAN i. Do it's, unbelievable and it's it's. 442 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 3: True he threw, really really hard and. Amazing Part jef 443 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 3: was he's a natural right handed, thrower and he hurt 444 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 3: his arm as a, kid badly his right arm as a, 445 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 3: kid and at age five he had to learn how 446 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 3: to throw left. Handed so here's the guy who struck 447 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 3: out eleven point nine guys per nine innings through one 448 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 3: hundred miles an hour left, handed and he's a natural 449 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 3: right handed. Thrower SO i asked, HIM i, Said, BILLY 450 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,360 Speaker 3: i mean you had to start all. Over how did 451 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 3: you develop the arm? Strength? That he grew up in Rural. 452 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 3: Virginia he used to tell me one of the delicacies 453 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 3: they used to eat was. Woodchuck i'm not even sure 454 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 3: what a woodchuck, is And i'm not SURE i want 455 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 3: to eat one of. Them But, billy was you know 456 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 3: a guy from Rural. Virginia so he, said, WELL i 457 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 3: developed my arm. STRENGTH i would go out in the 458 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 3: field in our backyard AND i would throw a baby 459 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 3: ball as far AS i, could and Then i'd go 460 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,360 Speaker 3: pick it up And i'd throw it. Back SO i, Said, 461 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 3: billy you had a whole bag of, balls, Right he, Goes, 462 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 3: NO i only had one. Ball so he would throw 463 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,960 Speaker 3: it three hundred feet in the, Air go pick it 464 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,679 Speaker 3: up and throw it. Back go pick it. Up so 465 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,480 Speaker 3: his version of long toss he did as a young. 466 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 3: Kid that's one reason why he developed the strength in his. Arm, now, Look, 467 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,479 Speaker 3: jeff there are a lot of people out there that 468 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,919 Speaker 3: have a natural bias against relief. Pitchers, okay and when you, 469 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:34,360 Speaker 3: pitch when you throw nine hundred and three innings in your, 470 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 3: career there is a question how valuable can you be 471 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 3: when you don't even pitch a thousand innings in your. 472 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 3: Career that's the biggest Reason Billy wagner took ten years 473 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 3: to get. In he didn't pitch enough. Innings my thinking on, This, 474 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 3: jeff is the closer role is a, role it's a, 475 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,440 Speaker 3: job and it's been there since nineteen sixty. Nine all 476 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 3: he's doing is doing what his team asked him to, 477 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 3: do and he did it exceptionally. 478 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,520 Speaker 1: WELL i think that's a very good point because he 479 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,119 Speaker 1: stepped up when it was needed for many a. Team 480 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 1: so congratulations, Each Ro, SUZUKI Cc sabathia And Billy wagner 481 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 1: soon to be the newest members of The Coopertown hall Of. 482 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,359 Speaker 2: Fame In, july they will be. 483 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: Inducted really looking forward to, That, DAD i know you'll be. 484 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: There last year we Interviewed Johnny bench And Dan shaughnessy 485 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: at The Oda. Saga it was a great, experience And 486 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: i'm hoping and praying that we get a chance to 487 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 1: be up there again this, Year, dad and maybe score 488 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 1: another interview with Another hall Of. Famer that would be, really. 489 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 3: Really absolutely. Well try to Get Johnny bench. Again he 490 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 3: was that. Good we could go another round and it 491 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 3: would be just as. 492 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,480 Speaker 2: Good it would be just as, easy all, Right. 493 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,640 Speaker 1: Dad so we don't normally do, this so we're doing 494 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,360 Speaker 1: this episode. Virtually we do it sometimes in my. Basement 495 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: this one we're doing virtually beat because we had to 496 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,199 Speaker 1: delay when this episode would come out by almost an 497 00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: entire day because of the announcement of Those hall Of 498 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: famers that just got let, in, Right SO i thought 499 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: we would we would do an, oldie but a. Goodie 500 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 1: should we open a dec of cards for it's in the. 501 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 3: Cards. Yeah first, though JEFF i want to show you 502 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,880 Speaker 3: the baseball card that you had made when you were 503 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 3: PROBABLY i don't know what is this seven years, old 504 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 3: six years, old five years, old. 505 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 2: Year two, thousand that would have been six or seven years. 506 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 3: Old, yeah, yeah this of course is actual size For. 507 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,439 Speaker 3: Jeffrey he was a really little, kid like his poor. 508 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 3: Dad so that When i've. 509 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 2: Played for The Tampa Bay Devil, rays yes back of the. 510 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 3: Day, yeah you've got Your Devil rays shirt on, there 511 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,160 Speaker 3: and the team wasn't very, good but that's because if 512 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 3: they had just been called The, rays they would have been. 513 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 3: Good because, remember The Devil rays were never any good 514 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 3: until they got the devil out of their. Name never, 515 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 3: Mind i'll. 516 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 2: Be honest with. 517 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: YOU i remember so vividly every year when we would 518 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,560 Speaker 1: become a new, team, right you get your team like 519 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: and then all the kids would wear those. Hats so 520 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: no matter where you grew, up, RIGHT i grew up In, 521 00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: maryland you could end up being The yankees or. 522 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 2: Something and when. 523 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: We became The Devil, RAYS i hated it because our 524 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:22,239 Speaker 1: jerseys were black and it was so hot standing in the, 525 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: outfield which was WHERE i normally. Played standing in the 526 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,719 Speaker 1: outfield is a seven year old and t ball and 527 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: just sweating my butt. 528 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 2: Off and then you remember the, year, dad we've got 529 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 2: in our. 530 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 1: League we had The, phillies we had The, yankees we 531 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:38,720 Speaker 1: had The Red, sox. 532 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 2: We had all of the big. 533 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: Powerhouses, right and do you remember what my team, was no, 534 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: Disrespect we were The Durham. 535 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 3: Bulls oh my, gosh you didn't Even we weren't even 536 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 3: a major league. 537 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,480 Speaker 2: Team AND i, mean no. 538 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: DISRESPECT i love The Durham. BULLS i love minor league, 539 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: baseball but like when you're going up, again hence. 540 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 2: The yankees and The, CUBS i don't think The Durham 541 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 2: bulls are gonna win a, game AND. 542 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 3: I don't think we, did, Right i'm with you on. 543 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 3: That all, right let's look at the baseball, cards. 544 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: All, Right So i'm gonna open them up right. HERE 545 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: i haven't followed the search for The Paul skins rookie. 546 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 2: Card this is the Tops. CHROME i bought these. 547 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 1: Like a long time, ago and we've been opening them, 548 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: up slowly but. 549 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 2: Surely so let's see what we started. 550 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: WITH a good one to start, With, Dad Ronald Acunya, Junior. 551 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 3: Jeff he's an amazing. Talent Chipper jones told me a 552 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 3: couple of years ago That Ronald Lecunya junior is the 553 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 3: most talented player he's ever seen wear a major league. 554 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 3: Uniform that comes From Chipper. Jones Cunya junior's power to 555 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 3: right center is. Ridiculous of his power. Everywhere he is 556 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,000 Speaker 3: a weapon with the way he throws and plays right field, 557 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 3: defensively and of course he is his breath taking lee. 558 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 3: Fast and they just got to get him. Healthy he's 559 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 3: been hurt. TWICE i don't even think he's going to 560 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 3: be ready for Opening day with the injury he went 561 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 3: down with last. Year but when he's, healthy he's as 562 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 3: good as any player in the. 563 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,120 Speaker 1: League Manny machado is our next pool San Diego. 564 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 3: Padres, Yeah manny is a Future hall Of. Famer he's 565 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 3: got a real shot someday to get to three thousand. 566 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 3: Hits he's one of the maybe six or seven greatest 567 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 3: defensive third Baseman i've ever. Seen and you, KNOW i 568 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 3: was there when The orioles brought him up at age, 569 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 3: nineteen And i'll never forget he had been sent to 570 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:43,479 Speaker 3: the minor. Leagues jeff at coming out of spring, training 571 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 3: And buck Show, walder the manager of The, orioles looked 572 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 3: At John russell like his bench, coach like early in the, 573 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 3: year and they needed a third, baseman and he, said 574 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 3: who shall we bring? Up And John russell, Said Manny. 575 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 3: Machado the next day they needed a catcher to come, 576 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,680 Speaker 3: up And Buck showalter, Said, john who should we bring? 577 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,280 Speaker 3: Up and he, Said Manny. Machado and the day after 578 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 3: that they needed a pitcher to come, up and he 579 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 3: Asked John, russell who should we bring? Up and he, 580 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 3: Said Manny. Machado and remember When machado came up that, 581 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,239 Speaker 3: year he was great right away and helped get The 582 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 3: orioles into the. 583 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,560 Speaker 1: Playoffs and in this, pack at least the last one 584 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 1: is Vlad Carrero junior at little holographic chrome. Card i'm 585 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: so bad with opening cards to my true baseball card. 586 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,640 Speaker 1: Fans i'm, Sorry i'm not updated on all the, verbiage 587 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: but there we got. 588 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 3: Well Vladdie, junior of, course had a great twenty twenty four, 589 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 3: season and with the money That Juan soto got in free, 590 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 3: agency it's going to get a lot more money For Vladdie. 591 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 3: JUNIOR i think the Blue. Jays if they are an 592 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,840 Speaker 3: intent on winning long, term they need to re sign 593 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 3: him to a, mega mega. Deal we'll see if that. 594 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 3: Happens but you, know for as young as he, is 595 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 3: and he's still unbelievably young to have this kind of 596 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 3: track record and this future as a, HITTER i think 597 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 3: in a lot of ways he's a bit underrated as a. 598 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: Hitter AND i mean The Blue jays just Signed, santander 599 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: AND i mean that was a big signing five years 600 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: so they look like they're buildings and Signing Vladdie Laddie. 601 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 2: Junior would be. Huge those two guys would be, great. 602 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 3: Right and With Boba, SHAD i mean they had. To 603 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 3: The Blue jays obviously had to do something to keep 604 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 3: pace with The Red, sox who are. Better obviously The 605 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 3: yankees are really, good and so are The. Orioles and 606 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,160 Speaker 3: that's the whole deck for, You, dad all, right, Good, 607 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 3: hey that's a we always, Do, jeff this date in baseball. 608 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:58,280 Speaker 3: History SO i was looking Up january twenty, second and 609 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 3: WHICH i do this every single day of my life 610 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 3: BECAUSE i love to see what happened on this. State 611 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:08,760 Speaker 3: so in nineteen seventy, Six Robin roberts And Bob lemon 612 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 3: went into The hall Of. Fame, Now Robin roberts is 613 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,760 Speaker 3: one of the great pitchers. Ever he won two hundred 614 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 3: and eighty six. Games but WHEN i interviewed AT espn 615 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 3: late in nineteen ninety, seven so this is my big 616 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 3: interview to see If i'm going to Leave Sports illustrated 617 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,840 Speaker 3: and go TO, ESPN i have one. INTERVIEW a cab 618 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 3: driver picks me up and drives me TO espn from 619 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 3: the airport nineteen ninety. Seven he says to, ME i 620 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,839 Speaker 3: just dropped off one of my favorite people of all, 621 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 3: Time Robin. Roberts SO i, go, yeah he's one of 622 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 3: the greatest pitchers, ever one of the Whiz, kids won 623 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 3: two hundred and eighty six, games an unbelievably durable, pitcher 624 00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 3: pitch for some really Good phillies. Teams, finally the guy 625 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:02,320 Speaker 3: turns around the cab driver and, says who are you talking. 626 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,880 Speaker 3: ABOUT i, Said i'm talking About Ryan Robin, roberts one 627 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 3: of the greatest pictures of all, time and he, goes, 628 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 3: No i'm talking about The Robin, roberts, who of course 629 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:21,080 Speaker 3: was AN espn, personality show, host, reporter, everything and now 630 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 3: of course she's made it in so many different. Ways she's. 631 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 3: Wonderful you, Know Good Morning, america That Robin, roberts but Dopey. 632 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,400 Speaker 3: Dad when you Mentioned Robin, roberts the first name that 633 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 3: comes to mind is the baseball, player not the BEAUTIFUL 634 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 3: espn on air. 635 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: Personality that is so, funny and you know it's got me. 636 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 1: THINKING i always think of best of all tim. Teams 637 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 1: you need to do a team of shared famous, names 638 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 1: like you could Do Carlos santana, right obviously longtime major 639 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,560 Speaker 1: leaguer and, guitarist right, Right you. 640 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 3: Could do ALL i did The All music, Team, jeff 641 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,720 Speaker 3: you'd be proud of. ME i figured out Who Chris 642 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 3: martin was lead Singer Chris, martin lead singer Of, coldplay of, 643 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 3: course right there you, go and he's pitched in the 644 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 3: big leagues for several. Years we'll Finish jeff with a sad, 645 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,720 Speaker 3: note But i'll try to make it. Okay twenty twenty, 646 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 3: one on this, Date Hank aaron. Died Hank aaron is 647 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,799 Speaker 3: one of the five greatest players of all time for. 648 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:32,000 Speaker 3: Me very good defensive right, fielder tremendous base, runner and 649 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,160 Speaker 3: obviously one of the greatest hitters of all. Time, jeff 650 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,839 Speaker 3: if he took away all seven hundred and fifty five 651 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 3: of his, homers he still had three thousand. Hits AND 652 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,640 Speaker 3: i told, You, jeff BEFORE i started doing this, podcast 653 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,040 Speaker 3: AND i mean this, sincerely the highlight of my entire 654 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 3: career was a game that we did In atlanta maybe 655 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 3: eight years. Ago Dave, fleming Uarda, prez and myself And 656 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 3: Hank aaron was our, guest and he sat in the 657 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,200 Speaker 3: booth during A Major league game with us for four 658 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:09,960 Speaker 3: innings and was part of the. Broadcast, JEFF i stopped 659 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 3: keeping score of the game BECAUSE i was no longer 660 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:19,399 Speaker 3: interested in the game BECAUSE i was so captivated by 661 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 3: the guy sitting next to, Me Hank. Aaron he was so, 662 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:28,719 Speaker 3: funny he was so, charming and his recall on everything was. 663 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 3: Unbelievable so we have this amazing hour and a half 664 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:38,400 Speaker 3: on the air With Hank. Aaron game's. OVER i Checked. Twitter, Never, 665 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 3: JEFF a good idea to check At twitter after you've 666 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:46,080 Speaker 3: broadcast a. Game, Never but some guy wrote In he wrote. 667 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 3: It he, said if anyone ever looks at you the 668 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 3: way That Tim kirchen looked At Hank aaron, tonight you 669 00:37:56,120 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 3: should marry that. Person that's HOW i. MESMERIZED i was 670 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,760 Speaker 3: sitting next To Hank, aaron who died on this state 671 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,520 Speaker 3: four years. Ago what a, Gentleman what a baseball. 672 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,439 Speaker 2: Player what a beautiful. Way as. 673 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,120 Speaker 1: Well to wrap up today's, podcast we want to thank 674 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,560 Speaker 1: you all so much for. Listening remember our twenty twenty 675 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 1: five regular, season back to weekly episodes is going to 676 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,960 Speaker 1: start On march the, Eighteenth so we're still doing every 677 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,200 Speaker 1: other week for, episodes and we're a little late for 678 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,400 Speaker 1: this one because of The hall Of fame. Announcement But march, eighteenth, 679 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,879 Speaker 1: folks we are getting so close to. 680 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,200 Speaker 2: Pitchers and catchers rewarding to spring. Training we're so. 681 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,200 Speaker 1: Excited for baseball to be back in season two Of 682 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: Is this A Great? 683 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:41,279 Speaker 3: Game? 684 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:46,320 Speaker 1: Where? What? DAD i love you so. MUCH i enjoy 685 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,680 Speaker 1: doing this with you more than you will ever ever 686 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,919 Speaker 1: understand it. Is i've been looking forward to getting back 687 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,000 Speaker 1: on the show with. YOU i don't like doing it 688 00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: every other, week BUT i just thank you for doing 689 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:02,799 Speaker 1: this with me because it has been a dream come. 690 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,880 Speaker 3: True, well feeling is mutual, Here. Jeff BUT i gotta. 691 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,840 Speaker 3: GO i gotta order something out on The amazon. App, okay. 692 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,480 Speaker 1: Thank you for, listening and it's always thank you for 693 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:14,640 Speaker 1: being a part of our. 694 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 2: Family