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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"kirk gibson" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Fans deserve PK steinberger's up first. He called it here. He wrote in advanced judge hitting number 62 this afternoon, which are the top 5 most famous home runs ever hit in where does judges fall? Yeah, so pKa, I saw that we come in with the overnight note that I got from Taylor and I must say like in the moment I'm like, oh my God, I want to get this one right, but I don't think I am able to process all the homers, but off the top of my head, I look at Aaron's number 7 15 as the most famous home run for me, Kirk Gibson would certainly be in that that home run he hit in the 1988 World Series off Dennis eckersley. Yeah, judge number 62, Mark McGuire number 62, whether you are upset about what happened with PDs with him or not. The fact is, I think a lot of people will remember where they were when Maguire hit that line drive home run for number 62. Roger Maris number 61, it wasn't alive for that. We've been watching a replay of that for many years. I get Kirby Puckett from the World Series in 1991, is a big one. And David freeze from 2011. Joe Carter maybe from the Blue Jays won the World Series and he walked it off at the end of that. Bill mazaro ski. So I think they're 5 in that in that group a 9 I just gave you and Taylor, what else did I miss? I think that's a pretty good list. Bond is 73, maybe? I don't think that that's, you know, I said on get up this morning. You know, the bonds is the all time home run leader. Number 73, okay? That's record stands, but I don't think people were sitting there going, wow. You know, when he got there and I don't think it's, I don't think that's burned into people's memories the way that, say, Kirk Gibson's home run is. That is very fair. Dominic writes in since the Yankees won their division in commanding fashion, the conversation in New York has to be focused on the Met's collapse besides the brave, seemingly historic comeback since June 1st. What went wrong for the mets? Dominic, I just, I'm going to push back. I mean, the Met's played on a hundred win pace for four months from June 1. I don't think they really did anything wrong. I think the braves just played out of their minds. I thought AJ adventure had it exactly right. And I know, you know, because it's the mets, and it's New York. We're going to pick them apart. I think this was a case of the braves is playing great. I don't really find a lot of fault in the mints. Matt stock writes in, isn't it is an a combined no hitter basically the same thing as a team combining to hit four homers in a game, a nice team accomplishment, but that's about it. Matt, I'm with you. I don't really find it that compelling when I hear about a combined no hitter. It is. It's like a cool milestone and the players are involved in it. They get to have a baseball Jersey signed by all the players and that's great, but I don't really care that much about them to be honest with you. At golf life rag writes in given the purposeful failure of the Williams Han dictatorship to do their jobs in Chicago. Why aren't they being fired, missed the playoffs? 19 the last 22 years and 9 of the last ten under Han, but nothing, but silence and no change. Yeah, they built a great team for 2021. They ran away with the American League central. But we've addressed this in the past. Jerry reinsdorf is the most loyal owner in sports. And he absolutely believes in his guys. He hangs on to his guys, probably to a fault. And, you know, they're going to be White Sox fans who believe that this is a case where he's been relying on the same teams for too long. I think rickon's done a good job with running that team. Kimberly gar Hart at jolly bone writes in. I remember sitting at my kitchen table, my parents house, and Maguire hit 62, and by sheer dumb luck decided to delay my grocery grocery store trip to hear Aaron judge hit number 60 two in my studio apartment, where were you buster? I was actually in my car on the way to get takeout from a Korean place here in Bozeman, Montana. And then my text dropped in from my son, and he said, you know, Aaron judge did it, and then of course I raced back to the house and watched the replays of it pretty cool. I was kind of like Roger Maris junior. I was like yesterday afternoon Taylor. I was on hold for SportsCenter. I was on call. In other words, if he breaks the record, then you jump immediately on television. I was released from that duty. Afternoon, I was like, I gotta go get some food. Roger Maris junior had that tweet in the drafts all day long. He was ready to fire it off. Yep. Louisville slugger writes in you and Tim mentioned how Terry Francona will someday be in the hall, but will he be wearing a socks cap or a Cleveland cap, two championships with the socks, one pennant with Cleveland, but given how he left the socks, it feels like he's a Cleveland guy now. And given his family history with the Cleveland team, you know, given the fact that his dad was so tied to the Indians, I think he absolutely goes in with a Cleveland cap. Last one for today, Mitchell at tigers of Detroit writes in which rangers breakout players most likely to repeat the performance in 2023. Nathan Lowell or Martin Perez. I like Perez. I think he had a terrific season. I think he's evolved as a pitcher. All righty, that's it for bleacher tweets hashtag bleacher tweets on Twitter. Get some playoff questions coming for Friday's pod. We're excited to get things going in the postseason here. That's it for today I might thanks to Jesse Todd, Sarah and Taylor and Aaron judge who created a summer memories for us all. It was a lot of fun to see him go through that chase. Have a great day, everybody. Thanks for listening. Stay safe and remember. Hating inequality based on skin color is something we need to bite against every single day.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"kirk gibson" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"So the first tweet comes from David at baseball fan 1918. If you are a GM with the option to sign or have the assist to trade for the off season, who are you all in on? Judge de Grom or Otani. Yeah, and I'm just assuming that David meant to type assets there. That's a fun question. Of course, there are different places of time. He's not a free agent until after next year, de Grom can opt out of his contract. This off season, which he said he's going to do. And then you have Aaron judge. I would say ohtani probably among the three, just in part because of age, he's the youngest of three guys still in his 20s. What do you think, Sarah? I mean, I love Otani and also, I mean, even though Aaron judge is great, I always have a soft spot for ohtani. And so I would pick him to. Don't come for me, Yankees fans. Next up is Ernesto dio. Buster on a scale of zero to a hundred. What's the likelihood of the Dodgers or Padres offering judge a one to three contract with an AAV around 65 million plus? Maybe team options and opt outs like Korea's deal. Any chance judge would take that deal? No, I don't think so Ernesto, I suspect he's in a position now to get the massive contract with a team where he knows that's going to be his club for the rest of his career. You know, Scott Boris, you've seen through the years when he negotiates contracts. You know, he likes to keep flexibility. He likes that players opt out, but at some point, as we saw with Bryce Harper's contract, Harper was like, I want to know where I'm going to be. And there were no opt outs. It was just the cashing in that one big lottery ticket. And I think that's what judge going to do this winner. Next is here the number four FRL is that here for real. I don't know, but he's next. Pitchers don't want to give up a historic home run. Do we actually remember who gives up the home run? We should abandon this narrative and encourage pictures to challenge hitters on historic runs, agreed? Yeah, I think we do. You know, whether it's a big home run, a big moment, you know, Ralph Branca famously gave up the game winning home run to Bobby Thompson, the 1951 playoffs. And as the years went along, those two guys became good friends and they would do signings together. Dennis eckersley and Kirk Gibson in 1988 World Series Gibson hit the game winning home run for the Dodgers and limped around the bases and eckersley shared in that moment of throwing out the first pitch at the World Series a few years ago and they both seem to really enjoy it. Al downing gave up Henry Aaron's 715th home run in 1974. I never saw him run away from that. I actually think some pictures are fine with it. They understand that, hey, you know what? They were competing. They shared in history. I don't I've never talked to Mike basic about giving up the home run number 7 56 to Barry Bonds, but my memory, my sense of that moment was, he was okay with it. Like he was fine with it. Being in that moment. So I would push back on the idea that pitchers don't necessarily want to be that guy. I would say this. Michael walk a pitching for the Red Sox last night. He did not want to be that guy. It was pretty clear. He was pretty careful. Yeah. Why wouldn't you want to be a part of history in my opinion? Yeah, right. Doctor Steve a Yankees have played 148 games. Does judge get extra history points if he gets to 62 home runs in less than roofs 154 games and Maris is one 62. And is it any further distinction from tainted bonds? Yeah, I don't think casual fans are going to remember that. They're only going to remember the final number, but you've seen graphics all summer about where judges in his pace and number of games relative to where Ruth and Maris were. And our last one comes from Scottie Barnes, this one's going to be fun. So Mike Trout said, enjoy your new lodge ranch in Montana. What you have a ranch? Are you neighbors with Ted Turner, more info, please? Yeah, so he was giving me a hard time. I don't have a ranch. You know, I have a house, it's a regular old house. It's beautiful house. It's a new house and I'm excited about it. And putting it together, it's pretty cool. And as we finish up, Sarah, I'd say this. I mean, you were watching the video. Quinny tried to, I don't know if you could hear it, but quin was all over that segment with Carl rabbit. Like she was like bouncing around this room. I've said if he gave her a ball in this room where I taped the podcast, it would sound like a hockey player bouncing against the boards. And from the pictures Taylor and I have seen of the backyard, everything it's so gorgeous and I bet quinny is in heaven there. Oh, yeah, to the point and she is she's ball obsessed. I can tell you this. Nothing else in the world matters. You're trying to teach her, look, when you have a ball, you got to go to the bathroom first before we throw you the ball. Please go to the bathroom 'cause we've had situations where you play with it for 20 minutes with the ball and then she comes into the house and then she goes
WMAL 630AM
"kirk gibson" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"The late great Vin Scully, who passed away yesterday at age 94. That, to me, and again, what you consider the greatest cause of the calls you witness live, I remember watching that on TV when that happened back in 1988 and Kirk Gibson, who couldn't even, I mean, he could hardly walk. Gets up there and hits the home run to win game one of the World Series. And then afterwards, there's probably and he did it so well, once you announce what happened, he was quiet. He was quiet. It seemed like he was quiet for a minute, and I've always loved that about announcers who know, you know, sports announcers, especially on TV. On radio, you've got to, you're probably have to talk more. But on TV just to witness everything going on, sometimes you don't need words and he knew he knew when to say things as a sports announcer, and he knew especially as a baseball announcer. And he knew when not to say things. And to me, that's an art because in baseball, even on TV, there is a lot of other talk that you're throwing in. You're throwing in stories and statistics that I was looking here that at bat for Kurt Gibson, okay? And that's the one just to, for him at bat, was almost ten minutes long. Wow. Just one guy at bat, and then he hits the home run. And so you're giving statistics and all the different information about his injury and that he hasn't played, and so you have to constantly in baseball fill in. And I've always found that amazing. You have to fill in and fill in and then all of a sudden recognize okay, now it's time to shut up. And I'm going to shut up for a significant period of time. And let the event take it. And he was just a master at doing that. Well, there's no greater crescendo than the sound of the crowd, of the fans going nuts. You know, you don't have to say and the crowd goes wild. If it's that bad. Right. You let the crowd go wild, and you let them do what they do. I like it in the doldrum of the summer. When they're calling a game, it's not a playoff series. It's not the World Series. It's just, you know, light spring, early summer, and then they just bring it in personal stories. And my wife came on. Funny. There's garbage all over the street. I couldn't believe it. And I hear a little hairy carrier. I can't believe that my garbage was all over the street. About three lowered outside. No, we laugh. I mean, it's when you think about what it can be, there's humor to it. But there's a great art to be able to do it. Because you think about creativity. Brian Esther calls TCU men's basketball and she's a football. And in faster moving sports. You know, especially like basketball getting down to the wire. I mean, it sounds sometimes like these folks, including Bryant, have two brains, three brains, because they're just, I mean, they're just all over it. They're so good at it. But in baseball, it's not always that fast pace. I mean, it's not that fast paced ever. Maybe we should do speed baseball. But Vin Scully was the voice of the Dodgers for 60 7 years. You know, that means there were people, a number of Dodgers fans that never heard any other voice. Yeah. Exactly. All of their life, right? It's one thing to think about like Madden and football for me. Madden, you know, just I think was that he just, he had that voice, he had that presence, that way of phrasing things. Yeah. And they all do, but some are all. Some are all had that had that distinct kind of the voice that you say, oh, well, God dictated these guys are going to be baseball announcers. And in 5 years old, you know, no, they can't be that nuclear science, the scientists not other. They're baseball announcers. Yeah, well, and he was, yeah, he was the concept well, thanks, John. You know, he just got but you know, I think of the fans, I think, of the ones who just that have that all out loyalty dedication to a team and that voice is there. It's ever present. I don't know. It feels like home. You know what I mean? It feels when you're listening to the game. When you're watching the game, it feels right. Everything feels right. And for 67 years, the Dodgers had the Dodgers fans had been fully. And I've had I have great, great respect for sports announcers, a number have actually, I won't say worked for me, but technically they actually did the radio voice for the Buffalo Bills, John Murphy did. Yeah, he did baseball. He did baseball for me. The great sports sports talk show host out of buffalo, Howard Simon. Who's first cousin, by the way, is Jason Alexander. I gave him his first play by play job. He doesn't do play that play, but he was great at it. I think that's where he should have ended, where he should have ended up. Used to listen to Pete Weber, who now is the play by play guy for the national predators, hockey team. Yeah. And he did minor league hockey, and he could weave and do those type of stories. But it's really interesting because probably nobody except maybe in Fort Worth, Texas know it, but you know my former producer, my former producer and phone screener, when I did my local show, filled in a lot, Emil Moffat, who now works for NPR in Atlanta. He used to do minor league baseball for the Fort Worth cats. I did a game with him for the Fort Worth cats as Mary Carey. And it was completely unscripted. And we laughed about as hard as you can laugh. We had so much fun. First of all, I loved going to watch the Fort Worth cats play. I loved minor league games and they just had that just relaxed intimate feel. But yeah, Emil called me one day and said, hey, you want to come sit in? And do Harry Carey during an entire and I ended up, yeah, it was, it was so much fun, and he was really, really good. Well, and the thing was, I knew him as my producer phone screener. Right. And when he was when I did my local show, he is a Seinfeld. He is the Seinfeld aficionado. He knows every line probably from every Seinfeld episode. There is nobody who knows more. And I don't think I saw him about maybe oh, maybe 6 years ago. 6, 7 years ago, he was in town and so we got together. But we still communicate back and forth. And it's all Seinfeld stuff. It reminds me of it. This is a Seinfeld. And especially even with the Biden administration, we don't really talk politics, but it's like, oh, Biden just did this, you know, this is and he goes, oh, yeah, Kramer did that. But when so he was and I'd never heard him as a baseball announcer, and it was one Saturday afternoon. And I said, oh, let me turn him on at the
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kirk gibson" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Now the latest news from New York City and around the world, here's Michael Barr. Tom Lisa John House speaker Nancy Pelosi's plane has left Taiwan after her historic visit Pelosi wallen Taipei pledged that the U.S. wouldn't abandon Taiwan despite threats, a military actions by Beijing at a press conference following a bilateral meeting with Taiwan's president, the House speaker said, when other members of Congress visited earlier in the year, China didn't make a big deal out of it. I think that they made a big fuss because I'm speaker, I guess, I don't know if that was a reason or an excuse because they didn't say anything. When the men came. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell says he approves of Pelosi's trip. A majority victory for abortion rights advocates, voters in Kansas overwhelmingly rejected an amendment that would have eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion and placed the issue in the hands of state lawmakers. The January 6th missing text case has been widened now to include Trump era Pentagon officials, Bloomberg's at Baxter as the story. And the Department of Defense is confirming that a DoJ investigation of the missing January 6th tax is now confirmed that along with accidentally deleting some texts, some phones were purposefully wiped after January 6th. Government lawyers made that admission in court filings tied to the freedom of information act lawsuit and the oversight group is urging attorney general Merrick Garland to investigate DoD's actions in allowing the destruction of records potentially relevant to a significant matter of national attention and historical importance. In San Francisco, I'm Ed Baxter, Bloomberg radio. He was like listening to your favorite uncle call a ball game. It's time for Dodger baseball. Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully has died, Scully called a bunch of classic moments, including the 1988 World Series call of Kirk Gibson's game one walk off home run. High
ESPN Daily
"kirk gibson" Discussed on ESPN Daily
"I literally thought the game was over. I couldn't. I couldn't believe what I just watched. And then Jared Goff Marxism down. And at the 11 hits the game winner on the last play and the entire place went bananas and good for them. I mean it was amazing to watch. I didn't think they had a chance and to pull it out. Man, I know they have to be feeling good and good for them rightly so. No, I mean, you just quoted inadvertently Jack buck calling that Kirk Gibson home run. I don't believe what I just saw. To characterize what felt honestly like a championship. I mean, let's be real about this. Why is sports great? It's because a win a first win of the season on December 5th can be per all of these videos that I've now seen come out of this game and the locker room and otherwise Alex it seemed the way they sprayed water on each other and genuinely just had these massive smiles. It felt like something close to a Super Bowl, which is something that only comes through suffering. And now, and now let's be honest here too, right? The suffering in the other part of that stadium, my lord, the Minnesota Vikings, like let's run through some of their season. We've been on this all year. You and me just laughing at this. But week one, they lose on a walk off field going over time. Week two they lose on a missed field goal, add in a couple more really close shaves. You get to week 8, lose on a touchdown less than a minute left, week 9, lose on a walk off field goal and overtime, week 13. Congratulations, you're the thing that prevented the Detroit Lions from being the first Owen 16 and one team at NFL history. Yeah, just add that to the year for the Vikings. Because that's what they'll get remembered at this point. They lost a nail biter with the niners and kind of fell out of the wild card race and then to lose to the Lions the following week. I feel bad for him. I feel really bad. They've led by 7 points Pablo at some point in every single game this year. So they've led every single game. And yet they have a losing record. I saw a crazy stat in the fourth quarter as they were trying to mount to come back. Cousins in the fourth quarter is 27 and one with a lead. He is two and 25 when trailing. So he has this huge this has kind of been his MO. He hasn't been able to get a comeback and then Dan Campbell tries to hand it to him. And I thought, well, like, man, if there's a, you know, if you're in a slump and you're looking to get out, just play the Lions. And that's kind of what I was thinking and no, he's two and 26 now Pablo. Correct. When trailing in the fourth. So how dare I know? How dare we have ever doubted Dan Campbell? A visionary. Yep. Again, and when you go 15 games in a row, losing like that, week in and week out and your coaches are preaching the same thing and you're hearing these speeches and everybody's trying to cheer each other up. But you start believing it at some point. You know, it's hard. It's hard to buy in. And to change to the culture change to going out there and being a part of that team and that organization and again, it's great for them for going out and despite all that finding a way to get a W..
Boomer & Gio
"kirk gibson" Discussed on Boomer & Gio
"Yeah right. we'll just drive right into work with over right. Exactly meeting with nine fifty five meaningless prediction al dukes three yankees the old man brett gardner. Oh gardner part of the short porch out there. That three foot wall. They have basketball yet. It's the pesky pole. Ski pole gardner. The old man garden another low scoring game. I got the yankees scoring six runs. You guys got four. You're going to have to ask eddie so he doesn't make a clean tweak because you know he's nine to socks who's gonna get the big hit for the red sox whoever their big hitters denver's yeah we'll go with that but you don't jd. Martinez comes limping out of the dugout and hits a grand slam. Then they wheel him around the base in a wheelchair. It's kirk gibson moment. Yeah right as probably what eats the morning show with boomer assias in in gregg giannotti boomer and geo and. I'm sure your mom and dad were home. They're trusting little albert. He's fine meantime. You're sitting there creating your own playboy subscription right and. I'm sure they trusted you're looking at boobs and vagina the up keeping up with the flood of news. Every single day can be quite stressful. Is climate change happening. There's the labor movements nikki massages cousins friend. I am gideon resnick host of crooked media's what a day each week terrell anderson gronk era bendy josie rice and i are going to break down the biggest news stories of the day in a way. That hopefully doesn't always make you wanna cry. New episodes of what a day drop every weekday at five. Am eastern. listen on odyssey apple podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts..
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"kirk gibson" Discussed on Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
"Be fully rested that alab time to prepare for that starred he and melina. I'm sure are having a lot of conversations on their side of things he's not going to be affected by the moment we don't Who's not going to be affected by that moment. This is a fascinating match up to me and one of the interesting questions i have. Tim is what Daybreak abbots will do it first base because there are certainly combinations that he could play in. Cody bellinger maybe at first base But i wonder how he'll be pulled emotionally by the possibility of signing out using our pools at first base in this game because this year albert you know like a lot of hitters. They get get older. He struggled against high-velocity pitchers opie was under six hundred. The type of pitchers that he had a lot of success against zo. Ps about eight fifty with furnace pitchers. He he did well against those guys. And adam wainwright he'll be thrown from seventy miles an hour to eight miles an hour. The type of pitcher did albert hits against and you know that his heart rate's going to be in good shape in that moment. And and. I'm sure dave roberts gonna think you know what this could be one of those You know like kirk gibson type moment. Where in all pro will respond to the stage. And so i'm curious to see what he does. It first base. What are you seeing this matchup. Well i love the pool holes bellinger decision and cody. Bellinger has not swung the bat. Well little better lately. So i'm with you. I think he looks and says i'm gonna play albert at first. Because he was born for these moments even though he's not the hitter that he used to be. And i can't wait to see adam wainwright. He is had buster in a lot of other seasons. A cy young season but this year with this ridiculous pitching in the national league with wheeler and burns and buehler ensures her He's not gonna win the cy young but i take him right now with the way he's throwing in any game and he's going to be up for this and you're right in yati will come up with a great game plan for the dodgers and just keep in mind with the dodgers. They led the league in runs scored buster but they just had been told they just haven't been the same offensive team moving guys around doing little things like that. We'll see way right. Can exploit that a little bit and pitch really well and with max scherzer against adam wainwright. Please signed me up for that one every day. Then it's gonna be an absolute blast. And i would love our to be in the starting lineup and a walk up to home plate. And there's molina who's like his little brother and he's staring at it. Wainwright get ready for those plate. That will be so much fun but before that again we get the funding american league wildcard game on. Espn on tuesday night. Tim great to talk with you. Okay buster talk to you. I'll see you in boston. Headed up today and can't wait to be there talked about that. Nineteen seventy eight playoff game while preparing for the podcast today. Thought how cool would be if we heard the sounds of the bucky dent home run from the yankees and the red sox radio broadcasters. Here's frank messer. Yankees broadcaster describing the bucky. Dan home run. In in the run-up you'll hear bucky. Dan thousand ball opposite instep and this was in a situation in which the yankees had no other infamous available willie randolph in strained a hamstring. The taken brian doyle out of the game Earlier for pinch-hitter so lucky. Dan had to stay in the game. Give listen to frank. Messer broader person off the pitch. Bill ball off. His foot died off his foot. Earth the same footing hitting spring.
The Sean Salisbury Show
"kirk gibson" Discussed on The Sean Salisbury Show
"A hundred nine runs batted in. Okay the outfield and you say their position specific left field specific. All right and i'm trying to think by the way i base number three was keith hernandez yeah for the mets. I'll go ahead and give give left. Field for the astros marlins solace. He came in fifth. All right what you might hear anything. Marin gonzales v. It was his best year history over three hundred great in the post. This is gonna be like brutal to. Because i'm thinking about the years i was george foster. The seventy five number one okay and left field right yes all right that and that makes sense. His fair centerfield did any did any. We'll strawberry in right field for right using rightfielder position fourth okay One guy in right field is on the list. Twice kirk gibson was. He was on the eighty four tigers city. Many recent again kirk cabs number five by the way. Okay soloist twice. And he's number one and two on the list. Recent american liter both should know this to thanks super recent suba reason like last year recent in two thousand eighteen recent rookie bets. Oh my gosh. She's never run into cessna right field because of the dodgers. The red sox your number one aside from aside from johnny bitch of this list. That should have been the easiest one to figure. Mookie betts and rifled josh. Read came in ninth akeso. Yeah oh he did. Come a the centerfield recent or novel. So for paul blair. He's number three. Paul blair's george springer is number four Which i honestly would have put springer higher on the list that see bernie williams to i would have put spring number two on this list center fielder. Ninety five now marquess grissom. And he's seven and wasn't chet lemon. Chit lemon all was chester lemon. Yep in the in detroit cover and all that old tiger stadium all right. Let's come back and do the pitching staff while you don't have to give me the reliever i think. We know that the astros were waiver. I'm going to tell you this comes in dead last. It was kim giles. Okay and dha bench guy de bench. Slash d. h. For they have three bench players basically listed for each team. They i'll tell you right now. The came in fifth. They had jake moore carlos beltran. Evan gattis listed okay. We'll come back and do a little bit of d. h. and starting pitching. That's going to be interesting. Four starting pitchers because it's a world series right or the the post listed for sports. Talk seven ninety sean south. Show you. I ain't sean salisbury. Show continues.
WJR 760
"kirk gibson" Discussed on WJR 760
"Know, once you stop moving, that's when you start getting very stiff and very uncomfortable. And you keep moving, the better you feel and the more you work on your voice therapy, the stronger your voices and you know you can hear it in Kirk these days. He's been working so much on it. He sounds fantastic. And I think that if you do that work and you know, do the exercises you you feel the benefits and other people around. You see and hear that. Benefits. So, you know, I think it's important. I think it's something like movement is incredibly important. That Bill will definitely speak to as well. Yeah, Bill, Let's bring you in. Tell us a little bit about your journey. Yeah, sure. I was diagnosed with young onset Parkinson's in 2012 actually went misdiagnosed seven years symptoms before that. My father was diagnosed two years after me, and we think my grandfather had it as well. So it's a very Personal cause for me and exercise, as Michelle was alluding to has been hugely impactful to my dealing with the disease. Um, you know, it's we say, it's a movement disorder. You got to keep moving. It's just been unbelievable. So I'm really an advocate and trying to just raise awareness for not only Parkinson's disease, but help that exercise can bring for people. And Kirk was found us. In the beginning. It was almost like something he tried to hide in the beginning, like he just didn't want anybody to know. But then once he sort of owned it, you know he was able to really start making a difference in his in his own health and his own journey. Yeah, I I had a really rare circumstance where I kind of came out right away at a friend's party. Two weeks after being diagnosed, I told everyone Like, you know, poor guy who's hosting the party, right? But I told like all my friends and, um you know the thing, and that's not the right decision for everybody. But it allowed me to be then kind of engage and start raising money publicly and everything else. So for me that was very helpful, But definitely a lot of people go through that where they want to hide it in. It's such a strange disease. I can walk a marathon, but I can't button the left sleeve on my shirt. Right, and that that's really embarrassing. I could sit there for an hour trying to button my shirt and I can't do it. So, uh yeah, It can be very embarrassing and marginalize people that way, And it's great to bring awareness and share stories and talk about different experiences with Parkinson's. The more people here by the know about it, the easier it is to become a part of, you know, helping raise money or awareness of what's happening. Um, tell us a little bit about this. This long walk. This is this is crazy. Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, um, exercise is important. So we're going to go on a long walk in September. September 14th. We're going to look down at the continent of Great Britain from John O Groats, which is the northernmost Continental point and We're going to start walking to London and then we're going to run the London Marathon. So 17 days 40 Miles a day back to back, no breaks, and we're going to, you know, really put ourselves out there and just try and raise a lot of awareness that that's a total of 670. Miles. That's right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that is that is a long way and hopefully you will bring a lot of awareness to this. Michelle. How important is like this event? I mean, we're standing here. Tom Izzo is up there Speaking. You know, the coach of Michigan State basketball. Kirk Gibson. Obviously.
The Rich Eisen Show
"kirk gibson" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"They just and when people when they called on up to play power forward to get rebounds he did that. I liked mellow. I just don't like the team back. Then so i guess i'm rooting for him. I want his legacy to turn around But i hate the lakers so much. It's a mixed bag. I despise them. It's going be tough site. When you see me up on the i t with purple and gold carmelo hat on. I think it's gonna be without that cat. I t there's gonna be trouble. Might throw some of those clubs you throw at me instead of down the fairway there. You go Yeah accidentally could happen. Richard shift joins the show. We appreciate you taking some time and hope we get it up soon. My friend me too. Nice to nice to talk to you and msu. Thank you love to. Sheila shouts of richard schiff joining the show. Then that kirk gibson story. I appreciate him share with us. That is a tough. La leave evolves the mindset of. Well we made it across the country betting on the mets. That's itself some movie. That'd be a movie about shift coming l. a. and then you look up his imdb credits. He's been everything of that guy looking at nine thousand nine hundred eighty eight first off. He was dead on about david cone. David cohen twenty and three. That year did not win. The nl cy young orel hershiser won an l. Cy young that year with all twenty four first place votes. That is kind of crazy. He was twenty three and eight. But nl mvp. How did darrell strawberry. Not when mvp that. You're kirk gibson. One with only twenty five home runs and seventy six. Rbi's did have thirty one steals but darrell strawberry tj. You know this probably lived and died with every straw at bat that year. Thirty nine hundred one ribs. Twenty nine steals unbelievable. You tell me how didn't win. Believable year for darrell. Strawberry that season. You know it's crazy to is that nobody remembers can hitting a grand slam. And gameboy forgot game. One of the world's series after going forty forty. Al mvp a four-run bomb. And the next thing you know twenty five years later sound fanny packs on twitter where i remember most about that game when i was watching that world series game with my grandpa who was a huge dodger fan like most black men of his age all started off as brooklyn dodgers fans and he just a huge dodgers fan. So were watching it and i fell asleep and i can just remember. I woke up as eckersley was in his stretch. So i probably fell asleep in the fifth inning until the to the bottom of the night and i just clearly recall waking up and my grandpa is like being so happy but like his echoes just coming through yin and yang of the universe. Tj's grandfather having this spiritual moment. Lifelong dodger fan. The dodgers win. And there's richard chef in the fourth round loosen. All is my line. Oh my god. What have i done coming up. Next and other rich rich eisen joining the rich eisen show. Ben lyons infrared.
The Steve Deace Show
"kirk gibson" Discussed on The Steve Deace Show
"Here on throwback sports jersey week. We do that every summer. Here on the show. At least the last couple of summers today i'm decked out in my nineteen eighty four commemorative kirk gibson throwback batting practice jersey. Strong you like. I thought you might like this one and I mean this is my all time favorite major league baseball team one of my all time. Favorite teams. I was ten years old. mean listening to every single game on the radio or on tv. When i could get them of course and we had a couple of pretty good announcers call and tiger games back in those days nine. Oh start twenty one in four thirty five and five. Never spend a day out of first place. Wire-to-wire lost only one postseason game world series. Champions think i still might even remember the starting lineup. Lou whitaker same ice. The stalin trammell batted second. it's short. Gimme batted third lance perish the cleanup hitter. The catcher batting fifth was darrell evans. The d. h. batting. Jessie and i'm for you okay. Number six larry herndon. You're close scott. Okay you're in the right. The right air seven all right. He's an area batting. Six was the center fielder. Chat lemon lemon batting seventh. Was larry herndon. The left fielder okay. batting eighth. They had like a pa- was dave bergman. Who played first base. I would not have gotten and batting ninth was a platoon. They had Mardi castio and tom brooklyn's wow. I just pulled that out man. The nineteen eighty-four detroit tigers at Jack morris. Dan patriot mitt. Milt wilcox cox. Yes so morris. When nineteen games that year and threw a no hitter Let's see they had six guys when the fan voting start in the all star game. I believe that year five or six guys did and then gear modem call me willie hernandez was the first pitcher ever win a relief pitcher to ever win. Mvp an cy young in the exact same season so storybook season from my childhood. So i'm representing the nineteen eighty-four detroit. Tigers here today throwback in that day and everybody at homeless. There's news get two boys. The teens just had their year. It's we and then the tigers didn't suddenly start sucking winningest team. Meetings actually is there. Is there yeah. That was their year. I think the actually set the record for most consecutive road wins that year to at some point in time as well so i mean i was just a magical season. I was ten years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. Some all right. I am steve day stats totters. You've already heard his voice. Aaron mcintyre's years. Well let us know what you think about what we think. Whether it's the nineteen eighty-four detroit. Tigers or anything else. Trust me if you want news data. Oh it it's coming your way. Trust me on that okay So let us know what you think about what we think. Stephen steve.
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"kirk gibson" Discussed on Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
"Where if there were two outs. And he was on deck when he was supposed to come on a big tall guy he would leave his his leg guard and stuff on because you know if if the guy play gets out he's just going to have to catch and and i haven't seen anyone do that in big league game. I've seen them. I've maybe seen it in college games before have been a long time and i was like. Why don't they do that in big league games. Have you seen a big leader. That i have not seen a big do that up. But i've noticed. A otani accidentally left his base running gloves in his back pocket when he went up to the mountains in a recent cameron realized terrible when he realized of course. When does not look like a therapy periods in my life where i've done two jobs at the same time like When i was first a fulltime editor and writer for baseball prospectus. I was also working basically full time job at bloomberg sports for a while and that was exhausting. Or like when. I've done my day job writing and doing the podcast and working on a book on the side like that's pretty grueling. But i didn't do it forever and it was tough while i was doing it. And you know had to make various other sacrifices and my personal life or whatever to make that work just from an hourly perspective and that's tough in that's draining and that's not even like physically draining and i was like you know doing related things in in all of those jobs so it wasn't like two separate skills so that just kind of puts it in perspective for me that he's done this for so long really and when i was watching him on wednesday when he hit the home run and talk about fatigue remember. This is a day game after a night game in. He pitched seven innings and batted four times but in that at bat he fell the ball off his foot and rate was hopping around and then he fouled a ball off his surgically repaired back knee and he was hobbling around looking like kirk gibson for a while and then he hit a home run one hundred fourteen point five miles per hour like you know a couple of pitchers later. It's like all right. He superhuman but just thinking about the extra wear and tear that he takes like even. Just you know fallon balls off himself taking as many at bats as he does and hitting the ball as hard as he does. Most starting pitchers don't have to deal with that. So just like. Imagine the bruises that he accumulates. most pitchers certainly most. Al pitchers just don't have to worry about like that must take a toll and so i'm just saying safer this while he's doing it and hopefully we are on this podcast and let him start the all star game as a pitcher and a hitter where we riot and you know the angels were eighteen and twenty two when trout cut hurt. I believe i think they're twenty six and twenty since cut out so Were as ally. And i'm going to become a war true. I think it's true. What they always said were is just the stat designed to make mike trout. Look good doesn't actually translate to team. Success angels are winning without truck. They didn't need any anyway now. It it's a small and they will definitely be better with trap. But i tweet james. O'hara who pointed out that the angels record eighty five games twenty seventeen. They were forty three and forty two twenty eighteen forty three hundred forty two two thousand nineteen forty two and forty three this year. Forty three and forty two just so stubbornly five hundred year after year although this year. They've done it largely without trout and often without anthony down also. A tiny has played better than trout. Well trapped has been out so that helps to yeah. It does help but who who needs them. Hit a home run. You have more time as you round the basis to be to be ginger with your you know yondo fouled off body parts. So that's what they said on the broadcast. They didn't call the home run but they said i bet he hopes that he can just trot around the bases this time and he did. And this is another example of the prediction thing. Testers probably telling everyone see. I called it quite new world opens. Aspen yeah i was thinking also because In this most recent start otani was working with mac stasi angels catcher and that is a change because kurt suzuki has basically been his personal catcher since early. April that's been a source of some frustration to me. People were watching otani closely. Because kurt suzuki is one of the worst. Framing catchers baseball and maxine. One of the best and madden has said you know. I like how they work together. I don't care about framing as much as others. Well no one cares about framing more than we do so it's been somewhat painful you know especially because Otani command will come and go at times. And sam want him to get every borderline call he can and seeing suzuki not get him those calls. Maybe he's a great pitch. Collar may be. He's good at settling otani down. Maybe he is Beneficial in other ways but the framing is rough at times and so madden put stacy and he said because he liked the offensive matchup and stacey was one of the hitting heroes in that game as well. But i can't say what a comfort it was to see. Good framing catcher getting otani. Some of those borderline calls that he might not have gotten otherwise. That was a lot of fun. And we got an email from listener. Seth who wrote in to say that one of his problems with catcher framing as a valuable skill. That should be kept in the game. And you know as a reason to be perhaps against the robo zone. He says he'd be interested if someone could take a highlight reel of two random starting. Mlb catchers and show them catching reframing say. Two hundred randomly selected pitches without seeing how the empire called the result. If you could identify the better framer my position is that i definitely couldn't do that. And would only judge their ability based on the results has called by the empires which is fine skill but makes it harder for me to appreciate as a skill that the player has not doubting the abilities. Just that i can't differentiate with my eyes as to who is good or bad and that probably goes for a lot of baseball fans..
KOA 850 AM
"kirk gibson" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"Yeah, because that was so long ago Basketball. And and football and won two Olympic gold medals. You're absolutely right. There's no doubt and he I don't know who makes most of these lists. What's that? He makes most of the list of greatest athletes ever. You see his name, but a lot of people don't even know who you who he is or who he was right, right. Yeah, Thank you. Yeah, we got a bunch of text about Jim Thorpe looking down our test text list of greatest athletes ever. Uh, Dan O. Dowd's deal with Hampton was listed as one of the 25 biggest franchise killing contracts in the history of baseball. Yes, Remember Dan O Dowd. Um, from the text line. Talking of greatest athletes. We got some Russell Wilson mentions. Yeah. It was drafted in baseball and football. Herschel Walker. Uh huh. Great athlete. Is he doing? UFC now? He wasn't an M a fighter. He's going to run. I'm hearing he's going to run for senator. In Georgia. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he wins and he wasn't just participating in the U. S air and mixed martial arts. He was winning fights at 55 against dudes that were like half his age. Is it her shell or Hershel? I always said Herschel. Yeah, Is that you know what? That's a set herself The name he probably remembers. Um, but I knew growing up in Arkansas Bastille Shabbas, don't if you remember him. I don't know He was. He was something else He could. Still even at 40 years old. He was still running the 44 67, but he was Track. He was a running back one of the top baseball the Cardinals drafted in the third round. Um then he went on to be the cornerback at the Arkansas Pine Bluff, the severe neck injury and that ended everything. But he was. He was other worldly watching that guy just you could just do anything. Any sport. How about Caitlyn Jenner? Well, I think Bruce one. I don't know quite badly. Bruce was Caitlin one of the greatest athletes ever, you know, competed as Bruce. Well, he would have been the greatest. She would have been the greatest athlete ever competed as Caitlyn. The right. Yeah, won the gold medal. I believe it was 76 Olympics in the decathlon and the The Catalan is, uh, one of those track events that as 10 determines who's the best all around athlete because they have 10 different events. Yeah. And Bruce Jenner. Just the man just a beast of an athlete in the day. And so you would have to assume Caitlin too, Right? Right. Caitlin, comprise still compete today and still probably kick some butt. Didn't we see a video of Caitlin at the driving range? Just crushed in balls? Yes. Oh, yeah. Like she's got an amazing Caitlin went on the l P g l p g A did senior tour well and her run for governor of California She is strictly against transgender females Plane. And female sports. You know why? Because she knows that it's probably unfair because if she went out there and played, she would dominate everybody. Yeah, already winning the Olympics as Bruce Yeah. Yeah, True. What else? Let's see. Um, a guy named Dave. The bush. Er I don't know if you remember you wouldn't remember. You know the name, right? Yeah. Name Dave. The Buscher played for the New York Knicks. He was a very good basketball player. And he pissed the shutout in Major League baseball. According to a textured and that I didn't know I knew he I knew he played. I didn't know he was that good though. Did we talk about that way? I mean, we've mentioned in the earlier And the interesting thing about Elway. As you know, Ben, the threat of him playing baseball is what got him traded to the Denver Broncos. Yeah, yeah, He didn't want to play for the Colts when he got drafted. Everybody knows the story here and He played the baseball card. Well, I'm going to play baseball, then do you remember? Uh, Remember Vince Coleman, the baseball player. Do. He was a heck of a punter and kicker as well. Florida State I believe didn't know that I know he was speech story was very fast. Did he run track to? Um, I think he did. But I want to say it was like Florida A and M, where he was a punter and kicker. It had, like, really, really great status as a punter and kicker there as well. And our texture was right about David Buscher. Pitched for the White Sox and 62 63 threw a complete game shutout in the 63 season. That's crazy. Yeah, did not know that about him. I remember him strictly as a basketball player rack racking my brain, Kirk Gibson. He was drafted by the then ST Louis Cardinals football team as a wide receiver. That's right, great athlete. Played at Michigan State. I think so. I believe he played wide receiver at Michigan State. Everybody, uh, that reminds me of me. He gives his Bob Gibson um he put the Harlem Globetrotters didn't know that. The best pitchers of all time. Yeah. Texture from the seventh. Oh, says What about Ronnie Coleman? Greatest bodybuilder of all time. Certainly one of the greatest bodybuilders. I didn't know he was an athlete. I don't know what sports he played. I'm very familiar with them. I watched a documentary on him recently and his body is broken down. Oh, really? Oh, man. I mean, he He's in a lot of pain. He's one of those guys that can barely walk now. Oh, man, you know I'm talking about. Yeah, I know he's I don't know how many times in a row he won, Mr Olympia. Yeah, not going well for him, but he's got a great attitude. Yeah. Willie GALT. Yeah. Yeah, texture from the 303 track and wide receiver for the Bears, Chefs, the margin maybe. The Notre Dame receive. Oh, yeah. Became a pitcher in baseball. That's a good one. Is he still with the Giants? I've kind of lost her. Yeah, let's track him to. I'm not sure. I don't know. Let's get one call in here before we wrap it up. Nick and Wellington. Good morning, Nick. Hi, guys. How you doing? Good. How you doing, man? One Bring up Dave Winfield. Oh, I was seven. Grew up in Minnesota, and he was actually recruited. To play on the basketball team. After the golfers cut. Three guys kicked off the team. With a big Brawley had with Ohio State can member of 72 or 73. And so they recruited him in mid season. And he actually led to the gym and rebounding that year, and he did get drafted in three sports like gave him, Dave and I think to other people all total that did that. That's interesting. You know, the other other one I can think of off top my head to be Tim Duncan. Um, he was a swimmer Tried out for the 92 Olympics. Uh, tend to the best flute there. Yeah, the Northern Olympics before he before winter basketball. Huh? Played a wake Forest. Yeah, great. Obviously great basketball player. He was a swimmer is Virgin Islands? Yeah, he was Virgin islands and try it out for the 92 Olympic games before. Uh, I think there was a hurricane there. I can't remember which one It was Hurricane Hugo, I think took out this the swimming the only Olympic size swimming pool that they had..
KSFO-AM
"kirk gibson" Discussed on KSFO-AM
"And by the way, Sean not to pander to our new Detroit listeners, But I was out there recently. Just pre pandemic doing some charity work with Kirk Gibson's organization. He raises a lot of work for people with Parkinson's. I love your city, Detroit I truly do. And we're glad that you are with us on WJR Now getting to some news. We always joke you and I that we we don't like when people create a false sense of urgency. Like where the sham wild guys. Order Now, supplies are limited. We know you all have a lot of sham wows organ two knives order now surprised, however, when it comes to taking advantage of low mortgage rates. There can be some urgency and sometimes sensitivity. Now, CNBC dot com posted a story saying Weekly mortgage rate refinance demand jumps. Some fear. End of super low rates is near. So perhaps the end, as we've mentioned is nigh. Well, here's the thing. I just believe in math, like one thing when I was a kid for new listeners, I cared so much about taking Barry Bonds is baseball card, and Ken Griffey is flipped it on the other side, and I compared stats. That's how I learned math. That's how I compared who was better. Between like slugging percentage average home run stolen bases ribbies at the end of the day. These numbers told me, you know, really kind of the tail of which was the better guy head to head Well, I use the same kind of logic the same math in this line of work At the end of the day racers amongst the lowest in history, House values are soaring. You guys can't even buy a home below list price. So there's so many positive things that are happening now, a lot of change a lot of pressure from a lot of markets. A lot of things are coming up that are going to move interest rates. It's just a matter of when One of these things gonna move, so I hate to tell you that it can move as early as money. But in this sport, urgency is key. Never want to drag your feet or having a save Your toes campaign while rates are low and cash is easy to get take for advantage. I think you guys know the laws of probability is these things aren't going to last. So we're going to definitely cast their lines in the water. We're going to catch the fish while they're biting..
Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"kirk gibson" Discussed on Heartland Newsfeed Radio Network
"Do not remember hanging out with kings fans. Oh they're the worst. I mean as far as i was concerned is a hockey fan. Like i had thirty rivals or twenty nine rivals before vegas came long Of teams that i just i just despised. I didn't like any of them chaos. I saw vancouver for a while. I like the oh and kessler playing up there. They lost a boston and the stanley cup. And the twins retired and y'all Revert along those stops stops up there for for a little while every now and again whereas the king of the goalie for ever you know Mike quick It's something else quick. James quick quick. I'm not gonna crack revealed quick. No jonathan jive. You got you totally got it. James james they call them. Jimmy quick you might. Quick was wrong was because i i thought that i would make the connection because there was a mike quick. They'd played wide. Receiver for the falcons. The eagles are both every area type of mascots. A lot of those but again just as long as you have a mascot and eighteenth name. You're in a good place okay. So it's they have onsite copa tar. Who's been there for a while. Dustin brown's plagued the played with them gretzky for a hot minute after he put in his time. It had been ten. There's a little bit of history with the los angeles kings. I most notably. I is their appearance in the Lethal weapon three movie reading. Danny glover and kirk gibson and up on the ice during a game because that's sally. Lapd operated back then. I don't know if i made it through those movies after lethal weapons. I have you okay. Chris rock shows up at one point. Joe patchy shows up for the most part. It's you know it's just like die hard except jail pretty much all the time because the the mel gibson character is just totally road. Like bruce bruce willis lives a calm life in the action hero since i compared with You know with what you see those movies the naked gun route and want the series of movies that made fun of those movies. I don't know the naked gun with the guns are great sports tie over though and i i guess one that we could uh j. J. rica palazzo. Reggie jackson was it. I don't know that there were any other actual angels or mariners in that movie dakota after reggie man we don't know otherwise. Mariners got so upset because he was going. After reggie jackson to the angels the mariners ran out on the field. And then you had this big break all but once you start taking the gun series series too seriously. you know. it's time to to move on. But you incorporated the angels. Think they did it in a dodger state i think they filmed in a dodger stadium. Which would make sense because they are the lapd and that's in la and they had the us march bad and it kills. Probably i mean oj. Simpson was a promising young after at the time he probably had. You'll being heisman. Trophy winner from usc probably had some tight ends to get the trojan marching band out for that one. And i just don't know how they got the queen. She seems so serious. I don't know why she would make that cameo unless i was an actress. I imagine it as an actress. Don't think i think jackson for reggie jackson. He makes those cameos right. You can't forget his performance in the great the nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine flake basketball. No of course. Not reggie jackson the king of cameos. I did not play for. The dodgers played for the oakland athletics. And for the california angels in his time but You know they never won. Anything is the california angels. The los angeles dodgers they've won. They've won a lot not anywhere near what. The yankees have won but you start combining their brooklyn. Titles they look like a pretty well-groomed franchise in major league baseball..
WIBC 93.1FM
"kirk gibson" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"They'll give you credit. I'm here for honesty. And another thing that he would say on that front is Oh, shit was gonna help? Yes, he said. Everybody talked about Underdogs in the underdog story and loving the underdogs, but nobody watches over. You know, he always says that, you know if you look at college basketball right over, I'd love to get up in arms about the 68 team or the Cinderella 13 seed that makes it to the elite eight. But the ratings through those games were always doubt. But when Duke and Kentucky and Kansas are in the final four Ratings always skyrocket because people can talk about the underdogs. The captain ease that Kirk Gibson's all that the world but what they really want to see a D n a day and you know the rain. The ratings are driving the bus here, folks. He's just he's just the messenger. That's what he's saying is well. The other day. They want to see past the homes. They want to see Josh Allen. They don't want to see the underdog story of Chad Henny. So while you make valid points that yes, you know, a nice Hollywood script could be written about saying Chad Henny coming in and never playing in a playoff game before and then leading his team to the Super Bowl. You know, without the M V P the best player in the face of the planet Passion, my homes. Yes, that's romantic, and that's great. And it's something fall in love with, but at the other day, you know this is a Disney that that that's making the story. This is the NFL's of CBS, which actually probably owned by Disney. Because Disney owns everything. Now, I think about it, but the NFL the bottom dollar business, bottom line business. Bomb line is people want to see Patrick Mahomes and Josh Alan, and the bottom line is you wouldn't know was whether you had to wait a week or five weeks. Nobody's waiting. The game's gonna get played. Colin loses this one. It's an inch Your take on Colin is interesting..
KNBR The Sports Leader
"kirk gibson" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"And we had a starter by the name of David Dean need Who was Their first pick in the expansion draft. It was a big deal. I mean, it's posters all over the city, which I didn't want a game, right? But here he was, David me the need for speed. You know the whole deal. And I'll never forget the first pitch. That David need through was right down the middle of the plate. And it was called a ball, okay? And I think blabbing was on the mound. Think days, and I remember the first push that he threw is about eight inches outside, and it was called a strike. And I said, Well, the Giants are gonna have to win because they're not going to get there. I'm going to get help from and the Giants never the The Rockies never beat. Braves that year, and that was one of the reasons Of the two dad, we actually within the last couple months that came up and we actually looked up on the air because we looked it up. The Braves went Iraqis went 1 13 against Braves that year, and it's one of if not the longest. Like the That never happens in Major league Baseball, where team plays a team at least like 9 10 times and doesn't win one. It's like it's like unheard off. And I mean you should win one. Just because you're playing. You know another that time it was Mile high Stadium. I mean, you should Bust out the bats and just pound them 11 home game. I've never happened. I remember Sid Bream. On a check swing in an opposite field Grand Slam. Guys better win. Because they're gonna get you help from from the Rockies, so it was very disappointing, But I know that's a lot of land. When we're talking about timing was sort of Uh, I can see why you celebrate. Let's put it that way. Bruce Bochy. Dan Brown called Bruce Bochy. Dan Brown to the athletic is great sports writer and in Butch had some memories. He was the All Star manager of the year. Let's sort of got knocked over on his rear end in Seattle by that line drive at the All Star Game member that he said he never laughed so hard in his life. Boats had a great line, he said. He goes, you know, he said. I'm doing my boat, you voice, he said. We should probably take this guy's inspiration because every talks about your healthy diet to live a long, healthy life. Because this guy pasta and drank wine every night. He made it to 93 true story. Yeah, there it is. God, he's dodging line drives cookie box, she said. Load up on the garlic bread in the spaghetti, you know. Yeah. You know, he he lived life to, you know to the fullest. And you know, I'm sure Every visiting clubhouse guy. In that area that he managed has got a He's got more than one time. He was sort of story, and I'm sure there are restaurants and every national next city. That especially Italian restaurants. That have Tommy Lasorda stories because we would go into restaurants after the Dodgers were in time? Maybe I was sort of sitting here with No 12 people that he didn't pay. Well, Yeah, Tommy's done right. It was it was the restaurant's not gonna comp it. Then somebody else at this table is going to pay that. It was always the same story wherever we went great stuff, and it's nothing. We talked about it Mike yesterday, but maybe you have your own thoughts on. It's a name that you know hardcore Giants fans. No, but maybe casual Giants fans don't but it's Joey Amalfitano retired at age 87. That's a guy who, if you talk to people around the building around the franchise Now That's a guy that you talk about living monuments, You know, McCovey and maize and and all the guys are looking lost. McCovey, obviously, but Joey Amalfitano was a font of baseball in giant history. You know, I never had the relationship with Julie that Mike did because Michael's Williams In the major leagues. But you know, the only time I remembered Joey before he became part of the Giants. Is, you know, is the sort of third base coach you know, He's the guy that was congratulating Kirk Gibson when he hit the home run off the act. So there are many. Giant people. That have such a close association with both franchises. And in doing Malfitano is, obviously you know, he was that a lot of those dinners and all these cities with It's done in the sort of great guy really prolific. I, uh, I've never seen Joey in a bad mood. Uh, There's always complimented us. You know you I mean, if he's not at games, he's certainly watching him on TV. So yeah, I mean, you know, like at some point You had enough to shut it down and visit. And he probably thought this was a good time to do it. I My old vantage of passed away a couple of years ago gave Garcia The day passed away. He was like 97 from the age of 17 years old When he was 97. He took a paycheck from some Baseball franchise every year in a row. And he proclaimed that he has seen More game. And he has seen more.
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Los Angeles Dodgers win World Series for first title since 1988
"Year, the city of Angels is celebrating. Dave Roberts, 20 Los Angeles Dodgers won their first World Series title since 1988 beating the Tampa Bay Rays 3 to 1 last night. Dodger third baseman Justin Turner had to be removed mid game after testing positive for covert 19. Turner is the first player to test positive this postseason. But he says he feels fine and he was seen celebrating on the field after the game. And you know, tiny. My first memory of baseball was that 1988 Siri's, with Kirk Gibson, famously pumping his fists around the bases. So it has been a while for Dodger fans. Yes, and from my house last night in so Cal, All you could see was fireworks in the sky as Angelenos celebrated this long awaited victory.