1 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what with the Hall 2 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: of Famer Tim Kirkshin, I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshin. I 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: almost said I'm his dad, Jeff Kirkshen, because my hat 4 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: just says dad on it, which I wore in spirit 5 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 1: of having a podcast with my dad. What do you 6 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: think of it? Dad? 7 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 2: And you just had McKinley Hope, your beautiful daughter on 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 2: your lap before we went on being a dad. There's 9 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: nothing better than that, Jeff, and doing your own podcast 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 2: with your son, promise you there's nothing better than that. 11 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 2: I need to ask you something though, Jeff. And if 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 2: you notice I've got a bit of a cold here, 13 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 2: and I'm. 14 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: Starting to notice that yesterday. 15 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I'm starting to lose my voice. My 16 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 2: question is that a good thing or a bad thing? 17 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 2: Because it's my voice. If Dan Schulman loses his voice, 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 2: that's really bad thing. And Mike Bonaco, who was at 19 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 2: the Little League World Series with us so much fun, 20 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 2: he lost his voice for a while and he was 21 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 2: like apoplectic, like how am I going to get through this? 22 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 2: You could still hear him and he was still great. 23 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 2: But when you have a terrible voice like mine and 24 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 2: you lose your voice? Is that Can that be a 25 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:12,360 Speaker 2: good thing? 26 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 1: I'm just asking, Well, I don't think you're on the 27 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: I don't think you've lost your voice yet. You can 28 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: hear the strenuous effort it's taking, but it also is 29 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: deepening your voice a bit, which I think is pretty great. 30 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 2: Well, Jeff, that was kind of my question, is if 31 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 2: I don't have such a mister Haney from Green Acres 32 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 2: type of twang to my voice, maybe maybe this is 33 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 2: a good thing. I know, it sounds like I smoked 34 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,399 Speaker 2: three packs of cigarettes today, even though I've never smoked 35 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 2: a cigarette in my life ever either. Yeah, good plan 36 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 2: on that. So, yeah, so my voice is a little raspy, 37 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: but we're going to get through this. 38 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: You know, as a singer in growing up in choir 39 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: and then you know, being in an a capella group 40 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: in college, it was always so difficult for us tenors. Right, 41 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,960 Speaker 1: So the tenor is the highest male singing voice, right, 42 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: and then you have the baritone is in the middle, 43 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: and then the bass is the bass. 44 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 2: Right. 45 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: So when we would get asked to go do like 46 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: the national anthem at a charity five k on a 47 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: Saturday morning, granted most of us were up until two 48 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: in the morning having a great time because we were 49 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: in college. And then we all get up and we're 50 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: singing the national anthem at eight in the morning on 51 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: a Saturday. All the basses were great because you wake 52 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: up and your voice is deep and you don't need 53 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: to warm up, and us tenors are like, I can't 54 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: reach my notes because we always would have morning voice 55 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: and raspy voice. 56 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 2: And Jeff, speaking of vocals, how great was Todd Frazier 57 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 2: with Carl Raviits yesterday on our podcast. Jeff, he is 58 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 2: a talented guy. He can really sing. Am I wrong 59 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 2: about this? No? 60 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 1: He can. And the most important thing is he's confident. 61 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: You know, when you asked him about his singing background, 62 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 1: it was minimal, right, and he's saying in like junior 63 00:02:59,280 --> 00:02:59,680 Speaker 1: high and that. 64 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 2: Was it was in the church choir for three years. Yeah. 65 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,079 Speaker 1: Yeah, but still not like you know, performing on stage 66 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: in front of everybody by himself, singing a solo. It's 67 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: different things. And he was shy about admitting that he was, 68 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: you know, singing. But the big thing with being a 69 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: singer and being a performer is is going for it, 70 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: is selling it, and he is a great seller. He 71 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: would be great at a karaoke bar because he would 72 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: have everybody in the palm of his hand. And that's 73 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: half the karaoke singers I know aren't the best singers 74 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: in the world, but they know how to sing karaoke 75 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: because they look at the crowd and they point at 76 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: them and they have them finish the line. And that 77 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: the performance is a big part of it. And Todd 78 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: Fraser is a good singer, but he's an even better performer. 79 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: And how great were he and Rabbi yesterday? 80 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: Seriously, it was Karl Ravich, the voice of the Little 81 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: League World Series, and then mister Little League World Series himself, 82 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: the pinking if you will, Todd Fraser, I thought the 83 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 1: best moment of the whole interview was at the beginning. 84 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: We gave him a pin that our friend Steve Strauss 85 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: at Infinity Pins help us put together, of the three 86 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: of you doing your two and two, and then he 87 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: turns around and says, well, I've got a pinin for you, 88 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: And it was just like a pin trading session with 89 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: a bunch of kids for the first eight minutes of 90 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: the interview, and it was gold. Now, the rest of 91 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: the interview is fantastic, but that was my favorite part. 92 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 1: It was hard to beat that moment. 93 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, but him being an NBA referee was 94 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 2: still my favorite part. It is absolutely hysterical. And if 95 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: you haven't seen Todd Frazier imitating in any ref but 96 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 2: we're gonna call it an NBA refee, you have to watch. 97 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 2: He's so comfortable in his skin, and Ravi is just 98 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 2: so good next to him. Rabby's so good next to anyone, 99 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 2: which is why he's such a great play by play 100 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,679 Speaker 2: guy show host, because he is the greatest Rabby dish 101 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,359 Speaker 2: than anybody else. And it was so much fun yesterday. 102 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 2: We had such a good time. Yeah. 103 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: And this whole week of shows Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 104 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: is presented by our friends at Game Changer and Dick's 105 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: Sporting Goods their services for Little League all the way 106 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 1: up through not just Little League, but they are so 107 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: incredible when it comes to bringing these games to people 108 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: across the country. 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They helped us put together a pin drop 115 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: which was so much fun with our great Game or 116 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 1: what pins, which I have right here, which we're gonna 117 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: make available to you members of our family who couldn't 118 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 1: be in Williams support at some point one once I 119 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: get a store up and running on our website great 120 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: Game or what dot com? Good luck with that. You 121 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: have no idea what I'm doing. If I thought I 122 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: was in over my head before. Once I started thinking 123 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: about selling merch for this podcast, I'm dead. I'm dead, dad. 124 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 1: I don't know anything about selling merch. 125 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: And I'm of no help as always about anything, and 126 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 2: I apologize for that. Hey, something happened this morning, Jeff, 127 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 2: I got a kick out of this. George Will texted 128 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 2: me at eight o'clock in the morning. Now, George Will 129 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: is my friend. I've had lunch with him at least 130 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 2: fifty times in my life, and I do all the talking, 131 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 2: which I just find hilarious. You know, his intelligence level 132 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 2: next to mine. I feel like Fred Flintstone sitting next 133 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 2: to George Will. But he loves, loves, loves baseball. So 134 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 2: I get this text from at eight o'clock in the morning. 135 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 2: It was bizarre, I must say. He wrote, what is 136 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 2: the record for the most forty nine home run guys 137 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 2: in the major leagues? Forty nine? What a bizarre number 138 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 2: that is. So I'm not sure if he meant forty 139 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 2: but I looked up the season in which there were 140 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 2: most players with forty nine or more homers, and in 141 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 2: two thousand and one, seven plays hit at least forty 142 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:07,360 Speaker 2: nine home runs that year. So I made I got 143 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 2: the right information to George will today and then I'm 144 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 2: sure he went off and did his really important work, 145 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 2: but he would much rather talk baseball with you. And 146 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 2: you know, I used to have lunch with him and 147 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 2: Charles Crowdhammer, another one of the great essayists of all time, 148 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 2: the late great Charles Crowdhammer. So one lunch, Charles Crowdhammer 149 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:29,559 Speaker 2: looks at George and I we've just started, and he goes, 150 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 2: you know, and these guys write about serious topics every day, 151 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 2: all right, these Charles did. And he looks at us 152 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 2: and he goes, you know, I read the front page 153 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 2: for thirty seconds every day, and then I go straight 154 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,440 Speaker 2: to the box scores, and George Will looked at Charles 155 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 2: and said, why do you waste the thirty seconds? That's 156 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 2: what he said. That's how interested those two guys are 157 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 2: were in baseball. And to get a just out of 158 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 2: the blue text from George Will, we got to have 159 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 2: him on the show, right, Jeff, Yeah, we do. 160 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: And Dad, I think it's important to note that things 161 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: like baseball or whatever sport, the NFL, the NHL, whatever 162 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: you're into, right, it can pass party lines. And I'm 163 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: not going to go down this, but our country is 164 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: more divided now than like ever. 165 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 2: Right. 166 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: And but to think that these people who write about 167 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: politics every day and have their own political beliefs can 168 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 1: just sit in a room and just say, I just 169 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: want to talk about the box scores. I just want 170 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: to talk about baseball. This is the beauty of our sport. 171 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: Is the numbers of it. People from all backgrounds can 172 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: get behind that, the art of it, the fun of it. 173 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: Is this a great game? Or what? Wow? It makes sense, doesn't. 174 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 2: It, Jep. We are the escape patch for people out 175 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 2: there who have difficult jobs, sometimes difficult lives. We're here 176 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 2: to hopefully make them feel a little bit better. 177 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: Let's jump into the takeaways, Dad, I want to hear 178 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: what's going on across Major League Baseball. 179 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 2: Going to have a couple Elie de la Cruz of 180 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 2: the Reds, who's a ridiculous physical specimen. I can't even 181 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 2: find a comp for him, six five switch hitting shortstop 182 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 2: with that kind of speed, that kind of power, that 183 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 2: kind of athleticism, it's ridiculous. So he went from first 184 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 2: to home Tuesday in nine point one to one seconds. 185 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 2: That wasn't even the fastest in the major leagues this year, 186 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 2: and it wasn't even his fastest. He went from first 187 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 2: to home last year in eight point seven to one second. 188 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask you, Jeff, if we put 189 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:39,960 Speaker 2: you at second base, could you score before Elie de 190 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 2: la Cruz, who's at home plate? Would he pass you 191 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 2: on the bases with you starting at second base? I 192 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 2: don't hate there's any way he can catch you if 193 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 2: you start on second. 194 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: He's at home and he's not hitting right, so he's 195 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: like hard launch out of home right, he's not having 196 00:09:59,400 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: to swing. 197 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,160 Speaker 2: I'm on the pitch. Okay. 198 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: I think you're right, Dad, I think I And this 199 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: is not a testament to me being quick. 200 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 2: Jeff a good athlete. Don't sell yourself. 201 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,720 Speaker 1: I got a bad ankle. But and the hardest part, Dad, 202 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: is my My bad ankle is my inside ankle. It's 203 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 1: my left ankle. And I know this because too much information. 204 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 1: I uh well, I work in radio, so sometimes you 205 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: only can pee in a three minute song. So I 206 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: had three minutes to run to the bathroom and run back, 207 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: all in a three minute span. In the bathroom's not close. 208 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: And when I round at the corner turning left, my 209 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,600 Speaker 1: ankle is not strong on that side, so rounding third 210 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: is going to be hard for me. But I do think, 211 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 1: genuinely do think I could beat him. It's like it's 212 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: like the Freeze in Atlanta. Have you seen the freeze 213 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 1: run many times? 214 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 2: And I think Byron Buckston and La de la Cruz 215 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 2: and those guys Chandler Simpsons should race the freeze and 216 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 2: see who's faster. I think the Freeze is probably faster. 217 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 2: But I repeat, Jeb, there is no way the Freeze 218 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,959 Speaker 2: beats Ellie Dela Cruz around the bases in race, because 219 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 2: it's a skillful act to cut a bag and save 220 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 2: some time. So I don't there's no doubt. If you've 221 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: never played baseball, But you're faster than Elie Dela Cruz. 222 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 2: He will beat you around the bases because he knows 223 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 2: how to run the bases. So lost Ark, Jeff, running 224 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:25,200 Speaker 2: the bases, and some of our players don't have it anymore. 225 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 2: But I still think Elie Dela Cruz beats the crew, 226 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 2: beats the freeze every time in a race around the bases. 227 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 2: Am I wrong? No? 228 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely right, Dad. I think it absolutely 229 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: makes sense. And I don't want to get into that battle. 230 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: Let me tell you, because if I don't make it 231 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 1: to home from second before he does, that's that's it. 232 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: I'm retiring. I'm just not gonna walk anymore. 233 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 2: You can win from second base. The other thing, Jeff, 234 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 2: the National League cy Young is really interesting. Poor Zach 235 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 2: Wheeler is out. We're not sure when he's gonna come 236 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 2: back and kills you and Emily Big Phillies fans and 237 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 2: all that stuff. And I really feel sorry for Zach 238 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 2: Wheeler because he's having another great year and we're just 239 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 2: not sure how serious this injury is. And Paul Skeens, 240 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 2: of course, is probably still the leader for the cy Young. 241 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:14,199 Speaker 2: But your boy Christopher Sanchez is right there you agree. 242 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's clearly the number one pitcher on 243 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: the staff right now. But I think Skeen's also is 244 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: wildly impressive. 245 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 2: It's going to be a really great race. There are 246 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: a lot of great races. And Jeff, I just got 247 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 2: my awards voting process. They are assigned to you, and 248 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,640 Speaker 2: you can't call up and say, hey, give me the 249 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 2: nl Cy Young. It doesn't work that way. You are 250 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 2: assigned by Jack O'Connell, the secretary of the Baseball Writers 251 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 2: Association of America. So I'm doing the National League Cy 252 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,160 Speaker 2: Young this year. I've been a voter for over forty years. 253 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 2: This is an incredible honor and privilege. But it's serious stuff, Jeff. 254 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,560 Speaker 2: And every week now, because I've been at this for 255 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 2: three weeks, I write down my National League ballot. This 256 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,520 Speaker 2: is my ballot on you know, August the twenty first. 257 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 2: It's going to change by September the twenty first, and 258 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 2: of course the ballots have to be in before the 259 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 2: playoffs begin. 260 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: Wow, I couldn't imagine the pressure. So what category did 261 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: you vote on last year? 262 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 2: I had the al MVP last year. Pretty good choice, Yeah, 263 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 2: pretty good choice. Okay, So that's it for the takeaways. 264 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 1: Jeff, what about our quirk chins? What do you have? 265 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 2: Dad? All Right? So Tuesday, the Yankees hit nine home 266 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 2: runs in one game. Okay, So from eighteen seventy six 267 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 2: to through twenty twenty four, only twice in the history 268 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 2: of the game had any team ever hit nine home 269 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 2: runs in a game, and the Yankees have done it 270 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 2: twice this year. They did it in their second game 271 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 2: of the season against the Brewers, and I called that 272 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:57,760 Speaker 2: game on the radio. And I also in nineteen eighty seven, 273 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 2: September fourteenth only game in major league history in which 274 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 2: a team hit ten homers ten homers, not nine, the 275 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 2: Toronto Blue Jays against the Orioles. I cover that game 276 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: for the Baltimore Sun. So there have been four games 277 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 2: since eighteen seventy six in which a team hit nine 278 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: home runs in a game, and I was at two 279 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 2: of the four. How great is that? 280 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: It's just a homer fest when Tim Kirkchin's in the stadium. 281 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 2: No, it's just luck showing up like that, and I 282 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 2: love it. So in eighty seven, I'll never forget this. 283 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 2: The Orioles were terrible that year. So about two weeks 284 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 2: after this famous game, I'm walking through the Orioles offices. 285 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 2: And Hank Peters was the general manager of the Orioles. 286 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 2: He is a great guy, mischievous at times, but mischievous 287 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 2: like this. He sees me walking down the hall, Jeff, 288 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 2: I covered the team for a living, Okay, So I 289 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 2: don't work for the Orioles, obviously, I work for the 290 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 2: Baltimore Sun. He says, come here, I got something to 291 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 2: show you. And he comes in and he has me 292 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 2: sit down in his office and he has taken the 293 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 2: ten home runs and teed them up each at bat 294 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 2: of the ten home runs into a like a little film, 295 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 2: and he says, I call this the barrage. So the 296 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 2: ten homers that his pictures gave up. He had a 297 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 2: tape made of those ten homers, the entire at bat. 298 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 2: And he looked at me and he goes, We're going 299 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 2: to show this to all of our pictures in our 300 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 2: organization about the proper way not to pitch. Okay, So 301 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 2: I just got the barrage, the barra. I call it 302 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 2: the barrage. I'll never forget. That was so long ago, 303 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 2: and that was typical Hank Peters. He was just disgusted 304 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 2: that his team could be at that spot that he 305 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 2: just needed to show someone, and he showed the beat 306 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 2: writer for the Baltimore Sun needles to say, I wrote 307 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 2: that more than once. By the way, in the last 308 00:15:55,080 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: ten days, Jeff, after that nine homer game, eleven teams 309 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 2: hit as many or fewer than nine home runs. So 310 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 2: the Yankees hit in one game as many or more 311 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 2: home runs than eleven different teams in the previous ten days. 312 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 2: It just goes to show you. And in the previous 313 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,160 Speaker 2: two weeks, the Pirates hit a total of seven home 314 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 2: runs in a two week period, and the Yankees hit 315 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 2: nine in one game. So the second courtion is related 316 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 2: to what we're just talking about. Nestor Cortes gave up 317 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 2: three home runs in one inning. It's the second time 318 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 2: he's given up three homers in an inning this year. 319 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 2: The rest of the pitchers have done it in all 320 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. I've done it three times. He's done 321 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 2: it twice by himself, and he was the starting pitcher 322 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 2: in that game that we were talking about, the second 323 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 2: game of the season for the Brewers, and the Yankees' 324 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 2: first three batters hit three home runs on three pitches 325 00:16:58,520 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 2: off of Nestor Quarte, just amazing how these beautiful little 326 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:05,959 Speaker 2: coincidences happen all the time. 327 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: You know, I think looking back to that series, though, Dad, 328 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: that could possibly be a World Series preview. 329 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 2: And most yeah, it most definitely could be. The Yankees 330 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 2: are really starting to put it together now for the 331 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 2: American League is way up in the air. We'll see 332 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 2: about yeah, right, Okay, From Nestra Cortez to Nick Fortes, 333 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 2: who's the catcher for the Rays, Jeff, I've been watching 334 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 2: his hit batters. We use this on the podcast on Tuesday, 335 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 2: but he got hit two more times on Tuesday Night. Okay, 336 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: So his last nine played appearances he got hit by 337 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,480 Speaker 2: a pitch five times. Nine plate appearances, five hit by pitches. 338 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 2: I told you. John Kruck got hit by a pitch 339 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:51,200 Speaker 2: twice in his whole career. Mickey Mantle got hit thirteen 340 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 2: times in his career. Nick Fortes got hit five times 341 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 2: in a nine plate appearance stretch. The last guy to 342 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,880 Speaker 2: do that was Derek Dietrich in twenty nineteen. He got 343 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,640 Speaker 2: hit all the time. And if you ever saw Derek 344 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 2: Dietrich with his shirt off, you would say he could 345 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 2: get hit in every plate appearance and it wouldn't hurt him. 346 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 2: That's how chiseled carved. That guy was. Boy, what an 347 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 2: impressive physical character he was, and it didn't bother him 348 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 2: that he got hit by pitch because he got on 349 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 2: first base, which is kind of the idea. And the 350 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 2: last one Jeff Ury Perez. I was a little surprised 351 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,240 Speaker 2: by this jury. Perez of the Marlins had four wild 352 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 2: pitches in a game in which he pitched fewer than 353 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,879 Speaker 2: five innings. So I'm thinking, Wow, it's hard to throw 354 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 2: four wild pitches in under five innings. But it happened 355 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 2: last year. A lot of things happened this year last year, 356 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 2: but Bobby Miller of the Dodgers had four wild pitches 357 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 2: in under five innings last year, so it's only been 358 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 2: one year since it happened. You're surprised by that little 359 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:56,360 Speaker 2: I'm surprised. 360 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: It's a lot of wild pitches. We're always seeing the 361 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: strikeout numbers. It's so funny because now you always say, Dad, 362 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: different game, different era, right, and all of this is 363 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: different game. Pitchers are throwing harder than ever before, and 364 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,160 Speaker 1: they're putting their head down and they're saying, I'm gonna 365 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:11,959 Speaker 1: try to throw a strike, but really I'm just going 366 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: to try to throw it really hard, right, And that's 367 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: what we're getting to in this game, and you can 368 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 1: see that. So coming up next on is this a 369 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: great game or what? On this date in baseball history 370 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: the greatest thirty eight and thirty nine of all time? 371 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 1: And Dad, are you really going to try to tell 372 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:26,640 Speaker 1: us the greatest Yankee of all time? 373 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 2: That's a tough question. I don't think so, but yes, 374 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 2: I'm going to. I'm not going to try. I'm going 375 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 2: to succeed in telling you who the greatest Yankee of 376 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 2: all time is. 377 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: That's coming up next, mac On, is this a great 378 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: game or what with Tim Kirkshin. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshen, 379 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 1: and we have on this date in baseball. 380 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 2: History, right, So on this date in nineteen thirty one, 381 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 2: Babe Ruth hit home run number six hundred, and that's 382 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,399 Speaker 2: significant for a lot of reasons. First one ever to 383 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,400 Speaker 2: six hundred. When he got to six hundred, Jeff, the 384 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 2: next most in Major League history was was Rogers Hornsby 385 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:12,800 Speaker 2: at two ninety three. So he had over twice as 386 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 2: many as the next guy on the list, which is 387 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 2: why later on in the episode, we're gonna talk about 388 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 2: best of all tim and we're gonna have the greatest 389 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 2: Yankee ever. And now you already know who it's gonna 390 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:30,200 Speaker 2: be because I just teased it tremendously. Okay, nineteen seventy seven, 391 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 2: on this date, Jeff Brooks Robinson went on the voluntarily 392 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 2: retired list. So Brooks Robinson said that's enough, and that 393 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 2: was the end of his career. And I've told you 394 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 2: a million times, Brooks Robinson is the single nicest person 395 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 2: that I've ever seen were a major league uniform, not 396 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 2: to mention be a superstar player. He's the greatest defensive 397 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 2: third basement of all time. And I think, and I've 398 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:57,480 Speaker 2: told you all of his stories about what a great 399 00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 2: guy is, but he's an underrated off defensive player. Jeff 400 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 2: didn't get three thousand hits, but he came awfully close. 401 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 2: And he still holds the major league record, Jeff for 402 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 2: most games most one to nothing games in which he 403 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,160 Speaker 2: drove in the only run in a one to nothing game. 404 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 2: So I think I've told you this, but what do 405 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 2: you think the record is? How many games do you 406 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:25,880 Speaker 2: think the Orioles won one to nothing and he drove 407 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 2: in the only run. 408 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: Gosh, that's so hard. 409 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 2: It's really hard, Jeff. If you're way off, I will 410 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 2: I won't be surprised because it's really hard. But just 411 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:36,320 Speaker 2: take a guess. 412 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: Does he hold the record across Major League baseball? 413 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 2: Yeahs, but Tavious second Brooks Robinson is first answer. Ten 414 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,920 Speaker 2: ten games in his career. So he played in ten 415 00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 2: one run games in which he drove in the only run, 416 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,400 Speaker 2: and you thought higher. 417 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,359 Speaker 1: Or lower, honestly, and you're not gonna believe it. I 418 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: was thinking ten, but then I felt that was low, 419 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: so I was going to go eighteen. So ten, I'll 420 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: take ten. 421 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 2: Ten. It's pretty good, all right. This date in nineteen 422 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 2: ninety nine, Brady Anderson, also of the Orioles, became the 423 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 2: third player ever and hit a lead off home run 424 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 2: in both games of a doubleheader. Brady was a tremendous 425 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 2: power hitter for a short amount of time, was a 426 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,520 Speaker 2: really good major league player for quite some time. And 427 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 2: back then we were joking, like, where did Brady Anderson's 428 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 2: power come from? His bats must be corked. So I 429 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 2: went to do a story on him for Sports Illustrated, 430 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 2: and I was standing with him at the batting at 431 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 2: batrack and he looks at me and smiles because he's 432 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 2: a funny, funny guy, and he just looks at me. 433 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 2: He goes the cork bats, they're over there. That's what 434 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 2: he says to me. So Brady was in the MVP conversation. 435 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 2: I want to say it was in ninety six. I 436 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 2: wrote a story on him for SI and this is 437 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 2: my favorite Brady Anderson story. At a he's at its 438 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 2: post game. He's gone to a restaurant and outdoor restaurant, 439 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 2: and some young guy comes up to him. This is 440 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 2: Brady Anderson, who's in the running for the MVP of 441 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 2: the American League. This guy looks at me and he goes, 442 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 2: I'm a sprint champion from Pennsylvania. I can beat you 443 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 2: in a race anytime I want. So Brady Anderson, who 444 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,400 Speaker 2: should have said, I'm having dinner with my friends here. 445 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 2: I'm sure you can beat me in a race, but 446 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 2: I'm going to finish dinner with my friend Brady. Brady 447 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 2: looks at this guy and says, you think you can 448 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 2: beat me in a race, So he leaves the dinner table. 449 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 2: He takes his shirt off and in the parking lot 450 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 2: of the restaurant, he dusts this guy three times in 451 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 2: three races, and I thought, and this is the best part. 452 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 2: My Brady Anderson story was already written for Sports Illustrated. 453 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 2: I hadn't sent it in yet. I was waiting for 454 00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 2: one more and Brady called me on the phone and said, dude, 455 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,439 Speaker 2: you're not going to blieve what happened to me today. 456 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 2: And that's the story he told me. So what did 457 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 2: I do, Jeff? I took that story and put it 458 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,639 Speaker 2: where you had to lead with that lead, with that 459 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 2: what do I always tell you, Jeff, don't bury. 460 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:17,400 Speaker 1: Your lead lead. That's the Leady go because that's great 461 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: one too. 462 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 2: It was in the story. It was a joke, all 463 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 2: that stuff. But I just loved that Brady Anderson being 464 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,800 Speaker 2: as athletic as he was and always recognizing don't ever 465 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 2: ever challenge someone until you know what you're really doing. 466 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 2: He told this guy, you can't beat me in a raisin. 467 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 2: Then he just blew his doors off in a parking 468 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 2: lot in fully clothed other than he took his shirt off. 469 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,919 Speaker 2: I love it all right. A couple more. Craig Counsel 470 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 2: was born on this date in nineteen seventy Love the 471 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 2: Cubs manager. Really smart, really funny, and you know he's 472 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 2: a Milwaukee kid and the high school stadium is named 473 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 2: after him because it's hard to become a major league 474 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,760 Speaker 2: player in Milwaukee. But this, this is more story about 475 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 2: Hank Aaron. So Craig Counsel told me while he worked 476 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 2: for the Brewers before he became the manager for the Brewers, 477 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 2: he went to like a talk that Hank Aaron was having. 478 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 2: So Hank Aaron is up on stage and he's talking 479 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 2: about how cold it is and difficult it is in Milwaukee, 480 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 2: and he says, out of nowhere, he says, and Craig Counsel, 481 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 2: who's sitting in the stands, played in Milwaukee. We need 482 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 2: to ask him how a Milwaukee kid ended up going 483 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 2: to the big leagues. And now Craig Counsel is has 484 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 2: to come out of the stands and walk up and 485 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 2: sit next to Hank Aaron. And Craig Counsel, who can 486 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 2: talk to anybody about anything, told me he said, I 487 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 2: refuse to go, but then they just pushed me up there. 488 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 2: And the whole time I'm thinking, what am I doing? 489 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 2: I can't I can't sit next to Hank Arrett. He's 490 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 2: Hank Aaron. He's a thousand times bigger than me on 491 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,160 Speaker 2: every level. And then he sits down next to Hank 492 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:03,720 Speaker 2: Artt and Hank Aaron starts to interview Craig Counsel, and 493 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 2: Craig Counsel told me he's thinking to himself, oh my gosh, 494 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 2: I'm being interviewed by Hank Eron and he could barely 495 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,879 Speaker 2: get the words out. That's how revered Hank Aaron was. 496 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 2: And that's how reverential that Craig Counsel was towards Hank Aaron. 497 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: Well, it's like when Aaron Boone met Hank Aaron in 498 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,159 Speaker 1: the elevator. 499 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: Right, couldn't even speak, couldn't absolutely speechless. I said, Boonie, 500 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 2: you know everybody in baseball worthy with that guy. But 501 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,880 Speaker 2: you have been talking to people since you were three 502 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 2: years old with your dad on big league fields. I said, 503 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 2: how could you not talk to Hank Arett And he said, well, 504 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 2: it's Hank Aaron and that was it. That's how that's 505 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 2: how great Hank Aaron was. 506 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: All right, Dad, let's move on from Ozzie to Oral. 507 00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: We're starting up number thirty eight. Who's the greatest player 508 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: to wear that number? 509 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 2: Kurtchilling, for me, is the greatest number. Thirty eight, won 510 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 2: two hundred and sixteen games, five ninety seven career winning percentage, 511 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 2: had four point three to eight strikeouts for every walk, 512 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 2: so he was a great control pitcher and a power 513 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,320 Speaker 2: pitcher at the same time. Finished second, never won a 514 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 2: cy Young, but finished second in the cy Young voting 515 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 2: three different times because he was on the same team 516 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 2: as Randy Johnson, who won the cy Young four years 517 00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 2: in a row with the Diamondbacks. And of course Kurtchilly 518 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 2: did some amazing things with the Red Sox championships, the 519 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,200 Speaker 2: whole bloody Sock thing amazing. And Jeff, here's the interesting 520 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,919 Speaker 2: part to me is that you know, we do Ossi 521 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 2: to oriil here and one through thirty seven. All's thirty 522 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 2: seven of those numbers, they're all retired to somebody along 523 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 2: the way. The first number in our Ossie to Oral 524 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 2: that has never been retired by any major league team 525 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 2: is number thirty eight. How about that, so not. 526 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: Hanging in the rafters of any major league stadium. 527 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 2: Thirty eight is not retired by any major league team, 528 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 2: but the first thirty seven numbers leading up to it, 529 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 2: one of them is retired by some major league team. 530 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:09,440 Speaker 2: I found that interesting. 531 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 1: From Ozzie to Oral. Let's go to number thirty nine. 532 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: Who's the best player to wear it? 533 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 2: It's Roy Campanella, Dodgers catcher won the MVP in nineteen 534 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 2: fifty one, fifty three, and fifty five. You know, car accident, 535 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 2: terrible car accident ended his career early in nineteen fifty seven. 536 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 2: He was only thirty five years old. Roy Campandella was 537 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 2: one of the great power hitters of all time, played 538 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 2: on those great Dodger teams. Was the leader of that 539 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 2: team in so many different ways. And let's see. You'll 540 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 2: never get this, Jeff, but he's one of six players 541 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 2: to hit forty homers in a season with ten or 542 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 2: more letters in his last name. Now, this is this 543 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 2: is a question that I get asked, like when I 544 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,240 Speaker 2: go out to a party. Someone I would even no 545 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 2: asks me a question like this, and then of course 546 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 2: I can't concentrate at the party and talk to any 547 00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:09,840 Speaker 2: other human being until I get the answer. Right. I'm 548 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 2: not even gonna ask you to get any of these, Jeff, 549 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 2: because you I think you might. I know you've heard 550 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 2: of a few of these guys, but I'm going to 551 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 2: give you all of them. Okay, there. 552 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 1: The only one that's coming to mind, because I think 553 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: it is Edwin and Carnacion. Yes he has more than ten? Right, Yes, 554 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: does Guerrero have more than ten? I can't even care. 555 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,120 Speaker 2: It's so interesting how many have nine in their last name, 556 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 2: like kill A Brew. By the way, Jeff speaking to Harmon, Well, 557 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 2: we'll tell that story some other times. No one in 558 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 2: baseball history. My friend Bruce Brown, doctor Bruce Brown told 559 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 2: me this. He is what Bruce Brown calls a double unique. 560 00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 2: So there's no one in major league history with a 561 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,840 Speaker 2: first name of Harmon. I was surprised to hear that. 562 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,280 Speaker 2: And no one in the history of baseball with the 563 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 2: last name of Killer Brew. So he's a double people. Yeah, 564 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 2: and Bruce keeps track. He's our ultimate seam head. Jeff, 565 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 2: we have to get him to call in, have to 566 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 2: because he Mark Simon. Jeff Bennett, jud Birch me. We 567 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 2: we love this stuff. So yes, So I think I. 568 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: Have one other one that I'm gonna guess, all right, 569 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: Carl had to do it. 570 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, Yes, Carly Stremsky hit forty four in nineteen sixty seven, 571 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 2: the year he won the Triple Crown. Rico Petrocelli his 572 00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 2: teammate Ted Klazuski, great reds hitter, and Jeff he used 573 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 2: to cut off his sleeves, so you know, the gun 574 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 2: show was everyone could see it. By the way, I 575 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 2: do the same thing. I think you should tell everyone 576 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 2: do the gun show. I don't think I've ever worn 577 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 2: a cutoff sleeve. I know I've never worn a what's 578 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 2: that thing called tank top? Tank top? I know I've 579 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,480 Speaker 2: never worn a tank top in my life, other than 580 00:30:58,520 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 2: to play on the basketball team. 581 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,520 Speaker 1: When your shoulders look like our shoulders, you can't do 582 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: that because we have hair everywhere. Thanks for that. 583 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 2: By the way, yes, yeah, yeah, well you gotta shave 584 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 2: my back the next time I see you, Jeff talk 585 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 2: about too much information. So it's Carli Stremsky, Rico Petrocelli, 586 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 2: Ted Klezwski, Curtis Granderson, got to tell you the keys? 587 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 2: Yeah right, Edwin and Karnacion and Roy Campanell love that. 588 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, So he's part of that campy. 589 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 2: Yeah campy of all time greats and a sad said 590 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 2: story how his career was cut short by a car accident, 591 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 2: but in the time he played boy he was great, 592 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 2: three time MVP as a catcher, pretty incredible. 593 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 1: Talk about all time greats. We're going to the best 594 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: of all tim This is where we pick one franchise 595 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: and you pick the best player in that franchise and 596 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: perhaps the most storied franchise. When it comes to stars, 597 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: the New York. 598 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 2: Yankees, No, no, take the perhaps out, Jeff, Okay, there's no 599 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 2: way around this. The Yankees are the greatest franchise in 600 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 2: Major league history. There can be no argument here, okay. 601 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 2: And when it comes to star players, I mean, I 602 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 2: go like this, I go, and this is my list, 603 00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 2: Jeff Okay, I go Ruth, Gerig Mantle, DiMaggio, Yogi, Berra, 604 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 2: Jeter six, Mariano Rivera seven, whitey Ford eight. That's my 605 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 2: top eight. So it's a double yeah. That's my top 606 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 2: eight for the Yankees. And people yell at me all 607 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 2: the time for not And we're going to get Aaron 608 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 2: Judge on that list before long, I'm sure if he's 609 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,280 Speaker 2: not already made it. But the last time I did 610 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 2: the list, but Babe, Ruth is number one on the list. Jeff. 611 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 2: It can't be anyone else. We just said when he 612 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 2: got the six hundred homers, no one had half that many. 613 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 2: Same with seven hundred when he got to seven hundred, 614 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 2: nobody had half that many. First one ever to hit 615 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 2: thirty forty to fifty sixty homers in a season. Nineteen twenty, 616 00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 2: when he became a full time hitter, he hit fifty 617 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 2: four homers, and the next three guys in the American 618 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 2: League didn't hit fifty four homers combined. That's how great 619 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 2: he was. And people say, oh, yeah, he out homered 620 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 2: a bunch of teams. Yes, of course he did in 621 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 2: nineteen twenty out homered by himself a bunch of teams. 622 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 2: But my team, even though I wasn't alive back then, 623 00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 2: although some days I looked like I was alive. From 624 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 2: nineteen twenty six to nineteen thirty two, he hit more 625 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 2: homers from twenty six to thirty two than the Washington Senators, 626 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 2: the team I grew up watching. He out homered a 627 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 2: franchise for that period of time. That's how great Babe 628 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 2: Ruth was. And again, Jeff, I've told you this story, 629 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,880 Speaker 2: but when I went to cover the Rangers in nineteen 630 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,120 Speaker 2: eighty two for the Dallas Morning News, the pr director 631 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,200 Speaker 2: was Burt Hawkins, one of the great baseball writers ever. Pointed, 632 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 2: I learn a lot from him, not about pr but 633 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:56,560 Speaker 2: about baseball writing, because he loved the game and he 634 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 2: was all over it. And he saw Babe Ruth play, 635 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 2: saw Walter Johnson, he saw them all play. So I 636 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 2: was the only time he gave me like us. Well, 637 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,520 Speaker 2: wasn't the only time. But he scowled at me when 638 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 2: I said, ow, who's the greatest player you've ever seen? 639 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,720 Speaker 2: And he was taken aback and he goes, buddy boy, 640 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 2: I'll take Babe Ruth and you can have the next three. Wow, 641 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 2: that's how great Babe Ruth was. So when people want 642 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:25,200 Speaker 2: to tell you that Aaron Judge, who I love, please 643 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 2: don't anyone misunderstand how amazing Aaron Judge isn't what he's 644 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 2: doing right now. He's going to be one of the 645 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:36,040 Speaker 2: greatest five Yankees before he's done. There's no doubt about that. 646 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,240 Speaker 2: But when they asked me, is Aaron Judge the greatest 647 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,320 Speaker 2: Yankee ever right now? The answer is no, he can't be. 648 00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 2: Babe Ruth is still that, although Judge is making progress 649 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 2: every single day because the only team he ever played 650 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 2: for was the Yankees. But just keep in mind, Aaron 651 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,319 Speaker 2: Judge doesn't have seventeen career shutouts that's how many Babe 652 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 2: Ruth had, same as Pedro Martinez. Think about that for 653 00:34:58,960 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 2: a second, and. 654 00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 1: He as just under half the amount of home runs 655 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:03,720 Speaker 1: that Ruth. 656 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:09,240 Speaker 2: Had right Yankees. But it's it's still the same idea. 657 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 1: Yeah, and Ded, I think I want to just say 658 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,240 Speaker 1: one thing when it comes to you know, people always 659 00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: have the debate could those kind of players play today? 660 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,080 Speaker 1: And the way you have to look at it is 661 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 1: with Babe Ruth out homering franchises, Clearly he figured something 662 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: out that other batters hadn't figured out yet. So you're 663 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: telling me you put that guy in today's game, give 664 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 1: him six months to get, you know, acclimated to what 665 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: an iPhone is, and then you have him figure it 666 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: out how to hit one hundred miles per hour. 667 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,640 Speaker 2: I bet he could figure it out, because he figured 668 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,520 Speaker 2: it out. His figure it out. But Jeff, you and 669 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 2: I are in the massive minority on that. Most people 670 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,759 Speaker 2: don't think Babe Ruth would get a hit in today's 671 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:55,920 Speaker 2: Major League baseball. I'm sorry. And Kurt Chilling, who's our 672 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 2: greatest number thirty eight, He did this to me on 673 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 2: Baseball today. He said, Tim, you're you're so wrong about 674 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,200 Speaker 2: everyone that played fifty one hundred years ago. You're so wrong, 675 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 2: he said, Babe Ruth is Matt Stairs. Okay, Matt Stairs, 676 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 2: by the way, hit you know two hundred Major League homers. 677 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,000 Speaker 2: Was one of the great pinch hitters, and he had 678 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,840 Speaker 2: great powers. It's not it's not, you know, against things 679 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 2: to say. Hey, Matt Stairs was a good hitter, but 680 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 2: Babe Ruth was better than Matt Stairs. 681 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,440 Speaker 1: Sorry, all right, dad, Let's wrap up today's show with 682 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,920 Speaker 1: a very special Team Tim, which we're loving and I 683 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: know members of the family are loving too, and loving 684 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,879 Speaker 1: that you are now responding to messages at great game 685 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 1: or what dot com. Good job, Dad, we figured that 686 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:42,640 Speaker 1: out on the phone. 687 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,799 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, uch, it took you fifteen minutes with my 688 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,840 Speaker 2: phone to show me how to work things. 689 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,720 Speaker 1: And how are your new apps? I organize? Saw your apps? 690 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:52,399 Speaker 1: They feel good? 691 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,839 Speaker 2: They do. I did a bunch of cornsches today, so 692 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,160 Speaker 2: my apps feel really good today. All right, that was 693 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:00,800 Speaker 2: a stupid Joe's. 694 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: A couple of cheese stake egg rolls yesterday as his apps. 695 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,760 Speaker 2: They were great at the right jet. This is this, 696 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 2: This team Tim is just a tribute to one thing, 697 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:15,480 Speaker 2: and that's to Todd Fraser. Okay, car ravage was so 698 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:18,600 Speaker 2: funny with us yesterday, but Todd Fraser could sing so 699 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:24,160 Speaker 2: in honor of our episode yesterday, Todd Fraser sang Arabian 700 00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:30,920 Speaker 2: Nights from what Aladdin Aladdin, and he sang Frank Sinatra 701 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 2: fly Me to the Moon, Come On. It was just 702 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:34,680 Speaker 2: it was so good. 703 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:43,640 Speaker 1: Like Arabian. And as he said, he doesn't even know 704 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:45,319 Speaker 1: if those are the right words. Those are just the 705 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,919 Speaker 1: words he assigned. And I looked it up and I'm 706 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,560 Speaker 1: almost certain that they're not the correct words. But it 707 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,560 Speaker 1: doesn't matter because as I said at the top, Dad, 708 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,479 Speaker 1: he can sell it. He is that good. He could 709 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,560 Speaker 1: see he could sing any words in there. 710 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,759 Speaker 2: And so good. It was so good. All right, So 711 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,920 Speaker 2: this is the all music Team. I'm sure we use 712 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 2: this at some point last year, but it needs some 713 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 2: updating because of a country star that I learned about 714 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,799 Speaker 2: from you. Who else would I learn that from? Okay, 715 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 2: So our catcher is Carlos Santana. He used to be 716 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,920 Speaker 2: a catcher. Now he's a first baseman caught in years. 717 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 2: But I needed a catcher with a great name, and 718 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,800 Speaker 2: Carlos Santana is a good way and the place to start. 719 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:31,280 Speaker 2: Prince Fielder at first base, Prince Donovan Solano at second base, 720 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,480 Speaker 2: Chris Brown at third base. Chris Brown was a good 721 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:41,239 Speaker 2: third baseman. Shortstop is Elvis Andrews. I think Elvis the 722 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,360 Speaker 2: Elvis had one hundred and seventeen singles. I'm sure Elvis 723 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,160 Speaker 2: Andrews had one hundred and seventeen singles in one season. 724 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,240 Speaker 2: We'll have to do We'll have to research that. One. 725 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:57,279 Speaker 2: Our outfield is Chris Young, and he's a country music star. Right, 726 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,520 Speaker 2: I didn't say country western star. Good job, pop up's 727 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 2: getting better, right, this is the new one Riley Green. 728 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,280 Speaker 1: Chris Young and Riley Green two very well known country 729 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,480 Speaker 1: stars today. Right. They're not of the Garth Brooks and 730 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,360 Speaker 1: the Kenny Chesney level. But yeah, that's a great outfield already. 731 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,319 Speaker 1: I'd go see that show in a in a millisecond. 732 00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,759 Speaker 2: Oh, So they're both great, and I remembered them both, 733 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,920 Speaker 2: so I get extra credit points for that. Right. 734 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: All I want in my life is we've had Chris 735 00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,080 Speaker 1: Young the general manager of the Texas Rangers. Now I 736 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: want outfielder for the Detroit Tigers Riley Green during the 737 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,080 Speaker 1: off season. Do you think we can do that? 738 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,839 Speaker 2: Yes? I think we can do that. And we got 739 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,400 Speaker 2: to get the other Chris Young, the outfielder, because I 740 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,160 Speaker 2: just used him in the outfield. 741 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,839 Speaker 1: Because the other Chris Young is a pitcher for We're 742 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:45,320 Speaker 1: got to get sure all. 743 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,200 Speaker 2: Three Chris Young's on at the same time. We'll effort that. Okay, 744 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,880 Speaker 2: we'll work on it. And the last one is Dion Sanders. 745 00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 2: And my DH is Bob Usher Robert Usher. So again, 746 00:39:58,320 --> 00:39:59,719 Speaker 2: explain who Usher is. 747 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,160 Speaker 1: Usher is a pop R and B artist, I mean, 748 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,719 Speaker 1: incredible d answer along with Chris Brown as well. I 749 00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,560 Speaker 1: mean I gotta make confessions here and say he is 750 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 1: a really good performer. 751 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:13,200 Speaker 2: Who Usher is? 752 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, confession stat is one of his albums. 753 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:20,279 Speaker 2: Sorry, Oh okay, well I didn't know that, of course. 754 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:24,320 Speaker 2: And our pictures are Kenny Rodgers of course, the Gambler, 755 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 2: Michael Jackson, one of the great really good relief pitcher, 756 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,839 Speaker 2: Phil Collins who we used on the podcast earlier this year. 757 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,799 Speaker 2: And Chris Martin of course, Chris Martin who pitches for 758 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:40,080 Speaker 2: the Rangers. Last I looked and when I saw him 759 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 2: and asked him in San Diego month or a month 760 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,640 Speaker 2: and a half ago, Chris, do do people come up 761 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,880 Speaker 2: to you like all the time because you have the 762 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:53,799 Speaker 2: same name. Get this, Jeff as lead singer of cold Play. 763 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,000 Speaker 2: Chris Martin looks at me and laughs out loud. He 764 00:40:56,040 --> 00:41:00,239 Speaker 2: goes every single day of my life. Somebody mentioned that 765 00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,239 Speaker 2: I have the same name as the lead singer of Coldplay. 766 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,080 Speaker 2: So that is the all music team. That is a 767 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,839 Speaker 2: tribute to one person only, the great Todd Frazier, who 768 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:16,799 Speaker 2: made us laugh with Carl Ravage so outwardly on yesterday's podcast. 769 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,520 Speaker 1: I'm proud that you got Usher into the lineup because 770 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 1: I thought the only usher you knew was the one 771 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:22,560 Speaker 1: at the stadiums. 772 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,680 Speaker 2: And thankfully I don't walk. I don't sit many games 773 00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,080 Speaker 2: in the stands because there's an etiquette there and you 774 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,879 Speaker 2: got to tip the ushers, which, of course you got 775 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:32,839 Speaker 2: to tip the ushers. But when I was growing up, 776 00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:35,200 Speaker 2: we didn't have to tip the ushers, so that's for sure. 777 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:38,600 Speaker 1: Well, tickets were like fifteen cents when you were growing up, right, 778 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,040 Speaker 1: couldn't you go to a game for a dollar? 779 00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:44,120 Speaker 2: Right? Jeff? I tip everyone now, just in case, because 780 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,440 Speaker 2: I don't want to offend anyone. Yesterday I tipped at 781 00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,720 Speaker 2: a toll booth, which I think was probably a little 782 00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:49,319 Speaker 2: bit too much. 783 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,960 Speaker 1: Agreed a little bit excessive. Yeah, I tipped my vending 784 00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,120 Speaker 1: machine as well. They kept giving it back to me. 785 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,440 Speaker 1: I was like, what's going on? Well, Dad, this was 786 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,799 Speaker 1: great And another shout out to Todd and Carl for 787 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,400 Speaker 1: joining us listen to the previous episode on the feed. 788 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,200 Speaker 1: And a great thank you to our friends at Dick 789 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,360 Speaker 1: Sporting Goods and Game Changer for bringing us out to 790 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,440 Speaker 1: Williams Sport once again and letting us use their facilities 791 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,960 Speaker 1: and be a part of their set up there doing 792 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,800 Speaker 1: a pin drop dropping off cards. We had so much 793 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,480 Speaker 1: fun and Dad, by the time the next time we talk, 794 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,080 Speaker 1: we will have obviously more great takeaways from Major League Baseball. 795 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,040 Speaker 2: Get wait to see the end of the Little League 796 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,840 Speaker 2: World Series and then we move on to Playoff Baseball. 797 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:31,840 Speaker 2: It's going to be one of the great pen and 798 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:36,280 Speaker 2: raises ever. The wildcard divisions are going to be tremendous. 799 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,600 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. As always, thanks for 800 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:39,640 Speaker 1: being a part of our family.