July 14, 2026 • 45 mins
Steve Blass and the Mayor Sean Casey both call in to share their thoughts on the All Star Break so far and how the Pirates are looking for the second half of the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Indeed, human.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Make a sharp distinction between the rote work and the
creative work. Let AI write quick emails, don't let it
write your essays or your memos.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, I would just refrain from letting it do anything
outside of a search. Personally, my buddy got very angry
angry with me for criticizing him for using it for
his heat.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
For decoration ideas.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
He was like making a man cave, and he used
AI to give him all kinds of like interior design ideas.
And I came around on that one. I'm like, He's like,
I would have never thought to do this stuff, and
it looks awesome, and I'm like, okay, all right, all right,
I'm willing to admit that does not seem to erode
your brain because you did not have that in your brain.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
You need AI to tell you where to hang your
steeler pictures.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Yeah, Randy Bellman and the DV Morning show.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, Joe Barnica hanging out with this is some morning
show you sent me.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Forwarded this to me. Foods that starve parasites from.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Your gut, pumpkin seeds, pineapple, but by seeds, wormwood.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
I don't know what wormwood is. Good show. I think
Tyler Sheridan right that.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
A wormwood, lemon, ginger, cayenne pepper, raw carrots. It scrapes
parasites from your intestines. Rock carrots does raw honey and cloves.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
If you're looking to form a defense against the parasite
that is coming for all of us.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
You have to eat carrotsh You're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 7 (01:39):
But aren't we supposed to be afraid of carrots?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I think this is not leafy. It's not the same
wash your carrots. What That's what I just did.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
I can't do that at work.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, I don't want to pair anyways.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Um Seun Casey the Mayor will be joining us eight
to forty five this morning, Billy Gardella in the nine
o'clock hour. On the slowest week of the calendar year,
the All Star break week, nothing is going on. You
do have the World Cup games, at least there are
two the semifinals here.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
And what if he didn't have that?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I mean there's I mean the home run derby. There's
only so much analyzing you can do with that. There's
just nothing going on. Thankfully, Abby's here with all of
the pertinent News Right Now.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
News This hour brought to you by Wind Donation. Mostly sunny,
very hot today. If you're gonna be outside, use caution.
High of ninety seven today. Oh my god, I'm thinking
about all those people that are working on that commercial
street bridge. Oh yeah, we're gonna be outside, all right.
And a reporter interviewed MLB star Paul Skins and referred
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to him as a future Yankee. So this prompted a
confused response from Schemes. We're gonna play you the audio
here if you haven't had a chance to hear it yet.
But this was captured in now what's becoming a viral
clip during the All Star event.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
Future Yankee.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So the woman that was walking away just said, Hi,
I just got the most amazing interview with Paul Skeens. Yeah,
oh yeah, future Yankee, and that's what he was responding to.
She was kind of further in the background and harder
to hear, right, But that other person reiterated it.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
But he he made this confused face and he was like,
who's that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, Like, hey, that's not cool. Don't tell them shut up.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, we all know that's probably gonna happen, but like,
have a little kooth lady. It was probably like some
blogger or influencer who got.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
To be in the pass well, I mean, super unprofessional
also to celebrate the win, like literally right next to
him and just started being like.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I did that this amazing interview.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
It's like, oh you suh, I'm dating the Patriots head coach,
all right.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger revealed that he never met
Elvis Presley because John Lennon warned him against it. Lennon,
who famously met Presley alongside the rest of the Beatles
in nineteen sixty five, apparently came away very disappointed and
later convinced Jagger to preserve his own image of the
rock and roll icon.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I remember John telling me you should never meet your heroes,
and I would never meet Elvis, Mick if I were you,
and so I didn't. I took John's advice. It was
really stupid. I would have loved to meet Elvis. Maybe
my Elvis version would have been different.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I'm imagining Jack White is Elvis in Walkhard where he
meets John.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Sire look out man.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
He's I don't know, is that never meet your heroes
kind of thing?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean, I have definitely met people you know.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
To me, even just meeting Dana Gould at the Comedy
Fest was kind of I kind of felt like that.
But you famboyed a little bit, I gleefully did.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I told I didn't care. I just I've been such
a b I love him, you know what I mean.
I was just so I love him too.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, And I've definitely done it on air with a
few people where you fan out like that, but I've
never met anyone who I was like, oh, I wish
I didn't meet them. But I've heard that here at DV.
The famous story was John Mellencamp. He came in and
he was a total jerk to everybody, and everybody kind
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of hated. But he's notorious for being a curmudgeon, so
that didn't surprise me too much. I didn't take out
his paintings, No.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It wasn't. It was it was pre his art, pre
arch pace.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
But You've met so many people through the years, Joe,
big stars, and I'm wondering if any of them you
thought was.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Like, oh, we're gonna be good bye, and then that
just didn't happen. I never assumed that it'd be good
buddies with anybody or that they would be fun to meet.
You know, I'm not sure. It's just terrible radio. I've
never really met someone that was. I was like, oh,
you know, I wish I didn't meet I'll tell you
who was kind of a jerk to me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
He was Rich Eisen really.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And everyone claims how what a great guy is, but
he was kind of not cool. Yeah, only one that
kind of sticks out there, like I wish I didn't
meet that.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
What was the setting that you met him in?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And an sb's party. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
I take that back. It was a Comedy Central roast. Okay,
it was like yeah, it was a big theater and
there was like no one around, and I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Like, hey, rich Man, I love your stuff. He's like yeah, thanks. Sports.
It was just like rich like, I'm on only ten
people here. He knows who you are. Sports guys.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Wow, I'm sports guys and sportscasters and people like that
are different than entertainers. I feel like entertainers there's an
expectation of them being like the their persona, where sports
guys I always assume when you meet a like big
name athlete, it's gonna be they don't.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Want to talk to you or at all, which is why.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh it's the other way though, like when we're working
with the Pirates, like everyone's like, oh, don't talk to
Will Clark. Will Clark couldn't have been nicer. Jack Clark
couldn't have been nicer. Like people who have these big
reputations of being jerks always seem to.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Be pretty nice. What about the clerks?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Those guys are great, Yes, exactly, But you said sports that, like,
I don't know, maybe Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh, but you know,
before I worked with the Godfather, I mean, stand incredible
human being. Yeah, Mike Lang incredible?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What Maden?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
People you Madre Like, oh my god, you're so nice. Yeah,
he's a nice guy. Like I don't know, I don't know.
I'm not trying to be spirts rich, but it was
just kind of like what I guess athletes are the
ones I'm saying, like, never meet your hero if it's
an athele.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I mean that's the thing is.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You have to understand it if you are in that
or you are at that level, that you're going to
be asked questions people are going to want to know
about you. But a lot of them also don't have
the kind of media training and like how to like, yeah,
you can be really.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Talented and something.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's like, honestly, that reminds me of kind of like
the issue that people would say, like with with Kirk Cobain,
like getting famous like that, Like his core was that
he was just an artist, right, so everything in his presentation,
everything that he does is all about the artistry of things.
And then you keep throwing him into these situations where
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they're like that's for me now, and he can't do it,
and so he came off as just like really you know,
nonplussed about everything or mean or just you know and
all you know, and then let's add drugs on.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Top of that. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
My point being that you know, athletes who are you know,
virtuous in whatever they do, they don't actually always know
how to.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Also, there's a lot of fame.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
There's a lot of athletes that are great, like Seawan
Casey's coming on the show and a little bit. There's
there are a lot of athletes who are great with
everybody they meet, and there's great stories that they make time,
especially for kids, and they understand I'm not trying to
paint with a broadbrush. I'm just saying a lot of
times when it's the Derek Jeters and the people who
are like beyond famous, you know, they transcend the sport.
Those kind of people who are like famous, that's like
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typically those people are not easy to be around.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, like Pat Ewing didn't give me an autograph. My
dad was mad at him for the rest of yeah. Right,
so we saw him at the New York Airport and
I'm like, oh, Pat, he's your shot fan, and he's
just like, I don't do autographs.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
D When you reach a level of fame where you
have like goodie bags, like party favorite bags after one
night stands, that you are a toxic, messed up person. Yeah,
to be cool to run into at the mall.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, I mean there's there's plenty of There's been some
Steelers through the years.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Who haven't been all that easy to deal with in town.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You know, There's been a couple of hockey players who
have been arrascible.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You know, it happens.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'm trying to think, uh.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Like musicians who are like notably like stay away from them.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh, Morrissey Morsey, right. You know who is uh from
comedy is Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld is notoriously like I
don't want to talk to you. No, thanks, Like if
you're like Jerry big fan, can I get an autograph?
He'd be like no, no, And some people are like,
that's great. That's exactly what I expect from Jerry Seinfeld,
Like he would be annoyed by you, you know, and
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other people are like, oh, I kind of was just
hoping to have a nice little experience. What I do
like is how Paul McCartney is like, I don't take
the Sophie's you know, He's like, but I give you
an experience, like you get to have a few sentences
with him, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Like that should mean more. Pull out one of my
chest hairs.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
And put it in an omulus good.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I think it beatles one thing. You can do what
you want. But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I think you should always be I try to be.
I'll think two days later when something like, you know,
the other day someone was like, oh and I was nice,
but I wasn't like over over the top super nice,
and I felt bad about it, like oh, because I
was shopping.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You know. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I think you should I should be nice to everybody anyway,
let alone someone's a fan.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You should really be nice.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I'm sure you were nice, Joe. Don't beat yourself up.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
The Italian mascot. He worked at the liquor store and
he goes, oh a big fan. I go, can you
reiver the prices? And he laughed and then it was
kind of like I did, but I wasn't like, you know,
what's your name, and you don't have to hug everybody.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
You know, but what is that feeling? I get that too.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I do feel like if I meet somebody, and especially
if they like the show or something, I feel like
if I don't meet them where they are, that I
have failed and I will think about it all day.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The only person that okay, good constantly.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm just kind of like, oh my god, they're gonna
think I'm awful. And it's just because like I was
busy or I was having a bad day or whatever
is you know, like I, oh no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Not even remotely meet They just just didn't.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Meet that level of like, yeah, I disappointed you. I
have decided that I've disappointed in life.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
That's one thing, but especially after a show. I hate
when I was like everyone. I hate when someone walks
by and someone's cornering you too much. It's almost like
e when you're a wedding and you kick out of
the conversation, like I'm not trying to be mean to you,
but there's twenty people that just want to yeah when
they have their second you.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Know, you know, and you're at your limit too, and
you're just like, I, if I was actually just being me,
I'd let you have it a little bit right now.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Why I always say me on stage is a little
nice version of me in real life.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, Burr's really good with people with fans.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh yeah, well yeah, yeah. I mean, I'll never forget.
I'll never forget this one time we were in uh Canada,
way up north in Canada. It was like five thirty
in the morning, and me and him and Verse are
just having like this little breakfast and it's like almost
dark in the in the in the hotel base it
wasn't Base wentever. We're sitting there and it's just like
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one other couple there and we're just eating and this
woman goes, can I get a picture?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And Bill just very rarely does Bill ever go like
h He's like, I'm kind of eating right now. And
she goes.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I know, I mean very still talking about that, but
it was so mean. Was the term cringe. It was
like and she literally waited until like her boyfriend went
to the bathroom or something like, because see he was
probably don't do it.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Don't do it, dude, don't do it. The reverse of that.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Warren Haynes did our show one morning before a government
mule show and he's like, you're coming to the show,
and I'm like, man, I got to do this thing, uh,
this charity thing first.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm gonna come late.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But my my sister in law's dad is going to
be there. He's the biggest fan, and I'm going to
be there for the second set. And he's like, well,
he bring him backstage, Man, bring him back stage. We'll
say hi to him. And I was like, oh, he'd
go crazy if you know, you could make time. And
he was like, yeah, no problem. So after the show,
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I find their tour manager and he's like, oh, hey, man,
come on back. And we go back there and he
jumps on the bus and he comes off. He goes, Man,
he just started eating, and I was like, oh, they
never because once people are eating, it's like that's when
you should leave.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Them alone like ke a dog.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You know.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
There.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's just you can't pull them away from dinner, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It's like, ah, well just timed it, Okay, better luck
next time and thanks for everything. And he's like, well
hold on, man, and he goes out, and Warren literally
comes off the bus chewing like, hey man, you made
it and then made time for like that guy.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Total mention, just the best. That's so cool to hear.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Yeah, And Warren Haynes is like the hardest working man
in music.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He's in everything exactly. He solos on everything. I know.
He's the Forest Gump of rock and roll.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You know what, We have a special guest on the
line right now with the All Star Game happening tonight.
This is the star of the nineteen seventy two Major
League Baseball All Star Game from your Pittsburgh Pirates. Mister
Steve Blast says, yeah, that buddy, how are you.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
I'm doing good, doing good. It seems like that All
Star Game in seventy two yesterday. Yeah, it's been a while,
but what a great experience. I went went once, but
just to kind of set it up, we'd won the
World Series a year before, so Danny Murto is a man,
and he picked me to be on the pitching staff.
But if we had pretty good representation too, Willie Stargele,
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Roberto Clemeny Manny Sangi, and Al Oliver. I mean, you
can do some damage with that group. So you know,
we're flying down to Atlanta where the All Star Game was,
and Clemente gets up out of his seat and the
airplane comes down and said, Steve, would you and Karen
like to join Vera and I for dinner tonight? And
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I'm thinking you think I said, I said, we join
you for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a
glass of skin milk. My goodness, for dinner with the Clements's.
That's very very cool. So we get down there and
walking into that National League clubhouse in nineteen seventy two,
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somebody said there were thirteen future Hall of Famers in
that room, and he just looked around. There's Steve, there's Carlton,
there's Gibson, there's Johnny Bench, Johnny Bench.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Joe Morgan, Joe Torre's.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Cincinnati sent the whole damn team. Yeah, but anyway, you
mentioned Bench, I wind up. My locker is next to
Johnny Bench and uh, you know we didn't do all
that hugging and everything professional respect. Hey John, Hey, Steve,
how you doing? Yeah, he said, I understand that you're
pitching the third inning because I kind of structure it
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that way. He said, I'm going to be catching. What
kind of signals do you want to use? You know,
one's one fingers of fastball too, is a curve three?
There's a change, I said, John, whenever I face you, you
seem to know what's coming. So why don't we just wing?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What a pitching staff you were involved with there?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Don Sutton, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Ferguson Jenkins, Bob Gibson,
Steve Carlton, Steve Blast my lord, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
You could do all right well that staff. So I
get in in the third inn and I'm getting knocked around.
I give up one run. I still got the bases
loaded with one out, and I don't remember who it was,
but somebody hit a rocket to first base and Lee
May was playing, almost knocked him over. He catches it,
stepped on first base, ending over. I ran for the dugout.
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Those guys had some talent too.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, Hank Aaron was in the outfield for the National League.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Also, yeah, and winds up hitting a home run. I
think it might have been the game winner in his home,
you know, ballpark, in his home city. So it was
it was entirely fitting, but it was. It was quite
an experience just walking into that clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Willie Mays was on that team.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Yeah, yeah, my goodness. I think McCovey might have been
on that team too. And I remember him because forbes Field,
my rookie year, he hit a ball over the four
fifty seven signs at Forbes Field had disrupted it. I
think I forced him on the Shenley Park golf course.
And I have a friend, a friend because of the story.
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He told me that he believes, sincerely, he's convinced that
every Monday evening at ten o'clock in the Eastern sky
he can still see that ball McCovey hit going around here.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
But I mean, this was the culmination of the dream
for you. The year after going two complete games in
the World Series, including a complete Game seven to bring
a World Championship to Pittsburgh, and then following it up
with an All Star Game appearance the next year, and
this was a different time, and I know you said,
like Bob Gibson wasn't exactly friendly with you during All
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Star festivities because well, you still had a season to play.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Well.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Yeah, and also I don't know if it was before
or after, but that year he's pitching against us in
Saint Louis and first time up, Willie stars will take
some deep for a home run. I'm sitting on the bench,
and next time up he just drills Willie, you know,
because that's what he did. And so Danny Murtoz turns
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to me and said, you know you're next. You know
what you got to do. And I'm weighing barely six
foot one hundred and seventy pounds. Bob Gibson is like
six two twenty and ripped, and so I've got to
go out and hit him to let him let Willie
know he's got his back. So I went out there
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and I said, if he hits, if I hit him.
And he puts a bat down and comes to them,
I'm running like a little girl and I hit him
right in the ribs. I didn't throw it at his head.
It took me three pitches, but I got him, and
he put the bat down and went to first base.
We didn't have to get the umpires involved. He know,
I did it, you know, he and but you know,
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pitching against him and guys like sever and Fergie. What
a time it was in baseball. If you if you
did well in that environment, you really felt like you're
you were capable and qualified to compete it level because
there was some talent hanging around and there wasn't free agency. Yeah,
there wasn't free agency yet. But so oh no. And
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I won nineteen games and I buy a house in
the middle of the summer of seventy two in Upper
Saint Clair for forty nine grand. It was a hell
of a year.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Ye Well, tonight the All Star Game in Philadelphia, and
you know we won't see Skiings pitching, but he seems
to you know, he got those two wins the last
couple of weeks here Steve, which is great. Still seems
like there's he's not quite the Paul Skiings that we
were expecting this year.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Well, you know, he burst onto the scene and immediately
set standards, incredible standards right among the grand base myself included.
So I don't know if you can maintain that the
whole time. I think he's going to have one heck
of a major league career. You know, there are patches
where it's not dominating, and maybe the speed is done
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a little bit. But if I got a ball game
to win, I'm gonna run him out there. I'll tell
you that right now. And kind of interesting because I
don't know what the rotation is going to be like
after the break. But he pitched Sunday, he could you know,
his term might be Friday again and again. I never
mind having him out when they play the anthem. So
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we'll see what's going to happen in Cleveland Friday night.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
What about just if you could listen, we'll leave it
on this.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You know, the All Star Game and the way that
the players think about it now has obviously changed quite
a bit through the years. It doesn't have the same
aura that it used to. That the honor of the
distinction seems to have faded a little bit, and I
know that certainly wasn't the case when you were selected.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
Well, yeah, that's true. What so many if you got
a couple hours of days, so many games, so many
things about the game have changed right now. There was
a couple of things I like, but a lot of
things I'm not crazy about. But that's that's just a
carryover for when the purity of the game before free agency.
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I kind of phrase it that way at seventy five
or six when it was and I got out before
I didn't want that big money. I got out.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well this smarter.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, how's that going. I'm still working
at eighty four, so yeah, that's a whole different subject.
But yeah, there was a I remember even growing up.
It was the National leagu against American League, and when
I was a rookie and coming up, I said, nationally
this counts for something. This is this maybe a little
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different mistique, maybe because players move around so much, maybe
because of free agency. I don't know, but I kind
of agree to I guess a degree with you that
it doesn't seem quite as much. But you know the
world has changed to so uh, you just go along
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with the flow. But I will never forget the honor
of walking into that clubhouse with that team and being
a part of that group that represented the National League,
and it was it was intent we you know, we're
out there. It went. It wasn't just an appearance for
us back in the day. I don't know how it
is with these guys. I hope it's the name, but
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it was more than an appearance for us, and I'll
never I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Steve Blast, the one and only.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah Blast, We love you, Boddy, Thanks for checking in
with us this morning.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
All right, my pleasure always in time the visit guys.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
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world's attention will be on the world stage today for
World Cup Semi final number one between Spain and France.
James Coburn has had his suspicion confirmed regarding which team
he thinks has the potential to make a great escape
in advance.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I am your guide, senor the Great Escape Jesus who
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Speaker 9 (25:44):
The Kneads understandably are backing their adopted nation, even if
it's Wednesday afternoon and not Saturday night week up from friends.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Well, that explains everything.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
Yeah, the only thing it doesn't explain is who's going
to win the game three o'clock at Jerry World Frett
the New York Post. I don't know if the New
York Post knows more about soccer than I do or less,
but The New York Post has declared that this is
a final caliber matchup and that these are the two
best teams.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, that's mostly everyone was saying prior to the start
of the World Cup that these were the two best teams.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
Spain has won thirty six consecutive matches, one more in
the ties Italy's all time record of thirty seven. The
New York Post also said this is going to be
quote a game of chess played at one.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Well, I think that that's the part of soccer that
most Americans have trouble with, is the chess part, because.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
We don't understand. We can diagram as sweet, but we
don't know right. All we think these guys are doing
is kicking its sideways.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
But I mean, I've heard people who are pretty knowledgeable
about US man soccer saying that, you know, just the
approach to it in general, just the way that we've
approached the game as opposed to Europeans is a lack
of that understanding of the game that has been a hindrance.
But I don't know all the discourse about the development
of US soccer in the United States after that loss,
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I thought really shone a light or shined a light
on just how messed up it all is and how
all of youth's sports across the board. I think it's
just gotten away from us, but particularly soccer is a mess.
We'll never be able to compete if it's a pay
to play situation.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, I just think we have.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
To decide we want to compete, right, and we haven't
done that yet. And everything else is probably reflective of
our lack of deciding to compete now any other sport,
if we want to be the best, we can be
the best. There was a time when we said we're
going to the Moon in ten years and we were
starting from ground.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
We had no idea where the moon was, and.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
They figured it out because the motivation was there and
they figured it out and wi la, I mean we
just we don't care about it enough.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That is odd.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
We just needed to get some German scientists to teach
us how to play soccer.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Well, we'll try. We had an Argentine coach.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
I mean, yeah, keep going through them until you find
one that knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
But when like Alexi Lallas is like, hey, if people
can get make a lot of money in the development
of our soccer program, good, I say go ahead. And
it's like, okay, Well, if that's more important, then you're
going to always lag behind.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
I don't know how how soccer works, but it can't
be that much more expensive than hockey. Are problem with
hockey also, but we're the best in the world at hockey.
We figured it out, We developed gold medal winning players.
It took a long time. We can do it if
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we want to do it. Yeah, because we're Americans. But
because we're Americans, we get.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
To stress because we figured it out. Or is it
because well, yeah, I guess it's because we figured it out.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I think kids have to just play it as kids
and learn how to play it at a competitive level,
not with like, oh we're going to sports camp and
we're paying five hundred dollars and everyone's it has to
be like they've been fighting it out in the street.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Kids have and that's how they play.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
That's how we got baseball, football, basketball, hockey. You know
the kids in Boston and Minnesota, now in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You have to be at that level. It can't be
like all the rich.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Kids go to a camp and learn how to play
and compete against these kids from the barrio and the
wood of France.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
They're not going to beat them. The hood of France.
I don't know what the French word for ghetto is.
Do they have those? Oh in France, Oh, they certainly do.
Oh thank you. I don't know they had a hood
in France.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
You think if BP is from like an upper middle
class background.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I figure there's always angles played to get these guys eligible.
I mean, was from like abject poverty. Some of our
guys didn't exactly grow up reading the Constitution and saying
the pledge of allegiance.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I don't see the correlation between what we're talking about
socioeconomic upbringing.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Well, I just I don't think all the players are
from all the countries they represent.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's definitely the case.
Yeah yeah, but.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
No, we just got you know, I mean, you need
eleven guys, I mean six kids that decide they're gonna
put our world soccer hopes on their shoulders and make
it happen.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, but they have to be like real athletes.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Not to say that the US soccer team, the World
Cup team wasn't the best. Yeah, you know what I
am saying that they're they're not the best athletes.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
You have to you need like eleven al iversons. How
about they can't to have their mother for that eight
year old defenders who like completely embarrassed themselves in the game.
They get knocked out in our Jari playing goal.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
Yeah sure that was. Yeah, you have that you're going
to lose. Yeah, that's not that's not the system.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah. I think there are.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
People know so much more about soccer than I do
that I couldn't possibly have a totally informed opinion on it.
I can only give you a broad brush sort of
like here's what it looks like. The eagle eye view
of this seems pretty easy to figure out. But I
think the major problem that we have is just with
youth sports in general. Every kid should play a bunch
of different sports, not one sport, and not have to
pay through the nose for it. And then your parents
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have to go into you know, get a loan to
be able to afford your travel team expenses, and then
get hotel rooms every weekend, and then you split up.
One parent goes with this kid to this baseball tournament,
one kid goes one parent goes with another kid to
a volleyball tournament. Then they end up cheating on you,
on each other, and there's infidelity and all these like
Ramata Inns in Indianapolis and Canton, and this is the
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destruction of America.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And if you vote for me, you know, I went
to a kid's house. There's a lot of infidelity in
that stuff. Tons.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
I went to a kids hockey game last year. My
nephew lives in Columbus. His son was eight years old.
They were playing in ros Drever against a team from Charlotte. Yeah,
why what are they do? Why are they coming from
Columbus and Charlotte to play in suburban western Pennsylvania makes
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Speaker 1 (32:24):
Possible point of that? I don't know.
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Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yes, So, how's your summer going? Are you rocking it?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Or are you like I was a couple of summers ago,
just trying to get it to get the show.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Maybe I'm along with Mike Pursuda, Ted Whistle and Joe
Barnic and studio with us as we welcome our friend
major League Baseball mayor Sean Casey.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
What's up, case.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
You're doing good? Man? Did you watch the derby last night?
I'll watch the whole derby? Man, what the derby? Pretty awesome?
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I think that new rule, you know, getting rid of
the clock was a good idea, no doubt about it.
And it made for a lot more drama to have
to be more selective with your swings.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
Yeah, and listen, you're always good as the pitch of
swing out whether you're in the game or in the
in the home run derby. So I think those I
think I think it was I think it was better.
I like that the guys could watch the ball flight too.
You're not so rush to getting swings in right, and uh,
you know, if you're taking a million swings in the
road too, that's like you're getting gassed quickly.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
So I thought I thought it was great.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Man.
Speaker 11 (35:18):
I thought I thought the new the new format was awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
So with the All Star Game tonight, you know, it's
been a while since it mattered.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
And they they I think they overcorrected. They're like, we
have to do something to get people to care about
the All Star Game. Again, they're like, I know, let's
make playoff implications part of this, And that was way
way too you know, too much gravity attached to it.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Is there anything they could do besides money to.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Make this a little more of a competition, Where at
this point is it like, well, it's just so far
past the point where you can make people who make
this much money and they are assets for these organizations
to put them at risk in any way. But to
just do a little, you know, half ass exhibition is
just going to be probably foolish.
Speaker 11 (36:10):
Well, the first off, you're right, the playoff implications were
ridiculous because you play one hundred and sixty two games,
you're grinding to get through that you're one of the
best teams in the game. And they're like, oh, yeah,
the American League won the All Star Game. You know,
I mean, let's let's you know, so let's switch out
to the world. So I thought that was a little
little over the top. I think the one thing about
the base the All Star Baseball.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Game, I think it's so different.
Speaker 11 (36:32):
I think it really is different than, you know, than
any other game, especially like obviously football is going to
whatever flag football and stuff because those guys don't want
to get hurt and then you know they're just kind
of like done with the season all that stuff. But
in baseball, I really believe, like you know, you're in
those All Star games, like you it really is.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You know, you're really in there trying to win the game.
You're you're you're locked in.
Speaker 11 (36:53):
You're getting a few at bats, if you're started, you're
probably getting three at bats. Uh, you know, the pitchers
are coming in, they're throwing one or two max effort innings.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You know.
Speaker 11 (37:02):
So I think I think there's something about the Main
League Baseball All Star Game. It really is a real game.
You know, it doesn't feel like, oh, these guys are
mailing it in, because in baseball you really can't mail
it in, Like you can't give it like a half
an effort. You know, you really got to, like you
really gotta like show up, slow down, you know, be
in the moment because it's you know, it's almost like golf,
you're you're it's you, it's you, it's you versus.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You, and uh, you know that guy on the mound.
Speaker 11 (37:26):
So I think it's I think it's the best All
Star game out there still and you know, hey, listen, man,
if you can make a couple extra bucks. I thought
of that last night when Jordan Walker ended up winning
winning the Derby. I mean, don't you get a million
bucks and you get something real money?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yeah, real cash if you win it. So this year
is it really he's making Like.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
Yeah, he made more in the derby. He was like,
you know what, it came down to it. He's like, please,
let me just get these balls out of here.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I need to make this million dollars. Make a million.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Bucks, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You know, well, you're you're a three time All Star.
I believe, by the way, I believe they make twenty
five thousand per man if they win tonight.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
That's the check they get every they have so nice
tip money.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah nice that that that pays for the jet ride
home for some of them. I guess you you were
three time All Star in ninety nine, two thousand and one,
two thousand and four. Famously, in ninety nine you were
a jersey that you signed. I'm not sure if you
talked about that last week.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
You did not the Reds game. Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
In ninety nine you signed your own jersey thinking it
was a jersey that you were going to donate and
you ended up having to wear it in the game.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Right, yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
We get there the first day and I'm like, I'm
twenty five years old. I can't even believe I'm at
the Ulcar game. I'm like, you know, literally, a couple
of years earlier, I was that I'm a high school like,
hey hey. A couple of years later, I'm like, oh
my god, I'm an All Star.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I'm at the All Star Game.
Speaker 11 (39:00):
I got Mike Piazza to my right, Vladimir Guerrero, I
got Randy Johnson, you know, two lockers down.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
I literally can't believe it. So so Tommy, the clubby
comes in.
Speaker 11 (39:09):
He's all right, boys, He's like listen, He's like, uh,
your team's giving you two jerseys. We need you to
sign one for like the Yochey Foundation or something or
Major League Baseball, and then the other one, you know,
I'll put in your locker on game day. So I'm like, oh,
this is incredible. I can't believe they want to want
my signature. So you know, I signed my jersey as
big as you can sign it, as beautiful. I give
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it to Tommy, here you go, man, hopefully this can
get you ten or twenty dollars, you know, with the
auction is incredible, so I know, I give it to them.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Then we have the workout and derby. Then the next
day we have VP and we're.
Speaker 11 (39:42):
Getting ready for the game and I go into my
locker and grab my jersey getting dressed next to my
piazza and I put my I go to grab my
jersey and it's it's the jersey with a humungous signature
on the back. So I go over to I go
over to tom and like, hey Tommy, hey, real real quick, bro,
It's like, you put the wrong jersey in my locker.
You gave me the jersey that I signed, And he goes, oh, man,
Casey goes, I don't know what to tell you, man.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
He goes, I don't know if the.
Speaker 11 (40:04):
Reds are hurting with for funds or whatever, Mark Shaant suspended.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 11 (40:09):
But he's like, the Reds gave you one jersey.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
I go.
Speaker 11 (40:13):
I'm like, so I have to wear this in the game.
I go, can you go like to a sporting goods
store to like, you know, Dick's sporting Goods. They have
Dick Sporting good you go like, make me a jersey
or something.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
He's like, dude, I don't know what to tell you.
So I'm like, oh my god. So I'm the youngest guy.
Speaker 11 (40:27):
Obviously, I'm a rookie and I feel like I'm being
haze because I signed my own jersey and I'm out
there and I'm like, I'm like, please don't let anyone
see me, you know, and a couple guys and the
dugout were saying, hey, dude, you nice jersey.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I'm like, oh yeah, thanks.
Speaker 11 (40:40):
But anyway, I go on deck and like this, I'm
hitting from McGuire. In the seventh I go on deck
and I'm like, I remember on the on the on
the on the game that you know, Tim McCarver comes on.
He's like, come showing Casey. He's having a nice first
half blah blah blah. And they zoom in on me
and I'm like, you know, doing my thing, and they're like,
did he sign his jersey? So anyway, I go down
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his history. Only guy, I have to be the only
guy in Big Legacy that ever played the All Star
Game with a fully signed jersey.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
I mean pretty amazing though, So the Bucko's going into
the All Star break, dude, the offense, the bats have
just exploded right now, and we were kind of kicking
around ways to keep this going. When you get Cruise
and you get Griffin back, now that you can't get
you gotta keep Valdez in the lineup right, I mean,
O'Hearn has been on fire too, So what's the solution?
Speaker 1 (41:37):
You got a deal Ozona or something? Right? I mean,
isn't it first off?
Speaker 11 (41:43):
Last year we're talking about the worst offensive baseball.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
This year we're talking about.
Speaker 9 (41:47):
Did you need to train somebody?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
But you have too much offense? You know what's incredible?
Speaker 11 (41:51):
And you're right, Valdez needs to play every day like
he cannot sit anymore. This guy is the real deal.
His power is real he I mean, I just feel
like you got to give him every day at bats.
He's not a guy off the bench, you know, bam,
he's he's he's made his mark.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
O'Hearn's been really good, you.
Speaker 11 (42:08):
Know, just the way you know, Branon Reynolds is having
an All Star first half. You know, when Horwitz comes
back and o Neil Cruz, I mean, Donnie Kelly has
a great problem on his hands because that offense is
electric and you have so many different offense. But that's
what great offenses do. If you look at the great
offenses around the league, they have four or five deep outfielders.
You can mix a match.
Speaker 8 (42:29):
Here.
Speaker 11 (42:29):
You have a guy lefty off the bench if you
need him. I don't know exactly what he's gonna do,
but but you're gonna have guys banged up at some
point too. But I really believe Randall that they are
about to make a run. I mean the fact that
they swept the Brewers, who are a really good team
obviously going into the break, and they really they really
took it to him. It wasn't like they really you know,
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punched him in the mouth early and won all those games.
So and I think, you know the way Jared Jones
pitch going into the break, you know, Mitch Keller's gotta
be better's been he's been in the first half. I
think Schemes had a nice start on the way. So
I really believe they're about to make a run in
the second half.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
And this is a really this is a really good.
Speaker 11 (43:09):
Team we're looking at with a lot of offense, but
it's a great problem to have.
Speaker 9 (43:13):
Case there's about eight teams in the National League in
wild card contention. I think they're all within five and
a half six games of each other. You know, the
three qualifiers and the five contenders. What's the number that
gets you that third spot? Eighty four? Eighty five?
Speaker 11 (43:28):
I mean right now, you know, right now, it looks
like you know the way it's the way it's situated
with those guys.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Blood teams are like, you know, right in it.
Speaker 11 (43:37):
But yeah, I'd say eighty three got the reds in
last year. You know, I'm thinking it's going to be
right there. Probably eighty five five wins is going to
get you in. And I'd be shocked if the Buccos
aren't aren't definitely at eighty five wins at the end.
I just really feel like this is a good team.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Sean Casey the mayor.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Tonight the All Star Game, hopefully, uh, nobody will have
repeated your your faux pae and we won't see anybody
with their John Hancock in blazing across their UNI. You're
a classic buddy. Uh, Hey, what's going on with the
Casey's clubhouse? What's the latest?
Speaker 11 (44:16):
Uh, we just had the greatest trip really quick.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Thanks for asking, Randy. We had the greatest trip.
Speaker 11 (44:21):
We just went to Cincinnati with our travel program and
we met up with six states. We met up Iowa, Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and we had a
we had a six state tournament.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
We called it the Miracle Series.
Speaker 11 (44:36):
Out in Cincinnati this past weekend.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
It was truly truly incredible.
Speaker 11 (44:40):
So a bunch of our you know, office, our Casey's
Clubhouse kids were there with their parents and uh, it
was an amazing, amazing weekend. So that was That's one
of our big things on the dock and we have
it going this summer. And like I said, we're about
to build a new field. Please, if you want to
donate for us or help us, get involved or get
involved with us Casey's Clubhouse dot org. You can help
us out and help our as they saw, you know,
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get this second field that we.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Really do need.
Speaker 11 (45:03):
And then we appreciate anything anyone anyone could do.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
You the best case. Thanks so much, Sean Casey. This
morning here on DV we.
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But aren't we supposed to be afraid of carrots?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I think this is not leafy. It's not the same
wash your carrots. What That's what I just did.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
I can't do that at work.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well, I don't want to pair anyways.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Um Seun Casey the Mayor will be joining us eight
to forty five this morning, Billy Gardella in the nine
o'clock hour. On the slowest week of the calendar year,
the All Star break week, nothing is going on. You
do have the World Cup games, at least there are
two the semifinals here.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
And what if he didn't have that?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I mean there's I mean the home run derby. There's
only so much analyzing you can do with that. There's
just nothing going on. Thankfully, Abby's here with all of
the pertinent News Right Now.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
News This hour brought to you by Wind Donation. Mostly sunny,
very hot today. If you're gonna be outside, use caution.
High of ninety seven today. Oh my god, I'm thinking
about all those people that are working on that commercial
street bridge. Oh yeah, we're gonna be outside, all right.
And a reporter interviewed MLB star Paul Skins and referred
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to him as a future Yankee. So this prompted a
confused response from Schemes. We're gonna play you the audio
here if you haven't had a chance to hear it yet.
But this was captured in now what's becoming a viral
clip during the All Star event.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
Future Yankee.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
So the woman that was walking away just said, Hi,
I just got the most amazing interview with Paul Skeens. Yeah,
oh yeah, future Yankee, and that's what he was responding to.
She was kind of further in the background and harder
to hear, right, But that other person reiterated it.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
But he he made this confused face and he was like,
who's that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, Like, hey, that's not cool. Don't tell them shut up.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, we all know that's probably gonna happen, but like,
have a little kooth lady. It was probably like some
blogger or influencer who got.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
To be in the pass well, I mean, super unprofessional
also to celebrate the win, like literally right next to
him and just started being like.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I did that this amazing interview.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
It's like, oh you suh, I'm dating the Patriots head coach,
all right.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger revealed that he never met
Elvis Presley because John Lennon warned him against it. Lennon,
who famously met Presley alongside the rest of the Beatles
in nineteen sixty five, apparently came away very disappointed and
later convinced Jagger to preserve his own image of the
rock and roll icon.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I remember John telling me you should never meet your heroes,
and I would never meet Elvis, Mick if I were you,
and so I didn't. I took John's advice. It was
really stupid. I would have loved to meet Elvis. Maybe
my Elvis version would have been different.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
I'm imagining Jack White is Elvis in Walkhard where he
meets John.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Sire look out man.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
He's I don't know, is that never meet your heroes
kind of thing?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean, I have definitely met people you know.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
To me, even just meeting Dana Gould at the Comedy
Fest was kind of I kind of felt like that.
But you famboyed a little bit, I gleefully did.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I told I didn't care. I just I've been such
a b I love him, you know what I mean.
I was just so I love him too.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, And I've definitely done it on air with a
few people where you fan out like that, but I've
never met anyone who I was like, oh, I wish
I didn't meet them. But I've heard that here at DV.
The famous story was John Mellencamp. He came in and
he was a total jerk to everybody, and everybody kind
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of hated. But he's notorious for being a curmudgeon, so
that didn't surprise me too much. I didn't take out
his paintings, No.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It wasn't. It was it was pre his art, pre
arch pace.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
But You've met so many people through the years, Joe,
big stars, and I'm wondering if any of them you
thought was.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Like, oh, we're gonna be good bye, and then that
just didn't happen. I never assumed that it'd be good
buddies with anybody or that they would be fun to meet.
You know, I'm not sure. It's just terrible radio. I've
never really met someone that was. I was like, oh,
you know, I wish I didn't meet I'll tell you
who was kind of a jerk to me.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
He was Rich Eisen really.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And everyone claims how what a great guy is, but
he was kind of not cool. Yeah, only one that
kind of sticks out there, like I wish I didn't
meet that.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
What was the setting that you met him in?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
And an sb's party. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
I take that back. It was a Comedy Central roast. Okay,
it was like yeah, it was a big theater and
there was like no one around, and I'm like, I'm.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Like, hey, rich Man, I love your stuff. He's like yeah, thanks. Sports.
It was just like rich like, I'm on only ten
people here. He knows who you are. Sports guys.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Wow, I'm sports guys and sportscasters and people like that
are different than entertainers. I feel like entertainers there's an
expectation of them being like the their persona, where sports
guys I always assume when you meet a like big
name athlete, it's gonna be they don't.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Want to talk to you or at all, which is why.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh it's the other way though, like when we're working
with the Pirates, like everyone's like, oh, don't talk to
Will Clark. Will Clark couldn't have been nicer. Jack Clark
couldn't have been nicer. Like people who have these big
reputations of being jerks always seem to.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Be pretty nice. What about the clerks?
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Those guys are great, Yes, exactly, But you said sports that, like,
I don't know, maybe Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh, but you know,
before I worked with the Godfather, I mean, stand incredible
human being. Yeah, Mike Lang incredible?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
What Maden?
Speaker 4 (07:46):
People you Madre Like, oh my god, you're so nice. Yeah,
he's a nice guy. Like I don't know, I don't know.
I'm not trying to be spirts rich, but it was
just kind of like what I guess athletes are the
ones I'm saying, like, never meet your hero if it's
an athele.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I mean that's the thing is.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You have to understand it if you are in that
or you are at that level, that you're going to
be asked questions people are going to want to know
about you. But a lot of them also don't have
the kind of media training and like how to like, yeah,
you can be really.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Talented and something.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's like, honestly, that reminds me of kind of like
the issue that people would say, like with with Kirk Cobain,
like getting famous like that, Like his core was that
he was just an artist, right, so everything in his presentation,
everything that he does is all about the artistry of things.
And then you keep throwing him into these situations where
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they're like that's for me now, and he can't do it,
and so he came off as just like really you know,
nonplussed about everything or mean or just you know and
all you know, and then let's add drugs on.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Top of that. Right.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
My point being that you know, athletes who are you know,
virtuous in whatever they do, they don't actually always know
how to.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Also, there's a lot of fame.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
There's a lot of athletes that are great, like Seawan
Casey's coming on the show and a little bit. There's
there are a lot of athletes who are great with
everybody they meet, and there's great stories that they make time,
especially for kids, and they understand I'm not trying to
paint with a broadbrush. I'm just saying a lot of
times when it's the Derek Jeters and the people who
are like beyond famous, you know, they transcend the sport.
Those kind of people who are like famous, that's like
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typically those people are not easy to be around.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, like Pat Ewing didn't give me an autograph. My
dad was mad at him for the rest of yeah. Right,
so we saw him at the New York Airport and
I'm like, oh, Pat, he's your shot fan, and he's
just like, I don't do autographs.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
D When you reach a level of fame where you
have like goodie bags, like party favorite bags after one
night stands, that you are a toxic, messed up person. Yeah,
to be cool to run into at the mall.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Yeah, I mean there's there's plenty of There's been some
Steelers through the years.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Who haven't been all that easy to deal with in town.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You know, There's been a couple of hockey players who
have been arrascible.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You know, it happens.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I'm trying to think, uh.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Like musicians who are like notably like stay away from them.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh, Morrissey Morsey, right. You know who is uh from
comedy is Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld is notoriously like I
don't want to talk to you. No, thanks, Like if
you're like Jerry big fan, can I get an autograph?
He'd be like no, no, And some people are like,
that's great. That's exactly what I expect from Jerry Seinfeld,
Like he would be annoyed by you, you know, and
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other people are like, oh, I kind of was just
hoping to have a nice little experience. What I do
like is how Paul McCartney is like, I don't take
the Sophie's you know, He's like, but I give you
an experience, like you get to have a few sentences
with him, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Like that should mean more. Pull out one of my
chest hairs.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
And put it in an omulus good.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I think it beatles one thing. You can do what
you want. But I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I think you should always be I try to be.
I'll think two days later when something like, you know,
the other day someone was like, oh and I was nice,
but I wasn't like over over the top super nice,
and I felt bad about it, like oh, because I
was shopping.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You know. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
I think you should I should be nice to everybody anyway,
let alone someone's a fan.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
You should really be nice.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
I'm sure you were nice, Joe. Don't beat yourself up.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
The Italian mascot. He worked at the liquor store and
he goes, oh a big fan. I go, can you
reiver the prices? And he laughed and then it was
kind of like I did, but I wasn't like, you know,
what's your name, and you don't have to hug everybody.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
You know, but what is that feeling? I get that too.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I do feel like if I meet somebody, and especially
if they like the show or something, I feel like
if I don't meet them where they are, that I
have failed and I will think about it all day.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The only person that okay, good constantly.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'm just kind of like, oh my god, they're gonna
think I'm awful. And it's just because like I was
busy or I was having a bad day or whatever
is you know, like I, oh no, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Not even remotely meet They just just didn't.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Meet that level of like, yeah, I disappointed you. I
have decided that I've disappointed in life.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
That's one thing, but especially after a show. I hate
when I was like everyone. I hate when someone walks
by and someone's cornering you too much. It's almost like
e when you're a wedding and you kick out of
the conversation, like I'm not trying to be mean to you,
but there's twenty people that just want to yeah when
they have their second you.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Know, you know, and you're at your limit too, and
you're just like, I, if I was actually just being me,
I'd let you have it a little bit right now.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Why I always say me on stage is a little
nice version of me in real life.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, Burr's really good with people with fans.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh yeah, well yeah, yeah. I mean, I'll never forget.
I'll never forget this one time we were in uh Canada,
way up north in Canada. It was like five thirty
in the morning, and me and him and Verse are
just having like this little breakfast and it's like almost
dark in the in the in the hotel base it
wasn't Base wentever. We're sitting there and it's just like
(13:28):
one other couple there and we're just eating and this
woman goes, can I get a picture?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
And Bill just very rarely does Bill ever go like
h He's like, I'm kind of eating right now. And
she goes.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
I know, I mean very still talking about that, but
it was so mean. Was the term cringe. It was
like and she literally waited until like her boyfriend went
to the bathroom or something like, because see he was
probably don't do it.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Don't do it, dude, don't do it. The reverse of that.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Warren Haynes did our show one morning before a government
mule show and he's like, you're coming to the show,
and I'm like, man, I got to do this thing, uh,
this charity thing first.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I'm gonna come late.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
But my my sister in law's dad is going to
be there. He's the biggest fan, and I'm going to
be there for the second set. And he's like, well,
he bring him backstage, Man, bring him back stage. We'll
say hi to him. And I was like, oh, he'd
go crazy if you know, you could make time. And
he was like, yeah, no problem. So after the show,
(14:35):
I find their tour manager and he's like, oh, hey, man,
come on back. And we go back there and he
jumps on the bus and he comes off. He goes, Man,
he just started eating, and I was like, oh, they
never because once people are eating, it's like that's when
you should leave.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Them alone like ke a dog.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
You know.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
There.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's just you can't pull them away from dinner, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It's like, ah, well just timed it, Okay, better luck
next time and thanks for everything. And he's like, well
hold on, man, and he goes out, and Warren literally
comes off the bus chewing like, hey man, you made
it and then made time for like that guy.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Total mention, just the best. That's so cool to hear.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Yeah, And Warren Haynes is like the hardest working man
in music.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
He's in everything exactly. He solos on everything. I know.
He's the Forest Gump of rock and roll.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You know what, We have a special guest on the
line right now with the All Star Game happening tonight.
This is the star of the nineteen seventy two Major
League Baseball All Star Game from your Pittsburgh Pirates. Mister
Steve Blast says, yeah, that buddy, how are you.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
I'm doing good, doing good. It seems like that All
Star Game in seventy two yesterday. Yeah, it's been a while,
but what a great experience. I went went once, but
just to kind of set it up, we'd won the
World Series a year before, so Danny Murto is a man,
and he picked me to be on the pitching staff.
But if we had pretty good representation too, Willie Stargele,
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Roberto Clemeny Manny Sangi, and Al Oliver. I mean, you
can do some damage with that group. So you know,
we're flying down to Atlanta where the All Star Game was,
and Clemente gets up out of his seat and the
airplane comes down and said, Steve, would you and Karen
like to join Vera and I for dinner tonight? And
(16:30):
I'm thinking you think I said, I said, we join
you for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a
glass of skin milk. My goodness, for dinner with the Clements's.
That's very very cool. So we get down there and
walking into that National League clubhouse in nineteen seventy two,
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somebody said there were thirteen future Hall of Famers in
that room, and he just looked around. There's Steve, there's Carlton,
there's Gibson, there's Johnny Bench, Johnny Bench.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Joe Morgan, Joe Torre's.
Speaker 8 (17:05):
Cincinnati sent the whole damn team. Yeah, but anyway, you
mentioned Bench, I wind up. My locker is next to
Johnny Bench and uh, you know we didn't do all
that hugging and everything professional respect. Hey John, Hey, Steve,
how you doing? Yeah, he said, I understand that you're
pitching the third inning because I kind of structure it
(17:27):
that way. He said, I'm going to be catching. What
kind of signals do you want to use? You know,
one's one fingers of fastball too, is a curve three?
There's a change, I said, John, whenever I face you, you
seem to know what's coming. So why don't we just wing?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
What a pitching staff you were involved with there?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Don Sutton, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Ferguson Jenkins, Bob Gibson,
Steve Carlton, Steve Blast my lord, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:55):
You could do all right well that staff. So I
get in in the third inn and I'm getting knocked around.
I give up one run. I still got the bases
loaded with one out, and I don't remember who it was,
but somebody hit a rocket to first base and Lee
May was playing, almost knocked him over. He catches it,
stepped on first base, ending over. I ran for the dugout.
(18:17):
Those guys had some talent too.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, Hank Aaron was in the outfield for the National League.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
Also, yeah, and winds up hitting a home run. I
think it might have been the game winner in his home,
you know, ballpark, in his home city. So it was
it was entirely fitting, but it was. It was quite
an experience just walking into that clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Willie Mays was on that team.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
Yeah, yeah, my goodness. I think McCovey might have been
on that team too. And I remember him because forbes Field,
my rookie year, he hit a ball over the four
fifty seven signs at Forbes Field had disrupted it. I
think I forced him on the Shenley Park golf course.
And I have a friend, a friend because of the story.
(19:01):
He told me that he believes, sincerely, he's convinced that
every Monday evening at ten o'clock in the Eastern sky
he can still see that ball McCovey hit going around here.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
But I mean, this was the culmination of the dream
for you. The year after going two complete games in
the World Series, including a complete Game seven to bring
a World Championship to Pittsburgh, and then following it up
with an All Star Game appearance the next year, and
this was a different time, and I know you said,
like Bob Gibson wasn't exactly friendly with you during All
(19:35):
Star festivities because well, you still had a season to play.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Well.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
Yeah, and also I don't know if it was before
or after, but that year he's pitching against us in
Saint Louis and first time up, Willie stars will take
some deep for a home run. I'm sitting on the bench,
and next time up he just drills Willie, you know,
because that's what he did. And so Danny Murtoz turns
(20:01):
to me and said, you know you're next. You know
what you got to do. And I'm weighing barely six
foot one hundred and seventy pounds. Bob Gibson is like
six two twenty and ripped, and so I've got to
go out and hit him to let him let Willie
know he's got his back. So I went out there
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and I said, if he hits, if I hit him.
And he puts a bat down and comes to them,
I'm running like a little girl and I hit him
right in the ribs. I didn't throw it at his head.
It took me three pitches, but I got him, and
he put the bat down and went to first base.
We didn't have to get the umpires involved. He know,
I did it, you know, he and but you know,
(20:45):
pitching against him and guys like sever and Fergie. What
a time it was in baseball. If you if you
did well in that environment, you really felt like you're
you were capable and qualified to compete it level because
there was some talent hanging around and there wasn't free agency. Yeah,
there wasn't free agency yet. But so oh no. And
(21:08):
I won nineteen games and I buy a house in
the middle of the summer of seventy two in Upper
Saint Clair for forty nine grand. It was a hell
of a year.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Ye Well, tonight the All Star Game in Philadelphia, and
you know we won't see Skiings pitching, but he seems
to you know, he got those two wins the last
couple of weeks here Steve, which is great. Still seems
like there's he's not quite the Paul Skiings that we
were expecting this year.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Well, you know, he burst onto the scene and immediately
set standards, incredible standards right among the grand base myself included.
So I don't know if you can maintain that the
whole time. I think he's going to have one heck
of a major league career. You know, there are patches
where it's not dominating, and maybe the speed is done
(22:00):
a little bit. But if I got a ball game
to win, I'm gonna run him out there. I'll tell
you that right now. And kind of interesting because I
don't know what the rotation is going to be like
after the break. But he pitched Sunday, he could you know,
his term might be Friday again and again. I never
mind having him out when they play the anthem. So
(22:21):
we'll see what's going to happen in Cleveland Friday night.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
What about just if you could listen, we'll leave it
on this.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
You know, the All Star Game and the way that
the players think about it now has obviously changed quite
a bit through the years. It doesn't have the same
aura that it used to. That the honor of the
distinction seems to have faded a little bit, and I
know that certainly wasn't the case when you were selected.
Speaker 8 (22:49):
Well, yeah, that's true. What so many if you got
a couple hours of days, so many games, so many
things about the game have changed right now. There was
a couple of things I like, but a lot of
things I'm not crazy about. But that's that's just a
carryover for when the purity of the game before free agency.
(23:09):
I kind of phrase it that way at seventy five
or six when it was and I got out before
I didn't want that big money. I got out.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Well this smarter.
Speaker 8 (23:20):
Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, how's that going. I'm still working
at eighty four, so yeah, that's a whole different subject.
But yeah, there was a I remember even growing up.
It was the National leagu against American League, and when
I was a rookie and coming up, I said, nationally
this counts for something. This is this maybe a little
(23:43):
different mistique, maybe because players move around so much, maybe
because of free agency. I don't know, but I kind
of agree to I guess a degree with you that
it doesn't seem quite as much. But you know the
world has changed to so uh, you just go along
(24:03):
with the flow. But I will never forget the honor
of walking into that clubhouse with that team and being
a part of that group that represented the National League,
and it was it was intent we you know, we're
out there. It went. It wasn't just an appearance for
us back in the day. I don't know how it
is with these guys. I hope it's the name, but
(24:24):
it was more than an appearance for us, and I'll
never I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Steve Blast, the one and only.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah Blast, We love you, Boddy, Thanks for checking in
with us this morning.
Speaker 8 (24:34):
All right, my pleasure always in time the visit guys.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
Okay, we'll see assume that's the all time great Pittsburgh
pirate pitcher Steve Blast for you this morning.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
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Speaker 1 (24:59):
All Right, Sports Now on the morning show. Nice to
hear from Steve Blast. There always nice to hear from.
He's the last.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
Sports is are brought to you by Bridgeville Appliance. The
world's attention will be on the world stage today for
World Cup Semi final number one between Spain and France.
James Coburn has had his suspicion confirmed regarding which team
he thinks has the potential to make a great escape
in advance.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
I am your guide, senor the Great Escape Jesus who
else only you.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
The Kneads understandably are backing their adopted nation, even if
it's Wednesday afternoon and not Saturday night week up from friends.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Well, that explains everything.
Speaker 9 (25:59):
Yeah, the only thing it doesn't explain is who's going
to win the game three o'clock at Jerry World Frett
the New York Post. I don't know if the New
York Post knows more about soccer than I do or less,
but The New York Post has declared that this is
a final caliber matchup and that these are the two
best teams.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Well, that's mostly everyone was saying prior to the start
of the World Cup that these were the two best teams.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
Spain has won thirty six consecutive matches, one more in
the ties Italy's all time record of thirty seven. The
New York Post also said this is going to be
quote a game of chess played at one.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Well, I think that that's the part of soccer that
most Americans have trouble with, is the chess part, because.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
We don't understand. We can diagram as sweet, but we
don't know right. All we think these guys are doing
is kicking its sideways.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
But I mean, I've heard people who are pretty knowledgeable
about US man soccer saying that, you know, just the
approach to it in general, just the way that we've
approached the game as opposed to Europeans is a lack
of that understanding of the game that has been a hindrance.
But I don't know all the discourse about the development
of US soccer in the United States after that loss,
(27:19):
I thought really shone a light or shined a light
on just how messed up it all is and how
all of youth's sports across the board. I think it's
just gotten away from us, but particularly soccer is a mess.
We'll never be able to compete if it's a pay
to play situation.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, I just think we have.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
To decide we want to compete, right, and we haven't
done that yet. And everything else is probably reflective of
our lack of deciding to compete now any other sport,
if we want to be the best, we can be
the best. There was a time when we said we're
going to the Moon in ten years and we were
starting from ground.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
We had no idea where the moon was, and.
Speaker 9 (27:58):
They figured it out because the motivation was there and
they figured it out and wi la, I mean we
just we don't care about it enough.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
That is odd.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
We just needed to get some German scientists to teach
us how to play soccer.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Well, we'll try. We had an Argentine coach.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
I mean, yeah, keep going through them until you find
one that knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
But when like Alexi Lallas is like, hey, if people
can get make a lot of money in the development
of our soccer program, good, I say go ahead. And
it's like, okay, Well, if that's more important, then you're
going to always lag behind.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
I don't know how how soccer works, but it can't
be that much more expensive than hockey. Are problem with
hockey also, but we're the best in the world at hockey.
We figured it out, We developed gold medal winning players.
It took a long time. We can do it if
(28:51):
we want to do it. Yeah, because we're Americans. But
because we're Americans, we get.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
To stress because we figured it out. Or is it
because well, yeah, I guess it's because we figured it out.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I think kids have to just play it as kids
and learn how to play it at a competitive level,
not with like, oh we're going to sports camp and
we're paying five hundred dollars and everyone's it has to
be like they've been fighting it out in the street.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Kids have and that's how they play.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
That's how we got baseball, football, basketball, hockey. You know
the kids in Boston and Minnesota, now in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You have to be at that level. It can't be
like all the rich.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Kids go to a camp and learn how to play
and compete against these kids from the barrio and the
wood of France.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
They're not going to beat them. The hood of France.
I don't know what the French word for ghetto is.
Do they have those? Oh in France, Oh, they certainly do.
Oh thank you. I don't know they had a hood
in France.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
You think if BP is from like an upper middle
class background.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I figure there's always angles played to get these guys eligible.
I mean, was from like abject poverty. Some of our
guys didn't exactly grow up reading the Constitution and saying
the pledge of allegiance.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
I don't see the correlation between what we're talking about
socioeconomic upbringing.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
Well, I just I don't think all the players are
from all the countries they represent.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's definitely the case.
Yeah yeah, but.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
No, we just got you know, I mean, you need
eleven guys, I mean six kids that decide they're gonna
put our world soccer hopes on their shoulders and make
it happen.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Yeah, but they have to be like real athletes.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Not to say that the US soccer team, the World
Cup team wasn't the best. Yeah, you know what I
am saying that they're they're not the best athletes.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
You have to you need like eleven al iversons. How
about they can't to have their mother for that eight
year old defenders who like completely embarrassed themselves in the game.
They get knocked out in our Jari playing goal.
Speaker 9 (31:01):
Yeah sure that was. Yeah, you have that you're going
to lose. Yeah, that's not that's not the system.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah. I think there are.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
People know so much more about soccer than I do
that I couldn't possibly have a totally informed opinion on it.
I can only give you a broad brush sort of
like here's what it looks like. The eagle eye view
of this seems pretty easy to figure out. But I
think the major problem that we have is just with
youth sports in general. Every kid should play a bunch
of different sports, not one sport, and not have to
pay through the nose for it. And then your parents
(31:32):
have to go into you know, get a loan to
be able to afford your travel team expenses, and then
get hotel rooms every weekend, and then you split up.
One parent goes with this kid to this baseball tournament,
one kid goes one parent goes with another kid to
a volleyball tournament. Then they end up cheating on you,
on each other, and there's infidelity and all these like
Ramata Inns in Indianapolis and Canton, and this is the
(31:52):
destruction of America.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
And if you vote for me, you know, I went
to a kid's house. There's a lot of infidelity in
that stuff. Tons.
Speaker 9 (32:01):
I went to a kids hockey game last year. My
nephew lives in Columbus. His son was eight years old.
They were playing in ros Drever against a team from Charlotte. Yeah,
why what are they do? Why are they coming from
Columbus and Charlotte to play in suburban western Pennsylvania makes
(32:23):
no sense?
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Possible point of that? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
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Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yes, So, how's your summer going? Are you rocking it?
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Or are you like I was a couple of summers ago,
just trying to get it to get the show.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Maybe I'm along with Mike Pursuda, Ted Whistle and Joe
Barnic and studio with us as we welcome our friend
major League Baseball mayor Sean Casey.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
What's up, case.
Speaker 11 (34:41):
How you doing?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
You're doing good? Man? Did you watch the derby last night?
I'll watch the whole derby? Man, what the derby? Pretty awesome?
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I think that new rule, you know, getting rid of
the clock was a good idea, no doubt about it.
And it made for a lot more drama to have
to be more selective with your swings.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
Yeah, and listen, you're always good as the pitch of
swing out whether you're in the game or in the
in the home run derby. So I think those I
think I think it was I think it was better.
I like that the guys could watch the ball flight too.
You're not so rush to getting swings in right, and uh,
you know, if you're taking a million swings in the
road too, that's like you're getting gassed quickly.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
So I thought I thought it was great.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Man.
Speaker 11 (35:18):
I thought I thought the new the new format was awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
So with the All Star Game tonight, you know, it's
been a while since it mattered.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
And they they I think they overcorrected. They're like, we
have to do something to get people to care about
the All Star Game. Again, they're like, I know, let's
make playoff implications part of this, And that was way
way too you know, too much gravity attached to it.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Is there anything they could do besides money to.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Make this a little more of a competition, Where at
this point is it like, well, it's just so far
past the point where you can make people who make
this much money and they are assets for these organizations
to put them at risk in any way. But to
just do a little, you know, half ass exhibition is
just going to be probably foolish.
Speaker 11 (36:10):
Well, the first off, you're right, the playoff implications were
ridiculous because you play one hundred and sixty two games,
you're grinding to get through that you're one of the
best teams in the game. And they're like, oh, yeah,
the American League won the All Star Game. You know,
I mean, let's let's you know, so let's switch out
to the world. So I thought that was a little
little over the top. I think the one thing about
the base the All Star Baseball.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Game, I think it's so different.
Speaker 11 (36:32):
I think it really is different than, you know, than
any other game, especially like obviously football is going to
whatever flag football and stuff because those guys don't want
to get hurt and then you know they're just kind
of like done with the season all that stuff. But
in baseball, I really believe, like you know, you're in
those All Star games, like you it really is.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You know, you're really in there trying to win the game.
You're you're you're locked in.
Speaker 11 (36:53):
You're getting a few at bats, if you're started, you're
probably getting three at bats. Uh, you know, the pitchers
are coming in, they're throwing one or two max effort innings.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
You know.
Speaker 11 (37:02):
So I think I think there's something about the Main
League Baseball All Star Game. It really is a real game.
You know, it doesn't feel like, oh, these guys are
mailing it in, because in baseball you really can't mail
it in, Like you can't give it like a half
an effort. You know, you really got to, like you
really gotta like show up, slow down, you know, be
in the moment because it's you know, it's almost like golf,
you're you're it's you, it's you, it's you versus.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
You, and uh, you know that guy on the mound.
Speaker 11 (37:26):
So I think it's I think it's the best All
Star game out there still and you know, hey, listen, man,
if you can make a couple extra bucks. I thought
of that last night when Jordan Walker ended up winning
winning the Derby. I mean, don't you get a million
bucks and you get something real money?
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yeah, real cash if you win it. So this year
is it really he's making Like.
Speaker 11 (37:49):
Yeah, he made more in the derby. He was like,
you know what, it came down to it. He's like, please,
let me just get these balls out of here.
Speaker 1 (37:56):
I need to make this million dollars. Make a million.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Bucks, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:00):
You know, well, you're you're a three time All Star.
I believe, by the way, I believe they make twenty
five thousand per man if they win tonight.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
That's the check they get every they have so nice
tip money.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Yeah nice that that that pays for the jet ride
home for some of them. I guess you you were
three time All Star in ninety nine, two thousand and one,
two thousand and four. Famously, in ninety nine you were
a jersey that you signed. I'm not sure if you
talked about that last week.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
You did not the Reds game. Oh yeah, but.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
In ninety nine you signed your own jersey thinking it
was a jersey that you were going to donate and
you ended up having to wear it in the game.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Right, yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
We get there the first day and I'm like, I'm
twenty five years old. I can't even believe I'm at
the Ulcar game. I'm like, you know, literally, a couple
of years earlier, I was that I'm a high school like,
hey hey. A couple of years later, I'm like, oh
my god, I'm an All Star.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I'm at the All Star Game.
Speaker 11 (39:00):
I got Mike Piazza to my right, Vladimir Guerrero, I
got Randy Johnson, you know, two lockers down.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
I literally can't believe it. So so Tommy, the clubby
comes in.
Speaker 11 (39:09):
He's all right, boys, He's like listen, He's like, uh,
your team's giving you two jerseys. We need you to
sign one for like the Yochey Foundation or something or
Major League Baseball, and then the other one, you know,
I'll put in your locker on game day. So I'm like, oh,
this is incredible. I can't believe they want to want
my signature. So you know, I signed my jersey as
big as you can sign it, as beautiful. I give
(39:31):
it to Tommy, here you go, man, hopefully this can
get you ten or twenty dollars, you know, with the
auction is incredible, so I know, I give it to them.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Then we have the workout and derby. Then the next
day we have VP and we're.
Speaker 11 (39:42):
Getting ready for the game and I go into my
locker and grab my jersey getting dressed next to my
piazza and I put my I go to grab my
jersey and it's it's the jersey with a humungous signature
on the back. So I go over to I go
over to tom and like, hey Tommy, hey, real real quick, bro,
It's like, you put the wrong jersey in my locker.
You gave me the jersey that I signed, And he goes, oh, man,
Casey goes, I don't know what to tell you, man.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
He goes, I don't know if the.
Speaker 11 (40:04):
Reds are hurting with for funds or whatever, Mark Shaant suspended.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 11 (40:09):
But he's like, the Reds gave you one jersey.
Speaker 8 (40:12):
I go.
Speaker 11 (40:13):
I'm like, so I have to wear this in the game.
I go, can you go like to a sporting goods
store to like, you know, Dick's sporting Goods. They have
Dick Sporting good you go like, make me a jersey
or something.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
He's like, dude, I don't know what to tell you.
So I'm like, oh my god. So I'm the youngest guy.
Speaker 11 (40:27):
Obviously, I'm a rookie and I feel like I'm being
haze because I signed my own jersey and I'm out
there and I'm like, I'm like, please don't let anyone
see me, you know, and a couple guys and the
dugout were saying, hey, dude, you nice jersey.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
I'm like, oh yeah, thanks.
Speaker 11 (40:40):
But anyway, I go on deck and like this, I'm
hitting from McGuire. In the seventh I go on deck
and I'm like, I remember on the on the on
the on the game that you know, Tim McCarver comes on.
He's like, come showing Casey. He's having a nice first
half blah blah blah. And they zoom in on me
and I'm like, you know, doing my thing, and they're like,
did he sign his jersey? So anyway, I go down
(41:07):
his history. Only guy, I have to be the only
guy in Big Legacy that ever played the All Star
Game with a fully signed jersey.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
I mean pretty amazing though, So the Bucko's going into
the All Star break, dude, the offense, the bats have
just exploded right now, and we were kind of kicking
around ways to keep this going. When you get Cruise
and you get Griffin back, now that you can't get
you gotta keep Valdez in the lineup right, I mean,
O'Hearn has been on fire too, So what's the solution?
Speaker 1 (41:37):
You got a deal Ozona or something? Right? I mean,
isn't it first off?
Speaker 11 (41:43):
Last year we're talking about the worst offensive baseball.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
This year we're talking about.
Speaker 9 (41:47):
Did you need to train somebody?
Speaker 1 (41:48):
But you have too much offense? You know what's incredible?
Speaker 11 (41:51):
And you're right, Valdez needs to play every day like
he cannot sit anymore. This guy is the real deal.
His power is real he I mean, I just feel
like you got to give him every day at bats.
He's not a guy off the bench, you know, bam,
he's he's he's made his mark.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
O'Hearn's been really good, you.
Speaker 11 (42:08):
Know, just the way you know, Branon Reynolds is having
an All Star first half. You know, when Horwitz comes
back and o Neil Cruz, I mean, Donnie Kelly has
a great problem on his hands because that offense is
electric and you have so many different offense. But that's
what great offenses do. If you look at the great
offenses around the league, they have four or five deep outfielders.
You can mix a match.
Speaker 8 (42:29):
Here.
Speaker 11 (42:29):
You have a guy lefty off the bench if you
need him. I don't know exactly what he's gonna do,
but but you're gonna have guys banged up at some
point too. But I really believe Randall that they are
about to make a run. I mean the fact that
they swept the Brewers, who are a really good team
obviously going into the break, and they really they really
took it to him. It wasn't like they really you know,
(42:50):
punched him in the mouth early and won all those games.
So and I think, you know the way Jared Jones
pitch going into the break, you know, Mitch Keller's gotta
be better's been he's been in the first half. I
think Schemes had a nice start on the way. So
I really believe they're about to make a run in
the second half.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
And this is a really this is a really good.
Speaker 11 (43:09):
Team we're looking at with a lot of offense, but
it's a great problem to have.
Speaker 9 (43:13):
Case there's about eight teams in the National League in
wild card contention. I think they're all within five and
a half six games of each other. You know, the
three qualifiers and the five contenders. What's the number that
gets you that third spot? Eighty four? Eighty five?
Speaker 11 (43:28):
I mean right now, you know, right now, it looks
like you know the way it's the way it's situated
with those guys.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
Blood teams are like, you know, right in it.
Speaker 11 (43:37):
But yeah, I'd say eighty three got the reds in
last year. You know, I'm thinking it's going to be
right there. Probably eighty five five wins is going to
get you in. And I'd be shocked if the Buccos
aren't aren't definitely at eighty five wins at the end.
I just really feel like this is a good team.
Speaker 1 (43:55):
Sean Casey the mayor.
Speaker 3 (43:57):
Tonight the All Star Game, hopefully, uh, nobody will have
repeated your your faux pae and we won't see anybody
with their John Hancock in blazing across their UNI. You're
a classic buddy. Uh, Hey, what's going on with the
Casey's clubhouse? What's the latest?
Speaker 11 (44:16):
Uh, we just had the greatest trip really quick.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Thanks for asking, Randy. We had the greatest trip.
Speaker 11 (44:21):
We just went to Cincinnati with our travel program and
we met up with six states. We met up Iowa, Massachusetts,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and we had a
we had a six state tournament.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
We called it the Miracle Series.
Speaker 11 (44:36):
Out in Cincinnati this past weekend.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
It was truly truly incredible.
Speaker 11 (44:40):
So a bunch of our you know, office, our Casey's
Clubhouse kids were there with their parents and uh, it
was an amazing, amazing weekend. So that was That's one
of our big things on the dock and we have
it going this summer. And like I said, we're about
to build a new field. Please, if you want to
donate for us or help us, get involved or get
involved with us Casey's Clubhouse dot org. You can help
us out and help our as they saw, you know,
(45:01):
get this second field that we.
Speaker 1 (45:03):
Really do need.
Speaker 11 (45:03):
And then we appreciate anything anyone anyone could do.
Speaker 1 (45:06):
You the best case. Thanks so much, Sean Casey. This
morning here on DV we.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
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how to make it last longer.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
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