July 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Morgan White Fills In On NightSide
National park ranger and baseball historian Richard “Dixie” Tourangeau joined Morgan tonight to talk all-things baseball! From the teams to the fans, to the 2025 MLB All-Star Games!
National park ranger and baseball historian Richard “Dixie” Tourangeau joined Morgan tonight to talk all-things baseball! From the teams to the fans, to the 2025 MLB All-Star Games!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's night Side with Dan Ray on WBSY, Boston's new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Bel Thank you. Hel always gives me a great reintroduction.
I've been here for two hours, so let's do two
more hours of nightside with my buddy Dixie. Nobody knows
more about baseball that I know than this gentleman. He's
part of the Saber organization. He has done so many
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things to keep baseball front and center in front of
so many people, not just in Boston, but well beyond Boston.
He's been to every Major League baseball park at one
time or another. Is that accurate, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
No, it is not.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Which ones have you missed?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, I am missing Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
They won't allow you to go there.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
No, I didn't allow myself to go there. About two
weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You were on schedule to go to Texas, so you
said that was one of the things you were going
to do. Yes, I know, and that's why then I
said what I just said.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And then it didn't happen because the Saber National Convention
was there. I had planned on going there, but it
didn't happen in the end.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So, out of thirty odd cities that have a baseball
park right now, some cities have more than one.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Oh, yes, you have been to all but one. Oh well, well,
if you count the fact that Tampa Bay now plays
in a minor league park, and you count the fact
that Oakland now plays in a minor league park in Sacramento.
I haven't been in those either, but those are tough
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to count.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
And I think in twenty twenty seven Oakland will be
renamed the Las Vegas Athletics.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, we'll see if that actually happens.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Why do you think it might not?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I always think it might.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Not because you're a curmudge.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Now. You're here wearing your baseball hat tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But the last time I had you on, when you
were wearing your National Park Ranger hat, you said something
that was more of a prediction at that moment. But
your prediction has come to fruition. Yes, what you predicted.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's coming to more fruition every day. I said that
because of the administration in Washington at this moment, the
national parks would suffer, they would suffer greatly, and the
people going to National parks would suffer also.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And what has made that closer to the truth or
the truth?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well, when you cut the budget of everything, and you
cut the budget especially for people to work, then you
don't have people working, and when people come to visit
your park, there's no one there to entertain them, or
very few people there to entertain.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Them and tell them the facts and the history and
the interesting points of Yellowstone or Zion on the Grand Tethons,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, the last time they made account, which was last
year twenty twenty four, over three hundred and thirty million
with an M people visited the National parks, and I
don't know if that's going to happen again this year.
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In a way, I hope it doesn't, because they're only
going to be about three quarters to two thirds of
the people at the parks working, which means when you
get there as a visitor, you're going to be missing
ranger talks and ranger programs and a lot of other
things at various parks, depending on which parts you go to.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So I do not want to talk this into a
National Park's night now with you, and I'm going to
ask that to you, to ask topic, ask the people
who care about the National Parks that are listening right now,
tell them what they should do to kind of block
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the administration from doing what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, you can certainly call your congressmen wherever you're from
and let them know. The congressmen usually like their national
parks because it draws people to their areas. And for
every dollar is spent on national park, you get back
fifteen to twenty dollars, depending on your park and where
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you are in the country. That's always been true. So
when you decide to take away money from the parks,
you're only killing yourself. But you can call the net.
You can call your congressman, or you can call the
National Park Foundation. There are several other national park groups
that back up the National Park Service in terms of
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making sure things are going right.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You would think that people that occupy sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue.
You notice how I didn't say any particular names. Uh,
you would think they would know this.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
How many times have you started off a sentence about
the same subject with You would think.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh, dear, that that proves the point right there, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yes, it does?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
All right? Are you watching the baseball game? It's family
park right now?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Well, well, I was not having a very good baseball
night until about ten minutes ago. What happened, Well, someone
on the Red Sox at a home run and they
won the game.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The Red Sox have won eight in a row.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I guess you'll have to start looking for World Series tickets.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I guess what was the final score?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Five to four? Saddan hit a home run with a
guy on baby with me? Aren't Anthony on base? And
they won? Five to four?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And what do you think about Room and Anthony?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Honestly, I think he's I think he will emerge into
a pretty good player, maybe even better than that. Right now,
he's not he's not polished yet. But you know, he
just started. Give him a chance exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He's only been playing baseball for a month. One month.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, so give him a chance baseball at this level,
at this level. All right, I'm going to go off
topic here for about one minute.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And that topic is that topic, Well.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's it's not really a topic. It's a question I
have for you because there's something I heard you say
the other night while you were doing another program or
last week.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think, Okay, what did I say?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You said that as a as a kid, you had
a television in your room.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I did second grade on.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And so did I.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So we were both spoiled.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That's right. Second grade, a white kid from the Styx
in central Massachusetts and a black kid from the city.
And we both had televisions in our room.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yes I did, and I think I told this story.
I'll tell it again going into the eighth grade. And
this was around a year or two that TV. He
was evolving from all programs in black and white to
more and more programs being produced in color. So when
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I was in the eighth grade, this is what nineteen
sixty six sixty seven school year, my grandmother said to me,
you get on the honor roll all five marking periods
and I'll get your color TV for your room. So
what did I do?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You did it?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I did it, And I was proud of that fact
that my intelligence, not my nagging, not my begging and
pleading and down on my knees, got me a color TV.
Tell you what, Let's take a break now, and when
we come back, all baseball talk. Deal.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yes, the deal. And I have at least three trivia
questions to get us rolling.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Time at nightside ten fifteen and I heard the temperature
in the weather forecast is seventy four degrees.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You're on night side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Mister Richard Thrando is here. We all affectionately call him Dixie,
and I use him in two capacities as a guest.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I'm busy with me. I'm walking away Junior, filling up
for Dan Ray, who We'll be back to Night's side
on Monday. But that aside Dixie. Nancy has a question
that relates to our subject tonight. I guess the Minnesota
Twins are in the process of being sold or have
been sold. She wants to know, what have you heard
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about that.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I've heard very little that I can expound on. That
is a thing that's happening. They're looking to sell the team.
They're in sort of turmoil because of that, because always
when somebody's trying to buy the you don't know what's
going to happen to the players you're paying, if the
new owner is going to wish to pay other players
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more money, or wish he's gonna he's gonna decide to
not pay the players you now have. So I don't
really know about what is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And she's added to the question, well, they've been moving, No,
they won't so they'll still be basically in the Saint Paul,
Minnesota region.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
There is no way in hell they're going to move
out of that stage that ballpark because of the money, well,
because of a lot of things, because there would be
people killed.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Who are wearing twins uniforms, no ties.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, suits and ties more more often.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, all right, she says thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And I say hello to I say hello to her
and to the kiddie. The kiddy's on the table right now,
all right, excellent.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And Nancy's sitting beside me, and the kid is sitting
on the table across from me, and he is patting
his treato jar. He wants a few more treats.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
And tail wagging.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yes, there is. Nancy's giving him treats. And I'm going
to talk about the hottest team in baseball, the winners
of eight straight and nine out of the last ten,
the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
This is what you came in, yes, And what what
would you like to talk about?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
In well, good solid pitching over the past two weeks,
solid hitting. They have scored ten or higher runs out
of the past ten games five times.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yes, that all of that is true, however, and there's
there's always and however, yes, I told you this last year,
and I'm going to tell it.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
To you again in case I've forgotten.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Oh yeah, that's correct. What's coming up? What's coming up?
In about a week?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The iron of Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball is
split into the American League in the National League. In
each league, there are four separate divisions Southeast West, Oh, okay,
three separate divisions. Forgive me, I'm thinking football.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, don't think that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I won't think football. But they're playing the first place
teams of three of the six divisions.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Correct, that is correct, actually four in the next few
weeks because Houston is also involved.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So they're playing the Cubbies. I do believe.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
They're playing the Cubs, the Phillies, the Dodgers, and then
somebody and then the Astros.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Okay, so this seasons could be over. No no, no,
that's not the word. That's not the word I was
going to use. No no, no, no, no, no no.
This season could be emboldened because if they do well
against those four cities, who knows, they could overtake the
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American League East. Who knows?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Do you know who you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I know? Must you bring me back to earth in
such a violent way.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I must. I have to keep the Morgan showing an
even keel.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, but this is this is night Side.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
That's obviously I must keep the night Side on the
even keel. Absolutely all right, Dan Ray would be very
angry if I didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, you know how much he loves baseball.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Let's go to New Brunswick and speak to Darryl. He
might want to root for the Blue Jays to stay
where they are. Good evening, Daryl, Welcome to night Side.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Hey Morgan, Morgan, Dixie and the giggler in the background,
and uhcy the open Nancy, I apologize. Nope, blue Jays
are good with her. Don't go in whatever they do.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
But going back to Minnesota, if you have a well
known UH product manufacturer just outside the city, uh, and
that owner is quite wealthy, why would that owner not
look to purchase the team?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Dixie?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I have I have no idea. I've been following baseball
for seventy years. God only knows what owners think and
and that and that goes for owner, that goes for
owners before they buy the team, and owners after they
buy the team.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Now, well, the the most benefit being is people know,
even like Mark Cuban with basketball, then teams who up
in value.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
True what they do, wasn't it the Lakers? It just
went up for some crazy figure of two or three
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No, it's like seven or eight billion at least.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh my goodness, and you could not imagine those numbers
even fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
The Twins will not be selling for that amount, but they,
but any baseball team will sell, will sell for four
or five six billion. It's easy, it's automatic, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
So let's put a price tag on the Red Sox
right now. What would you think they're asking? Price would be, we're.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Ten or twelve easy b for billion?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, Daryl doesn't think so. No, I know.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
That's the way things are going. And that's the kicker
is again going back to the Minnesota problem. There's a
really popular brand product that cannot recall right outside of Minneapolis,
and they can manufacture all the products. So therefore they
would have all the marketing contained and make more money
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there to benefit the American people.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
As well, which is not quite the same as the
Red Sox, which have a license to print money.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And the Red Sox have diversified themselves. They own a
soccer team, they own a racing team. Obviously they've got
baseball sewn up and cornered here. I remember that the
old days, in the fifties, the Red Sox did everything
they could to get the Braves out of town. And
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once they achieved that, they've done every thing they could
not to let another National League team come into the city.
Am I right, Dixie?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well that was that was never going to happen once
the Braves left, because the population just isn't big enough.
So that was that was never a real worry. I
want to know from the caller if he's a Twins fan.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I am a baseball fan, hockey fan, a football fan,
you name it. I can't stand cricket.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well that's one. That's one thing in your favor, so.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
But no, hey, it's all about making things happen and
keeping dream alive.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Right, Yes, that's true, So all right, I would I
would not. I would not worry about the Twins moving anywhere.
But depending on who actually gets the team, whether they
want to spend money or just not spend money, is
going to be entirely up to them, all.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Right, Daryl, anything else, thank you? Anything else? All right,
we'll keep rocking to Darryl, thank you for the call.
Enjoy your weekend up in New Brunswick. And Tommy, we're
not going to go to you yet. We're going to
do a couple of commercials and the news hit, but
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you will be next. Anybody want to do what Daryl
and Tommy you've done. Call Dixie and talk baseball. You
can talk baseball Red Sox, you can talk baseball Minnesota Twins.
You can talk baseball for a specific caller who I
know listens, Matt.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
He might not be he might not be calling tonight
because the school will get beat.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay, but there's still in the command of first place,
are they not?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh yeah, absolutely, This means nothing to them at all,
So we will. We will have trivia after the news break.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, thank you, Ken, sir. So let me give the
phone numbers and then throw it to Rob six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
This is night Side. Dan is off tonight. He'll be
back on Monday, I promise you. And on that note,
let me say time in temperature ten twenty nine seventy
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four degrees.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You know, but now Dan is off. He will be
back Monday in front of this microphone, I promise you, well,
not the microphone I'm using, but a nightside microphone eight
pm on Monday, I promise. And uh, Dixie is here.
We are throwing sticks and stones at the Red Sox
even though they've won eight in a row.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And do you think there'll be an n win in
a row?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well, it would be interesting to see them win into
the All Star Game, just giving them more ammunition to
be joyous about starting off the next part of the
season against the best teams in baseball. It would be interesting,
all right.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And I will say this, If they win this next game,
that means this will be a third or fourth series.
And a series means whether it's a three game series
or a four game series, if you win the majority
of games. Two out of three is the majority. They've
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swept their last two opponents, and they're halfway to sweeping
Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yes, and they've also gone ahead of Tampa Bay into
third place.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Wow. Can the next two places ahead of them be
far behind?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Well? I guess we'll see about that, won't we.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
You are, curmudgeon.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I am telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
All right now, truth telling curmudgeon.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I also I want to say that I enjoyed hearing
Bradley Jay this week.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Well good, he was on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yes, it was very nice to hear his voice.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And Dan takes more vacation time between now and the
end of the year. I'm sure Bradley and maybe me
we'll be in the mix to get some of that time.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I'm sure you will be well mahah.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
We shall see. Let's go, we're going to.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
All right, but then then trivia.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Okay, let's take Carl and Cuddy Hunk on line one.
Good evening, Carl, how are you? I'm fine? How are you?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I am fine. I'm calling from the smallest town in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Okay, how many how many people live in Cuddy Hunk.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Well, in the summer, there are a couple of hundred.
In the winter time there's maybe four or five.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Okay, that's a great variance.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And they're all huddled together.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
We're all looking for a major league franchise out here.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Okay, we'll see if Dixie can get you one.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
What I want to know is, how come no one's
complaining about the fact that we're going on to twenty
six years without a All Star Game in Boston.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, you know, there are over thirty teams, and A
you get one in an order. I don't know who
sets the order, and B. The only way to cut
the line is to be a new team or have
a new ballpark built. So in two years, in two years,
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I'm guessing Oakland will get an All Star Game within
three or four years, because I know Major League Baseball
can't wait to get Vegas money in their pocket.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Well, considering how poorly the Athletics are drawing out in Facramento,
they're going to do all they can to move it up.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
They will do well in Vegas because the key about Vegas. Yeah,
you'll get fans that live in Vegas. There there are
a million plus people that live in the environs of
Las Vegas, but everybody that goes there to visit. And
they have proven this with the Golden Knights, their hockey franchise,
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Half that rink is filled with people that are from
the hometown of the visiting team. Don't you know that
when the Bruins play the Golden Knights, a chunk of
the population that's visiting Vegas are from Boston that check
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out that game.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, that's true with every Red Box team, no matter
where they go.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That's true with everything. That's true with every team of
of major league sports. When they had the basket, Uh,
when they had the Basketball All Star Game, it was
crammed with people that were from the various cities and
Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Well, I know basketball. The Basketball All Star Game is
the biggest joke in sports.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I thought it was. I thought it was a football one.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They want offense because offense makes TV networks happy.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's that's not offense.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It's stupid, curmudgeon. Curmudgeon, So Carl, why else did you call?
Was that? It to just say we won an All
Star Game at Simway Park.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I think that would be very good. I mean, I
know that they spent these several years in advance, not
like they're going to get one for four or five
years anyway, the way it's trined up. But I mean
the last time they did it, Ted Williams was there
for God's thanks.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And so was I.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Ye, Dixie had great seats third baseline, eight ten rolls
behind the third base stugout, but he gave him up.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Well, somebody else picked one up for him, I think
along the way here, But anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It was.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I just think it's time that people should be thinking
about that. They have a lot of other things that
go along besides the game. They have all sorts of
things good for the city. And yeah, it's about somebody
start remembering that. It's been twenty six years since since
there's been one, so should be coming them up pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I've got two guests tomorrow or Marshall the Morgans. I've
got Susan Brigman, who wrote another book based on our
area of New England, and we're going to talk about candy,
the New England infection company Necko and the people used
to make the Wallycobar down in Brockton. But my other
guest will be Phil Castaneti, who has Sports World Memorabilia
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store up on Route one, and he's at the All
Star Game in Atlanta. He'll be on tomorrow, depending on
the end of an exhibition game tomorrow in Atlanta for
the All Star Game.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Well when you do that, ask Phil Castanetti how much
a ticket from the nineteen ninety nine All Star Game
would be worth these days?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I will lead off with that question, I promise. Okay,
all right, Carl, bye bye. Now what are your questions? Sir?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
All right, on to trivia we are This is actually
the dan Ray convenience store lineup tonight because we're at
seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
They had a special today.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I'm sure they did for slurpees.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You got a free slurp if you walked in there today.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm not much of a slurpee fan. Okay, all right,
it's seven eleven. We are celebrating an anniversary today, a
very important one in baseball history. What is the anniversary
we are celebrating?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I know, teacher, teacher, I know.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
No, you can't know. You cannot know. Oh I do know,
Oh I know you know.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Secondly, it was kind of a news story on BC today.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yes, yes, there was. All right. Second question, the nineteen
we're talking about All Star games, which is a good
segue the nineteen fifty five to ozho in the nineteen
sixty seven, which we all know about all Star games.
Those two All Star games have something in common. What
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is it that they have in common? And the third
question is who is the most I will use the
word important, but who is the best player? Baseball player
ever born on seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Hmmm, you used to put out the Playball Baseball calendar.
I did so, I'm sure that fact was within that calendar.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Well his name was there, yes.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Right, And his name was there on his.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Birthday, yes, and it was it was actually the top name. Okay,
but what since then? It's been twenty years since I
wrote that last calendar, and a lot of other people
have been born and played Major League baseball, but he
still remains the biggest star born on seven to eleven.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Okay, I don't know, but those are enough clues to
at least make a decent.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Guess, yes, or to look it up if you know
how to know how to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
And the gentleman I have on now, if you haven't
been paying attention, if you've never heard him in the past,
believe me, I have had him on. Jordan has had
him on. Have you ever been on with Dan Ray? Dixie?
Who you? Have you ever been on with Dan Ray?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yes? Yes, I have.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
So three busy radio personalities have had this man on
talking baseball, so he should be known to you. His
real name is Richard Turando, but people just call him Dixie.
It's like calling Tom Brewster, Sugarfoot. How's that for a reference?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Hi, I guess that's good.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I guess it works for me. So six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty eight, eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty give
us a call here on night Side and chill the
fan about baseball time in temperature ten forty five seventy four.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Degrees, It's night Side with Dan ray On, Bill you
Bzy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Welcome back, everybody. This is Nightside without Dan ray tonight.
Dan is on vacation. He will be back on Monday.
I am here right now. And the gentleman clearing his
throat is Dixie. Hello, Dixie, throw out your three baseball
questions again?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Okay. First of all, I want to say hello to
Susan and Brookline, a regular listener when I'm on. And
as for the three questions, we are celebrating a big
anniversary today of something connected to base ball for a
very long time. What is the anniversary we are celebrating?
The second question is the nineteen fifty five oh and
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nineteen sixty seven six seven All Star Games have something
very interesting and crucial in common. What is it that
they have in common? And thirdly, who is the most
famous or best or whatever player born today seven to
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eleven in the history of baseball.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
If you know any of those, you want to give
the phone number? You've heard them often enough, Dixie. Yes,
do you want to give the phone numbers? Or do
you want me to do it?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
You better do it because I'm looking at a lot
of numbers here. I'll screw it up.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty two five four, five, six, seven,
eight seven eight.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, that's right, Larry, click, That's what I would have said,
eight eight.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. Those are your phone
numbers right now. The lines are wide open, so no
one is ahead of you. If you get in first.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Everybody out celebrating the Red Sox eighth victory.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Probably there's a parade down Boilson Street as we speak.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Duck boats.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
So let me get this straight. They've beaten Tampa Bay
two in a row by one run each game, four
to three and five to four.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And I'm assuming Firmway Park was the home run an
eighth inning home run or a.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Ninth inning today?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Ninth? Wow, they were. They were down four to three,
that's right, they were down four to three.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
But they pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory. However,
that phrasing goes he did.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
As a matter of fact, I walked from the living
room over to where the computer and the phone is
in the computer room, and in that time was when
he hit the home run. Because I saw I saw
Mark Anthony uh walk and I knew Roman Anthony on
first base. And then by the time I got to
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the computer to put it on to see what to
see what the next guy was going to do, he
had done it already, hit the home run.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well, let's bring in another caller to our conversation, Henri Holbeth.
We've got Jay. Good evening, Jay, welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Thank you, nice.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
To be here, and your reason for calling.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
So the third question, today's date? Yes, Babe Ruth, Babe
Ruth's birthday.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Yeah, No, not birthday, you right, that's February fifth.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You're right for the wrong question. That's all I'm going
to say. Oh the first question, well, yeah, but you
gotta explain why Babe Ruth is the answer.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Oh, I see what you mean. Wait, so it's not
Faber's birthday.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
It is not. He just told you. That's the fifth
of February.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
All right, so now I'm confused, Jax.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
He put him out of his misery. Tell him why
Babe Ruth is right for the wrong question.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Okay, Babe Ruth pitched his first game for the Red
Sox on this date in nineteen fourteen. All right, it
was his it was his debut game. And he left
the game in the seventh inning and the score was tied,
and the Red Sox scored a run and he got
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the win, although he didn't pitch the last two winnings.
As a matter of fact, the first to the first
three eyes he faced where Jack Greeney who singled, a
guy named Turner who grounded out, and Shoeleish Joe Jackson
who singled. And when Graney tried to score from second base,
he was thrown out at the plate. So those were
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the first three guys at Babe Ruth ever faced as
a Red Sox pitcher.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
All right, and that calls gone. But let's go to
Belle Rick and speak to Rick Rick and Belle Ricker,
good evening.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Good evening, Morgan and Dixe And yeah, my knowledge of
these questions are minimal, but I'm going to give it
a shot. Because you know it's what you should do.
I do love the history of baseball, though with a
minimal amount, especially the Red Sox.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
So why don't we?
Speaker 7 (35:44):
So the babe ruth one was answered, how about if
I take a guess for the night?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Right ahead?
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Yeah, well it's chest it's a really wild guess.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Nineteen fifty and nineteen sixty seven. Tell us the carmon denominator.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
I am gonna say Willie Mays was both in those games.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You know, I don't think he was in nineteen fifty.
But that's that's not the answer.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
Well, I figured out trying.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
What's the last question?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Who was the best baseball player born on seven to eleven? Oh,
that's my phone.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
I've got to answer this one quick. Is when my
phone died? My phone is giving me a hot time.
It's it's it's a landline remote.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Just car Just say carton fift, Hold on.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
A sec here, hold on a second. I would say, yes.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
No, yeah, is the best baseball player ever? No? All right, okay,
go your phone. No, No, it's it's my phone dying anyway.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
All right, guys, guys, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Youtubee, thank you for the call event and it's best
baseball player ever born on this date, Yes, July eleventh,
not the best baseball player ever. It's an argument that's
still up in the air on this date.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And I know this to be true because I've seen
the list of players born on this date, and he
out he has out homed the second place person by
more than two hundred home runs.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
That would be a distance, yes, that would be a
major distance.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
So there is no doubt in my mind that this
guy is the best player who ever played ball born
on this date.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Now, this is a question that's more personal for you
and I I know that for years, not only did
you play softball, but you kept your own stats over
the years. Correct, I did that. How long has it
been since you stepped on the softball field?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Let's see, it was probably when I was sixty five
or sixty six, and now I'm seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
When did you become seventy eight?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Three or four days ago?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh? Really? No?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Ak a week ago.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Happy belated birthday, Thank you, because my friend still think
a contributor to me on the radio. He's July first,
when I used to work at Alex's one of our dances,
and I'm still friends with her and her family was
born July seventh, and what's your date?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Third?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Good grief, busy week, the first week of July it is, but.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
For me it's June. I know at least fifteen people
born in June.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Well, I know a number of people born in September.
John Ritter always wanted to interview him, and now it's
too late. Can't get him now. Nope, all right, Well,
I've got news to do. If anybody wants to call
during the news and try to answer that July eleventh
question six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty or
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eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty. This is
night Side without Dan Ray. I'm Morgan filling in my
guest now and for the next hour is Dixie. And
we're talking baseball. So if you want to call in
any one of the thirty our teams that you want
to bring up in your conversation, Dixie will have an
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awareness of their current standings and their history and whatever.
He calls the Yankees the frauds as a nickname, and
he has other unpleasant nicknames for other teams. Keep that
in mind. Time and temperature ten fifty eight seventy four
degrees
He's night Side with Dan Ray on WBSY, Boston's new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Bel Thank you. Hel always gives me a great reintroduction.
I've been here for two hours, so let's do two
more hours of nightside with my buddy Dixie. Nobody knows
more about baseball that I know than this gentleman. He's
part of the Saber organization. He has done so many
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things to keep baseball front and center in front of
so many people, not just in Boston, but well beyond Boston.
He's been to every Major League baseball park at one
time or another. Is that accurate, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
No, it is not.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Which ones have you missed?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Well, I am missing Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
They won't allow you to go there.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
No, I didn't allow myself to go there. About two
weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You were on schedule to go to Texas, so you
said that was one of the things you were going
to do. Yes, I know, and that's why then I
said what I just said.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
And then it didn't happen because the Saber National Convention
was there. I had planned on going there, but it
didn't happen in the end.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So, out of thirty odd cities that have a baseball
park right now, some cities have more than one.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Oh, yes, you have been to all but one. Oh well, well,
if you count the fact that Tampa Bay now plays
in a minor league park, and you count the fact
that Oakland now plays in a minor league park in Sacramento.
I haven't been in those either, but those are tough
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to count.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
And I think in twenty twenty seven Oakland will be
renamed the Las Vegas Athletics.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, we'll see if that actually happens.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Why do you think it might not?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I always think it might.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Not because you're a curmudge.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Now. You're here wearing your baseball hat tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But the last time I had you on, when you
were wearing your National Park Ranger hat, you said something
that was more of a prediction at that moment. But
your prediction has come to fruition. Yes, what you predicted.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It's coming to more fruition every day. I said that
because of the administration in Washington at this moment, the
national parks would suffer, they would suffer greatly, and the
people going to National parks would suffer also.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And what has made that closer to the truth or
the truth?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Well, when you cut the budget of everything, and you
cut the budget especially for people to work, then you
don't have people working, and when people come to visit
your park, there's no one there to entertain them, or
very few people there to entertain.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Them and tell them the facts and the history and
the interesting points of Yellowstone or Zion on the Grand Tethons,
et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, the last time they made account, which was last
year twenty twenty four, over three hundred and thirty million
with an M people visited the National parks, and I
don't know if that's going to happen again this year.
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In a way, I hope it doesn't, because they're only
going to be about three quarters to two thirds of
the people at the parks working, which means when you
get there as a visitor, you're going to be missing
ranger talks and ranger programs and a lot of other
things at various parks, depending on which parts you go to.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
So I do not want to talk this into a
National Park's night now with you, and I'm going to
ask that to you, to ask topic, ask the people
who care about the National Parks that are listening right now,
tell them what they should do to kind of block
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the administration from doing what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, you can certainly call your congressmen wherever you're from
and let them know. The congressmen usually like their national
parks because it draws people to their areas. And for
every dollar is spent on national park, you get back
fifteen to twenty dollars, depending on your park and where
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you are in the country. That's always been true. So
when you decide to take away money from the parks,
you're only killing yourself. But you can call the net.
You can call your congressman, or you can call the
National Park Foundation. There are several other national park groups
that back up the National Park Service in terms of
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making sure things are going right.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You would think that people that occupy sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue.
You notice how I didn't say any particular names. Uh,
you would think they would know this.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
How many times have you started off a sentence about
the same subject with You would think.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Oh, dear, that that proves the point right there, doesn't it?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yes, it does?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
All right? Are you watching the baseball game? It's family
park right now?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Well, well, I was not having a very good baseball
night until about ten minutes ago. What happened, Well, someone
on the Red Sox at a home run and they
won the game.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
The Red Sox have won eight in a row.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I guess you'll have to start looking for World Series tickets.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I guess what was the final score?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Five to four? Saddan hit a home run with a
guy on baby with me? Aren't Anthony on base? And
they won? Five to four?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And what do you think about Room and Anthony?
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Honestly, I think he's I think he will emerge into
a pretty good player, maybe even better than that. Right now,
he's not he's not polished yet. But you know, he
just started. Give him a chance exactly.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
He's only been playing baseball for a month. One month.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, so give him a chance baseball at this level,
at this level. All right, I'm going to go off
topic here for about one minute.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
And that topic is that topic, Well.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
It's it's not really a topic. It's a question I
have for you because there's something I heard you say
the other night while you were doing another program or
last week.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I think, Okay, what did I say?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
You said that as a as a kid, you had
a television in your room.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I did second grade on.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And so did I.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
So we were both spoiled.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
That's right. Second grade, a white kid from the Styx
in central Massachusetts and a black kid from the city.
And we both had televisions in our room.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yes I did, and I think I told this story.
I'll tell it again going into the eighth grade. And
this was around a year or two that TV. He
was evolving from all programs in black and white to
more and more programs being produced in color. So when
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I was in the eighth grade, this is what nineteen
sixty six sixty seven school year, my grandmother said to me,
you get on the honor roll all five marking periods
and I'll get your color TV for your room. So
what did I do?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You did it?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
I did it, And I was proud of that fact
that my intelligence, not my nagging, not my begging and
pleading and down on my knees, got me a color TV.
Tell you what, Let's take a break now, and when
we come back, all baseball talk. Deal.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yes, the deal. And I have at least three trivia
questions to get us rolling.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Time at nightside ten fifteen and I heard the temperature
in the weather forecast is seventy four degrees.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You're on night side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Mister Richard Thrando is here. We all affectionately call him Dixie,
and I use him in two capacities as a guest.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Here.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
I'm busy with me. I'm walking away Junior, filling up
for Dan Ray, who We'll be back to Night's side
on Monday. But that aside Dixie. Nancy has a question
that relates to our subject tonight. I guess the Minnesota
Twins are in the process of being sold or have
been sold. She wants to know, what have you heard
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about that.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I've heard very little that I can expound on. That
is a thing that's happening. They're looking to sell the team.
They're in sort of turmoil because of that, because always
when somebody's trying to buy the you don't know what's
going to happen to the players you're paying, if the
new owner is going to wish to pay other players
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more money, or wish he's gonna he's gonna decide to
not pay the players you now have. So I don't
really know about what is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And she's added to the question, well, they've been moving, No,
they won't so they'll still be basically in the Saint Paul,
Minnesota region.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
There is no way in hell they're going to move
out of that stage that ballpark because of the money, well,
because of a lot of things, because there would be
people killed.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Who are wearing twins uniforms, no ties.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, suits and ties more more often.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yes, all right, she says thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
And I say hello to I say hello to her
and to the kiddie. The kiddy's on the table right now,
all right, excellent.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
And Nancy's sitting beside me, and the kid is sitting
on the table across from me, and he is patting
his treato jar. He wants a few more treats.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
And tail wagging.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yes, there is. Nancy's giving him treats. And I'm going
to talk about the hottest team in baseball, the winners
of eight straight and nine out of the last ten,
the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
This is what you came in, yes, And what what
would you like to talk about?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
In well, good solid pitching over the past two weeks,
solid hitting. They have scored ten or higher runs out
of the past ten games five times.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yes, that all of that is true, however, and there's
there's always and however, yes, I told you this last year,
and I'm going to tell it.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
To you again in case I've forgotten.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Oh yeah, that's correct. What's coming up? What's coming up?
In about a week?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The iron of Major League Baseball. Major League Baseball is
split into the American League in the National League. In
each league, there are four separate divisions Southeast West, Oh, okay,
three separate divisions. Forgive me, I'm thinking football.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, don't think that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
I won't think football. But they're playing the first place
teams of three of the six divisions.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Correct, that is correct, actually four in the next few
weeks because Houston is also involved.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
So they're playing the Cubbies. I do believe.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
They're playing the Cubs, the Phillies, the Dodgers, and then
somebody and then the Astros.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Okay, so this seasons could be over. No no, no,
that's not the word. That's not the word I was
going to use. No no, no, no, no, no no.
This season could be emboldened because if they do well
against those four cities, who knows, they could overtake the
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American League East. Who knows?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Do you know who you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I know? Must you bring me back to earth in
such a violent way.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I must. I have to keep the Morgan showing an
even keel.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
No, but this is this is night Side.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
That's obviously I must keep the night Side on the
even keel. Absolutely all right, Dan Ray would be very
angry if I didn't.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Well, you know how much he loves baseball.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Let's go to New Brunswick and speak to Darryl. He
might want to root for the Blue Jays to stay
where they are. Good evening, Daryl, Welcome to night Side.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Hey Morgan, Morgan, Dixie and the giggler in the background,
and uhcy the open Nancy, I apologize. Nope, blue Jays
are good with her. Don't go in whatever they do.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
But going back to Minnesota, if you have a well
known UH product manufacturer just outside the city, uh, and
that owner is quite wealthy, why would that owner not
look to purchase the team?
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Dixie?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I have I have no idea. I've been following baseball
for seventy years. God only knows what owners think and
and that and that goes for owner, that goes for
owners before they buy the team, and owners after they
buy the team.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Now, well, the the most benefit being is people know,
even like Mark Cuban with basketball, then teams who up
in value.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
True what they do, wasn't it the Lakers? It just
went up for some crazy figure of two or three
billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No, it's like seven or eight billion at least.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh my goodness, and you could not imagine those numbers
even fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
The Twins will not be selling for that amount, but they,
but any baseball team will sell, will sell for four
or five six billion. It's easy, it's automatic, all right.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
So let's put a price tag on the Red Sox
right now. What would you think they're asking? Price would be, we're.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Ten or twelve easy b for billion?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yeah, Daryl doesn't think so. No, I know.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
That's the way things are going. And that's the kicker
is again going back to the Minnesota problem. There's a
really popular brand product that cannot recall right outside of Minneapolis,
and they can manufacture all the products. So therefore they
would have all the marketing contained and make more money
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there to benefit the American people.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
As well, which is not quite the same as the
Red Sox, which have a license to print money.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And the Red Sox have diversified themselves. They own a
soccer team, they own a racing team. Obviously they've got
baseball sewn up and cornered here. I remember that the
old days, in the fifties, the Red Sox did everything
they could to get the Braves out of town. And
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once they achieved that, they've done every thing they could
not to let another National League team come into the city.
Am I right, Dixie?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well that was that was never going to happen once
the Braves left, because the population just isn't big enough.
So that was that was never a real worry. I
want to know from the caller if he's a Twins fan.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I am a baseball fan, hockey fan, a football fan,
you name it. I can't stand cricket.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Well that's one. That's one thing in your favor, so.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
But no, hey, it's all about making things happen and
keeping dream alive.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Right, Yes, that's true, So all right, I would I
would not. I would not worry about the Twins moving anywhere.
But depending on who actually gets the team, whether they
want to spend money or just not spend money, is
going to be entirely up to them, all.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Right, Daryl, anything else, thank you? Anything else? All right,
we'll keep rocking to Darryl, thank you for the call.
Enjoy your weekend up in New Brunswick. And Tommy, we're
not going to go to you yet. We're going to
do a couple of commercials and the news hit, but
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you will be next. Anybody want to do what Daryl
and Tommy you've done. Call Dixie and talk baseball. You
can talk baseball Red Sox, you can talk baseball Minnesota Twins.
You can talk baseball for a specific caller who I
know listens, Matt.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
He might not be he might not be calling tonight
because the school will get beat.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Okay, but there's still in the command of first place,
are they not?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Oh yeah, absolutely, This means nothing to them at all,
So we will. We will have trivia after the news break.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, thank you, Ken, sir. So let me give the
phone numbers and then throw it to Rob six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
This is night Side. Dan is off tonight. He'll be
back on Monday, I promise you. And on that note,
let me say time in temperature ten twenty nine seventy
(19:24):
four degrees.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You know, but now Dan is off. He will be
back Monday in front of this microphone, I promise you, well,
not the microphone I'm using, but a nightside microphone eight
pm on Monday, I promise. And uh, Dixie is here.
We are throwing sticks and stones at the Red Sox
even though they've won eight in a row.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And do you think there'll be an n win in
a row?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Well, it would be interesting to see them win into
the All Star Game, just giving them more ammunition to
be joyous about starting off the next part of the
season against the best teams in baseball. It would be interesting,
all right.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
And I will say this, If they win this next game,
that means this will be a third or fourth series.
And a series means whether it's a three game series
or a four game series, if you win the majority
of games. Two out of three is the majority. They've
(20:43):
swept their last two opponents, and they're halfway to sweeping
Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yes, and they've also gone ahead of Tampa Bay into
third place.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Wow. Can the next two places ahead of them be
far behind?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Well? I guess we'll see about that, won't we.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
You are, curmudgeon.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
I am telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
All right now, truth telling curmudgeon.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I also I want to say that I enjoyed hearing
Bradley Jay this week.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Well good, he was on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yes, it was very nice to hear his voice.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And Dan takes more vacation time between now and the
end of the year. I'm sure Bradley and maybe me
we'll be in the mix to get some of that time.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I'm sure you will be well mahah.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
We shall see. Let's go, we're going to.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
All right, but then then trivia.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Okay, let's take Carl and Cuddy Hunk on line one.
Good evening, Carl, how are you? I'm fine? How are you?
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I am fine. I'm calling from the smallest town in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Okay, how many how many people live in Cuddy Hunk.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Well, in the summer, there are a couple of hundred.
In the winter time there's maybe four or five.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Okay, that's a great variance.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
And they're all huddled together.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
We're all looking for a major league franchise out here.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Okay, we'll see if Dixie can get you one.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
What I want to know is, how come no one's
complaining about the fact that we're going on to twenty
six years without a All Star Game in Boston.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Well, you know, there are over thirty teams, and A
you get one in an order. I don't know who
sets the order, and B. The only way to cut
the line is to be a new team or have
a new ballpark built. So in two years, in two years,
(22:49):
I'm guessing Oakland will get an All Star Game within
three or four years, because I know Major League Baseball
can't wait to get Vegas money in their pocket.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Well, considering how poorly the Athletics are drawing out in Facramento,
they're going to do all they can to move it up.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
They will do well in Vegas because the key about Vegas. Yeah,
you'll get fans that live in Vegas. There there are
a million plus people that live in the environs of
Las Vegas, but everybody that goes there to visit. And
they have proven this with the Golden Knights, their hockey franchise,
(23:30):
Half that rink is filled with people that are from
the hometown of the visiting team. Don't you know that
when the Bruins play the Golden Knights, a chunk of
the population that's visiting Vegas are from Boston that check
(23:51):
out that game.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Well, that's true with every Red Box team, no matter
where they go.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That's true with everything. That's true with every team of
of major league sports. When they had the basket, Uh,
when they had the Basketball All Star Game, it was
crammed with people that were from the various cities and
Las Vegas.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Well, I know basketball. The Basketball All Star Game is
the biggest joke in sports.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
I thought it was. I thought it was a football one.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
They want offense because offense makes TV networks happy.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
That's that's not offense.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
It's stupid, curmudgeon. Curmudgeon, So Carl, why else did you call?
Was that? It to just say we won an All
Star Game at Simway Park.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
I think that would be very good. I mean, I
know that they spent these several years in advance, not
like they're going to get one for four or five
years anyway, the way it's trined up. But I mean
the last time they did it, Ted Williams was there
for God's thanks.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And so was I.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Ye, Dixie had great seats third baseline, eight ten rolls
behind the third base stugout, but he gave him up.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Well, somebody else picked one up for him, I think
along the way here, But anyway.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It was.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
I just think it's time that people should be thinking
about that. They have a lot of other things that
go along besides the game. They have all sorts of
things good for the city. And yeah, it's about somebody
start remembering that. It's been twenty six years since since
there's been one, so should be coming them up pretty soon.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I've got two guests tomorrow or Marshall the Morgans. I've
got Susan Brigman, who wrote another book based on our
area of New England, and we're going to talk about candy,
the New England infection company Necko and the people used
to make the Wallycobar down in Brockton. But my other
guest will be Phil Castaneti, who has Sports World Memorabilia
(26:18):
store up on Route one, and he's at the All
Star Game in Atlanta. He'll be on tomorrow, depending on
the end of an exhibition game tomorrow in Atlanta for
the All Star Game.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Well when you do that, ask Phil Castanetti how much
a ticket from the nineteen ninety nine All Star Game
would be worth these days?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
I will lead off with that question, I promise. Okay,
all right, Carl, bye bye. Now what are your questions? Sir?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
All right, on to trivia we are This is actually
the dan Ray convenience store lineup tonight because we're at
seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
They had a special today.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
I'm sure they did for slurpees.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
You got a free slurp if you walked in there today.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I'm not much of a slurpee fan. Okay, all right,
it's seven eleven. We are celebrating an anniversary today, a
very important one in baseball history. What is the anniversary
we are celebrating?
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I know, teacher, teacher, I know.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
No, you can't know. You cannot know. Oh I do know,
Oh I know you know.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Secondly, it was kind of a news story on BC today.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Yes, yes, there was. All right. Second question, the nineteen
we're talking about All Star games, which is a good
segue the nineteen fifty five to ozho in the nineteen
sixty seven, which we all know about all Star games.
Those two All Star games have something in common. What
(28:05):
is it that they have in common? And the third
question is who is the most I will use the
word important, but who is the best player? Baseball player
ever born on seven eleven.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Hmmm, you used to put out the Playball Baseball calendar.
I did so, I'm sure that fact was within that calendar.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Well his name was there, yes.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Right, And his name was there on his.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Birthday, yes, and it was it was actually the top name. Okay,
but what since then? It's been twenty years since I
wrote that last calendar, and a lot of other people
have been born and played Major League baseball, but he
still remains the biggest star born on seven to eleven.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Okay, I don't know, but those are enough clues to
at least make a decent.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Guess, yes, or to look it up if you know
how to know how to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
And the gentleman I have on now, if you haven't
been paying attention, if you've never heard him in the past,
believe me, I have had him on. Jordan has had
him on. Have you ever been on with Dan Ray? Dixie?
Who you? Have you ever been on with Dan Ray?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yes? Yes, I have.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
So three busy radio personalities have had this man on
talking baseball, so he should be known to you. His
real name is Richard Turando, but people just call him Dixie.
It's like calling Tom Brewster, Sugarfoot. How's that for a reference?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Hi, I guess that's good.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I guess it works for me. So six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty eight, eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty give
us a call here on night Side and chill the
fan about baseball time in temperature ten forty five seventy four.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Degrees, It's night Side with Dan ray On, Bill you
Bzy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Welcome back, everybody. This is Nightside without Dan ray tonight.
Dan is on vacation. He will be back on Monday.
I am here right now. And the gentleman clearing his
throat is Dixie. Hello, Dixie, throw out your three baseball
questions again?
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Okay. First of all, I want to say hello to
Susan and Brookline, a regular listener when I'm on. And
as for the three questions, we are celebrating a big
anniversary today of something connected to base ball for a
very long time. What is the anniversary we are celebrating?
The second question is the nineteen fifty five oh and
(31:09):
nineteen sixty seven six seven All Star Games have something
very interesting and crucial in common. What is it that
they have in common? And thirdly, who is the most
famous or best or whatever player born today seven to
(31:29):
eleven in the history of baseball.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
If you know any of those, you want to give
the phone number? You've heard them often enough, Dixie. Yes,
do you want to give the phone numbers? Or do
you want me to do it?
Speaker 3 (31:46):
You better do it because I'm looking at a lot
of numbers here. I'll screw it up.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty two five four, five, six, seven,
eight seven eight.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, that's right, Larry, click, That's what I would have said,
eight eight.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. Those are your phone
numbers right now. The lines are wide open, so no
one is ahead of you. If you get in first.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Everybody out celebrating the Red Sox eighth victory.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Probably there's a parade down Boilson Street as we speak.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Duck boats.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
So let me get this straight. They've beaten Tampa Bay
two in a row by one run each game, four
to three and five to four.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And I'm assuming Firmway Park was the home run an
eighth inning home run or a.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Ninth inning today?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Ninth? Wow, they were. They were down four to three,
that's right, they were down four to three.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
But they pulled defeat out of the jaws of victory. However,
that phrasing goes he did.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
As a matter of fact, I walked from the living
room over to where the computer and the phone is
in the computer room, and in that time was when
he hit the home run. Because I saw I saw
Mark Anthony uh walk and I knew Roman Anthony on
first base. And then by the time I got to
(33:22):
the computer to put it on to see what to
see what the next guy was going to do, he
had done it already, hit the home run.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Well, let's bring in another caller to our conversation, Henri Holbeth.
We've got Jay. Good evening, Jay, welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Thank you, nice.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
To be here, and your reason for calling.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
So the third question, today's date? Yes, Babe Ruth, Babe
Ruth's birthday.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Yeah, No, not birthday, you right, that's February fifth.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You're right for the wrong question. That's all I'm going
to say. Oh the first question, well, yeah, but you
gotta explain why Babe Ruth is the answer.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Oh, I see what you mean. Wait, so it's not
Faber's birthday.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
It is not. He just told you. That's the fifth
of February.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
All right, so now I'm confused, Jax.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
He put him out of his misery. Tell him why
Babe Ruth is right for the wrong question.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Okay, Babe Ruth pitched his first game for the Red
Sox on this date in nineteen fourteen. All right, it
was his it was his debut game. And he left
the game in the seventh inning and the score was tied,
and the Red Sox scored a run and he got
(34:53):
the win, although he didn't pitch the last two winnings.
As a matter of fact, the first to the first
three eyes he faced where Jack Greeney who singled, a
guy named Turner who grounded out, and Shoeleish Joe Jackson
who singled. And when Graney tried to score from second base,
he was thrown out at the plate. So those were
(35:15):
the first three guys at Babe Ruth ever faced as
a Red Sox pitcher.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
All right, and that calls gone. But let's go to
Belle Rick and speak to Rick Rick and Belle Ricker,
good evening.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
Good evening, Morgan and Dixe And yeah, my knowledge of
these questions are minimal, but I'm going to give it
a shot. Because you know it's what you should do.
I do love the history of baseball, though with a
minimal amount, especially the Red Sox.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
So why don't we?
Speaker 7 (35:44):
So the babe ruth one was answered, how about if
I take a guess for the night?
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Right ahead?
Speaker 7 (35:51):
Yeah, well it's chest it's a really wild guess.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Nineteen fifty and nineteen sixty seven. Tell us the carmon denominator.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
I am gonna say Willie Mays was both in those games.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You know, I don't think he was in nineteen fifty.
But that's that's not the answer.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
Well, I figured out trying.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
What's the last question?
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Who was the best baseball player born on seven to eleven? Oh,
that's my phone.
Speaker 7 (36:25):
I've got to answer this one quick. Is when my
phone died? My phone is giving me a hot time.
It's it's it's a landline remote.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Just car Just say carton fift, Hold on.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
A sec here, hold on a second. I would say, yes.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
No, yeah, is the best baseball player ever? No? All right, okay,
go your phone. No, No, it's it's my phone dying anyway.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
All right, guys, guys, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Youtubee, thank you for the call event and it's best
baseball player ever born on this date, Yes, July eleventh,
not the best baseball player ever. It's an argument that's
still up in the air on this date.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
And I know this to be true because I've seen
the list of players born on this date, and he
out he has out homed the second place person by
more than two hundred home runs.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
That would be a distance, yes, that would be a
major distance.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
So there is no doubt in my mind that this
guy is the best player who ever played ball born
on this date.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Now, this is a question that's more personal for you
and I I know that for years, not only did
you play softball, but you kept your own stats over
the years. Correct, I did that. How long has it
been since you stepped on the softball field?
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Let's see, it was probably when I was sixty five
or sixty six, and now I'm seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
When did you become seventy eight?
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Three or four days ago?
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Oh? Really? No?
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Ak a week ago.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Happy belated birthday, Thank you, because my friend still think
a contributor to me on the radio. He's July first,
when I used to work at Alex's one of our dances,
and I'm still friends with her and her family was
born July seventh, and what's your date?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Third?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Good grief, busy week, the first week of July it is, but.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
For me it's June. I know at least fifteen people
born in June.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Well, I know a number of people born in September.
John Ritter always wanted to interview him, and now it's
too late. Can't get him now. Nope, all right, Well,
I've got news to do. If anybody wants to call
during the news and try to answer that July eleventh
question six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty or
(39:14):
eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty. This is
night Side without Dan Ray. I'm Morgan filling in my
guest now and for the next hour is Dixie. And
we're talking baseball. So if you want to call in
any one of the thirty our teams that you want
to bring up in your conversation, Dixie will have an
(39:35):
awareness of their current standings and their history and whatever.
He calls the Yankees the frauds as a nickname, and
he has other unpleasant nicknames for other teams. Keep that
in mind. Time and temperature ten fifty eight seventy four
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