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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Is this a great game or what? Dad?

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Speaker 1: And this is our official opening day episode.

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Speaker 2: This is so.

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Speaker 3: Exciting, right Opening Day is Thursday, the real opening day,

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Speaker 3: and our guest today is the delightful, of the hilarious,

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Speaker 3: the irreverent Adam Dunn, who hit eight home runs on

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Speaker 3: opening Day in his career, tying Ken Griffy Junior and

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Speaker 3: Frank Robinson for the most home runs on Opening Day.

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Speaker 4: He will be our guest.

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Speaker 5: We had a little trouble getting a hold of him

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Speaker 5: to get him scheduled. He'll tell that story. Plus he'll

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Speaker 5: tell you the best Jeff frank Core story besides one

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Speaker 5: we've heard from Jeff frank Core that it had me

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Speaker 5: in stitches. I can't wait for people to hear the

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Speaker 5: relationship between Adam Dunn and Jeff frank Cor while at

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Speaker 5: first base.

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Speaker 3: Right, Well, Adam Dunn made us laugh a bunch of

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Speaker 3: different ways about football, about struggles in batting, about driving

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Speaker 3: a boat, about making a kite. Adam Dunn is a

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Speaker 3: very very funny, self deprecating guy, and he lit it

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Speaker 3: up for us in this episode.

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Speaker 1: So clearly we're releasing on a Tuesday.

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Speaker 5: Opening Day is this Thursday, you'll catch up with us

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Speaker 5: again on Friday morning. Dad, you and I are going

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Speaker 5: to record after a majority of the games on Thursday night,

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Speaker 5: so we'll have kind of all the opening day reactions,

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Speaker 5: all the quirk gins, and all those great things from

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Speaker 5: the first day of games. That'll be on Friday morning.

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Speaker 5: But Dad celebrating Opening Day today, Well, Jeff, let's just.

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Speaker 3: Be clear about how great Opening Day is for so

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Speaker 3: many people, and not just for you and me because

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Speaker 3: we love the game, but people out there all over

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Speaker 3: the country. It is a national holiday for.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people.

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Speaker 3: They take their children out of school to go to

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Speaker 3: an Opening day game.

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Speaker 4: It really matters.

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Speaker 3: And what really matters are the games, Jeff.

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Speaker 4: They count now.

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Speaker 3: So night for all the great baseball fans will be

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Speaker 3: the last worthless evening that we have to spend because

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Speaker 3: the next day the games will begin, and Friday morning

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Speaker 3: will be the first day that we wake up and

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Speaker 3: be able to read the box scores while.

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Speaker 4: Drinking a diet mound dew.

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Speaker 3: It is one of the great pleasures of my life.

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Speaker 3: And this, Jeff, is my forty fifth Opening Day as

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Speaker 3: a baseball writer, and I just put together a team

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Speaker 3: catcher all the way through pitcher and manager like we

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Speaker 3: do every week, of people that just did things on

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Speaker 3: Opening Day that made me smile or made me think

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Speaker 3: some are more serious than others. So that's the team

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Speaker 3: tim for this week, and we are going to start

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Speaker 3: behind the plate with Stephen Vote, who in twenty seventeen

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Speaker 3: was the catcher for the Oakland A's. And Stephen Vote

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Speaker 3: would win a talent contest, Jeff, I've told you this

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Speaker 3: if they had one in the major leagues and campersonate anyone.

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Speaker 3: He's an actor, he's a dancer, and he's a really

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Speaker 3: good singer. So for us, for the ESPN cameras before

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Speaker 3: that game, he sang three Disney songs, including one from

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Speaker 3: a Little Mermaid, and he sang them beautifully and we

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Speaker 3: recorded them and he did it while he's in full uniform.

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Speaker 3: So he comes up for his first step bat of

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Speaker 3: the season and we've just played under the Sea from

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Speaker 3: the Little Mermaid, and he hit a home run as

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Speaker 3: soon as we played that, So it was like from

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Speaker 3: under the Sea to over the fence. It was unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: It was like Ariel to Ariel. It was incredible. So

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Speaker 3: that was a typical Stephen Vote rising to.

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Speaker 5: The occasion, and of course Ale Manager of the Year

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Speaker 5: last year. But one of my favorite viral MLB moments

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Speaker 5: was his final at as a major leaguer when he

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Speaker 1: His kids did his walk up and.

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Speaker 5: Now batting for the Oakland Athletics, our dad and.

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Speaker 1: All of his kids on the microphone, and as a

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Speaker 5: It was such a cool moment and it still shows

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Speaker 5: up on my newsfeed all the time, on my TikTok

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Speaker 4: Okay, on the first.

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Speaker 3: Place first base, I'm not sure there's a way around this.

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Speaker 3: Jackie Robinson opened at first base for the Dodgers in

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Speaker 3: nineteen forty seven, broke the color barrier the most important.

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Speaker 4: Day in Major League history.

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Speaker 3: He is the most important player in Major League history,

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Speaker 3: and thankfully for baseball and in part for the country,

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Speaker 3: everything changed that day that Jackie Robinson played for the

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Speaker 3: all sorts of first basemen, but you can't do any

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Speaker 4: Second base is one of my favorites.

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Speaker 3: Kas Matt Suey of the Mets in the early two

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Speaker 4: Four he hit the first pitch that.

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Speaker 3: He saw that season for a home run. The next season,

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Speaker 3: the third year two thousand and six, he was hurt.

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Speaker 3: He didn't play on opening Day, but in his first game,

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Speaker 4: You know, a dinky little second baseman.

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Speaker 3: Shortstop, of course, is Ozzy Smith, which I told you

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Speaker 3: I think last week, Jeff, there was nothing better to

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Speaker 3: start a season than Ozzie Smith, the brilliant defensive shorts,

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Speaker 3: of course everyone at Bush Stadium knew it was coming.

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Speaker 5: And he started off from Ozzie to oral your list

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Speaker 5: of the best players from.

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Speaker 1: One to fifty five.

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Speaker 5: We did that on the podcast on Friday, and you'll

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Speaker 5: number one and number two. Obviously the first one is Ozzie.

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Speaker 5: That's the title. But if you miss those, you can

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Speaker 5: go back to the Friday episode. But then we'll conquer

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Speaker 1: Who do you have at third?

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Speaker 3: So I'm Ryan Zimmerman at third and you are related

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Speaker 3: to this, Jeff, because Ryan Zimmerman opened Nationals Park in

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Speaker 4: You were at that game.

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Speaker 1: Correct, I was at that game.

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Speaker 5: He's a former guest of the show. I actually had

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Speaker 5: the opportunity to go to the first ever Nationals game

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Speaker 5: were able to see that game. And Yeah, Ryan Zimmerman,

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Speaker 5: that was really cool to be able to talk to

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Speaker 3: So he's one of three players to christen a new

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Speaker 4: A walk off home run.

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Speaker 3: Bill Bruton did it nineteen fifty three at County Stadium

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Speaker 4: That's who Dante Bochette was.

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Speaker 3: He could really really hit okay outfield. Of course, we

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Speaker 3: have to start with Hank Aaron. In nineteen seventy four,

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Speaker 3: Back then, of course, the ceremonial opener, which which Adam

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Speaker 4: Right, absolutely, all right.

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Speaker 3: Twenty years later, Toughye Roads of the Cubs hit three

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Speaker 3: Toughee Roads went to Japan. He hit four hundred and

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Speaker 4: Only on opening day.

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Speaker 3: So and my favorite one, Jeff, was from one of

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Speaker 5: Your team, Tim was great, Dad, all those great stories

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Speaker 5: An opening day not only means new players from the

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Speaker 1: Are you ready? And I know you're a big food guy, Dad, Jeff,

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Speaker 5: Went like a year and a half without eating pasta

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Speaker 3: And Jeff, let's be clear, Okay, I eat in the

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Speaker 4: Take the time to come up with six new items.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, So defending champion Dodgers, right, they have the slugger.

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Speaker 5: It's a sixteen inch joalopenno cheddar sausage dog with corn relish,

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Speaker 5: white cheddar cheese, sauce, cilantro crema, and crunchy tortilla strips.

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Speaker 5: How does that sound? Sixteen inches sausage dog?

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Speaker 3: All right, that's way too big for me. Jeb and jalapenos. Look,

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Speaker 3: I have a rather weak stomach. I can't take anything

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Speaker 1: Well, I have something I know you would like.

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Speaker 5: Because for those who don't know my dad, and he's

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Speaker 5: You're good at it. Chase Field in Arizona a chicken

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Speaker 3: Well, I look, you're very kind, Jeff. I've made my

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Speaker 3: But I do make chicken palm and I love it.

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Speaker 4: So yes, Chase Field, let's go.

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Speaker 1: Nationals Park not too from not too far from where you.

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Speaker 4: Are, Dad.

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Speaker 1: They have a new cheese steak loaded nachos.

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Speaker 5: And did you know that today, on the day of filming,

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Speaker 5: March twenty fourth, is National Cheese Steak Day?

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Speaker 4: Is that right?

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Speaker 3: And you know what I've done many times, Jeff, I

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Speaker 3: It's a cheese steak, is that you live in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 5: That is correct, right, Yeah, Well, unfortunately you raised me

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Speaker 1: So it is National Cheese Steak.

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Speaker 3: Day, not National Steak and Cheese Day.

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Speaker 4: Look, I agree.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry to anyone that I offended with poor choice words.

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Speaker 5: Camden Yards Oil Park at Camden Yards has this is exciting.

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Speaker 5: It's called the Chessie. It's a foot long Chesapeake sausage

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Speaker 5: topped with creamy crab dip, pickled sweet corn, fried green

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Speaker 4: Ooh, that's good.

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Speaker 3: Anything that has crab in it, you can count me in.

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Speaker 3: You know, the crab cakes at Oriel Park are great.

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Speaker 3: That they'll make in Baltimore. In fact, my friend, the

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Speaker 5: Hat that's incredible And last one on my list, Dad,

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Speaker 5: I'm really excited to share this one with you. I

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Speaker 5: the Seattle Mariners. They're known for like kind of a

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Speaker 3: The big Dumper, of course, is Catcher cal Rally. And

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Speaker 3: that's about right. So typical cal Raley, really good player

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they're pork dumplings at T Mobile Park. So there's

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Speaker 3: And just to finish, I'm not going to use his

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Speaker 1: That's beautiful.

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Speaker 5: Well that's my list of some of the new food

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Speaker 5: on social media Facebook, Instagram and x We answer there

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Speaker 5: dad on this state in baseball history. I'm sure you're

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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that is pretty great, all right.

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Speaker 3: Also, nineteen sixty six, Tom Glavin was born Tom Glavin,

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Speaker 1: All that I think good is an understatement.

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Speaker 5: My best friend in the whole wide world, Alex Parker,

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Speaker 5: You see a lot of basketball or football in baseball,

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Speaker 1: So we definitely got to get him on.

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Speaker 3: The show this summery. Tom Glavin was a great hockey player.

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Speaker 3: He was a great athlete beyond being a pitcher. He

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Speaker 3: was a great fielding pitcher. He was a really good

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Speaker 3: And if you look up nineteen seventy through two thousand

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Speaker 3: It's Tom Glavin. So he helped himself as a player with

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Speaker 4: And last one, and this is sad.

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Speaker 3: On this date in nineteen ninety nine, Cal Ripkin Senior died. Now,

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Speaker 3: You're way too young. But there used to be something

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Speaker 3: called the oriol way, and this is how the team played,

441
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Speaker 3: how it presented itself, and Cal Ripken Senior was a

442
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,840
Speaker 3: big part of all of that.

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00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 4: He taught those guys how to play.

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Speaker 3: You asked Eddie Murray Hall of Famers someday, like, who

445
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 3: had the biggest influence on your life? He said, well,

446
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,159
Speaker 3: Cal Senior and so many other Orioles.

447
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 4: Were that way.

448
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 3: And Jeff, I know I exaggerate sometimes, but Cal Senior

449
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Speaker 3: is the toughest person I've ever seen wear a major

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Speaker 3: league uniform. We used to joke and he was a

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Speaker 3: catcher in the minor league. We used to joke that

452
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 3: he looks like an old catcher's mit because and it

453
00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 3: was as tough and as resilient as an old catcher's

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Speaker 3: mid So, just to show you how tough he was,

455
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Speaker 3: he was pitching BP at which he did every night

456
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Speaker 3: when he wasn't the you know, and he was the

457
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Speaker 3: third base coach during the game. So he got hit

458
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 3: in Boston one night with a line drive right in

459
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 3: the face, and he went down like a sacked potatoes.

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00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 3: Richie van Sells, the trainer, comes flying out of the

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00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,400
Speaker 3: dugout because he thinks Cal Senior is dead. By the

462
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,959
Speaker 3: time Richie gets to the mound, Cal Senior is on

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Speaker 3: his feet.

464
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Speaker 4: He has blood.

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Speaker 3: Spurting out of his cheek, and Richie says, all right, Rip,

466
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Speaker 3: we'll get you to the hospital right away.

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Speaker 4: He goes, I go to the damn hospital. I've finished

468
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Speaker 4: my round of BP.

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Speaker 3: He threw the rest of batting practice with blood spurting

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Speaker 3: out of his face, then went to the hospital, got

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Speaker 3: stitched up, and was back in the coach's box in

472
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Speaker 3: the third inning. That's Cal ripkens sor. So whenever you

473
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 3: look at the toughness, especially of his son Cal Junior.

474
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 3: He gets it from his father Dad.

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Speaker 5: Last week we started a new segment on the show

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Speaker 5: called Poor Pop Pop, Poor Pop Pop. And you know,

477
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Speaker 5: usually we talk about these a little bit ahead of time,

478
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Speaker 5: and it's my chance to kind of school you on

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Speaker 5: some things happening in the world. Last weekend we were

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Speaker 5: together for Emma, my niece's second birthday. That's your granddaughter

481
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 5: from your daughter Kelly, my sister, and it was her

482
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Speaker 5: second birthday. And I don't know in what world is

483
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Speaker 5: my mom letting you wrap the presence from you and

484
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 5: Cat Cat because Dad.

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Speaker 1: I love you, But that was the worst.

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Speaker 7: Rap job I have ever seen. You would be better

487
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,080
Speaker 7: as a rapper than a rapper, if you know what

488
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 7: I'm saying. I would trust you more on a track

489
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Speaker 7: with Doctor Dre and with scissors and wrapping paper.

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Speaker 3: Jeff, Look, first off, you're never gonna hear me say

491
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Speaker 3: anything like this.

492
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Speaker 4: But I got great hands.

493
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Speaker 3: That's all I've ever had Athletically. I have great hands

494
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 3: except for when it comes to fine motor skills. And

495
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 3: there's no finer motor skill than having to wrap a present.

496
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 3: And in this case, I had to wrap a little

497
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 3: basketball for Emma. It's very hard to wrap something that

498
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 3: is perfectly round like that. Look at the excuse I've

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00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,919
Speaker 3: already made. Then I bought her a tony, which I

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00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 3: just found out what a tony was recently. It's a

501
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:37,959
Speaker 3: little figurine.

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Speaker 4: With music in it.

503
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Speaker 3: So you put it on top of the tony, and

504
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 3: it was an Elmo figurine, an Elmo tony, So she

505
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 3: could put it on the little Tony thing and all

506
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Speaker 3: of a sudden music comes out.

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Speaker 4: It was little.

508
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 3: It was very difficult to wrap. But the hard one,

509
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 3: the really hard one, was a like a little scooter,

510
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Speaker 3: and it was the worst wrap job ever. Uh to me, Jeff,

511
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 3: the definition of the word tedious is trying to wrap

512
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 3: a present of any kind. I am the worst of

513
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 3: all time at that, and I have no interest in

514
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 3: getting any better at it. The only one who was

515
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 3: worse than me was my brother Matt, my late brother Matt,

516
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 3: who used to wrap every present in newspaper. But he

517
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 3: also did a wonderful job wrapping it. It was perfectly wrapped,

518
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 3: but he wasn't going to spend any money for wrapping paper.

519
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 3: I at least spend the money for wrapping paper when

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00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 3: Emma needed to open up the scooter.

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00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 4: It was really easy.

522
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 3: Because I didn't get the whole thing, even because I'm

523
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 3: already a hole in it.

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Speaker 4: All she was.

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00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: All she had to do was look at it and

526
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 3: it would unwrap itself. All right, all right, poor pop Pop,

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00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 3: I at a bag.

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00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: A bag is what you needs?

529
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Speaker 4: Someone?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a gift bag would have been useful for all

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Speaker 3: three of those things, but I just assumed it's a birthday.

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Speaker 4: You gotta wrap it up.

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Speaker 3: It was awful, and I don't care how bad it was.

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Speaker 5: All right, Well, let's just say together, poor pop Pop,

535
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 5: Poor Popop. Well let's wrap this one up and get

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Speaker 5: into talking with Adam Dunn, our guest for this Opening

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Speaker 5: Day Opening Week episode.

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Speaker 4: Right again, Jeff.

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00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 3: Adam Dunn hasn't played in years, but he is one

540
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Speaker 3: of my favorite players that I have recovered.

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Speaker 4: He had a great sense of humor.

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Speaker 3: He was a maniacal competitor, but he never took himself

543
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 3: too seriously, even though he always took the game seriously.

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00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 3: So we threw a bunch of stuff at him and

545
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 3: he had great fun with us because we had great

546
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 3: fun with him. So can't wait for you to listen

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Speaker 3: to our friend, Adam Done, welcome back to is this

548
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Speaker 3: a great game or what? And our guest today is

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Speaker 3: Adam Done, my favorite players ever hit four hundred and

550
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 3: sixty two homers in his career. And since the theme

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00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 3: of this week is Opening Day, Adam Dunn hit eight

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Speaker 3: home runs on Opening Day, tied for the most of

553
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Speaker 3: all time. Adam, this is my son, Jeff. He's my size,

554
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 3: meaning the two of us together aren't as big as you.

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Speaker 6: I'd like to actually see that, right.

556
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,360
Speaker 5: I think if we wore a trench coat, we might

557
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Speaker 5: be able to get into a ratedar movie.

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Speaker 6: Dan, that's great.

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00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: A little inside.

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Speaker 5: Baseball And I mistakenly forgot to follow up with Adam's

561
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 5: email to get him prep for this. So he downloaded

562
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 5: Google Chrome and got on our interview here in less

563
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 5: than fifteen minutes. And I understand when you and my

564
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 5: dad were going back and forth. You were on vacation

565
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 5: and we were trying to set this up and something

566
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Speaker 5: pretty devastating technology wise happened to you too, right, that's correct.

567
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I was out fishing, and you know it's

568
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 2: it's beautiful out there. Anyway, long story short, my phone

569
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Speaker 2: falls in, falls out of my pocket, falls in the

570
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 2: ocean and you know, so the water is so clear,

571
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 2: and you know, and I'm looking at the captain guy,

572
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,280
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, how deep are we? Like, like I

573
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 2: got a chance to go dive down and get it,

574
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 2: and he's like, we're sitting in eight hundred and fifty

575
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Speaker 2: seven foot right now. I'm like, oh, all right, you know,

576
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Speaker 2: I'm not I haven't trained for that, so I uh,

577
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 2: I probably don't need to go down there and get it.

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Speaker 6: But it was like a movie. It was all slow motion.

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Speaker 2: You know. My phone falls and I kind of reach

580
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 2: over the side to grab it, and then it's just fluttering,

581
00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 2: just teasing me, you know, just fluttering down.

582
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Speaker 5: Was like the heart of the ocean when Rose drops

583
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 5: it at the end of Titanic.

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Speaker 1: It's just like there it goes.

585
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 2: It's water exactly. It was just floating just right there.

586
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 2: Just give me the middle finger, all the way down

587
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Speaker 2: to the Watterley.

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Speaker 3: So Adam and then came and you had to go

589
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Speaker 3: get a new phone.

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Speaker 6: Correct, No I didn't.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't. I had to wait because at and t

592
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,160
Speaker 2: there are a bunch of idiots.

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00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 6: Over there, and I forgot sort with that. No hot takes.

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00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 2: But anyway, so we Uh so I had to wait

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00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 2: till I got home. I get home at eight o'clock

596
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 2: whatever Friday night, I think it was Saturday night. Anyway,

597
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 2: it didn't matter. Go to the Apple store, go go

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00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 2: get a phone, you know, forget how expensive things are.

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00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 2: So I I'm already mad about that. And then I

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00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 2: can't get my phone connected because something that the AT

601
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 2: and T stores close at eight o'clock, and of course

602
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 2: it's eight oh seven by now, and it's a disaster.

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00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's the worst night bear ever?

604
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 2: All right? Is it really truly is? And you know

605
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 2: I don't ever get new phones obviously.

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00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 3: And Adam, how did you go to three days without

607
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 3: a cell phone?

608
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 4: Most people can't go two or three minutes without one.

609
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so the good news is, like I'm really

610
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 2: not that dependent on my phone, but not having it,

611
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: you know, cause I, like I have the fear of

612
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: missing out syndrome more than most like I can't if

613
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: I think or somebody's having more fun or alphone.

614
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 6: That was that was the hardest part for sure.

615
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 3: Right all right, So Adam, on to baseball. You hit

616
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Speaker 3: eight opening day home runs. Frank Robinson, Ken Griffy Junior

617
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 3: Adam Dunn to hold a major League record with eight.

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00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 3: Do you remember all of those? Could you list the

619
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Speaker 3: pictures that you hit an opening day home run off of?

620
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 4: Because of course I have the list here.

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Speaker 3: But are you the type that can remember those kind

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00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 3: of things?

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Speaker 6: No?

624
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 2: No, get your.

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00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 4: Half right, all right?

626
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 3: So your first one was in two thousand and five

627
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 3: against Pedro Martinez.

628
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah?

629
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Speaker 3: And then in six and seven you went back to

630
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 3: back against Carlos Sombrano on opening Day. You hit a

631
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 3: homer one year against him. On opening Day the next

632
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 3: year you hit two home runs off him.

633
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 4: Do you remember that?

634
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 6: I remember the two home run?

635
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: Well, well, yeah, I think I remember the two homer

636
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 2: one for sure, because I think that was my two

637
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 2: hundredth homer.

638
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 6: I think it was.

639
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I'm pretty sure that's right.

640
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Dad, I might be wrong on this, but

641
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 5: so my I grew up in the DC area in Maryland.

642
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 5: So to my dad's two thousand and nine you hit

643
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 5: for the Nationals a opening day home run. Am I

644
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 5: wrong here? Because I remember being at the AM I

645
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 5: or maybe that was.

646
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 4: No, he did.

647
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 3: He hit a home run on opening Day against the

648
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 3: Marlins at the Nationals against Ricky Alasko Ricky inn Alaska.

649
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 6: Yes, Okay, got wow.

650
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 5: So I remember your time obviously as a national growing

651
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 5: up and going to those games all the time, and

652
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 5: I was just thinking I was at Opening Day that year,

653
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 5: so and it all just kind of came to me Dad,

654
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 5: because we've been prepping talking about Opening Day homers.

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00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 1: I was at that game. That's crazy.

656
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 3: This is very encouraging by the way that you're not

657
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 3: one of those guys that can remember a pitch count

658
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,799
Speaker 3: from twelve years ago. Sometimes I worry a little bit

659
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 3: about those guys that they can tell you every moment

660
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 3: of their career that has never been important to you.

661
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 2: Agreed, Yeah, I would agree with that. I don't and

662
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 2: look kind of looking back, I wish I would. I

663
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 2: wish I was kind of more I don't know, more

664
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 2: more like that. But but I'm not, like I've never

665
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: been like that about anything. I don't know if that's

666
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 2: a good thing or a bad thing. But like Ken,

667
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 2: I mean Ken, I would sit there like, who's this

668
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 2: guy who were facing? And he's like, oh, you've faced

669
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: them over in Milwaukee and seventh inning, I'm like, what

670
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 2: did he do?

671
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 6: He's like, oh, I punched you out and four pictures

672
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:56,479
Speaker 6: up like you're an idiot. I mean, yeah, I don't

673
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 6: ever remember.

674
00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: That's so fascinating.

675
00:34:58,560 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 4: Dad.

676
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 5: From a perspective of an outsider from the game, I'm

677
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 5: a country music morning show host, Adam, so I do

678
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 5: this podcast with my dad.

679
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: I love music.

680
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 5: I grew up loving baseball and being like a theater kid,

681
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 5: so I do it all. However, it's so interesting to

682
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 5: have the Jim Palmers of the world, who can recall,

683
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 5: you know, and a bat they threw against Johnny Bench

684
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 5: fifty years ago, and then the Adam Dunns who have

685
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 5: over four hundred home runs and his great Major League

686
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 5: Baseball player says, it wasn't really about.

687
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: That for me. There's no wrong way to play the game.

688
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're right. But but pitcher kickers, they they

689
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 2: only play if they're good thirty five times a year,

690
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 2: so I would expect them to be able to remember that, right,

691
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 2: you know, they don't have They got one job right, right.

692
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 4: And by the way, Adam, as you know, I know

693
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 4: all these.

694
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 3: Arcane statistics that don't give me any good whatsoever.

695
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 6: Absolutely does I love it.

696
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 3: Johnny Bench hit three hundred and eighty nine homers and

697
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 3: never hit a home run on opening day. Adrian Beltray

698
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 3: holds the major League record for most homers four hundred

699
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 3: and seventy seven without hitting one on opening Day, and you.

700
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 4: Hit eight of them. How great is that?

701
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 2: I love it?

702
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 6: See Opening Day like that was?

703
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 2: You know, I look forward to open to Day so

704
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 2: much every year in the lyrics because I knew, like

705
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 2: I love playing in front of big crowds. I knew

706
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 2: Cincinnati did it as good as anybody on Opening Day,

707
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 2: So it was always you know, that's probably one of

708
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 2: about ten times it's going to be sold out, and

709
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 2: you know, you just you have that extra uh you know,

710
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 2: you hear it like, you know, the extra I don't

711
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 2: say motivation, but but you know, you have the fans

712
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: are into it. I mean it's just if you can't

713
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 2: get up for Opening Day, then you got you got problems.

714
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 2: And you know, I know that had a lot to

715
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: do with it.

716
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 4: Right.

717
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 3: So, Adam, you were playing for the Reds when they

718
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 3: were the ceremonial opener and they had the parade in

719
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 3: the city to start the season.

720
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 4: What was that like for you?

721
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 2: I mean, literally it you know, obviously I've never been

722
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 2: to the World series in one World Series. But that's

723
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 2: literally how the opening day parade, you know, seeing I

724
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 2: don't see it any bigger. If Cincinnati wins the World Series,

725
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 2: I think it would be exact same as as you know,

726
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:08,919
Speaker 2: opening a parade, and she's huge.

727
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 6: It's a huge, huge deal.

728
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 4: Adam.

729
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,240
Speaker 3: Also, you hit, as you know, four hundred and sixty

730
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 3: two homers, the record for most home runs hit by

731
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 3: a player whose last name starts with D. I know

732
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 3: all of these Adams because again, I never get out

733
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 3: of the house. I don't have a hobby. I don't

734
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 3: go fishing like you do. So Carlos Delgado hit four

735
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 3: seventy four and you hit four sixty two, do you

736
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 3: have any urge to put the uniform back on again

737
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 3: and go hit thirteen more homers and be the all

738
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 3: time leading home run hit or who his last name

739
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 3: starts with D.

740
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 2: Thirteen Like I mean, if I go back, I'm gonna

741
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 2: go ahead and go back and get five hundred.

742
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 6: But I'm not gonna stop at thirteen. But no, I don't.

743
00:37:56,120 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 6: I don't. Again, That's kind of how I've.

744
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 2: Always been wired, is if I'm not enjoying it, and

745
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 2: I'm not going to just sit there and just play

746
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 2: and take up a roster spot and when you know,

747
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 2: I'm useless. So I would never do that.

748
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 5: Adam, you brought something up earlier and you said you

749
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 5: have serious fomo fear of missing out right. You don't

750
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 5: like to And my dad wrote an article years ago

751
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 5: the Sounds of the Game. You know, and talk to

752
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 5: so many different players, and multiple players, including former Guests

753
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,479
Speaker 5: of Ours Jeffrankre said that nobody and nobody talked more

754
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 5: on the field than Adam done. And I feel like

755
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 5: this is what makes us kindred spirits because I don't

756
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 5: stop talking. You can ask my dad, you can ask

757
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 5: my wife, you can ask my nineteen month old daughter.

758
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: What was the thought process behind being like the most

759
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: talkative guy at first base there?

760
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I would talk. See, you know, having

761
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 2: a football background, you talk a lot of shit right like.

762
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 6: It's it's it's.

763
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 2: I enjoy that, like it's just kind of part of

764
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 2: my and you know, like Jeff for instance, Jeff's kind

765
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,800
Speaker 2: of a mental midget when it comes to like verbally

766
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 2: assaulting him, you know what I mean.

767
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 6: So he's easy, easy target.

768
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 2: So guys like him, I'd always you know, I would,

769
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 2: I would always you know, talk and plus I like him,

770
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 2: I enjoy enjoys company. But uh, it wasn't you know.

771
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,560
Speaker 2: He definitely wasn't like what you have from breakfast type stuff.

772
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 2: It was just you know, some guys I care less

773
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 2: to talk to.

774
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,280
Speaker 3: He told me, Frank Or told me that you would

775
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 3: say to him while he's taking a lead, you got

776
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 3: too big of a lead, or oh yeah, you don't

777
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 3: have a big enough lead. Is that what you were

778
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 3: doing to try to annoy?

779
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, because again I know, you know, God love him,

780
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 2: but he's thinking about it, like I know for a fact,

781
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 2: he's sitting there going, well, is my lead big enough?

782
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 2: Is it? Is it? You know? And then I'm like,

783
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 2: hey man, your lead's a little too big, you're not

784
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 2: that fast like to get back. And he's got a

785
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 2: good move, you know, just all that good stuff. But yeah,

786
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 2: I know it affected him, right.

787
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 3: And Adam Laroche, another Adam first baseman, told me that

788
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 3: no one speaks more in a game than you and

789
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 3: he said, you'll talk to the umpire if you have to.

790
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 3: And he said, I swear to you, if there's nobody

791
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 3: to talk to, Adam Dunn will talk to himself.

792
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 4: Is all of that true?

793
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 2: I mean no, like me and myself have had some

794
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 2: really good conversations together.

795
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 6: But yeah, I mean I'm not.

796
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 2: I mean, we got three hours out there, like I'm

797
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 2: not gonna sit there and just you know again, it's

798
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 2: it's it's it's it's supposed to be fun, right, Like

799
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 2: I've always told what was taught that this game's supposed

800
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 2: to be fun, and I've seen it when it's not

801
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 2: very much fun and nobody would to talk to you, so.

802
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 6: You know, I would much rather go out there and talk, right.

803
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 5: I think the biggest sin is that we didn't get

804
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 5: Adam done miked up. In this day and age where

805
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 5: a lot of these games are doing broadcast with a

806
00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 5: player that's out there, especially during spring training, I would

807
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 5: have died to have an interview with you on the field.

808
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 5: And I think you totally would have loved it too,

809
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 5: because that's just right up your alley.

810
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, yeah, I think so. I don't know

811
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 2: if back then I would have done it, honestly, because

812
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I kind of hold some stuff sacred, man,

813
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 2: Like I think some of that stuff is is uh,

814
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 2: you know what what what? And I'm not saying it's

815
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 2: bad stuff by no means. I'm just saying, you know,

816
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 2: there's some there's some some stuff in baseball that I

817
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: feel like now it's kind of ripped the bandaid off

818
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,959
Speaker 2: and there's no, uh, there's no nothing kind of held

819
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 2: sacred anymore. So you know, I probably would have done it, because,

820
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 2: like I said, I would have, I would have. We

821
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 2: would have had a lot of fun. I can promise

822
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 2: you that, right.

823
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,799
Speaker 1: And Adam, sorry, Jeff, I.

824
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 3: Loved a story on the Unwritten Rules of Baseball, and

825
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 3: Adam Dunne was quoted as saying, look, you got to

826
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 3: act like you've been there before. You can't be raising

827
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 3: the roof in the third inning on a game in June.

828
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 4: I mean, Adam, you still believe that, right, Yeah, I do.

829
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 2: And again, like I remember when they came out, it's

830
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 2: like it was the stupid slogan or something that was like,

831
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 2: you know, let him play or let him have fun

832
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 2: or whatever. And I'm like, man, I grew up my

833
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 2: whole life. I had so much fun playing like I

834
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 2: love like I love playing, Like, yeah, there's a few

835
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 2: years for a few games whatever, but I love it.

836
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 2: So don't tell me you can't have fun. You know,

837
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 2: if it's if it's showing up or disrespecting or that,

838
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 2: and if that's considered fun, then yeah, and I probably

839
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: wasn't too much fun, right.

840
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 3: You brought up football earlier, your football background.

841
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 4: You were a great high school quarterback.

842
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 3: And you were going Division one all the way to

843
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 3: play big time college football. First off, how big of

844
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 3: a high school quarterback with physically?

845
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 4: How big were you? Were you bigger than the center

846
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 4: on your team?

847
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, my my junior and senior year for sure.

848
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was.

849
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 2: I was. I mean I was when I graduated high school.

850
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 2: I was to forty eight. Yeah, yeah, I was. I was.

851
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 2: I was always you know, six' five to forty eight

852
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 2: to forty you, know always.

853
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 6: Big so, yeah it looked pretty.

854
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 5: Funny, Actually, adam what jersey is behind you on the wall,

855
00:42:58,800 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 5: there number.

856
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 6: Fifteen that's that's my that's.

857
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 2: Funny that's my high school football jersey got retired and

858
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 2: then baseball got retired over there, too not To that's

859
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 2: that's WHAT i.

860
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: Thought that's so, funny that's so.

861
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 2: Cool that means that means enough like that means, something.

862
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,399
Speaker 4: Right, absolutely no.

863
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: Doubt it does take us back to those, Days.

864
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 5: Adam obviously you were playing baseball and football high school?

865
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 5: Days what was that like being you, know being a

866
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 5: multi sport athlete in high? School you, know your quarterback

867
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 5: in the fall and you're you, know leader of the

868
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 5: baseball team in the.

869
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: Spring that must have been pretty.

870
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 2: Neat, yeah we had basketball and track in there, TOO i,

871
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 2: mean but again that's all we, knew like we this

872
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 2: day and age of you, know this being a specialist

873
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 2: in all this at such a young, age and it didn't.

874
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 2: EXIST i, mean you played football during football, season you

875
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 2: played baseball dur in baseball, season played basketball during basketball,

876
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 2: season you ran track just because that's.

877
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 6: What you we're supposed to. Do excuse, me in summers

878
00:43:59,120 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 6: you had.

879
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 2: Vacation now it's, well you can't play quarterback and you,

880
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 2: know because you've got to be seven on seven and

881
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: you got can't play baseball because you got you, know,

882
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 2: travel you keet go on. Vacation so it's just you,

883
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 2: know some, again, man somewhere down the, line things got

884
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 2: out of, whack, Right it's it's somebody gave a lot

885
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 2: of bad information where you know you're gonna be you're

886
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 2: gonna be behind in baseball if you play football and vice, versa,

887
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 2: right And, yeah it's completely it's completely not.

888
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 6: True it's completely.

889
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 2: False and you, know these, Coaches i'm assuming want, athletes you,

890
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 2: know they. Don't they don't want they don't want these

891
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 2: these you, know baseball, players because a lot of guys

892
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 2: that just play baseball turn into. ROBOTS i, mean they're

893
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 2: just they're just they're just robots and that's all they.

894
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 2: Know and it's you, know if if things are out of,

895
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 2: whack it screws them all. Up you, know they don't

896
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 2: know how to play with pain per, se you, know

897
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 2: because they're they're either hurt or they're not, well you're

898
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 2: you're very rarely in one hundred and sixty TWO ga

899
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 2: things plus spring? Training are you ever one hundred? Percent?

900
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, adam when's the last time you dunked a?

901
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 6: Basketball are you two days?

902
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:09,479
Speaker 2: Ago?

903
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 4: Really?

904
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 3: Yes and what what?

905
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 4: Happened what was the?

906
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 3: Situation were you in a pickup game where you're just

907
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 3: jamming on the side?

908
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 2: One so we were out in my yard and me

909
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 2: and my, kids you know, whatever jacking around and that's

910
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 2: that's hilarious BECAUSE i haven't done any ten years, probably

911
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 2: AND i was, like, MAN i ALMOST i still do,

912
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 2: it BUT i don't want to do it for my, kids,

913
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 2: right because IF i, Don't i'll never get at the

914
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 2: end of. IT i waited TILL i win In i'm, like,

915
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 2: man i'mnna give it. One just one LITTLE i. DID

916
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 2: i was, Like, OKAY i still got.

917
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 6: It that's that's. Funny literally two days.

918
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: Ago that is, so. Dad follow up, question when was

919
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: the last time you dunked a?

920
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 4: BASKETBALL i, mean.

921
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 3: Truth be, Told i've never touched a rim in my.

922
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 3: Life BUT i graduated five to two from high, school

923
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 3: so back WHEN i could jump a, LITTLE i was

924
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 3: too short to do.

925
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 4: Anything can you give?

926
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: Me can you give me literally three? Seconds hold?

927
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 2: On oh, boy it's gotta be a nerve food poor,

928
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 2: yeah Correat.

929
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: All, Right, DAD i found a. RIM i think you

930
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:10,879
Speaker 1: can jam out.

931
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 4: Here really. Funny what do you think about? This one

932
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 4: could do? It it's.

933
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 3: Perfect my son is five to, Six, adam and he's

934
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,240
Speaker 3: giving me a hard.

935
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 4: Time about being five. Hours, yes.

936
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 3: Exactly, So, adam your nickname was always the big, Donkey

937
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:28,479
Speaker 3: like when did you get?

938
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 4: That and who gave that to?

939
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 2: You, oh that's an easy. ONE i, Was, uh that

940
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 2: was my. First so it would have been ninety nine spring

941
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,719
Speaker 2: of ninety. Nine or no or two, thousand, anyway it

942
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 2: doesn't matter that. Early and it was got Remember Chris,

943
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 2: sexton of course you, Remembered, yeah, yes.

944
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 6: Of course you Remember Chris.

945
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 2: Sexton well it started in, spring And i'm, like, DUDE

946
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 2: i hated it AND i had a really short fuse back,

947
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 2: then and uh LIKE i was ready to, fight like

948
00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 2: that's a that's.

949
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 6: Enough, hahaha that's, enough and it just.

950
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 2: Stuck of, course IF i would have played it off

951
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 2: like it didn't bother me like, now then it would

952
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 2: have gone.

953
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 6: Away BUT i. COULDN'T i couldn't play it.

954
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 2: Off you. Know those guys had to push my buttons

955
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,800
Speaker 2: almost almost punched air and smooth in the face like

956
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 2: id in buy?

957
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 6: It that's a. Lot that's another great.

958
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 2: Story well, WELL i mean so we were on the

959
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,439
Speaker 2: bus and you, Know aaron likes to uh air, again

960
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 2: he knew how to push my buttons and we were

961
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 2: talking about football or. Something so he started talking about

962
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 2: football and how you couldn't make it football and that's

963
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 2: why you're here and blah blah blah blah. Blah SO i, immediately,

964
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 2: okay here's What i'm gonna. Do as soon as we

965
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 2: get to the. Hotel i'm going right to his. Room

966
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 2: as soon as he opens his, Door i'm gonna punch

967
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 2: him a right square and the damn nose And i'm

968
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 2: gonna go drag him to his dad because he was the,

969
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:49,240
Speaker 2: manager and lead him on the front of his screw.

970
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 6: Out, well he never answered the, Door thank.

971
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 5: Goodness that close that you that you were at the

972
00:47:56,680 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 5: door making this.

973
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 2: Happen on the. Door, yeah and he lived in AND

974
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 2: i MEAN i actually lived with him in the. Spring

975
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 2: he's one of my best. FRIENDS i love the.

976
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 3: Guy, Yeah And booney's made us laugh a few, Times.

977
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 4: Adam you've seen all of.

978
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,760
Speaker 3: His, impersonations, Right you've seen the offensive tackle And mosa

979
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 3: alone at the free throw.

980
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 4: Line do you laugh at him like we.

981
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 2: Do, yeah it's, Hilarious like and that's the that's the.

982
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 2: Thing it's, like you, know that was that's The AARON i, remember,

983
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,439
Speaker 2: right AND i you, know and now talking To aaron

984
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 2: and he you, know you got to get him about

985
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 2: twenty minutes into a conversation before you get you, know

986
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 2: you Get, booney you get you Get New.

987
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:33,319
Speaker 6: York aaron right.

988
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 2: Now And i'm, like all, right, buddy, look you're off

989
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 2: the record here, man relaxed and heat.

990
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:39,280
Speaker 6: Red you, know it's just, Us.

991
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 5: Adam does he do an impression of? You did he

992
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 5: ever do An adam? Dunism you know? Something did he

993
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 5: ever mess with you and do your voice or you

994
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,319
Speaker 5: at first talking to?

995
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 2: People not, really not THAT i can, like not THAT

996
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 2: i or, not you, know not that he did in.

997
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: My face, right he might, have but we're gonna have him.

998
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 5: On we had him on the podcast last, Year, adam

999
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,280
Speaker 5: and he Was he was so. Fantastic in the middle

1000
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 5: of a baseball, season he decided to join our. Show

1001
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 5: and you, know we told him exactly as we told, you,

1002
00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 5: like this is no heavy.

1003
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: Lifting we're not going to ask you about you, Know

1004
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: Garrett cole and all this.

1005
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 5: Stuff we're just gonna Talk boonie And tim And. Jeff

1006
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 5: and it was so much. Fun so we'll make sure

1007
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 5: we'll ask. Him we have him on again this. Season

1008
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 5: did you ever Do Adam donne behind his? Back and we'll,

1009
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 5: see we'll see if he comes up with. Anything i'll

1010
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 5: send you the.

1011
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 6: CLIP i love, it absolutely.

1012
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 2: Good.

1013
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 3: Adam you take great pride in your, career, obviously and

1014
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 3: you had a, really really good, career but.

1015
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 4: You're also very self.

1016
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 3: Deprecating So i've reminded you way too many times of

1017
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 3: your going two years basically without a sacrifice. Fly when

1018
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 3: you finally hit, one explain what happened when you hit

1019
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 3: a sacrifice fly after going one thousand and eighty nine

1020
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:55,720
Speaker 3: plate appearances without.

1021
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 2: One, yeah, no, again that's, Great AND i actually WISH

1022
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,279
Speaker 2: i wouldn't ever hit one going after, that, Right, like

1023
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,960
Speaker 2: it's just it's so it's such a such a that's so.

1024
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 2: WEIRD i just it's so. Weird But i'm pretty SURE

1025
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 2: i remember it was In Saint, louis and it was

1026
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 2: like a little jam shot to like short right scent

1027
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 2: or right field down the line in second basement called.

1028
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 2: IT i Think Ryan friel was on, Third and if

1029
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 2: it Wasn't Ryan, FREIL i wouldn't have had he just you,

1030
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:25,760
Speaker 2: know Did friel things and took off and and. Scored

1031
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 2: AND i was kind of in shocked because you, know

1032
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 2: we joked about, it BUT i was, like, MAN i

1033
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:30,919
Speaker 2: don't know IF i actually don't, know IF i want,

1034
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 2: TO i THINK i would have rather ground out second

1035
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 2: and get him over and just kind of see how

1036
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 2: long we can keep this thing.

1037
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 3: Going, Right so, weird, right it's here's how weird it,

1038
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 3: is sacrifice, Flies. Adam as you, KNOW i wrote a

1039
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 3: book Called I'm fascinated By Sacrifice.

1040
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 4: Flies that's the.

1041
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 3: Title Joey gallo hit ninety four home runs before he

1042
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 3: hit his first sacrifice. FLY i, mean how how could

1043
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 3: anyone explain?

1044
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 2: That? Yeah AND i went back and, looked AND i

1045
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 2: can't remember what it was during that, time BUT i, had, uh, Well,

1046
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 2: Nick Nick, krolet who's THE Gm now here's the video?

1047
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 2: Guy then h BECAUSE i was, like, man how many

1048
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 2: like guys lessen to? Outs and there blah blah blah

1049
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 2: sack flies like homers THAT i. Hit AND i, think come, on,

1050
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 2: PEOPLE i think it was.

1051
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 6: NINE i THINK i hit. NINE i think it was, nine.

1052
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:24,879
Speaker 4: Right nine?

1053
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 3: Times you hit it too, far otherwise it would have

1054
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:28,840
Speaker 3: been many Sacrifice.

1055
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 2: Yes so it's, like, okay would you rather have to

1056
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 2: at least two runs OR i mean we can take

1057
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 2: them off and you, know give me nine sack flies

1058
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 2: if that makes everybody feel.

1059
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 4: Better, well that's one of those bizarre. Statistics it really

1060
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 4: is right. That but you have such a good.

1061
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 3: Sense you told me Once i'm the only guy In

1062
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 3: major league history that ever got got a standing ovation

1063
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,920
Speaker 3: for a routine, flyout like everyone in the crowd was

1064
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 3: aware of.

1065
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 2: It, CORRECT i, KNOW i, know you know a lot

1066
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 2: of that has to do with.

1067
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 6: You SO i appreciate, that all.

1068
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 3: Right, So, ADAM i got such a big kick out

1069
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 3: OF i never forget. Anything it's a blessing and a

1070
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 3: curse for, me. Unfortunately SO i was with you THAT

1071
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 3: i was writing a story On Danny. Herrera you Remember Daniel.

1072
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 3: Herrera he was traded to The. REDS i think it

1073
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 3: was like at the end Of may And Daniel, Herrera, jeff.

1074
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 4: You don't know, Him you're not supposed to know.

1075
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 3: Him he's a great kid and a good little, picture

1076
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 3: but emphasis on.

1077
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 4: Little he was like five, six one hundred and.

1078
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 3: Forty, so, yes you remember, Him. Adam, Right so you

1079
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 3: don't remember what you told me WHEN i was writing

1080
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 3: a story about your new. Reliever, correct it's okay if

1081
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 3: you don't remember.

1082
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 2: It, adam is it a? Jockey, yeah it's all coming, Together, Yeah.

1083
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 4: Adam here's. Right here's here's what you told.

1084
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 3: Me you, said, uh, yeah we're really happy to get.

1085
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 3: Him but it was right before The Kentucky derby and

1086
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 3: we figured we might lose him for the weekend because

1087
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 3: he had to go right in The Kentucky, derby.

1088
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:15,240
Speaker 6: Right big brown. Whatever oh, YEAH i remember.

1089
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,760
Speaker 3: That but it was important for you to have fun

1090
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,439
Speaker 3: with your. Teammates if they're gonna call you the big,

1091
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 3: donkey then you.

1092
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 4: Are going to have fun with.

1093
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 3: Them. Correct that's part of the part of the beauty

1094
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 3: of the.

1095
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 2: Camaraderie, correct that's that's you spend way too much time

1096
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 2: with these people to not you, KNOW i want to

1097
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 2: know everything about. HIM i want to. KNOW i JUST i,

1098
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:38,919
Speaker 2: MEAN i enjoyed, it like that was the best. Part

1099
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 2: you hear it all the. Time but unless you are

1100
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 2: or have been around, THAT i, mean you got to, Think,

1101
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 2: man you're with these people From february to if you

1102
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 2: stink first Of, october, right that's if you. Stink if

1103
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 2: you're really, good It's. NOVEMBER i, mean you're that's a

1104
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,799
Speaker 2: long time to be with the same same DU's and

1105
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 2: that's over multiple. Years.

1106
00:53:58,120 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 6: Man so.

1107
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 2: You, know, yeah there's a lot of there's a lot

1108
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 2: of really really good. Times there's a lot of really

1109
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,439
Speaker 2: really bad, times but you, know you spend it all,

1110
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,320
Speaker 2: together you, know and it's it's awesome' that's the greatest.

1111
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 6: Thing about our Sport.

1112
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,120
Speaker 5: Adam in your second, season you made The All Star

1113
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:18,439
Speaker 5: game in two thousand and. Two my dad actually took

1114
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 5: me to that game At Miller, park which WAS i,

1115
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 5: mean just a star studded event when eleven innings ended

1116
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 5: in a. Tie any memories from being a twenty two year,

1117
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 5: old If i'm not mistaken with all of the very

1118
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 5: bonds is on your, Team, like what was that like

1119
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:37,479
Speaker 5: for you being that young in An All star?

1120
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 2: Game, well you, KNOW i, REMEMBER i don't remember a

1121
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 2: lot from. IT i REMEMBER i should have walked it.

1122
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 2: OFF i do remember, That, yeah flew. OUT i THOUGHT

1123
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 2: i had it center, field LIKE i really. DID i

1124
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,239
Speaker 2: THOUGHT i had it walked. Off And i'm already trying

1125
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 2: to prent my speech For letterman and all, that and

1126
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 2: it just kind of right to The i'm, Like, OKAY

1127
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 2: i really don't remember too much about that. Man AND

1128
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 2: i wish, again that's kind OF i WISH i. WOULD

1129
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:06,399
Speaker 2: i WISH i would have back then been able to

1130
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 2: take it all in and you, know go from, there

1131
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 2: because you, know at that young, Age i'm thinking you

1132
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 2: shall be here every every? Year, right every? Year like

1133
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 2: this is there's a nothing and didn't work out that.

1134
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 3: Way, So, adam again a difficult, subject but twenty eleven

1135
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 3: you had a terrible. Season you had really good years

1136
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 3: before them and really good years after, that but in

1137
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 3: twenty eleven you were you, really, really really struggled again

1138
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 3: speaking to the beauty of, baseball how difficult it is

1139
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 3: to play when you're off by just a little. Bit

1140
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 3: you go from a really good player to it not

1141
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 3: a good, player like.

1142
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 4: OVERNIGHT i asked you once.

1143
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 3: About that season the next year when you were really

1144
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 3: swinging it, again AND i, said what was the strangest

1145
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 3: piece of advice you got from anyone during the two

1146
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:59,719
Speaker 3: thousand and eleven. Season do you remember the QUESTION i

1147
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 3: asked you and how you answered?

1148
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 6: IT i do. NOT i do not remember, That.

1149
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 3: ADAM i asked you the question that you told. Me you,

1150
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 3: said my wife not the biggest switch.

1151
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:14,919
Speaker 2: Hit, yeah, yeah, YEAH i, Do AND i, wash, WELL

1152
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:16,000
Speaker 2: i should go get her.

1153
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 6: The greatest thing ever describe?

1154
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 2: HER i. Will it's, great what did She and she's

1155
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 2: the nicest person in the history of. PEOPLE i. Get

1156
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 2: i'll get home after another for four we're sitting on

1157
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:31,879
Speaker 2: the couch and she's, like you, know it was after

1158
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 2: a day, game.

1159
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 6: Not what you want for?

1160
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 2: Dinner she's, like, hey, UH i got a question for.

1161
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,480
Speaker 2: You i'm, like what's you? Guy she's, like have you

1162
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 2: ever tried to hit right? Handed you, KNOW i. DIDN'T

1163
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 2: i didn't know.

1164
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 6: WHAT i didn't know what to, say, LIKE i.

1165
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 2: DIDN'T i didn't know. WHETHER i didn't. KNOW i didn't

1166
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 2: know what to. Do SO i was, like, NO i. Haven't,

1167
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 2: no you know what That's you might be, RIGHT i

1168
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:54,439
Speaker 2: probably should try.

1169
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: That it Was, adam. Respectfully was she doing a bit

1170
00:56:58,520 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 1: and telling a joke or was she?

1171
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 6: No absolutely? Serious? Serious is hard of?

1172
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 2: That Like i'm tucking Like i'm in other, Words i'm

1173
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:11,240
Speaker 2: tired of seeing. This do something, else like anything, anything

1174
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 2: don't even care what it.

1175
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 6: Is do something.

1176
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 3: Else so the next, Year Ozzie gean told me That

1177
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 3: Adam dunn is my favorite.

1178
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 4: Baseball player of all.

1179
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 3: Time and, again sorry IF i hurt your feelings, here he,

1180
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 3: Said adam had the worst Season i've ever, seen and

1181
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:31,440
Speaker 3: every day he showed up ready to, go with a great,

1182
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 3: attitude and every day he stood in front of his

1183
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 3: locker and he took it and he faced.

1184
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,400
Speaker 4: It And ozzie was seriously so.

1185
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 3: Impressed most guys would have run swinging as quarterly.

1186
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 4: As what was all that about for?

1187
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 3: You that you were there every day trying to get,

1188
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:51,439
Speaker 3: better that's.

1189
00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 2: EASY i, mean you, know you sign up for one

1190
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two games and you know whether you're

1191
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 2: doing good or. Bad you, know once you and the

1192
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 2: WAY i looked at it, was you, know once you

1193
00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 2: became kind of an established, guy like you have responsibilities

1194
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 2: not just to, you not just to your, team but the,

1195
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:11,120
Speaker 2: city the THE pr, guys the the beat writers that you.

1196
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 2: Spend they don't want you. Sucking they don't like to

1197
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 2: see you See and that's that's the part THAT i really,

1198
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 2: LIKE i THINK i was able to to grasp and

1199
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 2: it really made the whole transition that whole year is,

1200
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 2: easy well easy as a bad word, is as smooth

1201
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 2: as it could, be as you, know ONCE i, realized, like,

1202
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 2: dude these guys are these guys hate it just as

1203
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 2: much AS i.

1204
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:33,640
Speaker 6: Do like they hate watching.

1205
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 2: This they hate, it, right it's killing them obviously not as,

1206
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 2: bad but but they're. Not they're not against, you, Right

1207
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 2: so it made it a lot easier to talk to.

1208
00:58:41,840 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 2: Them and the way THAT i, AM i, MEAN I

1209
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 2: i just here it is, man, like you, know YES i,

1210
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 2: HAVE i have my reasons on why it, happened but

1211
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 2: nobody can. Excusees nobody, cares you know WHAT i. Mean

1212
00:58:56,120 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 2: so let's go on to the next that they could be.

1213
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 4: Better, Right, So, adam what are you doing?

1214
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 3: Now what are you doing with yourself beyond going fishing

1215
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 3: and dropping your your phone in the? Ocean?

1216
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,840
Speaker 6: Yep So i've got four, kids two, boys two.

1217
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 2: Girls matter of, fact here in about an hour and a,

1218
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 2: half my six year old we have a something at.

1219
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 2: School some you got to build a, kite go fly

1220
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 2: a kite or something at three to, FIVE i don't,

1221
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 2: know but someone to build the baddest damn kite you've ever,

1222
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 2: seen and we're gonna go win this. Competition but, YEAH i,

1223
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 2: Mean I've i've Got i've got some stuff keeps, me

1224
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 2: keeps me, busy and, Uh i'm always finding trying to

1225
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 2: find something to do THAT i can get into an.

1226
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 2: Influence And i've got a baseball facility down. Here it's

1227
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 2: got eleven fields and, uh you, know just trying TO i,

1228
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 2: guess just stay in the, game but stay at the

1229
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,360
Speaker 2: level of the of the game THAT i. Enjoy, Right

1230
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:55,479
Speaker 2: it's kind of the high. School you know that that

1231
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 2: that kind of that kind of age.

1232
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: Group how fun has it been as.

1233
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 5: Four sport high school, athlete former major leaguer to now

1234
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 5: have children growing up in?

1235
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: Sport and how do you.

1236
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 5: Balance between you, know pushing too hard and being LIKE

1237
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 5: i know what it, takes but also not laying too far?

1238
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 5: Back like that's one THING i worry about as a,

1239
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 5: dad is like where's the fine line?

1240
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:19,080
Speaker 1: Here how do you manage?

1241
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:23,040
Speaker 2: That i'm fighting it? Now, Right so my fourteen year,

1242
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 2: old he's a. Freshman he's pretty, good, right he's pretty.

1243
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 2: Good he's pretty good, football he's pretty good, baseball pretty good.

1244
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 2: Athlete but the way THAT i, Am i'm always, like you,

1245
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 2: know kind of off off hand with, him like you,

1246
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 2: know let your coach coach, you, like you, know in.

1247
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 2: This and then it comes to a point where it's,

1248
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 2: like you, know NOW i feel like a. MAN i

1249
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 2: ain't helping him at, all you, Know but AGAIN i

1250
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 2: don't want to go you, know because we're so. Different

1251
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 2: so So i'm literally dealing with that. Now it's you,

1252
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 2: know he is his swing's, great but he's you, know

1253
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 2: he's a rity and he's a different kind of, player

1254
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 2: and SO i just kind of let it go and

1255
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 2: then IF i have any, Questions i'll video And i'll

1256
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 2: send it To Rick, exstein WHO i, thinks you, know

1257
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 2: probably the best hitting guy THAT i THAT i. Know i'm, like, hey,

1258
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 2: man what you? Got so that's that's kind of HOW

1259
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 2: i HOW i navigate. That but it's. Tough man's that's

1260
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 2: what you need to write a book, about Tim, yeah

1261
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 2: you write a book on how to freaking help your.

1262
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 4: Kid, Yeah, Adam i'm.

1263
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 3: SERIOUS i have written many stories about, this AND i

1264
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 3: worry that we're sending the wrong message to our kids

1265
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 3: telling them you have to specialize in baseball from age eleven,

1266
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 3: on which is the worst mistake you can. Make we

1267
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 3: tell our eleven year old you're a. Picture that's all you'll,

1268
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 3: do which is a terrible. Mistake so what is the, Message,

1269
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 3: adam you are giving to an eleven year old or

1270
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 3: an eighteen year old about? Baseball is there one primary

1271
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 3: message that you send to.

1272
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 2: THEM i send whether it's boys or, Girls and you,

1273
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,320
Speaker 2: Know i'll use my own kids as an. EXAMPLE i

1274
01:02:01,360 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 2: don't care what you. DO i don't care if it's, football, baseball, basketball, softball, track.

1275
01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 2: VOLLEYBALL i don't, care you're gonna do something, right and

1276
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be sports.

1277
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:11,960
Speaker 6: RELATED i don't.

1278
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:15,600
Speaker 2: Care we will, support but you're, you're, You're you're gonna

1279
01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 2: there's something in this world AND i get. It like

1280
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:19,919
Speaker 2: my six year old probably doesn't, know but my eleven

1281
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 2: year old's kind of figuring it out and my fourteen

1282
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 2: year old's kind of figured it. Out but there's something

1283
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 2: in here that that that's gonna motivate. You there's gonna be,

1284
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,880
Speaker 2: passion there's gonna be something that you're gonna enjoy where

1285
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 2: when everything else is going, bad, right you'll always have

1286
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 2: whatever it is to fall back, on whether it's you,

1287
01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 2: know like like, ME i don't care how bad it,

1288
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 2: is what's going. ON i go.

1289
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 8: FISHING i, Am, I'M i, Am i'm, good, RIGHT i

1290
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 8: just you. Know and that's that's the that's the spill

1291
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 8: THAT i kind of spill to those. Kids it's is

1292
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,360
Speaker 8: baseball might not be your, thing but if you love doing,

1293
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 8: it do. It but don't if you love, football don't

1294
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 8: let baseball dictate you love it football like and the vice.

1295
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:03,479
Speaker 2: Versa don't let people tell you you can only play

1296
01:03:03,480 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 2: one sport be. Successful it's not.

1297
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 4: True, adam do you drive the boat when you go?

1298
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 3: Fishing, absolutely and you're really good at you can, say,

1299
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 3: yes you're really good.

1300
01:03:13,480 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 2: At, That Tim i'm, Yeah i'm really really good at.

1301
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 2: It Yeah i'm. Fish, Yes i'm really good at, That.

1302
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 4: ADAM i would run the boat. Ashore, yeah within twenty.

1303
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,600
Speaker 2: Seconds, well you won't give yourself enough credit Out.

1304
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 6: No, No i'm not good on the.

1305
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 4: Water i'm not very good on land.

1306
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 3: Either BUT i just love it that there are a

1307
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:37,959
Speaker 3: lot of baseball players like you who just love being

1308
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 3: on a, boat getting away from, everything kids with, you,

1309
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 3: fishing everything. Else it's it's your second passion after, baseball, RIGHT.

1310
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 2: I, mean that's. It you got to have something to

1311
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 2: get away from, life you, know not just, baseball but

1312
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,720
Speaker 2: it's it's life like if it's, bad you know something,

1313
01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:54,920
Speaker 2: Whatever LIKE i got people in my house right, now

1314
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,200
Speaker 2: paintings drive me. Nuts and guess Where i'm heading after my,

1315
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 2: fight going into? Lake see you, Senday.

1316
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:05,160
Speaker 5: And you know you mentioned wanting to build the best kite.

1317
01:04:05,240 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 5: There i'm kind of not joking WHEN i say. This

1318
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 5: if you don't build the best, kite will we? Will,

1319
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 5: okay all, right never, mind yeah no we.

1320
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 2: Will we will Because i'm not letting the nerd hurt

1321
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:21,760
Speaker 2: over there at the school we go. To they're not meeting.

1322
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 2: Us they ain't have.

1323
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 8: It.

1324
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 3: Period i'm a denominator of every big Leaguer i've ever,

1325
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 3: met Including Adam. Done this doesn't matter what the competition.

1326
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 3: Is we're gonna do it right and we're gonna. Win

1327
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 3: and that's what Separates Adam dunn and every other big

1328
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 3: Leaguer i've ever met from everyone else is we're gonna

1329
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 3: do this properly and we're gonna.

1330
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 2: Win all.

1331
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:45,240
Speaker 4: Right, So, adam the.

1332
01:04:45,320 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 3: Last Thing i'm gonna leave you with is again another

1333
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 3: pointless statistic WHICH i just have nothing else.

1334
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:52,160
Speaker 4: To do with my.

1335
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 3: Life but you are one of sixteen players who have

1336
01:04:55,840 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 3: hit forty homers in a season with four letters or

1337
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:04,160
Speaker 3: fewer in your last. NAME i tell you that BECAUSE

1338
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 3: i went to a party with my Wife. Kathy this

1339
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 3: was a long time, ago ten years, maybe and some

1340
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 3: guy doesn't even know.

1341
01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:13,560
Speaker 4: Me he doesn't even say. Hello this is how he

1342
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 4: greets me at the party with.

1343
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 3: Name all the guys who've hit forty homers in a

1344
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 3: season with four letters or less in their last. Name

1345
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 3: AND i have to go into a corner at the,

1346
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 3: party AND i can't leave UNTIL i get it. RIGHT

1347
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 3: i ruined the. Party my wife was furious with. Me

1348
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:35,840
Speaker 3: SO i just want you to know that if anyone,

1349
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:40,200
Speaker 3: asks you are in a very select. Club, You Babe,

1350
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 3: ruth And Jimmy fox And Sammy sosa and Jim, rice

1351
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,960
Speaker 3: all those guys one of. Sixteen now do you feel

1352
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 3: like you feel like you're richer man today because of

1353
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 3: that ridiculous STAT i just told.

1354
01:05:51,800 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 2: YOU i, mean, yeah this is, Useful LIKE i don't.

1355
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 2: KNOW i would love to be able to know or

1356
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 2: just just, yeah like to know a quarter of the

1357
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 2: stuffs that you, Know.

1358
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:08,560
Speaker 3: ADAM i would like to just be the quarter of

1359
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 3: the size of, you just for one day in my.

1360
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:14,240
Speaker 3: Life in, fact IF i would like to be your

1361
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:17,600
Speaker 3: size in your, prime just once in my, life first

1362
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 3: THING i would do IS i would hit a home

1363
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:19,600
Speaker 3: run over a.

1364
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 4: Fence as far as you can possibly do.

1365
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:23,880
Speaker 3: It THEN i would dunk a, basketball and THEN i

1366
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 3: would go into a bar with no malice, intended just

1367
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:29,840
Speaker 3: KNOWING i could beat up anyone in the.

1368
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:30,720
Speaker 4: Bar IF i want.

1369
01:06:30,760 --> 01:06:33,120
Speaker 3: To that's WHAT i would do IF i were you

1370
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 3: for one.

1371
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:38,200
Speaker 6: Hour you're packing it all in.

1372
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 5: And then you need to end at an elementary school

1373
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:44,760
Speaker 5: and SAY i will build the best time ever.

1374
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:48,040
Speaker 1: EVER i love, that all.

1375
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 4: RIGHT i beg friend of myself a.

1376
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 3: Lot But, jeff IF i were to build a, kite

1377
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:56,200
Speaker 3: Tell adam how bad that would.

1378
01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:56,960
Speaker 4: Be Please.

1379
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 5: Adam this is a true. Story was in the first

1380
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 5: GRADE i was In Cub. Scouts my dad was in

1381
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 5: charge of The Pinewood derby.

1382
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 4: Car so you.

1383
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 5: Build, It you've got, sons you've got. Daughters so most

1384
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:13,120
Speaker 5: of the time at that, age school projects and things

1385
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:14,920
Speaker 5: like that kind of just end up landing on mom

1386
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:18,040
Speaker 5: And dad's, lap, right So dad ends up pretty much

1387
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:21,840
Speaker 5: just making the entire thing for. Me he unfortunately was

1388
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 5: out of town for the actual. Race so my mom takes.

1389
01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: Us to the elementary school all purpose.

1390
01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 5: Room everybody in The Cub scouts from first grade to

1391
01:07:30,320 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 5: fifth grade or there with their moms and, Dads and

1392
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,600
Speaker 5: you put your car at the very top of the ramp.

1393
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:37,600
Speaker 1: Against three other, cars and then if you win your,

1394
01:07:37,600 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 1: heat you go. On you get. It So i'm.

1395
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 5: Competitive, yeah it's a downhill, Ramp, adam and my car

1396
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:49,680
Speaker 5: defied the laws of physics and stopped on a downhill.

1397
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 5: TRAJECTORY i am not kidding and. Where let me tell

1398
01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 5: you the best part of this story and bringing this

1399
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 5: up is my dad got me a bag when we

1400
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:04,880
Speaker 5: recorded earlier this, week and in it was found in

1401
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 5: my closet from years, ago that car with the wheels.

1402
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 7: Removed but Now i'm starting to, Think, dad did we

1403
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 7: just not put the wheels?

1404
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 3: On, apparently, So, adam one hundred and thirty eight Cub scouts.

1405
01:08:20,240 --> 01:08:25,519
Speaker 3: Entered jeffrey's car finished one hundred and thirty. EIGHT i

1406
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 3: was in spring. TRAINING i was In. Phoenix do you

1407
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 3: know how you remember where you are when something really bad.

1408
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:32,040
Speaker 4: HAPPENS i called.

1409
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 3: HOME i was at the a's workout In phoenix WHEN

1410
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 3: i called home and, said how did The Pinewood derby?

1411
01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 3: Go And, kathy my, wife, said, uh not. Well jeffrey

1412
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 3: finished one hundred and thirty. EIGHT i, said out of

1413
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:46,799
Speaker 3: how many she goes one hundred and thirty.

1414
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,639
Speaker 4: Eight it was like your wife asking you to bat right.

1415
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 2: Hand, yeah, yeah you, Want you might want to. Stay

1416
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:53,679
Speaker 2: you might want to stay on the road for another

1417
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 2: week and cool.

1418
01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 6: Down that's, Great.

1419
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 4: Adam you it up with us for log.

1420
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:04,439
Speaker 3: Enough thank you such. Goods thank you so. Much for

1421
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:06,760
Speaker 3: having a good chuckle with. Us we learned a, lot

1422
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:08,680
Speaker 3: we laughed a. Lot that's what we do on this.

1423
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 3: Podcast and thanks for coming off your fishing. Boat good

1424
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:13,559
Speaker 3: luck with the. Kite have a great day.

1425
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 6: Today thank. Gus appreciate.

1426
01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:15,679
Speaker 2: It, MAN i enjoyed.

1427
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 5: It thank you so much To Adam dune for being

1428
01:09:19,240 --> 01:09:22,160
Speaker 5: our guest this opening day episode here on is this

1429
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:23,080
Speaker 5: is a great game or?

1430
01:09:23,160 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 1: What and he was so, Fantastic, dad.

1431
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 3: He was, Great jeff AND i texted him when we

1432
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 3: were done to thank him for being just so gracious

1433
01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:35,439
Speaker 3: to us and so funny and everything.

1434
01:09:35,479 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 4: Else BUT i felt the. Need you, know one of the.

1435
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 3: Rules in, Journalism jeff is you can't tease somebody with

1436
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:46,800
Speaker 3: a statistic and then not supply the statistics one way or.

1437
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 3: Another so we said during that, interview if you were,

1438
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 3: Listening Adam done is one of sixteen players who's hit

1439
01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 3: forty or more homers in a season with four letters

1440
01:09:58,680 --> 01:09:59,680
Speaker 3: or fewer.

1441
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:00,639
Speaker 4: In his last.

1442
01:10:00,760 --> 01:10:04,559
Speaker 3: Name, so, uh in case anybody really wants to know,

1443
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:08,000
Speaker 3: THIS i sent this list To Adam dunn just so

1444
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 3: he would have the.

1445
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:12,559
Speaker 1: List AND i must, say CAN i guess a couple?

1446
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 4: Before, well of, course go.

1447
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 5: Ahead, Uh Sammy, Sosa, yes we talked About Babe ruth.

1448
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 4: Obviously.

1449
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 5: Obviously Mel, Ott, YES i was thinking LIKE i was

1450
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 5: trying to think of three your buddy who you ran

1451
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 5: into the bathroom during last.

1452
01:10:29,479 --> 01:10:32,720
Speaker 1: Season Nelson. Cruz, absolutely And i'm running low.

1453
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:34,360
Speaker 4: Now somebody did it last.

1454
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 3: Year jeffrey for the first time played for The, yankees moved.

1455
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:40,320
Speaker 4: Teams it was always.

1456
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 5: One oh my, Gosh Jan soto of, course, absolutely right

1457
01:10:43,439 --> 01:10:43,680
Speaker 5: over my.

1458
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 3: Head, right you're missing you're missing maybe the Greatest you're

1459
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:50,000
Speaker 3: missing the greatest player That i've ever.

1460
01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 1: Seen, Oh Willie may right, right obviously.

1461
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:56,519
Speaker 3: Good, uh you're Missing, pops one of his all time favorite.

1462
01:10:56,520 --> 01:11:00,599
Speaker 3: Players Jimmy. Fox oh you're, done Jeff i'm gonna just

1463
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 3: read the.

1464
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 4: Rep, okay all?

1465
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 3: Right Jermaine, Die Norm, Cash Derek, Lee George, Bell Johnny,

1466
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:20,519
Speaker 3: Mize Wally, Post Carlos, payana And Jim. Rice those are

1467
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:25,799
Speaker 3: the sixteen guys forty homers in a season with four

1468
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 3: letters or fewer in their last. NAME i sent the

1469
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 3: list To adam dund AND i was expecting like a

1470
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 3: little bit more excitement on the other, end and he

1471
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:37,479
Speaker 3: just he just put a like banks for senitor or

1472
01:11:37,560 --> 01:11:40,680
Speaker 3: something like, That, LIKE i don't think he's that impressed

1473
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 3: that he's in a group like, this even though there

1474
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 3: are a lot of great home run hitters on, There

1475
01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 3: like he, was.

1476
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, THAT i, mean thank you for paying that, off

1477
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 5: because a lot of people were probably trying to come

1478
01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 5: up with it during the.

1479
01:11:51,120 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: Interview So i'm glad we got that whole.

1480
01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:55,960
Speaker 3: List last thing before we go, Here, jeff we mentioned

1481
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 3: That Adam dunn hit a home run Against Carlos sombrano

1482
01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 3: on Opening day two thousand and, five and then hit

1483
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 3: two Against Carlos sombrono the next, Year SO i assumed

1484
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:13,040
Speaker 3: that had never happened. Before but as it turns, out

1485
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:17,280
Speaker 3: in nineteen seventy, Three Richie hebner hit a home run

1486
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 3: off Of Bob, gibson and then the next, year in

1487
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy, four he hit two homers off Of Bob.

1488
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 3: Gibson now a couple things. There first, Off Richie hebner

1489
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 3: dad used to, work used to run a, cemetery and

1490
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:36,280
Speaker 3: in the off, Season Richie hebner used to dig graves

1491
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:40,599
Speaker 3: like that was his off season. Job he dug graves

1492
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:45,599
Speaker 3: at his dad's. CEMETERY i love, That And Bob, gibson

1493
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 3: who's the most ferocious Pitcher i've ever met in my.

1494
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 3: Life he got on an elevator years After Richie hebner

1495
01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 3: took him deep three times in two opening days in a,

1496
01:12:57,240 --> 01:13:01,440
Speaker 3: row and kind of went after him in the elevator

1497
01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:05,639
Speaker 3: because he was still so angry that someone would do

1498
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:09,920
Speaker 3: something like that to, him especially on Opening. Day that's

1499
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:13,679
Speaker 3: Who Bob gibson. Was one of the great pitchers of all.

1500
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 2: Time.

1501
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 1: MAN i love that we are starting baseball On.

1502
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:20,240
Speaker 5: THURSDAY i hope you're as excited as we are here

1503
01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:22,840
Speaker 5: on the, show and even more excited to give you.

1504
01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:25,599
Speaker 5: More is this a great game or? What This, friday

1505
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 5: we'll have a little bit of a recap from the

1506
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 5: first day of, baseball and then of course back with

1507
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:31,240
Speaker 5: You tuesday with another guest, Again.

1508
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 3: Jeff it's the best my forty fifth opening, day AND

1509
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 3: i don't care how corny it. Sounds i'm just as

1510
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 3: excited about this one AS i was about my first.

1511
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:43,639
Speaker 5: One thank you for, listening and as, always thank you for.

1512
01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:44,799
Speaker 1: Being a part of our. Family