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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Histories, a production of iHeartRadio. Welcome back to the show,

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Historians. Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear it for the number one Mickey Mantle of

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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History, our super producer, mister Max Williams.

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Speaker 2: M Ken Griffy Junior, Rookie Card of Podcasting, Mister Max Williams,

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Speaker 2: the third Esquire.

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Speaker 3: Ooh, that was good.

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Speaker 4: Some of that I thought was gonna be really lame,

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Speaker 4: but it was actually really cool. A few weeks back, Ken,

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Speaker 4: Griffy Senior and Junior were at the Lakers game because

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Speaker 4: it was the opening opening night and it was the

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Speaker 4: first game that Lebron was gonna play with his son,

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Speaker 4: and I was thinking, I was thinking, oh, it's gonna

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Speaker 4: be kind of lame, but that was actually cool to

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Speaker 4: think about. It's like, how often in sports do you

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Speaker 4: see a father and son play together. There's the amazing

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Speaker 4: clip of like it's like Senior Crank Giffrey Seniors in

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Speaker 4: jogs right in front of it and takes.

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Speaker 1: It from him.

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Speaker 2: Ah, it's a family affair. The student has become the teacher.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 1: You love to see it. You love to see it.

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Speaker 1: We also love to see our man himself in the

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Speaker 1: digital flesh. Folks, it's mister Noel Brown. Hello, Hello, Hello Ben,

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Speaker 1: you're Ben Bollen here. I've been going by that one

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Speaker 3: I think it's a good one. I think you should

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Speaker 3: stick with it. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I like the alliteration on it. No one checked me, accustoms.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking in preparation for this episode and in Sports.

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Speaker 3: Week a sports half a month on ridiculous Story.

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Speaker 1: We've been going through a spot for sure. I are

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Speaker 1: a phase. I was thinking about the coolest part of

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Speaker 1: seeing a live baseball game.

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Speaker 3: Now, Max hot dogs what it is?

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Speaker 1: That's the answer at his dancewer Max, of course, is

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Speaker 1: our our expert sport two out of the three of us, folks.

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Speaker 1: We know that a lot of us in the crowd

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Speaker 1: today are big, big sports fans, uh. And if you

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Speaker 1: baseball game, you will feel that electric energy. Like Noel,

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Speaker 1: I love the snacks as well. I love the cracker jacks,

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Speaker 3: The peanuts and the Cracker Jacks. Yeah, there's a whole

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Speaker 1: Sure, And we're we're talking about baseball today, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: apple pie, baseball is a uniquely American thing.

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Speaker 3: Nice. That's a callback, folks. Nice. Nice.

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Speaker 1: We have the immense pleasure of exploring baseball today with you.

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Speaker 1: I would like to ask you, guys, and I know

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Speaker 1: I'm sort of stacking the scales here, but I'd love

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Speaker 1: to ask you guys about the last baseball game you

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Speaker 1: remember being at in person with my mom and my kid.

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Speaker 1: The one that I remember most distinctly was when they

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Speaker 1: have like father Daughter Day at Brave Stadium and we

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Speaker 2: It's cool to get to go down on the field.

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Speaker 2: And then I went to another one where remember the

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Speaker 2: rap artist to quote rap artist Flow Ryder, Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: he performed. They were doing a series at Brings Stadium

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Speaker 4: So my most recent baseball game was actually not for

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Speaker 3: The NBA Draft.

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Speaker 4: The Alanta Hawks won the draft lottery, so I met

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Speaker 4: a couple of friends flew in there for that. We're

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Speaker 4: baseball team in New York. Of course, the New York Mets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who you know, See I know a thing or

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Speaker 1: Are you doing that Yankee Mets thing?

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Speaker 3: You have no right? You have no right, Max, You're

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Speaker 4: They're the runner up and just in general. Actually, when

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Speaker 4: it was a the Mets won a big game. It

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Speaker 4: was right after Grimace Mania had started. I don't I

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Speaker 4: don't know if you guys know about the whole Grimace

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Speaker 3: They credit Grimace for this stroke of good luck.

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Speaker 2: Here, Grimace, the McDonald's purple mascot monstrosity who you hipped

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Speaker 1: Yes, well that's the running theory. Please check out our

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Speaker 1: series I Know What Happened to the McDonald's Mascots. Also

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Speaker 1: a quick shout out for all the Mets fans in

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Speaker 1: I think Noel and I go up to New York

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Speaker 3: We're brothers in sport.

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Speaker 4: That said something I saw so much in New York.

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Speaker 3: As you fire.

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Speaker 2: It was about to say, I do sort of, you know,

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Speaker 2: But I'm learning a lot this week on ridiculous history.

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Speaker 2: Just pick like baseball. My team will be the Mets now.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but we are talking about baseball today

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Speaker 1: In fact, yes, the weather. How dare anyone be a

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Speaker 2: Of course, I always call myself a fair weather gamer,

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Speaker 1: Alone, or weather delays in general. But I think exactly,

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Speaker 2: how how did this happen?

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you and I'm over the moon over

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Speaker 2: The first season of The Sopranos where there's a huge

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Speaker 2: I think some of us here in Atlanta, I've experienced

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Speaker 2: whether postponing these sort of end all be all of

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Speaker 3: The World Series.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, the World Series, which again I hold is

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Speaker 1: Why are you guys so scared of the Hanshin Tigers, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: That Japan one to twenty twenty three World Baseball Classic

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Speaker 3: But you know, it is what it is.

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Speaker 2: But there have been throughout the history of this series

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go back to nineteen seventy nine, to the

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Speaker 3: I love the Baltimore Oorls. They're all my favorite teams.

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Speaker 1: And we're getting a lot of this from Mark Poleo

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Speaker 1: writing for Aci Weather. Noel, do we have the details

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Speaker 3: We do.

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Speaker 2: Game one was supposed to take placed on a Tuesday,

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Speaker 3: Rain, however, fell throughout Game one.

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Speaker 2: It definitely reaked some havoc on the precision of the players.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this feels a little bit like trench warfare. I

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Speaker 1: It was super cold. They had a wintry mix, you

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Speaker 2: I hate a winter remix. It's kind of a bummer.

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Speaker 2: If you think about it, You're like, this is like

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Speaker 1: Literally not fun, and a winter remix is all the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like snow baseball sounds like it could potentially be

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Speaker 1: So you can look at an article from The New

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Speaker 3: It's true.

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Speaker 2: Well, with that in mind, why don't we stick around

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Speaker 2: the Burgh that is pitts It's Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: Let's go, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back just a couple more decades in history

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, all right. The final game of the

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Speaker 1: the weirdest final I know you don't like the word

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Speaker 2: Then yeah, I gotta say though, a battle between Senators

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Speaker 3: The Senators had a secret weapon and they they sure do.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know what, there's nothing wrong with vibes based activities.

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Speaker 1: Dude, the guy at the outfield couldn't see the infield.

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Speaker 3: You're talking about Goose Goslin. That's not a real person.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they can't see much better, So everyone's running

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Speaker 3: Tell us what happened.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So in the eighth inning, Keiki Koyler, it was

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Speaker 2: what's called a ground rule double, scoring the Again, some

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Speaker 4: The ground rule double is when you hit a double

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Speaker 3: I see, you just wave them on through you.

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Speaker 4: a six to six game. You score a run. You

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Speaker 4: get that run right there, the one that made seven

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Speaker 4: to six, it's a go ahead runs.

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Speaker 3: You went ahead.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is bad news for the Senators. This

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Speaker 1: is great news for the Pirates. But our buddy, this

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Speaker 1: senator from the outfield, Goose, uh.

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Speaker 2: The Honorable Senator Goose Goslin right from the outfield.

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Speaker 4: Funny he actually did serve two terms in the US Senate.

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Speaker 3: No, he did not look up. Yeah, no one. I

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Speaker 3: believe you. I believed you mean rascal. Hey, I believe

448
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Speaker 3: in you. Guys. Max. I'm sorry I called you that

449
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Speaker 3: horrible name. I didn't mean it.

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Speaker 1: So the I think a team called the Rascals would

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Speaker 1: be cool.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: So the issue is the umpires also cannot be authorities

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Speaker 1: at this point, and the Honorable Senator from the outfield,

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Speaker 1: Goose says to reporters later, look, these umpires couldn't see it.

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Speaker 1: Referring to the play. It was too dark and foggy.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't fair at all. It was not a ground

458
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Speaker 1: rule double. It was foul by two feet. I know

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Speaker 1: because the ball hit the mud and stuck there. Going

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Speaker 1: back to the earlier grave.

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Speaker 2: Of mud comment, Ben, this is literally a fog of

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Speaker 2: war types that suation is.

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Speaker 1: I love that you pointed that out. I didn't even

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Speaker 1: think about that. So it's it's true that the weather

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Speaker 1: got in front of the game and top of on front,

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Speaker 1: on top of Yes, you guys noticed, I stopped saying

467
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Speaker 1: under the weather and I started saying, the weather is

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Speaker 1: on top of people. I clocked it, Ben, no, you

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Speaker 1: clocked it. And let's end today's exploration with the story

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Speaker 1: of Red Murray.

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Speaker 3: Little Red Murray.

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to the good old days of the

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Speaker 2: MLB Major League Baseball and talk about how Weather might

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Speaker 2: have played a significant.

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Speaker 3: Role in providing one.

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Speaker 2: Of the most I guess remarkable and kind of beautiful

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Speaker 2: moments in baseball history. Jay Guphro And another excellent name,

478
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Speaker 2: Dan Bonk. That's not nominal conterminism. I don't know what is.

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Speaker 1: That also sounds like a crime in a different language.

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Speaker 2: Dan Bonk, writing for SABER again, the Society for American

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Speaker 2: Baseball Research, he had this to say. This took place

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Speaker 2: at forbes Field, he said. While forbes Field had its

483
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Speaker 2: share of legendary home runs Masarowski's nineteen sixty Game seven

484
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Speaker 2: World Series clout and Babe Ruth's final three, the old

485
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Speaker 2: park was the scene of some memorable defensive moments as well,

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Speaker 2: unassisted triple plays by Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright on May seventh,

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Speaker 2: nineteen twenty five, and Cub shortstop Jimmy Cooney on May thirtieth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen twenty seven, and the bare handed catch made by

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Speaker 2: New York Giant right fielder Red Murray on August sixteenth,

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Speaker 2: nineteen oh nine. Not an actual giant, a member of

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Speaker 2: the team known as the New York Giants.

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Speaker 1: A giant in our hearts indeed. And also this leads

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Speaker 1: us to an interesting side note about when people were

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Speaker 1: allowed to use gloves for a time, just so everybody knows,

495
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Speaker 1: in the early days of baseball, it was considered unsportsmanlike

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Speaker 1: to use a mit.

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Speaker 4: Interesting think about cricket. They don't use meths and cricket, Well.

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Speaker 1: That's because they're real men. How does cricket work? What

499
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Speaker 1: is what is a wake?

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Speaker 2: Right there?

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Speaker 4: I know in concept how cricket works, but I have

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Speaker 4: you watched it.

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Speaker 3: I've tried. I can't.

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Speaker 4: I can watch it and what I've researched and learned

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Speaker 4: doesn't click.

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Speaker 1: So all right, so we're going to do an episode

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Speaker 1: on cricket. God'd be with us. We'll figure it out

508
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: because I have to go back. You guys, I was

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Speaker 1: watching that game live and I was doing I was

510
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Speaker 1: like a Pirates fan in the fog. I was looking around,

511
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Speaker 1: this is true. I was looking around to see when

512
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Speaker 1: other people were clapping and cheering. I figured out the

513
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Speaker 1: two groups that clapped and cheered at different times. I

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Speaker 1: picked the group I liked the most, and I've beat

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Speaker 1: me Max.

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Speaker 3: I went with that. Yeah, I agree, I respect that.

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Speaker 3: I respect that. I don't know, adaptable.

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Speaker 1: It's also ethically fraud. But this is this is an

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Speaker 1: amazing catch by Red Murray.

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 1: The game, as you said, is between the Giants, who

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Speaker 1: are now the San Francisco Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Speaker 1: People were already thinking of this as a wizard duel

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Speaker 1: between the pitchers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a real face off between future Hall of Famer

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Speaker 2: and Via Willis and Christy Matthewson.

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Speaker 1: This is definitely a battle between the two pitchers. The

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Speaker 1: Giants get an early lead in the top of the

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Speaker 1: second inning two to oh, and the Pirates get a

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Speaker 1: run in the bottom of the third inning. However, we

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Speaker 1: have to go to the final part of this battle,

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Speaker 1: all right, so we're going past the seventh inning. Could

533
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Speaker 1: we get some seventh inning stretch.

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Speaker 3: Music and stretch? Yeah, stretch. It's the middle part, right.

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Speaker 1: It's like the penultimate part, the part when.

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Speaker 4: They stopped selling beer.

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Speaker 3: Ah, is that what happens?

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Speaker 4: Not all, not at all statings, but that's commonly.

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Speaker 3: It's a good demarcation of time.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you I always thought that, being an Atlanta

541
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Speaker 1: Braves fan, I always thought the seventh inning stretch was

542
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Speaker 1: when people tried to get in front of traffic.

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Speaker 4: Is very much, at least a turner field. So the

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Speaker 4: problem that happened at the infamous infield Fly game is

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Speaker 4: the infield fly problem happened right after they stop selling beer.

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Speaker 4: So everyone had plenty of projectiles to throw onto the

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Speaker 4: field because they double double bought beer, right yea.

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Speaker 2: My my analog for this, and my you know, stadium

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Speaker 2: going life is leaving before the final encore of a band, right.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, And so some people may have left during

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Speaker 1: that seventh inning stretch, and if so, they must have

552
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,719
Speaker 1: great historical fomo because at the bottom of the eighth inning,

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Speaker 1: the Pirates turn the game around. And as they turn

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Speaker 1: the game.

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Speaker 3: Around, the weather and the game.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, well you know it's a mixtape, right, ridiculous one.

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Speaker 1: So what happens with the weather bend? It comes down,

558
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Speaker 1: it changes things, the fog rolls in. Let's go back

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Speaker 1: to saber Noll. From what I understand, this gave a

560
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: legendary pitcher a bit of a pickle. Christy Mathieson was

561
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Speaker 1: had a loggerhead.

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Speaker 2: Huh, yeah, he is. He has to make He's sort

563
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 2: of just biting his time a little bit. He's trying

564
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Speaker 2: to stall. He hopes that the oncoming storm would work

565
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Speaker 2: in his team's favor. However, and this is from saber

566
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Speaker 2: legendary umpire Bill clem ordered the bottom of the eighth

567
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Speaker 2: to begin just the same Matthewson delivered the first ball

568
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Speaker 2: as a crash of thunder, bellow zig zag, flash of

569
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Speaker 2: lightning lit the darkening grandstands, good writing. Pinch hitter, ham Hyatt,

570
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 2: these names baseball names. What the heck met the ball

571
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Speaker 2: and swatted a ringing triple to right field. The fireworks

572
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Speaker 2: in the sky and on the field were followed by

573
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Speaker 2: a brief lull, during which Ed Abataccio was sent in

574
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Speaker 2: to pinch Ruh for Ham Hyatt. Matthewson did his best

575
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Speaker 2: to kill time, but while the rain held patiently back,

576
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Speaker 2: Abaticio came around to score on a sacrifice fly. So

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Speaker 2: this is peak drama for the audience. You know what

578
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Speaker 2: I mean, We've got the thunder, the rain, the lightning.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm on the edge of my scene and

580
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Speaker 2: I really don't care about sports. As I mentioned, with

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Speaker 2: the score tied, they go on. The storm's approach was

582
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Speaker 2: heralded by multiple thunder his booms like the Costco guys

583
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Speaker 2: were in the room. The next batter, Tommy Leach, belt

584
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Speaker 2: at a double to right. Hall of famers to be

585
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 2: Fred Clark and Honus Wagner I've heard of him, were

586
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Speaker 2: coming up. The winds kicked up so much dust that

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Speaker 2: the players were barely discernible from the stands.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you get in situations, right. This is where the

589
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Speaker 1: rain begins to fall. But the game must continue because

590
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: the umpire called it. So our buddy Mathieson is playing strategy,

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Speaker 1: I would say, because if you're a pitcher at this level,

592
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Speaker 1: you're not just blindly throwing different types of trick balls.

593
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Speaker 1: You're thinking of strategy. So this guy is using kind

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Speaker 1: of a chess mentality. He intentionally walks one guy, which

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Speaker 1: you can only do if you're a really good and

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Speaker 1: really smart pitcher. As the weather gets worse and worse

597
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: out there in the dark, Matheson's pitches become increasingly difficult

598
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,439
Speaker 1: to discern. But a guy named dots Miller, since we're

599
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: doing fun names, dots Miller like dippin' dots. He hits

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Speaker 1: one of these balls out there in the dark and

601
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Speaker 1: drives it deep into right center. Everybody runs. Our buddy

602
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: Red Murray that we mentioned earlier is sprinting in an

603
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Speaker 1: all out pursuit, running like Forrest Gump.

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00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 3: Dude.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, the writers for Saber go on from the stands.

606
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 2: The ball looked to be heading for the wall, a

607
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 2: home run or at least a two run triple. Seymour

608
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 2: pulled up, apparently losing sight of the ball. Murray continued

609
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 2: into the gap at full speed, stretching his bare right

610
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Speaker 2: hand as far as he could, and snared the sailing

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00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 2: liner just as another lightning bolt cracked behind him, framing

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Speaker 2: his body in light.

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Speaker 1: So imagine this looks like a painting from the Renaissance,

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00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: you know, Who've got the right hand extended as if

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00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: toward God. And then the lightning in the backdrop. And

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Speaker 1: then what's that the ball not in the midt? Is

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00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 1: this guy's hand?

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Speaker 2: I had to it smarten a little bit, yeah, oh,

619
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Speaker 2: I'm sure. And then there comes the rain. It opens

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Speaker 2: up dowses the field. The game was ending in a

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Speaker 2: two to two tie, and one of the most remarkable

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Speaker 2: and as they described the saber picturesque.

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Speaker 3: Moments in baseball history.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and after the game, right, it's a tie. So

625
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 1: in terms of the sport itself, this is not ideal

626
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: for either team, but this is amazing for fans of baseball,

627
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: fans of the great triumph of sporting pursuits. The local

628
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: papers are going nuts. People are saying this is the

629
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Speaker 1: greatest catch ever made on a baseball field, ever, never

630
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 1: to be duplicated. And these are only three examples, loosely

631
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: put of weird, weird stuff that has happened on a

632
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:54,959
Speaker 1: baseball field. Spoiler alert, folks, a lot of people got

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Speaker 1: struck by lightning.

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Speaker 2: My favorite part in what we've talked about today is

635
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Speaker 2: when they all lay dinner together on the field time.

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00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:05,359
Speaker 2: I'm so hungry right now, I got some fun from

637
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 2: yesterday that I'm gonna It's perfect.

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Speaker 4: I can leave y'all with one. It's when we unfortunately

639
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 4: cannot use because it literally happened this past season.

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00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 3: But it's cut off. Yeah.

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00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a game in Arizona earlier this year.

642
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 4: Arizona has retractable rioffins. Also Arizona Arizona Arizona Diamondbacks versus somebody.

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00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 4: I don't remember who they're playing, but right before the game,

644
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 4: a bee colony took up residence on the field, and

645
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 4: oh yeah, yeah it happened, but this.

646
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 3: Is when it started.

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00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 4: Is great, So they have to get have to get

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Speaker 4: somebody in take care of the bee thing. The game's

649
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 4: postponed for like an hour and a half. And you know,

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00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 4: I watched, you know, a lot of baseball.

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Speaker 1: So I thought you were going to say you watch

652
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Speaker 1: a lot of bees, But I mean I watched.

653
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Speaker 4: I watch a decent on bees, and so I was

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Speaker 4: wondering there was there was that, and there wasn't really

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Speaker 4: much on the late window, and I was like, what's

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Speaker 4: going on with this one? So that happens. So they

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Speaker 4: get the guy out there, take like forty five minutes.

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Speaker 4: He goes up into a crane, he sprays it down

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Speaker 4: and it gets like a standing applause and the Diamondbacks

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Speaker 4: go around like you know what got your body? So,

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Speaker 4: still in his bee keeping outfit, he goes on the

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Speaker 4: mound throws out the first pitch.

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Speaker 3: For the game. Oh that's kind of cute. I like that.

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Speaker 3: We should watch more bees, you guys, Okay, we should

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Speaker 3: start keeping them. Yeah, we should should have a ridiculous

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Speaker 3: history be calling. But let's take turns doing the doing

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Speaker 3: the keeping duties.

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Speaker 1: It takes a village will be a blended family for bees.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we could generate some merch out of it, some

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Speaker 2: ridiculous history candles perhaps, some okay, some ridiculous history, artisanal honeys.

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Speaker 3: All right, go on. You know, I buy that honey

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Speaker 3: from a monastery. That's all I've got. It is great.

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Speaker 1: Those are absolute bangers. We are not joking about generating

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Speaker 1: an ap area of some sort.

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Speaker 3: It would be cool.

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Speaker 1: We just need a little bit of initial investments, seed capital.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, a little hive capital. Right, so.

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Speaker 1: So ridiculous historians. Thank you, as always so much for

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Speaker 1: tuning in. We hope you enjoyed this episode as much

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Speaker 1: as we did. Big big thanks again to our super

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Speaker 1: producer and research associate for this one, mister Max.

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Speaker 2: Williams, indeed Alex Williams, who composed our theme, Christopher Rociotis

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Speaker 2: and he was Jeff Coates here in spirit.

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Speaker 1: Aj Bahamas, Jacobs, Rachel Big Spinach, Lance and of course

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Speaker 1: our number one weather delay Jonathan Strickland aka the Quister.

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Speaker 3: And the Easy Breezy Beautiful cover Girl. That is you,

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Speaker 3: Ben Shocks. Maybe it's maple Ley. It might be and uh,

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