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Steve Gliner & Gary Perone | Staten Island FerryHawks | 04-23-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, they've got action, they've got great baseball and all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of cool stuff all summer long at the baseball
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  Speaker 1: home of the Staten Island Ferry Hawks, right on the water.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, we do partly own the baseball team at
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  Speaker 1: John Katz Matdi's and my friend Randy Levine. But big
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  Speaker 1: Yankee guy, I love the Yanks, so he's he's part
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  Speaker 1: of that process too. And then we got Gary Parone,
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  Speaker 1: who was a Met guy with Stevie Cohen. Not Stevie
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  Speaker 1: Cohen who owns the Mets or a former Wfan teammate,
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  Speaker 1: but Cohen, who's the GM of the Cyclones, who I
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  Speaker 1: can't speak to anymore because he suffers from Trump arrangement
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  Speaker 1: syndrome like nobody else. I mean, I wanted to punch
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  Speaker 1: him in the base last time I spoke to him.
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  Speaker 1: Hope he's listening right now, Stevie so but Gary's now
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  Speaker 1: with us on Staten Island. And Steve Gliner this is
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  Speaker 1: one of the great i'mus stories ever. Decades ago, two
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  Speaker 1: decades ago, Steve reaches out to the fan. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to get sid. At the time, I was
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  Speaker 1: doing middays on the fan, a young Buck, not the
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  Speaker 1: superstar I m today and he said, love to get
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  Speaker 1: set up to a baseball stadium in Hudson County. I'm
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  Speaker 1: throw out the first pitch and I was like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's really cool. So I go up there and I
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  Speaker 1: figure I'll get the crowd all pumped up. I see
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  Speaker 1: some person dressed as a what was it a raccoon?
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  Speaker 2: Raccoon?
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  Speaker 1: See I remember, and I don't know the person is,
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  Speaker 1: but let me rough up the maskot a little bit
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  Speaker 1: that I'll get the crowd all excited. So I proceed
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  Speaker 1: before the first pitch to physically accost this poor raccoon.
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  Speaker 1: Throw this animal to the floor. And then I notice
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  Speaker 1: I heard some screaming or something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The person was writhing in pain. I thought that the
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  Speaker 1: person was just kidding around with me. Needless to say,
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  Speaker 1: they take the hat off of this raccoon, and it
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  Speaker 1: happens to be a beautiful young girl who I still
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  Speaker 1: speak to today. Her name is Nicky. She's a one,
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  Speaker 1: she's a mom now, she's got a bunch of kids,
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  Speaker 1: and she had just had shoulder surgery or something. And
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  Speaker 1: the next thing you know, a couple of days later,
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  Speaker 1: her mom is calling I miss saying the considering suing
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  Speaker 1: I miss and me and the station because her daughter
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  Speaker 1: needs surgery again.
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  Speaker 2: Was that unbelievable? Steve or what.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty three years ago and a perfect recollection of that story?
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  Speaker 2: Is that out?
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  Speaker 3: What honestly one of the coolest media moments of my career.
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  Speaker 1: It was cool because you're being mentioned that I misske
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  Speaker 1: for two days, right, two straight days, and at the
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  Speaker 1: time he was not huge.
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  Speaker 2: Back then he was huge.
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  Speaker 3: People call me from other countries, show you're on MSNBC.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, great, that's right when I'm a NBC when they
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  Speaker 1: had good programming. So she but she's I speak to Nikki,
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  Speaker 1: she's got a family. You still speak to her?
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  Speaker 3: I do you do keep in touch? Yes? No, But
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  Speaker 3: she even live in New York and he's in California, California,
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  Speaker 3: those real estates. She's doing phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: Good for her.
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  Speaker 3: The shoulders good too, Her shoulders all uncovered. What was
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  Speaker 3: the name of that Hudson Valley team Renegades?
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  Speaker 2: Rennegades? So what did you hop aboard with the.
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  Speaker 3: Furryhawks two months ago? Just too underway?
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  Speaker 1: So you guys, Gary, I would imagine you know all
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  Speaker 1: you minor league guys, know each other forever, so big
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  Speaker 1: like I guess the fraternity.
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  Speaker 2: So you've known Steve for many many years? Was this
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  Speaker 2: your call? U bring Steven?
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  Speaker 4: Now? This is a call from everyone you know. Steve
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  Speaker 4: is Steve and I we get to get We know
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  Speaker 4: each other over twenty five years. We worked in New
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  Speaker 4: York Penley together and we've done some great work together.
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  Speaker 4: But having Steve with us now in Stanton Island is
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  Speaker 4: great because he understands what I understand and it's about
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  Speaker 4: the fans, about bringing people in. So it's good to
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  Speaker 4: have Steve with us.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you're both great baseball guys. Thank you great, especially
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  Speaker 1: in this league.
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  Speaker 2: And look, this is year five.
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  Speaker 1: I heard some promotion yesterday that everything at the stadium
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  Speaker 1: is going to be five dollars. Get like two hot
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  Speaker 1: dogs for five dollars. You got a beer up for
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  Speaker 1: five dollars. Sounds like a lot of five promotion. I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe it's been five years already. It seems like yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: But give me some of the exciting promotions that are.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna happen here, Steve.
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  Speaker 3: Well, before we get into that, we have to talk
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  Speaker 3: about the sid Rosenberg. Yeah, that we just came up
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  Speaker 3: with on the way in this morning. What yeah, in
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  Speaker 3: honor of you, you just turned fifty nine. That's right,
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  Speaker 3: So happy birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody listening, you know, go online and type in the
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  Speaker 3: code sid through tickets for five ninety for this weekend's games.
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  Speaker 2: I still love that.
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  Speaker 3: Happy birthday, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That's very nice, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Five dollars and ninety cent tickets to the Spa for
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  Speaker 1: two tickets, but two tickets, Yeah, to this fours Bowl
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  Speaker 1: team on the water, in my.
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  Speaker 3: Honor, the best view in professional base.
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  Speaker 2: It is gorgeo, hands down gorgeous. Well that's very nice.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I'll talk about it for the next two days.
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  Speaker 2: Well I will. I'll get you going. What else do
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  Speaker 2: you get the ballpark for five dollars.
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  Speaker 4: On well, five dollars. You're gonna have final two dollars.
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  Speaker 4: You said it before. Two hot dogs to Nathan hot Dogs,
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  Speaker 4: five dollars, final Draft Beers, finalar tickets. You know, this
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  Speaker 4: weekend is going to be a great weekend to reopen
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  Speaker 4: the ballpark. A lot of new things going on. I'll
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  Speaker 4: have Steve talk about those in a few minutes. But
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  Speaker 4: just go back on the promotions a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we are going to do our Jewish Heritage Night too
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  Speaker 4: level and this is what we wanted to talk about too,
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  Speaker 4: because I think it's important. We're gonna neame you the
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  Speaker 4: head mench. We're going to name me the head mench
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  Speaker 4: of the night. So you're gonna lead the charge for
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  Speaker 4: our Jewish Heritage.
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  Speaker 3: Night now at the ballpark.
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  Speaker 4: One is that now June eleventh, Thursday, June eleventh, to
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  Speaker 4: play a double header?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, there are two games for a price of one.
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  Speaker 4: Not bad. And then what I would like to do.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to lead in. I want to see
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  Speaker 4: you bring through the outfield wall a thousand rabbis.
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  Speaker 2: A thousand, Yeah, why not? I don't know if I
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  Speaker 2: know a thousands.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 2: I mean maybe ten. I can get a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: rabbis and.
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  Speaker 3: I think it would know each other.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna.
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  Speaker 1: You're actually renaming the team that night to the New
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  Speaker 1: York benches, right, Yeah, that's brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 4: We've done a lot of those nights like that. All
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  Speaker 4: the cultural knights we're doing now, yeah, we do with
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  Speaker 4: the Italians, right. For example, this year will plays the
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  Speaker 4: Stanton Ely Espressos on that's funny. Hispanic Charriage night. We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be the Way Bahs, and then we're gonna be
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  Speaker 4: on Irish Knight, the Goobye's. So we have all these
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  Speaker 4: different nights coming up, and we're gonna tie you into
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  Speaker 4: the New York City baseball teams too.
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  Speaker 2: That's very, very smart.
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  Speaker 1: Now on the baseball front, we've got a new manager,
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Mirrorball, what's his name? Catches like Steinbrenner. He byers
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  Speaker 1: his manager every year. I've been through what Gotdowel, Bonzo,
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  Speaker 1: Homer Bush, the guy from the Giants the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of year. So cashaw listening Carlos. He loves you today,
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  Speaker 1: you don't win, You're gone tomorrow. What does this guy
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  Speaker 1: bring besides a lot of experience in this specific league?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you know. Carl's played in the league
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  Speaker 4: years ago. He's actually done a lot of great work.
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  Speaker 4: And he's surrounded by a lot of good baseball people too.
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  Speaker 4: The group Baseball United that he worked with last few years.
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  Speaker 4: He's worked with Barry Larker now with Poolholes, all the
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  Speaker 4: Big mariantto Nick Swisher. So he has got a good
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  Speaker 4: resource of baseball behind him first two games off the start,
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  Speaker 4: going to say we've we're looking at our pitching staff
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  Speaker 4: right now. We're gonta we get some more pitching in there.
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  Speaker 2: But we got a Jewish kid as well, leave it right,
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  Speaker 2: Alex Katz.
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  Speaker 4: We had Alex Katz.
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  Speaker 2: We see Jewish.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he played on Team Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he did.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I love this, Yes, Oh beautiful. And that's the
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  Speaker 4: whole thing to bring the flavor in New York City
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  Speaker 4: baseball back. So like on we're gonna do June twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Fifth of this Saturday, that's my anniversary, have you universary.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to be doing a salute to eighties Night,
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  Speaker 4: and we're gonna do a big tribute on Eighties Night,
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  Speaker 4: and we're going to bring out a Mets player who
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  Speaker 4: played in eighty six. Okay, Lee Mizilly, gonna bring him
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  Speaker 4: out this year. We've got an ass coming out. And
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  Speaker 4: then we're gonna do a big night for the Yankees too.
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  Speaker 4: So we're gonna do attribute a nineties night and a
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  Speaker 4: tribute with the Yankees and work with Ken David off
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  Speaker 4: to do a pregame thing. He's going to talk to
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  Speaker 4: some Ken David is a writer from.
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  Speaker 2: The Post I know exactly.
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  Speaker 3: La book awesome in his new book.
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  Speaker 4: And then what we're gonna do too is we're talking
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  Speaker 4: to a few of the ninety six Yankees right now,
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  Speaker 4: so we'll announce that as we signed that person.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we'll get Daryl for sure, that'll be easy. Tew
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  Speaker 2: Bail come.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, they're come fifth and family.
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  Speaker 1: Right yeah, and you got a bunch of other guys
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  Speaker 1: got about two minutes ago here. But the outfield looks
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  Speaker 1: pretty stacked. I know these names in your league, Blake
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  Speaker 1: Rutherford and Palacios and Gary Mattis. So it looks like
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  Speaker 1: in terms of outfield talent, this team is pretty stacked
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 4: Right yeah, right now, place heos is from the Bronx.
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  Speaker 4: From here, local kid, PSL kid. Right now, we're all
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  Speaker 4: building up really well and a couple of pieces we
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  Speaker 4: need to get, but right now we're doing good so far.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So Steve, what is uh, what is your job
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  Speaker 1: until every day with this team exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Everything that's what we do in this business. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 3: all touched every piece of the operation, and that's what
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  Speaker 3: makes it so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: When you're out there. You could be literally like handing
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  Speaker 1: out hot dogs at the same time general managers bringing
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  Speaker 1: in talent and releasing talent and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Right, that's the best part of what we do. We
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  Speaker 3: have our hands on everything.
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  Speaker 2: That's fun.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But if you work a manor league baseball, you got
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  Speaker 1: one job of it goes good, good, if it goes bad,
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  Speaker 1: you got here.
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  Speaker 2: You got your hands and everything. That's what that makes
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  Speaker 2: for a fun experience.
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know with the fan interaction and when
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  Speaker 4: you get to work with kids every day, and then
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  Speaker 4: we could be ourselves really like on Saturday night when
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  Speaker 4: I'm singing Sweet Carolina in front of four thousand people.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: And when we like doing that because we want everybody
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  Speaker 4: get involved. It's all about the fun. But one of
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  Speaker 4: the greatest things about this year is we have great
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  Speaker 4: food coming in.
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  Speaker 2: The food John was talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing food, amazing said the same food as Yankee Stadium. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's a big deal because I've been there now three
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  Speaker 1: times already this Year'm a big yank.
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  Speaker 3: Evan.
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  Speaker 4: Did you have the loft rolls are delicious?
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  Speaker 2: A delicious Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And we got a new video board, new lighting in
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  Speaker 3: the stadium. Wow, interactive lighting, so a lot of new
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  Speaker 3: things to see out there, and we invite everybody to
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  Speaker 3: come on out. It's gonna be a great, great season.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: And we're trying to put together to the w ABC
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  Speaker 1: All Stars, Yes, headed by me taking on Craig Cartin's
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  Speaker 1: w f AN All Stars at the stadium. That will
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  Speaker 1: sell every seat in the borrow of Trusco. It'll be huge,
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  Speaker 1: all right, folks.
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  Speaker 2: For guys.
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  Speaker 1: For the folks who want to get season tickets or
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  Speaker 1: partial season tickets, what's the easiest way to do it.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a couple of ways. If you go to FerryHawks
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  Speaker 4: dot com. There's emailing Gary at Fairyhawks dot com. I'll
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  Speaker 4: be happy to answer back. Anybody who wants to call in.
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  Speaker 4: We'll take care of them and we'll introduce them to
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  Speaker 4: the staff too.
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  Speaker 3: Gary, and get the offer for this weekends.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, now, now ready. Steve Cohen, you know my old
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  Speaker 4: friend what Sid's here? Very nice to Sid, Steve.
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  Speaker 1: That's all the Steve Cohens need to be nice to me,
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  Speaker 1: all the Steve Cohens, from the met owner to the
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  Speaker 1: Cyclone GM to the former f An guy. Wake up, guys, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are both terrivic guys. I love both of
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  Speaker 1: you guys. Good to see you, Steve, so great to
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  Speaker 1: see you you too, Gary Parona, you know I love
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  Speaker 1: you to pieces.
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