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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome in to the
final hour of the program. It is The Odd Couple
on a TV theme song Thursday, Rob Parker and Allan
Lee filling in for Chris Broussard, and we're coming to
you live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Alan just
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an hour left man to show us just flown by,
But we do want to pick up here first and
talk a little bit about Bill Russell and what the
NBA and the Player Association I've agreed to, which is
a great thing that his number six will be retired
and no one will ever wear that number again. My
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biggest complaint is a day late in the dollars short.
The man lived to be eighty eight years old, and
the NBA has to wait until after he passes to
understand or recognize this man, who is a great man.
His entire life Jackie Robinson died prematurely at fifty three
years old. His honor, Alan goes back to nineteen ninety seven.
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Baseball did it twenty five years ago, and a buddy
of mine who worked in Detroit, a Channel four Brad
who works at Fox Sports. Now, Alan, he hit me
up and said, and I don't know how I forgot this,
but that the NHL did retire Wayne Gretzky's number ninety
nine throughout the league in two thousand, you know, when
he retired, So they didn't wait the grade one. Wayne
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Gretzky is the greatest hockey player we've ever seen, right am.
I all, Oh, no question about it, no question. So
they did it, and the NBA. You know, I love
the honor. I'm not going to take away from that,
but I'm a little bent. I'm a little clumped over it.
You hope that maybe, as as as it was alluded
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to earlier, that perhaps they may have approached Russell earlier
and he said, you know, no, I really don't want
to do it. But it's still one of those things
that you hope somebody at some point in time would
have had a conversation and said, let's do this. It
needs to be done. But far too often in life
things go unset and things go undone, and you know
until it's too late, and then you recognize, oh, Donna,
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we should have gotten to this, we should have done this. Well,
let's do it now. Well that's fine and good, but
like you said, then you get people like yourself would
get upset by it because you should have honored the
guy when he was alive, exactly, and he lived a
long life. It's one thing if you didn't get to it,
alan and somebody passes unexpectedly or you know, prematurely, then
you go okay. Guy was eighty eight, he was still
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going to events, still showing up the stuff. I've seen
Bill Russell all the time at at uh NBA events.
He was still PSA about even getting the getting the vaccination.
That was twenty twenty, right, right, So so at eighty
six he was doing PSA for the NBA, and we
talked about he got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Right
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Honor and twenty twelve, so that was ten years ago.
You could have done it then, could have done it then,
could have done it, damn. So all right, I had
my piece, all right, which reminds me Rob. You know,
sooner or later than I'm gonna have to retire some
chicken wings in your honor, is that right? Yeah, we
have to, man. You know, you're the king of chicken wings.
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You know I love the chicken wings, the yard bird
all day, all night, I still had this nightmare image
in my head. You were singing the theme song from
the KRS w KRP. Yeah, I'm just seeing you in
your Venus fly with the bell bottom. All right. So,
so Alan, this weekend, I'm on my way to DC
and I'm going to the Padres and Nationals on Friday
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night and then Saturday the Commanders. Yeah, I've got the
Padres going to the World Sts. But anyway, my point is,
you know I love going to sporting events. You know,
when I go on vacation, I go to ball games
all the time. If you follow my Twitter, you always
see me at the ballpark with friends and whatnot. And
of course, I've been in this business for thirty six
years and I've covered a lot of big games and
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been to almost every single stadium in the country. I
feel so blessed and honored, and I've been at great
moments and been at stadiums that were rocking and the
crowd and the intensity. I was there at Chase Stadium
when the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs. You know,
stuff like that that you just see on TV. You
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get goosebumps. Imagine covering it or being in the ballpark
and whatnot. And tonight, of course, is the Field of
Dreams in Iowa. The Cubs and Reds. Not a sexy
matchup because both teams are bad, but it makes sense
because the Cubs have a minor league team in Iowa, right,
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and the Reds were the first professional sports team in
the history of the United States, so they have a
lot of tradition they wearing the old school uniforms and whatnot.
But I started to think about some of these games
and moments and things that I've been to over the years,
and what are the best events or venues or something
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that where you just thought I've died and gone to
heaven or I can't believe. Because I know there are
a lot of people who are in Iowa. They saw
the movie, and for a lot of young people Alan,
they never saw a Field of Dreams, right, So when
they watched it last year it was the Yankees in
the White Side. It was special, Am I right? When
they came out of that corner? Oh, no question. And
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I think it's it's as much anything. I think it's field.
The Dreams is a very special movie for men, especially
if you've lost your father, which in my case I
did too. I remember the first time, uh filter Dreams
came on at home one time, and I had seen
it at the movies. Obviously, my wife caught me watching
this upstairs in the bedroom and I was crying, right
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and she walked and she goes like, what is wrong
with you? And I said, and I had to roll
back the scene. I said, you know, it springs back
memories of me and my dad. And I said, it's
it's it's hard to watch. It's so touching, and she
just like laughs. Ever she goes every time and someone
that she goes like, you're gonna shed a tear, right,
I go, you are so mean? She is me right,
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your wife is nice and mean, you know, but there
are things in movies and stuff that take you back
to a place. That's why movies are magical, you know
what I mean, because they really do connect with people
and situations. And Alan, you know, you're a big sports
guy as well. And uh, the sport it's cast up
before you got into news. Is there anything or can
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you remember a great game that you went to, because
so many, so many. I was thinking about this. I've
covered the NBA Finals, I've covered a Super Bowl, INDY
five hundred, World Series, NCUBAA Final four, and I would
have to say, if I had to pick, would probably
be that one because it was my first big thing
to go to when I was a sports editor actually
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at Purdue University when I was in school. When you're
in college, when I was in college, so it was Purdue,
they played UCLA. Larry Brown was head coach at UCLA.
Louisville was there and they played against Iowa, so Denny
Crumb was coached at Louisville. And the whole game, I
had the UCLA cheerleaders right in front of me because
we were on courtside, so that was a nice side distraction.
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But just the whole pageantry of that was great. And
then I would have to also say the Super Bowl,
and you and I were probably still in Detroit at
I'm not sure if you were still there, but the
Super Bowl in Detroit, yeah, yeah, it wasn't so I
didn't go to the game. It was so much the
pageantry of the week, right, and all the parties. That
was what I was really more interesting because I got
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to go to the Playboy party that was that two
thousand and six January two thousand because he was it
was unseasonably warm that whole week. Yeah, it was like crazy.
I was still in Detroit, it was. I was working
for the Detroit News then and it was it was,
it was. It was really something, right, But I got
to go to all these parties, like the Playboy Party
and I did the Players Party, and so it was
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a great The super Bowl is just like a fun
week and by the time the game comes around, everybody's like,
I remember it used to be blowouts. Remember the games
used to be terrible in the Super Bowl. Uh like
forty thirty five point blowouts and always one team was
ready and the other team was partied out, you know
from the back then it used to be two weeks.
You remember that it used to be way too long
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and it never turned out to be a good game.
But I'm trying to think, and I've been to a
ton of things. There was a playoff game at the
old h Pontiac Silverdome. You remember when Brett Favre through
the touchdown pass to Sterling Shark to beat the Lions
at the last second. I was at that game. Wow,
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I told you in eighty six, I was at the Mets.
I was at that game. I was at Yankee Stadium
back to back nights where the Yankees were down. This
is to the Arizona Diamondbacks. I don't know if you
remember this. Alan two outs in the ninth inning, U
Tino Martinez hit a two run home run to tie
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the game in the bottom of the ninth And then
the next night, Scott Brochius hit a two run home
run in the bottom of the night to tie the game. Yeah,
they brought that back. Remember back on the Captain, the
Derek Jeter series and so on. Right now they talk
about that. So that was an unbelievable moment. And I
remember the press box to overflow. Press box was underneath
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the stadium and it was shaking the whole stadium and
people jumping around and it was an incredible scene. Um.
And I've been you know, I've covered NBA finals, I've
covered Stanley Cup finals. Working in Detroit all those years
with the Red Wings and their success. So I've been
to a lot of games. I'm just curious. We want
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to hear from you. Would you love a to be
an io or to see something like this, uh, the
Field of Dreams game? And did you watch last year?
And and did you get goosebumps? Because I got goosebumps?
Or and what game or venue have you been to?
Have you been to a big game, a big moment,
or just been at a venue like a stadium or like, um,
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you know that that Wrigley Field for the first time, Yeah,
or any kind of venue like that's a great place.
You gotta go to Fenway Park if you're a baseball fan,
alan you gotta go to those two places. Yeah. When
I was a kid, rob Um we got back in
the day, which is crazy, you could go day of
and get box seats at Wrigley Field and we three fifty.
I had an uncle who would come in from Filadelphia
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and he loved baseball and he would always take take
me to go to Wrigley Field. And I just remember
sitting behind the home plate at Wrigley Field watching and
I never forget this Bob Gibson pitch against Ferguson Jenks.
That's unbelievable, unbelievable. That's unbelievable. That memory. I just do
it to my deathbed. I can still visualize that, no doubt.
All Right, we want to hear from you eight seven,
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seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six sixty three sixty nine. What's your favorite event venue?
Would you love to be in Iowa? And with the
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two most famous aunts in television history or who Well,
it's gotta be on B for one and aunt Esther
from the Sanford the sub you fish food from black
but black people get it right. It's on Esther and
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ain't b Ain't no, ain't b? What is ain't aunt b?
What is that? It's a U n T. It's aunt.
I'm sorry, that's one of my pet pieces. All right, Hey,
seven seven ninety nine on Fox, we're talking about venues
all the field of dreams. A game is going on
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in Iowa, and have you been to what's the best
thing you've been to? Ballpark? Atmosphere? Ball game? Let us know. Yeah,
I mean, we got a lot of calls, rob Let's
get right to it. We got George from Mobile, Alabama.
You're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. George talked
to us. Oh, hey guys. Yeah, I don't know about
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you guys from Detroit and understanding this venue much. But
if you've ever been to Talladega when there's one hundred
and sixty thousand people in the stands, and especially if
you spend any time in the infield, which makes Marty
Gral look like a church mortuary, it is an insane scene.
I went there, and I want to say ninety two
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or ninety three, I was actually a reporter for a
small weekly newspaper out of college, and were there credentialed,
But I because I was doing working for a weekly,
I wasn't there to do a game story. Right. It's
a culture story, right, right, right. You had time to write.
You had time to get sober and write a story
a couple of days later. Actually, So I go up
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there on Friday. I'm there for the whole shebang, for
the whole weekend and the whole Marty Marty grass style
infield scene, all the preparations for the race, and then
I take my credentials, go up to the press box
cover the race. Dale Earnhart wins the race, comes up
there to the press box to do the post post
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race interviews, and it's got his daughter sitting on his lap.
She's like twelve at the time, and it you know,
and you know, I'm a fan of the race. But
of course I can't geek out at this point because
I'm trying to be a professional in the press box, right,
But go ahead, you can't help but inside feel what's
going on there in the scene. You've got Dale earn
Hart holding his daughter talking about winning the race. One
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hundred and fifty thousand people there, they're drop fans on
the lids to their eyes, chest sledding down the embankment. Wow,
it's just an incredible scene. It's not like anything you
would ever see anywhere else. Hey, thanks for sharing that story.
My goodness, it sounds like it was am already grow
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out like atmosphere. Let's get some more people in, all right.
We got Rick from Fort Lauderdale. Rick, I understand you
have a great story, and we know a couple. Yes,
let's up. Robert Alan, how do you guys doing great?
Good man? We're holding it down, my man, that's good. Listen.
I've been to the old Yankee Stadium. I've been to
the old Sports Stadium. I was at the eighty seven
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National Championship at the old Orange Bowl, Miami and Oklahoma.
And I gotta tell you, guys this touching story. Alan
talked about what what fields of dreams? You know, the
whole father and something sure and Rob you know as
you I believe. I've told you my father and I
were originally from Cuba. Obviously huge baseball fans. My late
father huge Saint Louis Cardinal Yankee fans. He brought that
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onto me. That's how I became a Yankee Cardinals fans.
But we in nineteen eighty four, after almost twenty years
of living in this country, my father, you know, obviously
we became buff In fans because there was no baseball.
She had never gone to a Dolphins game. And it
was marino second years, you know, the year that he
went to his only Super Bowl, and all of a sudden,
when the Dolphins qualified to go to the AFC Championship,
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he says, you know what, Rick, I want to go
to the Championship. I don't know, are you serious that
he goes, yeah, you know in Spanish, I want to
go to that game. And it was the one and
only time that my father and I ever went to
a football game, eighty four AFC Championship game. And obviously
the Dolphins Marino beat his hometown team, Receasers. That is
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what made even more than any baseball game, even him
being my manager in little in core league baseball, going
to that AFC champion because it was my dad's only
foot man. Thanks, thanks, thanks for sharing that, Rick, That's
very special. Wo wow one game, and that was it.
Never forget that stuff. Sean from Oregon. You're on the
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odd couple on Fox Sports Radio. Sean, what you got, hey,
you guys, You know, baseball gets it right and starts
in the old tradition and the old promotions they used
to do, you know. And I grew up pretty poor
and and just you usually just reading, listen to radio
and reading the newspaper every day, and a lot of
times it was my neighbor's newspaper. He'd let me read
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after he was done with it. And my first game
World is my second game up at Jay Buner Day
where anybody that showed up with a bald head or
shaved their head, they had a whole bunch of people
out in front of the Kingdom shaving that day. Yeah,
and it was totally awesome, you guys. No, I'll never
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forget that. Just when you go to a baseball game,
especially here on the West Coast, we don't have those
East Croast agro people, especially up in the Northwest. We're
just enjoying our experience with each other and just eating
good food and just eating, drinking and very merry. And
that's what I think of when I go to the
Baseball Games, and we got the All Star Game in
Seattle next year. I beat it. I'm sure, I hope
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I see you there, brother. Thanks voice my opinion. No,
thank you, thank you for those stories. We got a
couple more we could squeeze in. Yes, Jordan from Atlanta,
you're on the odd couple on Fox Sports Radio. UM,
thanks for having me. Thank you really quickly. I have
two m One was Ronald and Conia hitting the Grand
Slam in twenty eighteen against the Digers. I know we
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launched that series, but that was probably the loudest moment
that I've ever been in. That must have been great,
you know when the crowd like that, because I was
at the World Series in Atlanta. UM, when they won,
and it was it was bananas. It was banana. It
was crazy. And then my second one was it was
probably surprising, but Vanderbilt in South Carolina probably twenty fourteen
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m Vanderbilt took the opening kickoff to the house and
then after that it was pretty much downhill South Carolina. Yes,
it was surprisingly um interested, Yes, thank you for that.
Appreciate it. Alan got another one. Yes, indeed, we have
Matt from Milwaukee. You are the odd couple on Fox
Sports Radio. Matt, Yeah, how'd it good? Guys? Going great good,
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going good good. Hey, Rob, I've followed your whole career
and I loved you back on the Old Show and
everything you're given Skip Baylis and some stuff. Appreciate that.
I loved that. Um So I love that you could
hang with those guys and all those old old times
and old years that you gave everybody what you saw it.
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But anyway, I don't want to be negative because everybody's
saying great stuff. But to me, I bartended up in Minneapolis,
and I worked every Sunday and we had four buses
going to the game. And finally my boss at Danny
is like the championship game, and he goes, here's two
tickets to the championship. Wow. Yeah, Well guess what nineteen
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the best team I think that's ever been on record,
or the best offense? Moss, everybody, Randall Cunningham was supposed
to win the Super Bowl. That was Dennis Green was
a coach. It was a great team. And who was
the kick made? Who made every field goal that year?
Oh my god, it was just it just I couldn't
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believe that I worked all year to see all these
fans goal bartending and then finally get tickets. So the
championship game and I'm actually sitting when the field goal
goes up, man, and I gotta see, I gotta see
these guys do to the dirty bird. I'm sorry. I
did not want to be negative, but that was one
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of those things where I'm like, I can't believe I'm
even here. Yeah, Matt, the important thing is did you
enjoy yourself and have a great time up until that point? Right?
I did? But Dennis Screen didn't kick the field goal
before the first half, and then, like you said, our
field goal kicker Andrew he Mannish Mate, every field goal
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that year, Alan, do you remember that? Hey? Mate? Every
field goal except that one? And it cost him. I
mean it was one. Yeah, it was so bad. All
I appreciate it. Dennis Green, you want to crowd him?
Do you want to crown them? To go ahead, crown them.
We crowd him, They crowned her ass. They crown him
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who we thought they were, They are who we thought
they were. We got about the hook. I thank you, Dennis.
The light grade Dennis Green. One of the classic meltdowns
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for Tyshu's Tower of Trivia and now no ladies and gentelmen,
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This game is so easy, Tight Shirts Tower of Trivia.
That's right, it is Tight Shirts Tower of Trivia. My
personal favorite segment on the radio. UM, it's really pointless
to me because Alex knows everything there is in about sports,
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So I don't know why we keep doing this every week,
but we do. Um, it's really simple. Gonna ask a
question of Alex to answer, and you guys, Rob and
Allen are going to give him a hint without saying
the word. It's pretty pretty simple. Um, real quick, Rob,
I do want to say that I have. I was
at Dodger Stadium for Clayton Kershaw's no hitter. Why Yeah,
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I was at there. I was actually getting paid to
be there. I was working at Dodger Stadium at the time,
so I got paid to watch Clayton Kershaw the thrown
no hitter. So that would definitely be the top of
my memorable moments. Lest that's a sweet moment. I was
there at Yankee Stadium when David what was the left hand?
I just got the left hand. He pitched a perfect game,
David Wells. David Wells pitched a perfect game. I covered
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that game and that was incredible too. So those are
special moment, truly truly special. So uh, I think since
Alan is our guest tonight, we should kick it off
with him. And these are all all questions related to
the Field of Dreams game tonight on Fox. Okay, so
here we go. This year's Field of Dreams game features
a showdown between the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Blank.
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Am I really is supposed to answer this? Oh boy,
I don't know. You gotta you gotta give him a hint.
I gotta give him a clue, right right, Alex didn't
know anything about. It's like, Alex, what are you doing
your spare time? Not watch sports? That's for sure? Wow?
Are you? I'm the anime Sempie Tony plays or something.
All right, here's your first clue. Okay, it is a
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very popular color. No no, no no, you only got one.
We gotta give one word. It's like password. One word.
Oh okay, so is right? You gotta say this. So
it's the Cincinnati blank. You gotta give him one word.
He has to guess it. I know you never played
so good. Yeah, passcord is tough game. Yeah, and the
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passcord is not like blue blue red? Oh god, yeah,
we'll take that one. Yea, the terrible clue. I just
I would like to point out that Alex had to
think about that one. And the game is on two
screens in the TV, and yeah I didn't look. Yes,
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yeah it's there. So I listen. If I was going
to getting points, i'd be happy. Head here next up here,
Rob we have. The Cubs aren't the only major League
team in the city of Chicago. The Blank Socks also
play in Chicago. Oh gosh, all here we go, ready,
Alex Yeah, Black White, Yeah, I like it. Rob. Oh
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you say my clue was bad? It was this influx?
Did you hit any influx? The influx? That's pretty good,
you know what I mean? Black? Oh? Oh, that's pretty good?
All right? Alan? Next up here. In twenty sixteen, the
Cubs beat the Blank Indians to earn their first World
Series championship in over one hundred years. Oh boy, Sincecinnati,
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Oh Cleveland, another bad clue? Yes, that was all right, Rob.
The cubs all time leading home run hitter has had
his career come under scrutiny due to his alleged use
of peds. That man, of course, is Blank Sosa juice,
Blank so juice. Okay, are you ready? I'm gonna try
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Alex Yes. Davis Davis, Uh, Derek No, sorry, Davis M Yeah.
You know. I mean I'm always outdated with my reference,
so from nineteen seventies and up. Please go ahead, thank you?
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All right, Alan, you get a chance to take this
one from Ron. I'm already winning, aren't I all right,
I don't know. Don't get too comfortable. Missile. That did
not help at all, missile. Uh huh okay, all right,
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I guess not. Let's see. Uh what did I say?
I don't know any of these clues? Okay, something a
little bit more dated. Yes, no, but it's a little
bit please, Okay, let me see. Huh um, come on, bull,
Sam you gotta accept that. Yeah, I'll take that. Sammy
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Davis Junior, got you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, alright, alright, Alan.
Next up here, arguably the greatest catcher in baseball history
played his entire career for the Reds, and his name
is Johnny Blank Chair. Uh Bench really? Yes? Why? Okay,
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I'm surprised. I see you too, Johnny Bench. Wow? All right, Rob,
I don't know high court for eighteen years, Alan, dude,
he must have no court leg geez, are you sitting
down at the Field of dreams? Oh? Gosh, yes? All right?
Next up, the Cubs play their home games at the
world famous blank Field, where the entire back fence is
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covered in ivy are you buddy? Alec here we go? No, gum,
what are you trying to say? It's blank field? What
I'm saying gum uh double No, I'm singing like doublement No,
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all right, Figley wriggly? No? Is it really it is
Wrigley field? What do you say? Figly? Yeah? Is that good?
That's no, it's not no. I'm sure I've heard that
word before. What you call it? Adam was not worrying
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his Figgley league. I feel like this game is now
under protests. You don't have a fig tree in your bank, nobody,
just a fig tree. What kind of cookies did you eat? Figgle?
Figley Newton's figgly news? It was no figle. You could
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have just said Wrigley, it's not Figgley. That don't count.
Do you have a chance to win this or is it? Well,
it's over because we're gonna be kind to al, but
we can do the last one for fun if you'd
like fun. Yeah. The Reds won two championships during the
nineteen seventies, when fans affectionately referred to them as the
Big Red blank my goal. Uh yeah, let's you can
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go rob that. That's fine? Well, go ahead, Allan, go ahead, Rob,
go ahead. I kind of want to beat two such gentlemen. Yes,
Big Red by morning, but that's right, that was the
all top classic of fled rogue my favorite. Yes, um, ghosts,
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what's a stretch? Ghosts? Ghosts? Ghosts? Ghosts? Uh busters? Sorry
all terminator machine machine? Really? Yes, you got it. I
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was doing the police song ghost in the Machine, but
I needed to work nineteen eighties and above. You know, no,
I can't help it. Alex actually should have gotten that
that clue if he's the big anime guy, since there
is an anime called Ghosts in the Machine, he should
notice in the shell. But thanks, Oh you know what
there actually win? Get that, Rob, don't rob me of
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my win. That's right, all right, It is the Odd
Couple Fox Sports, right, great job, Alex, thank you. That's right.
And uh, coming up, we're going to do a little
wrap this bad boy up about the little NBA talk
the nets and the ultimatum on where they're going. But
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Did you like cheers? Love cheers, love cheers? Remember that
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did you happen to look up at the TV for
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the seventh inning stretch in Iowa? I did d a
virtual Harry Carrey singing take Me out to the ball game?
Did you see that? I certainly did. Dan driff included No.
Oh man, I remember being in Chicago one night. It
was about three in the morning, were still at a
bar trying to figure out how to get back home,
and outside this big window, my buddy goes, is that
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Harry Carrey, And I, oh, yeah it is Harry Carrey
had like an entourage with him after three in the
morning in Chicago. But he's a legendary, like that's an
all time, old old time baseball guy, just like crazy,
like like living, like living on the edge every night,
you know what I mean, no doubt and people grow
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up with guys like that, and it mean. We just
lost Vince Kelly in Los Angeles, Allen you know that, right,
I mean unbelievable. That was my hero man. That was something. Yeah,
on a warm summer day. Rob Parker, the young man
from New York. He was tremendous. We lost him. It's
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another great broadcast. In Detroit, Ernie Harwell, we lost who
was another one people in the Midwest. Ernie Harwell did
Brooklyn Dodger games? Did you know that? Yeah? I did, Yeah,
I did, Yeah, Yeah. Ernie told us to tell great stories.
I just read the right. Yeah, and Ernie would tell
me about taking the train rides to the West coast
back to the Allen, which was Saint Louis. That was
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the West coast trip to Saint Louis. And um, riding
the train and playing cards with Jackie Robinson, I uhould
just get goosebumps. He would tell me those stories. Man,
I missed Keith Jackson, I missed all those Leaden diary voices. Yeah,
oh man, so many, so many. Definitely, um, but yeah,
that was that must have been something to hear Harry
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Carry's voice in that venue. It uh, it was something
brought up in Chicago rob when he used to be
partnered with Jimmy Parasol. They did White Sox games right,
because he did White Sox first. It was some of
the funniest broadcast because Harry by the seventh thing, he
was totally gone right. He would drink during a game.
I mean the question Harry Drake Harry. One time it
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was a blowout game and Harry on the air goes,
wait a minute, where is the bud girl? You know
the game? Yes, he goes, she hasn't been around here
for a couple of innings. Somebody gonna find her. Why God,
what was that? What was that slogan they used to
have Bud Mandan? Yeah, that was Harry Carry, wasn't it. Indeed? Yeah,
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So they were all kinds and we're not going to
talk about the basketball. Just finish up with the baseball.
I just saw that because, um it just bringing me back.
Bob Murphy was the guy I grew up with in
New York listening to on the radio. It was a
great broadcaster and he's in the Hall of Fame, and
he just had his couple of sayings. He used to
always say. We'd be in the car alan and he
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would say, fasten your seat belts, would going to the ninth,
you know, like stuff like that, and you always remember it.
If a Mets player made an error, he'd always say,
that's why they put the racers on pencils, because people
make mistakes. I still remember almost saying, oh, man, as
a kid, it was jack Rick Hollis in Chicago pretty well,
(36:34):
hit way back, back, back back. It's a whole run.
Ernie Banks, yea man, remember remember Kurt Gallty Game of
the Week? Sure an NBC Are you kidding? That's what
back then? You you didn't have cable, we could only
see like other league. Right, most of the time you
lived in a one one team town, you could only
see the other league on a national game on NBC.
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But all right, I know we're running out of time. Alan, again,
thank you so much, my pleasure. Thanks for having me,
great job filling in for Chris, and you know, make
sure you listen to The Odd Couple tomorrow. Yours truly
will be off from heading to Washington, d C. For
a little m R and R. But I'll be back
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome in to the
final hour of the program. It is The Odd Couple
on a TV theme song Thursday, Rob Parker and Allan
Lee filling in for Chris Broussard, and we're coming to
you live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Alan just
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an hour left man to show us just flown by,
But we do want to pick up here first and
talk a little bit about Bill Russell and what the
NBA and the Player Association I've agreed to, which is
a great thing that his number six will be retired
and no one will ever wear that number again. My
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biggest complaint is a day late in the dollars short.
The man lived to be eighty eight years old, and
the NBA has to wait until after he passes to
understand or recognize this man, who is a great man.
His entire life Jackie Robinson died prematurely at fifty three
years old. His honor, Alan goes back to nineteen ninety seven.
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Baseball did it twenty five years ago, and a buddy
of mine who worked in Detroit, a Channel four Brad
who works at Fox Sports. Now, Alan, he hit me
up and said, and I don't know how I forgot this,
but that the NHL did retire Wayne Gretzky's number ninety
nine throughout the league in two thousand, you know, when
he retired, So they didn't wait the grade one. Wayne
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Gretzky is the greatest hockey player we've ever seen, right am.
I all, Oh, no question about it, no question. So
they did it, and the NBA. You know, I love
the honor. I'm not going to take away from that,
but I'm a little bent. I'm a little clumped over it.
You hope that maybe, as as as it was alluded
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to earlier, that perhaps they may have approached Russell earlier
and he said, you know, no, I really don't want
to do it. But it's still one of those things
that you hope somebody at some point in time would
have had a conversation and said, let's do this. It
needs to be done. But far too often in life
things go unset and things go undone, and you know
until it's too late, and then you recognize, oh, Donna,
(02:40):
we should have gotten to this, we should have done this. Well,
let's do it now. Well that's fine and good, but
like you said, then you get people like yourself would
get upset by it because you should have honored the
guy when he was alive, exactly, and he lived a
long life. It's one thing if you didn't get to it,
alan and somebody passes unexpectedly or you know, prematurely, then
you go okay. Guy was eighty eight, he was still
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going to events, still showing up the stuff. I've seen
Bill Russell all the time at at uh NBA events.
He was still PSA about even getting the getting the vaccination.
That was twenty twenty, right, right, So so at eighty
six he was doing PSA for the NBA, and we
talked about he got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Right
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Honor and twenty twelve, so that was ten years ago.
You could have done it then, could have done it then,
could have done it, damn. So all right, I had
my piece, all right, which reminds me Rob. You know,
sooner or later than I'm gonna have to retire some
chicken wings in your honor, is that right? Yeah, we
have to, man. You know, you're the king of chicken wings.
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You know I love the chicken wings, the yard bird
all day, all night, I still had this nightmare image
in my head. You were singing the theme song from
the KRS w KRP. Yeah, I'm just seeing you in
your Venus fly with the bell bottom. All right. So,
so Alan, this weekend, I'm on my way to DC
and I'm going to the Padres and Nationals on Friday
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night and then Saturday the Commanders. Yeah, I've got the
Padres going to the World Sts. But anyway, my point is,
you know I love going to sporting events. You know,
when I go on vacation, I go to ball games
all the time. If you follow my Twitter, you always
see me at the ballpark with friends and whatnot. And
of course, I've been in this business for thirty six
years and I've covered a lot of big games and
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been to almost every single stadium in the country. I
feel so blessed and honored, and I've been at great
moments and been at stadiums that were rocking and the
crowd and the intensity. I was there at Chase Stadium
when the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs. You know,
stuff like that that you just see on TV. You
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get goosebumps. Imagine covering it or being in the ballpark
and whatnot. And tonight, of course, is the Field of
Dreams in Iowa. The Cubs and Reds. Not a sexy
matchup because both teams are bad, but it makes sense
because the Cubs have a minor league team in Iowa, right,
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and the Reds were the first professional sports team in
the history of the United States, so they have a
lot of tradition they wearing the old school uniforms and whatnot.
But I started to think about some of these games
and moments and things that I've been to over the years,
and what are the best events or venues or something
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that where you just thought I've died and gone to
heaven or I can't believe. Because I know there are
a lot of people who are in Iowa. They saw
the movie, and for a lot of young people Alan,
they never saw a Field of Dreams, right, So when
they watched it last year it was the Yankees in
the White Side. It was special, Am I right? When
they came out of that corner? Oh, no question. And
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I think it's it's as much anything. I think it's field.
The Dreams is a very special movie for men, especially
if you've lost your father, which in my case I
did too. I remember the first time, uh filter Dreams
came on at home one time, and I had seen
it at the movies. Obviously, my wife caught me watching
this upstairs in the bedroom and I was crying, right
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and she walked and she goes like, what is wrong
with you? And I said, and I had to roll
back the scene. I said, you know, it springs back
memories of me and my dad. And I said, it's
it's it's hard to watch. It's so touching, and she
just like laughs. Ever she goes every time and someone
that she goes like, you're gonna shed a tear, right,
I go, you are so mean? She is me right,
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your wife is nice and mean, you know, but there
are things in movies and stuff that take you back
to a place. That's why movies are magical, you know
what I mean, because they really do connect with people
and situations. And Alan, you know, you're a big sports
guy as well. And uh, the sport it's cast up
before you got into news. Is there anything or can
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you remember a great game that you went to, because
so many, so many. I was thinking about this. I've
covered the NBA Finals, I've covered a Super Bowl, INDY
five hundred, World Series, NCUBAA Final four, and I would
have to say, if I had to pick, would probably
be that one because it was my first big thing
to go to when I was a sports editor actually
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at Purdue University when I was in school. When you're
in college, when I was in college, so it was Purdue,
they played UCLA. Larry Brown was head coach at UCLA.
Louisville was there and they played against Iowa, so Denny
Crumb was coached at Louisville. And the whole game, I
had the UCLA cheerleaders right in front of me because
we were on courtside, so that was a nice side distraction.
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But just the whole pageantry of that was great. And
then I would have to also say the Super Bowl,
and you and I were probably still in Detroit at
I'm not sure if you were still there, but the
Super Bowl in Detroit, yeah, yeah, it wasn't so I
didn't go to the game. It was so much the
pageantry of the week, right, and all the parties. That
was what I was really more interesting because I got
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to go to the Playboy party that was that two
thousand and six January two thousand because he was it
was unseasonably warm that whole week. Yeah, it was like crazy.
I was still in Detroit, it was. I was working
for the Detroit News then and it was it was,
it was. It was really something, right, But I got
to go to all these parties, like the Playboy Party
and I did the Players Party, and so it was
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a great The super Bowl is just like a fun
week and by the time the game comes around, everybody's like,
I remember it used to be blowouts. Remember the games
used to be terrible in the Super Bowl. Uh like
forty thirty five point blowouts and always one team was
ready and the other team was partied out, you know
from the back then it used to be two weeks.
You remember that it used to be way too long
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and it never turned out to be a good game.
But I'm trying to think, and I've been to a
ton of things. There was a playoff game at the
old h Pontiac Silverdome. You remember when Brett Favre through
the touchdown pass to Sterling Shark to beat the Lions
at the last second. I was at that game. Wow,
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I told you in eighty six, I was at the Mets.
I was at that game. I was at Yankee Stadium
back to back nights where the Yankees were down. This
is to the Arizona Diamondbacks. I don't know if you
remember this. Alan two outs in the ninth inning, U
Tino Martinez hit a two run home run to tie
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the game in the bottom of the ninth And then
the next night, Scott Brochius hit a two run home
run in the bottom of the night to tie the game. Yeah,
they brought that back. Remember back on the Captain, the
Derek Jeter series and so on. Right now they talk
about that. So that was an unbelievable moment. And I
remember the press box to overflow. Press box was underneath
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the stadium and it was shaking the whole stadium and
people jumping around and it was an incredible scene. Um.
And I've been you know, I've covered NBA finals, I've
covered Stanley Cup finals. Working in Detroit all those years
with the Red Wings and their success. So I've been
to a lot of games. I'm just curious. We want
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to hear from you. Would you love a to be
an io or to see something like this, uh, the
Field of Dreams game? And did you watch last year?
And and did you get goosebumps? Because I got goosebumps?
Or and what game or venue have you been to?
Have you been to a big game, a big moment,
or just been at a venue like a stadium or like, um,
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you know that that Wrigley Field for the first time, Yeah,
or any kind of venue like that's a great place.
You gotta go to Fenway Park if you're a baseball fan,
alan you gotta go to those two places. Yeah. When
I was a kid, rob Um we got back in
the day, which is crazy, you could go day of
and get box seats at Wrigley Field and we three fifty.
I had an uncle who would come in from Filadelphia
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and he loved baseball and he would always take take
me to go to Wrigley Field. And I just remember
sitting behind the home plate at Wrigley Field watching and
I never forget this Bob Gibson pitch against Ferguson Jenks.
That's unbelievable, unbelievable. That's unbelievable. That memory. I just do
it to my deathbed. I can still visualize that, no doubt.
All Right, we want to hear from you eight seven,
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seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six sixty three sixty nine. What's your favorite event venue?
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two most famous aunts in television history or who Well,
it's gotta be on B for one and aunt Esther
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but black people get it right. It's on Esther and
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ain't b Ain't no, ain't b? What is ain't aunt b?
What is that? It's a U n T. It's aunt.
I'm sorry, that's one of my pet pieces. All right, Hey,
seven seven ninety nine on Fox, we're talking about venues
all the field of dreams. A game is going on
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in Iowa, and have you been to what's the best
thing you've been to? Ballpark? Atmosphere? Ball game? Let us know. Yeah,
I mean, we got a lot of calls, rob Let's
get right to it. We got George from Mobile, Alabama.
You're on the odd couple Fox Sports Radio. George talked
to us. Oh, hey guys. Yeah, I don't know about
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you guys from Detroit and understanding this venue much. But
if you've ever been to Talladega when there's one hundred
and sixty thousand people in the stands, and especially if
you spend any time in the infield, which makes Marty
Gral look like a church mortuary, it is an insane scene.
I went there, and I want to say ninety two
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or ninety three, I was actually a reporter for a
small weekly newspaper out of college, and were there credentialed,
But I because I was doing working for a weekly,
I wasn't there to do a game story. Right. It's
a culture story, right, right, right. You had time to write.
You had time to get sober and write a story
a couple of days later. Actually, So I go up
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there on Friday. I'm there for the whole shebang, for
the whole weekend and the whole Marty Marty grass style
infield scene, all the preparations for the race, and then
I take my credentials, go up to the press box
cover the race. Dale Earnhart wins the race, comes up
there to the press box to do the post post
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race interviews, and it's got his daughter sitting on his lap.
She's like twelve at the time, and it you know,
and you know, I'm a fan of the race. But
of course I can't geek out at this point because
I'm trying to be a professional in the press box, right,
But go ahead, you can't help but inside feel what's
going on there in the scene. You've got Dale earn
Hart holding his daughter talking about winning the race. One
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hundred and fifty thousand people there, they're drop fans on
the lids to their eyes, chest sledding down the embankment. Wow,
it's just an incredible scene. It's not like anything you
would ever see anywhere else. Hey, thanks for sharing that story.
My goodness, it sounds like it was am already grow
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out like atmosphere. Let's get some more people in, all right.
We got Rick from Fort Lauderdale. Rick, I understand you
have a great story, and we know a couple. Yes,
let's up. Robert Alan, how do you guys doing great?
Good man? We're holding it down, my man, that's good. Listen.
I've been to the old Yankee Stadium. I've been to
the old Sports Stadium. I was at the eighty seven
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National Championship at the old Orange Bowl, Miami and Oklahoma.
And I gotta tell you, guys this touching story. Alan
talked about what what fields of dreams? You know, the
whole father and something sure and Rob you know as
you I believe. I've told you my father and I
were originally from Cuba. Obviously huge baseball fans. My late
father huge Saint Louis Cardinal Yankee fans. He brought that
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onto me. That's how I became a Yankee Cardinals fans.
But we in nineteen eighty four, after almost twenty years
of living in this country, my father, you know, obviously
we became buff In fans because there was no baseball.
She had never gone to a Dolphins game. And it
was marino second years, you know, the year that he
went to his only Super Bowl, and all of a sudden,
when the Dolphins qualified to go to the AFC Championship,
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he says, you know what, Rick, I want to go
to the Championship. I don't know, are you serious that
he goes, yeah, you know in Spanish, I want to
go to that game. And it was the one and
only time that my father and I ever went to
a football game, eighty four AFC Championship game. And obviously
the Dolphins Marino beat his hometown team, Receasers. That is
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what made even more than any baseball game, even him
being my manager in little in core league baseball, going
to that AFC champion because it was my dad's only
foot man. Thanks, thanks, thanks for sharing that, Rick, That's
very special. Wo wow one game, and that was it.
Never forget that stuff. Sean from Oregon. You're on the
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odd couple on Fox Sports Radio. Sean, what you got, hey,
you guys, You know, baseball gets it right and starts
in the old tradition and the old promotions they used
to do, you know. And I grew up pretty poor
and and just you usually just reading, listen to radio
and reading the newspaper every day, and a lot of
times it was my neighbor's newspaper. He'd let me read
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after he was done with it. And my first game
World is my second game up at Jay Buner Day
where anybody that showed up with a bald head or
shaved their head, they had a whole bunch of people
out in front of the Kingdom shaving that day. Yeah,
and it was totally awesome, you guys. No, I'll never
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forget that. Just when you go to a baseball game,
especially here on the West Coast, we don't have those
East Croast agro people, especially up in the Northwest. We're
just enjoying our experience with each other and just eating
good food and just eating, drinking and very merry. And
that's what I think of when I go to the
Baseball Games, and we got the All Star Game in
Seattle next year. I beat it. I'm sure, I hope
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I see you there, brother. Thanks voice my opinion. No,
thank you, thank you for those stories. We got a
couple more we could squeeze in. Yes, Jordan from Atlanta,
you're on the odd couple on Fox Sports Radio. UM,
thanks for having me. Thank you really quickly. I have
two m One was Ronald and Conia hitting the Grand
Slam in twenty eighteen against the Digers. I know we
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launched that series, but that was probably the loudest moment
that I've ever been in. That must have been great,
you know when the crowd like that, because I was
at the World Series in Atlanta. UM, when they won,
and it was it was bananas. It was banana. It
was crazy. And then my second one was it was
probably surprising, but Vanderbilt in South Carolina probably twenty fourteen
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m Vanderbilt took the opening kickoff to the house and
then after that it was pretty much downhill South Carolina. Yes,
it was surprisingly um interested, Yes, thank you for that.
Appreciate it. Alan got another one. Yes, indeed, we have
Matt from Milwaukee. You are the odd couple on Fox
Sports Radio. Matt, Yeah, how'd it good? Guys? Going great good,
(19:32):
going good good. Hey, Rob, I've followed your whole career
and I loved you back on the Old Show and
everything you're given Skip Baylis and some stuff. Appreciate that.
I loved that. Um So I love that you could
hang with those guys and all those old old times
and old years that you gave everybody what you saw it.
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But anyway, I don't want to be negative because everybody's
saying great stuff. But to me, I bartended up in Minneapolis,
and I worked every Sunday and we had four buses
going to the game. And finally my boss at Danny
is like the championship game, and he goes, here's two
tickets to the championship. Wow. Yeah, Well guess what nineteen
(20:21):
the best team I think that's ever been on record,
or the best offense? Moss, everybody, Randall Cunningham was supposed
to win the Super Bowl. That was Dennis Green was
a coach. It was a great team. And who was
the kick made? Who made every field goal that year?
Oh my god, it was just it just I couldn't
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believe that I worked all year to see all these
fans goal bartending and then finally get tickets. So the
championship game and I'm actually sitting when the field goal
goes up, man, and I gotta see, I gotta see
these guys do to the dirty bird. I'm sorry. I
did not want to be negative, but that was one
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of those things where I'm like, I can't believe I'm
even here. Yeah, Matt, the important thing is did you
enjoy yourself and have a great time up until that point? Right?
I did? But Dennis Screen didn't kick the field goal
before the first half, and then, like you said, our
field goal kicker Andrew he Mannish Mate, every field goal
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that year, Alan, do you remember that? Hey? Mate? Every
field goal except that one? And it cost him. I
mean it was one. Yeah, it was so bad. All
I appreciate it. Dennis Green, you want to crowd him?
Do you want to crown them? To go ahead, crown them.
We crowd him, They crowned her ass. They crown him
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who we thought they were, They are who we thought
they were. We got about the hook. I thank you, Dennis.
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talked to players, We tell you stories. You download it,
you listen to it. I think you'll like it. Listen
to All Ball with Doug Gottlieb on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or ever you get your podcast. It's time
for Tyshu's Tower of Trivia and now no ladies and gentelmen,
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vegans and Metidas, tale hip lovers, Ruffle hip lovers. It's time.
This game is so easy, Tight Shirts Tower of Trivia.
That's right, it is Tight Shirts Tower of Trivia. My
personal favorite segment on the radio. UM, it's really pointless
to me because Alex knows everything there is in about sports,
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So I don't know why we keep doing this every week,
but we do. Um, it's really simple. Gonna ask a
question of Alex to answer, and you guys, Rob and
Allen are going to give him a hint without saying
the word. It's pretty pretty simple. Um, real quick, Rob,
I do want to say that I have. I was
at Dodger Stadium for Clayton Kershaw's no hitter. Why Yeah,
(23:35):
I was at there. I was actually getting paid to
be there. I was working at Dodger Stadium at the time,
so I got paid to watch Clayton Kershaw the thrown
no hitter. So that would definitely be the top of
my memorable moments. Lest that's a sweet moment. I was
there at Yankee Stadium when David what was the left hand?
I just got the left hand. He pitched a perfect game,
David Wells. David Wells pitched a perfect game. I covered
(23:57):
that game and that was incredible too. So those are
special moment, truly truly special. So uh, I think since
Alan is our guest tonight, we should kick it off
with him. And these are all all questions related to
the Field of Dreams game tonight on Fox. Okay, so
here we go. This year's Field of Dreams game features
a showdown between the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Blank.
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Am I really is supposed to answer this? Oh boy,
I don't know. You gotta you gotta give him a hint.
I gotta give him a clue, right right, Alex didn't
know anything about. It's like, Alex, what are you doing
your spare time? Not watch sports? That's for sure? Wow?
Are you? I'm the anime Sempie Tony plays or something.
All right, here's your first clue. Okay, it is a
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very popular color. No no, no no, you only got one.
We gotta give one word. It's like password. One word.
Oh okay, so is right? You gotta say this. So
it's the Cincinnati blank. You gotta give him one word.
He has to guess it. I know you never played
so good. Yeah, passcord is tough game. Yeah, and the
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passcord is not like blue blue red? Oh god, yeah,
we'll take that one. Yea, the terrible clue. I just
I would like to point out that Alex had to
think about that one. And the game is on two
screens in the TV, and yeah I didn't look. Yes,
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yeah it's there. So I listen. If I was going
to getting points, i'd be happy. Head here next up here,
Rob we have. The Cubs aren't the only major League
team in the city of Chicago. The Blank Socks also
play in Chicago. Oh gosh, all here we go, ready,
Alex Yeah, Black White, Yeah, I like it. Rob. Oh
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you say my clue was bad? It was this influx?
Did you hit any influx? The influx? That's pretty good,
you know what I mean? Black? Oh? Oh, that's pretty good?
All right? Alan? Next up here. In twenty sixteen, the
Cubs beat the Blank Indians to earn their first World
Series championship in over one hundred years. Oh boy, Sincecinnati,
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Oh Cleveland, another bad clue? Yes, that was all right, Rob.
The cubs all time leading home run hitter has had
his career come under scrutiny due to his alleged use
of peds. That man, of course, is Blank Sosa juice,
Blank so juice. Okay, are you ready? I'm gonna try
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Alex Yes. Davis Davis, Uh, Derek No, sorry, Davis M Yeah.
You know. I mean I'm always outdated with my reference,
so from nineteen seventies and up. Please go ahead, thank you?
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All right, Alan, you get a chance to take this
one from Ron. I'm already winning, aren't I all right,
I don't know. Don't get too comfortable. Missile. That did
not help at all, missile. Uh huh okay, all right,
(27:30):
I guess not. Let's see. Uh what did I say?
I don't know any of these clues? Okay, something a
little bit more dated. Yes, no, but it's a little
bit please, Okay, let me see. Huh um, come on, bull,
Sam you gotta accept that. Yeah, I'll take that. Sammy
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Davis Junior, got you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, alright, alright, Alan.
Next up here, arguably the greatest catcher in baseball history
played his entire career for the Reds, and his name
is Johnny Blank Chair. Uh Bench really? Yes? Why? Okay,
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I'm surprised. I see you too, Johnny Bench. Wow? All right, Rob,
I don't know high court for eighteen years, Alan, dude,
he must have no court leg geez, are you sitting
down at the Field of dreams? Oh? Gosh, yes? All right?
Next up, the Cubs play their home games at the
world famous blank Field, where the entire back fence is
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covered in ivy are you buddy? Alec here we go? No, gum,
what are you trying to say? It's blank field? What
I'm saying gum uh double No, I'm singing like doublement No,
(29:05):
all right, Figley wriggly? No? Is it really it is
Wrigley field? What do you say? Figly? Yeah? Is that good?
That's no, it's not no. I'm sure I've heard that
word before. What you call it? Adam was not worrying
(29:29):
his Figgley league. I feel like this game is now
under protests. You don't have a fig tree in your bank, nobody,
just a fig tree. What kind of cookies did you eat? Figgle?
Figley Newton's figgly news? It was no figle. You could
(29:50):
have just said Wrigley, it's not Figgley. That don't count.
Do you have a chance to win this or is it? Well,
it's over because we're gonna be kind to al, but
we can do the last one for fun if you'd
like fun. Yeah. The Reds won two championships during the
nineteen seventies, when fans affectionately referred to them as the
Big Red blank my goal. Uh yeah, let's you can
(30:15):
go rob that. That's fine? Well, go ahead, Allan, go ahead, Rob,
go ahead. I kind of want to beat two such gentlemen. Yes,
Big Red by morning, but that's right, that was the
all top classic of fled rogue my favorite. Yes, um, ghosts,
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what's a stretch? Ghosts? Ghosts? Ghosts? Ghosts? Uh busters? Sorry
all terminator machine machine? Really? Yes, you got it. I
(31:04):
was doing the police song ghost in the Machine, but
I needed to work nineteen eighties and above. You know, no,
I can't help it. Alex actually should have gotten that
that clue if he's the big anime guy, since there
is an anime called Ghosts in the Machine, he should
notice in the shell. But thanks, Oh you know what
there actually win? Get that, Rob, don't rob me of
(31:25):
my win. That's right, all right, It is the Odd
Couple Fox Sports, right, great job, Alex, thank you. That's right.
And uh, coming up, we're going to do a little
wrap this bad boy up about the little NBA talk
the nets and the ultimatum on where they're going. But
it is the Odd Couple Fox Sports Radio stick and
(31:47):
stay unless you're trying to give clues to Alex on
Tight Shirt's Towery and Trivia. In the US, be sure
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iHeartRadio app. No better way than to wrap up a
(32:07):
TV theme song Thursday. Here on the Couple, Rob Parker,
Alan Lee filling in for the vacationing Chris Bussard, Alan.
Did you like cheers? Love cheers, love cheers? Remember that
you should have even all those Cheers bars? Oh yeah,
I went to the Cheers Bar in Boston. You know
that they have their downtown. Have you been there? No?
(32:31):
I have not, actually never been to Boston. No, you're okay,
then don't worry about it. No, I'm just kidding. Yes.
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little bit about the nets. I do want to say,
did you happen to look up at the TV for
(33:11):
the seventh inning stretch in Iowa? I did d a
virtual Harry Carrey singing take Me out to the ball game?
Did you see that? I certainly did. Dan driff included No.
Oh man, I remember being in Chicago one night. It
was about three in the morning, were still at a
bar trying to figure out how to get back home,
and outside this big window, my buddy goes, is that
(33:34):
Harry Carrey, And I, oh, yeah it is Harry Carrey
had like an entourage with him after three in the
morning in Chicago. But he's a legendary, like that's an
all time, old old time baseball guy, just like crazy,
like like living, like living on the edge every night,
you know what I mean, no doubt and people grow
(33:57):
up with guys like that, and it mean. We just
lost Vince Kelly in Los Angeles, Allen you know that, right,
I mean unbelievable. That was my hero man. That was something. Yeah,
on a warm summer day. Rob Parker, the young man
from New York. He was tremendous. We lost him. It's
(34:22):
another great broadcast. In Detroit, Ernie Harwell, we lost who
was another one people in the Midwest. Ernie Harwell did
Brooklyn Dodger games? Did you know that? Yeah? I did, Yeah,
I did, Yeah, Yeah. Ernie told us to tell great stories.
I just read the right. Yeah, and Ernie would tell
me about taking the train rides to the West coast
back to the Allen, which was Saint Louis. That was
(34:44):
the West coast trip to Saint Louis. And um, riding
the train and playing cards with Jackie Robinson, I uhould
just get goosebumps. He would tell me those stories. Man,
I missed Keith Jackson, I missed all those Leaden diary voices. Yeah,
oh man, so many, so many. Definitely, um, but yeah,
that was that must have been something to hear Harry
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Carry's voice in that venue. It uh, it was something
brought up in Chicago rob when he used to be
partnered with Jimmy Parasol. They did White Sox games right,
because he did White Sox first. It was some of
the funniest broadcast because Harry by the seventh thing, he
was totally gone right. He would drink during a game.
I mean the question Harry Drake Harry. One time it
(35:26):
was a blowout game and Harry on the air goes,
wait a minute, where is the bud girl? You know
the game? Yes, he goes, she hasn't been around here
for a couple of innings. Somebody gonna find her. Why God,
what was that? What was that slogan they used to
have Bud Mandan? Yeah, that was Harry Carry, wasn't it. Indeed? Yeah,
(35:51):
So they were all kinds and we're not going to
talk about the basketball. Just finish up with the baseball.
I just saw that because, um it just bringing me back.
Bob Murphy was the guy I grew up with in
New York listening to on the radio. It was a
great broadcaster and he's in the Hall of Fame, and
he just had his couple of sayings. He used to
always say. We'd be in the car alan and he
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would say, fasten your seat belts, would going to the ninth,
you know, like stuff like that, and you always remember it.
If a Mets player made an error, he'd always say,
that's why they put the racers on pencils, because people
make mistakes. I still remember almost saying, oh, man, as
a kid, it was jack Rick Hollis in Chicago pretty well,
(36:34):
hit way back, back, back back. It's a whole run.
Ernie Banks, yea man, remember remember Kurt Gallty Game of
the Week? Sure an NBC Are you kidding? That's what
back then? You you didn't have cable, we could only
see like other league. Right, most of the time you
lived in a one one team town, you could only
see the other league on a national game on NBC.
(36:56):
But all right, I know we're running out of time. Alan, again,
thank you so much, my pleasure. Thanks for having me,
great job filling in for Chris, and you know, make
sure you listen to The Odd Couple tomorrow. Yours truly
will be off from heading to Washington, d C. For
a little m R and R. But I'll be back
(37:17):
on the radio on Monday, The Odd Couple on Monday
all next week, so don't fret. It's just one day
and we appreciate you. Jason Smith and Mike Harmon the
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