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OneLegUpAlex Sports Welcomes Lindsay Berra AND Bob Costas Live from Yogi’s Big Catch 9-21 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 3: On the day that Yogi Barra helped close out the
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  Speaker 3: old Yankee Stadium seventeen years ago, Yogi Barra Stadium made
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  Speaker 3: some history of its own. Of course, Yogi bear Stadium,
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  Speaker 3: Yogi Berra Museum, created many years ago in honor of Yogi,
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  Speaker 3: who of course got to enjoy that museum up until
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  Speaker 3: he passed in twenty fifteen, and this week marks ten
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  Speaker 3: years since Lawrence Peter Bearra passed away, and Boyle Boy,
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  Speaker 3: the likes of Lindsay Barra, Bob Costas and all the
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  Speaker 3: greats that came through Willie Randolph, Lee Missilli, even a
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  Speaker 3: former Tiger pitcher Jason Grilly and of course Rick Sarona
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  Speaker 3: former catcher himself.
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  Speaker 2: Just to name a few that continue.
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  Speaker 3: The legacy of Yogi Berra by supporting the museum by
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  Speaker 3: being at that field, and of course Yogi Berra Stadium
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  Speaker 3: which was home to the Jackals now home to NJIT.
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  Speaker 3: While we had a very special opportunity this past Sunday
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  Speaker 3: to be.
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  Speaker 2: Part of history and watching a Guinness.
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  Speaker 3: Book of World Records record be broken, take a listen
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  Speaker 3: to how it transpired on Sunday, September twenty one, twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five at Yogi Bearra Stadium.
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  Speaker 1: So hello again everyone, This was an official Guinness World
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  Speaker 1: Records attempt for largest game of catch. The mark to
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  Speaker 1: beat was set originally in twenty seventeen in Illinois. That
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  Speaker 1: was nine hundred seventy two pairs. Now I know you
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  Speaker 1: all laughed, but we did indeed have some deductions today.
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  Speaker 1: So that said, I can now announce that today in
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  Speaker 1: Little Falls, New Jersey, USA, you had a total of one.
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  Speaker 4: Pairs.
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  Speaker 1: It's a new Guinness World Record.
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  Speaker 3: Sit play Frank, And they actually did play Frank Sinatra
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  Speaker 3: a little later on, but I'll tell you what that
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  Speaker 3: was special to be part of as Guinness World Records
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  Speaker 3: announcing that those in participation were part of the biggest
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  Speaker 3: catch ever. And I gotta give credit to Anna Seminu
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  Speaker 3: and Rock and Robin and.
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  Speaker 2: Who actually participated in the catch.
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  Speaker 3: And of course for media there then of course Nathan
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  Speaker 3: King of Pin Tripes, Twin Tripe reporters, Chris cave CALEBB
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  Speaker 3: Nick Sing, Billy the Bad Boy, all of us were
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  Speaker 3: there to watch history unfold, and of course coach Daniel McCartin.
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  Speaker 2: But I mentioned Bob Costas and.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like a fitting way to honor Yogi this
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  Speaker 3: week is to play my interview, yes, my interview with
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  Speaker 3: the legendary Bob Costas, who I've known since I was
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  Speaker 3: a little kid, just a little kid.
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  Speaker 2: In George Simon's suite and then at Belmont Park.
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  Speaker 3: So to finally get this on tape and interview a
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  Speaker 3: conversation with Bob Costas, it did mean the world to me,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm proud to share it right now on one
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  Speaker 3: Leg up Alex Garrett's network.
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  Speaker 2: Or here with Bobs yourself. For a long time, what
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  Speaker 2: to mean the record record was.
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  Speaker 5: Bad like this, Well, it's kind of an esoteric record,
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  Speaker 5: but as Yogi himself said, my record will stand until
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  Speaker 5: it's broken, and all records are made to be broken,
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  Speaker 5: even one of those that we didn't know existence. So
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  Speaker 5: we broke that one today to witness this.
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  Speaker 1: What that means would be.
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  Speaker 4: Part of all.
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  Speaker 5: It was fun and don't you know, I don't invest
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  Speaker 5: any tremendous meaning in it except that it was fun
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  Speaker 5: and anytime that you can in some sense celebrate Yogi
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  Speaker 5: as a player and as a person and wealth a
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  Speaker 5: beautiful Yogi Murray Museum. Such good feeling on the part
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  Speaker 5: of everybody here, just a great day and you love baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Take real quick, Well, I don't know that these are
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  Speaker 5: original bots. They're very frustrating sometimes with their lack of
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  Speaker 5: fundamentals in the field and on the basis, and the
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  Speaker 5: bullpen is.
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  Speaker 4: A big question.
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  Speaker 5: I mean said that if Garrett Cole had been healthy
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  Speaker 5: this year and you had Garrett Cole and Max Reed
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  Speaker 5: as a one two, that would cover up any deficiencies.
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  Speaker 5: And they do hit a lot of home runs, and
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  Speaker 5: people say they're too dependent on homers, but you'd rather
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  Speaker 5: have the homers than not.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, okay, Nat to see two about painting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was special.
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  Speaker 3: And of course getting to portray him in twenties eight
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  Speaker 3: at the Viscardi Center alongside Scott Hamilton, who played Jim
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  Speaker 3: Lampley as we did an Olympics theme show, and then
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  Speaker 3: seventeen years later him setting sign me as I get
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  Speaker 3: to interview him one of the people I've grown up really,
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  Speaker 3: I guess you would say, idolizing and certainly working on.
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  Speaker 2: Being, you know, working on my craft.
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  Speaker 3: Watching him at work, whether it was the Olympics, whether
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  Speaker 3: it was the World Series, whether it is him doing
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  Speaker 3: playoff baseball or those interviews you know on the record
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  Speaker 3: with Bob Costa, I mean, there were so many different
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  Speaker 3: things he did that it would especially get a mom
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  Speaker 3: for even a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to look to get some.
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  Speaker 3: More conversation with him down the road through his team.
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  Speaker 3: But I want to thank Bob Costs personally for wanting
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  Speaker 3: to bring me back to the bullpen area where they
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  Speaker 3: were doing interviews and just a chance to catch up
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  Speaker 3: and have those remarks.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: It also was fitting that after I've talked about her
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  Speaker 3: for many a time on this podcast, the granddaughter of
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  Speaker 3: Yogi Barra, Lindsay Bearra, said, chure, let's do an interview
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  Speaker 3: right now. Just prior to the record being made. She
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  Speaker 3: talked about what it was what it means to have
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  Speaker 3: that record happen right at Yogi bear Steady. All right,
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  Speaker 3: I'm here with the granddaughter Yogi Bara, Lindsay Barra.
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  Speaker 2: Firstly, Yogi's big cats. But I was here back in
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and five for Bob Feller and Yogi Barra.
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  Speaker 2: It's bringing me back right now. What's this mean to you, though, Lindsay.
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  Speaker 4: I am something. First of all, you were here twenty
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  Speaker 4: years ago, so his name has been here for twenty
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  Speaker 4: five years. Twenty six years now, and it's just amazing.
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  Speaker 4: I love that it's just still going so strong even
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  Speaker 4: without Grandpa Yogi and his spirit lives on and it's
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  Speaker 4: just so great to see people coming out to support.
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  Speaker 2: Him today is amazing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're gonna break a world record and I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, frost all come together.
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  Speaker 4: Eve Shanean, our movieam director, just really wanted to do
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  Speaker 4: something to commemorate Grandpa's hundredth birthday, you know, and he
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  Speaker 4: was so able to say a lot connect with people
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  Speaker 4: that like people he met and even people he didn't met.
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  Speaker 4: And what better way to connect with people than over
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  Speaker 4: a game of catch? So Eve had this great idea
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  Speaker 4: to try to break this world record, and it's been
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  Speaker 4: six months of planning and here we.
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  Speaker 3: Are a lot of if you others, seventy years ago,
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  Speaker 3: your grandfather was at home Plate and Yankee Stadium more history.
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  Speaker 2: He maintained his honor about that. It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: We you know, again, his spirit lives on and he
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  Speaker 4: inspires people to just do good things and it's it's terrific.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, his war experience is so well, No,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you've done that for many years I'm more
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about that as well.
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  Speaker 4: So he volunteered to join the Navy when he turned
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  Speaker 4: eighteen years old, before he had the chance to be drafted.
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  Speaker 4: He knew he wanted to serve his country and you know,
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  Speaker 4: only Grandpa Yogi could be bored in basic training. So
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  Speaker 4: he volunteered for a secret mission ended up being the
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  Speaker 4: rocket boats preparing for the amphibious assault on Normandy. He
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  Speaker 4: was on an LCSs naming graft support small providing cover
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  Speaker 4: fire for our troops going ashore during Indy Day invasion
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  Speaker 4: and later in the invasion of Southern France, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and unlike a lot of folks, he was lucky enough
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  Speaker 4: to come home and go on and live without the
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  Speaker 4: rest of his life.
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  Speaker 3: And today we're going to have to see his plaque
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's so special, so cool.
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  Speaker 4: It has never left the Hall of Fame since it's
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  Speaker 4: been in there since nineteen seventy two, and it'll be
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  Speaker 4: in the theater for folks to take pictures.
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  Speaker 2: And that's really tools.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Lindsay, welcome to history, right, congratulations, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: You so much for coming, Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That was really cool.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you sabahaw he went on and to.
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  Speaker 2: Survive and then go back to live his life.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: He went on to also win ten World Series rings
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  Speaker 3: with the Yankees, So in addition to serving his country,
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  Speaker 3: he really served the New York community behind the plate
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  Speaker 3: as an ambassador and as just an all around amazing
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  Speaker 3: person of the game. Of course, ten World Series rings,
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  Speaker 3: numerous All Star appearances.
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  Speaker 6: And also has loved that Bob Costas cited Yogi's quotes
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  Speaker 6: because you know, it's just that's that was the feel.
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  Speaker 2: It was a historic day, and.
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  Speaker 3: We'll better do it than on a field named for
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  Speaker 3: a very historic person in Yogi bearra and May's legacy
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  Speaker 3: always live on.
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  Speaker 2: Through Lindsay, through Eve who is the executive director of
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  Speaker 2: the Yogi.
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  Speaker 3: Bear Museum, and through all of them, all thousands that
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  Speaker 3: showed up to make the catch happen.
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  Speaker 2: May it be for sure a way to continue Yogi
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  Speaker 2: Bear's legacy.
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  Speaker 3: Yogi's Big Catch a big success. I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: think Billy the bat Boy again for encourage me.
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  Speaker 2: To like reach out, see what we could do.
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  Speaker 3: And sure enough we were there on Sunday as a network,
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  Speaker 3: seeing all our media friends.
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  Speaker 2: And catching up with one of the legends in the process.
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  Speaker 2: Many legends, likely Mazillian and Williaman up.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the broadcasting legends that I've always looked
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  Speaker 3: up to for sure Bob Costs.
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  Speaker 2: And yes he has inspired me to work.
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  Speaker 3: At NBC Sports, and I'm fired up to see if
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  Speaker 3: that's a possibility, especially after this interview. Kind of feel
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  Speaker 3: inspired again. So we'll keep those over to that on
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  Speaker 3: One look up Alex Sports.
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  Speaker 2: But there it is ten years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yogi Bear passes away, but his legacy doesn't, his impact doesn't,
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  Speaker 3: and for sure the history continues in Yogi's name. There's
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  Speaker 3: nothing better than that in Montclair, New Jersey. One look
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  Speaker 3: up Alex Sports. Yanks could clinch a playoff birth tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Right? Why not do it again? Why not
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  Speaker 2: make it to the playoffs again?
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  Speaker 3: I think the Yanks have the division in their sites though,
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  Speaker 3: and so we'll have to see how this week plays out.
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  Speaker 3: But what a chance, what a chance this week to
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  Speaker 3: not only get the playoff birth within the best and
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  Speaker 3: I think still the best record in baseball.
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  Speaker 2: And that kid who, as REGI said, that kid.
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  Speaker 3: With the hat on me, little Alex, if you will,
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  Speaker 3: would be as fired up as this adult Alex would
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  Speaker 3: be if the Yanks were to go back and go
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  Speaker 3: further and farther.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to cite Johonnett.
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  Speaker 3: You know she mentioned now it's incredible how they cut
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  Speaker 3: DJ and then moved Jazz in the same week. That
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  Speaker 3: week that the Yanks cut DJ and move Jazz a
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  Speaker 3: second changed everything in the Bronx.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a big credit to me.
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  Speaker 3: That's a big credit to Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone's leadership.
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  Speaker 3: I know you have issues with them, but let's be honest.
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  Speaker 3: They made some drastic moves that have made changes for
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  Speaker 3: the better. And Capilero at short, oh my god, what
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  Speaker 3: an injection into the light up on an injection. Look,
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  Speaker 3: we love both bee, but sometimes to alternate betwea Miccobeiro
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  Speaker 3: just works.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're in the position to get more than
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  Speaker 3: just a wild card berth Division and I think their
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  Speaker 3: eyes should be set on the best record in the
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  Speaker 3: American League.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't you like to see that?
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  Speaker 3: After all we've been through this year, losing a seven
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  Speaker 3: game lead in June only to come back strong at
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  Speaker 3: the end.
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  Speaker 2: And finish out how they started the season, which was
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  Speaker 2: really strong.
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  Speaker 3: I mean a nine home run weekend to begin the season,
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  Speaker 3: then another nine home run game in August, and they're
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  Speaker 3: getting their wins on doubles and hit singles too. So
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  Speaker 3: let's see what happens and Benard the closer position. I
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  Speaker 3: think Devin's more comfortable where he's at.
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  Speaker 2: And made some changes.
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  Speaker 3: All after Yogi's big catch. Let's have a big run
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  Speaker 3: at this. If we're the Yankees a week, Let's be
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  Speaker 3: inspired to make that run for only the wild card,
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  Speaker 3: but then the American League East and then the best
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  Speaker 3: record in the American League.
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  Speaker 2: It's still in sights. It's still in our sights. I
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  Speaker 2: feel it.
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  Speaker 3: It is, as Aaron Boon says, right in front of us,
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  Speaker 3: and to put a button on all of this, I
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  Speaker 3: know my dad and Yogi we're looking down at all
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  Speaker 3: of us watching in the sun splash Yogi Bear Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you why my dad and I felt
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  Speaker 3: my dad's presence. Not only did we play catch and
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  Speaker 3: he taught me how to, you know, play ball when
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  Speaker 3: I was three years old, but he also brought me
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  Speaker 3: to Montclair State University, brought me to Yogi Barry Museum
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  Speaker 3: to meet Bob Feller.
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  Speaker 2: About twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And that moment stuck with me, and watching the Jackals
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  Speaker 3: play a little bit at the museum outside of the
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  Speaker 3: museum next stuck with me. So to be on that
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  Speaker 3: field twenty years later it felt full circle. It felt
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  Speaker 3: like I was continuing the journey that my dad had
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  Speaker 3: set for me when I was really young, and at
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  Speaker 3: the same time blazing my own path, expanding my digital
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  Speaker 3: footprint beyond just New York City but into New Jersey
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  Speaker 3: and into multiple circles.
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  Speaker 2: And to be recognized for that means a ton.
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  Speaker 3: So Thanks Lindsey, Thanks Eve, Thanks Anna, Thanks Billy the
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  Speaker 3: bat Boy, Thanks Robin, Thanks Nithan c. K. King of Pinstripes,
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  Speaker 3: twins ripe Reporters, Coach McCartin for making me feel included
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  Speaker 3: in this weekend's festivities.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and Nick thing is well, how can I get
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  Speaker 2: for it? Nixing as well.
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  Speaker 3: A very special weekend at Yogi's Big Catch