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AJ Pierzynski on Tim Kurkjian’s “Is This A Great Game, Or What?” · Foul Territory

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Is this a great game or what
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  Speaker 1: with the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkshon. I'm his son,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Jeff Kirkshon. Another day at Ironhill Brewery here in the
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: East Market, that day two of live podcasting, and oh
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: my gosh, what a night we had for home run
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  Speaker 1: derby action last night.
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  Speaker 2: At Citizens Bank Park.
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  Speaker 3: It was a celebration of baseball last night, Jeff, which
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  Speaker 3: I told you is what the All Star Game was
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: supposed to be about. It's three days of great baseball
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  Speaker 3: from Roddery and last night that was the most dramatic
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  Speaker 3: home run derby that I've ever covered, and I've covered
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  Speaker 3: every one of them. Jordan Walker needed to hit a
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  Speaker 3: home run in each of his final six swings in
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  Speaker 3: order to beat the hometown favorite Kyle Schwarber, and then
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  Speaker 3: he did it. It was incredible. I've never seen anything
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  Speaker 3: quite like it.
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  Speaker 4: And I interviewed Walker for radio right after the game
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  Speaker 4: and I said, you know, you sent a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people from Philadelphia home really unhappy.
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  Speaker 3: Are you okay with that? He goes, I am very
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  Speaker 3: okay with doing that. That's how great the night was.
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  Speaker 3: And it was so good. The Philly fans were so
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  Speaker 3: much gosh, Yeah, Babe booed Wilson Catrere's had.
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  Speaker 4: A home run derby.
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  Speaker 3: I don't ever remember that happening, not like to that extent.
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  Speaker 3: And yet Wilson Katreras thought it was thought it was
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  Speaker 3: great that they he played in the village so beautifully
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  Speaker 3: last night.
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  Speaker 4: That made that was really special.
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  Speaker 3: Also, you know, living in the suburbs of Philly, my
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  Speaker 3: wife and I are raising two Phillies fans at this point.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter loves the Phillies. Our son is five weeks old.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't know it yet, but he's gonna love him too.
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  Speaker 1: But my mother in law was on the couch watching
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  Speaker 1: the home run derby with us, and listen. She is
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  Speaker 1: an incredible grandmother, incredible mom, a great Catholic, and she
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  Speaker 1: was she was upset that the fans were at the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game, and I said, listen, this is Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing that really upset her was when the
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  Speaker 1: booze would come in when kids would shy away from
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  Speaker 1: catching a ball in the outfield, And I said, Nana,
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  Speaker 1: the difference is when they make a great catch, they're
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  Speaker 1: screaming louder than some of the home runs.
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  Speaker 4: That were hit.
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  Speaker 1: So they want to see great plays. They want to
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  Speaker 1: see these kids out there. I thought, Dad, and you
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  Speaker 1: said this before when we were chatting.
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  Speaker 2: The energy.
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  Speaker 3: The electricity in that stadium was that of World Series
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  Speaker 3: caliber level, and I think that's part of the reason
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  Speaker 3: why some of these players were thinking.
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  Speaker 4: I did not expect. Usually in years.
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  Speaker 3: Past, when I've gone to home run Derby's, I would
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  Speaker 3: say it's a little more laxed, right, It's a little
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  Speaker 3: more fun because the structure is not like that of
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  Speaker 3: a baseball game, and this was completely different. This was
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  Speaker 3: Playoff caliber energy.
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  Speaker 4: It was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And Kyle Schwarber was Kyle Schwarber last night, which is
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  Speaker 3: all we want him to be is just be his genuine,
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  Speaker 3: authentic rank entertaining else.
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  Speaker 4: He's not there for him, He's there for the crowd.
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  Speaker 3: He wants everybody to have an amazing time at Citizens
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  Speaker 3: Bank Park, and they did, even though they lost, to
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  Speaker 3: be lost by one homer to Jordan Walker.
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  Speaker 4: It was absolutely fabulous.
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  Speaker 3: I reviewed him on the radio and he said, look
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  Speaker 3: at I said him, first question, like everyone in the
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  Speaker 3: stands is screaming standing your name, and he said, this
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  Speaker 3: place is the greatest. I've never seen anything quite like
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  Speaker 3: this and that's what made the home run Derby so
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  Speaker 3: so good. I know the hometown heroes didn't end up
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  Speaker 3: taking it home for Kyle Schwber or Bryce Harper, but
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  Speaker 3: nonetheless it was a home run derby.
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  Speaker 2: To remember.
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  Speaker 1: My buddies in my group text we call it balls life.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they mostly lead with football and sometimes tennis
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  Speaker 1: and other sports. But they all agreed it was an
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable structure. We were worried about, no timer, how many
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  Speaker 1: balls are people going to be taking? But ultimately I
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  Speaker 1: think the structure really did prove that this is a
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  Speaker 1: good way of going about right.
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  Speaker 4: And Jordan Walker deserved to win because he.
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  Speaker 3: Never lost his pois knowing I make one more out
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  Speaker 3: here and it's all over. And he's the first Cardinal
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  Speaker 3: ever to win the home run Derby. So Mark Maguire
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  Speaker 3: never did, Albert Poolhol never did.
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  Speaker 2: You would think so, David ex nine never did.
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  Speaker 4: And what was your point about.
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  Speaker 3: Jordan Walker when you look at him my favorite, Well,
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  Speaker 3: the Cardinals have had the same jerseys for years.
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  Speaker 2: He looks like he could have played.
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  Speaker 3: With Lou Brock, right, you know that many years ago,
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  Speaker 3: because he's got that beautiful go team that makes it
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  Speaker 3: look like he made the nineteen eighty one All Star
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  Speaker 3: team and he's only twenty four, right, And his parents
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  Speaker 3: were in the crowd and they were like cheering.
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  Speaker 4: They ran on the shields.
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  Speaker 3: After the game, they went right into the the you
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  Speaker 3: know the interview on Netflix, like the TV interview that
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  Speaker 3: dad was in there. It was just such a beautiful,
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  Speaker 3: beautiful celebration and the whole father and son thing. Jeff
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  Speaker 3: just really does it for me at these things when
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  Speaker 3: a father pitches to a son. Ben Rice's dad pitched
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  Speaker 3: to him last night, and Jack Kagle oons pitch to
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  Speaker 3: him last night. So I talked to his dad and
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  Speaker 3: he said, you know, he's a high school baseball coach
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  Speaker 3: and he said, yeah, I throw five hundred VP pitches
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  Speaker 3: every day still, So it wasn't like he wasn't prepared
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  Speaker 3: for this. And he said his son called him and said,
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  Speaker 3: anyone want to go.
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  Speaker 4: To Philadelphia when he found out.
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  Speaker 3: He's in the home run Derby and his dad, of
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  Speaker 3: course was the first drive everything. Yes, yeah, And I said,
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  Speaker 3: did you throw to him like every day when he
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  Speaker 3: was a kid, and he goes, oh three times a day.
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  Speaker 3: He would call me at work and say, Dad, when
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  Speaker 3: are you coming home? We have to hit and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: they would hit three times during a day and after
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  Speaker 3: dinner he would say, can we go hit again?
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  Speaker 4: Like unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, Jack Kaglione has a size seventeen
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  Speaker 3: shoes now seventeen.
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  Speaker 4: I wear that.
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  Speaker 3: I wear a seven and a half. So Rabbi and
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  Speaker 3: I Carl Rabbits and I he wears a seven and
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  Speaker 3: a half. Also together our shoe size is a fifteen goodbye,
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  Speaker 3: and he's wearing a seventeen.
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  Speaker 4: So I asked him, what's the deal with your feet?
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  Speaker 3: And he goes, He goes, I went through more shoes
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  Speaker 3: than any kid has ever and he said his dad
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  Speaker 3: told me, he said when he was eleven years old.
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  Speaker 4: He said, I was wearing his hand me down shoes,
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  Speaker 4: my son's.
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  Speaker 3: When he was eleven years old, and he would always say, Dad,
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  Speaker 3: I need new shoes. And he said, Jack, I just
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  Speaker 3: bought you new shoes three months ago, because well, I
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  Speaker 3: grew out of them already. So these are some of
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  Speaker 3: the million stories that you get at when you come
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  Speaker 3: to All Star game like this, where dad's and fathers
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  Speaker 3: and fathers and sons, it's so so good.
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  Speaker 2: Who else did you see when you were on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I saw Mary Bonds last night. He never had
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  Speaker 4: a bad moment with Barry Bonds, let's be clear.
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  Speaker 3: But I haven't had a whole lot of warm moments
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  Speaker 3: with Barry Bonds either. Okay, but I saw him on
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  Speaker 3: the field last night and he walked by me and
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  Speaker 3: I looked at him, and he came over and he
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  Speaker 3: shook my hand. So I told him the Will's alistoris
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  Speaker 3: zalatoris story. You know, the golfer we had on that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he grew up as Verry Bonds his favorite.
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  Speaker 3: He loved Barry Bonds more than anything, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he grew up in the Bay Area. He grew up
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  Speaker 3: in that era of Bonds, JT. Snow and those great teams.
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  Speaker 1: And you asked him, You said, well, if you got
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  Speaker 1: to meet Barry Bond, first of all, yes him, if
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  Speaker 1: he had, and he hadn't. He said, if you got
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  Speaker 1: to meet it, what's the first question you would ask him?
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  Speaker 4: And he Will said, how many shots you want up front? Nine?
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  Speaker 4: Which so I related this to Barry Bonds.
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  Speaker 3: And he laughed out loud, which is not easy to
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  Speaker 3: do sometimes. And he goes, tell him, I need at
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  Speaker 3: least one shot per whole. So so that's nine shots
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  Speaker 3: on the front nine. And Barry, I'm sure, is a
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  Speaker 3: great player, but he's not will Zlatour's that's for sure. Well,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna have to report back to Will and let
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  Speaker 3: him know that you actually asked him the question that
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  Speaker 3: he wanted to ask Barry Bonds because to make that
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  Speaker 3: connection would be ready. And I also saw Ken Griffey
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  Speaker 3: Junior last night because he always comes to the Home
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  Speaker 3: Run Derby and he brings with him his camera because
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  Speaker 3: he's a great photographer, much like Randy Johnson is. So
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  Speaker 3: here the only three time winner of the Home Run
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  Speaker 3: Derby is like going through all the players, shaking everybody's hand,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm thinking, this is Ken Griffith Junior.
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  Speaker 4: But he sees me.
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  Speaker 3: I see him like once a year. Now, we don't
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  Speaker 3: cross bass all the time. But again last night he
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  Speaker 3: looked at me and he just said, you know, people retire,
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  Speaker 3: You know that, right, So it was his way of saying,
• 8:18
  Speaker 3: you're allowed to retire whatever you want.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm thinking, all right, I'm sixty nine years old.
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  Speaker 3: I get your point, but you don't have to say
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  Speaker 3: that every time you see me. Yeah, we launched this
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  Speaker 3: podcast in retirement age, so this is your backup plan
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  Speaker 3: if you ever retire.
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  Speaker 2: We're still gonna keep doing this. This a great game
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  Speaker 2: or what?
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  Speaker 4: Right? Right? Absolutely? So.
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  Speaker 3: I also saw Mike Trout last night with his two
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  Speaker 3: little kids, and on this show we've mentioned many times
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  Speaker 3: that my first grandson, Carson, is a big, big Pokemon fan.
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  Speaker 4: So I went and talked to Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Trout briefly yesterday before the game about Pokemon cards and said,
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: my five year old loves loves Pokemon, and he got
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  Speaker 3: the biggest smile in his face.
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  Speaker 4: I said, I'm taking into the Pokemon store a few times.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Trout thought that was the greatest thing ever.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you saw Jacob Misrawski's glove.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, the All Star Special glove features a charred card
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  Speaker 3: in the glove. Right, I've never seen anything like it before. Right,
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  Speaker 3: And your sister Kelly Call sent me that picture this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I've told you this before. He carries this
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  Speaker 3: in his glove. It's absolutely price. So it was a
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  Speaker 3: great night at the home run Derby. Philadelphia really showed
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  Speaker 3: well last night, the fans, everyone was great. And now
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  Speaker 3: now we get the All Star game.
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  Speaker 4: This is so cool.
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  Speaker 3: And your boy Christopher Sanchez is going to start the
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: All Star Game and you being a Phillies fan, that's
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  Speaker 3: that's exciting well, and it being at his home ballpark
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  Speaker 3: is really really special. They'll have three starters in Schwarber,
• 9:48
  Speaker 3: Marsh Sanchez. It's gonna be a really exciting energy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting there when the gates open because there's no
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  Speaker 1: way I'm missing the energy around this and the energy
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  Speaker 1: around the city. We're in Philadelphia right now, We're at
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Iron Hill Brewery. We love them for hosting us in
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: foul territory as well. Thank you so much for having
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: us and the Philly Show. We love that great show.
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  Speaker 1: The energy in here has been so incredible and it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be even better at the All Star Game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But you said something earlier, Dad, He said that Home
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  Speaker 1: Run Derby was great. Tonight's game doesn't have.
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  Speaker 3: To be unbelievable, but as to at least be good
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  Speaker 3: to call this a great All Star week. It'll be
• 10:25
  Speaker 3: good because all All Star games are good as long
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: as you go in and understand this is about the
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  Speaker 3: entertainment of the game, not necessarily.
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  Speaker 4: Who wins or loses.
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  Speaker 3: But we know this there's nobody going in for an
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: uncontested layup and an uncontested dunk. In the All Star Game,
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: those guys are out there throwing as hard as they
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: can and they want to strike people out. And in
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: a few minutes, we're gonna give you the All Team
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  Speaker 2: Is this a great game?
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  Speaker 4: Or what?
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  Speaker 1: Live at Ironhill Brewery in the East Market. Tim Kirkshon,
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame baseball writer and his lowly baseball fans,
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  Speaker 1: the son Jeff Kirkshon. Dad, We're gonna get to your
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  Speaker 1: team Tim surrounding the All Star Game. Right yesterday we
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  Speaker 1: did the home run derby Team Tim, which was great.
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  Speaker 1: If you missed it, make sure to go to our
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  Speaker 1: previous live video and in fact, Dad, we just celebrated
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  Speaker 1: State Baseball There a.
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  Speaker 4: Million of them.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to really cut them down for time today.
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  Speaker 3: On this date, in nineteen sixty seven, Eddie Matthews hit
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  Speaker 3: home run number five hundred and the next year, nineteen
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  Speaker 3: sixty eight, Aank Aaron hit home run number five. So
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  Speaker 3: they did it on the exact same date, one year apart,
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  Speaker 3: and they were two of the Well, there are two
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  Speaker 3: of the two best hitters in the history of the Braves.
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  Speaker 3: Eddie Matthews second greatest third base of all time behind
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  Speaker 3: Mike Schmid for me, and of course hen Terre. On
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  Speaker 3: this day in nineteen seventy famously was Pete Rose running
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  Speaker 3: Ray Fosse over at home plate to win the All
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  Speaker 3: Star Game back in it like that would never happen tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Those things don't happen anymore. Pete Rose was roundly criticized
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  Speaker 3: for doing what he did. Ray Fasson suffered a shoulder
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  Speaker 3: injury that he really never got over.
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  Speaker 4: But that's how Pete Rose.
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  Speaker 3: Played the game, and they played to win the All
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  Speaker 3: Star Game in nineteen seventy. So I'm never critical of
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  Speaker 3: Pete Rose on that because there was a run to
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  Speaker 3: be scored and he was going to score it. And
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: you have to love Pete Rose for that, even though
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: very unfortunate with Ray Foster. I was gonna say, we're
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  Speaker 3: not surprised at all that Pete Rose would be running
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  Speaker 3: like that even at an All Star right. And in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety three, on this date, Randy Johnson threw the
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  Speaker 3: ball over John Cruk's head in the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 3: And this is why the All Star Game is so beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: It's not about winning and losing. It's about the confrontations
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  Speaker 3: that we see. And here Kruky, you had never faced
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  Speaker 3: Randy Johnson before, the most intimidating pitcher, certainly the most
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  Speaker 3: intimidating left handed pitcher ever, and he intentionally threw it
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  Speaker 3: over Kruky's head and he gave it the and then
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  Speaker 3: Crukey swung it at strike three out there. It was
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  Speaker 3: absolutely hilarious. That's what the All Star Game is about,
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  Speaker 3: moments like that. I don't remember who won that All
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  Speaker 3: Star Game because it's not important, but we remember Randy
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  Speaker 3: Johnson air mailing it over Crucky's head. And last one
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  Speaker 3: our only birthday for today, and it's a special one,
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  Speaker 3: Carson Kelly for no nineteen ninety four. It's explaining one
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  Speaker 3: more time for our new listeners. Who Carson Kelly is
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  Speaker 3: your oldest grandson. Carson is mom your daughter Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: Are so perfect? Right, Oh, it's so beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So we're gonna have h Zinski, I mean, just all star,
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  Speaker 3: former player, great catcher, foul territory host.
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  Speaker 4: We love him.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be joining us shortly, so stick around
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  Speaker 1: for that. Make sure to match that subscribe button. But Dad,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you have a very special team Tim for us, and
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: I believe our friend Clint actually put together a cool
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  Speaker 1: little graphic to see.
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  Speaker 4: So why don't you kick us off?
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  Speaker 2: Tell us first? This team Tim?
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, with these players, what's the relevant these
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  Speaker 3: These are my all stars at each position from the
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  Speaker 3: All Star Game. And they not necessarily the greatest players
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  Speaker 3: at each position or did the greatest thing.
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  Speaker 4: They were just memorable to me.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll start with Sandy Alamar Junior behind the plate.
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  Speaker 3: He won the MVP at home in nineteen ninety seven
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: in Cleveland to run Homer in the seventh and he
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: won that.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: There's more significance to that.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Al Oliver is our first basement because he was in
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: the nineteen eighty two All Star Game in Montreal. He
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: had just been traded that spring to the Expos from
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: the Rangers, from the team that I covered, and Al's
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: one of the best hitters ever. So I see Al
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: at the All Star Game. Firstly, I say, is Al
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: how you doing? He goes at seventy five line drives
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: caught the first half se he was calling to them,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: and I'm thinking, oh my god. So it was unforgettable
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: for me because it was my first All Star Game
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: as a full time beat writer, so that mattered.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Second basement is Roberto Alomar, who.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Won the MVP in nineteen ninety eight, a year after
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: his brother did so.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: The Alamars won the MVP of the All Star Game
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: in back to back years. So yah.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: The third basement is Jeff Sirillo, And I told this
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: story the other day. I'm going to tell you again.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: Jeff Sorillo made the All Star Team for the first time.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: He's on the plane going to the All Star Game
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: and a fan on the plane says, uh, aren't you
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Jeff Soirillo. Jeff Sorella goes, yeah, he goes why, He goes,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: aren't you going to the All Star Game? And Jeff
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Sorello goes, yes, I'm going. He goes, isn't the All
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Star Game in Cleveland. Jeff said yes, and he said, well,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: this play is going to New York. So he was
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: on the wrong plane. And if it weren't for this fan,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: he would have gone to the wrong vend And.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I mean it's worth noting I love this team, Tim
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: because it's not the all performance in an All Star Game.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: These are memorable things for me, moments.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: The Jeff Sorilla story is been of my all time favorite.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: And in two thousand and one, of course, cal Ripken
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: is our shortstop. He started that game in Seattle, which
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: you went to at third base, and then Alex Rodriguez
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: moved him over to shortstop for the bottom of the
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: first inning, just for the top of the first inning,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: just as a tribute that this guy was our shortstop
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: all those years and taught the rest of us how
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: to play shortstop.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: I love that thing.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll feel real quick, might trout twenty sixteen.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: There's a long story here. I'm going to make it quick.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: So I meet pit Bull on the field in the
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: twenty sixteen All Star Game, and I have.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: No idea who Pitbull is.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: But he comes up to me, he gives me this
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: complicated handshake and says that I don't think.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: It was a complicated handshake. I don't think it was
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: just a tradition.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Would buff it would just you go like.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: This close it, come to the fingers, take a thumb.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: Mart I didn't know who he was. He was giving
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: you a secret, thank god handshake.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Thank God he didn't ask me, hey's what's my favorite
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: song of yourance, because the answer would be I have no.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Idea who you are.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: But the point of this is this goes out on Twitter,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: and the next day Mike Trout, the best player in
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the game, comes up to me and goes, oh my god,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: you met Pittfull.
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Tell me about it. What was he like? Was he
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: bigger you thought was held?
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: He was fascinated that I had met that I had
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: met pit Bull.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: That's what he wanted to talk.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, So you in your conversation with Mike Trout have
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: talked about Pokemon and Pitbull.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Right, amazing?
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Okay a few more.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty nine, Bo Jackson let off the game with
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: a home run against Rick Russell into those green seats
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: at Anaheim Stadium, and this is bo in his prime, breathtaking,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: nobody quite like him.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Two thousand and seven, each Row hit an inside.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: The park home run in San Francisco, the only inside
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: the park home run in the history of the All
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Star Game. And each Row never hit one during the
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: regular season, but he hit one in the All Star
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: which is always amazing. I nineteen ninety nine Pedro in Boston.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Pedro Martinez is my starting pitcher. He faced six nationally hitter,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: struck out five of them in the most dominant performance
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: I've ever seen. And before the game, they had a
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: tribute at Penway to Ted Williams, and it was like
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: the coolest thing ever. All the players just gathered around
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: in and paid tribute to him. And after Pedro's two innings,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: he went into the clubhous and Ted Williams was in
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: the allnin and he says to Pedro Martinez, that's some
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: of the greatest pitching I've ever seen. And Pedro still
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: calls that the highlight of his career. That the first
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: or second greatest hitter of all time told him that,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: and two Red Sox legends, I mean, how special is
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: that really? Relationship in that mold and our reliever of course,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: is Mariano rivererro whose final All Star Game was in
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Detroit a bunch of years ago, and they sent him
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: out there to the mound and nobody else went on
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: the field. There were no other defensive players, so he
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: could have his own time on the mound. He pitched
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the eighth inning. They took him out. When he came
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: into the dugout I'm the dugout reporter. He is literally
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: in tears, and so every guy the team hugged him.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: It was absolutely amazing. And the last one is Kyle
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Schwarber last year as our designated hitter. I'm not sure
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: if that's what he was, but he had the swing
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: off last year to win the All Star Game. Three pitches,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: three swings, three homers. Absolutely great. That is the team
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: tim from the All Star Game.
• 20:46
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to is this a great game?
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  Speaker 1: Or what with the Hall of Famer Tim Kirkshin, I'm
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  Speaker 8: You guys have been crushing in and you know, your
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  Speaker 8: dad is always great with the stories. These writer guys, like,
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  Speaker 8: they're so good with their words, even when they're not writing, when.
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  Speaker 4: They speak, they're so good.
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  Speaker 8: And it's so fun to listen to him tell the
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  Speaker 4: It's just it's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Dad always says these former players, they're so good
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: with a baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Pat I don't know how do it, you know? And
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: AJ so good behind the plate all those years. What
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: did you think of the home run derby last night?
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: It was great, right.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: I actually I was pleasantly surprised the ending. You couldn't
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: have asked for a better ending. Now people in Philly
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: are going to say, man, we wanted schwarbur to win.
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: But the drama and every round was pretty close, fairly
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: close once, you know, I wonder and so, And for me,
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: my favorite part was Wilson and Taris and Philly's getting
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: booed and He's come on, and then Jordan Walker knew
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: it was coming and he handled it perfectly. So I
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: thought it was a tremendous event. I thought they did
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: a great job. It was pack.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I was on the field before the game.
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: I left, you know, an hour or so before because
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: I just was like, I gotta get out of here.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: I'll watch it on TV. But I thought they did
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: an amazing job. I love the new format. It's so
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: much better. It keeps people engaged. It's not hurry airry
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: Harry swing, swing saying. And it didn't last. I was
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: waiting for the old four hour, five hour slog they
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: used to have. It was two and a half hours
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: and done.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: It was perfect. It really worked. Have you ever been
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: in an home run dery myor leagues college. I've been
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: in two. How did you do?
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: I won one and I finished second. It was it
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: the Hall of Fame game. They used to have the
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: Hall of Fame game in Coopersound and I hadn't played
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: for a couple years.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: And I hadn't touched a bat for a couple of years, right.
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: And they invite me to go up there and play,
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: and you know, they have a guy from each team.
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: So I'm in my white Sox gear. And then and
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: I think Roley Fingers was our manager, he said, hey,
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: we don't have another catcher. Can you catch the whole
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: seven egs. I'm like, yeah, no problem, Like, I'll catch
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: nine if you want me to.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: I don't care.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: He's like really, He's like most catchers make it like
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: two innings. I'm like, oh, I you know, mister Fingers,
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: I'll be fine. So then they come up to me
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: right before and they say, hey, we do a.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Home run derby? Will you do the home run derby?
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: And I was like I don't really want to, and
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: they're like, no, no, no, we want you to. And I
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: was like, sure, well not. Keep in mind, I hadn't.
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: Touched the bat for like three years this far, and
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: so they have they throw VP, and I'm and I'm
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: hitting balls.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I hit left handed, so I'm hitting balls like the
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: third base right, like the foul balls.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: And my daughter comes up to me and a time,
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: she was probably ten or eleven, twelve ish, she says, Dad,
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: you're really going to do the home runner. I said, yeah,
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: what she said, You're going to embarrass yourself and us
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: with your batting practice.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Please don't.
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: And I honestly I looked at her and I said, Eva,
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: I love you. When the lights come on, I'll be
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: just fine. Watch that right soon.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And then I went and won.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and who remember who you beat or who out competition?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: I don't remember.
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: I know I lost the next year to uh Sweeney
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: Ryan Sweeney, he's a former teammate of mine. I lost
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: in the finals state right next year, and I went
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: a whole year without touching a pad until I went
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: back the next year.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know who was Did you hit a bunch
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: of homers? Yeah? It was fun. First time in three years.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: It's pretty hard to do. It was fun.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: It was fun, but I mean it was nowhere near
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: the MLB. I mean, there's you know, five thousand people
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: at this double ed a field and coups a little
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: different than Citizens Bank was last cheering or booing you.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: So when you got your first All Star nine and
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: what was that experience like for you seeing players? Was
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: there one guy you saw in the clubhouse You're like,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I'm like kind of an equal for
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: a day with you. So my first All Star game
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: was the Milwaukee tie game.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Yes, so what a great one to start. And I
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: made it with Tory Hunter and Eddie Gardotta from the Twins.
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: All of us were first timers, so we were all
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: just giddy to be there. You walk into the clubhouse,
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: you have Jeter and Mariano and Hey Rod and just
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: who's who of everyone?
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: To you?
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: So you walk in, it's Joe Torrey was the manager,
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: Don Zimmer. Those are the guys You're like, oh my gosh,
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: it's Joe Tory. There's one how many World Series and
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: gets those of the World Series at that time every
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: single years?
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: That was what was crazy. And they were so nice
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: and so great.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: The Holy Yankee staff we think Lily Randolph was on
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: that staff and they were so awesome.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Just hey, we're so happy you're here. We love the
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: first timers.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: Laid out Pasada's gonna start and you're gonna catch the
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: last Well they said for four innings or whatever, but
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: we ended up going twelve innings, so I ended up
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: catching seven innings, and uh have the ball. I still
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: have the last alcohol because last au was Freddy Garcia.
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: He struck out. He struck out, but I have the
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: ball from a tie from the tie game. And then
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: and then I went in.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: So they were all it was like bad news bears
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: that were let them play the chance and all that.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: So I go in to uh Joe Torre.
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: I'm like, what are we gonna do? And he's like, well,
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: we don't have any pitching. I'm like, oh, pitch and
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: he said, well, who's gonna catch him? Like I don't know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: I go, They're not gonna catch a lot. They're probably
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: everything I throw is probably gonna.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Get hit, but you don't catch.
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: I'm like, oh bitch, and I go, I'll happily go
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: out there and give up a home run to lose.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: I don't care.
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: And then of course it ended up being a tie
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: and all of the bacle and then they became oh
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: this game matters, so it was it was a pretty cool,
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: uh pretty main that was the game Tory Hunter Robberry.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Bonds and uh where he jumped over the fence.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: I was at that game and I was a kid,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: and I'll never forget because when he caught that ball.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: If you remember on the outfield, I bring the same
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: It's like you took a picture of that catch, Exac,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: and I have that imprinted in my mind. Anytime we
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: asked any player or any fan of the game, you
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: know what was the moment you remember.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I'll never forget that image of Tory Hunter.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: That was the moment for me where I was like,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: this game is great.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: And when Barry went out to the outfield that he
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: picked up like a rag by the way.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Put him over his head like he was me. He's big.
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: Toy's a big guy too, Barry, just like And then
• 28:27
  Speaker 8: when when we went to Japan that offseason MLBS they
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: still do it. They did like an MLB tour where
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: you go and play the Japanese All Stars, and Barry
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: was on that, Torri was on and I was on it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: So they got I got to hear all the stories.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: It was great good. So we were just talking about
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: bo Jaxon's home run in the eighty nine All Star game,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: and John Smoltz told me a story last night about
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: that All Star Game. So Schmoltz and I have both
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: worked for Fox.
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: So we go to dinner last night with some of
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: the Fox people and I asked Foltz, what was your
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: first All Star Game? Because I didn't honestly, I didn't know.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: I grew up with Braves fans, so I knew Smoltz
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: was there. He's like eighty. I said, where where? It's Anaheim?
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: He said, Tommy Laswarda was the manager. I'm like, rookie,
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: I don't.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: He's like, I'm not going to pitch. He's like, there's
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: no way.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: I had all these guys and Tommy And when he
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: does his pitching meeting, goes Smolts, you're gonna be after
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: Rick Russell.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: He's like, you're going to be second.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: Smoltz was like okay, and back then this is when
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: the guys through like three innings, so he was like, ah,
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: I got plenty of time.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Well, he said he had never been to Anaheim.
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: He had never been in American League Park because he
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: was there was no Inner League right.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: So he said, it's the first inning. He's just sitting on.
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: The bench looking around and Russell goes like Homer, Homer,
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: double Homer, and Lasorda gets on the bullpend phone and says,
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: get Smoltz up. He's got to get in. And they're like,
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: he's not down here. And John's like, Tommy right here
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: and there, and he said. Tommy goes, what are you doing?
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: He says, I don't know how to get to the bullpen.
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: I've never been here. I don't know anything. And Tommy goes, well,
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: how long will it take it. He's like, well, by
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: the time I run out there, He's like, uh, seven
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: to ten pitches. He's like, all right, we go out there,
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: and he jogged out there and through he said he
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: threw like seven ten pitches. And he think he said
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: he threw three innings.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Second seven pitches and now he hit his first off.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah he threw I think he said he threw three innings.
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  Speaker 4: I'm over here.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Literally, Tommy's on the bullpen phone and he smolteers gets
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: Smoltzo and smolts as like, uh hey, guys right.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, that's amazing. So he did.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Barry Bonds and names come up twice today and he's
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: the greatest hitter I've ever seen. Let's forget about everything
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: else for a minute. I asked everyone I did a
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: story on give me the one thing in baseball that
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: has just amazed you. And you said, playing with Barry.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: So tell us about that first series in Houston.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: I believe what Barry did.
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: So we opened on the road there, we had three
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: in Houston, three and Sandy we opened Peco. We were
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: the first three games in Peco. So Barry was at
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: six fifty eight home runs, so he was two behind Willie.
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: And he hits a home run that night of Royo's Wall.
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: And this is what Royal Wall was. Dude, Like, dude,
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: we faced Oswall, Pett Clemmens in that series. Yeah, so
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: it was Walt and he hits like a home run
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: in the eighth inning to win the game. Why was
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: well pitched him? I have no idea of challenge what
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: roy was not afraid whack homer? Right, we win the
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: game three to one or whatever it was. Barry comes
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: in the clubhouse after I'll never forget this and says, okay, guys,
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: I have six fifty nine. I'm not going to hit
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: a home run until we get back home. I want
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: to tie Willie at home in San Francisco. I'm the
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: home opener, and what is this guy talking about?
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: Now?
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: JT Snow looks at me, he goes, just watch what happens.
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: I was like, okay, And he got some hits and
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: he is a couple of balls hard and you know
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: they didn't get.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Pitched the gall and even no bays, you know, doing
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: this thing. Whatever.
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: We get home so that we play the five games,
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: he doesn't hit a home run. We get back to
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: San Francisco and he goes, Okay, today's the day I
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: ty Willie burst of Bata. I'm like, there's no way.
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: And then the next day he goes, today's the day
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: he because he's like, I don't want to I don't
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: want to tie Willie and pass him on the same day.
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: So then he says okay. Then he comes back next
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: to go, is today's day I wack home run? This
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: guy's not playing the same game.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I was gonna like, you're a longtime major league player,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and to think, what am I missing here?
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Is this? He was not playing the same He was
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: not playing this.
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: I tell people this, and again, whatever off the field,
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: whatever he did, none of my business.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: I don't care. I know this.
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: There was a lot of other people doing a lot
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: of stuff too, and they weren't near as good as
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: Barry Bonds was. I played against the greatest hitters of
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: whatever my generation was Jeter Pooholes, Miguel Cabret won a
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: triple crown. I was in the division, played him nineteen
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: times a year. Right, Barry Bonds was so much better
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: because he got one pitch a game and.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Would not mean it was he would get one. We
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: plent to Colorado early in the year. Clint Hurtle was
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: the manager.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: They pitched the Berry and the like the eighth inning,
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: and he hit a ball that they had that big
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: ray foot wall. I swear the ball moved back like
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: three feet and we end up winning the game off
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: that hit. The rest of the year, Clint Hurtle, as
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: soon as Berry, it was like auto.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Put him on auto. I mean it was he didn't
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: get a pitch at all, like the whole year. Ay
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: May that was the year I leave that he was
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: walked intentionally with nobody on base nine times. You know what,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: nine times?
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: You know who was hitting behind him? Yeah, into four
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: hundred double plays that year me because Barry wouldn't steal,
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: and Barry went Barry Dempster wasn't taking the guy out
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: a second, and I can't run, so if I hit
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: a ground balls.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: There's another one chog it up.
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: And you can't do anything right because the fans expect
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: you to get a hit when they walk.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: But it's not that Barry Bond, it's not that easy.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: That he was the hardest thing in the world to
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: do and he just does things on command. So you
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: were at the home run derby before the derby yesterday,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: is there anybody you talked to, any stories you got
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: from any of the players or any of the you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: former players that you know stuck out to you.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: It was pretty calm, and it's just you know, when
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: you're on the field before, there's so many people and
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: it's so hard to get to really talk to anybody
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: for more than a split second. Right, it's like bloom
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: boom boom, because you walk two feet and there's someone
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: else you have to say hi to, and then they
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: come up and so you're just like just that, I mean,
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: you know, it's just nice to see that all the people,
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: all the all the old players that were around.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I get all the correct players just kick the griffyw
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: on three home run titles. He's run around with this
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: camera taking picture and glad handing everyone.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I think it's just so encouraging and so refreshing that
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: the greatest home run hitter in the Home Run Derby
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: is there every year.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: When he works for HIMMB obviously and he does his
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: photography thing. People love that guy, man, I will. I
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: got the chance to play with him for a while too.
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: People love people my age and around. I'm almost fifty,
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: you know, sixty to forty is age. He was the
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: superhero if you were into baseball. He was the most talented.
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: He was the kid, and he had his hat backwards
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: and he was smiling. He was and then I've got
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: to play with him. I got to know him before
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: I got to play with him because he's in Orlando
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: where I live, so I knew him.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Tell a quick story about Griffy. After I play with him.
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: Two thousand and eight, he comes over the White Sox
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: and I go, I had to go back home where
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: I'm from, up New York, and I'm with my my cousins.
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: We're out where I'm from, Prince Champion, so we you know,
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: we're at s were in sag Harbor and right at
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: this little bar. My cousin's like, dude, you got to
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: play with Ken Griffy Junior. He's like, that's the coolest
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: thing ever. I'm like, you want to call him? Obviously
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: I had a couple of drinks. Well, if you want
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: to talk to him. He's like, what do you mean.
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: I'm like, so I picked up my phone. I'm like,
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: I call griff and he answers, which I didn't think
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: he could answer. He's like, what's up and I'm like, oh, no,
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: hell nothing. I just wanted to see what you're up
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: to when you know you're in Orlando.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: I go by the way. My cousin wants to say
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: something here, he's like.
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: And then I was like, okay, yeah, he can't talk
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: right now, but yea, I'll see when I get back.
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: And I'm like, hang up, and my cousin just looks
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: at me and goes, dude, you just called Ken Griffy Junior.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: It was so funny.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: That is so that's a little better than when Ken
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Griffy called you.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Long story. Ken Griffy Junior finally called me back on
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: the story. I was right about Willy Mays, and it's
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: been two weeks and I can't find him. He calls
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: me back.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: My daughter is in the backseat of the car at
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: a shopping mall breastfeeding her son, and I'm the driver,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: so I have to I have to stop the car
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: while she rest fees while Ken Griffy Junior calls me
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: the A. C. Gillins and nobody will for my story
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: about Willy Mays. These things can only have.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: It All Star Game is the greatest thing ever.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us here and Jeff,
• 36:35
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