1 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkchin, I'm his son, Jeff Kirkchhin and Dad, 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: welcome back to the basement. We are officially into July. 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: July the first. 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, July is after October, my favorite month of the 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 2: baseball season. July gives us July the fourth, which of 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 2: course is a baseball holiday. And tomorrow Ron Darling, former 8 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 2: Mets pitcher, is going to talk about maybe the craziest 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 2: game ever played on July the fourth, nineteen eighty five, 10 00:00:37,640 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 2: and how crazy that game was. Also in July, of course, Jeff, 11 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 2: we have the All Star Game. I've covered every All 12 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: Star Game starting with nineteen eighty two. Then of course 13 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: we get Cooperstown the induction. That is an absolute, stunningly 14 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: great weekend. 15 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 3: And then we have the trade deadline. 16 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: So July is packed with baseball stuff and it doesn't 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 2: have to compete with hockey or basketball or even football. 18 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 3: Yet it's Baseball's month. We need to celebrate it. 19 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: Speaking of the All Star Game, Dad, it's in Atlanta 20 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: this year, and so we got a Braves Hall of 21 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: Famer Chipper Jones to join us. That'll be in a 22 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 1: couple weeks. It'll air the day after the All Star Game, 23 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: so make sure you're listening for that now, Dad, did 24 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 1: you notice anything different. 25 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 3: With your seat? 26 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: Was it warm? Was it adjusted in a way you 27 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: don't like? Because I actually had somebody else sitting in 28 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: that chair this past weekend. 29 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 2: Right, Our grandson Carson Kinahan, who's four and a half 30 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 2: years old, did a podcast with you over the weekend, 31 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 2: sitting in this chair. At his feet I noticed didn't 32 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 2: touch the. 33 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 3: Ground either, nor to mine. I'm not sure about yours. 34 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 2: When he did the podcast, it was a dinosaur podcast. 35 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 2: Carson is absolutely enamored with dinosaurs. I cannot believe how 36 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 2: many dinosaur names he knows, how much you knows about dinosaurs, 37 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 2: Thank you, Jeff. It was just a priceless little podcast 38 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 2: with a four year old. 39 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: So, yeah, he's four and a half years old and 40 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,920 Speaker 1: he's a smart kid, and he wanted to do a podcast. 41 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: He saw the studio that we film in, which is 42 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,519 Speaker 1: in my basement in Pennsylvania, and my sister Kelly, brother 43 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: in law Mark and their two kids, Carson of course, 44 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 1: were here and so we popped on for a little podcast. 45 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 2: Right, And you know, I talked to him about dinosaurs 46 00:02:25,560 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: all the time. The one time I really confused him, 47 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 2: I asked him which dinosaur has the best vocabulary, and 48 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 2: of course Carson is four. 49 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 3: He's confused. I said, a thesaurus. 50 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: Ah, and very good. 51 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 3: He did not understand that. He will get it someday. 52 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: Let's listen to one bit, just thirty seconds of dino 53 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: talks with Carson that was done here, some hard hitting stuff. 54 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,880 Speaker 1: Which dinosaur is your favorite? 55 00:02:54,240 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 4: Like ankle o SOURCESM have spikes everywhere and sometimes asteroids 56 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 4: hit them in sixty augrees. 57 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 3: Wow. And then then became a long time ago, twenty 58 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 3: years ago? 59 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: How long ago? Like twenty years you said. 60 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty twenty years ago. Yeah, am a very long 61 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:16,920 Speaker 3: time ago. 62 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: That that was like two thousand and five. Dinosaurs twenty 63 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: years ago, Dad, right, two thousand and five, they were 64 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: walking this earth. 65 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 3: Kind of crazy. 66 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 2: I was called a dinosaur twenty years ago, believe me, Jeff, 67 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 2: and I'm way more of one now that I still 68 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 2: don't understand technology and everything else on how this world works. 69 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: So also this weekend, while they were in town, we 70 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: went to sesame place. So the little girls, my daughter 71 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: McKinley and her cousin Emma your other granddaughter could go 72 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: meet Elmo and Cookie Monster and all of them, and 73 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 1: we had a blast. They were riding little rides. But 74 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: I couldn't help but think of you because these rides 75 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,680 Speaker 1: are kid friendly, but I don't think they're pop friendly, 76 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: because there was one ride even I got a little 77 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: boozy on. And remember when we took Carson on a 78 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: Merry go round at the zoo in town and you 79 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: almost lost your lunch. 80 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not good on it. I'm terrible with heights. 81 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: I mean I couldn't even drink High Sea. 82 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 3: As a kid without getting vertigo. It was bad. 83 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 2: And anything that moves quickly other than me being in 84 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:25,679 Speaker 2: a car, I have trouble with and I get dizzy easily, 85 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 2: so I have to. 86 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 3: Be really careful. 87 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 2: That worst ever at an amusement park. But you met Elmo, 88 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 2: so this beg's At some point, Jeff, we're gonna have 89 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 2: to do the All Sesame Street Team, right, So I 90 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 2: actually checked. 91 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 3: There is a guy named Elmo. I didn't know him. 92 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 2: Elmo Plasket played for the sixty two sixty three Pirates 93 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 2: catcher third baseman, hit two hundred with a homer and 94 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 2: five RBIs. 95 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 3: So that's a good starting point, right's really good. 96 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: I mean any players with last named bird big bird, well, well, 97 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: Mark Fitritch was nicknamed big Bird, right right, so he'd 98 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: be then. 99 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 2: Drew Henson because Jim Henson starts. And of course we 100 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 2: have Bert Campiniras and Ernie Banks, Bert and Ernie. Let's 101 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 2: see if you remember my Bert camp and Aira story. 102 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 2: Do you remember this? So when I was like eight, 103 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 2: Pop your grandpa, he took us to the Shoreham Hotel 104 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 2: to get to get autographed so of baseball players. So 105 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,239 Speaker 2: it's a Sunday morning. I go up to this guy 106 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 2: in the lobby who I think is Bert Campanariras, and 107 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 2: I say, can I have your autograph please? And the 108 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 2: very polite man goes, uh, well, I'm not a baseball player, 109 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 2: but you can have my autograph. 110 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: And gave him the Bert camp and Airas. 111 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 2: No, it wasn't a card, it was just a piece 112 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 2: of paper. I didn't have cards for them to sign. 113 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 2: So he signed it, and then I took it to Pop, 114 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,719 Speaker 2: your grandfather and I and he looked at it and 115 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 2: the guy who had signed it was the real Harry Bellefonti, 116 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 2: so I thought it was Bert camp and Eiras, and 117 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,160 Speaker 2: it turned out to be one of the great singers 118 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 2: of all time. 119 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,120 Speaker 3: He was even more famous than Camping Campanias. 120 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: Now, is this your most prized autograph or would you 121 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: say when Steve Martin signed your cast? Or happy your 122 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: most I broke. 123 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 2: My hand in college playing football. It was innermural football. 124 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 2: I wasn't playing for the University of Maryland. 125 00:06:17,839 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 3: I broke my hand. I got a cast. 126 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: Let me just stop you there. Nobody was thinking you 127 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: were well. 128 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 3: Aware, right hand broken? Wore cast. 129 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 2: To see Steve Martin play at the Cellar Door, occupancy 130 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 2: was like one hundred and ten. There were about sixty 131 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 2: people there. This is probably nineteen seventy five. 132 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 3: Okay, he didn't. 133 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,799 Speaker 2: Even sell out the Cellar Door of for one hundred 134 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 2: and ten people, and a year later he was selling 135 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 2: out Colefield. I was not the point. I go to 136 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 2: see Steve Martin afterwards. He's my favorite comedian then and now. 137 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 2: And I go up to him and he's, you know, 138 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 2: he's take putting all his props away, blue and animals 139 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 2: arrow through the head, an amazing act that he used 140 00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,200 Speaker 2: to do. So I said, Steve, you're the funniest guy ever. 141 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: Seeing can you please sign my cast? 142 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 3: And he signed it. Tim pay me the money or 143 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 3: I'll break the other one. 144 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: That's what he wrote on my yesh so funny. 145 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 2: And of course I don't have the cast anymore since 146 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 2: I don't collect anything. 147 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 3: That's something I probably should have kept. 148 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: Absolutely, Dad, let's jump right into the takeaways in Major 149 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 1: League Baseball what he have? 150 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 3: Well, Sunday night, Trek. 151 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 2: Scooble did it again for the Tigers. He is the 152 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 2: best pitcher in baseball. 153 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 3: With all due respect to Paul Schimes, Trek Scooble is unbelievable. 154 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 2: So the Sunday Night game, he became the first Tiger 155 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:37,239 Speaker 2: ever to have thirteen strikeouts and allow one or zero 156 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 2: hits in the game. 157 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 3: Ever, not just on Sunday Night. 158 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: And think about the pitchers that have come through the 159 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: Tigers organization. This is not some nobody's I mean, they've 160 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: had some great names, right. 161 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 3: He walked one batter, So now he's made seventeen starts 162 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 3: and he's walked fourteen fourteen. 163 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 2: Keep in mind he's got ten wins and fourteen walks. 164 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 2: Every year I pray that somebody has has as many 165 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 2: walks as he has wins or wins as he. 166 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 3: Has walks, which is almost impossible to do. 167 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 2: Brett Seberhagen in nineteen ninety four, great control pitcher, fourteen wins, 168 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 2: thirteen walks. Think about that, and that's what Trek School 169 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 2: is doing. 170 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 3: He retired the side in order one, two three in 171 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 3: the first four innings. 172 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 2: So for the season he's got fifty six one two 173 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 2: three innings. 174 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 3: That's the most in baseball. 175 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 2: Because everything that he does these days, he's great at. 176 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 2: He's got an elite change up. He had fifteen swings 177 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 2: and misses on change ups on Sunday night. And when 178 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 2: you have an elite change up and you throw upper 179 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,080 Speaker 2: nineties and have one hundred in your back pocket, that's 180 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: how you're so good. 181 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's so good. They're gonna name a pitch after him, 182 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: the school ball. That was pretty good, right, Jeff, that 183 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: was very good. 184 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 3: I'm proud of you, all right. 185 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 2: Also, James Wood, who's gonna make the All Star team. 186 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 3: We've explained James Wood. 187 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,320 Speaker 2: I used to play basketball with his dad, Kenny Wood, 188 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 2: all the time. I saw James Wood when he was 189 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,480 Speaker 2: five years old. He was taller than me when he 190 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 2: was five, But James told me at five I want 191 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 2: to be a baseball player, and twenty fifteen years later 192 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 2: he's in the big leagues and now he's going to 193 00:09:15,280 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 2: go to the All Star Game. 194 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 3: That's the kind of season he's having. 195 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 2: So Sunday he had four intentional walks in one game. Four, 196 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 2: So he's the youngest player ever to have four intentional walks. 197 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 2: We've been tracking those since nineteen fifty five. Keep in mind, Jeff, 198 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 2: the Rays team has three intentional walks this season. They're hitters, 199 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 2: and James Wood got four in one game. 200 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 3: So that's the last guy to. 201 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 2: Get four in a game was Barry Bonds in two 202 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 2: thousand and four. The previous youngest player to get four 203 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 2: intentional walks in a game was Roger Morris in nineteen 204 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 2: sixty two. Now, Jeff, I told you this recently. Maris 205 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 2: hit sixty one homers in nineteen sixty one and received 206 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 2: no intentional walks. 207 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 3: Then the next. 208 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 2: Season, in one game he got four. And speaking of 209 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 2: Barry Bonds, Barry Bonds finished his career with six hundred 210 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 2: and eighty eight intentional walks. He had one hundred and 211 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 2: twenty in two thousand and four. One hundred and twenty 212 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 2: intentional walks The American League leader that season in walks 213 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: was Eric Chavez with ninety five. 214 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 1: That's just walks, just walk, not intentional. 215 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 2: Barry Bonds had twenty five more intentional walks than the 216 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 2: AL leader had in walks in two thousand and four. 217 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 3: So that's eight now for James Wood this year. 218 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,440 Speaker 2: The only ones with more cal Raleigh shohe Otani with ten, 219 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 2: Aaron Judge with eighteen. 220 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,080 Speaker 3: Eighteen's a lot. Barry Bonds had one hundred and twenty 221 00:10:58,360 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 3: in one season. 222 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 2: It's amazing that the respect that James Wood is already 223 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 2: getting to get an intentional walk four times in one game. 224 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: And I think it's really cool too. And I would 225 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 1: love Dad, and I'm not going to put you on 226 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: the spot here, but like to get a list of 227 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: players who played for the team that they grew up around, right, 228 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: because he's from the Maryland area just like we are, 229 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,599 Speaker 1: and now he plays for the Washington Nationals, the closest 230 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: maybe if not the Orioles, but the closest team to 231 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: his hometown. I would love to get a list and 232 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: I won't put you on the spot again, but one 233 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: day of guys who were drafted and played. 234 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 2: Well for their team cal Ripkens Aberdeen. Yeah, yes, Joe 235 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 2: Mauer is a Minneapolis guy ends up being a Hall 236 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 2: of Famer for the Twins. So yeah, it's a good 237 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 2: question for Tony gwyn Tony Gwynn is a San Diego 238 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 2: kid and played in San Diego. 239 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: So many great ones. 240 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 3: Okay, we won't. 241 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,720 Speaker 1: We won't keep going down that speaking. 242 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 3: To great ones. 243 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,479 Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw is on the verge of three thousand strikeouts. 244 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 2: Will be the twentieth pitcher to have three thousand strikeouts 245 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 2: in his career. The only pitchers who have done it 246 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 2: three thousand for one team. That doesn't mean they only 247 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 2: played for one team, but they had three thousand for 248 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 2: one team. 249 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 3: Walter Johnson did I ever tell you? 250 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:15,880 Speaker 2: I went to Walter john He worked for the pitch 251 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 2: Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, and John Smoltz. Again, John Smoltz 252 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 2: played for other teams, but he had three thousand strikeouts 253 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:29,920 Speaker 2: for the Atlanta Braves. You know, just another So Clayton Kershaw. 254 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 2: What is my anagram for Clayton Kershaw? 255 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 3: Let's see if you can remember this. 256 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: La King wants CI It's La pi Hero. Oh God, 257 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:42,560 Speaker 1: why do I always say King La PSI. 258 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 2: Here Hero wants k or la k Hero, because if 259 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 2: you got three more on Monday night, I'm sure he did, 260 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 2: it would get him to three thousand. 261 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: Nothing makes my dad lose sleep more than when we 262 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: have to record this on a Monday afternoon, because I'm 263 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,640 Speaker 1: a morning show host, so I can't be editing things 264 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:03,679 Speaker 1: at you know, eleven PM with a one and a 265 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: half year old upstairs and having to wake up at 266 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:09,079 Speaker 1: three thirty. So last night the Dodgers played, if he 267 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: got three strikeouts he had, he. 268 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 2: Had, and I'm also doing the Padres and the Phillies 269 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 2: game on Monday night, so I'm not in a position 270 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 2: to be running back to your house to update one paragraph. 271 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 2: Let's just assume Clayton Kershaw got it. If he didn't, 272 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:23,920 Speaker 2: he'll get it in the next start. 273 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 1: Worth mentioning too. This Sunday, correct, Dad, You're going to 274 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 1: be doing the Padres game on ESPN right. 275 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:33,959 Speaker 2: Yes, in San Diego against the Rangers. So I'm prepping 276 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 2: for that. Saw the Rangers twice last week, Padres tonight, 277 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 2: and we'll go from there. And last but not least, Jeff, 278 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 2: we say goodbye to Dave Parker at age seventy four 279 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 2: Hall of Famer died of Parkinson's disease. He was supposed 280 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 2: to go officially into the Hall of Fame at the 281 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 2: end of July. 282 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 3: It's such a shame. 283 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 2: Dave Parker is one of the best players I've ever seen, 284 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 2: an absolutely dominant player. Won the MVP in nineteen seventy eight. 285 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 2: He also finished in the top three of the MVP 286 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 2: voting four other times. He was a seven time All Star, 287 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 2: won three Gold Gloves, won two batting titles. He was 288 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 2: an enormous man who could really run and could really throw, 289 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 2: and famously, nineteen seventy nine All Star Game in Seattle, 290 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 2: the throw he made to get Brian downing at the 291 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 2: plate great catch and tag by Gary Carter was one 292 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 2: of the great iconic moments in the history of the 293 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 2: All Star Game. Dave Parker was also a gigantic personality. 294 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 3: Wore an earring, had a. 295 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 2: Great smile, wasn't afraid to say all sorts of things, 296 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 2: even if some of them were controversially, had a great 297 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 2: nickname the Cobra because of the way he kind of 298 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 2: attacked a baseball and I remember I remember he wore 299 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 2: a star of David around his neck and someone asked him, like, 300 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 2: why do you wear that? And he goes, well, my 301 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,680 Speaker 2: name is David and I'm a star, and he's one 302 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 2: of the great stars in the history of Major League Baseball. 303 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 3: Rip Dave Parker. 304 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 2: We'll go into the quirchin. So the Guardians this week 305 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,840 Speaker 2: had two games in a row where they had more 306 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 2: errors than hits. Let's think about that for a second. 307 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 2: They had two hits and four errors in one game. 308 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 2: The next game they had they had one hit and 309 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 2: two errors. Pretty bad, signed back to back game. So 310 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 2: I checked with Frank at the Elias and it's nineteen sixty. 311 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 3: At nine on the Divisional era. 312 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 2: The only team that did that in consecutive games, and 313 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 2: I remember this was the Braves in twenty twenty, the 314 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,760 Speaker 2: COVID year. So both games, it was a doubleheader, and 315 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 2: both games, of course for seven innings, because that's what 316 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 2: we did during the COVID season of twenty twenty. So 317 00:15:55,920 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 2: in the first game they got one hit and made 318 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 2: two errors. In the second game, they got no hits 319 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 2: and made one error. So in that doubleheader they got 320 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 2: one hit and made three errors. Madison Bumgarner pitched a 321 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 2: seven inning no hitter in the second game, So that's 322 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 2: the only other time since nineteen sixty nine that any 323 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 2: team had consecutive games where they made They had more 324 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 2: errors than hits in each game. 325 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: That's impressive. What happens if Frank from the Alias is 326 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 1: on vacation, Oh, I will call John. 327 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 3: His brother or Santo his brother. We've got him covered. 328 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: Okay, good. 329 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 2: I just want to make sure Frank's always on alert 330 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 2: from Only the Elias can confirm this stuff that I 331 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 2: look up, and we can't use it unless it's right. 332 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 2: And they're the only ones that confirm what I got. 333 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 2: They confirmed this. So Wednesday and Thursday of last week 334 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 2: there were twenty four games played and there were twelve shutouts. Jeff, 335 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 2: think about that. For a second half the games were shutouts. 336 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 2: So this is the first time in the history of 337 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 2: the game that on back to back days a two 338 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 2: days fan there were a minimum of twenty games and 339 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 2: half of the games resulted in a shutout. That's the 340 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 2: kind of pitching that we see these days in the 341 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:15,640 Speaker 2: big leagues. And you know, you must sit at home 342 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,199 Speaker 2: and watch these games and wonder what I do. 343 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 3: How does anyone get a hit anymore? 344 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 4: Right? 345 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 1: When the pitchers are throwing so hard and the well 346 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: people are striking out more than ever. 347 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 3: Right, it's crazy. 348 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: A home runner a strike gap. 349 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 4: Right. 350 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 2: Speaking of crazy games, the Orioles last week came the 351 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:35,399 Speaker 2: first team ever to be behind by six runs in 352 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 2: a game and came back to win by fourteen. So 353 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 2: they were down six to nothing. They came back to 354 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 2: beat the Rays twenty two to eight. That game has 355 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,720 Speaker 2: never happened in baseball history, Jeff, this is why we 356 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,159 Speaker 2: love baseball so much. As we watched these games and 357 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 2: you wonder, is this when's the last time that happened. 358 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 3: The answer is it's never happened. And we're talking about 359 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 3: well over one hundred years of baseball history and these 360 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 3: things are never happened. 361 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,199 Speaker 2: Those people went to that game probably went boy, that 362 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,119 Speaker 2: was a really weird game. And the answer is, no 363 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 2: one's ever seen that game. 364 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: Right. They're just trying to get another hot dog and 365 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 1: they think this might have happened before. Maybe not, I don't. 366 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 2: Know, right, get in line for the dippin' dots. Right, 367 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 2: So Garrett Hampsen of the Cardinals pitched. 368 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,120 Speaker 3: The other night in the game. He's an infielder. 369 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 2: He pitched, so he I've got a kick out of this. 370 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 2: He pitched one inning, He faced three batters, threw three pitches. 371 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 3: And got them all out. He's a position player. 372 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 2: Wow, now, Jeff, we know with our position players they 373 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 2: are now throwing it in there at about forty miles 374 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 2: an hour so they don't get hurt and throw it 375 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 2: well below the hitting speed just in case. So maybe 376 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 2: it's just so enticing you just want to go out 377 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 2: and swing at the first pitch. And maybe that's what happened. 378 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 2: But only three real pitchers, Tanner, Scott, Nick Meers, and 379 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,919 Speaker 2: Eric Miller this season have faced three batters in an 380 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 2: inning all and retired the side. 381 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 3: On three pitches. And then a position player did it. 382 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,280 Speaker 1: Does that surprise you, well, it surprises me that it 383 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: hasn't happened more this season, just with everybody trying to 384 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:08,719 Speaker 1: swing for the fences. 385 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 2: As we just mentioned it, right, everyone's trying to do that. Okay, 386 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,240 Speaker 2: Roman Anthony, what a great baseball name. The Roman Empire 387 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,479 Speaker 2: has begun. It's begun a little slowly. 388 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 3: But the other day Roman Anthony of the. 389 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 2: Red Sox had three hits. Two of those were extra 390 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:27,159 Speaker 2: base hits. So he is the youngest Red Sox to 391 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 2: do that since Ken Brett in nineteen sixty nine. 392 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 3: Do you know who Ken Brett is? The last name Brett. 393 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 3: That must mean George Brett. 394 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: Is he related? 395 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 2: George Brett's brother, Ken Brett was a pitcher, and George 396 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 2: has told me multiple times the best hitter in our 397 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 2: family growing up was Ken Brett. And Ken Brett as 398 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 2: a pitcher hit a home run in four consecutive starts. 399 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,919 Speaker 2: He's the only pitcher ever to do that. So he 400 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,879 Speaker 2: was a reliever at one point in his career, but 401 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 2: four consecutive starts that he. 402 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 3: Made, he had a home run in each one. That's incredible, right, four. 403 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: So you're I mean, you're just banking on his bat 404 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: And I don't want to say this, Dad, because I 405 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: don't want to sound like an old head, but I'll 406 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,360 Speaker 1: take that job from you for a moment. I am 407 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: really sad that we don't have pictures batting anymore. And 408 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: even though I live in the Philadelphia area and since 409 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: moving here, my wife and I have been cheering on 410 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: the Phillies and it's more fun to see more offense. Absolutely, 411 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: and well, the Phillies wouldn't even really have a team 412 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 1: because Bryce Harper would have never dated you get the 413 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: whole thing. But my point is it's just sad because 414 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: all of those little quirk gins about pictures hitting are 415 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:40,320 Speaker 1: just no longer existed. 416 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,760 Speaker 2: I wrote a very long story for ESPN dot com 417 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 2: bemoaning the fact that pictures will never well, they'll hit again, 418 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,879 Speaker 2: but only here and there. And I think it's a 419 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 2: shame because some of the greatest notes of all time 420 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 2: I came from pictures hitting. And in the July fourth, 421 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five game that Ron Darling is going to 422 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 2: detail us for us tomorrow night, what happened in that game, Well, Camp. 423 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 1: Rick Camp. They call it the Rick Camp game because 424 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: he was a picture in the sixteenth inning and he. 425 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 2: Hit eighteenth eighteenth, a career oh sixty hitter, hit his 426 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 2: only Major League home run of his career in the 427 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,119 Speaker 2: eighteenth inning to tie that game. And you're right, Jeff, 428 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 2: they named it. They named the game after Rick Camp 429 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 2: because he's a pitcher who hit a homer. 430 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 3: A few years ago. 431 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 2: The biggest home run hit, the most remarkable hit home 432 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 2: run hit in the entire season, was hit by Bartolo Cologne. 433 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 3: Yep, a picture. 434 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 2: I have a million of these notes, and now we 435 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,359 Speaker 2: don't get to use them anymore because pictures don't bat 436 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 2: except in the case of an emergency. Well, we talked 437 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 2: about when we were we did a live stream with 438 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 2: Dan Levittard and friends on their YouTube channel and we 439 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 2: shared it on our YouTube channel, so you can follow us. 440 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 2: You can watch every episode on our YouTube. Just search 441 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 2: for is this a great game or what? And you 442 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 2: had to take a restroom break, but you would. 443 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:05,479 Speaker 1: Tease the Phil and Joe Nicro little court gin that 444 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:07,280 Speaker 1: you have created that you know it was one of 445 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: our favorites. 446 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Joe Nicro. 447 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,360 Speaker 2: A pitcher at twelve hundred, played appearances in the big 448 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,920 Speaker 2: leagues roughly, and hit one home run and he. 449 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:18,720 Speaker 3: Hit it off of his brother Phil, which. 450 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:23,359 Speaker 2: Again, these beautiful coincidences happen all the time in baseball 451 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 2: and it just tickles me to no end when we 452 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: see something like that. And speaking of which, Michael Bush 453 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,679 Speaker 2: of the Cubs hit a home run at Bush Stadium. 454 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 2: So it has been confirmed that Michael Bush, who spells 455 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:42,399 Speaker 2: his name bu sc ch just like Bush Stadium, is 456 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 2: the only player named Bush to hit a home run 457 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 2: at Bush Stadium. So we have researched that, and so 458 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 2: what came of that really fun little note. 459 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,360 Speaker 1: So we have to give a big, big shout out 460 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:59,960 Speaker 1: to Dan and Thomas Kelly of Peoria, Illinois, and Dan 461 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,679 Speaker 1: and his dad and Thomas is the nine year old son. 462 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: They are big listeners. He said, I've really enjoyed listening 463 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 1: to your podcast lately and we are thrilled to reach 464 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: out with our first quirk gin. Thomas has become a 465 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: huge baseball fan and this week we went with the 466 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: rest of our family to see our Chicago Cubs for 467 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 1: their Cubby fans, play against the Saint Louis Cardinals, and 468 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: Michael Bush hit a home run to give the Cubs 469 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: the lead, so he had that note Dad, But then 470 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: he went a little bit farther. Okay, so he said, 471 00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 1: this made us think has this ever happened at other 472 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,160 Speaker 1: MLB stadiums? So, in an attempt to be a seamhead, 473 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 1: we've made the all stadium team with some old and 474 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,160 Speaker 1: current names and old and current stadiums, so we can't 475 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: confirm whether these players ever hit home runs in these stadiums. 476 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: In fact, that's not the list. It's just stadium names 477 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: first or last. And this list is very creative, and it's. 478 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,880 Speaker 2: Just that a father and his nine year old son 479 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 2: took the time to sit down and do this. 480 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 3: Never mind they did it for our podcast. This is 481 00:23:58,119 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 3: what attracted me to Bay. 482 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 2: My dad and I used to sit down and do 483 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 2: stuff like this all the time when we weren't playing. 484 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:09,439 Speaker 3: So let's start off with you take it one at 485 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 3: a time. 486 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,159 Speaker 1: Yes, Shelby Miller Miller Park in Milwaukee. 487 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 3: Pretty great, right. Bruce Souter is our closer on this team. 488 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 2: And the stadium that the A's play in Sacramento is 489 00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 2: is Sutter Stadium. 490 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: And then we have merv Shae Shay Stadium obviously, and. 491 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,479 Speaker 3: Michael Bush is our first baseman as he should be. 492 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: Rogers hornsby Rogers Center, Toronto. 493 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 3: Zeke Wrigley is the shortstop. 494 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,360 Speaker 1: Need no explanation there, right. Third base is Justin Turner 495 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: former Brave Stadium. 496 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure Justin Turner hit a ball, hit a 497 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 2: home run at Turner Field, Absolutely pretty sure. We should 498 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 2: have checked that. But that's okay. We don't want to 499 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,680 Speaker 2: We don't want to trump their list. This is their list. 500 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: We want to do creative. 501 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 2: Yes, yes, Angel Pagan of course, the Angel Stadium, Angel Pagon, 502 00:24:59,280 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 2: it works. 503 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 1: Al Humphrey as in Hubert Humphrey Metrodome. 504 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 2: Right, covered many games in that place, and Tony Kaufman 505 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 2: Kaufman Stadium in Kansas City. Way to go, Dan and 506 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: Thomas Kelly. That is Peoria, Illinois. 507 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 3: Dad. 508 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: That is so special, So thank you so much. If 509 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 1: you ever have anything like that that you want to 510 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 1: send to us, you can do so. You can email 511 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:30,560 Speaker 1: me Jeff at Great Game or what dot com. All right, Dad, 512 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,719 Speaker 1: let's jump into on this date in baseball history. What 513 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,119 Speaker 1: do you have for July the first? Very fitting? I 514 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: love that date right. 515 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 2: While Walter Johnson it's a no hitter. I ever tell 516 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 2: you I went to Walter Johnson. 517 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:43,199 Speaker 3: Did you go to watch? You know? 518 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,880 Speaker 1: Some people email us now Dad and say, never tell 519 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,040 Speaker 1: you I didn't go to Walter Johnson, Icechanol. 520 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 2: So Jeff on July the ninth that we are going 521 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:59,040 Speaker 2: to be doing our podcast from Povich Field right in Bethesda, Maryland, 522 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:03,479 Speaker 2: and we will be doing it around a statue of 523 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,800 Speaker 2: Shirley Povich, the great Hall of Fame baseball writer. He 524 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 2: used to work for the Washington Post and he's interviewing 525 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 2: Walter Johnson. It's one of the great sculptors you'll ever see. 526 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 2: I've been there a million times. Of course, every year 527 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,119 Speaker 2: we go back there throughout the first pitch, the big train, 528 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 2: you know, Shirley Povich Field. 529 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 3: It's so much fun. 530 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 2: And we're gonna be broadcasting a show from there with 531 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 2: Bruce Adams, who runs the whole show. 532 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:32,440 Speaker 3: On July the ninth. 533 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, so your normal Thursday episode will actually be recorded 534 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: there next week, which will be really nice to go 535 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: on location. And we're going to be doing more interviews 536 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 1: from the Hall of Fame on Induction weekend. We're going 537 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: to be doing some interviews from the Little League World Series. 538 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,320 Speaker 1: So we've got a big summer lined up, very very big. 539 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 2: Speaking of no hitters, on this date, nineteen fifty one, 540 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 2: Bob Feller pitched his third no hitter. Now, Jeff has 541 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 2: no hitter in nineteen forty. Let's see if you remember 542 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,240 Speaker 2: how I've taught you, what is the significance of the 543 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 2: Bob Feller no hitter in nineteen forty this opening day? 544 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,680 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, only. 545 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 2: No hitter ever thrown on opening day, right, and all 546 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 2: of the Chicago White Sox. 547 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 3: This is assuming, Jeff. 548 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 2: You assume if your batting average going into the first 549 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 2: game of the season is zero zero zero, then this 550 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 2: is the only game in history where everyone's batting average 551 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 2: after the game is the same. 552 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 3: As it was before the game. 553 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 2: Right, So, Bob Feller no hitter in nineteen fifty one. 554 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 2: Let's see if you remember this. Nineteen sixty seven, Jim 555 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 2: Palmer gave up a Grand Slam. 556 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: Only Grand Slam he ever gave up in his career, 557 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:50,240 Speaker 1: and it was against Johnny. 558 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,240 Speaker 2: Bench in the minor league and the minor leagues. Never 559 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 2: gave up one in his Major league almost four thousand 560 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 2: innings pitch. Jim Palmer never gave up a Grand Slam. 561 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 1: And I think, Dad, we need to revisit the clip 562 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 1: of him talking about the scouting report on Johnny Bench. 563 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:06,879 Speaker 1: Let's take a listen. 564 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 4: The day before we played a day game and Johnny 565 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 4: hit a jam shot to right field and I had 566 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 4: just gotten near because I had to sore arm, And 567 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 4: I said, who's that? You know, who's that guy? They 568 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 4: got always a punch and juty hitter. He had like 569 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:25,439 Speaker 4: fifteen home runs in twenty one games. I walked the 570 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 4: bases loaded with a six run lead, and Jim, you 571 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:32,280 Speaker 4: were around, he re weaver, You think he was Oh, 572 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 4: he runs out to the mound and says, just throw 573 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:39,280 Speaker 4: them all down the to the r right. I did, 574 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 4: and Johnny hit it about four hundred and fifty feet 575 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 4: towards Niagara Falls and ran right out and took me 576 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 4: out of the game and we went on to win. 577 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: I mean, hearing it from Jim Palmer makes it even 578 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 1: funnier because he's watching him saying, I don't know if 579 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 1: this is right, Scott. She's pretty darn good. And he 580 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: ends up being the greatest catcher of all time to. 581 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,959 Speaker 2: So many two Hall of famers, Jim Palmer and Johnny 582 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 2: and last thing, Jeff. On this date in nineteen eighty two, 583 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 2: Earl Weaver moved cal Ripkin from third base to shortstop 584 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 2: and just put him in the lineup at shortstop, and 585 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 2: Cal Junior just moved over and history was made after that. 586 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 2: This was classic Earl Weaver. Earl Weaver absolutely valued pitching, 587 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 2: defense and three run homers, but if he could ever 588 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:31,840 Speaker 2: get power and production from a defensive position, he was 589 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 2: always up for doing that. So he took cal Ripkin 590 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 2: and moved a power hitting third baseman who hadn't quite 591 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 2: you know, established himself over to shortstop. That's when cal 592 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 2: Ripkin began his you know this unbelievable street where I 593 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 2: believe he's one of the three greatest shortstops of all 594 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 2: time with Hans Wagner and Derek Jeter in some order. 595 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 2: And he changed the position the day that he moved 596 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 2: over there. Give me a big shortstop, Jeff who he 597 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 2: became a shortstop because cal Ripkin showed everyone you could 598 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 2: be a big guy to play shorts. 599 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: Alex Rodriguez krist to mind right out of the gate. 600 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 1: I mean, Chipper Jones was a third baseman, but he. 601 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 2: Was a shortstop to begin with, right, and then he 602 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 2: switched Derek Jeter. Big guys, Troy Gloss was a short 603 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 2: stop coming up, and most of these guys did that 604 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 2: no more, Garciapara, because cal Ripkin showed them that a 605 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 2: big guy can play shortstop in the big leagues and 606 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 2: make it work. 607 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: Dad, I'm so looking forward to everybody joining us with 608 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 1: Ron Darling tomorrow. 609 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 3: Dad. 610 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 1: If people are not on our YouTube yet, you should 611 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: be because you need to see what my dad decided 612 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 1: to wear for this interview with Ron Darling. I thought 613 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 1: it was a very bold choice of your outfit. 614 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 3: Should we tell everyone or should we? 615 00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 1: I think they need to wait. We do reference it 616 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: in the podcast, so you won't have to go to 617 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 1: YouTube to see it. But if you want to support 618 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: the show, go subscribe to our podcast and follow us there. 619 00:30:59,120 --> 00:30:59,360 Speaker 3: Dad. 620 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,000 Speaker 1: Our interview with Dan LeBatard last week was the biggest 621 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: video we have on our YouTube because all of Dan 622 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: Lebatard's friends and listeners jumped onto our YouTube page and 623 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: are now subscribing, which is great. 624 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 2: And then we did what do we call that a 625 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 2: streaming episode with Levatard the other night. 626 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, we did. We did a game watch a live 627 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: stream on YouTube and it was it was a little 628 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 1: hard Dan, in order to explain how this works to you, 629 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: but we were live kind of like television, but on 630 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: YouTube and on some other social media sites, and we 631 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: had a blast. We did real three and a half hours, 632 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 1: almost four hours. 633 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, and a buddy of mine, Ray Rattos and be 634 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 2: a Texan. I've watched it twice twice. Who's got eight hours? 635 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 2: But I love Ray Ratto He's is one of the smartest, funniest, 636 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 2: greatest writers I've ever been around, and he watched it twice. 637 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: Well, let's shout out some of the guests that joined 638 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 1: it was Eduardo Perez was on it. We had ad 639 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: Nan Verk was on it, Joe Posnansky was on it, 640 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: David Sampson. 641 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 3: Came through the vale. 642 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,720 Speaker 1: Oh, Bobby Valentine was in there, and I just thought 643 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: it was so special that all of the people that 644 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: showed up and you're gonna hate this. For Tim Kirkshon Appreciation. 645 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,680 Speaker 2: Night, Jeff Miller was on to He came on and 646 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 2: explained when Dan tip to some carrot cake out of 647 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 2: the press box of Chase Stadium hit some guy in 648 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 2: the head with it, did it on purpose? 649 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: Only Levatard great, great fun though amazing. Go back and 650 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 1: listen to that one. Make sure you're subscribing wherever you're 651 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: listening right now. Share the podcast with a friend, and 652 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 1: we have Ron Darling on your feed tomorrow. Thank you 653 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: so much for listening, and as always, thank you for 654 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: being a part from our family.