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Mississippi Entrepreneur Carl Craig · Johnny's World

• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, welcome back to a brand new uh episode of the Johnny's World Podcast.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_02: It's Johnny here.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_02: We've got a great show lined up today.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I've been looking forward to having this guest on for quite a while.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_02: He's a dear friend of mine.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_02: We've known each other for many years and a fellow uh baseball sports fan like myself.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: And uh he had has recently opened up a new uh baseball card uh shop in his hometown of Brookhaven, Mississippi, uh, here recently.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_02: And I will I felt like we needed to get him on and talk a little bit about what the business is down there, what got him into it, and all things sports.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: So this is gonna be an awesome uh episode today, talking uh baseball cars with my good buddy, friend, and brother, Carl Craig.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_02: Carl, welcome to Johnny's Well, my friend.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, JCP, thanks for having me on.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_02: Well, me and Carl go back.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_02: For those who don't know, we go back years and years ago.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I guess I met you in 2001 when you were uh we were both uh cap cigs at Mississippi State, and uh he pledged uh in fall of 01 and I was up there in 2000.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_02: And so we got to know each other really well.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: We had mutual friends and uh we stayed in touch.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: He's one of the few that stayed in touch for all these years, been in his wedding.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we text about every day, just uh really close, close friends.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_02: So uh appreciate you coming on.
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  SPEAKER_02: But Carl, I want to I want to you tell all people listening out now what you're doing.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: I know you're from Brookhaven, you live in Brookhaven.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_02: You've had Magnolia Blues for what since 2013, I believe.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh 13 years, 13 years pizza place been uh coming up on six.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_02: So if you're in the in the Brookhaven area, go check out Magnolia Blues and the Pizza Places.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: What's it called?
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_02: Stereo's Pizza.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_02: Stereo's Pizza.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: Great, great food.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_02: Uh he had Magnolia Blues in uh was like an old antique store or something, but then he's moved it to downtown Brookhaven now, right?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_02: Talk a little bit about that.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Oh well, we spent our first eight years at uh, yeah, it was an antique shop.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_01: It's an old house.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was originally a farm.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: It was many businesses over the years and um was there for eight years, basically outgrew the space.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um Fred's dollar stores were closing.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: We had one in downtown Brookhaven, so we bought and renovated that building.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: It took three years, and uh, we moved in here in September of 2021.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: We've been in this location five years.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: So Syrios Pizza opened up in 2020 while we were doing the renovations.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: We got that done first.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the building's 20,000 square feet, so we had to break it up and we broke it up into three spaces, the majority being Magnolia Blues.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: So Cyrio's in 2020.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: We got the rest done in 2021.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: COVID slowed us down a great deal.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_01: We would have been over here sooner.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: But luckily, while we were closed, I was able to go to Omaha and watch Mississippi State win a national championship.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't have to worry about my job.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it happened, it worked out well.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_02: I remember you talking about because in in 2013 when we played for it, I remember that was the opening of Magnolia Blues, wasn't it?
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_02: Around that time.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: It was the weekend that we opened, and I could not believe that we were in the finals and I was not there.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then once we lost, it was okay.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: So when we got back the second time, there was just nothing stopping me from beginning.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_02: Uh it was uh what a great time.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_02: I remember we we didn't see each other there, but but we text each other a good bit and just uh I mean, just that was like the moment, man.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_02: We made it happen.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's hard to believe.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_02: I text you and and our our buddy Chris Shelton.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: I text, we text all the time, and five years always on that date.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'm always texting.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_02: You know what happened five years ago today?
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  SPEAKER_02: Hard to believe it's been that long ago, even though it seems like it wasn't.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_02: But uh finally got finally got it done, and it's just awesome.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_02: I'm really excited about baseball.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_02: Carl, when you whenever you come up, Carl has a has a son that I know is a big baseball fan.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_02: Whenever you come up, starvall, we've got it.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_02: I I've told you that about this before, but your son would love this.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_02: A tour in Ron Polk's house.
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  SPEAKER_02: He lives out in my neighborhood, he does tours, and I've done it before.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's baseball heaven, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like the guy lives, sleeps, eats, drinks baseball.
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  SPEAKER_02: So all he all he does is his whole house is a museum and he tours it free of charge, awesome.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, definitely on the on the list of things to do.
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  SPEAKER_02: So whenever you come up this way, we'll we'll make it make it happen.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, so let's go into baseball talk.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_02: So uh you open up a new business uh called uh you got it right there, bullpen collectibles.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_02: Talk about it.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: The bullpen collectibles.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_02: Talk about uh what got you into it and where it is.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_02: I want to know all about it.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I got into baseball cards in probably 1987 or 1988.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh my dad was big in the business when I was a kid.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: I say big.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: He wasn't like huge, huge, but at one point he had five stores.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he put on card shows.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_01: I grew up, you know, going to all the biggest card shows, and he hired athletes to sign.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: I met a ton of the athletic Atlanta Braves and the uh Texas Rangers as a kid.
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  SPEAKER_01: As they signed autographs, I was always that kid at the table handing them the baseballs and doing all that stuff, running and going and getting whatever they needed.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_01: So had a love of baseball and football cards mostly as a kid.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know, the the hobby started to fade there right about the time I got out of high school.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_01: Didn't really think much about it until, I don't know, five or six years ago, I started buying cards again and was still just kind of piddling.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't something that I got obsessed with until I had kids.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_01: And um, I started buying baseball cards for my oldest son, his name is Jack, and also Pokemon cards, which we're now like really into.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: And um I just regained the love for it uh with my son.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, my youngest son's now starting to pay attention to it, and now he's three, and he's asking about them.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: And uh didn't necessarily see it as something I was gonna go into business and do.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, like I mentioned earlier, we had the restaurant building had three spaces, and this space where we have the store was occupied was vacant, you know, for about five or six months.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: And uh a good friend of mine, my partner, his name's Seth Flynn.
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  SPEAKER_01: He got we actually crossed paths at Walmart looking at baseball cards.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so now we're texting about cards and getting into it.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: And before long, I said, Man, you know, we've got this space.
• 6:30
  SPEAKER_01: We've already got a ton of inventory.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_01: It wouldn't cost us virtually nothing to get into it.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't we just open a store, see what happens?
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: And uh he thought it through, I thought it through, and and we threw it together.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we opened uh April 15th.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we started talking about it probably around January, and uh it's gone great.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: We've had a great response from our community, a lot of support.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: We've had customers, one uh customer I know drove four hours to come see us.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we're having a lot of fun.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: I it's a great break for me from you know my real job.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: I can walk through the doors of the card shop and it's like my life totally changes.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: I go from the restaurant world, which is very hectic, to the baseball car world where everybody is happy and I'm happy, and and uh we're just having a lot of fun with it.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's not something we look at, you know, we're gonna try to get rich or or just make a ton of money doing it.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we hope to make a few coins along the way, of course.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: But um just something we're doing.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: He also, Seth, my my partner, he has a four or five-year-old son and daughter, and they're also into it.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: So we did it, you know, for the kids.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_02: You know, we when we we were kids, uh, I remember going all the time to baseball card shops around the area, and you just it's kind of like video stores, uh baseball card shops and video stores.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_02: Those are my two, and I love going and just looking around, everything.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_02: Video stores are going by the wayside, Netflix and all that.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_02: What was it the internet, eBay, and everything?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_02: Did that kind of put the card shops out where you don't see them like you did back in the day?
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_02: Or what what was the reason behind all that?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: I think the hobby just lost popularity.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because everybody our everybody was into it when we were kids, you know, like and it's kind of like people our age, you know, we got into college and you get you gained other interest, and and let's be honest, you don't have a lot of money.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now people our age have you know come into their own and and started paying attention again and have the uh available expendable funds to to go buy baseball cards and share them with their kids.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, I would say I would say easily 80 or 90 percent of our customers have the very similar story that I have and that you have and everybody has that you know I bought my kid a pack of baseball cards and now I have cards all over my house.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it's just like it floods back in.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, oh, this is something I really enjoyed.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh also during COVID, when people were at home, the breakers got big, you know, the whatnot, and TikTok and eBay breakers.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm assuming you're familiar with that, what that is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and so that got a lot of people back into it because you're sitting at home with nothing to do.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: So it's like, well, let me see if I can win some baseball cards.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's kind of like a full circle moment too, like when you have kids like you have and and they're getting into it, and you can picture yourself that age having kids, and it's just and it's awesome that that you're you put this together for this next generation of kids.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: It's pretty cool because that's how it goes around.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: And and these kids that are growing up now are getting to experience what when we did when we were kids, getting to go into to car shops and uh all that stuff.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: I don't remember anything about Pokemon cars when we were kids.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: That must be a new thing.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_02: I bet they the kids love that these days, but uh uh what what all cards do you have?
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_02: Baseball, football, baseball?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_01: We do sports, uh Disney cards are actually a big thing, you know.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um in our market, it's been uh highly concentrated in baseball and football and Pokemon.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we've carried UFC, WWE.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that stuff didn't really do well here.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Disney sells well, and and Pokemon really is maybe bigger than sports cards right now.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's they're neck and neck.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and I've gotten into that because I was buying those for my son, and I wasn't paying any attention to them.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_01: I just thought it was these silly little cartoon, you know, cards.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: And um I started seeing Facebook reels about Pokemon cards, and of course I saw the Jake Paul uh like$10 or$16 million card or whatever it was he sold.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I said, Hey Jack, I need to thump through that um binder of Pokemon cards here, and let's just make sure we're not out playing in the yard with a million dollars, you know.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: And we weren't luckily, I guess unluckily, but yeah, uh I've gotten to where I enjoy doing Pokemon cards as much as I do baseball.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: And if you would have told me at any point in my life that I would ever be getting into dragons and and monsters on on cardboard, I would tell you you're crazy.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: But uh I'm picturing myself right now, Carl, asking you at the Capacity house 25 years ago, Carl, are you getting into Pokemon?
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_02: You'd be looking at me like, what are you talking about?
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: You lost your mouth?
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_01: I probably would have elbowed you in the ribs, you know.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um that um it and it's really it's uh yeah, I enjoy doing it, but when you see how excited your kids get to pull a card that they're looking for, that's really what it's what it boils down to for me.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I I don't really rip a lot of Pokemon by myself, next to none.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: And it's really like out of fear that I'm gonna pull the big Charizard that we've been trying to get together.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: And like, right how am I gonna explain to him that well I I came home with this card, you know, so I have to I have to show some restraint.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: He's not so much into baseball cards yet.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh he doesn't know a lot of the players.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: He knows Otani, he knows Connor Griffin and Jake Mangum.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: So we look for those cards.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um but uh other than that, he's mostly doing Pokemon and we're just having a lot of fun with it.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_02: What uh as far as baseball cars, what like this day and age, I'm guessing Otani, what's the most valuable card out there on the market, or what what what have you seen?
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the most valuable card out there on the market is still like the 52-man old rookie and the honest Wagner.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, those are still modern cards.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: They do numbered parallels now.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, it's like numbered to 299, 199, all the way down to one of one.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um the new Topps Chrome uh baseball that just came out this week has a dual patch uh Otani autograph card where he signs in English and Japanese, and somebody's already put a bounty on it for$10 million.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_02: $10 million.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so we're we're ripping Topps Chrome packs most of as much as we can because that was insane.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: I saw on uh Facebook the other day when LeBron made the news that he was going to the Sixers.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_02: Did you see that?
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_02: The card that came out and he signed or whatever.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_02: That I'm sure that one's gonna go be quite valuable.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but yeah, it's it's it's it's fun.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_02: I'm glad to see you're getting into it and and especially with your son.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_02: And and uh now I know one time you had told me that you were possibly thinking about possibly getting players to come down for pictures, autographs, all that.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_02: Is that in the future, or are you still thinking about doing that?
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: Or absolutely.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: We have a large banquet room in the restaurant, so we're planning on maybe you know, we haven't really had time to uh get into that quite yet.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: And of course it's baseball season right now, and so we can't get anybody right now.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we do have a uh local uh boy that made it big, Corey Dickerson, and uh we hope to maybe talk to him some, but he took a coaching job with the uh Tampa Bay Rays, and so he's back in the major leagues, he's not around.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: So uh have tried to reach out to Jackson Dart a few times very unsuccessfully.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: So uh we got to start small, and you know, sorry, nobody's small, but um start with some of our local pros and and maybe try to get some Saints players or something and bring something like that to our town because we've we've never had that here.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to go get an autograph, you have to go to a show in New Orleans or further, you know.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: So it it's in the works, but it's not anything that's like on the books yet.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um, as far as show you mentioned shows.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: Now, do y'all how does that work?
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_02: Do y'all go to shows or or how does that the show business, how does all that work?
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: We go to shows to buy uh a lot of vendors at shows, they don't have stores, they just go to shows and do it.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: So plenty of them do have stores, but my partner works offshore, so he's gone two weeks out of every month.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: And um, and of course, I'm very busy with my job and my two kids.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: So going and spending two consecutive straight days at a card show is not our wheelhouse necessarily, right?
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but I do attend card shows on occasion to buy stuff for the store.
• 14:52
  unknown: Cool.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I bet that's uh I bet the card card show business, I'm guessing, is the same as it was when you were a kid, huh?
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_02: Going to card shows.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: Not much has changed except there's a ton of Pokemon and uh One Piece people there, which back in the day.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: Well, when I was doing shows with my dad as a kid, Pokemon wasn't out yet, so possibility.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: But the last show I went to was probably 50-50 Pokemon sports.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_02: Let me ask you this.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: This might be a totally different uh genre of things, but sports memorabilia is that part of the baseball car thing, or is that two separate things?
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's two separate things, and and we dabble in it a little bit.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: We we bought a Mickey Mantle ball that we had authenticated, turned out to be real.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um other than that, we're not real, I'm not a big memorabilia collector.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: I do have an awesome replica of Will Clark sign that looks just like the ones from Duty Noble Field.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I love that.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_02: I've seen a picture of it.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_02: It looks just like it.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we we have it hanging up in the store.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: So um very guy, man, when I was a kid, and still to this day.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_02: So uh pretty pretty special.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_01: Will thrill we're hoping maybe we can get him to come in one day and get him to sign it.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_02: He lives in Louisiana, man, so he's right down the road.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_02: So uh that would be that'd be really cool uh to do that.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, I didn't know if if the car business member booya uh two separate entities, but uh, but that's awesome, man.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_02: That they're getting into it.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_02: And like you said, it's a new generation of kids coming along.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: They're getting to, you know, like the sand line, man.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_02: You know, kids this day watching movies like that, baseball movies when we were kids.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_02: It's a really cool full circle moment.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Paul.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_02: I'm on I I thought about this, and uh, I know you're we're in the same era as like growing up, watching baseball, having teams, everything.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: And I ran, I was looking at my baseball cards.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I I've kept them for the years.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_02: I don't have anything outrageous here, but I do have a list that popped up, and it it is in my handwriting as a child.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_02: And uh and I I guess I was bored one day.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_02: I was a huge baseball fan back when I was a kid, and I wrote down teams and favorite players from each team.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_02: So I thought this would be a pretty cool exercise.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_02: I want uh I'm I'm gonna say uh a team, and I I I want you to name your favorite player.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_02: It can be, I'm gonna go by what this list says.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_02: So these are kid, these are people from the late 80s, early 90s.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but I want to ask you who your favorite player was from each team, and it can be from back then or now.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_02: All right, you ready to go?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_02: Let's go.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, San Francisco Giants.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_02: You know who I'm gonna say.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: Will Clark Will of the Thrill.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_02: Who's your guy?
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_02: Will Clark?
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: Will Clark.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_01: All right, I was also a big Matt Williams guy.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: I played third.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: He played third.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: I like to get it.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Will Clark, Matt Williams, Kevin Mitchell, that that team back in '89.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: That was that was one of my favorites.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_02: Uh okay.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh just happens to be uh the Atlanta Braves next.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, who would you be your favorite guy from that team?
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: Mark Limke.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: Mark Limpke.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, mine is uh is Dale Murphy.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_02: Uh actually, before I was a Will Clark fan, I was a Dale Murphy fan, believe it or not.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh my grandparents got me one of those little miniature bats.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_02: You remember those things?
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_02: And it had Dale Murphy's signature on it.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_02: So I immediately became a Dale Murphy fan.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, and then years later, when we had the Mississippi Braves in Pearl, he it seemed like he lived there.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_02: He was uh always at the Mississippi at Trustmore Park at luncheons and stuff.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_02: So I met him multiple times and got him to sign a bat next to his replica signature.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: So I have the real signature and the replica signature on the same bat.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_02: So uh see, I was uh a Dell Murphy fan before that.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: Uh okay, this this is just random orders going down this list.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: Oakland Athletics.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: Carney Lansford.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_02: Carney Lansford, good good one.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_02: Mine was uh the steroid king himself, Jose Conseco had him on the list.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_02: He's up there, he's up there.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Baltimore Orioles.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'd have to go Kyle Ripkin Jr.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: My dad and I I I bet I have I don't want to overestimate it.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: I probably have 10,000 Kyle Ripkin Jr.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_01: cards.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_02: 10,000?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: At least my dad collected him, and then as such, we we collected Kyle Ripkin and uh Nolan Ryan.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: I've got binders and binders and binders full of Kyle Ripkin cards.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_01: That's my guy.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_02: I was gonna say Kyle Ripkin Jr.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_02: for mine as well.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_02: Uh okay, the uh the New York Yankees.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_02: Who would be your guy from there?
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_01: New York Yankees.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I'm a big Roger Clemens guy.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: I know he played for multiple teams, but that was when I was really into Roger Clemens.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: So I I would probably go Clemens.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: I also really like Bernie Williams.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_02: I had uh had on this list, like I said, this was probably from 1986 or 87 on this list right here.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_02: Don Mattingley, I had on that list, but that's not my guy.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh uh captain, the captain Derek Jeter replaced Don Mattley in my Yankee fandom.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_02: But I guess back then I liked him.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um okay, Cincinnati Reds.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh they're in the NL Central.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: I don't like any uh Cincinnati Reds.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: They're all terrible.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I will uh uh majority of people would say uh Pete Rose, obviously, that would be the one.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_02: I met him before at a at a car shop, actually, and got his autograph.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but I I did not have him on the list.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_02: Uh back then it was Chris Sabo, third baseman, and bore the goggles.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: The glasses, yeah.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: I liked Sabo back then.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Boston Red Sox.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: I hate the Red Sox.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, when you say you hate them, I should just avoid that team and all this NL Central minus the Cardinals.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: Is that what you're saying?
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: They've beaten the Cardinals in the World Series twice in my lifetime.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: So I don't like anybody for the Red Sox.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: I had on my list back back when I was a kid Wade Boggs, but that was not my guy.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Johnny Damon, uh, that was my guy.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: I liked him with the long hair.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: I saw him in in 04 and uh became a fan then.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_02: Kansas City Royals.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Kansas City Royals, that would be Bo Jackson.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_02: Bo Jackson, great one.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_02: I had uh George Brett on this list, but which is also a good one.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_02: But uh Bo Jackson was the man.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Philadelphia Phillies, they're in the well, no, they're in the east.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_00: They're in the east.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Philadelphia Phillies, favorite player.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'll take Chase Hotley.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_02: Chase Hutley.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_02: That's a good one.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_02: That's a good one.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I had uh on this list from when I was a kid, I had Lenny Dijkstra as the guy.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_02: But um yeah.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_02: Um San Diego Padres.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you gotta go Tony Gwynn.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's who I have on this list right here.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_02: Tony Gwynn.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_02: Gotta go with him.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_02: Uh New York Mets.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: New York Mets.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh probably Daryl Strawberry.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: I just pulled a Daryl Strawberry autograph card yesterday.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to strawberry.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_02: I have two names on this list from when I was a kid for the New York Mets.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_02: You care to guess who they are?
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_02: Doc Gooden.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: You said it.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_02: You've already said it.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Daryl Strawberry.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_02: Daryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_02: Those were my two guys I had on the mess.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_02: All right, your team, Carl, the St.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_02: Louis Cardinals is up.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: My favorite St.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_01: Louis Cardinals of all time, easily far and away.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yaudier Molina.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: Ya Melina, that's a good one.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I love them all, but the way he could just hold runners down.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I just loved watching him handle the pitchers and handle the defense.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it was just a thing of beauty.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: He's been sorely missed the last few years because we got used to nobody stealing bases on us.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_01: And we have some good catchers now, but he's he's the goat.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh of course I had on this list uh Ozzy Smith, Wizard of Oz.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_02: You know, Ozzy Smith.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_02: That was a good one.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a huge Mark McGuire fan, too.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: But I if I have to choose one, then I'm taking Yachty.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yachty.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: Gotcha.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I shouldn't even bring this up, but I'm gonna bring it up because it's on the list.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_02: Chicago Cubs, not gonna do it.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_02: Don't have one.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: I had on this list Andre Dawson.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, it's changed through the years, but I don't know at the time.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_02: I got I would say Sandberg or Grease, probably, but any of those guys.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_02: They're all charged.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_02: LA Dodgers.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: Fernando Valenzuela.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's a good one.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_02: I probably would have had him on my list.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, you know, that was around that time.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but on this list, I had two guys as well.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, nope.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_02: I had him on the list, Carl.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_02: I had him on the list right here.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_02: I have three Dodgers on this list.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: Have Fernando Valenzuela, Orl Herschiser, and Kurt Gibson.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_02: These are three names from the past, man.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: Great Dodger players.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give honorable mention to Hideo Nomo because if you didn't like the Nomo wind up as a kid, then you didn't watch ball.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_02: Nomo, that was a great one.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_02: That was a great one.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_02: All right, the Houston Astros.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: Bagwell.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: I met Bagwell at a Jackson Generals games.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: He signed four cards for me.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Very nice guy.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_01: Still have them.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I had on here Mike Scott.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I don't even remember who that guy was.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_02: I think he was a pitcher uh back in the day.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_02: But Bagwell and Biggio, that I like I said, they wrote this list probably in the late 80s, early 90s was Bagwell, Biggio, the killer bees, and moved on to the city.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: They weren't quite there yet.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Expos.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's a name for Larry Walker.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: Larry Walker.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: Cardinal.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, he was.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, two guys' names on here, Mark Langston and Spike Owen.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_02: Spike Owen.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_02: Spike Owen.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_02: That's back in the day.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's going back.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, of course, I had I've already said the Oakland Athletics, but Jose Casey had him on again.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_02: I had Mark McGuire listed as Oakland athletics, and you just mentioned him with the Cardinals.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_02: Um Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, how about Sid Bream?
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_02: Great one, great one.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_02: Sid Bream.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: I had uh I had Andy Van Slyke on this list.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was about to say honorable mention of Andy Van Slyke.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_02: Andy Van Slyke, yeah.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_02: The three guys I remember, uh Sid Bream, Andy Van Slyke, uh Barry Bonds, obviously, and Bobby Benilla.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, yeah, he's still one of my favorite Met.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's still getting paid.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_02: He's still getting paid, still getting paid.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Minnesota Twins, Carl.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, Minnesota Twins.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: How go Jack Morris?
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_02: Jack Morris.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_02: That's a good one.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_02: Good one.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_02: I had uh Kirby Puckett on here uh for the twins.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_02: Um let's see, the Chicago White Sox.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, big hurt.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_02: Big hurt, yes.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: Probably would have been big hurt on there, but you know who I ended up putting on here?
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_02: Robin Ventura.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_02: Mississippi State connection right here.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_02: Bobby Thickpin.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_02: Bobby Thickpin.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_02: Bobby Thickpin made the list.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh uh Seattle Mariners.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Man.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: I love Griffey.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: I know that's the obvious choice, but that's my guy.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's awesome.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and then we you mentioned him earlier, but I'm gonna say uh Texas Rangers.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: Nolan.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Nolan Ryan, absolutely.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Carl, that's all the list.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_02: I have a bunch of extra guys that I've seen on this list.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I did have Bo Jackson on the back page.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_02: Listen to some of these names I did not call out because they weren't the number one guy on there, but there's some name black names from the past you're gonna really appreciate.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_02: Paul O'Neill, remember him?
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, had him on the Reds, remember, but he ended up going to the Yankees.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_02: We had we mentioned Matt Williams and Kevin Mitchell, George Brett uh with the Royals.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_02: Did we mention the Royals earlier?
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_02: I think you did.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_02: We did.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_02: We did, yeah.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_02: Um and then uh had on the back Ron Gant.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_02: Remember that guy for the Braves.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: Also played for the Cardinals.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_02: Uh for the Cincinnati Reds on this list, I had Rob Dibble.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_02: Remember that guy?
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: Rob Dibble, yeah.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_02: The main blast from the past.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_02: Uh another Oakland A's guys on this list, Ricky Henderson and Dave Henderson.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_02: Had both of them on there.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh another guy at the PowerS.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_02: I do not remember this guy.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know why I wrote him on here, but he's on here.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_02: Billy Hatcher.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_02: I don't remember him either.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_02: I don't remember him.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Bo Jackson, he mentioned that.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_02: Royals uh for the Giants on here.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_02: I had Gary Carter.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't think he played with the Giants.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_02: I thought he played with the Mets, but he might have also the Expos.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_02: I guess uh Eddie Murray.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_02: That guy's been around.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_02: He was on a bunch of teams on this.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh here's a good one for the Mets, Mackie Sasser.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_02: Mackie Sasser.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_02: Mackie Sasser.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_02: That was a good one.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Mookie Wilson.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Mookie Wilson played for the Jackson Mets.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_02: Uh uh Gerald Perry.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_02: I had him on here for the Royals.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Lonnie Smith for the Braves.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um, Larry Walker.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_02: I think you mentioned him earlier.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_02: Chris Gwynn.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_02: Don't know who Chris Gwynn is.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_02: Any relation to Tony Gwynn, I'm not sure.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_02: And then uh Jeff Treadway, Braves, had him on there.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_02: So, yeah, that's this list right here.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_02: And it came, it's probably it's probably 40 years old, but so there's a lot of names from the past in there.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but pretty cool.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_02: So, so just thinking about it making the full circle moment.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, kids this day writing names, you're you know, you're gonna see like you know, Bryce Harper, Otani, and all these.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_02: So, maybe like 30, 40 years from now, they'll say their list and look back on it and be like, Man, you remember Bryce Harper?
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_02: Man, he was a baller.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, oh Tani Gug, yeah.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_02: He pitched both ways, he bit both ways, pitched it in.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_02: So it's pretty cool, man.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_02: It's like a generational thing, and that's what's awesome.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm proud of you for doing this, man, because like you're you're you're you're helping kids like for the next generation to do what we're just experienced since then.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_02: Who knows?
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe 40 years from now, a podcast or a thing, somebody's gonna be doing this and pulling out the list, talking about that.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_02: So uh really cool, man.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: But how can uh people who are listening to this uh want to get involved?
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_02: How can they find you on social media or and where is it in Brookhaven?
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you can find us on Facebook and Instagram.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's called the Bullpen Collectibles.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we're located at 214 South Whitworth Avenue.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_01: You take exit 40 coming off 55, it's about a 1.2 mile drive straight down Brookway Boulevard into downtown.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: And and once you make it that far, it's not very hard to find.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_02: Awesome.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_02: So you can go.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_02: This is what this would be the perfect night for you.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_02: Someone will come in there, get you a nice meal, magnolia, magnolia blues, and then is it right next door or is it is it all in the same building, yeah.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: Same building.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, get you a nice, nice meal, head over to the car shop, get you a good pack of cards and call it even, and that would be take a pizza home for later.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, and a pizza you got that.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_02: So that's all right there, huh?
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_02: Everything's right there, yeah.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_01: All connected.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: You don't even have to go outside to get to all three.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: You can be within the building and and get into all three businesses.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_02: And uh I bet the kids are our kids are eating that up, man.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_02: Pizza and cars right there.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we got some arcade machines and the call machine out there.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, we're just trying to make a fun, family-friendly place to go in Brookhaven, and uh and it's gone well.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: And I th I hope the kids and the adults uh enjoy it.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we're just out here trying our best.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh, well, thanks.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_02: I know you're busy, man.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_02: Get to get back to your restaurant and everything, but uh thanks for taking time today to join in with me.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_02: And and uh if you're out there listening and you got kids and want to go uh open a bag of cards and find some cards and do Pokemon cards, go check out the Bullpen Collectibles in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_02: And and Carl, we'll we'll get together uh eventually and and uh I'll come up with some ideas with some players that you might want that I've had on the podcast in the past that I can get in touch with and uh see if we can get them down there and maybe after the season to do some pictures and sign-ins and stuff.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: That would be pretty cool.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_01: That would be great.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: And and thanks for letting me come on and and talk about my favorite thing in the world right now is baseball cards and Pokemon.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, and I'm determined to get Will to throw a Clark down there to autograph that sign because it sounds like it's a pretty special sign, Carl.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: It needs to happen.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: Very special sign.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_02: That would be the ultimate.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_02: Me, you, and the thrill and that sign signing it.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that would be something.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_02: All right, Carl, have a great day, man.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for everything.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_02: Holler at me to come up here and we'll we'll go see Coach Polk's house.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_01: All right, I will, buddy.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: All right, bye.