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Speaker 1: Another edition of Is this a great game?

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Speaker 2: Or What?

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Speaker 1: With the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkshon, I'm his son,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Kirkshon. Dad, we are into the World Series Dodgers Yankees, Wow,

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Speaker 1: And our guest is a World Series hero played in

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Speaker 1: one of the best World Series of all time. David

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Speaker 1: Ross was the catcher for the Cubs back when they

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Speaker 1: broke the curse in twenty sixteen in Cleveland, so he

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Speaker 1: is a perfect guest to talk about being a World

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Speaker 1: Series champion.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and ROSSI was one of my teammates at ESPN.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure I ever had a teammate who maybe

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Speaker 3: laugh as many times as David Ross did, and he

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Speaker 3: will do that today on our podcast. But he will

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Speaker 3: also give us some sort of context on what it's

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Speaker 3: like to play in the World Series. And remember, Jeff,

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Speaker 3: he's the only player ever to hit a home run

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Speaker 3: in Game seven of the World Series and then retire.

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Speaker 4: He will tell us the whole story about.

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Speaker 1: That, and not to mention in one of the most

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Speaker 1: legendary World Series Game seven's ever given the excitement, given

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Speaker 1: the rain delay, given the extra innings, and of course

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Speaker 1: given the breaking of the curse for the Chicago cub

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Speaker 1: So David Ross joining us on this episode, really excited

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Speaker 1: that you're here. Make sure to hit the follow and

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Speaker 1: the subscribe button always for free. And I want to

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Speaker 1: take a quick moment to shout out Carl. Okay, So,

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Speaker 1: Carl Kosner. He is a big, big fan of is

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Speaker 1: this a Great Game or what?

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Speaker 5: Dad?

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Speaker 1: And he sent us T shirts. Now, obviously if you're

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Speaker 1: listening on the podcast, you will be able to see it,

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Speaker 1: but you can also watch on YouTube and you can

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Speaker 1: go at great game or what on Instagram. I'll put

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Speaker 1: up a picture of it. It says did I ever

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Speaker 1: tell you? I went to Walter Johnson High School?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 3: So for those of you who don't know the backstory here,

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Speaker 3: I went to Walter Johnson High School in Bethez of Maryland,

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Speaker 3: named after the greatest picture of all time. And I

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Speaker 3: mentioned that so many times in games that I've done

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Speaker 3: with the mischievous Carl ravage that finally I just turned

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Speaker 3: it into a running joke where I would say, Hey,

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Speaker 3: did I ever tell you about?

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Speaker 4: Did I ever tell you? I went to Walter Johnson

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Speaker 4: High School?

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Speaker 3: And now RAVI like in regular conversation on or off

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Speaker 3: I ever tell you I went to Walter Johnson High School?

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Speaker 3: So that's the backstory behind this T shirt. Carl Coosterer,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much for sending this.

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Speaker 4: This means so much. I'll be wearing mine all the time.

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure, Jeff, we're gonna have to get one

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Speaker 3: for Todd Frasier because I've already given him a fleece

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Speaker 3: pullover with Walter Johnson High School on it. So Todd's

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Speaker 3: a collector in his own right, so we got to

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Speaker 3: get him one of those, and we should get Ravi

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Speaker 3: one since he's played along with the joke for so long.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much Carl that we got to jump

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Speaker 1: right into the takeaways. Of course, we're in the middle

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Speaker 1: of a World series here, and one of which you

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Speaker 1: said could be one of the greatest of all time,

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Speaker 1: and Game one was evident of that, right.

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Speaker 3: This is the first time in forty three years that

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers and the Yankees have played in the World Series,

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Speaker 3: and we promised with all the star power five former

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Speaker 3: to have, I believe, seven future Hall of Famers on

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Speaker 3: these rosters, that includes Clayton Kershaw. So we were expecting

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Speaker 3: something great given the star power, but I don't think

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Speaker 5: Jeff.

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Speaker 3: That's one of the greatest World Series games ever played.

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Speaker 3: It is certainly the greatest Game one of the World

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Speaker 3: Kirk Gibson, pinch hitting, hobbling around the bases, hit a

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Speaker 5: But the Freddie Freeman Grand.

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Speaker 3: There were so many amazing elements. And Jeff, I'm going

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Speaker 3: So Greg gave me this headline to put up there.

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Speaker 3: He said, say, like a G six, And of course

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Speaker 3: he goes, oh, everyone knows that's East Movement, Far East movement.

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Speaker 1: You Far East Movement.

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Speaker 4: Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?

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Speaker 1: Popping bottles in the ice? Oh like a blizzard? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: everybody knows. Everybody knows six like a G six. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm all, I'm here for it.

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Speaker 3: But Jeff, just to make sure no one thinks I'm

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Speaker 3: I'm so square, I'm divisible by four that I made

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Speaker 3: sure that everybody knew that I didn't come up with

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Speaker 4: Greg Colly did.

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Speaker 3: Otherwise, people go, he doesn't know anything about music, okay.

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Speaker 3: And of course John Carlos Stanton did hit a home

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Speaker 3: the postseason in which he hit a homer. That's the

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Speaker 3: second time he's done that. No one else has had

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Speaker 3: two four game streaks with a homer in the postseason

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Speaker 3: Him six, So like a g six actually was the

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Speaker 3: correct headline, but it was the wrong headline because Freddie

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Speaker 3: end of that. So that's our first takeaway. Game one

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Speaker 1: And it lived up to expectations on how exciting the

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Speaker 3: And of course before the game, Fernando Valenzuela, the late

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Speaker 4: It was a tremendous ceremony.

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Speaker 3: Let's just make sure, Jeff, we understand who Valence Zeuela is.

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Speaker 3: He's not the greatest picture of all time. He's not

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Speaker 3: of the most important pictures of all time and one

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Speaker 4: As I've told you before, his first eight starts.

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Speaker 3: That season, he went eight to oh with eight complete

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Speaker 3: cohorts in this unbelievable story that Valenzuela wrote in nineteen

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Speaker 3: eighty one. But the best part of nineteen eighty one, Jeff,

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Speaker 3: Valenzuela beat the Yankees five to four. He threw a

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Speaker 3: one hundred and forty seven pitches, he was still the

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Speaker 3: That's all you need to know about Fernando Venezuela, one

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Speaker 3: of the most iconic pictures of all time. And the

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Speaker 3: last thing, and way off the topic, Jeff, the final

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Speaker 3: pitcher that the Yankees used in Game one was Nestor Cortes.

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Speaker 5: The first pitcher that they.

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Speaker 4: Used in Game two was Carlos.

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Speaker 3: Rodon and they were both born on December the tenth,

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Speaker 3: which happens to be pop Up's birthday, your birthday, so

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Speaker 3: this is very self serving. Carlos and I have had

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Speaker 3: several chats about sharing the same birthday. Of course, my

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Speaker 4: Hardly the point.

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Speaker 3: I just thought it was kind of odd that the

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Speaker 5: Game one of the next and I share the same birthday.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure there's a way around this.

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Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman is the game changer because, as we just said,

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Speaker 3: he hit the only walkoff Grand Slam in World Series history,

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Speaker 3: only the second one in postseason history, and he did

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Speaker 3: it at Dodger Stadium where Kirk Gibson hit the famous

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Speaker 5: And I'm just so fascinated.

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Speaker 3: By how all of that works, that Freddie Freeman would

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Speaker 3: do that. And remember, Jeff, his son Max, three years old,

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Speaker 3: had a horrendous illness this year that took Freddie Freeman

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Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman is the guy. And amazingly, Jeff, my friend

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Speaker 3: Rob Bradford looked this up. Three Dodgers on the team

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Speaker 3: who played this year, Gavin Stone, Tey, Oscar Hernandez, and

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Speaker 3: Jack Flaherty started Game one, are all born on October fifteenth,

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Speaker 1: That is kind of crazy to think about it, and

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Speaker 1: awesome that you were able to find that out. And

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Speaker 1: my Freddie Freeman takeaway from this is he is now

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Speaker 1: homered in five straight World Series games, dating back to

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Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty one, Game one, obviously, the incredible

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Speaker 1: the most consecutive World Series games with a home run

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Speaker 1: with five. So we'll see what he can do on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night tonight at Yankee Stadium. Maybe he can break

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Speaker 1: it now and get a sixth.

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Speaker 4: Wait to bring the knowledge. Jeff, I'm proud of you now.

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Speaker 1: It only took me an entire season to bring my.

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Speaker 4: Own cork jin.

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Speaker 3: So, Jeff, it got me thinking of I love Grand Slams.

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Speaker 3: They've always fascinated me, So I came up with the

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Speaker 3: five like most famous Grand Slams ever.

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Speaker 4: Wow, they're my five favorite Grand Slams.

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Speaker 3: who had just dominated the Dogs in the World Series before,

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Speaker 3: and they won that series because Johnny Padres threw a

442
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Speaker 3: shutout in Game seven to beat.

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Speaker 5: The Yankees two to nothing.

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Speaker 3: So, to repeat, every one of these guys is a

445
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Speaker 3: big leaguer, but these guys are not the most decorated

446
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 3: big leaguers, but they sure came up.

447
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Speaker 4: Big at the biggest time.

448
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Speaker 3: Before we get to David Ross's interview, Jeff, I just

449
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Speaker 3: want to make it clear how David Ross made such

450
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Speaker 3: a name for.

451
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Speaker 4: Himself as a backup catcher.

452
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Speaker 3: So I came up with the mount rushmore of backup

453
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Speaker 3: catchers in baseball history. Number one, of course, is Bob Yucker,

454
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Speaker 3: who was a much better player than he gave himself

455
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Speaker 3: credit for, but his self deprecating sense of humor is

456
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Speaker 3: what carried him. Jeff, when I was growing up, he

457
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Speaker 3: used to be on the Johnny Carson Show, The Tonight Show,

458
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Speaker 3: you know, every once in a while, and it was

459
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Speaker 3: the funniest thing of all time. And Johnny asked him, like,

460
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Speaker 3: how did you get started, you know, in your major

461
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Speaker 3: league career, And he said, well, I got I got

462
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Speaker 3: signed to play major League baseball two thousand dollars and

463
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 3: he said, and my old man didn't have that kind

464
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Speaker 3: of money at the time, as opposed to recognizing they

465
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Speaker 3: were paying him to join the Saint Louis Cardinals. So

466
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Speaker 3: and Johnny asked him, or Johnny asked him once like

467
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Speaker 3: what were the highlights of your career, and he said,

468
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Speaker 3: this is on the Tonight Show.

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Speaker 5: He said, I got out.

470
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Speaker 3: Of a rundown once against the Mets, and I saw

471
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Speaker 3: a fan fall out.

472
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Speaker 4: Of the upper deck in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: Those were the highlights of his career.

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Speaker 4: Jeff I made a speech in Milwaukee one night, and.

475
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Speaker 3: Bob Ucker was the MC of the show and it

476
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Speaker 3: was the funniest thing I've ever seen. He winged the

477
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Speaker 3: entire he was the MC wing the entire thing. So

478
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Speaker 3: they had just traded Jeremy Bernitt's one of their best players,

479
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Speaker 3: and Bob had to like try to calm down the crowd.

480
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,800
Speaker 3: He goes, look, everyone has a different side to each story,

481
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 3: he said, even I do. He said, fifty percent of

482
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Speaker 3: the people who saw me play thought I was the

483
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Speaker 3: worst player they've ever seen, and the other fifty percent

484
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 3: thought I was a disgrace to the uniform.

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Speaker 4: So that that's Bob Bucker for you. He's the great.

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Speaker 3: He's the most famous backup catcher of all time. Number two,

487
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Speaker 3: of course, Joe Garagiola, who was a great it was

488
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,400
Speaker 3: a good player, one of the great broadcasters ever, a

489
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Speaker 3: Hall of Fame broadcaster, hosted the Today Show.

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Speaker 5: So he's number two.

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Speaker 3: Number three is of course moe Berg, who played fifteen

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Speaker 3: years in the major leagues, and you know he's a

493
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Speaker 3: brilliant man. Went to Princeton all that and became a

494
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Speaker 3: spy in World War Two. He would fly planes over

495
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Speaker 3: Germany and take readings and everything else. So he's number

496
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Speaker 3: three on the list. And David Ross is number four

497
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Speaker 3: on the list because of course he did Dancing with

498
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Speaker 3: the Stars. He knows Eddie Vedder. He's done a lot

499
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Speaker 3: of things in his life. And he's our guest coming up.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to is this a great game or what?

501
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 3: And our guest today is my dear friend David Ross,

502
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,439
Speaker 3: really good major league catcher, former manager of the Chicago Cubs,

503
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 3: and one of my teammates at ESPN for several years.

504
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 4: We laughed and we learned every single night.

505
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 3: Rossie, this is my son, Jeff. I gave him this

506
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 3: voice and his height, neither one of what is good.

507
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:44,399
Speaker 2: Hey, did you get him the crossover?

508
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 6: If you go to the cross over dribble mood, you're

509
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 6: gonna be he He's gonna be fine.

510
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 2: That's all you need. That is all you need.

511
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 1: It wasn't until college that I was able to take

512
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: him to the rim, and I got a couple of

513
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: pounds on him, so I shouldered him at the end

514
00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: when I was driving to the rim. And it didn't

515
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: make him too happy, Right, Dad, that was not a

516
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: fun day for you.

517
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:03,199
Speaker 4: That's okay.

518
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 3: Jeff stole the ball off my dribble once, but most

519
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 3: of the time I could beat him off the dribble,

520
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 3: which Rossie went over that with our dog Tito.

521
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 4: Right, what's I.

522
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 2: Just about to say that we've already went over this.

523
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Speaker 3: Well, tell Jeffrey what you're tell our guests, what you're

524
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 3: talking about. These are the conversations we had in between

525
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 3: pitches of Major league games.

526
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Speaker 6: So we're sitting in the room watching the playoff games

527
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 6: and I think it was twenty nineteen, and Tim gets

528
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 6: a phone call. He steps out, and he comes back.

529
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 6: He can tell he's just a little bit, you know,

530
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 6: just a little bit kind of like his brain's distracted,

531
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Speaker 6: and said, man, ross Dows, say, what's wrong?

532
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 2: Times like my dog just blew out his acl.

533
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 6: My wife took it to the vat instead.

534
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 2: It's gonna cost like five thousand dollars.

535
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 6: Takes the l and he's looked at me dead pan

536
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 6: and goes, I mean he's not trying to beat anybody

537
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 6: off the dribble, and I almost beat my past. Thank

538
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 6: god I didn't because I was going to be on

539
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 6: TV for the rest of today. But we laughed so

540
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 6: hard about that, and then, you know, then we started

541
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 6: on the dog thing and trying to trying to talk

542
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 6: about how expensive expensive all that stuff.

543
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 3: After should ROSSI the greatest Stephen Wright comedian joke of

544
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 3: all time that he named his dog Stay. So it

545
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 3: really confused him to go come here, Stay, Come here, Stay,

546
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 3: and Ross so Rossie and I would just he would

547
00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 3: just look at me out of the blue one day

548
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Speaker 3: and go, come here, Stay.

549
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 4: I named my dog Stay. This is what we talked about.

550
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: Wait, there's a lot of nonsense. There's a lot of nonsense.

551
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,719
Speaker 1: Did you realize him becoming a broadcaster, it would be

552
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: ninety percent nonsense in five percent baseball broadcasting.

553
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 6: Well, you never know where Timmy's going because it's there's

554
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 6: like there's so much historical facts and knowledge up in

555
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 6: his brain. And then he comes out with the joke

556
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 6: of the day of like, you know, come here, stay, Stay, come.

557
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 2: Here, come here. H and then and then I, you know,

558
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 2: what I did would really shocked me.

559
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 6: He started talking about you know you guys talking about

560
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 6: you had Cal ripkin on and some some famous people

561
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Speaker 6: and the interactions there. Tim starts talking about his love

562
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Speaker 6: for basketball, and I was like, Oh, I love basketball too.

563
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 2: We shoot.

564
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 6: I shoot at the gym before I come in, after

565
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Speaker 6: I get my workout in, and he's like.

566
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Speaker 2: When where?

567
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Speaker 6: And the next thing I know, he's at the twenty

568
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Speaker 6: four hour fitting the gym with his bag in hand,

569
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Speaker 6: He's got the George on, he's laced up, he's got

570
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Speaker 6: the basketball George.

571
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 2: He is ready to go, and he starts showing me

572
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Speaker 2: some moves. I was really impressed.

573
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 6: I wish I'd have been able to play some of

574
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 6: them pickup games back in the day with the boys, right.

575
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Speaker 4: We had so much fun. Jeff.

576
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Speaker 3: And since the Dodgers are in the World Series, here

577
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 3: Jeff one night where this is two thousand seventeen.

578
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 5: I know, ROSSI remembers this.

579
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: We're taking a red eye after a game in LA

580
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 3: and we're going to Houston and we're in the parking

581
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 3: where we got to get out of the parking lot

582
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium, which Ross, you know how terrible that is.

583
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 3: We have no shot to make this flight until ROSSI

584
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 3: and Mark to share our other guy on the show

585
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 3: that we get.

586
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 4: A police escort because we got two major leaguers in

587
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 4: the car and we made the fly.

588
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 2: We made it, We made it, We made it. That's

589
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: a lot more text.

590
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Speaker 6: Had the text had the uh, you know, he's used

591
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 6: to those police tess scores, I think he'd be rolling

592
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 6: with the Yankees in the high class that high class

593
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 6: people he rolls with.

594
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 2: But that was we did. We rolled down the window

595
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 2: and we were we were booking it right, Yeah, David.

596
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: I had the chance to go out to dinner with

597
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Speaker 1: Mark Tsera and my dad and Carl Ravitch in Las

598
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: Vegas when the Winter Meetings were there. I was living

599
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: in Vegas at the time doing radio out there and

600
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: just talk about like next level Dad and I. When

601
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 1: we ordered red wine, we look at the bottom and

602
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: the smallest number you can find. He asked for a

603
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: different menu. I think he was like, do you have

604
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: anything else here like Las Vegas?

605
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 2: You're kidding me.

606
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: Just a totally different lifestyle than the Kirkchhins are used to.

607
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 2: Living, no doubt Texas and Texas.

608
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,320
Speaker 6: One of the guys, he's the best, I tell you

609
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 6: what you get your dad and Carl in a room

610
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 6: and start these two back and forth.

611
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 2: It is. It is just comedy for days. They play

612
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 2: off each other really well.

613
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, so David speaking of the Dodgers, and

614
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 3: not everyone remembers that your you started your career with

615
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and your first major league homer came as.

616
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 4: A member of the Dodgers.

617
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 3: You need to tell the story about your first major

618
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 3: league homer because if you don't tell it, I will.

619
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: Well.

620
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 6: I think our good friend Rick Sutcliffe tells it enough

621
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Speaker 6: for all of us. Yes, I've heard he was doing

622
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 6: the game in the booth. Uh.

623
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

624
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 6: I got my first call up with the Dodgers, and

625
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 6: I hadn't played many games. I had played in my

626
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 6: first game, but hadn't gotten a hit yet. I got

627
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 6: to start catching today nomo. And then in September, we

628
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 6: went to Arizona and we are blowing them out. I

629
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 6: think the score the final score is like nineteen to

630
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 6: two or something like that. But we're beating a pretty

631
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 6: darn bad and they put me in. I got my

632
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 6: first hit in that game off Andy or Pace's side

633
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 6: arm lefty, a double in the gap, and then I

634
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 6: got another at bat later in that game, and lo

635
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 6: and behold, they bring in Mark Grace to pitch. Okay,

636
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 6: so you know, I'm the rookie. I'm like, I need

637
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 6: all the hits I can get. I see him. He

638
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 6: steps on the mound. The crowd's going crazy and he this.

639
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 6: I mean, you guys know Mark, he is like just

640
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 6: a character. And so he gets up there and does

641
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 6: the fetter. He comes set and does the the fetter

642
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 6: on there. It plays the rough. It's going crazy, and

643
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 6: I forget it was Tyler Houston maybe probably was the first.

644
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 6: He popped up, and I remember him just laying it

645
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 6: in there. It was like eighty miles an hour, and

646
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 6: I'm like, that's right in my wheelhouse.

647
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 2: That's right, that's my fast peat.

648
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 6: You know, like I may not be able to hit

649
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,479
Speaker 6: ninety two, but I can I can catch up to eighty.

650
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 6: So he laid that thing right in there, and I'm like, well,

651
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 6: if he lays that in there to me, I'm swinging.

652
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 2: So sure enough, I get in there. I think Tyler

653
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 2: popped up.

654
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 6: I get in there and I'm ready and he lays

655
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 6: that first, that first pitch in there, and I hit it,

656
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,720
Speaker 6: almost hitting that Friday's Front Road restaurant and left field.

657
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 6: I astutely murdered that ball and I'm running around First

658
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 6: He's screaming at the whole streaming at me the whole way.

659
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 6: You gotta be kidding, you're stealing my thunder. Come on, kid,

660
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 6: you know you don't even know who I am. And

661
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Speaker 6: I meanwhile, I'm like, this is Mark Grayson on the mound.

662
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 6: So I'm sprinting around the base as fast as I can. Uh.

663
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Speaker 6: It was a really real highlight. But my favorite part

664
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 6: of the whole story is the next day we did

665
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 6: a radio show together and I'm you know, I'm a rookie.

666
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 6: I had't done any radio shows. He got on there

667
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 6: and I think I priced had five words.

668
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:02,799
Speaker 2: In the whole time.

669
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Speaker 6: He had us laughing. He had the radio host laughing.

670
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 6: He was telling the story. I don't even know who

671
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 6: this kid's is. He's given souvenirs to the restaurant up

672
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 6: and left field. Still this day, every time he was

673
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 6: doing he was doing games for the Diamondbacks and the Cubs,

674
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 6: he always used to say, no matter where I was

675
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 6: a career two twenty hitter, and he's saying.

676
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 2: That's the best hitter on their team. David ross that's

677
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 2: the guy you gotta look out for right now.

678
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 3: The way Sutt tells the story is that during the game,

679
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 3: Mark Grace, who's dear friends with Sutt, looks up into

680
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 3: the press box and motions to Sut, who's broadcasting the game,

681
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 3: what should I throw this guy?

682
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 4: I don't even know who he is.

683
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 3: So Sutt says, throw him a curveball, and Grace says,

684
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 3: I can't throw.

685
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 2: A curve He tells it just like that. He goes,

686
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 2: I don't know how to throw a curveball, so he

687
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 2: just laid it right in there.

688
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 6: Oh man, what a fun I'm so glad that everybody

689
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 6: talks time, you know, they think it's like a bad thing.

690
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 6: I hit my first home run off a position player.

691
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 6: I'm like, there is not a better story I get

692
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 6: to tell than that one. And Gracie's so great about

693
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 6: it that it makes it so much fun.

694
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 4: But actually, Rossie, there is a better story to tell.

695
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 3: And Jeff, you were there, so ask him about the

696
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 3: home run that you saw him hit.

697
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: His last homer Game seven Progressive Field, Chicago Cubs Cleveland

698
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: than Indians. I mean, yeah, maybe some people say it's funny.

699
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: You hit your first home run off of a position player,

700
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: but there's nothing more iconic than what you did your

701
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,240
Speaker 1: final home run in Game seven to give the Cubs

702
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: a World Series after one hundred plus years. That is

703
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: just unbelievable. And I think the best quote unquote career

704
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: walk off home run, your last home run and then

705
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 1: you're done, you retire.

706
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: That was definitely a cool one.

707
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think the story goes back in

708
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 6: the ending before when I came in, I let two

709
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 6: runs in. I almost got Rizzo killed on a swinging

710
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 6: butt from Jason Kipness through that in the stands, it's

711
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 6: second and third, and then you know, I let that

712
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 6: ball get by me.

713
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 2: It kicks off my mask.

714
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 6: John Lester, we weren't supposed to throw strike breaking balls

715
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 6: to Francisco Lindor.

716
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 2: It's crazy watching him in the playoff.

717
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 6: Postseason he had and knowing how young he was when

718
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 6: we played in sixteen, him and Jose Ramirez is really

719
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 6: cool to watch those guys performed still today. But so

720
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 6: John knows and he shakes to that breaking ball to

721
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 6: Lindor and he must have thrown like a thirty footer.

722
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 6: So I tried to get tall hits me on the mask.

723
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 6: I go to kicks off, I go to get up,

724
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 6: I stumble.

725
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 2: Over my own seat.

726
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 6: Go back, two guys safe, get the scores from second,

727
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 6: and I'm like, wait a minute. I just got in

728
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 6: this thing, and I was supposed to be the defensive guy,

729
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 6: and I just let two runs in.

730
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to calm down in the dugout.

731
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,439
Speaker 6: I'm up second, and sure enough get to face Andrew Miller,

732
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 6: who I know well and one of the best pitchers

733
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 6: in the game at that time. And I remember getting

734
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 6: the box and the heart rate was still up and

735
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 6: I was trying to slow down. He threw me a

736
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 6: curveball I swung through, a slider I swung through, and

737
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 6: then another one I swung through, so it's O two

738
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 6: and he threw me a fast I just stood I

739
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 6: spread out and got my two strike approach, and he

740
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 6: threw me a fastball. There was a ball up and away,

741
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 6: and I saw that really well because I had went

742
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 6: my two strike approach and slowed everything down, simplified everything

743
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 6: choked up. And so I'd done a little bit of

744
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 6: homework before watching some video, thinking like, okay, there's guys

745
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 6: that are going to face in the bullpen.

746
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 2: It could Andrew could be one of those guys.

747
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,840
Speaker 6: So I noticed a lot and I caught Andrew in Boston,

748
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 6: and I noticed a lot that he shook to the fastball.

749
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 6: Everybody knows slider's pitch, but he liked to shake to

750
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 6: the fastball. So the one two pitch, he gets the

751
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 6: sign and shakes, and I'm like, there, it is just

752
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 6: sell out the heater. If you'd have thrown me a

753
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 6: slider out and miss it by nine, but he threw

754
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 6: me a heater right through my wheelhouse down low, and

755
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 6: I touched it, and it's one of those you know,

756
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 6: you don't feel in that in that moment.

757
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 2: So it's going and I'm like, okay, I was choked up.

758
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 2: I stimil fight. I don't know if this is going out,

759
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: and I see ROJJ Davis sizing it up.

760
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 6: He's going back, just sizing it up, and I'm like,

761
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 6: if he catches this fall, I'm just gonna run right

762
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 6: out the right.

763
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 2: Field gates and go ahead. There's my retirement party right there.

764
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 6: So it just kept going and he climbed the fence

765
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 6: and it went over his head and then I think

766
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 6: I blacked out while I went around the.

767
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 2: Base this for a minute.

768
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 6: I can't believe I just went deep and all of

769
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 6: a sudden started thinking about, you know, we've got four

770
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 6: and we got three four innings left, and uh, I

771
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 6: still need to still need to get a lot of outs.

772
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 3: So yeah, Jeff David Ross the only player in Major

773
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 3: League history to hit a home running Game seven of

774
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 3: the World.

775
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,359
Speaker 4: Series and then retire. Rossey, did you serious question?

776
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 3: Did you ever think, hey, I'm still I can still hit,

777
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep playing, or did you say, no, that's.

778
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 2: It, Kim. I didn't think I could hit when I

779
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 2: was playing. Listen, there's a lot of times I drug

780
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 2: my back back to that dugout.

781
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 6: I was I was fine not doing that, but yeah,

782
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 6: it's just kind of cool still when I watch it,

783
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 6: you know, the oldest guy to hit a home run

784
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 6: in Game seven at thirty nine, and like just really

785
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 6: weird stuff that you don't ever think about till you're done.

786
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 6: But no, I think the only the only thing that

787
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 6: crossed my mind of coming back ever was we didn't

788
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 6: have Schwarber in the postseason until right of the World Series,

789
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,439
Speaker 6: so knowing how good he was and having be without

790
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 6: him all year and all those guys coming back.

791
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 2: I knew that the team was gonna be really good

792
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 2: next year.

793
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 6: If we didn't win the World Series, then maybe I

794
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 6: would maybe I would think about it.

795
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 2: But I had made up my mind.

796
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 6: I had that was such a journey the whole year.

797
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 6: How guys treated me, how the fans treated me. Uh

798
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 6: so so blessed to be a part of that group.

799
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 2: That was a special, special group.

800
00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:52,800
Speaker 1: You know, It's funny, David, because I went to Game

801
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,800
Speaker 1: two of the nl DS between the Phillies and the

802
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: New York Mets, and you know, just amazing finished in

803
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: that game, a walk off win in Philadelphia, and I

804
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: call my dad on the way home and he says, well,

805
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: I mean, that has to be the best playoff game

806
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: you've ever been to. And I said, no, it's not.

807
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: And we're gonna get David ross on because he's part

808
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: of the reason why the best playoff game I ever

809
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: went to was Game seven. And then of course I

810
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: was at the eighteen inning Dodgers Red Sox World Series

811
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 1: game a couple of years ago as well, so that

812
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: was third. But Game seven of the World Series unbelievable.

813
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 2: And we did that, We did that Redstocks Dodger game.

814
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 2: We were there. I remember how we were standing. We

815
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 2: were standing on the side for.

816
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 4: I don't know how many eleven eleven We had gotten.

817
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 2: Out there ready to go in on the field, and

818
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 2: that game never ended.

819
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, we went down on the field in order

820
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 3: to be ready to rush on the field and we

821
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 3: sat there for eleven innings and Travis Kelcey, of all people,

822
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 3: was in the stands next to us, and I'm sure

823
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 3: he's not going to worry about this, Rossie.

824
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 4: He had ten beers in ten innings.

825
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 2: I swear to god, I.

826
00:41:57,719 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 6: Remember him coming. That's the first time I had met him.

827
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 6: Man him a couple times since then. He's a big

828
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 6: baseball fan. I didn't realize it until he talks, but

829
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,320
Speaker 6: what a what a nice guy in that moment. He

830
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 6: sat there and talked and I'm like, what are you

831
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 6: doing here? He's like, I gotta be a practice tomorrow.

832
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 6: We'll get there when we get there.

833
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 4: So that was great, David Ross.

834
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 3: We're going to fast forward from the home run in

835
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 3: Game seven to him coming to work at ESPN and

836
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 3: we had a famous night there in Cleveland heading the

837
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 3: day before the All Star Game, and ROSSI did the

838
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 3: broadcast on Sunday Night Baseball and Jeffrey saying God bless

839
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 3: America or the national anthem that same night. So, Jeff,

840
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,919
Speaker 3: what happened after the game?

841
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, the best part and we've already told

842
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: it on the podcast, was Terry Francona told me before

843
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: singing the national anthem, don't get up.

844
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 4: That was his advice for me, or the most stressful

845
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 4: moment of his life. That's what he gets from Tito.

846
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: But Jeff, it did, calmute, it really did, because it

847
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: provided me a laughter. And now he's the manager of

848
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: the Reds, which is just so beautiful and a former

849
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: guest on our show now, but I thought this was

850
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: so he's great, and I thought that this was so

851
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: beautiful of you, Rossi, because you had to get on

852
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 1: the plane with the then Indians team because they were

853
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: going to the All Star Game too, So you guys

854
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: were kind of like hopping in and you weren't comfortable

855
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: with this because eight months before that you crushed their

856
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,439
Speaker 1: dreams of breaking their own World Series curse.

857
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 2: That day I worked with Boonie was Boonie did that

858
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 2: game with us, of course, and that day I learned

859
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 2: so much.

860
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 6: But The first interview that ESPN had me do player

861
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 6: interview was Andrew Miller before that game, not about being uncomfortable,

862
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, yeah, and I was just like, hey man,

863
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,439
Speaker 6: thanks for doing this so great but you know, he's

864
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 6: obviously awesome human and had an amazing career. But know

865
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 6: I had just done that and when we had won

866
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 6: the year before. But then after that game, to save

867
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 6: you know, time, ESPN put us on the team plane

868
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 6: with all the all Stars that were going to uh

869
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 6: the game, and they had a ton of guys on

870
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 6: there and all their coaches from being from the World

871
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 6: Series four. So I was so uncomfortable. I was like

872
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 6: Tim sitting sit behind me, next to me, whatever, And

873
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 6: I like got in the corner and was just trying

874
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 6: to like I'm not here and they're all walking.

875
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 2: By, just eyebon.

876
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 6: Some couple guys said Hi, A couple of guys like

877
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 6: what is David Ross doing on? You know, the team

878
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 6: doesn't know, And I am like just so mortified and uncomfortable.

879
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 4: Jeff, did you did you?

880
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: Then throw it to interviewing old As Chapman on the

881
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: other side. That is the most uncomfortable interview ever.

882
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 6: First one, First one, and I like first player interview

883
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 6: Jem and we were teammates, thank gosh, but it was.

884
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 6: It was definitely one of those like I you know,

885
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,280
Speaker 6: part of the part of getting into the media and broadcast.

886
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 2: It was. He was great. It was a really good interview. Yeah,

887
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 2: I was definite.

888
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,839
Speaker 6: And that night Boonie grabbed I did all this prep

889
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 6: work for the game. I'll never forget at all.

890
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 2: He stats down and all this stuff, and I'm in

891
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,360
Speaker 2: the first inning and it's just not coming out smooth.

892
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 2: And we go to commercial.

893
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 6: He grabs all my sheets of information, grabs him, crumples it,

894
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 6: throw through the trash. He's like, they want to know

895
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 6: what David Ross is not what the sheets like that,

896
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 6: Let's let him handle the let him handle the staff.

897
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 6: And it actually is the best advice I've gotten. It

898
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 6: freed me up to just go and see what I

899
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,800
Speaker 6: you know, talk about what I was seeing. And he

900
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 6: helped me a lot that that day in Boonie Jeff,

901
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 6: you ever talked about Boonie's warm up stuff?

902
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 2: Did you guys get on him? Oh?

903
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did that for us on the podcast.

904
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 3: He did his Moses Malone from the free throw free

905
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 3: throw line impersonation. We laughed for thirty minutes with Boonie

906
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 3: on the air, because you know, I told him I

907
00:45:58,080 --> 00:45:59,760
Speaker 3: don't want to talk to the Yankee manager.

908
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 4: I want to talk to my teammate for five years.

909
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 3: He could not have been more playful. And Jeff, how

910
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 3: many people alerted you. I had no idea that Aaron

911
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 3: Boone had such a good sense of humor.

912
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 4: Well, of course he does.

913
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 2: Hilarious.

914
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,720
Speaker 4: You just can't let it out when you're the manager

915
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 4: of the Yankees.

916
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:20,399
Speaker 1: I had life lung red Sox fans texting me, Oh,

917
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: I hate that I love him right now after listening.

918
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: You know, they were mad that he was so fun

919
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 1: and funny on the shelf.

920
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 4: Right all right?

921
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 3: So you so back to your career again, Rossie. We

922
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 3: can't leave these things out, no matter how much they

923
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 3: embarrass you.

924
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 4: You, I'm sorry.

925
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 3: Were a backup catcher in your major league career, and

926
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,919
Speaker 3: a damn good one. But I was at Chicago Cut

927
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 3: one night during the World Series, me and Sut and

928
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 3: he's ordered like a five hundred dollars bottle of wine.

929
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:48,479
Speaker 4: Typical sun.

930
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 3: David Ross walks into the Chicago Cut, this big time steakhouse,

931
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,280
Speaker 3: and he gets a standing ovation.

932
00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 4: You remember that.

933
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,800
Speaker 2: What was that? I'll never forget that. Well. You walk in.

934
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,320
Speaker 6: I had my mom and dad and my whole family

935
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 6: with me at the time, and Dave Flom, who it

936
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 6: takes care of me so well, there had set us

937
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 6: up at the table. My dad a former butcher, owned

938
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 6: a meat company, and I grew up around you know

939
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,800
Speaker 6: that lifestyle, working for him during the summer, so like

940
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 6: the steak at a nice steakhouse is like his dream.

941
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 2: So we're going Chicago.

942
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 6: Cuts World Series got the off day and everybody's in town,

943
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 6: all ESPN everybody, and we walk in.

944
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 2: I've got my little one now, who's nine.

945
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 6: I've got her in tow in the with the car

946
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 6: seat in one hand, you know, she sit there, my

947
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 6: two little ones and my wife at the time, and

948
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,399
Speaker 6: my mom and dad were walking right through the middle

949
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 6: of this restaurant, and these people start clapping, and then

950
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 6: all of a sudden they start standing up, and it's

951
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 6: like you knows again another like I don't know what

952
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:56,879
Speaker 6: to do in my hands, Like I got.

953
00:47:58,480 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 2: I'm a backup.

954
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 6: Catcher, you said, Like I get treated in that city

955
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 6: so well because of those people and what my teammates

956
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 6: had said and done for me. I got treated like

957
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 6: like I was the Anthony Rizzo's the John Lesters and

958
00:48:11,800 --> 00:48:14,520
Speaker 6: I was the two twenty backup catcher.

959
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 2: But uh, they love everybody there.

960
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 6: It's a lot of great fan bases have that Boston

961
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 6: has that they know everybody on the team and and

962
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 6: uh and root for everybody. And it was a special

963
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 6: special night. Dave Blom took care of me that night

964
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 6: and that that that was a special little Uh. I'd

965
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 6: gotten a lot of standing ovations that that postseas or

966
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 6: that the end of that year because of retiring, but

967
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 6: that was a special one, very unexpected.

968
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: Well you also at Wrigley Field, Do I have this

969
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: right that you got a big shout out from Eddie Vedder?

970
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 2: Yeah. Game five, My favorite World Series game was Game

971
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:48,760
Speaker 2: five at Wrigley.

972
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:53,319
Speaker 6: I I knew we were down three to one going

973
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 6: into that game, and I knew I was starting finally

974
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 6: at home, and so uh, just the lead up to

975
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,800
Speaker 6: that at a bunch of people in town, I was

976
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 6: super excited about catching at Wrigley in a World Series

977
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 6: game hadn't been done in a really long time. So

978
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 6: being able to start that game knowing that was my day,

979
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:12,919
Speaker 6: I just was super excited. I had a good game.

980
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 4: Uh.

981
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 6: Trevor Bauer still gives me a hard time. He said,

982
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 6: I should have told you he's doing me all fastball.

983
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 6: I knocked the crap out of it, and the wind

984
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 6: was going in. I got a sack fly, but it

985
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 6: was it was wild. But we come out and Eddie

986
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 6: Vedder stands up to seeing the the seventh thing stretch

987
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 6: and he goes on this, you uh just kind of

988
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:34,919
Speaker 6: what do you call those things?

989
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 2: Tempts? Uh?

990
00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 6: Nice little speech I guess he gave before he's saying

991
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 6: and uh, he said I would give a shout out

992
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 6: to we know he's retiring and we love him. Uh,

993
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 6: you always, You'll never be forgotten. All this like nice

994
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 6: and nicest stuff ever. Right before he's saying and he's

995
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 6: to give a shout out to David Ross, And I'm.

996
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 2: Like, what the heck? What life am I living right now?

997
00:49:58,880 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 2: What is going on? Yeah?

998
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 4: One of the great musicians ever. Even I know who

999
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 4: he is.

1000
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 6: He Uh, he a Hall of Famer and he's a

1001
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 6: Hall of Fame human too. He's he We've got to

1002
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 6: be good buddies. And he's just so nice to me,

1003
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 6: calls me, uh, text me every once in a while.

1004
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 2: He just like, we keep in touch. He's a great human.

1005
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 3: You're one of the most decorated backup catchers in history,

1006
00:50:21,719 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 3: and one of your accomplishments is Dancing with the Stars. Now,

1007
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,320
Speaker 3: you told us all of the stories of Dancing with

1008
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 3: the Stars and we laugh forever.

1009
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 4: But just just tell us what that was like. Backup

1010
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 4: catcher ends up on Dancing with the Stars. How did

1011
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 4: that happen?

1012
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, they called my agent, I mean my world that

1013
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 6: season with Joe Joe Madden's awesome, and I had just

1014
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:51,399
Speaker 6: annoys my last year.

1015
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 2: Jeff I said yes to everything. It didn't Matt, we

1016
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 2: we were going to we would get it.

1017
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 6: We would land in Philly at midnight and and Matt

1018
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 6: Caesar was like, let's go get Philly cheese steaks down and.

1019
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 2: This is my my area. We'll go do that. And

1020
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 2: I had never like actually gone down there, so I'm.

1021
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 6: Like, cool, let's go and me Riz decks sees we

1022
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 6: all went down there as a group of as went

1023
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 6: down and got cheese steaks in the middle of night.

1024
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:17,279
Speaker 6: Or we did the rocking steps in Philly, or I

1025
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 6: took our so our media guys on a helicopter ride

1026
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 6: in New York and one morning before a game, just

1027
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 6: like I wanted to. I had always stayed my rooms

1028
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,439
Speaker 6: get ready for the season, and I'm like, I'm gonna

1029
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 6: get out and do things in these cities I'd never done.

1030
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 2: So I had just said yes to anything that had

1031
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 2: really come up. And the season ended.

1032
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 6: What a great year, and Dancing with the Stars had

1033
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 6: called my agent and wanted to know if I was interested,

1034
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 6: and obviously my first answer was no, absolutely not, you know,

1035
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 6: and the woman that was directed the whole thing just said,

1036
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 6: can I put you in touch with a guy and

1037
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 6: letting you can ask him any questions, like tell you

1038
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 6: his story. I said, sure, you know, I don't mind that.

1039
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 2: She was very convincing.

1040
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 6: So she sends me Jerry Rice's number, and Jerry Rice

1041
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 6: could not have He did not say one negative thing

1042
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,320
Speaker 6: about his experience. He's like, I learned so much about myself.

1043
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 6: It's one of the best things I've ever done. The

1044
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 6: people there are great all this stuff.

1045
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 1: And so.

1046
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 2: I called my agent back and I'm like, you know what,

1047
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 2: I let's try.

1048
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 6: I'll be on one week, I'll get voted off, and

1049
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 6: I'll go back to my normal life. And that's not

1050
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 6: how it worked out. It was like we trained for

1051
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 6: three weeks. My partner, Lindsay Arnold, was amazing, a great cameraman.

1052
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,800
Speaker 6: They travel We traveled everywhere together. It was an amazing experience.

1053
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 6: I learned so much about, you know, my insecurities and

1054
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 6: my nerves and how to handle the work ethic and

1055
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 6: how much it takes to get ready. And it was

1056
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,320
Speaker 6: a great experience. I went all the way to I

1057
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 6: finished second. When all the way to the finals it

1058
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 6: was Craig. I had to hang out with mister t Child.

1059
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 2: That was really cool. They made me take off my shirt. Listen, Jeff,

1060
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:05,560
Speaker 2: listen to this.

1061
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 6: There is a professional bull rider who's absolutely shredded. Shaw Jennings,

1062
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 6: an NFL running back, shred it and Nick and Nick

1063
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,439
Speaker 6: by all the he had just come off.

1064
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 2: The Bachelor shredded right. And then this guy that has

1065
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 2: love handles this guy. This guy.

1066
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 6: So they're like, Hey, we're gonna do a guy's versus

1067
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 6: girls this one week and we're gonna take off our shirts.

1068
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 2: And I'm like, what we're gonna We're gonna do what?

1069
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 6: Like, you know, my kids are watching at home, their

1070
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 6: entire school, UH is watching I'm doing like hip gyrations

1071
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 6: to the camera, you know these things, and.

1072
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 2: Twirling the shirt off and all that stuff.

1073
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 6: And then I had to drop off my my eight

1074
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 6: year old at middle school or at preschool the next day,

1075
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 6: so it was like or lower school is called.

1076
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 1: So it was.

1077
00:53:57,840 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 2: It was a great experience.

1078
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 6: It was fun, taught me a lot. I went much

1079
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,920
Speaker 6: further than I ever thought I would. It's a lot

1080
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 6: of hard work. And I still follow a little back.

1081
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 6: Keep in touch with Lindsay really uh kind of regularly.

1082
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 6: We text back and forth.

1083
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 2: Every once in a while.

1084
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 6: And she's a great human and and and family member

1085
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 6: for life. She got me through that show somehow.

1086
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 2: I have no idea, but I have to.

1087
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: Say so I'm a country music morning show host. So

1088
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: your dance to Humble and Kind, which is one of

1089
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: the greatest country songs I think of all time, was

1090
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:31,880
Speaker 1: so good. It was so beautiful. How much choice do

1091
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: you have in picking your songs? Is that kind of

1092
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 1: chosen for you?

1093
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 2: Or she does it? And it was themed. We did

1094
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 2: one we did we did one thing that was magic Mike,

1095
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 2: like that movie where like, yeah, Tatum.

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00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: Takes his clothes off dat.

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00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, I had a magic dance that I went to.

1098
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 6: We flew from La to Vegas to watch them reheard.

1099
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 6: There was a magic MIC's show there watch these guys

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00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 6: rehearse and learn all these like different dance steps. And

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00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 6: then I had to go and again like just do

1102
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 6: things that were very uncomfortable. Yeah, very uncomfortable.

1103
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 2: So I didn't know you were.

1104
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 6: That's cool. You're a country music host. I'm a I'm

1105
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:15,399
Speaker 6: a big country music fan. I just got back post

1106
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 6: belongs to f one trillion.

1107
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: Love that unbelievable.

1108
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 2: I just gave a concert. He was great.

1109
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,760
Speaker 1: It's gonna win all the awards for the Best Country

1110
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: music album. It is. It is crazy how he is

1111
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,799
Speaker 1: in country music and has paired up with Dad. He's

1112
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: paired up with all of the stars, Dolly Parton, Yeah Combs,

1113
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: Morgan Wallend, Blake Shelton like this, I David. It's tough

1114
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: for me because I have to explain that everything in

1115
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: baseball terms. So this would be like, oh gosh, this

1116
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 1: would be like the best NBA player coming and playing

1117
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 1: in the major leagues and batting clean up right like

1118
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: on on the Dodgers this year. Like that's yeah, that's

1119
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: how big it is. And he's great. He's a star

1120
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: and everybody loves us.

1121
00:55:57,160 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 2: He got and he got all the All Stars basically

1122
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 2: to play with him.

1123
00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:05,360
Speaker 6: So he like play with Judge and Soto and Machado

1124
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 6: like he just a collected mixed one of I've gotten

1125
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 6: to know one of his steel guitar player uh and

1126
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 6: Ernest who he wrote a song with. I gotten to

1127
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 6: know them pretty well. And so they played Lester's retirement party.

1128
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 6: So we met them and I've known them since he retired,

1129
00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,640
Speaker 6: and it's gotten to be I saw him in Finway

1130
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,319
Speaker 6: and I just saw him over in Orange Beach last week.

1131
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:26,439
Speaker 6: I saw Better on Tuesday night, and I saw post

1132
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 6: Alone on Wednesday night, and in Finway that was a

1133
00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 6: great show, a great show, amazing.

1134
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:36,839
Speaker 3: On our podcast is here, Johnny Bench sang for us,

1135
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 3: Todd Frazier sang for us. Both of them were exceptionally good.

1136
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:46,520
Speaker 3: Now do you have any musical ability? We now know

1137
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:50,320
Speaker 3: you can dance, Can you play anything? Can you sing anything?

1138
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 2: Well?

1139
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 6: You know, I do, I do tend to what The

1140
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 6: one of the greatest influence on my life were a

1141
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 6: guy by named Ryan Dempster.

1142
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:01,359
Speaker 2: And every time I go to his house, it's karaoke night.

1143
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 6: Me and him in the basement, back and forth, or

1144
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 6: at a or at a local bar, the heat spot

1145
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 6: that he knows, and we just go to town.

1146
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 2: So I love.

1147
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say I'm good. I can carry a tune,

1148
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 6: but it's like dancing. I got rhythm. I know where

1149
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 6: to start, but I it's gonna it's not gonna go

1150
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:19,959
Speaker 6: high low. I try to get up there with Brooks

1151
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 6: and don I'm gonna be in trouble, you know, so

1152
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 6: we're I keep it. I keep it private, a little more,

1153
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 6: a little more, just so I can what what what

1154
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 6: is it?

1155
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 3: What is a karaoke choice for you? What could you

1156
00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 3: do that better than most people could?

1157
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 2: It's okay, I'm old school. I grew up on Alabama,

1158
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 2: so like I love. I love the group Alabama. I

1159
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 2: sing a lot. I've seen Red Dirt Road a lot

1160
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 2: from you know.

1161
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 6: My go to is Uptown Funk by Bruno marsh Town,

1162
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 6: Fuck you Up, Up, Town, Funk you Up.

1163
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,960
Speaker 2: Yeah we go. We're gonna get the crowd high singing

1164
00:57:58,040 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 2: with me.

1165
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: One of my dad's favorite slash least favorite song. We

1166
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: were at a wedding and that was playing, and he

1167
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 1: looks at me and goes, what does it mean? What

1168
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: is uptown funk?

1169
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 2: Hey? I saw him in concert in Vegas. That was

1170
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 2: a good one too. I've been on it like a concert.

1171
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 1: I saw Bruno Mars in Vegas. I still say to

1172
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: this day, top five concert I've ever been.

1173
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 4: To in my life.

1174
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 2: Diddo, diddo. I don't think I sat down. I danced

1175
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 2: the entire time.

1176
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 6: With my daughter for her eight seventeenth birthday, her and

1177
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 6: her best friend and we went out there and then

1178
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 6: we had we saw her in Adele. I met him,

1179
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 6: him and Adele and it was like two nights of

1180
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 6: like great music.

1181
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 2: Kim. This just brought up another story. Remember when pit

1182
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 2: Bull Star game you were there, Oh my god, you

1183
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 2: had who was an Eddie said he's a big fan

1184
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 2: or was that car.

1185
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 4: And had brought him over. I had no idea who

1186
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 4: he was.

1187
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 3: And pitt Bull says, I understand you're my biggest fan,

1188
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 3: and I'm thinking.

1189
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 4: Who is this guy? And then he then he gave

1190
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 4: me this complicated handshake. I couldn't even understand.

1191
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 2: What it was.

1192
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 4: Oh, it was so awful. It was so bad. Jeff.

1193
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 3: The story that has to be told is they ambushed

1194
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 3: me on Baseball Tonight. They ambushed me on the air

1195
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 3: doing some ridiculous dance at aunt Jerry Ann's wedding that

1196
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 3: you took the video of and passed it along to

1197
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 3: the producers at Baseball Tonight. And the song I was

1198
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 3: singing dancing to was Uptown Funk You Up, which.

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00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: Rossie I got At the end of a Baseball Tonight episode,

1200
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 1: Dad said he was gonna be off for a week.

1201
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be on the show. There are like

1202
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: why he's that, I'm going to a wedding. Of course

1203
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: they asked you dance at the wedding. He said, absolutely not.

1204
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: They slid into my Twitter DMS and said, if he dances,

1205
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: you need to take a video. I'm an impressionable twenty

1206
00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 1: year old at the time. Of course I'm gonna take

1207
00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 1: a video and it ends up blowing up all over ESPN.

1208
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,120
Speaker 2: Greg Colly. Greg Colly has a way to get to people.

1209
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 2: He he he stayed videos boy.

1210
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 3: Well, he and and and are from the same company.

1211
01:00:13,880 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 3: And NN was is always looking for the joke and

1212
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 3: he just crushed me on. So the story there, ROSSI

1213
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 3: is the next day because this goes all over the internet.

1214
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 4: Me and Pitt Pull. The next day at the All

1215
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 4: Star Game, Mike Trout, the best player.

1216
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 3: In baseball, comes up to me with this look on

1217
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 3: his face and he goes, I heard you met Pitt

1218
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 3: Poll yesterday?

1219
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 2: Is that right?

1220
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 3: And it was like it was like I was a

1221
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,640
Speaker 3: rock star because I met Pitt Pull. That's what Mike

1222
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 3: Trout said to me. I was astonished. I didn't even

1223
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 3: know who he was. Mister three five.

1224
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 2: It's hard to you, Timmy, you were rattle that day.

1225
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 6: I love it.

1226
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 5: I love it all right, Well.

1227
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 2: Hurts already and we're just getting started.

1228
01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: Right right, Rossie, I do have I do have one

1229
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 1: question because we had Jeff Frankre on the podcast and

1230
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: he told us an amazing story of Bobby Cox telling

1231
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 1: Jeff Frankcore to fake an injury in spring training so

1232
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 1: Frankie could go play golf with Tiger Woods. And we

1233
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: put it on Instagram and he said he had never

1234
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: this is very selfish of us, never told that story.

1235
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: We put it on Instagram. It like exploded. Everybody's saying,

1236
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: Bobby Cox, what a guy. He's the guy.

1237
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 4: But he gave you.

1238
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 1: Bobby Cox gave you advice heading into your managerial career.

1239
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 6: Is that right, Yeah, yeah, I mean he was. He

1240
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 6: just said, you know, I called everybody. I tried to

1241
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 6: talk to as many people as I possibly could. And

1242
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 6: Bobby is literally if you ask anybody about Boby, the

1243
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 6: first words out of the mouse he's the best. And

1244
01:01:47,200 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 6: he's so simple when it comes to like relatability that

1245
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 6: it feels like he can relate to everybody. And he

1246
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 6: just said, you know, he told me a little bit

1247
01:01:56,320 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 6: about his journey and how things mapped out for him

1248
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 6: and saying, you know, like you take these jobs to

1249
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 6: you get hired, to get fired basically, and to do

1250
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 6: it your way, you know, like take it all in,

1251
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 6: do what But at the end of the day, you're

1252
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 6: the one that is is head of the ship and

1253
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 6: it's gonna fall on you good or bad. So do

1254
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 6: what you believe grow but stick to stick to your

1255
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 6: guns and basically do it your way, you know, which

1256
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 6: was a great advice because there's just so many different

1257
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 6: things to get thrown at you looking back, and it

1258
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 6: was really really good advice.

1259
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 3: Rossiy, tell the story about when you played for Bobby

1260
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 3: and you guys were down like eight to nothing in

1261
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:41,439
Speaker 3: the second eight You told me that story.

1262
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 4: Tell it again, please, yeah.

1263
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 6: He Well, Bobby had a way of you know, the

1264
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:51,919
Speaker 6: manager carries such a such a presence no matter whether

1265
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,760
Speaker 6: they're young or old. It's it's I respected the seat

1266
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 6: most guys do. And he would have a way in

1267
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 6: the food room of just like hey, Ross, way to go.

1268
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 6: You hadn't seen him all day, and I hadn't played

1269
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 6: in five days. Brian McCann's a starter.

1270
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 2: And you leave like way to go? What did I do?

1271
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 6: We at least the manager. I'm in good grace with

1272
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 6: the manager, you know, like things are well. I ain't

1273
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 6: got a hit in a month, but I'm we're all

1274
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 6: fin you know.

1275
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 2: And I caught.

1276
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:22,920
Speaker 6: I had got a day game in Atlanta and Roy

1277
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 6: Holliday was pitching and he was carving. I was over

1278
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 6: four with four punchouts, and I don't know, I mean,

1279
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 6: I may have fouled off two balls.

1280
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 2: It was not a good day.

1281
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 6: And I'm walking, I'm dragging my bat back to the dugout,

1282
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:39,480
Speaker 6: pissed off. We're getting our butts kick. And he right

1283
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 6: as you walked by me, passed me on the bucks

1284
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 6: like man, Rossie, that good. That guy's nasty today. And

1285
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 6: I'll never forget how that made me feel and just

1286
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 6: being I was so down on myself, and he was like, no, no, no,

1287
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 6: give credit to the guy on the mound. He did

1288
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 6: a great job. He's doing a great job. Has nothing

1289
01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 6: to do with you. That guy's nasty. Today's making everybody

1290
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 6: look bad. So it just was a mindset flip when

1291
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,480
Speaker 6: you know your manager isn't down on you, or just

1292
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 6: the awkward silence and just something like, man, that guy's nasty.

1293
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 6: I've tried to realize how much that affected me mentally

1294
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 6: to stay positive about myself because I think this game

1295
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 6: is a game of failure. We're going to go through

1296
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:21,840
Speaker 6: ups and downs, especially as a backup. And the fact

1297
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:24,200
Speaker 6: that he gave credit to the guy on the mound

1298
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,439
Speaker 6: made me turn and a little bit of like maybe

1299
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 6: it don't suck go bad and.

1300
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 5: I got really good out there.

1301
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:34,320
Speaker 1: Well, Rozzie, I have to ask this because we had

1302
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: Johnny Bench on the podcast earlier this year as well.

1303
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: Obviously both of you spent your time as catchers. My

1304
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 1: dad asked this just journalistic beauty of a question asking

1305
01:04:47,280 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: Johnny Bench, can you still get in a squad? And

1306
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: all Johnny Bench said was why so, Brenda, He's in

1307
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:02,439
Speaker 1: his seventies. You're forty seven. Yeah you can you still

1308
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: get down like you used to?

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01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can squat. I tell everybody I can squat.

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01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can get back squad. You

1311
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 2: know what I'd hate to try to do? I think

1312
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:13,840
Speaker 2: about a lot.

1313
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 6: I would hate to try to block a baseball, you know,

1314
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 6: like you know, getting up and somebody, you know, the

1315
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 6: guy on third, two outs and you know the O

1316
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:23,960
Speaker 6: two breaking ball is going to be in the dirt, Timmy,

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01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 6: I don't.

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01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 2: I don't know if I mentally I can get to

1319
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 2: that place to make sure that ball didn't get by

1320
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 2: me but for us.

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01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 3: So you did that a billion times, but once you're

1322
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 3: done doing that, you don't want to go back.

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01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 4: Agreed, no doubt.

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01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:41,440
Speaker 6: Well, and two you realize you if you stop, you

1325
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 6: know the whole. If you don't use it, you lose it.

1326
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 6: Like that's the true statement. Because I don't know, Like

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01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:49,440
Speaker 6: I hadn't. I joke with everybody, I don't. I don't

1328
01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:51,480
Speaker 6: pick up a bat too often because my last one

1329
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:54,840
Speaker 6: with a gay Steven hallwork. I'm not doing that one.

1330
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:59,439
Speaker 6: But the catching stuff would be fine.

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01:05:59,440 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 2: I wouldn't.

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01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 6: I'd like to catch a pin. I probably couldn't be

1333
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:04,280
Speaker 6: down there very long, but I'd like to catch some bullpins.

1334
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 1: Uh.

1335
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 6: That's that was like my fun time is back behind.

1336
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 6: I love that, the cat and mouse of calling a game.

1337
01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 6: And you know what I almost put on I'm not

1338
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 6: I hadn't really done this too much social.

1339
01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 2: Media in a while.

1340
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:19,960
Speaker 6: And Tom Brady the other day at connected with some

1341
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 6: autograph company put out he said, the greatest risk band

1342
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:27,800
Speaker 6: that's ever been worn, and it was his wristband from

1343
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 6: the Falcons game when they came back from that that deficit,

1344
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 6: whatever the score was. And I have my wrist band

1345
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:37,080
Speaker 6: from Game seven and I want to put it up

1346
01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 6: against like, hey, I don't know if this one they don't.

1347
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 6: This one lasted seven games, you know, like I got.

1348
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,240
Speaker 6: I got the one from Game seven of the World Series.

1349
01:06:47,320 --> 01:06:49,640
Speaker 2: So but i'd have the guts to put it on

1350
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:50,320
Speaker 2: social media.

1351
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 6: And you know, I'm not talking trash to Tom Brady.

1352
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 6: He gave me talking about a cool guy when we

1353
01:06:55,720 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 6: won the World Series in Boston and thirteen that off season,

1354
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:04,640
Speaker 6: I'm out golfing and my wife at the time calls

1355
01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 6: me and says, hey, you just got a package from

1356
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:11,280
Speaker 6: Tom Brady and I'm like, what is it?

1357
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:12,560
Speaker 1: You know?

1358
01:07:13,160 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 6: She opens it up and I still have him. I

1359
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 6: have these red Ug slippers that he sent every boy

1360
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 6: on the team, the right size and everything, like just

1361
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 6: I still wear them around Christmas time, these red Ugs

1362
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 6: slippers and with this handwritten note that said congrats, kick

1363
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 6: back and relax, You've earned it.

1364
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 4: So I was like, wow, Russy, how do you know

1365
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 4: him though? When you played for the Red Sox.

1366
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:36,640
Speaker 5: Did you get to know him when.

1367
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:37,560
Speaker 1: He was with the Patriots?

1368
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 2: No, I the only time, the only time. I know.

1369
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 6: We're in a semi clean podcast, but Jeff already cussed.

1370
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:50,240
Speaker 6: So we're running out of the tunnel and we're running

1371
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 6: out of the tunnel after we won behind the team.

1372
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:55,760
Speaker 6: The Red Sox had to run out for the Patriots

1373
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,440
Speaker 6: game and they did the whole coin toss. So we

1374
01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:00,080
Speaker 6: got to sit on the side for a minut and

1375
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 6: they started and we said, I said, what's up to Gronk?

1376
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 2: And I said what's up to Brady? The only time

1377
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 2: I met him?

1378
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 6: And I was like, go.

1379
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 4: He pounds me.

1380
01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:12,680
Speaker 2: He pounds me and goes, I like you, buddy, I

1381
01:08:12,840 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 2: like you. He has no idea who I am.

1382
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 6: He must have called the combous guy, got everybody's size

1383
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 6: and sent him off. But what a pro move that was.

1384
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 6: I've never heard of anything like that. And I still

1385
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 6: have these slippers. If I ever run into him, I'm

1386
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:27,640
Speaker 6: gonna have to get them send out to me and

1387
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:30,880
Speaker 6: have him sign them. But wow, really congested from him

1388
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,320
Speaker 6: to go through all that trouble just to send send

1389
01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:34,719
Speaker 6: slippers all over the country.

1390
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:35,800
Speaker 5: That is price.

1391
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:39,480
Speaker 1: I think everybody in Chicago would vote that your wristband

1392
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,120
Speaker 1: is better than Brady's. I know I would say so.

1393
01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 2: No doubt about him, No doubt New England. Chicago's bigger

1394
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 2: New England. Right. I don't know what's I don't know

1395
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 2: what the population is. I gotta be right.

1396
01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:53,760
Speaker 1: And that was one of Brady's like forty championships he won. Okay,

1397
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 1: this was the first one for Chicago in one hundred

1398
01:08:56,240 --> 01:08:56,720
Speaker 1: plus years.

1399
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 2: Totally rare, that's right, That's right, and it's dead in there.

1400
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:01,799
Speaker 2: No strike breaking balls to Lindor.

1401
01:09:01,960 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 3: You can't, Oh, Rossie, we can keep you for another

1402
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 3: three hours, but we gotta let you go.

1403
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for joining us.

1404
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: We had a.

1405
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:16,439
Speaker 3: Blast year, Jeff. This is just what it was like

1406
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:20,720
Speaker 3: when we work together. We're watching the game. ROSSI is

1407
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 3: teaching us all the room how the game's played, and

1408
01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:24,759
Speaker 3: then every other word we're laughing.

1409
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:26,320
Speaker 1: We laughed, and we learned.

1410
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 4: It was great.

1411
01:09:27,320 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 2: Well, pleasure to being with you guys. What a great show.

1412
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:32,920
Speaker 2: And I'm so thankful you called Tim and have me

1413
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:33,799
Speaker 2: on Man Mischief.

1414
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 1: Thank you so much David Ross for being our guest.

1415
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:40,360
Speaker 1: He is so funny. Dad, that was such a great

1416
01:09:40,479 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 1: grab to talk World Series. Love David Ross, thank you

1417
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: for being our guests today. And of course we remember

1418
01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:49,640
Speaker 1: his Game seven home run. Then he retired right after that,

1419
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:52,200
Speaker 1: only player to do that, and that I'm thinking back

1420
01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:55,760
Speaker 1: now to my time growing up. My first ever World

1421
01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:59,639
Speaker 1: Series game nineteen ninety nine at the Old Yankee Stadium.

1422
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 1: Tino Martinez hit a Grand Slam in one of the

1423
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 1: games and the game I was at, right, am I

1424
01:10:04,160 --> 01:10:05,520
Speaker 1: remembering this correctly.

1425
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:08,479
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And the Old Yankee Stadium was like no other

1426
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 3: venue in the history of baseball. They played one hundred

1427
01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:16,240
Speaker 3: World Series games at the Old Stadium. That's how great

1428
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 3: the Yankees were all of those years. And yes, since

1429
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:24,760
Speaker 3: we've been talking a lot about grand slams on this

1430
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:29,400
Speaker 3: episode because of Nelson Cruz and of course Freddie Freeman.

1431
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:33,000
Speaker 3: He hit the grand Slam off of Mark Langston, who

1432
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 3: had never given up, who had given up one Grand

1433
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 3: Slam in his career. It was to Dick Schofield, who

1434
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 3: was a little shortstop who hit a grand Slam off

1435
01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:47,160
Speaker 3: and there was all. The big controversy was he had

1436
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 3: actually struck Tino out and the umpire didn't give him

1437
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:52,479
Speaker 3: strike three, and then Tino at the next pitch over

1438
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 3: the right field fence. And then the next morning, you,

1439
01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:58,479
Speaker 3: mom and Kelly got on a train and went back

1440
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 3: while I finished the World Series. And Kelly was weeping

1441
01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 3: when she got on the train. She was like, you know,

1442
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:07,719
Speaker 3: she was like eight years old. But it was great

1443
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:12,679
Speaker 3: you were there and you saw a historic grand Slam yourself.

1444
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 1: So to everybody listening, thank you so much. As always,

1445
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 1: And next week we will have our final episode of

1446
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four regular season. But that doesn't mean

1447
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:26,839
Speaker 1: we're going anywhere. We're going to be keeping you updated

1448
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:29,800
Speaker 1: throughout the off season. Maybe not weekly, but you're going

1449
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:31,760
Speaker 1: to be hearing from us, of course, So make sure

1450
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 1: to follow and subscribe and follow us on social media

1451
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:37,479
Speaker 1: at Great Game or what to see some videos as

1452
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:40,960
Speaker 1: well Dad, another great world series. Let's do it. I'll

1453
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,120
Speaker 1: talk to you next week, all right, I'll text you later.

1454
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:45,600
Speaker 1: We crok all the time, but I'll talk to you

1455
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:47,000
Speaker 1: on the podcast next week.

1456
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:47,840
Speaker 4: I can't wait.

1457
01:11:47,960 --> 01:11:50,200
Speaker 1: keV, thank you for listening, and as always, thank you

1458
01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:51,759
Speaker 1: for being a part of our family.