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7-8-9 : Bobby Cox passes at 84, MLB Updates, Happy Mother's Day · Scene Projects Sports Network

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Yeah.
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Ninja ballots and baseball tiktoks.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Head to the back, and I'm stepping with a purpose.
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Grip on the back, and you know it get to work.
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V Shaq swing, got the whole field nervous.
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Pitch coming fast, but I'm turning into circuits.
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Crack of the bed, yeah, you heard that sound.
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Send it to the fist.
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Now they looking around.
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Coach like, damn, how you hitting like that?
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I just point
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Welcome into the scene, Project Sports Network.
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You are here tonight for seven eight nine, our weekly baseball roundtable presented by Beast
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Hack, Joined as always by my cohost, Big B.
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What's happening, B?
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Not much.
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You know, ready to talk a little ball.
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I know we're gonna pay our respects to those that, you know, passed away the last couple
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days.
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So, you know, definitely gonna be somewhat emotional show, but we'll still try to have
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fun.
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We'll be celebrating our moms too.
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A happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.
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We weren't sure if we were gonna do a show today or not, but I got the pool set up early.
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So I got off the hook for the show tonight.
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Well, there you go.
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And Shady.
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What's happening, Shady?
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What's up, fellas?
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How are we tonight?
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How are we?
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Saw you grooving to the new theme song.
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Yeah, dog.
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Beast hat got them beats, dude.
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Throw on a jam one time.
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He said he said it to me, like, last Thursday, and I was like, oh, I know right where that's
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going.
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Soon as that went in, I was like, okay.
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Well and the other one was getting flagged for a copyright violation.
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So I was like, oh, perfect timing.
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Hey.
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Right in there.
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Just makes it in
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man.
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Well and we got a pinch hitter in the lineup again tonight too.
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Pods, what's going on, buddy?
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Pods, hey.
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What's up, bud?
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Pods?
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Not much, guys.
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How's it going?
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It's going good.
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I'm not gonna wear mine tonight because my head is disgusting.
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I've been out in the yard freaking working most of the afternoon.
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So
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That's alright.
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I got mine.
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Got mine.
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We're Look at that.
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No.
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We got it.
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Oh, yeah.
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So cool, man.
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I love all the cool stuff you get when you go out.
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I know.
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I never get I barely grab a picture.
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People like me.
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People like us.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I'm never asking anybody to sign anything.
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I'll just lose it, man.
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My freaking man, if you saw what was in here, it's such a mess.
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It would just there's no point.
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Right?
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I don't have cases of trophies and all that stuff.
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So, yeah, I mentioned it a little bit off the top, but happy Mother's Day to everybody out
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there.
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Obviously, we wanna throw a big shout out to all the moms.
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Thank you for not just giving us life, but all the lessons, all the ass whoopings, and
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And putting up without a sham.
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For guys like me and Shady.
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Appreciate it.
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And we we hope that we can make you proud, not just with this show, but a great many other
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things that we're doing here and all over the world.
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Thank you again.
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So, b, you kinda mentioned it off the top.
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A little bit of a somber show today.
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Obviously, we don't wanna bury the lead, but very sad to hear of the passing of not just
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former owner of the Braves, Ted Turner, but longtime manager and absolute legend of the
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game, Bobby Cox here in the last forty eight hours.
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Really sad to hear that.
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And I know this affects you on a pretty personal level, Shady.
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I mean I mean, you got ties obviously to the Braves organization and a long time fan
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yourself.
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What does it kind of mean to you to, I mean, obviously, the Bobby Cox one is a lot more, a
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lot harder on the heart than Ted Turner, although Ted was the longtime owner.
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I think the relationship with Bobby Cox, nobody had a bad word to say about the man.
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Yeah.
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So, like, I know well, Ted Turner off the top, like, pioneer as far as entertainment goes.
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You know?
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First guy to start twenty four hour news, which Mhmm.
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Never heard of.
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Well, that was awesome.
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But, like, a maverick, they said that.
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You know?
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Kind of a pioneer.
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So Ted Turner, he was a great guy.
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He started a lot of stuff, and I remember Turner Field as a kid.
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It was a lot different.
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Like, the thing about, like, Turner Field was the giant Coca Cola bottle in the out field.
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And no matter where you were in Atlanta, you could kinda see that Coca Cola bottle from
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given any hotel.
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But that was like Ted had a way of knowing, like, where to put stuff.
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So that was big.
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And then, of course, not even, like, two days later, Bobby kicks the bucket, and I'm like, oh
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my god.
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Right here around Mother's Day, like, right around the beginning of the season.
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It's always the big names.
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You know?
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But, yeah, old Bobby.
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Bobby was like, for us in the South, and I think anybody watching, you know, like,
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everybody's had that historic coach, but Bobby was like your grandpa's hero.
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Like, your grandpa never had to answer to anybody.
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You know, he automatically pulled up and didn't trust anybody.
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He trusted Bobby Cox with everything.
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So, like, you know, you growing up was like, I don't I don't trust a whole lot of people.
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But I don't know this Bobby Cox guy, but I trust Bobby Cox.
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But it is just it's like a lure.
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You know?
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And he was bigger than life, so we're gonna miss him.
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Thank god for that.
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And
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And I'm just gonna read quick his his career stat line, if you will.
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Mhmm.
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Absolutely incredible.
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But so let me get this pulled up real quick.
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Threw out of a whole season's worth of games.
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That is that is the record.
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Yeah.
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Crazy.
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So Cox led the Atlanta Braves to unprecedented success winning 14 straight division titles
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from '91 to 2005 along with five NL pennants in the nineteen ninety five World Series
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championship.
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Four time manager of the year, won 2,401 games behind only Connie Mack, Tony LaRussa, and John
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McGraw.
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Of the 13 managers with at least 2,000 career wins, only one, Joe McCarthy, got there in
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fewer games than Cox.
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No.
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Bobby Cox managed the Braves for twenty five seasons in all, leading them to six one hundred
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win seasons and eight ninety win seasons.
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Also managed the Blue Jays for four years, including the franchise's first winning record
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in 1983 and first division title in 1985.
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As general manager of the Braves from '86 to '90, Cox laid the foundation for the teams he
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would manage to success over the next two decades by trading for one future hall of famer
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in John Schmoltz, drafting another in Chipper Jones, and helping develop a homegrown legend,
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Tom Glavin, Owner of a five fifty six winning percentage in twenty nine total seasons,
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elected the hall of fame in 2014.
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Bobby Cox was 84 years old when he passed.
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That's a hell of an obituary for Yeah.
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One of the greatest to ever Dare.
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Do it in the game.
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That's just incredible.
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And and I don't know that there's a single person who has a like I said, there's not
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anyone who has a bad thing to say about the man across across the league and around the world.
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I I just think he was such a gem of a human being.
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Great quote from him on this piece too.
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I gotta enlarge this to be able
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to read it.
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But Yeah.
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With that said, I never had a plan to be in baseball.
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Baseball was my plan.
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I just loved it.
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I still do.
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So thank you, mister Cox, for, an incredible legacy that you leave for all of us, for
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everything that you did for the game of baseball, and, truly grateful to have been
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alive, not even as a Braves fan, but it's hard to hard to argue with his impact on the game
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and the man that he was both behind the bench and in his personal life.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's a legendary career.
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Honestly, he's got multiple hall of fame manager careers over his almost three decades
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of
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being Yeah.
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If you could get in twice, he would've.
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Well and and the thing is is
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that for,
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you know, a lot of players come out and even said that how they love playing for him even
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though he, you know, he was like the spark plug, you know, like, Sadie said.
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He's gotten tossed out of probably a full season plus of games, you know, so everybody
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definitely wanted to play for him.
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Yeah.
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I feel like teams don't do
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I think that's what he's saying too.
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Yeah.
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That's what he's saying.
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Yeah.
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I if it he was.
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He was a player like, player's manager.
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People just Yeah.
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Play for the guy.
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Yeah.
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And he had he had to I I
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didn't realize, before just reading that now that he was kind of the architect of those
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teams that he ended up managing in those you know, later in in that crazy run.
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14 division titles in a row.
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That is
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Oh, yeah.
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One like, I don't I mean, probably the Yankees have some crazy record that's bigger than that
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from from, you know, the the murderer's row days.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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But it's in the modern era because that's nineties, I would consider modern era of
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baseball.
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I think the only person who's come close to that is probably Dave Roberts right now.
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Oh, yeah.
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Because I think it well, I think I think
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I think 14 division eleven years in a row.
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Yeah.
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I think 14 is the record.
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Yeah.
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But the thing is is, you know and and we talked about it on our our first show is that the
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Braves had all that talent in the nineties and walked away with, what, two rings?
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One ring?
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One ring.
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95.
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Yep.
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Nope.
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And, you know, and then just to touch on Ted Turner, you know, he wasn't just, you know, the
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baseball guy.
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You know, he brought wrestling to the pre He was the wrestling
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guy.
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Yes.
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You know, he he he went to TBS, the station that he owned, and they're like, oh, we don't
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wanna wrestle.
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He's like, no.
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We're gonna put wrestling on.
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You know, I don't care.
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You know, and he put it on and probably the mid nineties to early two thousands probably was
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the best programming of wrestling between WWE and WCW until, you know, until they had to
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sell.
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But Yeah.
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You know, the guy was definitely a business guy and he wasn't care to take chances and Yeah.
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What, 99.9% of the times, they they hit gold.
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So Yeah.
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We're also
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Yeah.
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I think at the end of your life, nobody's counting.
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When you win as much as you did, nobody's counting the losses.
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That's almost hard to remember.
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You're like, oh, he did do that.
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But and it it takes over.
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And, obviously, Ted Turner, much more known for being a media legend and just a visionary in
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that space, you know, kinda seeing before cable and then satellite and now streaming.
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I I feel like the man saw a lot of things coming before a lot of others did.
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And I think if he was in his prime right now, he would he would be changing it even now.
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Oh, yeah.
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Right?
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Like, he he would be finding a way, and those people are very few and far between.
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So you know?
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But his, you know, contribution with the Braves and being the owner during that legendary run
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as well and having the vision to to leave a man in charge.
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Like, for anyone to have a twenty five year career Yeah.
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As a manager now is just almost completely unheard of.
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Right?
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Like, to have the same guy because everybody is so quick to cut bait with people after a bad
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season or two.
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Mhmm.
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And, you know, you kind of alluded to it with the you know, during that run, they only had
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the one ring.
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It just speaks to how how hard it is to win a world series.
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Right?
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Like, not only do you have to get through a 162 game season, but the playoffs are some of the
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hardest to get through as well, and anything can happen.
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Right?
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And and, I mean, that's why
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we Here's another stat real quick.
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Alright.
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Go ahead, Pods.
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The Braves have tied or used to have outright, but it's tied with the Dodgers right now after
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last year's division title.
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But the Braves had the most division title wins in baseball with 23.
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Is it that many now?
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Yeah.
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So the Dodgers, by winning last year, just tied it with 23.
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Yeah.
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But the MLB record was the, Braves, and Bobby was a part of 14 straight.
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Straight.
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Well and something that we we touched on through that is that they did it with homegrown
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talent.
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They didn't just go out there and spend their way into championship after championship.
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They were developing players.
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They were finding future stars.
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Right?
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I I think when Schmaltz came over that the people were considering kind of washed up then.
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Right?
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And and he became one of the most dominant closers.
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I mean, I think he's on a short list there.
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Now, obviously, as that's become more of a specialized position
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400.
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Over the last over the last, you know, I would say 10 Was
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Was that dramatic, sir?
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Yeah.
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That's Yeah.
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But he came over as the Cub, though.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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He started with the Cubs at
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the at the
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end of his career as well.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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This goes perfect with the only story I've got of Bobby Cox because everybody played into that
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great.
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I got one story.
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I never got to meet him.
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I never got to meet the guy.
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But alright.
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So everybody that everybody just said, I sent some pictures into our our group chat, and I'm
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like, yo.
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I played at the effing ESPN Sports Complex, blah blah blah.
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This place, it looked like a church.
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At the time, I'm only 18.
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I played in some big games, but I've never played on the Braves Field.
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This is the Braves Spring Training Field, the main one.
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So I'm like, word.
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I got the ball.
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I'm starting.
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This is great.
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This is a great day.
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You can't take me off cloud nine right now.
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I'm at Disney.
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This is great.
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So there's one picture I put in there, and there's, like, a green pipe going around the
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back, and I'm in the bullpen.
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Me and the other guy, our catcher and our pitching coach went out there to the bullpen,
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and we were just we were gonna vote just like we did any other day.
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And we're, like, taking our time because everything's real nice and stuff.
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And me and Chris on the way down there, like, literally, dude, I don't care if we throw a
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ball.
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I don't care if we win this game.
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We're at Disney.
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Let's have fun for once.
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You know what I'm saying?
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We're 18.
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Let's remember how to have fun.
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So I'm looking I'm looking over that way, okay, to behind my back.
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And where that truck's pointing, there's baseballs up on the wall.
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And each one has a number.
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And you see it, and it's like two or three, and then there's six, and then there's 10.
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And you're like, alright.
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Well, I know 10.
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That's chipper.
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And then, you know, you keep going.
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It's, like, 27.
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That's Smoltzee, and then there's 47.
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That's Glavin.
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Blah blah blah.
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Who's 6?
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Just off top of your head, anybody?
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Because we couldn't pull it.
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Me and Chris are standing there.
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Chris is a longtime Yankee fan.
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I'm like, that Yogi Who the hell?
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Like, we're going back to the Boston Braves days.
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Was it Bobby Cox?
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That's Bobby Cox's parking spot.
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That's their parking spots.
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Those guys had been there because this is 2009 at the time, and '95 was still the only
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championship.
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So those guys were still showing up even though that I think that was Smoltz last year, but
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their parking spots were there.
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But that was just a moment.
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I'm standing there, and I've got the ball.
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You could tell I have no in throwing.
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Snap back to the picture one time.
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He doesn't throw a ball.
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Tell me that kid throws a ball.
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He ain't throwing a ball.
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I got the arm sleeve on.
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I'm I'm shell shocked.
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Somebody got a picture of me going, I think that's Bobby's parking spot.
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I'm like, I'm not throwing a pitch.
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Get a picture of this, dude.
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This is crazy.
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But it was just one of them moments where it's like, am I supposed to be here?
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Do I belong here?
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Do I deserve to be here?
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But, yeah, it was that was a pretty cool moment.
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Just seeing that six, you realize
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I bet the butterflies in your stomach were going nuts.
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They weren't there.
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Like, you know, it's they weren't there.
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It's like showing up to Gettysburg.
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You know, pods is
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I don't know, dude.
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If it was me I
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I said it's Nothing's happen.
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I
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don't know, man.
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If it was me and I got to, like, hit off I guess for me, it'd be like if I got the hit off
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of if I got the hit off of somewhere, like, the first or second tee at Augusta or something
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like that and
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Oh, yeah.
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You just see something dedicated to Jack Nicholas or something like that.
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I don't know if I could hit that tee ball in the fairway.
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I'd probably hit somebody's house.
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I didn't send the picture.
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Well, we're not we're not hitting many in the fairway anyway, pods, but I I get what you
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mean.
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Hey, man.
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I played yesterday, and guess what?
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I didn't miss a fairway.
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Look at you.
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That that five minute lesson you got on the course last week.
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Broke 50 yesterday on the on the front nine.
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I I shot a 48 yesterday.
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I only shot 13 over.
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Pods.
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Name of the show is seven eight nine, buddy.
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We're the bottom of the lineup.
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We're we're ready to get wrong, brother.
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Come on, man.
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Yeah, baby.
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I can't help it.
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The guy taught me.
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He got me out of my baseball swing.
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He told me, hey.
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Drag instead of pickup, and here we are.
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DH for him.
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But there is one thing I wanna say when it comes to Bobby Cox and Ted Turner.
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Bobby Cox, my dad was a Braves fan, and he would tell stories about just the Braves in
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general.
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Like, oh, you know, you see these new Braves now with, like, Austin Riley and Matt Olsen and
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Ronald Acuna can't stay healthy junior.
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Yeah.
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And he's like, you should have seen the old Braves back in the nineties, the gritty Braves,
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the Smoltzee Braves, the Blavin Braves.
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I'm like
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Ron Gink got pulled off of first base in game six of the World Series.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Andrew Jones pulling him.
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Yep.
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And
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I I look at baseball back then, and it just felt like baseball like, hey.
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I'm a Dodgers fan, so, you know, there's a lot of energy there in the stadium.
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And I always see a lot of energy at the Braves games.
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By the way, good on you, Shady.
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Your Braves are whooping my Dodgers ass two out of three hours.
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Good.
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I think we can.
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No no sympathy.
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It just doesn't feel like it doesn't feel like that same energy is there anymore, but like it
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used to be.
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Like, it just used to be so electric.
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I remember watching the World Series or the MLB playoffs when I was a kid, and it just seemed
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like it was rocking, like, all the time.
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Just it felt like you're felt like the crowd was vibrating through your TV screen.
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Yeah.
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So and it just it doesn't have that same spirit anymore.
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And a little bit of this goes into Ted Turner too is Ted was so enthusiastic, not just about
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the Braves, but in anything he did, whether it was the twenty four hour news, whether it was
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wrestling, like
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Mhmm.
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Entertainment in general.
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He he loved anything he put his hands on, and he Ted treated business more like a family than
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he treated it like cutthroat.
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Yeah.
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Because there were times when the Braves were down and Ted Turner would look at them and go,
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you guys will be okay.
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I'm still funding it.
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And then there was times where the wrestling business was down and Ted said, see all those
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executives in there?
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Well, Ted got a
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and they want me to get rid of this, but I'm gonna stick with you.
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You keep doing what you're doing.
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Yeah.
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And it's just so sad to see two legends gone and like that, man.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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B, anything you wanna add before we, move on in the No.
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I mean, it's just, you know, you know, I wanna you know, I can't wait.
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You know, I'm a, you know, a cross wrestling guy.
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Hopefully, tomorrow, they'll WWE will pay some tribute to Ted Turner.
21:01
But, yeah, it it is a little
21:02
bit of tribute on SmackDown.
21:04
Yeah.
21:04
So it is, you know, sad day in baseball, you know, because I remember coming home during the
21:09
nineties and stuff.
21:10
And if I the twins weren't on, the cubs weren't on, you turn TBS, there was the braves.
21:15
So, you know, braves are kinda like a second team to me, you know, growing up and just
21:20
watching Smoltz and Glavine and Maddox and Pena and and David Justice, Fred McGriff.
21:27
I mean, you know, all those guys.
21:29
So, you know, you know, shout out
21:32
wild as, like, a non like, I wasn't invested in the Atlanta Braves, but I knew every single one
21:38
of those players you just mentioned.
21:39
Right?
21:39
Like, every they were household names.
21:42
And a lot of that is credit to Daniel Sanders.
21:46
Stations carrying the games all the time.
21:49
Right?
21:49
That that was fantastic.
21:51
And that exposure for that.
21:53
And now, you know, you kinda have all the teams are creating their own, you know, their own
21:59
platforms.
21:59
The cubs have marquee and a great many others now following suit.
22:04
But once again, Ted Turner, the visionary that he was, was like, no.
22:08
I have a platform.
22:09
Here's mine.
22:11
I'm a put all the shit that I like on it and Yep.
22:13
And he did.
22:14
Go executives that I've hired in this space Hey.
22:17
And and I'm putting it on.
22:19
And, you know, one thing too is, you know, everybody puts out those lists.
22:23
Who do you take, you know, what picture staff would you have?
22:26
Who would be on your pitch?
22:27
I'll tell you right now, my top three, Maddox, Smoltz, Glavin.
22:31
I mean and then after that, probably Nola Ryan and Randy Johnson or Clemis, but my three are
22:40
definitely the three braves.
22:41
I mean, they carried that.
22:43
I mean, you could go in and not expect this week
22:48
to against, like, championship bullpens.
22:52
Right?
22:52
Starting staff bullpen to go you know, who are you gonna take and to not look at those teams
22:59
of the late nineties and be like, I'm putting them up against any anyone.
23:04
And then when Smokey mentioned the closing role, he was still dominant.
23:08
I mean, you know, so Yeah.
23:11
300, 300.
23:12
I think if I had to go do that, I would have to say that I'm a little recency because I only
23:18
just got into baseball, like, when I like, in the 2005, 2010 when I could really start
23:25
understanding it.
23:27
Well, the guy just started getting it.
23:28
I get it.
23:29
My top pitching staff, believe it or not, I've only got the recent World Series with the
23:35
Dodgers.
23:35
They're only my fifth best pitching staff.
23:37
I think the best pitching staff that I saw and even though it went to a game seven, I I
23:42
wholeheartedly believe that those twenty sixteen cubs was probably the best pitching
23:45
staff I've ever seen.
23:47
They were just that good in the playoffs in the world.
23:49
They were they were good.
23:50
They were good.
23:51
And and that's another thing too is, you know, people step up in those big game moments and,
23:56
you know, some
23:58
I I don't know if I could take any staff over the twenty sixteen cubs, especially with how
24:02
dominant Lester was.
24:03
That was just
24:05
Yeah.
24:05
James John Arietta was a was the Cy Young winner was the Cy Young winner that year.
24:12
Yeah.
24:13
I was gonna say John Smoltz is the only pitcher to win over 200 games, save over a 150 games.
24:24
Yeah.
24:25
The only one with over 200 wins and a 150 saves.
24:29
He had
24:29
some Accuracy must be regressed, man, because Accuracy was a starter too before he became a
24:35
reliever.
24:36
But
24:36
Yeah.
24:36
He went back and forth.
24:38
Yeah.
24:39
I got to watch him when he was a reliever, and that was crazy.
24:43
But
24:43
yeah.
24:43
Eckerson didn't Eckerson play for the a's too?
24:46
Yeah.
24:47
Oh, yeah.
24:48
Awesome.
24:49
Well, I'm gonna hit a quick ad read for our sponsors at BSTAC, then we're gonna come back.
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We're gonna talk a little bit about current standings and what's going on today in
24:59
baseball, and then we'll all get out of here and and go, you know, spend a little bit more
25:03
time with our moms and wives and you know, or by ourselves.
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What you got for me, Grady?
27:43
I got an idea, beast hack.
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I got an idea.
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I see the product.
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I see the vision.
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Can we make an adaptable part to put it in the trailer hitch so my kid can get
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Already there, Shady.
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Already there.
28:01
On the three fifty.
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Give me some reps.
28:05
Actually, you know what?
28:06
Since I got it already pulled up, I have their
28:10
Put it on the trailer.
28:15
I just
28:15
It's pretty incredible that he called, darling.
28:17
But, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and share their website.
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Let me, shrink my screen here.
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And as soon as I started thinking about it, I was like, well, he wouldn't really have that
28:26
big a kid.
28:27
Is there a kid strong enough to bend a trailer hitch?
28:29
Maybe.
28:31
So the you have they actually have a pickleball, set up too that they just started
28:38
bringing up.
28:39
So you got the baseball, pickleball, and softball.
28:43
And I got one of each, so my kids will be, hitting off of both of these then.
28:48
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28:52
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God.
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Yep.
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And he was like, no.
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Let's get your kids hitting on it.
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Very grateful to the family over a beast hack.
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Now they haven't done much marketing with it because they've said Yeah.
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They won.
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I'm gonna be taking it to a lot of these baseball fields that we get to walk on to this
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year.
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30:12
in Sioux Falls, and, get to go hang out.
30:14
And, yeah, I'm gonna bring it with me, get some kids hitting on it, see if we can do a little
30:19
seventh inning stretch activation there.
30:21
But, yeah, shitty, you got it, man.
30:22
Like, you and King would get along well.
30:24
He's down in Georgia.
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So he's he's not far from you.
30:28
I've gotta get one of those to Austin Schultz.
30:31
You know the kid on Instagram who does all the crazy coaching videos?
30:35
Like,
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you gotta be check me.
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That's right.
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That's so that's That's our guy right there.
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Shout out to King.
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That's his other YouTube channel, team Eddie Bubba.
30:44
So I think he was
30:46
Keeley, you're talking about the kid that, like, imitates, like, wrestlers?
30:49
Is that who you're talking about?
30:50
Sometimes.
30:51
He imitates everybody, but he's a fool.
30:53
Austin Schultz out of Nebraska.
30:55
He plays cosmic ball.
30:57
Okay.
30:58
He was he was at that home run.
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Oh, that's not what I'm thinking of then.
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I'm thinking of We gotta get Austin one of those because if I could get Austin one and he
31:04
put
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it good to
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see everyone.
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Mind that.
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If he's in Nebraska, man, he's close enough to me.
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So what I'm gonna connect with him Instagram.
31:11
We're gonna talk to him.
31:12
We're gonna get him hitting off of this.
31:13
What's nice about having the mobile unit and I got the mat and everything.
31:16
Like, he hooked it up, man.
31:17
I I got the whole thing that I can take this everywhere with me.
31:21
Right?
31:21
And I think that was the point.
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It's to get this thing out there, get kids hitting off it everywhere we can and really
31:29
putting this thing out there into the world.
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So really grateful to to have that and to be a part of the BSTAC family means the world to us
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here at seven eight nine.
31:40
Touche.
31:42
I love that you called it, though.
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That was beautiful.
31:45
I
31:46
I had no idea, Eddie.
31:47
So yeah.
31:48
That that's brilliant, by the way, because you know where my head going.
31:52
Kid can't bend that trailer hitch.
31:54
Throw it in there.
31:55
Get your cover rips off at so I'll have to watch you strike out with that $300 bat.
31:59
God almighty.
32:00
She does not stop talking.
32:05
Well, we're gonna get a quick quick hit at the standings here.
32:10
And look at those Tampa Bay devil rays.
32:13
Get out of town.
32:15
They do it every year.
32:18
Go, Ray.
32:18
I know.
32:19
Right?
32:19
It's only May.
32:21
Or is
32:21
Frank the tank when you need him?
32:23
We're going straight in.
32:24
We can
32:26
do Don't forget your skunk Speedo.
32:29
Mhmm.
32:31
Oh, it's coming.
32:31
God, could you imagine Shady in a Speedo?
32:34
My goodness.
32:35
Can't get
32:35
that image out of my head now.
32:37
You get enough margaritas in them.
32:38
Probably.
32:40
Scary
32:40
for life.
32:42
Look at those royals, baby.
32:44
There's there's a reason there's a reason shady don't drink anymore.
32:49
And guys be that color right there, boys.
32:52
Right there.
32:54
Guys, what universe are we living in where the where the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City
32:59
Royals are tied for second in the AL Central and the
33:01
2,000.
33:02
But look at how, like
33:03
A little bit.
33:03
Yeah.
33:03
But, you know, the thing is The
33:06
the leader is the leader's 500.
33:09
And they and they just lost their twins today.
33:11
So but the thing is is, you know, if you want to win
33:15
dogfight as the NL Central, just kind of on the other side.
33:19
But Buxton's red hot.
33:20
And if he stays healthy, the twins are bottom feeders.
33:23
I can see the twins moving Buxton to, you know, maybe over there in Atlanta.
33:30
The royals have been red hot right now too.
33:33
Witt's been on a tear.
33:36
He just hit a little league home run last night.
33:39
What's up with Zebby?
33:41
Cubs just lost two in a row to the rangers.
33:43
Shut out in both of them after their second 10 game winning streak.
33:47
Yeah.
33:47
The first team first team to do that or something?
33:50
And Like, a hundred years or eighty at least.
33:53
I think it might have been a 40
33:54
Hey, Bubba.
33:54
Can I ask you a question?
33:56
What's up?
33:56
What's going on with PCA, man?
33:59
He's great
34:00
fielder, but his his he's gotta be consistent.
34:04
Yeah.
34:05
Well
34:05
You need him on base to produce runs.
34:07
Young guy.
34:08
I I think he's, had a good little stretch there, and then he starts swinging too much.
34:12
I think the the good start to a season this year being more patient, but you're also
34:17
talking about it was his first full season last year in the league.
34:23
You have a guy that's just a a swinger.
34:25
Right?
34:25
He he he likes to get up there.
34:26
He's not gonna get cheated on his cuts, but that's why he was really susceptible to
34:30
curveball.
34:31
It was hard watching him bat last year.
34:33
Oh.
34:33
Back end of the year where I was like, we're just gonna throw him junk.
34:37
We're just gonna throw him junk.
34:38
And and it's just and I don't know if it's a visual thing of just, like, not spotting the
34:43
ball coming out of these pitchers' hands, and I I don't know what it is.
34:47
But you're talking about a guy that didn't spend a lot of time in the minor leagues
34:50
either.
34:51
Right?
34:51
Like, it's not like he spent several years, you know, coming up through the ranks.
34:55
It was drafted and you're pretty much, you know, a year in triple a and you're in the
35:01
league.
35:01
Right?
35:01
So I like I like his story though, that his mom was the actress in the rookie of the year with
35:09
the young pitcher for the cubs.
35:12
Oh, really?
35:13
Yeah.
35:13
That's his mom.
35:14
But just some breaking news here.
35:16
I know we're a baseball show.
35:17
Yeah.
35:18
Victor Wamadipo just got ejected from the playoff game against the wolves.
35:24
Nice.
35:24
Nice.
35:24
Who does he play for?
35:26
The spurs.
35:27
Oh, damn.
35:28
When Biniyama got ejected is what he said.
35:30
Yeah.
35:31
One by down.
35:31
I went out over right there.
35:33
Yeah.
35:34
I don't
35:34
follow fast.
35:35
How did he get ejected?
35:37
He threw an elbow, a fragrant flop foul.
35:42
Guess not
35:42
or Julie oh, really?
35:44
Not okay.
35:44
Yeah.
35:45
No.
35:45
This makes sense too.
35:46
Now there's your baseball question.
35:49
If everything correlated, how hard could Victor Wimbignano sling a baseball from sixty feet six
35:56
inches?
35:57
Oh my god.
35:59
Probably, like, a 110.
36:02
Come to the dark side, my brother.
36:03
Speaking of hundreds, what did I see?
36:07
Kid from the brewers, what's his name?
36:09
Miss miss Roszewski.
36:10
Jacob Roszewski.
36:12
Hit a 104.6.
36:15
He just answered throwing it.
36:16
Yeah.
36:17
There he And he just recorded over a 103?
36:21
Yeah.
36:22
The first pitch They said that the first five pitches that he threw were the fastest pitches
36:26
recorded by a starting pitcher ever.
36:29
And that's a like, I don't know about everybody in the MLB.
36:32
I can't speak for everybody.
36:33
Just I I don't me personally, I get up there, the first pitch is a 102, bro.
36:38
Go ahead.
36:39
Like, I I'm I'm waiting till the next day be.
36:45
Does it only go down?
36:47
And throwing it at your head like you did against Chris?
36:49
Even bother swinging?
36:50
Do you just sit up there and, like, hope he walks me?
36:53
Yeah.
36:54
Yeah.
36:54
I think at that point, you do because it's like, alright.
36:57
He can throw gas, but can he locate it?
37:00
You just sit there.
37:01
Just wait for the pitch.
37:03
There's no
37:04
there's no amount of cuts on your beast hack off the trailer hitch that you can take.
37:10
That's gonna help you time up a 103.
37:13
Right?
37:13
Like, there's you gotta see it.
37:14
You just gotta be waiting for it.
37:16
I mean, you gotta think that what what he's gonna come with the fastball, and you just have
37:20
to swing.
37:20
I mean
37:21
Yeah.
37:22
That's a lot of the at bats is, like, you see these guys, especially, like, fastball hitters.
37:28
Juan So to, for instance, he hits everything, but So to, he goes up there and he's like,
37:33
alright.
37:34
This is the tendency this pitcher has, and I'm gonna swing at this pitch.
37:37
And I'm either gonna hit it or I'm not.
37:39
And if he can't get his pitch, then he's gonna try to work a walk.
37:43
That's I'm
37:44
a quick look through the standings there.
37:47
Not a lot of surprises.
37:48
The these two teams are gonna be battling it out.
37:50
I think
37:51
there's gonna be a lot of back and forth during the season barring any major injuries to either
37:55
team.
37:56
This NL Central is gonna be a dogfight.
38:00
The reds just got into a buzz saw with the cubs.
38:03
They lost four in a row against them last week.
38:05
I think they recover play in the rest of the division and outside of the division a little
38:09
bit.
38:10
And the cubs will bounce back.
38:11
I mean, they've been shut out two games in a row now, but you're gonna
38:14
have really buy back to the Marlins?
38:16
Jeez.
38:17
I wouldn't worry about it.
38:18
Cubs are I would say either braves or cubs power ranking number one.
38:22
Well and and what what's gonna hurt them, man, is Matthew Boyd freak accident.
38:27
What's up
38:27
with the
38:27
Mets?
38:28
And and
38:29
Yeah.
38:29
Hurt
38:30
his hurt his knee, ended up having to have surgery.
38:34
So he's gonna be out, and he's been a workhorse as far as innings go.
38:37
But Ben Brown threw really well
38:39
for having a hard time here in Baba?
38:42
I got to meet him.
38:43
I shook his hand.
38:43
So he was walking out of the game that I went to last year.
38:48
He walks out and, like, out through the right field section.
38:52
Right?
38:53
And you catch a lot of the players.
38:54
So I saw these people all kinda lined up, I was like, well, what are they doing?
38:57
Well, a lot of the players will come down here, and they'll walk down or whatever.
39:00
And some of them live, like, in the neighborhood.
39:02
So they're just, like, walking by, and, yeah, I got to see Ben, and he was the starter that
39:06
night and got to, you know, hey.
39:08
You know, great, you know, great great game and nice to meet you.
39:12
But, yeah, it's it's I mean, you forget how young some of these kids are.
39:15
Right?
39:16
Even if they're 21, 22 years old, man.
39:18
I just turned 40 this week.
39:19
Right?
39:20
Like I
39:20
get it.
39:20
It's different.
39:23
What a
39:23
monster like pair of shoes.
39:25
Keaton that's Keaton still still pretty stoked about sending monster home packing.
39:32
And Nice.
39:33
What a what a gratifying moment for them.
39:36
He also sent me a text that said a closer for Shady with a bat flip.
39:41
So
39:42
Oh, I will.
39:43
Shoot.
39:47
Crash.
39:48
Oh,
39:48
here comes the Fungo.
39:51
No.
39:52
Coach wouldn't let me hit Fungos.
39:53
He said
39:53
Katie, keep that away from my shins.
39:56
I'll hit them shins, son.
39:57
I will hit them shins.
39:59
No.
40:00
Well, I don't wanna keep everybody too late tonight.
40:02
My my wife's inside probably waiting for a foot rub, to finish her long weekend off.
40:09
Shout out to my wife Danielle who'd graduated college this weekend.
40:13
To her.
40:14
Thank you, boys.
40:14
Appreciate it, man.
40:15
Shout out for the grad.
40:17
She's been working her ass off the last two years as an accelerated program, so she
40:21
actually double double majored.
40:23
So she graduated with two bachelor's degrees and a minor in two years.
40:28
That's a
40:28
lot of hard work.
40:30
So
40:31
While she was working full time the entire way too, first as a paraprofessional and then as a
40:36
full time special education teacher this year.
40:38
So and now she actually got a new job in the school still.
40:42
Same school, same district, just a different position that she'll be teaching what they
40:47
call
40:47
CTE, so career training and experience for middle school and high school kids.
40:53
So moving out of special education, but she's really excited about using her business degree
40:58
that she graduated with ten years ago also in here.
41:02
So, yeah, my wife has three three majors, three degrees, and two minors of psychology and a l
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elementary reading.
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Hey.
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So Appreciate that, Keaton.
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I'll make sure to relay the message.
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But, yeah, sell been celebrating my wife all weekend.
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That's why I definitely took time out of my day to move some dirt around and get that pool set
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up.
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I didn't set it up at all last year.
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She wanted to feel those sunflowers, and we just didn't really have the time last year.
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But this one looks like it's gonna be a hot and dry one, so might as well have it out there and
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get it done.
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Funny enough, he he said Daniel.
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They they announced her as Daniel first and then corrected them.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It always happens.
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Shit happens.
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Right?
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That's okay.
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You wait you wait two and a half years to get your name called and screw
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it up.
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Give me the piece of paper.
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Thank y'all.
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Well, it's really cool.
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So she was part of what they call a teacher apprentice program.
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So it's a pretty big deal for the school, for the state.
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And, yeah, man, I couldn't be more proud of the woman that I get to spend the rest of my life
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with, and it's been a it's been a journey.
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Obviously, lot of time spent with her doing homework.
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She still has the summer to finish out on classes, but it's kinda gonna be like, well,
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what the hell now?
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Once we get to the next school year where it's like, oh, I just have to work.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, maybe there's a little pressure off of me while she has a little bit more time
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to do it and, yeah, kinda do some things around the house.
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Maybe cook once in a while.
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That'd be nice.
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Just not today.
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Not today.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Not today.
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Alright, fellas.
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Appreciate everybody coming in, joining us for the show today.
42:48
Little shortened Mother's Day version, but with Bobby Cox passing away, we felt it necessary to
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come on and and pay tribute, honor to the man, especially with, you know, the ties that the
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show has to the Braves organization even if it's just, as fans right now.
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But, bright future for us, guys.
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It's gonna be a wild couple of weeks.
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And as we're leading into the season, had some more talks with players and GMs out of the
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Northwoods League.
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So really looking forward to making some stuff happen over there.
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And, yeah, covering a lot of baseball this year.
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I don't know if it'll just be on this show or if we'll end up developing another one
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entirely, but a lot lot to talk about and and a lot of great baseball still coming our way.
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So for everyone here at the show, once again, a happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.
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We appreciate you more than we could ever say or show you.
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I am Bubba Starts.
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This is the same project sports network, You've been here for seven, eight, nine.
43:49
We'll see you back on Tuesday for Vikings United.
43:52
A lot to talk about there as well.
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Rookie minicamp last weekend.
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We will be back on Saturday for the cut line.
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Shout out to Shady and Pods for covering my butt last Saturday.
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Appreciate you guys.
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And, yeah, looking forward to getting out on the course finally.
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Like, we are finally hitting summer here.
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So unlike y'all that are spoiled living in the South, me and Bea and Cody might actually be
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able to get out and, wax some balls here soon.
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We'll be here.
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Appreciate y'all.
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Another shout out to, Bstack team as well.
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Keaton, thanks for tuning in tonight.
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Appreciate everything you've done for us and, continuing to grow our bits and helping you
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grow Beast Tech as well.
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So everybody have a great night.
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We'll see you back here seeing Project Sports Network on Tuesday, and have a great night,
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everybody.
44:41
Happy Mother's Day.
44:42
Happy Mother's Day.
44:44
Night, everybody.
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