1 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkshon. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon on 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: location today at your office. 4 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: In Popub's brand new office with a big screen TV 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: that you bought for me through our the bigger. 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: Our very slim winnings from this company. I thought I 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 1: would give us all a holiday president, and you got 8 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 1: a fifty five inch TV. Now, keeping in mind, Dad, 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: that before that you had a television in here that 10 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: was about thirty five inches. It's almost twenty years old, 11 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: and when it was switched out with this one, usually 12 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: you have to change a mount because the mount would 13 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: not be able to carry the heavier TV. However, in 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 1: this case, the twenty year old TV was significantly heavier 15 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: than the new TV, so we didn't have to change 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: amount or anything. So we're in the new office. Dad, 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: This is so great, And today and next week we 18 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: have something very special for you. We're going to take 19 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: you through our twenty twenty five guest highlights. All right, 20 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: so a moment from each one of our thirty eight 21 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:10,839 Speaker 1: guests for twenty twenty five. 22 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 2: Right, and as we know, Jeff, this is our favorite 23 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 2: part of the podcast. Are the people who come on 24 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: with us, and the way they made us laugh and 25 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 2: the things they taught us all year was really great. 26 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,520 Speaker 2: And we're doing this. We're taping this like three days 27 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 2: before Christmas, so we need to thank everyone and wish 28 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 2: everyone at Merry Christmas from us. By the way, your niece, 29 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 2: Emma adorable. Emma. She saw me with my shirt off 30 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 2: the other day. I had to change shirts because Carson said, 31 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 2: our grandson said, Papa, put this shirt on because it 32 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: matches mine. So I put the shirt on, took my 33 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 2: shirt off, and Emma looked at me and said, Papa, 34 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 2: you look like the Gridge. 35 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 3: The gridge is a green animal animal, and that's what 36 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 3: I look like. To my granddaughter, Emma, you look like 37 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 3: the Gridge. 38 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:09,000 Speaker 1: Let's say it together, Pap, Papa, all right, all right, 39 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: all right, let's get on with the show. First guest 40 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five we had was Phil Nevin, and 41 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: we had him right around the Super Bowl Dad, and 42 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: he has actually obviously a lot of Major League Baseball 43 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: experience managerial experience, but we really brought him on because 44 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 1: he was a college kicker. 45 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 2: Right, and we asked him, could you still kick a 46 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 2: field goal today? And he said yes he could. And 47 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 2: we asked him as a punter, could an average NFL 48 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 2: punter punt the ball from third base in over the 49 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 2: Green Monster at Benway Park. I'm certain that they can. 50 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: That would be a seventy yard punt and I would 51 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 2: have to go thirty seven feet high in the air. 52 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 2: I think he can do that. But mostly we talked 53 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: Phil Nevin about baseball and about Sho hey Otani and 54 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 2: how shohe sleeps better than everyone. 55 00:02:58,320 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 4: Else we were playing. 56 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 5: We had the eleven o'clock marathon game in Boston two 57 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 5: years ago, and I noticed that it was Showhy's day 58 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 5: to pitch. So I called him in and said, hey, we. 59 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,239 Speaker 4: Can adjust this. Because his workload throughout a year, you do. 60 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 4: Try to manage that and work through it and give 61 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,080 Speaker 4: him as much rest as you can without giving him 62 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:19,640 Speaker 4: a day off. 63 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 5: And he starts looking at it. He goes, Nope, we 64 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 5: play at one o'clock on Sunday. I can go to 65 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 5: sleep by seven o'clock. I can wake up at this 66 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 5: time and I'll be ready to pitch at eleven o'clock. 67 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 4: And I looked at his interpreters. He's just gonna go 68 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 4: to bed at. 69 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 5: Seven o'clock and what happens. I don't know about you, 70 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 5: but I can't just lay my head down at seven, 71 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 5: close my eyes and go to sleep. And yeah, he 72 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 5: pitched his head down, he closes his eyes, and this 73 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 5: is like a machine and he just goes asleep and 74 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 5: he gets his proper rest and he wakes up at 75 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 5: a certain time. He started preparing for that game, probably 76 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 5: a week and a half ahead of time. 77 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 1: Our next guest of twenty twenty five was Joe Madden, 78 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 1: who you know, managers always try to find a way 79 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: to connect with their players, especially in the house and 80 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 1: especially during spring training, because that really sets the tone 81 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: on what the team is going to feel like this year. 82 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: But nobody, and I mean nobody tried more interesting things 83 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: than Joe Madden. 84 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 6: During spring training. We'd all gather in the morning in 85 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 6: a circle in the clubhouse and it's like claustrophobic, it's 86 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 6: so small, and soci would just ramble and he would 87 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,000 Speaker 6: pick on guys to do different things, and primarily rookies. 88 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 6: One guy said he could play the piano. So next 89 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 6: day there's a piano in the middle of the clubhouse. 90 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 6: Dude's got to get up there and play the piano. 91 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 6: As an example, Ramona Ortiz says in the Dominican I 92 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 6: could catch fish with my better hands in the winter time. 93 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 6: So the next day we had a waiting pool with 94 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 6: live fish in the clubhouse and Ramon was out there 95 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 6: grabbing fish out of a waiting pool. 96 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 4: Whatever. 97 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 6: But the big one you're talking about was the Ostrich 98 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 6: Festival was being held. I think was in Chandler and 99 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 6: Jared Washburn whose game you know, I love watch. So 100 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 6: he assigns wash to go down there and was about 101 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 6: to get information and photographs or pictures or T shirts 102 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 6: whatever and report back the next day. And the next 103 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 6: day we're doing the meeting and all of a sudden, 104 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 6: Wash calls time out and the handler walks in, and 105 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 6: then behind him is an Ostrich and really in person, 106 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 6: these suckers are really tall. And that's when and again 107 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 6: Ramona Te's love Ramona teas its sincerely, jumps out of 108 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 6: his chair, gets on top of the lockers and starts screaming, 109 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 6: that's the biggest chicken I've ever seen. And it was 110 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 6: like freaked out by the whole thing. 111 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: You know, we start every episode by saying and with 112 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame or Tim Kirkshin. I'm his son, 113 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: Jeff Kirkshin. But Dad, you're a member of a different 114 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: hall of fame. That's the Baseball Hall of Fame. I'm 115 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: talking about the Stratamatic Hall of Fame, which you were 116 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 1: inducted into it early in twenty twenty five. 117 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, and there was such an honor, and I couldn't 118 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 2: even go to the ceremony because I was at spring training. 119 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 2: But I'm in the same hall of fame as Keith R. Nandez, 120 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: the Stratamatic Hall of Fame. And his dad always wondered, 121 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,159 Speaker 2: did he love stratabatic a little bit too much? 122 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 7: So I only played the National League, and I played 123 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 7: every game, and I was at one hundred and twenty 124 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 7: one games, and I got drafted by the Cardinals and 125 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 7: I had to go to spring training. So I packed 126 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 7: my bag and I stuffed my game. 127 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 8: This box. 128 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 9: On the whole bottom of my suitcase. 129 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 7: I flew to Tampa and I just couldn't wait. I 130 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 7: got into my suitcase and I went through my clothes 131 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 7: and there was no game. So I got on the phone. 132 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 7: And back then there was a payphone. There was no 133 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 7: cell phones. Nineteen seventy two, I called collected my parents 134 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:03,080 Speaker 7: the dad, would you do to my game? He said, sudden, 135 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 7: I knew you were going to try to break that game. 136 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 7: You need to focus on baseball. So I never finished 137 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 7: that season. 138 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 1: Our next guest is a repeat. He was our very 139 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: first guest in the podcast when we started back in 140 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, so we had to have Eduardo Perez 141 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: back on the show. And of course with Eddie, we 142 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,239 Speaker 1: talked all over the place about his Hall of Fame dad, 143 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: but we also had talked to him about playing baseball 144 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: in Japan, because baseball is expanding all across the world, 145 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: including in Japan, and it's so great. What he had 146 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 1: to say that happened in the middle of a game. 147 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 2: Eddie, Look, we all know Japanese baseball is great. The 148 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 2: guys that come here are greater. The whole country is amazing. 149 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 2: But twenty years ago, Bobby Valentine Dolby managing in Japan, 150 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 2: he said there are two types of players in Japan, 151 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 2: those who smoke and those who smoke a lot. 152 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:02,679 Speaker 9: Did you see that, Eddie? 153 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 10: Did I see it? I lived it, I lived it. 154 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 10: I can I can tell you many of stories. So 155 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 10: we always had one bus that was a non smoking 156 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 10: bus and there was there was probably like three players 157 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 10: in there, and then we had the smoking bus and. 158 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 9: The entire team was out there. Windows were pulled. 159 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 10: Down a little bit and it looked like a teaching 160 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 10: chong movement, but with cigarettes and smoke was coming out 161 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 10: through the sides getting ready for the game. There was 162 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 10: another game where Avon Cruz and myself, it's the time, 163 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 10: going into the top of the fifth inning. He gives 164 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 10: me my glove. I made the last out as usual 165 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 10: while I was there, and we're going and he throws 166 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 10: me the ball and I'm throwing. 167 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 9: It over to him. 168 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 10: I'm like, where's everybody? Where'd everybody go? The other team, 169 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 10: our team, the umpires, they're all gone, And I'm like, 170 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 10: what's going on here? And all of a sudden, you 171 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 10: can see the smoke coming out of both sides, both dugouts, 172 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 10: and everybody is squatted down in a corner. It's a 173 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 10: smoke break in the fifth was a smoke brake in it. 174 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 10: I kid you not, there's no other way of explaining you. 175 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 2: So our next guest was had him down who baby 176 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 2: laughed so many times, and he talked about the famous 177 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 2: nickname that he had and one of his best friends 178 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 2: on the team, Aaron Boone, who really knew how to 179 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 2: push his buttons. Adam, your nickname was always the big donkey, 180 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 2: Like when did you get that? 181 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 9: And who gave that to you? 182 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 11: Oh, that's an easy one. Remember Chris Sexton? Of course 183 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 11: you yes, of course you remember Chris Sexton. Well, it 184 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,840 Speaker 11: started in spring, and I'm like, dude, I hated it 185 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 11: and I I had a really short fuse back then. 186 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 11: I was ready to fight. That's enough, ha hah, that's enough, 187 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 11: and it just stuck. Of course, if I would have 188 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 11: played it off like it didn't bother me like now, 189 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 11: then it would have gone away. 190 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 9: But I couldn't. I couldn't play it off. 191 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 11: Those guys had to push my buttons almost almost punched 192 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:57,560 Speaker 11: air and smooth in the face. 193 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 9: That's another great story. 194 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 11: Well tell well, I mean, so we were on the 195 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 11: bus and you know, Aaron likes to uh air again, 196 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 11: he knew how to push my buttons, and we were 197 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 11: talking about football or something. So he started talking about 198 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 11: football and how you couldn't make it football and that's 199 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 11: why you're here and blah blah blah blah blah. So 200 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 11: I immediately Okay, here's what I'm gonna do. As soon 201 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 11: as we get to the hotel, I'm going right to 202 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 11: his room. As soon as he opens his door, I'm 203 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 11: gonna punch him a right square and the damn nose, 204 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 11: and I'm gonna go drag him through his dad because 205 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:28,080 Speaker 11: he was manager, and lead him. 206 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 9: On the front of his I can screw that. Well. 207 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 9: He never answered the door. Thank goodness. 208 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: That close that you that you were at the door 209 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: making this happen on the door. 210 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 11: Yeah, and he lived in and I mean I actually 211 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:44,679 Speaker 11: lived with him in the spring. He's one of my 212 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 11: best friends. 213 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:51,439 Speaker 9: I love the guy. 214 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 1: Our next guest is Dallas Bryden, and we had him 215 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,359 Speaker 1: on because he's a broadcaster for the Athletics and obviously 216 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: a former major league pitcher, and he used to work 217 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,959 Speaker 1: with you at ESPN, a former teammate. 218 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 2: I will say, in my twenty eight years at ESPN, 219 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 2: I think that night in Pittsburgh when Dallas Brayden left 220 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 2: the booth was the funniest thing I've seen in my 221 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 2: entire time at ESPN. 222 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 12: As we found out, this was my last broadcast on ESPN. 223 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:25,240 Speaker 9: The game was a pig. It was. 224 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 12: It was not great the weather was not great, and 225 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 12: we need we just we wanted, in true fashion, we 226 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 12: wanted to have some fun. We wanted to liven it up. 227 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 12: Our director, producer at the time, very very same mindset. 228 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,360 Speaker 12: That's just a fun loving dude. And he said, hey, 229 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 12: uh you want to go out into the stands and 230 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 12: run around? And I said, Uh, yeah, I do. I 231 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,080 Speaker 12: absolutely do. I'm in Pittsburgh right I'm in a three 232 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,640 Speaker 12: piece suit in the pouring range. I've got hair that 233 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 12: looks like it belongs on some poor mannequin. And the 234 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 12: fine group of Pirate fans who have stationed themselves over 235 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:08,120 Speaker 12: at the rotunda and left Field invited me over into 236 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 12: the fold and they've got flags waving, you know, they 237 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 12: got everything going. And I walk up there and I 238 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 12: got the beard. 239 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 9: They said, hey, you. 240 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 12: Want to wear a hat? 241 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 9: Said yeah, I want to wear a hat. 242 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 12: Said how about a patch? 243 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 10: You want to patch? 244 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 12: Said absolutely, I want to patch. What else you got 245 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,320 Speaker 12: for me? How about the flag? Said give me that 246 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 12: damn flag, Let's go. I just started running around the 247 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 12: ramp of the rotunda, running around the concourse up there 248 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 12: with this big pirate flag, waving it around and just 249 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 12: being a pool, just trying to have a good time, 250 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 12: and obviously we put that on camera. The feedback amongst Tim, myself, Ravi, 251 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 12: and the director and Edguardo, we loved it. We thought 252 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 12: it was great. Now, Jeff, I can tell you unequivocally 253 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 12: that some of the decision makers may or may not 254 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 12: have had a different feel at the time for how 255 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 12: that actually went. And I was shortly after relieved of 256 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 12: my game calling and ESPN duties altogether. 257 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 2: So our next guest was the great Tom house Man, 258 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 2: who fifty one years ago caught Hank Aaron's seven hundred 259 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 2: and fifteenth home run. 260 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,079 Speaker 13: Henry would take me a bucket of balls and I 261 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 13: would throw him sinkers and screwballs away because that was 262 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 13: one pitch he had trouble with off a left handed pitcher. 263 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 13: After doing that for three or four years, I realized 264 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 13: whenever there was a mistake away belt high, he usually 265 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 13: hit it to left center. When we drew straws and 266 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 13: I had my choice of where to be, I took 267 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 13: left center. Bang, here comes the ball. If I would 268 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 13: have stood still, it would have hit me right in 269 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:55,160 Speaker 13: the forehead. All the stuff that I'd done watching throwing 270 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,920 Speaker 13: VP against him. It was happening in real time, and 271 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 13: I remember catching the ball Iran, and I do not 272 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,079 Speaker 13: remember how I got into home play. I got right 273 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 13: up front. The ball was right in front of his 274 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 13: mom's fate. He was hugging his mom and they both 275 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 13: had tears in their eyes, and I got to thinking, boy, 276 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 13: this is a lifesavering moment, one of those things that 277 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 13: a mom and a son you know you can't take 278 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 13: away from. I didn't realize that she was hanging on 279 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,440 Speaker 13: to him to keep him from getting shot. When it 280 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 13: was time to break up and start getting back to 281 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,600 Speaker 13: playing ball, they had to peel her off of him 282 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 13: because she was not going to let anybody shoot her son. 283 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 13: A lot of people don't know that. How impactful is that, 284 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 13: not only for what he did, but what about a 285 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 13: parent and the love for their kids. 286 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 2: He's not the only one who shares in that power 287 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 2: and that reverence of Hank Aaron. 288 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: We had coach Jim Beheim of years and years and 289 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: years at Syracuse. I'm a Syracuse alum. We were on 290 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: location at the New House School in Syracuse when we 291 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: talked to coach and he wanted to talk about his guy. 292 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 14: I met Hank Aaron one day in a charity thing. 293 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 14: I think we'd been to the final four, and he 294 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 14: came over to me and said, coach, you know great year. 295 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 4: I don't know. 296 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 14: I couldn't say. 297 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 9: I couldn't say. You were speechless, like no, I couldn't 298 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 9: say a word. 299 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 14: I just like thanks, you know, like Hank Aaron and 300 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 14: you know you got to have one of those guys. 301 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 14: I mean he was was mine. I mean, Hank Aaron, 302 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 14: that was it. 303 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:29,720 Speaker 9: You know. 304 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 14: I think I twitched to the Dodgers when he when 305 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 14: they traded a couple of guys from the Braves and 306 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 14: I said, okay, I'm not I'm not with a Brais anyway. 307 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 2: So our next guest was NFL draft expert at ESPN. 308 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: Mel Kuiper, and we had a very hard hitting question 309 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: to open the interview up. 310 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 2: With do you eat a piece of pumpkin pie for 311 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 2: breakfast every morning? 312 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 9: Explain? Please? All right? 313 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 15: Almost every morning? Sometimes, like this time of year, you 314 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 15: can't get pumpkin pie. You know, there's there's a safe 315 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 15: way delivery coming right now, but the bottom line is 316 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 15: you can't always get them, and the pumpkin pies are 317 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 15: kind of seasonal. So when Kim will make a pumpkin 318 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 15: pie homemade. I don't like it as much. So she 319 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 15: makes great food. But pumpkin pies have to be a 320 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 15: certain way for me and or I don't eat them. 321 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 15: So no, I can't say it's every morning. It's probably 322 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 15: eight to nine months out of the year. So what 323 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 15: I do then is I make my own brownies with 324 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 15: my fat free whip cream. So I have a little 325 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 15: alternative plan. Brownies I just made because I don't make 326 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 15: pumpkin pie in the house right now, so I have 327 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 15: to live without it for three or four months and survive. 328 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 15: But let's say nine months out of the or eight 329 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 15: months out of the ear. Pumpkin pie not just in 330 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 15: the morning. I'll go through a pumpkin pie and every 331 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 15: day day and a half. 332 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 3: Now, what is wrong with you? Do you just love 333 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 3: pumpkin pie? Or this is just who you are? 334 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 15: Worse food, sim it's even worse, Jeff and Tim. I 335 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 15: don't eat the crust. I just eat the pumpkin. I 336 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 15: have fat free whipped cream. Say, well, what's the method 337 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 15: to the madness? All the high drygenated oils are in 338 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 15: the crust. Okay, so I stayed away from the crust. 339 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 15: Don't touch the crust, just eat the filling and then 340 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,959 Speaker 15: I have my fat free ready whip whipped cream, and 341 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 15: that's a fat free milk. 342 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 16: And that's what I do. 343 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 9: That's how I get by. 344 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 2: Our next guest is Steve Spark's former pitcher, and I'm 345 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 2: now a broadcaster who does Astros games. And I will 346 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:25,200 Speaker 2: say without hesitation, yet, whenever I need a good chuckle, 347 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 2: I just listened to this clip from Steve Sparks. 348 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 17: Bob Feller was gonna promote a book that he had written. 349 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 17: I was pitching for the Stockton Courts in the California 350 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 17: League and Bob Feller He's going to throw up the 351 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 17: first pitch. And he was in the locker room on 352 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 17: a day I was started. I was the only one 353 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:45,439 Speaker 17: in the clubhouse. So I went up to Bob Feller 354 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 17: and he goes, you're pitching today? 355 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 9: Huh? I said, yes, sir. 356 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 17: He goes, how old are you? 357 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 18: I said, well, I'm twenty seven years old. He said, 358 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 18: excuse me, said I'm twenty seven years old. He goes, 359 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 18: christ Son, what are you doing with your life? I'd 360 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 18: won one hundred and fifty games and two turns in 361 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 18: the war by the time I was forty seven, you 362 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 18: need to rethink this, and I think I gave up 363 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 18: five runs in the first innate. 364 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 2: So our next guest is Hall of Famer Tom Glavin, 365 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 2: who we had on during the Stanley Cup playoffs, because 366 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 2: Tom Glavin was a great amateur hockey player. 367 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: Your draft class alone nineteen eighty four is unbelievable when 368 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: it comes to the names that are on there. And 369 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: here you are pick sixty nine and you end up 370 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,919 Speaker 1: going on to play baseball and become a Hall of 371 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: Fame baseball pitcher, and there are Hall of famers you 372 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: were drafted ahead of. 373 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 19: Yeah, so my standard line there is and clearly I 374 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 19: would have been a Hall of Fame hockey player had 375 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 19: I done that route. But yeah, I think too. I 376 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 19: think one of the things that makes me feel old 377 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 19: is if I'm not mistaken. I think Sidney Crosby's dad 378 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 19: was in that draft too, so that kind of shows 379 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 19: you where things have gone. But no, it was a 380 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 19: very talented class. And trust me, anytime I run across 381 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 19: Brett Hall or Luke Robataie, I remind those guys I 382 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:15,679 Speaker 19: was drafted. 383 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 9: Ahead of them. 384 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 19: When people ask me, you know, in high school, hey, 385 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,679 Speaker 19: what's your favorite sport. It always depended on what season 386 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 19: I was in. 387 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 4: If it was baseball, it was baseball. 388 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:28,040 Speaker 19: If it was hockey, it was hockey. But I think, honestly, 389 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 19: I probably had a little bit more love for hockey 390 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,640 Speaker 19: just because of the pace of the game. 391 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: As a little added guest bonus, during the twenty twenty 392 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: five season, we had used the name Frank from the 393 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: Elias so many times that members of the family were like, 394 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: who is this mysterious man at the Elias Sports Bureau. 395 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: So we called him up and we had him join 396 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: us for an episode, and he is fantastic. He has 397 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 1: made this show better, that's for sure. 398 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 2: Absolutely, Frank from the Elias. 399 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: I was getting jealous because he seems to speak to 400 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 1: you more than he speaks, and I call him three 401 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: times a day. 402 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 9: I speak of some more than I speak to my mother. 403 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 2: So Rank, thanks for being such a good sport. Our 404 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 2: next guest is author writer Steve Russian, who I believe 405 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,679 Speaker 2: is the best writer I've ever read, and the smartest 406 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 2: and the funniest person that I've ever met in my life. 407 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 2: And I think the greatest connection ever is that Steve 408 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 2: Russian had found out that the Pope was a White 409 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 2: Sox fan. 410 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 20: I told somebody at my son's lacrosse game in the 411 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 20: parking lot. I said, there's a ninety five percent chance 412 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 20: that the pope elected two hours earlier has seen Wayne 413 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 20: Nordegen in shorts. It's a virtual certainty. The first pope 414 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 20: who would understand the phrase pitch at risk to Richies's. 415 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 2: Our next guest is Jim Deshay's former Major league pitcher 416 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 2: and now a broadcaster for the Cubs. And one guy's 417 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 2: one of the funniest people I've ever met and never 418 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,040 Speaker 2: takes himself too seriously. Make sure I have this right. 419 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: The very first pitcher to strike out the first eight 420 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,639 Speaker 1: batters of a game. Back in nineteen. 421 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 16: Eighty six, I'm starting against the Dodgers. I strike out 422 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 16: the first eight guys. They were probably hungover, just interested, 423 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 16: I don't know. 424 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 4: What, you know. 425 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:32,560 Speaker 16: Somebody at the center field probably was flashing it light 426 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 16: in their eyes. But anyway, I strike out the first 427 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,240 Speaker 16: eight guys. Ended up pitching a two hit shutout, and 428 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 16: the next night Nolan Ryan pitches. Nolan pitches eight and 429 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 16: he's a one hit ball and strikes out fourteen. So 430 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 16: after the game, I'm in the clubhouse that I'm shaving 431 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,160 Speaker 16: on next to all in Ashby, our catcher, and I said, 432 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 16: you know, Ash Nolan's gotta do that, right. I mean, 433 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 16: this is my shining moment, my one shining moment. He's 434 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 16: got a billion of them, but he not, you know, 435 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:01,920 Speaker 16: does he have to come out here and show me up? 436 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 16: And Ashes I got a feeling. Scotti referring to Mike 437 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,879 Speaker 16: Scott is going to show you both up. And the 438 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,359 Speaker 16: next day Mike comes out and throws a no hitter 439 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 16: to beat the Giants. 440 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 9: And that division. 441 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,480 Speaker 16: So we go two hitter, one hitter, no hitter on 442 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 16: successive days to clinch the division in eighty seven. 443 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 2: Jimmy first guy in modern history to drag out the 444 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 2: first eight. 445 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:24,840 Speaker 4: And you were like third on the total Bowl. 446 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:25,880 Speaker 9: For the. 447 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:30,440 Speaker 16: Yeah, barely get a Brons. It's like an afterthought. 448 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: Our next guest for twenty twenty five was the legendary 449 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:40,919 Speaker 1: NBA writer Bob Ryan, Commissioner of Basketball. Fantastically talented, but naturally, 450 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: I mean, he loves baseball as well. And Dad had 451 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: to ask him where that love came from? 452 00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 2: How did you get interested in baseball? Where did your 453 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 2: love of baseball come from? 454 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 21: It's so simple, I am a product of DNA. My 455 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 21: father was in sports. He was associated with the Trenton Giants, 456 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,879 Speaker 21: the Class B Interstate League affiliate of the New York Giants. 457 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 21: I am firmly the belief that I was in the 458 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 21: present present at the ballpark at Dunfield and Trenton on 459 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 21: the night in the summer of nineteen fifty when the 460 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 21: Giants had signed and sent to Trenton a young outfielder 461 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 21: from the Birmingham Barons in the Negro League named Willie 462 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 21: Howard Mays Junior, and so he then spent the rest 463 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 21: of that season to Trenton. Look it up you at 464 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:31,160 Speaker 21: three fifty three for Trenton and then advanced to Minneapolis 465 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 21: Triple A next year. Anyway, were I was at every 466 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 21: home game. My mother would and went to the game, 467 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 21: so sheid so. 468 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 9: I had to be there. 469 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 21: So I go back to Willie Mays in Trenton, New Jersey. 470 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 2: Do you saw Willie Mays when you were four years old? 471 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:44,880 Speaker 9: I did. 472 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 21: I can't testify that I remember it, but I had 473 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 21: to have been here. I know I was there because 474 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 21: I was at every game. They took me there every game. 475 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 2: Around Luke Gerrig Day, we talked about the celebration of 476 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 2: life for our late brother Matt and Jeff. You interviewed 477 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:07,680 Speaker 2: me and our oldest brother Andy about uncle Matt. 478 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: And he recalled the moment of being at that celebration 479 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: of life party. 480 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,640 Speaker 8: It was funny because we wore these name tags and 481 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,760 Speaker 8: then underneath it you wrote down, how are you related 482 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 8: or how do you know Matt? And so you know, 483 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 8: obviously I'm his brother, so I write down I'm his brother. 484 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,080 Speaker 8: The more that night went on, the more I realized that. 485 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 8: You know, when I was the older brother and I'm 486 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 8: like the catcher for Catholic University and most valuable player 487 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 8: and all this, you know, Matt would look at me 488 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 8: and go, I'm Andy's brother. And then Tim became a 489 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 8: big TV personality, and I would switch and I'd say, 490 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 8: I'm Tim's brother. And then my wife became a big 491 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 8: real estate agent in Texas, and I would say, well, 492 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 8: I'm Terry's husband. 493 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 9: But so these are. 494 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 8: How I became known. But that night at the celebration 495 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 8: of life, I realized I'm Matt's. 496 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:15,600 Speaker 2: Brother, right, And Andy, you were Matt's older brother because 497 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 2: he looked up to you so tremendously all the time. 498 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 2: Our senior year in high school, Matt won the MVP 499 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 2: of the team and he won the Spartan Award the 500 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 2: same year. The Spartan Award was given to the player 501 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 2: that was the best teammate on your team. Nobody has 502 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 2: ever won the Spartan Award and the MVP in the 503 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 2: same season except for our brother Matt, which just kind 504 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:49,320 Speaker 2: of spoke to who he was as a great, great teammate. 505 00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: Leading up to the Annual Congressional Baseball Game, Dad, we 506 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,720 Speaker 1: went a little bit out there by getting members of 507 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: Congress from both aisles. Joe Morelli and Lake Moore joined 508 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 1: us on the show, and they actually could agree on 509 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: something about their love of one player in particular. 510 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 19: I was seven years old and I got a Daryl 511 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 19: Strawberry rookie card, and I loved his name. 512 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 9: I thought it was a cool name. And then that 513 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:16,880 Speaker 9: drew me to the Mets. 514 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 19: You know, Blake. 515 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 22: I was in New York City about a week and 516 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,120 Speaker 22: a half ago, and I'm walking out of this restaurant 517 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 22: where I had had breakfast with some folks, and who's 518 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 22: sitting there, sitting by himself, just having breakfast. 519 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 6: Daryl Strawberry. 520 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:28,959 Speaker 9: Oh my goodness. 521 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:30,880 Speaker 6: I went up and introduced myself. 522 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 20: I said, Champ, you look great. 523 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 9: He does look great. 524 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 22: So he chatted for a little a few minutes. Took 525 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 22: a picture with him. I'll have to share it with you, 526 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,560 Speaker 22: but he looks he looks terrific. 527 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 19: Still hanging out on the other good and Daryl Strawberry 528 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 19: or my idols. As a kid, my mom was always 529 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 19: a little worried about, you know, like a little Mormon 530 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:46,400 Speaker 19: boy from Utah. 531 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 9: Like Darrow and Dalk or my guys. But hey, you know, okay. 532 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 2: Our next guest was Cal Ripken and his son Ryan Ripkin. 533 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 2: I've told you, Jeff many times, the common denominator of 534 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 2: all great players I've ever met in all sports was 535 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 2: unbelievably competitive at everything. And nobody has ever been more 536 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,679 Speaker 2: competitive at anything than Cal Rupken Junior. 537 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 23: It was Mario Party. Ryan that was the dumb, dumb game. 538 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 4: I remember Mario Party, and. 539 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:22,120 Speaker 23: I remember it's a racing game and you can set 540 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 23: your own time trials. And that's what became competitive with 541 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,040 Speaker 23: Ryan and I is that I would erase his record. 542 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 9: On his own machine, but not. 543 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 23: Doing it illegally, but actually beating him. And then he 544 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,560 Speaker 23: would actually spend a few minutes and then beat mine, 545 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 23: and I'd have to come back and try to beat him. 546 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,239 Speaker 23: But it's all about trying to get better, and then 547 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 23: you look at it analyza, you kind of figure it out, 548 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 23: and then try to apply whatever skills you have. How 549 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,040 Speaker 23: can I do it? How can I be successful doing 550 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,440 Speaker 23: that way? So I do have that sort of obsessive personality. 551 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 2: Our next guest is Dan Leviatard, one of my dear friends, 552 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 2: one of the great writers that we've ever seen, and 553 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 2: of course one of the great podcasters and radio show 554 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,639 Speaker 2: hosts that we've also ever seen, and one of his 555 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 2: best friends, one of my best friends, Jeff Miller. He 556 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 2: and Dan got in a little trouble one night in 557 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:12,920 Speaker 2: the press box. 558 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: And Dan even opened up the entire interview with us 559 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 1: just exclaiming how much you and I sound alike, and 560 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: then he explained what happened at Shay Stadium. 561 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 24: I can't believe how much you sound like your father. 562 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 24: It's stunning. I've never met anyone who sounds like your father, 563 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 24: and your excitement level when you sound like your father 564 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 24: is identical. I did not know that that could be hereditary. 565 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 24: I pushed a piece of carrot cake out of the 566 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 24: press box and it went down into the stands. I 567 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 24: was in my early twenties, and then I watched with 568 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 24: delight as I pulled my head back and watched the 569 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 24: person who had carrot cake on their hair yell at 570 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 24: the person above us in the stands who they thought 571 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 24: had thrown carrot cake from above, because nobody in the 572 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 24: press box would do that, because responsible adults like Tim 573 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 24: Kirkshon would in the press box and he would never 574 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 24: throw carrot cake at Chase. 575 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,760 Speaker 2: Data carrat top gives a new name. Now, Oh my goodness. 576 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: So that's it for this week and the highlights from 577 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: our incredible guests of twenty twenty five. Next week will 578 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: count down the next nineteen guests as we did here. 579 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: So if there was a guest that you heard a 580 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: moment from of an interview that you missed, you can 581 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 1: always go back on the feed wherever you're listening or 582 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: watching right now, all of the interviews are available for you. 583 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 1: Just search up, whether it's Steve Sparks or Jim Deschaise 584 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 1: or all of these great moments. So if there was 585 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: a highlight that you said, I can't believe I didn't 586 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: hear that on the podcast. You can always go back again. 587 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 2: Everyone, Merry Christmas out there, especially from mister Grinch 588 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: And thank you for being a part of our family.