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Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what? Welcome to the podcast,

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Speaker 1: Him and Jeff kirkshin my Hall of Fame baseball writer Dad.

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Speaker 1: How long have we been trying to put this together?

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Speaker 2: Well, we've been had this for a good five years.

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Speaker 2: But now that your voice has changed enough where it's

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Speaker 2: not quite so high, I think we're in business now.

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Speaker 1: I don't really think you have a right to be

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Speaker 1: making fun of anybody's voice.

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Speaker 2: Look, these are two terrible voices, but we're gonna offer

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Speaker 2: more than terrible voices. We have content here. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: have fun here. We're gonna have a guest every week

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Speaker 2: on the show. It's gonna be every week. It's gonna

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Speaker 2: drop every Tuesday. And the first week we have Eduardo Perez.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's on opening day, so that's like our one.

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Speaker 1: Not on a Tuesday, It'll be on Thursday, March twenty eighth.

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Speaker 1: Eduardo Perez, former Major leaguer, son of a Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 1: just like.

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Speaker 2: Me, right, and then Chris Young Texas Rangers. Second week,

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Speaker 2: John Smoltz, Hall of Famer golf expert. Third week, We've

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Speaker 2: got Tito Francona, who makes me laugh more than anyone

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Speaker 2: in uniform I've ever seen, and Mike Sure, more than

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Speaker 2: a baseball guy, has made all of us laugh over

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Speaker 2: the years, and we're in for the laughs on this show.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you don't know Mike Shore, he created the office.

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Speaker 1: We've got Hall of famers, we've got managers, we've got

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Speaker 1: fans of the game. I'm really excited to go week

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Speaker 1: for week to hear the stories that quite frankly, I

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Speaker 1: grew up listening to because I didn't get princesses and

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Speaker 1: dragon stories. I got stories of Babe Ruth and Ted Williams.

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Speaker 1: When I was going to bed, I learned Who's on

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Speaker 1: first before I learned my ABC's And.

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Speaker 2: When I was drink training this year, Jeff I saw

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Speaker 2: Ken Griffy Junior at a card show. I haven't seen

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Speaker 2: him in a year. He looks right at me. He

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Speaker 2: doesn't even say hello, he just looks at me and

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Speaker 2: he goes. You know, some people actually retire, you know that,

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Speaker 2: which was his obvious way of saying, whether are you

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Speaker 2: gonna call it a career? Well, I'm not ready to

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Speaker 2: do that. I still love the game. And now I

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Speaker 2: get to do a podcast with my son every day

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Speaker 2: of the season, every week of the season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll cover every day of the season. Every Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: we're releasing episodes. Make sure to follow wherever you get

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Speaker 1: your podcasts, whether it's Apple, Spotify. We're also going to

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Speaker 1: be on YouTube. We'd love for you to support what

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Speaker 1: we're doing, and you can also submit any questions you

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Speaker 1: want great Game or dot com, or you can follow

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Speaker 1: the good stuff you can chime in there as well.

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Speaker 1: We can't wait to chat more with you on opening Day.

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Speaker 2: Opening Day is Thursday. Wednesday is the last worthless evening

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Speaker 2: that we'll have to spend.

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Speaker 1: Joy Pop Productions presents Is this a Great Game or What?

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Speaker 1: Make sure to follow wherever you get your podcasts, and

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Speaker 1: be on the lookout for Opening Day with our very

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Speaker 1: first episode.