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Tim Kurkjian joins Karl Ravech’s FTN show “Dirt From The Dugout” · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: And hey, everybody, welcome to Dirt from the Dugout alongside
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  Speaker 1: Justin Muslumkral Rabbits. This was the episode that we decided
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  Speaker 1: let's dress alike, and this clearly worked. It looks very silly,
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  Speaker 1: but it works well because the shirts are well and
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  Speaker 1: I do want to shout out Callers and Company for
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  Speaker 1: Callers and Co. For wearing and providing these shirts for us.
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  Speaker 1: They are incredibly comfortable, The callers are fantastic. They are polos,
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  Speaker 1: they are golf shirts. You can wear them under your
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  Speaker 1: sport coats when you're doing things like this when you're
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  Speaker 1: on television. So a big shout out to Collars and Co.
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  Speaker 1: And their guy Justin Beaar for hooking us up. We
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  Speaker 1: are grateful for that. And Justin you do look probably
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  Speaker 1: as well better than you've looked at any other podcast
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  Speaker 1: we've done.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just glad that we got the same exact pollo man,
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  Speaker 2: that we can share it tonight and look alike and
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  Speaker 2: be buddies like we are.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great thing.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: A reminder everybody become members of the parent Dugout. You're
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  Speaker 1: watching Dirt from the Dugout. This is our podcast in
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  Speaker 1: which we bring on experts. We have guys and ladies.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, you can ask questions for our guest. Our
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  Speaker 1: guest tonight is one of my favorite people on the planet.
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  Speaker 1: That's Tim Kirkshin. But you get the live shows, you
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to dive into what Justin knows, and
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  Speaker 1: he knows more about baseball recruiting than anybody. Baseball recruiting confidential.
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  Speaker 1: Join the growing community. It is big. We're partnering up
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  Speaker 1: with leagues around the country and invite you to send
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  Speaker 1: your questions to the parents Dugaut Just a quick sort
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  Speaker 1: of background stuff Justin on our guest tonight, Tim Kirkshon.
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  Speaker 1: He is as entertaining, as informed as a guy I've
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  Speaker 1: ever known. He is a close, close friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: We go back a long time. We'll talk about Tim's
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  Speaker 1: journey at ESPN and what he did before that. But
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  Speaker 1: there is no more passionate baseball fan on the planet.
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  Speaker 3: None.
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  Speaker 5: And I know you love the game and I love
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  Speaker 5: the game.
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  Speaker 1: There's nobody who's more passionate about it and perfect for
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  Speaker 1: are what we are doing here, which is to try
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  Speaker 1: to educate parents of kids that are playing. He will
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  Speaker 1: take us down roads that we maybe didn't anticipate, and
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  Speaker 1: he will shed light on things that you know that
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  Speaker 1: he thinks we can improve in the game. And that's
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  Speaker 1: really what our goal here is on dirt from the degout,
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  Speaker 1: getting the next generation to play this game, to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: this game, to make their journey as special as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, And it's it's always great to talk to
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  Speaker 2: people like Tim who just are so passionate about the
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  Speaker 2: game of baseball, right, And that's that's the stuff that
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  Speaker 2: we're all about.
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  Speaker 4: We just everybody that we have on it. It's such
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  Speaker 4: a passion for the.
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  Speaker 2: Game and the growth of the game and what the
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  Speaker 2: game means to them.
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  Speaker 4: And he's just such a great example of.
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  Speaker 2: It, someone who's done so much in the game before
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  Speaker 2: the game.
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  Speaker 4: Super fired up to talk to him tonight.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: With that, we remind everybody to ask your questions in
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  Speaker 1: the chat questions for Tim, and let's bring him in.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Hall of Fame guy from the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame, but he's a Hall of Fame person. More importantly,
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  Speaker 1: he also has his own podcast with his son Jeffrey,
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  Speaker 1: who is a terrific guy as well. Right here on
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  Speaker 1: the Foul Territory Network called is this a great game
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  Speaker 1: or what? We encourage everybody to check that out as well.
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  Speaker 5: Tim.
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  Speaker 1: We've just spent the last twenty four hours together and
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  Speaker 1: we continue to be together though in different parts of
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  Speaker 1: the state of Pennsylvania. You look great tonight. I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you're really fired up to do this.
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  Speaker 3: Bud Well, Sorry, I don't have the matching Pulo shirt,
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  Speaker 3: but just for Ravi, I wore my Walter Johnson's fleece
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  Speaker 3: pullover because you may not know, but I went to
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  Speaker 3: Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland, named after the
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  Speaker 3: greatest pitcher ever and Rabbi and I I used to
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  Speaker 3: ask him when we used to do games together all
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  Speaker 3: the time for the booth. I would just routinely ask
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  Speaker 3: him in the middle of the game out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: Did I ever tell you I went to Walter Johnson
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  Speaker 3: High School? Already told him that a million times, and
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  Speaker 3: all it did was annoy and aggravate him. And he's
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  Speaker 3: even better in the booth when he's annoyed and aggravated.
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  Speaker 3: So now it's like on our podcast, it's a regular feature.
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  Speaker 3: Did I ever tell you I went to Walter Johns
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  Speaker 3: in high school? And I wear the stupid pullover like
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  Speaker 3: almost every episode, because I'm so proud of the fact
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  Speaker 3: that I made a career out of baseball and went
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  Speaker 3: to a school named after the greatest pitcher ever, and
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  Speaker 3: Rabbi knows I worked for the school paper there.
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  Speaker 5: It was I was going to get to that.
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  Speaker 3: Rabb knew that I worked for a year book. It
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  Speaker 3: was called The wind Up, so he's heard all of
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  Speaker 3: this stuff. And then I would ask him, did I
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  Speaker 3: ever tell you I went to Walter Johns in high school?
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  Speaker 3: And he would say ten thousand times, stop and.
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  Speaker 4: Leave me alone. So great, man, that's great. I'm great
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  Speaker 4: to have you on. Man, we appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: Sure that only happens ten thousand times a day. Where
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  Speaker 1: Tim begins the story and I'd say it the averages
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  Speaker 1: six words before I can say, oh, we heard that
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  Speaker 1: one about the parking garage. We heard that one about
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  Speaker 1: printing out your tickets. We heard that one about the
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  Speaker 1: train rides back and forth from Toronto. We heard that
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  Speaker 1: one about the garage. We heard that one about the furniture.
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  Speaker 1: We've heard them all, but they are great and for
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  Speaker 1: that we are grateful. So Tim, the goal of our
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  Speaker 1: little podcast here in our live show is to kind
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  Speaker 1: of help the parents of players, whether they're five years
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  Speaker 1: old or fifteen years.
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  Speaker 5: Old, on their own journey.
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  Speaker 1: And each of these journeys are unique, and some will
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  Speaker 1: end up in the major leagues, few of them. Some
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  Speaker 1: will end up in high school, some will go to
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  Speaker 1: college and play. When you look at your career covering
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  Speaker 1: the sport, and this is a big broad question, but
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  Speaker 1: relative to the youth who play now, compared to maybe
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  Speaker 1: when you and I were kids playing the game improved,
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  Speaker 1: how has the game taken some steps back?
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  Speaker 5: You go to the Little League World Series all the time.
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  Speaker 3: What do you seeing, Well, I'm seeing that this is
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  Speaker 3: very important for our young people and our parents especially
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  Speaker 3: to understand. The one thing that I've never forgotten is
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  Speaker 3: how hard this game is to play. And we just
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  Speaker 3: covered the All Star Game Rabbi and I, where there
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  Speaker 3: were there was one extra base hit and twenty seven
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  Speaker 3: strikeouts in the All Star Game, proving again when pictures
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  Speaker 3: today locate with their great stuff, the hitters have virtually
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  Speaker 3: no chance. And this is the way it normally is.
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  Speaker 3: When you're an eight year old kid and you face
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  Speaker 3: that kid who's the biggest kid in your neighborhood and
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  Speaker 3: you're scared to death to step in the box against him.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone has a story like that about a kid from
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  Speaker 3: his neighborhood. So that's the first lesson we have to
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  Speaker 3: teach all of our kids is this is a really
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  Speaker 3: hard game to play, and if you want to get
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  Speaker 3: really good at it, you have to show up and
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  Speaker 3: try every day. And some days it's just going to
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  Speaker 3: beat you. It's going to be better than you. That
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mean you give into the game, but you recognize
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  Speaker 3: today that picture was better than I was. Tomorrow, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to go try to beat him. But that's the
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  Speaker 3: most important thing that we can learn from Ravi's day
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  Speaker 3: as a player. My day is a player, and kids
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  Speaker 3: and major leaguers today, this is the hardest game in
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  Speaker 3: the world to play. I will argue this with anyone.
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  Speaker 3: The danger involved, the courage it takes to play it,
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  Speaker 3: the fear involved is all real, and you got to
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  Speaker 3: get through that if you want to be the player
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  Speaker 3: that you want to be. That's the first lesson for
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  Speaker 3: big leaguers and little kids. The game is really hard
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  Speaker 3: to play.
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  Speaker 2: That's so great, Tim, What did you know with your background,
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  Speaker 2: your passion for the game. When did that start for you?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously you were passionate about it in high school, but
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  Speaker 2: when did you fall in love with the game?
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  Speaker 3: Well, got to remember where I came from. My dad
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  Speaker 3: was a really good player, and my dad had a
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  Speaker 3: feel for the game unlike very few people I've ever
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  Speaker 3: met in my life, and he taught his three boys
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  Speaker 3: how to play the game. He taught us how to
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  Speaker 3: love the game, and he gave us all a great
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  Speaker 3: feel for the game. This was the primary language spoken
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  Speaker 3: in my house growing up. It was baseball. It drove
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  Speaker 3: my mother crazy because she was from England, so she
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  Speaker 3: didn't quite understand the whole baseball thing. But this is
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  Speaker 3: what my father did. And also understand My father was
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  Speaker 3: a doctor of mathematics a PhD. Went to MIT undergrad
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  Speaker 3: so he made sure his kids were as good a
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  Speaker 3: student as they could be. But in the downtime we
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  Speaker 3: were playing baseball, we were looking up stuff, statistics that
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  Speaker 3: my father was showing me. I grew up the stories
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  Speaker 3: of Ted Williams, Jimmy Fox, Lefty Grove, Boston Red Sox.
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  Speaker 3: So I got the greatest upbringing ever for someone who
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  Speaker 3: loved the game. So I can go back to as
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  Speaker 3: far back as I can remember, literally age five, and
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  Speaker 3: that's when I learned to love the game. And here
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  Speaker 3: I am sixty five years later, and I still love
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  Speaker 3: the game as much as ever. And it's all because
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  Speaker 3: my father gave me the gift of a love for
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  Speaker 3: the game and a feel for the game. And he
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  Speaker 3: gave it to my two brothers also. Both of them
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  Speaker 3: are in the Hall of Fame at Catholic University for baseball.
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  Speaker 3: So this is all we talked about growing up. And
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  Speaker 3: we were probably a little too myopic. I'm not the
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  Speaker 3: most well rounded guy in the world, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I know baseball, basketball, and sitcoms from the sixties and
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  Speaker 3: not much else. But my dad made sure that we
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  Speaker 3: had an understanding of the game as we move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, and you can't check those there's no
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  Speaker 1: one else on the planet that checks those three boxes,
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  Speaker 1: maybe two of them, meaning basketball and baseball. But when
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  Speaker 1: you throw sitcoms of the sixties in there, that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of leaves fall off that tree. Here's another aside
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  Speaker 1: on Tim because as you see, his first name is Tim,
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  Speaker 1: and we're doing a game at Fenway Park justin and
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  Speaker 1: we get into the story about his dad who went
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  Speaker 1: to MIT, which led everybody to say, you realize you
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  Speaker 1: can't spell tim without m T.
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  Speaker 3: These were the routine conversations that Ravi, Eduardo and I
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  Speaker 3: had in the booth while we're doing a game. And
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  Speaker 3: justin one day, Eduardo he has a T shirt which
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  Speaker 3: I have that says six four three over to equals
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  Speaker 3: two right, six' four to three is a double, play
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  Speaker 3: six four to three double. Play eduardo tells the story
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  Speaker 3: that he wears THE t shirt TO mit before A
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  Speaker 3: Red sox game At Fenway park and all the most
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  Speaker 3: brilliant people in the world are looking at THIS t
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  Speaker 3: shirt and they can't understand what it. Means so he
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  Speaker 3: tells these people from, me and this is WHAT i.
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  Speaker 3: Means six four three is two outs to double, play
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  Speaker 3: and they still didn't. Understand so these are these are
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  Speaker 3: my favorite discussions that we have in the booth And.
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  Speaker 3: Rabi you have to acknowledge we talk about these serious,
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  Speaker 3: breakdowns swings, pictures but people don't remember. That they remember
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  Speaker 3: THAT i drink diet mountain dew and read the box
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  Speaker 3: scores in the, morning and they remember THAT i wear
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  Speaker 3: a shirt that says six' four to three. Over too
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  Speaker 3: this is what people remember because it relates, to them
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  Speaker 3: and that's what we're trying to do when WE'RE doing.
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  Speaker 1: Tv together, remind me remind me justin to bring up
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  Speaker 1: The The tim kirshon glove slash mitten story a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later on that that was another example of just
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  Speaker 1: complete stupidity during. A broadcast but the best part of what,
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  Speaker 1: We do tim here, before you before you, jump in
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  Speaker 1: is we allow OUR members uh to, ask questions and
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  Speaker 1: we obviously have a bunch of them here.
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  Speaker 5: For you so here's the. First one it Comes.
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  Speaker 1: From dan, he says you have interviewed and built relationships
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  Speaker 1: with some of the greatest players who've, ever played who
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  Speaker 1: genuinely surprised you the most when you got to know
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  Speaker 1: them off.
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  Speaker 5: The, Record.
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  Speaker 3: Well i'll tell you the GUY that i made a
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  Speaker 3: breakthrough with that very few people. Ever Have and i'm
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: not boasting and. Not bragging i'm trying to answer. The
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  Speaker 3: Question cal ripkin is a difficult man to. Talk to he's,
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  Speaker 3: never rude he's, never abusive he's. Never difficult he just.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't share, but somehow someway covering that team in, THE
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  Speaker 3: eighties i got to Know, cal, ripken really, really well
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  Speaker 3: and away from, THE field i got to know him.
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  Speaker 3: Really WELL so i went to, HIS house i went to,
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: HIS gym i drove to and from games. With him
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  Speaker 3: this was all around when He Broke lou. Garrigg's record
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  Speaker 3: so he's the guy that people look at, And say
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  Speaker 3: i've never gotten anything truly interesting From, cal Ripkin and
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  Speaker 3: i'm thinking he's one of the most Interesting players i've
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  Speaker 3: ever talked to because he's so unbelievably analytical. And observant
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  Speaker 3: his memory, is ridiculous he has a tremendous sense. Of
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  Speaker 3: humor but you really got to get in there to
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  Speaker 3: know him before you're going to learn what you need
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  Speaker 3: to learn. From him and he's not the most trusting
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  Speaker 3: guy in. The WORLD and i don't mean that as.
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  Speaker 3: A negative he is the most prepared man in, the
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  Speaker 3: world and he has to Know that i'm on the
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  Speaker 3: same page with You if i'm going to tell you
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  Speaker 3: all of. This stuff and that's the POINT that i,
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  Speaker 3: got him and it was really fun to be around
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  Speaker 3: him at, any point but especially when he Was Breaking lou.
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  Speaker 2: Garrett's RECORD tim i got to follow up on that
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  Speaker 2: because the game has obviously changed with, that Too and
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  Speaker 2: i've talked to other writers in the past and they've
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: shared with me that you used to have more in
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: depth conversations that would go, more personal that they would
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: feel like would be, kept separate right beat writers that, Would,
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  Speaker 2: say hey there's a line you don't share that you
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: don't write, about it you don't post. About, It right
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  Speaker 2: but we're now in an day and age where everything,
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  Speaker 2: gets out it, feels like and so have you noticed
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: that in covering guys that they maybe have a little
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: bit more of a buffer around them to be careful
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  Speaker 2: with what they share what, they're saying or have you
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  Speaker 2: not noticed a real change.
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  Speaker 3: In, that no there's been an. Enormous change and this
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  Speaker 3: is one of the biggest changes in the forty five
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  Speaker 3: Years that i've covered baseball is the access that we get.
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  Speaker 3: To players there used to be a day JUSTIN where
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  Speaker 3: i would sit Next To earl weaver by myself for
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: forty five minutes on, the bench talking baseball with the
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  Speaker 3: greatest Baseball mind i've. Ever met it was just HIM
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  Speaker 3: and I and i could ask HIM anything i wanted
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  Speaker 3: and he would. Tell, me now before a game they
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  Speaker 3: take the manager and sending him into some antiseptic interview
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  Speaker 3: room and there are fifty people in there. Asking questions
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  Speaker 3: he's not gonna share like he shared with me on.
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  Speaker 3: The bench so the lack of access has really hurt
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: all of us in. The business we just don't get
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: the same time with. These guys And the Internet and
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: twitter and ax whatever we, call it has. Changed everything
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: these guys are afraid to come out and be colorful
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: and be different and say something mildly controversial because all
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: you're going to do is. Offend somebody is we offend
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: everyone with anything we say, These days and, it really
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: it really makes me sad THAT when i wrote my,
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: second book and the second one of the chapters was
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: all about funny guys, in baseball humor, in baseball and
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: all the stories were from like nineteen eighty and. Nineteen
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  Speaker 3: ninety but Once the internet, came in people do not
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: want to share, their inside, you, know dreams hopes and
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  Speaker 3: stories because they know it's going to end Up on
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  Speaker 3: Twitter and i'm gonna get killed, for it whether it's offensive.
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  Speaker 3: Or not that's what really bothers me a little BIT
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  Speaker 3: is i have, to work and, IT'S okay i have
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: to work extra extra hard to find a guy who's
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: going to tell me something, mildly entertaining, mildly amusing without
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: worrying about whether it's going to get him hurt in, so.
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  Speaker 1: Right and you know, this TOO justin, i MEAN and
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  Speaker 1: i can say this because when you're in the game
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  Speaker 1: for as Long as, tim has there's credibility that you,
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  Speaker 1: build up and. He does and we are lucky enough
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  Speaker 1: to still have some of those conversations one, on one
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  Speaker 1: whether It's With dave Roberts Or terry Francona Or dusty
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  Speaker 1: baker who we had on. Our podcast so, those conversations while,
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  Speaker 1: they're last they still. Do exist and that, speaks to,
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  Speaker 1: you know the longevity and the credibility That that tim
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  Speaker 1: brings and those that have been around the, game FOREVER because,
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  Speaker 1: i know you know you watched baseball, tonight forever? Did
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  Speaker 1: you so you know all About the tim And The
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  Speaker 1: peter gammons And The harold reynolds And The john kruk
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  Speaker 1: and the And The, dave campbell's you know who who love.
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  Speaker 1: The GAME and i think that's part of where those relationships.
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  Speaker 1: Stem from they know we're in it for the. Right
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  Speaker 1: reasons want to get to another. Question here You answered.
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  Speaker 1: Royce's questions so let's go Ahead to, ryan's question and
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  Speaker 1: this one asked him if you're given advice to an
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  Speaker 1: eighteen year old who dreams are playing in the, big
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  Speaker 1: leagues what would your top three pieces of advice be.
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  Speaker 3: For an eighteen year old who wants to play in the?
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  Speaker 5: Big leagues fifteen, year old fifteen, year old fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: Year, old well, number one you better take a, million
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  Speaker 3: swings a million, ground balls and throw a million pitches
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  Speaker 3: if you're gonna want to be good at this game,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: to repeat because it is so difficult. To play the
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: other thing you have to do is you have to
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: learn how to play. THE game i worry a little
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  Speaker 3: bit that today's players simply overpower the sport with their incredible.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Physical GIFTS but i, really SENSE and i hate to,
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  Speaker 3: acknowledge this a lot of these guys don't even really
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  Speaker 3: know how. To play their bodies just take over and
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: they're great. At it BUT when i was first covering
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: in the late seventies, EARLY eighties i Learned From, Cal Ripken,
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  Speaker 3: Alan Trammel, Paul Molder, Robin Yell, george brett those guys
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  Speaker 3: how to play. The game and that's what a fifteen
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  Speaker 3: year old has to understand now is that you have
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  Speaker 3: to learn the subtle nuances of the game if you're
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  Speaker 3: going to get to the. Highest Level and i'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure we're. Doing That, scott Bradley former princeton, baseball coach
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  Speaker 3: told me that a couple of years ago he was
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  Speaker 3: recruiting some kids to Come To Princeton high school kids and, he,
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  Speaker 3: said so where are you playing? This summer and the
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  Speaker 3: kids went, Like, this, oh oh we don't play in.
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  Speaker 3: The summer we just train in. The summer we lift
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  Speaker 3: and we hit in, the cage but we don't play.
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  Speaker 3: Any Games and scott had to look at them, and, say,
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  Speaker 3: fellas sorry the only way you're going to get better
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  Speaker 3: at this diabolically difficult game is to play as many games.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: As possible you're not going to learn how to hit
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  Speaker 3: the cutoff man while you're in. The cage you're not
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: going to learn how to get a secondary lead when
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: you're in the. Weight ROOM so i would tell every
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: fifteen year old eighteen, year old play the game as
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  Speaker 3: often as. You can and it really worries me that
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  Speaker 3: we have these these scouting tryout camps where it's not
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  Speaker 3: even a game that's. Being played we're just looking at.
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  Speaker 3: Your tools how hard do? You throw what is your?
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  Speaker 3: Arm strength what is your? Bat speed what is your?
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Exit velocity when we really need, to learn how do
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  Speaker 3: you know how to play. The game if you could
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  Speaker 3: throw one hundred miles, an hour god, Bless you but
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: can you throw a strike? With that do you know
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: when to throw your? Breaking ball that's the STUFF that
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: i would tell a fifteen year old is use your.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Physical gifts they're crucial to the of. The elements but
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: you got to learn how to play. The game if,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: you don't you'll never be as good as you want.
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  Speaker 2: To be so good Tim so rab was telling me
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: that At The Little League, world series you like to,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: stay close you, Pay attention you watch all, the Teams.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Especially japan what is it about that that you're so
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: infatuated with At The Little League?
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  Speaker 4: World, series well.
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  Speaker 3: We all played at age, two twelve and we all
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: remember what it was like when we were twelve. Years
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: old so nothing makes me Happier and ravacan acknowledge this
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  Speaker 3: than watching those kids, take infield because it's one thing we.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: All remember those kids who, were bigger stronger and better than.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Everyone else they just overpowered. The game they could throw
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: it by the. Littler kids BUT when i see a
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: second basement and a shortstop make a seamless double play
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: in a little, league game it just warms. My HEART
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  Speaker 3: and i say it all, the time the skillful play
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: of our middle infielders for twelve. Years old you can't
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: develop those skills unless you take a million ground balls
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  Speaker 3: and you make the turn at second a. Million times
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  Speaker 3: AND whenever i, SEE that I just i just lose.
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  Speaker 3: My breath it makes me so happy that, these kids
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  Speaker 3: in a time where so many other sports seem to
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: be more popular, than baseball they're out there on, a
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: field probably. By themselves they're, just them and they're coaching,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: their father learning how to make the, double play to kick,
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  Speaker 3: that bag get out of, the way and make the throat.
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  Speaker 3: Of first that's what makes me the happiest At The
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Little League world series is watching the kids. TAKE infield
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  Speaker 3: i stand right on. The field rabbie will TELL you
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  Speaker 3: i will not miss in field for any team because
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: you can usually tell how good a team is when.
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  Speaker 5: He's literally on.
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  Speaker 1: The.
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  Speaker 5: Field justin he's the fielder on the field.
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  Speaker 3: RIGHT justin i love. Basketball too you can tell a
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: lot about a youth basketball team or any basketball team
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  Speaker 3: by the layup lines that. They take the integrity of
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: the infield that that little league team takes will tell
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: you an awful lot about whether that team's a good
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  Speaker 3: team or a.
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  Speaker 2: Bad, team well IN tim i WANT to i want
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  Speaker 2: to follow up with THAT because i think one of
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the things that is lost in today's youth sports is
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: SO when i played shout out to my my, Best Buddy,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: todd BROUNSLICK but i. Played shortstop todd played. Second base
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  Speaker 2: starting at eight, years old it was. Our community we
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: played together almost our, entire life right until you get.
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  Speaker 4: To college we end up being able to play in the.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Summer league but there there's this lost art of knowing,
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  Speaker 2: each other to knowing the, you know, the strengths the
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: weaknesses and the others that you flow within, that infield
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  Speaker 2: that you know where everybody's going, to be you know
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: what they're all doing because you're all playing together all.
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  Speaker 2: The time AND what i see now is which, is
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: fine it's part, of it but there's a lot of
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: players that play in a lot of, different teams and
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: so that communication and that feel for each other within,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: the Infield especially tim as a baseball, guy myself especially
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: in the, middle infield where that communication. Is everything to
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: turn a seamless double play is, super critical to know
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  Speaker 2: where everybody's going, to be the timing on. Those throws
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: and it just makes me feel LIKE if i had
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: to change, SOME things i wish we could go back
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  Speaker 2: a little bit to playing with some of the core
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  Speaker 2: groups in your community a little bit longer so you
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  Speaker 2: get some of that feel.
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  Speaker 4: And you get.
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  Speaker 2: Thatmmunication, Now MAN but i can absolutely see what, You're, Saying, tim.
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  Speaker 3: Well couldn't agree with you more. On that, justin again
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  Speaker 3: my Late brother matt is eleven months older, than me and.
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  Speaker 3: We played we were in the same, grade together we
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  Speaker 3: played on the same. Teams together we often played shortstop
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  Speaker 3: and second, base together and we knew exactly how the other,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: guy played and it. Was critical you move way on.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: FROM that I Watched cal ripkin and His Brother billy
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: ripkin play shortstop and second base together and it was
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: absolutely seamless to watch. Them play they knew exactly where
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: the other person was going to be at. All times
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: that is absolutely crucial when you're playing a game that
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: is this difficult and making a double play in the
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: most important time really requires you to know that guy.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Over there what troubles, ME again I hope i'm not,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: complaining here but we have these travel teams where you're
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: playing with a bunch of new kids all. The TIME
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: and i don't know, about, you guys BUT when i
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: was in, high school the goal was to win a
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: state championship for our. High school and NOW when i
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: hear some kids don't even play for their high, school
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: team they're playing on a. Travel team that saddens ME
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: because i remember when we were in. High school if
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: you had a really good game baseball, or basketball the,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: next day you are a mini celebrity, in school like
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: you got three, hits yesterday you scored twenty points, last
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: night or something. Like that you don't get that when
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: you play for your. Travel team and THAT'S what i
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: think we've lost a little, bit too is the. Teamwork
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: aspect i'm on the same team with, these guys and
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: like you and your shortstop, second basement you were on
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: the same team for, ten years. Fifteen years that Stuff. Really, matt, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it's a challenge too at the collegiate level because
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  Speaker 1: of the nil and a transfer portal and you can't.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Establish relationship it's part of what Makes The Little League
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: world series. So great And As, tim KORbin The great,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: vanderbilt coach, once said, you know that's the Last time
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: rivey that these kids will play for the name on
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: the front of the jersey as opposed to the name
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  Speaker 1: It later let's get to this Question From. Don tim
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  Speaker 1: then this is a this is a. Big question but
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: there's a million ways that you can, go funniest most
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: bizarre moment you've ever witnessed in a clubhouse that you
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: can actually.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Talk, about.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Well there have been so many. Clubhouse MOMENTS but, i,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: was well this. IS terrible i shouldn't tell you, this
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: story but that the, whole hazing whole. Hazing process i'm
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: not sure what that's. All ABOUT and i saw the
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: hazing PROCESS when i first started Covering the rangers in nineteen.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Eighty two what they would do to. Young players, you
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: know they had one one player With the rangers had
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: to run around the complex naked because that's what veteran
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: guys told him, to DO and i just don't think
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: that is. REALLY necessary i don't think it's necessary To
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Take Chan, ho park who Came from korea and had
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: grown up in a, different way and They, the dodgers took,
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: his suit his brand new suit and cut it, into
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: pieces so the suit is now short pants and the
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: sleeves are now as long as the SLEEVES that i,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: would wear which is, really short and made him wear
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: that on. The airplane i'm not sure that. Is necessary
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: but as corneyon ridiculous as, it sounds these are the
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: little things that bring, teams together and a guy actually
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: feels like he's part of the team when they pull
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: a prank on him or they hate him. Like that
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: as long as it's safe and nobody, gets hurt you
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: gotta be careful. With That joe madden told me a
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: story once where they he had his guys in spring
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Training bring they were assigned to a task in spring
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: training in order to get to know their. Teammates Better
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: So jared washburn was one of, their pictures a, veteran
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  Speaker 3: picture and he'd grown up on a farm In Like,
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: north dakota so he for part of, his task he
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: had to bring in something to show what it was
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: like to live on, a farm so He brought the,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: next day he Brought an ostrich into, the clubhouse A,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: real ostrich which he had gotten that like the. State
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: fair so now There's real ostridge In the angels Clubhouse At.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Jose Ortiz ramon ortiz was so scared he jumped into
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: his locker and Said, in spanish get that big chicken out,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: of here because he was so afraid of.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: An OSTRIG and.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I would be afraid Of an. Ostrich also but these
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: are the things you do to bond your. Team together
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: you can do it at, age twelve and you can
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: do it in the. Big leagues that's the. Key, teamwork
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: teammates anything to connect.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Each other we just told this Story justin we just
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: told the Story, because verlander of course announced. His retirement
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: so one of, the things some of The things tim
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Tell us verlander could locate. His slider so he decides
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to throw his slider into a couch in the Clubhouse
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And pete alonso comes out of the shower and He
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Sees justin verlander whipping the baseball into the couch and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: in his towel or. Underwear unclear, he says do you
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: need somebody to? Stand In and rklander. Says Sure so
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: alonso is standing there for, an hour standing In while
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: verlander is throwing baseballs sliders into a couch in the clubs.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: So good on a, different level this is THE house
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: i grew. Up in when our games, were over we
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: would go home and watch BASEBALL, on tv and my
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: father would routinely throw a pillow down in the middle
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: of the wreck room and show us the proper way
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: to make the double play as a second baseman and,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: a shortstop and he would always throw it into. The
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: couch but one time he aired mailed the couch a
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: little bit too much and the ball went flying Through
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: the french store window in the. Rec room we're all
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: in big trouble now because my mom can, hear this and,
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: my dad the funniest man in, the world looks, at
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: me his, youngest son, And, says tim tell mom that you,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: did It and i'll get you. Off easy that's how
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: he tried to get out of it when my mother knew, All, along.
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  Speaker 5: Jeff you were. BEHIND this i. Know it don't lie,
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: to me.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: SO yeah i know all about throwing the ball into.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: The couch my dad is all.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: The, Great, Hey tim I'm gonna i'm gonna teach you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Some tonight you probably know way more about me or
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: way more about BASEBALL than. I Do But jared washburn
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: grew up about forty minutes FROM where i Did.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: In, WISCONSIN yes i Had The Rock.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Dakota's, wisconsin, sorry yes Yes You, Jarry.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Webster Wisconsin And.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Jared washburn when he was in, high school there was
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: a league that did, a draft and they would do
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: a draft for. The postseason and so there's this one
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: MANAGER that i know of one of these teams that
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: drafted him and didn't use him in. The postseason and
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the joke is forever ongoing that he had a big
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: leaguer on his team that he didn't use in. The
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: playoffs he's in his seventies and he still hears this
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: joke to. This Day and i'm sure he's excited for
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: that to just. Be passed but it'll never go. Past Here, But,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: websley wisconsin shout out to. Those guys small town.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Right, Right well god bless all of our coaches, out
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: there by, The WAY but i have a friend of
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: mine who coached a twelve year old, travel team and
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: he got a really high level, travel team and he
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: got so tired of the parents screaming at the kids
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: every time the kids made an out that the coach
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: who pitched At the University of miami And Beat roger
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: clemens In A College world series, game one so meaning
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: he was a big. Time picture well now he's like
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: fifty five, years old but he can still let. It
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: go and he's so tired of his parents yelling at
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: the players that after practice, one day with all the
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: moms and kids still, at practice he tells, the dads
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: you're coming to take batting practice. Against me he goes
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: out there and throws as hard as. He can he
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: naturally strikes. Out everybody he humiliates all, the fathers and
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: a couple of them are, like this like what was that?
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: All about and he looks, at them and he looks
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: at all the parents, and says you have no idea
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: how hard this game is. To play you have no
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: idea what it feels like to be humiliated in front,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Of others so stop yelling at. Your KIDS and i
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: just raised my, hand like oh, my gosh somebody really.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Gets it and then is in a position to execute,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: the plan to make sure everyone understands this is how
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: the game. Is played oh, my god so.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Good man so justin the, other thing one of the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Things that tim does is he'll throw ridiculous hypotheticals. OUT there,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: i mean these things no one else would. Think About
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: but tim thinks about. These hypotheticals and one of the
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: things that he thinks about has the kind of connection
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: to what he just, brought up, which is you, ask
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: people if you stew it In Against, randy johnson how
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: many times could you put the ball in play of one?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Hundred pitches and we've had some lunatics. Say Twenty and
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: tim gets very offended by an answer, like, that Because
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: as tim would, tell you and this is this would.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Be the album the. Album title what was the name of,
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: The group Buzz? The tower is that what the name
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: of the rock?
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Group? WAS yeah i was asked ONCE if i had a,
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: rock band and, believe me no one would have a
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: rock band less. THAN me, i don't EVEN though i
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: don't know anything. About, Music yes Buzz the tower would be.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: The Name so, Rabbi's right i've asked this way too.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Many times if you get one hundred of Bats Against
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: randy johnson in. Your prime? What happened some people Actually
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: say i'm gonna get ten or, fifteen HITS and i
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: have to explain. TO them i have to explain you
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: are not only you not going to get, a hit
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: you are not going to put a ball, in play
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: and you're not gonna. Make contact because he's going to
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: recognize this is. A competition the first thing he's gonna
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: do is buzz. The tower now you are petrified because
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: one hundred miles an hour has just come four inches from,
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: your face and now you're too afraid to get back.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: In there but people do not want to, hear That
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: rabb no one thinks they can Really Guard steph curry
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: in the open court Or Tackle saquon barkley in the.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Open field but they think they could get a hit
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Off of Jacob. De gram you've got to be. Kidding
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Me So, dan patrick Our Friend dan patrick was a
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: good high school base and a really good high school,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: basketball player a, good athlete and he said that he
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: could get some hits Off At. RANDY johnson, i said
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: there is zero chance that you're getting a hit Off
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Of randy johnson at. His pride So then, dan SAYS
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: and I, Love dan please nobody take this the. Wrong
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: way dan's a really, good athlete, He, SAID well i
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: KNOW that i can get a bunch of hits Off At. Jamie,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Moyer Well jamie moyer won well over two, hundred games
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: and he was a friend Of The. Patrick show he
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: calls in like unannounced the next day, And, said, DAN
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: look i, love, you man but you would never get
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: a hit off. Of Me never i'm a major. League
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: pitcher you played in. High school there's a really big
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: difference between a high school player and a big league
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: pitcher who won two hundred and.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Fifty games i've, taken It and justin we've done this a.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: MILLION times i will start, A, sentence tim how many
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: hits would?
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: YOU get? A? Zero, zero zero don't even. Finish ZERO
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: justin i asked.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Him the, same question, you know guy who played in?
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: High school? Maybe ALL and i got like two elements
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: in there are ten elements, to Give And justin verlander himself.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: SAID zero, I, SAID justin i haven't even told you
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: what the. Competition is, HE goes i don't care what.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: It is the answer. Is zero So The, levotard SHOW
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: which I love i love those guys Of The. Lebotard
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: show this is like eight. Years ago they call me
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: out of. The blue i'm not even on the show,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: that day and, They, say tim we're having a debate.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: In here the three, of us these three knuckleheads who
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: didn't play baseball in. High school all three of them
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: said they could get a bunt down in a major
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: league Game Against garrett cole in. His prime, they said
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: are we right or are? We WRONG and i love,
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: these GUYS but i have to, tell him you guys.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Are idiots you have the zero chance getting a bunt
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Down Against garrett cole in a major. League game, first
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: off you at least when, you're batting you have a
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: chance to turn your body and if he, hits you
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: he might hit you in the shoulder or in. The
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: back when you turn the square on a butnt you
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: are looking right at. The bitcher now he's gonna throw
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: it right at your face and you're never gonna be
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: able to get out of. The way, zero chance zero
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: getting a bunt Down Against. Garrett Cole, it's rabbi we,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: know this just we. Know this it's all about, The,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Levels okay rabbi's a. GREAT golfer i used to be a.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Decent player he would kill, me today and a tour
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: player would kill him, any day even though he's like a.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: Two handicap that's just the way the game works under
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: you stand levels zero.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Care a little, Business here timmy for, a second and
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: then we'll continue with these. GREAT questions i want to
• 37:40
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  Speaker 5: Dot COM now i justin, Next question.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Oh man so there's so many good ones. OVER here
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: i WANT to i want to go to this one
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: THOUGH that i really like. This one SO and I
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: know tim you've talked. ABOUT this i love your. SHOW
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: man i actually listen to. You guys you guys do a,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: great JOB and i love hearing just your insight and
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: your thoughts on a lot. Of things because you've covered
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: the game for. SO long i want to go to
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Les You tiger, collector here lifelong fan of you and.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Your work who is the greatest player you have seen play?
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: In person and what is the most memorable baseball moment
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: you have witnessed?
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: In person? Awesome question, All, Right.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Well willie mays is the Greatest player i've ever seen.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: In person, Now again i'm sixty nine, years OLD so
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: i saw him play. In. PERSON now i Didn't See
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: willie mays in, the fifties when he was the greatest
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: player most anyone had ever seen to. That POINT but
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: i saw him, in person and he was breathtaking. TO
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: watch i maintained still when he came in in nineteen,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: fifty one he was the greatest combination, of power speed
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: and defense that the game had. Ever seen and here
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: it is seventy five, years later and he is still,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: for me the greatest combination, of power speed and defense
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: that we've. Ever Seen So willie mays is the Greatest
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: player i've ever seen. IN person i don't want to,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: overdo this but the night That cal Ripken Broke louke,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Garrigg's record rabbi remembers this like it. Was, yesterday also
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: that was the most powerful Night that i've ever spent
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: In A major, league ballpark because that was way more
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: than a. Baseball story that was a story of discipline
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: and commitment and loyalty. And neighborhood he grew. Up there
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: and when he made that twenty two minute tour around
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: the bases and he's patting his heart and pointing to,
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: those people he knew who those. People were he may
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: not know all of, their names but he knew. Their
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: faces and when, was over a friend, Of Mine, bob
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: elliott came up. To, Me Now bob elliott is a.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Sports writer Hall of fame sports writer came up to
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: me before the game and, He, SAID tim i don't.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: GET it i don't, FEEL it i don't. SEE it
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: i don't. Get it what is the big deal? About
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: today bob had not been part of the Build UP and,
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I said, I, said boxer just something's going to happen
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: TONIGHT and i don't know what, it is but something's going,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: to happen and you're going to know what this is.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: All about and after the, fifth inning with that, Amazing Tour,
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: bob elliott baseball Writer, from toronto came up to me
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: with tears in his eyes, And, said OKAY now i
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: get it because he witnessed what that was. All about
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: that twenty two minute tour was one of the most
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Amazing things i've ever seen in all The years i've.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: Covered baseball, so.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Good let me ask you, This, question TIM and i, Just,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: so tim we got about ten minutes, left HERE and
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: i don't want you to go too long, on THIS
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: but i know how passionate you are, about it and
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: it speaks to the parents and.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: The kids.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Tim prioritizes being a good teammate more than anything else
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: in any endeavor.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: In life you.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Can share why is that so critical? To you where
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: have you seen it manifest itself so well when it?
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: Works well being a?
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Good, TEAMMATE well i grew up with a father who insisted.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Upon that he always told me there is no greater
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: compliment that anyone can pay. To you my father told
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: me THIS when i, was seven that you're a really,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: good teammate and the worst thing that anyone can say
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: to you is your a. Terrible teammate and that's not
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: just as a baseball player or a. Basketball player that's as,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: your brother as, your, sister whatever it is as, a
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: son as, a parent, in school whatever. It is you
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: just have to be a. Good teammate it's really not
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: that hard. To do and we see it on the
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: major league level all. The time and when you hear
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: about Stories Like, don mattingly when You Know buck showalder
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Told Me ruben Sierra Joined, DON mattingley i mean Joined,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: the yankees and his first home run he hit For,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: the yankees he ran around the bases, very slowly, Very unluckly,
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: yankee Like and buck. Was furious he's. The manager and
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: before he can Go Get ruben sierra, And Explain don
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: mattingly Looks At buck showalder, And says i'll take. This
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: one and He Takes ruben sierra down the runway privately
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: and whispers, to him this is we Are. The yankees
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: we don't do. That Here And ruben sierra never did.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: That AGAIN so i learned at a very young age
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: the importance of being a. Great teammate and growing up
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: with a brother who was born in the. Same year, My,
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: brother matt he's eleven months older, than me died of
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: als three. Years ago he was the one that taught
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: me more than anything else what it's like to be
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: a great teammate because we went to school together in
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: THE same i was his. YOUNGER brother i. NEEDED help
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: i was FOUR when i, started KINDERGARTEN when i played
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: high school baseball and everything else. With him he was
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: BETTER than, i was and he made sure his little
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: brother was taken care of no. Matter what THAT'S when
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: i learned what being a great teammate. Was about and
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: my Late brother matt Went To, catholic university and they
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: have named, an award an annual award that goes to
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: the senior on the team that is the. Best teammate
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: it's Called The Matt Kirkchin Ultimate. TEAMMATE award, i mean
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: how great of a tribute is that to a. Former
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: player they named an award, after you not because you're the,
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: best player even though he was a really, good player
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: but because he was the. ULTIMATE teammate i learned that
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: at a very, early Age and i've. Never forgotten.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Two more one of the great Things, about tim obviously
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: we've learned this through. This broadcast he can laugh. At
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: himself so let me ask you, This Question Tim, aaron
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: cebee is the impression of you has? Become legendary is
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: still the best one you've ever seen or has someone
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: else Topped The tim.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Kirkshan, Impressions Well aaron ceba's was probably the best one
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: because it was the, first one and Thanks to ravi
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: and our Mischievous Friend, tito frankcona they ambushed me on
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: the air with that IMPERSONATION and i did not know what,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: was Coming and Tito Found aaron ceba and pretended like
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: he was interviewing me when it Was Actually. Aaron ceba
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: it was the stupidest television. In history and Our boss,
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: mike McQuaid not the easiest man to, talk To, SAID
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: tim i don't know if you don't, like this but
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: this is. Television GOLD so I Think aaron ceba was
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: still the best one and the kicker. THERE is i,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: asked him like several, YEARS later, i said please tell
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: me that you can do. Other impersonations please tell me
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: that you Could Do Jack nicholson and, he, GOES no
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: i can only. Do you the only personation he does. Is,
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: ME now i. Must say BOONIE and I with rabbi
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Were in Arizona And tim dillard one of the funniest
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: people in. The world he just walks onto the set
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: and starts to do, my horrible, horrendous voice and to
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: make it, more realistic he, crouches down so he's like
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: a really short guy talking with my. Terrible voice that
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: was one of the Dumbest things i've. EVER seen i laughed.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: Out loud and. Last One, ryan dempster who has done
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: stand up comedy really, good picture did stand up comedy
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: once in. His life he did an Impersonation Of harry carey,
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: interviewing me and he did both of. The voices so he,
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: WOULD go i Can't Do. Harry carry he, would go Like,
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: hete tim where do you get all those? Steps from
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: and then he would do my. Terrible voice so he
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: carried On Conversation harry carry, and me and he did
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: both of. The voices that was the stupidest spring training of.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: My life and people still still bring, it up and
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: it was like fifteen. Years ago it was, hilariously funny,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Because look, rabbi strite if you can't have a chuckle
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: with yourself at all, times anyway but especially when you're.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Covering baseball we ask, our players look hardest game in
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: the world, to play you better laugh your way through a.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: Few things otherwise you're not gonna. Make it same thing goes.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: For broadcaster, for writers you better not take yourself too
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: seriously because this game will eat you up and spit.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: You out, oh man, So. GOOD tim i want to
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: get to our, last question and then we'll get to the.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Kitchen sing melanie has a. Great question this is getting a.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Little more let's go To the. Melanie question when it's
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: all said. And done how do you, want players coaches
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: and fans, To Remember Tim, kirchin.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: Ah boy that. TO hardman i just want people to
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: look at me and RECOGNIZE that i always love, the
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: game and my love of the game is what carried.
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: ME through i am not some sort of. GREAT writer
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: i promise. You that as we've, ALL seen i have
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: one of the worst. Voices ever i'm three. FEET tall
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: i don't look very GOOD. On tv my forehead looks
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: like a. Five, HEAD now i got. GRAY hair i
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: got a lot of things working. Against me but my
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: love of the game has always always. Carried me so
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: as long as people look at me, and, say well
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: he cares about the game and he loves. The game
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: And when willie as Dies And hank aaron Dies and tom,
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: sever dies he's the GUY that i want to write.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: THE obituary i feel like that is part of my
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: job to, make sure especially when, somebody's gone that somebody
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: explains this is how great the, player was because our
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: young people won't know unless an old man like me explain.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: To Them so tim loved. The game that's that's the
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: most important message.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: For, me, excellent excellent and he does love. The game
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: let's get to the kitchen. Sink questions justin you.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Asked him you are the kitchen, All right let's get
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: to the first, Question, Here, tim so who is the
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: most interesting person you've?
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Ever interviewed, You know i've always Thought That tony gwinn
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: was so interesting in his, own right even though he
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: was just a master, of hitting his understanding of the
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: art of hitting was like No one i'd. Ever, MET
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: now i Talked To ted williams, about hitting and he
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: he's the most interesting man of. All TIME but i
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: didn't have enough time. With HIM but i would Sit
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: With tony gwynn and he would. TELL me i could
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: tell you hours of stories about sitting with him and
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: how he would explain what the art of hitting was.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: All about he is absolutely he was absolutely Fascinating. And ravi,
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: you know when we, interview someone it's usually a question and.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Answer period when you sit Down With, tony gwynn it
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: immediately becomes a conversation. About baseball and as, a, reporter,
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: writer analyst, whatever broadcaster that's what we're trying to do
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: is get into a conversation rather than me. Interviewing.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: You good next question on, The Kitchen saint tim after.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: That one if you played for the back teas at
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: THIS Year's us Open At, shinnecock hills what would you?
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Have, SHOT okay i used to be. At ten LAST
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: time i Played, WITH ravi I think i was a.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: THOUSAND handicap i played so Badly and i'm still embarrassed.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: About that so LET'S understand i used to be at
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: TEN if i Played at shinnecock from the. Back teas
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: so we're not raking, three footers we're not rolling the
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: ball in. The fairway we're playing. Every Shot and i'm
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: in the same Group As scottie scheffler and at some.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: Other star i'm Not sure i'm going to be able
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: to take. It back so this IS a i who
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: used to be. At ten i'm probably at twenty now
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: And and i'm embarrassed. BY it I think i'm gonna
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: shoot one hundred and Seventy at Chittakot because i'm gonna
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: be so afraid of. THE pressure, i mean the place
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: is gonna be lyned where ON. National tv i've never
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: been in a trap, Like that i've never been on greens,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: Like that i've never been in rough. Like That and
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: i'm gonna lose five strokes because i don't even know
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: the rules of the. Game properly i'm Gonna miss i'm
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: gonna mark a ball incorrectly and get a two. Shot
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: PENALTY so I think i'm GONNA get I think i'm
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: gonna shoot a one seventy something, like THAT and i
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: think maybe a twenty five handicap is going to shoot a.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: TWO hundred a. Two hundred.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: That's great let's go to the third. One here, so
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: yeah what did get Into the Hall Of?
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: Fame?
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: India, Man like obviously you've been in the game a.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Long time people think very highly.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: Of you.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Your work that's a that's a body of work sort,
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: of accomplishment and it Never goes people can never take
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: that away.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: From you what does that mean?
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: To, you well it's the greatest achievement of my professional
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: career and there will never be a. Close second and
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: THE day i made, MY speech ravi wrote the intro to,
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: my Speech and i'll never forget how poignant. THAT was
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: i almost started to CRY before i went. Up there
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: but this is how important. It was the DAY after
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: i won, THE award i got a call at eight
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: o'clock the next Morning From. Johnny Bench now i've already
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: cried my eyes Out because i've won. This, Award privately
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: i'm crying. Out loud And Then, johnny bench the greatest
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: catcher of, all time calls me the next morning and, He,
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: says tim welcome to. The club you're one. Of, us
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: now now let's. Be clear i'm not in. That club
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: i'm not one. Of them i'm a dinky. Sports writer
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: he's the greatest catcher of. All time but then his
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: voice gets very soft and, he says. Very poignantly, He,
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: goes tim it's moments like this that bring you back to.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: Little League and i'm just about ready to, cry again and,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: he said and let's, face it you could still fit
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: Into A. Little LEAGUE so i get Blasted By. Johnny
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: bed but the, real story and this is serious there's
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: nothing to laugh. About HERE after i made, my Speech
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: and i've never been more scared in my life THAN
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: before i made. That speech THANK god i got. Through
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: It johnny bench takes me out on the veranda Of
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: The Oda saga hotel and, he says and we're the
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: only two people. Out there, HE says i want you
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: to look at. THAT lake i want you to think
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: about where, you are how you, got here and how
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: many people helped you. GET here i don't want you
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: to say. A word i just want you to look at,
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: that lake standing next to the greatest. Catcher EVER and
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: i tear up again that he took me out there
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: just to MAKE sure i UNDERSTOOD where. I was so
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: that was the most powerful weekend of. My life and
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: there will never be anything professionally to. Match.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: That yeah and last, Question here tim from the, kitchen
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: sink and it reads, this way what is the one
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: baseball story or stat that you've heard or seen that
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: you actually find hard?
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: To, believe.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: Well there are a million. Of Those prince fielder and,
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: His Dad, cecil fielder two really good, first basemen hit
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: exactly three hundred and nineteen home runs in. Their career,
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Not seriously how can that possibly happen that a father
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: and son end up with the exact. Same Number stan
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: musial had exactly the same number of hits eighteen fifteen
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: at home as he did on the road in. His
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: career that. Cannot Happen dennis eckersley Picked Off kenny williams
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: once in, a game and then he went four years
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: without picking, off anyone and the next guy picked Off
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: Was kenny. WILLIAMS again, i mean this IS why i
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: slapped my forehead like five times. A day how in
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: the world old can? This happen and this is why
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: baseball is the greatest game in. The world just every
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: time you show up at, a game you might see
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: something that you've never seen before in. Your life how
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: many people can go to work every, day saying you,
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: KNOW what i might see something Today that i've never
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: seen that nobody has seen in the last one hundred and.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: Fifty years as, baseball writers as. Baseball broadcasters that is
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: one of the gifts we get from the greatest.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Game ever, so good so good tim, All right we're
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: going to GO to mvp here to. Finish up we,
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: thank you you know so much for. Your time man
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: in just such a. Great conversation i've enjoyed it. So
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: much but let's talk ABOUT. Your mvp the most valuable
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: person in your life growing, up now whatever you want
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: to make. Of that who is your most valuable person
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: when it comes to the baseball life that, You, lived.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: Well it's, My. Dad pop no one was better. Than
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: him we've talked about him and how he gave me
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: a feel for, the game a, love game and he
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: taught me how to play. The game the, other THING
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: as i told you AS an mit. Undergrad PhD, in
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: mathematics the number OF times i would sit there with
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: my dad and look through the. BASEBALL encyclopedia i knew
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: at age Seven That joe DiMaggio had three hundred and
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: sixty one homers and three hundred and sixty nine breakouts in.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: HIS career i used that stat the. Other day i've
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: been using IT since i was seven because my father taught.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Me that but, more important he taught me to be a.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Great teammate he taught me to. Respect People my dad's
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: been mad at me twice in my, entire life and
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: BOTH and i was too young. TO understand i was
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: disrespectful to. An adult and that was the one line
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: we did not cross in. My, house, teachers, parents coaches.
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: Neighborhood people we are we are respectful to. Older people
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: and that's the lesson that he. Taught me so by a,
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: large margin my dad was the most most important per
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: and my mother was. The greatest don't get, me wrong
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: but my dad taught ME what i really needed to
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: know to get.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: Through life justin back to that last story before we
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: say Goodbye. To tim so we're calling a. BASEBALL game
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: i don't remember, the field but the temperature is about thirty.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: Eight degrees, it's Freezing and tim has very, thin blood
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: so he's cold when it's seventy. Degrees out and you've
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: listened to this hour and he's the most observant human
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: being on.
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: The planet he.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Remembers everything so we get Together and tim has two
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: gloves to keep his. Hands, warm well we take one
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: of the gloves and we give it to, a cameraman
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: and the cameraman is walking around the stadium and, you
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: know we're calling, the game so, there's action and then
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: every now and then we'll slip a shot in of
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: say somebody carrying, hot dogs and We stick tim's glove on.
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: The tray he never sees.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: The glove we then moved the glove to, somebody's shoulder
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: and we take a shot of Somebody with tim's glove on.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: The shoulder he never sees. The glove we must have
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: taken ten different shots of. His Glove and i'm in,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: on it and THERE'S. An edwardo we're all in, on
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: it and he never sees his own GLOVE on tv
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: that we show ten different times to see if he's
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: going to pick up.
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: On it and about ten different times during, THE game,
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: I said i've lost one of. MY gloves i can't. Find,
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: it well the, problem is and it's a. BAD problem
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: i never checked. The MONITOR if i had ever looked at,
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: the monitor there was. My GLOVE but i was too
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: busy watching the game on the field instead of looking at.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: The monitor this Is what ravi and he used to
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: do to be all. The time they would crush me on,
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: the air but it made for a much better broadcast
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: that we were back and forth and everybody knew we loved,
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: each other even though they made fun, of ME and i.
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: Deserved it it was the Most fun i've ever had.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: Doing baseball IS when i was in the same Booth
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: with Eduardo, and rabbi the two Best teammates i've ever HAD. At,
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: espn well you're.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: The, Best tim thanks so much for being a part.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Of this Don't forget tim and His son jeff have their.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: Own podcasts is this a great game?
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: Or what.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: It's phenomenal you're. THE best i. Love you thanks so
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: much for being with us here on dirt from. The
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: dugout tim. Appreciate it.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: Thank. You raviy just nice to. Meet you i'll see
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: you in person Someday and i'll wear the same shirt.
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: As You Guys Walter Johnson.
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: HIGH school i don't Know if i've ever charge. Of,
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: that yeah how?
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: MANY times a?
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: Zero zero i'm never going to get. A hit.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: No, contact hey everybody, Out there we've. Enjoyed this we
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: keep doing it. Every week look forward To Having adam wayne.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Right on we're Gonna Have jesse cole Of The. Savannah
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: bananas please join the growing. Community today you get all
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: the things that you see on.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: The.
• 58:57
  Speaker 5: Screen justin we'll see you next week
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: In the bathing been back under