WEBVTT - Jackie Robinson's Importance 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:06.680 Is this a great game or what with the Hall 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:11.000 of Famer Tim Kirkchen I'm his son, Jeff Kirkchhon and Dad, 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:15.000 We're not gonna go poor me, poor Jeff, poor Popop 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.440 or anything like that. But this has been by far 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:22.759 the hardest organization in order in our company's history in 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.520 order to get this podcast rolling today. You are in 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.040 Los Angeles, obviously a three hour time change from where 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.160 I am in Florida, our final day at disney World. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.040 So you're saying, Jeff, you can't sacrifice a day at 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:39.360 Disney World for your baby girl McKinley and your wife Emily. 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.040 But I'm saying, Dad, you can't stay up all day 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.400 and do a record in the morning. And so we 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:48.920 landed on because we're both nuts. I said, I was 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:52.080 willing to get up after last night's Dodgers game at 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.120 two in the morning to record with you, and you 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.320 said no. So you were four o'clock. I am seven am. 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.600 You are in your hotel lobby, and I am outside 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:07.160 of some unfortunate people's rooms here at a Disney World resort. 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.560 It's the only way we can make it happen. 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.280 Right, and we're gonna make it happen, Jeff, because Buster 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.520 only taught me a good rule. When you're doing a podcast, 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.600 you can't do it from your hotel room because you 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.240 wake up the entire floor. So we're going to try 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:24.080 to be more considerate and do this from the lobby 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.240 of my hotel. Here in Santa Monica. The Pacific Ocean 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.480 is like twenty feet away. It's unbelievable where we're staying, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.839 just so we can call. Of course, ESPN is doing 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.839 the Met's Dodgers game and most important Jack Jeff. It's 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:42.360 Jackie Robinsonday, and it's April to fifteenth. This is the 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.440 date of when he broke the color barrier in nineteen 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.240 forty seven and changed the game. So needless to say, 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.240 he is the most important player in Major League history. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.559 He's one of the greatest players in Major League history. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.840 And Wednesday night, it'll be so cool at Dodger Stadium, 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.400 especially at every player on the field, just like every 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.000 player on the field in every game will be wearing 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.760 number forty two. It's just an amazing tribute. 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.120 Yeah, Dad, it's really really special. And obviously we're recording 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:20.040 on the fifteenth and we will be doing this show. 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.520 The show will be released to you on the sixteenth, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.400 so you will have seen the presentations at ballparks across 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.320 the country and how special that is. And I think 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.960 it's important, and I'm just gonna lay it out there, Dad, 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:35.240 I think it's important for two white guys like us, right, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.160 who white guys have been playing baseball for one hundreds 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.400 and hundreds of years at this point. I think it's 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:46.119 so amazing to recognize so many players of color who 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:51.400 attribute their careers to Jackie Robinson, who grew up and 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.040 saw Jackie Robinson on a field and said, oh my gosh, 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.680 I can do that because I see a black man 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.440 on the field, right, that makes a big difference. I 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.880 like in that. And this is just a brief aside. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.880 Now that I'm a girl, Dad and I have a daughter, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.640 you know, I think it's amazing when we have, you know, 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.119 females in power, or a female doctor or a female 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.040 astronaut on Artemis too, right. It makes me think, oh 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.760 my gosh, my daughter's going to grow up watching this 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.720 thinking I can do anything I want. These players, Dad, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:24.119 were inspired by Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, right. 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.440 And I'll never forget talking to Hank Aaron in that 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.560 famous night where he did the game in the booth 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:33.720 with us from Atlanta, the greatest night of my professional life. 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.600 And that's what he talked about. He said, if it 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.040 weren't for Jackie Robinson, I would have never even thought 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.320 that I could have a chance to play in the 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.040 major leagues. And he went on to become, of course, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.320 one of the greatest players of all time. But Jeff, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.360 it's not just players of color. I talked to Bobashet 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.640 yesterday of the Mets, and I said, Bo, when did 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.320 you first hear about? When did you first know who 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:01.480 Jackie Robinson was? And he basically said, well, really from 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.600 the as far back as I can remember, because my dad, 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.760 Dante bushit really good major leaguer. He told me all 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.600 about him when I was just a little kid. So 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.119 we'll get more into it later. So let's just say 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.640 this is a great, great celebration night and the game 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.920 that we're doing, the Dodgers and the Mets, both teams 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.880 were planning to go out and see the Jackie Robinson 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:31.960 statue at Dodgers Stadium as teams and Carlos Mendoza, the 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.920 manager of the Mets, was going to speak and Dave Roberts, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.560 the manager of the Dodgers, was going to speak, so 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.760 the whole team was getting in on what this lesson 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.800 is today about Jackie Robinson. I love that. 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.240 I love that for Major League Baseball today. I love 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.479 it for the young players. I love it for the kids. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.680 I love that kids are going to go to a 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.400 baseball game on a Wednesday afternoon in April and learn 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.320 something in addition to have so much fun, right, And 0:04:58.360 --> 0:04:59.760 that's what baseball is all. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.880 So Joe Ostermeier is one of our really good listeners 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.240 and viewers. What a smart guy. He's an old guy 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.040 like me, but he knows a lot of stuff. So 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.960 he listened to the All Disney team last week and 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:17.080 thought it was great. Although instead of having Orlando Hernandez 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.279 as one of our pictures, he thought Orlando Sepaida should 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.080 have been our first baseman. But Joe's from Saint Louis 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:27.120 and that's where Orlando Cipaida was great, among other places. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.880 But he told me something about Walt Disney that I 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.480 didn't know. You know what, Walt Disney. The Walt Disney's 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:40.200 middle name is his middle name is Elias E. L Ias, 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:44.680 so his oh yeah, he was named after his father. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:51.279 So Walt Disney's middle name is Elias, and we we 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.440 used the Elias portion of Frank from The Elias all 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.680 the time. Did you not find this hysterically funny? 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.480 That this is spectacular? The only the only thing that 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.560 could have been better if his name was Walter Johnson Disney, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.400 And that would be pretty amazing. Did I ever tell 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.320 you I went to Quin's Order and High school. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.520 Walter Frank from the Elias Disney. It was great. So 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.280 I really got to kick out of that. Our our 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.800 listeners and our viewers are just sending along stuff every 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.320 single day that we're using now because this is an 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.320 interactive show and we just love to hear what others 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.960 have to say about all of this stuff. So that's great. 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.360 Okay, Well, speaking of an interactive show, unfortunately, the Wheel 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.080 of Kirkhin could not fit on my carry on baggage 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.840 going to Disney World. It's a pretty big wheel. So 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.480 I want to ask our listeners to send us suggestions 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.080 for the Wheel of Kirkchen. So that's a wheel we 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.920 have back at the studio and we write it could 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.600 be anything from ground out right, just like a simple 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.880 base to the seventy three mets right like, you send 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.839 us and we'll spin the wheel and whatever it lands on, 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.160 Dad has to riff on it for a couple minutes 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.520 and we write it down on our board. So we're 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.080 low on suggestions because I asked like weeks ago. So 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.120 you can message us great gamer dot com, super easy 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.800 to do that. And yeah, get on there and send 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.240 us some suggestions for the Wheel of Kirksham when we 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:24.920 started up again next week. 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:31.400 Kratz the world has a cord problem. Wires everywhere. 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So he's reached based 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.839 now in forty eight consecutive games, which is the most 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.800 by any Japanese born player in the history of baseball. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.439 So even each road never reached in forty eight straight games. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.520 And I'm not trying to diminish what he did, but 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.200 Ted Williams reach base in eighty four straight games forty 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.600 eight to eighty four. I mean, that's how great Ted 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.560 Williams was. And show hey, this is remarkable that he 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.640 hasn't had it oh for four and oh for five 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.959 forty eight straight games. Ted Williams holds the record at 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.120 eighty four straight games reaching base safety. 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.720 Wow, And I mean you just think of each ei 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.679 Ro hit machine, right, Dad, What did you tell us 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.240 a couple of weeks ago that like in his third 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.080 game his batting average went above three hundred and for 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:33.640 the rest of his career it never sunk below three hundreds. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:33.839 Right. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.400 Well, that's Etroo all right. So Jordan Walker of the Cardinals, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.920 they've been waiting and waiting and waiting for him to 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.200 find it, for the light to go on, and it has. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.000 Jordan Walker has eight home runs. By the way, the 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:50.120 Giants just hit their ninth homer on Tuesday, so now 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.839 they have out homer Jordan Walker this year. Giants is 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.960 not being critical, still don't have anyone with eight RBIs, 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.120 but Jordan Walker has eight home runs. Just shows you 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.800 how difficult to start it's been offensively for the Giants. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.920 But the point is Jordan Walker, who's so big, so 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:12.360 strong and such a great kid, maybe he's maybe he's founded, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.360 And that doesn't mean he's going to keep finding it 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.600 because as we talk about all the time, Jeff, the 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.560 light goes on and off so quickly in this sport, 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.240 usually without any sort of explanation, and that's what we 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:28.880 love so much. Speaking which, Jose Soriano of the Angels 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.000 has been arguably the best pitcher in the game so far, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.800 zero point three to three ERA through four starts. He's 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.120 allowed one n run and struck out thirty one. So 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.280 the Angels are a very interesting team. We'll get to 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.720 them in a minute. In the Quirk Chins, speaking of 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:49.520 you know, comeback pictures, Jeffrey Springs has a one forty 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:53.720 seven ERA for the A's. And keep in mind, in 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.080 twenty twenty two he was so good and then he 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.720 got hurt. And Pete Fairbanks, who was on the podcast 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.960 few years ago, told me, he said, I am positive 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:04.880 if he hadn't gotten hurt, he would have won the 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:08.120 cy Young in twenty twenty three. And Jeffrey Springs throws 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.280 like ninety two miles an hour, Jeff not ninety nine miles. 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.160 Now there's a big difference there. He's been really, really good. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.920 Speaking of really good, Brandon Lao has been great for 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.720 the Pirates. Jeffrey, Jeff Suddenly the Pirates are an interesting team. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.600 You know, they don't just have they just don't have 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.200 Connor Griffin and Paul Skeins. They have some other interesting 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:35.040 players and they brought Brandon law In just to drive 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.720 in runs and hit home run. So, Jeff, he knocked 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:41.760 in five runs in consecutive games, and I was shocked 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.680 to hear he's the first Pirate ever to have five 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:50.439 RBI games back to back. Do you find that surprising 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.120 the Pirates. 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.440 With the long history of great players to go through 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.439 that organization, right, that does really surprise me. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:02.800 Britian Clemente, Willie Start, Joel, Ralph Kiner, Barry Bonds, That's 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.199 that's pretty amazing. But Jeff, this is why base this 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.480 is why baseball is so great, is that I checked 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.960 with Frank from the Elias Disney and I said, who's 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.080 the last player to drive in five runs in back 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.600 to back games? And it was Kyle Stowers last year. Now, 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.240 Kyle Stowers is a really good young player, but I 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.000 was not expecting him. And before that was the year 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:31.120 before Luis Matos. So the last three guys to drive 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.640 in five runs in back to back games, you know, 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.800 I have not been Aaron Judge or Shoe Otani. This 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.800 is why baseball is so beautiful, Jeff, is that guys 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.760 just emerge and suddenly do stuff that no one's done 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:48.720 in a long time, and we love that kind of part. Also, Jeff, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:53.680 we've had our first Carson Kelly moment of the year. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:57.640 Carson Kelly, catcher for the Cubs, had a walk off 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.079 hit this week, and I want you to explain to 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:02.959 our listeners why we bring this up. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:09.160 Your oldest grandchild is Carson, and Carson's mom who is 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:16.280 your oldest child is Kelly, So Carson Kelly, and Kelly 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:17.360 is the mom of Carson. 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.000 It's so perfect right well, as you know, I just. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.760 Can't believe there's not a McKinley Jeffrey in the league 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:24.200 this year. 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.520 That would really be good. I went to Carson Kelly 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.400 with this last year, and you know, I was a 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.160 little embarrassed to bring it up to him, but he 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.880 thought it was pretty cool. So he's one of our 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:41.400 guys just because of the names. So that did for 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.400 the takeaways, Jeff. But obviously, Jeff, the game changer of 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.680 the week is Jackie Robinson because he didn't just change 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.880 the game, he helped change the world with what he did. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.520 Again nineteen forty seven, the Dodgers took a chance and 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.480 signed him, played in the minor leagues for a couple 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.320 of years and then comes to the big leagues, and 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.080 when's the Rookie of the year nineteen forty seven as 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.400 a first baseman and later went on to become one 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.040 of the great second basement ever. But what I was 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.240 struck by yesterday, this would be Tuesday, when I went 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.360 to see the Mets and the Dodgers, is just how 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:24.040 engaged some of the players are with Jackie Robinson. Day like. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.200 I talked to him to Marcus Simeon, who's a very 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.080 thoughtful guy, played second base now for the Mets, and 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:34.160 I said, when was the first time you had heard 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.920 about Jackie Robbinson. He goes, well, my parents and my 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.720 grandparents would read me books at night talking about Jackie 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.840 Robinson when I was seven, eight, nine years old. And 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.240 I was touched by this, Jeff. And then he said, 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.640 our kids. He's got two kids, nine, He's got more 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.280 than two children, but his oldest nine and seven. He 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.480 reads books to them at night about Jackie Robinson, just 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:06.440 so they understand exactly how much of an impact, how 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.560 much he is a game changer in every way for 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:13.760 everyone in the sport. That touched you, Jeff, that this 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.040 is what you know. I was reading you man in 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.480 the Rock Monkey on the what was I reading you 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:19.320 when you were a kid. 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.840 You were reading me quite a bit. The Series of 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.960 Unfortunate Events, I remember, but I also remember the Dan 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.880 Gutman series, which is the baseball card Adventure's. Dad, you 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.400 might remember these books. I would bring them home from 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:38.280 the library. They were like Jackie and Me, Babe and Me. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.760 And it's this twelve year old boy who when he 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.760 holds vintage baseball cards, he travels back in time to 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:50.440 meet these players. And I so distinctly remember reading Jackie 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.840 and Me, and I just googled it. It came out 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.040 when I was like six years old, so I was 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:59.000 in elementary school age during this, and I remember reading 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:03.840 it and learning about history through baseball was so so special. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.000 And Dad, I think there's a lesson for our kids 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:09.560 out there, and our kids need to remember that when 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.640 you're out there playing Little league, or in school or 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.840 wherever you might be, and you're faced with adversity, you're 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.760 faced with I mean, Jackie had fans yelling at him, 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.440 had teammates who didn't like him, had opponents who definitely 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:27.280 didn't like him for multiple reasons. Yet he persevered. He 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:32.160 was courageous, and he was strong in adversity to be 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.800 able to become a Hall of Fame baseball exactly. 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.960 And Frank Robinson told me. I said, Frank, what were 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:41.240 the lessons you learned from Jackie Robinson? And he said, 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.920 the number one lesson that we learned that through all 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.640 the hate, through all the terrible things we heard, the 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.800 way we were treated, the only way to win was 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.440 to beat them on the field. And that's what Jackie 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:59.360 Robinson instilled in so many young black players that if 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.120 you want to win, if you want to beat them, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.160 go out and beat him on the field. That'll shut 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:07.360 him up faster than anything. And the last little takeaway 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.280 from the Mets and Dodgers game that I did was 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:13.080 I talked to Tommy fam who was very funny and 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.000 a very thoughtful guy also. So I said, Tommy Whins, 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.840 when did you first hear about Jackie Robinson. His eyes 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.959 got big as silver dollars and he said, third grade, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.760 he said, we had to do a report on somebody 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.720 really famous. So he said, we made I made a 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.879 balloon with his face on it and covered it with 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:40.320 paper mache, and that was the famous person that I 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.320 did was Jackie Robinson. In the third grade, he said, 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.760 I couldn't think of anybody more famous at the time, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.399 And he said, and all these years later, I'm not 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.399 sure there's anyone more famous than Jackie Robinson for what 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.560 Tommy fam and others are doing in baseball. So he 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.680 remembered to the moment he had made this paper mache 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.159 balloon with Jackie Robinson's likeness on it. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.560 Dad, I think everybody is transported right now to that 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:11.439 time in their life when they had to do that 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.960 same project. You pick somebody famous. I picked Babe Ruth, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.639 no joke, seven hundred and fourteen home runs. I remember 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.560 it like it was yesterday. I almost remember the opening speech, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.600 and we had to pretend to be that person. And 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.560 what I didn't realize was, obviously I was in the 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.600 second grade at the time, but I would never grow 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.679 up to be even half the size or strength that paper. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:34.280 To me, pretending to. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.280 Be paper, that's quite a feat. Yeah, that is. That 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.639 is quite a feed. So that's our game changer of 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.600 the week, Jackie Robinson, who changed the game more than 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.560 anyone in the history of the sport and also changed 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.680 the country. Because there will people, there will be people 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.400 who tell you after Martin Luther King, he did more 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.320 for civil rights than certainly anyone in this country at 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.879 that time. So God blessed Jackie Robinson and just a 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.080 it's a great celebratory day in Major League Baseball when 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.200 everyone is wearing number forty two and. 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.320 The game Changer of the week is presented by Game Changer, 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.080 the number one youth sports app that helps you coach smarter, 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.399 connect live and replay the action. You can learn more 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.920 at GC dot com. 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:24.119 And again, Jeff, Jackie Robinson isn't just the game changer 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.720 of this week. He is the game changer in the 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.160 history of Major League Baseball. There's no way around that. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.199 All right, Dad, let's jump right in. Quark gins. 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.879 What do you have now? Yeah, the quark gins. I 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.160 didn't have as many this week, Jeff. But on on Monday, 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:51.520 six got There were ten games on Monday and six 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.880 guys drove in five or more runs in one day. 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.760 That's a lot of RBIs for one game. It is 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:02.639 And it was Brandon Las, Trent Grisham, Mike Trout, Nolan Aernando, 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:06.440 Josh Naylor, and Jeremiah Jackson. The last time, only once 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.080 in the last fifteen years, and we had a day 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.840 where six players drove in five or more runs on 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.000 the same day, and that was a twenty twenty and 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:22.560 the Giants had three guys knock in six runs in 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.280 the same game. I remember that game, so it just 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.840 shows you how rare that was. There were also nine 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:38.199 multi homer games that day, so yes, nine guys in 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:42.120 one and in total of ten games, nine guys had 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:46.879 a multi homer game. So the in the history of baseball, 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:52.520 it's only happened five other times where there have been 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:57.199 nine or more multi homer games, and only once and 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.520 that was September tenth, twenty nineteen, which is the year 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:04.959 of the Homer, where there are ten multi homer games 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.840 in one day and we had nine the other day. 0:21:07.960 --> 0:21:10.520 So just another reminder, Jeff, as much as we talk 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.159 about how does anyone get a hit anymore? And I 0:21:13.320 --> 0:21:17.720 firmly believe that when you miss location with today's hitters, 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.680 they don't just hit a line drive single to the 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.600 left field, they hit thirty rows up. You see that 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:24.320 all the time. 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:29.600 Agreed that it's unbelievable that the swing and mis rate 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.400 and I feel like we're seeing guys whiff at pitches 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:35.600 because they're swinging for the fences and you're right if 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:39.439 you mislocate that. The pitchers are so they must be 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:41.760 so nervous because they know if I throw this right, 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:42.720 he's not hitting it. 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:43.520 But if I throw it. 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.400 Wrong, it's upper deck, it's a souvenir. 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:50.639 It's gone, Jeff. And again that's what we worry about. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.960 Too many walks because pictures are sometimes afraid to throw 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:55.920 it over the plate or don't know how to throw 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:59.120 it over the plate. Too many strikeouts and too many 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.600 home runs. And of course there's Ernie Clement, one of 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.399 my favorite new players because he's just so funny and 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:09.560 he's just so interesting. His first sixty six at bats 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.200 this year, Jeff, he has one walk and three strikeouts 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.639 in sixty six at bats, which is insane. I mean, 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:19.399 last week we gave you an entire team tim of 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:22.439 guys who struck out four or more times in a game, 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:26.840 and through Tuesday, Ernie Clement had one walk and only 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.280 three strikeouts the whole year. So I remember talking to 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:33.000 him in the World Series about like, where does this 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:36.280 first pitch swinging come from. Let's put the ball in play, 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:39.520 and he goes first pitch of coach, first year of 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:42.040 coach pitch. When I was a little kid. You get 0:22:42.080 --> 0:22:44.560 three pitches, and my dad said, you better go up 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.639 there swinging. So Ernie Clement is not up there to 0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:50.200