Brewsers #297- Geoff Arnold

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Welcome to Bruisers podcast about beer, coffee, booze and Bruisers.
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I'm here Sordy John and today we talked to you
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play by play announcer Jeff Arnold. We talked about how
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he fell in love with broadcasting on air, banter, and
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so much more. This is such a fun conversation. We
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actually joined Jeff and his wife on a date because
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he is in the off season, but we definitely make
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sure to talk about what happened during the season itself
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and obviously what his pick for the off season when
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it comes to baseball is. But you don't want to
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hear from me, you want to hear from him. So
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without further ado, here is Jeff Arnold.
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I'd like to boocome the show. Jeff Arnold. How are
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you doing today, sir?
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I am doing really well. How about yourself?
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I'm doing well.
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So for those listing kind of paintings, the word picture,
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where are you at?
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What's going on around you?
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So right now I'm actually with my wife at this
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place called Malarkey, which is in Nassas, Gainesville, Virginia. It's
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this bar winery, kitchen bar. It's a really cool place.
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It's brand new and We actually just came here about
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a week or two ago, and the food is great.
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There's there's a number of other places around here which
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are awesome too. So enjoying a little fall sprits talking
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to you?
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What's in the sprits?
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Did they give you the recipe there?
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You know what? I don't Actually I don't have here.
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I can tell you.
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Let's see, let me see if I can find it here,
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See if I can locate it here? All right, fall sprits,
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apple cider, apparol, cinnamon syrup, prosecco, and club soda.
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That's very nice.
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Okay, I'm not I'm not usually a sprits kind of guy,
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but I had this last time we were here and
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it was too good.
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So I got it again.
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It looks fantastic, mm hmm, really good. What is the
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weather there?
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Like?
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Wonderful? It's like a great fall day. It's it's not
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too hot, it's not too cold. It's just kind of
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the right time of year and beautiful weather. And so
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my wife and I are just having a wonderful time.
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That's fantastic.
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Well, I wanted to get in that later, but let's
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start it off there. So you get married this year congratulations.
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Thank you.
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As a very busy.
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Play by play man. What does balance look like for you?
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And how does that work when it comes to unfortunately
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I have to miss this birthday or this celebration or
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whatever it is.
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How does that work?
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Well, I'm still working on it.
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I'm somebody that probably my wife would tell you I
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work all the time, and I'm always like on top
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of stuff, and it's it's challenging because you're gone every
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other week for you know, usually eight months, and it's
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a great job and it's a wonderful, wonderful life. But
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at the same time, I feel guilty when I can't
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go to different events and birthdays as you said, and
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you know, we have different social gatherings on the weekends.
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So in many ways it's a work in progress for me.
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But when we get to this time of the year,
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I get to be part of it again and we
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have a lot of fun and go to a lot
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of places in some of which we've been to before,
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others are new and so but I love her dearly,
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and she is very patient with me and what my
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schedule is.
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I love it and tell her thank you very much
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for me interrupting your schedule.
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Now. Oh, absolutely, she's enjoying a false sprits herself, so
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she seems to be doing just fine.
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Well there you go.
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Well you are with the Orioles right now, but you
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also do a lot of other college sports, and you've
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done so much in the past, even for a brief
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stint here in North Texas with the Frisco Roughriders. What
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was it initially about sports like broadcasting that really kind
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of caught your attention? Like, well, I guess let's go
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all the back in time. What is your earliest memory
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of sports?
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First, Probably my earliest memory of sports is when I
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was kindergarten watching the Phillies play in the World Series
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against the Toronto Blue Jays. It was the World Series
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where Mitch Williams gave up the walk off home run
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to Joe Carter which won it, and Tom Cheeks call,
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touch them all, jail, You'll never hit a bigger one
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in your life. Like It's one of the iconic calls
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I think in playoff history. I unfortunately was on the
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other side of that, So a young Jeff was very
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upset and very sad that the season was over. But
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you know, I think it begins with that magical nineteen
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eighty three Philadelphia Phillies team and growing up loving baseball,
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going to Veterans Stadium and watching some of those early games.
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I love that.
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Well what then later when you're going through school and
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you're trying to figure it all out, and you're like,
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you know what, I think broadcasting is where I really
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want to be.
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Well, it's interesting because some people know that they want
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to do broadcasting from the time that they're very young.
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I was not one of those people. I found out
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by mistake.
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I was looking for some clubs to join when I
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got into college, and you know, you're trying to meet
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people and nobody knows anybody, and so I ended up
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at the sports radio station WDCV, which was in little
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Old Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which is where Dickinson College is located.
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So Red Devils are Division III football, basketball, baseball, and
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I ended up going in one day. When I found
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out they had sports broadcasting, I was like, I think
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I'm gonna give this a shot, and I ended up
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doing my first football game at Hampton Sydney College with
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a guy who was actually in my wedding party as
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a matter of fact, and he became one of my
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first friends at college and became a very close friend
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that I stay in touch with to this day. He's
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actually in Houston. He's a very successful attorney there, and
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so we ended up going and doing this game. I
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found a passion of mine, we both found a lifelong
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friend in one another. And then eventually I just started
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doing more and more. And then by the time I
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got out of college, I was like, you know what,
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I'm not sure how far I'm going to go. I
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don't know where this is going to take me, but
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I think it's at least worth a shot. And then
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starting the likes of North Texas and the Frisco rough
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Riders and the eventually make it to the Baltimore Orioles
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and some.
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Of the other stuff I'm doing right now.
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I love that.
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Yeah, you've kind of touched every sport too, And is
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there one that you obviously deeble for baseball?
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I get that very much. Is there another sport that
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you're like, you know what? Calling it? I think is
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really fun.
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I would say right now that sport is hockey. I
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started doing it probably two years ago, and I think
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when you get to a certain point your career, it's
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always good to have maybe passion projects, so to speak.
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So I've kind of labeled hockey as my broadcasting passion
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project and done some games over the last couple of years.
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I have so much fun with it. Do a few year,
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but it's a blast to do. My wife and I
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watch a lot of Capitals games, and so I have
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so much fun learning how to do it. I pick
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up something new every time I go out there. I
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was kind of amazed to see the progress I made
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from one year of doing it to the second year
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of doing it, when I picked up some different things
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from watching different games and talking to people like Kenny Albert,
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who's a buddy of mine, and I kind of hope
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that one day I'll be able to call an NHL game.
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It's it's funny because my friend John Walton, who's the
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voice of the Capitals, he and I did an interview
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when he was a Camdon yards earlier this year, and
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I threw the proposition out there. I said, how about
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you come and do one of my games and I'll
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come and do one of yours.
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So maybe do a.
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Little swap and and it gives him a little break,
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gives me a little break, and so maybe.
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One of these days but hockey's kind of that.
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Other sport for me right now, you know, we're putting
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it out in the universe that that needs to happen,
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and I think we need more of the crossover because
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then also it's especially if you not you know, a
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normal commentator on it, a lot of this stuff and
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the way that the EBB and flow of the game
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works is going to be completely different for you. So
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it's always it's fun to try new things.
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So I think we need to have that in the universe.
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Well.
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And the other thing too is that I think as
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broadcasters were sports fans first, and we love the different sports.
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And you know, I'll watch the English Premier League and
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I don't know.
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A whole lot about English football or soccer.
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But we went to a game actually two years ago
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when we were in you know, we just got engaged
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and we went over there. We went to Tottenham Hotspur
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and checked out that stadium, which is spectacular and the
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the atmosphere is one of a kind. And so even
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though maybe I'm not the biggest football fan, at least
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English football fan, it's still something that's really fun to
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do and hopefully, you know, hopefully one of these days
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don and I can make.
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It happen than Plus, the fans are so much better
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over there too. They they're the chances are better, the
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songs are experience Americans. We just look so lazy with
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our claps and just the no sing songy. I'm like,
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what are we? How are we missing this? But how
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can we fix this and bring this back over here?
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Well, the fans are almost too good because if you
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get yourself an adult beverage, you can't take it out
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to your seats with you because they're afraid you're gonna throw.
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It at somebody.
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So right, Yeah, that that that was That was maybe
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one drawback. But I was getting my my beverage and
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my wife and I were making our way to our seats,
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like I sure you can't take.
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That with you. You gotta you gotta drink it out there.
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And I'm like, oh, no, wonder there are all these
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people out there. They're not just congregating to chat. It's
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they don't let them bring their their adult beverage with
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them to their seats.
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Uh huh exactly.
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Now when it comes I mean, speaking of fans, when
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it comes to hockey, do you think that the because
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the energy kind of stays in the building that maybe
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that is also a draw for hockey because with baseball,
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I mean, especially with your stare ballpark, there's no roof,
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so the sound just kind of escapes. While yes the
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crowd does get loud, it just escapes and doesn't go anywhere. However,
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with hockey, something happens in boom like that energy just
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kind of circulates throughout the building.
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You know.
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I think it kind of depends on where your team is.
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Obviously, the clubs that are really good, Like if you
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go to a game at Citizens Bank Ballpark for the
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Phillies play, it is as loud as anywhere. We were
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just the Yankees Stadium to close out the year. Yankees
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are trying to win the American League East end up
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making the wild Card. But you go to places like
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that where it's playoff atmospheres, the fans are ready to go.
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They think their team can win the World Series. They
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packed the place. And for us with the Oriols, like
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we've been there in recent years where we packed the
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place and it really comes to life. So I think
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it's more about having a good team as opposed to
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maybe an indoor environment.
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But I will say that you do.
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Have a point in some cases because one of the
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loudest places that I have been since I've been doing
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this has been what's now dyke in Field, but men
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in made Park where.
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The eros like a guy can field.
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Now it's dyk In Park, Dyking I think it's Dyking Park. Yeah,
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they changed it this year and I had to like
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look up how to say it, but dyk in Park.
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And but it'd always been a park to me. But
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when they're good, and we've seen them a number of
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times where they're really good, they packed that place. The
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roof is always closed and it is always loud.
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a dome on ours, and it's fantastic. We should have
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obviously done it years ago, but unfortunately, you know, we
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kind of from what I heard, built it after the
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Oriel Stadium.
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That's much different weather. Why are we doing this we
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need to put a roof on ours?
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Oriel Park, as great as it is, it feels like
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it's probably been a model that most teams when they
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make their new ballparks or they design new pieces of
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it Oriel Park at Camden Yards is always one that
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people can look at just because of how well it
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was built, how unique it is to the city that
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it's in, and the atmosphere and the vibe that you
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get going in there.
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getting at what we're doing.
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Good that you've ever had this happen on one of
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your podcasts as I love it though.
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was a fun situation.
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He yeah, that's a that's a long story. I'll tell
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it later. But uh no, we we did.
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Tour Camden Yards or Oriole Park years ago, and I
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love that build. That brick wall that's just outside of
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right field and catches all of those home runs whenever
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they go out there, and I'm just like, yeah, the
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whole place is fantastic because I think they also put
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like actual markers wherever the ball is actually landed, right.
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very end of the year they make up new plaques
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and so you'll see all these chalk markings of where
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these different balls landed on Utah Street, and then they'll
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put different plaques out there, and so you can go
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and check and see all these different home run balls.
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I love that. Now.
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I saw on your website, Jeff on Theair dot com,
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by the way, for anybody wants to do it, says
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you did a stint as an NPR host, and you
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can do the voice.
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Obviously we have to hear the NPR voice.
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Well let's see here.
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Good morning, it's seven fifteen, and hope you're off to
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a great start. Get out of bed, sleepyhead. Here's the
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news for the day. Across Russia. Vladimir Putin is threatening Ukraine.
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And like you just like stuff like that, just not
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very low just trying to like expressions, trying to yeah,
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expression list is trying to be very loose and relaxed
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and good morning. You know, it's just like that's just
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the way the way that it is. But no, I
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started doing that when I was in my first job,
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and it was another thing that I would do, just
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the way to make money when you're going But it
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was in Winstersale, North Carolina WFDD. The people that I
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worked with there were so great. None of them were
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sports people. They didn't really understand what it is that
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I did, but they were a little bit like amazed
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when I could just like there'd be breaking news or
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something would kind of come out of thin air and
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I would just kind.
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Of wing it, so to speak, because they had to.
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Have scripts for like everything, like, I don't know how
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he does that, but I'm like, well, I live sports announcer.
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It's part of the part of the gig I do.
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Most of the stuff I do is in script it anyways.
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But it was It was kind of the one of
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the first jobs that I had, but honestly was probably
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one of the better experiences I've had doing this.
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It is funny because it's you have a different tool
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when you are a especially a baseball and live announcer.
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you're feeling a lot of time and again, if you
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could just do that on the air normally, like it's
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it's just a regular thing for you. Everybody else like, wait, oh.
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They can't do it. Their brain's not operated that way.
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Well, you know it takes a lot of time to
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figure out how to do it. I would say that
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it's a lot better now than it was probably when
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my wife and I started dating, because that was pre pitchclock,
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and when you have all these different reasons why the
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game would get disrupted just somebody would step out of
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the box.
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Pitcher would throw over three or four.
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Times just stepping off, meandering on the batter's pucks. Like
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games between US and the Yankees, they'd go four hours.
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I'm like, nobody wants to watch this, So I think
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that it became necessary for the pitch clock to just
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bring the old speed of the game back, and now
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it's a million times better. You don't find yourself just
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overfilling because some of the material that I had to
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have just to get through these games. It was just
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ridiculous because there was so much time to fill, and
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you kind of worried you're overfilling or you were underfilling.
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clock because I know that generally speaking, we're gonna be
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out of there between two and a half and three hours,
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and that's usually at most nights.
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Sometimes you get a little luckier.
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Sometimes it goes a little longer, but even so it
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usually is extra innings if you're going over three hours.
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I used to work at the ground screw for the
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ballpark up here, and people be like, Oh, when you're
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gonna get off, I'm like, I'm not gonna get I'm
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gonna it's give me way later the game ends, I'll
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be there for another hour after that, and I don't
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know how long the game is going to be.
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Nobody does, so no, I can't beletely get it.
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I imagine that's so much easier now for you when
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it does come to not having, like you said, feel
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four hours where you're just you know, what is the
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weirdest thing that you maybe had brought up other than
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losing your passport twice in Toronto that you've had to
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just kind of, like you said, just kind of fill
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time with.
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Yeah, I've been called out like five times in different
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situations across different mediums for doing that.
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You put it on your website, really.
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So yeah, I don't know.
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We've it's hard to identify one thing because what's great
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about baseball is that sometimes it can be very off
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the wall, Like I have an idea of like some
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things i'd like to talk about. But the reality of
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it is you never know what's gonna come up. I
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mean recently I did. I can't remember.
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I think my I had a.
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Broadcast partner who brought up He said, you know, I
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don't I don't notice any Bobs anymore.
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I'm like, well, what about Bob the Builder?
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And so we were like looking at how many years
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of Bob the Builder there were, and it's like twenty
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seasons of Bob the Builders, So it's twenty pretty wild,
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but twenty seasons we looked at crazy. I mean, as
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long as you believe Wikipedia, then it's it's twenty seasons.
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But no, well we'll hit on some weird stuff and
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kind of go different directions that you don't expect to go.
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But that's what makes baseball so great.
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Like you can talk about a kid show one moment,
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and then you can be doing serious baseball the next.
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I do love that about That's one of my favorite things.
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When people people love like, oh, I like going to baseball,
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but I don't like watching it on TV. I'm like,
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that's one of my favorite things because that feel that
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filling in between is that anters my best. It's especially
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when like there's a real good dynamic between you know,
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your your partner and you like this, it could be
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so good.
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Yeah, Brett Hollander and I are kind of that way.
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I mean he will He'll call me Jeffrey my boy
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every time I I toss it to him, and it's
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it goes back to this. It goes back to this
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old joke. Actually when when I we all have our
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welcome to the Major League moments, So when I was
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at the beginning of my career, John Stirling of the
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Yankees with this at the very end of his John
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actually just got nominated for the Ford Frick Award, which
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is the Hall of Fame winner. So it's second second
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straight year he has been nominated. I'm hoping he's gonna
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get in one of these years. But but anyways, he
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It's a Sunday game. I don't know if it was
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Easter Sunday, but it was like around Easter time.
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And I walk into the men's room, like right before
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the game.
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You know, you you're gonna be on for probably an
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hour before you'll have a chance to go again. And
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I walk into the men's room and I'm at one
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urinal and he sidles up to the next one and
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he just bellows out, hello, Jeffrey, my boy. And that's
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kind of where I was like, John Sterling knows my
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name and he let me know he knows my name
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at the EARNL So that was a welcome to the
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major leagues moment. But when you hear Brett say thank you,
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Jeffrey my boy, that's where it that's where it comes from.
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I love it. It all goes back to that. Yeah,
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that that first time.
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Bizarre, strange, but but that's that's what makes baseball baseball.
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Were there one hundred and sixty two days out of
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the year, so you're gonna have some some funny stuff
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and some hilarious stuff happened to you.
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Just this is true. I think mine was. It was
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the Yankees.
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It was a doubleheader just because it got rained out
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the day before, and I was walking up to the infield.
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You know, we're going to do our stuff before the game.
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Yankees are kind of practicing. Ever, a Rod stops me
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and the guy next to him from next to me
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and he was like, hey, can you can you guys
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make sure to uh, you know, water down the infield.
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It's really hard. I was like, yeah, sure, A rod,
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I'll go tell our boss to go do that.
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In my head, I'm like, you're getting paid how much
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you play on concrete if they want you to?
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Gosh?
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But also I was like, why did a ard stop me?
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Of all people, do I look like.
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I'm in charge?
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I love it?
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Yeah?
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Now, what what does research look like for you? Because
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some people I know will have just a stack of
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notes and some people almost wing it, especially toward the
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end of the season because you you've kind of gotten
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everybody down by Now what.
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Does your research kind of look like?
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Well, it is probably NonStop and ongoing at all times.
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Just ask my wife about that and she'll she'll tell
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you it's it's NonStop. It's player notes, it's team notes.
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It's reading different stuff about like what's going on around
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the ballpark when you have homestands and things like that,
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and finding like different stories to tell and help people
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learn about the cities that you're in. So we've been
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a bunch of different places, you know where We'll like,
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we went to Toronto last year when we went to
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the Hockey Hall of Fame, we went to the gate
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we went to the Gateway Arch and we were in
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Saint Louis We went to a bunch of different breweries.
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When we went to Milwaukee, we did a cheese steak tour.
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When we went to Philadelphia, we did a speech pitch.
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We went to the throw the speed pitch this year
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when we were in Chicago. So like, we'll tell stories
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about stuff like that too, And I think it kind.
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Of helps people learn who you are.
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And I think when you're doing baseball as many games
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as we're doing, and I think especially when you're doing
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baseball in the radio, you have to let people know
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that you're a human being just like them. You were
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just as weird, you have just as many issues as
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they do, but you're fortunate that you get to do
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a pretty cool job and have a lot of fun
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for a living. And that's that's I think what we
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try and get across. But I think what we really
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trying show is that we're just like everybody else.
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We just happen to have micro funds.
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It's true, Yeah, you just happen to be gifted enough
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to do the play by play. Whenever you see the
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schedule for the next year, what cities do you kind
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of get excited about? And then obviously toward the end
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of the year, through end of the year. Which cities
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do you kind of get excited about when it comes
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to the team itself.
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I would say that it's always fun when you're playing
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meaningful games inside the American leagues. So if you go
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to Toronto, if you go to Boston, if you go
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to New York, you know it's going to be a
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rockous atmosphere. You know it's going to be exciting, you
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know it's going to be fun. I'd say Boston is
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one of my favorite places to go to anyways. Shar
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Icago is tremendous, and my wife and I went this year.
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It was her first time going to Chicago, and she
506
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had a lot of fun and we got to do
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some different stuff. Took one of the architecture tours, one
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of those boat tours, which really really recommend doing that
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if you happen to go to Chicago. Seattle is awesome.
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It's probably one of my favorite ball t mobile park.
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The weather there if you go in the middle of summer,
512
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is always beautiful, and then you know you'll have some
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that it might seem a little more surprising, like Minnesota
514
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is a gem to go to in the summertime because
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the weather's perfect target Field I think is one of
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the coolest places. And then I love going to San
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Francisco where you play the where you play the Giants
518
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and you do games there. And then also San Diego,
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Like San Diego is one of those cities ballparks places
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that it's always at the top of the list. So
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whenever you find out you're going to San Diego, it's
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pretty awesome.
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Yeah, I'm trying to So I'm going to WrestleMania next year.
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I'm trying to make it down to San Diego afterwards
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and then drive over. It's going to be a big
526
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weird loop, but I'm going to make it.
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Happen, do it.
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It's a it's a cool place, great micro brewery scene there.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, and so many, so many people are just so
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excited about the padres. I mean that the pottery fans there,
532
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they're sold out every game and it's really cool. Yeah.
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If they've been getting so much better over the past
534
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few years, it's insane to see what's going on out there.
535
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Mm hmm.
536
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Like, yeah, they have they have a lot of they
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have a they have deep pockets and they will spend
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and they have some superstar power and they're they're just
539
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a fun They're a fun team. They got a lot
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of talented players out there. We actually traded a few
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guys there who were key guys for our team this year.
542
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But yeah, it's a it's a fun place to go,
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great atmosphere, plenty of stuff to do. It's a it's
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a favorite, always at the top of always at the
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top of our less.
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Now as we're recording, the postseason, for the most part,
547
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is about to start. We're in the middle of wild
548
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card games. Who do you see going on not to
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the World Series, but to the game to the final,
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the ALC Finals before the World Series.
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It's a real tough one because I think it could
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go any number of ways. If I had to take
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a guess, I'm gonna guess Phillies Mariners, if I if
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I'm gonna if I'm gonna take a guess Phillies Mariners.
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I think the Mariners in the past, they always had
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the pitching, but they didn't have the offense.
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This year they have the offense.
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They won a really great run at the end of
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the At the end of the regular season, they had
560
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us long winning Street Calro probably hit sixty home runs.
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But they could pitch.
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They can fight out pitch, so that's a team if
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they get on a run, I could see them making
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a run all the way to the World Series.
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They've never done that.
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They've never gone to a World Series before, so I
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could see Seattle.
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And then Philadelphia. There's a lot on the line for them.
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A lot of their players like Kyle Schwerber, jt Real Muto,
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their contracts are coming up, so it's kind of viewed
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as now or never for Philadelphia. They're without Zach Wheeler
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who had to have a had to have a surgery
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for thrastic outlet syndrome, I think, but their their pitching
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staff is still really good even without him, and I
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could I could see that being another another team that
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they get into the World Series. And that is one
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of the most raucous atmospheres. I think it is the
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most raucous atmosphere in baseball right now. Philadelphia when when
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they are good at their fans are as passionate as anybody,
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and I could see it being a Philly Mariner World Series.
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Oh, I love that. That'd be fantastic.
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Mm hmm.
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I'm not going to ask.
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Who you think would win, but if you were to bet,
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where would you put your money.
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I would say, I would say the Phillies just because
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they have so much they have so much experience in
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big games, and they have so many big game players
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in their lineup, right.
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Yeah, and again that those fans will get be super
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ramid for it.
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They will.
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And by the way, I'll make these predictions and these
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those two teams will lose when the division for sure starts.
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So so I'm sure I'll get a lot of told
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you sos from this.
597
00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:38.079
Yeah, there you go. Well I was saying about Shelley
598
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called the five counts just five random questions. Okay, who
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was your first concert?
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Mmmm?
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I think my first conscience. This is going to sound
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sort of weird, but it was actually when I was
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in FO Texas was one direction. One.
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It was a one It was a one direction concert.
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It was like the first event that I ever did
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when I was with the Rough Riders. They needed to
607
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move I think the concert to Doctor Pepper Ballpark because
608
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where it was supposed to be I think I think
609
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could have gotten out of hand. There wasn't enough security.
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So one direction. As strange as that might sound.
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Did they put on a good show? I bet they would?
612
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They did. They were pretty good pretty good.
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Yeah, I never I never got to see them that.
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I like Harry Stoslot.
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00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:22.920
Uh, if you owned a liquor company, brewery, winery, coffee shop,
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or dispensary, which one would.
617
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You own and what would the name be?
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Uh?
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I would say winery, it would be it would be.
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My wife and I are huge winery people. We love
621
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going to Charlottesville, Virginia, which is I think one of
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the great wine regions on the East Coast. So if
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00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:40.079
you look at the East Coast, like the best wine regions,
624
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i'd say are in Charlottesville, and then if you go
625
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the Finger Lakes up in New York, and then if
626
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you go to West Coast, there's so many different places.
627
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You go to Napa, you go to Sonoma, you could
628
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go to the Wallamotte Valley. You get all these different
629
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different types of places. But I don't know, I probably
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say I don't know what I would.
631
00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:00.359
I don't know what I would. I don't know what
632
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:04.039
i'd call it. You know something, I'm like looking at
633
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my wife, what you got?
634
00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:08.359
You know what?
635
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:09.559
Actually, she just gave me a good one.
636
00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:13.839
We call it saga. Seawan Arnold, Jeff Arnold. So yeah,
637
00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:17.240
so maybe maybe saga. Yeah, that's what we're gonna hold
638
00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:18.480
onto that in case we open.
639
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:18.880
One one day.
640
00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:20.640
Now, you have to do it. Go buy it, go
641
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buy the website right now and all.
642
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:25.079
That I got. Yeah, I like that.
643
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There you go. I'm glad that. Yes, this is just
644
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:28.079
a think tank.
645
00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:34.119
Exactly. Just nobody takes Okay, give us, give us a
646
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:34.920
thirty year window.
647
00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:36.720
Hey, this won't come out for like two weeks, so
648
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:40.680
you have you have time. Who is the last person
649
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:41.559
you fan boyed out on?
650
00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:43.799
It's tough to like.
651
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:46.960
It's hard with like with baseball players, it doesn't it's
652
00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:47.759
a little.
653
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:50.519
Bit different for the most part.
654
00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:53.440
I would say the guy that I'm kind of in
655
00:28:53.559 --> 00:28:56.319
awe of whenever I see him is John Miller, the
656
00:28:56.359 --> 00:28:58.599
former voice of the Orioles, long time voice his son
657
00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:02.559
in a baseball I think he's the best baseball broadcaster
658
00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:03.880
who's ever lived.
659
00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:06.480
I think he's hilarious. He's so good what he does.
660
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:09.240
He has an incredible voice, and whenever we go to
661
00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:11.599
San Francisco, he always takes us out to lunch. And
662
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:14.799
you know, Brett Hollander, who's guy broadcasts with He's.
663
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:15.960
He knows John a little better than I do.
664
00:29:16.039 --> 00:29:18.079
He's always nice enough to let me tag along and
665
00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:20.599
just listening to John's stories and all the people he's
666
00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:22.319
gotten to know and all the things he's gotten to do.
667
00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:26.440
I would say that for you know, as a baseball
668
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.480
broadcast dork, John Miller would probably be number one.
669
00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:30.079
Nice.
670
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:32.559
Uh leads us right into number four.
671
00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:33.880
Who are what inspires you?
672
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:39.480
Well, my wife inspires me every day. She's kind, smart, tough,
673
00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:41.680
and she puts up with me. And that's that says
674
00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:45.359
a lot. There you go, Yeah, I would say, say her.
675
00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:47.240
And then I have a lot of friends that I
676
00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:49.759
really admire for who they are as people and how
677
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:53.279
they're real and they're themselves. Like, authenticity is really big
678
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:56.279
to me with people that I'm friends with, And it's like.
679
00:29:56.880 --> 00:29:59.599
You don't have to agree with me on every single thing.
680
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:02.640
You can be totally different, come from a totally different
681
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:06.240
part of the country, different walks of life, different socioeconomic status.
682
00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:07.359
Doesn't make a difference to me.
683
00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:10.039
Just be authentic and who you are, And then that's
684
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:12.640
what I really value about friends of mine.
685
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:14.000
They're all authentic people.
686
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:15.880
We waited and more are those in the world.
687
00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:16.720
Mm hmm.
688
00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:19.519
And number five, what would you tell your seventeen year
689
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old self.
690
00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:22.920
You're going to live in a lot of different places,
691
00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:27.079
You're going to try a lot of different things. You're
692
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:30.759
going to have some success and failures along the way,
693
00:30:31.119 --> 00:30:33.720
but that's part of the journey. And just realize that
694
00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:36.160
you'll end up at where you're supposed to be when
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00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:37.079
you're supposed to be there.
696
00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:39.240
Love it now.
697
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:41.640
If people want to find out more about you, follow
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00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:44.559
you online, go to your website, listen to you call
699
00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:45.920
baseball or any other sport.
700
00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:47.160
How can they do all the things?
701
00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:51.079
So I do have a website and I updated some.
702
00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:54.000
The reason I still have the website actually is it's
703
00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:55.960
kind of it's kind of my excuse to go back
704
00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:57.799
and watch some of my work throughout the year, just
705
00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:00.759
to check myself and how I'm doing, and just sort
706
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:02.000
of to assess progress.
707
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:02.920
You're in and you're out.
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00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:06.319
So I do have a website called Jeff oneair dot com,
709
00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:08.400
which is more just like you know, for my It's
710
00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:10.359
it's kind of like something that people can look at
711
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.279
if they want, but it's more just for my my
712
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:19.039
tracking of my own progress, right, and then you can
713
00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:21.400
follow me at Jeff on the Air. It's what my
714
00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:24.599
social media handle is on Twitter and Instagram, so I
715
00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:27.359
don't do TikTok just yet, but I'm on Twitter and
716
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:32.359
Instagram pretty periodically, so I usually when we're when I'm
717
00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:35.720
not posting baseball picks, it's usually pictures of the wineries.
718
00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:38.200
My wife and I go too, so so we we
719
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:40.319
tend to tend to post a bunch of pictures of
720
00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:40.799
that stuff.
721
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:42.400
There's nothing wrong with that. I love it.
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00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:43.200
Yep.
723
00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:45.200
Well, Jeff, thank you so much for your time, and
724
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:46.880
thank you to your wife as well for allowing me
725
00:31:46.920 --> 00:31:49.680
again to hop in here. So you guys go enjoy
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00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:51.640
your sprits, get a second round, and.
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00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:52.720
We'll talk to you later.
728
00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:54.799
Awesome, John, thanks so much, Thank you.
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00:31:54.839 --> 00:32:07.119
Sir, Thank you so much for Jeff for being on
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00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.559
the show again. Definitely make sure to go follow Jeff
731
00:32:09.599 --> 00:32:12.880
and go to uh Jeff on the air because you
732
00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:16.640
have all of his calls from the year the years prior.
733
00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:19.079
He's updating on a regular basis because he wants to
734
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:21.200
get better at being a play by a play announcer
735
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:23.319
and he definitely wants to know what you think of him,
736
00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:25.440
So definitely make sure to go follow him on social media,
737
00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:27.720
and while you're following him, make sure to follow Wes
738
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.000
on social media at bruisers Pod that is b R
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00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:32.319
E W S the R S p O D on
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00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:35.240
the Instagram, the threads and the Twitter. If you want
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to send us an email, it is Bruiserspod at gmail
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dot com. If you want to follow me directly, it.
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Is Roady John. That is our O D I E
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j O N. Roady John is the name on the
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Twitter and are untapped in case you want to find it.
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When I'm drinking babe, we can have a beer together.
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If you want to follow me on the threads or
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the Instagram, it is official Order John. So until next time,
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make sure to enjoy life, drink local and cheers.
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Three two one