WEBVTT - He Pulled A Grammy 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:06.440 Is this a great game or what with the Hall 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:10.400 of Famer Tim Kirkshin. I'm his son, Jeff Kirkshon and Dad. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:14.640 It is Super Bowl week. It's an exciting time. I'm 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.360 already dusting off my Buffalo chicken dip recipe for a 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:20.160 party I'm going to this Sunday. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.520 I cannot wait. Hopefully snow gets clear. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:26.319 It's still freezing over here on the East Coast for 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:29.640 people to get around safely. It's unbelievable how much snow 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:30.920 and how cold it still is. 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.279 Right Jeff, I had someone at a birthday party tell 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.160 me the other day that he thinks the snow will 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:42.040 be here until the start of the Olympics, which is 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:43.600 February the sixth. 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.120 Jeff I told him it's going to. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.120 Be here to the start of the baseball season, which 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:53.840 is March twenty seventh. I mean, there is no end 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.920 in sight here. The high school, the public school kids 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.360 in our neighborhood where you went to school, we're out 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.720 of school for six straight days. They might go back 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:09.280 today Tuesday, but on Monday they made six straight school 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.920 days out and the roads are clear, but there's so 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:18.520 much ice and snow built up that entire lanes have 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.800 not been completely shoveled off. 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.360 And I guess it makes it dangerous. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.560 I don't think we're going to see grass in the 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.600 state of Maryland until March. I really believe that. That's 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.240 how cold it still is. 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.560 And it's so bad, Dad, that my wife Emily just 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:41.000 instructed me to shovel our grass so that the dog 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:42.720 has a place to go pee. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:43.520 I'm not kidding. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.520 She was like, can you shovel a strip of grass 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.120 out so he can go pea somewhere? Because he's been 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.720 peeing on concrete and asphalt for the last week and 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.960 a half and it's getting to the point where it 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.560 rolls down the asphalt onto his paws, and the kind 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.320 of clean his paws. He's pooping in the middle of 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.600 the road, Dad, I mean, dog owners out there are 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:05.520 going nuts. 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.760 Me as well, Jeff. 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.519 I have a dog also, Rex. He's pooping all over 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:13.200 the place, but not at least not in the house. 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.560 But you know, these are desperate times. They call for 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.919 desperate measures. If you have to poop on the top 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.960 of some snow, that's sorry. Just the way it works. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:24.000 It's just the way I mean. He doesn't even want 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.800 to go in the snow. And my male dog, Ranger 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.600 pee is like a girl dog, so he doesn't lift 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.400 a leg, so he could pee on a little snow mountain, 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:36.280 but he doesn't know how to. I think he was 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.360 raised by female dogs and so he has to pee 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.320 like a girl dog. And then he doesn't like his 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.280 you know what, touching the snow. It's a whole thing, right, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.920 it's driving me nuts. So I'm gonna go after this 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.799 podcast shovel snow off of a grass yard, right, but 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.520 I'm trying to tear up all the grass. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.080 Sure I've ever heard that sentence before, go shovel the grass? 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.560 Right, shovel? Can you shovel your front yard for me? 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.280 So that's what's going on in our Kirkston household, Dad. 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.880 And it was funny because just the other day we 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.000 were on a phone call with the incredible gentleman of 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:16.079 the Saber chapter in Las Vegas, that of which we 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.880 could not at all talk about the snow because they 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.120 have no relation because the storm that's hit the east coast. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.040 How great was that time with them. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.480 Right, and remember the name of the chapter, Jeff the 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.280 Maddox brothers, Right. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.880 It was so good. We talked about Mike Maddox. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:37.160 We talked about Greg Mannox, baseball in Las Vegas and 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:41.040 baseball all over the place. Jeff, you were the youngest 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.680 guy there for sure. By how many years would you say? 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.080 I don't know. There was a gentleman, if I caught 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.000 his name properly, I think it was Brody sitting in 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.040 the front right. He didn't ask any questions, but he 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:55.640 seemed he seemed right around my age. But yes, a 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.520 majority of the gentlemen were a little closer to your generation. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.440 I'm might say. Let's let's just say there was a 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:03.200 lot of four oh. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.440 One k money probably in this in this meeting, but 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.160 they were all really great guys, right. 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.760 There was a lot of talk about Ted Williams and 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.040 Babe Ruth agreed. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.640 Well, there is a couple of jokes that that you 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.599 landed really great with the crowd that I mean went 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.480 way over my already really low to the ground head, 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.640 I mean five foot six, but they were they were 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.840 flying right over me. I had some references to players, and. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.080 Well, they got it. That's all that mattered. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:33.000 They got it. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:33.920 There was SABER. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:39.120 SABER is a society of American Baseball Research, and you know, 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.000 I pop your grandfather. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.800 My dad was a proud member, you know. Big. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.159 My dad was a PhD in mathematics, loved baseball, so 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.200 he combined the two. So he got me involved. I've 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:52.520 been a member for years and years. Those people are 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.800 out of their minds, Jeff, and that is a compliment 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.039 because they love the game that much. So when you 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.440 you really need to know the deep inside story about 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.760 the history of the game, you should read things that 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.320 are on Saber because it's just amazing. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:14.520 Well, Dad, before we get into baseball, the Grammys were 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:19.119 this past Sunday night, and as a morning show host 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:23.080 for a country music station in Philadelphia ninety two five XCU, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.880 I watch the Grammys, right, I have to. It's part 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.640 of my job because we're going to talk about it now. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.000 Country music isn't necessarily the biggest thing at the Grammys, right. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.919 There's plenty of other country music specific award shows that 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.320 obviously are a little bit more up my alley. But nonetheless, 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.320 I came up with a game to play with you 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:48.080 called Grammy Artist or Farce. Okay, So, Dad, the way 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:49.640 it works is I'm gonna name something. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.479 You have to tell me whether it's a Grammy nominated 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:53.480 or Grammy winning. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.600 Artist, or if it's if it's if it's farce, if 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.520 it's a fake that I'm trying to trick you with. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.200 Guys, I saw one of the the other day and 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.960 it was is this a prescription medicine or is it 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:11.960 a Pokemon character? That was an interesting juxtaposition, those two 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:16.080 right next to each other. By the way, Carson, your 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.320 godson just turned five. He loves Pokemon. So we were 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.000 over there for a party the other day and the 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.400 hour half an hour before the party was watching Pokemon. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.960 You love that too, when you've grown up, right, If. 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:35.520 You or mom find my Pokemon cards, do not give them. 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.960 To my nephew, Do not open them. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:43.440 Do not do anything with them, Dad, because if there 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.240 are cards in there that, by the way, are worth 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.920 a lot of money, because that generation of me growing 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.880 up collecting cards, those cards now are selling for I'm 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.680 not kidding, thousands and thousands of dollars. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.440 Do not give them to Carson to play with. Give 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:57.960 them to me. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.360 I will shop them and I will set that kit 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.120 up for life. I'll buy his first house with those 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.000 Pokemon cards. But seemingly we can't seem to find my 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:08.360 binder of Pokemon cards. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.640 Well you don't know this yet, Jeff, but I found 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.720 them and I've already turned him in. I got one 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.120 point two million dollars for those cards. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.720 Oh, I would be so upset. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.000 Right, there's a giant box in your closet here at home, Jeff. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.240 It says baseball cards on it. It could be Pokemon. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.440 Cards, it could be. But right next to it is 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.280 my karate belts. And I'll tell you those are worth nothing. 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.080 They weren't worth anything at the time, Jeff. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:39.800 Right, Jeff, No, they weren't. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.240 Jeff famously broke a board there without hitting it. The 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.120 instructor broke the board when Jeffrey was about eight. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:47.280 Great job. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.440 The guy broke the board for you so you would 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.000 join up for the next year, so we could spend 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.640 some more money on you, being one of the worst 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.120 martial artists I've ever seen. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.280 Yeah, and yet we still went out for ice scream 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:01.679 to celebrate my board breaking. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.920 And you never told me to teenage. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.680 Right next to basket robins. What a great idea, Yeah. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.920 What a great idea. Okay, well let's get back to 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.679 my grammy game. Are ready? 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.920 Yes, I'm gonna give you. I don't know anything about music. 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:19.800 You know that you're gonna do fine where you're gonna 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:20.440 do fine. 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.120 Okay, So these are Grammy nominated artists. Okay, you tell 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.320 me if they if it's right or wrong. Okay, well 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:30.160 we'll start easy, all right, let's go with Kendrick Lamar. 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.480 All right, Definitely a singer is. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:34.760 A Grammy nominated artist? 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:35.080 Ding? 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.200 That is correct? Okay, Next one, Patagonia. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.840 Definitely not a singer. That is stepped. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.559 What was the alternative singer or what it was? 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.160 Just artists or farce to rhyme. Yeah, it's a farce. Yeah, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.760 that's correct. Okay, funko pop. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:53.360 That's a farce. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.360 You can't have a name of funk o pop. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.439 Pop is a collectible toy. It's a far sure, right, 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.200 you're thank you, right, Okay, what about let's see I 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:05.520 have it down here? 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.880 Okay. What what about the Thundercat. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:13.199 Uh, that's a farce. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.040 Grammy nominated artist Thundercat. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:16.560 Wow? 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:24.360 What about King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard fars Nope, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.760 also a Grammy nominated artist. Yes, we're going back in 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.199 time here to find the best ones. All right, next 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:38.960 one for you five guys, uh Grammys, No, that's the 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.439 restaurant chain you're thinking of, Dad, fars okay ours? 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:44.040 Yeah? 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.559 And then what about Minecraft? 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:49.960 That is a farce. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.640 That is a farce. It is a video game. Dad, 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.199 you did better than I expected. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:54.960 That's right. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.080 Well, I'm surprised you didn't bring up Pitbull. I would 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:59.160 have gotten that one right. 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:01.160 What about Doci? 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:03.760 Uh? 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:09.520 Doci is a Grammy nominated artist, Grammy winner. 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.719 You're absolutely right, Dad, way to go. I know you're 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:14.640 a big fan of her album. 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:22.440 That one, Oh God, so bad, Jeff. That time I 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.960 met Pitbull at the All Star Game was one of 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:27.520 the worst things ever. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.480 Ad Nan Burk. I'm going to tell the story again. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.959 Ad Nan Urke brings Pitbull over to me and says, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.920 it says to pit Bull, before you bring your biggest 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:40.480 fan ever is right over here. 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:41.520 You got to go meet him. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:46.040 And overcomes Pitbull and I have no idea who he is, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.640 and he gives me this complicated handshake which I couldn't 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:54.000 even figure out. And uh, the next day because it 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.400 went out there because ad Nan sent it out. Me 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.920 meeting Pitbull. Thank god he didn't ask me, what's your 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:02.320 favorite song? The next day I told you this jet 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.360 Mike Trout, who at the time, was the best player 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:09.800 in baseball? Saw me on the field and said, and 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.080 with such reverence, it was unbelievable. He said, I can't 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.200 believe you met Pitbull. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:15.320 Tell me what it was like. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.320 Tell me what was like to stand right next to him, thinking, 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.240 this is Mike Trout. He's the Beatles come back to life. Here, 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:26.280 he's Elvis come back to life. And he's asking about 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.679 my encounter with Pitbull. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.120 Was he that big at the time? 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.160 Oh, Dad, Yes, I mean he's massive, and you were 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.720 talking to mister three oh five. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.040 Okay, and three oh five. I mean that would be 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:40.080 a good batting. 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.560 Average for a season, right, mister three oh five, don't 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:43.360 you think right? 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.080 I nicknamed myself mister three oh one after that day 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.679 because I figured it was very symmetrical. Never mind Pitbull, 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.880 ad Nan, that was so bad. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.280 Yeah, I mean you could call Mike Trout mister three 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.480 twenty six when he won Rookie of the Year batting 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:00.000 three twenty five. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:01.960 That's really what you gotta be calling. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.439 Mike Drout was great, but he was truly truly impressed 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.000 that I had met Pitbull. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:16.559 Wow, all right, Dad, takeaways? 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:17.520 What do you have for us? 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.800 Well as we get closer to spring training, we had 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:23.439 a couple of one year signings. Haanio Suarez, who hit 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.679 forty nine home runs last year with the Diamondbacks and 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.080 Mariners combined, has signed with the Reds. Of course, he 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.560 used to play for the Reds. Reds were a playoff 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.400 team last year. He definitely needed some punch somewhere in 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.840 that order, and he's going to provide it. He's going 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.440 to strike out a lot, low batting average, but a 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:47.280 great teammate, a bet he's gotten much better defensively. And 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.400 Jeff forty nine homers, three hundred and twenty five homers 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:50.959 in his career. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:52.120 He's thirty four years old. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.320 He's gonna hit forty more this year, especially playing in 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:59.280 that ballpark. And the other is Willis Arise, a lifetime 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:03.400 Jeff three seventeen hitter, got a one year deal from 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.559 the Giant. So here's a guy with a three seventeen 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.720 average and another with forty nine homers. Luise Rise won 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:13.400 three batting titles and just got a one year deal 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:14.160 from the Giant. 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.760 So just shows you it's tough some days. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.880 It's tough being a free agent if you're not the 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.000 biggest name out there or at the perfect age. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:27.240 Yeah, Dad, Luisa, rise to me is such a question mark. 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.240 I mean, the guy gets on base. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.360 He batted three point fifty four in twenty twenty three. 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.319 How is he only knocking out these one year deals? 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.000 Like why is nobody locking him down? 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.120 Well again, in today's day and age, Jeff, he just 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:44.000 doesn't have the same value. He doesn't hit home runs, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.040 he's not a plus defender, he doesn't run particularly well. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.560 His on base percentage is good, but it's not great 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.840 for a three seventeen, and he doesn't walk very often. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.600 But I can tell you when he went to the padres, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.160 every one of those guys. 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.800 Just war By, you know what. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.960 He brought just an attack mode to the plate, like 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:07.920 I'm going to get hits today, We're going to put 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.320 the ball in play. They followed him and it really worked. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:12.640 But in this day and. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.760 Age, it doesn't work nearly as much as it did, say, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.560 thirty years ago. Now, obviously the job is to hit. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.200 The ball out of the ballpark. Right. 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.840 Well, those are some big, big signings, Dad, and I 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.120 know there's still a couple free agents to fall, But 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.560 do you have a countdown of when do pitchers and 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:32.400 catchers report because everybody. 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:33.920 I mean February, Dad. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:38.240 We have we have baseball this month. Shout out Bill 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.720 Chuck sending out his email for Billy Ball, he said, February, 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.760 we have baseball this month. I mean it's February third 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.040 on the release state, Dad, are we you know? 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.520 February tenth, eleventh, twelfth? Is that one catch a week? 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.160 Roughly a week away. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.400 We're going to get rid of the super Bowl first, 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.600 then everything changes after that. It's just hard to consider 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:03.000 the spring training, JEF. When it's it was four degrees 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.360 outside this morning when I walked the dog. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:06.320 Boy, that was bad. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.520 And yesterday I was outside in the wind for about 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.640 two hours. I'm not sure I've been that cold anytime recently. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.760 It was really bad. But we're all good now. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:21.160 On this date in baseball history, Dad, February the third, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:21.800 what do you have? 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.000 Well, one of my favorite baseball names of all time 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.920 is Bake McBride. Bake McBride was a really good hitter 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.200 for the Phillies and the. 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.560 Cardinals and some others. He could really fly. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:36.200 He was born on this date in nineteen forty nine. 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.840 And you have something to tee up. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:43.200 For us, right, Dad, Aaron Boone, the manager of the 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:47.680 New York Yankees. Obviously you two worked together at ESPN 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.640 for years, and in that time you were very very 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.360 close to each other. Now, obviously given his position and 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.520 your job as a journalist, not saying you guys aren't friends, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.720 You're still friendly, absolutely, But years ago he sent you 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.360 a me moji which we used when we interviewed him 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.960 back in twenty twenty. Was that twenty twenty four of 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.720 him doing an impression of a of Dan. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.320 Baker, who does Dan Baker, the PA at the Phillies 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.760 games and has for fifty years. Dan Baker has some 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:26.920 very recognizable boys. Boonie can do anybody, So play Aaron 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:34.520 Boone doing Dan Baker for the Phillies. Did Baseman, Mike Schmidt, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.960 catcher ball Boone. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.040 Right fielder Baker mecbride. 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:42.280 Dad. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.200 This clip has made us laugh so many times. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:47.880 It's it's perfect. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.920 As we know, Boonie can do like any accent, any dialect. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:57.040 He can imitate people so well, and he does voices 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.480 and everything else as well as anyone. So I just 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:04.000 love the bake McBride MacBride right. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:05.200 And it's his birthday. 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:05.520 Dad. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.440 The first thing you told me was we got to 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.840 play the clip from Boonie and then you had to 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:11.880 It took us a while to get it sent over 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.280 to me, but we figured it out eventually. And I 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.440 gotta say, his little memoji looks really good. I'll put 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.840 it up on the stream on the YouTube. So if 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.320 you don't follow us on YouTube, great game or what, 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.159 you can actually see Aaron Boone's memoji. 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.439 It's great, right, okay. Also on this date, in nineteen 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:34.000 fifty two, Freddy Linn was born. Freddy Lynn was the 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.920 rookie of the Year and the MVP in nineteen seventy 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.000 five for the Red Sox. Just came out of USC 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.679 and just took the world by storm, helped get the 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.399 Red Sox to the World Series that year. One of 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.679 my favorite players that I ever covered now when I 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.560 got to cover him every day. He was with the Orioles, 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.440 and he still had those great hands and he could 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.560 still run the ball down in the outfield. But he 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.840 clearly was not the same player in the mid eighties 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.600 as he was in the mid seventies. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.119 Let's put it that way. But I'll never. 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.800 Forget this, Jeff, I you shouldn't share this, But he 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.639 yelled at me once in the press in the clubhouse, 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.399 he yelled at me over asking him about, you know, 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.600 being injured, and when when do you think we're going 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:16.040 to be back? 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:17.240 And I guess I asked. 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.399 Him one too many times and he screamed at me 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.360 and said I'm tired of you asking me when I'm 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.880 going to get back. And it's not like I apologize, 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:30.040 but I looked at him and then he said, sorry, you. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:31.959 Didn't deserve that. You didn't deserve that. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.960 It just doesn't happen very often that a writer gets 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:40.120 yelled at by a player, and sometimes deservedly. So I'm 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:44.199 not saying I didn't deserve that, but he apologized to 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:49.199 me for yelling at me in the clubhouse in at 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.480 Memorial Stadium, you know, forty years ago almost. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:54.359 I mean, that's that was Freddy Lynn for you. 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:55.280 Yeah. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:56.240 Do I have this right? 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.320 That he's only one of two players to win the 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.200 MVP and the Rookie of the Year in the same 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.520 season him and each year. 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:06.760 Right, I believe that's true. Yes. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.000 I just did a quick fact check because I thought 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.360 that was the case, and I did a quick fact 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:13.560 check and it came up clean. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:13.840 Yeah. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.680 Echiro Suzuki and fred Land are the only two players 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:19.080 both did it in the American League, mind you, to 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.000 win the MVP and the Rookie of the Year in 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:23.520 the same seaies so Freddy Lynn. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.240 The reason I because Freddy got hurt quite a bit 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.679 and he was a little sensitive to that. But I 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.440 went to him once and I said, Freddie, you know 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.400 you at eighty percent is better than so and so 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.719 we won't use the name here at one hundred percent. 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.880 And he looked at me and he's as humble as 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.080 to get and he goes, yes, I know, but you 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.479 don't understand, and please, He's very humble. 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:51.040 He said, you don't understand what it's like to be 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:51.639 like me. 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.720 That if I can't get to that ball on the 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:58.639 inside part of the plate because my wrist is killing me, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.000 then it it's hard for me to play when I 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.439