1 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what? 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 2: And our honored guests this week is Hall of Famer 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 2: Billy Wagner, one of the great closers in the history 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 2: of the game, one of the hardest throwers the game 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 2: has ever seen. Billy, it's so good to have you. 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: This is my son, Jeff. 7 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: Well. Jeff, Tim, you know always fan. I've watched your podcast, 8 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: so I do what it's all about. And I've always 9 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: enjoyed talking to you anyway. So you know, anytime I 10 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: can talk to a true traditionalist baseball people, it's always Philly. 11 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 3: Well excited to turn around on you. Joining the podcast 12 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,360 Speaker 3: was like less than twenty four hours. We were so flattered. 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 2: Yeah we can do tomorrow. Sure, let's do it. 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: Well, I would do anything for Tim. I'm a huge fan. 15 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,560 Speaker 1: I've watched your dad forever, so being able to be 16 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: asked to do something that was a no brain Philly. 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 2: We had Cal Ripken and his son Ryan on recently. 18 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: Their average height is like six five. And today we 19 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 2: got a little guy, Jeff. We got a little guy 20 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: on a little podcast like ours, Billy. Little guys got 21 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 2: to unite. 22 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: Correct Well, I tell you, it makes everything much better. 23 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: So Altuve Roy Oswalt, David Eckstein, Chuck Knoblock, even a 24 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:25,559 Speaker 1: Whitey Ford. 25 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 4: Uh. 26 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of guys that, you know, 27 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: when I'm around, I feel very good about where I know. 28 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:35,559 Speaker 2: You're listed at. Tell the truth. Are you five ten 29 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,760 Speaker 2: or you five nine? 30 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: No? I mean I've been five ten. That's what they 31 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,199 Speaker 1: keep telling me. Every time I go to the doctor, 32 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: they tell me I'm five ten. So I don't know. 33 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: I you know, I've had that stigma forever. I don't 34 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: know that. I'm just going by what they tell me. 35 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 3: So well, let's let's just let the record straight that Dad, 36 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 3: you're saying he's a small guy, and at five to ten, 37 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: we are still four and five inches shorter than our guests. 38 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 2: And Billy is short. He's not small. I am short 39 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: and small. Billy is a big, strong man who threw 40 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour, So love to have that. 41 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 2: And Billy, when you When Randy Johnson got traded from 42 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 2: the Astra to the Astros from the Maritors, he told 43 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: me the story. The first person that he saw when 44 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: he walked in the clubhouse was Billy Wagner, and Randy 45 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 2: Johnson looked at me and said, I'm a footthaller that 46 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 2: guy and he throws harder than I do. How could 47 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 2: that be? 48 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: That's what Randy Johnson told me. Well, Randy was that 49 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: was the most unique you know, I guess when you're 50 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: looking at different ends of the spectrum, metics is exactly 51 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 1: what it was. Because when we were walking beside each other, 52 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: you know, you would never pick me out of the 53 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: lineup to go oh they got through his hard and 54 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: you know, having a guy like Randy in a locker room, 55 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: you know, menacing as he can be, but also being 56 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: you know out once you get him outside that shell, 57 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: super super nice, super or go lucky and uh, you 58 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: know that was that was a fun situation for me 59 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,000 Speaker 1: to really find somebody that could do the things I 60 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 1: could do and have a conversation with him. 61 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 5: And I mean we we spent a lot of time 62 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 5: talking about it. 63 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: I think the greatest thing, one of the best things 64 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 1: I ever felt about myself was were he comes over 65 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: and he comes over to me, I guess, wex how 66 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: do you pitch these guys? And that's the first time 67 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:29,119 Speaker 1: anybody's ever asked me anything about that, And I was like, well, yeah, well, 68 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: I just go fastball That's all I do is I 69 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,839 Speaker 1: just throw harder and harder, so you know, and I mean, 70 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: you know, so it was it was a very short conversation, 71 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: but I was so I was like, oh my gosh, 72 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: somebody actually wants my opinion on off is so good? 73 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 2: Billy, How do you explain that a guy who's five 74 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 2: to ten can throw as hard as you? Is this 75 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 2: a god given skill that you have even though you're 76 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 2: naturally right handed? How do you explain? And how would 77 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 2: you to explain to a young kid out there who's 78 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 2: maybe a little height challenge. What advice would you give 79 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 2: a kid about, Hey, I'm a little keep telling me 80 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 2: I'm too small to play this game? What would you 81 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 2: tell them? 82 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: Well, you know what, I've had that conversation a million 83 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: times with many a kid, because everybody thinks you have 84 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: to be a certain size to play this sport. And 85 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: you know, I was very blessed God sent down a 86 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 1: rocket and a lighter boat in my arm and gave 87 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: me a tremendous platform to Billy speak on. But you know, 88 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: it's a heart desire commit you just you're you're just 89 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,840 Speaker 1: all in and I mean you're always fighting up heel 90 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: because everybody thinks you're too small, you're too little, and 91 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: you're always fighting. So you know, every day's that competition 92 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: and that fight, and you just you just got to 93 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: be willing to go out there and fight that fight 94 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: every single day. And uh, you know, sometimes you get 95 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: lucky and you get to be in the Hall of Fame. 96 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 3: Well, Dad, you had mentioned very briefly there that you 97 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 3: are naturally right handed. Billy, your story is one of 98 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 3: my favorites of all time when it to resiliency and adaptation. 99 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 3: So take us too when you became a left handed 100 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 3: hitcher because I could tell the story, because I tell 101 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 3: all my friends anytime Billy Wagner comes up, I say, 102 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 3: did you know? And I nerd out for a second 103 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 3: with that great story. 104 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 2: But we want to hear it from you. How did 105 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 2: that happen going from righty to lefty? 106 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 5: Well, you know, I love football. Growing up, that was 107 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 5: my passion. 108 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: I loved it. My family was about football. Lived in 109 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: southwest Virginia and everybody played football. Baseball was you know, 110 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: a summertime, just kind of get through summer so you 111 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,720 Speaker 1: can play football. That was our community and so we 112 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: were always doing something throwing hat as a football, and 113 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: I had a friend, Chip Anderson. 114 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 5: It would come over to my grandmother's and play with me. 115 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 1: And we're playing and I'm throwing a hat around and 116 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: he was a much bigger kid than I was, and 117 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: he fell on me and broke my right arm. It 118 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: broke my right elbow, and so I go through the 119 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 1: cast and as resilient kids, do you know, I'm I 120 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: was as rambunctious as could you could possibly imagine, always 121 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: into something. 122 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 5: I was always playing, always into something. 123 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: And so I got the cast off and was I 124 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: guess it was a couple months later or whatever. I 125 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 1: was out with a babysitter on the playground and fell 126 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: off monkey bars and broke my right arm again, and 127 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: it just stayed. And I just stayed as a left hander. 128 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:29,720 Speaker 1: And you know, I mean, I think the greatest story 129 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: about some of those things was that Kenny Rogers and 130 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: we were in Philadelphia one time and we were out 131 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: at the cage and he came out. He come out 132 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: with some of the guys and he goes, he hollers 133 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 1: at me and goes, WEX, I think I can throw 134 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,840 Speaker 1: further than you can right hand it. And he was 135 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: so excited, and I was like really. I was like, well, yeah, 136 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: let's see, you know. And so he picks the ball 137 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,279 Speaker 1: up right handed. We're staying at the batting cage, and 138 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: he throws it out out in the outfield. 139 00:06:57,800 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 5: I'm like, man, that's really good. 140 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: So I picked the ball up and I threw it 141 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,159 Speaker 1: into the seats and I go I said, I'm natural 142 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: right handed. And he's like what. It was just so 143 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 1: funny his face, his face, what what? And I was like, yeah, 144 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: he's and so. But you know, one of the funniest 145 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: stories is also is Darryl Kyle was uh was ambidextitous. 146 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: So we would when we first came up, we would 147 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: just flip each other gloves and we'd shag I shag 148 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: is a right hander and hit shag is a left hander. 149 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: And he would throw curveballs to me left handed that 150 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: were as good as his curveballs were right handed. 151 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 5: And then I was just baffled. 152 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: I was like, how does people because everybody would go, oh, 153 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 1: your story so good. I'm like, Darryl Kyle was unbelievably. 154 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: He had one of the great right handed curveballs we've 155 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 2: ever seen, and his lefty curveball was just as good. 156 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: It was crazy because I was like, Daryl, why why 157 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 1: haven't you pursued something like this? Because he goes, I'm 158 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 1: natural left handed, and I said, but everybody nobody knows that. 159 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: And I kept wondering why nobody made a big deal 160 00:07:59,120 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: out of that. 161 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 5: But he was so I mean it was we. 162 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: Would just go out and he would literally holler at me, 163 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: and we just flipped gloves. 164 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 2: And we'd be so billy. Tell Jeff the story about 165 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 2: how you developed the arm strength left handed living in 166 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 2: rural Virginia. How did you do that? 167 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: Well? I lived. I grew up in a bunch of places, 168 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: but right as I started to really grow into my 169 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: high school years, I lived out a place called Tannersville, Virginia, 170 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: and there was just nothing but cow fields and cornfields 171 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: and tobacco fields. And you know, I had one baseball 172 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: and I would throw it as far as I could 173 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: throw it, and then I'd run as hard as I 174 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: could to get it, and then I would throw it 175 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: back and I'd just do that back and forth until 176 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 1: I got tired. And then I had a dairy barn 177 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 1: right beside my house. And it's crazy to even say this, 178 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: but it sounds weird. It was about it was sixty 179 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: five feet, and so I would stand at sixty five 180 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: feet and it looked like somebody had really like pasted 181 00:08:58,720 --> 00:08:59,400 Speaker 1: a strike. 182 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 5: Zone in there on the barn. 183 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: And my uncle would sit on the porch and watch 184 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: me throw hundreds of baseballs at this thing, just as 185 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: hard as I could throw it, and just I would 186 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,839 Speaker 1: do that for hours, and you know, nobody knew about 187 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: I don't know if my arm ever hurt. My arm 188 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: never hurt in high school, never hurt in college. It 189 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 1: never hurt until somebody told me I was supposed to hurt. 190 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: It's crazy. I mean I would throw one hundred and 191 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: sixty hundred and eighty pitches in college and then I 192 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: start and then come back and close games and never 193 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: be made. 194 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 2: Well that's Fareham College. Billy, Explain how you ended up 195 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 2: at Fareham College. 196 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: Well, it's not a it's kind of a sloppy story 197 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: to begin with. But I had a scholarship to go 198 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: to Virginia Tech, but I couldn't get in because I 199 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:55,440 Speaker 1: didn't have this SAT scores. And so coach Hartman, who 200 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: was just the greatest guy in the world, calls me 201 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 1: up and he's and he calls me and he's old 202 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: country coach and he goes, Billy, I don't know if 203 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: you can play for me. But I said, wow, you 204 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: hold it right there, coach. If you don't think I've 205 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: played for you, I'm gonna go to Farm. And I said, 206 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: if I ever come and play you guys, you'll you'll 207 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: remember why you didn't pick me. And so I didn't 208 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 1: know that Farm head coach Aidan f and Chuck Hartman 209 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: were like best friends, hunting buddies. He calls him right 210 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,959 Speaker 1: after and goes, hey, I'm sending you a good one, 211 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: and that's that's But I kind of got it that way. 212 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 1: But my cousin had played football at Fair and I 213 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: was up there every weekend watching football and him played baseball, 214 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: and so it's pretty much a no brainer that I 215 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: that I just followed him. He was the best athlete 216 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: at the time, and so I, you know, it was 217 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: just a perfect. 218 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 2: Fist, so good, so good. 219 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 3: I want to go back to the bolt arm throwing 220 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 3: really fast, because one, I think it's amazing you're a 221 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 3: high school coach now, Billy, right if you were to 222 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 3: throw BP, would you ever throw right handed just for. 223 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 2: The heck of it? 224 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: Or do you I have some times I have. Sometimes 225 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:02,680 Speaker 1: I've done it. I've tried it. It's not as queen 226 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,200 Speaker 1: as it used to be, but I've done it. But 227 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: you know, I don't throw as much VP as I 228 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: used to because I let the younger coaches do that now, 229 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: and I just stand around like I know what I'm doing. 230 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 3: So you're a Hall of Famer billy, you can stand around. 231 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 3: You do know what you're doing. 232 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: The ell. I don't know about that, but I tell it. 233 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: So it's fun to just kind of, you know, watch 234 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: and and teach kids now. So U but I you know, 235 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: I throw a little bit of VP. I'll go up 236 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: and I think I'll do the mets of old time 237 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: old Timer's game and and things like that. 238 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 5: So you know, I try to still throw. 239 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: I try to play catch with my my youngest son now, 240 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 1: and he kills me. 241 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 5: So I'm I can't even play catch with you mean Moore. 242 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 2: I'm like, how how he billy? He big? Is he? 243 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 5: He is six foot two hundred pounds. All my kids 244 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 5: are bigger, all of them will. So it's funny. 245 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here right now, so Toronto is playing the Yankees, 246 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:06,480 Speaker 1: so I'm watching Will play right now and he's Uh so, 247 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: he's six foot two hundred. And then my middle son 248 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: is six' one about one. Ninety, uh my daughter's five, 249 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 1: seven and then, Uh cason is six. FOOT i think 250 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: he's a little more than six, foot but he's six 251 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: foot two hundred and he's the pitcher of my. 252 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:25,840 Speaker 5: Family he wants to pitch more. Ninthan he loved. 253 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 2: It, Wow So billy for. 254 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 3: You obviously this is a father son, podcast and, uh you, 255 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 3: Know i've kind of fallen into what my dad did 256 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 3: as a. Career i'm a radio host In philadelphia actually 257 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:38,960 Speaker 3: for a country station. 258 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 2: HERE i do morning radio here and SO i, Know, 259 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 2: philly we love you. 260 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 3: Here but besides the fact of now being able to 261 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 3: watch your son Play Major League, baseball like is there 262 00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 3: IS i just became a dad like two years. 263 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 2: AGO i have a little, girl. 264 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 3: AND i everything that she does is bigger than ANYTHING 265 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 3: i ever did. Ever, like it's so much better and 266 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,559 Speaker 3: cooler when she just says a word or says my. 267 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:10,000 Speaker 3: Name was it the coolest thing in the. World seeing 268 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 3: him make his major league debut and make a career of, it, now. 269 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: Well it was good to see him get that. Opportunity you, 270 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,880 Speaker 1: know he he he'd always want Be he'd grown up 271 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: in the locker. Rooms AND i think that's something that's really, 272 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: unique is when and you always hear The, griffies the 273 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: boons and. Stuff But will was one of those. Kids 274 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: from the time he was able to, walk he was 275 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 1: in the locker room with As, ween he was on the, 276 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 1: field we're in the cage as we were always. Playing 277 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: so that's all he wanted to. DO i, mean you 278 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: he was that was that was. It and for him 279 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 1: to get to live that life and, stuff you, KNOW 280 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:50,959 Speaker 1: i tell him every, DAY i, said you smile. MORE 281 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 1: i said the things THAT i didn't do BECAUSE i 282 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 1: didn't have that knowledge of what it was going to be. 283 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,439 Speaker 1: Like AND i tell, him AS i, said smile, more, be, 284 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: be be, happier more. Enjoyed you go over, four you're 285 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 1: still in the big. Leagues you have a bad, Day 286 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,080 Speaker 1: you're still in the big. Leagues AND i know it's 287 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: stress and all these, things but it's it's you, KNOW 288 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,199 Speaker 1: i DIDN'T i didn't look at it that way WHEN 289 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: i was going through BECAUSE i was that was my, 290 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: survival like, Play i've got to be. GOOD i have 291 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: to do. This this is WHAT i you, know this 292 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: is my. Livelihood this IS i didn't know how to 293 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: relax and enjoy the. Moments Like i'm telling, Him i'm, like, hey, 294 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 1: man just you, know, Smile enjoy. It, HEY i know 295 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: what it's. About don't get stressed over. It you, know 296 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: it's such a short. RUN i, mean even if you 297 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 1: played twenty, years it's such a short. Run AND i, 298 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: said just enjoy have a. Moment and so that's that's 299 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,680 Speaker 1: What i've learned and WHAT i enjoy watching about, him 300 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:43,680 Speaker 1: seeing him. Smile WHEN i see him smile on the 301 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: on the, field that's WHEN i really Just jeffrey's. 302 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 2: Sister my Daughter kelly was really good high school basketball, 303 00:14:50,640 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 2: player AND i was a nervous wreck watching her. Play 304 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:55,280 Speaker 2: and she was really. Good are you a nervous wreck 305 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 2: watching will? Play not as much as. 306 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: His, mom not as much as his. Mom his mom 307 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: has every at. Bad, OH i tell. HER i give 308 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: her a hard time Because i'll, Say, sarah, hey you 309 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: had a good. Night you are one for four and 310 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: so she but, she but she is every at. Bad 311 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: she is a she's she is so competitive AND i, 312 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: Mean lord have, mercy the umpires would catch. It therefore 313 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: she could catch if she thinks it's the. Ball she's 314 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: going that. 315 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 5: Terrible oh my, god it's. 316 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: Hilarious you're the injustice you've done to my. Son i'm. 317 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: Thinking you, know back WHEN i, PLAYED i, mean the 318 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: calls were you, know the strike zones were incredibly. BIG 319 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: i mean you had to know the umpires more than 320 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: you had to worry about the zone because you'd have 321 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 1: to know What Bruce froming's strike zone was or and, 322 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: stuff because he called his zone and he didn't care 323 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: whatever anybody you had to be able to throw into his. 324 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: Zone and so now now it's every zone is pretty 325 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: much his. 326 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 5: Saying nothing's going to. 327 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: Change you, know even the, missus they're not even you, 328 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: know half AN i guess a six inch miss everybody's a. 329 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 5: Cold my, gosh can you. 330 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: Believe he missed that much and he missed that Carn you're, 331 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 1: like you, know the The Pete, roses the guys like, 332 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: that the Gwys dy'd hit that ball on the right, 333 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: field they'd have smoked that. Ball now now these guys 334 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: don't even blink at. 335 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 2: It, Absolutely, billy let's go back to Rural. Virginia, yed 336 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 2: you told me years ago that one of the things 337 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 2: you really liked to eat was, woodchuck AND i think 338 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 2: Ground i'm, sorry groundhole so bad THAT i don't like animal. 339 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 2: Wrongs so you ate You have you ever eaten a wood? 340 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: Chuck, nope, nope just, groundhog just good old. 341 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 5: Groundhogs good enough for. 342 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: Me we used to go out and and and my 343 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: uncle would we go out and we'd go ground all 344 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: gotten and and uh he would he would barbecue it. 345 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: Up that would be our that would be what we 346 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: would our feasts for the. 347 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 3: Day sometimes AND i just, say you, Know, billy before 348 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 3: we do an, interview my dad AND i we have 349 00:17:05,119 --> 00:17:08,200 Speaker 3: a probably like a twenty minute conversation about what to talk. 350 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 3: About he gives me stories. Things i'm so glad he 351 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 3: took the woodchuck question AND. 352 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: I did for. Me, yea, yeah WELL i. Too WHEN 353 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:22,040 Speaker 1: i first got introduced In, houston you, KNOW i made 354 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 1: like the rookie team In, houston and so is my 355 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: first Time i'd ever went TO i got Astro piccher 356 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: of The. Year and so this, guy, UH i can't 357 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: remember his first, name but his last name Was truex 358 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: and he was a writer for The Houston. Chronicle and 359 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,480 Speaker 1: he he's introducing, me and he's talking and he is 360 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: just talking about me eating woodchuck and backwoods. Bumpkin oh my. 361 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: GOSH i felt LIKE i needed to come up in 362 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: overalls and. Stuff and it was, like holy yeah and 363 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: so and you, Know Doug draybeck used to play it 364 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: up LIKE i was just the biggest country. 365 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 5: Bumpkin he called me fence. 366 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,360 Speaker 1: Post all the. Time so it was just, like it's, 367 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,200 Speaker 1: gracious we're in the. World DID i come? 368 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 2: From But, billy what are the odds of a short 369 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 2: guy who broke his arm at age six and ends 370 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,920 Speaker 2: up At Faram? University comes from in a way a 371 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 2: lot of ways nowhere ending up in The hall Of. 372 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:20,040 Speaker 2: Fame how would you explain to people how amazing that story. 373 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: IS i don't know IF i can't explain, it because you, 374 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 1: know each DAY i find out something more. UNIQUE i 375 00:18:28,080 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: Think i'm the second person ever to be in The 376 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,879 Speaker 1: hall Of fame From. Virginia i'm the First division three 377 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: player from the First division three player ever to be 378 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 1: in The hall Of. Fame and so you, know it's 379 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,840 Speaker 1: one of those like a UNIQUE i, mean it's just 380 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: how hard it is to get to, this how lucky 381 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 1: you got to, be and how many people along the, 382 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: way have you, know guided you in the right way 383 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: and the people that that's you, know blessed you in 384 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,880 Speaker 1: that in that, Way and SO i tell, you, UH 385 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: i don't think there is there are there's a way 386 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 1: to really, say MAN i this is HOW i did, 387 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: it and this was that, simple and because it felt 388 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: LIKE i was fighting up hill every day to get 389 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,719 Speaker 1: to that. Point AND i, mean you, know then you 390 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,680 Speaker 1: go to your last the last hour to find out that. 391 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 5: You you get into The hall Of, fame and you, know, 392 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 5: uh but you know. 393 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: So blessed and so humble because you, KNOW i do 394 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 1: get to to stand on that stage in front of my. 395 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 5: Heroes and, watch you, know and and listen to their. 396 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 1: Stories BUT i don't know if you, COULD i could 397 00:19:39,920 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: ever explain how that's that. IS i don't, know you, 398 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: Know it's just it's almost a fairy tale to sit 399 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: there and, go, well you, know one Day i'm on 400 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 1: welfare and you, Know i've got one pair of pants 401 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,760 Speaker 1: and one pair of shoes and uh meeting crackers and for. 402 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 5: Breakfast and then the next. 403 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: Day I'm i'm making millions of dollars And i'm Going 404 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: i'm being The hall Of FAME i. DON'T i don't 405 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 1: know if anybody recks the riches or how you would. 406 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: Die i'd. 407 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 2: Amazing what was the first time you went To? Cooperstown 408 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:14,680 Speaker 2: when was it and what was it? 409 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: Like, well the only Time i've been there was AFTER 410 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: i was kind of you, know uh name THAT i. 411 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 5: Was i'd made the ballot AND i was going to 412 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 5: be A hall Of. 413 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: Famer and so the next day me and my wife 414 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 1: flew up and that was the first Time i'd ever 415 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,199 Speaker 1: been To. Cooperstown, NOW i played in The New York Pen, 416 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:36,680 Speaker 1: league But i'd never you, Know i've been To oniana 417 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: And utica and all those places in, play But i've 418 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: never went To. Cooperstown and you, know after going that, 419 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: time it was JUST i, MEAN i was. 420 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 5: Simply blown away. 421 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: About Because i'm a, TRADITIONALIST i love the OLD i, 422 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 1: mean if there was an ERA i could go back and, 423 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: Play i'd love to be that fifties to the to 424 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 1: maybe the eighties and just play in that golden age 425 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:04,920 Speaker 1: where it's seem, like you, know you weren't worried about you, 426 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 1: know winning was really the. Goal winning was the. Goal 427 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: it didn't matter how much you got, paid it didn't 428 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 1: matter it just mattered how well you played and to. 429 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: Win and, so you, know thinking about those, guys you, 430 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: know thinking about the stories my grandparents told me about you, 431 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:25,159 Speaker 1: Know Ted williams and you know those, guys it's, just 432 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: you know that that's the ara THAT i think THAT 433 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: i would have liked to really come up. 434 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,639 Speaker 3: In billy you had, mentioned you, know getting up on 435 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,880 Speaker 3: that stage and speaking in front of your. 436 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 2: Heroes is there. 437 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 3: Somebody you are, excited, anxious ready to meet and join the? 438 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,399 Speaker 3: Club is there One hall Of famer that comes to? 439 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 3: Mind obviously they're all, legendary but one you're, like oh my, 440 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 3: GOSH i can't Believe i'm gonna SEE. 441 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: I don't, KNOW i you know, WHAT i think they're 442 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:56,439 Speaker 1: all like. THAT i, Mean i'm so All i'm so 443 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: all struck WHEN i see these guys BECAUSE i was 444 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: such a fan BEFORE i played this. Game and SO i, 445 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: MEAN i don't want to give away too much of my, 446 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 1: speech but you, KNOW i remember waking up On saturday 447 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:15,439 Speaker 1: mornings to watch The Baseball Bunch Johnny bench AND i 448 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,880 Speaker 1: would watch That Ted williams would be, On Tommy lasorda 449 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: would be on, there and SO i mean that was, like, 450 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: oh my, gosh these this is what they look, like 451 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: this is how they, act this is what that, was you. 452 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: Know and then The Monday night baseball that was like 453 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: the big. Highlight you didn't get the baseball that we get. 454 00:22:33,119 --> 00:22:39,000 Speaker 1: Today and SO i, think you, Know Johnny, BENCH i 455 00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: think you know all those. 456 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 5: Guys you, know being around the game for sixteen, YEARS. 457 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,280 Speaker 1: I was able to walk past and meet a lot of, 458 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 1: guys uh and, stuff and that that had passed away. 459 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,479 Speaker 1: Unfortunately but you, KNOW i Think i'll be in. AWE i, 460 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: Mean i've spoken to The goose and and And raleigh 461 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: and and SOME i hate That Bruce, Suitor I've i've 462 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: gotten to meet him and talk to. Him and you, 463 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,120 Speaker 1: know some of the greatest Compliments i've ever gotten were 464 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:10,640 Speaker 1: from the older. Players And i'll never Forget bruce walked 465 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: up to me and, goes, hey you could have played for, 466 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: us you could have played in our. Era that was 467 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 1: like the greatest. Compliment so you, know those those compliments 468 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,439 Speaker 1: are listening to you. Know. Uh Nolan ryan introduced hisself 469 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: for the eighteen hundred time to, me, Espe I'm Nolan, 470 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: ryan you ARE i, mean HE i think it's the 471 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: greatest thing, ever it's the coolest. Thing and you, know it's, 472 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: FUNNY i Because Nolan ryan sits there and introduces itself 473 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 1: and everybody knows Who Nolan ryan. IS i do. THAT 474 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: i walk, Up it doesn't no. Matter I'm Billy wagner 475 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: everywhere and they'll, all you, know are you that? Guy 476 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,479 Speaker 1: are you the? Guy i'm, LIKE i think SO i 477 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: THINK i. Am you know NOW i, realize LIKE i, 478 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,239 Speaker 1: MEAN i wonder how many Times Nolan ryan has been, 479 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 1: going are you that guy who? 480 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:57,399 Speaker 5: Cal are you the guy that does the? 481 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: Cows you? KNOW i, mean but that's you, know those 482 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: are the, greatest the, GREATEST i, mean the compliments from those. 483 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 5: Guys you, know it's. 484 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 1: That that's how on. Her that's the real speech. Going, 485 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 1: Well i'm pretty much done with. That i'm about ninety 486 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: eight percent done with all the uh all of. It you. 487 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: Know now it's just being bits and pieces making SURE 488 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,679 Speaker 1: i haven't forgotten this person or that. Person that's the hardest. 489 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: Thing fifty three, years sixteen years of a. Career how 490 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:34,520 Speaker 1: do you know up team, pitching, coaches, catchers, uh people 491 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 1: that really are you, know substantial in your life family, 492 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: wise you you, know trying to make sure that you 493 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: include them in that special, moment because you know you 494 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't be there without their guidance and their help and 495 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: the sacrifices that they made and stuff like, that and 496 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: so making sure that you, Know i've read this thing 497 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 1: a million. Times i've had hundreds of copies of, it 498 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: and you, know so you know that, DAY i, don't you, 499 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: know it'll be emotional for, me but you, Know i'm 500 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: really excited about. IT i, mean it wasn't that hard 501 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: to kind of get, started but it's just. Been it 502 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 1: seems LIKE i thought it would be a VERY i 503 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: didn't think it would be a very long, speech BUT 504 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: i think it's going to be longer THAN i expected 505 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 1: it to. Be So i'm, like holy, now because you, 506 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,359 Speaker 1: know the first, thing people are, sitting you, know the 507 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: people behind, you they start, heckling hurry, often you, know 508 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: And i'm, like oh my. 509 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 5: Gosh you, Know i've spent fifty three. 510 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,880 Speaker 1: Years SHOULD i get to this point And i've, got 511 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,119 Speaker 1: you know, this one of my heroes sitting here heckling 512 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: me About. 513 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 2: Curry So, billy don't take this story. Wrong But Tony 514 00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 2: gwynn goes, In, okay and at nine o'clock On sunday. 515 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 2: Morning i'm in The Oda Saga hotel And Tony Gwynn 516 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 2: junior comes down into the. Lobby it's nine in the, 517 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 2: morning and he, says my dad needs a. Beer it's 518 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 2: nine o'clock of the. Morning Tony gwynn is so nervous 519 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,960 Speaker 2: about his speech that he needs a. Beer and Then 520 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 2: Tony junior looked to me and, says my dad doesn't, 521 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:06,560 Speaker 2: drink so he was gonna start on the day that 522 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 2: that he was going. In SO i tell you, that 523 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 2: BUT i also tell you That Tony gwinn went in 524 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 2: and crushed his. Speech any nervousness what you, have which 525 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 2: clearly you, don't it's a good. Nervousness it's like going 526 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,960 Speaker 2: into a game and your stomach is bubbling because all 527 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,480 Speaker 2: you want to do is go in there and punch 528 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 2: out the. Side so don't worry about your. Speech you're 529 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 2: going to be. 530 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 5: Great that's, great, Ya i'm. 531 00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: Excited it's it's gonna be a great, moment you, Know 532 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 1: i'm you, know it's a you, know it's something you 533 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 1: just don't. EXPECT i, mean there's no way anybody sits 534 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: in Because i'm gonna be a hall Of. FAMER i, 535 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:44,920 Speaker 1: mean we all want to be A hall Of, famer 536 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: and we all there's nothing like this time of the year. 537 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 5: When you you. 538 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: Hear the speeches come, out like, uh you Know Mike, 539 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: smith's you, know the guy that you KNOW i wish 540 00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: was going to be there THAT i hate passed With 541 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:04,199 Speaker 1: bob YOU i really, TRULY i mean his His hall 542 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 1: Of fame speech is probably one of my. Favorite i've 543 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: never laughed as much as. Anything and and but just you, 544 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: know Knowing, BOB i mean he usually let us take 545 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: his boat when we come in have off days In. 546 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: Milwaukee you, know you just have these, relationships and you, 547 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: know it just seems, like, uh you, KNOW i hate, 548 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 1: that you, Know Dave parker. PASSED i, mean it's taken 549 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: him so long to get to The hall Of, fame 550 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: and you, Know Dick allen and these. Guys you, know 551 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: it's you, know you look back and see how you 552 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: know precious this time is and the moments we get 553 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: and this. 554 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 5: Opportunity so you, know Just i'm you. 555 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: Know i'm. EXCITED i am a little nervous BECAUSE i 556 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: just you, know there's a lot of people there that 557 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 1: you just don't feel like you should be. There like 558 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: WHEN i walk through the museum the first, Time i'm, thinking. 559 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,239 Speaker 5: It's like putting an elevator in the. Outbouse i'm, like 560 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 5: what are? 561 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:55,159 Speaker 1: We what are? 562 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:56,640 Speaker 5: We what are we doing? 563 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,639 Speaker 1: Here you? Know and then to think that my name's 564 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,800 Speaker 1: gonna be up there was the great the. GREATS i, 565 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: mean you, know it's a tough thing to really put into. 566 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 3: Words so, famously when my dad was given The Lifetime 567 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,680 Speaker 3: Achievement award as a baseball writer back in twenty twenty 568 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 3: two and in his own right made it into The 569 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 3: hall Of, fame he got the call when he was 570 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:26,639 Speaker 3: at the self checkout line At Harris teeter and so 571 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 3: here he is scanning his ground turkey and in, tears 572 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 3: and everyone was probably, worried. 573 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,760 Speaker 2: What are you upset with the prices right? Now the 574 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 2: market value isn't where you need. It did they not have? 575 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 2: Woodchuck and you're upset that you got a ground. Turkey 576 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 2: so that's one of. 577 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 3: My favorite stories about my dad finding out about this 578 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 3: amazing moment for. 579 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 2: Him where were you when you got your? 580 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: Call, well we were. HOME i stayed home this. Year last, 581 00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: year WHEN i the ninth, YEAR i Said i'm gonna have. 582 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: Practice i'm Gonna i'm gonna go have. Practice my team 583 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: are gonna we're just gonna treat as an everyday, thing 584 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: and you, know if it, happens it, happens and. Whatever 585 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: somebody will tell. Me, WELL i didn't know that THE 586 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 1: Nbc Nightly news was gonna show, up and so they 587 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: mic me AND i go through a practice And I'm 588 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: i'm already. Nervous i'm using practice to kind of not 589 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: have the nerves and be. Emotional and So i'm going 590 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 1: through practice and next, thing you, know they stop. Practicing 591 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: the lady comes up and, goes, hey you didn't make. 592 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 1: It you got any? Comments And i'm, like and So 593 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: i've got thirty kids watching, me And, i'm you, know totally. 594 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: Embarrassed you, Know i'm thinking, HOME i guess and they're, like, 595 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: oh you missed about five, votes and You're you're, like. 596 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 5: How DO i handle? 597 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,040 Speaker 1: This you? Know And i'm in a spot that you, 598 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: can't you, know you can't go just show your true. 599 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,000 Speaker 1: Emotion So i'm, like you, know so this, YEAR i was, 600 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: Like i'm not doing that. Again i'm not gonna be 601 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: where people are gonna find. Me and SO i came 602 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 1: home and SO i had some friends. Over we, uh 603 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,880 Speaker 1: we just hung out and, uh BUT i, mean holy, 604 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: COW i bet you from about noon to you, know six, 605 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: O'CLOCK i bet YOU i drank it felt like one 606 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,560 Speaker 1: hundred bucking red bulls BECAUSE i was just just sitting, here. 607 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 5: Going holy, cow this thing is to just be. 608 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:28,000 Speaker 1: Done and uh it. Was, uh it was just one 609 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: of those days where you, know waiting the, hour the 610 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: minutes turned into, hours and you it was. Forever and 611 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 1: then when they when they called, ME i, MEAN i 612 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,560 Speaker 1: JUST i just lost. IT i, mean that's that's that 613 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 1: one phone call that you just when you get it 614 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: with all the, anticipations you, know this is your last, 615 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: year you, know all these, things you just you, know 616 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: you just melt and AND i. Did AND i was 617 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: happy that my family was here and and. Stuff but, 618 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:55,560 Speaker 1: uh and it was so. 619 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 5: Funny as soon as that, happens my phone blows. 620 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 1: Up in the very first person that sends me a 621 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 1: text and a voicemail Was Johnny, Bench welcome to the. 622 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:08,360 Speaker 5: Team and so you're, like oh my. God so, yeah 623 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 5: it was pretty. 624 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 2: Cool it's the, greatest all, Right, BILLY i got to 625 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 2: go back one one more, second back to the. Fifties, 626 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 2: okay you're going to Face Ted williams in his prime 627 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 2: and you are in your, prime short arm in the 628 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 2: ball from the middle of your chest at one hundred 629 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 2: miles no. Hour how great would that? Be and what 630 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 2: would be your strategy to Attack Ted, williams arguably the 631 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 2: greatest hitter of all. 632 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 1: Time, well the same thing as LIKE i Think Reggie 633 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: jackson once said to me we were we met for 634 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: the first time and he's holding them back and he 635 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: looks at me and he, goes, wax just one. Time he, goes, 636 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: now you probably strike me, out not out of ten, 637 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: times but one. 638 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 5: Time and you know that was a great. 639 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: COMPLIMENT i didn't take that AS i was, like, absolutely you, 640 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: know to face that, guy to face The Tony, gwinns 641 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 1: The Barry, bonds those, guys is that that is, such 642 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,720 Speaker 1: that is that is a great. Moment so Facing Ted, 643 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 1: williams you know, What i'd probably throw him right down the. 644 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 1: Middle i'd say get yourself out because THAT i, mean 645 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 1: great hitters like. That you ain't calling, Nobody and So i'm, like, 646 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: hey play the, percentages but that's you, know you, know you, 647 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: know just to think about having to be able to 648 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,640 Speaker 1: face those. GUYS i love just hearing the, name the 649 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: old the old names of these guys that that that, 650 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 1: plage you, know The yankees and stuff like. THAT i 651 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: think that's, uh you, know the EXCITEMENT i am to 652 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: see some of those guys to see what How George 653 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: brett really is or how you, know some of these older, 654 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: guys how they, act. 655 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 5: You, know because you, know new kid on the block, 656 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 5: again and so you, KNOW i, MEAN i love. 657 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: Talking To goose and SO i talked To goose about 658 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 1: once a, month AND i just love listening to him 659 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: and give me a hard time. Minute you, KNOW i 660 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: don't ever take. 661 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 5: Anything personal BECAUSE i. 662 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,120 Speaker 1: Just think guys like him And raleigh and you, know 663 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 1: they just you, know they're they're special. 664 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,840 Speaker 5: People and you, KNOW i NEVER i never. WAS i 665 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 5: never felt LIKE i was that good to be that 666 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 5: worried about my WHO i was. 667 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,480 Speaker 2: Anywhere it's so, Good. Billy, so how has your life 668 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 2: changed since you were named to The hall Of? FAME i, 669 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 2: mean can you you have to buy a meal anywhere 670 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 2: and people buy your drinks every? Day how does it? 671 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,720 Speaker 2: Work how has it changed since you since you Became 672 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 2: hall Of? Famer Billy wagner. 673 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 1: You know what on every. 674 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 4: Day. 675 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 1: Nothing it HASN'T i you, KNOW i. DON'T i still 676 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: coach high school, baseball still go to TRAVEL i still 677 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: coach travel. Games i'll leave and. GO i just came 678 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: back from travel. Practice uh you, know you, KNOW i 679 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: know it's a big. 680 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,480 Speaker 5: HONOR i know it what it. 681 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: Is but you, know Where i'm where we're, from it's 682 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 1: it's just, hey you, know it is what it. Is 683 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 1: it's not it's not gonna. Change i've said it. Before 684 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,320 Speaker 1: it wasn't going to change my life and. Stuff about 685 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: the only thing that's really done is it allows me 686 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,560 Speaker 1: to uh WHEN i get, it WHEN i have a 687 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,240 Speaker 1: card signing they do. Anymore but that's about. 688 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,440 Speaker 5: It but but BUT i, mean you, know you know. 689 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 1: It hasn't really BEEN i, mean people Where i'm from 690 00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: just don't see it the. SAME i mean they think 691 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: IF i wore this, hat IF i wore this, hat 692 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,200 Speaker 1: it would just be a. Hat they don't see it the. 693 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: Same and so it's it's not a you, know which 694 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 1: is which is. GOOD i go WHEREVER i want. To 695 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,000 Speaker 1: nobody's ever picking me out of the. Line i'm, Going, 696 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: yeah that guy's A hall Of fame or that guy. 697 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:49,880 Speaker 1: AGAIN i, MEAN i. 698 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,160 Speaker 5: Will never ever have that. 699 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 1: PROBLEM i may probably get carted WHEN i come into 700 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:58,200 Speaker 1: the the hotel and they, go, hey we're not allowing 701 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 1: guys to show my idea or. SOMETHING i, mean WHEN 702 00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,440 Speaker 1: i first got caught up to the big, leagues they 703 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,799 Speaker 1: THE i come out AND i Had Well drayton McClane at, 704 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,239 Speaker 1: first didn't know who it. 705 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:11,839 Speaker 5: Was you never met. 706 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: Me AND i came into spring training and he asked 707 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:15,400 Speaker 1: to see, me AND i come, up knocked on the 708 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 1: door and he, goes, yet what CAN i do for? 709 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 5: YOU i, Said, uh my name Is Billy, wagoner and the, Cares, Oh. 710 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: It's like, SO i, mean, uh, well uh, no and then, 711 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,839 Speaker 1: uh you know they called for the longest, Time i'd 712 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: go through the dugout in the astidum and they'd be, going. 713 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,600 Speaker 5: Hey b, boy bat, boy get, back, well get. 714 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 1: Back so you, know you know it the. Lucky the 715 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: lucky IS i never have to worry about. Much but you, 716 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,879 Speaker 1: know you, Know i'm not the guy that they're gonna 717 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:49,160 Speaker 1: pick out a line Of Peter. 718 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 2: Good, So, billy you're you're the First division three player 719 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,080 Speaker 2: ever to go in The hall Of. Fame AND i 720 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,959 Speaker 2: guess you're also the first fence post to go into 721 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 2: The hall Of fame called you off. 722 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:00,239 Speaker 1: Fence ball Was. 723 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 5: Oh my, Gosh, Well i'll tell you the worst. 724 00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,840 Speaker 1: IS i was sitting down in the doug in the 725 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:10,239 Speaker 1: bullpen and spring, training and this lady leans over and 726 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,600 Speaker 1: she had No. Tannersville there's ONLY i, mean there might 727 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:18,360 Speaker 1: be one hundred people In, tannersville farmers, mostly and this 728 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: lady's down there and she leans out and, goes hey, 729 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,399 Speaker 1: young and hey, young and And doug Drey beck looks 730 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:26,320 Speaker 1: down at he goes she. 731 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,520 Speaker 5: Goes he walks in and, goes who are you looking for? 732 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,080 Speaker 1: It she, Goes i'm looking for that young And billy 733 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 1: wagg But, AMERICA i could have melted right. There and 734 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,120 Speaker 1: he looked at, me AND i, mean Drey, Beck, swindale 735 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,800 Speaker 1: those guys never left me live that. 736 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:48,440 Speaker 4: Down so they just looked holy Cowfinn post and that 737 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 4: was that was how it. Stuck so, no it was uh, 738 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 4: yeah it was just it was you, know one of 739 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:55,160 Speaker 4: those you really. 740 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 1: Unique uh small town just country bumpkin and then to 741 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,839 Speaker 1: be in the big leagues and the next day you're, 742 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: like all, Right. 743 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,360 Speaker 2: Billy last one for, Me i'm going to ruin something 744 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,720 Speaker 2: for you. Here But i'm telling you the greatest part 745 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:15,640 Speaker 2: of The hall Of fame weekend will be The friday 746 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,560 Speaker 2: night when it's just The hall Of fame players And Johnny, 747 00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:24,120 Speaker 2: bench your guy is The master Of, ceremonies and he 748 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,440 Speaker 2: officially welcomes you in and the only people in the 749 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:32,200 Speaker 2: room Are hall Of. Famers it will, BE i, promise 750 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:33,840 Speaker 2: the most powerful moment. 751 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:34,759 Speaker 1: Of your of your. 752 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,880 Speaker 2: Life have you heard about This friday night? 753 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:38,280 Speaker 1: Meeting? 754 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,319 Speaker 5: Uh, no you know what there's it seems, like, well 755 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,200 Speaker 5: it seems like there's so many. 756 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:47,320 Speaker 1: Parties and. 757 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 5: MEETINGS i don't know What i'm. 758 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,400 Speaker 1: Doing i'm, Like Holy, god somebody just tell me where to. 759 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 1: GO i, mean The Tan ray's ALL i. Really ALL 760 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,680 Speaker 1: i want to do is go and sit and just 761 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: sit there and listen to the stories and be in 762 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,319 Speaker 1: the locker room. Again and that's sort of what it's 763 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,520 Speaker 1: like for, me is just going in there as that 764 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,680 Speaker 1: rookie and just like bagging. Him so you go in 765 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 1: And doug Dra beck, said you go, in you sit. 766 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,560 Speaker 1: Down IF i want a, beer you go get a 767 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:14,920 Speaker 1: beer for. 768 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:15,880 Speaker 5: Me he, goes did you? 769 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,800 Speaker 1: Sit you don't say anything unless we ask, You and 770 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,400 Speaker 1: that's ALL i want to. Do sit there and listen 771 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: to their stories and and and just you, know soak 772 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:25,319 Speaker 1: it all. 773 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 2: In If George brett, Says, billy go get me a 774 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 2: beer at The i'm. 775 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 5: Gonna probably go get him a. 776 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 1: BEER i don't think he drinks. BEER i feel like 777 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:34,279 Speaker 1: he's a wine. 778 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,560 Speaker 5: Guy But i'm gonna get him the way he wants to. 779 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 2: Go it's so, Good, billy you have bitter, delight no. 780 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 2: Surprise this is one of the Great hall Of fame stories. 781 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:48,040 Speaker 2: Ever you told it beautifully. Today thank you so much 782 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:48,680 Speaker 2: for joy to. 783 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,359 Speaker 5: Guys, well thanks for having. 784 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: Me it's been a. Blast do this all. 785 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,799 Speaker 3: Night and he will let you go watch the rest 786 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:56,440 Speaker 3: of your son's. 787 00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 2: Game how about. 788 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,480 Speaker 5: That, well thank you appreciate it. 789 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:01,680 Speaker 1: It it has been a. Blast thank. 790 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 2: Y'ALL i guess you'll never never missed The hall Of. 791 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 2: Fame and that Looked, billy And i'll be. 792 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:07,919 Speaker 1: THERE i can't. 793 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,280 Speaker 2: WAIT i can't wait to watch you make your. Speech 794 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 2: it's going to be. Fabulous, yeah