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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Tim Power Show on your VOCM. The
views and opinions of this program are not necessarily those
of this station.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here's Tim. Hey, everybody choose day October twenty first, the
day the day after. The Toronto Blue Jays, as you
have heard all day and all night, have made it
to the World Series thirty two years later, and the
excitement is real. I, as you know, come to you
often from Ontario where I am today, and that's all
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anybody is talking about here. I know of at least
five people who got into the lines, the virtual lines
for tickets today. None of them were successful, so I
don't know anyone in my group who got them. I
do know some others who did who got tickets. But
at one point I was told two hundred and eighty
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five thousand people were lined up virtually to access tickets.
And hey, if you're looking, according to stub Hub, there's
two percent of tickets left. The cheapest and this is
for Friday Night's game, is just eighteen hundred and forty
four dollars and the best deal, yeah, best deal, and
that that cheap ticket of eighteen hundred and forty four dollars.
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So that's standing room general admission. The best ticket, best deal,
according to StubHub in section one twenty six. Pretty good
section is only five thousand, five hundred and twenty three dollars.
And that's that's just just just right now. That may
all change. Prices may go down, they may go up.
Lots of tickets in the five thousand dollars range. If
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you want to spare that, I'm looking at this is
the best one somebody is selling. Wow, I didn't see this.
Sixteen eight hundred and sixty dollars. Section five thirty five
two tickets together front row. Yeah, have you got sixteen
thousand bucks? There you go. It's gonna be crazy. The
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procurement of tickets, and of course the series itself. We're
going to spend a fair bit of time today just
diving into it because it is historic. Look, we get
excited about the Stanley cop and the Gray Cup, but
often in the world of sports, those things don't get
the same degree of attention as the World Series and
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the Super Bowl. And those of us who are old
enough to remember thirty odd years ago thirty three when
the Jay's Last won the World Series thirty two, excuse me,
when the Jay's Last won the World Series. Know it
was a global achievement recognized around the country and it's
not often that the whole country cheers for anything from Toronto,
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let alone a sports team, but Toronto Blue Jays are
the only team from Canada and we're all behind them.
We've got some great audio to play in a couple
of moments, including from the fan who caught George Bringers
legendary home run which I think now only pales in
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comparison to Joe Carter's home run that won the World
Series all those years ago. And apparently Joe Carter's going
to throw the first pitch out at Game one of
the World Series against the mighty wealthy Los Angeles Dodgers.
And it's pretty cool right now that we're playing LA
next to the Yankees, in the Red Sox and maybe
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the Cubs. They are the most identifiable for baseball as
a nation and a brand to America. And while a
Canadian on their team, Freddie Freeman, won the MVP last year,
they also have Shoe Otane, who's a global sensation, the
best baseball player in the world, who put on it
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one hell of an impressive performance himself in the National
League Championship Series. First and only person ever destroy ten
people out and three home runs in the same game.
This is going to be epic. Though the Dodgers are
heavily favored, let's not count out the Blue Jays. And
speaking of baseball, we will also have Ryan Garland join us.
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Ryan is the executive director of Baseball New Finnland. He's
going to join us about four point thirty to talk
about what the Jays being in the World Series means
just for the sport in the country, and what it
may do and what it's already done. We had Ryan
on early on in the playoffs, but now we've reached
a new level and Ryan is going to help us
explore all of that. We're not going to venture entirely
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away from some of the other important topics of the day.
We're going to talk to doctor Alex Marland from Akatia
University about the provincial election. He was in Scotland last week.
We didn't get a chance to catch up one to
get his take on it. He's made an argument which
I think is fair and others have made it too,
that there's a realignment of sorts happening in Newfoundland and
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Labrador around politics. We'll get his interpretation of that. We
are also going to talk to Philip Earl, the MP
for Labrador, about the trials and tribulations at the Waposh
Airport which we have been covering on VOCM. And according
to Greg Smith, I want to know what love is.
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So we have Foreigner on. Foreigner are playing in Saint
John's tonight and Russell Bauer sat down with a couple
of the band members earlier. So we'll have all of
that for you on the show. But let's go back
to last night, because gosh, it's hard to leave it.
How about this the Springer Dinger. So we're gonna fly
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out of the field.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That goes sna She's done.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Here's a guy had his knee almost blown apart by
a pitch in Game five, as you know, hobbled out
there and cracked that three run home run. For anybody
who watched the game, the first six innings weren't looking
promising for the Blue Jays, and with the swing of
the bats, Springer changed the trajectory. He, of course, as
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was wise, credited his teammates for putting him in that
situation and class interview he had at the end, he
talked a lot about the fans, not just in Toronto,
but he's doing this all for Canada. So well played.
Now here here is John Snyder. No f bombs in
this one. I love John Snyder, the manager's salty language
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and how he always gets caught out. But we're an
afternoon radio show. You're driving home. No f bombs, But
here's John Snyder.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
American League East Champions, American League Division Champions, American League. Wait,
first time in thirty two years, the World Series comes
back to the city in this country.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I'm so proud of every one of you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Enjoy every single moment of this tonight because you guys
earned thet of it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, well maybe there was one. It's hard to get again,
a Schneider clip these days. We bleeped it out, so
don't tell the Canadian Broadcast Standards server. So tell him
we bleeped it out. But you gotta love that man's passion.
He is the right manager at the right time. I
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know he's been criticized and beligned, as we all do
his armchair quarterbacks for some of his decisions, but nobody
except maybe the team expected to be where they are
right now. And John Snyder's kind of blunt talk and
just till the point clearly inspires his team and he's
winning a country. Over to speaking of a country, Let's
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listen Prime Minister Kearney talk about the Blue Jays win
last night. I mean, unbelievable. Unbelievable. Well I always knew,
but I mean that is clutch. It's absolutely clutch.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
A springer coming through one knee and then getting it
closed out, guys when everyone it was it was fantastic
and I'm super excited.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm out of breath. I can't even yeah, I was.
Prime Minister Kearney out of breath, joins all the country's
politicians and cheerleading. I think here, will he go to
the game? Can he go to the game? He is
supposed to be heading to Asia the first game I meet,
second game, perhaps he goes there too, but he's supposed
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to be on a trade mission to Asia. But this
is a huge story. And of course he's a big
fan of sports. He was last at the Women's Rugby
World Cup in London when he was there for meetings
when our Canadian team unfortunately fell to But this Prime
Minister likes his sports. I remember in ninety two, ninety three,
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georgewge hw Bush and Brian m'rooney at one point after
the Jays had won I think in ninety two throughout
a first pitch at one of the baseball games. Then
that was pretty historic at the time. Wasn't the World Series?
I think it was before. Now there is a guy
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who is on cloud nine and it isn't George Springer.
It's the fellow who caught Springer's home run ball. CTV
News who shared that Carney clip with us, caught up
with this gentleman earlier today. Let's hear that interview.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
We are here with Michael Angeletti, who caught that home
run ball wearing a Springer jersey. As you mentioned, he's
still wearing it here this morning, and so Michael, we
all want to hear from you. Tell us about the
moment when you heard the bat hit the ball.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
That's exactly it. I heard it before I saw it
and reacted to my seat mates who I didn't know
went to the game solo. Didn't have my glove on fully,
not prepared for the moment, put it on half assed,
reached up over them, but the glove wasn't onto the ball.
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With the other hands of the people shot the ball
into the air and I grabbed it with the spare hand,
And I tell you I could have squeezed oil out
of this ball, because in just one second I realized
the dream of catching the ball, had it escape, and
then reclaimed it. And that a moment was the third
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almost like I discovered the fountain of youth or whatever.
And I've been hanging on to it ever since.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I haven't let it.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I haven't let it left. You leave your side, have you?
Speaker 7 (10:53):
I haven't. It's been bedside, breakfast side, TV side, podcast side.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Radio side.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
I'd so excited for the city at Toronto, so excited
for the Toronto Blue Jays, very excited for the international
media and baseball friends from around the world to come
and experience a Fall Classic in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Let's go Blue Jays.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
So you have the ball here. I understand you waited
a little while to try and see George last night.
You didn't get to see him.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
What is your plan?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Everybody wants to know what is your plan for that baseball?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
The plan is the ride.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Wherever this ball takes me, us, the city, this company, everybody.
We are on the ride and I'm not going to
stop it. Right now we are eight or peaking, as
they say, and my city pride peaked in that moment
right there.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Fantastic. Thank you so much, Michael, I really appreciate it.
So still no full plan on what he's going to
do with the baseball, but for now, I don't think
it's going to be leaving his side anytime soon, and
certainly he and other friends are hoping for more memories
and more moments just like that Springer. Dinger in the
next series to Colm recording live, I'm als and hers.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, that was Michael Angeletti. You will hear him a lot.
I suspect in the next couple of days. So just
on the Springer story, I heard more of it earlier today.
He was brought down by Blue Jay staff to field
level after the game and he waited there till about
one thirty in the morning. So he said he was
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waiting for about an hour and blue Jay's staff, he said,
we're very kind, and they kept updating him and as
to whether or not George Springer was coming, and he
kept telling them, look, look, look, you know, don't rush
them along. This is a special moment. He said, Wow,
that was happening. He was getting text and what App
messages from WhatsApp messages from his friends saying, don't give
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them all away, don't give them all away. Hold on
to it, hold on to it, because this ball is
going to be worth a lot. And I can imagine
you're standing there and all of a sudden, George Springer appears,
And if you're a fan, like Michael Angeletti seems to be,
he might offer you a bat at Jersey a few
tickets and you might say, you know what, here you go,
no problem, this is so historic. But he could probably
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get a lot more for that, And hey, nothing wrong
with being enterprising. And I'm sure he is not hiding
the fact that he's following the journey wherever it takes.
And well, hopefully that will take us all to victory
over the Los Angeles Dodgers. But where is our journey going? Next?
We're going to talk about an election, the one we
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had a week ago with doctor Alex Marlin from Akatie University.
When we come back here on the Tim Power Show.
It was a week ago today. Of course, the results
came in, not maybe as nail biting as the Blue
Jays last night, but nonetheless surprising to many because as
we headed into the election, there were few people who
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were predicting that the Liberals would win, and of course
as the night went on, we discovered that Tony Wakem
would win, became become our new premier designate and get
a twenty one get twenty one seats in a slim majority.
Somebody who haven't had a chance to talk with about
the election, but dying to get his insights is doctor
Alex Maryland. Alex, of course is the Jerlosky Chair and
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trust in political Leadership at Acadia. Alex. Yeah, you know,
these guys aren't Springer and Vladimir Guerrero lighting the nation
on fire with enthusiasm and energy, but they did pull
off a win. And in looking at some of the
analysis that's out there, some of which you've shared elsewhere,
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one of the arguments you're making is we're seeing a
little bit of, if not a more significant reorganization of
the way the political landscape of Newfoundland and Laborador take
us through that.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Well, yeah, I mean there's different ways of analyzing election results,
and I think one thing we have to remember that
is getting lost is that New fim Land and Labrador
is divided. So you know, we're looking at it saying, well,
you know there's a majority win. Well, yeah, sure, because
the votes all win a certain way because of the
peculiarities of our electoral system. But the reality is that
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similar numbers of people, not identical, but similar numbers of
people voted Liberal has voted PC. And when, though, you
do break it down by the way electoral districts work,
that's where you start seeing some shifts, because of course
we end up seeing you know, a larger quantity of
votes going towards the liberals and progressives or in this case,
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the NDP in more urbanized areas, and obviously towards the
PCs once you start getting more into suburbs, into special
rural areas. And so this is something that has been
going on in Western liberal societies, and Newfland Labrador has
been a little late to the party with with this.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, it's fascinating for me because the Newfoundland and Labrador
that I grew up in was one where the Liberals
often dominated everything outside the overpass and Labrador for that matter,
and the town the city was very much progressive conservative
and that is not what this election was at all,
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is it.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
But you also look at the federal patterns. Yeah, like,
I mean it was very very common to say that
no matter what, everybody was going to vote Liberal in
Western Newfland, for example, And then you know, yeah, it's
just so it's a pattern that we've been seeing play
out for a little while. And listen, something that's getting
lost in all of this, not just the fact that
newflind Labrador is divided, is also the fact that two
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independents managed to pull off the bare feet of getting
re elected. I mean, it's just shocking to me. It
just doesn't happen in all of Canada, let alone just
in Newfland Labrador.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
So what do you attribut some of this too? I mean,
it's early days of diving into election results. I mean
I've had some conversations on air with Conservatives that were
elected in Outside the Overpass, and their argument is, you know,
they're messaging on affordability, on healthcare, on crime connected, they
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play it up the traditional which still remains traditional, the
disconnect between rural and urban and Saint John's running things.
What do you see in here that is interesting and
noteworthy to you?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
You know, I think it's just the general powern that
we're seeing that people in rural Canada are having a
hard time connecting with people in urban and metropolitan Canada
who are living vastly different lives. And so if you
think about all of the major issues that are percolating
out there, on a lot of things, people are having
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very different experiences. So if you talk about people saying, well,
we need to do something about climate change and we
need to reduce the use of oil, well, if you're
in a city and you could potentially take a bus
where you could use your bike, or use your bike
all the time, of course, but you know you could
walk to work, well, of course we can't even do
that because the sidewalks. But the point is that you know,
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in most places you can potentially live in a city
and not have a car, and so that makes it
a lot easier for you to say we need to
do something about oil and the climate. Whereas if you
are in rural Newfouland and Laborador and you need to
get in your car even to go visit your neighbor,
I mean, it's a totally different conversation. And not to
mention you, possibly you or your family members might be
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going away somewhere to the oil industry to work, and
so it's very, very different. And this plays out in
a lot of different things, not just oil and gas
and climate change.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What about these two independents getting reelected. Look, they are
well known in our eco system, They have forceful personalities.
They have both positioned themselves as strong advocates of their
own districts. I mean Eddie Joyce in particular pointed out
constantly throughout the campaign the work he did to get
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to get proper health and hospital services in his region,
but wanted more of that. Pauline has been a long
and advocate in Mount Pearl of policing issues. Is their
election a reflection of how able both of them have
been in using the opportunity as independence in a small
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place to get more airtime, tell stories and to be
seen to be effective.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Yeah, I know, you know I could come up more
about Pauline than I can Eddie Jooryce, just because I've
had Pauline in when I was at Mond to talk
and the sordering I'm interviewed and for my research, et cetera.
But I also talk to other independents. There's one here
in Nova Scotia, there's one in Ontario who I talk with,
and the common feature that I see is independents are
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usually on top of their constituency files. They do not
leave their constituents hanging. If their constituent has a question,
it is super super important that they get back to them.
And so what happens is they start developing a personal relationship.
And what happens is people in the area often end
up rejecting political parties by saying, listen, I don't care
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about parties. I care about this person representing me, and
I think this person can do a good job.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So the Liberal Party, like any party that loses an election,
is going to go through a soul searching process. Probably
more likely than not that John Hogan will eventually step down,
as that tends to be what happens, though we shouldn't
assume that it will. What do the Liberals need to
do is job number one to figure out how to
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reconnectoral Newfoundland and be less of an urban part What
what is your thinking there?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
So the first thing I would say to two people
who supported the Liberal Party of New filand Labrador is
to just realize that sometimes the tide goes out and
just start there. So it's very easy and easy potentially
for John Hogan and other liberals to get you know,
look at all these little things they could have done differently.
The reality is that when you start getting a sense
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that it's a time for change, it is just simply
very very hard to change people's feelings. You have you know,
he had to run on a record that involved Dwight
ball let alone and Fury and that you know, own
decisions that he wasn't necessarily part of. So the first
thing to do is just realize that these things tend
to go back and forth. You know very much a
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big history of that at New filand Labrador. So sometimes
you just need time to just come up with new ideas.
Sometimes you need time for the government that the other
governing party to start making decisions that start, you know,
causing errors and people to get frustrated. So I think
sometimes there's a sense of you know, looking at every
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little thing that you did and think, well, could we
have done this differently? And then other times it's just
to say listen, this is the way politics works. There
are times that political parties need a time.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Out and the PCs have come out of their time
out and last question is this so Tony wakem is
in the process of building a government going through transition.
Governing Newfoundland is not for the faint of heart on
any day of the week. What ought mister wakem be
considering right now as he's in this transition process to
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give himself the best chance of success.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well, like any incoming head of government, he's obviously focused
on trying to figure out what his cabinet's going to
look like, what the staff compliment is going to look
like in the Premier's office, and you know, to some extent,
they're going to then figure out who are going to
be the staff are going to support ministers. Of course,
when you're putting together a cabinet, you're not just thinking
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who are the right people, but also what are the
portfolios and so are there different you know, we saw
with Mark Karney, for example, there's suddenly as a minister
responsible for artificial intelligence. Clearly that's not something that existed
in the past. So these things evolve. Something though, that
you know is a reasonable prediction is premiers, incoming premiers
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and prime ministers tend to reward people who they really
feel confident or sort of feel confident did a good
job in opposition. So if there were people who were
really good in the house, stood on their feet and
were great critics. Those people are going to be people
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who are going to get a good look when it
comes to cabinet. And then of course there's other elements region, gender,
et cetera. But that's going to be a really key
part is he's going to want to be able to
trust people to do well.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Indeed he is, and it's vital. You can't run the
government of effectively by yourself, though many have tried. Alex,
appreciate the time. Thank you for joining us. Okay, thanks him,
all right. That is our friend, Doctor Alex Marlin, the
Jaraloski Chair and Trust in Political Leadership at a Katie University.
When we come back, Ryan Garland, the executive director of
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Baseball Newfoundland and Laborador. I bet Ryan hasn't come down
from the ceiling yet. Back with Ryan in a moment.
There's something about baseball and the audience that it gets
and its ability to capture nations. I'm old enough to remember.
I was a kid then Rick Monday, Blue Monday in
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the eighties, the crushing of the Expos, Steve Rogers giving
up that home run. Then you go to nineteen eighty
five and the great Jays of the era, George Bell, Dave, Steve, Jesse, Brierfield,
and they were close, but they didn't get across the line.
Then of course Alamar and Carter and Henderson and Pat
Tabler and Borders and all these guys get him across
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the line ninety two, ninety three, Bautista, Donaldson, fifteen and sixteen.
And there seems to be something special about this group.
And to talk about this and why this world series
pursuit just as Land it's square in all of our inboxes.
Is Ryan Garland, the executive director of Baseball Newfoundland and Labrador. Ryan,
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I was thinking about all those names last night and
what I can remember tons of hockey. I can just
remember all of these moments so well, about some of
the great baseball stories and the heartbreaking ones we've had
in this country. Why do you think that is, Ryan.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Tim, That's a great question, so thanks for having me
on again. I wish I could answer it with some
sort of concrete, definitive answer for you, and I can't.
I think it's just I think it's the way baseball
is as a sport generally, I guess. I mean it's
one of those sports that, yeah, you saw last night
Jason three one late in the game and looked like,
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you know, nothing's really going for them, and then all
of a sudden, banged George Springer hits a three year
on home run, and the momentum of the game, the
feeling in the ballpark, certainly, the feeling I think in
a lot of TV rooms and living rooms in the
country changed almost immediately. And I think that's just the
way that the sport is set up to be. It
can change on the on the drop of the hat.
And I think that's what we saw last night.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, we we certainly did. And I just want to
get your take on what Springer said last night afterwards,
because I thought, look, he is not only he's a
great baseball player, he's very savvy with what he said,
and you know, he I'm going to screw up the comment,
but effectively he said, you know, we did this for
our fans here, we did this for the city of Toronto, Toronto,
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and then he said, we did it for our country.
How is it Ryan that this team with You know, yes,
Letty Guerrera was born in Montreal, but he would identify,
I suspect more as somebody from the dominic in Republic,
But how is it that this team has become our
team and they see the responsibility in that.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah, it's a great question.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
And I did notice that last night actually, when I
was watching the post game and heard Springer's comments as well.
I think it's even more pointing when you hear a
player like George Springer, who's from the US, who went
to university at Yukon and things like that, make the
comment to say that you know, this is our team,
our country. I think. I mean, he's been here five
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years now. Next year is the last year of his contract,
on the sixth year, and I think even he is now,
if not before, realized just how passionate Jaysans are across
the country and how much it truly is unlike anything
else in pro sports, where it's one team for the
entire country. Everyone buys in and yes, you've always got
you in all your smaller pockets of Yankees and Red
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Soxs and Dodger stands, but by and large, the country
is a Blue Jays country. And I think once you
get to play in Toronto or be a part of
the franchise in any way, you see that more vividly
when when you're in that environment, and I think that,
you know, five years of playing with the team and
the last couple of years leading in it. This year
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it's not going the way you wanted it, especially last year,
and especially for George on a personal level, with the
season you had last year. I think you see EACs
this year now, the impact that the team has on
the country, the players have on the country, and I think,
you know, this is probably a culmination of everything that's
happened the last five years.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Man. I remember nineteen ninety three, late October when the
Jays won, being in Stephenville and it was there for
work and Stephenville erupted. It was you know, people were
just we all bought it didn't matter because we all
have our hockey alliances. People will know mine is not
to the Toronto maple Leafs. And what the hell was
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Laddie thinking? We're in that jersey last night. That aside,
we all come together around this team because it's the
only one for the country. How is it going? You know,
people in baseball Newfoundland, the people you talk to, the
associations you oversee and help represent. Is there the same
enthusiasm and excitement as there was in nineteen ninety three,
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if you can speak to.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
That, I mean, certainly without being able to.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
I mean, I'm only.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Okay, all right, buddy, all right, yeah, all right, yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Okay, hard to comment on that, but what I what
I can tell you is it's hard to imagine how
it could be any difference. I mean, when Joe Carter
hits that home run in ninety three, obviously he went
to the World Series, and that's another level of euphoria
and things like that. But having not experienced that, I
have made a hard job believing that last night wasn't
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at least as close to that as we've gotten to
this point. I mean, you could argue that the Batista
home run in twenty fifteen, for the bat flip up
to that, up to last night, was the biggest home
on I think everyone agreed, but I think with what
that home run meant, you know, that ended up being
the winning runs, ended up getting us to the World Series.
He's that's definitely now, at least in my opinion, the
second most important home run in franchise history. And very
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excited to see what happens now starting Friday night.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, Kevin Plara was quick to just say about Jesus'
home run was awesome, but Springers was better because of
the circumstances and the context at the time. I asked
you before when the when we were in the early
days of the playoffs, But what does this potentially mean
for your organization and baseball in Canada? Because again I'm
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thinking to myself, I have my son at Game six
and here he is ten, and this is going to
be a lifetime memory for him, regardless of how they finish.
And there were so many kids that ended up there
with their parents and he just started playing baseball this
year and now he's impacted and infected with this sport.
Is this just regardless of what happens. I mean, it
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may go to a whole other level if they beat
the Dodgers. But what's the opportunity here for the sport
in Canada because of this run?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
And Ryan, I guess the easiest answer is the opportunities
are endless, limitless. It depends on how far you want
to push it and how far you want to take it.
I mean, the impact that we'll see at local levels
is that likely not until next year with registrations something
start up again, But hard not to if you know
you're a young athlete or a young aspiring baseball player, male, female,
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doesn't matter. You want to get out there. And you're
sitting down your parents on a late night when you
should be in bed to go to school the next day,
and you're watching George Bergner hit a home run like
last night, or while watching someone like Treya Savage who's
only twenty two years old, go out and pitch like
he did on Sunday to get us to Monday. It
gives you something to I guess, aspire to and say yourself,
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I can do that if I want to. And I
think that's what you'll see, certainly locally here hopefully in
the province, but more nationally across the country. It's hard
not to be invested in what we're seeing right now.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Well and too look they were on the other side,
but you got Josh Nayler from Mississauga. You got Matt
Brash from Kingston who didn't have a great game in
Game six. But nonetheless, I mean, these are two quality players.
And here's where all in coming to town. The LA
Dodgers with Freddie Freeman, Canadian MVP winner last year, Ryan
(32:19):
played John Snyder. How do they beat this team.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
I fucking played Johnson. I think I'd like to have
his job instead.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Well, you got to be able to drop F bombs?
Can you drop good F bombs? Like?
Speaker 8 (32:32):
I think anyone who knows me knows the answer to
that question. In order to beat the Dodgers, it's not going.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
To be easy.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
I mean, I think everyone realizes that. I mean, they
got a really strong team top to bottom. They're pitching
is probably the best that I've seen as a fan
in quite some time. I mean, you're looking at guys
like Blake Snell, Todder Glass, now Otani obviously can't forget
about him, and he's there number four starter, yamamotoble pitch.
They've got Clayton Kershaw coming out of the bullpen. They've
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got Roki Sasaki as their closer who should be their starter.
And then their lineup is unbelievable. LOOKI bets Freddie Freeman,
Tasker Hernandez, Max bun See Key k Hernandez. I could
keep going. It's a very deep line up. If the
J's are going to beat the Dodgers, that have to
play the exact same way that got them to where
they are right now, and the player as a team.
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They have to have the role players Ernie Clement and
Nathan Lucas and all those guys step up and do
what they've done all year. The J's are a complete team.
If they play like a complete team, everyone does what
their job is and if they can do that, anyone's
got a shot.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah. They almost have to emulate the way the Florida
Panthers have played against the star stud that Edmondonouler's play
your game, not theirs, and maybe that goes your way. Ryan,
I hope you guys vacuum up members and get more
kids in the sport. It's a great game. Thank you
for coming on and go Jay's go.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
Thanks them, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yes, go gets go.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
All right. That is Ryan Garland, the executive director of
Baseball Newfoundland, and we will be cheering starting Friday night.
We are the David against the Goliath that is the Dodgers.
All right, We're going to move along a little bit
to move to a place where things aren't moving the
way they would Liken. That is Wabush Airport. Most planes
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are still unable to land at Wabash Airport as of
this afternoon because the federal agency changed the air report's
designation so it requires firefighting services services. Transport Canada cut
five years ago. A Monday evening, our next guest, Labrador
MP Philip Earl, sat in Facebook posts that Wabush operations
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were suspended for Canadian air regulations, meaning aircraft with more
than nineteen seats cannot land at the airport. Transport Canada
made the changes in recent months. Phil told Radio Canada
earlier the airport itself has been designated as an airport
that provides firefight and crafts rescue services. However those services
(35:03):
have yet to be supplied and so people are aware.
Phil has a long history in aviation. He ran Air
Labrador for a time, so he knows what he's talking about. Phil,
I mean, how frustrating is this for the people you represent,
particularly in that part of Labrador and Wabbush.
Speaker 9 (35:22):
Well, first of all, good afternoon, Good afternoon to your listeners.
I almost feel like I've gone back to my old life.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Believe that it is my past.
Speaker 9 (35:32):
That helps me understand this particular situation and hopefully it
can help me navigate Transport Canada and with the help
of the Minister there get this particular matter resolved as
quickly as possible. It's a really frustrating situation. Not just
for me, I'm the least important of the frustrations, but
the people who depend on your service from Wabbleish for
(35:54):
medical travel. This is quite frankly terrible and to think
that this is happened, I am beyond frustrated.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
With the team.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
So how did this designation change happen and it catch
people unaware?
Speaker 9 (36:13):
I guess in Newton Lion Labrador terms, we say the
right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing.
I'm being very frank, very honest. I know you want
more of an answer than that. You know, Wabosh has
been an essential airport in our province and an essential
airport for the province of Quebec forever since it was built.
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The mining sector is cyclical, so there's been times in
the past where traffic numbers have gone down and somebody
in their wisdom thought that it was okay to withdraw
the fire rescue service from the airport, and that occurred.
The most pronounced time of that was in twenty twenty,
though there was times in the past where it was
on again, off again. My predecessor worked extremely hard to
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demonstrate that there was a requirement for a crash fire
rescue at Wallber demonstrate it that it had the three
hundred thousand plus movements going through and without complicating it.
You know, there are passengers to come in on schedule
passenger flights, but wabblesh has a lot of charter people
that fly and fly out for the mining chector. So
using that total data made the case. Transport Canada accepted
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it and a decision was made to reinstall firefighting services
at the wable shareport. I think where we got into
the snaffoo that we're in right now, I understand it,
and I admitbe it's technical, so I don't want to
stray into somebody else's territory. But in essence, the airport,
you know, it was given its designation to be an
(37:38):
airport to a firefighting services. What's missing is the operational
side of these fire fighting capabilities. I personnel and equipment
and people to maintain the equipment. So I guess another
way to say hit is you know, maybe in this
case the cart got put in front of the horse,
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but all that aside. I became aware of that situation
about eight to thirty last night. I've been working with
the airlines. I have the good fortune of having a
great relationship with the Minister of Transport. We've been back
and forth on this all day and I can tell
your listeners and you that there's a team over at
Transport Canada that are working diligently to fix that situation.
(38:23):
But at three thirty Ottawa time today, they haven't come
up with the right solution. So we're going to keep
working on this to get it right.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
On the firefighting now, you will obviously know this far
better than I. There wasn't a compromise that could be
in place with the use of municipal firefighting services, because
I remember that being part of the conversation at one
point the fire fighting capacity has to be at the
airport and on standby. Is that also accurate?
Speaker 9 (38:55):
Exaccurate? But more specifically, there are different categories of firefightings, right,
so as those categories go from Category six all the
way down, you can bridge that with municipal support and
so on. And I believe across the country is here
to say there's never been a lot of appetite for
municipalities stepping in to a territory where you're dealing with
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firefighting around aircraft and all the specificities that go with that. So,
in essence, what Walbush needs is the Category six. It
needs the equipment, it needs the labor force, the human
resource piece to make this work. And regrettably we're in
a very compromised position and we have the final solution.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So again I appreciate you can't speak to everything, just
too quick. Last questions, So how can you bridge that
in the short term if you don't have the labor
force and equipment.
Speaker 9 (39:51):
Again, I'm going to stargaze for a moment. One of
the ways is to punt down the line to designation,
So kick out the designation until such time as the
setup is ready. That's one possible solution. And then there's
other things like exemptions to the airlines that operate that
takes the onus of them so that they can operate
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into an airport that has been designated but doesn't have
the services I acknowledged him. All this is very, very
complicated for your listeners. I think most importantly is we
acknowledge that there's an issue. There's most likely should never
have happened, it has, and now it's incumbent on me
and others around me to find a resolution to this
to get the operations back up and running because people
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depend on those services for life and Limb.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, it is as though there is a highway, and
I know a lot about that one. It is not
easy to get in and out of Labrador unless there
is reliable air service and that has long been something
that Labradorians have pointed out to the rest of us.
All right, Phil, I'll leave it there, appreciate the time today,
Please keep us updated anytime.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
Tim take care.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
All right, thank you. That is Phil Earle, Member of
Parliament for Labrador. When we come back. You want to
know what love is, Well, we've got an answer for
you back in a moment here on the Tim Power Show.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
The Tim Power Show, Joining the conversation weekday afternoons at
four pm on your VOCM.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Couple of weeks ago, vocem ran a contest featuring five
local choirs. They were competing to be on stage with
the band Foreigner tonight at the Mary Brown Center. The
choir from Holy Heart and Marry on the audience vote
and they're rehearsing today to be part of the show.
Last night, vio CM's Russell Bauer stopped by the sound
(41:39):
check for Foreigner and chat it with two of the members.
He spoke with lead singer Luis Lewis Maldono and bassist
Jeff Pilson, who told him why they wanted to have
local choirs help sing their biggest hit. Pilson, how are you.
Speaker 10 (42:01):
I am fine, excited and ready to rack.
Speaker 11 (42:04):
Tell me a bit about the reasoning for having choirs
be part of this tour.
Speaker 10 (42:09):
Well, it's something we've been doing for a good fifteen
years now when we've partnered with the Grammy Foundation, and
what we're trying to do is we're trying to raise
awareness about school music programs and the fact that when
budgets get cut, that's the first thing to go, and
really that's criminal. Let's just not it should not be
like that. The arts and music are really important to
a child, to anybody's he upbringing, really and to their education.
(42:31):
So we put some money to the schools to help
their music programs, and then they also come down to
the show sing on the song and we get to
watch those faces as they you know, light up the
stage and you know, singing in front of thousands of people.
Some of them have never done that before, and it's
a really great experience. It's great for them, it's great
for us because we get to kind of live through
their eyes. We're all coming together and that's what music's
(42:54):
all about. And it's really great.
Speaker 11 (42:56):
That song has been a big part of so many
people's lives for about forty years. Now, what does it
mean when this young generation, many of whom obviously weren't
even alive when the song was a hit, have this
connection to that particular song.
Speaker 10 (43:10):
It's a great, timeless song and it's got a great message,
and it was performed with a lot of feeling on
the original recording, and even when people do covers of it,
it's intangible quality about great music that I think, I
want to know what love Is has in the spades, and.
Speaker 11 (43:26):
I want to bring in Luis Maldonado, who's a lead
singer with the band, and what's it like for you
to notice that connection that the fans have with these songs.
Speaker 12 (43:36):
Well, you know, I've watched it grow when I first
started in the band. You know, there's a lot of
the diehards, a lot of older generation. Naturally, more and
more these age groups come to our shows and it's remarkable.
I mean, just like Jeff said, the material is timeless,
so that we have that going for it. The other
thing is, you know, we're in a really interesting place
(43:58):
where people how they digest music right, how they go
from streaming. You know, nobody's lining up at record stores
or ticket you know, box offices anymore. But they're coming
to these shows and they're discovering this band for the
first time, and it's something that they can make their own.
We used to see younger people come with their parents,
but it's different when a younger person is in the
audience with another younger person and that's it. It means
(44:21):
that they've found something that they love. And so the
fan base is continuously growing and that's tremendous to see.
It's really about continuing to serve the power of these
songs and how it really affects people in the audience.
Speaker 10 (44:34):
You know, there aren't a lot of real rock bands
out there that don't play with tracks. It's a real
band playing, singing and performing together. That's actually kind of
become an unusual thing.
Speaker 11 (44:46):
You know, as you try and walk that line of
you've got to do the song that people know, but
you also have the challenge of trying to make it
your own and breathe new life.
Speaker 12 (44:55):
You know, it's not that much of a challenge because
it becomes it becomes our own as we stay true
to the message. It is enough and we let it
be what it is, hits everybody as powerful as it
needs to.
Speaker 10 (45:06):
It's the chemistry two that we have as a band
that sort of morphs this music into ours just by
nature of being a powerful, great band. But the music
is already great, so, like he says, so it's it's kind.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Of a win win.
Speaker 10 (45:21):
There's almost no way to screw it up.
Speaker 11 (45:22):
The band has this back catalog, but there's still a
future for a band like Foreigner. I know you recorded
some stuff in Spanish recently, that's right.
Speaker 12 (45:29):
Yeah, we recorded I Want to Know What Love Is
in Spanish and I did that as a duet with
Joy Querta from Jesse and Joy, and then we also
did Urgent in Spanish. The response on that has been
surprisingly well. There's stuff in the vaults that you know
that Mick and Lou have written that we're like, okay,
I mean I have been talking with Lou about Lou
Graham about like, hey, you know there's a song, maybe
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we should do it together.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
There's plenty of work.
Speaker 12 (45:53):
There's plenty of work.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
That was Russell's conversation with two of the members of
Foreigner who are playing tonight at Mary Brown Center, Jeff
Pilson and Lewis Maldonado. Fascinating. I was just checking this out.
Foreigner one of the best selling bands of all time worldwide,
with worldwide sales exceeding eighty million records, including thirty million
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in the US. The band has been around since nineteen
seventy six, though it's had an entire revamp, with the
exception of mc jones, who is still with the band.
And what a wonderful thing for the Holy Heart of
Mary Choir to be performing with the band tonight at
the Mary Brown Center. Wanting to Know What Love Is?
(46:43):
That great iconic hit. Sometimes it can be cold as ice,
but not tonight. It's going to feel like the first
time for the Holy Hearted Mary Choir as they sing
want to Know What Love Is. I have loved talking
to you today. I have loved talking about the Jays
and pumping them up. Can't wait till Friday, but we're
(47:05):
gonna be here tomorrow with another show. I'm guest hosting
Vashi Show tomorrow, so we'll bring you some of that.
We'll talk about what's hot and happening in Newfoundland and
elabordor thank you to Kludet, thank you to you. Back
tomorrow with more of the Tim Power Show
This is the Tim Power Show on your VOCM. The
views and opinions of this program are not necessarily those
of this station.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here's Tim. Hey, everybody choose day October twenty first, the
day the day after. The Toronto Blue Jays, as you
have heard all day and all night, have made it
to the World Series thirty two years later, and the
excitement is real. I, as you know, come to you
often from Ontario where I am today, and that's all
(00:32):
anybody is talking about here. I know of at least
five people who got into the lines, the virtual lines
for tickets today. None of them were successful, so I
don't know anyone in my group who got them. I
do know some others who did who got tickets. But
at one point I was told two hundred and eighty
(00:56):
five thousand people were lined up virtually to access tickets.
And hey, if you're looking, according to stub Hub, there's
two percent of tickets left. The cheapest and this is
for Friday Night's game, is just eighteen hundred and forty
four dollars and the best deal, yeah, best deal, and
that that cheap ticket of eighteen hundred and forty four dollars.
(01:17):
So that's standing room general admission. The best ticket, best deal,
according to StubHub in section one twenty six. Pretty good
section is only five thousand, five hundred and twenty three dollars.
And that's that's just just just right now. That may
all change. Prices may go down, they may go up.
Lots of tickets in the five thousand dollars range. If
(01:39):
you want to spare that, I'm looking at this is
the best one somebody is selling. Wow, I didn't see this.
Sixteen eight hundred and sixty dollars. Section five thirty five
two tickets together front row. Yeah, have you got sixteen
thousand bucks? There you go. It's gonna be crazy. The
(02:00):
procurement of tickets, and of course the series itself. We're
going to spend a fair bit of time today just
diving into it because it is historic. Look, we get
excited about the Stanley cop and the Gray Cup, but
often in the world of sports, those things don't get
the same degree of attention as the World Series and
(02:21):
the Super Bowl. And those of us who are old
enough to remember thirty odd years ago thirty three when
the Jay's Last won the World Series thirty two, excuse me,
when the Jay's Last won the World Series. Know it
was a global achievement recognized around the country and it's
not often that the whole country cheers for anything from Toronto,
(02:44):
let alone a sports team, but Toronto Blue Jays are
the only team from Canada and we're all behind them.
We've got some great audio to play in a couple
of moments, including from the fan who caught George Bringers
legendary home run which I think now only pales in
(03:07):
comparison to Joe Carter's home run that won the World
Series all those years ago. And apparently Joe Carter's going
to throw the first pitch out at Game one of
the World Series against the mighty wealthy Los Angeles Dodgers.
And it's pretty cool right now that we're playing LA
next to the Yankees, in the Red Sox and maybe
(03:28):
the Cubs. They are the most identifiable for baseball as
a nation and a brand to America. And while a
Canadian on their team, Freddie Freeman, won the MVP last year,
they also have Shoe Otane, who's a global sensation, the
best baseball player in the world, who put on it
(03:50):
one hell of an impressive performance himself in the National
League Championship Series. First and only person ever destroy ten
people out and three home runs in the same game.
This is going to be epic. Though the Dodgers are
heavily favored, let's not count out the Blue Jays. And
speaking of baseball, we will also have Ryan Garland join us.
(04:13):
Ryan is the executive director of Baseball New Finnland. He's
going to join us about four point thirty to talk
about what the Jays being in the World Series means
just for the sport in the country, and what it
may do and what it's already done. We had Ryan
on early on in the playoffs, but now we've reached
a new level and Ryan is going to help us
explore all of that. We're not going to venture entirely
(04:38):
away from some of the other important topics of the day.
We're going to talk to doctor Alex Marland from Akatia
University about the provincial election. He was in Scotland last week.
We didn't get a chance to catch up one to
get his take on it. He's made an argument which
I think is fair and others have made it too,
that there's a realignment of sorts happening in Newfoundland and
(05:01):
Labrador around politics. We'll get his interpretation of that. We
are also going to talk to Philip Earl, the MP
for Labrador, about the trials and tribulations at the Waposh
Airport which we have been covering on VOCM. And according
to Greg Smith, I want to know what love is.
(05:23):
So we have Foreigner on. Foreigner are playing in Saint
John's tonight and Russell Bauer sat down with a couple
of the band members earlier. So we'll have all of
that for you on the show. But let's go back
to last night, because gosh, it's hard to leave it.
How about this the Springer Dinger. So we're gonna fly
(05:45):
out of the field.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That goes sna She's done.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Here's a guy had his knee almost blown apart by
a pitch in Game five, as you know, hobbled out
there and cracked that three run home run. For anybody
who watched the game, the first six innings weren't looking
promising for the Blue Jays, and with the swing of
the bats, Springer changed the trajectory. He, of course, as
(06:24):
was wise, credited his teammates for putting him in that
situation and class interview he had at the end, he
talked a lot about the fans, not just in Toronto,
but he's doing this all for Canada. So well played.
Now here here is John Snyder. No f bombs in
this one. I love John Snyder, the manager's salty language
(06:45):
and how he always gets caught out. But we're an
afternoon radio show. You're driving home. No f bombs, But
here's John Snyder.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
American League East Champions, American League Division Champions, American League. Wait,
first time in thirty two years, the World Series comes
back to the city in this country.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I'm so proud of every one of you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Enjoy every single moment of this tonight because you guys
earned thet of it.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, well maybe there was one. It's hard to get again,
a Schneider clip these days. We bleeped it out, so
don't tell the Canadian Broadcast Standards server. So tell him
we bleeped it out. But you gotta love that man's passion.
He is the right manager at the right time. I
(07:36):
know he's been criticized and beligned, as we all do
his armchair quarterbacks for some of his decisions, but nobody
except maybe the team expected to be where they are
right now. And John Snyder's kind of blunt talk and
just till the point clearly inspires his team and he's
winning a country. Over to speaking of a country, Let's
(07:59):
listen Prime Minister Kearney talk about the Blue Jays win
last night. I mean, unbelievable. Unbelievable. Well I always knew,
but I mean that is clutch. It's absolutely clutch.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
A springer coming through one knee and then getting it
closed out, guys when everyone it was it was fantastic
and I'm super excited.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm out of breath. I can't even yeah, I was.
Prime Minister Kearney out of breath, joins all the country's
politicians and cheerleading. I think here, will he go to
the game? Can he go to the game? He is
supposed to be heading to Asia the first game I meet,
second game, perhaps he goes there too, but he's supposed
(08:46):
to be on a trade mission to Asia. But this
is a huge story. And of course he's a big
fan of sports. He was last at the Women's Rugby
World Cup in London when he was there for meetings
when our Canadian team unfortunately fell to But this Prime
Minister likes his sports. I remember in ninety two, ninety three,
(09:06):
georgewge hw Bush and Brian m'rooney at one point after
the Jays had won I think in ninety two throughout
a first pitch at one of the baseball games. Then
that was pretty historic at the time. Wasn't the World Series?
I think it was before. Now there is a guy
(09:28):
who is on cloud nine and it isn't George Springer.
It's the fellow who caught Springer's home run ball. CTV
News who shared that Carney clip with us, caught up
with this gentleman earlier today. Let's hear that interview.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
We are here with Michael Angeletti, who caught that home
run ball wearing a Springer jersey. As you mentioned, he's
still wearing it here this morning, and so Michael, we
all want to hear from you. Tell us about the
moment when you heard the bat hit the ball.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
That's exactly it. I heard it before I saw it
and reacted to my seat mates who I didn't know
went to the game solo. Didn't have my glove on fully,
not prepared for the moment, put it on half assed,
reached up over them, but the glove wasn't onto the ball.
(10:22):
With the other hands of the people shot the ball
into the air and I grabbed it with the spare hand,
And I tell you I could have squeezed oil out
of this ball, because in just one second I realized
the dream of catching the ball, had it escape, and
then reclaimed it. And that a moment was the third
(10:43):
almost like I discovered the fountain of youth or whatever.
And I've been hanging on to it ever since.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I haven't let it.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
I haven't let it left. You leave your side, have you?
Speaker 7 (10:53):
I haven't. It's been bedside, breakfast side, TV side, podcast side.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Radio side.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
I'd so excited for the city at Toronto, so excited
for the Toronto Blue Jays, very excited for the international
media and baseball friends from around the world to come
and experience a Fall Classic in Toronto.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Let's go Blue Jays.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
So you have the ball here. I understand you waited
a little while to try and see George last night.
You didn't get to see him.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
What is your plan?
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Everybody wants to know what is your plan for that baseball?
Speaker 2 (11:27):
The plan is the ride.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Wherever this ball takes me, us, the city, this company, everybody.
We are on the ride and I'm not going to
stop it. Right now we are eight or peaking, as
they say, and my city pride peaked in that moment
right there.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
Fantastic. Thank you so much, Michael, I really appreciate it.
So still no full plan on what he's going to
do with the baseball, but for now, I don't think
it's going to be leaving his side anytime soon, and
certainly he and other friends are hoping for more memories
and more moments just like that Springer. Dinger in the
next series to Colm recording live, I'm als and hers.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah, that was Michael Angeletti. You will hear him a lot.
I suspect in the next couple of days. So just
on the Springer story, I heard more of it earlier today.
He was brought down by Blue Jay staff to field
level after the game and he waited there till about
one thirty in the morning. So he said he was
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waiting for about an hour and blue Jay's staff, he said,
we're very kind, and they kept updating him and as
to whether or not George Springer was coming, and he
kept telling them, look, look, look, you know, don't rush
them along. This is a special moment. He said, Wow,
that was happening. He was getting text and what App
messages from WhatsApp messages from his friends saying, don't give
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them all away, don't give them all away. Hold on
to it, hold on to it, because this ball is
going to be worth a lot. And I can imagine
you're standing there and all of a sudden, George Springer appears,
And if you're a fan, like Michael Angeletti seems to be,
he might offer you a bat at Jersey a few
tickets and you might say, you know what, here you go,
no problem, this is so historic. But he could probably
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get a lot more for that, And hey, nothing wrong
with being enterprising. And I'm sure he is not hiding
the fact that he's following the journey wherever it takes.
And well, hopefully that will take us all to victory
over the Los Angeles Dodgers. But where is our journey going? Next?
We're going to talk about an election, the one we
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had a week ago with doctor Alex Marlin from Akatie University.
When we come back here on the Tim Power Show.
It was a week ago today. Of course, the results
came in, not maybe as nail biting as the Blue
Jays last night, but nonetheless surprising to many because as
we headed into the election, there were few people who
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were predicting that the Liberals would win, and of course
as the night went on, we discovered that Tony Wakem
would win, became become our new premier designate and get
a twenty one get twenty one seats in a slim majority.
Somebody who haven't had a chance to talk with about
the election, but dying to get his insights is doctor
Alex Maryland. Alex, of course is the Jerlosky Chair and
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trust in political Leadership at Acadia. Alex. Yeah, you know,
these guys aren't Springer and Vladimir Guerrero lighting the nation
on fire with enthusiasm and energy, but they did pull
off a win. And in looking at some of the
analysis that's out there, some of which you've shared elsewhere,
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one of the arguments you're making is we're seeing a
little bit of, if not a more significant reorganization of
the way the political landscape of Newfoundland and Laborador take
us through that.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Well, yeah, I mean there's different ways of analyzing election results,
and I think one thing we have to remember that
is getting lost is that New fim Land and Labrador
is divided. So you know, we're looking at it saying, well,
you know there's a majority win. Well, yeah, sure, because
the votes all win a certain way because of the
peculiarities of our electoral system. But the reality is that
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similar numbers of people, not identical, but similar numbers of
people voted Liberal has voted PC. And when, though, you
do break it down by the way electoral districts work,
that's where you start seeing some shifts, because of course
we end up seeing you know, a larger quantity of
votes going towards the liberals and progressives or in this case,
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the NDP in more urbanized areas, and obviously towards the
PCs once you start getting more into suburbs, into special
rural areas. And so this is something that has been
going on in Western liberal societies, and Newfland Labrador has
been a little late to the party with with this.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yeah, it's fascinating for me because the Newfoundland and Labrador
that I grew up in was one where the Liberals
often dominated everything outside the overpass and Labrador for that matter,
and the town the city was very much progressive conservative
and that is not what this election was at all,
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is it.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
But you also look at the federal patterns. Yeah, like,
I mean it was very very common to say that
no matter what, everybody was going to vote Liberal in
Western Newfland, for example, And then you know, yeah, it's
just so it's a pattern that we've been seeing play
out for a little while. And listen, something that's getting
lost in all of this, not just the fact that
newflind Labrador is divided, is also the fact that two
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independents managed to pull off the bare feet of getting
re elected. I mean, it's just shocking to me. It
just doesn't happen in all of Canada, let alone just
in Newfland Labrador.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
So what do you attribut some of this too? I mean,
it's early days of diving into election results. I mean
I've had some conversations on air with Conservatives that were
elected in Outside the Overpass, and their argument is, you know,
they're messaging on affordability, on healthcare, on crime connected, they
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play it up the traditional which still remains traditional, the
disconnect between rural and urban and Saint John's running things.
What do you see in here that is interesting and
noteworthy to you?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
You know, I think it's just the general powern that
we're seeing that people in rural Canada are having a
hard time connecting with people in urban and metropolitan Canada
who are living vastly different lives. And so if you
think about all of the major issues that are percolating
out there, on a lot of things, people are having
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very different experiences. So if you talk about people saying, well,
we need to do something about climate change and we
need to reduce the use of oil, well, if you're
in a city and you could potentially take a bus
where you could use your bike, or use your bike
all the time, of course, but you know you could
walk to work, well, of course we can't even do
that because the sidewalks. But the point is that you know,
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in most places you can potentially live in a city
and not have a car, and so that makes it
a lot easier for you to say we need to
do something about oil and the climate. Whereas if you
are in rural Newfouland and Laborador and you need to
get in your car even to go visit your neighbor,
I mean, it's a totally different conversation. And not to
mention you, possibly you or your family members might be
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going away somewhere to the oil industry to work, and
so it's very, very different. And this plays out in
a lot of different things, not just oil and gas
and climate change.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
What about these two independents getting reelected. Look, they are
well known in our eco system, They have forceful personalities.
They have both positioned themselves as strong advocates of their
own districts. I mean Eddie Joyce in particular pointed out
constantly throughout the campaign the work he did to get
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to get proper health and hospital services in his region,
but wanted more of that. Pauline has been a long
and advocate in Mount Pearl of policing issues. Is their
election a reflection of how able both of them have
been in using the opportunity as independence in a small
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place to get more airtime, tell stories and to be
seen to be effective.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
Yeah, I know, you know I could come up more
about Pauline than I can Eddie Jooryce, just because I've
had Pauline in when I was at Mond to talk
and the sordering I'm interviewed and for my research, et cetera.
But I also talk to other independents. There's one here
in Nova Scotia, there's one in Ontario who I talk with,
and the common feature that I see is independents are
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usually on top of their constituency files. They do not
leave their constituents hanging. If their constituent has a question,
it is super super important that they get back to them.
And so what happens is they start developing a personal relationship.
And what happens is people in the area often end
up rejecting political parties by saying, listen, I don't care
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about parties. I care about this person representing me, and
I think this person can do a good job.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
So the Liberal Party, like any party that loses an election,
is going to go through a soul searching process. Probably
more likely than not that John Hogan will eventually step down,
as that tends to be what happens, though we shouldn't
assume that it will. What do the Liberals need to
do is job number one to figure out how to
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reconnectoral Newfoundland and be less of an urban part What
what is your thinking there?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
So the first thing I would say to two people
who supported the Liberal Party of New filand Labrador is
to just realize that sometimes the tide goes out and
just start there. So it's very easy and easy potentially
for John Hogan and other liberals to get you know,
look at all these little things they could have done differently.
The reality is that when you start getting a sense
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that it's a time for change, it is just simply
very very hard to change people's feelings. You have you know,
he had to run on a record that involved Dwight
ball let alone and Fury and that you know, own
decisions that he wasn't necessarily part of. So the first
thing to do is just realize that these things tend
to go back and forth. You know very much a
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big history of that at New filand Labrador. So sometimes
you just need time to just come up with new ideas.
Sometimes you need time for the government that the other
governing party to start making decisions that start, you know,
causing errors and people to get frustrated. So I think
sometimes there's a sense of you know, looking at every
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little thing that you did and think, well, could we
have done this differently? And then other times it's just
to say listen, this is the way politics works. There
are times that political parties need a time.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Out and the PCs have come out of their time
out and last question is this so Tony wakem is
in the process of building a government going through transition.
Governing Newfoundland is not for the faint of heart on
any day of the week. What ought mister wakem be
considering right now as he's in this transition process to
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give himself the best chance of success.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well, like any incoming head of government, he's obviously focused
on trying to figure out what his cabinet's going to
look like, what the staff compliment is going to look
like in the Premier's office, and you know, to some extent,
they're going to then figure out who are going to
be the staff are going to support ministers. Of course,
when you're putting together a cabinet, you're not just thinking
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who are the right people, but also what are the
portfolios and so are there different you know, we saw
with Mark Karney, for example, there's suddenly as a minister
responsible for artificial intelligence. Clearly that's not something that existed
in the past. So these things evolve. Something though, that
you know is a reasonable prediction is premiers, incoming premiers
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and prime ministers tend to reward people who they really
feel confident or sort of feel confident did a good
job in opposition. So if there were people who were
really good in the house, stood on their feet and
were great critics. Those people are going to be people
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who are going to get a good look when it
comes to cabinet. And then of course there's other elements region, gender,
et cetera. But that's going to be a really key
part is he's going to want to be able to
trust people to do well.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Indeed he is, and it's vital. You can't run the
government of effectively by yourself, though many have tried. Alex,
appreciate the time. Thank you for joining us. Okay, thanks him,
all right. That is our friend, Doctor Alex Marlin, the
Jaraloski Chair and Trust in Political Leadership at a Katie University.
When we come back, Ryan Garland, the executive director of
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Baseball Newfoundland and Laborador. I bet Ryan hasn't come down
from the ceiling yet. Back with Ryan in a moment.
There's something about baseball and the audience that it gets
and its ability to capture nations. I'm old enough to remember.
I was a kid then Rick Monday, Blue Monday in
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the eighties, the crushing of the Expos, Steve Rogers giving
up that home run. Then you go to nineteen eighty
five and the great Jays of the era, George Bell, Dave, Steve, Jesse, Brierfield,
and they were close, but they didn't get across the line.
Then of course Alamar and Carter and Henderson and Pat
Tabler and Borders and all these guys get him across
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the line ninety two, ninety three, Bautista, Donaldson, fifteen and sixteen.
And there seems to be something special about this group.
And to talk about this and why this world series
pursuit just as Land it's square in all of our inboxes.
Is Ryan Garland, the executive director of Baseball Newfoundland and Labrador. Ryan,
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I was thinking about all those names last night and
what I can remember tons of hockey. I can just
remember all of these moments so well, about some of
the great baseball stories and the heartbreaking ones we've had
in this country. Why do you think that is, Ryan.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
Tim, That's a great question, so thanks for having me
on again. I wish I could answer it with some
sort of concrete, definitive answer for you, and I can't.
I think it's just I think it's the way baseball
is as a sport generally, I guess. I mean it's
one of those sports that, yeah, you saw last night
Jason three one late in the game and looked like,
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you know, nothing's really going for them, and then all
of a sudden, banged George Springer hits a three year
on home run, and the momentum of the game, the
feeling in the ballpark, certainly, the feeling I think in
a lot of TV rooms and living rooms in the
country changed almost immediately. And I think that's just the
way that the sport is set up to be. It
can change on the on the drop of the hat.
And I think that's what we saw last night.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Yeah, we we certainly did. And I just want to
get your take on what Springer said last night afterwards,
because I thought, look, he is not only he's a
great baseball player, he's very savvy with what he said,
and you know, he I'm going to screw up the comment,
but effectively he said, you know, we did this for
our fans here, we did this for the city of Toronto, Toronto,
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and then he said, we did it for our country.
How is it Ryan that this team with You know, yes,
Letty Guerrera was born in Montreal, but he would identify,
I suspect more as somebody from the dominic in Republic,
But how is it that this team has become our
team and they see the responsibility in that.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
Yeah, it's a great question.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
And I did notice that last night actually, when I
was watching the post game and heard Springer's comments as well.
I think it's even more pointing when you hear a
player like George Springer, who's from the US, who went
to university at Yukon and things like that, make the
comment to say that you know, this is our team,
our country. I think. I mean, he's been here five
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years now. Next year is the last year of his contract,
on the sixth year, and I think even he is now,
if not before, realized just how passionate Jaysans are across
the country and how much it truly is unlike anything
else in pro sports, where it's one team for the
entire country. Everyone buys in and yes, you've always got
you in all your smaller pockets of Yankees and Red
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Soxs and Dodger stands, but by and large, the country
is a Blue Jays country. And I think once you
get to play in Toronto or be a part of
the franchise in any way, you see that more vividly
when when you're in that environment, and I think that,
you know, five years of playing with the team and
the last couple of years leading in it. This year
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it's not going the way you wanted it, especially last year,
and especially for George on a personal level, with the
season you had last year. I think you see EACs
this year now, the impact that the team has on
the country, the players have on the country, and I think,
you know, this is probably a culmination of everything that's
happened the last five years.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Man. I remember nineteen ninety three, late October when the
Jays won, being in Stephenville and it was there for
work and Stephenville erupted. It was you know, people were
just we all bought it didn't matter because we all
have our hockey alliances. People will know mine is not
to the Toronto maple Leafs. And what the hell was
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Laddie thinking? We're in that jersey last night. That aside,
we all come together around this team because it's the
only one for the country. How is it going? You know,
people in baseball Newfoundland, the people you talk to, the
associations you oversee and help represent. Is there the same
enthusiasm and excitement as there was in nineteen ninety three,
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if you can speak to.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
That, I mean, certainly without being able to.
Speaker 9 (29:17):
I mean, I'm only.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Okay, all right, buddy, all right, yeah, all right, yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:22):
Okay, hard to comment on that, but what I what
I can tell you is it's hard to imagine how
it could be any difference. I mean, when Joe Carter
hits that home run in ninety three, obviously he went
to the World Series, and that's another level of euphoria
and things like that. But having not experienced that, I
have made a hard job believing that last night wasn't
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at least as close to that as we've gotten to
this point. I mean, you could argue that the Batista
home run in twenty fifteen, for the bat flip up
to that, up to last night, was the biggest home
on I think everyone agreed, but I think with what
that home run meant, you know, that ended up being
the winning runs, ended up getting us to the World Series.
He's that's definitely now, at least in my opinion, the
second most important home run in franchise history. And very
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excited to see what happens now starting Friday night.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, Kevin Plara was quick to just say about Jesus'
home run was awesome, but Springers was better because of
the circumstances and the context at the time. I asked
you before when the when we were in the early
days of the playoffs, But what does this potentially mean
for your organization and baseball in Canada? Because again I'm
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thinking to myself, I have my son at Game six
and here he is ten, and this is going to
be a lifetime memory for him, regardless of how they finish.
And there were so many kids that ended up there
with their parents and he just started playing baseball this
year and now he's impacted and infected with this sport.
Is this just regardless of what happens. I mean, it
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may go to a whole other level if they beat
the Dodgers. But what's the opportunity here for the sport
in Canada because of this run?
Speaker 8 (31:00):
And Ryan, I guess the easiest answer is the opportunities
are endless, limitless. It depends on how far you want
to push it and how far you want to take it.
I mean, the impact that we'll see at local levels
is that likely not until next year with registrations something
start up again, But hard not to if you know
you're a young athlete or a young aspiring baseball player, male, female,
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doesn't matter. You want to get out there. And you're
sitting down your parents on a late night when you
should be in bed to go to school the next day,
and you're watching George Bergner hit a home run like
last night, or while watching someone like Treya Savage who's
only twenty two years old, go out and pitch like
he did on Sunday to get us to Monday. It
gives you something to I guess, aspire to and say yourself,
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I can do that if I want to. And I
think that's what you'll see, certainly locally here hopefully in
the province, but more nationally across the country. It's hard
not to be invested in what we're seeing right now.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Well and too look they were on the other side,
but you got Josh Nayler from Mississauga. You got Matt
Brash from Kingston who didn't have a great game in
Game six. But nonetheless, I mean, these are two quality players.
And here's where all in coming to town. The LA
Dodgers with Freddie Freeman, Canadian MVP winner last year, Ryan
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played John Snyder. How do they beat this team.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
I fucking played Johnson. I think I'd like to have
his job instead.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Well, you got to be able to drop F bombs?
Can you drop good F bombs? Like?
Speaker 8 (32:32):
I think anyone who knows me knows the answer to
that question. In order to beat the Dodgers, it's not going.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
To be easy.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
I mean, I think everyone realizes that. I mean, they
got a really strong team top to bottom. They're pitching
is probably the best that I've seen as a fan
in quite some time. I mean, you're looking at guys
like Blake Snell, Todder Glass, now Otani obviously can't forget
about him, and he's there number four starter, yamamotoble pitch.
They've got Clayton Kershaw coming out of the bullpen. They've
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got Roki Sasaki as their closer who should be their starter.
And then their lineup is unbelievable. LOOKI bets Freddie Freeman,
Tasker Hernandez, Max bun See Key k Hernandez. I could
keep going. It's a very deep line up. If the
J's are going to beat the Dodgers, that have to
play the exact same way that got them to where
they are right now, and the player as a team.
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They have to have the role players Ernie Clement and
Nathan Lucas and all those guys step up and do
what they've done all year. The J's are a complete team.
If they play like a complete team, everyone does what
their job is and if they can do that, anyone's
got a shot.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah. They almost have to emulate the way the Florida
Panthers have played against the star stud that Edmondonouler's play
your game, not theirs, and maybe that goes your way. Ryan,
I hope you guys vacuum up members and get more
kids in the sport. It's a great game. Thank you
for coming on and go Jay's go.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
Thanks them, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
Yes, go gets go.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
All right. That is Ryan Garland, the executive director of
Baseball Newfoundland, and we will be cheering starting Friday night.
We are the David against the Goliath that is the Dodgers.
All right, We're going to move along a little bit
to move to a place where things aren't moving the
way they would Liken. That is Wabush Airport. Most planes
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are still unable to land at Wabash Airport as of
this afternoon because the federal agency changed the air report's
designation so it requires firefighting services services. Transport Canada cut
five years ago. A Monday evening, our next guest, Labrador
MP Philip Earl, sat in Facebook posts that Wabush operations
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were suspended for Canadian air regulations, meaning aircraft with more
than nineteen seats cannot land at the airport. Transport Canada
made the changes in recent months. Phil told Radio Canada
earlier the airport itself has been designated as an airport
that provides firefight and crafts rescue services. However those services
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have yet to be supplied and so people are aware.
Phil has a long history in aviation. He ran Air
Labrador for a time, so he knows what he's talking about. Phil,
I mean, how frustrating is this for the people you represent,
particularly in that part of Labrador and Wabbush.
Speaker 9 (35:22):
Well, first of all, good afternoon, Good afternoon to your listeners.
I almost feel like I've gone back to my old life.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
Believe that it is my past.
Speaker 9 (35:32):
That helps me understand this particular situation and hopefully it
can help me navigate Transport Canada and with the help
of the Minister there get this particular matter resolved as
quickly as possible. It's a really frustrating situation. Not just
for me, I'm the least important of the frustrations, but
the people who depend on your service from Wabbleish for
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medical travel. This is quite frankly terrible and to think
that this is happened, I am beyond frustrated.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
With the team.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
So how did this designation change happen and it catch
people unaware?
Speaker 9 (36:13):
I guess in Newton Lion Labrador terms, we say the
right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing.
I'm being very frank, very honest. I know you want
more of an answer than that. You know, Wabosh has
been an essential airport in our province and an essential
airport for the province of Quebec forever since it was built.
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The mining sector is cyclical, so there's been times in
the past where traffic numbers have gone down and somebody
in their wisdom thought that it was okay to withdraw
the fire rescue service from the airport, and that occurred.
The most pronounced time of that was in twenty twenty,
though there was times in the past where it was
on again, off again. My predecessor worked extremely hard to
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demonstrate that there was a requirement for a crash fire
rescue at Wallber demonstrate it that it had the three
hundred thousand plus movements going through and without complicating it.
You know, there are passengers to come in on schedule
passenger flights, but wabblesh has a lot of charter people
that fly and fly out for the mining chector. So
using that total data made the case. Transport Canada accepted
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it and a decision was made to reinstall firefighting services
at the wable shareport. I think where we got into
the snaffoo that we're in right now, I understand it,
and I admitbe it's technical, so I don't want to
stray into somebody else's territory. But in essence, the airport,
you know, it was given its designation to be an
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airport to a firefighting services. What's missing is the operational
side of these fire fighting capabilities. I personnel and equipment
and people to maintain the equipment. So I guess another
way to say hit is you know, maybe in this
case the cart got put in front of the horse,
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but all that aside. I became aware of that situation
about eight to thirty last night. I've been working with
the airlines. I have the good fortune of having a
great relationship with the Minister of Transport. We've been back
and forth on this all day and I can tell
your listeners and you that there's a team over at
Transport Canada that are working diligently to fix that situation.
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But at three thirty Ottawa time today, they haven't come
up with the right solution. So we're going to keep
working on this to get it right.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
On the firefighting now, you will obviously know this far
better than I. There wasn't a compromise that could be
in place with the use of municipal firefighting services, because
I remember that being part of the conversation at one
point the fire fighting capacity has to be at the
airport and on standby. Is that also accurate?
Speaker 9 (38:55):
Exaccurate? But more specifically, there are different categories of firefightings, right,
so as those categories go from Category six all the
way down, you can bridge that with municipal support and
so on. And I believe across the country is here
to say there's never been a lot of appetite for
municipalities stepping in to a territory where you're dealing with
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firefighting around aircraft and all the specificities that go with that. So,
in essence, what Walbush needs is the Category six. It
needs the equipment, it needs the labor force, the human
resource piece to make this work. And regrettably we're in
a very compromised position and we have the final solution.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
So again I appreciate you can't speak to everything, just
too quick. Last questions, So how can you bridge that
in the short term if you don't have the labor
force and equipment.
Speaker 9 (39:51):
Again, I'm going to stargaze for a moment. One of
the ways is to punt down the line to designation,
So kick out the designation until such time as the
setup is ready. That's one possible solution. And then there's
other things like exemptions to the airlines that operate that
takes the onus of them so that they can operate
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into an airport that has been designated but doesn't have
the services I acknowledged him. All this is very, very
complicated for your listeners. I think most importantly is we
acknowledge that there's an issue. There's most likely should never
have happened, it has, and now it's incumbent on me
and others around me to find a resolution to this
to get the operations back up and running because people
(40:34):
depend on those services for life and Limb.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, it is as though there is a highway, and
I know a lot about that one. It is not
easy to get in and out of Labrador unless there
is reliable air service and that has long been something
that Labradorians have pointed out to the rest of us.
All right, Phil, I'll leave it there, appreciate the time today,
Please keep us updated anytime.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
Tim take care.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
All right, thank you. That is Phil Earle, Member of
Parliament for Labrador. When we come back. You want to
know what love is, Well, we've got an answer for
you back in a moment here on the Tim Power Show.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
The Tim Power Show, Joining the conversation weekday afternoons at
four pm on your VOCM.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Couple of weeks ago, vocem ran a contest featuring five
local choirs. They were competing to be on stage with
the band Foreigner tonight at the Mary Brown Center. The
choir from Holy Heart and Marry on the audience vote
and they're rehearsing today to be part of the show.
Last night, vio CM's Russell Bauer stopped by the sound
(41:39):
check for Foreigner and chat it with two of the members.
He spoke with lead singer Luis Lewis Maldono and bassist
Jeff Pilson, who told him why they wanted to have
local choirs help sing their biggest hit. Pilson, how are you.
Speaker 10 (42:01):
I am fine, excited and ready to rack.
Speaker 11 (42:04):
Tell me a bit about the reasoning for having choirs
be part of this tour.
Speaker 10 (42:09):
Well, it's something we've been doing for a good fifteen
years now when we've partnered with the Grammy Foundation, and
what we're trying to do is we're trying to raise
awareness about school music programs and the fact that when
budgets get cut, that's the first thing to go, and
really that's criminal. Let's just not it should not be
like that. The arts and music are really important to
a child, to anybody's he upbringing, really and to their education.
(42:31):
So we put some money to the schools to help
their music programs, and then they also come down to
the show sing on the song and we get to
watch those faces as they you know, light up the
stage and you know, singing in front of thousands of people.
Some of them have never done that before, and it's
a really great experience. It's great for them, it's great
for us because we get to kind of live through
their eyes. We're all coming together and that's what music's
(42:54):
all about. And it's really great.
Speaker 11 (42:56):
That song has been a big part of so many
people's lives for about forty years. Now, what does it
mean when this young generation, many of whom obviously weren't
even alive when the song was a hit, have this
connection to that particular song.
Speaker 10 (43:10):
It's a great, timeless song and it's got a great message,
and it was performed with a lot of feeling on
the original recording, and even when people do covers of it,
it's intangible quality about great music that I think, I
want to know what love Is has in the spades, and.
Speaker 11 (43:26):
I want to bring in Luis Maldonado, who's a lead
singer with the band, and what's it like for you
to notice that connection that the fans have with these songs.
Speaker 12 (43:36):
Well, you know, I've watched it grow when I first
started in the band. You know, there's a lot of
the diehards, a lot of older generation. Naturally, more and
more these age groups come to our shows and it's remarkable.
I mean, just like Jeff said, the material is timeless,
so that we have that going for it. The other
thing is, you know, we're in a really interesting place
(43:58):
where people how they digest music right, how they go
from streaming. You know, nobody's lining up at record stores
or ticket you know, box offices anymore. But they're coming
to these shows and they're discovering this band for the
first time, and it's something that they can make their own.
We used to see younger people come with their parents,
but it's different when a younger person is in the
audience with another younger person and that's it. It means
(44:21):
that they've found something that they love. And so the
fan base is continuously growing and that's tremendous to see.
It's really about continuing to serve the power of these
songs and how it really affects people in the audience.
Speaker 10 (44:34):
You know, there aren't a lot of real rock bands
out there that don't play with tracks. It's a real
band playing, singing and performing together. That's actually kind of
become an unusual thing.
Speaker 11 (44:46):
You know, as you try and walk that line of
you've got to do the song that people know, but
you also have the challenge of trying to make it
your own and breathe new life.
Speaker 12 (44:55):
You know, it's not that much of a challenge because
it becomes it becomes our own as we stay true
to the message. It is enough and we let it
be what it is, hits everybody as powerful as it
needs to.
Speaker 10 (45:06):
It's the chemistry two that we have as a band
that sort of morphs this music into ours just by
nature of being a powerful, great band. But the music
is already great, so, like he says, so it's it's kind.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
Of a win win.
Speaker 10 (45:21):
There's almost no way to screw it up.
Speaker 11 (45:22):
The band has this back catalog, but there's still a
future for a band like Foreigner. I know you recorded
some stuff in Spanish recently, that's right.
Speaker 12 (45:29):
Yeah, we recorded I Want to Know What Love Is
in Spanish and I did that as a duet with
Joy Querta from Jesse and Joy, and then we also
did Urgent in Spanish. The response on that has been
surprisingly well. There's stuff in the vaults that you know
that Mick and Lou have written that we're like, okay,
I mean I have been talking with Lou about Lou
Graham about like, hey, you know there's a song, maybe
(45:51):
we should do it together.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
There's plenty of work.
Speaker 12 (45:53):
There's plenty of work.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
That was Russell's conversation with two of the members of
Foreigner who are playing tonight at Mary Brown Center, Jeff
Pilson and Lewis Maldonado. Fascinating. I was just checking this out.
Foreigner one of the best selling bands of all time worldwide,
with worldwide sales exceeding eighty million records, including thirty million
(46:21):
in the US. The band has been around since nineteen
seventy six, though it's had an entire revamp, with the
exception of mc jones, who is still with the band.
And what a wonderful thing for the Holy Heart of
Mary Choir to be performing with the band tonight at
the Mary Brown Center. Wanting to Know What Love Is?
(46:43):
That great iconic hit. Sometimes it can be cold as ice,
but not tonight. It's going to feel like the first
time for the Holy Hearted Mary Choir as they sing
want to Know What Love Is. I have loved talking
to you today. I have loved talking about the Jays
and pumping them up. Can't wait till Friday, but we're
(47:05):
gonna be here tomorrow with another show. I'm guest hosting
Vashi Show tomorrow, so we'll bring you some of that.
We'll talk about what's hot and happening in Newfoundland and
elabordor thank you to Kludet, thank you to you. Back
tomorrow with more of the Tim Power Show
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