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Speaker 1: Welcome to Is This a Great Game or What? With

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkshon. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon,

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Speaker 1: and we are back with our Opening Day edition of

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Speaker 1: Is This a Great Game or What, presented by Game Changer,

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Speaker 1: I added some Game Changer swag to our new set

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Speaker 1: which is still still being built out a little bit, Dad,

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Speaker 1: but we've got a whole new display for you. We've

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Speaker 1: Great Game or What? I'm fascinated by sacrifice Flies and

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Speaker 1: all in celebration. You drove up this morning for Opening Day.

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Speaker 2: At three five in the morning, just so I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: foul up the technology at home alone. Jeff, You've done

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Speaker 2: a fabulous job here.

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Speaker 1: It is Opening Day.

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Speaker 2: It is a national holiday for baseball guys, you and

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Speaker 2: like me.

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Speaker 1: This is a day.

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Speaker 2: can go to Opening Day. In Cincinnati, they have a

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Speaker 2: parade that runs down the street to commemorate Opening Day.

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Speaker 2: Eduardo Perez, our guest earlier this week, talked about being

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Speaker 2: this is the best day of the year. I cannot

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Speaker 2: going to be thirteen box scores, two die Mountain dues.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what happens on Opening Day.

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Speaker 2: And during this episode, the theme, of course, is going

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Speaker 2: to be Opening Day. The team tim will be about

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Speaker 2: Opening Day, the quirkchins will be all Opening Day quirkchins,

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Speaker 2: the weird things that have happened on Opening Day. So

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Speaker 2: this is a celebratory day. Do you have some Opening

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Speaker 2: Day stories that you want to share with us together?

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Speaker 2: I think the first one is always the best one,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure I've told you this, Jeff, But in

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm the guy.

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Speaker 2: So I've been Opening Day before, but not as the

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Speaker 2: So my friend's other writers said, just send the stuff out.

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Speaker 2: So I sent all my laundry out. It all comes

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Speaker 1: Opening days have you been to I've been to a couple.

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Speaker 1: we're gonna bring a game Changer of the week, either

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Speaker 1: a player or something in the game that's making a

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Speaker 1: We got to find a better way to do this. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm just hoping that it works. Your Game Changer the

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Speaker 2: But Pop would would be disappointed if his youngest son

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Speaker 1: Jeff the toy Cannon. Do you love that? Or that

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Speaker 1: And you know, this is obviously a recurring segment that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're just gonna do an opening day quirkchin segment.

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Speaker 2: So in nineteen ninety six, Ron Carkabice catch up for

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Speaker 2: But in twenty twenty three, Max Monthsey of the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: Now it's been done twice in the last three years.

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Speaker 2: Might happen on opening Day this year nineteen ninety Jeff

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Speaker 1: That was Glenn Davis.

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Speaker 1: I know, yeah, I'm done. Gosh, that's right. We had

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Speaker 2: Frank Robinson, who will hear more from on this Opening

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Speaker 1: That ties for the record.

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Speaker 2: Now, Jeff, give me a player who hit a ton

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Speaker 2: Johnny Bench three hundred and eighty nine homers, never hit

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Speaker 2: a good point. Okay, I'll never forget this, Jeff. In

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Speaker 2: at David Code and says, Tim's voice tends to go

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Speaker 1: It's been a tough week for me. Earlier this week,

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Speaker 1: It's all good. What other quirtens do you have? All right?

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Speaker 1: This is this is not good, but I have okay.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety one, West Chamberlain of the Phillies came to

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Speaker 1: Late on opening Day. He thought it was night game.

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Speaker 1: It was the day game.

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Speaker 2: So one of the veteran teammates had told me later

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Speaker 2: so he's the only player ever did a home run

437
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Speaker 2: in his first at bat on opening Day two years

438
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,639
Speaker 2: in a row. Then the next year he missed Opening

439
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,760
Speaker 2: Day because he was hurt, but he played his first

440
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 2: game on April to twentieth. That was his first game,

441
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,439
Speaker 2: not the team's first game, not Opening Day, and he

442
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 2: hit another homer. Three years in a row. He had

443
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Speaker 2: a home run in the first game that he played

444
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 2: that year, and he wasn't a big home run hitter.

445
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Speaker 1: And the last one.

446
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:11,919
Speaker 2: Jeff, and I've told this story more than once. It

447
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 2: just tickles me, probably too much. But the eighty two

448
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,639
Speaker 2: Rangers were the first team that I covered, as we

449
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,120
Speaker 2: acknowledged earlier, and George Wright was their rookie center fielder.

450
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:23,400
Speaker 2: And once the snow stopped in New York, we went

451
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 2: to Cleveland. The Rangers didn't play the game. George Wright

452
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,280
Speaker 2: went three for five on opening day, first game in

453
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Speaker 2: the major League. So I went to him and I said, George,

454
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:33,680
Speaker 2: did you have a good time today? And he said, yeah,

455
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Speaker 2: I've never been to a major league game before.

456
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Speaker 1: So, Jeff, think about it. The first game he ever,

457
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 1: first big league game he ever attended, he got three hits.

458
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Speaker 1: Is that stunning to you or not fascinating. Fantastic. I mean,

459
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:49,639
Speaker 1: this best day ever and he's never been to a

460
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Speaker 1: game before, right right, You would think.

461
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Speaker 2: I grew up in Oklahoma City, so there wasn't exactly

462
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 2: a major league team really close by. But I always

463
00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 2: found that fascinating that somebody who never saw a game before,

464
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 2: for first one he ever sees, he plays in and

465
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Speaker 2: he gets three.

466
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Speaker 1: Fantastic.

467
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 2: So those are my quirchins. We'll have live quirchins next

468
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 2: week because we'll have a bunch of games from which

469
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Speaker 2: to draw from.

470
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481
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Speaker 1: for this regular season. I'm so happy it's opening day.

482
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Speaker 1: The Alpha Best. So, Dad, you're gonna go from A

483
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:05,359
Speaker 1: to Z on the best last named player both batter

484
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,640
Speaker 1: or hitter or fielder right and pitcher right right.

485
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,360
Speaker 2: So this is going to replace from Ozzie to Oral,

486
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 2: which we did last year. The greatest players of all

487
00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,200
Speaker 2: time from number one to fifty five. This is so

488
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 2: we're just trying something different. So we're gonna take a

489
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 2: shot at this. We're gonna call it Alpha Best, as

490
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,480
Speaker 2: you said, and the a's are frankly pretty easy. The

491
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Speaker 2: greatest number A position.

492
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Speaker 1: Player is who Hank Aaron? Of course, Hank Aaron is one.

493
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Speaker 2: Of the five greatest players of all time, a tremendous

494
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,199
Speaker 2: defensive right fielder, which he doesn't get enough credit for.

495
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,640
Speaker 2: And as I've told you many times, Jeff, you take

496
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 2: away all seven hundred and fifty five of his homers

497
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 2: and he still has three thousand hits. That's how great

498
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 2: Hank Aartt was. And I'm going to tell the story again,

499
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 2: whether you've heard it or not, the highlight of my

500
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 2: career before I started doing the podcast with my son.

501
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Speaker 1: All kidding aside, I know, sorry, you didn't need to

502
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: say that. After I came after you.

503
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 2: It's makeup call, Jeff, no doubt, but it's but it's

504
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 2: but it's true. Seven eight years ago, we did a

505
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:12,239
Speaker 2: game in the booth. Dave Fleming, EDWARDO present, myself and

506
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 2: Hank Aaron joins us in the booth to do a

507
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:19,960
Speaker 2: live game. And I am just absolutely captivated because I'm

508
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 2: sitting next to Henry Aaron. I'd met Hank Aaron many

509
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 2: times before, but not for four innings, not for an

510
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 2: hour and a half sitting right next to him. So

511
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 2: he is so funny, he is so charming, His recall

512
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 2: was unbelievable. I stopped keeping score of the game, Jeff,

513
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,240
Speaker 2: because I was so taken sitting next to Hank Aaron.

514
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 2: So after the game was over, I checked Twitter. And

515
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,119
Speaker 2: never a good idea to check Twitter after you've called

516
00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 2: a major league game from the booth. But some guy

517
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 2: writes in He goes, if anyone ever looks at you

518
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 2: like Tim Kirkchen looked at Hank Aaron tonight, you should

519
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 2: marry that person.

520
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:00,119
Speaker 1: That's how well.

521
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 2: That's how captivated I was, That's how mesmerized I was

522
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 2: sitting next to Hank Aaron. That's how great a player

523
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 2: Hank Aaron was and his legacy will live forever.

524
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: No matter what. And the greatest number A pitcher I

525
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: think is relative. We've got to correct something here. Greatest

526
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: number Ah, that's the second time you've hit number A.

527
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: All right, I'm bust. The keys are on their way

528
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: to have letters instead of numbers on their backs. I

529
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: have many greatest letter A.

530
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm in the one to fifty five thoughts too.

531
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Speaker 2: The greatest A is Grover Cleveland Alexander and he won

532
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy three games, which tied Christy Mathewson

533
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,120
Speaker 2: for the third most of all time, had a six

534
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: forty two winning percentage. He threw ninety shutouts. Who threw

535
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Speaker 2: the most shutouts in Major League history?

536
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 1: Walter Johnson ever tell you when to Walter Johnson High School?

537
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 2: Walter Johnson threw one hundred and ten shutouts. Grover Cleveland

538
00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 2: Alexander had twenty had a two point five six, so

539
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 2: it was pretty easy.

540
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: I think the a's But.

541
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna have all of our listeners and viewers, you know,

542
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 2: check me on these because they're gonna be some huge debates,

543
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 2: including next week when we do the Greatest Bee of

544
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 2: all time and at the end of the year we're

545
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 2: gonna have a little we'll have a contest to see

546
00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 2: which letter produce the best tandem hitter and pitcher, like

547
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,400
Speaker 2: Hank Aaron and Grover Cleveland Alexander.

548
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 1: Pretty darn good. I mean, we're gonna have I just

549
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil anything. Babe, Ruth and Mariano

550
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 1: Rivera with the RS.

551
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 2: Okay, and there are a bunch of others, right, you

552
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 2: can start thinking about this if you want. You can

553
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 2: correct me if you think I'm wrong. I don't pretend

554
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: to be right on these things, but I think I've

555
00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 2: got the a's right with Hank Aaron and Grover Cleveland alex.

556
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tough one to beat. And we'll

557
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: have to wait a couple of weeks for the RS.

558
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: But next week we'll have the BS, we'll have the

559
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: Wheel of Kirkchain, We'll have so many different segments for you.

560
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a really good time.

561
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 2: Jeff, the name Alpha Best. Are you okay with that?

562
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 2: You know it's a little takeoff on Alpha Bits. You

563
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 2: know a Cereal we used to eat his kids, You

564
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 2: get that right?

565
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely that. I mean we've already locked it into

566
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: the episodes too late. Can't edit it out whether you

567
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: like it or not. Yes, all right, very good, All right,

568
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: it's time for three cards in the bathroom. Dad. We

569
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: are in my basement studio, which is still being finished.

570
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: You say, it looks great. I still need a little

571
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 1: bit of work on this. But you brought these cards

572
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 1: from home and we're going to explore them. You can

573
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,240
Speaker 1: actually follow on YouTube, and we have the cards on

574
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 1: camera in high quality definition, I might add, so make

575
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: sure to do so so you can check them out,

576
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 1: all right, dad. So the first card that we have

577
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: here is is Jonathan India. Right.

578
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 2: He's a good player, plays for the Royals. Royals are

579
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 2: an interesting team.

580
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: Of course.

581
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 2: He played next to in the infield Ty France. So

582
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 2: we had India and France together in the same infield.

583
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Speaker 1: I love that.

584
00:28:56,840 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 2: So I asked him about his unusual name where it

585
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 2: came from, and he didn't have any great answer. But

586
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 2: he told me that people have come up to him

587
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 2: more than once and said, are you from India?

588
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: He said, no, I'm from Florida. It's just my name.

589
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: It's not the country at which I was born. That's

590
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: what he said. So funny. All right, Next card, Dad,

591
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: that you brought. Three cards in the bathroom, We've got

592
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: Andres Jimenez. All right.

593
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 2: Uh, he is a brilliant defensive player. He is the

594
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 2: an elite second baseman. And then when the Blue Jays

595
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 2: needed him to play shortstop when Bob Bashett got hurt,

596
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: he became a great defensive shortstop. I could watch him

597
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: play take ground balls all day. And Stephen Vote, who

598
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 2: managed him when he was with the Guardians, told me,

599
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 2: Jimenez is the best defensive player that I've ever been

600
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 2: around at any position in my career.

601
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: Wow.

602
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: And Stephen Vote has been a lot of different places,

603
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 2: that's how good he is. And Ernie Clement, and also

604
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 2: of the Blue Jays, a great defender, said I've never

605
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 2: seen anybody catch a groundball and play the in field

606
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 2: quite like this guy. And Ernie Clement is great also, Wow.

607
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: All right. Last, but certainly not least three cards in

608
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: the bathroom, We've got Adam Laos. Yeah, one of my

609
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: favorite players. Had a great sense of humor.

610
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 2: I did a story on superstitions once, and every single

611
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: person that I talked to had some sort of Every

612
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 2: baseball player had some sort of superstition, and he told me,

613
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 2: my superstition is I have no superstitions. He goes, He goes,

614
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 2: I don't think of how I could ever justify to

615
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 2: my wife that I missed our son's little league game

616
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 2: because I had to go to the same sub shop

617
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 2: every day because I got three hits the last time

618
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,600
Speaker 2: I was there. He said, I have no superstitions. I

619
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Speaker 2: don't ever want to and I'll never forget. Adam Leroche

620
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 2: played in the eighteen inning game that the Braves played

621
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Speaker 2: against the Astros. I was at the game. Tim Hudson

622
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 2: started that game. So many years later, I'm on the

623
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 2: field right before the Nationals are playing the Giants. Tim

624
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 2: Hudson started that game also, and I was telling Adam

625
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 2: Rose before the game, remember that eighteen in the game.

626
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 2: He said, Yep, that was the most amazing game I've

627
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,959
Speaker 2: ever played it. That game will never happen again. And

628
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: that game happened that night.

629
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: Yes, we had this as.

630
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 2: The last person I talked to before I left the

631
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 2: field was Adam Morose. She said, that'll never happen again,

632
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 2: and it happened that night.

633
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: Jeff.

634
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 2: By the way, there have been four postseason game, five

635
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 2: postseason games that lasted eighteen or more innings, and I've

636
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 2: covered I've been at four of them, covered four of them.

637
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: Wow, pretty cool. Well, and you and I were both

638
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: at the game together in Los Angeles with the Red Sox.

639
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: You were there and you were next to in said

640
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: to sit next to me. He sat next to Travis

641
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: Kelce right.

642
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 2: He came down in the seventh inning and he stayed

643
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 2: until it stay at eleven innings.

644
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: I've sitting right next to him. It was he is

645
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:03,959
Speaker 1: really big by the way they got yes, as they

646
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: would not. Both of the Kelsey's would not fit on

647
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: our set. If you know, they've got a pretty successful podcast, right,

648
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: brother and brother, we've got a father and son show.

649
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if we can make a collab happen,

650
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: but Jason Kelsey lives locally. Wait what does colab mean? Oh? Collaboration?

651
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: All right, Jeff, Jeff, I'm working on it.

652
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 2: Pop up pop what are we doing?

653
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Speaker 1: I'm so bad now, Dad. We have a special team

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Speaker 1: tim in honor of Opening Day and as of course,

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Speaker 1: as you know, our Opening Day episode is brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Game Changer, the number one youth sports app

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Speaker 1: that helps you coach smarter, connect live and replay an action.

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Speaker 1: Learn more at GC dot com. Before we get to

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Speaker 1: the team Tim, I remember so vividly this was fourth

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Speaker 1: of July, I want to say two years ago. Now.

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Speaker 1: We walked into my aunt Cindy's lake house and Aunt

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Speaker 1: Cindy's husband, my uncle George, is on his phone, I

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Speaker 1: mean deep on his phone. And at first I kind

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Speaker 1: of found it. I was like, well, why isn't he

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Speaker 1: getting up and saying hi to us? And I realized

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Speaker 1: he's watching his granddaughter's softball game on the game Changer app.

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Speaker 1: And he looks at us two thousand miles away. He

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Speaker 1: looks at us and says, have you guys heard of this?

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Speaker 1: Because it's great. I'm watching the game and I'm following

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Speaker 1: the stats. And he was on the game Changer app

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Speaker 1: watching the softball game, which is so perfect for grandparents,

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Speaker 1: for parents, for families that are traveling or whatever it

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Speaker 1: might be, especially with like the travel ball. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: these kids are traveling all over the world and if

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Speaker 1: you can't make a visit, you could just pull it

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Speaker 1: up on the game Changer app. Yeah. I have a

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Speaker 1: story too.

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Speaker 2: Roxy Bernstein does radio and other things at ESPN and

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Speaker 2: I've done a bunch of radio games with him, and

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Speaker 2: we were in Houston one night and he was very

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Speaker 2: not a great guy, one of my favorite people, very

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Speaker 2: non communicative in between innings. He wasn't like engaging with

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Speaker 2: me in between innings. He was always looking at his computer. Finally,

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Speaker 2: after a couple innings, I said, Roxy, what do you

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Speaker 2: do it over there? He goes, I'm watching my son.

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Speaker 2: He's played in a hockey game now and he was

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Speaker 2: watching on Game Changer, And like one second later he goes, look,

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Speaker 2: he just scored. So that's when I understood that you

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Speaker 2: can watch a son, grandson, granddaughter or whatever from a

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Speaker 2: million miles away on your computer, on your phone.

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Speaker 1: That's what Game Changer can do.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: It's a great example because it's a youth sports app,

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Speaker 1: not just baseball and softball. Using it for hockey. How

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Speaker 1: perfect was that? So thank you to Game Changer for

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Speaker 1: being our sponsor for the Opening Day special today and Dad.

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Speaker 1: No better way to wrap up our Opening Day special

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Speaker 1: than with a Team Tim. Right, we have a Team Tim.

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Speaker 2: Every episode seems like the people like this the most,

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Speaker 2: so I had to have a Team Tim Opening Day

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Speaker 2: theme to it. So I just came up pretty much

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Speaker 2: with my own, like really highlight from each position on

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Speaker 2: the field an opening day, and we start with Jackie

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Speaker 2: Robinson the first basement in nineteen forty seven. Remember he's

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Speaker 2: a Hall of Fame second baseman, but he opened for

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers broke the color line and Night eighteen forty seven,

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Speaker 2: so it has to be him as our first basement,

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Speaker 2: second basement. I was at this game. Neil Walker twenty

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Speaker 2: fourteen with the Pirates hit a walk off home run

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Speaker 2: on opening Day to win the game one to nothing.

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Speaker 2: And it only happened one other time in nineteen sixty

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Speaker 2: five in Major League history, also by a Pirate, Bob

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Speaker 2: Bailey hit a walk off home run to win the

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Speaker 2: game one to nothing. So I was at the game.

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Speaker 2: So Neil Walker, since I was.

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Speaker 1: There, is our guy.

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Speaker 2: Now let's see if you can figure out who our

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Speaker 2: third basement is based on the game that you went to.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it has to be Ryan Zimmerman, rights

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Speaker 1: former guest of the show. What did he do? He

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Speaker 1: hit a walk off home run in the very first

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Speaker 1: game the Washington Nationals ever played in their new park.

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Speaker 1: In National christened the ballpark with a walk off homer,

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Speaker 1: and it had only been done two other times in

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Speaker 1: baseball history. Nineteen fifty three, Bill Bruton hit one to

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Speaker 1: kickoff County Stadium in Milwaukee and night Dante Boschett hit

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Speaker 1: a home run to kick off cors Field in Denver.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of home runs in that park, yes, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And Ryan Zimmerman, by the way, hit nine walk off

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Speaker 2: home runs in his career, but none bigger than when

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Speaker 2: he christened Nationals Park with a walk.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny we had Ryan Zimmerman on the

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Speaker 1: podcast Gosh was that season one? Now? Yeah? I think

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Speaker 1: it was. Yes, And in addition to ask him, asking

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Speaker 1: him the last time he dunked, which is just a

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Speaker 1: common question for every guest on his distagrama game or what.

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Speaker 1: By the way, just be warned if you become a

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Speaker 1: guest on our show, that's going to be a question

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Speaker 1: we're going to ask him. Maybe we can have a j.

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Speaker 1: Persinski of the Foul Territory podcast on it. When do

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Speaker 1: you think that's I'm sure they both dunked it along

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Speaker 1: the way in the last five years. Not in the

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Speaker 1: last five years. No, neither one of them their catchers.

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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 2: I mean they're actally did it during their lives, not

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Speaker 2: the last five years.

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Speaker 1: But it's tough whether we could have had him on

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Speaker 1: for an opening day or obviously you know, he had

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Speaker 1: the World Series run with the Nationals and he's mister National.

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Speaker 1: How perfect is that? So, okay, continue on your life.

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Speaker 2: Our shortstop is Ozzley Smith because every year on Opening

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Speaker 2: Day in Saint Louis, he would run out to his

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Speaker 2: position and do a backflip and land and the place

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Speaker 2: went absolutely crazy. Now, Ozzie is the most agile baseball

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Speaker 2: player I think I've ever seen. I believe he's the

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Speaker 2: greatest player defensive player of all time at any position.

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Speaker 2: Can't prove that, but that's just what I think. And

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Speaker 2: Andy Vanslke was with the Cardinals and the first time

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Speaker 2: he saw Ozzie do that, he just couldn't believe how

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Speaker 2: a grown man was capable of running out on the

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Speaker 2: field before a baseball game and doing a backflip. That's

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Speaker 2: what Ozzie did, and like I said, the fans at

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Speaker 2: Bush Stadium just went absolutely crazy.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine that, Jeff, No, the energy would be insane.

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, I have three outfielders. Well I'm going to

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Speaker 2: use Frank Robinson, who was an outfielder. But in nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy five, Jeff he was the player manager for the

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Speaker 2: Cleveland then Indians, So and he's.

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Speaker 1: The first, he's the manager.

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Speaker 2: He's the first black manager ever to manage a game,

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five. So he doesn't put himself in the

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Speaker 2: lineup for opening Day, and Frank Phil Seggy, the general manager,

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Speaker 2: comes down to see him and says, Frank, this is

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Speaker 2: your day.

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Speaker 1: You have to play.

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Speaker 2: So Frank puts himself in the order, batting number two.

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Speaker 2: And Doc Benich is pitching that day for the Yankees,

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Speaker 2: and he gets ahead of Frank zero to two and

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Speaker 2: then throws him this filthy slider just off the outside

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Speaker 2: part of the plate. And Frank told me years later,

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Speaker 2: he said, this son of them is trying to strike

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Speaker 2: me out on three pitches.

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Speaker 1: On my day. Nobody does that to me.

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Speaker 2: And Frank get the next pitch over the left center

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Speaker 2: field fence. Wow for a home run. That is Frank

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Speaker 2: Robinson for you, all right. Also, of course, nineteen seventy

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Speaker 2: four opening Day, Hank Aaron hit number seven fourteen off

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Speaker 2: of Jack Billingham of the Reds. Remember the Braves were

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Speaker 2: going to hold Hank Aaron out for the first few

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Speaker 2: games of the season so he could hit seven fourteen

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Speaker 2: and seven point fifteen at home, but Buie Kue, the commissioner,

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Speaker 2: stepped in and said, no best interest in baseball, Hank

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Speaker 2: Aaron is playing on opening Day. He made them play

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Speaker 2: their star player. And he had a home run on

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Speaker 2: open Day, number seven fourteen, and then I always love

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Speaker 2: this one. Nineteen ninety four, Toughy Roads, who had five

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Speaker 2: home runs in his career in the Major leagues and

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Speaker 2: would finish with thirteen home runs, hit three on acredible

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Speaker 2: on opening Day against Dwight Gooden, who was still a really,

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Speaker 2: really good pitcher. Now, Toughye Roads went on to be

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Speaker 2: one of the best hitters in the history of Japan,

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Speaker 2: but as far as here, wasn't great except for that

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Speaker 2: one day.

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Speaker 1: And Dan Please Act told me years later, Dan Please.

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Speaker 2: Act was on the Cubs when Toughie Roads did this,

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Speaker 2: and he's driving home saying.

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Speaker 1: Who the he the heck is his Toughie Rhoads. He's like

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Speaker 1: a teammate. He came out of nowhere and did that

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Speaker 1: on Opening Day, and he got a song written after him.

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Speaker 1: Toughy roads hit me home. Thank God you could sing

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Speaker 1: jeff me, thank you? Yeah, all right.

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Speaker 2: Our catcher is Stephen Vote. Again this is very personal

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Speaker 2: to me, but on opening day twenty seventeen, I'm doing

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Speaker 2: the game with Eduardo and kar Ravitch from the booth

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Speaker 2: and Stephen Vote, who can sing, by the way, any

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Speaker 2: song there is was Star of Balls school plays in

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Speaker 2: high school. Not to mention a great baseball.

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Speaker 1: And basketball player.

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Speaker 2: He I asked him before the game, well before the game,

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Speaker 2: would he tape something for me, him singing, and he said.

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Speaker 1: Of course.

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Speaker 2: So, in full uniform, he sang some Disney songs, including

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Speaker 2: a couple from The Little Mermaid. And then in his

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Speaker 2: first at bat, right after, and I mean right after,

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Speaker 2: we played this little clip of him singing a Disney

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Speaker 2: song for me, he had a home run to write

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Speaker 2: center field in his first at bat.

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Speaker 1: It was unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: It was like from under the sea to over the fence.

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Speaker 2: It was like Ariel to Ariel, and.

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Speaker 1: It was amazing.

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Speaker 2: So typical Stephen Vote, always rising to the occasion. So

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Speaker 2: he's the catcher on our team. Our left handed pitcher

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Speaker 2: is Clayton Kershaw, who on opening day twenty thirteen threw

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Speaker 2: a shutout and hit a home run. He's the first

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Speaker 2: pitcher to pitch a shutout and hit a home run

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Speaker 2: on Opening Day since Bob Lemon Hall of Famer in

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Speaker 2: nineteen fifty three. Do you remember who Bob Lemon is, Jeff,

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Speaker 2: You remember the Keith Hernandez story on Stratamatic about.

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Speaker 1: Bob Oh my gosh, yeah.

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Speaker 2: He said, every time he put Bob Levan in the

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Speaker 2: game playing stratamatic, Bob Leman would like watch shelt and

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Speaker 2: he would be one millie Bob Lemon's card across across

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Speaker 2: the room because he never got it done for KEITHR. Danders,

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Speaker 2: who was just a bitter stratamatic player any.

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Speaker 1: Time you put Bob Lemon in.

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Speaker 2: And maybe the greatest performance ever on opening Day was

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Speaker 2: Bob Feller in nineteen forty who pitched a no hitter. So, Jeff,

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Speaker 2: you know, there are two different schools of belief here.

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Speaker 2: You know, if if it's the first game of the season,

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Speaker 2: sometimes they put down your batting averages point zero zero

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Speaker 2: zero because it has to be zero you haven't taken

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Speaker 2: it at bat yet. Other people believe that it should

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Speaker 2: be three little dashes would suggest he hasn't even batted yet,

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Speaker 2: so he doesn't have a batting are and that might

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Speaker 2: be the more accurate way to put it. But you

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Speaker 2: could make the case that that game Opening Day nineteen

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Speaker 2: forty is the only game in history where every batter

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Speaker 2: on the other team had the same average after the

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Speaker 2: game as he had.

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Speaker 1: Before the game. Well, I mean, if you want to

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Speaker 1: get into mathematics, zero four zero zero divided by zero

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Speaker 1: is zero, right, So I mean, yes, your batting averages

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Speaker 1: you don't even have it at bad.

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Speaker 2: You really shouldn't be called zero zero zero because it

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Speaker 2: means you.

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Speaker 1: Haven't got to hit yet. Well, you haven't even had

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Speaker 1: a bat yet. So yeah, I'm trying to help you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to make the argument for you. I totally understand,

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Speaker 1: all right, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: So that's my team Tim opening Day, you know, the

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Speaker 2: Opening Day Team Tim, And it was really fun to

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Speaker 2: put that together. But next week we're going to have

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Speaker 2: a team Tim that is going to have something to

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Speaker 1: And Jeff, that's the best part.

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Speaker 2: The real games started last night Wednesday night, and today Thursday.

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Speaker 2: We got a bunch of games and there is no

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Speaker 2: better feeling to look at those first box scores for

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Speaker 2: the first time, and I can't wait to see what's

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Speaker 2: going to come out of Opening Day on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Well, Dad, a happy Opening Day to everybody listening to

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Speaker 1: is this a great game or what? Make sure to subscribe,

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Speaker 1: make sure to follow wherever you're listening right now. If

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Speaker 1: you're not watching on YouTube yet, you can or right

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Speaker 1: there on YouTube. I want to give a shout out

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Speaker 1: to our friends at the Foul Territory Network. We're now

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Speaker 1: a part of this great team. To Scott Mark and

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Speaker 1: their whole team there that's been helping us with this

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Speaker 1: kickoff the last couple of weeks. Thank you and we're

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Speaker 1: so excited to be a part of your team in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. And again, thank you to our friends

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Speaker 1: a Game Changer for being our incredible partner for our

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Speaker 1: Opening Day special.

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Speaker 2: Love the Office, Jeff Ah, I'm coming back next Wednesday

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Speaker 2: to tape.

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Speaker 1: That's how much I enjoyed. Yes, I'm gonna have more,

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Speaker 1: and so you're gonna have to check out the studio

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Speaker 1: next week because I'm I'm gonna add a little more.

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Speaker 1: Using as mom would say, thank you so much for listening,

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Speaker 1: and as always, thank you for being a part of

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Speaker 1: our family,