WEBVTT - A Bow For Baseball 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:04.160 Is this a Great Game or what? 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.480 We are at the Covich Center at University of Maryland. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:11.160 I'm with Hall of Famer and alumni of University of Maryland, 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.520 Tim Kirkshon. I'm his son Jeff Kirkschen for our final 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:16.400 regular season episode of Assist a Great Game or What? 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:20.840 And usually I wear my Walter Johnson fleece pullover for these, 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.320 but today University of Maryland. I've got my University of 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.080 Maryland hoodie on here. So this is going to be 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.480 the day that we're doing this at Maryland. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.640 I graduated here in nineteen seventy eight. This is our. 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.279 Thirty third podcast of the year, and each episode we 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.400 mentioned the greatest baseball player ever to wear number whatever. 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.800 It is, So this is number thirty three. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.520 Eddie Murray former Oriole is the greatest number thirty three 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.159 of all time. I covered him with the Orioles for 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.680 four years more than that. Actually, Mark Hyman, who runs 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.960 the Povidge Center, also covered him in nineteen eighty six. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.600 And I can't tell you how many times Eddie would 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.760 just like shush us away when we went to. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:01.320 Talk to him. 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.080 So the first time I ever I went to spring 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.840 training in eighty six to cover the Orioles for the 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:11.520 Baltimore Sun. Floyd Rayford, who's on the Orioles, is on 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.760 the plane going to Florida. So Floyd Rayford looks at 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.920 me and I say, Floyd, I'm Tim Kirkchin. I'm going 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.399 to be covering the team this year. He takes one 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:21.240 look at me and he. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.039 Goes, Eddie is going to hate you. And I said why. 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.480 He said, your head is too big for the rest 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.440 of your body. Well, I have a really little body. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:31.720 I understand that, but I have. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.160 A seven and an eighth head. I don't have a 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.920 big head. But now I'm all worried going. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.080 On the plane to cover spring training for the first 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.240 time that my head is too big for the rest 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.720 of my body. And Eddie is going to hate me 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.240 for that. Well he ended up hating me. Maybe not 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.280 for that, but this is what we go through as journalists. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.360 Yeah, and you can tell that this is not that 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.680 he wears the sweatshirt all the time around the house 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.080 and he has a big stain on the front. He 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.240 just realized that he has. And you brought up Walter Johnson. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.520 We have a listener on our show's name is Carl. 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.520 He is a big, big fan of the show, and 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.800 anytime Walter Johnson comes up on the show, my dad 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.280 sarcastically says, Hey, did I. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.440 Ever tell you I went to Walter Johnson High School? 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.720 And it's the same, you know, like we all have 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.800 dads and moms out to make the same joke. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:17.320 All the time. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.320 Well, Carl loved it so much he made a shirt 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.280 out of it, and I ever tell you, I went 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.359 to Walter Johnson High School. And I don't know where 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.920 he got your signature there, but he somehow got that 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.120 off the internet. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.359 And it's become an inside joke on Baseball Tonight and 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.200 all the games that I do with Carl Ravich. 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.600 I just do this to irritate him. He's better when 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.720 he's irritated. I always say, I ever tell you I 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.600 went to Walter Johnson High School? And he he just 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:39.400 rolls his eyes. 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.760 Now he'll say to me on the air, he'll say, Tint, 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.720 did I ever tell you I went to Walter John's eyes. 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.520 It's a running joke, and somebody liked it enough that 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.040 we have a tea shirt for well. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.040 And it's fitting to be here because Dad, you and 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.600 I are both Montgomery County Maryland products. I went to 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.639 Quinn s Orchard High School. You went to Walter Johnson 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:57.080 High School. 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:58.840 Well, I didn't even know that little paper was called 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.520 the Pitch. I did some work for the yearbook. It 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:02.320 was called the wind Up. 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.919 Uh yeah, And we have a good counsel in any 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.840 other Montgomery County products in the back there. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.239 Yeah, where'd you go to high school? You went to 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:12.080 quit Sorchard. 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:18.760 QO, Let's go and wow WJ represented Wow, that's a 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:19.440 lot to talk. 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:19.800 QO. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:20.799 After gus So. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.280 The green fleece that I wear all the time, which 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.400 I didn't wear today because I'm at Maryland, Todd Frasier, 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.680 who does all the Little League games with me, says, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.120 that's the greatest shirt I've ever seen. I got to 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.519 have one of those. So after the lit League World 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.760 Series is over, I went to WJ and I ordered. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.440 I got him a fleece pullover that said Walter Johnson 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:42.480 Wildcats on it. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:43.480 It's an extra. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.080 Large unlike mine, and I send it to him. I've 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.520 never seen him so happy in my life. So Todd 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.840 Fraser has a WJ pullover? 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:51.600 How about that? 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.320 And this is just to go if you want to 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.040 get to know my dad a little bit better. You know, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.840 a lot of people he's celebrity, he's a Hall of Famer, 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:58.320 that's how. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.000 People view him. But he's so humble. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.839 He went to Walter Johnson High School, drove there, went 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:07.040 to their school shop and just bought a sweatshirt and 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:08.200 then mailed. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.240 It to him to make sure he had it. Not hey, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.800 can you guys help me out and hook me up. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.800 Nope, he just went and bought it himself, which is 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.120 just the kind of guy you are. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:19.080 Well, that's the guy that Todd Fraser is. He's the 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.880 biggest twelve year old in the history of the world. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.400 He was one of our best guests this year because 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.800 this is what we attempted to do. We wanted to 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.680 tap in to Todd Fraser, who played Little League Baseball 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.880 and won the championship at age twelve. We want that 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.840 guy talking to us. We don't want to talk to 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:38.839 him about the home run that he hit off at 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.760 Roger Clemens in twenty fifteen. 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:41.680 We're not interested in that. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.480 We're interested in the Little League World Series of Todd 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.960 Fraser telling us what it was like to be there. 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.040 And that was what we've tried to do with every 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.880 interview here is get the people to explain to us 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.240 what we want to hear from them. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.840 Yeah, and at the end of this interview usually at 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.400 this time we say, oh, our guest today is you 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.839 know whoever it is, whether it's Johnny bench Cowerpken Jr. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.520 We're gonna kind of turn it around. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.280 Here and have the students here at the Shirley Povit 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:09.359 Center for Sports Journalism ask us the questions. So, Dad, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.880 in fact, we are the guests on our own podcasts here. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.039 And you're going to be asking the questions and just 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.400 ask as many as you like, no matter. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:18.680 What you like, We're going to go through them. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:20.559 And so we're going to get to that, of course. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.560 And Dad, obviously we have to talk about the World Series, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.279 which wrapped up now when this release is almost a 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.600 week ago, because of only five games in the World Series. 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.680 But so we're going to get there, of course. But 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:33.760 I want to talk a little bit about your favorite 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.800 moments from the podcast this season. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.840 Uh, well, favorite moments from the podcast this year. Well, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.880 we had Scott van pelt On, former Maryland graduate, of course, 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.240 and he does the Baltimore ew better than anyone in 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:51.279 the world. So we we laughed for thirty five straight minutes, 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.080 I told you. And Scott comes in from the beach. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.320 He's at the beach, he's on vacation, but he does our. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.960 He walks off the beach, he's got sun tan low 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.840 all over him, he's got a visor on, and we 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.680 just talked about the Long Oh and Orioles, baseball and 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:08.839 everything else for at least thirty. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.480 Five minutes, and we laughed out loud for the entire time. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:12.600 A good lesson here. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.520 You're allowed to have a good chuckle when you're covering sports, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.760 no matter what you're doing, you should have a good chuckle. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.320 So Scott Van Pelt was one of my favorites. The 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.599 other thing was I asked a bunch of questions on 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.200 the air, just to try to get people to talk 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.000 about some other part of their life. So we had 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:31.080 two guests in a row, Cal Ripken and Ryan Zimmerman, 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.719 and I asked Cal Ripkin, like, when's the last time 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.880 you dunked a basketball? And like five minutes later, he 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.160 sends us a picture of him dunking a basketball. That's 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.960 how proud he was that he could still dunk it. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.920 Then I asked Ryan Zimmerman. I said, when's the last 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.880 time you dunked a basketball? And he said, oh, at 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.320 my fantasy football football draft, he said, there was a 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.440 bet that I couldn't dunk it anymore. So I went 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.120 out in my backyard and I dunked it and I 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.440 won the bet. And then he sent a video of 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.520 him dunking a basketball. So here's a Hall of Fame 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.080 baseball player and the greatest national of all time, and 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.320 all they care about is making sure that we know 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:12.440 that they could still dunk a basketball. 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.160 And it took us a little bit of prying with 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.720 Cal Ripkins people to allow us to use the photo 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.480 he sent in the YouTube version of the podcast because 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.160 his shorts were rather short at that time that. 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:22.720 Was the style. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.040 And he said, I don't know if I want that 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:24.840 out on the internet, and. 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.520 He said please. It's a perfect moment of the podcast. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.000 One of my favorite moments. 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.840 We had Jeff frank Corr on the podcast, a long 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:36.520 time Landa Braves player, really really great athlete, and he 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:37.920 talked a lot about golf. 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.800 We talked to him a lot about playing golf, and 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:40.520 one of. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:42.160 The best stories of all time was he was in 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:44.760 spring training Bobby Cox as the manager and he's still young, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.240 he's still coming up, so he's grinding every day to 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.880 get a spot on that team. And Bobby Cox finds 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.280 out that Jeff frank Core passed on the opportunity to 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:54.640 play golf with Tiger Woods. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.440 Passed on it, said nope, and I see you. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:07:59.840 You might have seen the clip on Instagram, very very 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:03.160 humble brag here it like blew up on our Instagram page. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:04.880 I'm the one who runs to social media and I 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.080 have no clue what I'm doing, and all of a sudden, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.200 I wake up. We've got a million views on this story. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.000 And so at great game or what you can follow us. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.120 Feel free to take out your phones now. I'm totally 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.120 fine with that. But Bobby Cox hears that he passed 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.200 on an opportunity to play golf with Tiger Woods, and 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.800 so Bobby Cox said, no, you got to go, And 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.120 he said, no, listen, Skip, I'm staying here. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:25.520 I'm playing. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.560 He says, all right, how about this, if you put 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.679 a ball in play when you make it to first base, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.480 maybe just grab your ankle a little bit right when 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.360 you run through first and we'll pull you out of 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:35.600 the game and we can see if you can make 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.959 it for the round lo and behold, he hits a ball, 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.920 runs through first base, grabs his ankle. Bobby Cox comes 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.680 waddling out, his words not mine and says, oh, takes 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.200 a look at it, pulls him out of the game, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.480 and he immediately runs to the clubhouse, puts on his 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.760 golf outfit and meets Tiger Woods on the first fairway 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.400 and played eighteen holes with Tiger Woods and the best 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.040 part was on the seventeenth hole. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.760 He gets Jeff Frank gorgan. It's a text message from 0:08:58.800 --> 0:08:59.280 his wife. 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.599 It's a screen that says it's a report for me 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.400 ESPN and it says Jeff Frank core day to day 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.800 with a high ankle spring. 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:08.200 And secretly he. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.720 Knowsn't hurt and the manager allowed him. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:12.240 To do this. 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.360 So Jeff Frank Horrer told us that's the first time 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.240 he's ever told that story publicly, and. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.680 He chose to tell it on our podcast. 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.640 I saw him at the playoffs and I said, I said, Frenchy, 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.720 that was all the things we did in our podcast, 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.640 that was the highlight was your story on Bobby Cox. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:32.080 And he goes, I've never gotten that kind of reaction 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.840 on anything that I've ever done that story, like just 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:36.960 completely blew up. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:37.839 That's the point. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.199 We asked him a question about playing golf with Tiger Woods, 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.880 and that's the story we got. So when you're out 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.520 there talking to people, let's see if we can ask 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.439 a question that might elicit a. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.640 Different response, a funny response. I had no idea about. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.160 This story, but that's what we got from Josh. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.600 And usually Dad, you do you know, in his years 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.640 of covering the sport, he knows the story that he 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.360 wants a guy to tell and has a question that 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.160 leads him to it to make him feel comfortable. But 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.840 he offered this up and it was like the back 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.280 half of the interview, so we didn't even open with this, 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.360 and it was one of our favorite moments of this season, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:11.320 so many favorite moments. 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.239 Johnny Bench sang for us, the greatest catcher of all time. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:15.960 Sang for us. 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.280 Todd Frazier, who sings like Frank Sinatra even though he's 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.040 twelve years old, he sang for us on the podcast also, 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:24.800 and what else? 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.280 What other takeaways did you have from the podcast? 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.640 Oh, I mean there was I mean, Aaron Boone was 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.800 unbelievable doing the voice of the Phillies. Dan Baker or 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.480 the PA announcer, and it. 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.920 Was for the Phillies and it was. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:39.760 And it's just so funny to think you can be 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.200 as good of an athlete as Aaron boon is, as 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.480 good of a manager as Aaron Boon is, but still 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.800 be able to do some of the best impressions of announcers. 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:51.800 Or he does everybody's batting stance from when his dad 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.640 was playing, and he did Moses. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.880 Malone from the free throw line, which you guys are 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.680 too young to understand that Moses Malone was supposed to 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.720 come to this school in nineteen seventy four. That's the 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.319 year I was a freshman at Maryland and in one 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.520 of my classes, whatever Psych one hundred, he had come 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.040 so close to enrolling that they announced the role like before, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.439 like one of the classes, Moses Malone, and someone had 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.079 to say, he just signed with the Utah Stars, He's 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:18.920 not coming here. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.760 But it was announced in a class. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.800 But Aaron Boone did Moses Malone at the free throw line, 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.920 and I was crying with laughter. And when we're done 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.400 with this, at least a dozen people said to me, 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.280 I had no idea that Aaron Boone had that good 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.840 of a sense of humor, and it's in part because 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.960 we brought it out of him. We told him, we 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.120 don't want to ask you any questions about being the 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:42.120 Yankees manager. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.000 You get asked those every day. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.600 We want to ask you about what you were like 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.320 when you were five years old and at work. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.120 One of my buddies lifelong Busts and Red Sox fan, 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.480 and he called me after the Aaron Boone episode and 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.040 part of my language because he's from Boston, so this is. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.160 How they talk all the time. And he said, Gosharon 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.880 Boone was hilarious and I hate him. 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.720 I was like, wow, So even a guy who hates 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.320 Aaron Boone is saying even I hate him, and he 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:09.960 was hilarious. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.559 You remember the ice bucket challenge, right, I did one 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.560 of these with Boonie and I threw. 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.240 I had ice thrown, water thrown all over me. 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.240 So Aaron Boone I challenge him to do it the 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.840 next time he's on the road with me. We're in Boston, 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:26.880 and he goes to the bar keep because you have 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:28.680 to do it within twenty four hours. He goes to 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.720 the young bar keep at the hotel and says, will you. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.760 Pour water over cold water? 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.959 Over my head for the ice bucket challenge, and the 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.880 kid who's the bartender goes, well, of course I will. 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:40.800 You're Aaron Boone. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.040 I hate your guts, so. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.280 He poured it over like on the day of a game. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.800 This is what we got from our podcast, just by 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.280 asking a question that's a little bit different than when's 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.079 Garrett Cole coming off the injured list. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.360 That's the goal, and you have so many places you 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.600 can get that, especially with the availability of information, whether 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.840 it's on Twitter or whether it's on ESPN or MLB, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.960 you can find that information. It's the stories that really stick, 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.199 like the one with Jeff frankcor like the one with Kalripken. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.960 All of these are available on our podcast. You guys 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.280 can rewind back and listen to that. So Dad, let's 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:13.800 open it up. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.160 Well, we're gonna do a couple takeaways. First from just 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.880 from the World Series. Freddy Freeman had one of the 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.959 greatest World Series ever. I'm not sure there's a way 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:23.920 around that. He's the only player ever hit a home 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.400 run in the first four games of any World Series 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.360 counting the previous World Series. Is the only player ever 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.719 did a home run in six straight World Series games. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.280 He drove in twelve runs in five games, tying the 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:41.160 record for the most RBIs in one World Series. Bobby 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.600 Richardson had twelve in nineteen sixty two, but he did 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:47.080 it in seven games. And of course he hit the 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.360 only walk off Grand Slam in the history of the 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:51.559 World Series. 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.840 That came in Game one. And what happened to you 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:54.880 the other day at church? 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:55.800 Oh? 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.480 Well, you know, our audience spans from journalism students like 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.520 yourselves all the way up to some of my mom's 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.640 friends at church. And one of the very sweet ladies 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.199 who's been going to our church for forty years and 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.160 I've known since I was a baby, comes up and says, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.640 Freddie Freeman hit a walk off home run, and now 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.840 I know what that is because you told me. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.880 She'd been listening to the podcast, and so she knew 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.880 what a walk off home run was. And I was 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.600 so pleased that we were able to educate her on 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:25.840 that this is the way it works. 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.400 I was in the years ago. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.359 I was in the frozen food aisle at the Safeway, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.760 and this woman from the neighborhood tackles me in the 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:37.160 frozen food isle and goes, oh my gosh, I love 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.960 the Nationals. I watch every game, I watch every pitch. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.640 I can't miss it. I love it so much, she said, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.720 I just started watching. She said, this is how you 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.800 felt your whole life, isn't it? And I said, yeah, 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.080 this is how I felt my entire life. She goes, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.480 I'm so envious. I finally figured it out. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.240 She said, I'm fifty five. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.640 Years old and now I love baseball, and this is 0:14:58.680 --> 0:14:59.920 what this is all about, you know. 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:01.760 Speaking to journalism students. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.240 My dad and I were both watching Game three of 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.760 the World Series, and we released the podcast every Tuesday morning. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.120 And it can be tough. I host some. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.280 Morning radio shows, so I stay up as late as 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.320 I can during these games, and if it's blowout, I'll 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.200 go to bed in the eighth inning and hope that 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:18.680 something crazy doesn't happen. 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:19.760 And sometimes it does. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:24.800 But we had to record our podcast before Game three 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:26.960 in order for it to be ready for our midnight 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:28.720 release s right after, because we didn't have the time 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.760 to produce it and put it all together, and quite frankly, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.040 with a fourteen month old baby at home, I'm not 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:33.920 getting much sleep. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:34.360 Passes. 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:39.480 So Freddy Freeman hits his now six straight World Series game. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.440 Home run going back to twenty twenty one with the Braves. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.400 Now he holds the record for most consecutive games with 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.920 a home run in a World Series. And immediately, in 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.880 effort of getting it right, as we do as sports journalists, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:56.120 I run downstairs and edit the portion where I had said, hey, 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.000 he now ties the record for five straight games with 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.240 a home run, and was able to edit it in 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.280 time for the podcast to come out. They got it 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.360 happened in the first inning. I don't think I would 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:06.240 have gotten it otherwise. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.320 Jeff is a magician with the technology. It's really important 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.880 because I'm the worst of all time at it. And 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.640 that's why it works, is that we have a guy 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.080 who understands all of this all right. The other takeaway 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.000 was sorry, how poorly the Yankees played in Game five 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.400 of the World Series. It's one of the greatest World 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.760 Series games I've ever seen and one of the worst 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.560 World Series games I've ever seen at the same time. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.040 That fifth inning, the ball that Aaron Judge dropped he 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.280 catches with his eyes closed ninety nine out of one 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:38.280 hundred times. The ball that Anthony Vulpi messed up at shortstop. 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.080 He is a great defensive shortstop, but made a poor 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.040 decision that made a terrible throw, and then Garrett Cole 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.400 not covering first base on that play. Was just inconceivable 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.800 to me how this can happen. It's one of the 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.720