Mystery Guest Day! Talking All Things Texas Rangers | DLLS Rangers Podcast - Rangers Today

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Speaker 3 (00:49):
Today, Spirit Week continues. Ah, it's so spooky now. It's
not that kind of spirit week. It's the fire kind
of Spirit Week. And we continue it today with our
mystery guest on the DLLs Rangers podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yea yet is on the hot.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Seat today as at some point during this first segment
of the show, he will try to figure out exactly
who the mystery guest is. It's a surprise to him,
and of course a surprise to you as we welcome
you into the DLLs Sports Studios. It's the DLLs Rangers Podcast, me,
John Radigan, Jeff Wilson's here. Daughter Molly is here today.

(01:43):
She is not our mystery guest. Okay, good, but I
brought her. Yes, that wouldn't have been much of a surprise. However,
it's great to have you here, Molly. We appreciate you.
Kat in the seat, the Queen over there, and I
already see people in the chat. We like you for
being here. We're all gonna the guest, I promise you that,
and we will get to that start that process right

(02:05):
at the end of this first segment, but we start
to show Jeff with the news that happened again once again.
Maybe we got to move our show later. Right after
we left yesterday, we get the news that Josh Smith
has been named as the American League Player of the Week.
And I guess in some well and I saw somebody

(02:27):
tweet maybe it was you. He didn't even lead his
own team in categories most.

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Of the categories. It wasn't me, But I was a
little surprised. I wasn't expecting him to be in that
because it's not like he hit you know, usually these
guys said like four or five home runs and drive
in you know, twelve twelve runs, and he didn't do
those things. He only had four of me i and
two homers. But he did that four to twenty three,

(02:54):
score nine runs, slugged seven sixty nine and had a
five hundred on base percentage, led the al and runs
in total bases with twenty second. The Major's X race
hits five. So yeah, you add up all the numbers
and it's pretty good. And he did, you know, kind
of spark the offense.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
He really did, and the offense is surging upward. More
on Josh and the offense and this series against the Royals.
But we remind you about our Spirit Week festivities. So
today is Mystery Guest, Today Day, Tomorrow is Musical Chairs Day,
and Thursday is the day that we reach out to
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(03:35):
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(03:58):
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hesitate to become a big brother or a big sister.

(04:20):
That is how our Spirit Week continues. And it's nice
that actually there is. And I didn't mention this last
week on the show. A week ago Monday, I'm sitting
there going, all right, let me turn the game on.
Turn it on direct TV, and it shows a thing
of Slate.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
You know, the game.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
You know you don't get the pregame in your area.
I'm like, come on, I do two, okay whatever, waiting
for the game, waiting for the game. Let's last Monday,
and no game came on. I'm like, man, I got
a call direct TV. I got to get this thing
all figured out again. I've already been on the phone
with them. We had done a whole segment that day
on the show about what to do on and off

(04:58):
day in minnes soda. And yet there's my brain reacting
that one. Now, yesterday I did not do that. I remembered.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Good. There was no game yesterday. That said.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Man, it seems like it's been a long time since
the Rangers have played. Maybe it's because they've been playing better, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yeah, and you know it was. It was a long
game Saturday, especially, which I had the good fortune of
leaving early, and then Sunday was a long game, and
it just seemed like yesterday was a long day for
me personally. Well, you had three baseball games to attend.
We had a lot of we had a lot to do,
only two games. As it turned out, they only they won,

(05:36):
They won the first afternoon game, so oh good, Okay, Yeah,
but it was just a long day and so, yeah,
you're right, it does feel like they've been a while
since they played.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, they played tonight. And you know, it's one of
those situations that you know, the strength of this team,
of course, all season long has been the pitching staff,
and this is one thing we have not seen at
all this year, Jeff, is when we look at the
pitching matchup, the rotation for the three games of this series.

(06:07):
There are two tb d's for the Rangers. They you know,
Jack Lder goes tonight. They're just not sure which direction,
which way they're gonna go with the other two right now,
healthy bodies after that, because obviously Kamar Rocker is not
eligible in this series.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Yeah, Patrick Corban is for sure pitching one of the games,
right so we know that much. We just don't know
if it's tomorrow or the day game Thursday. You know,
de Gram pitched Saturday, so Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, he
could pitch Thursday if they wanted to do that. He's
gonna have to pitch on normal rests at some point
in this next next slate of games. Yeah, don't they

(06:48):
have nine in a row right now? Yes, yeah, so
he's got I think he's gonna have to pitch on
five days rests at some point. I don't think they
want to do a bullpen game, you know, just because
it is nine in a row and I think that.
You know, Dane Dunning was still here on Sunday. I
don't know if he's been dispatched back to Round Rock

(07:09):
or not, but you know, they could do an opener
with Dunning getting the bulk something like that. Yeah, but
we're just not sure, just not sure which way's going
to go.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Saw a tweet by our co worker, our partner on
the show, Abby who talked about the Rangers offensive ranks
in the month of June and then the big offensive
categories their third, seventh, third, seventh. In prior to June
they were thirtieth, thirtieth, thirtieth.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
And twenty ninth.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
So this is what we call a turnaround, Jeff, and
I hope as you do that the turnaround offensively continues.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
Yeah. That's you know we've been talking about things have
been better, even when they've had these games like when
they've scored one run or no runs, like the Friday
game at Washington not that long ago. But overall it's
been more consistent. There have been more home runs, there
have been more good things, more more guys getting hot,

(08:12):
stuff like that. So the the offense has has turned around.
It's nice to see stats like that kind of back
up the eye test, and so, yeah, I think they
are coming around. It's we thought it started with if
we think it starts with Marcus Simeon Josh Smith, you know,
our player of the week. He got hot again. Corey

(08:34):
Seeger is back walking like a madman and starting to
hit the ball well find his timing. So there are
a lot of guys who are in good shape now,
much better shape than they were at the end of May.
And as a result, the Rangers are you know, winners
of four in a row, seven of eight, back to
five hundred. So yes, I think we can say now

(08:59):
for half a month this offense has been very, very good.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Absolutely, and as somebody already mentioned in the chat, and
by the way, we love all the guesses for the
various who the guests might be, keep them coming. But
already in the chat somebody has mentioned that the Astros
and the Mariners both lost last night. So it's two
things about that. One, it's nice that we're back to

(09:23):
watching that sort of thing again, right, Jeff, there for
a while like it doesn't really matter. Now, you know,
it's time to keep watching that and hoping that the
Rangers can keep doing their part and getting closer and
closer to those two teams in front of them, which
amazingly aren't that far ahead of them.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Right. The Astros are four and a half games are
five games up, which is nothing. No, it's really you
can chew that up here pretty quickly. The Mariners had
been playing not great baseball. They actually have a negative
four run differential now, So the again it's wide open.

(10:01):
It's it's there for the Rangers to take. And as
we talked about yesterday, the schedule is certainly going to
lend itself to some friendlier competition some not not some
not not any Yankees and the Dodgers. Here it's it's
looking like Royals who've lost six straight and below five hundred,

(10:24):
Pirates Orioles, Mariners Orioles. Yeah, I mean, and you're just
coming off a sweep of the White Sox and the Mariners.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Out of that whole group, the Mariners are the only
one over five hundred and right now, I'd say they're
barely right, I mean, yeah, they're clinging to five hundred,
so and they haven't been playing well of late, so
uh anyway, and and the Rangers get them at home anyway,
So there's you know, that's all good, right that those
are those are nice things to note that the Rangers
still have to go out and do this thing on

(10:53):
the field, and that process begins tonight with a lighter
against Logo.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, you know Lugo. I think he finished second the
Cy Young last year kind of a breakout year for
him as the Royals had a nice season, but he's
been hurt this season. Now he's still you know, the
numbers still look really shiny, and you know, really the
whole rotation that the Royals are planning to throw at
the Rangers, with Bubbik going tomorrow and then Michael Waka

(11:25):
on Thursday, all guys who are in the midst of
pretty nice seasons, especially Bubuk kind of the best that
he's ever thrown. He's a left hander, so we know
what that does in the Rangers. It's going to be
a tough series. I don't think a lot of runs
are going to be scored by either team. But you know,
the Rangers. You know, it's Bruce Suppose, he said the
other night, it's it's the games. When you're scoring two

(11:48):
or three runs, you got to figure out how to
win those. And the Rangers should know by now because
they've won a lot of close games and lost a
lot of close games. Yeah, so they should. They should
be old pros of these.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
I think I saw they're eleven and thirteen now in
one run game. That's twenty four one run games already
out of seventy two. Yeah, that's a pretty big number. Yeah,
that's a big number. All right, So we're gonna play
a little game with Jeff. And by the way, the
guesses of Robinson Cano and Jay Buhner make me laugh,
because like, why would we get people who never played

(12:19):
for the Rangers? But you never knew who it might
have been? And I think Jeff would have really had
trouble guessing them. But he's gonna ask me some questions
to see if he can figure out who this guest
might be. It's sort of like twenty questions. I'll give
him some clues if we're getting close to ad time.
If he hasn't gotten it, go ahead, Jeff, Yes or
no questions?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Is this a current Rangers player? No former Rangers player,
no broadcaster, no, any affiliation with the Rangers at all? Yes? Okay?
Is it m somebody I used to work with? Ah?

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Yes, I have to answer honestly, Okay, like I worked
with him at the Did I work with him at
the Star Telegram?

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Yes? Anthony Andrew, no, Gil Everton, no Randy Galloway, No,
Jim Reeves, maybe you didn't work with him at the
stuff Telegram is a tr TR all right, it's t R.
So I didn't work with him at the start Telegram.
You did, yeah, and you guess him? So I was
getting there, Oh you were. I'm so forgot. I forgot.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
I thought maybe he ever won beat writers before. Okay,
I thought maybe he had gone to MLB about the
time you got the beat. I couldn't when he made
that transition. But but the reality is Jeff's mentioned t R.
As you all know on the show a million times.
Tr is something of a mentor to Jeff as a
beat writer and a guy who Jeff told me many

(13:51):
many moons ago. I said, Man, we should get t
R on. He's got all these great stories. And Jeff
said he.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
Won't come on. He doesn't like to do this kind
of thing.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
To TR's great credit, he is coming on because I
told him how much Jeff wanted to have him on
the program. So our guest, our mystery guest, today is
t R. Sullivan, who, if I'm not mistaken, Jeff wrote
like from seventy nine until twenty twenty two for.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
The Rangers, No eighty nine.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Eighty nine, okay, eighty nine, Yes, still a long time, Yes,
thirty two years, the longest run by a Rangers beat writer.
My clues for you were going to be this guy
loves basketball, and then you might not know that, and
I'd say this guy loves college basketball.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
I would have got it.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
And this guy loves University of San Francisco college. Back
one year at spring training, we were watching a University
of San Francisco maybe tournament game, might have been en
West Coast Conference games. And I'm telling you, at six
to four, right, I don't know if San Francisco is
up or down six to four. Trs graving the back

(14:59):
of the chairs in the bar, and.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Oh, come on, come on, like wow, this guy loves
him some basketball.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
So anyway, he's a fun guest. He's a great guest.
He knows so much about this team and so much
about covering it. And we'll talk to t. R. Sullivan
next on the DLS Rangers podcast. Oh I forgot what
are we doing?

Speaker 4 (15:21):
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it is time to welcome our guest, the Great T. R.

(17:27):
Sullivan joining us now from I'm sure is home and
plan O.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
T Are you there? Can you hear?

Speaker 5 (17:34):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 4 (17:36):
We hear you? We can only see half your face though.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, pull your screen down a little bit, tier. We
can't see your mouth.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
There you go. That's better. That's better, U. Yeah, lean
the other way.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yeah, Tr Were you able to hear the chat we
were having about you prior to you coming in?

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yes, I heard you say I started in nineteen seventy nine.
Thanks John. That's what I really needed.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, so you feel made you feel all, didn't it?
I guess it's.

Speaker 5 (18:08):
Number two started two started pounding the chair until the
second half. In the first half, I just banged the
ring on the bar.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
Okay, food stomping.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah, some foot stomping and the.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
Foot stopping was about mid game. It started out with
a banging of the ring, then it got to the
foot stopping, and then we then we started banging the chair.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
That's fantastic. He remembers it specifically well. And he took
me and Anthony to UH to the the USF campus.
We we walked through the gym and UH saw where
the magic happens, where the great Bill Russell and Casey
Jones played and brought home national titles. And so yeah,
he's he were Anthony and I are adopt. We've adopted

(18:55):
us F. Yeah, Anthony, Anthony really follows him pretty good.
Oh that's good. You've you've you've had your influence on
these guys.

Speaker 6 (19:03):
T R.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Do you remember when Jeff made the transition over from
UH being a guy on the desk and doing some
editing or whatever he was doing over there and joined
you out in the field and became a beat writer.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Well, he had already done a stint at tc right.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
Jeff, Yeah, I'd done a TCU stink and it was
a good reporter.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
We knew he was gonna be a good reporter. And
what impressed me the most when he got on the beat.
And this is a big thing when I when people
ask me about what makes a good beat writer. And
I was good at it earlier in my career, and
as I got older, I didn't kind of lost the
touch a little bit because Jeff really bounced around the
clubhouse really good. He really got to know the player

(19:44):
as well. He really developed a good rapport in the clubhouse,
and that that was the second thing that it impressed me.
And then you know, he you know it takes you.
It takes you a few years to cover baseball, I'm John,
I'm sure same thing with broadcasting. You just go don't
go in there and pick it up right away. You
got to learn all the rules, you know, the waiver

(20:05):
deadlines and all that. You got to know where to
go in eat city and and who to talk to.
And you know, it took Jeff a little time. It
took me a time. I had Jim Reeves to kind
of guide me the way I kind of guided Jeff.
But you know, early, you know, after a year or two,
you know, Jeff was pretty much he was he was

(20:26):
the guy. He was, he was, he knew what he
was doing. He you know, he came in with excellent credentials.
It was not like some other people, you know, some
who thrived, some who didn't thrive, but who came in
cold with no real good beat experience like Jeff did.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
That's very nice.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Our that's very nice, and our chat, our chat is
saying you are the man, the myth, and the legend
t are and I, uh, I must admit, I agree.
I mean, I didn't realize that you and I kind
of arrived on the scene at a similar time. But
I got here in nineteen ninety and you know, covered
the Rangers for a few years just as a reporter

(21:05):
from TV, and then got on the beat, if you will,
when I got on the broadcast in the middle nineties.
But at that point, you know, you seemed like a veteran,
maybe even a grizzled veteran. So I think you you
wore the beat well, and then you and then you
you know, experienced it for a long time. Did you

(21:27):
feel bitter at all tr that you were not still
on the beat in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
No way, no way. I was very happy for him,
but no, no, because really, John, my job was to
cover the news, to report the news. And people say, well,
do you remember that game last year where they won
eight to five and they rallied with five, And no,
I don't. I don't. I remember covering the team. I
remember the stories we broke. I remember the stories I broke.
I I remember the stories I got beat on. I

(21:56):
remember the story, you know, like I still know, you know,
twenty years later whatever that Jeff was the one who
broke the story that Neftali Felice was gonna have Tommy
John surgery. I mean, I don't know. That was what
twenty twelve or thirteen, something like that.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
I can't even remember one game in twenty twelve other
than I think that was your Josh Hamilton hit four
home runs. But I remember stories and how we worked
the beat and how we worked the big stories and
stuff like that, and that was my job. And I remember,
you know, twenty eleven World Series was fantastic to me.
It was the apex of MLB dot com. We did
such a great job. I'm so proud of that, you know,

(22:33):
twenty three. I'm happy for him. I enjoyed it. But
you know, Jeff knows, I didn't know any buddy on
that team. The only two guys who went into the
clubhouse who knew me were Jonathan Hernandez and jose Le Clerk.
I mean, you know, obviously we were not tight buddies.
But you know, there's Kyle Sieger. I've never met Kyle Sieger,
Marcus Simmon, I've never been for. I didn't know Bruce Bochi,

(22:55):
so you know, you know, one thing, I was a
military brat, and I moved around the country and I
always rooted for the home team. So I grew up
a Red Sox fan. And then I lived in Alabama
and I and I follow Atlanta Braves, and of course
I'm from San Francisco, folowgized to Day's. But you know,
you know, when I moved to Texas, you know, I
was focused on the Rangers. So you know, once I retired,

(23:17):
you know, I was happy for him, but you know,
no bitterness at all.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Well that's good, yeah, But you know, at the time
I was doing Rangers Today, which started in twenty one,
and one of the first people to help me out
was tr with what he called t R's memoirs, and
we've transferred some of them over to the d LS site.
But I think and I don't, I don't know. I
don't know if there's a public information, but there might

(23:42):
be something coming out about them.

Speaker 5 (23:44):
We're working we're working on a book that that we're
hoping to come out this spring. A lot of things
have been lined up, and uh, it's it's a long process,
but I'm hopeful in in spring that we're gonna have
We're gonna we're gonna be able to announce something officially,
but it looks like we will have that in the bookstores.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yeah, so that'll be great. That'll be great. It's it's
great stuff. And I don't know. I'm glad you're retired
when you did, but you couldn't stay retired. I think
you still had some things you wanted to tell and occasionally,
you know, you get to work for John Blake in
the program and stuff like that, so you're keeping your

(24:24):
feet wet a little.

Speaker 5 (24:25):
I guess, well, I appreciate it you gave me the forum,
because yeah, there were some things I just there was there.
You know, I have I have a lot of institutional knowledge.
I mean everybody knows that. I mean, I was there
for thirty two years, and there was stuff I just
wanted on the record in some kind of form. We're
hardcore Ranger fans who were interested could read about it.

(24:46):
I don't know what our readership was. I don't know
what if if the book comes out, what what, how
many we're going to sell? But you know, at least
I got it out there. I had a lot to say,
and I've said it, and you know, I really don't
have anything. You know, we've kind of stopped it because
I just don't have anything more to say. But you know,
other than a few stories here and there. But it

(25:06):
was I really appreciate you giving me that for him.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Yeah, well, the uh, you know, and it's kind of
the like the Dave Hosteler story. Just a lot of
people like that one. And yeah, just kind of the
random ones that you threw in there, whether you were
on the beat at the time or not. You know,
the history of the Rangers, how they got to Arlington.
That was a great one. And then you wrote you

(25:29):
wrote a six part on John Daniels six parts Dr
I didn't. I didn't give him. I didn't give him
a length.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
He just went, Yeah, that was a great thing about Jeff.
I said, Jeff, this could be a long one. He says,
don't worry about it. I said, this could be a
two partner. Don't worry about Jeff. I'm up to I'm
up to three parts. He said, don't worry about I mean, Jeff,
Jeff was the best editor I ever had.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Well, all right, so let's do this. Let's let's let's
hear that. Can you tell us the Hosteler story?

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Oh? I just repeated that. You know, I just did
the story of how Dave Hostelers came up in nineteen
eighty two and he came out of nowhere he'd been.
He'd come over in the Al Oliver trade. They traded
Al Oliver to the Expos for Larry Parrish and Dave Hosteler,

(26:18):
and Parish got off to a horrible start when he
came here in eighty two. I mean, he was like
hitting one seventy three or something like that. It was
a buffy Al Oliver was Al Oliver hitting his way
in Montreal. So suddenly in June, Hosteler comes up out
of Denver and just just starts hitting home runs. I mean,
like Buddy Bell told me, it was the first time
any player really got the whole metroplex excited about baseball.

(26:41):
And he got on a run. He hit it about
eleven or twelve thirteen home runs in the middle of
the summer. Of course, Hosteler translates into Hawks, which trans
translates into Bonanza, And so your predecessors on Channel five
and the others started playing the Bonanza theme song whenever
Hosteler hit a home run, and it was just wild.

(27:02):
I mean for a whole month, about two or three months,
he was just fantastic. And then he just died. I
mean next year he I mean, he never repeated it.
It was just he was the ultimate flash in the
pant He's a great guy, still lives in Arlington, still
goes to Ranger events. I talked to him for a
few hours. He was he was great, no bitterness, no

(27:22):
no regrets, and joined life. Has a nice house, beautiful house,
and you know, it's an incredible story. You know him.
You know, there's still some legends in the range. You know,
Pete Incavillion was we did that story. I mean, that
guy you were you were here John for Incavilion. But
when he came up that first year and goes to
the spring training hits that ball through the through the

(27:43):
fence in the outfield. You know, John Blake was like
all over that. He running tours out there. You know
Incavillion hit that line drive to left field. Well that
left field was rotted wood and it kind of just
chipped off the top of it. But no, I was
you know, it was just a few years after Roy
and all that. So John Blake had is Roy Hobbs
and the Natural and you know that was an amazing

(28:06):
story too. So you know, even up to before they
finally got to the World Series, they had a lot
of great moments, a lot of bad moments. But I
mean it was just even before Me, through Me and
now after me. This this whole franchise has been one
wild ride.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Well, and you were there to cover things like Nolan
Ryan's accomplishments when he was here and the vast majority
other than when he wasn't here, But of Pud Rodriguez's career,
So there's two Hall of famers.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
A lot of.

Speaker 5 (28:35):
Adrian I covered Page Rodriguez from the time he was
in the minor leagues to the time, went to the
Hall of Fame. Every step well, of course he went
to other teams.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Yeah, I was.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
I was there all the way, witnessed Pudge Rodrigas from
beginning to the end.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Yeah is that?

Speaker 3 (28:50):
I mean, like, how special is it to follow a
young man from a teenager to the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
I mean, he goes to Chicago. I called up to Chicago.
Somebody got hurt. It might have been Gino Petroli, I
can't remember who. He comes up to Chicago, he gets
a base hit and throws out two base runners, comes
to the clubhouses and his play and his teammates have
taken all his clothes away. So now he have to interview,
talk to the press totally nude. And we were talking

(29:23):
about we were laughing about that, and I remember talking
about that in Cooperstown when he went into the Hall
of Fame. He you know, pud Pudge was pudg I mean,
he had one thing about Pudgick. He's an incredible talent.
He was incredible talent with that great arm, accurate arm.
But you know, you remember John, you were a broadcaster.
He get hit, he get hit with a foul ball
and he goes diving into the dirt and his face

(29:44):
would be digging into the dirt and he'd be rocking
back and forth, and we're all like going, oh my god,
is going on to disabled list for eight weeks. And
the trainer comes out and they're patting him and everything
like that. The next thing you know, he's back in
there and it throws out the next runner trying to
steal he was. He was so much fun, really a
lot of fun to cover. Special I'm one of the
top five catches in baseball history. And we were there,

(30:07):
you were there, we were all there. You have just
see this great player.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
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You know, we've been talking about the baseball tournament that
are my son is playing in and he had a
game bright and early in this morning. They got they
got beat pretty good.

Speaker 7 (31:39):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
And so when we handed him off to one of
his teammates so that Mollie and I come to the
studio and do the show, gave him his baseball bag
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Speaker 5 (32:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
I think it's a fantastic idea. Uh, it's mystery, Guesday.
The mystery has has been figured out. Uh, and Jeff
got it on a few questions.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
I'm glad.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
I mean, I don't know how good Jeff was at
twenty questions. He's a smart guy, so I thought he
might get it like that. Yeah, I was proud. It
took a little longer than I thought.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
I did work with tr but not in a writing capacity.
I was always on the on the copy desk when
he was working the beat for us.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Okay, hold lot of second here we're talking about we're talking.
He brought up family, so I get to bring up
family too. So T see you kids, Zach Kyer. He's
my great nephew. His father is my nephew. Mother's a
wonderful lady to my niece. He was eleventh round pick
by the Kansas City Royals last year from out of TCU.

(33:14):
He's pitching at High Class A Quad Cities, winning a
saved last week, doing great, Zach kyer TCU, doing a
nice job for the Royals. Okay, just want to throw
that in there.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
He had a great one season at TCU. He was
he was really a big part of their team that year. Really. Yeah,
did he just transfer in late? Is that what happened?

Speaker 5 (33:34):
Was he he came from McLennan. He spent two years
in mclenans from Fort Worth Nolan High School. He wasn't
a big recruit out in Fort Worth Nolan, but he
went to mcclennan. He's gained a lot of bulk, a
lot of a lot of velocities up to ninety four
ninety five, great breaking ball, great field for pitching. Anyway,
I just wanted to throw that out there. Thank you good.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yeah, I'm I'm a Nolan guy. My wife used to
work there, my daughter went there. They're a football school,
but uh, you know, but obviously it worked out well
for him in baseball too.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
So his brother played football there. His name was Ben,
He's older brother. He played Nolan and he went to
played college football at Carnegie Mellon.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
Any good for him.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah, they won when my daughter was there, they won
at least two state championships with Joe Prudome as their
head coach.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Yeah, they had a really good They had.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
A really good thing going over there. So anyway, t R.
Sullivan is the guest. You knew him from the Fort
Worth Star Telegram and from MLB dot com for all
those years. There's been some some disputing in the chat
tr What year was your last on the beat? What
year did you officially retire?

Speaker 5 (34:40):
Twenty twenty Long story short, I was working for MLB
dot com. We did we opened the season, we played
in the in the new Ballpark, but it was there
were no fans there at MLB dot com well major
everybody lost a lot of money and they pretty much
They gave us the option of early retirement. I wasn't
planning on taking it. I was origin she plans to

(35:00):
work through the twenty twenty fourth season. Then I was
going to retire, but they offered me a great early
retirement package. They offered a lot of us and we
all took it. None of us were expecting to take it,
but it was very generous. I retired after the twenty.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
Season, and then Kennedy stepped in, uh, fresh out of LSU,
and she's she's now finding her own. She has this
great good season. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
Really really proud of Kennedy. I hope people are reading
her because she's really worked hard and being good at
that job and she's excellent.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Did she did she overlap with you for one season
or no?

Speaker 5 (35:33):
No? No, I'd never met her until they hired her.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
Okay, gotcha? Wow?

Speaker 3 (35:38):
So yeah, Okay, so she's she's been figuring it out
on her own. She didn't have the great TR like
you and Anthony did. Even when TR was working for
MLB dot com, he was helping you guys.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
He would help the start Telegram guys. Yeah, because TR
TR TR is loyal to maybe to a fault sometimes,
but he loyalty is a big deal with TR. If
you're his friend, then your h your friend, your He's
loyalty for life.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
So TR, you said that, you know, you mentioned Pudge
and the Joy and I agree with you one hundred
percent that you know, I remember when he signed with
the Tigers, and my family in Detroit called and said,
you know, oh my gosh, we got Pudge.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
What do you think?

Speaker 3 (36:16):
And I said, oh, wow, my favorite player on my
favorite team. Right, So that's the team I grew up with.
That's that was the team I've always rooted for the Tigers,
and and to have Pudge on there was really fun.
And of course his first year he took them or
helped take them to a World Series. They lost the Cardinals.
Got to hate the Cardinals. But anyway, the uh, the

(36:37):
uh other than Pudge, Like, so what stands out like
you've got that as a player that you covered, you know, game? Uh,
what's the what's the game you remember most or enjoyed
covering the most.

Speaker 5 (36:53):
You know, the one moment I you know, the one
moment I'm never forget, gonna forget is Benjie Molina's triple
from the Yeah, that was that was a big one.
You know, you remember Nolan Ryan's two no hitters. But
you know, I remember covering the World Series with Jim Rees.
You know, I remember, I'll tell you this, two thousand

(37:15):
and one Game four in New York. That was the
one where Derek Jeter hit the home run. After midnight,
tenth dinning, extra innings. The Rangers were trying to find
a general manager there. They had fired Doug Melvin, and
we're down to John Harden and Dave Dombrowski. And that
game is like in the eighth inning and in the
crowd at full full capacity at Yankee Stadium. And I'm

(37:39):
sitting there on the phone in the eighth, seventh, eighth
inning trying to call sources to see if the Rangers
made the decision on who the general manager was. And
we found out that it was John Hart. So I'm
sitting there writing a story that John Hart's could be
the next general manager. All fifty Yankee fans are rocking.
That's in the old Yankee Stamum, you remember the old
Yankee Stadium. Both of you were there, right, You remember

(38:02):
how that thing could rock In the World Series, that
thing would just shake, and that stadium is shaken. I'm
trying to file a news story and keep up with
this game and it's after midnight, and that to me
was one of the That was the night I'll never
forget having to write a news story and cover one
of the most historic baseball games ever, all at the
same time.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah. One of the first stories that t I wrote
for my website, it might have been the first, was
the eighty nine World Series the earthquake, because tr was there,
and of course his a lot, a lot of his
heart and soul is in San Francisco, and so I'm
sure you're never obviously you'll never forget that one.

Speaker 5 (38:42):
Oh no, because we've done an off day and I
was kind of hungover after celebrating the off day, and
I'm on the I'm on the field before the game,
and I'm like starting to feel a little woozy, you know,
I'm talking. I'm in this group talking to Don Fear
about you know that they had a labor dispute come
up next year. So We're sitting there talking to Don
Fear and I'm like going, oh my god, I'm gonna

(39:03):
end up losing, losing it here on the field and
embarrassing myself in front of the whole World Series. And
that's all anybody will ever remember this night, is me
throwing up on the field. So I went upstairs, got
something to eating. I was fine. So Jim Reeves and
I were sitting there sitting in the upper deck and uh,
this is game three. The A's have won Game one.
In game two in Oakland and Will Clark the first

(39:26):
basement we all remember Will Will said, well wait till
we get the candle, but wait till we get the
candlestick park. Our fans, our fans are gonna be really
behind us, and blah blah blah. So we're sitting there
at the game is already starting, about five seven minutes,
and all of a sudden, i hear this roar, this roar,
and I'm going, holy shit, excuse me, you.

Speaker 4 (39:45):
All right, we're on cable or something.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Yeah, these fans are really into this, this fans starting.
Then I started to fill a rumble and more of
a rumble, and I'm going, oh, it's an earthquake. And
then the next thing, you know, and I've been in
five or five earthquakes in San Francisco during my four
years there, and you know, there were rumbles and sometimes
you get a little bit of a shaking, but this
I saw a stadium, Candlestate Park, with sixty thousand people

(40:08):
in there, shaking violently left and right, just going back
and forth. And it was it was so violent. It
scared the crap out of me. It scared the crap
out of all of us. And finally it finally settled down,
and I'm like, okay, okay, we're okay. The earthquake is
gonna I mean, the game's gonna start. We'll be fine.

(40:28):
Then I look out in center field. There's a long
column of black smoke going straight up way beyond center field.
And that was where that watch mccaut the freeway collapsed
and killed those people did most of the That was
where most of the people who died in the earthquake died.
And they were sitting there. Revo had Jim Reeves had

(40:49):
one of those old TV little radio TVs, you guys,
remember the battery operated TV watch. So he said, they're
watching the TV and suddenly he goes, he goes, the
Bay bridges collapsed. Well, Bay bridges collapsed, he said that.
And of course I've been like all of us who

(41:11):
who have been out there, I've been across that bridge
one hundred hundred times, right, And when you say the
Bay bridges collapsed, you think the whole thing is just
collapsed down on the into the bay, which of course
it didn't. You know, it was just one section of it.
But yeah, forget.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
One that fell on top of the other one of
the double decker.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
Yeah, so and only one person died from that fortunately,
but yeah, and just working all night having to cover
that thing and covering it the next day. And the
next day was weird because we went out to the
Marina District, which is a nice, nice neighborhood of San Francisco,
and it was a beautiful day, sunshiny day, and we
were all a couple of reporters of mine friend from Chicago,

(41:52):
Kerrie Muskat, were They're going around looking over the damage
and talking to people, and it was like a carnival
out there. There were people out there and dressed up
like it was a sunny afternoon walking Golden Gate Park
and it was surreal and.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
Yeah, very strange. Hi, what do you think about this
year's team? T R have you? Have you looked at
him much?

Speaker 5 (42:14):
Well, you know, I got some mixed feelings about it.
And you know, I don't want to hear this. This
is the best pitching staff they've ever had. Okay, stop,
please stop. I mean he's a great picture. I mean,
Jacob de Grohm is a great picture. Hopefully Tyler is
going to be okay, you know, we all know of
Alding is done well here in Texas, and you know

(42:35):
I'll tell you this. I mean they got to get
a lighter in Rocker. I mean, the whole future is
on Lighter and Rocker. These guys have got to come
to this guy. These are two one and two draft choices.
These guys have got to hit. I mean, that's all
there is to it. You can talk about you can
talk about de Groam, you talk with Walde, you can
talk about anybody wants on that staff. But to me,
to me, watching the Rangers this year, to me, it

(42:56):
was all about watching how far Lighter and Rocker come.
I gotta come because you can't let these two great
draft picks just implode on you like they did with
David Clyde and Tommy Box. You know, back in the
seventies they had David Clyde number one and Tommy Box
second overall pick that was a seventy three and seventy four.

(43:17):
I mean, those guys should have carried that team through
the seventies when they had at Oliver and Jim Sundberg
and Buddy Bell and Toby Hair and all those guys.
They should have had two guys David Clyde and Tommy
Boggs leading that staff go back into the eighties, Bobby Witt,
Kevin Brown, Brian O'Hannon, those guys should have carried that
franchise into the nineties. They were pretty good. They were

(43:38):
pretty good, but they weren't as good as they had hoped.
We all remembered the DVDs, you know, Thomas Diamond, Edison
Bulcaz and John Danks. They weren't as they weren't top
top picks like those other guys were. But still the
Rangers put a lot of stock into that and it
didn't happen. We know what happened. Then. The big traguy

(43:58):
about the twenty eleven Rangers world serious team was how
fast that was starting rotation disintegrating. So when you look
at this team and everybody said, well, is Garcia gonna hit?
What's gonna happen with Simeon Sieger gonna stay healthy? Now,
obviously you want Langford and Young and him to come through.
I mean, those guys are huge parts of those teams,
and those guys are also high draft picks, no doubt

(44:21):
about it. But to me, this this whole year has
gotta be about lighter and Rocker, and can these two
guys matchup or live up, excuse me, live up to
being one number one overall and number two overall. Pick

(44:41):
who was.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
The better pitching rotation in Rangers history than this one?
Or were there more than one?

Speaker 5 (44:48):
Well, here's the one thing, these guys, here's the one thing.
And I don't want to knock any of these picches,
but I'm gonna knock them. They're going five, They're going
five or six innings. Okay, you can say, well these
guys are great, Well that's good, but they're only going
five or six innings. I mean, you go back to
you know, the ninety six team when they had Ken Hill,
they had John Burkett, they had Bobby Witt, they had
Roger Patock, they had Darren Oliver. Those guys are going

(45:10):
seven or eight innings. You go back to the seventies
when you talk about Hall of Famous, the nineteen seventy
seventeen I mean, how many Hall of Famous that we
have on that team, Gaylor, Perry and Burt Blylevin. You know,
we had one with Ferguson Jenkins in that those seventies rotations,
those guys are Hall of Famous pitching complete games and
shutouts and stuff like that. And you know to say,

(45:31):
these guys, these guys, you know, de Graham is fantastic.
I love watching them pitch. Who doesn't. Valdi has been
fabulous for the Rangers. But the time my guys are
going five to six, maybe seven innings. You know this
is an excellent staff. But you know, no, no, no, no,
no no.

Speaker 4 (45:49):
Well, I know you're a big fan of the eleven
staff too. The eleven rotation that never never went on
the injured.

Speaker 5 (45:54):
List, I know that was that was great. I mean
Derek Holland, C. J.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
Wilson, Kolbe Lewis, Harris, I.

Speaker 5 (46:06):
Mean, we go, we could sit here for fifteen minutes,
and it's a great story. How that rotation, that rotation
disintegrated too fast. I mean the next year Kobe Lewis
went down with that. He was pitching great, and June,
we're talking about him going for the All Star Game,
came down with that flex or elbow injury and he
was never the same again.

Speaker 4 (46:25):
The division, it's that sick.

Speaker 5 (46:26):
Exactly exactly. I don't have to look at Ryan Dempster
in a Ranger's uniform, and I loved, I loved John Daniels,
but the biggest mistake he ever made was flip flopping
Alexei o Gando and Tali Felee's that's the biggest mistake
he ever made. So Ghana goes to the bullpen, it
doesn't work out, Fleee blows out his elbow. Derek Holland
and Matt Harrison, we all know what happened with them.

(46:48):
Harrison had one great year and then his congenital back
homes cropped up. And uh and CJ for I mean
you Darvish, you know, fabulous town, But I mean the
guy was here for five years and pitched two playoff
games and lost them both. I mean, I mean, darbish
was not worth one hundred and thirteen million dollars. I'm

(47:09):
sorry he wasn't.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Well, tr Man, It's been great.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
We should have booked you for the whole show, but
I'm glad we got to talk to you. It's great
to have you on the show. I've been wanting to
do it for a long time. Now that we've had you,
you know how much fun we are. So you can
do it again. And yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (47:30):
Maybe Becky that may be back next year to plug something.

Speaker 4 (47:34):
Wow, Well, yeah, we'll do that too. Well we'll do
that too. We'll do that too.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Tr great, great chatting with you as always, and we
appreciate you keeping it a secret and being our mystery
guest with you for Jeff. Yeah, we'll see us soon.
All right, We've got more coming up. It's our cleanup
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We're just a little bit late, but Tiars stories were
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Speaker 4 (50:59):
Totally big night.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
At the ballpark today, as there will be a one
one in the house actually will be a couple of one.
Was Bobby Witchell one two? Okay, so he will be
trumped by a one one in the house. Paige Becker's
throwing out the first pitch of tonight's game.

Speaker 4 (51:22):
You said she was hurt. I don't think it's a
soldier or elbow. I hope not.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Yeah, I hope it doesn't get any worse. I think
actually she was just is and or was just ready
to come back. She missed like four or five. Oh
you know what it was. It was concussion protocol that
she was out for. So I think, uh, I think
she'll be fine with that. And I promise nobody will
hit her, right, You're not gonna be a comebacker and
hit her in the head and and and you know

(51:46):
risk that that tender noggin up there. But anyway, it's
really cool that the two basketball teams in the area,
the MAVs, the two professional teams, the MAVs and the
Wings have a one one and so Paige Becker's tonight.
I imagine maybe some time later this summer they'll have Cooper
Flag toss him one out there.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Jeff, I would hope, so, I would I would I
would go for that. Yeah, that's that's that's pretty neat.
You know they you're you're pal Nancy Leeberman is going
to come out. Miles Garrett was there Sunday for Father's
Day and Abby went down and talked to him about, uh,
you know, the big big deal coming up for Michael
Parsons and little se Door Sanders talk. So check out

(52:27):
our various channels to to see what he had to say,
because he just signed a big, big old contract. Yeah,
and he was ready to leave Cleveland. Yeah, and he's
a good kid.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
He grew up across the streets from some good friends
of mine and I used to do the Lombardi Award.
I think it was as an MC and I got
to know him and the and the family a little bit.
So I like Myles Garrett.

Speaker 4 (52:49):
Yeah, a dealer rick off the helmet, that's that's not who. No,
that's not Arlington Martin ye a and m don't hold
that against him. But uh, anyway, they've had they've had
some pretty good first pitcher thrower routers this year. Yeah,
they really TCU Beach Volleyball Coach National Champion coach Hector
Gutierre is throwing out kid. Yeah, so they're just bringing

(53:10):
in all the big ones.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Fantastic, so Page Becker's tonight. Uh sho Otani pitched last
night more than just the one ceremonial first pitch, but
not a hell of a lot more. Jevy went one inning,
but what else could we expect from a guy who
was pitching for the first time? And as Abby reminded
that his three hundred and sixty three days on a
major league mound. He but you know what, he touched

(53:32):
one oh one hundred point two, not one oh two,
but one hundred point two, which only Roki Sasaki has
thrown a faster pitch for the Dodgers so far this year.
And I think his was like one hundred point four.
And Rokies on the shelf right now. Broke Roki, yeah,
broke his arm.

Speaker 4 (53:49):
So yeah. There. The other day, Dave Roberts made a
sound like he may not be available this year. Sasakiani,
though gave up, gave up a couple hits in a run.
Apparently the sacrifice fly there is a missed strike strike
call or something like that, so it could have been
a scoreless outing twenty eight pitches. It was just probably

(54:11):
more than the Dodgers wanted and be thorewbody got through
it and probably go to the next time and maybe
the next time it's as an opener. It seems like
that's kind of I haven't heard anything different that they're
they're gonna not gonna send them out how else, I mean,
how else you build them up? Yeah, you know, or
wherever the heck their a ball team is, you know,

(54:31):
because you you don't want that bad out of the lineup, right,
So that's that is something that that I was wondering
how they were going to try to accomplish it. You know,
if if a team off day could coincide with a
rehab start, you know, which you know most off days
they were on Mondays, right and major league minor league
teams don't play on Monday on Mondays. You know, it's

(54:52):
it's gonna be it's gonna get tricky. But I would
suspect that he that they I would I would have
suspected they would send him out at least once, but
maybe not.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
I saw he's got seventy nine home runs for the
Dodgers in his time with the Dodgers, and this that
part's not surprise. Well, he's the Dodgers pitcher that has
hit the most home runs in Dodgers' history. But this
part did surprise me. How many Don Drysdale hit he
could hit? Right, Yes, twenty nine bombs. I mean for

(55:26):
a picture exclusively a pitcher back in the day.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
So, Tani, how many home runs does he have as
a pitcher for the Dodgers? Zero? Right, Yeah, that's right.
Let's let's get that down to zero.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Yeah, it's zero compared to twenty nine. So yeah, I
was surprised by Don Drysdale on that.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
Yeah. Yeah, well he was a big dude. He was
a big space nasty Yeah, no problem, yep.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Yeah, didn't even think about it. So, yeah, that's that
Otani pitches. Uh quickly g and Carlos Stanton got it
back in there last night for the Yankees.

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
They're in a bit of a streak here, they've lost
four in a row for the first time this season. Uh,
but Stanton at a couple of hits, and I'm sure
feels good about, you know, getting back in there, and
certainly the Yankees have to feel good about getting him back.
I mean, this is a true talent in the game.

Speaker 4 (56:16):
Yeah, I mean they scored no runs uh, the losing
to the Angels in eleven, but yeah, it is. The
injury is weird. It was the elbows, yeah, and and
he was talking, as I recall, about a certain way
he was swinging that that caused it. And so I

(56:36):
wonder if his swing is gonna look different. I would
suspect it would, but they were thinking he was gonna
have to have surgery on both elbows. We so, yeah, yeah,
but it's glad. It's glad he's back when he Nobody
hits the ball harder than that guy. No, No, nobody
hits the ball harder.

Speaker 5 (56:53):
No.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
And I he hit he hit a ball farther in
uh in Globe Life Park than anybody ever saw. It
was way back at the back of the batter's eye
during batting practice. And you know they had that building
back there too, but the back of the batter's eye
had a green railing and he hit it off that
railing at the back of the batter's eye. And we

(57:16):
went out there and looked and you could see a
little mark from where the ball it was unbelieved. I
don't even know how far that is, but it's a
long long way. So the pride of Batesville, Arkansas had
a big day yesterday, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (57:30):
Somebody from the Walton family.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
Good question you asked. Good night, John boy.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
No.

Speaker 3 (57:36):
Batesville, Arkansas is the home of Gage Wood, oh of
the arkansa razor who threw just the fifth I'm sorry,
the third no hitter in College World Series history.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
I know, and he was.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
So he took a perfect game into the eighth inning,
and in the eighth inning he hit a guy hit
his back foot. Then in the ninth inning he hit
the damn leadoff batter. I didn't think he leaned. No,
I didn't see a lean there. They actually, yeah, they
called him out. They did because they said, he, let's

(58:20):
put it this way. He didn't try to get out
of the way, but he didn't lean in. So yeah,
I don't know which way you go with. That's a
judgment call that they reviewed, so I guess it wasn't
really a judgment call. But anyway, anyway, pretty cool. The
last time it happened was nineteen sixty and then there
was one way before then. Three times is all that's

(58:43):
ever happened at the College World Series to throw a
no hitter, which, again, when you're throwing a no hitter
and he struck out nineteen You throw a no hitter
with those aluminum bats, you know.

Speaker 4 (58:53):
Kimar Rocker had a game like that. It wasn't in
the College World Series. I believe it was to get
to the College World Series, so it would have been
in the whatever they call it, the Super Regional. And
nineteen it was a nineteen k no hitter to get
them to the to the Super Regional against Duke in
twenty nineteen. So he was a freshman. Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Yeah, and Gage is expected to be a first round
draft pick. And like I think it was the coach
from and by the way, the team that they eliminated
was that Murray State the Racers. Yeah, the America's team
as they had become. The race is over for the Racers.
They are headed home, and that was cute. One of
the kids. They're up there on a dais like this

(59:37):
with all the kids have their names in front of
them and are all, you know, doing postgame interviews. One
kid keeps smiling and they said, why you smiling? You know,
you guys got lost, you got shut out, you were
no hit nineteen Straka, We're at the College World Series, man,
you know we're Murray State. We get eight hundred people
at a game if we're lucky, so I don't blame

(59:59):
him for a excitement and good for him so anyway,
but really good for Gage, young Gage would who's who's
gonna make that? Coach Schulchler or whatever his name is
from Murray State said that young man just made himself
a lot of money today.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
What did he throw? One hundred and nineteen pitches? Which
isn't bad? No, not terrible for a no hitter like that?

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
Yeah, all right, And finally today, the aforementioned Pete Inkovillia
who tr talked about, is one of his favorite play
I couldn't believe. I came across this on the social
media today and you can search for it. I wish
we could show it. We can't show the actual video,
but that's young Pete and Kovilia grew up in the

(01:00:40):
Northern California area obviously, then hailed from Monterey. He threw
a strike in that game Jeffyer in that punt passing
kick competition, and I think it went thirty nine yards.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
But he's twelve. Yeah, well yeah, so long you know
he did and have a great arm. He wasn't like, no,
that's not what it was. Winner. Yeah, but that's pretty cool.
But he was a pump passing kick winner, so that's
gonna do it.

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