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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth Dugszaron Burnett. Oh my god, to have a question

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Speaker 2: for you. Huh. Do you know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: I do funny? You should ask share it with me.

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Speaker 3: Grillo's Pickles.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we've talked about them before.

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Speaker 3: It's ridiculous. They have this thing called Pickle Paradise.

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Speaker 2: Uh huh.

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Speaker 3: And it's June seventh, hit the twenty second, so I

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Speaker 3: think we missed it in New York. And it's like

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Speaker 3: a pop up, right, and they have all this, like,

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Speaker 3: you know, free hot dogs and burgers and what have you. Okay,

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Speaker 3: this was sent to us by a couple different people

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Speaker 3: just because they know that you and I, particularly you

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Speaker 3: love Grillo's Pickles.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: But then as I'm looking at it, then it said

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Speaker 3: Grillo's Pickles University, because like, the pop up's not ridiculous,

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Speaker 3: that's just cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is cool.

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Speaker 3: I'll give Rills Pickles University. And it said we're getting

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Speaker 3: ready to open applications for the fall twenty twenty four semester.

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Speaker 3: I don't understand, like, is it just open admission? Like

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Speaker 3: what goes on? So you click learn more?

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Speaker 2: Of course you did it.

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Speaker 3: Says, no exams, no stress, pickles, But then thanks for

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Speaker 3: your interest in Grillo's Pickles University. Submissions for this semester

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Speaker 3: are currently closed, but feel free to enter your information

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Speaker 3: below to be alerted of future opportunities. We appreciate your

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Speaker 3: interest in support. They just want your information, I guess,

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Speaker 3: but like, and then I tried to find information what

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Speaker 3: is Grillo's Pickles University and on their Instagram they just

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Speaker 3: said it's coming soon. Click to stay informed. But like,

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Speaker 3: what is it?

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Speaker 2: So you learn to pickle? This is where you can

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Speaker 2: you get a major in picklemongering.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. But you can sign up on the

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Speaker 3: Grillo's Pickle website to get a year's supply of pickles.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so this is just like website like gaming.

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Speaker 3: Guess, but the Pickle University. I don't know. I just zaren,

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Speaker 3: I just don't.

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Speaker 2: Know now see listener. Aaron Mumford wrote to me personally

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Speaker 2: to warn me that you may be coming with so grillos,

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Speaker 2: pickles and madness at me, and I appreciate it. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: Aaron for the warning. The mashup protection, But it turns

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Speaker 2: out it wasn't the one you.

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Speaker 3: Threw at was it like a perfume.

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Speaker 2: It was a pickled gayo.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I have that in my refrigerator.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go, legit, I do.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, apparently there's a perfume or what have you.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, the university that just struck me as ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: And on that note, I bid you ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Okay, ridiculous. Well, if you got a second, I do

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Speaker 2: you do nice? Okay? Do you remember? Well, you probably

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Speaker 2: don't remember, but if you were like seeing like in

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Speaker 2: videos and references and like sports highlights about how professional

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Speaker 2: sports in the US in the nineteen seventies had this

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Speaker 2: super high level of outrageousness and just general silliness.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't remember it.

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Speaker 2: Personally, I think the San Diego chicken.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: You're familiar with the San Diego chicken, right, like Tommylesortait exactly,

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Speaker 2: so you've seen images of the seventies. That's my idea. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Now for today's story, let's omit the chicken and in

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Speaker 2: his place will sub in a cheap beer promotion in

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Speaker 2: the Midwest. Okay, and instead of San Diego, we'll relocate

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Speaker 2: to Cleveland. Okay, Elizabeth, you ever heard the story of

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Speaker 2: ten cent beer night? No? Oh, have I got a

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Speaker 2: fun one for you?

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Speaker 3: Like a disaster?

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Speaker 2: Oh it is. This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about

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Speaker 2: absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always nine

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Speaker 2: percent murder free and ridiculous. Yes, oh, Elizabeth, you love

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Speaker 2: the baseball I do, or at least you used to

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Speaker 2: love it before the A's broke your heart. Yeah's about

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Speaker 2: baseball these days?

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Speaker 3: I've soured on MLB. I just think the whole thing

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Speaker 2: So you're now down to minor league baseball.

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Speaker 3: No, not even minor league. I'm into Pioneer League.

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Speaker 2: Pioneer League wow, which is.

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Speaker 3: Like minor minors. Yeah, but we have a new team here.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, it's like Z ball. They have a

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 3: I'm into it for you, pure baseball.

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Speaker 2: Well, do you mind hearing a baseball story?

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Speaker 3: I love to hear baseball stories.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Elizabeth. Do you know who the manager of the

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Speaker 3: Glenn Ford.

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Speaker 2: If only? No, it was the one and only Billy Martin.

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Speaker 2: Goes on to be Yes Yankees and Billy Ball exactly.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, I didn't know what and I thought.

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Speaker 2: I knew some Billy Martin, you know, you know, more

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Speaker 3: A lot of us thought we knew Billy Martin.

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Speaker 2: I know, right, So this one has just promise you,

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Speaker 2: Now, the story, even if the idea of ten cent

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Speaker 2: it started in Texas, because of course it started in Texas.

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Speaker 2: This story the will begin it on May twenty ninth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four. The Cleveland Guardians, then known as the

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Speaker 2: Cleveland Indians. We're facing the Texas Rangers right now. The

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Speaker 2: game starts to get unruly in the fourth inning after

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Speaker 2: eighth inning, the Cleveland players get their revenge. There's a

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Speaker 2: Massive brawl in the diamond, and so the Cleveland players

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Speaker 2: But the Texas fans they're not over it, right. So

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Speaker 2: as they're going back to their dugout, they're just getting

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Speaker 2: can't stand Elizabeth. So the catcher he has to be

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Speaker 2: As wild as that game was, the game featured no suspensions,

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Speaker 3: Even though he got all up in the stands exactly.

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Speaker 2: a different time, very different time. Now. In a few weeks,

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Speaker 2: Texas and Cleveland were set for a series up in Cleveland,

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Speaker 2: which is why after the game Texas ranged manager Billy Martin.

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Speaker 2: Now, for it was the biggest one in baseball. For comparison,

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Speaker 2: They would later host the thirty two Olympics, and many

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Speaker 2: We're talking up with the big kids now New York. Okay,

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Speaker 2: but you see Elizabeth the city, it had reached its zenith.

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Speaker 3: Now, somehow I think it just got oh totally in my.

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Speaker 2: Opinion, you know same. Now today Cleveland is well here,

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Speaker 2: For comparison's sake, that puts Cleveland just behind Wichita, Kansas

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Speaker 2: so basically Cleveland's heyday. As I pointed out, it's peak

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Speaker 3: That point on an upswing lately.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I mean it has really come around a lot

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Speaker 2: of those old Roust Belt cities, Pittsburgh, same thing they have.

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Speaker 2: Definitely Cleveland has really tried hard.

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Speaker 3: Cleveland, the one with the really dirty river.

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Speaker 2: Just about it. Oh no, I'm glad you mentioned it.

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Speaker 2: The Cuyahoga River. Yeah, what do you know about the

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Speaker 2: Cuyahoga River? Li is, in nineteen fifty two, the Cyahoga

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Speaker 2: River caught fire. This was not the first time it

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Speaker 2: it had caught fire. Now you have to understand, like

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Speaker 2: So how does all this connect to ten cent beer nights? Zarin?

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Speaker 2: Obviously, nineteen seventy four, people in Cleveland were down to drink.

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Speaker 3: Then, you know, to weather that you got to be

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, maybe laugh at the blakness of life sometimes.

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Speaker 2: So meanwhile, they had not been going to ball games.

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Speaker 4: Exactly.

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Speaker 2: I thought you'd recognize those numbers. Now, most of the

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Speaker 2: The team is losing money faster than you can say, like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, mc hammerton, Yes, there you go. So

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Speaker 2: Texas Rangers hold this promotion. He gets butts in the

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Speaker 2: Beer Night. So it's exactly as advertised. It's all the

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Speaker 2: Ted Bond says to himself.

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Speaker 3: No limit soldiers on that one.

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Speaker 2: What if we threw our own ten cent beer night?

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Speaker 2: We could do that. So in the meantime, Cleveland goes

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: In response to the Cleveland sports radio talk show hosts

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Speaker 2: They have this home stand coming up, and so Cleveland

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Speaker 2: They're like, oh, we gotta hype this right. They print

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Speaker 2: got boxing gloves. The caption reads, be ready for anything.

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Speaker 2: Oh God. So this is now six days after the

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Speaker 2: bench clearing brawl, not even a full week. The Texas

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Speaker 2: Rangers come to Cleveland. Coincidentally, they arrive on ten cent

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Speaker 2: beer Night.

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Speaker 3: Oh coincidence.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the promotion totally works. Twenty three thousand, five hundred

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Speaker 2: fans show up. That's six times their average it The

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Speaker 3: Yes? Right, Oh, this is getting better.

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Speaker 2: The promotion offers beers at ten cents each, as I said,

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Speaker 3: Time, six at a time.

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Speaker 2: Now, the stage for the June fourth, nineteen seventy four

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth after this. Let's play ball, Elizabeth. We're back, yay, Okay,

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Speaker 2: So let's get into this game.

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Speaker 2: So, when the Texas Rangers manager Billy Martin he comes

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Speaker 2: This sets the tenor for the game. Now, when it

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Speaker 2: at some point. Yeah. This dude's name. He's nineteen year

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Speaker 2: He's from Chicago. What can I tell you, Darry Yurkich.

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Speaker 2: He also remembered the beer trucks. A beer truck was

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Speaker 2: At first people paid attention to the game, but eventually

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Speaker 2: So as chief wa who told the fans be ready

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Speaker 2: according to my man Terry Yurkicic, people were blowing off

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Speaker 3: It is like you could in Oakland totally to today.

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Speaker 3: Night, But yeah, because you normally are pulling in like

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Speaker 2: So men, women, everyone just starts streaking across the field

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Speaker 3: And that's only gonna stoke violence in the crowd, yes, of.

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Speaker 2: Course A right. And they're like bringing up the billy clubs,

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Speaker 2: While Fergie Jenkins is lying there on the mound, writhing

436
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,359
Speaker 2: around an obvious pain, a chant breaks out amongst the

437
00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 2: Cleveland fans. Hit him again, Hit him again, harder, harder,

438
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,240
Speaker 2: hit him again, hit him ahead, harder, harder.

439
00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,040
Speaker 3: So, hey, I would I would pay money to go

440
00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:43,640
Speaker 3: back in time and go to this game.

441
00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,359
Speaker 2: It sounds so that's same inning. Right. There's a play

442
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 2: at third and a Cleveland based runner is called safe.

443
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 2: So manager for the Texas Rangers, Billy Martin, does what

444
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,040
Speaker 2: Billy Martin does, storming out of a dugout full speed,

445
00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,960
Speaker 2: just kicking. Yes, you know his move, right, So he's

446
00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,959
Speaker 2: attacking the ump, kicking dust on him, ruining his socks.

447
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 2: He's the best, right, so Billy Martin arguing the call.

448
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,280
Speaker 2: We're deep in the game now, right, So fans are

449
00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,639
Speaker 2: deep in their cups. They have a shot at him

450
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,439
Speaker 2: on the field, so they start chucking beers at Billy Martin.

451
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,160
Speaker 2: The umpire starts catching strays. It's getting bad. Hot dogs

452
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,720
Speaker 2: are hitting them right. So Billy Martin, being the peach

453
00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,359
Speaker 2: that he is, he refuses to get mad. Most of

454
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 2: the beer is missing him anyway, So while he walks

455
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 2: back to the dugout, he's blowing kisses at the Cleveland

456
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 2: fans like eat it up, gotta love anyway. The next inning,

457
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,240
Speaker 2: the fifth inning, a father and son Elizabeth, taking a

458
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 2: part in that long beloved American tradition of enjoying a

459
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 2: baseball game together. They stand up, they jump over the

460
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:40,680
Speaker 2: wall and run onto the field.

461
00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:40,840
Speaker 3: Yes.

462
00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:43,320
Speaker 2: Then they lower the pants and they moon the Texas

463
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:48,439
Speaker 2: Ranger outfield. No. The crowd and the bleachers watching goes nuts.

464
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:52,520
Speaker 2: The drunken fans they love it more. More flesh on

465
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,879
Speaker 2: the field, the Texas Ranger players not so much hands,

466
00:21:55,960 --> 00:22:00,920
Speaker 2: hands on hips, ted's down, they're just like humiliated. Security

467
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 2: runs onto the field. They chased the father and son

468
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 2: as they yank up their breeches and try to get away.

469
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,120
Speaker 2: At this point, like I said, it's the fifth inning.

470
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:09,880
Speaker 2: What's the beer situation like on ten cent beer Nights,

471
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 2: Arin Greig.

472
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 3: Question, Elizabeth, Yes, yeah.

473
00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 2: So at this point, according to Terry Jerkic, it was

474
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 2: taking twenty minutes to get a beer. People started to

475
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 2: get pretty impatient. Tables surrounded the truck right the workers

476
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 2: pouring the bill would fill up any container you brought them.

477
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,680
Speaker 2: I had a big dog in sudsmug, maybe thirty two ounces.

478
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 2: It looked like a little mini keg. So now people

479
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,640
Speaker 2: are sucking out all the they could get into their heads. Right,

480
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 2: people are filling whatever they can bring in front of

481
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,679
Speaker 2: the strows. People didn't take long to turn into just chaos.

482
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:46,119
Speaker 2: Right back to Terry Yerkic, the crowd crew in more patient,

483
00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,600
Speaker 2: and they threw the tables to the side. The people

484
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 2: were manning the truck basically abandoned it. The police were

485
00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,240
Speaker 2: standing right there. They didn't seem to care, or maybe

486
00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 2: they thought they couldn't handle that many people. So now

487
00:22:56,840 --> 00:22:59,320
Speaker 2: the cops scared out. Number were still only in the

488
00:22:59,320 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 2: fifth inning.

489
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 3: Oh my god, and they kicked over the tables in

490
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 3: front of the Oh oh boy.

491
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 2: As Terry Yerkis says, some guys stop filling their containers

492
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 2: and just put their mouths right under the taps on

493
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,679
Speaker 2: the field. The streakers just keep running. Thanks for escalating,

494
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 2: you think so Around this point in the game, right,

495
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 2: one fan he throws a tennis ball down onto the field, right,

496
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 2: just I don't know, a joker a little bit of

497
00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 2: he throws it into center field. But he's one of

498
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 2: your people, Elizabeth. He doesn't want to leave his mess

499
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 2: for someone else to clean up, so instead he hops

500
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,679
Speaker 2: down onto the field. He runs over the middle of

501
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 2: the game, grabs his tennis ball, and he throws it

502
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 2: back to his friends in this dance like I got

503
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,640
Speaker 2: the ball. Guys. At this point, Elizabeth, stadium security there

504
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 2: on him. They know they got to be quick on this,

505
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,399
Speaker 2: so this guy he sees the security coming, so he

506
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 2: gives him a little headfake. He dishes. One security guard

507
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 2: gets chased by another. Now while he's running, this fan

508
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 2: sees him and shouts at this ball retriever guy, Elizabeth.

509
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 2: This may be my favorite part of this entire story.

510
00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 2: The guy in the stands who shouts is a long

511
00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 2: lost relative of the ball retriever and recognizes him on

512
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 2: the diamond. Oh my god, a retriever guy points at

513
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 2: his like fan and realizes that he's his family, and

514
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 2: then he runs over towards him. At the same time,

515
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 2: the long lost relative comes down the steps and he

516
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 2: hops the fence and he runs onto the field. The

517
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 2: two relatives hug on the diamond in the middle of

518
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 2: the game. It's impromptu family reunion so good. It's the

519
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 2: security guards catch up to them, because remember he gave

520
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,440
Speaker 2: him the head fake before. Yeah. Now the two guys

521
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 2: are hugging. They get tackled by securitys with it. The

522
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,199
Speaker 2: ball retriever guy shoves security off of him. He hops

523
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 2: back into the stands where his family just came from.

524
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 2: He escapes that he gets shielded by all the drunk fans.

525
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,639
Speaker 2: They won't let security chase because they love his scoffs

526
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 2: and his family's story. I mean, it's beautiful, it's heartwarming.

527
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 2: The long lost relative, though, he gets grabbed by security.

528
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 2: So the fans they don't like this outcome.

529
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 3: Elizabeth as a sacrifice.

530
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 2: They let the security have it. Beers come raining down,

531
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,280
Speaker 2: but also golf balls. Now they wait. They found small

532
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 2: rocks from like the stadium floor, the pieces of cement.

533
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 2: A shoe comes down, hits one guy. These people are drunk,

534
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 2: so they're throwing out whatever they can reach.

535
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 3: They brought equipment for other sports. They brought tennis fall

536
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 3: golf balls.

537
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 2: Exactly that hockey puck can come on, be ready, exactly,

538
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 2: Cleveland listens, Cleveland. True. So at this point, the PA

539
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,120
Speaker 2: announcer comes on the stadium speakers ask the fans please

540
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 2: do not throw letter.

541
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,720
Speaker 3: Onto the dormond right, oh yeah, that'll stop.

542
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 2: Crowd response is to throw way more stuff onto the field,

543
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 2: so now it's just like a rain. Immediately time ground

544
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:33,919
Speaker 2: crew is like, oh my god, you guys cured me.

545
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:35,439
Speaker 2: They go out that have to clear the field of

546
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,400
Speaker 2: all the larger objects of the game can go on.

547
00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 2: So now the fans use the ground crew as target,

548
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,919
Speaker 2: like it's duck hunt. They got these guys going back

549
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,840
Speaker 2: and forth. They're like, yeah, tag them. So now they're

550
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 2: throwing more stuff at the guys cleaning up the stuff

551
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 2: they've been throwing. One woman looking to get her piece

552
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,480
Speaker 2: of the spotlight Elizabeth, She hops the low fence, runs

553
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 2: onto the diamond. She waves at her fellow fans as

554
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 2: she runs across the ballpark. She's not a streaker, she's

555
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 2: fully dressed. But when she stops running, because you know

556
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,160
Speaker 2: why not, she wants to at her time on the spotlight.

557
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 2: Before the security can get to her, the crowd dorges

558
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,639
Speaker 2: her take it off, so she pretends to do a

559
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 2: strip tease for the crowd. Security gets to her first

560
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 2: before any clothes come off. When they do, the woman

561
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 2: then turns and attacks the security like a cat throwing pause.

562
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 2: She's just crawling at the air. Security forces her to

563
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 2: the grass. Crowd goes nuts. We're like police brutality, probably fertality.

564
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 2: Firecrackers get thrown onto the field at the security. That

565
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 2: feels fun. So someone's like, what if we throw them

566
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 2: into the dugout. They're like, oh, we can't reach that.

567
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 2: We can reach the bullpen. So they throw them at

568
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 2: the Texas Rangers bullpen.

569
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 3: Oh no, this.

570
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 2: Big boy, long daddy of a firecracker, Elizabeth. When it

571
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,280
Speaker 2: goes off, it sounds like her grenade. Players are hitting

572
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 2: the deck. The umpire Nestor Chilac stops the game because

573
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 2: now he's got like warfare, like real warfare. He orders

574
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 2: the Rangers bullpen evacuated for the player's safety. He tells

575
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 2: the maners, I'll let him warm up on the mound.

576
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 2: It's fine. So around this point, I.

577
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 3: Mean, at what point do you say that's it. We're

578
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 3: calling No, No.

579
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:02,360
Speaker 2: We're just get We still have a couple mornings before

580
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 2: it really gets loose. Yeah, we're about the sixth of

581
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 2: this point, coming into the seventh. So at this point,

582
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,840
Speaker 2: Mike Hargrove gets brought into the game as a substitution,

583
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,360
Speaker 2: and he plays first base, and for his intro into

584
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 2: the game, he has to dodge a half gone jug

585
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 2: of Thunderbird wine. The thunderbird, oh my god, apparely misses

586
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 2: his head by inches. That's his intro to the games.

587
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 2: They go take first. He's like, okay, I'll said them

588
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 2: so Elizabeth, nothing really says, I want to get stupid

589
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: drunk tonight, like a half drunk bottle of Thunderbear. Anyway,

590
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 2: jug as I said, misses him, but the hot Dogs don't.

591
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 2: So he's getting pelted by hot dogs. Some bears are

592
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 2: hitting him his feet right. So before Hargrove's first inning

593
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 2: is over, a new group of Streakers runs out onto

594
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 2: the field and they come from the third base side,

595
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 2: and they run onto the field dressed, but then they

596
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 2: quickly decide to get undressed. Once they're on the field,

597
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 2: they're like, well, let's do it here. I think they

598
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:53,879
Speaker 2: were envious of the woman who got all the collapse

599
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 2: and attention. They're like, we can do that too, guys,

600
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 2: And so they go out to left center field and

601
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 2: they strip right. So they started then also like, you know,

602
00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 2: we need some to defend ourselves against the security now

603
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 2: that we're you know, defenseless. So they grab the padding

604
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 2: off the left field wall and start ripping that down,

605
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 2: and then the people in the crowds are like, give

606
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 2: us some, so they throw some of the pads up

607
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 2: into the bleachers and then they start running around the

608
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 2: fields with some of the other chunks they've ripped off

609
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 2: the walls. Security is exhausted by this, so they're like,

610
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,879
Speaker 2: who wants to go, Steve, do you? So they go

611
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 2: running back out on the diamond. They chase these nude

612
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: helions all around the ball bark. The crowd is cheering

613
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 2: and clapping. Radio guys Herbscore and Joe Tait, who've been

614
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 2: amused at first by all this, they're now commenting on

615
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 2: the families gathering up and fleeing the stadium and scared groups. Right. So,

616
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 2: now we're in the seventh inning and the beer is

617
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 2: still somehow flowing stross Elizabeth trucks. So the cops have

618
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 2: given up, some of em started drinking. They're now enjoying

619
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 2: the game. It's in the eighth inning. The Cleveland front

620
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 2: office is notably seen getting up and easing out of

621
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 2: the scene. Are kidding, Oh yeah? Like we no longer

622
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 2: want to be involved with what we started. So it's pandemonium, Elizabeth,

623
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 2: and everyone is sobered, point is leaving. Then comes the

624
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 2: ninth inning. The game, by the way, is close. The

625
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 2: Rangers are up in the bottom of the ninth Cleveland

626
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 2: rallies and ties the game five to five. We got

627
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 2: a tie game, folks, bottom of the night tie game.

628
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 3: So it's not like I mean, if it were a blowout.

629
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you could call it. He's we got it,

630
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 2: you know. Years later, the substitute first Basement, Old Mike Cargo.

631
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 2: He recalls, how I remember nothing about the game other

632
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 2: than in that inning we were in trouble. They had

633
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 2: runners on and it looked like they were getting ready

634
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 2: to score and go ahead. Then all of a sudden,

635
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 2: all hell broke loose. So before the game is over,

636
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 2: Old Terry Yerkic he wants to grab a souvenir from

637
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 2: the ten cent beer night fiasco. So what's he doing?

638
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 2: Hops down onto the field, and he's a big boy, Elizabeth,

639
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 2: like a big Serbian boy. So he tries to drunkenly

640
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: sneak up and steal the hat off the head of

641
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 2: a player. While the game is going off that. I'll

642
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 2: tell you. I'll let Terry Yerkiz tell you. So in

643
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: the ninth inning, I hopped the fence and I ran

644
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 2: up to text this outfielder, Jeff Burrows. When I jumped,

645
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 2: I was the only one on the field. I came

646
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 2: running up behind him. He never saw me coming. I

647
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: grabbed the hat right off the top of his head.

648
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 2: Now Mike Cargove remembers it a little differently, and Margrove said,

649
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 2: some big, great guy, drunk guy took Jeff's hat. I

650
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 2: was one of the first ones to get there, right,

651
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: So back to Terry Jerks. I had it in my hand,

652
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 2: but I dropped it. It landed right by his foot.

653
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 2: He didn't say a word. Our eyes met. I looked

654
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 2: at him, and he looked at me, and I said, oh, hell,

655
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 2: Jeff Burrows right rangers right field? Are professional athlete sick

656
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 2: of it all?

657
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 3: Yeah?

658
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,680
Speaker 2: He's over and wasn't that he just needs one out

659
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,479
Speaker 2: to go home. So this professional athlete, he rears up

660
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 2: and he kicks this big trunk nineteen year old and

661
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 2: boots him backwards away from him, like get the hell

662
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 2: off my field. As Terry Jerkich puts it, he kicked

663
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 2: me right in the thigh. I had perfect spike marks

664
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 2: in my thigh. A few more people were now piling

665
00:30:57,680 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: onto the field at that point, I wasn't going to

666
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: down and get the hat. I was in retreat mode.

667
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 2: I wasn't trying to hurt him. I was just trying

668
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 2: to get a little souvenir. So Mike Hargrove runs from

669
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 2: first base and he's gonna go defend the outfielder, right, So,

670
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 2: Hargrove says, I tackled him and knocked him down, and

671
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: it took like three chops to handcuff him. Thank goodness,

672
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 2: he was on the ground. I took off or else.

673
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: So the cops do not actually successfully handcuff him because

674
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 2: Terry Yerkic slips away, big serbian kid. What can I

675
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 2: tell you, Elizabeth. So he runs towards the Texas Rangers dugout.

676
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,719
Speaker 2: That's his escape plan is I'm gonna get through out

677
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 2: through the tunnels. So he's drunk, right, So, and there

678
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 2: are fans everywhere now because they're streaming onto the field.

679
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 2: Don't think the game is verty much over Urkic. He

680
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 2: still wants a little something for the.

681
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 3: Effort, and it's tied up, tied up, five to.

682
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 2: Five to bottom the ninth. It's there, it's their stand. Yeah,

683
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 2: they can have a walk off win, right, Terry Yurkic,

684
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 2: He recalls my brother and another friend. They tried to

685
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: get in. The Rangers dugout to get souvenirs too. So

686
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 2: now they've jumped down and they joined him. Right, but Elizabeth,

687
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 2: Biddy Martin, he don't play like that, No, Terry Yorkistru calls.

688
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 2: The players started swinging bats, the fans got chased into

689
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 2: the outfield. Well that's right, Billy Martin. He decides he

690
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 2: won't let a bunch of Cleveland fan hippie kids play

691
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: him like he's a punk. So armor, no armor, whatever,

692
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 2: He's ready to take on all of Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

693
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 3: Well they're armed. The baseball players have bats.

694
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well well wait a minute, I should have

695
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 2: told you that the fans are also jumping down. Well armed,

696
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 2: some have knives. They've taken stadium seats and ripped them out,

697
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 2: and they're using them like clubs. It's a fair fight

698
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 2: except for the numbers. So let's take a little break,

699
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 2: and after this I'll tell you what happens when bad

700
00:32:37,400 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: Billy Martin goes to war against Cleveland. Oh good, Elizabeth, Yes,

701
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: where were we? Oh that's right, all hell broke loose,

702
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 2: So now we've got hell turned loose. Elizabeth. I'd like

703
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 2: you to close your eyes as a kid. I'd like

704
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 2: you to picture it. Elizabeth. It's warm spring night in Cleveland,

705
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 2: stars above, a soft breeze blowing through your hair. You

706
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 2: were invited to a Cleveland baseball game by a friend

707
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 2: from work. You've been working at a home for retired

708
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 2: seeing eye dogs. It's been a long week, and you

709
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 2: thought a ballgame sounded fun. A night out at the ballpark.

710
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 2: You have been to a game in forever. Only when

711
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 2: you get there you find out it's ten cent beer Knight.

712
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 2: So now you and your work friend groom Hill both

713
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 2: play along. You have a few ten cent beers, and

714
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 2: then you have a few more, because why not win

715
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 2: in Rome and all that. By the end of the game,

716
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 2: much like the twenty thousand other fans in Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Elizabeth,

717
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 2: you are now drunk. When you look down at your feet,

718
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 2: you see that you're standing in grass in right center field.

719
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 2: Oh that's right. You came over the outfield fence with

720
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 2: a rush of people. You leapt down into the outfield.

721
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: It wasn't that first group who stripped off their clothes

722
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: and got nude and are still running around. No, you're

723
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 2: with the second, maybe the third, fourth group, who knows,

724
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 2: who cares? What you know for certain is you're running

725
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 2: and laughing, drunk in Cleveland and on the field. Meanwhile,

726
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 2: Texas Ranger Billy Martin is in his dugout with his

727
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 2: team and he can see his right fielder getting surrounded

728
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 2: by drunk and now armed Cleveland fans. Billy Martin decides

729
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 2: he's seen enough. Billy Martin pops up off the bench.

730
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 2: He grabs a fungo bat for batting practice. He turns

731
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 2: to his team and addresses them like they're his men

732
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 2: and this is war. Billy Martin says, let's go get

733
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 2: them boys. The Texas Rangers, true to their name, follow

734
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 2: their leader into the fray, all of them ready and

735
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 2: prepared to hurt some people to get their man back safely. You, Elizabeth,

736
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 2: are in a happy, drunken nude. You're dancing with Darunhild

737
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 2: in right field with linked arms. You both spin around, run.

738
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 2: Hild is startled, and she lets go of your arm

739
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 2: and you try to take a few steps and regain

740
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 2: your balance. You barely do, just in time to see

741
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 2: Billy Martin coming flying out of the dugout like he's

742
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 2: ready to argue with some umpire over a blown call,

743
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 2: Only this time he has a fungal back over his

744
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 2: head and he's running right towards you, and the Texas

745
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: Rangers are right behind him. They also have bats in

746
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 2: their hands and they're using them, swinging them. One drunk

747
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,360
Speaker 2: fan who charges Billy Martin, he goes down with a

748
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 2: good swing of the fun go back. Billy Martin has

749
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 2: good reason. They're facing down a mob of drunken fans, Elizabeth,

750
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 2: not you, but the ones around you, the ones who

751
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 2: are armed with bottles, knives, chains, pieces of stadium seating.

752
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:28,880
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, seeing all this, Elizabeth, you also start to

753
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 2: half panded. You're still very drunk, so you quickly look around,

754
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 2: eyes swimming, and you see you're approximately with I don't

755
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 2: know two hundred drunken fans and your coworker, Drunehild, plus

756
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 2: Billy Martin and the Texas Rangers now rushing into the scene,

757
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 2: bats swinging, throwing fists. There's one Texas Ranger there near you,

758
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 2: the right fielder burrows. He's also surrounded. Elizabeth. You duck

759
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 2: as Billy Martin takes a swing at you with his

760
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,760
Speaker 2: fungo matt and then he runs past you at age

761
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 2: at some hippie kid. You lie there in the outfield

762
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 2: grass as the Texas Rangers surround their man. The grass

763
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 2: feels cool and soft as you like there. You consider

764
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 2: just staying there in the grass as the fight goes

765
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 2: on above you, but you change your mind after a

766
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 2: pair of nudists streak past, and one waves at you

767
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 2: and looks like they're coming back. The Texas Rangers have

768
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 2: been ambushed. You lying in the cool grass, you watch

769
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 2: this crazy fight going on above you, and the stars

770
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 2: above the fight, you think to yourself, Ah, Cleveland. You

771
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 2: see some fans start throwing red clay dirt from the

772
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 2: warning track at the Texas Rangers. Now you have cheap

773
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 2: fireworks coloring the sky as red dirt explodes against Billy

774
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 2: Martin's angry, shouty face. He's standing just above you, waving

775
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 2: the fun go bat. Can you hear him shout? Let's

776
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 2: get out of here, boys, Elizabeth, you lie in the grasses.

777
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 2: The drunken fans chase Billy Martin and his Texas Rangers

778
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 2: out of the right field. Do you also wonder where

779
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 2: groom Hilda if you haven't seen her? And up there

780
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 2: she goes dancing past with another woman who's stolen a

781
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: Texas Rangers ball cap. At least someone got their souvenir

782
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 2: hat good. At this point, Elizabeth, seeing Billy Martin and

783
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 2: the Texas Rangers retreat to their dugout, the Cleveland manager

784
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: ken Espermante, he leads a chart of his own to

785
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 2: save and protect Billy Martin and the Texas Rangers. He's

786
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 2: gonna save him for the drunken mob that threatening them.

787
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 2: So Aspermante tells his team to grab their bats, their

788
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 2: fungo bats, whatever they can swing, and it's time to

789
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:12,800
Speaker 2: go to work on their own fans.

790
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 3: Oh your kidds.

791
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 2: So the Cleveland players clear the batracks, they charge out

792
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 2: of the dugout, and they fight their own fans all

793
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 2: across the ballpark to right field to help defend the

794
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 2: retreat of Billy Martin and the Texas Rangers.

795
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 3: The baseball brotherhood is stronger totally, Okay.

796
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 2: Okay, They're on the same level, so elizabe at this

797
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 2: point the game is functionally over. It's a full blown

798
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,080
Speaker 2: drunken riot in the Cleveland Municipal Stadium. The crowd has

799
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 2: taken over the field and they're not giving it back.

800
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 2: The local Cleveland radio guys, Herb Score and Joe Tate,

801
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 2: they begin to call the riot for the radio audience.

802
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 2: They're like, why not. Yeah, their talk gets recorded in

803
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 2: the Acron Beacon Journal, so I have some of it

804
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,399
Speaker 2: here for you. Oh yeah, Joe Tate will say he's

805
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 2: the first one to start, and then the other guy

806
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 2: is obviously Herb Score. Dom Hilgendor has been hit on

807
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,919
Speaker 2: the head. Hilgy is in definite pain. He's bent over

808
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: holding his head. Oh. That is an absolute tragedy, absolute tragy.

809
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 2: I've been in this business for over twenty years and

810
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 2: I have never seen anything as disgusting as this. And

811
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 2: I'll be perfectly honest with you. I just don't know

812
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 2: what to say. I don't think this game will continue, Joe.

813
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 2: Unbelievable thing is people keep jumping out of the stands

814
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 2: after they see what's going on. Well, that shows you

815
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 2: the complete lack of brain power on the parts of

816
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 2: some people. There's no way I'm gonna run onto the field.

817
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 2: If I see some baseball player waving a beat out

818
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,360
Speaker 2: there looking for somebody, Oh, this is tragic. The whole

819
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 2: thing is degenerated now into just Oh now we've got

820
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 2: another fight going with fans and ballplayers. Oh, Hargrove has

821
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 2: got some kid on the ground and he is administering

822
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 2: a beating. Well, that fella came up and hit him

823
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 2: from behind, is what happened. Boy, Hargrove really puts a

824
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 2: piece of him, and I don't blame him. Look at

825
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 2: Dick Simms out there. He's doing it at it. Yeah,

826
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 2: Duke is in on it. Oh, here we go again,

827
00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:00,760
Speaker 2: my god. At this point, Terry Yerkic has escaped them. Okay,

828
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 2: he's now looking on from a safe distance at what

829
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 2: all he started? Then everybody discharges the field and everybody

830
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 2: everybody's on the field. It was out of control. The

831
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,760
Speaker 2: police were overwhelmed. So the Cleveland players, the Texas players,

832
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 2: along with their managers Aspermanty and Billy Martin, they fight

833
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: their way through the drunken crowd with the bats swinging

834
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,919
Speaker 2: fist the whole bit. Some players are hurt at this point.

835
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,919
Speaker 2: Other players, regardless of what team they're on, they help

836
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 2: the wounded ones off the field into the tunnels like

837
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 2: they're surviving the beaches of Normandy. Right, the less injured

838
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 2: ones act as a rear guard, and they're swinging the

839
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 2: bats and to keep the crowd from overtaking them. Right,

840
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 2: the players a manager. Their plan is to safely make

841
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 2: it into the dugout, get into the tunnels, and then

842
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 2: lock the doors once they're in the stadium bowels. So

843
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 2: they got to keep the fans off them so they

844
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 2: can get the door locked. Oh god, the players disappeared.

845
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 2: They must have gone into their clubhouse. All over stadium.

846
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 2: So many people were drunk. Somebody threw second base into

847
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 2: the stands. It just did seem dangerous to me at

848
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:59,439
Speaker 2: the time. Terry Yerkisch's gett worried at this point. Right.

849
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 2: Interesting In the Elizabeth, Mike Cargo said nearly the same

850
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 2: kind of thing. Well, he said, and I quote, I

851
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 2: don't remember being scared. I don't remember feeling I was threatened.

852
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 2: I didn't feel that way when it was going on

853
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 2: until we got to the clubhouse. Looking back out there

854
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: and what went on and could have gone on, then

855
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 2: I got a little shaky. So they're all seeing their

856
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 2: lives flash before them once they're in safety. At this point,

857
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 2: the teams they lock the doors to the clubhouse. They

858
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 2: bunk are down and they hide out from their drunk,

859
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 2: rampaging Cleveland fans. They can hear them in the hallway

860
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 2: banging on the walls. Oh yeah. Outside on the field,

861
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 2: the fans are ripping apart the field. They've stolen all

862
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 2: the bases. They rip up seats, they throw them onto

863
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 2: the field. They destroy the grass, they take grass for souvenirs.

864
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 2: Hot dogs and beer are still filling the air. Fans

865
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 2: are throwing them out, just at each other, like what

866
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 2: the heck. Souvenir hunters are pocketing anything they can, bats, gloves,

867
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 2: batting gloves, fungo bats. They are like rifling through everything. Right,

868
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 2: the teams barricaded themselves, and they said in their clubhouse,

869
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 2: drunken Cleveland fans are banging on the walls and in

870
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 2: the doors, looting, wilding out. So the radio guys continue

871
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 2: to call this postgame chaos. The security people are just

872
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 2: totally incapable of handling this crowd. They just well, sort

873
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 2: of the National Guard. I'm not sure they can handle

874
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 2: this crowd, right, It's unbelievable, just unbelievable. People will go

875
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 2: back to their seats and others jump down to take

876
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 2: their place. The bases are gone, so they're just losing

877
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,919
Speaker 2: it because now you know, they're watching the cathedral get

878
00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: torn down by the vandals. At this point, the organists

879
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 2: save up there in her perch. She begins to play

880
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 2: take me out to the ballgame, just to Marcus. Meanwhile,

881
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 2: the umpire old nestor Chilac. He has to decide what

882
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 2: to do, right, He's like, I don't want to end

883
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 2: the game. Cleveland's just tied it. Runners were in scoring

884
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 2: position when the game got disrupted in the bottom of

885
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 2: the ninth. Surely these hometown fans, no matter how drunk

886
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 2: and unruly they they telled, just return to their seats

887
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 2: or just clear the field and the home team can win. Nope,

888
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 2: these Cleveland fans well past that, Elizabeth. Yeah, they just

889
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 2: want grass, souvenirs. Blood. Finally, a hunting knife gets at

890
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 2: the umpire and it lands at his feet like blade,

891
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 2: into the grass like hilt, standing up, and then he

892
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 2: gets hit by a piece of stadium seating in the head.

893
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 3: Ohms like the game.

894
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, that's it. He forfeits. He calls the game

895
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 2: and he forfeits it in favor of the Texas Rangers. Yeah,

896
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 2: then he high tails it out of the stadium. The

897
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 2: game is now officially over as far as MLB is concerned.

898
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 2: Nineteen year old who started all this, Terry Yurkic. Yeah,

899
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 2: he's watching the drunken chaos consume all before him. People

900
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 2: were on the field for a long time. They announced

901
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 2: the game was being forfeited, and it got even crazier.

902
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 2: It didn't even into our mind that they had forfeit.

903
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 2: We were all disappointed. But the Indians weren't very good

904
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 2: then anyway. It's like, it's not like it cost him

905
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 2: a pennant or anything.

906
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 3: What do they think would happen?

907
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 2: No, No, they're drunk, Elizabeth, They're very drunk. Pay through anyway.

908
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 2: For twenty minutes, the fans continue to run amok. Now

909
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,919
Speaker 2: everyone's gone. That's a long time, Oh totally. Cleveland PD

910
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 2: finally arrives and they now have numbers large enough and

911
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 2: sober cops to calm things down. Nine fans get arrested

912
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 2: for god knows what I mean, Like, I don't know

913
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 2: how you make a distinction of who to arrest. In

914
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 2: the scene, they must have been like absolutely, just murdering

915
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 2: a child or something. Yeah, like exactly. I have no idea.

916
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 2: The Cleveland players, they escorted the Texas Rangers to their

917
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,800
Speaker 2: team bus to ensure they can safely escape the stadium. Meanwhile,

918
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 2: localan sportswriter trying to cover the story, Dan Goughlin from

919
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 2: the Chronicle Telegram. He interviews fans streaming out of the stadium.

920
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 2: This sports writer, Elizabeth. He gets punched, not once, but twice,

921
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 2: right in the face. Now back to mad cap Serbian

922
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: Terry Yurkic. Nobody in my group was arrested, but we

923
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 2: all got home separately. We didn't watch the news or anything.

924
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 2: We were not in much condition to watch TV. You know,

925
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 2: we weren't worried about getting in trouble once we got

926
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 2: out of the stadium without being arrested. So he made

927
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 2: it out safely. I knew you'd be worried about Terry. Terry,

928
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 2: So when he's asked about the what all just went

929
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 2: down in Cleveland, the Texas Rangers manager Billy Martin says

930
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,759
Speaker 2: in his postgame press conference that was the closest you're

931
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 2: ever going to get to seeing someone get killed in

932
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 2: this game of baseball. Burrows seems to be surrounded. Maybe

933
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 2: it was silly for us to go out there, but

934
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 2: we were about to leave a man on the field unprotected.

935
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 2: It seemed that he might be destroyed. He sounds like

936
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 2: Rick Moran's now the manager for Cleveland, asked Bermandi. When

937
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 2: he gets asked about the drunken ambush and like leading

938
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 2: a melee against his own fans, he says, it's not

939
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,720
Speaker 2: just baseball, it's a society we live in. Nobody seems

940
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 2: to care about anything. We complained about their people in

941
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 2: Arlington last week when they threw beer on us and

942
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 2: taunted us to fight, But look at our people. They

943
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 2: were worse. I don't know what it was, and I

944
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 2: don't know who's to blame, but I'm scared.

945
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 3: He's not mad, he's disappointed.

946
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I've got some bad news for you about

947
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 2: the future, and more personally, at the end of the season,

948
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 2: I got some other bad news. He becomes the ex manager.

949
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 2: He's fired after Cleveland goes seventy seven and eighty five.

950
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 2: So after the game, the Empire Old Nestor Chilac. He's

951
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 2: interviewed by the press like everybody else, and he holds

952
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 2: a bloody compress to his head during his Intervieweah, in fact,

953
00:44:55,880 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 2: totally he's notably heated. And he says, and I quote animals,

954
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 2: you can't just you just can't pull back a pack

955
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 2: of animals. But on control beasts are out there. You

956
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 2: gotta do something. I saw two guys with knives and

957
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 2: I got hit with a chair. So the umpire. At

958
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 2: this point, he pauses Elizabeth, he thinks for a hot second.

959
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 2: Then he adds, without any explanation, if the war is

960
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 2: on tomorrow, I'm gonna join the other side to get

961
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 2: a shot at them. Who wants to fight the fans too,

962
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 2: Like Dave Duncan over there. So I like to think

963
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 2: that he's prepared to join the comedies against the USIA.

964
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 2: But I'm guessing he really means like helping the cops

965
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 2: put down the hippie case. So anyway, the Cleveland PD, they,

966
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 2: as I said, they arrived in time to keep things

967
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 2: from getting too far out of control, Like we're still

968
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 2: within our ninety nine percent murder free So in the end,

969
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 2: the cops show up, they turn off the lights, and

970
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 2: they tell everyone to go home. Like Cleveland Municipal Stadium

971
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 2: is a bar, like I'm not even kidding. The cops

972
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 2: is going, they go, you don't have to go home,

973
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 2: but you can't stay here, and they turn off the

974
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 2: lights and it worked. All the drunk people they acted

975
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,799
Speaker 2: just like it was a bar kicking in the mouth.

976
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 2: They knew exactly what to do. No quick question. Yeah,

977
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 2: can you imagine the sheer number of drunk drivers on

978
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,760
Speaker 2: the road that stadium. I'm thinking like sixteen thousand.

979
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 5: Oh god.

980
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 3: Well, you know it's like anytime there's some big crazy

981
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 3: thing I always think about, like that's the place for

982
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 3: DUI checkpoint.

983
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 2: Oh completely. But then then this is before drunk driving

984
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 2: was even like really a concept people talked about. That's

985
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 2: what people will still go.

986
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 3: Hey, a beer for the road bomb, Yeah, exactly, the

987
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 3: road soda.

988
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,120
Speaker 2: So as a post mortem on the riot and the

989
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,320
Speaker 2: chaos and Cleveland for their ten cent beer knight, the

990
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 2: American League president Lee McPhail, he comes out, he issues

991
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 2: this edict for all of baseball. All promotional events are

992
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,879
Speaker 2: canceled pending league review. And then Elizabeth. One month later

993
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 2: in July, Cleveland holds another ten cent beer knight. No

994
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 2: where did god?

995
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 3: No?

996
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,439
Speaker 2: And that time we went off with with that, well,

997
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 2: less of an incident. It wasn't this, So there you go.

998
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 2: And finally, just as our little coda, in nineteen ninety one,

999
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 2: Mike Cargrove returned to Cleveland to the team's manager no

1000
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 2: and in his office on his wall he kept a

1001
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 2: frame photo of ten cent beering Hight. So, what's our

1002
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:10,400
Speaker 2: ridiculous takeaway here, Elizabeth?

1003
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 3: Those kind of like crazy events make great stories later on,

1004
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 3: but in the moment, it could. I mean, I think

1005
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 3: it'd be hilarious. I would love to have been there,

1006
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 3: but I think that you know, if you're in the

1007
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 3: middle of it and the adrenaline kicks in and it's

1008
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 3: could be very scary.

1009
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, these were all people were all like one

1010
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 2: decision away from like accidentally killing themselves, like falling off something. Really,

1011
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a lot of luck in this place.

1012
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, Zarin, what's your ridiculous.

1013
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,240
Speaker 2: Take Oh my goodness, can I hear that again?

1014
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 3: Zaren?

1015
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 2: I can't, Dave, she almost did it anyway, I'm just

1016
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 2: gonna play that again for myself. One second. Oh that

1017
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 2: is nice, Okay, Yeah, my ridiculous takeaway is, you know,

1018
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 2: we don't really give baseball it's due for how many

1019
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,760
Speaker 2: great stories it brought to Americas. We just think like, oh, hockey,

1020
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 2: so violent, football, so violent? Man baseball, I.

1021
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:58,240
Speaker 3: Love a bench clearing brawn.

1022
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right, or coming in like the spikes

1023
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:02,680
Speaker 2: out on a slide. I mean, just like, we don't

1024
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:03,880
Speaker 2: get baseball enough credit.

1025
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 3: You know, everyone thinks it's a slow game. Yeah it is.

1026
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 3: Don't and that's why I like it. You know it

1027
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 3: has its moment.

1028
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, like don't charge the mound against jan mirishal see.

1029
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 2: I'm talking about anyway, you in the mood for a talkback, Elizabeth.

1030
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 3: I have always in the mood for a talkbag.

1031
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 2: Oh my god. I went get.

1032
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 4: Hey, Elizabeth and Zaren. It's Wendy in Baltimore. I listened

1033
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 4: to a lot of true crime podcasts. Of course, yours

1034
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 4: is ninety nine percent murder free. A lot of the

1035
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:42,919
Speaker 4: other ones I listen to are pretty much one hundred

1036
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 4: percent murdery. So I was listening to one of those

1037
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 4: murdery ones.

1038
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 5: And they're setting the stage in the beginning, and in

1039
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 5: their very serious, somber tone, they said something like, you know,

1040
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 5: it's June twenty first, nineteen ninety one, And immediately my

1041
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 5: brain said nineteen ninety one play break.

1042
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 2: Yes, this is incredible, you know, that's when that came out, Elizabeth,

1043
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,239
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one point break came out.

1044
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 3: One point break came out.

1045
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 2: So thank you for that talkback. That was fun. And

1046
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 2: as always, you can find us online Ridiculous Crime that

1047
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 2: all the social media is, or at least half of them. Anyway,

1048
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 2: we have a website, Ridiculous Crime dot com and obviously

1049
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:24,960
Speaker 2: we love your talkback, so please hit up the iHeart app,

1050
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 2: download it, record a message and maybe you'll hear your

1051
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 2: voice on the show. And of course also emails if

1052
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 2: you like Ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com and that's

1053
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 2: always typed to your Elizabeth. Now there you go. So

1054
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 2: that's all I got for you. Thanks for listening. We'll

1055
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:46,600
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1056
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:50,360
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1057
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1058
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Speaker 1: podcasts my heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.