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The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:47.320 starts right now under the big top we go. The 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:52.400 weekend kicks off with another edition of The Fifth Hour 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:59.280 with Ben Maller Still Standing, Still Standing, and we're back 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.640 at it again. We're gonna have a conversation with a 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:05.319 friend of ours coming up, but some news we must 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:10.200 take care of here first. Joining us this week back 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.200 from suspension. We'll get more to this on the Saturday podcast. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.600 But unfortunately, to the complaints of many West of the 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:32.760 four oh five, David Gascon. That's from the crazy time. Yeah, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.040 I'm alive, I'm ready, I'm rocking and run. I drove 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.840 to work. I'm like you. It's a great fucking day 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.440 in Los Angeles. Yeah, okay, this is the point out 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:47.480 here that where have you gone? Ryan McBain, We all 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.920 miss you. Where have you gone? He's gone? I kicked 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.000 his ass out, all six ft five pounds of them. Yeah, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.000 he did a great job. He deserves credit. The podcast 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.400 has never sounded better with I am McBaine producing the podcast. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.760 Just dominating performances. Good. I heard you had some guests 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.480 on that were not above the age of eighty the 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.480 last couple of weeks. It's a good job by you. Legends, 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.919 legends of the game, legends are and they don't age you. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.160 They do not and unlike you, I do not have 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.760 an age bias. I I love to learn and not 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.600 have an age bias from my elder I love to 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:29.200 learn from my elders. Tommy John it's a firecracker, right o. 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:37.880 Tommy was wild. It was unfiltered, unfettered, like you know normally, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.920 I'll be one of the throwaway questions we all do 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:46.000 it is, Hey, how are you doing right? How are 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.440 you doing? Now? Most people take the how you're doing questions. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.840 I'm doing good. Thanks for asking. I asked Tommy John 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.960 how he was doing. He then proceeded to tell me 0:02:56.000 --> 0:03:01.440 that he almost died from COVID. He was paralleled. Uh, 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.639 he had some illness that he had, he was paralyzed. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.480 His wife saved his life. He went in all the 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.880 details like he's just like throw everything out there. Was 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.880 not expecting that. It was not expecting that. But he 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:16.480 was great. Tommy was wonderful, and I do think you 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.360 should be in the Hall of Fame. We talked about that. 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.440 But well, he's got two eight once they claimed because 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.960 he pitched so long and that that's not impressive. But 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.320 he pointed out that he has the most and I 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.600 didn't realize this. I looked it up. He's not it's 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.880 not blowing smoke. Tommy John has the most not no 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.960 decisions in baseball history. And so you figure if he 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.360 want half of those no decisions, or even a third 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.400 of those no decisions, he would have been way over 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:47.760 three d winds and therefore hall of Famer. But I 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.560 to me, it's closed. But then when you talk about 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.720 the impact that he's had as the guinea pig Tommy 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.840 John surgery and how many Hall of Fame pitchers have 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.600 had their career saved because of Tommy John. To me, 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.000 that puts you in the Hall of Fame one thousand percent. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.720 I mean, there's there's various ways that guys getting the 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.880 Hall of Fames. Like Dick vital Is in the Hall 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.960 of Fame. I don't think he's anything to be celebrated 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:15.800 on the you know, for you know, immortality. But Tommy John, yes, 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:21.080 like that, you specifically have a surgery named after you 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.800 to ramp up your your miles per hour. And the 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:30.760 other counter argument to that is that, well, it would 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.320 you rather be in the Hall of Fame in a 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.040 dusty museum in Cooperstown and then people forget about you 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:39.560 or like Tommy John for a hundred years. As long 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.480 as this surgery is a thing, his name will be 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:48.760 mentioned in news stories on the internet and radio and television. 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.000 So and so had Tommy John surgery. Yeah, it's like 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.920 Luke Garrick, right, Luke Garrick's been gone for a million years. 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.440 I was a very that's a very bad as. As 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.720 Tommy pointed out, he'd rather have the surgery than they 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.400 and it's like Lou Garrick had but uh, you know, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.120 we still mentioned Lou Garret's name quite a bit and 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.320 people are diagnosed with that terrible illness. Yeah, not sad, 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.839 but yeah, it's kind of wild, wild and crazy Weld 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.640 And you know what's wild and crazy, the great Rob Parker. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.440 And we have an opportunity now to catch up with 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.200 the man, the myth, the legend. He's our teammate, he's 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.640 our brother of teammate. Here. We're all in the same family, 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.920 the same umbrella at Fox Sports Radio. You see him 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.000 on TV. He's a professor, he's a writer, he does 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.000 it all. And I gotta tell you, Rob, You're like, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.680 it's like, where's wald Forget, where's Walda? Where's Rob? I've 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:42.240 been following you as you have traversed the United States 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.120 on this amazing summer vacation. How many towns, Rob, have 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:51.360 you visited? This is unbelievable. It has been a been 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.040 It's been great. Um, you know, obviously we were locked down. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.080 So I have friends all over worked all over the country. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.840 So I love to get out in the summer. I 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.840 love to go to ball games and and and and 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:06.359 eat some good food and drink some beer with some 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.800 buddies in the stands, you know, where I'm not working. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:23.880 So so I would say I've been to New York, UM, Philadelphia, UH, Atlanta, Denver, Washington, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:32.800 d C. Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Richmond, Virginia. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.640 It's been an epic ethnic summer. Have been to tens 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.320 that's more cities than I have visited like the last 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.480 ten years. Rob, I mean, my my good. Now, now 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.839 was this all planned out? Or was this like scattershot? 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.360 Did you have did you buy all the plane tickets before? 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.800 You just buy them as you win? Like that's a 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.080 lot of travel there. You're a veteran traveler from your 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.600 baseball writing days, right, so you're you know how to 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:58.559 play the game. But did you have it all planned 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.120 out before you're just gonna wing it? Oh? Yeah, No, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.720 It's got to be planned out because you know me, guys, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.040 I'm always trying to save a buck. So I gotta 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.320 like I'm always trying to play on my trips, get 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.320 the cheapest flight available, you know, make it all fit. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.520 Then it's gotta be you know, wrapped around ball games, 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.960 you know, Like that's the other part. So I just 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.600 can't show up to a city if if a team 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.440 is not playing. I want to at least if I'm 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.440 going to go to St. Louis, the Cardinals have to 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.120 be playing, you know what I mean. Or if I'm 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.080 going to Chicago, one of the two teams have to 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:35.880 be playing. So I had it all planned out, and um, 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.920 you know, I had to make a couple of adjustments 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.840 because sometimes these airlines, when you buy your ticket too 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.440 early in advance, they change the times and they don't 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.720 always work out. But it was epic. I ate more 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.400 food and champagne, and I was getting people tweeting saying, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.480 what's your cholestero all level? Because every time I look, 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.880 you've got lobster and steak on your plate and you 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.560 know what I mean. So, uh, it was great. You're 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.440 the You're the ambassador, Robber. Everyone loves you that way. 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.440 How often did did people and you were in the crowd, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:08.960 You're sitting in the fan, you're a man of the 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.240 people there. How often did you get recognized where people like, hey, 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.280 that's Rob Parker, Wait a minute, what are you doing here? 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.280 It was it was, to be honest, Ben, I gotta 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:23.520 say this, It was amazing and how many people I 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.600 wanted to get a picture who recognized me just sitting 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.680 in the crowd with my buddies, you know what I mean, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:33.480 who uh came? There were people. Now I'm gonna tell 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.080 you this. I was in d C the night of 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.200 the shooting outside the stadium. I was inside the stadium, 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.680 and I'll tell you that story. But that night before 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:49.400 all hell broke loose, three fans via social media found 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.839 you know song following my my feed that I was 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:57.280 in the ballpark and said hey, what section are you 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.360 and can I come down and get a picture. I mean, 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.880 just nice people who are in the ballpark themselves, who 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.559 just wanted to say hello and grab a picture. So 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:09.800 so it was it was amazing how many people were 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.800 so nice and just wanted to say hello. But that 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.800 night was was unbelievable. We're having a great night. The 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.319 padres were in town, tattoos was four for four at 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.440 that point. It was a great night, comfortable, I don't know, 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.960 the drinks were flowing, the hot dog three, you know, 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.840 it was just perfect. And I'm there with three of 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.600 my buddies, who are the biggest baseball fans going. So 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.120 we're we're enjoying our time. My best friend Fred lives 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.680 down in Maryland. So all of a sudden, we hear 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.480 the shots, and I look at my friends and I'm like, dude, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.680 did you that that was Those were gun shots? You know, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.439 like it was no doubt in my mind that there 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.200 were gun shots and not a car backfire and or whatever. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.000 So I look up. We were sitting first base side, 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.120 so we had a clear shot of you know, uh, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:04.400 the concourse level on the third base side. So I 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.440 look over to where I hear the shots, and then 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.720 all of a sudden you see people running for their 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:14.200 lives to the exit. I don't know, uh, dave or 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.640 been Have you guys ever been to the park in 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:21.080 Washington or not? I have not been there. Okay, So 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.760 center field is like the main entrance in and out 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.920 right like where the subway is, and most people coming 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:31.200 through center field, So people are running from the third 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.480 from third base to the center to center field to 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.840 to the exits. So I'm like, what the what the 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.760 hell is going on? Then I looked down on the 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.760 field and they're no players, no umpire, nobody in the dugout. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.480 So I said to my friends, man, something's happening here. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:48.960 We need to. We need to get out of here. 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.240 So we decided to get up from our seats, head 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.800 to the concourse and we're gonna walk out, you know, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.960 through the center field exit as well. So when we 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.920 get up and start walking on the concourse and we 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:05.080 turn left, all of a sudden, people are running towards 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:10.280 us and screaming like it's a horror movie. So I'm like, 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.800 oh my god, there's a shooter in the ballpark. That's 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.240 exactly that's what I'm thinking. I'm fearful for my life. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.560 Me and my friends, we strong arm our way into 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.520 an office like the consent when they were ward the 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.120 concessions out of like you know, keeping up with people. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.440 We push our way in. We wind up in a 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:35.079 closet which like eight or nine people and in there, 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.040 I swear to You've never been more scared my life. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.760 We're thinking, do we need to push something up against 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.960 the door in case the guy is trying you know, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.200 the shooter is trying to come in, and it's this 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.400 guy gonna kick the door and then shoot us all 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.960 like for real. We had no idea. And when you 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.959 see people running towards you, what else are you to think? Right? 0:11:57.080 --> 0:12:00.959 Why would you be running away from the exit? Yeah, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.079 that's crazy. And how long did you stay in there? Well, 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.120 twenty minutes, it felt like three hours. It was unbelievable. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.280 That was a young kid with his dad. They got 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.480 separated from his mom and sister. He's under the desk 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.080 like a little boy. We're trying to talk to him 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.520 and say everything's gonna be all right. We just the 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:25.400 whole time, we saw no police, no security, no announcements 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.199 from the nationals, nothing like that, Like you're on your own, 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.080 try to figure it out. And uh, it was a 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:38.360 scary scene. And eventually we saw we come out of 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:41.600 the closet and we're still waiting in the office and 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.920 then something flashes up on one of the TV screens 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.120 that it said, you know, everything is under control, you 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.560 can you can exit the stadium now. And then we 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.400 started to walk out. But what a what a what 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:55.840 a crazy crazy night. Be sure to catch live editions 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.040 of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.920 Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.840 I Heart Radio app. Be sure to catch live editions 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.480 of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.120 eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.920 Heart Radio app. And so the shooting happened on the 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.400 third base side, as I remember, and it was they 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:20.400 said it was outside the ballpark, but it was right 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.360 near the ballpark. Is that what they claimed happened. Yeah, 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.040 And you know, you know, there's no walls there, you know, 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.600 it's just like offending, so you can hear the shots. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.520 And I'm sure if someone wanted to shoot into the stadium, 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.400 they could, you know what I mean, there's nothing, there's nothing. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.840 It's not like an enclosed stadium. It's it's open. So 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.720 that's why people were fleeting because I'm sure they heard 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.880 the bullets and maybe even saw sparks, you know what 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.000 I mean, and thought someone was shooting into the stadium. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:53.360 Why they came running towards us. We had no idea 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.960 because after we got out and we found out that, uh, 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.080 there was not a shooting in the ballpark, and there 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.720 wasn't a gunman in the ballpark, and it was two 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:06.360 guys in cars shooting at each other outside. It's still 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.920 to me didn't make sense unless somebody yelled, you know, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.520 you know, if you've got a crowd and somebody yells, hey, 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.760 there's a shooter, or somebody starts to run, you know 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.840 what I mean, other people are just gonna run. Yeah, 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.120 I remember when that that terrible shooting happened in Vegas 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.440 or the guy in the window. There After that, there 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.680 were a lot of ballparks that were very concerned about 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.680 you know, some something like you know what you described 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:33.360 might happen, happening or whatever. So it's it's wild. Yeah, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.920 but you went back after that, you you you went 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.960 back to games and stuff, right, You're like, oh, yeah, 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.440 you know, I went to I went to, uh to 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.800 a White Sox game. I went to a Cardinals Cubs game. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.640 I went to a Red Cardinals game. I mean, you know, 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.440 I mean baseball. To me, that's that's uh our utopia. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.920 It's a it's a great escape. It's a great place 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.280 to go. And we thank god haven't been involved in 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.840 you know, off like that in the ballpark. And now 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:06.840 think about it now where uh, you know, years ago, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:11.040 there was no as we know, you know, metal detectors 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.160 and all the stuff that we have now, so it's 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.120 safe as ever. And that's what my thought was, like, 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:17.720 how in the world did the guy get a gun 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.160 into the building? Do you know what I mean, like 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.640 that was the thing because many years ago, yes, you 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.200 know that we could. I once I was covering the Knicks. No, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.880 it was it was it was the Knicks. And I'm 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.880 leaving Luguaria Airport and I'm late for the flight. I'm running. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.800 You know, this is no security, no no check nothing. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.080 You just ran to your gate. I swear to you. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.240 The plane door had closed. I banged on the door 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.960 and they let me in. They don't those things. Could 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:55.480 you imagine that? Like that's how it can Yeah, well 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.240 that had to be even like when not eleven happened. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.560 Every everything, but even before that, I mean there was security. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.880 It wasn't like it wasn't insane. They just asked if 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.200 you had you'd always had you remember they when you 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:11.040 checked into the airport, there has anyone touched your bags? 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.520 If you have the bags may possession. That was always 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.000 like they asked you a couple of questions and that 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.720 was like the but that was it. But there was 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.360 no other like security or anything. And and and that 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.840 was the case in ballparks forever. But now I feel 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.120 safe when I go to a ballpark or sporting event. 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.400 It's the same thing. If I go into a club. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.360 I want them to pack me down. Do you know 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.600 what I mean? I want to go to a metal detective. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.600 I want to know I'm in a club and nobody 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.840 has a gun. Yeah, you wanna think you wanna at 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.760 least believe you're gonna be saying. So. Of all the 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:46.080 ballparks you visited this summer, best ballpark food was blank. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:53.080 Best ballpark food was commiskey. I'm that's not commisc what 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:59.560 is it? Guaranteed? Rate Park was pretty good? Uh, Cincinnati 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.800 was very good. No, I didn't have a chili dog. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:07.520 I'm sorry it's not I did not. But but in Cincinnati. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.359 Have you guys been to Cincinnati once? Yeah? I was 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.520 there one time years ago, but I have not spent 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:14.960 a lot of time there. You were, you were the 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:18.080 Reds beat guy. You lived there, right, that was your town, right? 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.160 I lived there for for two years. And you got 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.600 that Montgomery in ribs. Oh my god, there's a boat 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.960 house and then there's the original restaurant. And of course 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:29.959 I had some ribs, not at the ballpark, but I'm 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.560 selling that some great food I saw that. What makes 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.840 the Montgomery Ribs so much better? Why is that such 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.560 a wonderful place. That's better than all the other rib places. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.240 You know, like it's it's it's house cook fall off 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.040 the meat, fall off the meat bone, you know, fall 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.320 off the bone kind of thing. Very tender and just 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.080 the sauce. You know, I don't know what they put 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.960 in it, but it is delicious. You can you can 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.720 you It's like you come back to Cincinnati, you definitely 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.520 want to get some ribs. And and they had a 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.840 they had an offshoot place up in Detroit, uh in 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.720 suburban Detroit that used to feature the monk goom we 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:11.840 in ribs. And I used to get it there too, 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:14.280 and they just I don't know, you know how something 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:18.160 just tastes right, just taste good. That was That's the 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.399 montgomer In. I don't I'm not. I don't have a 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.760 contract with them. I'm not an endorser for them, but 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:27.600 I swear by their friend. Well and Rob, we we 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.480 actually have the same diet, which will upset g you 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.280 you as I understand it. You know we've nosed over here. 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.240 Is you like your your steak well done right, butterfly 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:40.280 cut or whatever. I'm the same way, yeah, medium, Well, 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.719 I just take a little ben a little paint just 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.520 a little bit, but you got a butterfly cut it 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.080 so that it cooks day. You can't eat the meat 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:53.639 bleeding and all that. Yes, yes, but Rob, you and 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.160 I are different compared to Ben. Ben likes his meat 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:02.040 charcoal black. I like it very you done? Yeah, oh, 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:04.080 you like it very well done. I say, I like 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.399 I like my I don't want my steak to be 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.040 Even when I get a hamburger, I order always say 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.359 well done, but not burnt. There's a difference between like 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.879 cooking it or just having a little bit of pink, 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.240 you know, in the center, but not then you like 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.679 it like you want to meet unrecognizable Yeah, well what 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.080 I do, Rob is I I'm not a vegetarian or 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.760 vegan or whatever, but I like that. And I see 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.480 the blood or any like, I think I'm actually eating 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:33.879 an animal. When it's it looks like the tires on 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.920 your car, I'm like, okay, it's you know, it's something else. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:41.879 So I've convinced my you know, or if it's or 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.639 if you had a sandwich and it had a tail 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:50.720 on it, you might take okay. Rob. With you traveling 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.719 so much all these Major League Baseball parks, what do 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.359 you feel like has the best I guess energy or 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.720 ambiance these days, because it feels like your fans obviously 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.360 getting back in the stands and the Dodgers in Astro's 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.280 the last couple of days, Chavez Ravine has been packed. 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.359 What's it been like across the country? You know what 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:13.960 baseball is is back as far as fan was every 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.440 game I went through the crowd, the stadiums were packed, 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:20.320 and you know, I think St. Louis is a baseball 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:24.960 capital of the United States. I can't get over. Everybody's 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:29.040 a Cardinals fan. They love the Cardinals. Everybody wears red. 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:31.920 It's a small market. I think the car I think St. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.240 Louis is a twenty three largest TV market, you know 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:37.880 what I mean. But they don't run like a mid 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.600 market or a small market. They operate like a major 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:45.800 Like a major market. They try to win, and um, 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:49.760 I'm impressed in any town that can run two football 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.920 teams out of town. I got to declare as a 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.560 baseball capital of the United States and just think about 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.080 what St. Louis. The only thing that people in St. 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.920 Louis care about it what the Cardinals and the Blues. 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:06.200 That's it. And they had they had an A B 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.879 A team, Right, and whoever that's one of the great stories, right, 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:10.720 whoever owned that St. Louis A B A team, They 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:15.280 still get a share of the NBA TV money grandfather did. Yeah, yeah, 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.240 they did it for a long time, like twenty five years. 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:21.679 Finally the NBA was like, we can't continue this, so 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.640 they made the guys settle for like an eight hundred 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:30.240 an eight hundred million or five hundred million to any agreement, 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:33.919 but it was put for forever. It was. It was 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:37.320 the most ridiculous contract that the NBA could have signed, 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.040 where they were going to get, you know, a piece 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:44.159 of the TV revenue forever. All they had to do 0:21:44.240 --> 0:21:47.840 was keep their patent. There was the spirit of St. Louis. 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:51.920 The guy's brothers owned the team and they were genuss 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.600 I mean to get them. But back then, guess what 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:58.679 the TV revenue was. There was like a hundred and 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:02.639 seventy five thousand a year. You have something, Yeah, nobody was, 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.280 nobody was paying attention to. That's crazy, crazy, crazy, all right. 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:09.040 So you gotta talk some baseball. Rob can't rob hardcore baseball. 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.560 So I heard, I heard that you have been trashing, 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:16.680 sullying the name of the Dodgers after they acquired Max 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:22.800 and trade Turner from the Nationals. Now, how is that 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:24.879 a bad move? How? How how did the Dodgers do 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:29.199 anything wrong? Rob? I'm not sure. All I said is 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:31.840 I think the Dodgers have turned into the evil Empire 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:35.400 now that they've taken it over from the Yankees. They're 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:38.159 the ones who have a payroll that's a hundred million 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.919 more than the Yankees since when the Dodgers were counting 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.119 Tenney's before and now all of a sudden, they don't 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:48.800 care what's going on. Who they want Trevor Bauer, here's 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:52.720 forty million dollars. Whatever we want the National League, uh, 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:56.080