October 2, 2024 • 14 mins
Rivalry games mean the records don't matter. Are they ready? Jump into this segment to find out what Craig thinks and why the atmosphere in Dallas that weekend is unlike anything else.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My wife and I have talked about that.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We think he kind of surrendered into it a little quickly,
so maybe something was going on there.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I don't know. I mean, he is a rock star.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And this is another guy whose hair is amazed you.
Right when you look at the three guys from Ambrosia, right,
all four of them press off. Ambrosia sounds like it's
one person. No, it's it's it's a bad it's a
bad from the seventies and eighties. And they're performing in
Arlington tomorrow and since Linda and I had to go
up to the Dallas Forward area anyway, and they're performing
(00:31):
at the Arlington Music Hall, which is kind of like
going to the Paramount here. It's a small venue, a theater.
And she said, oh look, I was like, you want
to go to see Ambrosia? She said, because I'm a
yacht rock fan, although Ambrosia is not my favorite, but
I don't dislike.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Them, so she was interested in him.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So I said, okay, so we got tickets, so we're
gonna go see Ambrosia tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's part of it. So that's why I wanted. That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We see a lot of shows together since We've been
together since twenty eighteen. And my first wife she also
liked musically. We went to some concerts together, and next
week will be eight years since she passed away, so
(01:21):
and then I was two years beyond that before Lynda
and I bumped into each other at an event going
to see that we went to see an old friend
play and as the first time I'd seen her in
I think since nineteen ninety four, so it's been like, yeah,
I think it was twenty six years or twenty four years,
(01:44):
twenty whatever. It was twenty four years, I guess, since
we'd even seen each other or something like that. And
then it just kind of took off from there. And
we had dated back in the early eighties for about
a year and a half, split up state friends. She
was at my wedding, I was, Me and my wife
were at her wedding in ninety four. She and her
(02:05):
husband had decided to divorce, and then I just happened
to randomly run into her and it started from there well,
once we got together, and then when she moved down here.
Because she's a special ed counselor and I was also
a licensed professional counselor, so she has a client list
that she counsels does mental health counseling. We started going
(02:31):
to these concerts, and it was because I had gotten
to the point of my life where there were some
people that I had and bands and artists I either
had never seen before and always wanted to or wanted
to see, or it was a band or artist that
in my college days in the early eighties, I worked
(02:53):
the concerts, selling T shirts for the band or for
the arena.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And I did that for.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Four years and in the early eighties, and so I
used to tell people that have worked everything from ac
DC to Lawrence Welk, which was pretty much true. I
would worked a c d C concert and worked Prince worked,
Prince Yeah, Prince wow Right. It was the Purple Rain tour.
Wow went on to her journey in eighty three in
(03:21):
the Frontiers tour, worked Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, worked All
Kazzy Top, all Met Doobie Brothers, Rolling Stones, all of these,
all of these great bands, Bob Seeger so did all these.
And now years later, having put myself through college by
(03:41):
working those shows, I wanted to have the opportunity to
see some of these because when you're working it you
don't really you see glimpses of the show. You walk
in during a song, they walk back out to your
stand while your partner watches the stand, and then you
swap off. So I wanted to see some so I
just happened to mention because my broadcast partner for Long
Worn Basketball, Eddie Orrin, and we were going to go
(04:03):
see Bob Seger, who was on his last tour. And
then Eddie couldn't do it he had a work related conflict.
So Linda and I by then had started to see
each other, and I said, do you want to go
see this concert? It's Bob Seeger And She's like, yeah,
I'll go. She didn't, and then when she went, she
loved it. She said, oh I remember that song, and
oh I remember that song, and oh I remember that song.
(04:25):
I said, I got a whole file folder of shows
like that that I want to see coming up.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
If you're up for it. She said yeah. So then
it became Eric Clapton while we went to that.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Then we saw a little River band in a casino
then and then saw Boss Gags at the Paramount. She
gave me as a Christmas present because she knew how
much of a Billy Joel fan was and she was
somewhat of a fan. She gave me two tickets to
see Billy Joel at Fenway Park at Yeah, so I said,
(04:59):
I said, it was a Christmas gift, she said, and
opened it up. Two tickets Bill Joseah, Wow, Can I
take anybody? She says, as long as I'm the other Anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I was just joking. So we went.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
We saw Billy Joel there and and so we've seen
a lot of concerts. It's the old Master, Herb Albert,
who is eighty nine years old and still touring. We
saw him last year. I've seen it, seen him a
couple of times. Play that trumpet is great. That's what
all the music are inconceivable. It's Herb Alpert and Tijuana
(05:31):
brass stuff. So we've seen a lot of concerts. And
I even had tickets for Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks
at Jerry World in Arlington. Couldn't go because one of
Stevie Nicks's band members had COVID and so they postponed
the show, and when they rescheduled the show, I couldn't go.
So she went and took a friend of her. So
(05:54):
I've kind of you know, pulled her into the concert thing,
and then for her because she always wanted to see
Joni Mitchell, one of the great rock legends of the
early seventies. The day after The Long Words played Georgia, here,
we're flying to Los Angeles. I'm gonna see Joni Mitchell
at the Hollywood Bowl and then come back on a
red eye that night, talking me back in position the
(06:15):
next day when we have Sarks press conference to get
ready for Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So there's that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So were we become big concert goers to the extent
if we see other other bands and every things like oh, hey,
maybe we want to go say and you know, and
so yeah, tomorrow night it'll be Ambrosia. We'll go see
Ambrosia tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Update from Houston. The Tigers are now up one nothing
on the Astros. As Houston bats in the bottom of
the sixth inning. Top of the sixth inning, Parker Meadows
with a solo homer to put Detroit in front. So
the anxiety, you might say, for Astros fans might be
(06:57):
ratcheting up a bit now, although they Jordon Alvarez is
just trying to walk, so they have the tying run
on and that's just the lead off the bottom of
the sixth inning, so still a lot of baseball left
to be played in that one. But the Asters are
down one nothing in the sixth inning to Detroit, and
again because the Tigers won game one yesterday, if they
(07:19):
win this one this afternoon, it's over. Remember, the Wildcard
Series is just a best of three, best two out
of three, and it's all at one site. So these
first two games are at Minute May Park, and if
there is a third game, that game would be at
Minute May Park tomorrow if that happens, if there is
(07:41):
a game three, but the Asters have to win to
force a game three. Meanwhile, Kansas City and Baltimore are
getting ready to start game number two of their series
that starts here really in about ten minutes. The Royals
winning game one one to nothing, so they lead this
he's one game to nine. Then at six thirty this
(08:04):
evening or Mets and Brewers, and then at seven thirty
tonight are the Braves and the Podres going for that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Do you have a favorite baseball team? By the way,
I do? Yeah? Which one is it? Do you want
to guess? First? Well, isn't your favorite? Did I hear.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
One morning on when it was the Hard Knox Light
before what it is now morphed into with the addition
of Mark Henry to the program, is now the Morning Kickoff.
But didn't I hear you say that your favorite NFL
team is New England the Patriots?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Is correct?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Do you have a background in the New England area
in the northeast? Did you just take did you just
glimb onto the Patriots because it was easy to bandwagon
them because they were winners?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
No, in about fifth grade or something. Okay, so like
two thousand and four or something like that. Yeah, make
me feel litt Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
All my friends were playing a pee pewee football while
I was running truck and they all played for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Oh okay. And then the high.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
School I was supposed to go to before they rezoned everything,
their mascot was the Patriots. I went to Google and
I was like, oh, I wonder if there's a football
team for the Patriots there it is.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's might And you happen to get them right in
their wheelhouse when they were winning Super Bowls. Yes, okay,
all right, No, I can respect that. I respect a
kid locking into a team. I did that with the
Dodgers when I was a kid, because my dad used
to tell me stories of the Yankees versus the Dodgers.
My dad was a Yankees fan, and he went to
a couple of World Series games in the early fifties
(09:39):
when the Dodgers played the Yankees. And my favorite color
back then when I was a kid was blue. And
the first package of baseball cards I opened, it was
Bill Russell, the Dodgers shortstop.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So I was locked in then. So they get that
been forever.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You know, as kids, we tend to lock in on teams,
but over time, I guess people get kind of frustrated
if their teams have a stretch of losing.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
My oldest son when he was give was a Jaguars fan,
and that was colors and logos, and they were pretty
good back and Fred Taylor Mark Brunell had a couple
of AFC Championship game appears.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Then he went through this long dry spell being awful.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So he just decided, I'm changing my favorite team to
the Cowboys because I love I said, you're letting yourself
in for a lot of heartbreak. So he became a
Cowboy fan, and he's really a big Cowboy fan. My
younger son was originally a Tennessee Titans fan because of
Vince Young and but then when Vince left and the Titans
fell off, he swapped to the Packers and he's been
(10:39):
a Packer fan.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I don't know how people just switch teams like that.
I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But but I know some people get tired of a
team losing and say I'm out on him. Why should
I devote my energies to supporting a team that consistently lose.
This is a question, by the way, the Cowboys fans
ask themselves annually.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
For almost thirty years.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That Cameron Parker, a producer regular producer of this program,
is having his own self examination as a Cowboys fan.
That's why he's not watching them this year at all,
at allow unless they reach the NFC Championship. He watched
him in the preseason just to see how the rosters
come together. But he he told us after they lost
(11:23):
to the Packers last January in the playoffs, he said,
I'm done with him. I said, are you done with
a fan? No, there's still my team. I'm done watching
them for now. Wow, foot out the door. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So there's some self examination going on here as a
Cowboys fan. Now, the man for whom you produce in
the morning, Mike Hardball Harch, he's a long suffering Cowboys fan.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Correct, long time, long time, by fifty years of it. Okay,
well that's like me with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You know, went through a lot of Leaneers now, uh
Kurt uh yeah, but it predates that he goes all
the way back when I was nine years old. In
those days, what kids used to do is we would
write letters to pro football and baseball and basketball teams
asking for autograph pictures if you can get them, and
(12:09):
I sent off several to different teams. The only team
that respond was the Rams, and I got this eight
y ten black and white, glossy photo autograph the quarterback
Roman Gabriel, a champ never quits. Rouman Gabriel probably immedia
relations or PR person actually did that and signed his name.
But it didn't matter. I was hooked in on the
Rams den in nineteen sixty nine. They started that year
(12:30):
eleven to oher and ended up losing in the first
round of the playoffs. But I was hopelessly drawn into
being a Rams fan. With through a lot of heartbreak
in the seventies and then didn't see him win a
Super Bowl until they were in Saint Louis. But I
let my fandom follow the Jersey to Saint Louis actually
win a several games in Saint Louis, including the Super
Bowl year and then and stayed with him. And that's
(12:53):
when Kurt Warner was playing for them, and then following
him back to LA and going through some lean times
right now, the injuries and they don't be good right now.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But you you just got yours.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I feel like, I know, hey, yeah, they won a
Super Bowl three years ago, so I'm I'm okay for
a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, That's how I was with
the Dodgers winning one in eighty eight. But I'm going
to tell you, by the time I got the twenty twenty,
I was like, I come on. So they finally broke
through in one one, so hopefully they can do it
again this year. So anyway, nothing, It's unusual when your
(13:23):
favorite teams, uh, when they let you down. Is not
unusual when they finally went And I've said this, I
said this after the Rams win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I said after the Dodgers won the World Series.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Every sports fan, every one in the United States, every
American sports fan who is a real dedicated fan of
eighteen should get to experience at least one time in
their lifetime their team winning a World championship. Oh definitely,
you know, as a reward for that. Now, you never
(13:56):
did tell me who your favorite baseball team, the Red Socks.
Well that makes sense. And my youngest son is a
Red Sox fan because his first two t ball teams
and little league team were Red Sox or Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So you've gotten a chance to see them win multiple titles,
which is funny since he went eighty six years without
winning one and then two thousand and four in two
thousand and seven and thirteen and eighteen.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You know, so you've got a chance to see them
win multiplever and over. Yeah. Yeah, So it's been nice.
You've had an embarrassment of riches there.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
All right, more coming up, we'll update the baseball for you,
going on with the playoffs here on sports Radio AM
thirteen hundred
My wife and I have talked about that.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We think he kind of surrendered into it a little quickly,
so maybe something was going on there.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
I don't know. I mean, he is a rock star.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
And this is another guy whose hair is amazed you.
Right when you look at the three guys from Ambrosia, right,
all four of them press off. Ambrosia sounds like it's
one person. No, it's it's it's a bad it's a
bad from the seventies and eighties. And they're performing in
Arlington tomorrow and since Linda and I had to go
up to the Dallas Forward area anyway, and they're performing
(00:31):
at the Arlington Music Hall, which is kind of like
going to the Paramount here. It's a small venue, a theater.
And she said, oh look, I was like, you want
to go to see Ambrosia? She said, because I'm a
yacht rock fan, although Ambrosia is not my favorite, but
I don't dislike.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Them, so she was interested in him.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So I said, okay, so we got tickets, so we're
gonna go see Ambrosia tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's part of it. So that's why I wanted. That's exciting.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
We see a lot of shows together since We've been
together since twenty eighteen. And my first wife she also
liked musically. We went to some concerts together, and next
week will be eight years since she passed away, so
(01:21):
and then I was two years beyond that before Lynda
and I bumped into each other at an event going
to see that we went to see an old friend
play and as the first time I'd seen her in
I think since nineteen ninety four, so it's been like, yeah,
I think it was twenty six years or twenty four years,
(01:44):
twenty whatever. It was twenty four years, I guess, since
we'd even seen each other or something like that. And
then it just kind of took off from there. And
we had dated back in the early eighties for about
a year and a half, split up state friends. She
was at my wedding, I was, Me and my wife
were at her wedding in ninety four. She and her
(02:05):
husband had decided to divorce, and then I just happened
to randomly run into her and it started from there well,
once we got together, and then when she moved down here.
Because she's a special ed counselor and I was also
a licensed professional counselor, so she has a client list
that she counsels does mental health counseling. We started going
(02:31):
to these concerts, and it was because I had gotten
to the point of my life where there were some
people that I had and bands and artists I either
had never seen before and always wanted to or wanted
to see, or it was a band or artist that
in my college days in the early eighties, I worked
(02:53):
the concerts, selling T shirts for the band or for
the arena.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And I did that for.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Four years and in the early eighties, and so I
used to tell people that have worked everything from ac
DC to Lawrence Welk, which was pretty much true. I
would worked a c d C concert and worked Prince worked,
Prince Yeah, Prince wow Right. It was the Purple Rain tour.
Wow went on to her journey in eighty three in
(03:21):
the Frontiers tour, worked Frank Sinatra, Barry Manilow, worked All
Kazzy Top, all Met Doobie Brothers, Rolling Stones, all of these,
all of these great bands, Bob Seeger so did all these.
And now years later, having put myself through college by
(03:41):
working those shows, I wanted to have the opportunity to
see some of these because when you're working it you
don't really you see glimpses of the show. You walk
in during a song, they walk back out to your
stand while your partner watches the stand, and then you
swap off. So I wanted to see some so I
just happened to mention because my broadcast partner for Long
Worn Basketball, Eddie Orrin, and we were going to go
(04:03):
see Bob Seger, who was on his last tour. And
then Eddie couldn't do it he had a work related conflict.
So Linda and I by then had started to see
each other, and I said, do you want to go
see this concert? It's Bob Seeger And She's like, yeah,
I'll go. She didn't, and then when she went, she
loved it. She said, oh I remember that song, and
oh I remember that song, and oh I remember that song.
(04:25):
I said, I got a whole file folder of shows
like that that I want to see coming up.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
If you're up for it. She said yeah. So then
it became Eric Clapton while we went to that.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Then we saw a little River band in a casino
then and then saw Boss Gags at the Paramount. She
gave me as a Christmas present because she knew how
much of a Billy Joel fan was and she was
somewhat of a fan. She gave me two tickets to
see Billy Joel at Fenway Park at Yeah, so I said,
(04:59):
I said, it was a Christmas gift, she said, and
opened it up. Two tickets Bill Joseah, Wow, Can I
take anybody? She says, as long as I'm the other Anyway.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I was just joking. So we went.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
We saw Billy Joel there and and so we've seen
a lot of concerts. It's the old Master, Herb Albert,
who is eighty nine years old and still touring. We
saw him last year. I've seen it, seen him a
couple of times. Play that trumpet is great. That's what
all the music are inconceivable. It's Herb Alpert and Tijuana
(05:31):
brass stuff. So we've seen a lot of concerts. And
I even had tickets for Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks
at Jerry World in Arlington. Couldn't go because one of
Stevie Nicks's band members had COVID and so they postponed
the show, and when they rescheduled the show, I couldn't go.
So she went and took a friend of her. So
(05:54):
I've kind of you know, pulled her into the concert thing,
and then for her because she always wanted to see
Joni Mitchell, one of the great rock legends of the
early seventies. The day after The Long Words played Georgia, here,
we're flying to Los Angeles. I'm gonna see Joni Mitchell
at the Hollywood Bowl and then come back on a
red eye that night, talking me back in position the
(06:15):
next day when we have Sarks press conference to get
ready for Vanderbilt.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So there's that.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So were we become big concert goers to the extent
if we see other other bands and every things like oh, hey,
maybe we want to go say and you know, and
so yeah, tomorrow night it'll be Ambrosia. We'll go see
Ambrosia tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Update from Houston. The Tigers are now up one nothing
on the Astros. As Houston bats in the bottom of
the sixth inning. Top of the sixth inning, Parker Meadows
with a solo homer to put Detroit in front. So
the anxiety, you might say, for Astros fans might be
(06:57):
ratcheting up a bit now, although they Jordon Alvarez is
just trying to walk, so they have the tying run
on and that's just the lead off the bottom of
the sixth inning, so still a lot of baseball left
to be played in that one. But the Asters are
down one nothing in the sixth inning to Detroit, and
again because the Tigers won game one yesterday, if they
(07:19):
win this one this afternoon, it's over. Remember, the Wildcard
Series is just a best of three, best two out
of three, and it's all at one site. So these
first two games are at Minute May Park, and if
there is a third game, that game would be at
Minute May Park tomorrow if that happens, if there is
(07:41):
a game three, but the Asters have to win to
force a game three. Meanwhile, Kansas City and Baltimore are
getting ready to start game number two of their series
that starts here really in about ten minutes. The Royals
winning game one one to nothing, so they lead this
he's one game to nine. Then at six thirty this
(08:04):
evening or Mets and Brewers, and then at seven thirty
tonight are the Braves and the Podres going for that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Do you have a favorite baseball team? By the way,
I do? Yeah? Which one is it? Do you want
to guess? First? Well, isn't your favorite? Did I hear.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
One morning on when it was the Hard Knox Light
before what it is now morphed into with the addition
of Mark Henry to the program, is now the Morning Kickoff.
But didn't I hear you say that your favorite NFL
team is New England the Patriots?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Is correct?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Do you have a background in the New England area
in the northeast? Did you just take did you just
glimb onto the Patriots because it was easy to bandwagon
them because they were winners?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
No, in about fifth grade or something. Okay, so like
two thousand and four or something like that. Yeah, make
me feel litt Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
All my friends were playing a pee pewee football while
I was running truck and they all played for the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Oh okay. And then the high.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
School I was supposed to go to before they rezoned everything,
their mascot was the Patriots. I went to Google and
I was like, oh, I wonder if there's a football
team for the Patriots there it is.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
That's might And you happen to get them right in
their wheelhouse when they were winning Super Bowls. Yes, okay,
all right, No, I can respect that. I respect a
kid locking into a team. I did that with the
Dodgers when I was a kid, because my dad used
to tell me stories of the Yankees versus the Dodgers.
My dad was a Yankees fan, and he went to
a couple of World Series games in the early fifties
(09:39):
when the Dodgers played the Yankees. And my favorite color
back then when I was a kid was blue. And
the first package of baseball cards I opened, it was
Bill Russell, the Dodgers shortstop.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
So I was locked in then. So they get that
been forever.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
You know, as kids, we tend to lock in on teams,
but over time, I guess people get kind of frustrated
if their teams have a stretch of losing.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
My oldest son when he was give was a Jaguars fan,
and that was colors and logos, and they were pretty
good back and Fred Taylor Mark Brunell had a couple
of AFC Championship game appears.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Then he went through this long dry spell being awful.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
So he just decided, I'm changing my favorite team to
the Cowboys because I love I said, you're letting yourself
in for a lot of heartbreak. So he became a
Cowboy fan, and he's really a big Cowboy fan. My
younger son was originally a Tennessee Titans fan because of
Vince Young and but then when Vince left and the Titans
fell off, he swapped to the Packers and he's been
(10:39):
a Packer fan.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
I don't know how people just switch teams like that.
I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But but I know some people get tired of a
team losing and say I'm out on him. Why should
I devote my energies to supporting a team that consistently lose.
This is a question, by the way, the Cowboys fans
ask themselves annually.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
For almost thirty years.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That Cameron Parker, a producer regular producer of this program,
is having his own self examination as a Cowboys fan.
That's why he's not watching them this year at all,
at allow unless they reach the NFC Championship. He watched
him in the preseason just to see how the rosters
come together. But he he told us after they lost
(11:23):
to the Packers last January in the playoffs, he said,
I'm done with him. I said, are you done with
a fan? No, there's still my team. I'm done watching
them for now. Wow, foot out the door. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So there's some self examination going on here as a
Cowboys fan. Now, the man for whom you produce in
the morning, Mike Hardball Harch, he's a long suffering Cowboys fan.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Correct, long time, long time, by fifty years of it. Okay,
well that's like me with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
You know, went through a lot of Leaneers now, uh
Kurt uh yeah, but it predates that he goes all
the way back when I was nine years old. In
those days, what kids used to do is we would
write letters to pro football and baseball and basketball teams
asking for autograph pictures if you can get them, and
(12:09):
I sent off several to different teams. The only team
that respond was the Rams, and I got this eight
y ten black and white, glossy photo autograph the quarterback
Roman Gabriel, a champ never quits. Rouman Gabriel probably immedia
relations or PR person actually did that and signed his name.
But it didn't matter. I was hooked in on the
Rams den in nineteen sixty nine. They started that year
(12:30):
eleven to oher and ended up losing in the first
round of the playoffs. But I was hopelessly drawn into
being a Rams fan. With through a lot of heartbreak
in the seventies and then didn't see him win a
Super Bowl until they were in Saint Louis. But I
let my fandom follow the Jersey to Saint Louis actually
win a several games in Saint Louis, including the Super
Bowl year and then and stayed with him. And that's
(12:53):
when Kurt Warner was playing for them, and then following
him back to LA and going through some lean times
right now, the injuries and they don't be good right now.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
But you you just got yours.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I feel like, I know, hey, yeah, they won a
Super Bowl three years ago, so I'm I'm okay for
a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah, That's how I was with
the Dodgers winning one in eighty eight. But I'm going
to tell you, by the time I got the twenty twenty,
I was like, I come on. So they finally broke
through in one one, so hopefully they can do it
again this year. So anyway, nothing, It's unusual when your
(13:23):
favorite teams, uh, when they let you down. Is not
unusual when they finally went And I've said this, I
said this after the Rams win the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I said after the Dodgers won the World Series.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Every sports fan, every one in the United States, every
American sports fan who is a real dedicated fan of
eighteen should get to experience at least one time in
their lifetime their team winning a World championship. Oh definitely,
you know, as a reward for that. Now, you never
(13:56):
did tell me who your favorite baseball team, the Red Socks.
Well that makes sense. And my youngest son is a
Red Sox fan because his first two t ball teams
and little league team were Red Sox or Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So you've gotten a chance to see them win multiple titles,
which is funny since he went eighty six years without
winning one and then two thousand and four in two
thousand and seven and thirteen and eighteen.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You know, so you've got a chance to see them
win multiplever and over. Yeah. Yeah, So it's been nice.
You've had an embarrassment of riches there.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
All right, more coming up, we'll update the baseball for you,
going on with the playoffs here on sports Radio AM
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