June 27, 2025 • 5 mins
“What happens when a DFW radio legend refuses to leave the field—and the laws of gravity have other plans?”In this laugh-out-loud trip through time, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray fire up the Wayback Machine to revisit one of the most iconic—and unintentionally hilarious—moments in Dirk Nowitzki’s Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game history.The spotlight? None other than Jody Dean, the beloved DFW radio icon who made it his mission to play every inning—even if it meant falling flat on his face. Literally.From refusing to rotate out for actual athletes like Ezekiel Elliott to taking a tumble on a slow roller from Yogi Ferrell, Jody’s commitment to staying in the game becomes the stuff of legend. KT gleefully narrates the fall he’s waited years to call live, while Ben interviews Hall of Famer Tim Brown, who tries (and fails) to politely assess Jody’s athleticism:“He looks like a guy who’s taking care of himself… in what way?”The episode crescendos with a mock-serious postgame interview where Jody claims his “pancreas fell out” and boasts a record-breaking streak of nine consecutive injuries. The crew can’t stop laughing—and neither will you.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's time to go into the schule Wyberg motion. All right.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
So this goes back to the Dirk Heroes celebrity baseball game.
Dirk used to do this baseball game in Frisco where
the Rough Riders play every every summer. And you know,
Ben and Skin were on the teams. You played, you know,
for years in this thing, and then I was lucky
enough to get to you know, kind of either do
PA or you know, do some play by play. But
(00:29):
one of the things that would happen every year is
DFW radio legend Jody Dean would play in the game
and then refuse to go to the bench on a
team full of athletes from town and people who had
paid to be in the game, he would not leave
the game.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It was and it would to In his defense, it
wasn't very clearly defined. It was kind of like, you know,
if you were out there playing and you realize, oh,
here's the guy who hadn't got in, you would just go, hey, man,
take my spot. It was a lot of that. There
wasn't anybody managing it, no, but it.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Is to kt point, and I think Jody is the
kind of guy that you can because he's a guy
that recognizes he has an enormous ego.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's a joke. I've heard him joke about.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It, and it's literally it's more of an awareness thing, like, hey, Jody,
we do love you. But I think the people want
to see his egal.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, let's go ahead.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Let Zeke get on the Dallas Cowboy that everyone is
here to see.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He can't play every position, but one thing that would
happen every year by fault, like clockwork, he would fall
in the game, whether it's getting out of the batter's box,
diving for a ball in right field.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Because he's I mean, me and Been are ancient and
he's older than us.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, and eventually we stopped playing in it because we're like, man,
we're just gonna get hurt or make ourselves look like
fools out here, right, But he kept playing even at
our age.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He just stayed out there.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And to his credit, you know, he died for balls
and stuff, but he he would come up and get hurt.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I think he would not die for balls. I think
he would fall for ball. We have three clips here
and it's, uh, it's kind of interesting. I need you
to I guess I explained a little bit like softball
in this case, he's playing the picture position. Now you'd
have a former MLI picture like Ryan Drees or Mike Bassett.
Yeah it so I'm not out there throwing just to
get the ball over the plate, but you have a
(02:07):
guy playing the picture to field the position because the
picture is not gonna field it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Your batter at this time is Jogi Ferrell, and he
taps one up to the picture. Now I was lucky
enough to be doing play by play in fact, or
I was maybe I was doing color, but either way,
it's the only thing I wanted to do is be
on the mic when Jody Dean fell and it happens.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is like heaven for me.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But this is one of three that I'm going to
play for you.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
There's a bouncer in the mountain, could be trouble. It
is like clockwork. It happens every year. A brand ball
back to the.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Picture and Jody Dean falls down and then blames it
on the turf field is in perfect condition here in
riscone chose in the history.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Of It's so funny as you guys are roaming the
field with headsets on too, and just go put the
mic in front of Dirk's face or whatever. He just
wants to kill Yogi, not Jody Dean. Now, before we
get to Ben's interview with Jody Dean. After this, we
have to go to Ben talking to former Raiders great
Hall of Fame wide receiver Tim Brown about Jody Dean.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, the greatness of Tim Brown here.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
What are your thoughts on Jody Dean and his likeliness
to get injured. I'm worried about my likeliness to get
injured right there?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But I think Toby's kids, he's I think he's waiting
for this. Are you serious? I mean, are you just
being nutties?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You know?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I think Jody he looks like he's a guy who's
taking care of himself in what way.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Specific to watching the run? Right there, wasn't. I got
to change my mind. I'm glad that his hiding is over.
He saw running.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The best part that's been because in what way he himself.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The guy who's taking care of himself? In what way
he's specifically watching him run? Right there? Wasn't I got
to change my mind. That is so good.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
But he's having a hard time run around, but he's
staying out there every inning.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Tim Brown looked the nicest guy ever, didn't want to say.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Anything bad about him, then talked to him and to
say something bad about it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
In what way?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It's such a great follow up quest?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Right, So, after the fall where he got a little
top heavy and went down on a slow ground ball,
Ben catches up with Jody Dean.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Guys, I'm here with Jody Dean who had a horrific
injury on the infield. His pancreas fell out. The trainers
were able to get back over to him. Cram that
thing back in there, Jody, what happened? Well, they didn't
choose the end.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I would have preferred, but yes, they got it back in.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
He got the longest injury streak in the history of
the Heroes game, nine consecutive games with an injury.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
How are you able to keep this going? Age?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Mostly you hit fifty eight years old and thinks it's
happened automatically.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You just got to go with it. Let the game
come to you all right, back to you, guys, They're good.
I love Joe, fun dude.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
You can give him a hard time and he rolls
with it, and he'll even make fun of his own ego.
He's he's a great dude.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I'm telling you when he fell down, because I think
I was in a situation where I had to rotate innings.
It was like the only inning that I had to
like be on the air when it happened. When I
was there, I was just like, there's euphoria for me.
I shouldn't have and I'm gonna fall in my old
age because of this.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, I'm so impressed though, because I'm sitting here at
fifty four. There is no way in hell I would
get out on a field of anything right now. Yeah,
And he was out there at fifty eight, guy, and
that was not softball, it was baseball.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, And laser beams out there all right there. It
is the Wayback Machine. Really really good stuff. Rest in peace,
Jody Dan almonell never forget the time he was alive.
He's still alive. He just got word that he's still
We love you, Jody. Congratulations in the literal sense. Coming
up in just over three minutes of the today game.
Then what's going on in Dallas. That's all next
It's time to go into the schule Wyberg motion. All right.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
So this goes back to the Dirk Heroes celebrity baseball game.
Dirk used to do this baseball game in Frisco where
the Rough Riders play every every summer. And you know,
Ben and Skin were on the teams. You played, you know,
for years in this thing, and then I was lucky
enough to get to you know, kind of either do
PA or you know, do some play by play. But
(00:29):
one of the things that would happen every year is
DFW radio legend Jody Dean would play in the game
and then refuse to go to the bench on a
team full of athletes from town and people who had
paid to be in the game, he would not leave
the game.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It was and it would to In his defense, it
wasn't very clearly defined. It was kind of like, you know,
if you were out there playing and you realize, oh,
here's the guy who hadn't got in, you would just go, hey, man,
take my spot. It was a lot of that. There
wasn't anybody managing it, no, but it.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Is to kt point, and I think Jody is the
kind of guy that you can because he's a guy
that recognizes he has an enormous ego.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's a joke. I've heard him joke about.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It, and it's literally it's more of an awareness thing, like, hey, Jody,
we do love you. But I think the people want
to see his egal.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, let's go ahead.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Let Zeke get on the Dallas Cowboy that everyone is
here to see.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
He can't play every position, but one thing that would
happen every year by fault, like clockwork, he would fall
in the game, whether it's getting out of the batter's box,
diving for a ball in right field.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Because he's I mean, me and Been are ancient and
he's older than us.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, and eventually we stopped playing in it because we're like, man,
we're just gonna get hurt or make ourselves look like
fools out here, right, But he kept playing even at
our age.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
He just stayed out there.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And to his credit, you know, he died for balls
and stuff, but he he would come up and get hurt.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
I think he would not die for balls. I think
he would fall for ball. We have three clips here
and it's, uh, it's kind of interesting. I need you
to I guess I explained a little bit like softball
in this case, he's playing the picture position. Now you'd
have a former MLI picture like Ryan Drees or Mike Bassett.
Yeah it so I'm not out there throwing just to
get the ball over the plate, but you have a
(02:07):
guy playing the picture to field the position because the
picture is not gonna field it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Your batter at this time is Jogi Ferrell, and he
taps one up to the picture. Now I was lucky
enough to be doing play by play in fact, or
I was maybe I was doing color, but either way,
it's the only thing I wanted to do is be
on the mic when Jody Dean fell and it happens.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
This is like heaven for me.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
But this is one of three that I'm going to
play for you.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
There's a bouncer in the mountain, could be trouble. It
is like clockwork. It happens every year. A brand ball
back to the.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Picture and Jody Dean falls down and then blames it
on the turf field is in perfect condition here in
riscone chose in the history.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Of It's so funny as you guys are roaming the
field with headsets on too, and just go put the
mic in front of Dirk's face or whatever. He just
wants to kill Yogi, not Jody Dean. Now, before we
get to Ben's interview with Jody Dean. After this, we
have to go to Ben talking to former Raiders great
Hall of Fame wide receiver Tim Brown about Jody Dean.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, the greatness of Tim Brown here.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
What are your thoughts on Jody Dean and his likeliness
to get injured. I'm worried about my likeliness to get
injured right there?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But I think Toby's kids, he's I think he's waiting
for this. Are you serious? I mean, are you just
being nutties?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You know?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I think Jody he looks like he's a guy who's
taking care of himself in what way.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Specific to watching the run? Right there, wasn't. I got
to change my mind. I'm glad that his hiding is over.
He saw running.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
The best part that's been because in what way he himself.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
The guy who's taking care of himself? In what way
he's specifically watching him run? Right there? Wasn't I got
to change my mind. That is so good.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
But he's having a hard time run around, but he's
staying out there every inning.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Tim Brown looked the nicest guy ever, didn't want to say.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Anything bad about him, then talked to him and to
say something bad about it.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
In what way?
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It's such a great follow up quest?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Right, So, after the fall where he got a little
top heavy and went down on a slow ground ball,
Ben catches up with Jody Dean.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Guys, I'm here with Jody Dean who had a horrific
injury on the infield. His pancreas fell out. The trainers
were able to get back over to him. Cram that
thing back in there, Jody, what happened? Well, they didn't
choose the end.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I would have preferred, but yes, they got it back in.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
He got the longest injury streak in the history of
the Heroes game, nine consecutive games with an injury.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
How are you able to keep this going? Age?
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Mostly you hit fifty eight years old and thinks it's
happened automatically.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
You just got to go with it. Let the game
come to you all right, back to you, guys, They're good.
I love Joe, fun dude.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
You can give him a hard time and he rolls
with it, and he'll even make fun of his own ego.
He's he's a great dude.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
I'm telling you when he fell down, because I think
I was in a situation where I had to rotate innings.
It was like the only inning that I had to
like be on the air when it happened. When I
was there, I was just like, there's euphoria for me.
I shouldn't have and I'm gonna fall in my old
age because of this.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
No, I'm so impressed though, because I'm sitting here at
fifty four. There is no way in hell I would
get out on a field of anything right now. Yeah,
And he was out there at fifty eight, guy, and
that was not softball, it was baseball.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, And laser beams out there all right there. It
is the Wayback Machine. Really really good stuff. Rest in peace,
Jody Dan almonell never forget the time he was alive.
He's still alive. He just got word that he's still
We love you, Jody. Congratulations in the literal sense. Coming
up in just over three minutes of the today game.
Then what's going on in Dallas. That's all next
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