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Granddaughter of the legendary YOGI BERRA joins the show! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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the first time on a show I got a chance to watch the documentary.
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It is a sensational documentary. Very happy to have her on.
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As we were reached. Well, Nathan reached out to her
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and Jabba has a very good connection with her.
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Very happy to have her on. We are now talking to executive
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producer of It Ain't Over, the one and only, the granddaughter
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of the late, great Yogi Berra, Lindsay.
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Lindsay, what's up? Not much.
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Thanks for having. Me, I got a chance to watch the
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the documentary when it was in the movie theaters.
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It was in the movies for a little while and it was
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sensational. I was a big Yogi Berra fan
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growing up. I mean, obviously I wasn't
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alive, but my grandfather used to tell me stories about Yogi,
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Joe DiMaggio, obviously Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth.
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So I got a chance to know. But Yogi Berra was the most
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successful New York Yankee because he won more rings than
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any Yankee in history. Tell us a little bit about being
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the granddaughter of one of the greatest baseball players to
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ever play the game. First of all, it's very cool
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that you got to see the movie in the theater because it was a
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very different experience on the big screen than, you know, we
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all love sitting on the couch and Netflix and whatever, but it
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was really cool. I didn't watch it.
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I just want to let you know something I didn't see see it in
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a movie theater. I got a chance to see it at the
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Patchogue's theater. So the the library actually put
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it up on a big screen right behind the library.
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So they did it on a big screen and, and that was the first time
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I got a chance to watch it in the back of the library in
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Patchogue, NY. So it was a big screen outside.
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So look, I'm sorry, yes. Your question people ask me a
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lot about what it was like to be the granddaughter of Yogi Berra
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when I was a kid. I had no idea that grandpa was
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anything special, right? He was like everybody else's
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grandpa. You know, I had, I had friends
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whose grandfathers were teachers and accountants and bus drivers
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and restaurant owners. And I thought grandpa's job, he
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was a baseball coach. And it really wasn't any
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different than any of those other things.
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And, you know, by the time I got old enough to understand that
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Grandpa Yogi and Yogi Berra were the the same guy, he'd already
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been Grandpa Yogi for so long that the Yogi Berra thing kind
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of didn't really resonate. And even now, when I think about
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Yogi Berra, the 10 World Series rings and 18 All Star Games and
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three MVPS and all the records, he's sometimes in my head not
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the same guy as the Grandpa Yogi who burned the hot dogs at the
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family barbecues. But even though I intellectually
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know that he is, he was a great, he was a great grandfather.
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He was obviously a great human being.
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The world got to see that. And I was very lucky to have him
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until I was 39 years old. Wow.
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A lot of a lot of people don't get their grandparents.
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So that was a real gift. Lindsay, it's well, first of
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all, good to see you. Hello Jabba, how are you?
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Good Hon, how are you? I'm good.
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I can't believe your kid is like a full-fledged adult.
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I don't like it. I literally just sent me a
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picture. He just got a big package of a
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bunch of steaks and everything. So he's now now him and his
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roommates. He got his own house now.
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So it's, you know, now they're fighting all over that.
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I had the pleasure. You obviously had a lot more
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years with him and I got to know him.
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And one of my favorite possessions is obviously a sign
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ball by him. But just I think more so than
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anything, a lot of people got to see the personality more so than
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the baseball player because a lot of us weren't around the
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stories that you just sit and listen.
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And I think I was late a couple times because he just kept
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telling stories and I was like, I think I got to go ready or
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something. I don't know what's going on.
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Is there one story that stands out?
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And I'm not even talking baseball or just something that
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burn hot dog made me think of this because I was going a
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different direction, but that just how real he was because we
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all saw him, you know, as the yogiisms and and all this stuff
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that he and it was just him like he never, it wasn't like he
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tried to do this. That was just the way it came
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off. And you're like, did he just say
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that? And then he just keep walking
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like they didn't miss a beat or anything.
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Is it, is there one that, that you it's just a fond memory
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that, that you you have that that sticks out to you.
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For the first part of what you said, like, I do agree
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wholeheartedly that grandpa's personality kind of overtook his
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status in people's minds as a baseball player.
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There's a big recency bias there.
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Most people alive today didn't get to see him play.
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And I get into, you know, Twitter fights all the time,
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people saying Johnny Bench was better.
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And it's definitely people who didn't see him play.
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If you want to break down the numbers, my grandpa can take on
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Johnny Bench any day of the week.
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And it just matters. Really.
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Rich guy you liked better the, the yogiisms, they just kind of
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came out of his mouth. It was the way he saw the world.
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Everything was very black and white, right or wrong.
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He had the most forthright moral compass in the world.
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He was very, just very much able to cut through all the crap and,
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and you know, get to the, the root of a problem or the, the,
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the point of what was actually happening.
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Somebody posted something on Twitter the other day about
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Derek Jeter in a slump. And grandpa said, I know what
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your problem is. You need to swing at strikes.
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And Jeter talks about it. I've heard him tell the story
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many times. And like, it's, yeah, you should
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be swinging at strikes. Like, it's so painfully obvious
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that you don't really think about it all the time.
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You're thinking about all these other external things that might
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be going on. But just like the stories about,
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like, who he is. You know, we, I live in
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Montclair, which is where he lived for most of his life after
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coming here from Saint Louis. They moved to my grandparents
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moved here in 1959 and there's still a lot of people that
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encountered him here. And the stories that you get
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from folks are they're always the same, whether they met him
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at the deli or they met him at church or they saw him like, you
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know, at a parking lot somewhere or at a a kids baseball game.
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Might one of my cousins or mine or my brothers or at the ice
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rink when I was playing hockey. He he, they always tell the
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stories about How I Met your grandfather this one time and we
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had a really nice conversation and he gave me so much of his
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time and I felt like I was the only person there.
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He, he, he never blew anybody off.
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He treated everybody how he would have wanted to be treated.
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And all these people come up and tell me like, I loved your
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grandfather. And they actually mean it in the
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same sense of the word as I mean it when I say I love my
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grandfather. And that's a totally incredible
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thing. Regardless of how good of a
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baseball player he was or not, he just was able to kind of
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connect with people on a really human level, no matter who they
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were. So obviously you're the board
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member with the museum with Yogi Berra.
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And I was fascinated with baseball history a lot more than
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a lot of the other sports too. Like what has been the evolution
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of the stuff that he's told you and the stuff that you've also
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dealt with, like working in the museum from player to obviously
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manager later in his career and then even after he retired from
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from the game altogether and the impact that he had.
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So the museum has been around for like 20, Oh my God, 27 years
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now, maybe 327th year. And when it first opened, the
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idea was not my grandfather's. My grandfather never would have
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said, hey, we need a museum dedicated to me.
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That kind of guy, absolutely. He thought it was a preposterous
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idea. But when they brought it to him
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and they tagged on the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center
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part of it, the Learning Center part was what really got him
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going. My grandfather quit school in
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the eighth grade and he was always very self-conscious about
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the fact that he didn't have a high school degree when he got
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to the Yankees. As soon as he had enough money
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to do it, he endowed a scholarship fund at Columbia
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University that still exists today.
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We have the, the, the crux of what we do at the museum is
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education programs. And we sure like we talk about
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all the great things that my grandfather did on the baseball
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field. You can see all 27 Yankees World
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Series rings in the museum, all of his grandpa's MVP plaques.
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We've got bronze gloves and all kinds of stuff.
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But the point of it is that we kind of carry his values forward
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of, of treating people with decency and respect and being
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the best that you can be, maybe overcoming adversity.
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Grandpa was told that he was, you know, too short, too squat,
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looked like a gorilla, looked like an ape, looked like a fire
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hydrant, look like a fat girl running in A2 tight skirt.
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I don't even know. Somebody wrote that in the Daily
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News that he was too ugly to be a Yankee.
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I don't even know what that means.
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Have you seen some of the Yankees over the years?
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Anyway, so you if a kid comes in and he's got no idea really
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about baseball and is not a baseball fan, you know, kids can
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identify with being a first generation immigrant, with being
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a veteran. My grandfather served his
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country, was a machine gunner at the D-Day invasion.
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They can identify with being underestimated or told they
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can't do something. And that's really what we do at
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the museum. And through grandpa's career,
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all the stages that you just mentioned, you know, a player, a
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manager, and then his post career, you know, it was really
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how he kind of carried himself that that made him the person
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that he was. They just put in the chat who
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was the ugliest looking teammate you had, Jeff.
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Hey man, what? What happens when the clubhouse
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stays in the clubhouse? I can't.
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I can't be. I was trying.
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To keep it in the private chat. John, I've got it.
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I'll tell you who the ugliest teammate he's ever played with,
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Kevin Euclis there. Was a story ages ago in the I
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can't even believe I was saying this, but in in Men's Journal
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years ago, the writer Matt Taibbi did a story called The
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Upside of Ugly and it was about the benefit of having an ugly
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guy in your line up. And I remember this, this like,
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you know, because Grandpa Yogi was put forward as one of these,
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you know, ugly people. There was a line that I still
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remember. I can try to it was said
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something like, well, Mark Teixeira has a swing so
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beautiful you want to paint it. Kevin Youklas battling a middle
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reliever to a nine pitch walk. Looks like a rhinoceros trying
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to fuck a washing machine. I.
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Remember that? I remember reading it and
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reading it out loud to my colleagues at ESPN Magazine at
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the time. It's looking like, well, I
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wouldn't want I I want Kevin, you listen to light up.
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Why not? That sounds about right.
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We are talking to executive producer of It Ain't Over,
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Lindsay Berra, by the way, Yogi Berra's granddaughter, also the
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board of member at Yogi Berra Museum and the content creator
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at Team Mustard. By the way, you know Yogi, I,
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I've never met Yogi. I've heard a lot of stories
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about him. I've met Don Mattingly over the
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years. I've met Mickey Mantle when I
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was a kid. But I never got a chance to meet
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Yogi Berra and Yogi Berra with all the achievements.
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And let me let me read some of the achievements.
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Yogi Berra had 18 All Stars, 13 World Series championships,
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three time American League and VP.
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He's in Monument Park and he's one of the best Major League
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players at his position. Some people say the best catcher
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of all time. When you look at your
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grandfather and all his achievements, what is the
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achievement that sticks out the most out of all the
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achievements? He would tell you it was Don
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Larson's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.
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He never would talk to you about what he did.
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Well, he would always kind of push it off onto his teammates.
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Oh, this. Remember that game when Mickey
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hit three home runs? Or the game, You know, Donnie's
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perfect game. He was always trying to push it
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off to everybody else. My favorite of grandpa's stats.
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He won his first MVP in 19, 51, right, 51.
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But I think 1950 was his best season. 656 plate appearances,
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597 at bats, 28 home runs, 124 RBIs.
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He hit 322 and struck out 12 times in the entire season.
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I mean, that is like it's mind blowing physical challenge to
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anybody to try to make that happen, even in your Wiffle Ball
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league, because it ain't happening.
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He was just so able to put a. Catcher.
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A catcher too. Just think about it guys.
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He was a catcher who didn't strike out.
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Tell me a catcher in in history and we talk about Johnny Bench,
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Mike Piazza, Pudge Rodriguez, you can name all the great ones.
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Tell me a catcher that only struck out 12 times in a season.
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There is none and. Forget, don't forget what size
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bat he used. By the way, he wasn't using a
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toothpick. No, he was, he grandpa was only
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5, eight, 192 lbs. He swung a 3034 inch, 35 oz bat.
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I don't know. I mean that's it's heavy and the
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handles were fat. We have them in the museum.
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You can come and actually touch the handles and compare them to
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like the, you know, Jeter's bats, the bats that people use
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today. His is tremendous.
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And actually, we have a Roberto Clementi back right next to him.
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Roberto Clementi was like 165 lbs soaking wet with rocks in
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his pockets and he swung at 3636.
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That's crazy. It's it's unbelievable.
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It's when you look at the stature of Yogi Berra, 5 foot 8
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and, and the way he was hitting the ball power wise and, and
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everything that he did as a baseball player.
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It's an amazing, it's an amazing story.
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And guys, if you haven't checked it out, go check it out.
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It's on Netflix. I know people were telling.
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Me, we lost our Netflix license. It's on Amazon and Apple now
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all. Right, so Amazon and Apple, it
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is a great documentary. You get a chance to see him when
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he was a kid and how he moved forward as a baseball player all
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the way from high school to the major leagues and and really the
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back end he did he he did quit school in 8th grade and and the
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little story is is he didn't want to be a Yankee.
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He wanted I think if I'm not mistaken, he wanted to be a
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Cardinal. That's what he wanted to do.
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He wanted to play for the Saint Louis Cardinals, but I think the
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Cardinals decided to go with another player, signed another
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player. And that was when he he decided,
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hey, the Yankees gave him no offer.
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He took the Yankees offer and it was probably the best thing as
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he said, it was the best thing that ever happened to him.
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So it is a great story. He is a I again, I didn't know
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him. Joppa knew him that each your
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grandfather and there are people that I know that knew him very,
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very well and told me. He was one of the most kindest
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people you could ever talk to. And he always had a story to
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tell, always told the story. It didn't matter how many times
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he told the story. He told the story to a tee.
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It was like every time he told the story and he changed the
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story around, it was the exact same story over and over and
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over again. Everybody tells me that.
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So it is a crazy, he was a crazy unique person.
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I got a question for you. You look at all his team mates
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he's played with. You've got Mickey Mantle you
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showed. Imagine all these, all these
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guys that he played with. Who was the guy that he told you
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was his favorite to play with, and why was he the favorite his
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favorite Yankee to play with? I don't he didn't really talk
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about guys like that. He would.
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He talked about Joe Di Maggio with a lot of like awe and and
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reverence. Like I think there's a story
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about grandpa like booting a ball in one of his first games
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up behind home plate. And Di Maggio came running off
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the field after the inning and got in grandpa's face and said
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get better. And I and grandpa was terrified
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and he got better. But I think that there was a
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part of grandpa that was always a little bit terrified of Joe Di
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Maggio. So there was that.
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But as far as favorite guy to play with, I mean, he was on the
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same team for 18 years, right? These guys were so much more
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than just his teammates, like Phil Rizzuto's my father's
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godfather. You know, I grew up with Mickey
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Vandal and and Hank Bauer and Moose Scouring and White Ford
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and Eddie Lopat, Gil McDougal, all these people in and out of
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the house. They were just like friends of
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the they were grandpa's buddies, right?
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Like, and, and, you know, I think he, he loved that they
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could like put grandpa 345 with, you know, jockeying him and
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Mickey Mantle, making other teams decide like who they
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wanted to pitch to on any given day because you're screwed
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either way. I think they love screwing with
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people like that. You know, Grandpa loved calling
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games. He loved getting the most out of
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pitchers and he was really good at it.
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He just, he really loved what he did.
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And I think, I think he would have loved doing it with
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whomever you put him on the field with.
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But really, they were just his. They were his his buddies.
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I mean, they hung out till they were like 90.
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My grandfather was at, you know, Phil Rizzuto's bedside almost
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every day in the weeks before he passed.
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And and, you know, they talked to Whitey Ford on the regular.
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Like even when they're both both of their health was, was
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declining. Like, these were like really
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lifelong friendships. We're talking.
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I, I, I, I couldn't even imagine.
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I'm sitting in a house as a young kid and Mickey Mantle
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comes right in and Whitey Ford walks in, in the door and
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they're, they're sitting down. It's Uncle Whitey, you know,
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Uncle Mickey. And I'm looking around and I'm
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like, who are these guys? And I realize.
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And I was, I just, I didn't know.
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I mean, I knew they were baseball players, but I, it was
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a long time. Like, I had to get older to
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really understand, you know, just how amazing these guys,
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these guys actually were. It's crazy.
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It is. It's a crazy.
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How crazy story, how long? Because he literally would bring
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this up and and we had this conversation because I'd I'd
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like to poke the bear every once in a while.
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How long did he tell you that Jackie Robinson was out?
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Because every time he literally would be.
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But he was. He was out.
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No, he was. Out I I have never.
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I mean, he insisted he was out. I'll tell you another story
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after that, but wait, I, I, this is funny.
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So he, he always insisted Jackie was out.
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And I can't even tell you like, I mean, 1000 times people came
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up to us in restaurants or at ball games or whatever and
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they'd be like, Yogi, I got a question for you was and they'd
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get the first syllable of Jackie's name out of his bed
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and, and would go out. He was out right.
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Like totally crazy. So 2014 he's in assisted living.
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Dementia is like really bad. I used to go up in there in the
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afternoons and if it was summertime, I'd, I'd, you know,
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put the pre game show on for him or, or whatever was on Yes
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network and winter time. I put on Michael Kay's show 3-4
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o'clock whatever time it was because the baseball stuff kind
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of brought him back to reality. So I show up there one afternoon
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in November and he's got no idea what's going on.
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He doesn't know if he's had lunch, doesn't know if he wants
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dinner, thinks he's got a tee time in Tampa.
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He's late for it, totally out of it, put on Michael Kay's show.
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Michael starts talking. Grandpa kind of perks up.
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He whacks me. Linds, what's Michael talking
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about? I said, oh, he just got back
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from the general managers meetings and they approved
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instant replay for use in games. And Grandpa goes, what does that
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mean? And I'm like, oh, it means
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instead of getting all root and toot and mad when you didn't
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like the call and running out of the dugout and kicking dirt on
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people, you just point to the sky And they would get to watch
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the same replay we see at home. Exactly.
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There he is, rooting Tooting man with the veins sticking out of
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his neck. And the umpires would get to get
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to overturn the play on the field if they'd gotten the call
20:07
wrong. And I'm telling you he'd been
20:08
completely out of it 2 seconds before.
20:10
And he just says to me, So you mean Jackie would have been out?
20:13
And I was like, you know what? Yeah, Grandpa, that's, that's
20:17
that's what it means. Like you, you've got the instant
20:19
replay down. But yeah, he insisted until the
20:21
day he died that Jackie, Jackie had been out.
20:24
So I want to ask for the other perspective.
20:25
Like, obviously you're a catcher.
20:26
You're facing a lot of the guys, the batters directly in the back
20:29
to your trash talk and the hitters like that.
20:31
Well, any hitters that like that that he was saying, Oh, well,
20:34
this guy, this guy really will rile you up or even in a crazy
20:37
occurrence that he saw with some of these hitters.
20:40
He used to talk to everybody. People would like he used to
20:43
throw dirt in their shoes. And he was always asking the
20:45
ridiculous questions like, you know, how's your how's you know,
20:48
how's the wife and the kids? Did you go fishing?
20:50
How many fish did you catch the last time?
20:52
Where are you going fishing in the offseason?
20:54
And people would just be like, Yogi, shut up.
20:55
I'm trying to do my I'm trying to hit whatever.
20:57
There's a really famous one. Hank Aaron.
21:00
Was it the 58 World Series? Somebody correct me.
21:02
When do they play the Braves? And Aaron came up to bat and
21:05
grandpa again, he just would say mindless, ridiculous stuff.
21:09
And he would say, Hank, you got your bat upside down.
21:12
You got it's supposed to be so you can read the label.
21:14
And Hank very famously says, yo, getting come up here to read,
21:18
you know, so it's he just was yapping to everybody he loved.
21:22
He loved getting on everybody's case.
21:23
We are talking to his. Grandchildren.
21:26
There you go. We are talking to the executive
21:28
producer of It Ain't Over, Lindsay Barra, Yogi Berra's
21:32
granddaughter. You know, it's so funny.
21:34
I, I watched, I'm a Billy Crystal fan.
21:36
I, I love Billy Crystal. Everything about Billy is stand
21:39
up. All the movies he's been in.
21:41
I've watched a a sleepless in Seattle is what movie that I
21:45
watched when I was a kid and with the Yankees.
21:48
He's always been a part of the Yankees.
21:49
He's been the voice of the New York Yankees for forever.
21:52
Movies, television series, everything.
21:55
What was it like working with Billy Crystal?
21:59
Billy was amazing. He was he was really great.
22:02
So if you see the film, unfortunately, fortunately, I
22:07
end up narrating that movie and my choice was actually Billy
22:10
Crystal. And you know, we, we, I thought
22:13
from the beginning that that was what we were going to do.
22:15
We were going to have Billy narrate, narrate the film and he
22:17
was all on board and he does wonderful interviews in in the
22:20
film. He's just great and he was great
22:22
helping me promote it. And he he did some Q and as and
22:24
stuff and he had great stories about grandpa and you know,
22:28
Mickey Mantle and and Maris and and shooting 61 and and all that
22:32
kind of stuff. He's great.
22:34
He's a huge baseball fan, Billy, and, and just has such fond
22:37
memories of the Yankees when he was a little kid.
22:40
And you can tell when he talks about it like he's 12 when he's
22:44
telling you about like his love of the Yankees and where it came
22:47
from and all that kind of stuff. He's just he's a really a, a
22:49
great guy. I've enjoyed it and.
22:51
You know what, you want you. I laugh all the time when I
22:53
watch the movie City Slickers. He's always wearing a Mets hat
22:55
and I didn't. I never got it.
22:58
This guy's a Yankee fan and throughout the movie he's
23:01
wearing a New York Mets hat. I I never, I if I ever met and
23:05
get a chance to meet Billy Crystal, that's the first
23:07
question. That's one of the all time
23:09
funniest movies as far as I'm concerned with you in it and
23:13
you're wearing you're a die hard Yankee fan and you're a Mets
23:16
hat. It makes no sense.
23:17
Billy makes none. I just, I had to say that.
23:20
Grandpa wore Grandpa wore a Mets hat for 11 years.
23:23
That's right. Well, it's that's different.
23:25
I mean, it's Yogi Berra, Billy Crystal.
23:29
I mean it made no sense in every single movie I've ever seen him
23:33
in. I I've loved Billy.
23:35
I've everything every single movie he's ever dodged, even
23:38
stand up stuff. Him and Robin Williams and
23:40
Whoopi Goldberg when I used to watch him do stand up loved
23:43
Billy Crystal, the crystal out of all of them.
23:46
And then I see him, I watch city slickers.
23:48
I went to see City Slickers one and two in the movie theater and
23:52
I'm like, wait a second, isn't Billy Crystal a die hard Yankee
23:55
fan? What the hell is he wearing a
23:56
Mets hat for? I'd be like, I'd be like, Billy,
23:59
I got to smack you around a couple times.
24:01
No Yankee fan wears a Mets hat. None.
24:04
And, and, and Yogi actually played, you know, he worked with
24:07
the Mets. He was a part of the Mets
24:09
organization for a while. So that's OK.
24:11
Billy Crystal never played baseball.
24:13
He was a die hard Yankee fan. That's all I had to add, sorry.
24:17
He did. He played in spring training.
24:19
Oh, stop, Stop. Are you gonna he?
24:22
Took us to dinner that night too.
24:26
I mean, it was nice of him to take Who is the.
24:29
Country singer that tried to make it to the professional
24:32
baseball, but make it Garth Brooks tried to make it to
24:35
professional baseball. Yeah, I, I remember that story
24:38
and I'm like, and Garth was actually a pretty good, he was a
24:41
pretty good baseball player. He he can hit it, but he tried
24:45
out. Watched the Tom Selleck get bat
24:47
on Instagram the other day On anything on the Internet.
24:52
Mr. Baseball is one of my favorite movies too.
24:54
I love that movie when he went to Japan and that's a great
24:57
movie. By the way, if anybody has never
24:59
seen Mr. Baseball in the 1980s sensational, but you know, to
25:03
get back with your your grandfather growing up in a
25:07
family, a big family, your grandmother and I and part of
25:11
the documentary you see his love for his wife.
25:14
What was it like? I mean, the the, the
25:16
togetherness of your family. What what brought your father,
25:20
your grandfather and your grandmother together?
25:22
You're. Going to make me cry now.
25:25
My grandparents were amazing. They met at Biggie's Restaurant,
25:29
which was Stan Musial's restaurant on the Hill in Saint
25:31
Louis in 1949. And my grandfather was with Joe
25:36
Garagiola, his buddy who lived directly across the street from
25:39
him, who also made the big leagues, won a World Series with
25:44
the Cardinals. Joe used to say, you know,
25:45
usually when you make the big leagues, you're the best catcher
25:48
in your school, your town, your state, With Yogi across the
25:50
street, I wasn't even the best catcher on my block.
25:53
They used to go into Biggie's. And Grandpa Yogi sees Grammy
25:57
going in and out and he thinks she's cute.
25:59
And Joe and and Grandpa would go sit at the bar and get glasses
26:03
of water because they couldn't afford to eat at the restaurant.
26:06
And Grandpa would basically just sit there and stare at Grammy
26:08
Carmen until Joe said we got to get out of here and get
26:10
something to eat. I'm hungry.
26:12
At the beginning, she wouldn't date him because she thought
26:15
first she thought he was married, then she said she
26:17
didn't date ball players. And then she finally agrees to
26:20
go out with them and they were married like 11 months later.
26:23
But my grandfather does not get out the door if it is not for
26:26
Grammy Carmen, like for the rest of his life.
26:28
They were absolutely incredible. She would say that the reason
26:31
they were married for 65 years was because he was on the road
26:33
for half of it. I don't believe that.
26:37
It was a really amazing thing to watch.
26:39
Like, and I know it now, like, you know, we, we grow up.
26:42
You see people's relationships, some of them are great, some of
26:44
them are shitty, some of them are shitty and great, you know,
26:46
whatever. But you look at the way those
26:49
two were together and the way she was like so able to just
26:56
completely selflessly share him with every other person on the
27:00
planet who wanted a piece of him and just, they were so secure in
27:04
their relationship together. He was just absolutely smitten
27:07
with her and she loved him to death.
27:08
And it was a really cool thing to to watch.
27:10
I know. It's an amazing story.
27:12
And and he said that family meant everything and if it
27:15
wasn't for your grandmother, he wouldn't be the man he is today
27:19
or was at at that time. So it is a it's a great story.
27:23
And and I'm telling you guys, if you've never, if you're a Yogi
27:25
Berra fan and you're a Yankee fan, you have to check out this
27:30
documentary. It is, it's sensational.
27:31
I'm a documentary guru. I love documentary.
27:35
I tell Jabba all the time. I'm like, I don't even want to
27:38
watch movies anymore. I'm trying to find the next
27:40
documentary I could watch. And this is one of the best
27:42
documentaries, very well put together.
27:45
And you know, it's, it's sensational.
27:47
And, and Jabba told me a little bit about your museum.
27:50
Tell us a little bit more about your museum.
27:52
You have an event coming up very, very soon.
27:54
Tell us a little bit about the event that you have coming up
27:57
here in New York. We're really excited about this.
28:00
So it's the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center.
28:02
It's on the campus of Montclair State University.
28:05
It's 3 minutes from where I'm sitting right now.
28:07
It's actually in Little Falls, NJ.
28:09
May 12th would have been my grandfather's 100th birthday.
28:13
So we've had events all year, all summer in celebration of his
28:16
Centennial year. But our big event is September
28:19
21st. It's a Sunday, 1:00 in the
28:22
afternoon. We are going to break the
28:24
Guinness World Record for the largest game of catch on Yogi
28:28
Berra Stadium, which is the ballpark adjacent to the museum.
28:31
We need 2000 people to break the record.
28:34
We're hoping for 2528 hundred maybe.
28:37
So we need everybody go to yogisbigcatch.org and sign up.
28:41
It's going to be a super fun day.
28:42
We're going to have food trucks and music and some old Yankees
28:45
running around and and the museum's going to be open.
28:47
And then we have another very cool thing happening.
28:50
To the best of my knowledge, since my grandfather was
28:52
inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, his plaque has
28:57
been on the wall in Cooperstown. They are taking it down for that
29:00
day and driving it to New Jersey.
29:02
It's going to be at our museum just for the one day only, the
29:05
day of the big catch, so you can come and break a Guinness World
29:08
Record and have your picture taken with Grandpa Yogis plaque
29:11
in our theater. It's going to be a really great
29:12
day, so I would appreciate anybody coming out.
29:15
It's going to be a lot of fun and we don't care if you're not
29:18
good at playing catch. To break the record you only
29:20
have to be 10 feet apart and you play catch for 5 minutes and it
29:24
doesn't matter if you drop the ball.
29:25
So if you stink, we want you anyway.
29:29
Lindsay what, like what made you I know you guys.
29:32
I know you guys had an event. Like what what made you like
29:35
want to do a game of catch? Because there I mean, obviously
29:37
it's and important. I still just lost my dad five
29:41
months ago and like that I still remember, you know, playing
29:44
catching him actually letting me, you know, dive on the grass
29:47
and get grass stains and I wouldn't get in trouble for it.
29:49
So that was that was always nice when he would let me do that.
29:52
So what made you guys do this? Because I know it's it's
29:54
something special for all of us now, me being a dad myself.
29:58
Full credit goes to Eve Shane and our museum director.
30:00
It was really her idea when she and she was kind of just
30:03
thinking about the connection grandpa had with people, so many
30:06
people in our area, but also with so many people he never
30:09
met, like the impact he made on people.
30:11
And you know, you think about kids being on their phones
30:14
nowadays and nobody putting their digital stuff down to
30:18
actually like look at each other and really connect.
30:20
And when you think back to playing catch when you're a kid,
30:23
right, think about like how in tune you were with the person on
30:27
the other end of that ball and how quickly the world narrowed
30:31
to just the space between the two of you and just how nice and
30:35
sweet and pleasant all those memories are.
30:37
And it kind of transports you back to, to being a kid when
30:41
times were simple. And that was really all there
30:42
was, right? And we just kind of hope that we
30:45
can get a whole bunch of kids and, and, and dads and moms and,
30:49
and coaches and, and just folks out there and maybe feeling that
30:55
connection for a little while playing this game that they love
30:58
that my grandpa Yogi loved too. It's a great, let me tell you
31:02
something, I'm going. We're all going to go.
31:04
We're going to show up for Yogi. I know job is going.
31:07
I think job is flying, right? Job you're, you're going to the
31:10
event, right? Yeah, I'm gonna.
31:11
I'm gonna try to. It's two days before my
31:13
birthday. How old are we now?
31:15
We'll. Bring you a Cup game once we.
31:18
Come, I'll be the Big 40. Oh.
31:22
Lindsay, you're not supposed to tell my secrets.
31:24
We talked about that. I.
31:26
Didn't. Tell anyone?
31:27
Oh yeah, I. Want you to steal second?
31:29
Yeah, right. Are there?
31:30
Secrets we don't know I. Won't.
31:32
I won't go. I won't, I won't go where?
31:35
Where? I could have gone with that,
31:37
Lindsay. Oh yeah, I'm way older than you,
31:39
so I'm allowed to tell you, you said.
31:40
It I didn't, I wasn't going to get.
31:41
Way older than you. I wasn't going to get in.
31:43
Trouble. Well, well, hold on one second.
31:45
Way much older than you. How?
31:47
How much older are you? I mean, come on, Lindsay.
31:50
I'm 47. I'm 40.
31:52
Three, I'm 43. Than you too then.
31:56
Age is just a number, baby. OK, so as I tell everybody on
31:59
the show, anybody that's younger than me, they're what did I call
32:02
them Speedy? They're.
32:03
All babies. They're all babies.
32:07
Near children. Near children, I pat them on the
32:10
back. So if I see Jabba, obviously
32:12
Jabba is 6 foot three. I'm 510.
32:15
I'll, I'll climb his back to you.
32:20
Ain't climbing nothing, bro. No.
32:23
Where's my ladder? Good.
32:27
I'm good on, I'm good on the climbing.
32:29
But we're going to go to the event and we're going to try to
32:32
bring as many people as we possibly can because I'm a big
32:36
I, I'm actually wearing authentic Yogi Berra jersey.
32:39
Authentic. It's a, it's a beautiful jersey.
32:41
I own very few Yankee jerseys. I'm a Yankee fan, but one of
32:46
Jersey. What is that?
32:47
No. This is unique.
32:48
I'll show you I I don't think you've ever seen anything like
32:50
this. I thought it was a Newark Bears
33:16
no. No, no, no.
33:17
Look at that. Look this.
33:18
It's not that. Off the wish website or
33:20
something, no? It's his minor league jersey.
33:22
Oh no, you know, if it's his minor league grit that is the
33:25
it's Norfolk. Norfolk, yeah, yeah, the.
33:28
Norfolk Tars Yes, this is a real.
33:31
Name on Well, I know obviously this is a real jersey over here
33:36
and I didn't. What are you, what are you
33:38
trying to say, Jabba? Were you saying my jerseys
33:40
aren't real? They're not good enough for you.
33:43
You know what I've Jabba hates us calling him Groba.
33:49
Groba. He.
33:50
Hates us calling Joe. All right, so, so, So what I
33:54
did, Lindsay, So what I did is I got his Nebraska jersey, he's
33:59
#62 and instead of having Jabba put on the back of his jersey, I
34:04
put Joe JOBA. No Joe Apostrophe BA.
34:11
Joe BA And I'm getting it. When I see Joba, I'm going to
34:14
have him sign it and I'm going to station it right in our
34:21
studio. I, I love messing with him.
34:23
And it, it's been a crazy ride we've had over the last past
34:27
year. And I, I don't know if you knew
34:29
this, Jabba came on our show as a guest and when he came on the
34:33
show, he told me, well, Speedy told me right over here.
34:36
He told me 20 minutes, 20 minutes, that's all Jabba's got.
34:39
And before you know it, this guy is on on the call for about an
34:43
hour and 20 minutes. He takes over the conversation
34:46
and I'm like I said, I thought you only wanted to be on for 20
34:48
minutes. He started laughing.
34:50
And then before you know it, the Yankees, the Yankees were in the
34:54
playoffs. And he reached out to me and
34:55
said, yo, could we could we do something for the Yankee game
34:58
and for Yankees Cleveland. I said, yeah, let's do
35:01
something. So I said, let's do like a
35:03
podcast. So we did it together.
35:05
We worked very, very good together.
35:07
And I said, you know what, Let's, let's put something
35:09
together and create a podcast. And, and since since then, we've
35:13
been a top 200 podcast in the country right now and on Spotify
35:18
and Apple. And we're doing 6, We're very
35:21
successful. We're doing sensational work
35:23
right now. And I, I, I don't think there's
35:25
better content in the industry than ours.
35:28
So I, I think it's great. And Jabba's been unique because
35:31
I, I wouldn't expect Jabba know anything more than baseball, but
35:34
he actually knows a lot more than people think.
35:41
But I, the best thing about this show is, is, is really sticking
35:45
it to Jabba. You know, you have to find ways
35:47
to get onto his skin. And when he and when you get
35:49
onto his skin, he's like, he's like a wolf and a bear put
35:53
together. I, I swear he, he, if he can
35:55
jump through the screen and bite your head off, I think he would.
35:58
So true story on that. I.
36:00
Will transform into a wolf and a bear hybrid when he when you
36:03
when you allegedly try to climb on him.
36:07
Did grandpa get your name right? Did grandpa always call you Java
36:10
properly? Because I my favorite was he
36:13
always called Robbie Canoe. But you never correct him.
36:19
You just that was just the way it is.
36:21
I corrected him all the time. I was like, canoe.
36:23
Who's canoe? Oh, I couldn't imagine you knew
36:26
you. Would do that my dad.
36:27
My dad would always say when that would happen, he'd be like,
36:30
you knew who I was talking about, right?
36:32
And then you were like, yeah, you're, I guess you're right.
36:35
I couldn't imagine your father trying to pronounce my name.
36:38
I couldn't imagine it. Oh, I couldn't.
36:40
He'd have probably called you like, you look like a Brit, so
36:42
he's going to call you Brit. That's the way.
36:46
That's what he would remember you.
36:47
But like, yeah, it literally that's what he would do.
36:49
One of my favorite was Old Timer's Day when Yogi and Whitey
36:54
would get together and then they would go and they would sit in
36:57
the training room. They would tell stories and
37:00
Whitey would have a Bud heavy and they would just be sitting
37:02
there. And I remember my first Old
37:04
Timer's Day, I was literally like, I did.
37:06
I don't think I moved. I was like, is this like really
37:08
happening? Like, what am I watching right
37:11
now? I was like, it just those
37:15
stories and I I can only imagine.
37:17
And it's, it's so cool for you because it's like, that's just,
37:21
that was normal. Like that was just hey, that's
37:23
that, that's grandpa's friends. Like hey, just they're hanging
37:27
out like, and then you're like, Oh yeah, they're kind of cool.
37:30
But no, they make fun of me and pick on me.
37:32
And that's, I mean, that's just the greatest thing.
37:34
And it's always, always so fun, you know, because you never
37:39
know. He just all of a sudden, only
37:41
thing you could count on, it was him and Gator in spring
37:44
training. And I think, I think the first
37:48
time I had frog legs was of course, Gator brought them.
37:52
And always look forward because Gator would get there a couple
37:55
days early. He's like, I got to get ready.
37:56
I got to pick up Yogi at 2:00. And then it'd be like we're
37:59
doing frog legs next week. And I'm like, I'm from Nebraska.
38:02
We have, I'd never ever. He's like, you have to try them
38:05
and then you know, you'd get something from from Yogi and
38:08
it'll just be like, what? You can't say no at that point,
38:11
can you? But yeah, that that was another
38:13
relationship. It was always so cool to watch
38:14
those two. And I mean, they were thick as
38:17
thieves together in spring training and just it, it was
38:20
really, really fun to watch those guys.
38:22
Gator became sort of like the the his fourth son and and he's
38:25
been tremendous with the museum. He Co hosts our golf outing now
38:28
and he will actually be there with us on September 21st.
38:32
So does he. Still have great hair.
38:35
He does have great hair actually.
38:36
He's the best accent. I could listen to Gator read the
38:39
phone book I love. I love this 100%, but he's, he's
38:43
got the, you know, if if anyone is interested in reading a good
38:46
book, Harvey Araton wrote this book called Driving Mr. Yogi
38:49
about Gator running grandpa around spring training.
38:52
And the stories that Gator tells about like grandpa following a
38:56
busty woman around the frozen food section at the supermarket
39:00
or picking, picking the, the one he tells all the time is him,
39:05
him dropping grandpa off at the airport to go film the Aflac
39:07
commercial and then picking him up on the back end.
39:10
And, and I mean, I'm butchering and, and shortening a very long
39:15
story that Gator tells and it's great.
39:16
But when grandpa Yogi jumps back in in Gator's truck, he Gator's
39:20
like, how was it Yog? And he says, you know, Gator,
39:22
the, the duck don't talk. And the way Gator tells that
39:26
story is tremendous. But they were, they were just
39:29
really great pals. Gator still refers to him as his
39:32
little buddy. Wow, Lindsay, we really
39:34
appreciate you. You're sensational.
39:36
We'd love to get you on again. I didn't expect you to be on as
39:39
long as you were because you know, usually everybody rushes
39:43
20 minutes like Java, 20 minutes, 20 minutes and it turns
39:46
into. Told me that I was going to be
39:47
in my pajamas and I would. Stay and then I would go to bed.
39:50
So end of story. You know what's so funny about
39:53
Nathan? If you know anything about
39:54
Nathan, he wears this blue blazer.
39:56
OK, It's it's a very common picture.
39:59
And and we got to get our executive producer to post up.
40:02
I have you ever seen him wear this configuration of clothes?
40:06
I mean, seriously, Lindsay, this is one of the worst dressing
40:09
people I've ever seen in my entire life.
40:11
Go ahead, fish. Let's.
40:12
It's bad. You you have to see this.
40:15
You have to see this. This is like really, really bad.
40:18
Lindsay. I'm I'm trying to help him.
40:20
We need to take him shopping. This is somebody that really
40:24
needs like we need to take him out for a suit or some kind of
40:29
opportunity. Do we have it?
40:30
Is it up? Do we have it?
40:32
Mr. Fish, here it is. Hold on, Here it is.
40:35
Could you imagine wearing something of that?
40:37
Like the camo? He's got the Plaid with the
40:39
camo. He's mixing Prince I.
40:41
I mean, come on, mixing. I mean, that is probably the
40:44
worst dresser I've ever seen in my entire life.
40:47
I I mean a red shirt, but a red polo shirt with a blue blazer.
40:51
And it looks like he just came out of the service.
40:58
Oh man, what a what a man you come.
41:01
To the catch and you can just wear sneakers and then and a
41:04
Yogi T-shirt there you. Go and and we're I'm definitely
41:07
going to go I'm going to get the boys to go and we I'm looking
41:10
forward to getting a chance to meet you and hopefully Jabba can
41:14
get a chance to go down there. It's a it's a great opportunity
41:17
to get a chance to celebrate one of the greatest baseball
41:20
players, one of the greatest Yankees of all time and get a
41:23
check, get a chance to check out his museum and all the different
41:27
things that you you'll have the opportunity to do at this event.
41:30
Tell the tell the fans one more time what day and how they can
41:34
find this and and sign up for it.
41:38
So it's September 21st, gates open at 11:30.
41:41
The big catch is happening at 1:00.
41:45
You sign up at Yogi's big catch.org.
41:49
If you don't have a MIT, we're going to have one for you.
41:51
No need to bring baseballs. We've got those show up with
41:57
five 1035 of your closest friends will be greatly
42:01
appreciative of it. And, and again, we got the food
42:03
trucks and the music and the Hall of Fame plaque in the
42:05
theater and it's just going to be a super fun day there.
42:07
It's on the campus of Montclair State University, Yogi Berra
42:10
Museum and Learning Center and hopefully we break this Guinness
42:13
World Record. There was just an article in the
42:15
New York Times Sunday magazine that said the hardest thing
42:19
about breaking Guinness World Records.
42:20
No one can do it now as you can't get people to show up and
42:24
you can't get people to get off their butt, put their phones
42:27
down, get off the couch and show up in person to do stuff.
42:30
So we wanna we wanna prove them wrong.
42:32
Wow. I like to show up to things.
42:34
I just get my I get in trouble sometimes when I show up to
42:37
things, doing the things. By the way, I broke a record, a
42:40
gayness book of world record I'm not gonna mention.
42:42
Hold on, a what? Guinness Book A World record
42:48
Guinness Guinness. Guinness.
42:50
Guinness, I didn't know if there, I didn't know if there
42:52
was another book out there. Be quiet, Jabba.
42:55
Shut your mouth. Shut your mouth, Jabba.
42:57
All right, I this is what I got to deal with.
43:00
He's doing the picking on now tonight.
43:02
I I mean, this is the guy that I pick on during the show.
43:05
And now right in front of Lindsay and the granddaughter of
43:09
one of the greatest baseball players of all time, he's
43:11
picking on me. What are you drinking over
43:13
there, Jabba? Water.
43:17
I know I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm just trying to get you here.
43:20
Hydrated guy? Yeah.
43:21
He does. He hydrates.
43:22
I'm hydrating too. But I I've been staying away
43:25
from sugar, ladies and gentlemen.
43:27
I don't have a shaker. What is?
43:28
That right there. What is that right there?
43:30
What bottle is water bottle? Oh, all right.
43:34
Interesting. Mustard.
43:35
That's right. I work for.
43:36
Mustard Tea House is pitching out Team Mustard.
43:39
Check it out. How do they find your your team
43:42
mustard? Is there a website to find Team
43:45
Mustard? Teammstrd.com at Team MSTRD on
43:50
Insta and Twitter and the TikTok and all the places Tom, it's
43:54
Tom, the great Tom House pitching coach put his brain
43:58
into an app so you can kind of have him in your pocket.
44:00
Gives you a pitching bio, mechanics, feedback and we also
44:05
partnered with Golf Digest and built the app in in golf.
44:08
And you can get coached by Justin Rose and his swing coach
44:11
Mark Blackburn. So we've got mustard baseball
44:13
and and mustard golf. Well, Lindsay, as always, Errol.
44:17
Likes honey mustard? I do, I'm a big honey mustard
44:20
fan. Love it, but it has to be sweet.
44:23
It can't be. If it tastes anything like
44:24
mustard I get sick. I I have like this like I get
44:28
this like gagging feeling in my chest if I if I actually taste
44:31
mustard. You have very strong feelings
44:33
about mustard. It's really amazing.
44:35
I, I don't like it. I really don't.
44:37
And, and I'm not a hot dog eater, but if I eat a hot dog,
44:39
it's, it's got to have relish and some kind of ketchup, not a
44:43
lot of ketchup, but some kind of ketchup.
44:45
So, and then I have to have Heinz ketchup.
44:49
So just so you know, I it can't be any any other ketchup.
44:52
It's got to be Hans So and Jabba.
44:54
What are you looking at right now?
44:55
What are you? Here he goes.
44:57
He goes with his mouth. Yeah.
44:59
What are you going to say? Nothing.
45:02
I was just. I only heard half of what you
45:04
said right there. You're cutting in and out.
45:06
Oh, are you? I don't know why I'm cutting in
45:08
and out. Anyways, Lindsay, we really
45:10
appreciate the time. Keep up the good work and we
45:13
will be there. We will be there September 21st
45:16
to support Yogi and all the great things that he has done
45:19
and what you're doing right now throughout the community.
45:24
Thank you guys so much for having me on.
45:25
I really appreciate it. Java, great to see you.
45:28
Nice to see. You.
45:29
And I'm going to bed, Lindsay. Berra, ladies and gentlemen,
45:38
Yogi Berra's granddaughter, sensational, great personality,
45:42
knows her baseball. Could you imagine, ladies and
45:45
gentlemen? And like I said, I have a new
45:47
mic and people say it's puffing or whatever.
45:50
I, I know that the sound is perfect.
45:52
So it doesn't matter if it's puffing or whatever.
45:54
I will say this. Could you imagine being a kid
45:57
and sitting in the house and Mickey Mantle walks in the door,
46:01
Whitey Ford walks in the door, Phil Rizzuto walks in the door,
46:05
and they're just sitting in a round table and having a
46:08
conversation. And you grow up and you're like,
46:11
I just sat next to one of the greatest switch hitters of all
46:14
time, one of the greatest infielders of all time, and my
46:18
grandfather is one of the greatest catchers of all time.
46:21
And I didn't even know who they were when they were sitting
46:22
there when I was a kid. So it is an unbelievable story.
46:26
It really is. And it's sensational.
46:28
And I'd like to thank Lindsay for joining us.
46:30
I know she's a busy person. September 21st, we'll all we'll
46:34
talk. Well, we'll, we'll set up a
46:36
carpool. We should all go down support
46:38
Yogi Berra and what she's doing right now.
46:40
It's a sensational story. Thank you very much, Lindsay,
46:43
for joining us. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
46:46
the one and only speedy stat of the day.
46:49
The speedy. Well, you may run like me, but
46:54
you hit like out of the way. All right, so Fish was hinting
46:59
at the Amari Cooper trade or Amari Cooper re signing with the
47:02
Raiders in his sports minute and there was another guy that
47:05
requested a trade as a result and a guy that kind of gotten
47:09
undervalued because he's not a big touchdown guy, not a big big
47:11
play guy. But Jacoby Myers, since started
47:14
with the Patriots, has been consistently one of the best
47:17
slot receivers in the NFL for the last four years, and now
47:21
he's going to be on the market. 1 of 10 receivers who has 67
47:25
catches and 800 yards in the last four years.
47:28
That's all receivers, not just slot receivers. 90% contested
47:31
catch rate from the slot. 11.8 yards per game or per catch.
47:35
LED slot receivers 2 years ago when Josh McDaniels got fired,
47:39
but last year was only used less than 20% from the slot. 19.6.
47:43
So the Raiders inevitably going to move him.
47:45
Is there a good team that could be a good fit for somebody like
47:48
him? Who are you talking about?
47:49
Jacoby Myers. Jacoby Myers, I remember him
47:52
with the New England Patriots. He's a wide receiver.
47:55
You can put him in the slot. I I think he's more of a #2.
47:58
He's not a number one. There will be teams interested
48:00
in Jacoby Myers. I could see the Browns.
48:02
The Browns need another wide receiver.
48:04
There are maybe The Jets. If The Jets are looking for a #2
48:08
guy, I don't even know if he's a #2.
48:09
He's more of a #3. But there are teams looking for
48:13
some offensive talent. I just don't know if Jacoby
48:16
Myers is a guy that I don't know how.
48:18
What is he making right now? Is he making 14,000,000?
48:20
Ten and a half million in the. Last year, he's making, he's not
48:23
making a lot of money. So maybe how about the Green
48:26
Bay? Well, the Green Bay trackers are
48:27
looking to possibly move Watson. Maybe they.
48:29
They also have like all all slot type receivers anyway already.
48:33
I don't know. I I don't know who's going to be
48:35
interested in them, but there's definitely a market for him.
48:38
He's a wide receiver and teams need offense.
48:41
So yes, there's absolutely a market.
48:45
All right, Speedy, great job with the stat of the day.
48:48
Jacoby Myers might be on the. Move and here's another thing,
48:53
there's there's a lot of wide wide receivers Alave is up on
48:57
and he could be on the move. There's Watson on the Green Bay
48:59
Packers. He's he could be on the move
49:02
over the next couple of days. I mean, there are so many wide
49:05
receivers that could be possibly moving from one team to another.
49:09
There are teams looking for that number two guy.
49:11
I, I mentioned The Jets, the Browns don't even have a number
49:14
one guy. They have all three number three
49:16
guys. Miami has the two Tyrique Tyree
49:21
kill and they have Jay and waddle.
49:24
So maybe they move Tyree kill sometime this year.
49:27
I think they will Tyree kill could be on the move at the
49:30
trade deadline. Don't be surprised if Kansas
49:32
City is that team that could make the move to a Tyree kill at
49:35
the trade downline. But there are teams out there
49:38
looking for a wide receiver. I just, I, I, it's hard to
49:41
believe that the Raiders would want to move him when they don't
49:44
even have it. They don't really have a number
49:45
one wide receiver either on that roster.
49:47
They have Brock. Bauer Yeah, they drafted 2 of
49:49
them this year. Who?
49:51
Who? Hoping that they could pad out
49:53
Jack Beck was a third round pick and then he's.
49:55
Not a number one, no I. I, I don't think any either of
49:57
them are #1 and then a kid Thornton who did a six round
50:00
pick who's done very well in the in the preseason.
50:02
Come on, I don't trust either of them either to be.
50:04
Jacoby Myers is better than both of them, of course, so why would
50:07
they? Why would they move Jacoby
50:08
Myers? It makes no, absolutely no
50:10
sense. That's what I'm saying.
50:11
No, no guaranteed money on Myers contract.
50:14
So he does he thinks like if he gets hurt, they're just going to
50:17
cut him, right? So he wants to get a new
50:19
contract that has guaranteed money for the season.
50:21
If they don't get him that he's just not he's just going to sit
50:25
out. It's not like you can trade him.
50:26
He's not going to have that contract.
50:28
Someone's going to have to pay that guy or he's not playing
50:30
Nah. Patriots might take him back at
50:32
that point the. Patriots don't need him.
50:34
We've. Seen everything?
50:35
Who's going to pay it? Every team's capitulated.
50:38
I mean Seattle has no one opposite JSN the.
50:41
Jets don't have anybody on the opposite of Garrett Wilson.
50:44
Said Garrett Wilson is another good one.
50:46
There's, there's, there are teams.
50:47
What do you don't like Alan Lazard?
50:49
No, Alan. Lazard is on the IR.
50:51
He might not be back until week 7.
50:53
A week 8. Alan Lazard is poor man Jacoby
50:55
Myers. So that's what I'm saying.
50:57
I, I mean, The Jets don't really have a number 2, but there are
50:59
the teams that don't have number twos either.
51:01
I mean, do the Giants have a number 2?
51:04
Oh hell yeah. Got numbers, twos, threes, 4.
51:06
We got one through 99 on the team crushing it.
51:09
I'm sure and it's. Every roster number that can
51:11
happen. There are teams out there that
51:13
really don't have number twos, but Jacoby Myers is probably if
51:18
you were larious. Sladen is better than anyone The
51:20
Jets have is a #2. I don't know I, I, I have to
51:24
look at The Jets roster. Al Lazar when he's healthy is
51:28
all right, but The Jets are there.
51:30
What I've heard is The Jets are making a they're trying to make
51:34
a run at a Lave. I could see them getting a Lave.
51:37
The question is what do they have to get give up to get
51:39
somebody like a Lave there? So I'm interested to see what
51:42
The Jets do in the next week, week and a half.
51:44
But I don't think there are a couple of teams not done with
51:47
the their rosters and and where they're going, where they're
51:50
going with their rosters. The Jets made two trades already
51:53
for defensive lineman, so I don't think The Jets are done.
51:55
All right, ladies and gentlemen, thank you to Lindsay Barra for
51:59
joining us. She was fantastic.
52:01
Thank you very much Lindsay for joining us and putting the time
52:04
in. It was about an hour she was on
52:05
and she did a job. She did a job and that that her
52:09
stories were sensational. Really sweet woman and go check
52:14
her out. Go check out the the event
52:17
September 21st and we will post it up on our social medias.
52:22
We'll post it up on our website. So anybody that has not bought
52:26
tickets or got a chance to go and check out Yogi, as Jabba is
52:30
showing you guys right now, the Yoki Museum in New Jersey,
52:34
they're well, they're going to be there.
52:35
They're trying to break a gain a Gainus book of world record.
52:39
So and yeah, so congratulations to the Berra family, a
52:45
sensational woman and sensational family.
52:47
Great story and one of the greatest baseball players ever
52:50
to live. Thank you to all the fans on all
52:53
the social media, some Spotify and Apple and Spotify and Apple
52:56
video and audio. Thank you for all the fans for
52:59
doing what you're doing, downloading and listening to us
53:01
every single day. TikTok, Facebook, Instagram X,
53:06
all of them. Thank you job in the mouth.
53:08
You can check us out on all the different paths of YouTube from
53:13
Worldwide Sports Radio Network. No job in the mouth.
53:15
Thank you to all the fans for tuning in and checking out all
53:18
the different content we're posting up throughout the week.
53:21
So and, and Speedy, thank you for being a pain in the ass as
53:25
you always are. But Speedy, let me ask you a
53:27
question before we go. When was the last time you
53:31
washed that hat? Washed the hat.
53:33
Yeah, clean that hat. I mean, look at look at the dust
53:36
on that hat. It looks like he put it in his.
53:39
It is pretty dusty. It is one of the ugly.
53:41
I'm going. To say since never.
53:43
He never cleaned that hat, man. It looks like he stuck it in
53:46
like a dryer or something. I don't know.
53:48
It's pretty dusty. It's bad, it's bad.
53:50
I got to clean it up. Anyways, we'll be back on
53:52
Wednesday. Who do we have on the show 9.
53:54
45, another son of a sibling, I guess you could say, of a former
53:59
baseball player. Jaden Fielder will be coming on,
54:01
who's the son of Prince Fielder and the grandson of Cecil
54:03
Fielder. 3rd generation coming on a show and Cecil Fielder, one
54:07
of the greatest power hitters of the 80s and.
54:09
And now you look at Prince. Prince was a pretty good power
54:12
hitter too. And the.
54:13
Amount of home runs, yeah, my favorites that ever.
54:15
Great story and looking forward to getting him on the show and,
54:19
and, and thank you to Nathan for getting him on the show as well.
54:21
So and thank you to Nathan for Lindsay getting and and reaching
54:25
out to her and getting her on a show as well.
54:27
We will be back on Wednesday. Until then, this is Errol,
54:31
Jabba, Speedy and the boys saying goodnight and we'll talk
54:35
to you then. Goodnight everybody.
54:39
Jabba takes it up the ass.