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Verrlander's Last Game · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We've got a question for American Mamas. Dear Mamas, did
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  Speaker 1: you cry when Justin Verlander came off the mound the
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  Speaker 1: last time? Well, let's ask our American Mamas.
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  Speaker 2: Mama, Mama, Mama.
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  Speaker 1: Mama told me not to come.
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  Speaker 2: She said, that ain't the way to have fun, no.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now, our American mama, Terry Natterbill. I
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  Speaker 1: know you're a big baseball fan. Baseball is huge in
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  Speaker 1: your family. You've got Justin Verlander was pitching for the
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  Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers, and they didn't make the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's done. And on his last, and of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know, most pitchers don't, you don't make it all
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  Speaker 1: the way through the game. Anyway, you get called out
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  Speaker 1: as you get tired, your arm gets weaker or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So instead of the coach going out, the manager going
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  Speaker 1: out to get him, his daughter went running out.
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  Speaker 2: What is she, 12?
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  Speaker 1: She's eight.
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  Speaker 2: I can touch it thinking about it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She went running out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And she was the one who pulled him out off
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  Speaker 1: the mound. And they walked off the field hand in hand.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was one of the most feel good moments
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  Speaker 2: of baseball. And I couldn't help because When you saw
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  Speaker 2: this little girl running towards her father.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he was letting go of, I mean, the adulation,
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  Speaker 2: the feelings that these baseball and football, these feelings. athletic
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  Speaker 2: stars feel from the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: It's what you've done, and it's who you.
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  Speaker 2: Are in many regards. And everybody was, you know, there
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  Speaker 2: was standing ovation, and he was tipping his hat, and
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  Speaker 2: then his daughter came out, and he just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: enveloped her into his arms, and you saw his shoulders shaking.
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  Speaker 2: You knew he was crying. So she's running out there
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  Speaker 2: as he's ending this part of his life, and she's entering,
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  Speaker 2: and it was almost prophetic because it was like, now
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  Speaker 2: it's time for us.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's time for family. Now I get to have
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  Speaker 2: my daddy. And he was walking off the field saying
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  Speaker 2: goodbye to his fans, goodbye to his career.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And walking into the arms of his wife, Kate Upton,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful model with the sun in her arms and the
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  Speaker 2: four of them embraced in a huddle. And he walked
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  Speaker 2: off and of course the catcher and all the other players,
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  Speaker 2: the manager, everyone's hugging him. And I had this thought of,
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  Speaker 2: this is how you do it. He admitted, I'm of
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  Speaker 2: the age now, my arm's not doing what it used
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  Speaker 2: to do. It's time to acknowledge that and to say
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  Speaker 2: farewell and thank you to my fans. And I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: help but compare it to people like Tom Brady. No
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  Speaker 2: offense to Tom Brady, but his wife for a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years begged him to retire.
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  Speaker 1: Giselle, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they had their family. And she's a Brazilian. And
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  Speaker 2: Brazilian women are such good wives and mothers. And it's
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  Speaker 2: all about family, you know. And he retired and then
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  Speaker 2: he went back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to retire.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to retire.
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  Speaker 2: He could not. take himself from the fan adulation. He
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  Speaker 2: could not take himself away from the thing that he
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  Speaker 2: knew best, and that was, I am the best at this. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So I will get that, you know, that pat on
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  Speaker 2: the back. And what happened?
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  Speaker 1: Went on to win, what, two more Super Bowls.
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  Speaker 2: He did, but at the expense of what? His family.
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  Speaker 1: His family. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He was devastated when she ended it.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: And married her martial arts instructor and had a baby
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  Speaker 2: soon after that.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: He was devastated over that, but I kind of felt
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  Speaker 2: sorry for him that he didn't get that ahead of time.
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  Speaker 2: He would have, he would have, if he had not,
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  Speaker 2: let's say he retired before that last Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He would be, he still would have been the legend
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  Speaker 2: that he is. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest of all time.
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  Speaker 2: And why did he need more? I don't know. To
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  Speaker 2: prove something to himself, maybe? I don't know. But to
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  Speaker 2: see the difference is astronomical.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Your sons both played college ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They both had their last game. Right. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: How was how hard as a mom watching that was
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  Speaker 1: that to see their last game? And I mean, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: they're not in the majors. They make the majors and
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  Speaker 1: they've also gone and done other things since.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: But that was what they were doing in college. And
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  Speaker 1: they had to walk off the man.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you have to think about and other sports moms
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  Speaker 2: will can relate to this. this is not just the
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  Speaker 2: end of college, it's the end of their entire lives.
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  Speaker 2: They started when they were little boys. Oh, yeah. You know,
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  Speaker 2: four and five. So your weekends, your days are going
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  Speaker 2: to these games, watching them have the time of their life. Right.
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  Speaker 2: And then you have them come to college. And I
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  Speaker 2: remember specifically still... the last game that he played in,
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  Speaker 2: he and his best friend, his best friends with the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers program and still went on to medical school. But
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  Speaker 2: those two were the team captains. And all that they
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  Speaker 2: had gone through in those four years with the stadium
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  Speaker 2: being destroyed by the tornado.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: On that last at-bat when Steele hit and he went back,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think he got, maybe he got out.
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  Speaker 2: I think he either got the double or, no, I
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  Speaker 2: think they got him out. And when he tipped his
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  Speaker 2: hat and the fans stood up and gave him this
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  Speaker 2: rousing ovation and they were, you know, doing their heart
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  Speaker 2: to his.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I go back to that. I remember as a mom thinking,
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, first of all, how, what a blessing
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  Speaker 2: to have this, you know, this response and as Taylor
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  Speaker 2: did too. And then that next thought of I'll never
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  Speaker 2: get to watch my baby.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Play in this stadium because they did go on to
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  Speaker 2: play in conference i'll never get to watch him and
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  Speaker 2: then the very very last game when they lost to
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  Speaker 2: ut in the conference championship uh or conference game before
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  Speaker 2: the championship watching him and taylor walk off together knowing
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  Speaker 2: that they were walking into their next chapter was incredibly
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  Speaker 2: rough but.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful but at least they got to walk into their
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  Speaker 1: next chapter and that's what verlander got to do too
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  Speaker 1: the Ask the Mamas button. Terry Netterville, thank you so much.