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Tim Kurkjian’s season observations · Foul Territory

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: These crazy things happen. You've got to give Brandon Hyde
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: and Rockerball Delli and a few others a little more time.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're getting ready to join be joined by
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  Speaker 2: Tim Kirchen, the Great Tim Kirchen, who I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that there's anybody that loves this beautiful sport of ours
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  Speaker 2: more than Tim. And at anytime he starts to laugh,
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  Speaker 2: it just makes me laugh because his laugh is infectious,
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  Speaker 2: his knowledge is unbelievable. He's one of the good ones
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  Speaker 2: out there. The twenty twenty two BBWAA Career Excellence Award
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  Speaker 2: winner Analyst of course for ESPN, author of three books,
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  Speaker 2: and the host with his son the great? Is it
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  Speaker 2: a great game or what?
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  Speaker 1: With his son?
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  Speaker 2: I love it, Tim Kirchin, Welcome to the show. The
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  Speaker 2: backwards hat just like krats. I'm not sure what we're
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  Speaker 2: doing with this, look like look at you and AJ
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  Speaker 2: and I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Tim, Tim, you got to work for Fox to wear this.
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  Speaker 3: You can't.
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  Speaker 4: ESPN doesn't allow you to wear your hat backwards. You
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  Speaker 4: have to work for Fox to wear your hat back
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  Speaker 4: Just saying.
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  Speaker 1: I am sixty eight years old and I can honestly
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  Speaker 1: say this is the first time I have ever worn
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  Speaker 1: a hat backwards in my life, but I did it
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  Speaker 1: as a tribute to AJ and to Cratzy here, and
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  Speaker 1: I look ridiculous in it, so I'm going to take
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  Speaker 1: it off now. By the way, this is my WJ
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  Speaker 1: hat Walter Johnson High School. That's where I went to
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  Speaker 1: high school in Bethesda, Maryland, named after the greatest pitcher
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  Speaker 1: of all time. If you can see, I'm also wearing
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  Speaker 1: my Walter Johnson Flees pullover. It's eighty five degrees today,
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  Speaker 1: but I just wanted to be a part of the show,
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  Speaker 1: so I wore my hat backwards. It will never happen again.
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  Speaker 5: Is wearing your hat? Is wearing your hat backwards disrespectful?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not. It's that my forehead looks like a
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  Speaker 1: five head now because I've got so old, and by
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  Speaker 1: wearing a hat backwards, I might lose even more hair.
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  Speaker 1: It's the only reason I don't listen. You gotta be cool.
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  Speaker 1: You have to be cool to wear your hat backwards.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys are really cool, hon, It's really cool.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the least cool guy in the whole world. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so square, I'm divisible by four, so I'm out of
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. When it comes to that, I think.
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  Speaker 2: You're one of the coolest guys I know, Tim, I
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  Speaker 2: really do. I love your infectious joy for the game,
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  Speaker 2: and I love the fact that you're doing this pod
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  Speaker 2: with your son. Great game or what what made you?
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  Speaker 2: As you say, you're an old school guy, not cool,
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  Speaker 2: but you're into the podcast game and you're doing it
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  Speaker 2: with your boy. What have you enjoyed about that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's been great because it's a baseball podcast. But
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  Speaker 1: my son, Jeff, doesn't know that much about baseball, which
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  Speaker 1: is great because I don't know anything about anything else
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  Speaker 1: other than basketball and sitcoms from the sixties. So any
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  Speaker 1: sort of pop culture, musical reference, anything that where you
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  Speaker 1: have to fix something, anything that's really cool. He can
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  Speaker 1: answer all of the questions and if they ask me
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  Speaker 1: a baseball question, hopefully I can answer that. Also, he
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  Speaker 1: is a wizard a magician at technology, so and I'm
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  Speaker 1: the worst of all time at that. So when something
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  Speaker 1: goes wrong, I drive to Philadelphia almost every week to
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  Speaker 1: tape the podcast just so I'm in the same room
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  Speaker 1: with him. In case something goes wrong with the technology,
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  Speaker 1: he can fix it. There is no scarier feeling for
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  Speaker 1: me to be five foot four and a half and
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  Speaker 1: something goes wrong with the technology at.
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  Speaker 5: Home, and you're so close to my house when you
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  Speaker 5: get there too, So sometime we're going to have to
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  Speaker 5: have lunch. That's fair.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, it's already planned, Kratsey. You are coming to
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  Speaker 1: skip back to my son's basement. We are going to
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  Speaker 1: do a podcast in person, the three of us, and
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a blast because you live like
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes from where my son lives.
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  Speaker 5: It's great, I do And if something goes wrong with
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  Speaker 5: your phone, we'll make sure it's taken care of. What
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  Speaker 5: are you watching right now? What do you see? What
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  Speaker 5: do you like in the game right now? That's going
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  Speaker 5: on this season, the short short you know, twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: five games that they've played so far.
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  Speaker 1: Well as always, my favorite thing about baseball is this
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous unpredictability. Just look at all the bizarre things that
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  Speaker 1: have already happened, all the first time things that have
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  Speaker 1: already happened. Just this is a tiny thing, but this
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  Speaker 1: just happened. The other night. Ben Rice hit a lead
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  Speaker 1: off home run for the Yankees, So he's the fourth
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  Speaker 1: different Yankee this year to hit a lead off homer
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  Speaker 1: in a game. No team has ever had four of
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  Speaker 1: those guys do it before the month of May, but
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees did it. And about a hundred other things
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  Speaker 1: have happened this year that just make you slap your forehead, like,
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  Speaker 1: how in the world did that happen? How can so
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  Speaker 1: and so team be this good? How can the Orioles
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  Speaker 1: be six games under five? This is why baseball is
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  Speaker 1: so beautiful. Is it's too good to be predicted. Just
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  Speaker 1: when we think we understand what's going on, we recognize
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  Speaker 1: that we don't, because that's the way the game demands it.
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  Speaker 4: Tim, I saw a thing speaking of that, who's the
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  Speaker 4: guy that has broken up eighty one no hitters with
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  Speaker 4: a home run?
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  Speaker 3: You should know this answer.
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  Speaker 1: The guy that has broken up eighty one different no
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  Speaker 1: hitters with a home Runju, this is a trick question.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, thank you. I figured you would get that like that.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, that was very good, aj I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: your mind worked like that. Yes, he led us the
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  Speaker 1: game with a home run eighty I believe it's eighty
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  Speaker 1: two different times. Not the point, but yes, you're absolutely right. Gosh,
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  Speaker 1: what again? Stumped by you? Is a really bad day.
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  Speaker 1: Very very good. I'm very apprised.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell Rosenthal you said. I'm gonna clip that
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  Speaker 4: and just send it to Rosenthal and repeat thank you.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, I can't take cred of it. I
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  Speaker 4: saw it on Twitter X whatever it's called this morning.
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  Speaker 4: I do I do want to ask you. We were
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  Speaker 4: talking before you came on about managers on the hot
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  Speaker 4: seat Rockoball Deli and Brendon Hyde and some other guys.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think about this? It's too early to
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  Speaker 4: be talking about this. I know it's a conversation, but
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  Speaker 4: isn't it too early to be talking about this?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is probably my least favorite question that I'm
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  Speaker 1: ever asked. Who's on the hot seat?
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  Speaker 3: We are?
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  Speaker 1: We haven't even gotten to May yet. Yes, the Orioles
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  Speaker 1: have underachieved terribly, as have the Twins. But for us
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  Speaker 1: to come out and say you got to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the manager when the Orioles haven't won a game
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  Speaker 1: in which they've scored fewer than five runs this year,
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  Speaker 1: they're the only team that hasn't done that. They have
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  Speaker 1: significant injuries to their starting pitching. They have a subpar
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  Speaker 1: offensive team, which should not be the case, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just I just don't feel comfortable blaming the manager for
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. But we do it all the time,
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: So I'm with you, guys. It's way too early to
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  Speaker 1: say gotta make a change in Baltimore, got to make
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  Speaker 1: a change in Minnesota. You gotta give them a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the Tigers last year. They weren't even a
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  Speaker 1: contender until the middle of August and they won a
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  Speaker 1: playoff series. Strange things can happen that you know. Remember
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  Speaker 1: that the Nationals in twenty nineteen started out nineteen and
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  Speaker 1: thirty one and they won the World Series. These crazy
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  Speaker 1: things happen. You gotta give Brandon Hyde and Rockaball Delli
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  Speaker 1: and a few others a little more time.
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  Speaker 5: All right, you like crazy things? Can you believe? And
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  Speaker 5: what do you think of it? That we've been playing
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  Speaker 5: not one, but two minor league stadiums in Major League
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  Speaker 5: Baseball this year?
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  Speaker 1: You know, twenty years ago, Bud Ceiling, the General, i mean,
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  Speaker 1: the Commissioner of Baseball told me we've got to do
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  Speaker 1: something about Tampa Bay and Oakland.
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  Speaker 3: We have to.
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  Speaker 1: That was twenty years ago, and here it is twenty
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  Speaker 1: years later and we're still not sure what to do
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  Speaker 1: with the A's and the Rays. Let's hope the A's
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  Speaker 1: will play three years in Sacramento and have a seamless
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  Speaker 1: transition and be a really effective team and a good
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  Speaker 1: team in Las Vegas, but we're not one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: sure that's gonna happen, and we have to be we
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  Speaker 1: have to get a game plan for the Rays. And
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  Speaker 1: this thought of us expanding right now, it just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make any sense to me, not until we solidify where
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  Speaker 1: the Rays and where the A's are playing and make
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  Speaker 1: sure they are a you know, franchises that are going
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  Speaker 1: to work, before we do anything else. It is bizarre
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  Speaker 1: that we're playing not one, but two teams in a
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  Speaker 1: minor league ballpark almost every night, and it's hard.
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  Speaker 2: To see empty stadiums in terms of fan bases there too,
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  Speaker 2: tim with the A's and of the Rays where they
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  Speaker 2: don't have that problems home with the me and home
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  Speaker 2: with the Padres. Why are those two teams right now,
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  Speaker 2: with the start that they've gotten off to, why are
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  Speaker 2: they believable? And is this sustainable for both of those clubs?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, both are sustainable. Both are believable. Look, this is
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  Speaker 1: not a great start by the Mets. The Mets have
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  Speaker 1: been really good basically since June last year. I covered
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  Speaker 1: that game in England last year when they won on
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  Speaker 1: that bizarre two to three double play where Luis Trenz
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  Speaker 1: touched home, played through to first for the double play
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  Speaker 1: to end a one run game. That play had never
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  Speaker 1: happened in the history of baseball. Not even AJ made
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  Speaker 1: a play like that in a in the last out,
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  Speaker 1: last two outs of a game. There is something special
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  Speaker 1: going on with the Mets. I sensed it, believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not. When I was in England, I said, this
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  Speaker 1: team stinks and they have it togetherness that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure I've ever seen for a team that is bad.
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  Speaker 1: When they won that game, they picked up steam. They
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  Speaker 1: played great down the stretch. They were amazing in October.
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  Speaker 1: So they're believable. And they haven't even started to hit yet.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, other than the leadoff guy and the cleanup guy.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm amazed. They're starting pitching as bit as good
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  Speaker 1: as it's been, so I'm not sure that's going to
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  Speaker 1: continue in the rotation. They got to get some people healthy.
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  Speaker 6: As for the Padres, they got seven shutouts. They're the
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  Speaker 6: first team ever to have seven shutouts before the month
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  Speaker 6: of May. Look at their bullpen, the power arms that
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  Speaker 6: they pour out of that pen, and look at the
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  Speaker 6: talented everyday lineup that they have, and wait till Jackson
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  Speaker 6: Merrill who gets back one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: They are both sustainable. They are both exceptionally dangerous teams.
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  Speaker 4: Tim I was in London last year also, and I
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: saw Philly hammer on the day before. So why can't
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: Philly be hot? Why has it got your Mets Homer?
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  Speaker 4: I get it, that's cool. But is this their window?
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: Is this their window for Philly? Is it closing because
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: Sharver free agent, Real Muto free agent, another y're on Nola,
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  Speaker 4: another y're on Wheeler? Is this their window? Do they
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  Speaker 4: have to get it done this year? Because is it
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  Speaker 4: kind of shrinking a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: It is shrinking, no doubt. But you can't say if
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  Speaker 1: they don't win this year, that's it, They're done. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies are really good. When I went into when
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the standings going in, I said, the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies have the second best team in baseball to the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: And I think at the end of the year. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be thinking the same way that rotation is
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  Speaker 1: tremendous as soon as Aaron Nola gets things figured out,
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  Speaker 1: which he will. But yes, the Phillies recognized we've been
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  Speaker 1: a disappointment a bit in the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to go, and I fully expect them to
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  Speaker 1: be a really good offensive team. And very few teams
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  Speaker 1: pitch better out of the rotation than the Phillies did.
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  Speaker 5: How about the Braves. Have they just not gotten their
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  Speaker 5: shipment of torpedo bats yet? Is that their issue?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's gonna have to happen now they've finally gotten
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  Speaker 1: hot here. There's absolutely no way they were going to
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  Speaker 1: struggle that badly. But they got their work cut out
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  Speaker 1: for them in a division of cour with the Mets
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  Speaker 1: and the Phillies. The ron Lecunya news is not great
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  Speaker 1: that we're not sure when he's coming back and what's
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  Speaker 1: he gonna be Like Specer Stryder comes back, throws one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and then goes back on the injured list. That
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a good sign. But I refuse to give up
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  Speaker 1: on the Braves this early because I've seen them bounce
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  Speaker 1: back from other adversity and be really good. I expect
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  Speaker 1: them to be really close, if not a playoff team
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Tim I never cut out the Braves, and nobody obviously
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  Speaker 2: counts out the Los Angeles Dodgers. Last year they won
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: the World Series piecemealing together a starting rotation. This year,
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  Speaker 2: I thought they had more depth than the starting rotation,
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  Speaker 2: but they've scuffled as of late. Lake Snell's not coming
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  Speaker 2: back for a time. Obviously, Kershaw's coming back. Gonsolin will
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  Speaker 2: come back. Do they have enough depth? I know that
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  Speaker 2: sounds silly with the payroll and the signings, but do
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  Speaker 2: they have enough to repeat?
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  Speaker 1: I think they do. I would take the field because
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  Speaker 1: I think there are that many good teams, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the National League. But if you're asked me, who do
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  Speaker 1: I think is the best team in baseball and will
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  Speaker 1: be the best team in October? I think it will
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  Speaker 1: be the Dodgers. But you're right along, and we already
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  Speaker 1: have an injury to a top flight starting pitcher and
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  Speaker 1: not let's not forget in the l In the NLCS
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  Speaker 1: last year, they used an opener twice, and then they
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  Speaker 1: used an opener once in the World Series, and they
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  Speaker 1: still won, which is amazing. If they can get everyone
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  Speaker 1: healthy in that rotation, they are going to be a absolute
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  Speaker 1: nightmare for most teams in October. And the depth in
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  Speaker 1: their in their everyday lineup is is just as good
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  Speaker 1: as as it is in their starting rotation when everyone
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  Speaker 1: is right.
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  Speaker 3: Tim who has more.
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  Speaker 4: Knowledge numbers you or audities, maybe you or Jason Stark.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Well, Jason Starr taught me where to look now,
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  Speaker 1: truth be told, I was looking for this stuff when
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  Speaker 1: I was eight years old. That's how clueless of a
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  Speaker 1: young kid I was. I had like two things in
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  Speaker 1: the world I was interested in, so I was coming
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  Speaker 1: up with the all food team and the All money
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  Speaker 1: team when I was in junior high school. Jason is
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  Speaker 1: the best I've ever seen at it. He taught me
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  Speaker 1: where to look and how to find things. I've gotten
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  Speaker 1: pretty good at it because I love all the stupid, quirky,
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  Speaker 1: funny things that happened, all the pointless, useless things that happened.
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  Speaker 1: But he's the best ever, and he taught me how
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  Speaker 1: to do it as well as anyone could.
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  Speaker 3: Who went in the Hall of Fame first or sorry,
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  Speaker 3: the Career Excellence Award you.
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  Speaker 1: Jason went in first, as he should have, and I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned him in my Hall of Fame speech along with
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Dan Shaughnessy and Peter Gammons, because those were the three
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: biggest mentors among the many mentors that I had in
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: the business.
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  Speaker 4: Is that the biggest hold on you is that the
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: biggest award as a writer for baseball writer is that award?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Of course, So if I may tell you a story.
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  Speaker 1: So I won the award, and the next morning, Johnny Bench,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Johnny Bench, the greatest catcher of all time, called me
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: on the phone to congratulate me. He said, congratulations, Tim,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the club. You're one of us now. And
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: I almost started to cry again. And then he said, Tim,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: you know it's moments like this that bring you back
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  Speaker 1: to Little League. And now I'm ready to just cry
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  Speaker 1: out loud, and he says, and let's face it, Tim,
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  Speaker 1: you could still fit into a Little League uniform. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: a lot, Johnny, good talking to you. I appreciate the call. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it was the biggest scrill of my of my professional life.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: There will not be a close second. Although working with
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: my son on this podcast has been really, really cool
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  Speaker 1: and really special.
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  Speaker 5: That is an unbelievable story that he's still added the
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: jab in there at the end when he almost had
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  Speaker 5: you at tears. So I'm gonna add a I'm going
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: to add a jab in. We were talking about good
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: tear Tames. Let's talk about the Marlins. They're close to
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: five hundred team and they don't want to be The
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: front office does not want to win. What do you
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: see happening with the future of this team this season?
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: Considering if al Contra gets better and he starts to
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: pitch better, he's gonna leave.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's gonna be a fascinating story there. I'm sorry.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I just don't see this keeping up and then being
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: an above five hundred team and a contending team for
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the whole season. So they may take the ace and
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: deal him because they're gonna get a king's ransom for
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: him right now, because he's still really good and now's
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the time to deal him. But it's gonna be really
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: interesting if they continue to win, how are they gonna
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: justify trading not only their best pitcher but one of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the best pitchers in the game. But if they're in
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: a complete rebuild, which it appears they are, then I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: think at the end of July the best thing to
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: do would be to trade him, get a absolute haul
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: in return, and continue to rebuild at a very high level.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Tim, I just want to before we let you go,
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I wanted to extend my condolences again for the passing
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: of your brother, obviously who passed of ALS. But I
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: know that you have been so instrumental in ALS awareness,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: and of course you work with Sarah Langs, who's battling
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Luke Gyrig's disease right now. So I didn't want to
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: let you go without an opportunity for you to talk
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: about that and in terms of any efforts or a
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: way that we might be able to help you.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well we're working on it because I'm very much
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a part of this now. I'll tell you, Cratzy Aj,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: if you knew my brother, boy boy, you would have
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: loved him. He was such a good college baseball player.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: He's only a little bit bigger than I was, and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the way he played the game all out, weigh one
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five pounds major league throwing arm when
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: he was at Catholic. You university guys on their team
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: would tell you if we had nine Matt Kirchins on
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: our team, we'd never lose a game. And they have it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: They have an award named after my brother, the Matt
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Kirchin Ultimate Teammate Award at Catholic University that is awarded
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to the senior that is the best teammate on the team.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So in honor of my brother, whatever it takes to
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: spread the word and to help the cause against this
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: wretched disease, you can count me in. We appreciate that
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: very much.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Where's Catholic University.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: It's in downtown d C. And my two brothers played there.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: My oldest brother, Andy, a catcher. What position did you
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: guys play? My brother Andy was maybe the best player
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: ever to play at Catholic University, left handed hitting catcher,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: also major league throwing arms, so become. And my dad
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: was a really good player too. So h baseball family here,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Thank goodness. I don't know anything else. That's for sure.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: The oldest brother, it's clearly the smartest Kirchen brother.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: By far, the smartest he. I think he got fifteen
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: thousand on his SATs in high school. And my dad
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: used to look at me and my other brother and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: say he never once said like, what's wrong with you guys?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Why aren't you as smart as your older brother? Because
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: he recognized, like right away, we're never going to be
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: as smart as him, as big as him, as good
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: as him, as handsome as him. We were just completely
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: below our oldest brother. But never compare the children in
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: your family, because they're all special on in every certain way.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Life lessons from Tim Kirchin. Tim, we appreciate you very much.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: It's it's always a pleasure getting to talk to you.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, all.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Right, thanks for letting me me wear my hat backwards.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: That was horrible.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: The one knowing Tom, you will see Tim Kirchen in
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: a backward tat.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Okay,