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Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what another edition for

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Speaker 1: you on April Fools And our guest today is Dallas Braden,

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Speaker 1: who I think is the perfect guest for an April

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Speaker 2: Right right, Dallas Braiden pitched a perfect game in the

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Speaker 2: major leagues. I worked with him at ESPN. He's one

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Speaker 2: of the funniest, most reverent people I've ever met. I

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Speaker 3: He is such a great guy.

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Speaker 1: He's a broadcaster now for the Oakland Athletics, where he

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Speaker 1: spent a lot of his career as well, so we

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Speaker 4: Dad.

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Speaker 1: The first full weekend of the baseball season is behind us.

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Speaker 1: We're recording this on Mondays, as we normally do, so

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Speaker 1: we're usually going to miss those Monday night games, so

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Speaker 1: any action that happened on Monday night might not make

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Speaker 1: the podcast Tuesday morning release. But the first full weekend

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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five season is.

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Speaker 2: In the books, and Jeff, it was ridiculous, insane. I've

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Speaker 2: covered baseball for forty five years and I don't remember

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Speaker 2: for crazy things that happened, okay, And it's almost like

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Speaker 2: the whole first weekend was an April Fool's joke, because

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Speaker 4: Stuff can happen.

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Speaker 2: For instance, right now through the weekend, Ryan Nelson, a

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Speaker 2: But a pitcher and the pictures don't hit anymore. But

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Speaker 4: To a victory.

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Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, what are the chances. Look, Ryan Nelson

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Speaker 2: And the other thing is I did the game, of

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Speaker 2: And we're three games into the season and he pitched

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Speaker 2: the third thing, Raphael Dever's of the Red Sox, an

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Speaker 4: As Yogi Barra had the entire season.

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Speaker 1: That just I mean, I know the pitching is different,

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Speaker 3: Three versus one sixty two in theory. That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: What's more unbelievable than that are just all the firsts

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Speaker 2: that happened the first weekend of the season. You know,

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Speaker 4: And it happened like ten times over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Now we've been over the Austin Wells first catcher in

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Speaker 2: That never happened before. Of course, the next game, the

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Speaker 2: So Jeff I was certain that the Yankees were going

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Speaker 4: They hit nine.

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Speaker 2: And remember there's only been one game in Major League

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Speaker 1: You know, Dad, and they're using those well, Aaron Judge

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Speaker 3: Do you think it looks anything like this old bat?

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Speaker 2: No, it looks that looks like the bat that you

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Speaker 4: Never mind? Is that why I was so terrible? No,

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Speaker 2: I know. Stop stop all right, we're gonna talk about it.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the bats in a minute.

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Speaker 2: We have a few more first year So Cameron Miser

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Speaker 4: First player ever to hit his first.

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Speaker 2: And your team, the Phillies, they, as you know, they

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Speaker 4: He is the first player.

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Speaker 2: So a couple other takeaways here, Jeff. From the first

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Speaker 2: That is a really really good sign. I was also

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Speaker 2: taken by the whole leadoff thing, Jeff, Like, like when

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Speaker 4: You know you can, right right. So but I'm struck.

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Speaker 2: Now by how things have changed, because the Yankees hit

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's so.

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Speaker 2: The point is, the leadoff hitters used to be the

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Speaker 2: It doesn't work that way anymore now.

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Speaker 2: Tani hits lead off. I mean, we've been talking about

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Speaker 3: Al Schwarber hits leadoff.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I can barely make it to second on

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Speaker 4: Right, that's the point.

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Speaker 2: But I asked air Boone I did the game on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: I watched him take infield the other day, and you

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Speaker 2: No second baseman goes to his left better than him,

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Speaker 2: And it's in part because Jason Lane has helped him

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Speaker 2: it says thank you Lane on it. So Bryce Terrang

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Speaker 4: How great is that?

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Speaker 1: That is really special because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: why major league baseball so hard. You don't just get

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Speaker 3: So that's really neat all.

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Speaker 2: Right, So let me see the bat again, the torpedo

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Speaker 2: bat that you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: Well, this isn't this.

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Speaker 1: Isn't a good example of the torpedo bat. In fact,

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Speaker 1: think it was was it Marucci who made these bats?

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Speaker 2: Right, Look, several bat companies are making these bats now, Jeff.

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Speaker 2: It's important to note that what is happening now with

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Speaker 2: For instance, so Anthony Volpi of the Yankees, he hits

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Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with doing this.

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Speaker 2: And given that the player, the hitters for the most part,

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Speaker 1: Dylan Cruz, I think he looks like Bryce Harper's evil

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's evil because he's.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, Aaron.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't use the torpedo bat. So not everyone's using it,

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Speaker 4: And it wasn't because of the bats.

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Speaker 4: So I said on the.

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Speaker 1: So is it true that I think I read that

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Speaker 3: See and all these.

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Speaker 4: Homes and where did your grandfather Pop go to? Undergrad.

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Speaker 1: Can we just talk about how your dad went to MIT,

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Speaker 4: What happened to us?

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Speaker 3: You and I barely made it into our schools.

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Speaker 2: I made it easily into the University of Maryland. If

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Speaker 4: I can promise you that.

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Speaker 2: Finally, Jeff final takeaway, speaking of fathers and sons, So Sunday,

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Speaker 3: Right, we couldn't do this during.

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Speaker 2: The offseason, right, They're my favorite things. And I've told you, Jeff,

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Speaker 4: I mean, that's almost impossible to do. So that's the second.

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Speaker 2: Time in the last seventy years that that's happened. Now,

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Speaker 2: and two of them happened last Thursday on the same day. Again,

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Speaker 2: So I told you about Jake Bauers, and I thought,

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Speaker 2: we're doing it too often. It used to be like

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Speaker 2: I promise you, promise you. That's never happened before. Also,

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Speaker 4: What am I looking for?

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Speaker 2: Ohio area code. And then the rest of the line

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Speaker 2: this morning I called that phone number, and thankfully it

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Speaker 2: I called yeah, yeah, I called and I got a

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Speaker 2: It was so awful, so intrusive, and someone might say,

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Speaker 2: last thing for you, Jeff, since you love music, you

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Speaker 2: Monday in we had a Rangers against the Reds game

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Speaker 2: So you know how I collect you know, starting pitchers,

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Speaker 2: Let's see in nineteen thirty nine, Phil Nicro was born.

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Speaker 2: All right, Phil Nicro's a Hall of Famer knuckleball pitcher,

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Speaker 4: Hundredth game, which I thought was the coolest thing.

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Speaker 4: So Phil goes, well, get the hell out of here

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Speaker 4: that let me do this.

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Speaker 2: So Phil gets Phil gets in trouble in the bottom

441
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Speaker 2: of the ninth He's still gonna win the game, and

442
00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:49,760
Speaker 2: he hasn't thrown a knuckleball the whole game because he

443
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Speaker 2: wanted to show everybody that I can pitch.

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Speaker 4: Without a knuckleball.

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00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,920
Speaker 2: So he didn't throw one knuckleball the whole game until

446
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Speaker 2: the final batter, who was Jeff Burrows, who was a

447
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 2: former teammate of his in Atlanta, and there was a

448
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Speaker 2: question whether they should pitch to Jeff Burrows or walk

449
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Speaker 2: him and get to the next guy. And now the

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00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 2: tricky ninth inning, and Jeff Burrows looks at Phil Nicro,

451
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Speaker 2: his former teammate and says, pitch to me.

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Speaker 4: That's what he said.

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00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,359
Speaker 2: Phil Nicro then threw the only knuckleball that he threw

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Speaker 2: in the entire game.

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Speaker 4: It was about this far outside.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Burrow swung at it, struck out, and Phil Nicro

457
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Speaker 2: had the shutout, the oldest man ever to pitch a shutout.

458
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Speaker 3: Some things are bigger than baseball. That's so cool.

459
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Speaker 4: It's a pitch to me. I love to make Phil nicer.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, Joe and Phil Nicro both now

461
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 2: passed on, but they were two wonderful men. And Joe

462
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Speaker 2: Nicro batted like twelve hundred times in the major leagues.

463
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:52,960
Speaker 2: He hit one home run in his career and it

464
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Speaker 2: came off his brother.

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Speaker 4: No, Phil, Oh, that's Jeff May again.

466
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Speaker 2: The cours they all line up. Basell is just predisposed

467
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 2: to these crazy things that happened. And if you watch

468
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Speaker 2: closely enough, these things happen all the time, and you

469
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Speaker 2: just go, like.

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Speaker 1: Talk about brothers. Sarah langstat here from a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago.

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Speaker 3: I loved the story.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Nola's two fastest pitches he's ever thrown in the

474
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Speaker 1: stat Cast era were against Austin Nola.

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Speaker 3: His brother, of course, because he's throwing hard.

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Speaker 4: I love that, and also born on this date, the

477
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Speaker 4: late Rusty Stob.

478
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Speaker 2: Rusty Stob was a really really good player that the

479
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Speaker 2: first two players in Major League history to hit a

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Speaker 2: home runs as a teenager and a homer as a

481
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Speaker 2: forty year old were Ty Cobb and Rusty Stob, which

482
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Speaker 2: I just loved the rhyme there and a Hall of Fame.

483
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Speaker 2: And Rusty Stob was a really good hitter. And when

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Speaker 2: he played for Montreal, Gene Mauk was his manager and

485
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Speaker 2: Rusty's really young player, and Gene Mak said, I knew

486
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Speaker 2: he had boku power before I even knew what the.

487
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 4: Word boku meant. Oh my god.

488
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 2: That was typical Gene Mak. And Rusty Stop was also

489
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 2: like a master chef. He was like a great cook

490
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Speaker 2: and I didn't know this still recently. Occasionally he would

491
00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 2: take pots and pans with him on road trips in

492
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Speaker 2: his luggage and he would cook, like in his room

493
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Speaker 2: or wherever he was. He would take his own pots

494
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Speaker 2: and pans on the road. Rusty Stop was a really

495
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,439
Speaker 2: good major League player for a really long time and

496
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Speaker 2: one of my favorite people that I've ever met.

497
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Speaker 3: And now we have Dallas Bryden on the show.

498
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Speaker 2: And again I've known Dallas Brayden for a long time.

499
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Speaker 2: He worked at ESPN with us, I did Baseball Tonight's

500
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Speaker 2: with him, I worked with him in the booth. He's

501
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 2: one of my favorite people ever. And he's really really funny,

502
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 2: and he just doesn't care like he can laugh about everything,

503
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Speaker 2: and he's gonna make us laugh.

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Speaker 4: Today.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna ask him about Reptile World, about my dad's dancings,

506
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: and of course about his perfect game, and about how

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Speaker 1: the athletics are adjusting and Sacramento. All of that and

508
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: so much more is next with Dallas Braden on is

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Speaker 1: this a great game or what?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to is this a great game or what?

511
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Speaker 2: And our guest this week is my dear friend Dallas Braden,

512
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 2: a former teammate of mine at ESPN. We went to

513
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 2: Williams Word together, we did games from the booth together.

514
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,120
Speaker 2: Good major league pitcher through a perfect game and might

515
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Speaker 2: be the greatest softball player ever to play in the

516
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Speaker 2: ESPN Softball League.

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Speaker 4: Dallas, this is my son Jeff.

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Speaker 5: How are you doing, Buddy. Good to see you boys, Dallas.

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Speaker 1: We couple weeks ago, Dan and I are having a

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00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: couple of glasses of wine watching March Madness in the basement.

521
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,200
Speaker 1: I was visiting him and he goes, we need a guest,

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Speaker 1: We need a guest for April Fool's Day.

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Speaker 3: Think, Jeff, think, And.

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Speaker 1: Without hesitation, I said, Dallas Braiden and it's a compliment.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, who's the biggest pool we can get to sit

526
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Speaker 6: out with us? I've read right through it, Timmy, right

527
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 6: through it. He was tiptoeing around it. Well, it's it's

528
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 6: not going to be March thirty first, and it's not

529
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Speaker 6: going to be on April second. But somewhere in the

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Speaker 6: middle there if you could, oh apra Pols, Timmy Apripoles.

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Speaker 2: So, Dallas, this is your bobblehead, of course, and I'm

532
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 2: not making this up. On one of the shelves in

533
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 2: my office, the bobbleheadshelf, there are three bobble heads in order.

534
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 2: Number one is me, of course mine is actual size.

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00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 2: Number Number two is Walter Johnson, the greatest picture of

536
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 2: all time, which, of course I went to Walter Johnson

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00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,840
Speaker 2: High School. And number three is Dallas Braden, who did

538
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 2: what Walter Johnson never did, and that was throw a

539
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 2: perfect game in the major leagues.

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Speaker 4: How about that lineup, Dallas.

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Speaker 6: Let's go Timmy, the big train and me. I think

542
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 6: you need to find a different train station.

543
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 5: To park my bobble head out walk.

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00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 6: Walter is gonna have a word with you at some

545
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 6: point in time, Timmy, at some point in time, Walter

546
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 6: is gonna have something to say about it. But I

547
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 6: am truly humbled and truly honored to have even made

548
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 6: the shelf, my friend.

549
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 4: It's so good. So everything going okay with you.

550
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 5: Everything's great, Everything's great.

551
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,679
Speaker 6: The A's have gotten off to a pretty good start

552
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 6: considering who we just had to deal with up in Seattle,

553
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 6: the Pacific Northwest. That was fun to watch. Baseball season's going.

554
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 6: We've already got a little controversy stewing within the game

555
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 6: of baseball with the Torpedo bats. So I just I

556
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 6: couldn't be happier that baseball is back and in full swing.

557
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 6: We're ratcheting it up. We got three shows a week

558
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 6: on our podcast. You guys are rocking and rolling now,

559
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 6: which means baseball is here. So yes, I am absolutely pumped.

560
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: Now, Dallas, I want to look back to your time

561
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Speaker 1: with my dad as a broadcaster with the ESPN, because

562
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, you were on the Baseball Tonight

563
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: episode that I was tasked with getting a video of

564
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Speaker 1: my dad ansing, oh wow.

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00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 6: Yes, you weren'tless right and remembering this, Oh no, you

566
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 6: are spun on, Jeff spun off, sput on.

567
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 2: It wasn't just Dallas, it was Dallas and Alex Cora,

568
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 2: who won a World series as the manager of the Dodgers,

569
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 2: I mean of the Red Sox, and.

570
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 4: Here they you ambushed me on the air.

571
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 2: And he was standing right next to me, the last

572
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Speaker 2: guy that should have been there.

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Speaker 6: Incredible moves. Incredible moves.

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Speaker 5: By the way.

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure if you were gonna be able to

576
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,719
Speaker 6: zoom out though, because if you saw the feet, there

577
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 6: were sparks flying, there was it was an absolute electric factory.

578
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 5: Timmy was cutting rugs, my man Dallas.

579
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 2: As I've said many times, the worst adult male dancer

580
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 2: ever is me a more wooden than Pinocchio.

581
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Speaker 4: It was terrible.

582
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Speaker 2: And the way that rab and Alex and Dallas crushed

583
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Speaker 2: me and deservedly so. And I didn't see it coming.

584
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 2: And you're the one that ambushed me on that Yeah.

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00:28:59,360 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 3: Yeah I did.

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00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: And you know when the producers of VSPN texts you

587
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: and you're always having fun on your broadcast with the athletics,

588
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: and I got to talk about that here in a minute.

589
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 5: You do it.

590
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: The fun of the game is having these moments with

591
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: these former players and with your dance moves and whatever

592
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: it might be like, that's the fun of what we

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Speaker 1: get to do.

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00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 6: You are absolutely right, And Jeff, you know this because

595
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 6: you grew up with this man.

596
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 5: You grew up with this man leading the leading the

597
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Speaker 5: charge for you.

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00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 6: And so when I met Timmy, Timmy, when I met you,

599
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Speaker 6: I'm going to talk about you like you're not here

600
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 6: for a minute, Jeff. When I met your dad, it

601
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 6: became instantly noticeable that the love for the game, but

602
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 6: not the love for the game, the love for the

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Speaker 6: people who make the game what it is. That is

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Speaker 6: what Tim has tapped into. That is what your dad

605
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 6: has continually tapped into over the decades and decades of

606
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 6: impeccable performance in his line of work. And when you

607
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 6: have somebody like that that you get to work with

608
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 6: and you get to work next to, they show you

609
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 6: how to love the game in a different way, and

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00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 6: they show you how to love more than just the game.

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00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 6: They really show you and teach you how to fall

612
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 6: in love with the stories that make the game what

613
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 6: it is. So when you can find the romance in

614
00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 6: the sport, you've been led to figure out how to

615
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 6: find those moments and how to find those things that

616
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Speaker 6: are going to get you to latch onto it. And

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Speaker 6: I couldn't have landed in a better spot at ESPN

618
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 6: with your dad, my rookie year on this side of

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Speaker 6: the ball than showing me this is how you do it, man,

620
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 6: this is what you'll latch onto. You'll latch onto sackflies.

621
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 6: You latch on to people that get excited about sackflies.

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Speaker 6: And we both have one of those dudes in our life.

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Dallas.

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Speaker 2: One of my favorite stories was when we did the

625
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Speaker 2: Little League World Series together and Dallas decided to go

626
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Speaker 2: to Clyde Peeler's Reptile World.

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Speaker 4: Tell us what happened that day in williams Ford.

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Speaker 6: Oh God, oh what an abomination that was. Well, you

629
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Speaker 6: said it to me. I'm a little bit of a weirdo.

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Speaker 6: So if I got some time, I'm to myself, Yeah,

631
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Speaker 6: you got, you got reptiles, You got a whole room

632
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 6: of reptiles. I want to check it out. You got

633
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 6: alliators out in the middle of nowhere I'm in. So

634
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 6: I went out to Clyde Peeler's Reptile Land and had

635
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 6: a great time, thoroughly enjoyed myself, and then realize, you

636
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 6: know what, A clock's ticking. I got to get back.

637
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 6: We've got a job to do. Figure, I go callin Uber, right,

638
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 6: Colin Uber? So I walk up to the folks, I go, hey,

639
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 6: you guys have Uber out here?

640
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 5: You got and they looked at me and go Who's Uber?

641
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 5: I said, oh no, no, no, no, no, no no,

642
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 5: this is not who is Uber? This is not good.

643
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,479
Speaker 6: So I instantly start to see the clock just spinning right.

644
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 6: We're just getting closer and closer to game time now

645
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 6: because they don't even know who Uber is. So I'm like, hey,

646
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 6: is there somebody else I could speak to. I don't

647
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 6: want to be rude, but I just wanted to be like, so,

648
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 6: you don't know, I need to talk to.

649
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 5: Somebody who does know is there?

650
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 6: And eventually I'm just in the middle of Clyde Peeler's

651
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 6: Reptile Land lobby, going does anybody know where I can

652
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 6: get an Uber? I need a ride out of here.

653
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 6: That's what an uber is, It's a ride. Can you

654
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 6: help me get a ride? And the answer, the short,

655
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 6: very quick answer, was buddy, we don't know what uber is.

656
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 5: That doesn't come out. I don't.

657
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 6: I don't know if we're ever going to get that

658
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 6: out here, So you're better off calling a taxi cab.

659
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 6: So at that point, I am stranded for three hours

660
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 6: at Clyde Peeler's Reptile Land, just trying to figure out

661
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 6: how I'm gonna get back to Williams Sports to call

662
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 6: LI League Baseball. Yeah, quite an adventure, quite but the

663
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 6: Alligator's great scene.

664
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: This is what makes you one of those broadcasters that

665
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: I just I love and I remember back when maybe

666
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: I think I've got this right too. You and my

667
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: dad were doing a game at Wrigley Field, Okay, and

668
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: my dad pulled out a quote of one of our

669
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: favorite iconically stupid movies in my opinion, even though we

670
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: love it, is Napoleon Dynamite.

671
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 3: You remember which quote.

672
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: My dad decided to pull out on a game broadcast.

673
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: When you two get together, it's dangerously stupid, and I

674
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: mean that it's a compliment.

675
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 6: No, no, refresh me because we've had many we had

676
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 6: many moments like this night.

677
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 2: Well, I in the regular conversation, I brought up Uncle

678
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 2: Rico saying I could.

679
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 4: Throw I could throw a football over that mountain.

680
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, Jeff Dallas laughed so loud because

681
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 2: he was ready for this. He had to get out

682
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 2: of his seat and literally leave the.

683
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 4: Breast box and we're on the air.

684
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 2: He couldn't even speak, he was laughing so loud, just

685
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 2: the reference of Uncle Rico.

686
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 6: Well, because you are. I mean, look for the folks

687
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 6: who know you, You're you're up on game a little bit,

688
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 6: you get the pop culture, you get it. You were

689
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 6: the last dude who was supposed to be saying something

690
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 6: like that, especially at that time. If one of us,

691
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,680
Speaker 6: as we found out Timmy, if one of us is

692
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 6: going to be doing or saying something dumb, that's gonna

693
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 6: get as fired. It's probably gonna be me, it's not

694
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 6: gonna be you. So for you to drop the Uncle

695
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 6: Rico line, like in a completely professional, sanctioned environment, I'm going,

696
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 6: what is tip and drinking right now? And if so,

697
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 6: why was I not invited? But what the hell is

698
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 6: going on here? Did he just drop Uncle Rico on me. Yes,

699
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 6: yes he did well.

700
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 3: Dallas.

701
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: On Instagram, your wife Meg posted on opening Day an

702
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: amazing cut of all of her favorite moments from your

703
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: a's broadcasting from last season. Right, yes, And I told

704
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: you know we're prepping. Dad and I are having lunch

705
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: right before this interview, and I said, Dad, I have

706
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,280
Speaker 1: to show you this because I know you're not on Instagram.

707
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 3: I know you didn't see it.

708
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: And I take it, and I said, look, how creative this

709
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: wife put this together?

710
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 4: How great is this?

711
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: He didn't understand a single Taylor Swift reference or Megan's

712
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: trainer lyric And here I am, Dallas. There is nothing

713
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: more vulnerable in life than putting yourself out there to

714
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 1: show somebody of video, you know what I mean, get

715
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: their reaction, nothing back, not even And I'm like Christina Aguilera, Dad,

716
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: Megan Drainer.

717
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,760
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift, nothing, nothing.

718
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 2: Look, you just said I'm pretty I'm pretty up on

719
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 2: pop culture.

720
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 4: I'm not up at all.

721
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 2: And I didn't realize how clever all this stuff was

722
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 2: because everyone was a musical reference and I didn't get

723
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: any of them.

724
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,839
Speaker 3: I think I think he got Journey. I think that was.

725
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 4: All he got.

726
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 5: Don't stop believing.

727
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 4: There was that.

728
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 3: Don't stop believing.

729
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,280
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you on the third Taylor Swift reference,

730
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: my dad was he was out at that point because

731
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: we weren't able to connect with that one.

732
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 5: He didn't get it. I hope, I hope.

733
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 6: I hope someone can explain the context of some of

734
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 6: those to you, because there's a there was one clip

735
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 6: like my favorite one is about uh al tuve who

736
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,439
Speaker 6: it's you know, I use the reference little old meat

737
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 6: is part of the song lyric and and I, you know,

738
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 6: I try to do my job and preserve that for

739
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 6: the right moment. So I figured al two Bay great player,

740
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 6: superstar player. If I can drop a little old me

741
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 6: on somebody and it's gonna fit and it's not really

742
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 6: gonna ruffle any feathers, al two Ba's the perfect guy.

743
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 6: And so I was able to work that in right

744
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 6: at the right time. Another guy hit a ball to

745
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 6: the warning track, and I said, well, you can find

746
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 6: him tomorrow down bad crying at the gym, cause you know,

747
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 6: probably a couple more push ups and maybe that one

748
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 6: goes over the wall. But my wife definitely led me

749
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 6: down that path. I had no idea what I was

750
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 6: getting into and then apparently after the first day she said, Dude,

751
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 6: the feedback is too solid. We're gonna have to keep

752
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 6: doing this. I was like, I am not. I am

753
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 6: not your puppet, but apparently I am.

754
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 2: Well, you should be, Dallas, because she makes you look

755
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,720
Speaker 2: like a pile of inner tubes. You are the captain

756
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: of the all over achiever team. She is way better

757
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 2: looking than you are.

758
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 6: No, Timmy, you are not telling me anything. I don't know,

759
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 6: my friend, trust me. If I could, if I could

760
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 6: bottle up whatever it was that I had worken that night,

761
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 6: the night I met her, my life would be completely different.

762
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 6: But it wouldn't be any better because I might not

763
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 6: have her in it. So without her, all this is impossible.

764
00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 2: Well back to musical references. This is way off the topic,

765
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 2: But many years ago, a young writer in at the

766
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 2: Boston Globe wrote about a college hockey team that was

767
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: going back to Russia to play another game, and his

768
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: lead to his story was back in the USSR and

769
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 2: the editor changed it to back in Russia.

770
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 4: He didn't even get. He didn't even understand even I understood.

771
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 4: That's one of the great lyrics ever.

772
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 2: And he changed it to back in Russia. He should

773
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 2: have been fired immediately.

774
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, somebody needs to be editoring the editor. How do

775
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 6: we know we got an editor, the editor, edit him,

776
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:54,759
Speaker 6: get him out of there.

777
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, goode.

778
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 3: Laws.

779
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: I went to Syracuse renowned journalist program. Now I'm the

780
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: country music morning show host and I host this podcast

781
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: with my dad, So my radio host telling jokes and

782
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: having fun, and then I do this on the side.

783
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: And my sophomore year, we took a very serious news

784
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: writing class and I did this big story about an

785
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: older woman who has caught pedling prescription drugs in DeWitt,

786
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: New York, which is a small suburb outside Syracuse. So

787
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,280
Speaker 1: I made my headline, peddling prescription drugs.

788
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 4: Don't do it.

789
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 5: That's fantastic. And the teacher looks.

790
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 3: At me and said, Jeff, I don't think you're cut out.

791
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 4: For hard news.

792
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 3: But I thought it was great.

793
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 4: I thought it was fantastic.

794
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 5: Well, it was absolutely gold. And where they went wrong

795
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 5: is not.

796
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 6: Immediately sending that to the back page editor for the post.

797
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 6: Right right, how do we how do we not have

798
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 6: this guy in the building yesterday after this? Somebody needs

799
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,240
Speaker 6: to do it right.

800
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 4: All right?

801
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 2: Ah? Well, speaking of the spectacular. I am not I'm

802
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 2: not exaggerate. My highlight of my entire all my years

803
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,839
Speaker 2: at ESPN was when Dallas Brayden went down into the

804
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 2: stands out of the booth at a game in Pittsburgh.

805
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,040
Speaker 2: Now you tell If you don't tell us, I'm gonna

806
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 2: tell the story.

807
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 4: Tell us what happened.

808
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 6: So this this is this was as we found out.

809
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 6: This was my last broadcast on ESPN. But the game was,

810
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 6: as we refer to it in the business, the game

811
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 6: was a pig it was. It was not great. The

812
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 6: weather was not great. Uh, and we need we just

813
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 6: we wanted, in true fashion, we wanted to have some fun.

814
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,440
Speaker 6: We wanted to liven it up. Our director, producer at

815
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 6: the time, very very same mindset. That's just a fun

816
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 6: loving dude. And he said, hey, uh, you want to

817
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 6: go out into the stands and run around? And I said, uh, yeah,

818
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 6: I do. I absolutely do. So I made my way out.

819
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 6: I have no idea what's going on. I'm in Pittsburgh

820
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 6: right like, nobody knows me, nobody knows who I So

821
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 6: I'm just walking around out there. I'm in a three

822
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 6: piece suit in the pouring rain. I've got hair that

823
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:13,400
Speaker 6: looks like it belongs on some poor mannequin. And the

824
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 6: renegades of the rotunda, the fine group of Pirate fans

825
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 6: who have stationed themselves over at the Rotunda and left

826
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 6: Field invited me over into the fold and they've got

827
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 6: flags waving, you know, they got everything going. And I

828
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 6: walk up there and I got the beard not not

829
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 6: looking anything like it does now. But they said, hey,

830
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 6: you want to wear a hat? Said, yeah, I want

831
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 6: to wear a hat. Said how about a patch? You

832
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 6: want to patch? Said absolutely, I want to patch. What

833
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 6: else you got for me? How about the flag? I said,

834
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 6: give me that damn flag.

835
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 5: Let's go. Where are we going?

836
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 6: They said, well, I don't know. You do whatever you want.

837
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 6: We just gave you everything that we have. What are

838
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 6: you gonna do? So I said, I know what I'll do.

839
00:40:51,040 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 6: I just started running around the ramp of the rotunda,

840
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 6: running around the concourse up there with this big Pirate

841
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 6: flag waving in around and just being a pool, just

842
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 6: trying to have a good time. And obviously we put

843
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 6: that on camera. The feedback, the feedback internally. When I

844
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 6: say internally, I mean the feedback amongst Tim, myself, Ravi

845
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 6: and the director and Eduardo.

846
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 5: We loved it. We thought it was great.

847
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 6: Now, Jeff, I can tell you unequivocally that some of

848
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 6: the decision makers may or may not have had a

849
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 6: different feel at the time for how that actually went.

850
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 6: And I was shortly after relieved of my game calling

851
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 6: and ESPN duties all together. They're like, Hey, so we're

852
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 6: actually gonna take you out of the booth and we're

853
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 6: not done there. We're gonna take you off the air,

854
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 6: and we're not done there. If there's anything that you

855
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 6: had at the at the colise here, or there's that

856
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 6: you had a campus, we've burned that.

857
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 5: That's wrong too.

858
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 6: So if you're at home, Dallas, you know what, just

859
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 6: stay right there and never come back to Connecticut again.

860
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 6: And I was like, thanks for the opportunity, man, Can

861
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,360
Speaker 6: I get the Can I get that tape by the camp?

862
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 2: But Dallas, those guys you who are hanging with you're

863
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 2: you're still friends with them?

864
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 4: Is that right?

865
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 6: These are these are some of the dearest friends I

866
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 6: have now in baseball. When oh yeah, we communicate, we text,

867
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 6: we DM When I'm out in Pittsburgh, I make sure

868
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 6: I stop and have a beer because we go over

869
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 6: right right across the street from the ballpark where a

870
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 6: lot of the fans go. So I just make my

871
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 6: walk from the ballpark walk over there. I know they're

872
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 6: going to be there, and we hang out, chop it

873
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 6: up and have some conversations. And just because I do,

874
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 6: I enjoy connecting with those fans, because those are the

875
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 6: types of fans to mean when we talk about loving

876
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 6: this game, and Jeff, we talk about having fun in

877
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 6: this game, the fans are the ones who drive this thing.

878
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 5: And I think if you ever.

879
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 6: Lose sight of that, even for just a minute, you're

880
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 6: you're putting yourself behind the eight ball. You're just you're

881
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 6: not You're not tuned into the game the way I

882
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 6: think you should be. So to appreciate the fans, I

883
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 6: think it's our job, it's our responsibility.

884
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 5: It's a duty that I take very seriously.

885
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 6: And I thank them for allowing somebody that they had

886
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 6: no idea who I you know, to say, yeah, you

887
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 6: want to have some fun, man, we'll have some fun

888
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 6: with you. And now here we are years later friends

889
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 6: and I will be lifelong friends with them because they

890
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 6: love the game just the way that we do.

891
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 2: Right and Dallas is still lifelong friends with some people

892
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 2: from ESPN. Because while he was there, as I told you,

893
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 2: he played, he played at least one game that I

894
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 2: saw in the ESPN Softball League, and it's a very

895
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 2: competitive league. I think he played for the Research team,

896
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 2: which was called Research and destroyed.

897
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 4: That was.

898
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 2: But Dallas, don't be humble here. I remember watching the game.

899
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,240
Speaker 2: You had like five and Batchie had five hole runs.

900
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, what was that? Like?

901
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 4: Former big league pitcher who came in. It was just

902
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 4: by far the best player.

903
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 5: On the field. Well, I tell you I was pissed,

904
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:49,760
Speaker 5: and I'll tell you why, Timmy.

905
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 6: It's because it should have been six homers, but fish

906
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 6: Fish was uppiring and he hosed me, called it foul.

907
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 6: I said, how do you just five hundred feet away

908
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 6: from you? What do you mean foul? You lost it

909
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 6: at three point fifty when it sailed into the backyard

910
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 6: of the house three streets over. What do you mean foul?

911
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 6: So five for five was great? Did I have more

912
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 6: in the tank? Absolutely?

913
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: Was?

914
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 5: I robbed, you bet.

915
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 6: But it was just my way of going out there

916
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 6: and say, hey, look, you nerds can find all these

917
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 6: stats and stuff quicker than I can even turn my

918
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 6: computer on So this is how I have to remind

919
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 6: you that I am important too in my own little world.

920
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:34,280
Speaker 6: I can get the job done too. So that, oh, buddy, Jeff,

921
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 6: can we can?

922
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 2: We?

923
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 4: Right? I was telling Dallas. I was telling Jeff.

924
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 2: Every time a picture makes a good play defensively in

925
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 2: a game, what do you always say without hesitation? Ah?

926
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 5: Please, Jeff, Jeff, you know why? I don't know.

927
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 6: I mean, you're you're with the historian here. You grew

928
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 6: up with the historian. I don't know if you know this.

929
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:55,919
Speaker 6: Do you know why the mound is in the middle

930
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 6: of the diamond, Jeff. Now, it's because pictures are the

931
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 6: sinner the universe.

932
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 2: I love that, and he believes that, and that not

933
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 2: to get into something hot takes anyway. Alex Rodriguez ran

934
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 2: across his mound during a game after making it out.

935
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 2: He ran across the pitchers mout and you were pissed.

936
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 5: Right, not happy about it, Timmy, not happy about it.

937
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 6: Very very briefly, very quickly. I'll tell you, Jeff. It

938
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 6: was a ballgame at the Coliseum in Oakland. Day game

939
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 6: a rod Is on first base. I probably got squeezed

940
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,520
Speaker 6: and hose out of a strike three call. And he

941
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 6: probably got the Hall of Fame love and got the walk,

942
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 6: So that's how he ended up on first. Robinson Cano

943
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 6: was at the plate. Robbie felled a ball off on

944
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 6: the third baseline, a rod for like the first time

945
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 6: in his career, was thinking about going first to third,

946
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 6: so he, you know, false, hustled all the way over

947
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 6: to third and foul ball, and then because he's lazy,

948
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 6: tried to just walk back over the mound. And I'm

949
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 6: walking up the mound as he's walking over the mound

950
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 6: and I see his foot like near the rubber. That's

951
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 6: how close we are. I got the horse blinders on.

952
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 6: I'm not looking, you know, I can't see anything and

953
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 6: stuff for what's right in front of me. And he

954
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 6: happened to be right in front of me at the time,

955
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 6: so I look up had some very choice words for him,

956
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 6: and he.

957
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:14,919
Speaker 5: Didn't really understand what I was saying.

958
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 6: He gets over the first base, he asks Derek Barton

959
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 6: at the time, Hey is the is he yelling at me?

960
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 6: And Barton goes, he's a weirdo. He talks to himself

961
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 6: all the time like that's that's that's not meant to

962
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 6: meant for you. But at the moment, it was absolutely

963
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 6: meant for him. And so Groundball double play gets rolled

964
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,120
Speaker 6: up and I just start walking out and I'm yelling,

965
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 6: and he's standing there. He's still looking at me like

966
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 6: what are you are you talking to me?

967
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 5: And I'm and I'm.

968
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 6: Yelling you've stayed up off my mouth and and he

969
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 6: finally just was like, oh, just kind of go. And

970
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 6: that's when I snapped.

971
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 5: I was like, yell, and my manager grabs me, you know,

972
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 5: and I'm like, all right.

973
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 6: So the worst part about this though, and please do

974
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 6: yourself a favor after I tell you this, go watch

975
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 6: the video on the internet, because I immediately walk into the

976
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 6: dugout and kick the bucket of cups, you know, and

977
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 6: this cup goes flying off the flying off my foot,

978
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 6: hits the back of the dugout and then comes right

979
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 6: back and hits me square in the forehead. And I

980
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:18,360
Speaker 6: just like, in a moment where I'm so fired up,

981
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 6: so angry, ready to fight the entire Yankee team, I

982
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 6: kicked this thing of cups and it just smokes me

983
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 6: right in the head. I just I'm like, you know

984
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 6: what that's about, right, that's about right?

985
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 2: So it was over right, Well, there was another Sunday

986
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 2: afternoon that was famous. May ninth, twenty ten, you threw

987
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 2: a perfect game. Now, Dallas, I've asked you all the

988
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 2: questions about your beautiful grandmother and all that is. There

989
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:48,240
Speaker 2: is there a story that hasn't been told a million

990
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 2: times about that day that when you think back and

991
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 2: you can tell us your grandmother's story, of course, But

992
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 2: was there anything else that happened that day that you

993
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 2: look back on almost fifteen years later and go, I

994
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:00,720
Speaker 2: can't believe that that happened.

995
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 6: Well, there were, And I've told you this to me,

996
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 6: and out of respect for the for the clean, fun

997
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 6: loving show that you guys have created here, I will

998
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 6: save some of those details.

999
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 5: What I will tell you is that.

1000
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 6: There was a major chasm between my preparation on that

1001
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 6: day and what my normal preparation would have been like.

1002
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 6: And that was duing part to some of the It

1003
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 6: wasn't really fun that I had the night before. It

1004
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 6: was almost self inflicted punishment. You know, Mother's Day not

1005
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 6: a great day. I chose to say, you know what,

1006
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 6: I think I'm going to wash Mother's Day away and

1007
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 6: I'm going to start that tonight. So I woke up

1008
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 6: with a bit of a headache, I'll say, and that's

1009
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 6: what I'll leave it at. But when I got to

1010
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 6: the ballpark, our video guy was so ingrained in my process,

1011
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 6: my routine before the game. You know, he would have

1012
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 6: the lineup card ready for me, because I would go in,

1013
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 6: grab the lineup card. I'm watching, I'm studying the lineup

1014
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 6: at my lock. I take the lineup with me and

1015
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 6: I tape it up in the shower while I'm taking

1016
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 6: my shower, and I would throw my bullpin, my my

1017
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 6: pregame bullpen. I would throw my bullpen in the shower

1018
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 6: and I would I just had this routine and I

1019
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:17,879
Speaker 6: got there with about an hour or so before game time,

1020
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 6: so I had no time to do anything. And my

1021
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 6: video guy is I walk in and he's got he's

1022
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 6: got the papers.

1023
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 5: And wear your bed.

1024
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 2: Where are you back?

1025
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 6: I had already you and I just like I just

1026
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 6: it was Seriously, it's one of those moments where you walk.

1027
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 5: In and you're like this, you walk in, you just go.

1028
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 6: Not now, not now, not now, And that's kind of

1029
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,160
Speaker 6: how it went. That is exactly how it went. So

1030
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 6: the one that's one of the funnier things. And we

1031
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 6: joke about this today because I was so I was

1032
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 6: so locked in on my day, you know, routine video

1033
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 6: washing my cleats, polishing my glow of throwing the bullpen

1034
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 6: in the shower, all of this, the hot packs, everything

1035
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 6: was timed out to a tea and there was nothing

1036
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 6: about that day that was anywhere close to any other

1037
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 6: day that I had performed in the big leagues. And

1038
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 6: so that was why I always used to joke with

1039
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,399
Speaker 6: Joe Stiglitic, a great writer who was on the beat

1040
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 6: at the time, and Stiggy asked, you know, hey, well

1041
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 6: you know how about the bullpen. How were things in

1042
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 6: the bullpen? And this is after the game, and I said, yeah, Stiggy,

1043
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 6: you know, dude, it was. I was put ninety eight

1044
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 6: to one oh two in the pin. The slider was

1045
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 6: ninety three with death, and then I got out there

1046
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 6: and it.

1047
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 5: Was eighty eight.

1048
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 6: I don't know what the hell happened. You know, what

1049
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 6: do you think, Stiggy, I was the same, dude. I

1050
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 6: was very, very, very lucky. I mean, there was so

1051
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 6: much more happening that day than a baseball game. And

1052
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 6: I always say I was merely just a vehicle for

1053
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 6: the emotion and the romance that baseball can continue to

1054
00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 6: bring because my other teammates also have mothers, and they

1055
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 6: also have families that sacrifice to get them there, and

1056
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 6: they also had mothers in the stands that day. So

1057
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 6: it wasn't just about me and my story. It was

1058
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 6: about my teammates and the fact that they were going

1059
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:11,719
Speaker 6: to have to defend behind a guy who had just

1060
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 6: essentially cashed it in the night before and is out

1061
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 6: there going, yeah, whatever, Mother's Day, deal with it. Here's

1062
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 6: here's a heater, good luck, and when you look up

1063
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 6: at the end of it, you know. A couple hours later,

1064
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 6: I was able to wrap my arms around my grandmother

1065
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:30,360
Speaker 6: and share with her how much she meant to me.

1066
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 2: So and Dallas tell us that or you lost your mom,

1067
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 2: you were raised by your grandmother. Tell us the postgame

1068
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,320
Speaker 2: scene when you look to the sky and then your

1069
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 2: your grandmother comes over to hug you.

1070
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:43,400
Speaker 4: Tell us how that happened.

1071
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, that's I mean, and that's why you know,

1072
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 6: And I've always I think a lot of people just

1073
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,840
Speaker 6: here on the surface, oh Mother's Day through the perfect

1074
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 6: game on Mother's Day?

1075
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:53,280
Speaker 5: How cool is that? Right? A holiday?

1076
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 6: And I think they inherently think, oh, your mom was

1077
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 6: in the stands or your mom must have been so proud,

1078
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 6: And I don't think what people maybe truly understand is

1079
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,240
Speaker 6: or if you don't know me, Yeah, I was raised

1080
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 6: by my mom and my grandma, and I lost my mother.

1081
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 5: My senior year in high school.

1082
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 6: So Mother's Day from that day on was a day

1083
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 6: that was eliminated from our calendar. And I've always talked

1084
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 6: about how unfair I felt that was for my grandmother,

1085
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 6: because this is a very proud woman, a woman who

1086
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 6: has been through far more than I could ever think

1087
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 6: about navigating in her life, and to come out on

1088
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 6: the other end of the way that she has, for her

1089
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 6: to not be able to celebrate her motherhood because she

1090
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 6: had lost her only daughter just was heart wrenching to me.

1091
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:42,480
Speaker 6: And so on that day, it was it was the

1092
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 6: baseball gods giving us Mother's Day back, is how I've

1093
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 6: kind of phrased it. And that's why that meant so

1094
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 6: much to me. But this is just the spitfire she is.

1095
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 6: You know, she's supposed to be sitting in the family

1096
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 6: section and I'm coming off the mound and I haven't.

1097
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:00,840
Speaker 6: I mean, I think I hugged Derek Barton, not my

1098
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 6: catcher who land in Powell, wears me out daily about it.

1099
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 5: He's like, dude, you serious. You ran to the first

1100
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 5: basement And I.

1101
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:10,479
Speaker 6: Was like, buddy, it's because I was ready to catch

1102
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 6: the ball and tag the bag too, like whatever needed

1103
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 6: to happen to get the final out. And I'm I'm

1104
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:17,960
Speaker 6: walking back and I'm looking up, and I'm looking in

1105
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 6: the stands, you know, and you can see me. I

1106
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 6: kind of point, and I kind of do this because

1107
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 6: I'm telling her, like, hey, I want my grandma. I

1108
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 6: know where she's at. And not until later do I

1109
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:28,959
Speaker 6: find out, like, dude, she didn't watch the last inning

1110
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 6: from her seat. She came down and climbed up on

1111
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:37,680
Speaker 6: top of the dugout to watch the game, and the

1112
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 6: ushers not only helped her get down there, but helped

1113
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 6: her get up there.

1114
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 5: And let everybody else.

1115
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 6: Know, don't talk to her, don't touch her, don't say

1116
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 6: a word, because if this happens, she will be climbing

1117
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 6: off that dugout, she will be coming down here on

1118
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 6: the field, and you need to be out of the way.

1119
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 6: And I didn't know about any of this until you know, later,

1120
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 6: till the stories are to so I'm looking for and

1121
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 6: she's not there, and I'm like, what the hell's going?

1122
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,839
Speaker 6: Oh my god, She's right here on the field. So

1123
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,120
Speaker 6: I'm like, how did you get down here?

1124
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 3: This?

1125
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 5: You know?

1126
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:12,560
Speaker 6: But but all of that, and I have a necklace

1127
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,880
Speaker 6: that I wear that had a Celtic cross on it

1128
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 6: and a Saint Christopher, the Guardian of travel. And not

1129
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 6: that we're religious people, it's just a matter of like,

1130
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,320
Speaker 6: this is this is kind of what I've worn to

1131
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 6: keep my grandfather and my mother as close to me

1132
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 6: as possible. I have a tattoo on my body that

1133
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 6: keeps them as close as they could possibly be. But

1134
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:35,400
Speaker 6: this was something that in the physical world, my grandmother

1135
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 6: and I knew and shared. And I just took that

1136
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 6: necklace out and I had I kissed it, and she

1137
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,240
Speaker 6: kissed it, and I just gave her a hug, and

1138
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 6: that was There wasn't really any words I was going

1139
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:49,720
Speaker 6: to be able to say to her at that moment.

1140
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 6: I just wanted her to I wanted her to feel

1141
00:54:52,719 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 6: what I was feeling at the moment, which was we

1142
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 6: had made it, We're here.

1143
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 5: We had that feeling.

1144
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,399
Speaker 6: When I I had that feeling when I graduated high

1145
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 6: school because that Day was never supposed to come. We

1146
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 6: had that feeling when I got to college, junior college

1147
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 6: and I got my AA degree, because that was never

1148
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 6: supposed to happen. Go to college, what and now you

1149
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 6: get a scholarship and you get to pro ball.

1150
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 5: Someone's going to pay you money to play baseball. So

1151
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,399
Speaker 5: we had several of those like I can't believe we're

1152
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 5: here kind of moments. But it was that moment where

1153
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 5: Mother's Day was given back to her that that meant

1154
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 5: the absolute most.

1155
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: I have to say, I am now embarrassed to say

1156
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: that he would be the perfect guest for April Fools

1157
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:33,680
Speaker 1: because he's.

1158
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,720
Speaker 3: Made us laugh, but you also have made us cry.

1159
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 3: Now I'm getting emotional over here, Dallas.

1160
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: Then that was such a beautiful story, and I'm glad

1161
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: you could take back Mother's Day. And I think I

1162
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: think our listeners who might have had difficulties or losing

1163
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: a mother or a father or whatever it might be,

1164
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 1: can take that as an opportunity to grow.

1165
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 3: I think that is so incredible.

1166
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: You mentioned your your college years, and we want to

1167
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,840
Speaker 1: get to the athletics of today and where they're playing

1168
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: because we're recording this shortly before the home opener for

1169
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: the athletics playing in Sacramento. But you actually went to

1170
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,320
Speaker 1: American River College.

1171
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 3: Is that right?

1172
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 6: Beaver Tech as we call it, American River College, beaver Fever, snatch.

1173
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:19,399
Speaker 5: It up, that's what we say.

1174
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, Beaver Tech here that's actually located in Carmichael.

1175
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 6: I was under the tutelage of head coach Kevin Higgins,

1176
00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:32,439
Speaker 6: who was very instrumental in my life. The assistant coach

1177
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 6: at the time, Doug Jumalee, Kevin Forbes. Mike Torres was

1178
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 6: my pitching coach at the time. The next year it

1179
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 6: was Jason Dana who was the head coach. Doug Jumalee.

1180
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 6: I had incredible, incredible information bestowed upon me at one

1181
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,879
Speaker 6: of the most pivotal times in my life. I learned

1182
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:53,800
Speaker 6: the lesson of accountability at American River Junior College, I lived.

1183
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 6: I made the decision after drafted, being drafted out of

1184
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 6: high school in the forty seventh round. Somebody screwed up

1185
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 6: and made a mistake and they said, you got to

1186
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 6: get out of Stockton. My scout, Jay Hares, said, you

1187
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 6: got to get out of Stockton, man. You got to

1188
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 6: get eyeballs on you from somewhere else, and this place

1189
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 6: you're either going to be dead or in jail. And

1190
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 6: I knew that, and I had to get out. And

1191
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,280
Speaker 6: so I moved an hour and a half away from

1192
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 6: my junior college. Right like where I lived in Stockton,

1193
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 6: I was about forty five minutes away. Where I moved

1194
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 6: to Sacramento town called Winters, I was an hour and

1195
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 6: a half away.

1196
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 5: We had waits at.

1197
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 6: Five o'clock in the morning Monday, Wednesday Friday, so I

1198
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 6: had to get up early enough to get there. Well,

1199
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,040
Speaker 6: there would be times where I just wouldn't go home

1200
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 6: and I would just sleep in my car at the

1201
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 6: ballpark in the parking lot, and so I could be

1202
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 6: there in time for waits. Well, he would drive in

1203
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 6: and he would see me sleeping in the truck, but

1204
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:44,560
Speaker 6: he wouldn't come get me.

1205
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 5: He wouldn't wake me up.

1206
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 6: And there were multiple times where I was late to

1207
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 6: the jump rope line and I got absolutely crushed. Had

1208
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 6: to do the punishment running, which was called an excellence,

1209
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 6: which would absolutely bury you. And I got very familiar

1210
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 6: with that. But the message was just being here is

1211
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 6: not good enough. You have to show up in every facet,

1212
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 6: and that doesn't mean sleepy in your car because you're

1213
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 6: an hour and a half away and you think you're

1214
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 6: doing yourself a favor. You got to wake up in

1215
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 6: your car and you got to be on the line

1216
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 6: before I am. You have failed yourself, you have failed

1217
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 6: your team, you have failed me. Go at the track.

1218
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 6: And that was the greatest lesson of accountability that I

1219
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 6: could have ever received, because it was the lesson of

1220
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 6: if you think you're doing enough, zoom out take assessments,

1221
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 6: because you're probably not. There's probably something more you could

1222
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 6: be doing.

1223
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 2: And then you went to you went to Texas Tech

1224
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 2: after that, right now, Red Raiders. So I have one

1225
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 2: quick story. I worked at the Dallas Morning News in

1226
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty two in January, and I covered a Texas

1227
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 2: Tech basketball game. I'll never forget. I'd been in town

1228
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 2: like a week, so I didn't even know where Lubbock was.

1229
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:54,880
Speaker 2: I fly into Lubbock and Joe Hornaday was the SID

1230
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 2: and he came and picked me up at the airport

1231
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 2: and delivered me to the Texas Tech campus. I was

1232
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 2: just a dinky little twenty four year old sports writer

1233
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 2: who was just in town. And apparently he did that

1234
00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 2: for everyone. That must have been the way Texas Tech

1235
00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:13,160
Speaker 2: worked right.

1236
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 6: It was that was a life changing experience in itself.

1237
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 6: One you get out there and there's people that are

1238
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 6: genuinely nice to you for no reason, and coming from

1239
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 6: my neighborhood like that, that's called an ulterior motive, and

1240
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 6: I need to keep you at arms distance at least,

1241
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 6: and so like why are you smiling at me? Why

1242
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 6: are you talking to me? Like, get away from me?

1243
00:59:34,840 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 6: And you just eventually you can't fight it. You know,

1244
00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 6: you start dropping y'all's on people, and you want to

1245
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 6: hug everybody when they walk in the room, even if

1246
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,280
Speaker 6: you don't know them. And that's just because that's that's

1247
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 6: how it goes. I mean, the folks around the program

1248
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,960
Speaker 6: supported me and helped me as a kid from California

1249
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 6: who had no idea which end was up. They knew

1250
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 6: I needed help and they around every corner were a

1251
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 6: pillar of support for me. And I'm coach Coach Hayes.

1252
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 6: Coach Larry Hayes, the legend could not have been more

1253
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 6: gracious in what he was offering me, the opportunities that

1254
01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 6: he gave me.

1255
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 5: Uh.

1256
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:15,440
Speaker 6: West Texas is an incredible community, incredible sports town. UH

1257
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 6: sports community. I got to just go back recently and

1258
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 6: and do ah do a speaking engagement out at the

1259
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 6: West Texas Sports Banquet, which was an awesome experience.

1260
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 5: It just it really had a major.

1261
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 6: Impact on my time or on my on my life,

1262
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 6: my time in West Texas at Texas Tech, my time

1263
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 6: even spent in double A at Midland Texas. But West

1264
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 6: Texas means a whole lot to me, a whole lot

1265
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 6: to me.

1266
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: Dallas, you grew up in northern California and you're broadcaster

1267
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 1: for the athletics, and a really good one at that.

1268
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: I thoroughly jokes aside about you know, your wife Meg

1269
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 1: posting that I think you've got great perspective and you

1270
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: have a lot of fun on the broadcast, and that's

1271
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: great and I love listening to you do those games.

1272
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: But for you, you know, I don't want to go

1273
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: into the weeds here, but I lived in Las Vegas

1274
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 1: for five years. My wife is born and raised in

1275
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, and I couldn't be more excited for that

1276
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 1: community to get a baseball team. Now, clearly, obviously that

1277
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: comes with the loss of a team for the Oakland area,

1278
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: but playing some games in Sacramento tell us a little

1279
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: bit about your thoughts.

1280
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 3: On all of this.

1281
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's obviously a very interesting topic, a

1282
01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 6: very interesting subject matter. I say intriguing I think is

1283
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 6: probably maybe a better word, just because I think there's

1284
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 6: a lot of interest to see how things are going

1285
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 6: to continue to unfold. And that's understandable from my perspective.

1286
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 6: We've kind of talked about the ties that I have

1287
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 6: to this area, the Sacramento community, you know, the I

1288
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 6: grew up playing baseball in this area, I went to

1289
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 6: school in this area. That's all been fantastic, And the

1290
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:50,760
Speaker 6: reception that the announcement received from fans in this area

1291
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 6: was amazing. They are very excited, extremely excited because baseball,

1292
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 6: big League Baseball has sort of been moved to a

1293
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 6: distance that may or may not have compromised their ability

1294
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 6: to show their fandom. Now big League Baseball has sort

1295
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,439
Speaker 6: of been moved to their backyard, kind of PLoP down

1296
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 6: right on their lap, and they know what's going to

1297
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 6: be here for the next few years. And I think

1298
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 6: you would be really tough as a baseball fan in

1299
01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 6: general to not be excited about Big League Baseball being

1300
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 6: dropped on your front doorstep. With that being said, that

1301
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 6: does mean that there is an incredible group of fans

1302
01:02:24,960 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 6: who are reeling and who are extremely emotional about what

1303
01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 6: they will no longer have the opportunity to go do,

1304
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 6: and that's to bring their children and bring their families

1305
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 6: to a place where history and memories have been made

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01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 6: over decades. And I think what I've always tried to

1307
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 6: do is maintain a level of perspective that allows me

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01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 6: to see and feel the emotion from both sides, because

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01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 6: ultimately my job is to convey what's happening on the field,

1310
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,560
Speaker 6: convey the energy and the vibe that's occurring day in

1311
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 6: and day out within the clubhouse, and how that's all

1312
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 6: coming together coming to a head on the field through performance.

1313
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:05,360
Speaker 6: And there's great stories to tell. There's storylines that will

1314
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 6: continue to develop, and the shift from one place to

1315
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 6: another is certainly one of those. But the feeling of

1316
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 6: going to the ballpark is going to be different.

1317
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 5: It's going to be new.

1318
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 6: How you get to the ballpark is going to be different,

1319
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 6: how you get out of the ballpark is going to

1320
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 6: be different. All of these things are going to be

1321
01:03:20,840 --> 01:03:23,960
Speaker 6: a very new experience. But I think if you can

1322
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 6: compartmentalize the emotion that comes with a team leaving and

1323
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 6: the emotion that is definitely there with a team arriving

1324
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 6: for the first time. I think you will be better

1325
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:41,120
Speaker 6: served to understand where each fan base is coming from

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01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 6: and how they feel.

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01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 5: Because all I really want.

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01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:45,959
Speaker 6: Is, and this is what I said at the last

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01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 6: game of the season in Oakland, was I want the

1330
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 6: fans who were going there, who have the emotion on

1331
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:54,480
Speaker 6: their hearts that they do want them. I wanted them

1332
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,480
Speaker 6: to go through that last day in a way that

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01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 6: they would be proud to reflect upon. I wanted them

1334
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:05,080
Speaker 6: to be able to enjoy all of their commitment in

1335
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 6: one last day in a fashion that would allow them

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01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 6: to be able to share with other people, you know,

1337
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 6: where they were on that day and how they went

1338
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 6: about it on that day. And I think for the

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01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 6: most part, the fans have been great.

1340
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 5: In that way.

1341
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:24,040
Speaker 6: There's always going to be vocal folks who say, look,

1342
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,800
Speaker 6: this was what I believed in, this is what I

1343
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 6: bled for, and I think you would be I think

1344
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 6: you would be in the wrong to try to take

1345
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 6: that away from those people, to try to tell those

1346
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:37,480
Speaker 6: people that what they're feeling is wrong, because it's not.

1347
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:40,320
Speaker 6: That's why they feel that way, and that's what made

1348
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 6: those fans there so damn good and so passionate. And

1349
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:48,120
Speaker 6: now what I've already felt is there's been a transition

1350
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:50,720
Speaker 6: period I think where folks have said, you know, I

1351
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:55,720
Speaker 6: was angry, I voiced my frustrations, I said what I

1352
01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 6: had to say, and I've kind of found myself, you know,

1353
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 6: just at a place now. I love the guys on

1354
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,480
Speaker 6: the team and I want to support that. That's what

1355
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,040
Speaker 6: I want to support, and I hope that baseball fans

1356
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 6: all across the game can find that placed in their

1357
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 6: heart to realize that it's the guys on the field

1358
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 6: and it's the folks within that organization that make it

1359
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 6: go round. Those are the folks who bleed for each

1360
01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 6: other and they love and enjoy the support of fans

1361
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 6: who understand that.

1362
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: As you said from the beginning, it's about the fans,

1363
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 1: That's what it's about. And I think you do a

1364
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: great job of explaining that, and that perspective is so important.

1365
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:31,960
Speaker 4: It's great toll.

1366
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 2: So before we let you go, you know, I love

1367
01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:37,680
Speaker 2: lists of all stupid kinds. So since you were our

1368
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 2: guest on the show, I presented the All US Cities

1369
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 2: team in the Major leagues with your first name the

1370
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 2: name of a city. So I'm just going to quickly

1371
01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 2: read through. Austin Wells is the catcher or landossipated first,

1372
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 2: Houston Jimenez at second, Alan Craig at third, Brandon Crawford's

1373
01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 2: the shortstop, Tyler O'Neill is one outfielder, Gary Sheffield, Jackson Merrill,

1374
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 2: and our two pictures are Madison Bumgarner and Dallas Braydon.

1375
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:13,320
Speaker 2: What do you think of that list? How much time

1376
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 2: did I waste on that?

1377
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,959
Speaker 6: A significant amount figuring out how you're going to weave

1378
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 6: my name into that group of people. Because the simple

1379
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:24,680
Speaker 6: fact that I'm on the mound with a guy like

1380
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 6: Madison Bumgardner, I gotta ask him if I'm allowed.

1381
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:28,360
Speaker 5: To be on his mat.

1382
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 6: But that is an incredible list and I'm happy to

1383
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:35,360
Speaker 6: be part of it. What I'm sad to hear is

1384
01:06:35,400 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 6: that Houston Street did not make the list because I

1385
01:06:39,200 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 6: was drafted with Houston Street, played in the big leagues

1386
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 6: with Houston Street, teammates with that fella self.

1387
01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 5: But I am no one to argue with your list.

1388
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 2: My friend, that was great, Dallas, we as typically we

1389
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:53,440
Speaker 2: had the best time ever. Thank you for teaching us something.

1390
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 2: Thank you for making us cry, but mostly thank you

1391
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:57,840
Speaker 2: for making us laugh today.

1392
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:00,440
Speaker 6: Boys, I couldn't have been more. I had to come

1393
01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 6: on with you guys. You know how much I love

1394
01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 6: you, You know how much respect I have for you guys,

1395
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 6: and I want to let you know, you guys.

1396
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 5: Are absolutely crushing with this show.

1397
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:11,400
Speaker 6: Please keep it going because this is absolutely the fun

1398
01:07:11,440 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 6: stuff that we love to hear, we love to talk about.

1399
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 6: We got a lot of people who can take themselves

1400
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 6: seriously doing this. You two are not one of those people.

1401
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 6: And I thoroughly enjoy that. The fans do as well,

1402
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 6: So thank you.

1403
01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:25,280
Speaker 1: I'm glad he didn't end that with April fools, because

1404
01:07:25,280 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: that was a very sweet thing. He said, yeah, April fools,

1405
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 1: you guys stick.

1406
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 5: Guess my mic cut out right.

1407
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 3: Dallas Brighten, thank you so much.

1408
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 4: We'll see you boys, all right, We'll see you. Good

1409
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 4: luck with everything. Thanks again.

1410
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:46,280
Speaker 1: So we just wrapped up to Alis Braiden. But after

1411
01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:48,720
Speaker 1: the interview, so after that moment you just saw, he

1412
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: said wait, wait, wait, hold on, hold on, and he

1413
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,720
Speaker 1: threw his headphones down, threw his microphone down and left

1414
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:54,120
Speaker 1: the screen.

1415
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:56,440
Speaker 3: And we're thinking, where'd he go, what's he gonna put.

1416
01:07:57,840 --> 01:07:58,320
Speaker 4: Or whatever?

1417
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 1: And he left this with a really special surprise to

1418
01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 1: wrap up the episode.

1419
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 3: Here it is, Hey, Hey, it's Peggy.

1420
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:11,200
Speaker 4: How are you.

1421
01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 2: I'm great?

1422
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 5: How you doing?

1423
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 4: I am great. This is my son Jeff.

1424
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 3: Hi, Jeff him Peggy. Nice to meet you.

1425
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:23,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's been a long time.

1426
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:27,120
Speaker 2: It's been a long time. And my son, Jeff, his

1427
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:30,120
Speaker 2: favorite person in the whole world was.

1428
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:35,400
Speaker 4: My mother, his grandmother, who we call Nana. So we have.

1429
01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 2: Great affection for grandmothers here. And to see you with

1430
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 2: your grandson like this, it's just priceless, so good, so

1431
01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 2: good to see you. Well, it's so good to be here.

1432
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:49,120
Speaker 2: And your grandson made us laugh out loud.

1433
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 4: About twenty times today. What a surprise.

1434
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 5: Huh yeah, what a surprise.

1435
01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:56,200
Speaker 4: He does that every day with you.

1436
01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:58,800
Speaker 2: And now we learn when you walk down to the

1437
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 2: dugout that day the perfect game, that he gets his

1438
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 2: reverence from you, like I'm going down there, I'm gonna

1439
01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 2: go stand on that dugout and no one's gonna stop me.

1440
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:09,679
Speaker 4: He's just like you.

1441
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, I take credit for that, right.

1442
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,639
Speaker 4: Oh, we love it that. It's so good, so good

1443
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:21,080
Speaker 4: to see you.

1444
01:09:21,280 --> 01:09:22,639
Speaker 3: Thanks for hopping on with us.

1445
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 1: This is the best part of the interview, you mad

1446
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:28,679
Speaker 1: thank you, all right, we'll see you soon, all right,

1447
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:31,880
Speaker 1: bye bye. The best way to end a father Son

1448
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:34,120
Speaker 1: podcast was with that moment again, Jeff.

1449
01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 2: We do a relationship show here.

1450
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:37,760
Speaker 4: The reason we do this is.

1451
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 2: It's fathers and sons, and here we had a son

1452
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 2: and a grandmother sharing a few minutes together like that.

1453
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 4: It was just prices.

1454
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:48,560
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. As always, thank you

1455
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:49,839
Speaker 1: for being a part of our family.