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Dale Murphy on his HOF case, Glavine HBP, Utah MLB expansion efforts · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: One of the requirements of being in the Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame is you should think you belong. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a spot there for me, but you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: with a first ballot guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Legendary Atlanta ball player, two time m v P, seven
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  Speaker 3: time All Star, a ton of Silver Slugger and Gold
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  Speaker 3: Glove awards as well.
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  Speaker 2: Dan Murphy joining us Dell, good to see you, thanks
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  Speaker 2: for saying by her. Yeah, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's been a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Just being here in Atlanta, you know, with the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game's big celebration really of baseball, and so uh
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  Speaker 1: and I've seen some old teammates and some old guys
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  Speaker 1: I played against, and uh, the whole atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's always fun to be here. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: having me on.
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  Speaker 4: You still could play. You look like you still can play.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you are in shape.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, he says, Yeah, what was that you said?
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  Speaker 1: Get my megaphone hearing it's then you couldn't hear anything.
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  Speaker 1: Pop it out.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get bood too much in Atlanta. Did happen
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  Speaker 1: in Philly? I had good experience in Philly. They love you,
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  Speaker 1: but they let you know if you need to pick
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  Speaker 1: your game up a little bit. But anyway, thank you
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  Speaker 1: A j I. I wish I could play. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's not a day that doesn't go by. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure we're all the same. You wish you could
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  Speaker 1: put on that uniform and get out there. Miss it
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  Speaker 1: so much. I'm just gonna jump right in. How are
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  Speaker 1: you not in the Hall of Fame? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you serious? I'm serious? Like, how are you? We
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  Speaker 2: rattled off some of your accomplishments.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: How are you not in the Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I knew when I retired, I had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people very optimistic. But you know, in
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  Speaker 1: my heart, I knew it was going to take a while.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I knew it wasn't going to be smooth.
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  Speaker 1: But I was on the original ballot for fifteen years
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  Speaker 1: when it was fifteen years, and you know, I'm thankful
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame recognized the guys in the seventies, eighties,
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  Speaker 1: and nineties.
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  Speaker 2: They've They've changed the voting.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm on that era committee, the modern Era, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm eligible game in December. I've been on it a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times, making a little progress, So I appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the support, and we'll see what happens. I got a shot.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want it like this?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 5: Because I well, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah. I think I think people once said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the requirements of being in the Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame is you should think you belong. I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a spot there for me, But you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: with a first ballot guy, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think there's a spot there for me.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I mean, I'm I'm blessed in so many ways.
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  Speaker 1: It would be an incredible exciting feeling for me and
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  Speaker 1: Nancy and the kids and grandkids and but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm kind of philosophical about it. I would love that honor.
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  Speaker 1: That would be just it would blow me away if
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  Speaker 1: it happened.
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  Speaker 2: I have a question on this.
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  Speaker 3: So did you ever connect with a writer that didn't
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  Speaker 3: vote for you and be like just curious, why die
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  Speaker 3: fall shorty? Did you ever catch an article where they said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not voting for him, he's on the cuss. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna know. And here's why. There are some writers
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  Speaker 3: that are also just the super small ballot. They put
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  Speaker 3: one or people on there, they're in another category. But
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  Speaker 3: was there anything that stood out to you because you're
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  Speaker 3: looking at your career, your accolades, and you're like.
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  Speaker 1: What they think? The one thing people mentioned me and
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  Speaker 1: it is true, my last couple of years there was
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  Speaker 1: drop off.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: The Hall of Fame typically likes to see, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a good steady, but you know I can't. There's no
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  Speaker 1: debating that. But that's all being a human.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, Yeah, get older and off sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you don't think, Hey, if I retired right now, I'd
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  Speaker 6: have a better shot at getting the big leagues instead
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  Speaker 6: of attacking on these you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So you just play, you play, you let things happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I retired ninety three. I was I was
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  Speaker 1: ready to retire. But you know, like I say, I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of people support me within the voters,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens. This new ballad has helped
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us guys that played predominantly in the
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  Speaker 1: eighties and I can't think of him now, but Lee Smith.
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  Speaker 1: I think Fred McGriff got in on this. Yeah, who
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  Speaker 1: should have been in Yeah before Harold bains Lee should
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  Speaker 1: have been you know Harold, and I think Alan Trammel,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So what I guess what I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: say is I'm thankful Hall of Fame recognize that and
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  Speaker 1: change the voting a little bit, because remember what happened
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  Speaker 1: before you were all lumped in with veterans. There were
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  Speaker 1: two thousand of us. Now they've split it up into
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  Speaker 1: eras and they can kind of focus in.
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  Speaker 2: On what you did. So I'm thankful for that.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think of this whole area that they
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  Speaker 3: put together.
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  Speaker 2: This this battery and the thing the Braves did.
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  Speaker 1: As you guys know, there's been people from all over
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  Speaker 1: the world that's seen this is the model.
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  Speaker 2: What can I say except I've heard the word used earlier. Electric.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, it's so likely. I was here for the
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  Speaker 1: World Series in what was it, twenty one, Yeah, twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: There were fifty thousand people outside and of course forty
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  Speaker 1: five whatever is inside. I think they bumped it to
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  Speaker 1: forty seven. The whole thing, the energy created and just
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  Speaker 1: the the financial model. Another big stream of revenue around
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  Speaker 1: the stadium, which you know I played in an air
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  Speaker 1: with around stadium and ten thousand parking spaces around it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the model that people are trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out that all the next stadiums and of every sport
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  Speaker 1: are going to be modeled on this, and and people
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  Speaker 1: if they don't have it, they're going to try to
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  Speaker 1: retrofit some kind of mixed use facility near near the ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: There are a lot of very jealous owners's the sport
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  Speaker 3: that we have heard from that are looking at this
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  Speaker 3: model and saying, not only is it beautiful and a
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  Speaker 3: great fan experience, it's a cash cow because you can
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  Speaker 3: own a small town that is dedicated to the sport.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And another little uh tidbit is is they don't have
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  Speaker 1: to share that revenue. Yes, everything inside the ballpark is
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  Speaker 1: shared and this is all Braves and Liberty media. So
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  Speaker 1: they need to pay you more. Yes me, yes, I
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  Speaker 1: keep telling people, you know, I played a day for
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  Speaker 1: half of what they're making.
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  Speaker 2: Of course half is twenty five million.
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  Speaker 3: But it's also fought for them to be in this spot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, it all, it all works together. They can
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  Speaker 1: afford to bump their payroll, which when they opened, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. They're payrolls steadily gone up now liberty medias
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  Speaker 1: thoughts about luxury tax and things like that. But the
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  Speaker 1: point is it doesn't guarantee if you guys know, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't guarantee you a World Series championship. But to be competitive,
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  Speaker 1: typically your salary structure needs to be near the top
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  Speaker 1: top ten. There's always some exceptions to that. But since
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  Speaker 1: the Braves have kind of created this thing, it all
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  Speaker 1: blends together to pursuing the best players that they can
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  Speaker 1: and given the people the product that they deserve. There's
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  Speaker 1: some other ball clubs I want to talk about that
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  Speaker 1: I'm not so sure how much they're investing in their
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  Speaker 1: players and the product they're put on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just leave it at that. But the Braves are,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: Doing it great. This is incredible. The old Battery Atlanta.
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  Speaker 4: And do you ever think when you're at the old
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  Speaker 4: launching pad that this is what the Braves would turn into?
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  Speaker 4: Because yeah, I mean, I told you the story I
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  Speaker 4: came up one time. I grew up a Braves fan. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And people that don't know this was Myah, you got him.
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  Speaker 1: I was with my son.
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  Speaker 2: We're in spring training Atlanta.
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  Speaker 4: He's on the field and my son's with me, and
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh my gosh, and my son is like, dad,
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  Speaker 4: who is that?
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  Speaker 2: He was done? And I was like, that was like
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  Speaker 2: my favorite player growing up.
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  Speaker 4: So I got to meet down become friends with day
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  Speaker 4: and you know, and so like that was just like, wow,
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  Speaker 4: this is the guy I watched because you were If
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  Speaker 4: you don't remember, you were a catcher, yeah I was,
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  Speaker 4: and then you became a center fielder.
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  Speaker 2: I still want to catcher at hard aj. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know what it was the story. You couldn't throw
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  Speaker 4: it to side, you kept waiting in center field.
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  Speaker 1: I ended up I had a little bit of throwing issue,
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  Speaker 1: but I ended up catching about eighty games in the
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  Speaker 1: big leagues, so I kind of got out of it.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't really we had We had Bruce Bennettt
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  Speaker 1: coming up, who was you know, much better. And then
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  Speaker 1: they moved me to first base just I was tall.
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  Speaker 1: I think I led the league in airs at first.
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  Speaker 1: He called me up in the fall of seventy nine
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  Speaker 1: before nineteen eighty. Uh, spring training, goes Murphy work, you know,
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  Speaker 1: come to spring train ready to play the outfield.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, do I have a choice.
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  Speaker 1: He's like a little long pause, he goes, no, not
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  Speaker 1: really man, you'd be ready to play the outfield. It
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  Speaker 1: saved my career, longevity, to my career, everything. So Bobby Cox,
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  Speaker 1: I always say, Bobby saved my career and I have
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  Speaker 1: my best years under Joe Toy and I'm very, very
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  Speaker 1: fortunate and very lucky. Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Guys played in the seventies and eighties and before things
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: were small, everything was small. You know, this city was smaller. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: these these organizations of ball club has grown and grown grown.
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  Speaker 1: Did I ever see anything like this?
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody did, except I do know
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  Speaker 1: that down at Turner Field, the Braves in the city
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: were trying to negotiate something, trying to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: to do that down there, and it just didn't work out,
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  Speaker 1: so the Braves moved here.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, you know it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, I'm just Nancy and I couldn't be more thankful
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  Speaker 1: to be blessed to play with the Braves organization and
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  Speaker 1: then be on TVs. The whole TBS thing was a
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  Speaker 1: remarkable thing as well as yeah, that was growing in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: We had the Braves. You didn't have the Rays.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have the Marlins. Yeah, I told you.
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  Speaker 1: Drove up.
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  Speaker 4: We drove up one fourth of July from Orlando. Get
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  Speaker 4: up here, get to the hotel. My parents didn't put
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  Speaker 4: the suitcases in the car.
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  Speaker 2: We had no clothes.
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  Speaker 1: We drove from.
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  Speaker 2: Orlando to Atlanta. Just did not in the game, did not. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I did not have the suitcase.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And then we come to the game. I think you
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: guys were playing the Mets. You didn't come for that game?
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  Speaker 2: Did the one that? No, not the twenty inning game
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  Speaker 2: or where Gret Camp hit the whole because it was
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  Speaker 2: July fourth, Yeah it was. I think it was a
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  Speaker 2: different year, but it was after Yeah. So, but there
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  Speaker 2: was a fly ball in the ninth inning. I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 4: Mel Hall was in left field and he dropped it
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  Speaker 4: and you were standing right next to him, and they
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  Speaker 4: cost you guys again.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm like, well, they just let mine.
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  Speaker 2: I should have called.
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  Speaker 4: That was like six years old. You guys lost. I
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  Speaker 4: was like devastated. I was like, what are trip? We
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: forgot our luggage and then they dropped the ball. I'm like,
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: that's that's awesome. Yeah, we all got good memories.
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  Speaker 1: It's been fun to see guys I played with over
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  Speaker 1: the the alumni house and you know, just just thankful
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  Speaker 1: you just twenty five years ago, I was on a
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  Speaker 1: reary captain when it was last year at at Turner Field.
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  Speaker 1: So the time moving starts moving faster and very very lucky.
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  Speaker 5: Seven seven All Stars, right, yes, So do you to
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  Speaker 5: think about not showing up for one of them? Like
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  Speaker 5: you're like fifth or sixth one, You're like, well, I
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  Speaker 5: don't think I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's always kind of the players who have been
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  Speaker 1: part of but know that it's a drain. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're traveling, there's a lot of things you gotta do.
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  Speaker 1: And but I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I only got into the playoffs once as a player,
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  Speaker 1: and so you know there's a similarity, not the same
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  Speaker 1: as the playoffs in the World Series, but you know
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  Speaker 1: there's a there's an excitement, and the crowd's different. You
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  Speaker 1: just feel it and and you know, I never thought
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  Speaker 1: about missing them. I was just just lucky to you know,
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  Speaker 1: be a part of it. Little tidbit I think I
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: was in the first home run derby at an All
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  Speaker 1: Star games. Really well, maybe that's what people tell me.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty five in Minnesota, we're taking BP and they go, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you guys want to be in a home at derby.
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  Speaker 1: We're like, yeah, whatever, you know, and uh, we played
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  Speaker 1: American League against the National League. Played about three or
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  Speaker 1: four innings. I hit four. I think I don't even
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  Speaker 1: remember the format, but it was League against league. And
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: people say that was the first of what started happening
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  Speaker 1: every All Star game. Now it's become I don't think
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  Speaker 1: the winner's got a million dollars in.
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  Speaker 2: What's the winner get million dollars? Million bucks? And I
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  Speaker 2: was like, that was like five years for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well playing and Nancy and I talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody asked us about the money players make. I've made
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  Speaker 1: top dollar back when I played, I made more money
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  Speaker 1: than Hank Aaron. I mean, you know, that's that's the
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  Speaker 1: way it so, Uh, we're just thankful. I think every
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: generation kind of played when they were supposed to play.
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  Speaker 5: You know, did you feel like when you were making
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  Speaker 5: that much and you look at a guy like Hank Aaron,
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  Speaker 5: You're like uh, and then you're like talk like do
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  Speaker 5: you remember how that era talked, that era of players
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  Speaker 5: talked about how much money you were making.
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  Speaker 1: And then now.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about the era. That is funny you say that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you used to have a lot more old
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  Speaker 1: timers games in the eighties, and guys like Warren spawn
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  Speaker 1: and and Hank and guys would come into our clubhouse
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  Speaker 1: and they just thought the clubhouse was.
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  Speaker 2: Was way over the top illustrious.
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  Speaker 1: Like yes, And I'm talking about if you walked in
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  Speaker 1: the one here, that's what I mean. If I go
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  Speaker 1: into the one now, I'm gonna think the same time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, they got chefs, they got a nap room.
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  Speaker 1: I may never get out of that dap room if
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: I had one of those that was just on the training.
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  Speaker 2: Table, you know, taking a nat. So you know, like I.
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  Speaker 1: Say, every gener is is better. These are better athletes.
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  Speaker 1: These things these kids do. And and you know, I
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: was at the draft last night for a while watching
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  Speaker 1: these high school kids, and it's a different it's a
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: it's a different brand of baseball when you play that
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: much as a kid and train you know, we were
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: told not to lift weights too heavy because we'd get
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: muscle bounds. I mean it was like, finally about mid eighties,
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  Speaker 1: they got no, we should start lifting weights.
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  Speaker 4: So I tell the story all the time. When I
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  Speaker 4: first came up with the Twins, we didn't have a
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  Speaker 4: strent coach or a weight room.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you, was like, do not touch a weight?
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  Speaker 1: Remember the Nautilus machine. Yeah, well we put some in
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  Speaker 1: our little lobby area of the We didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: weight room, but they stuck him in this little room
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: and Phil Nekro said on it. He looked around, he goes,
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  Speaker 1: how do you turn this on? So we didn't even
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: know what we were supposed to do with him, but
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: you know, so I guess my point is this generation
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: of all sports, you know, they train and they're taking
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: you know, better care of themselves. They know understand diet
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and hydration. I mean, they know, they know stuff that
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: we just you know, didn't think about the fields. Now,
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: we did have that technology, you know, we did. I
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: was in Fuller County Stadium one night. I looked down
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: and I did a double take at the ground. It
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: had been spray painted.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: It's just.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: It was dirt until you know, about fifteen minutes before
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: the game and they spray painted it. So, uh, the
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: technology the fields obviously, radar and track man and everything.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: It's completely different. But these athletes, they're they're incredible, all right.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: So I have to bring up some that people always
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they've asked you a million times for another
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Braves Hall of Famer Tom Glavin once was given the
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: order to hit you.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Did you have you guys talked about it.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, it was Glad, Like I'm so sorry I had.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: It was luckily Glavin and throw hard.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, particularly I think Glad wanted to hit me, but
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to hurt me, I guess. So I'll
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: try to not make a long story, but my first
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: time back here as a Philly they had a thing
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: for me, and it was kind of weird because I
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: was in the Philly unifor you know, I wouldn't retired,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: but they wanted to have a thing my first day back.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: And we had a fight that night and uh with
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: with Otis Nixon. Otis charged mound, you know, spiked spiked
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: our picture. Well, we went back to play the Braves.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I'll try to make this quick went back to play
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: the Braids in Philly.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: And it was the last time.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Remember we weren't in the same division. So we didn't
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: play him that much. It was our last thing about
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the eighth inning of our last game of the series.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Roger McDowell, who, interestingly enough, as you know, ended up
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: being loved him. Yes, Roger hits Otis and Bobby, as
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Bobby would would do for out. He goes, we're hitting
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the next guy up. We're hitting the next guy up,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: and Glad walks down, looks at the line and he goes, Bobby,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: it's Murph.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Bobby goes, I don't care who it is. I'm sure
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: he might have said something else.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: We're hitt him. So Glam gets out there and I
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh. You know, it was just awkward.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I think he might throw at me, so,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: you know, I was kind of kind of hanging loose.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: And then he threw inside. They threw inside again, and
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the third time he tried, I was out of the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: batter spot. He's like, it was awkward. We talked after
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the game. He goes, where if I I go, hey,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: it's over. As one of those weird things that happens
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: in baseball.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: That's like when Jim Tomy got hit by h a
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: guy and then he had to charge the Mount and
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: then they went to dinner because I think it was
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: he was with Philly.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: It was Cormier the left hand. Yeah, I were friends.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: And he hits him and he charges them ount and
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: then they go out to do they went to dinner
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: after the game.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: It's like, hey, it happened on the field. Yeah, but
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: that's funny.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: So it was just one of those weird things just
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: happened to be you.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we weren't going to play them again that year.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And what happened was Roger didn't hit Otis till the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: eighth inning of the final game of that We were
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: going to play him that year. It could have got resolved,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: but uh, the starter and and and what's so interesting
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: too is Bobby hires Roger as this pitching coach a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: few years later and loved Roger.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: I got a fan question here super chat from Route
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• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Why did he retire at three hundred and ninety eight
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: home runs?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I was done. I wasn't hitting that well.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I was in Denver. I was in Denver before coors Field.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: It was mile High State of you know, mile High
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: was about two forty to left, so short and I
• 21:00
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• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of thinking, I don't think I could hit
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: one out of anywhere. It's time. But I was heard.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, I wasn't totally hurt.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: The Rockies have me for a couple of months, and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Don Baylor said, hey, wet, we're gonna move on.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm ready to hang it up.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And okay, I had playing and hanging sliders to hit
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: in my years at playing, I missed.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: I should have well over four hundred, but that's like
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: the nice even numbers.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: But that's.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: That's Fred stopped about four ninety three or something.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Freddy, I'm so happy to see him in Yeah,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: it's so excited for him.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. Are you two the nicest guys in
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the world, you and Fred?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I've been called a lot worse. I
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: played in Chicago when the bleacher Bumps called me a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: lot Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I appreciate that. I just
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm very I feel very lucky to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: play what I played, sport I loved and and you know,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Mary and Nancy was the most important thing. She's kept me,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: uh focused on what's more important. We got great kids
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and grandkids, and you know, I'm just very, very lucky,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and I try to remember to be respectful of people.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I think. I think the challenge for players is you
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: try to protect your privacy, especially when you're playing, and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: some people interpret that as being rude, you know, but
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you're trying You're trying to manage that notoriety at the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: same time. Is so I think, uh, you know, it's
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: it's sometimes it gets out of balance a little bit,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: but I try to, you know, just remember that I'm
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I was lucky and not any different than anybody else.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: From a business perspective. So so it's a two parter.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: One can you tell us about the restaurant? Yeah, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: then two are you part of a group that's trying
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: to get a ballpark or a ball jub in Utah?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, so the restaurant's good news, bad news?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Okay. Uh, where we're at and we've had a lot
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: of people during the All Star week over by the village.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: We're right over there at the village by the village,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: but that area is renovating. They're they're renovating, so they
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: have to we have to close Oka and whether it'll
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: be a year and a half.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: So by then, I you know, we've had a great
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: experience over there.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Okay, Murph's if.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I could put a plug in, come on by. We're
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: gonna be over until mid August.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: There you go. So that's where everyone to know. WoT
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: right now? And I'm sorry and I one on youtah.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'm from Portland, Oregon. You know, I was
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: part of their group, but but I live in salt
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Lake about eight months out of the year. I'm here
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: about four and and they have a great group and uh,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: big league Utah where we're working every day.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Great ownership group, the Miller.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Family that owned the Jazz and they've owned the the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Bee's Triple A team for twenty five years. Salt Lake
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: has completely changed the last twenty five years. It's it's
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: a great demographics, great ownership group.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: We're excited.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Uh and we'll see when the commissioner and the players
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: and owners get together and decide to expand. Sounds like
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Nashville is a good front runner, but they're gonna expand too.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: One's gonna be on the well yeah you best side
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: of that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Ye gotta get you know, uh, different parts of the country.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So we're We're definitely in the mix. I'm firstly very optimistic. Yeah,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I think they have a good shot. Yes, Portland's trying
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: to man. Portland has still got Yeah, Salt Lake City
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: sounds like they have maybe a chance. Portland are the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: most active groups. I think Orlando started a group. Oh yeah,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: so we Yeah, you're on the west coast, yes, and
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: there are Have you been working with that group?
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I know that. Yes. Yeah.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: This is the difference in Orlando and what you guys want.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: You guys want to spansion team.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Orlando doesn't want an expansion team. They want a
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: team about an hour west.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I've heard about that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: So Denton Pirates, Yes, the Brandenton Mara Marauders. I was
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: gonna say the tarp.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Lakeland Flying Tigers. Yes, but listen, I played in Salt
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Lake and Triple A.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I love salt Well.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: You asked me all the time, what was your favorite city.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I'm like, Salt Lake City is unbelievable.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: It is great, and I've I've lived there since I retired.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Nancy and I had had our family here, all our
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: kids were born here. But we love it out there.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's a great place and we're excited.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: They're they're every everywhere I go. People said, what what
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: is going on? We're ready to go?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: So they got a lot of good things in their favor.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Where would they put in the stadium? Downtown?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: There's a brand new airport, you know, it'd be right
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: between downtown and the airport called the Power District that
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: they got there.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: It's ready to go. It's actually shovel red. I mean
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: they're ready to break ground.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: So they wouldn't have to do a fake shovel ground break.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: They do a real groundbreak. They would actually put ground. Yes,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: would you have a shovel yet? Well, I yes, I
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: was at the Do I have a shovel to break ground? Yeah?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: They break around.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Would you be one of the guys that they've already
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: broken ground because actually they're going to develop that area
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: anyway and save ten twelve acres for the ballpark.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Awesome? Yes, we're rooting for you. Good luck. We'll keep
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: you an eye on. Thank you, excited, optimistic, Well, thank
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: you for stopping by me.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, I loved it and it's always fun to
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: talk baseball and have on the next couple of days.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you too.