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Episode Transcript
Welcome to the Upside with Jordan a dose of good news,
because it's a big world out there. Do you ever
wonder what it feels like to stand in the pitcher's
mound in front of thousands of Red Sox fans and
throw the ceremonial first pitch, hopefully a strike. Pretty nerve
racking unless your name is Shem Tove, who had the
honor of heading out of the Red Sox dugout to
the diamond wearing sneakers emblazoned with the words bring Them Home.
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I was at the game Monday night. It happened to
be Jewish Heritage Knight at Famway Park. It was Omer
shem Toad, who lived through five hundred and five days
of captivity a hostage of the terror group Humas. He's
the first released hostage to visit Massachusetts. Since he was
released three months ago, he's traveled the world and came
to Massachusetts to connect with school children and getting the
honor of tossing out the first pitch on a very
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special night. Shem was asked was he nervous, and, as
he says, after what I've been through, very few things
make me nervous. He did say he was excited, as
were all of us on the stands, and that's the
upside With Jordan WBZ, Boston's news radio
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