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Todd Frazier joins Tim Kurkjian's “Is This A Great Game, Or What?” · Foul Territory

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: Is this a great game or what?
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: I'm with my son, Jeff Kirkjian, and our special guest
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: today is my teammate at ESPN, former major leaguer, Todd Frazier,
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: the Todd father.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: Todd, say hi to Jeff again. What's up? What's up?
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: All right, Todd, we're going to... We're going to start
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: with something that I think you're going to like.
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: Right behind you, you have a picture of yourself wearing
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: what number, Todd?
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: That's number 21 right there, Tim. Right.
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: So on today's pod, Todd, the one we taped yesterday,
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: since it's Roberto Clemente Day, I did the greatest players
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: at each position to wear number 21 because that's what
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: Clemente wore. So our third baseman was Todd Frazier, number 21.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: How about that?
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: I must have been the only one because there was
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: a lot more, a lot better third baseman than I was.
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: But guess what? I will take that honor and I'm
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: going to run with it. So I appreciate that, Tim.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: You're always putting a smile on my face. Yes.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: I want you to put a smile on my face, Todd.
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: Before we get to the unimportant stuff, I want you
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: to help me with this, okay? Michael Jordan fouls a
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: guy on the way to the basket, and it's a
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: two-shot foul. I just want you, the referee, to call
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: that play. It's a hack, whatever you want to call it.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: Guy's going to shoot to Michael Jordan, number 23 on
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: the foul.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: I want to see Todd Frazier, the NBA referee, call
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: that play.
• 1:54
  Speaker 3: So it's here. We're looking. We got the arm cocked.
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  Speaker 1: Here! Two, one.
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: Here, we got two shots whole. Come on. That's all.
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: That's it. Now we can have some fun.
• 2:10
  Speaker 4: It's amazing, Todd. It never gets old for us. Kirkjens
• 2:13
  Speaker 4: to see you doing the basketball rep.
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure why I love, look, you have to
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: repeat that the day that you got forced into being
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: a referee, because there was some old guy that couldn't
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: run up and down the court. Just please tell us
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: one more time when they called you in and what happened, please.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: One more time, Todd.
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: Listen, I, I'm always a man of the people. I
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: got to help anybody I can. So, oh, man, he's
• 2:42
  Speaker 3: done for the day. I have to come in and
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: be that guy, dude. I'm 10 seconds here. If you're
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: not getting over the line, I'm counting them out. Like,
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: I took the– Tim, you know me. I took it
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: as serious as possible, man. I'm getting yelled left and
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: right at each other. I'm making calls left and right.
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, if there was a scout there, Tim–
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have been a professional baseball player. I would
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: be NBA and refereeing in the NBA right now. My
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: antics were here. It's windshield wipers. So yes, listen, there's
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: stories on stories of me refereeing. A lot of the
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  Speaker 3: guys still hit me up today asking for referee video.
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: You know, Mike Monaco, our good buddy.
• 3:26
  Speaker 4: We just had him on the pot. He did a
• 3:28
  Speaker 4: great impression of you.
• 3:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, him and Chris Barker texted me every like other month, Todd,
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  Speaker 3: I need a charge call. So I'll get my son
• 3:38
  Speaker 3: to videotape me. And I'm, I'm running up and down
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  Speaker 3: the halls going here, here, here. So, you know, it's,
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: it's a miracle that I made it this long playing
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: professional baseball. I can, I can be a rep.
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be forward and dad, I don't
• 3:55
  Speaker 4: want to make you uncomfortable, but you know, at my
• 3:59
  Speaker 4: dad's funeral, Todd, I, I want you to come and
• 4:02
  Speaker 4: tell us where he is. So I just want you
• 4:05
  Speaker 4: to say, Tim Kirkson, he's here.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: He's up there.
• 4:09
  Speaker 4: That's where he's at.
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  Speaker 3: You got to go Spidey's. He's here. What's Spidey's here? Spidey's.
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: There.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody in the funeral home will be like, Todd, get out.
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: And you will be laughing your butt off. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody would love it because that's what my dad would want.
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: Todd.
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  Speaker 2: You would be a great NBA referee. You would also
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  Speaker 2: be a great major league umpire. So let's see your
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  Speaker 2: classic strike one, your classic.
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  Speaker 1: Strike two, and your strike three.
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  Speaker 2: Emphatic strike three on, let's say, a looking call third strike.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well, I'm already in position, man. You got
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: me all fired up here. So, boom, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: mask on right here. Boom, pitch, bring it. Settle.
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  Speaker 1: Ha!
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  Speaker 3: One. Hey! Two. You show them.
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  Speaker 1: And that.
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  Speaker 2: He.
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  Speaker 1: He.
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  Speaker 3: Like that. So, it changes. It changes monthly, Tim. You
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: know it. You've probably seen 30 of them already.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my co-host on the radio, he always asks me, Jeff,
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: let's see how you would have punched that guy out.
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  Speaker 4: Or let's see strike two. And I said, well, was
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  Speaker 4: strike one looking? Because I'll change my call. If strike
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  Speaker 4: one was looking, and he goes, well, let me hear
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  Speaker 4: strike one. And I said, well, did he just punch
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  Speaker 4: a guy out? Because if he just punched a guy out,
• 5:39
  Speaker 4: my strike one looking is not punch out level, but
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  Speaker 4: it's aggressive. Because you just had a strike out looking,
• 5:47
  Speaker 4: and you fire gas again looking. I'm like, guys, come on.
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  Speaker 4: You got to swing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I miss those days.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, it's your time too as an umpire. Like, listen,
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: I want to make sure that people at home can
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  Speaker 3: hear the call. You know, I mean, Jim Joyce, Steve Wright,
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  Speaker 3: like that was his famous strike call. Like that's something
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: that you got it. I'm telling you, 99% of these
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: umpires are looking in the mirror and doing what I did. Like, ah,
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: is that the right call? Or is this, you know
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: what I mean? And they're telling their significant others, like,
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: watch me real quick. Like, How does that look? I'm
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: telling you right now, they must have done it a
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: bunch of times.
• 6:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're shopping in Old Navy with their wife, and
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: they're in the women's section going, I don't know. Honey,
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: it's like when we do our golf swing out in public,
• 6:34
  Speaker 4: they're doing their strike call. What do we think about this?
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  Speaker 3: Or if it's your father at the grocery store looking
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  Speaker 3: at the Cheerios, should I get two for two, or
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  Speaker 3: should I get one for one? No, we'll go two
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  Speaker 3: for two with a slight lean to the right.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: What is wrong with you that you still love to
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: do this?
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  Speaker 1: And more important, what is wrong with me?
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: I'm almost 70 years old and stupid stuff like.
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  Speaker 1: This makes me laugh so hard. Is this just the
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: way baseball is? Is this just what sports is supposed
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: to be all about? Charge blocks, strike one, strike three.
• 7:17
  Speaker 3: If we didn't have sports, Tim, I don't know where
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: we would be in life. I gotta be honest with you. Um,
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: it brings out the craziness in people. It brings out
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: the fun in people. Look, I mean, you talk about stories.
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: You have story for every, I can name a color
• 7:32
  Speaker 3: right now, blue. And you'd be like, oh, vital blue.
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like you can, I can talk, I can give you
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  Speaker 3: a word. Like if you said Todd, give me a
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  Speaker 3: random word. I can say, you know, chameleon. You'd be like,
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: oh my God, this guy tripped over a chameleon back
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  Speaker 3: in 1965. And you would know exactly who it was,
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  Speaker 3: what team he played for. And what day it was
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  Speaker 3: and if the sun was out or not. You're that
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  Speaker 3: good of a person. Sports is so integral in life,
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: in my opinion, because it brings out the best in everybody.
• 8:02
  Speaker 4: And when you talk about Tim Kirkson, Todd, I don't know.
• 8:08
  Speaker 4: It's a notebook thing for him. I mean, he writes
• 8:10
  Speaker 4: all of this down. And don't write on the back pages.
• 8:14
  Speaker 4: That's for darn sure. Fronts only.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. You don't write on the back of
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  Speaker 3: a notebook.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: That's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: See, I don't want to waste. I'm trying not to
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  Speaker 3: waste as much paper. That's not what a professional does.
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  Speaker 1: Not what a professional does.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to bury him with a couple of notebooks
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  Speaker 3: when he passes away. So he's going to need a
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  Speaker 3: couple to write down what he sees.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt.
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  Speaker 4: Even on that day, he's going to have a to-do
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  Speaker 4: list that he wants to cross off. Okay. Close casket.
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  Speaker 4: Cross it off.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: Jeff, I did foul territory with these knuckleheads the other day,
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  Speaker 2: and Todd imitated me. It's the worst impersonation ever, but.
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: It sounds a lot like me, which just shows you
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  Speaker 1: I have the worst voice ever. But this is what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Go, Todd.
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  Speaker 3: It's only when you get excited or when you get high-pitched.
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  Speaker 3: I can't talk to you normally, but when you get
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: excited over things, you go, get up here. I don't
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: know why it goes up there, but it does. And
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: your chin goes up, and that big old snozz of
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  Speaker 3: yours looks right ahead. Oh, man. Look at that bad boy. Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Todd, look at this. When I go like this, it
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: looks like a two-car garage. It's terrible. I wish I
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: had a different nose.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man. I love every second, Tim. We're never going
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  Speaker 3: to get through this show. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, Jeff, Todd challenged me on foul territory the other
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: day to come up with a Team Tim for the
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  Speaker 2: all baseball team. each position from cities in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Todd Frazier asked me to do. And a
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  Speaker 2: nearly 70 year old man went right to work on
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: this because I was challenged. It's like throwing a fastball
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  Speaker 2: by Todd Frazier. He can't allow this to happen again.
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  Speaker 2: So I came up with a team. Now, Todd, you
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: got to remember, I'm an expert at these things. So
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: Todd suggests that he's got two guys. Since he's from
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: Tom's River, he's got two guys. Tom Seaver and Mickey
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: Rivers have to be on the team. So I had
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: to do my own team, Todd.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: And if I offend you with this, I'm sorry. We're
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: going to start. And help me here. We're going to
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: start with our pitching staff.
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: And our first pitcher is Tommy Toms, T-O-M-S, who pitched
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: for two years with the Giants in the mid-70s. And
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: our second pitcher is River Ryan. So our first two
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: pitchers make up Toms River.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: I did that just for you. It took forever, but
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: I found it.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot believe that. That's incredible. That's a great start, Ted.
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to run through the rest. And, again, these
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: are cities and townships, Todd, okay? So not all of
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: them are cities, but I did the best I could here, okay?
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: We had Ryan Franklin. I think that's a township. We
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: had Madison Bumgarner.
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  Speaker 2: Our catcher, I love this, Bob Kearney, Kearney City in
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: There was actually a first baseman. He didn't play very long.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: His name was Trenton Brooks.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Who knew? I forgot about Trenton Brooks. But I found him.
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  Speaker 2: There was a guy who played in the minor leagues
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: named Newark, but I couldn't use him because.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: He didn't play in the big leagues. So that's pitcher
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: through first base. How am I doing so far? Have
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: I upset you or am I okay?
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: No, you're spot on, brother. The only one I'll give you,
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: it's called You said Kearney, so the township is called Kearney.
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: Does that make a difference or not?
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, Todd. You have to correct me on
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: these things.
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: If I'm going to go Tommy Toms and River Rhine,
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: we have to get this properly correct. Okay, so David
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: Hamilton is our second baseman.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: UL Washington is shortstop. Roy Howell is our third baseman.
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: Corey Patterson, like the third biggest city in New Jersey.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: Corey Patterson, Reggie Jackson, Craig Monroe, and our DH, even
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: though he should be an outfielder, is A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Ewing.
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  Speaker 2: Those are all cities or townships in New Jersey. That's
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: what I did in my spare time, Todd.
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: I got to be honest with you. Putting Reggie Jackson
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: is two towns above me. That is phenomenal. Oh, my God.
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: How the heck in God's creation did you figure that out?
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: That's a really good township team. I'll take that every day.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I did that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be the head coach. I'll be the choir coach.
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: Now, Jeff, now that I'm in Todd's good graces, I'm
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: going to lose him here. I did a show the
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: other day. It was like a trivia-based podcast. And we
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: had to name the last player for each franchise to
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: hit 40 homers in a season. And I must say,
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: I did pretty well on this. I got almost every
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: question right. I might have gotten them all right, except
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: for this one. Who was the last Chicago White Sox
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: to hit 40 homers in a season? I even got
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: a clue, and I couldn't get the answer, Jeff. Todd Frazier.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: In 2016. Todd, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I made a mistake.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: I couldn't remember that you had hit 40 for the
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: White Sox. Are you still talking to me?
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: I am. I am. What was the clue? What'd they say?
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember?
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  Speaker 2: The clue was he didn't play for the White Sox
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: for very long, and he was much more well-known as
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: a National League player.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: And I tried, and I tried.
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  Speaker 4: That is hard.
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  Speaker 3: So.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Jeff, this is what I live for. This is what
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: I'm born for. This is the only thing in the
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: world I'm any good at. And I miss Todd Frazier,
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: who is.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Our guest on the show.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Terrible.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: This is why he doesn't do Immaculate Grid, because he
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: thinks if he doesn't get the most rare score of
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: anybody on the Internet, he's going to be ostracized from
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: this community. So he says, that's work to me. He
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: loves Wordle.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Wordle's great.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you do all the other ones too, Dad? What
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: else do you do?
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: You do the waffle?
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  Speaker 2: I do waffle, I do Wordle, and I do the
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: spelling bee thing, and that's all I do. Because like
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I said, if I get an immaculate grid wrong, I
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  Speaker 2: would just kill myself because this is the only thing
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  Speaker 2: I'm any good at.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: And if I get one of those.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Wrong, it would be like Todd playing in a high
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: school game and striking out three times, which would never happen.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: So that was funny. In the White Sox, they had
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: a guy. He just played on the Mets. I think
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: they released him. He had 39 home runs and almost
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: got to 40. He didn't get it. Who's the guy
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: that got traded to the Mets?
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: He's an outfield. Luis Robert? Luis Robert.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Yes. He got 39. He didn't get to 40. And
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I was like, All right, I still got one thing
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: going for me. So I was happy about that. I'll
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: be honest with you. I want to keep that 40
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: and move on from there. Right.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Now, Todd, Murakami's got a shot at 40. He's going
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: to have to get awfully hot.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: He's going to get it.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Colson Montgomery, he might hit 40 also. You might be
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: surpassed on the White Sox list, right?
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: I talked to the teams that they're playing. We're going
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: to go four-pitch walk here. We're going to go four pitches.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: We're going to send them to first. And what position
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: does not Murakami, the other guy, play?
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Colson Montgomery is a shortstop, and he's as big as you.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: He's as big as you, Todd, and he's a shortstop.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: He's a big kid, and he's got great power. He's
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: also got 200 strikeouts.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Third base. I'll keep the third base mark. I beat
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Robin Ventura out. So that's a good name to remember, too.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: We're a couple weeks out now from... the little league
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: world series, but we had Carl Ravitch on and we
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: talked to him a little bit, obviously about his incredible
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: career in Williamsport. And we've already done, we've already done
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: the sappy and the sad, so to speak, but I
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: want to hear from you years working with him. What
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: is your most hilarious Carl Ravitch Williamsport story? And there's
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: a million. That's the problem with Williamsport is there isn't
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: just one memory, right? There's a million that happened with
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: these kids in that place. It's so magical. So is
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: there one story, Crazy story with Carl that you can recall.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, listen, I was blessed enough to play,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: to broadcast with him for five straight years. And it
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: was emotional. I know you talk about afterwards, you know,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: I teared up a little bit. I gave him a
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: big hug, said, thank you. You know, Tim knows just
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: like I do how not he's professional, but when you
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: get him outside of his realm, He's one of the
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: funniest human beings you'll ever be around in your life. Just, like,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: we'll be talking, Jeffrey. We'll be talking and, you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: we'll say a word and Tim and I are around
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: and then, like, say a name. Like, oh, you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Johnny did this. And he's like, Johnny Appleseed? Johnny Bench? Like,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: and we just go back and forth on names with Johnny.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: And then he'll give... And then all of a sudden
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: we'll be like, oh, pasta. And he's like, pasta, you know, rigatoni.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: And Tim understands fully. And we just go back and
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: forth on naming things that have the other word in it.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: And all of a sudden we just bust out laughing
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: and Mendoza's in the middle. Like what is wrong with
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: you guys here? So yeah, I'll give you a good story.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: This year it happened. He, He forgot his keys. Yeah,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: he couldn't find his keys in his car. It was
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: like 9.30, 10 o'clock at night, so I'm waiting there
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: for him. We're trying to open up this car for
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: about 20 minutes. Lo and behold, it was the car
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: next to it. There were two rental cars, and we're
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: trying to open the wrong rental car up. And he's like, oh.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: He's like, Frazier, I think it's this car. I said,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: please don't. He dumps out. He had everything in his
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: backpack dumped out. We couldn't find anything. And, you know,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: he talked about that. And I said, man, this is
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: a good way to go out for you. And ESPN,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: we started laughing. Just a good human being.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: So Jeff, I've received a lot of really personal gifts
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: in my life as a baseball writer for 46 years,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: but this is pretty close to the top of the list.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: This came as a surprise.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: The pin master is, At Williamsport, Todd Frazier came up
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: with this pin of me, Ravi, and Todd together in
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: the booth. We did 100 games in the booth over
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: those five years, I'm sure.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Or maybe not that many, but a lot. So, Todd.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Tell us the thinking behind making this pin for me
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: and Ravi and for you.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I wanted to show off the personality
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: there a little bit. So you see how big I am, Carl,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: you know, a little bit bigger. And then I got,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: I got a little Timney's head. So I wanted to
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: make his head like kind of, stick out here a
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: little bit, you know, just like on Carl's shoulder. Yeah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: It's beautiful thing right there. And then the next one,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I made you look like a little mouse. Like it was,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: it was just an ongoing little thing that we had
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: going on. I don't know if you have the other
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: one with you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It's somewhere in here. Oh, here it is. Here it is.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: There it is. Look, look at the tiny little, I
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: can't my.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Nose is bigger than my head here that's ridiculous.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Oh hey listen Tim I know you really enjoy them
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't have made those if I knew you wouldn't
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: get a good laugh but those pins were going like
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: hotcakes and everybody loves pancakes so everybody wanted a little
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: piece of this year people were asking who's did you
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: make a pin with the little guy on it and
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I said oh Jesus they're talking about Tim I said, listen,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: that's not a little guy. That's Mr. Wisdom, I call him.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: He's got the wisdom. Don't call him little, okay? And
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I said, I didn't make them this year, but I'm
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: sure I'll think of something next year.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good. What is the latest on the pins, Todd?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: What's our best guess on how many pins you have
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and how and where are they displayed.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: At the moment?
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have them all downstairs in the basement on
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: big cork boards. My wife found this site that makes
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: like six by four feet cork boards. So they're all
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: stacked up. I got to put all the new ones on.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I would say, honestly, anywhere from 12 to 15,000. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: haven't really counted, but I know I'm in the five
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: digits of pins. And there was a lot of good
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: ones this year, especially for the 250th anniversary of America
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: and the 25th anniversary of 9-11. There were some really,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: really good pins. I made one, too. with an eagle
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: covering the Twin Towers. It was pretty cool.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Very cool. Right. Right.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Not to bring up a bad subject, Todd, but I
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: know I've never asked you this.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Where were you at 9-11? Exactly where were you when
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: all this happened?
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was in high school. I was a sophomore
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: in high school. And I was going to my history
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: class with Mr. Powitz, Mitch Powitz. He was my assistant
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: baseball coach. And my buddy Andy Altman comes to me
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: and said, dude, the Twin Towers are gone. or one
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: of the twin towers just got hit by a plane.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: And Andy was a joke. So I'm like, Andy, get
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: the class, leave me alone. I go in the history class,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: lo and behold, the TV's on showing exactly what happened.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: And it was just pandemonium, really. I mean, people were crying.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I'm 50 miles from New York City. I remember one
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: of the girls coming up to me in our class,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: you know, I got to make a call. She ran
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: out of class. Teacher, you can't leave. People were going bonkers,
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: making sure family members are okay. Coming back the next
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: day in my arms, crying, saying my uncle for the
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: first time who works in the Twin Towers missed the
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: bus to go to work. And he said, well, guess what?
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to miss one day. Lo and behold,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: that was the day he missed. So the story's were incredible.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: It was crazy. Just absolutely crazy.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: You know, similarly, Todd, you know, I was much younger.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: I was in the third grade, but I was 20
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: miles from the Pentagon where, where.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So very different experience for us in the DC
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: area than those. And, you know, I went to Syracuse.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: We had a lot of friends who were, you know,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Manhattan people, New Jersey, you know, Westchester County, all that stuff. Like,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: so I, I know the stories to be very different
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: and it, it can be, It's really crazy, but I
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: always think to myself it's so important, especially this time
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: of year, to keep the stories alive. Because jokes aside,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: before we know it, our great-grandkids are going to be asking, well,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: how old were you, great-grandpa, when you were there? And
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: what happened? And do you remember it? I mean, I remember, sorry, Dad,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: not being funny, but I remember the first time I
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: connected the dots of how old my dad was when
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Like when I.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Figured that out, first thing I asked him, what do
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: you remember? And that seems like eons ago.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: But he was a child for that. And we'll have that,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: you know, when we're growing up and our kids, kids
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: are asking us about it. So I think it's so
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: important to keep those stories alive and keep talking about it,
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: to keep the memory of those we lost alive.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Of course. How did baseball help us get through nine 11?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Cause I have a bunch of stories that I remember
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: like they were yesterday and What do you think baseball,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: what kind of role did baseball play in getting the
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: country through 9-11?
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Played a huge part. I mean, two things I could
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: think of, you know, George Bush Jr., right? Yeah, GW,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium. I get
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: goosebumps thinking about that. Absolute strike right down the plate.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, you couldn't have scripted it any better. Something
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: The crowd going bonkers. Couldn't happen in a better place
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: in New York. And I think about that Mike Piazza
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: home run. I mean, holy cow. I mean, those are
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: the two things I think of that people are like, yeah, listen,
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: it's a second thought compared to what really happened. But
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: when you think about aftermath, there's something you've got to
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: find and hold on to to get you right a
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: little bit. You know, it's not always going to be
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: the same. but something that can take your mind off it,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: even if for a split second. And I thought those
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: were two instances right there where I was like, whoa, man,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: this is America, man. This is the best place in
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: the world. So that was the two things I think about.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: I know we take sports very seriously, right? And for you, Todd,
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: and dad, it's your livelihood. But what are sports for
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: if not taking you away from reality for a bit?
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: And we needed... We needed something to help us move forward.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: And I think baseball and so many others, comedy and
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: film and other things, helped us get there. And so, Todd,
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: thank you for sharing those stories. I know we're a
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: couple days post-25th anniversary, but it's real fascinating to hear that,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: for sure.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: And I was at the George W.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Bush game, of course, and I still get goosebumps thinking
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: about it because I was there, and it was unbelievably exciting.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: powerful and you you had bobby valentine didn't you the
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: other day todd on foul territory did he tell did
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: he tell you stories about what that night was like
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: when piazza hit the homer off of steve carsey.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah no i was the one that asked i asked
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: him about it right you know you could see how
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: he was emotional he was emotional about the whole thing
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: he's talking about how you know security was everywhere um
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: how they needed something. You know, the game was just
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: kind of going blah a little bit, and they were
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the only team there in New York at the time,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, big Mike Piazza comes up,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: hits that home run, and he said it was one
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: of the best memories he's had in a baseball game,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: coaching a game ever, and how it brought a city
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: together and how everybody was, whether you were a Yankee fan,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Met fan, or no fan, something had to hit you
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: in a strong way after that happened. He said.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: You played for six major league teams, some more than others.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: The reds, of course, at the beginning of your career,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: do you have, do you have mementos from all of
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: those teams?
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Do you have pictures?
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Just what do you do with the teams for which
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: you played during your career?
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, that's a great question. I, I was
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: a big collector of baseball cleats. So I have about
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: 60 in my, in my man cave, uh, whether it
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: was from players on my team or other teams, I collected, um,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: scorecards like, um, my 600th RBI, whatever team I was on.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I think that might've been the white socks or mats.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I forget. My 500th run was another team. My first
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: home run with the reds, uh, my three run home
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: run in the playoffs with the Yankees. Um, Rangers, first
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: home run in that new stadium, I took that scorecard. Pirates,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: I got nothing, but I only played 19 days there.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I think I was two for 32. And my last
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: at-bat ever in a major league uniform was a bleeder
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: to right field, single. And I'll take it. I mean,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I would love for you to find out how many guys...
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: retired or left baseball with getting a hit before they left.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I think that would be a crazy stat to find out.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: That might take you 40 years.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: You know David Ross is the only player to hit
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: a home run in Game 7 of the World Series
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: and then retire after that. And it was, I believe,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: his last at bat in that game. So his last
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: at bat as a major leaguer was a home run
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: in game seven of the World Series. And then he retired.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: that that's pretty incredible. And I, this is way off
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: the topic, but I covered Mike Witt's perfect game in 1984.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: And the final batter in that game was Marv Foley
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: who grounded out to second base as a pinch hitter.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: And it was his, Final at bat in the major
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: leagues was an out to finish a perfect game. I mean,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: only baseball can supply these ridiculous coincidences.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And yours was just a little bleeder to right field.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: But a knock's a knock. Hey, you could tell everyone. Hey, hey,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I got it. I went to Williamsport. I got a hit. Right.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: All else would be about field. Freaking field.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll tell you. It was that wriggly. And then
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: they brought me in the next day, and they're like, hey, dude,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: you're gone.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I was a little bitter. I was a little bitter.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: But then I played for Team USA, though. I got
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: to finish my career with Team USA, so that was great.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: And then, Todd, I know you told us about that
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: last year when we talked to you, but what was
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: your highlight of Team USM? You're playing for your country,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: for goodness sakes.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: What was that like?
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: I get such a kick. I love baseball. I love
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: battling against camaraderie. I think back to when I played
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: in high school, the teams that you hated and despised.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: I would get so amped up for them. But there's
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: nothing like a feeling when you got to play against
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: any country in the world. We opened up with Nicaragua,
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: and I was telling the boys, I got them in
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: a huddle. I'm firing them up. I said, these guys
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: are coming for us. All of a sudden, they're up
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: 1-0 in the first. And actually, we're in Port St. Lucie,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: and I think most of the crowd is cheering for Nicaragua.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, I told them. I said, listen,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: nobody wants to see us lose. Everybody wants to see
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: the USA lose. I promise you that. Now let's go
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: out and beat them. I think we won 8-1. But
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: then we play a Dominican team. Oh, man, with some
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: of the bats they had there. Venezuela. Venezuela. When you
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: play against another country and you have the red, white,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: and blue on, I don't care what sport it is.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: I don't care if it's hopscotch. I don't care if
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: it's eating, you know, who can eat more eggs, but
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I'm wearing USA. It is an absolute thrill. It's an
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: honor and it's a battle because they're going to bring their,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: whoever it is. And we played really well. We didn't
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: lose a game until we got to the championship and
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: the gold medal match. We lost to Japan to nothing.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: They had, You know what they do in Japan, Tim
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: and Jeff? They stopped their professional league for two weeks
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: just for the Olympics. And we had some non-40-man guys.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: We had, you know, guys that were trying to get
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: back in the league. We only lost 2-0. I tell
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: you what, if we had a five-game series, I think
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: we'd get them.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: That is so cool.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Now, Todd, didn't you break out in a song at
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: one point during Team USA? One of your teammates told us,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: That you just started.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Singing to the team. Is that true? Tell that story.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: You know, it was Eddie Alvarez. Remember Eddie Alvarez?
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Yes. We had him on the show.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: He's a speed skater.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: The Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics. I'm trying to
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: remember what the hell I was singing. I do it
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: so often, I forget. But it was like an opera song.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: And I came out like this.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: And I did something....
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: I believe it was Arabian Nights, if I remember correctly.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, you're right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Yes, way to go, Jeff.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: You can tell I'm hoarse right now. But I'm not
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: afraid to make the team laugh. And some people might
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: think I'm silly and being an idiot. I don't care.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: That's just the person I am.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: So, Todd, I'm obviously a big proponent of clubhouse vibes, right? Like,
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: I think a team needs a guy like a Todd Frazier,
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: but you're that guy for a lot of teams you
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: played for, but did you ever have another vibes guy?
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, you were a great Major League player, but
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: you also kept things light in the clubhouse, which is important.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Was there anybody else you played with who you were like, yeah,
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: me and this guy? Or that you learned the importance
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: of that from because of the vibes he was putting on?
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: There's not many out there like me, Jeff. And I'm
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: not trying to toot my own horn. I am humble
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: as they come. But I was an idiot when I
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: was in the clubhouse. And I'm telling you right now,
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: I told my wife this. I said, listen, you will
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: never know who I was when I was playing baseball.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: You'll see me play. But indoors, the stories and the
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: fun times I had, Not many could top what I did.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: And some of them might say just downright crazy. And
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I was. I was a little kooky because I wanted
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: everybody to do well. And if I had to go
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: through extremes to make somebody smile and be an idiot,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: so be it.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Todd, tell the story about how you used to leave
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the trainer's room in Cincinnati and go out to the
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: field for a game. And you sang the same stupid
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: song to everyone in the training room.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Is that correct? Would you please explain?
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: So... I would do roll call. So when I came
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: in the training room, like at Yankee Stadium, and I'd
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: hit the door, I'd go, I'd go, ho! And whoever
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: was in front of me, even if it was one,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I'd be like, Brandon Phillips! Brandon! And I would do
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: it until he gave me like a wave or a
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: tip of the cap. And if they would run away
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: from me, I'd be like, all right, you're done. And
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: then I would do the training step. You know, I
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: do Tomas Vera. He is Spanish. Like, and I would
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: start doing that. And then I would finish with our masseuse.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Her name was Mickey. Great. One of the greatest massagers
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: you'll ever have in your life. Professional. And I go, Mickey. Mickey.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: And she'd give the wave and tip. I'd go, hey, Mickey,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: you're so fine. You blow my mind. Hey, Mickey! And
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: that's how we would finish it up. So, Mickey, I
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: love you to death. I hope she's doing well. But
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: she got a kick out of that every time I
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: did it for her.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: John, how you can really sing. Don't be modest about this.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: How long have you been singing? Did you sing in
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: a choir or did you swing, sing an element?
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey can really sing. Where did your voice come from?
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Jeffrey can sing. I'm an imposter. I was in the
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: choir for two or two years, maybe three years. And
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I don't have any video, but you could tell I
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: was into it with the hand gestures and everything, but
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: I didn't really take it serious, but I like humming
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: and doing harmonizations. I love acapella, Jeffrey. I love listening
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: to people do acapella. I dream one day that I
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: could do that. I'm not ever even close to that.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Todd, we can make this happen. In 2011, I went
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: to Syracuse for my freshman year, and I started an
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: acapella group with my friends. And our mascot is Otto,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: so we were the Otto Toons.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, and that was, that was 15 years ago, Todd.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: And the group still is going strong and no way.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: It was just a bunch of guys who were singing in,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: in our basement of our dorm and then the dining halls.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: And now auto tunes is, is very much alive and well.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: So if you ever find yourself in Syracuse, New York,
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: for any reason whatsoever, you're going to a game to
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: see the triple a team there. You're going to visit
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: the camp. Who knows? You call me immediately. You tell
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: me what song you want, and they'll have backing vocals
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: for you in no time at all, and they'll let
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: you have the dream of singing with an acapella group.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: It's a done deal.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: It's it. I'm in. I'm in.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: I had you as the lead, but you could be
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: baritone anytime.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Baritone me. I'm ready.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Tim, what do you think?
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Dopey Dad asked Jeff once, wouldn't it be better if
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: you put a little music to the words? Wouldn't that
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: be better?
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: And he had to explain, Dad, that's the point. We
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: don't need any music. We're acapella. It is great.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: If you can get somebody that sounds like the music
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: in the background to the beats, there's nothing better than that, too.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: I told my dad when he told me that, I said,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: that's like going to a major league pitcher and saying,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: have you ever thought about throwing it in a place
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: they can't hit it?
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Poor Pop-Pop.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So, Todd, if we gave you karaoke today and you
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: had one song to sing from your favorite artist, it
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: could be a band, it could be Frank Sinatra, I
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: don't care.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Who are you going to.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Sing at karaoke if you got one song to sing?
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: There's only one song I sing, Tim, and I think
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: you'll appreciate this one because it's kind of, you know,
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: I was a little hipster back in the day. It
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: was a little... It's kind of Jersey shoreish for me
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: it would be under the boardwalk how about a seat
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: on a blanket with my baby that's where you'll see
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: tim and i yeah listen like that is the only
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: song i sing a karaoke is under the boardwalk Todd,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: that's pretty good.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Like I said, you are a talented guy. You have
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: a great voice. That is so great. Now, Todd, I
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: want to just switch subjects for a second. Your dad
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: is 6'8, right? Yeah, he is. And you're like 6'3, right?
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: And you told me once, God, if I had ever
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: been as big as my dad. Now, Todd, if you
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: had been 6'8, I mean, I want to be fair here.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: You might not be as great a baseball player as
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: you would have been because it's hard to be a
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: position player at 6'8. That's why Aaron Judge is a
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: miracle that he's this good at 6'7, 282.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: If you were indeed.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: The size of your dad, 6'8, what? I mean, you
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: might have played in the big leagues, but what were
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: the options if you were 6'8?
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: Well, I would think I'd be like a Richie Sexton type.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Wasn't he pretty tall?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: He was 6'7, yes. Maybe 6'8. He's listed at two
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: different heights, yeah.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I feel like I would have hit like him, but
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: if I was 6'8, man, dude, listen, I was... It
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: would have to be basketball then. I think I would
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: have to go the route that you went and you
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: couldn't muster it up. It's just something that I would
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: have to do basketball and it would have to be...
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: I would have went to Rutgers. Most definitely. I would
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: have broke all the records there in basketball. You know,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: you never know. Played for the New Jersey Nets back
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: in the day with Keith Van Horn. I don't know,
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: maybe something like that.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: You know, it's funny, Todd, because my dad and I
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: constantly look at each other and go, you know, if
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: we were 5'8, the things we could have done if
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: we had hit that number.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, oh my God.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Todd, how many points, don't be modest, how many points
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: did you score your senior year in high school?
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: What did you average?
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: I averaged 20 on the dot my senior year, 20.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: That is pretty cool.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Now tell us about the time, I think I got
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: this right, that you played against J.R.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Smith. How did that go? So it was one of
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: our last games of the year, and we're playing against J.R.,
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, Coach, let me get him. We'll go
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: box one. Everybody knows what a box one is. It's
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: a box zone. And then the one guy, meaning me,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: has to chase around the best player on the court. Now,
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: if you knew me back then, I wasn't the best defender.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: So our coach says, man, what makes you think you
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: can defend the best player in New Jersey? I said,
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: I'm going to make it a point. I'm not going to.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: I don't care about points, this and that. So let's go. Hey,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: go screw it. Let's go. You got him, Todd. Yeah,
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: let's go. Let's go. Everybody's fired up. Lo and behold,
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: this is one of the best teams in New Jersey.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: He comes down the lane. I get in front, take
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: the charge. I get up, I get in his face.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: He elbows me in the chest. I did a technical
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: and like literally I couldn't breathe for about 30 seconds.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: He absolutely crushed me. He should have got thrown out
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: of the game. Nobody called it though, which fine. We
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: don't want to see the best player out of the game.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to win. I told the ref, I said,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: I don't want to win. I'm just, I can't breathe.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: It's okay. Long story short. We're up five going in
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: the half. I got 13 points. I'm locking him up.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: He's got, I think he's got about the same, 13 points.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: He's averaging like 38 a game. Halftime, they get the ball, right?
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Ball in, he takes one dribble over half and goes,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: he goes, watch this, Frazier. Shoots it. Nothing but net.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: I called timeout. I said, I said, what was that?
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: Our coach comes over and says, who called timeout? I said,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: I did. He was going to make that shot. He
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: ended up with, he ended up with 58 points. He
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: dropped a 40 spot in the second half and we
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: lost by like 30. And I'm like, I said, we'll
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: get them next year. Don't worry. And that was it
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: for my career, my sophomore year in high school.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: You know, Todd, it's the funniest thing because, you know,
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: when I was playing pickup regularly, I would always tell
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: my buddies, I say, if you're the best pickup player,
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: that's great. But we had some walk-on on the Syracuse
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: basketball team who never got a minute. And a guy,
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: not a friend of mine, and if he was, he
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: wouldn't be a friend anymore. He says, oh, this guy's
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: some scrub. He barely made the team. He didn't miss
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: a shot. And I'm saying, you have to realize there's
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: a difference between being a good pickup player and being
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: a walk-on on a Division I major program. So when
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: you see J.R. Smith, Todd was a great basketball player.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: No disrespect, but then you have J.R. Smith Who's a
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: longtime NBA player. There's a huge difference. We saw, so
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: our neighbor played with Kevin Durant. So we went to
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: a game at Montrose Christian high school and Kevin came
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: off the bench as a sophomore, mind you. And my
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: favorite story about Kevin Durant, which we, my dad has
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: told at nauseam and I love saying it too, is
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: our neighbor's father was saying, if you want to be
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: an NBA player, You got to go into the gym
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: before practice. They always practice at 6 a.m.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Before school, right?
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: 200 shots after practice. Dad, no, I mean, I really
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: want to work hard, but we practice before, we practice after.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: I'm exhausted. Because there's only one guy on the team
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: who will ever, ever even do that. Kevin.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. It's like, it's different.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: The lesson is the levels of play. People don't understand
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: the levels of play. I played baseball in high school. Congratulations.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: I had nothing that has absolutely no bearing on playing
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: in the big leagues.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: And people don't see it that way. They should. Am
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: I right?
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: You're right. I saw the other day. I forget what
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: football team. It might have been the Giants. I don't know.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: And they asked, at 100 pitches, how many would you
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: put in play? And some guy said 10 or 20.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: And I started laughing. Because I thought, Tim, I thought
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: of you on the whole thing. And your answer would
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: be definitely zero.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Zero. I've asked it a million times. Now, Todd, we'll
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: finish with a couple more here, then we'll let you go.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: We've taken way too much time. The football season opened yesterday.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: We're taping this on Monday.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Who is your football team and how crazy of a
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: fan are you for football? We talked about baseball and
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: basketball yesterday. What's your football team, and who's your guy?
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: I'm a big Tampa Bay Buccaneer fan. Back in 98, 99,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: I really loved Mike Allstott, the A-train. Purdue, he went
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: to Purdue. Monty Kiffin with the Tampa 2 defense with
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Rodney Barber. John Lynch, Brooks. There was some really good players'
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: work done in the backfields. and Brad Johnson throwing with
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: a glove on to win the Super Bowl. I think
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: it was 2003. So I really love them, and I'm
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: sticking with them. I hope they can figure it out.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: Their defense gave up 33 points. That's not a good start.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, we got to really get cooking here. So
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: we'll see what happens, but I'm going to stick with
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: my Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: But your son, Todd, your seven-year-old son, is tearing it up. Now,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: just give a little shout-out to the little guy who's
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: running all over the field.
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Grant Frazier, we call him Toast. Grant Toast, all he
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: ate was toast when he was younger. This kid is
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: an animal, man. He loves it. He used to do
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: flag football. Now we put him in pads. He's fast.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: He's not afraid of contact. He's a middle linebacker. They...
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: They won. They're 3-0 right now and looking for more.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: He had two touchdowns the other day. He's a beast.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: And dad's up there screaming his head off, acting like
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: a lunatic. So I got to go up in the
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: back of the end zone and be an animal myself.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: All right, Todd, explain the satisfaction of you hitting a
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: major league homer or watching your seven-year-old son like zigzag
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: and dart through everyone for a touchdown.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: What gives you more satisfaction?
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, man, definitely watching my kids doing anything. I mean,
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: getting a single is more satisfaction. Striking a guy out
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: if they're pitching. Now my youngest grant's hitting holes and
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: scoring touchdowns. There is nothing better. And I tell him,
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: I tell my boys, I want you to be better
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: than I am. Please. I beg you. I implore you.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Don't be afraid to be better than your dad. Cause
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: you're going to be going places for sure. Hopefully.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Steve Harvey famously once said, you know, your, your son is,
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: will be the only man that you root to be
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: better than you in your life when you really think
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: about it. And with an amazing dad like I have,
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, he is my number one fan. He checks
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: into the morning show. He's always checking on me, making
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: sure everything's good. And we welcomed a son in June, Todd.
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: I got the little three-year-old. And three-year-old girl. And I
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: would have never, I would have like, I never knew
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: what it was like to be a dad. And then
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: I became a girl dad and it was everything. And
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: it's so beautiful. And then we found out we're having
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: a boy. I'm like, I have no idea what to
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: think about.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: That.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: And now that we have him, it's a whole other
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: relationship and a whole new thing for me. So I'm,
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: I'm really looking forward to it. He's not doing much now,
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: but you know, he's three months old, but we'll, we'll
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: get there.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: We'll get there.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: He's starting to laugh at my bits, which we can
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: take pop.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Yes. Pop pop Tim. I was supposed to do the
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: interview with you guys in Wayne sport. I got to
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: get home. kindergarten starts tomorrow. We'll talk down the road. Okay.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not missing the first day of kindergarten.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I said, okay.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: I said, I'm driving home. I'll see you later. So
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: all good. And I appreciate that out of you, Tim.
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: That's awesome. All right.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Todd.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Now this is, I promise my last question and I'm
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: still not sure why I get to such a kick
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: out of this. Just tell us all Todd, the famous
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: person or one of the most famous people that you
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: share a birthday with.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's my good buddy Abraham Lincoln, man. He shares
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: a birthday with me.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Honest Abe.
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: I'm still mad at my mother because she thought about
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: naming me Lincoln for February 12th. I would have loved
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: to have been called Lincoln Frazier.
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Frazier.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: That would have been a good one, right?
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: That that's what my, my wife wanted to name our son.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: How crazy is that? We went with Bodie bell bell
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: being my dad's middle name. Bodie Bell Kirkson, but Lincoln
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: Kirkson was on the list. So both Mama Frazier and
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: Mama Kirkson over here passed on the Lincoln name. Crazy, crazy.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Todd, Lincoln Frazier averages 30 in the NBA. He scores
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: 30 touchdowns a year and he has 500 career homers.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Frazier, are you kidding me?
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: That would have been fantastic. But we got Tim. Tim
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: and Todd are two most boring names you'll ever see
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: in your life.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Tim and Todd.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Absolutely boring. Boring as all can be. Oh, your name's Todd. Oh, yeah.
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: How you doing?
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Jesus.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, Todd, thank you so much for joining
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: us today. You said it earlier.
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: Sports is the greatest thing in the world because it
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: brings out the best in us.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: And it gives us a chuckle once in a while
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: at a time where we can all use one. Agreed?
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Agreed. Agreed, man. And I appreciate you guys having me
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: on here. We don't say it enough, but I love
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: you both. And thank you for all you do. It's
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: good stuff. Let's go.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Let's go.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: We love you, Todd. Thanks for joining. Is this a
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: great game or what? Todd Frazier. Let's go.